What is the historical explanation for an indigenous people calling themselves and their country by a name derived from Hebrew?
>>18495599where's israel on this map?
>>18495599named after a group of Greeks settled by the Egyptians
The Peleset were from Cyprus, what's your point OP?
>>18495599>calling themselvesit's the Greek->English name. arabic is Filistiyya, land of the philistees. which is really the same thing, except it's generic semitic, not specifically hebrew.
>>18496177Is the "generic semitic" in the room with us right now?What other actual language can you point to for the etymology of Palestine other than Hebrew?
>>18495599>>18496177They call themselves Al-Quds. Palestine is a politically correct English name used so as not to offend Israel when reporting about it in the media.
>>18496714Phoenician.
>>18495599Linking the name of the Philistines to Hebrew word Pelesh is just folk etymology done by modern Zionists trying to discredit the Palestinian movement. Ancient Egyptian inscriptions call them the Peleset which indicates that Philistine was a native name rather than a Hebrew exonym and considering that the Philistines came from the Aegean, it’s likely that their name comes from Greek or a pre-Greek substrate (possibly Pelasgian).
>>18495599>indigenous peopleNo such thingsThe creatures that dwell there in the current era are arab invaders and eastern europeans invaders
>>18496780how much arabian admix do levantines have? i reckon 10% or less
>>18496960101% with a margin error of 1%
