The myth of the ‘ indigenous Palestinians ‘

Worth reposting methinks with these additional facts .

Any indigenous people say prayers or chant songs linking them to their indigenous lands . Since time
immemorial the Jewish people have such prayers and songs still recited today. When challenging the
Palestinians what traditional prayers or songs they recite, guess what - there are none !

Also we always are told that the indigenous Palestinians had their lands stolen by the Zionists even though
their leaders testified on oath to the 1937 Peel Committee that all land had been legally acquired. When
challenging any Palestinian what category of land was stolen from them , and there were only 5 categories
( Mulk Miri Waqf Metruke Mewat) and when and where it was land registered, guess what - they can
never answer !

Today’s ‘Palestinians ‘ are immigrants who came to the geographical area for the economic benefits
brought about by Zionism from the late 19th century as we shall verify beyond reasonable doubt.

Let us be totally clear and reiterate, there has never been and never was, a race, a tribe, a people, nor a
culture at any period in history known as the ‘Palestinians’ indigenous to the land they now claim. Only
since 1964 enemies of the Jewish State of Israel have perpetrated this myth. During the previous centuries
no travelers writing about their exploits ever identified the ‘Palestinians’. They are a myth that have
morphed into fact promoted by bigots, intellectual incompetents and racists. Fake news has assisted in
facilitating the anthropological miracle of the Palestinian who falsely lay claim to the Land of The Jewish
People. Let’s explore this further by sheer common sense if historical verification as explained above is
insufficient proof of the non-existent Palestinian.

What is the mother tongue of the indigenous ‘Palestinian’ we ask? Naturally without hesitation the answer
is Arabic easily verified by numerous sources. It is an absolute and indisputable fact. The Palestinian
Charters are in Arabic, the school curriculum is in Arabic and the daily papers are in Arabic. However, to a
disciplined researcher such as myself therein lies a paradox which unfortunately exposes further
unpalatable facts for both the ‘Palestinians’ and their supporters.

There is no sound for the letter ‘P’ for Palestinian in Arabic. Just take that in for a moment and mentally
process what I have written. There is no sound for ‘P’ in Arabic. Palestinian is simply the English language
adjective and bastardisation of the Latin word for the geographical area Hadrian named “Palaestina” in the
second century AD. Naming the area Palaestina was his way of further humiliating the defeated Jews
having previously annihilated their revolt and uprising against the Roman invasion. Renaming the area
from Judea to Palaestina after the ancient foes of the Jewish people, the Philistines, was the ultimate
humiliation. There are two dictionary definitions of the word Philistine one being uncultured, uncouth
heathen the other being ’extinct people from the Greek islands’.

You will note that there was no ‘Palestinian’ uprising or ‘Palestinian’ claims to Jerusalem against the
Romans, only a Jewish fight for their indigenous lands. Thus, it is from the term Philistines that the name
Palestine derives and both Philistines and Palestinians have the commonality of being invaders, the former
from the Greek Islands, the latter from surrounding Arab countries. The very definition of their name has
nothing whatsoever to do with ethnicity but is simply a descriptive application linked to the geography.
Furthermore, and unsurprisingly the origination of the name Philistine derives from the Hebrew ”Peleshet”
meaning invaders or penetrators.

Is it not therefore an absurd irony that today’s Palestinian Arabs call themselves after extinct Greek,
seafaring invaders or uncultured, uncouth heathens? Why would any people, tribe or race accept, indeed be
proud of such negative descriptions? The former immediately debunks their very existence and the latter is
not the kind of description to take pride in.

Even more imbecilic, why call themselves a name they cannot pronounce in their mother tongue? An
English word derived from Hebrew, describing Greeks, then translated into Latin without any Arabic
derivation and with such offensive definitions to their, albeit false history and culture.

No, no, shout the offended Palestinians, we are called Filastinians, that is the Arabic word for us. Oh
really, this disciplined researcher retorts in astonishment. But ‘Filastine’ is simply the Arab pronunciation
of Philistine and therefore apart from one letter to conform with Arabic vocalization the Filastinians are
still naming themselves after extinct Greek sailors or uncouth, uncultured heathens – and in Queen’s
English. You really couldn’t make it up, it’s Monty Pythonesque – that was a British comedy mocking
absurd situations which were themselves exaggerated.

Further investigation is surely necessary as it is patently imbecilic that supposedly, indigenous peoples
should be satisfied with such negative and offensive definitions debunking all claims of indigenous
ethnicity. So we research into the Filastinian historical archives in the expectation of discovering a people
or persons who identified as indigenous Filastinian leaders or a war, battle or conflict fought by indigenous
Filastinians against any domestic or foreign invaders throughput the centuries of warfare in their apparent
homeland in an attempt to recapture their cherished Jerusalem.

Maybe we will find archaeological evidence of a Filastinian currency, town or city; maybe an historical
construct originated and built by indigenous Filastinians and the name of the Filastinian architect. If the
Filastinians are indigenous then history and evidence must surely reveal the name of any one, just one
historical Filastinian King, Queen, Prince, Princess, President, Imam, Leader, Warrior, Apothecary, Writer,
Poet, Scribe, Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, Tailor, Butcher, Baker or Candlestick maker.

Alas, there is no such evidence to be found of any race, culture, or people. Other noted travelers to the
area , listed here such as Edward Webbe, 1553 – 1590 , Adrian Reland 1676 – 1718 , Count Constantine
Francois Volney 1757 – 1820 , William Thackeray, 1811 – 1863 , Gustav Flaubert , 1821 – 1880 , James
Finn 1806 – 1872 , Mark Twain , 1835 – 1910 , and B.W. Johnson, 1833 – 1894 , never recorded ,
discovered nor wrote of the indigenous Palestinians or Filastinians. These itinerant scribes did not write
about them nor the villages they supposedly inhabited because they never existed.

And there is a reason for their nonexistence and it is simply because they are a recent construct invented by
those political organizations and Arab countries who sought to eliminate the Jewish State of Israel and
deconstruct the geographical area after 1948. And what is equally astounding is that the fiction has
morphed into fact. The anthropological miracle we know today as Palestinians have revised history so that
a non-existent people have existed apparently since time immemorial.

Peter Baum