Mary, ‘Palestinian refugee’

http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3627

Mary, ‘Palestinian refugee’

Joseph Farah, WND:

It’s amazing. It’s bizarre. It’s breathtaking at what passes for Western journalism in the Middle East today.

First of all, was Mary “a Palestinian refugee”? No, Mary was a Jew, living in the occupied territory of Israel. She wasn’t trying to get to a Roman hospital to have her child. She was traveling with her husband from her home in Nazareth to Bethlehem, where the Roman authorities decreed those from the House of David would pay their taxes.

By the way, neither the area of Bethlehem nor Nazareth had ever been considered Palestine or, more appropriately, Philistia, up through the time of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. In fact, it was not for another 100 years that the Romans would think about renaming Israel as Palestine in an effort to make the world forget about the Jews who had been slaughtered and dispersed.

There were no Philistines or Palestinians around. They hadn’t been heard from for over 500 years.

It’s beyond silliness.

Who are these anti-Israel activists the Western press dispatches to cover the Middle East? Where do they come from? Where are they trained? Where are they educated? How is it possible that such drivel is actually published? MORE
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