From: aero.spike@mail.com 
  
 Jon Ribbens  wrote: 
 > On 2025-08-29, Spike  wrote: 
 >> Jon Ribbens  wrote: 
 >>> It implies that you can't argue against the claim made so are inventing 
 >>> your own strawman instead. 
 >> 
 >> It implies, if one follows your logic, that what was later invented as 
 >> €€€Palestine€€€ was actually Jewish in origin. 
 >> 
 >>> Everybody reading this thread knows that is false so it's a very 
 >>> strange thing to say. 
 >> 
 >> If I die in the county in which I currently live, people might ask 
 €€€€€€and 
 >> where was he from?€€€. The answer won€€€t be where I died or where my 
 mother 
 >> was born, it will be where I was born. I€€€ll wager it was so in 3rd 
 Century 
 >> Cappadocia. 
 >> 
 >> I really cannot understand why you cling so grimly to the unsupportable 
 >> notion that because St George died in a Roman province called 
 €€€Paelistina€€€, 
 >> created to hold the Jews following their Kokhbar revolution and which was 
 >> named after Philistina, that he was somehow Palestinian. It€€€s absurd. 
 > 
 > Like I said, you find it impossible to argue against what I and others 
 > actually said so you make up your own strawmen instead. I agree it's 
 > absurd that you keep doing it. It's frankly embarrassing to watch. 
  
 Well, I feel I€€€ve led this particular horse to water often enough, it€€€s 
 time it died of thirst. The history lesson is over. Thanks to those who 
 contributed to it, it was very illuminating concerning the real origins of 
 St George rather than the fondly-imagined ones. Sorry it was in vain. 
  
  
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 Spike 
  
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