Sunday Morning Must Read: Updated

Is this essay on a mythical people and land, the Palestinians and Palestine and where they came from.
( Altered and plagiarized text from American Thinker has been removed from this spot and the essay pulled from their site) I am waiting for permission to reprint some of the original but it is linked to below.
Read the whole thing.
Update: A reader emails that the above article was largely plagiarized from an article written for A Time to Speak-Messages about Israel, the original can be found here. I had no way of knowing this so let this be noted as a correction to the record and American Thinker has pulled the above essay. The original is a much better read anyway so go check it out.
Update: The 'reader' is the propietress of A Time to Speak and a new friend of the Barnyard and I have permission to reprint. She is an American that has made Aliyah or relocation to Israel. I look forward to further emails and essays from this great source. Here is a clip from the original essay.

WHAT DOES "PALESTINE" MEAN?

It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.
The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The name came into use in the thirteenth century BCE, for the "Sea Peoples" who migrated from the region of the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands and settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it "Palastina".
The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites . They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from Peleshet.

HOW DID THE LAND OF ISRAEL BECOME "PALESTINE"?

In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.

Well Bar now we know where you got your nomme de plume, grin, no problem just keep up the great posts my friend!