Was there a palestinian land

Originally posted by Dalirymple ↑

I agree with you Eljay that there was a country called Palestine. What needs to be clarified is that the indigenous inhabitants were of course called Palestinians. I have seen local elderly Jewish Australian who originated from there whose passports name them as Palestinians i.e. their country of birth or residency prior to migrating to Australia.

One only has to read Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" which gives a clear picture of what he found there during his travels.

But that is in no way to be confused with who are and where from are the current day so called Palestinians.

How did they get to where they are? Where did they come from? Why did they come to Palestine?

Remarkably, for so-called ancient people in their so-called historical homeland, why are there no artifacts demonstrating their claimed longevity to the land? Where is their history? Their specific language? Their coins of the realm? Their kings? And the list of queries go on and on.

Amazingly, whatever is and has been discovered proves the undeniable ongoing link between the Jews and their historical homeland, a history which predates Mohammad by several thousand years.

Where were they (the misnamed Palestinians) when Jesus was wondering around Jerusalem? What was he doing? Counting their mosques? He predated Mohammad by some 600 years!

Christians today sing the psalms in churches......and have done so for several millennia. The psalms are replete with the word Jerusalem and many in fact refer to King David. Will he now be painted as a Palestinian King just as Jesus is now being tagged by Muslims as being a "Palestinian"? May as well then call every Jew who lived in that era "Palestinians" too.

But they are not to be confused with the so called "current day Palestinians" who historically can be shown to have drifted down to Palestine seeking work when the early day Zionists began in the late 1800's to clear the swamp infested desolate land so well described by Twain.

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I think that most Palestinians were in fact a group of several different nomadic tribes, from what i have read the only ones predominantly referred to as Palestinians in the past came from an area of Syria called Philistia referenced in the past as the Philistines, keep in mind that the Jewish were predominantly nomadic as well and again the only area referenced to the Jewish as their area was Judea but the 12 Tribes wandered over the same lands as the Palestinians and deep into Egypt, so maybe Egypt needs to give up some of it's lands to the original nomadic tribes.
It's all a vexed question really if we except that all humans migrated out of the great rift valley of Africa, then that is the only true homeland for all of humanity, the rest is land that was conquered by various tribes throughout history and as we know from history the victor rules until vanquished, so where do we draw the line, from what i have seen and experienced land only belongs to those who are strong enough to hold it and warring over land has never been about anything other than acquiring resources for one group at the loss for another, i wonder what will happen should we trek out into space and discover new planets with great resources and a less developed population, will humanity just take what it wants or will we perhaps exchange technology for those resources so everyone benefits and how will we respond should there spiritual life be very different from our own, humanity unfortunately has a long way to go.