"Palestine" is the name that the Romans gave to the land of Israel when they conquered this land 2000 years ago.
The "Palestinians" are Arabs who were brought to the region by the Ottoman empire as part of the Muslim occupation in the region. They are definitely not the tribes from Crete who settled down in the 5 cities of Gaza strip after the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. These tribes were called Philistines and they weren't Arabs at all and the now a days "Palestinians" are definitely not their descendants. The Philistines don't exist as a nation now days.
There's no "Palestinian" nation but an ARAB one which went out of the Arabian Peninsula and occupied dozens of lands, including the land of Israel.
The Arabs who were living in the land of Israel started to call themselves "Palestinians" only after the establishment of Israel in 1948and prior to it they called themselves just 'Arabs' and this is how they called their organizations ('Arab Higher Committee') and their struggles ('The Great Arab Revolt') and nick named the land of Israel in different names such as 'Southern Syria'.
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You nailed it. The Palestinkians drive for statehood is nothing more than Arabs whining "me too."
“Palestine” is the name that the Romans gave to the land of Israel when they conquered this land 2000 years ago.”
More to the point, “Palestine” is Latin for “Philistine” (Pelishti), an inhabitant of Philistia, which was a coastal plain west of Judah that encompassed the cities of Joppa, Ashdod, and Gaza. Map here:
http://tomkovach.us/blog/christianity/
Palestinians have always been foreigners to the land of Judah. And as inhabitants of Gaza, they already have all the land their ancestors had or that they can legally lay claim to.
In order to wipe out any claim the Jews had to Judea and Samaria, the Romans renamed the land “Palestine” after they conquered the land and drove the Jews out. If anyone can lay claim to the historical ownership of Judea and Samaria by conquest, it’s the Italians not Philistines!