You make excellent points. Israel had always used the renaming of Palestinian towns and cities to claim ownership. Each one of the 450 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 has an Israeli settlement nearby with a fake name invented to replace. The stolenments in the West Bank all adopt biblical sounding names that are actually corruptions of the Arabic names of existing Palestinian villages. I discuss the renaming extensively in my book Fugitive Dreams. Beitin becomes Beth El and Rammoun becomes Rimmonim. The ethnically cleansed village of Yibna becomes Yavne. Renaming is conquest. Just ask the Romans