Italic text Bellagio: I am also new and you are very correct that Palestine never really existed as a state or a land untill it was given the name "Palestine" The Romans upon sacking Judea or Judah had every map destroyed and Palestine was put on new maps in the same place where Judea or Judah had once existed. Palestine was never captured in battle by the Arabs. The land was give to them. Not a single ounce of Arab blood was ever sheed. 101st-airborne 07:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)