I think this issue of the life-span of the Hebrew language got a little out of proportion. In my previous post #36, my original point was much more simple than digging into the deep ancestry of Semitic languages. It doesn't matter if modern Hebrew is different from biblical Hebrew, or that it wasn't spoken at certain points in time. The fact is that it survived as the liturgical language of the Jewish people for 3 millenia, and it is still called Hebrew today. It's the language of a nation with 3000 year old roots in Israel--same people, same language, same religion. I hear many times people saying that the Palestinians have more of a right to claim Israel as their homeland than Jews. This is why I think they're wrong.

Hebrew didn't originate from Aramaic, as you claim, no was it a dead language but was a language of Jewish studies of religion and law, but also of poetry. Yiddish on the other hand developed from old High German, which the Jews acquired when living in Germany and brought with them to the Eastern Europe. Not all European Jews spoke Yiddish -- "Spanish” Jews speak Ladino, which had derived from XV century Spanish and is spoken even now by Jews in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria and Israel. As to the number of Arabic sounding words in Hebrew, all languages borrow from each other -- when you say bouquet (of flowers) that’s from French. Veranda is an Indian word, and so on. . the Jews living in Arab countries didn't speak Yiddish but a dialect derived from a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic. I am certain that quite a few of the "Arab" words were borrowed from Hebrew and not the other way around. "The real language" of Jews is Hebrew, but also Yiddish and Ladino, which each have a literature written in it. Yiddish became a literary language rather mach later for the Jews and it uses Hebrew, not Latin alphabet. Hebrew and "ivrit" means one and same in two different languages. I am not a linguistic expert, but that's a common knowledge and common sense.

iam palastinian i speake as a palastinian not as araby not as moslem but as a person and live in palastine as my father and his grand father sure i know this truth ...oh but the truth hurt .. yes it hurts the israili becouse of that they said palastinian never existed but now from where is the palastin israil arise this is about the truth that hurt ...and the israil ocuppation is a truth and this truth hurt the palastinian ////now to the dr of florida who want israil to end the ocupation when the palastinians or the moslem to change their religion to change their culture to educate their children how to love the jews to stop terror then the ocupation of the people of the palastin willbe ended ///again iam a person under the ocupation of israil and iam a dr so from this day i will start to treat the israili to get red from its disease the ocupation let get a game or only a paper ,,,,and i let dr from florida to treat the palastinians or allthe moslems to get rid from all thier diseases that he want to end it from the religion to the culture to the hate and terror also it is a game only on a paper ////at the last of the exam who willsucced and who will fail ///yes you will said you have a dirty english we do not under stand what you mean so as to escape the truth which hurt ..after that we let the game to action ..all the people understand the doing and tell it is a dirty doing yes it is a dirty doing becouse when the war is not dirty specially to whome is suffering as the palastinians is suffering as well as the israili ,,so we must do to stop suffering not to win the war

ok... here we go: Until 1950 there was The Palestine Post, The Palestine Electric Company, the Palestine Foundation Fund, Palestine Economic Corporation, etc etc ... What do they have in common? THEY WERE ALL JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS!!! It wasn't until Arafat (who was born in EGYPT, by the way) and the plo appropriated the term, the title of Palestinian applied almost exclusively to the Jews. Here's a quote to leave you with... "The interesting thing about "Palestinians" is that so few of the West Bank Arabs thought of themselves as such before 1967. It post-dates the founding of the PLO: Palestine had a national liberation movement before it had a nationality." - Mark Steyn, National Post, April 4, 2002.

can you spell palastine in arabic or do you think the arabic language do not existe ------- to jordan may you said the truth as you see it but sure it is not as we feel it befor the 1967 ..i mean under the goverment of jordan we know the fact that we are palastinians and king hussen know what realy we feel [but king huseen was good with the palastinians did not kill them he encouraged the free education of the palastinians he gave them the passport to let them easy to travell allover the world and lastly gave them their lands to build the houses the schools the hospitals //////what israil did to the palastinians what what aske any one live here to tell you

You write" ...but king huseen was good with the palastinians did not kill them ..." Are you joking!! Ever hear of BLACK SEPTEMBER in 1970 when the Jordanian Army acting on Hussein's order massacred the Palestinians – some of whom actually swam the Jordan River to Israel to find refugee in ... Israel???

real elections in Palestine make it soooo diferent cuture from all of the rest of the arab worl ..palestinians are establishing an other political way of coverning , a mdel . it is not faire to decide for the freinds ....let them do there democratic political regim the way they want

You asked how we could give up Sinai. Well, from what I know Sinai is not part of Eretz Yisrael. But the other reason we gave it up was for a real peace. You see, peace is a very important thing for us. And as much as we love Eretz Yisrael, there are people - even rabbis - who are willing to give up parts of our Land for peace. ONLY for peace. But I have read that there are great numbers of your people who are willing to leave if they are given money to do so.

i live from 1950 till 1967 in jerusalem under jordanian governor and i said about these days but the blake september is in 1970 and it is in amman it is in jordan land not palastin land and it is against the plo not palastinians people which they still live on jordan life a better life than we the palastinians on our land with the wall the checkpoints no one can visit the son or duaghter can not reache the hospitals evry day there is killed people normal do not fighting only walking in the streets no jobs no food iam seriouse in this also and it is the war between israil and palastinians since years i hope somday it will be ended god help us salam

Absolutely. The Palestinians deserve the government of their choice. In my opinion, they voted for what they really believe in. I hope they are happy. Of course, they won't be happy for long. Because there is a price for one's choices. They chose terrorists, as usual, and will be dealt with accordingly.

hi avi we are veryheappy from the new tv.it is cificult to wxpress aurthanks to you whath you did for us.thank you again with love aba an ema

Isn't it COMMON KNOWLEDGE that the Jews were ALWAYS in Israel? What about the Bible? What about ancient history? Mo, you sure are sure of your "facts."