tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post5767814538660295119..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: The History Men: Truth versus FalsehoodDaphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-42851737805249959822011-07-03T12:49:47.419+10:002011-07-03T12:49:47.419+10:00Bottom line: The United Kingdom of Israel under So...Bottom line: The United Kingdom of Israel under Solomon and David (if they ever actually existed, i.e., no archaeological evidence or contemporaneous writing has been found that they did) lasted a mere 72 years, a grain of sand on the beach when compared to other peoples, including the Palestinians (descendants of the Canaanites) who have established civilizations in historic Palestine. You Zionists live in a make-believe world. Thankfully, your colonization of Palestine is in its death throes. Israel is an historical anoachronism, a blip in history. It will inevitably drown in a sea of Arabs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-41927327053115800612011-07-03T09:08:53.588+10:002011-07-03T09:08:53.588+10:00Like it or not, today's Palestinians are desce...Like it or not, today's Palestinians are descendants of the Canaanites. BTW, migrants from the Arabian Peninsula arrived in what we know as Palestine around 3500 BCE<br /><br />As Professor Ilene Beatty, the late highly renowned historian/anthropologist and specialist on the Holy Land, put it: "[being of] Canaanite origin, Palestinians have priority; their descendants have continued to live there, which gives them continuity; and (except for the 800,000 dispossessed refugees [of 1948 (as determined by Israeli officials at the time), not including the hundreds of thousands subsequently expelled]), they are still living there, which gives them present possession. Thus we see that on purely statistical grounds they have a proven legal right to their land." (Ilene Beatty - Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan, 1957)<br /><br />Apparently, you are not aware that during the fifth century BCE, the "Father of History," Herodotus and other Greek and Latin scholars began referring to the Philistine coastland, and later the territory between it and the Jordan Valley as "Palestine." Early in their rule, the Romans referred to the region around Jerusalem as Palaestina and in turn, the Byzantines named the region or province west of the Jordan River, from Mount Carmel in the north to the Gaza Strip in the south, Palaestina Prima. The inhabitants (descendants of the Canaanites) gradually became known as Palestinians and soon after the seventh century CE, as Palestinian Arabs, regardless of religion. Over the years Arabic became the dominant language and although many Christians kept their faith (as did the great majority of the small Jewish population), Islam became the principle religion. <br /><br />When the Muslim Arabs arrived in Palestine (and liberated its Jewish population from Byzantine Christian oppression, as they would later in southern Spain when they freed Jews from Catholic oppression), they retained the administrative organization of the territory of Palestine as it had been under the Romans and later, the Byzantines. They named the territory Djund Filastin. <br /><br />European tourist books of the nineteenth century refer to "Palestine," as did Theodor Herzl in his correspondence and of course, the Balfour Declaration. <br /><br />Of course, this is all moot. However the continuous inhabitants refer to themselves ("Palestinians" being the accepted term), they are the indigenous people with uninterrupted roots going back nearly 6000 years and the true owners of Mandated Palestine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com