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@nervesconcord Fun FACT: The name Palestine derives from a 3,200 year old documented name "Peleset" used to refer to people in the Southern Levant, who are mentioned on the ancient Egyptian Merneptah Stele. The Peleset's land included the well known cities of Gaza, Ekron, Gath, Ashdod, Ascalon, Timnah and Tantur. Indeed, the whole area from Lebanon to Egypt. Indeed, all of these towns survived with similar names until they were mostly depopulated by Israel in 1948. Furthermore, seven known Assyrian clay tablets and Cuneiform inscriptions called the people who lived in what is now Palestine 'Palashtu,' 'Palastu,' and 'Pilistu,' beginning with the king of Assyria Adad-Nirari 111 (811BC-783 BC) in the Nimrud inscriptions. Moreover, around 1100 BC, the Peleset expanded their territory eastwards to the junction of the Jordan River. The extent of the coastal region of the land of the Peleset , from Tantur in the north to Gaza in the south, and vast inland areas, show that the land of the Peleset was 15-20 times larger than the current Gaza Strip, encompassing much of greater Tel Aviv, which grew out of and consumed the ancient Palestinian city of Jaffa, whose indigenous inhabitants were driven out en-masse in 1948 (Rotbard 2015). So you can see, all this far predates the Bar Kokhba Jewish revolt against the Romans in 132 CE. 🙂
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