[bakeneko]

I believe it is supposed to.

The Roman Emperor Hadrian named the province ‘Syria Palestina’ in the first New World Order attempt to stomp out those pesky Jews.

[daltec]

And in Arabic, "Palestine" is pronounced "Falesteen" or even "Filasteen" depending on where you are from. The modern-day Palestinian attempts to establish a connection via the historical geographical name is their chief argument for historical "claim" to that territory.

But you really cannot find any record at all of Palestinian "nationalism" much before World War One. It did not really kick into high gear until the Balfour Declaration (1917) that stated the British intention to establish a Jewish national homeland in what was then part of Ottoman Syria (and soon to become British Mandatory Palestine).

From everything I have read and studied, there has never been an independent "Palestine" autonomously governed by "Palestinians" at any time in history. Even the Bibilical Phillistines, whoever they may have been, had little to do with the modern territory of Palestine.