It happens that, while guiding groups around the land of Israel, someone will frequently ask me, “We’ve been seeing Israel. When do we get to see Palestine?”
Obviously I quite categorically state that that there is no such place (for there isn’t). “Oh but there is,” will come the response, sometimes hurt, sometimes baffled, sometimes a little angry. “Everyone knows there’s a Palestine.”
Really? “Well yes! Newspapers and books and television presenters routinely refer to ‘Israel-Palestine’ or ‘Israel and Palestine’ and just plain ‘Palestine.’ When will we be there?”
“No,” I say with clear conviction and (usually) remaining unruffled. “No such place as Palestine exists. There has never been a country called Palestine nor a nation called the Palestinians.”
Calmly, clearly, I lay out the history. Maps, dates, quotes, sources; more than enough to clear this question up for any reasonable person really interested in truth rather than propaganda.
Usually that works. At least it quiets the perplexed parties on my bus so that we can get on with seeing Israel – hopefully including in our tour places like Bethel and Shiloh and Shechem and Hebron as well as the Old City in Jerusalem. These are in the heartland of Israel – specifically they are in the place where the nations futilely plan to plant Palestine.
To them we say “Hah!” (Psalm 2:4) and “Watch out!” (Psalm 2:5)
Thankfully, by the time they board their plane back to one of the four corners of the earth, any confusion in the minds of my Christian travelers will have been forever settled. They can use their firsthand knowledge (which is more than 99 percent of ‘Palestine’s champions’ in the nations have) to help debunk the myth of Palestine and the Palestinians.
For it is a baseless myth. And there’s no turning a baseless myth into truth – period.
It matters not whether the nations gather in Paris or anywhere else – and whether they include mighty international conglomerates like the European Union and the United Nations. It matters not how much power they wield – economically or militarily; whether their members are old world or new, has beens (Britain and France) or are beings (the United States) or would be (New Zealand).
In some people’s hands the pen is a great deal mightier than the AK-47 or suicide bomb. Brilliantly and thoroughly, in his May 25, 2016 entry on Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield obliterates ‘Palestine.’
More than a myth, he accurately describes it as “a hoax”. I’d love to reproduce his whole article here but, to be fair to him, and also to encourage my readers to bookmark him, I am going to send you right to his page..
Read it – it’s powerful – and circulate it as widely as you can.
There is no Palestine.
It’s the blind-leading-blind syndrome. Many Christian who were being taught replacement theology also fall for the lie of ‘Palestine’. This is the initial virus from the onset. Spiritual clarity can only result from a one on one relationship with Yeshua instead of hanging on the lips of blind leaders. Because by confirmation of His Spirit indwelling and straight belief in His Word we know that Israel is the Apple of his Eye and will always be. Thank you for your articles, Stan.
Stan, I’m so thankful that I never believe this lie. My Mother taught me that all the LAND OF ISRAEL was and is and will always belong to the ISRAELITES. I ‘M so thankful for the wisdom and knowledge that YAH has given you. i really get upsit with all our SO Called LEADERS saying that there is a so call Palestinian people when history prove eitherwise
Dear Stan, thanks for the great commentary.
There are so many christians who do not know the truth. So many do fall prey to the lies. I am also anxious to read what you are sending. I would walk the watch, to give you a break if I could. Blessings my friend. Some more photos of Israel, would be nice.
Anthony. A Christian Zionist
You are absolutely right! Palestine never existed. Unfortunately,most people get their information from secular sources {which many times do not do their homework}.Then when people are confronted with reality,they are surprised to learn that it was ‘just a myth’. If you get your information from secular sources,then you’ll have a secular worldview — instead of a Biblical worldview.
Actually..Palestine is MORE than just a “myth”…… it is an outright INSULT to the Jew. In 132AD , after the FINAL battle against the Jews…Emperor Hadrian attempted to erase any trace of the Jewish Nation insulting them by “renaming” the Land of Israel after Israel’s ancient arch enemy….the Philistines. He called the land Philistine as an INSULT and it eventually morphed into “Palestine” over the centuries. Palestine is a farce!
Again….Thank you, Stan, for clarity of thought and truth on this subject. I pray that the folks with whom you’ve had contact, and who have heard your rebuttal to this myth, will take the truth home with them, and pass it around to their friends and fellow Christians! Too many people still fall prey to this lie, and therefore have a confused mindset of the situation in Israel! Blessings of Shalom…. Keep up the excellent work….for God! \o/
Truth! Amen! Blessings!
This is a critically important subject…I’m anxious to read what you are sending. Thanks.