A little "slant" called, "Historical Fact" -- well-documeted for over two thousand years.
The church memorializes an important, thoroughly-documented birth that occurred there, over two millenia ago -- in the Jewish region of Judæa. At that time, there was no such entity as "Palestine"
"Palestine" is a false Muslim humbug. Claiming otherwise is precisely as asinine as claiming that East Germany is, "USSR".
At the time of Jesus’s birth, Bethlehem was in the Roman province of Judea. Today, it is in the country of Israel. The category was about *countries* in which a church was located. Contestants and our in-house audience were getting tripped up by the need to name the *country*.