Palestine

the first people of Palestine was a sea people called Palesinians (name comes from there) They were semitic people... Then than place invaded by Egyptians and then Jews came here... And then Romans, Byzantines, Arabs etc.

Some studies of DNA distribution among the Palestinian 'Arabs' and 'Jews' would be interesting.

Anyone know of any?

Original Egyptians were Hamites.

Also, Phoenecians once colonized the Palestinian lands and spread their genes there.

That is correct Raider,they called giants because they are then the jewish imgration to palastine.

Originally posted by Raider   I have heard that the ancient Palestinian are mentioned in the Bible as philistine. Is this proved or just an assumption?

Yes, I said this in my post. The Bible refers to the coastal area southwest of Israel as Palestine, as it is the home of the Philistines.

Hmm... I don't think you guys read my post. Come on, read it. I worked really hard on it. Please?


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We can't just say happily that Palestine was always inhabited by Semitic peoples. What we know is that the area of Syria-Palestine was in Paleolithic times home to a culture that evolved locally. They formed then part of the Neolithic revolution (that also involved other cultures of the Anatolia-Zagros area), when they created the first towns like Jerico or Ugarit. It seems that eventually they were semitized like the rest of peoples of the region by semi-nomadic peoples of this language (though one can also hypotetizy in Semite language/culture being autoctonous to the area) forming the Canaanites.

C. 1300 BCE several migrations took place: Arameans and Hebrews on one side and Sea Peoples (Philisteans and others) on the other. This is the period of Hebrew conquest of the country, rather well known by Biblical accounts.

In the 1st century, under Roman occupation, the Jewish rebellions caused a violent reaction by Rome that comitted systematic genocide on the Jewish population, killing and enslaving most of them, what surely rendered the land empty for other neighbour peoples to settle in. It's believed that most of modern Jews are descendant not from those that dwelled in Palestine in times of Jesus but from those of the diaspora (settled mostly in Asia Minor).

Still Arab-Palestinian genetic makeup doesn't seem very different from that of Sephardic Jews, what means obviously that they are closely related, if not just basically converted Jews (see: ref1, ref2, ref3).

(See also Wikipedia for historical info on Palestine and Palestinians)



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Originally posted by cattus Is the term "palestinians" really appropriate considering their relationship or lack of with the Philistines?

Who cares? We can't say that they have no relation at all with ancient philistines but we know that they dwell and have dwelt for centuries or milennia in the land known as Palestine, so I think it's perfectly justified.

I think these guys must be the original natives of Palestine.

But later the evil homo sapiens killed them all.

OK

 

Nice nice�. by the way, I was surprised that there is no Palestine in the list of countries on this forum 

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