Is Palestine a myth?

Question

No subjective answers please. I want history. Where in the heck did these people come from?

Answer 1

Yes! Palestine is just that - a myth. At no time since the beginning of earth as we know it is there any country called Palestine. These are Arab peoples so should be taken in by the surrounding Arab countries and leave Israel alone. If you check the Bible it clearly outlines the area God gave to Abraham for the Jewish people. From the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River and I forget the dimensions north-south; but it is long. Therefore there are many peoples in occupied lands that belong to the Jews.

Answer 2

For the last 10,000 years, anyway, the strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean Sea between Asia Minor and Sinai Peninsula has been inhabited...and contentious. "Palestine" is a Latinized form of Philistia, which some etymologists and archeologists believe is related to the Phoenicians, a sea-faring people of the region present since early Biblical times. Keep in mind that, ultimately, no one group of people is originally "from" the region: migrations, wars, resettlements, occupations have all shaped the human and cultural landscape. For example, the Hebrew Bible notes that Abraham was originally from Mesopotamia, hundreds of miles to the east, and migrated to the "land of Canaan", with the Canaanites being the people who had previously settled there. Since that time, the region has variously been controlled by Egypt, ancient Israel/Judah, Hittites, Babyonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Ommayyids, Sassanids, Crusaders, Ottoman Turks, French, English, and now Israel and the Palestinan Authority. All of those influences are historically important in having shaped the region and the people living there. The ethnicity that is identified today as "Palestinian" is likewise not as homogeneous as the western press might indicate. Although they are lumped with all Arabic speaking peoples as "Arabs", most see themselves as a distinct people descended from the ancient Philistines/Phonecians who have been there more than 3,500 years, and whose connection to Arabic culture is via their language and adopted religion, Islam. It is worth noting that the majority of Palestinians in Jerusalem in 1948 were Christians (mostly Catholic and Greek Orthodox) who identified their Christianity in a direct unbroken line to the Apostles; most Christian Palestinians have emigrated. Those who remain tended to be Muslim. The history of Palstine is rich and complex, and any attempt to simplify quickly creates difficulties. Many of these difficulties can be seen on the evening news.

Answer 3

It's not much of an astronomy question.

There is a Palestine, in Texas, which is used as a launch site for high altitude balloons, by Berkeley lab (to study cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere).

As for the land and people in the Middle East, with everything that is going on and each group having its own interest, it is difficult to find a historical text that is not biased one way or the other.

The United Nations site begins its story in 1917.

Wikipedia seems to have a history of the boundary and name, that goes back to the Iron Age. However, I do not have enough knowledge or tools (not being a historian) to evaluate their information.

Answer 4

History can still be subjective, especially on a topic like this. If history wasn't partly perception, there wouldn't be a problem there, like there is now. Now for the question is "Palestine a myth"... I honestly don't even know how to answer your question. You might want to be more specific.

Answer 5

They call the place Hallowed Ground and no holier a place there'd be.
The God of Life and Love had touched the Earth there, and declared our souls were free.
Soon it came upon the hearts of men to possess this holy ground, and for the land of the God of Life and Love the horns of war were sound.
Each man thought he knew this God far better than his brother, Each held that his conviction must be triumphant, and all others put asunder.
The winds of time a tempest be. They blew the dust up from the land, as the blood of Christian crusaders, Muslims, and Jews soaked into the desert sand.
From then; two thousand years until now this place where religious pilgrims go has been the heart of ambitiuos Kings causing their subjects blood to flow.
They call the place Jerusalem (City of Peace); the home of Golgatha, the Dome of the Rock, and Temple Mount. In the name of thwe God of Life and Love they increase the body count.
Now this place called Hollowed Growned is causing even more to die, and I pray to the God of Life and Love, but He never tells me why.

Answer 6

The term "Palestine" derives from the word Philistine, the name of a non-Semitic ethnic group, originating from Southern Greece,closely related to early Mycenaean civilization. They inhabited a smaller area on the southern coast, called Philistia, whose borders approximate the modern Gaza Strip. Philistia encompassed the five cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath. The Egyptian texts of the temple at Medinet Habu, record a people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset), one of the Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt in Ramesses III's reign. This is considered very likely to be a reference to the Philistines. The Hebrew name Peleshet (Hebrew: פלשת Pəléshseth), usually translated as Philistia in English, is used in the Bible to denote their southern coastal region. The Assyrian emperor Sargon II called it the Palashtu in his Annals. The Philistines seem to have disappeared as a distinct ethnic group by the Assyrian period, however the name of their land remained. During the Persian Period, the Greek form was first used in the 5th century BCE by Herodotus who wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinêi" (whence Latin: Palaestina, whence English: Palestine). The boundaries of the area he referred to were not explicitly stated, but Josephus used the name only for the smaller coastal area, Philistia. Ptolemy also used the term. In Latin, Pliny mentions a region of Syria that was "formerly called Palaestina" among the areas of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Answer 7

"Palestine" was a part of the former Ottoman empire. The land that supposedly was stolen from the Palestinians was under the control of the Ottoman Turks. And has changed hands from one civilization to another for years.

Palestine is more of a rallying cry for Islamic governments who want to blame the Jews for the poverty of their own people.

It is not really the stolen homeland it is made out to be

Answer 8

It is not a myth. Palestinians were the people who lived in Israel (Palestine) before WW2.

Answer 9

No it's not it's the former name for either Iraq or Iran ^^,