{"id":2661,"date":"2015-01-29T23:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2015-02-06T00:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:13:43","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-term-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/a-brief-history-of-the-term-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of the term “Palestine”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Tom Brennan<\/p>\n

There has never been a nation called “Palestine”. While uninformed academics and mainstream media insist that Palestine has a right not only to seize land from Israel but to make Jerusalem its capital and expel or exterminate all Jews they neglect the conditions that led to Muslims who fled the new Nation during the War of Independence in 1948. These unfortunates were caught in a crossfire of defenders of the new State and the professional armies of several Arab nations which were determined to make that new nation disappear. Refugee camps were established but never did any attempts to resettle these persons appear from the attacking countries, many of which were rich in resources and finances. The refugees became pawns in a cruel political game that now has terrorist groups such as Hamas as governors. These distortions of history get press, publicity and social media posts, all the while preying on an ill-informed audience and governments with short attention spans and shorter memories. Just what are the facts behind the word “palestine”.<\/p>\n

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Israel in Old Testament Times<\/p><\/div>The origins of the word palestine come from the term for “Philistine”. The Philistines were originally several groups that entered Canaan, one group came before Patriarchal times ca 2200 BC, and the” sea people” from the Mediterranean.Scholars conjecture that they may have been groups that escaped the disaster that struck the Mycenean empire when a monumental volcanic eruption destroyed land masses and a tsunami of unbelievable power struck the Mediterranean. Before that numerous peoples and city-states were the general governmental arrangement of what was then Canaan.<\/p>\n

The Greek historian Herodotus formed the term “the Philistine Syria” to refer to the region in his writings. The usual terms used before to describe a land or region would be to the language, kings or peoples, such as Habiru for Hebrew” or House of David or a reference to the name of the king. In retribution for the revolt under Bar Kochbar Roman Emperor Hadrian decided to blot out the nuisance of the Jews once and for all and renamed the province of Judea as Provincia Syria Palestina. It was listed as a jurisdiction for government and not a nation or people. Over centuries Damascus was recognized as the principal governmental body as Jerusalem slipped into dusty obscurity. Palestine was revived as a geographic term by the British Mandate.<\/p>\n

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