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  If you go back much further in time, Palestine was a thriving coastal community stretching from Gaza to Acre. Goliath was a Philistine (Palestinian) from Gath (Gaza). No, it was never a state. In 100BC the only organised states were Rome, Athens, Persia and Egypt. In those days even Asia Minor was a disorganised area ruled by warlords.
  
  But the Palestinian national and cultural identity lives on in its people on the ground and in its diaspora. They are rightly aggrieved by their wholesale displacement by Jews who felt empowered by Balfour.
  
  I doubt that there were many Samaritan communities in Palestinian areas. Samaria was by 250BC an aspiring nation-state roughly corresponding to present day northern Israel. Palestinian areas were generally further south and west.

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