Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern ...

Does the Biblical story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt appear in Greek mythology? This article examines some possibilities.

The name “Palestine” itself has nothing to do with the Philistines as a people. Following the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, the Romans sought to erase Jewish ties to the land called Judea and ...

It is worth noting that the name Palestine, which means land of the Philistines, was given to Judea as a “punitive step” by the Roman emperor Hadrian because of the Bar Kokhba revolt in the ...

Catholics will celebrate the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. Christian baptism is rooted in a rich symbolism of water in the ...

Palestinianism seeks to strip justice and authenticity from Israel’s very existence and to upend its alliance with the human-rights-supporting, democratic world.

Men who become gods are not divine. They are imperfect and not immune from ego and sin. Yet, the gods are revered not only for benevolence but also for wrath.

This migration changed the land of Israel to create the backbone ... Of the non-Jewish tribes there were the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites Philistines, Amalek, and Phoenicians.

Over the past 15 years and especially since the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, annihilationist Palestinianism has become the ...

TO say otherwise is a perverse form of historical revisionism. To wish otherwise is to wish for a counterfactual. Facts have a necessity to them: Given any fact "p" it cannot be otherwise than p.

It makes conflict in the Land of Israel a zero-sum game. It fabricates Palestinian inhabitance of Israel going back to the Canaanites and Philistines of the Bible; it inverts Arab rejection and ...

The Philistines didn’t exist anymore (they had ... Jews lived in the Holy Land, although they did not rule it, through 1948 when a Jewish state was declared the eternal homeland of the Jews.