I have considered that they are descendants of the Philistines because the Philistines were Baal worshippers too. While they worship Allah, the Philistines worshipped the false god Dagon. Idolatry is idolatry. According to Obadiah, they will be destroyed in the future.Hamas leader and one Muslim cleric identified them as from Egypt and Saudi Arabia originally. They started calling themselves Palestinians in the 1960's in order to cause trouble for the Israelites. Both the Hamas leader / Minister and the Muslim Cleric agreed that there was no real Palestinians. They are either Arabs or Egyptians.Apart from the fact that there is no such thing as a Palestinian, I do pray for the Arab Muslims, the Egyptian Muslims, all followers of Islam that the LORD will reveal Himself to them and that they will be saved, I pray for all unsaved souls that they may be saved but this thread is about praying for the peace of Jerusalem and God does bless those who love and pray for Israel. If praying for a city to have peace were silly God would never have desired for it to be done. It wouldn't be in the Scriptures. Yet is is! So it is good to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.Do I pray for peace no, but I believe there is never a winner in war, praying for a city to have peace is kind of silly, I think you mean you are praying for the jews, and in that case you are asking God to be against the Palestinians.
Penelope, I found it interesting that you felt that praying for the peace of Jerusalem meant praying against the Arabs and Egyptians living in Gaza and elsewhere inside Israel. Do you see it as a prayer that would cause the violence they have waged against Jews to end? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Why would you want a people to continue in violence against the Jews knowing that it is going to lead to their very destruction? Why would you want unrest and chaos in Jerusalem?
There you go, no such thing as a Palestinian, what do you call them, the name of the country has been Palestine, and people who live there and have lived there were Palestinians.
Where in the scriptures is it ?
The Palestinians are probably the left over Canaanites who have been there for centuries, they go back many generations. That is why there are Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians.
don't get carried away, Jeremiah------read some of the current high school general biology books------they are REMARKABLY sophisticated in the field of
human genetics--------I am so old that I can remember when WATSON AND CRICK were news. The people called "Palestinians" are a very mixed people derived from all parts of the middle east which actually puts even GREEK genes
in them thar persons. -----the BEDOUINS---interestingly enough------are ARABIAN---(that means from DA PENNINSULA aka AL JEZEERAH) They are not actually "Palestinians" at all---(well----actually mixed ---but less
than Syrians who are almost as PHOENECIAN as were the philistines.. Be careful, Jeremiah------you seem to be going PENELOPIAN (oy)