Israel in Peril.

The name "Palestine" has retained its hidden symbolic significance for two thousand years ever since the Roman Empire destroyed the ancient Jewish kingdom and sold the defeated Jews into slavery. The Romans, wanting to erase the memory of this Jewish state, gave it the name "Palestine" because they discovered a few passages in the Bible mentioning Philistines, a people who had dwelt along the Mediterranean coast a millennium before the Roman conquest and fought the Jews under King David. The Philistines vanished from history many centuries before the Roman conquest. In rewriting h