Sunan Assyria pi-lis-te (wanda kuma aka rubuta shi da pilistu palashtu, pilistu, pi-lis-te, pa-laas- ta-a-a, pilishti, pilishtu, pilistu, pilisti, pilistin) yana nuni ga yankin da ya tashi daga Gaza zuwa Tantur, kuma yana iya haɗawa da yankuna masu girma da yawa a cikin ƙasa. Kalmomin Assyria filisti, filistin da palashtu rubuce-rubucen Assyria ne na wannan suna, waɗanda ake amfani da su ta hanyoyi daban-daban. Watakila ya kamata a bambanta shi da lardunan Assyria na Tantur (daga Tantur zuwa Akka), Magiddu ( مجیدو ; a kwarin Jezreel/Marj ibn ‘Amer), Samerina (tsaunukan tsakiya) da Jerusalem na Sennacherib (ciki har da Lakhish), da watakila sauran yankuna. Cikin tsawon shekaru shida ƙarni, an samu waɗannan sunaye a wasu rubuce-rubucen Assyria kaɗan.

The Assyrian name pi-lis-te (also pilistu palashtu, pilistu, pi-lis-te, pa-laas- ta-a-a, pilishti, pilishtu, pilistu, pilisti, pilistin) referred to an area that runs from Gaza to Tantur, and may include much larger areas inland. The Assyrian filisti, filistin and palashtu are Assyrian spellings of this name which are used variously. Perhaps it should be distinguished from the Assyrian provinces of Tantur (Tantur to Akka), Magiddu ( مجیدو ; in the Jezreel valley/ Marj ibn ‘Amer), Samerina (the central highlands) and Sennacherib’s Jerusalem (including Lakhish) and possibly other regions. Over a period of six centuries, these names were found on a handful of Assyrian inscriptions.

Littafin Tsohon Alkawari ya yi magana a kan "ƙasar Filistiyawa". A cikin Baibul, Tekun Bahar Rum ma an san shi da "Tekun Filistiyawa" (Fit. 23:31).

The Old Testament talks about a ‘land of the Plishtim’. In the Bible the Mediterranean Sea was also known as the ‘Sea of the Philistines’ (Exod.

23:31), wanda aka sanya masa suna bisa ga mutanen da suka mamaye wani babban yanki na gabar tekun Bahar Rum. Falasdinawa an san su a cikin Tsohon Alkawari da sunan Plishtim, kuma yankinsu na gabar Bahar Rum da sunan Pleshet: Philistia (1 Sam.

23:31), named after the people occupying a large portion of the shores of the Mediterranean. The Philistines were known in the Old Testament as Plishtim and their Mediterranean territory as Pleshet: Philistia (1 Sam.

17:36; 2 Sam. 1:20; Judg. 14:3; Amos 1:8). Yawancin malaman Littafi Mai Tsarki na Amurka da Isra'ila sun gano wannan Peleset da wata ƙasa ta Filisiyawa da aka ɗan canza tarihinta, amma a ƙarshe ta biblical ce; wato, aƙalla yankin bakin teku daga Gaza zuwa Tantur.

17:36; 2 Sam. 1:20; Judg. 14:3; Amos 1:8). Most American and Israeli biblical scholars identify this Peleset with a somewhat historicised, but ultimately biblical ‘land of the Philistines’; that is, at least the coastal region from Gaza to Tantur.

Labaran almara na yaƙi a littattafan Joshua, Deuteronomy da Samuel sun ba wa mulkin-mallakar Zionism na ƙasar da ke mazauna ta fuskar ƙarfi, soji da tashin hankali, wato "mamaye ƙasar Kan‘aan" da kawar da mutanenta na asali. Littafin Alƙalai ma ya ba wa Zionism wata al'adar soji daban: labaran "yaƙin mai tsarki" da ke da alaƙa da gwagwarmaya (ta gaskiya ko ta tunani) da Filistiyawa, da kuma labarin Samson (jarumin Isra'ila) da Delilah mai dabara, wadda ta ci amanar Samson don amfanin Filistiyawan Gaza (Alƙalai 16).

The militant myth-narratives of the Books of Joshua, Deuteronomy and Samuel have provided modern Zionist settler-nationalism with the muscular, militaristic and violent dimensions of the ‘conquest of the land of Cana’an’ and elimination of its indigenous people. The Book of Judges has also given Zionism another militarist tradition: the ‘holy war’ stories associated with the (real or imagined) struggle against the Philistines, and the narrative of Samson (an Israelite hero) and cunning Delilah, who betrayed Samson on behalf of the Philistines of Gaza (Judg. 16).

Filastiyya a zamanin Tagulla na ƙarshe da Zamanin Ƙarfe ta kasance ƙarƙashin mulkin Filistiyawa, kuma ta zama wata ƙasa mai tsari na musamman a fannin siyasa da ƙasa, tana da dangantakar ciniki mai ƙarfi da al'ummomin duniya, da tattalin arziki na musamman, da kuma rayuwar birane mai ci gaba. Filistiyawa – wata al'umma mai ci gaba sosai wadda, a cewar Tsohon Alkawari, ta mallaki manyan biranen nan biyar masu shahara na Filistiya: Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron da Gath (Niesiołowski-Spanò 2011: 38) – sun sha wahala tsawon ƙarni saboda yadda aka kwatanta su da mummunan hoto a cikin littattafai da labaran Tsohon Alkawari. Daga Goliyat zuwa Delila, sun wakilci baƙo mai mugunta a cikin labarin al'ummar Isra'ila da ke tasowa (McDonagh 2004). A cikin Tsohon Alkawari, an gina Filistiyawa a matsayin wata akuya ta ɗaukar laifi ta fuskar akida (McDonagh 2004).

Philistia of the late Bronze Age and Iron Age was dominated by the Philistines and evolved into a distinct geo-political entity with strong international trade links, a distinct economy and a sophisticated urban environment. The Philistines – a highly advanced people who, according to the Old Testament, ruled five famed Pentapoli of Philistia: Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath (Niesiołowski-Spanò 2011: 38) – have, for centuries, suffered under the weight of their relentlessly negative portrayal in the books and stories of the Old Testament. From Goliath to Delilah, they have personified the intrinsically evil Other in the burgeoning narrative myth of the nation of Israel (McDonagh 2004). In the Old Testament, the Philistines were constructed as a typical ideological scapegoat (McDonagh 2004).

Racism na Turai na zamani da kuma hasashe da son zuciya na Littafi Mai Tsarki game da Filistiyawa sun ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin ma'anar wulakanci da cin mutunci ta kalmar Yammacin zamani: "philistine mutum ne wanda bai san al'adu ba, ko kuma yana nuna kyama ga al'adu cikin girman kai" (Eban 1984: 45; Rose 2004: 17; McDonagh 2004).

Modern European racism and biblical constructs and prejudices towards the Philistines have survived in the derogatory and offensive connotation of the modern Western term: ‘a philistine is a person ignorant of, or smugly hostile to, culture’ (Eban 1984: 45; Rose 2004: 17; McDonagh 2004).

Wasu sabbin majiyoyi masu goyon bayan Sahyoniyanci suna nuna cewa 'p-l-s-t' ('Peleset'; Filistiyawa) yanki ne mai kama da yankin Gaza na yau. A gaskiya, sabanin wadannan ikirari na farfaganda, tun daga Zamanin Tagulla na Ƙarshe da farkon Zamanin Ƙarfe I (kimanin 1200 BC), Peleset sun gauraya da wasu al'ummomin yankin da ke zaune a yankin bakin tekun Bahar Rum na Falasdinu, tun daga Gaza a kudu har zuwa Tantur a arewa. Mai yiwuwa, kasar Peleset ta tsawaita arewa har zuwa Dutsen Karmel. Tantur ita ce sunan Ingilishi na kasa da kasa da aka saba amfani da shi ga Tantura. Wannan karamin garin tashar jiragen ruwa na Falasdinu (wanda aka kore mutanensa a Nakba ta Falasdinu ta 1948) yana kudancin Haifa, kuma yana kilomita 8 arewa maso yammacin garin Isra'ila na Zikhron Ya'akov (wanda aka kafa a 1882) a bakin tekun Bahar Rum, kilomita 35 kudancin Haifa. Kusa da Tantura (Tantur) akwai tsohon wurin da masana ilimin kayan tarihi ke kira Tel Dor, ko Dora. Tantur ta kasance cibiyar lardin Assuriyawa na Tantura kuma ta mallaki bakin teku har arewa zuwa Acre na kusan karni guda. Kusan 1100 BC, Filistiyawa sun fadada yankinsu na cikin kasa zuwa gabas, har suka hada da birnin Beisan (daga baya Scythopolis), muhimmin birni na dabarun soja da ke mahadar Kogin Jordan da Filin Esdraelon (Larabci: Marj Ibn 'Amer). Girman yankin bakin tekun 'kasar p-l-s-t' ('Peleset', 'Filistiyawa'), tun daga Tantur a arewa zuwa Gaza a kudu tare da manyan yankuna na cikin kasa, yana nuna cewa 'kasar Peleset' ta fi yankin Gaza na yanzu girma sau goma sha biyar zuwa ashirin, kuma ta kunshi yawancin babban birnin Tel Aviv, yankin birane na Isra'ila, wanda ya hada da garuruwan Holon da Petah Tikva, wanda a tarihin Sahyoniyanci ake kira Im Hamoshavot, 'Uwar Mazauna'.

There are recent pro-Zionist sources which seem to suggest that ‘p-l-s-t’ (‘Peleset’; Philistines) was an area corresponding roughly to today’s Gaza region. In fact, contrary to these propagandistic claims, from the Late Bronze Age onwards and the beginning of the Iron Age I (about 1200 BC), the Peleset intermingled with other local populations inhabiting the Mediterranean coastal region of Palestine, from Gaza in the south to Tantur in the north. In all probability, the land of the Peleset extended further north to Mount Carmel. Tantur is the normal international English name for Tantura. This small Palestinian harbour town (depopulated in the Palestinian Nakba of 19488) is located south of Haifa and 8 kilometres north-west of the Israeli town of Zikhron Yaakov (founded in 1882) on the Mediterranean coast, 35 kilometres south of Haifa. Nearby Tantura (Tantur) is the ancient site referred to as Tel Dor, or Dora, by archaeologists. Tantur was the centre of the Assyrian province of Tantura and controlled the coast north to Acre for about a century. Around 1100 BC the Philistines expanded their inland territory eastwards to include the city of Beisan (later Scythopolis), an important strategic city located at the junction of the Jordan River and the Plain of Esdraelon (Arabic: Marj Ibn ‘Amer). The large extent of the coastal region of the ‘land of p-l-s-t’ (‘Peleset’, ‘Philistines’), from Tantur in the north to Gaza in the south and including vast areas inland, suggests that the ‘land of the Peleset’ was fifteen to twenty times larger than the current Gaza Strip, encompassing much of greater Tel Aviv, the Israeli metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Holon and Petah Tikva, the latter known in Zionist historiography as Im Hamoshavot, the ‘Mother of the Colonies’.

Tel Aviv birni ne da ya girma daga cikin birnin iyayensa, tsohon birnin Falasdinawa na Jaffa, wanda aka kori mazaunansa na asali gaba ɗaya a shekarar 1948 (Rotbard 2015). Yankin birnin Tel Aviv, wanda a cewar Avishai Margalit (na Jami'ar Ibrananci ta Urushalima), bai taɓa zama ƙasar tarihi ta al'ummar Yahudawa ba (Margalit, A. 1991), shi ne babban yankin birane a Isra'ila da mazauna 3,700,000, wanda ya kai sama da kashi 40 cikin ɗari na yawan al'ummar ƙasar.

Tel Aviv is a city which grew out of and then consumed its parent, the ancient Palestinian city of Jaffa, whose indigenous inhabitants were driven out en masse in 1948 (Rotbard 2015). The Tel Aviv metropolitan area, which, according to Avishai Margalit (of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), had never been the historic homeland of the Jewish people (Margalit, A. 1991), constitutes Israel’s largest conurbation with 3,700,000 residents, over 40 per cent of the country’s population.

Gabaɗaya, tunanin gama-gari na mazauna Isra'ila masu mulkin mallaka ya haɗa Filistiyawa na dā da mutanen Falasdinu masu magana da Larabci na yau. Dabarun tsabtace kabilanci na Zionist a Yaƙin 1948 da Falasdinawa a fili sun karɓi tare da daidaita labarin almara na "yaƙin tsarki" na Samson da Filistiyawa. Don cimma wannan, Isra'ilawa sun sanya wa ɗaya daga cikin manyan rukunin kwamandojinsu na 1948 suna "Samson's Foxes" (Shu'alei Shimshon) a hukumance; rukunin ya yi aiki a cikin Brigade na Givati, wanda ya shiga cikin korar Falasdinawa.

Overall Israeli settler-colonial collective memory links the ancient Philistines with the modern Arabic-speaking people of Palestine. Zionist ethnic cleansing tactics in the 1948 War against the Palestinians evidently adopted and adapted the legendary narrative of Samson’s ‘sacred war’ against the Philistines. To do this, the Israelis officially named one of their key 1948 commando units Samson’s Foxes (Shu’alei Shimshon); it operated within the Givati Brigade which took part in the expulsion of the Palestinians.

Bugu da ƙari, an sake kafa wata runduna ta sirri ta leƙen asiri mai suna iri ɗaya, Foxes na Samson, da sojojin Isra'ila suka yi a shekara ta 2002, don goyon bayan mamayar da suke yi wa Zirin Gaza, yankin da ƙwaƙwalwar al'ummar Isra'ila ta Littafi Mai Tsarki ke danganta shi da tsoffin Filistiyawa. Alamar fox ta Rundunar Kudu ta Sojojin Isra'ila ma an tsara ta ne don ƙarfafa wannan ƙwaƙwalwar gama-gari da gwagwarmayar Isra'ila a kan 'yan asalin Falasɗinu.

Furthermore, a secret reconnaissance battalion of the same name, Samson’s Foxes, was re-established by the Israeli army in 2002, to back its occupation of the Gaza Strip, a region to which Israeli (biblicist) collective memory links to the ancient Philistines. The fox logo of the Israeli Army’s Southern Command is also designed to foster the same collective and Israeli struggle against the indigenous people of Palestine.