Nov 29, 2022
5 min read
Palestine between Israel and Israel
What happened between the exile of the Jews and the Zionist return?
“Palestine” is a very old name for the region that more or less maps onto what Jews called Eretz Yisrael, one that goes back to 12 century BCE Egyptian inscriptions which call the area Paleset. Assyrian inscriptions from the 8th and 7th century BC refer to the same region as “Palshtu” or “Pilistu”, and the ancient Greeks and then…
