Posted on 08/28/2019 7:09:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Only if they get circumcised :-)
Not to defend, but to be historically accurate, they were ALL once Canaanites before the Israelites invaded and division of tribes later. Historically the label Canaanites was already used for the indigenous of the whole Levant before they were divided and labeled with more modern tribal labeling later. So in reality they were originally Canaanites long before they were either Palestinians or the Kingdom of Israel.
“The Canaanites were people who lived in the land of Canaan, an area which according to ancient texts may have included parts of modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
Much of what scholars know about the Canaanites comes from records left by the people they came into contact with. Some of the most detailed surviving records come from the site of Amarna, in Egypt, and from the Hebrew Bible. Additional information comes from excavations of archaeological sites that the Canaanites are thought to have lived in.”
And if one wants to be true to Biblical records, it also reflects and supports this pre-Isrealite history of that area.
“The Canaanites are mentioned often in the Hebrew Bible. The stories say that god promised to give the land of the Canaanites (along with land belonging to several other groups) over to the Israelites after they escaped from Egypt.
In the stories, God tells Moses that “I have heard them [the Israelites] crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey — the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:7)
The stories told in the Hebrew Bible say that after the Israelites escaped from Egypt they fought a series of wars against the Canaanites (and other groups), which led to the Israelites taking over most of the Canaanites’ land. The stories say that those Canaanites who survived had to do forced labor. The stories also say that this conquered land was incorporated into a powerful Israelite kingdom that eventually split in two.”
https://www.livescience.com/56016-canaanites.html
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