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Who lived where first ?
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What's In A Name
“Palestine” referred to the lands (“Pelesheth” in Hebrew) of the Philistines, who were enemies of the Israelites. Those lands corresponded roughly to what is Gaza today.
After the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 AD, Emperor Hadrian named all of Israel “Palestine” as a slap to the Jews -- on top of slaughtering them and driving them out of the land.
Roman emperors tended to get cranky when people revolted against them, it seems.
The Philistines were originally migrants (one of the “Sea Peoples”) from the islands around Greece, not Arabs, if anyone's curious.
Not that any of this makes any meaningful difference today.
Lots of things happen over the course of 2,000 years.
Originally posted by Stone Mason
Who first called this land Palistine?
“Palestine” referred to the lands (“Pelesheth” in Hebrew) of the Philistines, who were enemies of the Israelites. Those lands corresponded roughly to what is Gaza today.
After the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 AD, Emperor Hadrian named all of Israel “Palestine” as a slap to the Jews -- on top of slaughtering them and driving them out of the land.
Roman emperors tended to get cranky when people revolted against them, it seems.
The Philistines were originally migrants (one of the “Sea Peoples”) from the islands around Greece, not Arabs, if anyone's curious.
Not that any of this makes any meaningful difference today.
Lots of things happen over the course of 2,000 years.
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