to the Jews as Palestinian , most of them rejected that term and saw it as insult until Yasser Arafat/ Gamal Abdul Nasser and other Egyptian nationalists created the umbrella term for a second Muslim state other than Jordan. The ancient Philistines fell to the Assyrians in 735 BCE and their survivors assimilated into the surrounding peoples. The later occupying GREEKS and Romans revived the terms and names from their ancient Agean kinfolk in their own failed attempts to obliterate Jewish presence. Thanks for your comments. I'm not sure what you mean by the influx of Muslim Arabs. Most of the people called Palestinian today were definitely living in the region already, I'm pretty sure! eg. many have lost land that their forefathers owned. Are you sure the people teaching you are unbiased? the "People" teaching me are UN archives, reputable history books, documents, secular historians and also include Palestinian Arabs who left Israel to live in Texas and know their own history. If you are not sure what is meant by the influx of Muslim Arabs you may wish to learn the history of Islam Until the formation of the PLO, the different Muslim/Arab/Bedouin tribal peoples considered it humiliation to be referred to as Palestinian since the world at large used that term for hundreds of years to refer to the indigenous Jewish people and to Jews displaced around the world as Palestinians. Other Answers (8) There never was a Palestinian people as such in ancient times. Some try