That's like saying there was never a Midwest.
"Palestine" is an ancient geographic location. It includes Israel, Lebanon and part of Syria. So all those residents are "Palestinians" except, of course, "the palestinians".
The Gazards are mostly Egyptian riff-raff, and the West Bankers are mostly Jordanian riff-raff. No other muzzard country wants them.
The murdering filth Yassar Arafat was an Egyptian.
There was a Lebanese Christian who pointed out that neither palestinians nor palestine was mentioned in the Koran. But the Jews are mentioned dozens of times and their Koran admits that Jews have legal authority in that region.