Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Free Palestine? No thanks! (The Israeli perspective) Français / Español / русский / Deutsch / عربي" video.

  1. ​ @misterlyle.  The guy in the video fudges with history. Philistia, inhabited by Philistines, emerged at about the same time as the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and survived longer than Israel. Israel was wiped out first by the Assyrians. Israelite refugees fled to Judah. That's how they all became Judahites. It was the terms "Israel" and "Israelites" that fell out of use, even amongst Jews (Europeanized form of "Judahites"). The terms "Philistia", "Palestine", "Filistin", and variations there of, have been in use throughout history. And, if inhabitants of the region were being called "Palestinian" numerous times before the 18th century, just because someone didn't specifically write about them in the 18th century, but then they were still being called that in the 19th century, he has no real point. It just means there was an absence of describing the inhabitants. And, what does it even matter, if you went by one term one day, and another term the next ... you still lived on the land, and existed. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, which dates back before there ever was an Israel, Judah, or Philistia. The Canaanites built Jerusalem. If he'd rather use his fairy tale book, instead of science, then the book says the Israelites were invaders, who originated in Mesopotamia, and took Jerusalem from the native Canaanites.
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  2.  @misterlyle.  "Peleset", "Philistia", "Philistine", "Palestine", "Filastin", used throughout history, by Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Christians, and even Jews ... used by big names, like Horodotus, Aristotle, Shakespeare ... plus a few uses of "Palestinian", prior to the 18th century ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine "Palestine" often being a province, or other smaller political division under a larger one, it leaves the use of "Palestinian" at a disadvantage, compared to the use of "Jew", because "Jew" is used to describe a religious group, an ancient national group, an ethnic/cultural group, ... I rarely ever use my provincial label, most times using my national label, but if someone came along and claimed people of my province didn't exist, or that they can take half my province's land and boot us off, because we weren't a country ... F*ck them! These colonizer arguments, to try and mask their colonialism, are pure bullshit. North American natives didn't have a national border, hadn't filed whatever proper paperwork they were supposed to with whoever they were supposed to have, the names of their tribes weren't in books, and that still doesn't change the absolute fact that they existed, lived on regions of land, and were colonized. Palestinians are native, with Canaanite DNA, who likely simply converted religions along the way. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/
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