Palestine as a name carried no continuous statehood or Jerusalem-capital tradition

Evidence

To remind you briefly, the name Palestine occurs in Greco-Roman antiquity. The authorized version of the Old Testament names Palestine three times. All three were removed in the revised version because they were mis-translations of the word Philistia—Hebrew Peleshet—the Land of the Philistines; not Palestine but Philistia. The word does not occur at all in the New Testament. It appears in late Roman times as the name of a province, then of two provinces, then of three provinces in the late Roman Empire. The name survived briefly in the early Arab Empire, and then disappeared. The Crusaders called the country the Holy Land and their state the Kingdom of Jerusalem. After the end of the ancient Jewish states, the capital of the administrative districts called Palestine were not in Jerusalem but elsewhere, in Caesarea, in Ramleh, in Lydda, in various other places. The only time between the ancient and modern Jewish states when Je­ rusalem was the capital was the Crusader Kingdom, the Latin Kingdom of Je­ rusalem as it was called. And that was a comparatively brief interlude. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 815

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the constructivist line in Said-adjacent scholarship that ‘Palestine’ as a unitary entity was produced by Western colonial administration, not inherited as a pre-existing native self-designation.
• QUESTION: How does this etymology-by-erasure of Philistia connect to the parallel modern erasures in the region’s naming disputes — i.e., the mirror-image argument that ‘Israel’ as a state name was also discontinuous?