Well “Palestinians” were really Arabs. Might as well call everyone there “residents” of the Middle East.
There’s a huge difference between the name of an area and a nation state. Calling it Palestine in the context of a legal entity is something all together different.
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.