How did Palestine get its Name? (Documentary)

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Palestine is a region that has been inhabited for thousands of years due to it being a nexus point between multiple major empires. It is a region that was home to different tribes, cultures, and religions in the past, which today is contested over. But what is the true origins of Palestine? Where did it's name come from? And why is it used today?

[dulcemoutinho]

Philistines didn't have anything to do with so-called Palestinians. The Philistines were of Greek origin and settled in today's Gaza. Palestine was a name first given by the Roman Imperator Hadrian. He wanted to erase the Jewish people identity with their land. The Canaanites were the descendents of Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

[Crysalis-bdso]

My grandparents who lived there during the British mandate, had Palestinian passports, where it showed they were Jews.
The Palestine post was a Hebrew newspaper. Don't fall for narratives. Just look at facts.

[Dizel]

The Romans called the place Palestine to erase the Jewish connection to the place, and the British continued to call it that, and in the 1960s the Arabs adopted the name while rejecting it all the time in the past

[FattyLumpkin]

The earliest documented mention of "Israel" as a people appears on the Merneptah Stele, an ancient Egyptian inscription dating back to around 1208 BCE.

[eulalupercal]

Hadrian changed the name of the Roman province of Judea to Syria Palaestina and renamed Jerusalem, the region's capital, Aelia Capitolina.

[redpilled]

Abram came from the Summerian city of Ur and migrated to the promised land. Known later as Abraham, he became the father of the Jews and Arabs, through his sons Issac and Ishmael.

[michaellynes]

Palestine originated as Philistia in the Bible until the Assyrian Empire annihilated them. In the early 2nd Century Anno Domini after the Jewish Revolt in 70 Anno Domini and the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 Anno Domini, the Romans renamed Judaea to Syria Palaestina, which translates to "Palestinian Syria", the Romans way to humiliate and minimize the Jewish people of their identity of the land.

[RussellAlami]

The Native Americans arrived in the US, 13, 000 years ago .
The European colonialists ( arriving later ) exterminated them and put them in concentration-camps .
They declared that God had given them this land .
( Sound familiar ? )

[exdorabanegas]

Just change the flag in the name of the country, and for all countries to agree that the country belongs to three different groups of people, and that will make it fair for everyone

[sonofdionysis]

Golda Meir and a lot of other Jews called themselves Palestinians in the British Empire’s Mandate of Palestine (1920-1948). Arabs shunned the name, Palestinians. They wanted to be Arabs like their cousins that Arabian people, Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis. In fact, Pan-Arabic movement was rampant in the ended of 19th Century and 20th Century.

[VictorMiranda-ytxe]

Palestine is not Philistea. The Philistilines were EXTERMINATED by GOD in Joshua's time. Palestine is a name given by Romans rulers
to Hebrews or Jews as demeaning or insulting their society or way of life. Palestinian name was chosen by Yasser Arafat to identify
the nomad arabs, living in the region south of Turkey and west of the Nile river, along the Mediterranean coast. The Ottoman government never mentioned the areas of Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Irak or Saudi Arabia as part of Palestine. So actual Palestine people do not exist.
The ONLY Palestine people ARE THE HEBREWS or JEWS, Named by the Roman conquerors.

[ayo]

Herodotus called it Syrian Palestine so yes, it did exist before the Romans

[somadboneng]

The Philistines are also called “the Caphtorim”, meaning the people from Caphtor (Island of Crete). "And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)" (Deuteronomy 2:23)

[braudhadoch]

Arabs motherland is Saudi Arabia. In 700ad they colonized all land right up to south France. Arab Colonization is never talked about. Why

[dublinvids]

Ireland was once part of Great Britain, that does not mean British people were ever the indigenous people of Ireland and the same applies here, as no matter what the land was named once, it was Jewish people who fought in the Jewish-Roman wars etc, not Palestinians. Palestine should have taken the deal offered during Bill Clinton's time as they will never get another like it, especially now after Oct 7th.

Palestine is a Roman colonial invented name. There is nothing like Palestinians. The Philistines were dark colored people, not Arabs.

[rama_lama_ding_dong]

there are hundreds of maps from before 1948 with the region named as Palestine

[shandukanimakuya]

They are the citizens of Syria, Persia and Babylon, all citizens of so called Westbank

[CabbageDisplacer]

"Palestine" is a colonial entity. Arabs simply lived in that area, same as Jews, Romans, Greeks, Persian, Turks and english did

[GuzelKyrim-Ukraine]

If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history, " I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine:

1. When was it founded and by whom?

2. What were its borders?

3. What was its capital?

4. What were its major cities?

5. What constituted the basis of its economy?

6. What was its form of government?

7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?

8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?

9. What was the language of the country of Palestine?

10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?

11. What was the name of its currency?

Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.

12. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?

You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation. Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?