The Arabs of the Mandate for Palestine very rarely related to themselves as "Palestinian Arabs". The documents show that after the end of World War One and into the 1920s, they preferred to be termed Syrians and demanded that the territory of "Palestine" be "reunited with Syria". A Palestinian nationality only came into being officially in 1925, due to Zionist pressure.
Even the representative groups used the term "Arab" rather than "Palestinian", the most prominent example being the Arab Higher Committee which led the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939. I refer to the term as an example of inventivity.
"Palestinians" for the most part were the Jews.
Nevertheless, I have found the term "Palestinian Arabs" used by Arabs if very sparingly.
One additioonal source is this booklet, The Palestine Reality, by Jabir Shibli, first published in 1946 to counter the post-World War Two claims by the Zionist movement. Only 32 pages long, only two out of the three useages of "Palestinian" refer to the Arab population of the Mandate, and both are on page 23.
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Throughout the 1948 war and beyond it was always 'Arabs' till well into the 1950s. See newspaper archives. [ www.news.google.com/newspapers ]
Term Arabs in or of Palestine- was the traditional 1920, before the 1960s.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Arabs+palestine&sca_esv=&hl=en&udm=36&tbs=bkt:s
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Whereas:
Term "palestinians" is only recent:
https://www.google.com/search?q=palestinians&sca_esv=&hl=en&udm=36&tbs=bkt:s
Check https://myrightword.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-usage-of-palestinian-arabs-in-1920s.html
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