“If Palestine Always Existed”…The Nation of Israel Lives

“Palestine Always Existed,” Why Did Egypt Only Write About Israel?

I’m looking for a good, logical explanation from the “always was Palestine, always will be Palestine” crowd for this one as well.

If you’re still skeptical after I showed you ancient Jewish winepresses and Jewish purity baths carved into the land more than 2,000 years ago, let’s keep looking at more evidence.

Not in Jewish texts.

Not in Israeli archaeology.

Not in Zionist books.

Let’s check the records of other civilizations who lived in this region.

For example… the ancient Egyptians.

Let’s walk through the evidence Egypt left behind.

Egyptian scribes carving their own history into stone.

👉 Berlin Pedestal Fragment

On this fragment, Egypt lists three enemies: Canaan, Ashkelon, and Israel.

A people living in the land of Canaan more than 3,000 years ago.

👉 Amenhotep

On the temple inscription of Amenhotep, Egypt mentions the Shasu connected to the name of the God of Israel (the explicit name).

This is the earliest outside reference to the Israelite God.

Egypt knew these people.

Egypt knew where they lived.

👉 Anastasi

Papyrus Anastasi describes nomadic groups entering Egypt.

Once again, it names the Shasu tied to that same divine name (the explicit name).

This is an Egyptian document placing Israelite tribes in this region long before Rome, long before Athens, long before any concept of a Palestinian nation.

👉 Merneptah

The famous stele of Merneptah is the oldest mention of Israel in world history.

Egypt boasts of defeating Israel.

But here is the part you cannot ignore.

You can only brag about defeating a people who are already here.

👉 Shishak

Pharaoh Shishak carved more than one hundred and fifty towns he attacked in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

These towns still exist on the map today.

You can stand in them.

You can walk their streets.

You can dig and find Jewish life beneath your feet.

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👉 A quick note about “Palestine” and the Philistines

Some people try to use the word “Peleset” (Philistines) in Egyptian texts as “proof” of an ancient Palestinian people.

But the Philistines were:

• Aegean Sea Peoples

• Non-Arab

• Non-Semitic

• Worshippers of Dagon and Baal Zebub

• Pig-eaters (archaeology confirms this)

• Settlers of only five coastal cities

They disappeared over 2,500 years ago.

Modern Palestinians are not their descendants, and no historian claims this.

Egypt mentioning “Peleset” has nothing to do with modern Palestinian identity. It simply refers to the ancient Philistines, foreigners who came from the Aegean and vanished long ago.

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Respectfully - if this land had always been an Arab Muslim country called Palestine, how do you explain the fact that Egypt, a foreign empire with no incentive to defend Jewish history, repeatedly describes Israelite people and Israelite towns in this exact land more than 3,000 years ago?

Why exactly would Egyptian scribes document the Jewish people in the land of “Palestine”? It doesn’t make sense - unless Jews were here thousands of years before 1948.

I’ll wait.

(Reprinted from Facebook. The Nation of Israel Lives.) Nov. 21, 2025