Another newborn was called quite simply "Palestine".

You can read the earliest history of Israel in the Bible, where the country is called Canaan or Palestine.

In 1948, 94 percent of the country that was called Palestine...was owned by Palestinians.

Many Jews moved back to Israel, then called Palestine, starting in the late 1800s.

Ultimately, though, two nationalisms compete for one territory in what was once called Palestine.

The name change (which essentially meant that Judea was now called Palestine) had obvious political implications.

The first 6 million live in what the Zionist movement used to call Palestine.

This region is now called Israel and Palestine.

In 1912, a trip to what was then called Palestine was to affect Straus profoundly.

In them we could feel something called Palestine.