I have seen a lot of comments lately regarding posters and tee-shirts proclaiming "There is no Such Place as Palestine".
I really don't know how this all started, possibly from a pulpit someplace.
Actually there is a place called Palestine, and there always has been. When the British occupied the area, they called it Palestine. If one looks for Biblical maps of the area published before 1950 he will find the area is named Palestine. Cities like Palestine, Illinois (pronounced Pales-TYNE) and Palestine, Texas (pronounced Pales-TEEN) are named for the place.
It is the ancient Philistia and it roughly encompasses the area also known as Canaan. That is also the area also known as Israel.
An unusual sidelight to this has to do with the area now known as the Gaza strip. This was on land reserved for the tribe of Dan, the most warlike of all the tribes of Israel, and it was never subdued by the Israelites, even in the height of their empire under King David. The primary cities were Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Gaza, which exist even to this day.
I really don't know how this all started, possibly from a pulpit someplace.
Actually there is a place called Palestine, and there always has been. When the British occupied the area, they called it Palestine. If one looks for Biblical maps of the area published before 1950 he will find the area is named Palestine. Cities like Palestine, Illinois (pronounced Pales-TYNE) and Palestine, Texas (pronounced Pales-TEEN) are named for the place.
It is the ancient Philistia and it roughly encompasses the area also known as Canaan. That is also the area also known as Israel.
An unusual sidelight to this has to do with the area now known as the Gaza strip. This was on land reserved for the tribe of Dan, the most warlike of all the tribes of Israel, and it was never subdued by the Israelites, even in the height of their empire under King David. The primary cities were Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Gaza, which exist even to this day.
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