1ºRandy Rice You’re right. The evidence was clear about the vaccines when you go to review the studies. And from that information I concurred with my doctors recommendation to get the vaccine. So I did. They are more effective and a net positive than what risks there exist from my findings. And I’m really not here to judge anybody for what they get and what they don’t get. I just did what I thought and understood was in my own best medical interests, and you will do what is in yours. You might shout disinformation and claim whatever about the vaccine. But I don’t see it that way.
2ºThe first written records referring to Palestine emerged in the 12th-century BCE Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, which used the term Peleset for the neighboring people or land.
In the 8th century BCE, the Assyrians referred to the region as Palashtu or Pilistu. In the Hellenistic period, these names were carried over into Greek, appearing in the Histories of Herodotus as Palaistine.
In 6 CE, the Roman Empire established a province over the area known as Judaea, then in 132 CE (the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt) formed it into Syria Palaestina.
In 390, during the Byzantine period, the region was split into the provinces of Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda, and Palaestina Tertia. Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s, the military district of Jund Filastin was established.
Palestine's boundaries have changed throughout history, but it has generally comprised the southern portion of wider regional designations such Syria or the Levant.
3ºWe’ve known that for decades.
Here’s something I didn’t know until this week…
A crash-course in history…
The Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, was the destruction of the Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian Arabs.
The term is used to describe both the events of 1948 and the ongoing occupation of the Palestinians in the Palestinian territories (the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip), as well as their persecution and displacement in the Palestinian territories and in Palestinian refugee camps throughout the region.
The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1948 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the expulsion and flight of 700,000 Palestinians, the related depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages by Israeli armed forces and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, the creation of permanent Palestinian refugees, and the "shattering of Palestinian society".
The expulsion of the Palestinians has since been described by some historians, such as Benny Morris and Ilan Pappé, and Nakba researchers, such as Salman Abu Sitta, as an ethnic cleansing.