Palestine is an English word . You can pervert the word and play semantics all you want but they are the same people the Hebrews could not defeat in their invasion of Canaan.
Palestine is a Roman word first coined in 135 CE
It is a bastardisation of the term philistine meant as an insult to the Jews.
The canaanites lived in the Northern parts of Palestine, which is now modern Lebanon. So they are technically Palestinians if the term was applied to them by the romans
I meant the English language not the country.
seeker------the term "palestina" -----was derived from the name of a people
termed PLESHTIM------sorta. The very unfortunate reality is that the
language of those people is unknown-----they seem to have been literate---
but not enough of their written artifacts SURVIVED for the language
to be deciphered. They were situated on the sea coast----
kinda north---near ASHKELON and were ethnically AEGEANS -----like
Jason and the argonauts (remember medea?) The lands along the sea---
tended to have small populations of AEGEAN kinda people-----which is sorta
greek to the greeks-- There were Aegeans in what is today SYRIA too.
In order to understand what was going on in the area think FLUX-----
and also "CLIMATE CHANGES" lots of wars. EGYPT actually made
incursions into the area------as did persians from the other side----and
Babylonians -----and greeks from here or there----especially via today's
Syria ALMOST ALL OF THE AEGEAN TYPE IMPLANTS ---became
NON EXTANT------they were like vikings ----here one century and gone
the next. It seems to me that the one place that stayed most "greek"---
was SYRIA ----until it was invaded by the dregs from arabia
At the time sherri's 'god' Herodotus wrote his geography----to greeks the
only humans considered human were----GREEKS (read plato)---therefore
he named a very large area PALESTINA----since it referred to a greek like
people. which populated the area here and there----the rest of
the humans in the area were "BARBARIANS" which means any organism
that does not speak a greek like language----no more human than a lizard.
Herodotus lived at the time known in the bible as THE BABYLONIAN
CAPTIVITY------at that time captivity meant all the notables of
a country were shipped out ------like DANIEL----remember that book?
Israel/Judea did not disappear ---it was simply degoverned----and the people
of the countryside trudged on ------abandoned----HOWEVER at this time lots
of "cultures" in what was once termed CANAAN ----were ravaged and
most disappeared. The theories about the PLESHTIM of ----near Ashkelon
is--------they simply left. too much war or not enough rain or whatever---
they left. The islands of the AEGEAN----are very nice----why would a seafaring
people STICK AROUND??? any concept that renders the area once called
PALESTINA as harboring STABLE UNCHANGING populations------FUHGET ABOUT
IT. whole cultures and civilizations do disappear----sometimes----in fact LOTS
have. maybe most.
