Monday, May 2, 2005
A Googler finds my old post criticizing the Washington Post for publishing some bad history with regard to the fate of the ancient Philistines and he decides to clue me in to the racial history of the area in the comments. Take a look if such things interest you. Given the horrible historical narrative being used for contemporary politics, I suppose it's a sadly important issue. If you decide to leave a comment, I suggest leaving it in this post as commenting on old posts means you have to wait for me to see it an approve it first (an anti-spam measure).
A snippet:
...If there are no philistines or their descendents around today then who are the palestinians. The philistines were arabized with the Islamic conquests after the birth of Islam - but they still carry philistine blood in their veins. No populations exist in a vacuum - that is exist without contact and interbreeding of some type with foreign groups. In this very way the Philistines were Romanized - and then later Arabized - and today are considered arabs as their mother tongue has been Arabic since the Islamic expansions out of the Arabian Penninsula...
