Refuting Lie that ‘Palestine’ has been Arab, Muslim from Time Immemorial

Refuting Lie that ‘Palestine’ has been Arab, Muslim from Time Immemorial The Jewish nature of Palestine – historically, nationally, culturally and religiously – is documented by a multitude of archaeological findings, mostly in the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria, which are the cradle of Judaism, the Jewish people and the Jewish State. The Palestinian leadership is rehashing the notion that Palestine has been Arab/Muslim from time immemorial. But, is such a claim consistent with historic documentation? According to Brown University Prof. David Jacobson, “the Greek Palaistine and the Latin [Rome] Palaestina… appear to refer not to the Land of the Philistines [Pleshet in Hebrew], but to the Land of Israel…. The Philistines [Plishtim in Hebrew] arrived on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean from Greece or Cyprus in approximately the 13th century BCE…. The Israelites’ traditional foes, the Philistines lived in a small area along the Mediterranean coast south of what is today Tel Aviv, an area that embraced the five towns of Gaza [hometown of Delilah], Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath [hometown of Goliath] and Ekron…. https://unitedwithisrael.org/refuting-lie-that-palestine-has-been-arab-muslim-from-time-immemorial/