True or False: The Jews/Israelites were the first inhabitants of Palestine

Ever heard of a Philistine ?

There’s little to no Arab admixture in the Palestinians. They’re the people who never left.

False. It was the Canaanites

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False. It was the Canaanites

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The Judeans and Israelites WERE Canaanites.

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You can only keep that which u can hold……

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Well the Jews didn’t hold that. They had it given to them by other people and then propped up by those same people to now be able to “hold” it

False.

The vast majority of Jews currently in Israel have been there less than a century. I always laugh at the American Zionists who claim Palestinians aren't a true people but somehow think folks who, prior to 1948, spent centuries in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Habsburg lands in Central Europe have some inherent right to lands in the Middle East.

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So the Canaanites were essentially enveloped by the Philistines, who fought with the upstart Israelites, who were all then conquered by the Assyrians? Am I getting closer?

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No. Philistia was never much more than the Gaza Strip. It was basically a trading colony established by people from the Aegean.

Canaan was most of modern Israel and Lebanon. Modern Lebanese, Palestinians and Israelis all descend in part from the Canaanites.

Yes. it is recorded even by the Romans who occupied the Levantine Regions. What is modern day Israel/Palestine was a Jewish homeland.

Palestine became mainly Islamic under the Ottoman Empire.

Some group 20,000+ years ago that we don't know the identity of.