PALESTINAN STATE NOW VS. ANCIENT PHILISTINE STATE

     The matrix has PHILISTINE/PALESTINE touch ISHMAEL in the open text. One of two words sought for STATE is at the same absolute skip but opposite direction as the axis term. The current year, 5)771/2011, is on the matrix at skip +2, and a word for THREAT is present at skip -1. All of this required a matrix with 306  letters to see.

WHAT'S IN A NAME - PALESTINIANS OR PHILISTINES? The map on the right above is taken from Wikipedia.  It shows that in 830 BCE there was a Philistine State in Gaza and slightly up the coast through Ashkelon and Ashdod (where I once lived). At the same time there were two Jewish nations, with Jerusalem the capital of Judah, and Samaria the capital of Israel. The map on the left above shows that in the New Assyrian Empire (Asshur in the Bible) was essentially Syria. It extended its reach down through Israel into Gaza around 612 BCE. Earlier it had even claimed Egypt as its province back in 671 to 657 BCE. This was the basis of the statement by Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat that, "You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people."  This quote was not unique or any kind of fluke. Given the fact that the same word can mean PHILISTINE or PALESTINE, the pairing in the Torah Code of these people (really, two separate peoples) with STATE is likely to mean nothing more than the fact that there once was a Philistine State. However, the word STATE is, in fact, not statistically significant as is shown on the spreadsheets below. It has about 1 chance in 3 to be on the 306-letter matrix above. By comparison, the open text reference to PHILISTINES was there against odds of about 100 to 1 which is quite significant for one term.

WHY ARE SOME ARABS CALLED PALESTINIAN NOW?  In 135 CE, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman “Provincia Judaea” and so renamed it “Provincia Syria Palaestina.” He chose the name because it was reminiscent of the ancient enemies of the Jews – the Philistines. While the ancient Philistines were from Asia Minor and Greece and were not in any sense Arabs, the Current people who largely started to go by the same name after the West Bank was captured from Jordan in 1967 are Arabs. So are the Arabs who live in the area today really Palestinians? Welll, it seems like Hafez Assad was not alone among the Arabs in challenging the title. Here are a few other quotes from http://arabterrorism.tripod.com/quotes.html:

(1) "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, to the Peel Commission, 1937

(2) "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria... politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity."

- The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted this in a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947

(3) "There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity.... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel."

- Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council (Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977)

(4) "The Oslo accords were a Trojan Horse; the strategic goal is the liberation of Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea"

- Faysal Al-Husseini, Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, in his last interview, 'Al-Arabi' daily newspaper (Egypt), June 24, 2001

(5) "This is Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the Mediterranean sea, from Rosh Hanikra to Rafah (in Gaza). The gap between Palestinian expectations and the Israeli conspiracy will inevitably lead to a collision."

- "Our Position" issued by Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO in PA newspaper AL HAYAT AL-JADEEDA, Dec. 19, 1998

An excellent reference to myths pertaining to the Palestinian people can be found at http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm.

STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRST TWO MATRICES.  Dr. Haralick's e-mail to me included a 36-page paper on how to calculate p-values by various techniques, along with a comparison of how they varied depending on the method chosen.  By any standard, assuming that all the key words shown in the first matrix were a-priori, the Philistine/Palestinian matrix was highly significant. The methods that Dr. Haralick wrote about pegged values at somewhere between 3.5 to 42.5 out of 100,000 for how often permutated monkey texts produced more compact matrices. For the 306-letter matrix, I calculated that a matrix so compact with the specific requirements for STATE to be at the same absolute skip as the axis term PHILISTINE  (PALESTINE), ISHMAEL to be at skip +1, THREAT at skip +/- 1 or the absolute skip of the axis term, and the year (5)771/2011 to be on the matrix at any skip would be about 1 in 2,534,085. That does not imply that we differ in concluding that the matrix is significant. Each p-value measures a different protocol. His matrix example does not include either Jordan or any of the synonyms for Syria (like ASSHUR) that are essential to the issue. Based on what is apparent if a row split of 2 is selected (not shown on this page), Rabbi Glazerson (at 9:08 into this link) speaks about the message that Israel can only be secure if it follows the laws of Torah.  I don't disagree with his opinion; I just would not expand the matrix in area by as much as he does to show it. Mind you, Rabbi Glazerson is our family's rabbi. His spiritual guidance is not questioned by me. But on the issue of Codes significance, I always turn to the math. I am comfortable with my method, shown on the spreadsheets.  But I do not object to Dr. Haralick's methods, although he has continued to modify/perfect his analysis techniques over the past 14 years that we have worked together.

In the fourth matrix (below), the axis term is still PALESTINE, but it is only at its 4^th lowest skip, and it requires two computer passes through the Torah to show the name. The change in background color shows where the break between the two passes through Torah occurs. Normally I don't use an axis term with only 6 letters unless there is something special about like an a-priori course angle as with ELS-Map 2. This is even more the case when it requires a wrapped search to locate the axis term. The second Palestine matrix is displayed only for the sake of honesty. It does associate a (single) nation with Palestine, but there already is one today (overlooking the issue of whether any Arabs are really Palestinians) – Jordan. The matrix does not in any way imply a second Palestinian nation in the West Bank, or a third one in Gaza. Up to 75% of Jordan's population is "Palestinian." JORDAN is the only a-priori word on this matrix.

STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAST TWO MATRICES. As per my standard protocol, no statistical significance is assigned to the axis term (PALESTINE on both matrices). Nor can any statistical significance be assigned items found a-posteriori, even if they are of great interest. A-posteriori findings include AND THEY DIED BEFORE THE LORD and FOR THERE WAS NOT A HOUSE WHERE THERE WAS NOT ONE DEAD on the first matrix, and FOR A GREAT NATION I WILL MAKE OF HIM  on the third matrix. On it the odds against finding the a-priori key word VOTE shown equates to about 130 to 1, but if we add three more 5-letter synonyms for VOTE on the 234-letter matrix with a white background, the odds are lowered to about 47 to 1. If we expand the matrix to include an area of 585 letters with the a-priori word  for WAR, then the combined odds against finding both a-priori key words (with four 5-letter synonyms for VOTE) equates to about 95 to 1 (mildly significant).

       Odds against having the spelling of JORDAN shown on the fourth matrix were about 4 to 1, however after an adjustment for the fact that the matrix is only based on the 4th lowest skip of PALESTINE, it is seen to be about 95% certain to be there by now. The fourth matrix is thus judged to be not statistically significant.

       It must be remembered that an Encoder was not bound to design/write the Torah in accordance with a-priori key words that I sought. He may well have simply chosen to combine the axis term with the a-posteriori phrases that I found.

THE ISSUE OF A JEWISH STATE. One last word - while Israel has promised to be the first nation to recognize a Palestinian State if it is achieved through negotiations, Abbas and all other Palestinian leaders have only promised to recognize "Israel," but they refuse to recognize it as a Jewish state. This means that they would like to see one or two new Palestinian states in the West Bank and Gaza, but they also want the right to have Palestinian "refugees" move back to Israel so the demographics will shift there to make it a Muslim state. Netanyahu offered to freeze settlent construction in exchange for a promise to recognize the Jewish nature of Israel. Abbas declined the offer. The Arabs have no intention whatsoever of making peace with Israel. They only for a way to make Israel and all the world Muslim - through any means possible. Unless this reality changes there can never be a peace process, there can only be security through military superiority and readiness to act in whatever way is necessary to ensure Israeli (and American) security.