Unfortunately there was. Palestine was the brain child of the Emperor Hadrian (the same guy who built the wall in Britain). His hatred for the Jews was consuming and he desired to eradicate their name from the record books, thus he renamed "Judea" to "Palestine" to reflect the roots of the tribal "Philistines" that once roamed the area and were such a thorn in the side of Israel. The vast majority of Philistines had been wiped out or assimilated into Hebrew culture but Hadrian wanted their legacy to dominate.
The modern Palestine is a melting pot of all those that the Arab world has rejected. Yasser Arafat was Egyptian and the majority of those calling themselves Palestinian are ethnic Syrian or Lebanese. They have no binding culture nor historic lineage with which to honor and thus are rabble and the refuse of the Arab world.
yu are correct but that does not mean there was ever a country named Palestine, that did not occupy Israel
Palestine from the word Philistine because Rome knew it was Israel’s hated enemy. Palestine in Hebrew means “invader”.