“The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. " — Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995
Herodotus called it Syria-Palestine in 500 BC. Golde Meir was either ignorant or lying.