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No expert but AFAIK some of that has a kernel of truth and some is bollocks.
To the best of my knowledge:
- Palestinians are arabs, indistinguishable from etc etc - not true, palestinians are in fact semites, as are the jews from that part of the world.
- there has never been a land known as palestine governed by palestinians - probably true; the nation state is a western invention and was implemented elsewhere by european colonialists following the collapse of empires. the idea of a territorial nation state is not really a natural fit with islam.
that is not the same as saying the people who are known as palestinians didn't live in the part of the world they today call palestine.
- Palestine is indeed a roman applied name - can't comment on it's etymology
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On the Islam issue of Jerusalem, Joseph Farah, an Arab journalist states there are no Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. It is not true that the A-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock represent Islams third most holy site. In fact the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. There is no historical evidence to suggest Muhammad ever visited Jerusalem. Muslims cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled The Night Journey it relates that in a dream or vision Muhammed was carried by night to heaven from the sacred temple to temple that is most remote, this is where in the seventh century, some Muslims identify the two temples mentioned as being Mecca and Jerusalem. And thats as close as Islams connection with Jerusalem gets, Meanwhile the Jews can trace their roots back to the days of Abraham. True or not i don't know but none the less very interesting.
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