Over the past 2 days we considered the rise of the red-green coalition and the importance of voting your values in the face of red-green influence. In a slightly different, but similar vein, it is important to understand the Palestinian issue. A tenet of the red-green “platform” is the idea of a “two-state solution” in Israel. The reality, no one in the red-green alliance wants two states. They want Israel gone, leaving only one Islamic state where God has promised a Jewish one.

But what “right” do the Palestinians have to the land? Was it really theirs to begin with? If so, how did Israel become the “occupier?”

It’s really quite simple. Following the final Jewish uprising against the Romans in 135AD, Roman Emperor Hadrian, determined to humiliate the Jews, renamed Israel “Palestina” after Israel’s archenemy, the Philistines. Thus, into the modern age, the term referred to Jews. The Palestinian Orchestra was Jewish, as was the Palestine Post during the time of Israel’s rebirth.

The terms “Palestine” and “Palestinian” were then embraced in the 1960’s by Arabs living in the land and adopted by the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Thus, the term is only a recent moniker used by Arabs. (Learn more here.)

Beyond that, let’s consider the history of the land:

Basic History for the Uninformed: 

1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. 

2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 

3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 

4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 

5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Crusader Frankish and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 

6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 

7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state. 

8. There was the Sassanid-Persian Empire before the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 

9. Before the Sassanid-Persian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire again, not a Palestinian state. 

10. There was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state, before the Byzantine Empire. 

11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Jewish Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 

12. Before the Jewish Hasmonean state was the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state. 

13. Before the Hellenistic Seleucid empire, there was Alexander the Great's empire, not a Palestinian state. 

14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 

15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 

16. Before the Babylonian Empire, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were not Palestinian states. 

17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 

18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 

19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 

There have been many governments there, but never a Palestine. 

(Khan Fatima on X)

You see, despite the university campus protests and the lies of Islamocommunists, there has never been a Palestinian state belonging to anyone other than the Jews.

Be informed, friends, and don’t be taken captive by the liars and deceivers of this world!