i've also noticed people trying to link the phillistines from the bible to the palestinians, which is total garbage.
the region palestine was named by the romans to rub salt into judea, who put up such a heroic struggle that the conquerors really wanted to make an example.
the national entity of palestine was, previous to the creation of israel, a place with arabs and jews - the palestinian legion in ww2 for example was mostly jewish soldiers fighting for britain.
what the arabs currently living in palestine have to do racially, historically, spiritually, etc. with the old phillistines no one has been able to explain to me, were any of it relevant to people living today to start with. the arabs living there now are descendents of when arabs conquered most of the mideast centuries ago and it wasn't jews they were fighting, the phillistines were LONG gone.
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