Ancient Israelites Unaware The Place Supposed To Be Called ‘Palestine’

“Obviously, the Zionists got to these ancient peoples before we did.”

Samaria, May 18 – The inhabitants of this ten-tribe kingdom north of Jerusalem, along with their brethren in the kingdom Judah to the south, are oblivious to the fact that the land in which they live and have developed their civilization is called not Israel but Palestine, a new study reports.

Researchers investigating political awareness in the peoples of the ancient Levant surveyed the populace between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea over a period of ten years, and found that despite being firmly located in the heartland of ancient Palestine, the residents of the area display no awareness of the land’s proper name. The authors say the study raises important questions about education and civic involvement at every level of society, including the more educated, wealthy, and politically important classes.

In an article in this month’s issue of the journal Proceedings of the Association for Local Exploitation of Semitic Tribes Indigenous to the Near East (PALESTINE), the researchers describe the outcome of their efforts to ascertain the extent to which the inhabitants of Palestine in the ninth and eighth centuries BCE had a consciousness of being part of a larger Palestinian people. The team of sociologists from Bir Zeit University commissioned the use of a time machine to travel to the relevant period and examine the knowledge, sensibilities, and loyalties of those ancient Palestinians, who, it turned out, had never been informed that they were Palestinian.

“They thought of themselves as part of ancient Israel, which only goes to show how pernicious the false propaganda of the Zionists has been even into ancient times,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Saeb Erekat. “Obviously, the Zionists got to these ancient peoples before we did, and corrupted their awareness to such a degree that they are oblivious to their Palestinian pedigree. Even the higher echelons of society, in the aristocracy especially – one might expect them to be more aware, more cosmopolitan, but evidently their self-awareness as Palestinians has also been compromised.”

The study will help historians piece together other bits of evidence, among them numerous maps of the ancient world that refer to the land as Palestine, yet show division of the land in to Israelite tribal regions. “The cumulative evidence points to a desperate effort by Zionists to insert themselves into ancient history, to the point of erasing ancient knowledge by the Palestinians themselves that they are Palestinians,” continued Erekat. “Our accusations that Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestine in modern times is familiar to all. What this study adds is the discovery that the Zionists have even gone into ancient history to cleanse Palestinian awareness from the very minds of the Palestinians. The world must put a stop to this.”