Where did the name Palestine come from?
The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from “Plesheth”, a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as “Philistine”. Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine’s invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs.
The Philistines reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers – chiefly from the Mediterranean islands – overran the Philistine districts.
From the fifth century BC, following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean “the Philistine Syria” using the Greek language form of the name. In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman “Provincia Judaea” and so renamed it “Provincia Syria Palaestina”, the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name “Provincia Syria Palaestina” was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized “Palestine” is derived.
This remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed to have persisted into the seventh century, the time of the Persian and Muslim conquests.
The Christian Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the general region of the “three Palestines.” After the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official designation. The name, however, continued to be used informally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years (1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine.
The name “Falastin” that Arabs today use for “Palestine” is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman “Palaestina”. Quoting Golda Meir:
- The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation’s supposed ancient name, though they couldn’t even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. [In an article by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 1995]
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Palestine was throughout time an area- sometimes referred to as such. Saying that there were never any historic Palestinian Arabs during the various periods of Antiquity is ignorant- since Arabic did not exist, they were Semites along with Jews. The Bible has been at times accurate historically other not. If one thing can be said about Jews- since their beginning they have rarely been a people of “Place”. The so called Kingdom was conquered re-taken etc several times and Jews always on the move. Jerusalem- site of the Temple-was sacked in 70ad. Then 135. Jews have been a diaspora far more than they have ever been a nation/state. In fact if one is going to invoke an anthropomorphic God as most of you do- The Jews promised land has yet to materialize very well. For those Jews using Christians as your support- dont forget, their only reason is to prove vague biblical scripture in the hope that it will be the final battle ground and that the Jews are burned. That very idea has permeated Christianity resulting in Pogroms, harassment, mini genocides and major genocides, Inuisition etc- all blaming the Jews for the plague, crop failures, you name it. So keep in mind that those Jews associating with the Christians here- ask them what they think will happen to you if you do not accept Jesus during the “end of times”- its insulting. You will be burned for not accepting. Guess where Jews sought refuge against the twisted anti-jewish Christians? Muslim lands- look up Inquisition among other round ups. Jews are called “Christ Killers” so be aware of any Christian who tries to smooze you. Islamic anti-Jewish behavior has been for the most part since the establishment of Modern State of Israel. Yes some Jews were killed in the beginning of the spread of Islam- but it is nothing compared to the harassment of the Jewish Diaspora in the Christian lands. Read work done by Lucy Davidowitz and how they fared in the dark and middle ages… not soooo well. They did far better under Caliphates.
Dont trust your Christian friends that are defending your right to exist at the moment- because it is only for selfish reasons, and certainly not so that the Jews can establish a permanent land in which Christians would accept them as part of their society while they reject Jesus as Messiah. Jews do not believe in Jesus as Messiah. Jews did have Jesus put to death. But it is also symbolic in that Jesus would have been put to death if he came into being now- by Christians- because he was anti- establishment anti greed and profit. Show me one part of the Gospel where Jesus promotes making money, using that money to make more money, then consolidate the wealth for power in order to make more money- ie our system today. Show me where in the Gospel it says that. So Jews- be aware of most Christians because you are mere stepping stones in the fulfilment of prophecies that speak of your doom. They cant wait for it. Most of the doom was directed specifically towards Jews who did not ultimately accept Jesus- because this was written at that particular time for this particular group.
As a few have said- Palestine historically is a region- similar to the term Levant. People of all sorts lived there over the ages. Semites include Jews, and Aramaic and Hebrew led to early Arabic. All the tribes in this area during Antiquity were
Semites unless they were invaded. Jews and Muslims have far more in common than Christians and Jews- religiously in the laws etc. In fact the Qu’ran is very much a review and reinforcement of Jewish Law- read and compare and you will see.
No question this name is Roman based. Which in effect means “Where the Jews live”. Second fact is how they got back to Israel after being forced out by Rome and Arabic actions. Fact is that was the what was prophesied in the Old Testament and has remained that way for some 2,000 years. Now they are back AGAIN as prophecies in the Old Testament. If you do a little research you will find they were offered this by a letter written prior to WW 1. The refused but remember they NEVER became a real past of any nation but lived separate in Jewish communities. After WW 1 the League of Nations was formed and one of the first documents was called “The British Mandate” to open the door for Jews to return. They refused. WW 2 broke out and at the end of that battle the United Nations was formed and one of the first things was to reinforce the British Mandate. This time following the HOLOCAST they went home as non place existed for them to reoccupy as Hitler had wrecked all of them. This time they went. Could it be that the HOLOCAST was a act of God to FORCE Israel to return to the land of Israel?? If so then you can bet the end is coming very soon as the markers are falling into place all over the world.
POINT: it is a region or territory NOT a nation used by Rome to point to where Jews lived! Take a look at what the Holocast is really about. It followed two other offers to return to land of Israel for the Jews. Could it be GOD making Israel return for the second coming???
For Amin, who asks where it says the land of Israel exists, and does not seem to want a reply? Try this Amin:Sura V:12, 20-21!
TAKE DOWN ALL BORDERS and let humanity run loose!! these cultural/religious/social/financial boundaries just create more problems than it is worth, ESPECIALLY THE RELIGIOUSLY FUELED STUFF…i think we can all agree on this… i think
i believe HISTORY itself can PROVE that putting up boundaries and claiming things as your own is NOT WORKING. JUST BE HAPPY YOU ARE LIVING. NO GOD REQUIRED.
How new world you are in your statements.. I once believed the same way.
I admit I came to a place of realizing that there was no fact or evidence of studying History or Biblical research to back up my statements. I came from an emotional place of believing. My life changed when I pursued the truth! After many years having a personal relationship with the creator and wresting with him in regards to many beliefs and questions .. I came to a place of understanding; there is only one truth and one way to heaven. I think Borders and Boundaries are necessary in the world, and our personal life..I believe in protecting the homeland of God . and protecting myself! You say “God is not required” This comes from your heart .. it is a personal statement that leads me to see that you are in need of a power greater than yourself to walk with you , and listen to your concerns. Ask him to show you. Ask HIM to give you wisdom and direction .. He is with you waiting for you to ask him into your life.
Call it whatever one wants, everyone will have opinions, usually passionate, and few will agree. But let’s see what the Quran has to say about whom Israel belongs. You may just be surprised. No Bin Laden and his thugs made up their own rules (and it had absolutely nothing to do with the Quran); who says clearly (on numerous occasions “Jerusalem & Israel Is For The Jews. Period. Any questions? Thank you. Rick
And pray … where in the Quran it says that…. a few references would be nice?
Quran always mentions Israel and Jews in the past. So where does it say Israel belongs to Jews in the past.
What Israel did to the Arab countries that tried to attack it in 1967 would have been in the Bible had it happened 2000 years ago. There is and will be defeat to Israel. Israel is staying where it is, and no amount of whining and distorting history is going to change it. There is nothing any Jew can do about it. So live with it or go live somewhere else. The only reason Israel did not take over more territory in 1967 is because Israel couldn’t get it without equaling herself with the same level of ugliness as the Holocaust. The word Palestine derives from Philistine. It was the Philistines the Hebrews defeated to take the land known as Judea. The name was changed from Judea to Palestine by the conquering Romans. It was the last time a foreign enemy defeated the Hebrews in an equal game. The Palestinian name alone proves that the Palestinians were there first and it is their land. And it will stay that way now.
WOW, too much Jewish propaganda around here….. to all Jews reading this page, the god promised the Jews |(in surat al-israa’) that they will rise two times ,and that they will be destroyed by His soldiers in the both times. Well, the first time was at the era of king David and his son king Solomon then they were destroyed at the hands of the Persians ,and the second time is now ,and Israel will be destroyed by the battle between the Muslims and the Jews. So, if you want to save your life ,get out of Palestine and go to your beloved America.
It is, was and always will be the land of Israel. It is Canaan land. No matter how anti-Jew you are it doesn’t change the truth you can use all the (you-want-it doesn’t-change- the -facts)
Sura V:12, 20-21. Your own book says the land & Jerusalem belong to Israel. Learn to read your own book!
I am of Palestinian origins, and I always read about the history of my homeland. It appears that people are paying attention to “names of lands” instead of talking about the history of people and the land itself.
I don’t care about the name of my country, name it Palestine, Israel, Canaan or whatever; however this doesn’t change the fact that this land had it’s people living there before the Israeli immigration aided by the British.
It’s a historical fact the people from very different ethnicities and religions; Christians, Muslims and Jews have been living for centuries in this land. A “Jewish state” in a land previously inhabited by almost all religions is just unacceptable by any sane mind.
the Palestinians (being Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists…etc) are not asking for a religion based country BECAUSE THEY ARE OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS!
the Israelis however, are debating about a Jewish state for Jews wiping away all the rights for other ethnicities to live in their homeland!
bottom line: this land have always been for everyone, and it should stay for everyone, no matter what their “current” religion is.
Amen fellow Palestinian
Your statement that “the Israelis however, are debating about a Jewish state for Jews wiping away all the rights for other ethnicities to live in their homeland!” is just plain incorrect. The Arabs living in Israel are, in fact, freer and have more rights than the Arabs who live in any of the 22 Arab countries. People who call themselves “Palestinians”, and who live in Israel, are also freer and have more rights than “Palestinians” who live in any of the 22 Arab countries.
Hamza, History did not begin with the British Mandate, nor with 1948-9 war, not when the Ottomans conquered the region, nor when the Romans conquered the region, nor when Cyrus the Persian conquered the region, it goes thousands of years back, long before any Arab ever lived there, yet the Jews did live there from day one through today. The land of Judah is the root for the term Jew.
Palestine is a word that is made up and is not even Arabic, and derives from the Roman era where they renamed the land, based on Philistia. The Philistines were not Arabs either, they were from Greek roots. Arabs have never had any right to the land. They came to fill the void created when the Jews were pushed out by the Romans as late as 70 A.D. The name does not matter really, what matters is that those lands are not the ancestral lands of any Arab, including Lebanon. You and the rest of your people need a serious history lesson, the true history, history that pre-dates the Muslim seizure of these lands at the hand of Muhammadens and other INVADERS.
The Israelis, and the Jews you call peoples of other nationalities are such because they were kicked out by force from THEIR ancestral lands. They had to move to areas across the globe to evade persecution right up through Nazism. So how can they be invaders, or occupiers when they are the only people with a legal right to their ancestral lands. Arabs come from Arabia, hence the reason we use names. Changing a name of a land does not change its history.
Just stating something as a fact does not make it so, it must be backed up by documentation, that is why we write and keep records, so people do not just make things up to support their erroneous claims like yours. By the way, Arabs have full rights in Israel and VOTE there. Can any Jew vote in an Arab country where they may live? NO! Get your facts straight!
Don’t let emotion cloud your thinking. Only by studing the whold truth can you make the proper decision.
Gingrich is right…..they are an “invented” people. They did not exist before 1940s and most likely before 1948. Well Hamza explain the origins of the city JERUSALEM and BETHLEHEM. Both are ancient HEBREW names. Also, explain the TEMPLE OF DAVID. You can’t. Do you even know the true lineage of ISHMAEL ?
The lost tribes of ISRAEL were not taken into BABYLON BTW. They were taken by the ASSYRIANS and re-settled to the area
north of the CAUCASIAN SEA, hence the term from which CAUCASIANS descended. They were integrated with the people of the area and eventually made their way into western EUROPE and to the BRITISH ISLES. Note the similarity between the HOUSE OF JOSEPH and the quilted patterns of present day SCOTLAND. Note also the passage of PATRICK to IRELAND. There is a connection between the lost tribes (GENTILES) and the two tribes of ISRAEL (JUDAH remaining). History has always turned up proof. So many people denied the existence of so many things in the bible, which in present day have been proven to BE TRUE ! Including Jesus Christ, denied. Until a third party was discovered in writings of JOSEPHIUS. The TEMPLE OF DAVID and SOLOMON MINES, until recent discoveries by modern day archeology. Also, the HITTITES and the HSYKOS. Both mentioned in BIBLE and scoffed at, but found exist. There is no doubt that the 11 original disciples, then apostles, then Paul, existed. The skeptics keep throwing out doubts, but more and more discoveries are made each day. Even in Egypt were it is common knowledge of stories with the child JESUS growing up there, cover up th truth of the BIBLE when the farmers hide coins with images of JOESPH. Couple that with the modern day teaching of HATE against JEWS to little children in the area. Thus you have the perpetuation of the fascism and persecution that existed on unprecedented scale since the NAZI’s and HITLER. But wait , some of these people deny that the HOLOCAUST even existed. Yet the NEW WORLD ORDER is closed to the neo NAZI’s in the MIDDLE EAST or AFGHANISTAN or KASHMIR. Such hypocrisy abounds.
If this land is supposed to be for everyone, why does the current Palestinian leadership say that no Jews can live in their possible future state? They are the new Nazis.
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Israel (12 tribes) was split into 2 parts by God at the exile from him- Israel (10 tribes) & Judah (2 tribes). Today we are still in exile. That explains why the jewish people wanted a jewish state- the have no idea who the 10 ‘lost’ tribes of Israel are. Well, they know Judah are the 2 jewish tribes, and the other 10 are gentiles, but a jewish state called Israel is wrong.. they are still Judah and in exile from God, thus the ‘jewish state’. In actuality- the Palestinians are Israel, and the Jews are Judah.
Palestinians are not Israel, The 10 tribes were carried away into Babylon. They were “lost” in history but some evidence shows they were traded as slaves and some escaped to Europe. The Jewish state was there from around 1300 BC until 73 AD when Rome destroyed the temple and Jerusalem.
Sophia, your comment is full of 1/2 thruths. Yes there were a total of 12 Tribes (plus the tribe of Levite and the clain of Kohan, Kohanim are decendants of Aaron, brother of Moses, both, are of the tribe of Levy). The entire state of Israel refers to the decentants of Jacob, when he changed hsi name to Israel.
After Solomon’s death, the country broke into two (each ruled by a son, from diffedrent wives, of Solomon) 1) the southern half made of the tribes of Benjimen and Judea was called Judea and the 10 remaining tribes (in the north) called Isreal. In truth both countries are decendants of Jacob and are ALL SONS OF ISREAL, jACOB, hence all technically are Isrealis.
When the Assyrians attacked the north (Isreal), many people from the 10 Northern tribes migrated to the south, to realtives in the Kingdom of Judea. Don’t forget while there were two political entities, ruled by Kings (both decenants of the house or David) there was much intermarrying between people of the two political entities.
So in truth, calling it Isreal (decenants of Jacob) is geneticially, poltically, ethnically correct.
The name Palestine as written about int he orirignal postiing was to not only destroy the policial entites which Rome origianlly set up after the conquest of the Judea, Summaria & Galalie that was the biblical Isreal/Judea. The Jewish people were the only people to revolt against the Roman Empire for over 7 yrs (the longest ongoing revolt by any country Rome conqured). Rome not only wanted to psychologically and physically destroy the Jews but to give a warning to all other areas Rome controlled that if you revolt you will be wiped out of existance. The Roman Emperor, Vespasian, not only destroyed the Second Jewish Temple (now where the Dome of the Rock is, also called the Temple Mount) and then changed the name to Isreal’s historic enemy, the PHilistines (thnk David and Goliath), and call it Phalistine. Jews continued to live on those lands till modern times.
I suggest Sophia you should revise t your historical information In 1938 the Grand Mufti (Haj Amin al-Husseini) , the uncle of Arafat, went to Berlin and became an ally of Natzi German and went back to Palestine and organized a Palestinian storm troopers that fought againt the allies; while native Jews who’s famillies have always lived in Palestine joined the British army to fight the Natzi’s and their allies, The Grand Mutfi called upon all “True Believers” in Palestine to attack and kill Jews in Hebron and other Jewis Towns/Cities. Over 80,000 Jews were murdered and thousands were forced to leave their homes, they legally owned, in Jeruselum. (some familes have lived there since prior to the Roman occupation). Not many people realize that the Grand Mufti (Haj Amin al-Husseini
أصل كلمة فلسطين
ترجع كلمة فلسطين إلى مننطقة من الساحل الشرقى للبحر المتوسط من البحر إلى وادى الاردن و من جنوب صحراء النجف إلى بحيرة الجليل فى الشمال و تشتق الكلمة نفسها من بليشث و لقد ظهر كثيرا هذا الاسم فى الكتاب المقدس و دخل الى الانجليزية بفلستين ، كلمة بليشث أصلها بالاش وهى تعبير عام تعنى المتدحرج أو المرتحل (المتغرب) وهذا يشير إلى غزو فلستين و فتح الساحل من البحر . لم يكن الفلستينيون عربا و لا ساميين بل لهم اتصال وشيك باليونانيين الذين لهم اصول من اسيا الصغرى و الأماكن اليونانية و لم يتكلموا العربية و ليست لهم أية أصول عرقية ، لغوية أو تاريخية متعلقة بالعربية أو بالعرب.
وصل الفلستينيون الساحل الجنوبى من اسرائيل فى موجات عديدة ، مجموعة منهم وصلت قبل فترة الاباء الأوليين و استقروا جنوب بئر سبع فى جرار حيث كان الصراع مع ابراهيم واسحق و اسماعيل . مجموعة أخرى جاءت من كريت بعد طردهم من محاولتهم لغزو مصر بواسطة رمسيس الثالث 1194 ق.م و حبسوا فى المنطقة الساحلية الجنوبية حيث أقاموا مستوطنات غزة ، اسكالون ، اشدود ، اكرون و جات إلا أنه قد اكتسح محتلون اجانب خاصة من جزر البحر المتوسط الاحياء الفلستينية فى عهد الفارسيين و اليونانيين ومنذ القرن الخامس قبل الميلاد ، حسب المؤرخ هيروديتس ، سمى اليونانيون الساحل الشرقى من البحر المتوسط “فلستين سوريا” مستخدمين اللغة اليونانية من الاسم وفى سنة 135 بعد الميلاد بعد اخماد ثورة بار كوشيا ، اكبر ثانى ثورة لليهود ضد الرومان اراد الامبراطور هادريان أن يمحو المقاطعة اليهودية الرومانية و أعاد تسميتها “مقاطعة بالستينا السورية” و هى النسخة اللاتينية من الاسم اليونانى فكان هو أول اسم مستخدم كوحدة إدارية و اختصر هذا الاسم فيما بعدإلى بالستينا و منها اشتق الاسم الحديث الذى استخدم على النهج الانجليزى فلسطين
ظل الحال كما هو عليه حتى نهاية القرن الرابع ، عند بزوغ إعادة التنظيم الاستعمارى لفلسطين فأصبحت ثلاثة ، الاولى و الثانية و الثالثة وظل هذا التشكيل حتى القرن السابع ، عندما تمت فتوحات (غزو) الفرس و المسلمين.
استخدم الصليبيون المسحيون كلمة فلسطين للاشارة إلى المنطقة العامة كلها ، الثلاثة فلسطينات و بعد سقوط المملكة الصليبية لم تعد فلسطين لها مسمى رسمى و استخدم الأسم بعد ذلك بصفة غير رسمية للاراضى التى على ضفتى نهر الاردن و حكم الاتراك العثمانيون و هم ليسوا بعرب و لكنهم مسلمين متدينون ، فحكموا المنطقة لمدة 400 سنة (اربعمائة عام) (1917 – 1517) و انضمت المنطقة الفلسطينية تحت الحكم العثمانى من الناحية الأدارية لمقلطعة دمشق و حكمت من اسطمبول و أعيد إحياء إسم فلسطين مرة أخرى بعد سقوط الامبراطورية العثمانية فى الحرب العالمية الاولى و اطلق الاسم على الولاية على هذه المنطقة التى وضعت تحت التفويض البريطانى لفلسطين
كلمة فلسطين التى يستخدمها العرب اليوم لفلسطين ليست كلمة عربية و لكنها النطق العربى من الكلمة الرومانية بالستينا – تقول جولدا مائير
واختار الانجليز اسم الارض التى اداروها كلمة فلسطين فاتخذها العرب كوطن لهم على افتراضية الاسم القديم بالرغم من أنهم حتى لا يستطيعون أن ينطقوا الاسم بطريقة صحيحة و حولوا الكلمة إلى فلسطين و هو كيان ملفق
ترجمة مقال لسارة هونيج بريد اورشليم فى 25 نوفمبر 1995
The original comment is in Arabic. It has been translated in English:
Origin of the word Palestine
Returns the word Palestine to Manantqh of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea from the sea to the Jordan Valley and the southern Negev desert to the Sea of Galilee in the north and derive the same word of Blisht and has appeared frequently this name in the Bible, and entered the English Bvelstin, the word Blisht origin Balazs a general expression of concern or Rolling Almerthal (Westernization) and this refers to the invasion Velstin and open coast from the sea. Not Filstin Semites are Arabs and not even contact them and check Greeks who have origins from Asia Minor and Greek places and did not speak Arabic and do not have any ethnic, linguistic or historical related to Arabic or Arabs.
Filstin reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves, a group of them arrived before the first two parents and settled south of Beersheba in the tractor where the conflict was with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group came from Crete after being expelled from their attempt to invade Egypt by Ramses III in 1194 BC. M and locked in the southern coastal area where they established settlements in Gaza, Escalón, Ashdod, Akron, and Gat, but it has swept the occupiers foreigners, especially from the islands of the Mediterranean neighborhoods Filstinah in Prince of the Persians and the Greeks, since the fifth century BC, as of Herodats, called the Greek east coast of the Mediterranean “Velstin Syria” using the Greek language of the name and in the year 135 AD, after put down the revolution bar Cochea, the largest second revolution of the Jews against the Romans wanted to Emperor Hadrian to erase the Jewish district of Romania, and re-named “Balstina Syrian Province” and is the Latin version of the name was the Greek name is the first user as an administrative unit and Achtsr this name with Badely Balstina and modern name derives from the approach used on the English Palestine.
Under the case as it is until the end of the fourth century, when the emergence of colonial reorganization of Palestine became three, the first and second and the third remained this configuration until the seventh century, when it was conquests (invasion), the Persians and Muslims.
Use the Crusaders Almsheion word Palestine to refer to the general area of the whole, the three Velstinat and after the fall of the Crusader Kingdom no longer Palestine has named an official and use the name after that on an informal basis for the territory to which the banks of the River Jordan and the rule of Ottoman Turks, and they are not Arabs, but they are Muslim religious , Vgmoa the area for 400 years (four hundred years) (1917-1517) and joined the Palestinian territories under Ottoman rule, from an administrative point of Mqltah Damascus and ruled from Istanbul and was revived the name of Palestine again after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and called the name on the jurisdiction over this region, and placed under the British mandate of Palestine
The word used by the Palestine Arabs of Palestine today is not an Arabic word and speech, but from the Arab word ROMANIAN Balstina – Golda Meir says
And chose the English name of the ground, they ran the word Vatakzha Arab Palestine as a homeland for them on a virtual old name, although they can not even speak in the name correctly, and turned the floor to Palestine and is the entity apocryphal
Translation of an article by Sarah Honig in the Jerusalem Post November 25, 1995
أصل كلمة فلسطين
ترجع كلمة فلسطين Palestine إلى منطقة من الساحل الشرقى للبحر المتوسط من البحر إلى وادى الاردن ومن جنوب صحراء النجف إلى بحيرة الجليل فى الشمال و تشتق الكلمة نفسها من بليشث Plesheth ولقد ظهر كثيرا هذا الاسم فى الكتاب المقدس و دخل الى الانجليزية بفلستين Philistine ، كلمة Plesheth أصلها بالاش Palash و هى تعبير عام تعنى المتدحرج rolling أو المرتحل (المتغرب) migratory وهذا يشير إلى غزو فلستين Philistine و فتح الساحل من البحر. لم يكن الفلستينيون Philistines عربا و لا ساميين بل لهم اتصال وشيك باليونانيين التى لهم أصول من اسيا الصغرى و الأماكن اليونانية Greek localities و لم يتكلموا العربية و ليست لهم أية أصول عرقية ، لغوية أو تاريخية متعلقة بالعربية أو بالعرب .
وصل الفلستينيون Philistines الساحل الجنوبى من اسرائيل فى موجات عديدة ، مجموعة منهم وصلت قبل فترة الأباء الأوليين و استقروا جنوب بئر سبع Beersheba فى جرار Gerar حيث كان الصراع مع ابراهيم و اسحق و اسماعيل . مجموعة أخرى جاءت من كريت Crete طردهم من محاولتهم لغزو مصر بواسطة رمسيس الثالث 1194 ق.م ، و حبسوا فى المنطقة الساحلية الجنوبية حيث أقاموا مستوطنات غزة ، اسكالون ، اشدود ، اكرون و جات Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat)) .إلا أنه قد اكتسح محتلون أجانب خاصة من جزر البحر المتوسط الأحياء الفلستينية Philistine districts فى عهد الفارسيين و اليونانيين. و منذ القرن الخامس قبل الميلاد ، حسب المؤرخ هيروديتس ، سمى اليونانيون الساحل الشرقى من البحر المتوسط “فلستين سوريا” “the Philistine Syria” مستخدمين اللغة اليونانية من الاسم و فى سنة 135 بعد الميلاد بعد اخماد ثورة بار كوشيا Bar Kochba revolt ، اكبر ثانى ثورة لليهود ضد الرومان أراد الامبراطور هادريان Emperor Hadrian أن يمحو “المقاطعة اليهودية” الرومانية the Roman “Provincia Judaea” و أعاد تسميتها ” مقاطعة بالستينا السورية” “Provincia Syria Palaestina” وهى النسخة اللاتينية من الاسم اليونانى فكان هو أول اسم مستخدم كوحدة إدارية. و اختصر هذا الاسم فيما بعد إلى بالستينا Palaestina و منها اشتق الاسم الحديث الذى استخدم على النهج الانجليزى “فلسطين” “Palestine”
ظل الحال كما هو عليه حتى نهاية القرن الرابع ، عند بزوغ إعادة التنظيم الاستعمارى لفلسطين فأصبحت ثلاثة ، الاولى و الثانية و الثالثة و ظل هذا التشكيل حتى القرن السابع، عندما تمت فتوحات (غزو) الفرس و المسلمين.
استخدم الصليبيون المسيحيون كلمة فلسطين Palestine للاشارة إلى المنطقة العامة كلها ، الثلاثة فلسطينات “three Palestines.” و بعد سقوط المملكة الصليبية لم تعد فلسطين لها مسمى رسمى official designation. و استخدم الأسم بعد ذلك بصفة غير رسمية للاراضى التى على ضفتى نهر الاردن و حكم الاتراك العثمانيون وهم ليسوا بعرب ولكنهم مسلمين متدينون ، فحكموا المنطقة لمدة 400 سنة (اربعمائة عام) (1917 – 1517) و انضمت المنطقة الفلسطينية تحت الحكم العثمانى من الناحية الأدارية لمقاطعة دمشق the province of Damascus و حكمت من اسطمبول و أعيد إحياء إسم فلسطين Palestine مرة أخرى بعد سقوط الامبراطورية العثمانية فى الحرب العالمية الاولى و أطلق الاسم على الولاية فلى هذه المنطقة the territory in this region التى وضعت تحت التفويض البريطانى لفلسطين the British Mandate for Palestine
كلمة فلسطين “Falastin التى يستخدمها العرب اليوم لفلسطين “Palestine” ليست كلمة عربية و لكنها النطق العربى من الكلمة الرومانية بالستينا “Palaestina” تقول جولدا مائير Golda Meir:
واختار الانجليز اسم الارض التى أداروها mandated بفلسطين Palestine فاتخذها العرب كوطن لهم على افتراضية الاسم القديم بالرغم من أنهم حتى لا يستطيعون أن ينطقوا الاسم بطريقة صحيحة و حولوا الكلمة إلى فلسطين Falastin وهو كيان ملفق fictional entity. :
ترجمة مقال لسارة هونيج Sarah Honig ن بريد اورشليم فى 25 نوفمبر 1995
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_name_origin.php
Grant, I don’t think that you can speak of a ‘true name’ of a country or a certain piece of land. Boundaries and names for the land that lies in between are always made up by people. Hence they are always social constructs and I don’t see what objective criterion defines certain names as true and others as false. To me, truth does not seem to be a quality of names. I guess the article shows the way the construction of names as well.
I just have been reading some old articles from the New York Times on the World Zionist Congress in Basle in 1946 and it reports how zionists were referring to their desired homeland as ‘Palestine’. What is referred to as ‘Palestinians’ and ‘Israelis’ were back then described as ‘Palestine Arabs’ and ‘Palestine Jews’. I guess that the Arab population of the area only adopted the denominator of ‘Palestinians’ sometime after the foundation of the state of Israel.
So….. There never was an Arab people group known as the Palestinians. The UN is being asked to divide the land of Israel to make a Palestinian nation to separate Jew and Arab and give each autonomy. Ironically this was the original plan after WW1when the land known as Palestine- home to Jews and Arabs, both Muslim and Christian-was chosen to be divided in two. The plan was for a Jewish side on the west of the Jordan and Arab side on the East but it hit a large snag when the land on the East, called Transjordan by now, was given over to King Hussein. Had the Arab side of the land retained the name Palestine there would be less argument today but it was renamed Jordan.Thus the name Palestine disappeared. Interestingly, the ‘Palestinian’ movement never asks the UN to give them Jordan as a Palestinian Nation; though their ‘nations’ flags are virtually identical. Nevertheless the situation is complex and pain has been inflicted on both sides. God alone can bring lasting peace to the situation now.
looking at most comment by either russian,ethopian,german or spenish jews we find that most of this group deny the existence of palistian race as original inhabitans of of palistine but to my suprise they claim that palistine belong to them, my question is that if palistine belong to jews on the basis of claim that 3000 years ago left palistine for diaspora, then tell me did the jews left palistine three thousand years ago as a monolith or one race and what was that race,was that race african,middle eastern ,european,indian,or chinesse.answering this question will resolve this problem of who owns palistine.
God and Satan controls this earth 50/50 back and forth between them fighting god gives good and Satan’ steals it from people what god gave them. Satan is not a description of what we were taught but a professional schemer liar that deliberately makes accident in our lives living and killing people, that is why people die and we wonder why daily work from Satan’s and he builds power from it.
God is the opposite gives good when you see good thing happen it directly comes from god in our daily lives.
If someone is rescued it was on purpose from god. God and Satan have an instant remote control on all our lives and the changes go from god and Satan daily. Names of God are god, Jesus, mother of god, Mary.
Names that Satan goes by are Satan, lord, father and saint. God wrote the bible and Satan put his name and work in it too so people pray to god and Satan and people think they only pray to god not true. God and Satan battling for prayer power from people. Satan put the word saint in front of good people in churches in statues to get prayers from. Praying directly to god Jesus and Mary is the best way to get to god not the statues in churches. God and Satan divide everything on earth to get power from people.
Satan steals makes edits public information so we can be brainwashed and lied to and the excuses for us to believe Satan is a master giving it to the people. Just like Jesus Satan killed Jesus then made the Jewish people believe that Jesus should not be in their lives and the Jewish people don’t know it. Normal disasters come from Satan just like the flood of Noah it was Satan who made the flood. Satan brainwashed Hitler to kill, Satan brainwashed bin laden to destroy the wtc. When people are saved by god a lot of times god does not get the credit. In the news bad things are reported more than good thing. In the bible it says god punishes, god does not punish Satan punishes people. The reason why the Middle East is in conflict all the time because Satan distorted the truth and people are always fighting for land but the real reason is Satan gets power from anger and he is building his empire through people. Satan does not want people to have equal rights instead he makes people want to believe and does trespassing each other like there is not enough of land for all. God makes things happen like a new community or business, Satan takes it away from people do they can be miserable and he feeds power from it. God makes success and Satan makes the red tape as long as possible. The real prophets in the bible and where they lived and worked is the real size of Israel not the size of Israel we see now. Satan made Israel the size it is today. Satan made all those extra religions so he feeds off the power and god still gets the power the other half. Satan has the power to make and give diseases to people that is why we always have new ones. God cures. If someone commits a crime Satan slowly puts it into people’s minds first by putting the people in a spot of desperation and corners them and Satan gets his satisfaction. The new and Old Testament both belongs together with God’s words but it’s contaminated by Satan too. This letter is for people to know that blame Satan not God.
Wow, Victory, are you ever messed up in your knowledge of God, Satan, and the Bible. God won the first battle with Satan and threw him from heaven. He allows the devil to only do so much (read the story of Abraham), and when the time of man is fulfilled, then God will first bind Satan and his minions for a thousand years then loose him for a short period. In the end, God will destroy all evil beginning with the devil and those who follow him. There is no struggle between Satan and God for the Father of Liars is not equal to God in any way. The Bible is not and cannot be contaminated by Satan. And, by the way, God brought the flood in Noah’s time to cleanse the earth of increasing wickedness. Ah well, read and study before you endanger yourself. Revelation warns against taking away from or adding to the scriptures…and you are doing just that.
The land of canaan is a land blessed by God. Perhaps the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve were created and kept might have been there. It is said that the land is a place of milk and honey for it is a place rich in natural resources. But latter after the time of floods of Noah the second son of Noah Ham saw the nakedness of his father and therefore God cursed canaan the son Ham. Canaan begat many tribes such as the philistians, Sidom, and the canaanites. All these tribes settled in the land which is at present called as Palastine. But latter God led His people i.e the Israelites from Egypt to this land and Many of the tribes of the Philistians Sidomites and all other tribes who were there were chased away from the Holy land which God had created for His people, right from the day of creation of Adam and Eve. The Israelites however occupied the land Palastine. In latter days during the period after Solomon the 12 tribes of Israelites were divided into 3 parts. The tribe of Levi was kept in common as they were the priests. Judha was one tribe to whom the land of Judhaea was given which had Jerusalem as it capital. The remaining 10 tribes of Israel (Jacob) occupied the remaining portions of Palastine with Samaria as their capital. But latter since the 10 tribes committed sin God delivered them as slaves to the King of Asyria. They were taken as slaves to Asyria.(II Kings Chapter 17). The King of Assriya brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah,Ava,Hamath and from Samaria and made them to occupy the land of Palastine (II Kings 17:24). All these people were people who were cursed by God and who did not worship the true God but latter after AD 632 took up Islam as their religion. These tribes consisted of the tribes from Canaan the grand son of Noah, the tribes from that of Ishmail born to Abraham through the Hand maid Hagai whom God did not consider as the son of Abraham (Genesis 21:12). God also certified that Ishmael will be will be a wild man and that his hand will be against every man(Genesis16:12). There were other tribes also who deviated from God and joined the latter Islam tribe. The tribe of Judae who continued to be in Judaeah who had their capital as their Jerusalem also did sin against God and as God had warned through the prophets they also were taken as slaves for 70 years and they were taken to serve the Babylonians during the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. These Babylonians were also the people who did not obey God and who latter became Islams which is the land of Iraq. After 70 years they were released as God had told them in Jeremiah 25:11,12. The tribes of Judha returned back on the proclamation passed by King Cyrus and reoccupied the land of Judhaea and rebuilt the temple of Jerusalem. But latter again they committed sins and God had warned them several times and once again God made them to be scattered through out the world. But however God had promised them that they will be again gathered in the land of Israel from throughout the world. Not only the children of Judha but the children of all the 12 tribes and they will bear the name as Israelites.(Isaiah11:11&12). It is only after the time of British during 1948 Israel was declared as an independent nation and the Israelites all throughout the world are gathering now in Israel and are engaged in setting up their boundaries for which these Islam tribes are working against. As said by Daniel in Chapter 9:25 “The streets shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times” this prophecy is being fulfilled.such troublous situation still remains in the Gaza strip and on the eastern side of Jerusalem. Though the whole world may work against Israel yet none can shake the fulfillment of the word of God. The Bible also predicts that the Temple of Jerusalem will be rebuilt even though the mosquest are at its vicinity (Rev 11:1&2). and the Lord God will be praised and be honoured and people all over the world will come and worship he true God(Micah 4:1&2). The last 7years before the day of Judgement are very important years for out of these 7years the first 3 1/2 years will be very blessed years when the Lord will pour His Spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28,29). But in the last 3 1/ 2 years the land of Jerusalem the Holy city will be given to the hands of the Muslims the Arabians who will take away the holiness of the city(Daniel:8:13) and Satan will sit on the Holy of the Holy place of the Jerusalem temple where the Glory of God sat in the temple (II Thesolonians 2:3&4). This is termed as “ANBOMINATION OF DESOLATION” as told by Daniel in 11:31. and expalained by Jesus. Jesus had explained that the time the Holi place tarnished the Lord God’s anger will come upon the earth and the that will be the day of Judgement of Jesus. It is after the Judgement that the present earth will be made into a place of lake of fire and the unholy and and Lucifer the satan will be thrown into this lake of fire. There fore this will be destroye d by fire and not by water. ( IIPeter 3:6&7). This will be the Global End. So the Second coming of Jesus, the Day of Judgement of This earth, and the Global End will occur on the same day (Mathew 24:3). This earth after becoming a lake of fire will be removed from its orbit and kept apart. A new Heaven and earth will be created by God in which those redeemed people of God will live there for ever and ever.(Rev:21). The New Jerusalem will descend from Heaven unto this new earth. The Global End will occur on AD 2481.
Palestinians came from today Dalmatia during the great migrations known as the People of the Sea. They arrived to Palestine around 1250-1225 BC. They were not Semites, they became Semites as the Brits became Germanic or the French became Latins. Don’t be silly ! Not the Brits called the Palestinians so, but the locals who were NOT the Hebrews. At that time, the Brits DIDN’t exist yet ! Abraham or Abram (“the father of a multitude” – Hebrew : ʼaḇ-hămôn goyim) arrived in the area at about the same time, NOT from Ur, but THROUGH Ur FROM Punjab, India. And the Jews KNOW that ! Both people Palestinians and Hebrews were invaders over the local people, mainly called Canaanites.
What about Genesis 11:27-32
there it says that Abram was born in Ur
Let us be real here. Let us honestly see this for what it really is. People have for many millions of years been migrating all over the planet seeking all kinds of resources: food, land, water et cetera. They find a good place, they call it theirs, they give it a name; it does not matter which name they give the land. Then others invade and take the land and kick the previous ones out, giving the land another name. In order to justify these various land grabs, people tend to say that one deity or another directs them or instructs them, which is total lunacy! Call it what it is: taking land from previous dwellers. Churches, mosques and temples should not be built anywhere because they are all places that perpetuate mass delusion. Bottom line: Planet Earth has not enough resources to support the human species.
From greek “philos” friend , and “estia” that means :dwelling, source of fire. Working with iron and metals (weapons) they had a source of fire in the center of their homes. Thus the name “Philistines” Phili (plural of philos)) and Estia
The philistines came from greek lands/islands from the sea to Israel .
All I know is that there was no Palestinian identity untill 1917.1920 , I have never heard of the state or nation of Palestine. .
As we all know the arab counties were invented during first world war by England and France ,on table while drinking tea.
Considering the fact that Israel occupies 0.1% of middle east and arab countries occupy 99.9% , I would know where palestinians should go.
It is great to be presented with pure fact about certain things. I spent many years as a young man in Israel and love it very much.It just does not sit right with me to call the land of Israel ,Palestine.I also wonder why after understanding the facts that people still refer to it as Palestine.Over the years i have read many books on Israel.Because of my own belief and interpretation i slant toward pro Israel books. I have always wandered why even these books will refer to the region as Palestine,when they themselves have more than proved that the correct name is Israel.Even your article is called ”facts about Palestine”.I read a theological book a few years ago on the history of the Hebrews. He was a highly educated man ,but it irritated me how he used to quote Hebrew stories and say how it happened in the land of Palestine.Am i being too rediculous .Or have i missed something.I myself ,though not Jewish will never refer to Israel as anything but Israel
The world is really un-informed to the facts presented here. There is no such thing as “The Palestinian homeland”.
Through out world history the names of countries have been changed many times because of war.
The land of Canaan became Israel after Joshua subdued the land. Later 2 kingdoms came out of one, Israel and Juda, which the entire area was later called Judea during the time of Jesus.
Not until the Romans changed the name did Israel become “Syria Palaestina”.
However, today as it was known in the time of King David, the name of the country is Israel.
The so called Palestinians do not have a country called Palestine.
Case closed.
So Palestine is not a country, just a roman name for this for this area.The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation’s supposed ancient name, though they couldn’t even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. So that they wouldn’t have to call it what it is-ISRAEL. Thanks for the info.
i am originally from Palestine and recently became curious of my family history.
i was wondering if my last name means anything? where it comes from?