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The term "Palestine" is a derivative of the Roman name for the province Syria-Palaestina. The Romans named the former province of Judea as Syria-Palaestina as punishment to the Jewish population which kept revolting against the Roman Occupation. The name was specifically chosen since Palaestina was a reference to the Jews' archenemies, the Philistines. However, the Arab Palestinians did not choose to call themselves Palestinians; it was simply the name given to them during the British Mandatory Period. However, the conflict with the New Yishuv and Israel (the Zionists) gave Palestinian Arabs a distinct ethnic sense which made the name stick.

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