Palestinians are Philistines, Canaanites, Jebusites, Arabs, and now Philistines again!

Ibrahim Abrash, writing in Palestinian news site Amad, says that Bezalel Smotrich is ignoring the Jewish Scripture when he says there were no such thing as the Palestinian people. Because look at the many times that the Torah mentions Philistines and the Land of the Philistines!It's been a while since Palestinians claimed to be Philistines. It was a common claim at the...

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When an Arab diplomat told the UN that Palestinian Arabs are Philistines (plus cartoon)

The Palestinian Arabs have alway been a bit fuzzy about their supposed origins. Their story seems to always be whatever hurts the Jews most.For example, many now claim to be Jebusites, because the Hebrew Scripture says the Jebusites controlled Jerusalem before King David. There is no evidence of the Jebusite people outside the Jewish Tanach, and that same Tanach says that...

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