Deception 9: The “Palestinian-Jesus” Deception.

Peloni:  Here is the 9th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, “Philistine-To-Palestine”.  We are posting one Deception each week, and  links to the previous installments can be found at the bottom.

The underlying agenda of a ‘First Century Palestine’ that is manipulated away from Judea and Israel is  testified by numerous historical scholars. 

• “There is a propaganda war going on now with regard to the term “Palestine”. It is specifically  employed to avoid the use of the name Israel, and must be considered an anti-Israel term.” – (Thomas  S. McCall, Th.M. in Old Testament studies.) 

Jesus was born in Judea, which was not an Arab country 2,000 years ago in the first century. Judea was  invaded by the Roman Empire and encountered a war with the Jews. There was no Palestine country or  Palestinian people in the First Century. A Palestinian Jesus is a historical impossibility. The name  Palestine was applied to Judea 100 years after Jesus of Nazareth was killed, namely this name was  placed on Judea in the Second Century, in the year 135 AD/CE by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. In the  First Century no country was called as Palestine and no people were called as Palestinian. Rome  printed 1,000s of coins with “Judea Capta” – none that said “Palestina Capta.” 

After the Second Century, Palestine was referred only to the Jews for 2,000 years till the mid-20th Century. The Roman archives say the Arabs, who yet possessed no writings at this time, were fully  embedded in the Roman legions in the Roman war with the Jews destroying the Jerusalem Temple.  There can be nothing scholarly or historical of the term ‘First Century Palestine’, often stated with its  disassociation from Israel and the Jews, namely from the very source that introduced the Philistine  people in its Hebrew writings wherein this name emerged, and from the Hebrews who most interacted  with this people some 4,000 years ago. The issue is further ignited when a Pope acknowledges Arabs  as Palestinians. The Herodotus claim as the justification of a First Century Palestine is also a deception  by many scholars harboring a variant agenda against Israel (see ‘The Herodotus Deception’). 

Jesus of West Bank. 

Although embraced and re-quoted by many scholars, media and educational institutions, a ‘First  Century Palestine’ is an anti-historical, anti-Israel and anti-Christian usage. It is a deception of  immense historical and biblical proportions, with an underlying premise of heritage and theological  negation. The allocation of this biblical portion of land as West Bank and Jesus as an Arab Palestinian,  are aligned with the erasure of both the Jews, and by its default, the Christian faiths alike. Shadi  Khaloul is the first person recognized by Israel as an Aramaic Christian: 

• “We are not Arabs. Christian Arab is a fake terminology created 100 years ago by a Pan Arab  theology. We were forced to speak Arabic, but we are Aramaic Christians” – [Shadi Khaloul,  Chairman, Aramaic Christian Society of Israel, Jerusalem Dateline, CBN]. 

That this conflict shrouds a theological doctrine presented via new political embellishments is nowhere  better seen than when a 3,000-year religious symbol was targeted as a political weapon. 

• “I would like to assure the Jewish community that the Uniting Church does not accept the view that  Jesus was Palestinian. We affirm that Jesus and most of his early followers were Jewish.” – [Peter  Wertheim, Executive Director of the ECAJ, and Stuart McMillan, President of the Uniting Church in  Australia; “Jesus a Palestinian?” published by J-Wire with the kind permission of both of them.]

Here are links to previous installments of the 12 Deceptions:

Deception 1: The Name Deception

Deception 2: The Balfour Deception

Deception 3: The White Paper Deception

Deception 4: The Jordan Deception

Deception 5: The ‘West-Bank’ Deception

Deception 6: The Time Immemorial Deception

Deception 7: The Refugee Deception

Deception 8: The Arafat Deception

Episode 10: The Zionism Deception.
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