Israel Netanyahu

7th Century? More like BC era.

If you ever watched Band of Brothers, in one of the episodes you see a soldier mocking Germans who were using horses and asked wtf they were thinking in starting the war. You see footage now of “Palestinians” (a name invented by the Arabs in 1948) using horses, and it reminds me of that.

Actually the name "Palestine" is older. It could go back as far as 1150 BC with an inscription on a temple in Egypt, "Peleset". In 5th century BC, Greek historian, Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" between Phoenicia and Egypt.

There is a strong similarity between Palaistī́nē and palaistês, the Greek word for "wrestler/rival/adversary", which has the same etymological meaning as the Hebrew word "Israel."

Jacob, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament for Christians) had his name changed by God to Israel. Israel means "one who wrestles with God". The Bible mentions that Jacob wrestled with God.

BTW I am not a historian, I just copied a lot of this from Wikipedia.

The 7th century is the 800s AD. Israel as a Kingdom was formed in about 1500 BC but then became an officially recognized modern state in 1946.

Technically, Islam started in the 7th century, around 610.

Prior to that the Arabs were becoming an advanced race. They were scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, scholars of all sorts. They gave us Arabic numerals.

Islam changed all of that.