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Now I will deal with the term "Palestine." This is a Latin corruption of the Hebrew term "Pleshtim" which means the people, the Europoid people invading Eretz Yisroel from the sea in the 1290-1150 BC era whom the Bible calls by that term.

The coastal area occupied by them, including the present Gaza strip and up through present Tel-Aviv, and extending inland some 15-20 miles, was called "Pleshet" in the Bible.

This people was under constant attack by the Jews under the later judges such as Samuel, then by Saul who battled them to a standstill, then by David who decimated them, and finally by Solomon who killed off the last Philistines some 940 BC.

It is still debated what the exact ethnic origin of these people were, but they were tall, blue-eyed blond "Nordics" not speaking a Greek tongue, ...best guesses today suggest they may have been of Etruscan or Hittite origin, but that just pushes back the question, to ask "Who were the Hittites or Etruscans?" LOL.

We have their pictures, they were expert seamen, we even have snatches of their language, that is how we can know it was not (AFAIK) Greek.

Until Yasser Arafat, no one alive on the earth had been a "Pleshti", plural "Pleshtim"---for some 2900 years! In view of the fate seen for this people in Isa. 14 and in Zechariah, Joel 3, etc. it is ironic that Yasser chose to name himself and the "people" he invented out of Arabs who had FTMP recently come in to work for the Jews...after an ancient people whom the Jews had exterminated!

When the Roman general Pompey conquered Eretz Yisroel about 62 BC, he added that coastal strip to the much larger Roman province of Syria, and the little dangling strip we call "Israel and the Territories" he called "Syria Palestensis," or "Syria of the Philistines," a people still remembered for their ferocity even though they had been extinct for 900 years.

Good Evening, crystalk. Now it's my turn.

>This people was under constant attack by the Jews under the later judges such as Samuel, then by Saul who battled them to a standstill, then by David who decimated them, and finally by Solomon who killed off the last Philistines some 940 BC.

Correct, but for one detail. Solomon and all who preceded him were not Jews. They were Israelites. All Jews (not to appear until ~500 years later, upon the Southern Kingdoms return from the Babylonian escapade) were Israelites, but only a few Israelites were Jews.