The word Palestine is properly pronounced with a soft 'F" instead of a hard 'P'.
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Indeed, there is no hard P sound in Arabic, but there is a softer F, and Palestinians pronounce the name of their would-be state as “Falastin” (fah-leh-STEEN) — as do most Hebrew-speaking Israelis.
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Just look at the word Phoenician.
Falistine is nearly identical in phoenetics.
And if your attempt was to claim Hebrew influence in the name Palestine, you can't, because Hebrew also has no hard P, and instead also used the soft F, because Hebrew is of Arab origins.
Nope,
Hebrew deffinately has a hard 'P' sound, as much as any of the Canaanite dialects.
Arabs can't pronounce
'P-alestine' because they speak a foreign language.
That's it.
It would not at all matter if modern Arabs were speaking a foreign language.
They are, since Arabic is not native.
But the people and culture are, so it is irrelevent.
And no, ancient Hebrew would not have pronounced Palestine with a hard P either.
They prounced it with a soft F instead, just like Arabs do.
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Philistia (
Hebrew: פלשת,
Pleshet) was a confederation of cities in the Southwest Levant. Its appearance follows the invasion of Egypt by the foreign sea People, of which
Philistines or Peleset are part, and their alleged relocation to the southern abandoned coast of Canaan by
Ramesses III following his victory over them. Philistia northern boundary was the
Yarkon River with the
Mediterranean Sea on the west, the
Kingdom of Judah to the east and the
Wadi El-Arish to the south.
[1][2] Philistia consisted of the Five Lords of the
Philistines, described in the
Book of Joshua (
Joshua 13:3) and the
Books of Samuel (
1 Samuel 6:17), comprising
Ashkelon,
Ashdod,
Ekron,
Gath, and
Gaza, in the south-western
Levant.
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The Five Lords of the Philistines are described in the
Hebrew Bible as being in constant struggle and interaction with the neighbouring
Israelites,
Canaanites and
Egyptians, being gradually absorbed into the Canaanite culture.
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The Philistines were no longer mentioned following the conquest of the
Levant by the
Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC). Genetic and archeological evidence suggest that the Philistines immigrated from
Southern Europe to
Canaan, and mixed with the native Canaanites during the first couple of centuries.
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