Is it true that almost all Jewish cities-villages in Israel had Arab names before?

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HopelessZ00

My husbands mother was born in Sasa in 1947, it's now called Safad, and his father was born in il Nasry in Sepphoris in 1941 which is now Zippori Nazareth. I'm sure someone else will come along with more. They were forced from their homes and now live in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Yes forced! If they sold their land they would live like Kings not in a refugee camp with nothing. Anyway....that's what happened. Peace!

Well technically the original names had Hebrew names. The Jews simply gave back the original names. As for the Arabs, some stayed and some left. The ones that stayed became Israeli Arabs and the ones that left became Palestinians.

sparrow (Mediterranean Sparrow)

what happened to the previous inhabitants, the ones living there before the Arabs. This is what should be asked.

First the cities-villages had Hebrew names than an Arabic version of the Hebrew name, than Hebrew again.
Start at the beginning not the middle.
Most all places except the ones built new since 47 are mentioned in the BIBLE.

AZA - Raza
ASHDOD-Ishdood
HEVERON-Nablus
GOOSH CHALAV-Jish
YERUSHALAIM-Urshalim

1. Not one settlement in the Land of Israel has a name that is of Arabic origin. Most of the settlement names originate in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Roman languages. In fact, till today, except to Ramlah, not one Arabic settlement has an original Arabic name. Till today, most of the settlements names are of Hebrew or Greek origin, the names distorted to senseless Arabic names. There is no meaning in Arabic to names such as Acco (Acre), Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza, or Jenin and towns named Ramallah, El Halil and El-Kuds (Jerusalem) lack historical roots or Arabic philology. In 1696, the year Relandi toured the land, Ramallah, for instance, was called Bet'allah (From the Hebrew name Beit El) and Hebron was called Hebron (Hevron) and the Arabs called Mearat HaMachpelah El Chalil, their name for the Forefather Abraham.

2. Most of the land was empty, desolate, and the inhabitants few in number and mostly concentrate in the towns Jerusalem, Acco, Tzfat, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza. Most of the inhabitants were Jews and the rest Christians. There were few Muslims, mostly nomad Bedouins. Nablus, known as Shchem, was exceptional, where approximately 120 people, members of the Muslim Natsha family and approximately 70 Shomronites, lived.

In the Galilee capital, Nazareth, lived approximately 700 Christians and in Jerusalem approximately 5000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians.

The interesting part was that Relandi mentioned the Muslims as nomad Bedouins who arrived in the area as construction and agriculture labor reinforcement, seasonal workers.

In Gaza for example, lived approximately 550 people, fifty percent Jews and the rest mostly Christians. The Jews grew and worked in their flourishing vineyards, olive tree orchards and wheat fields (remember Gush Katif?) and the Christians worked in commerce and transportation of produce and goods. Tiberius and Tzfat were mostly Jewish and except of mentioning fishermen fishing in Lake Kinneret -- the Lake of Galilee -- a traditional Tiberius occupation, there is no mention of their occupations. A town like Um el-Phahem was a village where ten families, approximately fifty people in total, all Christian, lived and there was also a small Maronite church in the village (The Shehadah family).

3. The book totally contradicts any post-modern theory claiming a "Palestinian heritage," or Palestinian nation. The book strengthens the connection, relevance, pertinence, kinship of the Land of Israel to the Jews and the absolute lack of belonging to the Arabs, who robbed the Latin name Palestina and took it as their own.

In Granada, Spain, for example, one can see Arabic heritage and architecture. In large cities such as Granada and the land of AndalucÖ³Āa, mountains and rivers like Guadalajara, one can see genuine Arabic cultural heritage: literature, monumental creations, engineering, medicine, etc. Seven hundred years of Arabic reign left in Spain an Arabic heritage that one cannot ignore, hide or camouflage. But here, in Israel there is nothing like that! Nada, as the Spanish say! No names of towns, no culture, no art, no history, and no evidence of Arabic rule; only huge robbery, pillaging and looting; stealing the Jews' holiest place, robbing the Jews of their land.

1900-Tel Hai Kfar Giladi Dubrovin Farm Degania Alef Rechovot Zichron Tel Aviv Mikveh Israel

Shay p

John e - In your remarks to Sparrow's answer you asked about the "Surely you do not expect me to believe that millions of Arabs in Palestine were all nomads during the 20th century" before asking questions get the facts straight.
Total Muslim population in Palestine in 1914 was 731k this number include Arabs living in the Gaza and the West Bank, 150000 of the pre-1947 Palestinian population remained in Israel, and approx 200k ran away.
As for names, he gave you old and new names all you must do is read.

anikan
Hadera = GODS room
NATANIA= GOD gave
DGANIA= GODS wheat

Hopeless
Were as the Arabs in the south of Israel simply ran away the ones up north stayed, No one forced Arabs out, fact is nearly half of the total number stayed.

Kibbutz Sasa was built on the site of a former Arab village, Sa'sa'
Safad the town was founded in 70AD, so there is some confusion on your side.

Nasry in Sepphoris, The site of Sepphoris (known as Zippori in Hebrew) was the capital of the Galilee region at the time of the Roman occupation, hardly five miles north of Nazareth.
Hard as I tried I found no mention of a Nasry.

Ivri Anokhi

No. That is not true.

You will find several Israeli towns that had also had Arabic names, and in most cases those were Hebrew names that had been changed to cognate names in Arabic.

Examples: Jish, which used to be Gush Halav.

Yibneh, which used to be Yavneh.

Jaffa, which previously was called Yaffo.

In case of doubt, these names are biblical, and you can check them if you don't believe me. This is assuming that the bible preceded the Quran, of course.

You ask about the previous inhabitants. The Arabs of Gush Halkav remained and are here (and their descendants) until this day. In Jaffa, some Arabs fled in 1948, upooin orders from the Arab Higher Command. Those who remained (and their descendants) are in Yaffo today, praying in their mosques.

In Yibneh, most Arabs also fled in 1948.

In short, Arabs were told to leave Israel by their fellow Arabs, who expected to drive the Jews into the sea in 1948. Those who ignored this foolish "advice" remained in Israel and are prospering today.

(What Sparrow wrote is mostly correct, except that Hevron is called El Khalil by the Arabs, while the Arabs call Shekhem "Nablus," which is not even an Arabic word.)

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mo mosh

Many "Arabic" placenames in Israel are not Arabic in the first place, foremost being "Palestine". (Arabic doesn't even contain a "P" sound.)

"Nablus" is simply a mispronouncing of the Greek name Neapolis ("new city"), which was built next to/on top of the Biblical city of Shechem
(home of the Tomb of Joseph, destroyed by a mob in 2000:
http://www.shechem.org/kyos/engkyos.html )

But, again, that problem with "P"

anikan

i know that the name of my town " hadera" derived from Arabic " hudra" that means green.

DlCK Chenney

Yes, that's truth.

Land belong to arab

SMILE 2 ME

no not all. a lot of the rich arab landowners were more than happy to sell their swampy land back to the jews . the jews then made it flourish.

Mr. X

nope, most of those names were hebrew. bethlehem, jericho, all those west bank cities all have hebrew names. and of couse the israeli cities like tel aviv and haifa are also hebrew names.

jas

Michmash of the Jewish Bible is now Mukhmas in the West Bank, I know this only from personal knowledge, but I would not waste time trying to find other examples. Do your own research. As I doubt you live here, I can not imagine what is your immediate need to know.

The land was partitioned, not stolen. And everytime we are attacked (with divine help) we have managed to royally kick someone's a-s. We must still however endure the endless whines from people cutting their noses to spite their face.....

What is it about the human brain that cannot move past a defeat? When will people stop nursing their bitterness and hatred with the same lame debates?

I thought Jews were bad with Tish b'Av, but y'all are some long (a-ssed)-suffering people. I truly wish an end to all of our suffering.

Sparrow - Nice, but I am very sure modern Nablus was Shechem in Tanakh, not Chevron.

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Only 100 years? Why does the truth have a time limit?

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MoMosh! GET OUT!!!

No 'P' in Arabic....LOL!

In my stubidity I did not know. I am about to bee in my bants (forgive the bun). So much for Falestine having an Arabic origin....

Whoo!

No, you're an idiot. The Jews were there before, DUH!

Jdriven

Jerusalem

Illustration: View of Temple Mount and Jerusalem from Mt. Olives - 30 AD

Illustration: Street in Old City - Jerusalem

Illustration: View of Jerusalem and Kidron Valley from Mt. Olives

Art: The People Mourning Over the Ruins of Jerusalem

Art: Jesus as a Boy in His Fathers House

Called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the "city of God," the "holy city;" by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning "the holy;" once "the city of Judah" (2Ch 25:28). This name is in the original in the dual form, and means "possession of peace," or "foundation of peace." The dual form probably refers to the two mountains on which it was built, viz., Zion and Moriah; or, as some suppose, to the two parts of the city, the "upper" and the "lower city." Jerusalem is a "mountain city enthroned on a mountain fastness" (Compare Ps 68:15, 16; Ps 87:1; Ps 125:2; Ps 76:1, 2; Ps 122:3). It stands on the edge of one of the highest table-lands in Palestine, and is surrounded on the south-eastern, the southern, and the western sides by deep and precipitous ravines.

It is first mentioned in Scripture under the name Salem (Gen 14:18; Compare Ps 76:2). When first mentioned under the name Jerusalem, Adonizedek was its king (Jos 10:1). It is afterwards named among the cities of Benjamin (Jdg 19:10; 1Ch 11:4); but in the time of David it was divided between Benjamin and Judah. After the death of Joshua the city was taken and set on fire by the men of Judah (Jdg 1:1-8); but the Jebusites were not wholly driven out of it. The city is not again mentioned till we are told that David brought the head of Goliath thither (1Sa 17:54). David afterwards led his forces against the Jebusites still residing within its walls, and drove them out, fixing his own dwelling on Zion, which he called "the city of David" (2Sa 5:5-9; 1Ch 11:4-8). Here he built an altar to the Lord on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2Sa 24:15-25), and thither he brought up the ark of the covenant and placed it in the new tabernacle which he had prepared for it. Jerusalem now became the capital of the kingdom.

After the death of David, Solomon built the temple, a house for the name of the Lord, on Mount Moriah (B.C. 1010). He also greatly strengthened and adorned the city, and it became the great centre of all the civil and religious affairs of the nation (Deut 12:5; Compare Deut 12:14; Deut 14:23; Deut 16:11-16; Ps 122).

After the disruption of the kingdom on the accession to the throne of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, Jerusalem became the capital of the kingdom of the two tribes. It was subsequently often taken and retaken by the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and by the kings of Israel (2Ki 14:13, 14; 2Ki 18:15, 16; 2Ki 23:33-35; 2Ki 24:14; 2Ch 12:9; 2Ch 26:9; 2Ch 27:3, 4; 2Ch 29:3; 2Ch 32:30; 2Ch 33:11), till finally, for the abounding iniquities of the nation, after a siege of three years, it was taken and utterly destroyed, its walls razed to the ground, and its temple and palaces consumed by fire, by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon (2Ki 25; 2Ch 36; Jer 39), B.C. 588. The desolation of the city and the land was completed by the retreat of the principal Jews into Egypt (Jer 40-44), and by the final carrying captive into Babylon of all that still remained in the land (Jer 52:3), so that it was left without an inhabitant (B.C. 582). Compare the predictions, Deut 28; Lev 26:14-39.

But the streets and walls of Jerusalem were again to be built, in troublous times (Dan 9:16, 19, 25), after a captivity of seventy years. This restoration was begun B.C. 536, "in the first year of Cyrus" (Ezra 1:2, 3, 5-11). The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah contain the history of the re-building of the city and temple, and the restoration of the kingdom of the Jews, consisting of a portion of all the tribes. The kingdom thus constituted was for two centuries under the dominion of Persia, till B.C. 331; and thereafter, for about a century and a half, under the rulers of the Greek empire in Asia, till B.C. 167. For a century the Jews maintained their independence under native rulers, the Asmonean princes. At the close of this period they fell under the rule of Herod and of members of his family, but practically under Rome, till the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. The city was then laid in ruins.

The modern Jerusalem by-and-by began to be built over the immense beds of rubbish resulting from the overthrow of the ancient city; and whilst it occupies certainly the same site, there are no evidences that even the lines of its streets are now what they were in the ancient city. Till A.D. 131The Jews who still lingered about Jerusalem quietly submitted to the Roman sway. But in that year the emperor (Hadrian), in order to hold them in subjection, rebuilt and fortified the city. The Jews, however, took possession of it, having risen under the leadership of one Bar-Chohaba (i.e., "the son of the star") in revolt against the Romans. Some four years afterwards (A.D. 135), however, they were driven out of it with great slaughter, and the city was again destroyed; and over its ruins was built a Roman city called Aelia Capitolina, a name which it retained till it fell under the dominion of the Mohammedans, when it was called el-Khuds, i.e., "the holy."

In A.D. 326 Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with the view of discovering the places mentioned in the life of our Lord. She caused a church to be built on what was then supposed to be the place of the nativity at Bethlehem. Constantine, animated by her example, searched for the holy sepulchre, and built over the supposed site a magnificent church, which was completed and dedicated A.D. 335. He relaxed the laws against the Jews till this time in force, and permitted them once a year to visit the city and wail over the desolation of "the holy and beautiful house."

In A.D. 614 the Persians, after defeating the Roman forces of the emperor Heraclius, took Jerusalem by storm, and retained it till A.D. 637, when it was taken by the Arabians under the Khalif Omar. It remained in their possession till it passed, in A.D. 960, under the dominion of the Fatimite khalifs of Egypt, and in A.D. 1073 under the Turcomans. In A.D. 1099 the crusader Godfrey of Bouillon took the city from the Moslems with great slaughter, and was elected king of Jerusalem. He converted the Mosque of Omar into a Christian cathedral. During the eighty-eight years which followed, many churches and convents were erected in the holy city. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was rebuilt during this period, and it alone remains to this day. In A.D. 1187 the sultan Saladin wrested the city from the Christians. From that time to the present day, with few intervals, Jerusalem has remained in the hands of the Moslems. It has, however, during that period been again and again taken and retaken, demolished in great part and rebuilt, no city in the world having passed through so many vicissitudes.

In the year 1850 the Greek and Latin monks residing in Jerusalem had a fierce dispute about the guardianship of what are called the "holy places." In this dispute the emperor Nicholas of Russia sided with the Greeks, and Louis Napoleon, the emperor of the French, with the Latins. This led the Turkish authorities to settle the question in a way unsatisfactory to Russia. Out of this there sprang the Crimean War, which was protracted and sanguinary, but which had important consequences in the way of breaking down the barriers of Turkish exclusiveness.

Modern Jerusalem "lies near the summit of a broad mountain-ridge, which extends without interruption from the plain of Esdraelon to a line drawn between the southern end of the Dead Sea and the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean." This high, uneven table-land is everywhere from 20 to 25 geographical miles in breadth. It was anciently known as the mountains of Ephraim and Judah.

"Jerusalem is a city of contrasts, and differs widely from Damascus, not merely because it is a stone town in mountains, whilst the latter is a mud city in a plain, but because while in Damascus Moslem religion and Oriental custom are unmixed with any foreign element, in Jerusalem every form of religion, every nationality of East and West, is represented at one time."

Jerusalem is first mentioned under that name in the Book of Joshua, and the Tell-el-Amarna collection of tablets includes six letters from its Amorite king to Egypt, recording the attack of the Abiri about B.C. 1480. The name is there spelt Uru-Salim ("city of peace"). Another monumental record in which the Holy City is named is that of Sennacherib's attack in B.C. 702. The "camp of the Assyrians" was still shown about A.D. 70, on the flat ground to the north-west, included in the new quarter of the city.

The city of David included both the upper city and Millo, and was surrounded by a wall built by David and Solomon, who appear to have restored the original Jebusite fortifications. The name Zion (or Sion) appears to have been, like Ariel ("the hearth of God"), a poetical term for Jerusalem, but in the Greek age was more specially used of the Temple hill. The priests' quarter grew up on Ophel, south of the Temple, where also was Solomon's Palace outside the original city of David. The walls of the city were extended by Jotham and Manasseh to include this suburb and the Temple (2Ch 27:3; 2Ch 33:14).

Jerusalem is now a town of some 50,000 inhabitants, with ancient mediaeval walls, partly on the old lines, but extending less far to the south. The traditional sites, as a rule, were first shown in the 4th and later centuries A.D., and have no authority. The results of excavation have, however, settled most of the disputed questions, the limits of the Temple area, and the course of the old walls having been traced.

ā€”Easton's Illustrated Dictionary

Freedom F

John,

That is correct. When the zionists came, they drove the native people out, and renamed all of the villages. Some of this is documented in a video on Youtube called Canada Park.

wife of Ali Pasha

Most of them left before the war. They also supported the Nazi agenda (e.g. the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was their representative) and terrorism with a campaign of brutality over thirty years before the declaration of the State of Israel. Some just got caught in the crossfire or were seen as a security threat as (I have suspected for years) they collaborated with the enemy. Stories of mass expulsion and Arabs requiring them to leave while they cleared out the area do not ring true. I don't buy the 'master plan' theory about forcing out Palestinians in Israel or the claim that Arab leaders rounded them up. I think they left of their own volition because of resentment over the declaration of Israel. The Israelis acted out of self-defense so it is the fault of the Arab leadership as they fought the war on their own turf and forced the Israelis to push back East, also demanded by proximity to the sea and they were the ones who wanted to swarm Israel and destroy it. They rejected the partition, the Palestinian homeland, negotiations, land swaps, discussions, Israel's right to exist...how can a country negotiate with a group that doesn't recognize its right to exist?

Anyway, it was a long time ago and what about compensation for the Jewish refugees? Why doesn't the Palestinian leadership get a life and stop denying the Holocaust (Abbas' college essays) and drop the right of return? I think the peace process should be placed on hold until the right of return is dropped as the peace process is not about the destruction of a country. With that in mind, it is unfair for the Israeli housing authority to continue to build new settlements in the West Bank.

It is the damn fault of Arab leaders that they never embrace realistic, moderate and flexible views conducive to democracy. They are still searching for their long, lost caliphate and Islamic empire complete with shari'a law and the dhimmitudes. Islam hasn't ever had a period of reform and enlightenment. Their political mentality is based on teqiyyah or deceit and they refuse to normalize relations with Israel. So-called moderate countries refuse to engage in diplomatic relations (e.g. Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, etc) and will not allow anyone with an Israeli stamp on his passport to enter the country. Saudi Arabia is considered moderate. Why? What is moderate about a caste system with Islamic law, no rights for women, gays, minorities, support for international networks of terror and other heinous notions?

At one time they did before the state became Israel.
like mohamed land and mohammad street or someting like that.

dalia

yes its true,all israeli cities,villages were once arabic,after the wars of 1948 and 1967,all of the palestinian inhabitants became refugees,some in palestine but in other cirties,like gaza and the cities of west bank,some left the country and untill this moment still living in refugee camps.

RedRose (got headache)

yup u know y? i'll tell u the reason >>>> IT'S BECAUSE IT IS AN ARABIC LAND THAT GOT STOLEN how many times should we say that tell u people get it

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