20 Evidences that there was no Palestine before 1900AD

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History of the Land of ISRAEL

Palestine and the whole world claim that the Land was inhabited by the Palestine and Palestinians have lived there peacefully for hundreds of years and Jews migrated there later, then they took the land away from the Palestinians. But the truth is OPPOSITE to such claims:

There was no Palestine before1900AD and the majority of the residents there were always Jews even if the Land was sparsely populated. There are about 20 evidences supporting this historical fact.

1. Relandi Geography 1695-1714

In 1590 a "simple English visitor" to Jerusalem wrote, "Nothing there is to be scene but a little of the old walls, which is yet Remayning and all the rest is grasse, mosse and Weedes much like to a piece of Rank or moist Grounde 

Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, p. 86,

cited in de Haas, History, p. 338.

In 1695, Hadrian Relandi reported the survey about the Palestina which tells us the most of the settlements are Jewish. Gaza had 550 residents, 300 Jews, 250 Christians and many other villages were Jewish.

Book "Palestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata". The book is written in Latin. In 1695. Rilandy was describing what was then called Palestine.

The author Hadriani Rilandi is a geographer, cartographer, traveler, philologist, He knew several European languages, Arabic, ancient Greek, Hebrew.

He visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible. The research was conducted as follows:

*He first created the map of Palestine. He then designated every settlement mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud with its original name.

* If the original was Jewish, it meant "pasuk" (a suggestion in the Holy Scriptures that mentioned the name. )

* If the original was Roman or Greek, the connection was in Latin or Greek.

In the end, he made a population census by settlements.

Here are the main conclusions and some facts:

* The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population is Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.

* Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins.

* The only exception is Nablus (now Shchem), where approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Natsha and approximately 70 "shomronims" (Samaritans).

* In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians.

 In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.

* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.

* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.

 Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.

* Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an original Arabic name. Jewish, Greek or Latin names that have been changed to Arabic that don't make any sense in Arabic. In Arabic, there is no meaning in names like: Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza or Jenin, and names like Ramallah, al-Khalil (Hebron), al-Quds (Jerusalem) - they do not have philological or historical Arabic roots. So, for example, in 1696, Ramallah was called Bethel (Beit El, the House of God), Hebron was called Hebron and the Cave of Makhpel was called El-Khalil (the nickname of Abraham) by the Arabs.

* Relandi mentions Muslims only as nomadic Bedouins who came to the cities as seasonal workers in agriculture or construction.

* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews were successful in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians were engaged in trade and transportation.

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Jews lived in Tveria and Tsfat, but their occupation is not mentioned, except for the traditional fishing in Kineret.

* In the village of Um El Fahm, for example, lived 10 families, all Christians (about 50 people). There stood a small Maronite church.

The book completely refutes theories about "Palestinian traditions", "Palestinian people" and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs who even stole the land's Latin name (Palestine) and took it for themselves.

Book by Adrian Reland (1676-1718) about Palestine, published in Utrecht in 1714.

https://palestineisraelconflict.wordpress.com/tag/the-truth-about-israel/

2. Napoleon 1799

Napoleon made the expedition to Gaza, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre during March thru May 1799 fighting Turks and intending to establish a state to cope with British forces. But he found only a few thousand residents except Turkish Army, and he dispatched some army to the inland of the Land to find any cities but they found only some tents of Bedouins. So, he gave up the plan.

3. Safed Earthquake 1837

In 1837, on January 1, there was a big earthquake in northern Galilee and 6–7000 were killed, most of the victims were Jews, Sephardim Jews. Few Muslim Arabs were found there.

4. British Consulate Census 1839

In 1839, British Consulate in Jerusalem made the census for Jerusalem, majority of the residents were Jews, the remainder were Christians plus Bedouins, Muslims.

5. Demographic Census 1863

"Report of the Commerce of Jerusalem During the Year 1863," F.O. 195/808, May 1864. ". . . The population of the City of Jerusalem is computed at 15,000, of whom about 4,500 Moslem, 8,000 Jews, and the rest Christians of various denominations. . ." From A.H. Hyamson, ed., The British Consulate in Jerusalem, 2 vols. (London, 1939-1941), Vol. 2, p. 331. 4,500 Muslims were Bedouins mostly

6. Mark Twain Travel Report 1867

In 1867, Mark Twain travelled there and wrote “ Innocent Abroad “ which tells us the land was a wasteland and the most of the residents were Jews

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7. Suez Canal Works 1857-71

During 1857 – 1871, in Egypt there was a construction of Suez Canal and they mobilized 1.5 million people and 120,000 of them were killed by the accidents in construction work. Therefore many Egyptians tried to avoid the compulsory labor work and came to the Land. But they found the Land was a desolate wasteland, then they returned homes .

8. US Chamber of Commerce Report 1880

In 1880 U.S, Chamber of Commerce made a survey and reported the population seems to be decreasing and the land was a desolate wasteland.

9. Railway Jaffa – Jerusalem 1892

In 1890–92 French Society built the railway between Jerusalem and Jaffa since the license obtained by the Jews was sold to them and the names of the 7 stations were all Hebrew, Jaffa, Lod, Nahal Soreg, Ramle, Beth-Semes, Bar-Gior, Jerusalem. No Arabic station

10.     Othman Turkey Sultan Hamid II 1900AD

Sultan Hamid II decreed that Jews were not allowed to immigrate into the Land from 1901 while he allowed Arabs unlimitedly. During 1901–1917 period, Arab minority grew up but less then Jewish population. Especially after the completion of Railway Beirut-Haifa in 1905, Railway between Daraa-Nazareth, -Haifa in 1908. Some Arabic villages started to show up from 1902 like Afula.

Upto 1900AD, All 10 major cities were Jewish, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Beersheba, Nazareth, Tiberias, Acre, Safed, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus ( Shechem-Neapolis), Gaza, Beth Shean, No Palestinian cities existed.

11.              Thomas Shaw 1767

Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant (London, 1767), p. 331ff. De Haas notes: "Hasselquist, the Swedish botanist, munching some roasted ears of' green wheat which a shepherd generously shared with him, in the plain of Acre,

reflected that the white bread of his northern homeland and the roasted wheat ears symbolized the difference between the two civilizations' Had he known that Mukaddasi boasted in the tenth century of the excellence Of Palestine's white bread he might have been still more impressed by the low estate to which the country had fallen in seven hundred years.... Hasselquist joined a party of four thousand pilgrims who went to Jericho under an escort of three hundred soldiers. He estimated that four thousand Christians, mostly of the eastern rites, entered Jaffa each year, and as many Jews. The Armenian Convent in Jerusalem alone could accommodate a thousand persons.The botanist viewed the pilgrim tolls as the best resource of an uncultivated and uninhabited country. . ~ . Ramleh was a ruin." (Emphasis added.) De Haas,  History, pp. 349, 358, 360, citing Frederich Hasselquist, Reise nach Palastina, etc., 1749-1752, pp. 139, 145-146, 190.

12.              Mangles and Irby Travel Report 1818

After a visit in 1817-1818, travelers reported that there was not

"a single boat of any description on the lake [Tiberias]."

**James Mangles and the Honorable C.L. Irby, Travels in Egypt and

 Nubia (London, 1823), p. 295.

13.              Thomson Travel Report 1866

W.M. Thomson reiterated the Reverend Manning's observations: "How melancholy

 is this utter desolation! Not a house, not a trace of inhabitants, not even shepherds,

seen everywhere else, appear to relieve the dull monotony....

Isaiah says that Sharon shall be wilderness, and the prediction has become a sad

 and impressive reality." 

Thomson, The Land and the Book (London: T. Nelsons & Sons, 1866), p. 506ff.

14.              Cities, Towns, Villages

Upto 1900AD, All 10 major cities were Jewish: Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Beersheba, Nazareth, Tiberias, Acre, Safed, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus ( Shechem-Neapolis), Gaza, Beth Shean, Hebron, Bet Shemesh, Eilat, No Palestinian cities existed. 

15.              No Founder of Palestine, No Coin, No Mint, No History

There is no Founder of Palestine before 1900AD. No Dynasty of Palestine, No Republic of Palestine, No city No Town, No Village of Palestine. No Arabic person tried to build the Railway. No Coin for Palestine, No history book of Palestine.

16.              Current Palestinians are the descendants of the Arab Migrants who came into the Land after Jews built the Railways, Farms, brought Civilization there.

The current Palestinians are the descendants of the Arabs who migrated into the Land since 1901AD when Sultan Hamid II decreed no Jews could enter the Land while Arabs could do unlimitedly. The second move of Arab immigration into the Land was done after British occupation of the Land in December 1917. Especially British Mandate limited Jewish immigration within 15,000 per year (but actually less than 5,000) while they allowed Arabs to enter the Land without Visa, without Passport. So, the people of Palestine are the descendants of the Arabs, mostly Egyptian Migrants who entered during Othman Turks Rule 1901-1917 and British Rule 1918-1947 Palestine Republic was fabricated only in 1988 when Yasser Arafat established PLO with the help of the deceived world. Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt. Especially, during British Mandate, Arab migrants were 2-3 times of Jewish immigrants

17.                  Maps of Land of Israel dated 1830, 1845, 1852, 1864, 1893, 1899 prove there was no Palestinian towns but the Israeli towns with the Hebrew names.

1830 Map

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1899 Map

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18.               Defoliation Policy of Othman Turkey

Ottoman Turkey occupied the Land of Israel since 1517 until December 1917, for 400 years.

They learned that the Land had the history of many rebellions and therefore wanted to keep the Land a dry wasteland, and this policy was called Defoliation Policy.

Nevertheless, there were thousands of Jews living in the Land even if the land was sparsely populated. There were no Arabs but some Bedouins and Druze people there but the majority of the residents were Jews in addition to the Ottoman Turkey army stationed along the coast.

In 1576 Sultan Murad III enacted legislation to uproot and deport a thousand of Safed's prosperous Jews to Cyprus, where the economy needed boosting. The same order was given again a year later, although no document establishes that his dictates were followed.[27] Safed at that time, according to the British investigation by Lord Peel's committee, "contained as many as 15,000 Jews in the 16th century," and was "a centre of Rabbinical learning." The Jews spoke Arabic as well as Hebrew, "they were equally exposed to the raids of marauding tribesmen," and "public security deteriorated." The population generally declined.[28]

In the early seventeenth century a pair of Christian visitors to Safed told of life for the Jews: "Life here is the poorest and most miserable that one can imagine." Because of the harshness of Turkish rule and its crippling dhimmi oppressions, the Jews "pay for the very air they breathe."[29] Yet at the turn of the century, the Jewish population had grown from 8,000-10,000 (in 1555) to between 20,000 and 30,000 souls.[30]

19.               Pogrom, British Mandate, Robert F Kennedy

Sparsely populated Jews were increased rapidly since the pogrom of 1882 in Russia. Jews built the railways and Kibbutz Farms, which attracted Muslim Arabs very much but the moving the residence under Ottoman Empire wasn’t easy and therefore demographic change wasn’t very much. But since 1918, and especially Britain became the country for Mandate Palestina in 1922 by the order of League of Nations, Arab migration increased drastically while Jewish migration was limited to 5,000 or so by British Mandate. Arabs could come into the Land without Visa or Passport.

Robert F Kennedy said:

The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944 came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.[24]

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/depopulated.html#36

20.              Bible Prophecy

Bible Prophesied that the Land would have been laid waste until the children of Israel returned. Any claim that other nations lived there for hundreds of years before the Jews came back is the claim that the Bible prophecy was incorrect and didn’t come true, which is totally untrue but may be the claim by Satan.

Prophecy by Amos:

Amos 9:

13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Ezekiel 36

6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

33 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

37 Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

Ezekiel 38

8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

The Land of Israel had been kept Desolate Waste until the Jews returned to their Land.

The claim that Palestinians have lived in the Land for many centuries is completely a lie and hoax, and a claim that the Bible Prophecy has not come true. Satan often tries to disprove the prophecy of the Bible as in this case.

21.              Name of the Land changed from Israel to Palestine 136AD

Name of the Land was originally Israel but it was changed to Palestine or Palestina after Emperor Hadrian changed it to Palestine since the Bar Kokhba Revolt( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt) in order to eradicate the roots of the Hebrew culture and Israeli nation.

Since the emperor Hadrian, the Land was called Palestine even if majority of the residents in the wasteland were the Jews.

22.              Ancient Palestine

Ancient Palestinians were the people from Creta Island and they lived mostly in Gaza area since ca. 2000BC.

God commanded Israel to exterminate them because of their atrocities and crimes against the people and against God.

Samson of Israel killed thousands of Palestinians, and the young boy David killed the king of Palestine, Goliath. Thereafter Palestinians were greatly weakened and subdued to Israel, and finally they were exterminated by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 586BC.

At the time of Jesus Christ, they were never mentioned and didn’t exist.

The current Palestinians are mostly Arabs from Egypt and Jordan, and Syria, few from Albania, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, etc. and they have nothing to do with the ancient Palestine.

23.              Palestine or Jerusalem is never mentioned in Quran

But Allah decreed the Holy Land is given to the Children of Israel.

Quran Surah 5:20

وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِۦ يَـٰقَوْمِ ٱذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَةَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَعَلَ فِيكُمْ أَنۢبِيَآءَ وَجَعَلَكُم مُّلُوكًۭا وَءَاتَىٰكُم مَّا لَمْ يُؤْتِ أَحَدًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ٢٠

And ˹remember˺ when Moses said to his people, “O my people! Remember Allah’s favours upon you when He raised prophets from among you, made you sovereign,1 and gave you what He had never given any other nation in the world.2

Quran Surah 5:21 يَـٰقَوْمِ ٱدْخُلُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ ٱلْمُقَدَّسَةَ ٱلَّتِى كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَرْتَدُّوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنقَلِبُوا۟ خَـٰسِرِينَ

O my people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah has destined for you ˹to enter˺. And do not turn back or else you will become l

osers.” (Quran.com)

Quran Surah 26:59 كَذَٰلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَـٰهَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٥٩ So it was. And We awarded it ˹all˺ to the Children of Israel.(quran.com)

Allah may want to kill all the Muslims rebellious against himself by using Israel. Stop rebellion against Allah!