The Palestinians as an “Invented People”
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By Rich Siegel
The name "Palestine" has been around for a long time. "Peleset", transliterated from Egyptian hieroglyphics as "P-l-s-t", is found in numerous Egyptian documents referring to a neighboring people or land starting from around 1150 BC. The "Philistine" States existed concurrently with the ancient Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, making up the coastal plain below Jaffa and south to Gaza. In the 5th Century BC Herodutus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palestine". About a century later, Aristotle described the Dead Sea in Meteorology and located it in Palestine:
Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so b...