P F Tinmore
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Israeli BS talking point.Another thread on this? Ok, then why did Greek writers, 12 centuries before Christ, get credit for the name by the Jew edited Britannica?
The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century bce occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv–Yafo and Gaza.
Palestine
And why did the Romans use Palestine only a few centuries later?
Two completely different people. Arabs, in the main, only began calling themselves "Palestinians" in the 60s for political expediency. Look at all the United Nations resolutions vis-à-vis the Arab-Israeli conflict and see when that body first refers to the Arabs as "Palestinians." (Even UN Resolution 181, the partition resolution, never refers to the Arabs as "Palestinians" but simply as Arabs.)
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The automatic, ipso facto, change from Ottoman to Palestinian nationality was dealt with in Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Citizenship Order, which declared:
“Turkish subjects habitually resident in the territory of Palestine upon the 1st day of August, 1925, shall become Palestinian citizens.”