No, Palestine is an area within the larger Middle East region.
Playing games with language and changing definitions of words is a favorite tactic of subversive leftists, like calling queers "gays" or any Republican who doesn't bow down to PC restrictions "Hitler".
Cruz was playing that same game with his snark because if nothing else, he should have known that it was entirely reasonable for people who attended college well before he did to have a different definition of the word in mind.
Spit hairs all you like, doesn't matter to me how many PC redefinitions Cruz and his crowd adopt. Their doing so just shows how they adapt to and embrace the globalist agenda language redefinitions and all.
It is the “Palestinians” that are trying to redefine the word from a region to a state. That was the very reason for the UN declaration that SubMareener is referring to. When you use the word on their terms , it is you that doing the leftest act of redefining words.
We’ll have to agree to disagree.