1939 Flags of the World - see how Palestine under British Mandate = modern Day Israel
Fascinating how Germany's Flag is that of Nazi... while Palestine which was under British Mandate clearly depicts the Jewish connection to the land.
In fact, the Arabs of the land were either Egyptian or Jordanian as the Identity of modern day Palestinians was only created in 1967 post the 6-Day war between Israel and her enemies that sought to destroy her.
The name Palestine is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean
rollingor
migratory,the term was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of - the Philistines. The Philistines were an Aegean people - more closely related to the Greeks and with no connection ethnically, linguisticly or historically with Arabia - who conquered in the 12th Century BCE the Mediterranean coastal plain that is now and .
A derivitave of the name
Palestinefirst appears in Greek literature in the 5th Century BCE when the historian Herodotus called the area
Palaistin?(Greek - Παλαιστ?νη). In the 2nd century CE, the crushed the of (132 CE), during which and Judea were regained and the area of Judea was renamed Palaestina in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel.
Under the
(1517-1917), the term Palestine was used as a general term to describe the land south of ; it was not an official designation. In fact, many Ottomans and Arabs who lived in Palestine during this time period referred to the area as Southern Syriaand not as
Palestine.
After
, the name Palestinewas applied to the territory that was placed under ; this area included not only present-day Israel but also present-day .
Leading up to Israel's
in 1948, it was common for the international press to label Jews, not Arabs, living in the mandate as Palestinians. It was not until years after Israeli independence that the Arabs living in the and were called Palestinians.
The word Palestine or Filastin does not appear in the
. The term peleshet appears in the Jewish no fewer than 250 times.See the Flag of Palestine in 1939:
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