steve40 wrote:
Because if you believe half of the stuff the world feeds you, you believe 90% lies. The Romans nicknamed Israel Palatine, to provoke the Jews.
Before the Jews got there, the area was named after the individual tribes that occupied the land. Like Philistines, Hagerenes , Hitites, to name just a few. In fact the Philistines, lived in the area now called Gaza. They were a seafaring tribe that settled there, and had nothing to do with any Arab decent.