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Roman History
Cassius Dio, c. 230 CE, Cassius Dio, Roman History, book 69, 12-14
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Palestine was the region's Greek name 600 years before Hadrian, and Jewish writers used it
“On top of the fact that the whole region was called Palestine so that might have been confusing, the name comes from the ancient enemies of the Jews, the Philistines. Rome renamed Judea Syria Palaestina when they conquered and destroyed the Jewish homeland, to negate the land's Jewish identity. So that is not really a suitable name for a Jewish state.”
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His own source, Pew, finds Israeli Jews split almost evenly: 45% Ashkenazi, 48% Sephardi or Mizrahi
“The reason why some argue that most Israeli Jews aren't from Europe is because most Israeli Jews descend from Jews who immigrated from elsewhere in the Middle East.”