[Vigilanteman]

The Phoenicians were sea people who planted the colony which became the City State of Carthage about 800 BC. I had always assumed they were a branch of the Philistine Tree.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Phoenicians were Semitic-speakers...the Philistines originally would have spoken a different language but seem to have lost it after settling in Philistia. The term Phoenicians was the Greek name for the people the Israelites called Canaanites.

The "Peleset" of Egyptian texts mentioning the Sea Peoples are generally thought to be the Philistines.

There was a pre-Greek population in Greece called Pelasgians about which not much is known. One scholar argued that Pelasgians = Philistines but I don't think anyone else has endorsed that view.

What about King David's Cherethites and Pelethites? When will someone find some of their DNA?

[Cronos]

The Phoenicians were sea people who planted the colony which became the City State of Carthage about 800 BC. I had always assumed they were a branch of the Philistine Tree.

Not at all. the Philistine "branch" of the Indo-European, I'm going to venture "Hellenistic/pre-Hellenistic "Greek"" tree was assimilated by the neighbouring Judea by the 800s BC

The Phoenicians - or to give them their endonum, Kanaanites - were along the Lebanese coast from at least 2000 BC