[mountainlion]

Each different group that examines DNA comes up with a different answer. My ethnic breakdown from AncestryDNA, 23 and me and from Family Tree DNA are all quite different with differences of 50% in one case. The first report on the King Tut DNA was that he was Irish. From what I remember reading a group left Egypt and became Phoenicians. They settled and became the Philistines and got wiped out in war. A Roman Cesar destroyed Israel and named the whole are Palestrina which became Palestine as revenge on the area.

[Red Badger]

The first report on the King Tut DNA was that he was Irish.

well, he did get plastered..........

[Red Badger]

The Phoenicians and Philistines were both around at the same time..........

[Boogieman]

“From what I remember reading a group left Egypt and became Phoenicians. They settled and became the Philistines and got wiped out in war.”

No, the Phoenicians were Semites, very closely related to the Israelites, to the point where their languages were mutually intelligible, and the “proto-Hebraic” alphabet invented by Israel while they sojourned in Egypt was quickly adapted by the Phoenicians to write their own language as well.

The Phoenicians and Philistines both lived on the coast right near Israel, but the Phoenicians were to the north, where Lebanon is today, while the Philistines were to the south, where the Gaza strip is.

[Cronos]

The Philistines didn't get wiped out in war - they had already disappeared by the time the Assyrians came in the 700s BC

And while you are right that the Romans destroyed Israel and named it after their ancient, disappeared enemies, the name Philistia had stuck on in Egyptian and Hellenistic kingdoms as a memory of a forgotten people. And the reason for the destruction of ISrael was the Bar Kochkba revolt which followed the Kitos rebellion when Judeans slaughtered the gentile populations of Cyprus and Cyrene -Dio Cassius says that the two provinces were completely depopulated