It can be seen that the name came from the area called Philistja, a seperate area from the Empire of David and Solomon, and fairly small.
We only post this to show that the Jews have strong historic claims to a lot of the area, even if much has happened in the meantime. Attempts by Hamas and its NZ Fan Club (Antifa & the Green Party) to make simplistic statements with their racist “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be [Jew] Free” deserve contempt.
Ah, the map game.
“Jews have strong historic claims to a lot of the area”. Ethnic Jews do have a historical connection to the area. That alone does not constitute a claim, any more than I have a claim to Denmark, just because some of my ancestors originated from there.
Most bizarre is the claim that Ashkenazis, with no historic, genetic or cultural connection to the area, have some special claim on the Holy Land, because their ancestors converted to Judaism over a thousand years ago. And that is enough to justify mass immigration into Palestine, ethnically cleansing a large part of it through a reign of terror 1947-49, and the continued terror and theft ever since.
The expression “from the River to the Sea”, has been used both by Palestinians and by the Likud Nazi Party. In the 1960s, the PLO used it to call for a democratic secular state encompassing the entirety of mandatory Palestine, which was initially stated to include the Palestinians and the descendants of Jews who had lived in Palestine before 1947, although this was later tightened up to exclude all who came in the Zionist-inspired migration from the late 1800s. The expression is often interpreted by Zionist propagandists as meaning the dispossession of all Jews, even ones native to Palestine, or killing all Jews in Palestine, or killing all Jews worldwide.
No ambiguity with the Likud Party, who claimed in their original platform of 1977 “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”. Their aim, apparently, is peace, to be achieved by the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by any means possible.