The Myth of Palestine

Last Saturday, October 7, 2023, the Islamic terrorist group Hamas (funded and armed by Iran) launched a brutal and wicked coordinated attack into Israel, over 1,400 innocent Jews were murdered by Hamas! This is their 9/11. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (a combat veteran) is waging all out war in retaliation for these heinous murders, and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) will annihilate Hamas forces.

I thought it would be a good time to discuss the so-called state of Palestine and the so-called Palestinian people. The date of the attack was deliberately chosen. About 50 years ago, on October 6, 1973, several Arab nations attacked on Yom Kippur—called the Yom Kippur War. Israel eventually won that conflict but sustained significant casualties. Saturday’s attack happened on Shabbat when many in Israel were gathered in synagogues and believing assemblies. It was also a special Shabbat—Simchat Torah, marking the conclusion of the fall Jewish holidays.

I have full confidence in Prime Minister Netanyahu (himself a combat veteran) and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) to win this war with Hamas. The Palestinian governing bodies were taken over by Hamas several years ago. Their charter calls for the death of all Jews and the complete Palestinian takeover of Israel. They don’t want to have peace, they want jihad and conquest. It should not be a surprise since this is exactly what Islam is all about, and how it spread, by violent conquest of Christian and Jewish lands.

“There was no such thing as Palestinians“

This quote by former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is absolutely correct. For over 2,000 years the land of Israel was known as Judea/Israel. Israel was founded 4,000 years ago, not 64 years ago!!! The Romans came after 2,000 years and conquered the region and changed the name of the region from Judea/Israel to Palestine. This name change was totally arbitrary and ad hoc. There was no historic group of people living there who were known as Palestinians. Everyone knew this was the land of the Jews. The Romans eventually kicked the Jews out of the land and so they went abroad to many countries, and became known as the Diaspora. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain received a mandate to run what was still called Palestine. At no time was there a County called Palestine. No international bodies have recognized the legitimacy of this country.

As I said, the land of Israel has been populated by the Jewish people since 2000 BC. You must realize, it is their homeland, as designated by God. So for 4,000 years Israel/Judea has been the home of the Jewish people. God gave it to them, and that trumps ANY human power or authority.

Every Christian should support Israel and recognize the Jews right to the land. It was God given and no human authority may take the land away from the Jews!

By the way don’t listen to so-called Palestinian lies that they “just want peace”. The current Palestinian leadership is Hamas who is committed to the total takeover of Israeli by so-called Palestinians and the murder of every single Jew! You cannot have peace or reason with people whose minds are clouded by such Satanic hatred!

Here’s the timeline that proves for over 4,000 years Israel has belonged to the Jewish people and only the Jewish people:

1900 BC: Abraham chosen by God as the Father of the Jewish Nation.
1900 BC: Isaac, Abraham’s son, rules over Israel.
1850 BC: Jacob, son of Issac, rules over Israel.
1400 BC: Moses leads the people out of Egypt and back to Israel.
1010 BC: King David unites the 12 tribes into one nation.
970 BC: King Solomon, son of David, builds the first temple structure in Jerusalem
930 BC: Israel is divided into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah.
800s BC: The rise of the prophets, God’s messengers.
722 BC: Kingdom of Israel is conquered by Assyrians.
605 BC: Kingdom Judah is conquered by the Babylonians.
586 BC: Solomon’s Temple is destroyed by the Babylonians.
539 BC: Persians conquer the Babylonians and take control of Israel.
538 BC: The Jews return to Israel from exile.
520 BC: The Temple is rebuilt.
450 BC: Reforms made by Ezra and Nehemiah.
433 BC: Malachi is the end of the prophetic age.
432 BC: The last group of Jews return from exile.
333 BC: The Greeks conquer the Persian empire.
323 BC: The Egyptian and Syrian empire take over Israel.
167 BC: Hasmonean’s recapture Israel, and the Jews are ruled independently.
70 BC: Romans conquer Israel.
20 BC: King Herod builds the “third” temple
6 BC: Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem
70 AD: Romans destroy the temple

After that, the people were captives to the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Crusaders. Through all of these events, the Jewish people continued to live in Israel. There were more or less of them, depending on the centuries, but there was never a time when the Jews didn’t live in the land. They stayed, they built their communities, they raised their families, practiced their faith and they suffered at the hands of many outside rulers, but they always kept their faith. It is what sustains them, even now.
In 1948, the UN established the State of Israel, the nation of Jews. Don’t buy the Palestinian lies that they are entitled to the land. It simply is not true. Yahweh will also provide a way for His chosen people to live in Israel, as He has for thousands of years. Pray for the people of Israel.

A BOOK FROM 1714 BRINGS PROOF THAT PALESTINE WAS NEVER ARAB

The author spoke Hebrew, Arabic and Ancient Greek perfectly and European languages. The book was written in Latin In 1695 it was sent to Israel, at that time known as Palestine. During his travels, he researched about 2,500 places where people who were mentioned in the Bible or Michna lived. Then he identified each of the places mentioned in the Michna or Talmud with its original source. If the source was Jewish, he listed it in the Holy Scriptures. If the source was Roman or Greek, it indicated the connection in Greek or Latin. Next, he conducted a demographic survey and a census of each community. His conclusions:

1. No settlement in the Land of Israel has a name of Arab origin.
   Most colonial names come from Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Roman languages.. In fact, until today except for Ramlah, no Arab settlement has an original Arabic name.. So far, most settlement names are of Hebrew or Greek origin, names sometimes distorted into Arabic name meaningless. There is no Arabic meaning in names like Acco (Acre), Haifa, Jaffa, Naplusa, Gaza or Jenin and the cities called Ramallah, El Halil and El-Kuds (Jerusalem) lack Arabic historical roots or philology. In 1696, the year Relaand returned the country, Ramallah, for example, was called Bet’allah (Hebrew name Beit El) and Hebron was called Hebron (Hevron) and the Arabs called Mearat HaMachpelah El Chalil, his name for the ancestor Abraham.
2. Most of the lands were empty, sorry.
   Most of the lands were empty, desolate and few inhabited and concentrated mostly in the cities of Jerusalem, Acco, Tzfat, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza. Most of the population were Jews and some were Christians. Few Muslims, mostly Bedouin nomads. Naplusa, known as Shchem, was the exception, as there lived about 120 people, members of the Muslim Natsha family, and about 70 Shomronites.
   In the capital of Galilee, Nazareth, lived about 700 Christians and in Jerusalem about 5000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians.
   Interesting thing is that Reland mentioned Muslims as Bedouin nomads who came to the area as reinforcement of the building and farming manpower. In other words seasonal workers.
   For example, in Gaza there were about 500 people, 55% of Jews and the rest mainly Christians. Jews grew up and worked in their flowering vineyards, olive orchards and wheat fields. Christians worked in the trade and transportation of goods and goods.
   Tiberius and Tzfat were mostly Jews and with the exception of mention of fishermen who fished on Lake Kinneret – the Lake of Galilee – a traditional occupation of Tiberius, there is no mention of their occupations. A city like Um el-Phahem was a village where ten families lived, around people, all of them Christians. There was also a small Maroonite church in the village (Shehadah family).
3. No Palestinian heritage or Palestinian nation.
   The book completely contradicts any postmodern theory that claims a “Palestinian legacy” or a Palestinian nation. The book confirms the bond, relevance, kinship of the Land of Israel with Jews, and complete lack of belonging to Arabs, who stole the Palestinian Latin name and took it for themselves.
   Conclusion. — This extensive study concludes that Israel is at its absolute right to defend, claim and protect what has always been theirs for more than 3,500 years ago. When before Abraham got promise of the promised land to ISRAEL NOT PALESTINE.
   It is the land of a promise that was made to Abran by changing his name to Abraham and is registered in
   Genesis 17:4,5 (Kadosh Israelite Messianic Bible)
4. ‘As for me, this is my Covenant with you:………
5. Your name will no longer be Avram [exalted father], but your name will be Abraham [father of many], for I have made you father of many nations.
   The same promise was repeated to his son Isaac,
   the same promise was repeated to Jacob the youngest son of Isaac the father of the 12 tribes of Israel.
6. Older documents have NO MENTION OF PALESTINIANS OR ARABS.
   Mention the Israeli children descendants of Avram whose name was changed to Abraham.
   Note. – Adrian Reland (1676-1718), Dutch orientalist, was born in Ryp, studied in Utrecht and Leiden and was a teacher of oriental languages successively in Harderwijk (1699) and Utrecht (1701). His most important works are Palestine ex monumentis veteribus illustrata (Utrecht, 1714) and Antigüitates sacrae vetum Hebraeorum.