Why do people say there is no Palestine while Moses bring his tribe to Palestine and Palestine under Roman?

It’s not quite true that “there is no Palestine”. The Romans conquered Judaea in 70, and again in 135, and renamed it Syria Palaestina to erase the memory of Judaea. There is evidence that, even earlier, the name Palaestina was used (as a reference to Philistia, the land of the Philistines, a Greek sea-people who vanished from history in the 6th century BC).

There was no Palestine, nor even Philistia, at the time of Moses. Moses brought the Children of Israel to the land of Canaan.

So the name “Palestine” has existed for a long time, and it referred to a region of land. The locals rarely, if ever, called it that, but it was a name used by foreigners. And when the British captured the entire region from the Ottomans in 1917, that’s what they called it.

On the other hand, there has never been a country of Palestine, in the way that there had been a country of Judaea (and of Israel)… and, until very recently, there had not been a Palestinian people (the way there was a Jewish people from Judaea).

We know who the ancient Kings of Israel were. They are referenced in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Quran, and we have archaeological evidence for them. But there was never a King of Palestine, or a Sultan of Palestine, or an Emir of Palestine.

We have ancient Judaean coins — from Masada, from Judaea under the Romans before that, and from the Greek period before that. But we have no ancient coins that say Palestine. You will not find such currency earlier than 1927 — issued by the British — and even those will say Eretz Yisrael (or the initials thereof, א”י) on them, in Hebrew.

It is certainly true that today there is a Palestinian people, with hopes and dreams and aspirations. But let’s not claim that these are the people of a proud nation that was stolen from them. They are not.