During the Roman Empire about 2000 years ago, the Romans decided to call Israel by the Latin word "palestine" in retribution for the second Jewish Revolt against Roman occupation of Israel and pagan religious persecution of Jews. The Emperor Hadrian chose to rename Israel "palestine" as an added insult for the Jewish uprising based on the "Philistines" who were ancient enemies of the Israelites. The Philistines were of Greek origin, known as the Sea Peoples having come from the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.
The objective of the Romans was to erase 1000 years of Jewish nationhood in Israel as they erased Carthage after its loss to the Romans in the Punic War.
The word Philistines comes from the Hebrew word "Peleshet" found many times in the Hebew Bible meaning "invader" The Bible translates Peleshet as Philistia, land of the Philistines [Not palestine]
Thus, ultimately, "palestine" has Hebrew roots: Peleshet > Philistia > Palestine. Which begs the question why so-called palestinians identify with a Hebrew-based identity rather than a "palestinian" identity. In fact, since there is no letter p in arabic, so-called palestinians, who are arabs, cannot even write their identity in their own native arabic language.
The so-called palestinians wouldn't be a completely invented "people" Noooooooooooooooooo.
The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about the Syrian province of Palestine in 500 BC. He wrote Syria-Palestine.
The Palestinians are just Canaanites or descendants of Jewish farmers who didn't leave.
Though the definite origins of the word Palestine have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and
Hebrew word
peleshet. Roughly translated to mean rolling or migratory, the term was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of
Egypt – the Philistines.
Article discussing the origin of the name "Palestine" and Palestinian nationalism.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
If the Philistines were Greek invaders, and the region was given the name Palestine by other Greeks, what are today's Palestinians doing telling the world that they are Arabs?
The Romans renamed Judea to make the Jews, not the "Palestinians", or any other people, forget their Nation and stop fighting for it.
Which is why the Romans also closed Jerusalem to the JEWS, and not to anyone else.
Your farmer fantasy does not hold water.
Ben Gurion claimed the Palestinians were descended from Jewish farmers who stayed in Palestine.. Schlomo Sands says the same thing. With DNA studies 90% of Palestinians have Jewish ancestry.
“If we investigate the origins of the Felahim [Palestinians], there is no doubt that much Jewish blood runs in their veins.” -David Ben Gurion, (first) Prime Minister of Israel (1948 -1953, 1955 &#…
adammaarschalk.com
Clearly you did not read Ben Gurion's book itself, but are going by a very obscure site, managed by who knows who.
Who is
Adam Maarschalk ????
This is what he believes in:
Preterism, a
Christian eschatological view, interprets some (partial preterism) or all (full preterism)
prophecies of the
Bible as events which have already happened. This school of thought interprets the
Book of Daniel as referring to events that happened from the 7th century BC until the first century AD, while seeing the prophecies of the
Book of Revelation as events that happened in the
first century AD. Preterism holds that
Ancient Israel finds its
continuation or fulfillment in the
Christian church at the
destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The term
preterism comes from the Latin
praeter, which is a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond".
[1] Adherents of preterism are known as
preterists. Preterism teaches that either all (full preterism) or a majority (partial preterism) of the
Olivet discourse had come to pass by AD 70.
Historically, preterists and non-preterists have generally agreed that the
Jesuit Luis de Alcasar (1554–1613) wrote the first systematic preterist exposition of prophecy
Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi (published in 1614) during the
Counter-Reformation.
en.wikipedia.org
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A historian he is not. A Christian from a demonization not recognized by the Protestant church, of some kind, he definitely is, and no friend of Israel, or Jews, if he posts that ancient Arabs in Judea or around, are the ancestors of today's Arab Palestinians and quotes Ben Gurion as saying such a thing.
Ben Gurion would have never written anything like that, for the simple fact that it is not true. And there are many like Adam who would like to give the Arabs of today some legitimacy by saying......if there were some Arabs in Canaan, then they are indigenous of Canaan, instead of having migrated to Canaan as all the Arabs from the 7th century on have done.
The Palestinians ONLY started saying that they are indigenous to the land after Israel's declaration of Independence.
That should be a hint to anyone who care about the truth in any subject, especially when it comes to trying to destroy Israel and make the Jews servants to Muslims and Christians again, as they were till then.
