(Note: This great summation of the history of the so called "Palestinians" was posted years ago in one of the political websites I used to belong to. I pass it on here to you the reader so you too can gain from it). The term “Palestine” is derived from the Philistines, an  Aegean people who, in the 12th Century B.C.E., settled along the Mediterranean  coastal plain of what are now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the  second century C.E., after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans  first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of  what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish  identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word Filastin is derived  from this Latin name.     - The Hebrews entered the Land of Israel about 1300 B.C.E., living  under a tribal confederation until being united under the first monarch,  King Saul. The second king, David, established Jerusalem as the capital  around 1000 B.C.E. David’s son, Solomon, ...
 
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