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The Official House Page Of The United States Military Instead, the Syrians , Egyptians and Jordanians seized control of the areas they occupied. Lewis argues the thought of developing a “distinctive Arab national entity” – “Palestine” – in the area occupied by Jordan didn't happen till Israel captured the areas in 1967 and Jordan withdrew its claims and ceded illustration of the Palestinians to the PLO. Though the particular origins of the word Palestine have been debated for years and are nonetheless not known for certain, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean rolling or migratory, the time period was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of Egypt – the Philistines. The Philistines had been an Aegean folks – more closely associated to the Greeks and with no connection ethnically, linguistically or traditionally with Arabia – who conquered within the twelfth Century BCE the Mediterranean c...