Wasn’t Palestine a nation?
Palestine has always been the name of a region, not a country. Since the final expulsion of Jews in 135 A.D. after the failure of the Bar Kochba revolt, the Land was never under any other sovereignty. It was never an Arab nation or a nation of any other peoples. Palestine gets its name from the Roman Emperor, Hadrian. He named it, “Syria-Pelestina” after the Philistines the archenemies of ancient Israel under Kings Saul and David, and whom David finally defeated. Calling the Land “Pelestina” was meant as a derogatory name, and as an insult the Jewish people. After the expulsion of the Jews, the Land was controlled by the Romans, the Arabs, and various other Turkish/Muslim leaders and warlords, until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1917.
