With the random, point blank, ten round, gunshot murder in Washington DC on Thursday of a couple outside the Jewish Museum where the antisemitism and hate speech crossed the Rubicon and literally went from hate speech to hate action, followed by the brain dead, repetitive and nonsensical mantra, Free, Free Palestine, I thought it time for some clarification.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞?
The concept of Palestine, was an early exercise in marketing and branding by the Romans and goes back to the when after the Jewish insurrections, revolts and uprisings of 70AD and again in 135AD the in an endeavour to break the nexus and obliterate the link between the Jews and their land Judea, (today’s West Bank) the Romans renamed the land, 𝐒𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚-𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚.
The word Palestine was simply derived in Latin by the Romans from the word Philistine.
It was an early psy-op before psy-ops were a thing, designed to overtime, obliterate any memory or connection.
To in effect, de-Judaise the region. What we would call today, an exercise in regional ethnic cleansing.
Apart from obliterating the link between the Jews and Judea, the renaming served a second purpose and was designed to humiliate the Jews and rub salt into the wound by naming the area in the same name of their mortal enemy, the Philistines.
The Jews defeated the Philistines 700 years previously and they no longer existed as a people even then, in 135AD.
The Philistines themselves weren’t indigenous to the area anyway as they originated from Crete and other islands in the Aegean Sea.
Incidentally, Goliath of David and Goliath fame was a Philistine, and the Philistines were defeated by David 1000BC. The story of Samson and Delilah was another epic describing relations between the Jews and the Philistines.
The same Philistines as a people were eventually conquered once and for all by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 604 and absorbed.
They have been totally lost to history and ceased to exist ever since.
𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬.
Palestine the place and the people never actually existed. The name merely served a purpose.
It was the Roman’s, means to an end. The religion of Islam was still 600 years into the future.
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚, “𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞” 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 𝐀 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.