Why is Palestine not mentioned in the Bible or the Quran?

In the Rocky Mountain News today there was a very one-sided opinion piece written about Palestine.  I had to add my two-cents.  I'm quite sure it will not get posted so I added it below:

"It is important to note Palestine is not mentioned in the Bible or the Quran, at all.  Why?  Because it didn't exist until sometime during the Islamic Ottoman Empire which expanded their Islamic hegemony into that region. This empire collapsed and gave the outside world opportunities to right some wrongs.

Israel, on the other hand, is mentioned in the Bible and the Quran.  Their right to their land is also mentioned in both books. To ignore this is quite disrespectful.

Most Christian Americans support Israel out of their biblical obligation.  Do not underestimate this obligation as it runs very deep.  Christians make up roughly 85% or so of this fine and beautiful country. 

In 1948, when the UN created a two state solution it was the Middle East who refused to recognize Israel's right to land and to also create a separate state for Palestine, at the same time.  Let me say it again, the Middle East refused to create a separate state for the Palestine people.  They have lived in a poor state of existence as a result.  But it is not Israel's fault.  This is solely the Middle East's fault for failing to recognizing Israel's right to exist.

It is the Middle East who does not respect our biblical text and the Children of Israel.  They also are ignoring the Quranic text that supports Israel and their land.

It is the nature of the Islamic world to seek to rule over that what is sacred to Christians and the Jewish people and all religions, for that matter.  Islam claims to be the final religion,  Jesus is not the son of God, and the Jewish people are wrong.  The Islamic world only see events through Islamic eyes - to the exclusion of all others.  There is no room for compromise.   

Christianity and the Jewish religion and their land of origin far pre-dates Islam. 

You need to do more homework here.

Shame on you.

Update:  April 16:  I just checked and as I suspected by comment was not added to the article. 

Update 12/24/08:  I got an interesting comment today.  I thought you would like to know where it came from:

 

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Also see:

History of the Crusades requires study of Islamic Caliphates

Comments

[A Christian]

FYI... the Jews that you are so proudly defending are the ones who crucified your Christ (if you are Christian). So, under Islam's (very correct) understanding, Jews are NO LONGER the Children of God... so why give them right to a land??? Please, do your homework yourself before publicizing opinions.

[zTruth]

You have got to be kidding me, right?

[Djoser]

Is the name of this country was mentioned as "Israel" in your bible, or it was the name of Jacob?

[Djoser]

Is the name of this country was mentioned as "Israel" in your bible, or it was the name of Jacob?

[truth]

zTruth, you have a right. I don't undrstand which idijot write the text "Why is Palestine not mentioned in the Bible or the Quran?". You are out of mind...

Here's the answer to your question, from Wikipedia:

"The term Palestine is derived from Greek: Παλαιστινη/Latin: Palaestina, which refers to the biblical Philistines, a people of Aegean origin who settled in the southern coastal plains of Canaan (Gaza Strip), in the 12th century BC, their territory being named Philistia."

"In Exodus 13:17, 'And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.'"

"'Palestine' ( Greek: Παλαιστίνη; Latin: Palaestina; Hebrew: פלשתינה‎ Palestina; Arabic: فلسطين‎ Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn ) is a Latinized name given to the region of the Iudaea Province by the Roman emperor Hadrian[5][6] following the crushing Bar Kochba's revolt in 132-135[7] in an attempt to suppress Jewish national feelings.[8][9]"

[Ed Larriva]

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[hohoho]

FYI... The Jews did not crucify anyone. The Romans did. They made him drag the cross down the road. They nailed him to the cross and stud it up. This is the liable the Jew people had to live with for centuries. As the blood liable [blood to make mazah], the elders of Zion etc...

You are an ignorant person who cannot think for themselves. You must be a muslim.

[Mathew]

I can see how short sighted you are, i can also see how far you've ran away from the truth and knowledge that is found in the Holy Bible.
All these talk will help you not. What you need right now in your life is JESUS CHRIST the only one who is able to forgive you all your sins,love you just as you are, and give you a new life. A life of eternal union with the Almightey God.

[K W Boyd]

A X-tian needs to do some homework. In the first place it was the Romans who carried out sentence demanded by the Jews; they both (Gentile and Jew) are responsible. This is one reason Jesus is Lord of both; he died for the sins of all. And he is the Jewish Mashiach, promised to David, Jacob, Issac, and Abraham; that is why zTruth defends the Jewish claim to the land.

[carl]

So why the need for a Jewish State?How about a Black State?A White State?That is a racist concept.You mean to tell me that all of those so-called Jewish people who came from Poland,Russia,Germany in the aftermath of WW2,Had a right to go to Palestine,Take those people's lands(With the help of British/American forces of course)and claim it for themselves?Then why not make Germany the Jewish State?Why punish the Palestinians who lived half a world away,And had nothing to do with the Jewish Holocaust.What should the Palestinians do just die off and fade away?Accept defeat in the name of peace?A peace that would leave the Palestinians with nothing?That is insane!The Native Americans accepted this type of "Peace
"From their European conquerors and look what it got them.The only people who have a right to that land are the people who were their from the beginning.The Palestinians...Dating all the way back to before the time of Jesus...For those who want to throw religion into the conversation.If a foreign army were to invade the U.S today.Take our way of life,Destroy most of our homes and culture.And demanded that we accept defeat in the name of "Peace
"And accept their right to be here.What would we do?We would try to expel them by any means necessary.Would that make us terrorists or freedom fighters?I know what most Americans would say to that.So why the double standard when talking about the Palestinians?Jews are named after the tribe of Judah.The eldest of Jacob's(Israel)12 sons.His other brothers had descendants of their own.The other eleven tribes.Jacob and his sons became the Israelites..All of there descendants to this day are known as Israelites.Jews are just one tribe of Israelites.All Israelites were not Jews.The other tribes were made up of Arabs,Africans,Lybians,Persians,Asians.God promised that land to ALL of the Israelites on condition that they keep His Covenant which they violated time and time again.So for one tribe(Jews)to claim sole ownership of that land is false.There are 11 other tribes of Israelites who were promised that land also!

[Brandi]

Carl, are you really that ignorant? The Jewish religion began in the area known today as Israel CENTURIES before Islam was created. Its earliest temples had mosques built over them when Jerusalem was seized by the 2nd Islamic caliphate. Israel is mentioned in the Torah, the New Testament and the Quran. Palestine was never mentioned in any on these books. Palestine was a territory of the Islamic supremacist Ottoman Empire.

You need to do some serious studying here.

[Jordan]

That is too cool! thanks.*