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Palestine (was Re: Grand Central Parkway & Long Island Expressway)

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Feb 9 22:57:52 2019

"Palestine" is an exonym for Israel used by Europeans for centuries. An exonym is when a country has a different name in a foreign language. Like the way we call Deutschland Germany and Nihon Japan in English. Israelis are and always were "Palestinians." But just as we stopped using the exonym Persia in favor of the endonym Iran, so has Palestine come to be called by its proper name in the West. This "Palestinian" stuff is an attempt to erase the history of Israel.

In the 1939 World's Fair, accessible using the then new Grand Central Parkway, there was a "Jewish Palestine Pavilion."

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