Palestine claims to the land of Israel.

 

(Originally posted in my Christian blog)

Palestine, an Islamic "nation". Claims to be the original occupiers of the land of Israel. Islam is the youngest of 3 Abrahamic religions, formed 7 CENTURIES after Christianity. That's 700 years.

In the 1st century B.C.E., (800 years before Islam) the Kingdom of Judea was conquered by the Roman Empire. There is no historical dispute that in both the early Roman period and the Greek period, most of the Jewish people lived in the Land of Israel.

For the Romans, the name "Palestine" had nothing to do with modern-day Palestinians, who of course did not even remotely exist at the time. The Romans knew the coastal region of the Land of Israel as "Palestine," which was named after the ancient Philistine people who once inhabited the coastal territory of the Land of Israel.

A 2019 DNA study of skeletons exhumed from Philistine tombs in the coastal Israeli cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon found that the Philistines come from a "southern European gene pool." In other words, the ancient Philistines have no genetic relation whatsoever to the modern Palestinian-Arabs.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the only people who called themselves "Palestinians" were the Jews. Many Zionist and Jewish organizations in Israel even incorporated the name Palestine into their names.

A mandate to rule the Land of Israel—the British Mandate for Palestine, from the ancient Roman name—was given to the British (among other areas). A mandate was given for a limited time, with the aim of preparing the local people for eventual independence and self-rule. 

Islamic Palestine has never existed. The Jewish people are the rightful owners of Israel. They were there CENTURIES before Islam even existed.