If Palestine didn't exist where do the Palestine's come from?

Question

And what land did Moses lead the Isralites to after they fled after escaping from Eygpt.?

Answer 1

The Philistines of Biblical times (Goliath, the villains in the Samson and Delilah story) gave the name to a strip of land in the Middle East. The name stuck and newcoming settlers became "Palestinians" (even Jewish residents were considered as Palestinians by the British). You must remember that at that time there was an Israel and a Judah, so Palestine WAS NOT all the territory now occupied by modern Israel nor the Arab Palestinians are descendants of the Philistines. I would recommend you to read the history of the Middle East from ancient to modern times. If you are confused now, you will be more so afterwards.

Additional: I like the answer of Mindar, however, there is one mistake there. The City-State of Carthage was originally founded by the Phoenicians. The Philistines were, supposedly, part of de Sea Peoples invasion from Mediterranean Islands and were Indo-Aryans, possibly Cretans, not Semites like the Israelites ,Canaanites, Phoenicians, Elamites, etc.

Answer 2

As a number of people have already stated, the name Palestine was Roman in origin, a derivative of the Philistine culture, which was much more wide-spread then just to eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The empire/city-state of Carthage was Philistine.
As for the use of the name Palestine in modern usage, it was used only to label the general area of the "Holy Land" and not any specific nation. Indeed, the entire region was conquered and re-conquered numerous times as a part of much farther reaching empires. The "Israel-Palestine" debate stems from the British Mandate of Palestine, as the region was called after WWI. Britain took control of the region from the Ottoman Empire after the Turks were defeated in WWI. At this time the Arab population of the region were considered Trans-Jordanian (what today is Jordan,) Syrian, Egyptian, or Lebanese. Nobody differentiated between Arabs of different nationalities. They were all just Arabs. Now the Jews, who historically have continued to claim the land even after being forcibly expelled over a thousand years before, had started returning and legally buying land. These colonizers organized and put pressure on Britain to grant the administration of the land (read: governmental control) to the Jews. This was accomplished with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The Arabs still used the Feudal Landlord/peasant system that completely impoverished their population and continued to stay unorganized without any leaders except extremist muftis who advocated open conflict. When the UN drew up a plan for partitioning the land between the Jews and the Arabs, the Jews accepted it while the Arabs refused. When the Israeli War of Independence (also known in the Arab world as The Catastrophe) cease fires (there were two) were brokered it was the allied forces of Trans-Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Egypt that broke these truces. Many Arab civilians fled the region. It is estimated between 100,000 and 600,000 refugees fled the conflict. Once the conflict had nominally died down, these refugees demanded the return of their land and homes, which at this point had been vacant for a generation.
As for your other question, Moses lead the Israelites to the Land of Canaan, which is geographically the same, but cannot be compared to the Palestine/Israel debate because it was another culture entirely different from the ones discussed previously. As with many other ancient peoples the Canaanites were either destroyed or assimilated into larger empire such as the Greeks, Persians, Philistines, Romans, or Babylonians, and eventually these assimilated into the greater Christian or Islamic cultures.
Understand that this is just the very basics of this discussion. This conflict is much more involved and confusing then can adequately be explained here.

Answer 3

Moses led the Israelites to Canaan. Palestine has existed since the Roman Emperor Hadrian defeated the last Jewish revolt and changed the name of the area to Palestine. The name is derived from the ancient civilization of Philistine. Regardless of what modern Israelites might say, Palestine is a nation.

It is also interesting to note that many supporters of Israel use the argument of - land conquered is land that should not be returned - as a reason for not giving back land won in 1967. One could say, under this argument, that the land given to Israel by the U.N. is therefore illegal and thus not binding. The double standards coming out of that region, from BOTH sides, are many.

Answer 4

Jordan is Palestine or as on the edge of a actual Palestine as you're ever going to work out. What you have is a gaggle of Jordanian rejects and imported thugs residing on Israeli airborne dirt and dirt. Israel already has a appropriate and a mandate. The Arabs have no longer something yet what's given to them via Israel and God says no. enable them to beg forgiveness from their Palestinian Queen.

Answer 5

Palestine is the country that was in place during WWII. The British were in control of it. After WWII the British relocated all the European Jews that wanted to go to Palestine and called the settled areas Israel. I've always wondered why the British and other european countries wanted to move the Jews out of Europe.
I think anti-semitism was more wide spread than just Germany. Not that any of them would admit it.

Answer 6

Palestina was a Roman state that the romans used long ago for the Hebrew people, and the pagan groups who were later converted to islam. During the late 18 hundreds Hebrew people started migrating their and buying the land from rich Arabic land lords. Then once the Hebrew people turned it into a developed and prosperous country after alot of sweat, blood and tears the former owners children who sold them the land at a very steep fee decided they wanted it back. So they organizes into Hamas and Fatah and use manipulation of media to make palestine (what was a hundred years ago a bleak and depressing wasteland) look like it was some kind of paradise in order to inspire hatred in the hearts of Muslim people living in Isreal.

Answer 7

"Palestinian" is a made up people. They are Arabs, no different than the Arabs in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia etc. The term was invented in the 1970's for political reasons. "Palestine" is the name given to Israel by the romans. It comes drom "Philestines" & was selected as a further insult to the Israelites. It was never a country.

Answer 8

Palestine did exist. Israel didn't. Israel was created after WW2 to give the persecuted jews a place to live. The land for Israel was taken from Palestine. Moses led Palestinians, but the area they came from is now called Israel.

Answer 9

I believe they came from the Philistines. It's just a derivation of the word.

Answer 10

Palestinian are Arabs

Caanan is where Moses led Israel