Skip to content- “The first time the name was used was in 70 CE when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.”Palestine has never existed – before or since – as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.- Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist, editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily
- The name “Palestine”, from the Greek Palaistina, originally from the Hebrew Pleshet (Land of the Philistines): a small coastal strip north east of Egypt, also called Philistia. The Roman term “Syria Palaestina” in the 2nd century BCE referred to the southern third of the province of Syria, including the former Judea. The name “Palestine” was revived as an official title when the British were granted a mandate after World War I.- Encyclopaedia Britanica ill, Micropaedia, vol. Vll, “Palestine.”
- The term “Palestine” is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century BC, settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century AD, after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word “Filastin” is derived from this Latin name.
- The name “Palestine” was the name the conquering Romans gave the ancient Land of Israel so as to obliterate the Jewish presence in the Holy Land! Despite being conquered and controlled by the Romans, Greeks, Turks and numerous others, only two nations have ever existed there over the last 3,000 years…ancient “Israel” and again “Israel,” re-established in 1948! To the Arab people as a whole no such entity as “Palestine” ever existed prior to the early 20th century and there was certainly never an ancient Palestinian Arab nation!