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@bhasic @CivilityFan @gcblasing @Ulrich_the_Elder

This is shockingly wrong.

"Peleshet" refers to a Grecian sea people that may have conquered and settled five cities of the Southern Mediterranean coast (in and around modern day Gaza) in the 12th century. It was not a term for the entire region until it was adopted by the Romans in the post-Second Temple period.

The Israelites were a group of Canaanite shepherds that emerged as a distinct group by at least the 14th-13th century, 200 years before the Pelishti arrived (possibly much earlier)

Modern day Palestinians are not related to the Pelishti, who vanished in the 6th-5th century after the Babylonian conquest. They are likely descended from Canaanites and the Arabs, who conquered and settled Roman Palestine in the 7th century CE.