HADRIAN'S CURSE –– THE INVENTION OF PALESTINE

by Tsafrir Ronen 

 Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called "Palestine" after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world's stage more than 600 years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea....http://www.think-israel.org/ronen.hadriancurse.html