Not a single Assyrian Chronicle mentions this "noblepalestinian people". Could it be that hundreds of thousands of “Palestinians” were heroically fighting the Assyrian invaders – but these invaders did not even notice it? At the same time, those same Assyrian Chronicles are full of information about the battles with the Israelis. So, Assyrians very well “noticed” Israelis, but did not notice the “Palestinians”?
Update:A-Z, ah, so the "poor palestinians" were occupied by the "cruel Israelis". Not a single historian in the world has ever found any proof of this, as well as not a single historian in the world never mentioned this. But ok, let it be so. If the "poor pàlestinians" were occupied, they of course helped the Assyrians fight against the "cruel occupants"? And the grateful Assyrians, of course, mentioned the "valuable help" rendered to htem by "Palestinians" in their Chronicles? Can you give me just one example of the Assyrian Chronicles saying a word about this? Just one, I do not ask for more.
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they never existed and will never exist
Sargon II (King of Assyria 722-705 BCE) refers to the area as "Palashtu" in his Annals. By Herodotus it was called Palestaine, never to be referred to as Israel again until 1948.
Modern Palestinians are the direct descendants of the Hebrew tribes, who were in turn Canaanite. Unless you would like to disagree with the genetic findings showing that some Jews are Levantine in origin. When comparing genes whose genes do you think they are comparing them with? Palestinian people are descendants of a core group that has been there since the Neolithic.
@rick, not much on history are you? first, the question was about Palestinians, whose base in the word Philistia. But I answered either way, Sargon DID mention it, the context of the question was not how why or what part of Canaan. Second, Herodotus mentioned the Palestinians were circumscised, "the Syrians of Palestine, have, on their own testimony, learned the practice of circumcision (Historiae, 2:104); the Bible says the PHILISTINES weren't. Judges 14:3 "Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines" The city states of the Philistines were long gone by Herodotus time by the way, unless you're saying bible isn't true.
They were busy negotiating peace with the Israelis for more 20 years.
michardav, that is some utter bullshit.
Sargon referse to Philistia, not "Provincia Palaestina" to which Emperor Hadrian renamed Judea some eight hundred years later. The same goes for Herodotus, who referred to the coast between Philistia and Syria, not "Palestine".
At that time, the Palestinians were under occupation by Israelis just like these days. so they were happy to get rid of their enemy, (occupation troops).
Where were you or your ancestors before occupying Palestine?