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There was no Palestine until the British coined the term in 1917 from the Roman Word “Palestina”, which refered to the Philistines. Just as there was no country called Jordan until the British coined the term “The Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, also in 1917. Also, Jesus was not Palestinian—He was Jewish.