The name that was given to the region was "Philistia" and the people were known as the Phillistines, hence the name "Palestine"
"After being repulsed by the Egyptians, they occupied the coastal plain of Palestine from Joppa (modern Tel Aviv–Yafo) southward to the Gaza Strip. The area contained the five cities (the Pentapolis) of the Philistine confederacy (Gaza, Ashkelon [Ascalon], Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron) and was known as Philistia, or the Land of the Philistines. It was from this designation that the whole of the country was later called Palestine by the Greeks. " ---Encyclopedia Brittanica The British called the country they mandated in 1917 "Palestine". The League of Nations called it "Palestine". The Arabs living there were referred to as Palestinian Arabs, the Jews living there were referred to as Jewish Palestinians, even by themselves. Even the jews living there called the region Palestine for centuries or longer. Map of the 1917 British Mandate called "Palestine" by the British, French, Jews, Arabs, and the Americans fo the time, later called "Palestine" by the League of Nations (UN) http://tinyurl.com/kj6qe In 1922, the British declared that the boundary of Palestine would be limited to the area west of the river. The area east of the river, called Transjordan (now Jordan), was made a separate British mandate and eventually given independence (See map at right) . A part of the Zionist movement felt betrayed at losing a large area of what they termed "historic Palestine" to Transjordan, and split off to form the "Revisionist" movement, headed by Benjamin Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
