Once again with regard to the countless posts by the minions of "Useless Idiots", those (non Arabs) who have swallowed the brainwashing of the False Narrative, of the decscendants of those Arabs of the Mandated Area and the Nachba ™, who are "flooding" social media with the claim: "that Jesus was a "Palestinian" and a follower of Islam".
I wish to clarify the DOCUMENTED and RECORDED HISTORICAL Truth -
Herodotus, the Greek Hisrorian (484 – 425 BCE), clearly states in "The Histories" Book 7. that the "palaistés" who resided in a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" between Phoenicia and Egypt, were descendant from invaders from the Mediterranean Sea.
"The Palaistés" - according to their own account, dwelt anciently upon the Erythraean Sea, but crossing thence, fixed themselves on the sea coast of Syria, where they still inhabit."
This "Western Mediterranean coastal part" of Syria, and all the region extending from hence to Egypt, was known by the name of "palaistón" which means "land of the wrestlers or acrobats".
*A Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster).
The term "palaistón" in itself was NEVER used to refer to the whole land of Israel therefore it would be generally accurate to say that the southwestern coastal area was called Philistia (the "Way of the Philistines", or "Palestina"), taken from the Hebrew "Pleshtim" or invaders while the central highlands were called the "Land of Canaan".
Both the Canaanites and the Philistines had disappeared as distinct peoples at least by the time of the Babylonian Captivity of Judea (586 B.C.), and they no longer exist.
A century later in 4th century BCE Ancient Greece, Aristotle used a similar definition for the region in Meteorology, in which he included the Dead Sea. Later Greek writers such as Polemon and Pausanias also used the term to refer to the same region, which was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Romano-Jewish writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.
Hadrian’s selection to use the term "Palestina" was purposeful, not accidental. It seems that Hadrian understood the magic of the name 'Jerusalem', a magic that this name casts on the Jews of the land and the Jews of the Diaspora, and therefore decided to eradicate the rebellious Jewish people by changing the name of the land and the name of the city.
Hadrian also sought to reverse this memory, building a pagan city on the ruins of Jerusalem and hoping to erase the name sacred to the God of Israel and replace it with the name Aelia Capitolina – Aelia, which is Hadrian's name, Capitolina – in honor of the Roman god Jupiter Capitolinus.
'Judah' or 'Judaea', were no longer but were now 'Syria Palaestina' to undermine the Jewishness of the land. As Hadrian brings up forgotten things – he mentions the Philistines who have already passed from the world – a reversal of history. In doing so, he ostensibly went against the vision of that ancient king of Israel – David – who repelled the Philistines to the coastal strip and prevented the land from becoming the land of the Philistines, and also conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of our people and our land for the first time. His son Solomon completed his work and made it a Temple of God.
The Septuagint- the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), including the Apocrypha, made for Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC and adopted by the early Christian Churches.
Since the Christian "New Testament" Bible, was the earliest extant of the Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. The term Philistines is derived from the Hebrew word "Pleshtim".
The word Palestine is not even Arabic.
It is a word chosen by the Roman Emperor Hadrian after the Pyrrihic victory over the Shimeon Bar Kosiba uprising in 135 CE. Hadrian choose the name of the arch enimies of Judaea a seagoing Aegean people who invaded the coastal area of Canaan in antiquity – the "Pleshtim" or in Latin Philistines, as a sign that Jewish sovereignty had been eradicated following the Jewish Revolts against Rome.
Furthermore, "Palestine" was and is solely a geographic name that was used by cartographers in their maps of "Terra Sancta" or the Holy land (Eretz HaKadosh). an area known as the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem under the Ottoman Turkish Empire, also known as the Sanjak of Jerusalem.
Therefore, it is not surprising that in modern times the name ‘Palestine’ or ‘Palestinian’ was applied as an adjective to all inhabitants of the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River – Palestine Jews and Palestine Arabs alike.
In fact, until the 1960s, most Arabs in Palestine preferred to identify themselves merely as part of the great Arab nation or citizens of “southern Syria.” Countless official British Mandate-vintage documents speak of ‘the Jews’ and ‘the Arabs’ of Palestine – not ‘Jews and Palestinians.’
The name "Palestine" was already the conventional and well-understood geographical term for the region in European consciousness, stemming from Roman times. However it was Sir Mark Sykes, who played a highly significant role in the initial planning for the post-Ottoman Middle East, that suggested the geographical name "Palestine" for the newly formalized administrative entity.
In any case, the original “Palestinians” had nothing to do, whatsoever, with any Arabs.
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