The Hebrew word "Ploshtim" - means invader. The ancient Phillistines were a people from the islands - probably bronze age Greeks. They had nothing in common with the Jews and as fast as they settled in Eretz Israel, they later disappeared from history without a recorded trace. Nothing is known of their exact identity, culture and language. There never was and will be be a "Palestine" in history. The Roman Emperor Hadrian may have thwarted Jewish efforts to regain national independence but even he could only give the land the Romans occupied the name of a long extinct people. And so it is the present day Palestinians have no original, authentic identity of their own.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus