As the Ottoman census records show Palestine was widely inhabited in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century,especially in Rural Areas where Agriculture was the main profession.Palestine's population in the early 19th Century was 350,000,and by 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000......Muslim Arabs 81,000...Christian Arabs and only 59,000 Jews(NO ZIONISTS) but mainly consisting of many Jews from Europe most from Anti-Semitic Russia from the second "Aliyah".Forever Young,you make some fine points and some not so accurate,firstly,when the Jews emerged from Babylon they were in fact part Arab...secondly the Israelites under various leaders did in fact eliminate both the Canaanites,Edomites and other smaller peoples,those left were absorbed into the 12 Tribes,many conquering nations have used this practice from Persians to Romans to the Mongols etc,.Incorrect! Another Jew hater spinning garbage and bullshit.
Jew (word)
This article is about the English word Jew. For the Jewish people, see Jews.
The term Jew passed into the English language from the Greek Ioudaios and Latin Iudaeus, from which the Old French giu was derived after dropping the letter "d", and later after a variety of forms found in early English (from about the year 1000) such as: Iudea, Gyu, Giu, Iuu, Iuw, Iew developed into the English word โJew.โ It thus ultimately originates in the Biblical Hebrew word Yehudi meaning "from the Tribe of Judah", "from the Kingdom of Judah", or "Jew".
EtymologyEdit
Hasmonean coin of John Hyrcanus (134 to 104 BCE) with the inscription "Hayehudim" (of the Jews).
Obv: Double cornucopia.
Rev: Five lines of ancient Hebrew script; reading "Yehochanan Kohen Gadol, Chever Hayehudim"(Yehochanan the High Priest, Council of the Jews.
The Jewish ethnonym in Hebrew is ืืืืืื Yehudim (plural of ืืืืื Yehudi) which is the origin of the English word Jew. The Hebrew name is derived from the region name Judah(Yehudah ืืืืื).
Originally the name referred to the territory allotted to the tribedescended from Judah the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob (Numbers). According to the Hebrew Bible Judah was one of the twelve sons of Jacob and one of the Twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis). Genesis 29:35 [1] relates that Judah's mother โ the matriarch Leah โ named him Yehudah (i.e. "Judah") because she wanted to "praise God" for giving birth to so many sons: "She said, 'This time let me praise (odehืืืื) God (ืืืื),' and named the child Judah (Yehudahืืืืื)", thus combining "praise" and "God" into one new name.[citation needed] In Hebrew, the name "Judah" (ื ื ื [ื] ื) contains the four letters of the Tetragrammaton โ the special, holy, and ineffable name of the Jewish God. The very holiness of the name of Judah attests to its importance as an alternate name for "Israelites" that it ultimately replaces.[citation needed]
Yehudi in the Hebrew BibleEdit
The term Yehudi occurs 74 times in the Masoretic textof the Hebrew Bible. The plural, Yehudim, debuts in 2 Kings 16:6 [2], and in 2 Chronicles 32:18. In Jeremiah 34:9 we find the earliest singular usage of the word Yehudi, "Jew" being used, though The name appears in the Bible in a verb form, in Esther 8:17 [3][unreliable source?] which states, "Many of the people of the land mityahadim (became Yehudim/Judeans/Jews) because the fear of the Yehudim fell on them." Also in Esther2:5-6, we find that the name "Jew" is given to a man from the tribe of Benjamin:[4][unreliable source?] "There was a man a Yehudi (Judean/Jewish man) in Shushanthe capital, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite; who had been exiled from Jerusalem with the exile that was exiled with Jeconiah, king of Judah, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had exiled."
Development in European languagesEdit
Main article: Ioudaios
The Middle English word Jew derives from Old Englishwhere the word is attested as early as 1000 in various forms, such as Iudeas, Gyu, Giu, Iuu, Iuw, Iew. These terms derive from Old French giu, earlier juieu, which had elided (dropped) the letter "d" from the Medieval Latin Iudaeus, which, like the New Testament Greekterm Ioudaios, meant both Jews and Judeans / "of Judea".
However, most other European languages retained the letter "d" in the word for Jew, and in a number of languages, including modern Hebrew and modern standard Arabic, the same word is still used to mean both Jews and Judeans / "of Judea".
Ancient terminologyEdit
MonarchyEdit
The kingdom of Judah appears in red in this map of ancient Israel around 900 BCE (The text is in Catalan).
After the splitting of the united Kingdom of Israel and Judah, the name Yehudi was used for the southern kingdom of Judah, containing not only the land of the tribe of Judahbut also that of Benjamin and Simeon, along with some of the cities of the Levites.
With the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel, the kingdom of Judah became the sole Jewish state and the term y'hudi (ืืืืื) was applied to all Israelites. When the word makes its first appearance in writing (in the book of Esther) its meaning has already expanded to include converts to the Jewish religion as well as descendants of Israelites.
Late AntiquityEdit
In the Septuagint and other Greek documents the word "Jew" (ioudaois) occurs frequently.
In some places in the Talmud the word Israel(ite) refers to somebody who is Jewish but does not necessarily practice Judaism as a religion: "An Israel(ite) even though he has sinned is still an Israel(ite)" (Tractate Sanhedrin 44a). More commonly the Talmud uses the term Bnei Yisrael, i.e. "Children of Israel", ("Israel" being the name of the third patriarch Jacob, father of the sons that would form the twelve tribes of Israel, which he was given and took after wrestling with an angel, see Genesis 32:28-29 [5]) to refer to Jews. According to the Talmud then, there is no distinction between "religious Jews" and "secular Jews."
Which is it now:
from the Tribe of Judah", "from the Kingdom of Judah", or "Jew".
With your history of intermarriage, lord only knows what mixtures you are.
Esau, the brother of the patriarch Jacob, became the ancestor of the people called Edom, or Idumea. The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus, XIII ix 1; XV vii 9 instructs us: John Hyrcanus forcibly assimilated the Edomites as a national group and they became "Jews" in about 120BC. The Jewish historian Josephus, who lived just after the time of Christ, wrote, "They [Edom] were hereafter no other than Jews'. The Jewish scholar Cecil Roth in his Concise Jewish Encyclopedia (1980) says on page 154, "John Hyrcanus forcibly converted [Edom] to Judaism. From then on they were part of the Jewish people. In the Talmud the name of Edom was applied to Christian Rome, and was then used for Christianity in general".
Jesus was Not A Jew
Those Palestinians are those from the area who mainly became Muslims over the years. They are the ones who never left the area and traveled across the globe only to return like they never left.
This new myth that the Palestinians are all descended from the ancient Canaanites is ridiculous. Documents from the 1800's and 1900's prove that the area was constantly being replenished by nomads from Arabia. Churchill also noted that masses of Arabs started flooding into the area after Jews created jobs for them.
As for Edom, that was the only time in history that the Jews forcibly converted another nation. The Idumeans became Jews and produced King Herod, among others. But what does that prove anyway? That Jews sometimes married converts to their faith? So what? If anything, it means that Jews aren't racist.
Palestinians are a distinct people,No not decended from Canaanites but later from "over the sea" methinks displaced people when the island of Santorini exploded in a massive earthquake back in millennia ..........Churchill,in many ways was not so Great and inaccurate in a lot of what he assumed,your summation states Palestinians(some) only came to the Holy Land after Jews created jobs for them(what time line are you using here,1930 onwards??).....this is a ridiculous statement as they had been in Palestine well before the Romans left...........way back in the 1800's the French Government Thanked the Palestinians for the huge amount of crops and cereals that prevented FAMINE in France.......Agriculture was thriving in Palestine and the addition of Illegal Jewish Immigrants only perpetuated Agriculture.......they certainly did not originate Agriculture in this part of the world.......but as a matter of respect Israel since its inception has improve Agriculture,Rooftop Solar Energy which I first saw in 1968.......World leaders moreover their water Technology,saying that, many peoples throughout history have used water expertly,Arabs,Persians,Assyians,The Moors in Spain,Incas etc,.
Some one here don't even admit that there were any Palestinians living in this area prior to Independence.....these Headloppers even contradict David Ben-Gurion who had a complete grasp of Palestine and the situation as early as 1898........these modern wannabee Zionists on here are total liars and have no ethics or moral responsibility ........ because they are deniers of their complicit Terrorist Slaughtering past against the indeginous sic Palestinians.
Remembering Palestinians are a Semitic people,like the Shepardic Jews.........but as for the ASKAHARSI sic Jews these are not Semitic at all and have NO direct lineage to Abraham etc., but are Khasars and others mixed people.
Thanks for your post,makes a change from the usual Drool inflicted upon me.......I am Pro Israel(but against Zionist Terrorism) and Pro Palestine,lets hope these 2 peoples find peace...............I find the Pro-Zionist Lobby on here Banal to the extreme.steven
Palestinians are the newest of all the peoples on the face of the Earth, and began to exist in a single day by a kind of supernatural phenomenon that is unique in the whole history of mankind, as it is witnessed by a former PLO terrorist that acknowledged the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against:
โWhy is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?โ
โWe did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flagโ.
โWhen I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak outโ.
This declaration by a true "Palestinian" should have some significance for a sincerely neutral observer. Indeed, there is no such a thing like a Palestinian people, or a Palestinian culture, or a Palestinian language, or a Palestinian history. There has never been any Palestinian state, neither any Palestinian archaeological find nor coinage. The present-day "Palestinians" are an Arab people, with Arab culture, Arabic language and Arab history. They have their own Arab states from where they came into the Land of Israel about one century ago to contrast the Jewish immigration. That is the historical truth. They were Jordanians (another recent British invention, as there has never been any people known as "Jordanians"), and after the Six-Day War in which Israel utterly defeated the coalition of nine Arab states and took legitimate possession of Judea and Samaria, the Arab dwellers in those regions underwent a kind of anthropological miracle and discovered that they were Palestinians - something they did not know the day before. Of course, these people having a new identity had to build themselves a history, namely, had to steal some others' history, and the only way that the victims of the theft would not complain is if those victims do no longer exist.
So the Jewish population in Palestine was under 8% of the total population and was smaller than the Palestinian Christian population,many Jewish Scholars like Benny Morris and Tom Segev confirm this..........It is worth noting and quoting one of the most ardent Zionists ...Israel Zangwill,who stated as early as 1905,that Palestine was twice as thickly populated as the United States(I think he was mainly referring to Jerusalem) note in the entire land area of the US in 1905 the population was circa 80 Million.so he would have been close in his assessment..He stated:-
"Palestine proper has already its inhabitants.The pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United States,having 52 souls to the sq mile,and NOT 25% oF THEM JEWS.........We must prepare either to DRIVE OUT BY SWORD THE ARABS IN POSSESSION AS OUR FOREFATHERS DID OR TO GRAPPLE WITH THE PROBLEM OF A LARGE ALIEN(!! don't you just love the terminology of these friggin Zionists....NOT) POPULATION, MOSTLY ARAB PALESTINIANS AND THEREFORE GET ACCUSTOMED FOR THEM TO DESPISE US FOR GENERATIONS"
We he was right there.......I don't expect any of you Mooseheads to know of these Scholars or this verment Zionist because your history of Palestine and Israel only started from a time period a fraction longer than the end of your noses...LOL. to be continued.
You know nothing about Jewish or Palestinian history...............as you are merely Zionist Fundamentalists and if your current Zionist told you to eat Shit...you all would of course...so brain washed you are. steve
Do explain why the Ottomans invited Zionists to migrate to Palestine and settle then ? Why the Palestinian charters state no Jews born after the 1850 start of Zionist "invasion" of palestine
