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The word "Palestine" conjurs up images of an ancient biblical place dating back to the earliest civilizations in history. In fact, Palestine is an English word that is a fairly recent invention created by Europeans after collapse of the 400 year old Ottoman Empire in World War I when Great Britain took possession of the land from the Ottoman Turks who surrendered it.
Thus, it comes as no surprise that Palestine is never mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible nor even the Quran. Palestine appears on no ancient historical documents nor any archaeological artifacts.
Cambridge University's book division explains further...
Cambridge University Press---
The Brits invented "Palestine" based on the Romans, also Europeans, who after occupying Israel and Judaea, the actual historical homeland of the Jewish People, changed the name to the Latin "Palaestina" in retribution for the Jewish uprisings against their Roman oppressors. Palaestina was based on the Philistines who were ancient enemies of the Jews. The Philistines originated from Greece, known as the Sea Peoples referring to the Mediterranean Sea. The same Romans infamous for feeding Christians to the lions.
Thus, funny enough, today's so-called Palestinians, who, after all, are really Arabs, base their identity on an English and Latin word [Palestine, Palaestina] that describes a Greek people [Philistines] There is absolutely nothing "Palestiniain" about Palestine nor Palestinians!
Israel is mentioned over 2000 times in the Bible.
The British fashioned themselves inheritors of the Roman Empire and paid tribute to them by renaming Israel, too, "Palestine" to denote the land of Israel under their British Mandate that ended in 1948. After termination of the British Mandate and Israeli statehood in '48, Palestine ceased to exist replaced by the rightful name of Israel that dates back over 3000 years.
Eminent Middle East historian and scholar Bernard Lewis sums it up...
Guy Milliere, Eminent Professor of History and Political Science, Sorbonne, Paris, puts the final point on the matter...
Thus, it comes as no surprise that Palestine is never mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible nor even the Quran. Palestine appears on no ancient historical documents nor any archaeological artifacts.
Cambridge University's book division explains further...
Cambridge University Press---
In Ottoman times, no political entity called Palestine existed. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, European boundary makers began to take greater interest in defining territorial limits for Palestine. Only since the 1920s has Palestine had formally delimited boundaries, though these have remained subject to repeated change and a source of bitter dispute.
Palestine Boundaries 18331947 - Cambridge Archive Editions
The Brits invented "Palestine" based on the Romans, also Europeans, who after occupying Israel and Judaea, the actual historical homeland of the Jewish People, changed the name to the Latin "Palaestina" in retribution for the Jewish uprisings against their Roman oppressors. Palaestina was based on the Philistines who were ancient enemies of the Jews. The Philistines originated from Greece, known as the Sea Peoples referring to the Mediterranean Sea. The same Romans infamous for feeding Christians to the lions.
Thus, funny enough, today's so-called Palestinians, who, after all, are really Arabs, base their identity on an English and Latin word [Palestine, Palaestina] that describes a Greek people [Philistines] There is absolutely nothing "Palestiniain" about Palestine nor Palestinians!
Israel is mentioned over 2000 times in the Bible.
The British fashioned themselves inheritors of the Roman Empire and paid tribute to them by renaming Israel, too, "Palestine" to denote the land of Israel under their British Mandate that ended in 1948. After termination of the British Mandate and Israeli statehood in '48, Palestine ceased to exist replaced by the rightful name of Israel that dates back over 3000 years.
Eminent Middle East historian and scholar Bernard Lewis sums it up...
The adjective Palestinian is comparatively new. This, I need hardly remind you, is a region of ancient civilization and of deep-rooted and often complex identitites. But, Palestine was not one of them. People might identify themselves for various purposes, by religion, by descent, or by allegiance to a particular state or ruler, or, sometimes, locality. But, when they did it locally it was generally either the city and the immediate district or the larger province, so they would have been Jerusalemites or Jaffaites or Syrians, identifying province of Syria
The constitution or the formation of a political entity called Palestine which eventually gave rise to a nationality called Palestinian were lasting innovations of the British Mandate
Guy Milliere, Eminent Professor of History and Political Science, Sorbonne, Paris, puts the final point on the matter...
No one had heard of a Palestinian people before the mid-1960s. They did not exist. Israel under the British Mandate until Israel' s Independence in 1948 was called Palestine. All Jews who were born there until i948 had the word « Palestine » stamped on their passports. The current Palestinians are those Arabs who, for a variety of reasons, decided to leave the land during the 1947 War of Independence, when five countries Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq attacked the 600,000 people in the fledgling state of Israel the day after its birth, hoping to kill it in the crib.
The War Against Israel Goes On- by Guy Millière | DRZZ.fr