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Instead, the Syrians, Egyptians and Jordanians seized management of the areas they occupied. Lewis argues the concept of creating a “distinctive Arab nationwide entity” – “Palestine” – within the area occupied by Jordan didn't happen until Israel captured the areas in 1967 and Jordan withdrew its claims and ceded representation of the Palestinians to the PLO. Though the particular origins of the word Palestine have been debated for years and are nonetheless not identified for certain, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean rolling or migratory, the term was used to explain the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of Egypt – the Philistines. The Philistines have been an Aegean folks – more closely related to the Greeks and with no connection ethnically, linguistically or historically with Arabia – who conquered in the 12th Century BCE the Mediterranean coastal plain that is now Israel and Gaza. "We call fo