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Adriaan Reland's 1712 Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata (Palestine's Ancient Monuments Illustrated) contains an early description and timeline of the historical references to the name "Palestine." [1]
Apr 3, 2023 · The word “Palestine” is not Arab or Middle Eastern in origin. It dates back 1,900 years and is derived from a people who were not native to the region — the Philistines, a people from the Aegean Sea who were closely related to the ancient Greeks.
Oct 30, 2024 · In 1964, at a conference in Cairo, Egypt, it was outsiders (Russia, Egypt, the Arab League), not the “Palestinians,” who created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). By definition,...
- Introduction
- Judea Gets A New Name
- Greater Syria
- Stirring of Nationalism
- The West Bank
The words “Palestine” or “Filastin” do not appear in the Koran. “Palestine” is also not mentioned in the Old or New Testament. It does occur at least eight times in eight verses of the Hebrew concordance of the King James Bible. Though the definite origins of the word “Palestine” have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the nam...
As early as 300 BCE, the term Judaea [Judea] appears, most likely to describe the area where the population was predominantly Jewish. It was distinguished from Palestine and Syria. Coins with the word Judaea or something similar were produced at the time of the first Jewish revolt (66-70 CE). In the 2nd century CE, the Romans crushed the revolt of ...
Six years later, the first “Arab Palestinian Congress” was held in 1919, during which David Margolis noted that the Arabs called for “Palestinian unity and independence, albeit still understanding Palestine as part of ‘Greater Syria.’” Bernard Lewis noted, “It was with the British conquest of the country in World War I that Palestine for the first ...
As early as 1923, Ze’ev Jabotinsky recognized this nationalistic feeling, though he saw it more as a reaction to Zionism, which it was. “They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies,” he wrote in The Iron Wall.“It may be that some individual Ar...
Following the 1948 War, historian Benny Morris notes that Palestine Arabs were not yet called “Palestinians.” Furthermore, the Arab powers had no interest in creating a Palestinian entity. Instead, the Syrians, Egyptians, and Jordanians seized control of the areas they occupied. In 1950, what was then called Transjordan annexed areas in East Jerusa...
Dec 13, 2021 · “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast. It is widely thought, as reflected in my 1976 New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, that the term Palestine refers only to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Aug 9, 2019 · Until Israel was re-established as a nation in 1948, Palestine was the term for the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The word Palestinian was applied to anyone...
Jan 21, 2021 · “Palestine” as translation of the biblical term “Israel”? The term Palestine is commonly assumed to be a derivation from the “land of the Philistines”, Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת/Peleshet. The British archeologist David Michael Jacobson, however, has pointed out that the term may have a different origin.
