The Jews have always occupied Jerusalem except when being driven out. Other than that it was primarily Jewish with many Jewish occupants. And the promise of God was that it was the land of the Israelites and Jews. It still serves as a barometer (time piece so to speak) of where we are in the prophetic timeline.
Palestine is a Political term constructed by Rome to falsify the history of the Jews. While it originally referred to the ethnic group of Jews, it has since been contaminated even more to include Arabs living in the region to claim rights to Jerusalem, and now is a counterfeit political movement rather than the original ethnic group it claimed.
Rome was also responsible for creating the Muslim religion to raise up a militant army to conquer the Jews and Christians for Rome to gain control over Jerusalem in the 7th Century. During the time of Rome employing Arab Muslim armies to do their dirty work and defeat the Jews and Christians for the capturing of Jerusalem, the Muslims under Mohammad realized they had a force to reckon with and turned on Rome to claim the Holy Place for itself. And the Arabs hijacked it to build their Temple on the grounds.
Vatican still has its eyes on the claim of Jerusalem and perhaps are using Palestine as a proxy bargaining chip under political means to gain control. They have had their eye on it since the early centuries.
In the meanwhile we have another sect of claimants who were handed the land of Israel as a payoff to Rothschilds in the Balfour Declaration for a recognized State of Israel. These “Zionists” are also a counterfeit of Jews who were originally promised the land. And likely having a pact with Vatican. The scripture calls them a Synagogue of Satan, those who claim to be Jews, but are not. The Zionists are Khazars who did the same thing as what Rome did with Palestine; claiming to be of one ethnic group, but being a political movement more than an ethnic group. And then to pin the blame on the authentic ethnic Jews as a scapegoat.
This whole issue is a battle of wits to organize the players for the end time scenario. Moves on the chess board to position the pieces for the final checkmate.
According to Albert Pike – Illuminist, Jesuit, Freemason; the Political Zionist movement will be eradicated along with the Arab Muslim world by using their differences to create tension and war. And thus using that friction to divide the other nations to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion, thus creating a necessary Luciferian One World Government.
According to scripture and prophecy, The Beast will entice all the nations to come under her fornication, with Antichrist rising as leader. But it will not be until God puts it in their hearts to do so, as according to Revelation 17. And He will do so when it is obvious the nations have reached a point of stubbornness against Jesus Christ and their wrath has reached God. The judgment will be as a result of the world turning from God, and He will simply confirm their desires to raise up against Him. Then Babylon will fall and the Beast and all its followers will be judged in the WRATH OF GOD (Rev 18,19). And then the end of the age.