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land of canaan
complete article at link, highlights below. -hm
www.zmag.org
EARLY HISTORY OF THE REGION:
Before the Hebrews first migrated there around 1800BC, the land of Canaan was occupied by Canaanities.
"Between 3000 and 1100BC, Canaanite civilization covered what is today Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon and much of Syria and Jordan? Those would remain in the Jerusalem hills after the Romans expelled the Jews were a potpourri: farmers and vineyard growers, pagans and converts to Christianity, descendants of the Arabs, Persians, Samaritans, Greeks an old Canaanite tribes."
Marcia Kunstel and Joseph Albright,
"Their Promised Land".
The Present ?day Palestinians` ancestral heritage
"But all these were additions, sprigs grafted onto the parent tree?And that parentry was Canaanite? made Moslem converts of the natives, settled down as residents, and intermarried with them, with the result that all are now so completely Arabised that we cannot tell whether Canaanites leave off and the Arabs begin."
Ilene Beatty, "Arab and Jew in the land of Canaan."
The Jewish kingdoms were only one of many periods in ancient Palestine
(with a two-thousand years old hiatus)
"The extended kingdoms of David and Solomon, on which the Zionists base their territorial demands, endured for only about 73 years? Then it fell apart? if we allow independence to the entire life of the ancient Jewish kingdoms, from David?s conquest of Canaan in 100 BC to the wiping out of Juda in 586 BC, we arrive at a 414-year Jewish rule."
Ilene Beatty, "Arab and Jew in the land of Canaan."
How long has Palestine been specifically Arab country?
(from the 7th C to the 20th C = 1,300 years)
"Palestine became a predominantly Arab and Islamic country by the end of the seventh century. Almost immediately thereafter its boundaries and its characteristics ? including its name in Arabic, "FILISTIN" ? became known to the entire Islamic world, as much for its fertility and beauty as for its religious significance?In 1516, Palestine became a province of the Ottoman Empire, but this made it no less fertile, no less Arab or Islamic?Sixty percent of the population was in agriculture; the balance was divided between townspeople and a relatively small nomadic group. All these people believed themselves to belong in a land called Palestine, despite their feelings that they were also members of a large Arab nation?Despite the steady arrival in Palestine of Jewish colonists after 1882, it is important to realize that not until the few weeks immediately preceding the establishment of Israel in the spring of 1948 was there ever anything other than huge Arab majority. For example, the Jewish population in 1931 was 174, 606 against a total of 1,033,314."
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www.zmag.org
EARLY HISTORY OF THE REGION:
Before the Hebrews first migrated there around 1800BC, the land of Canaan was occupied by Canaanities.
"Between 3000 and 1100BC, Canaanite civilization covered what is today Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon and much of Syria and Jordan? Those would remain in the Jerusalem hills after the Romans expelled the Jews were a potpourri: farmers and vineyard growers, pagans and converts to Christianity, descendants of the Arabs, Persians, Samaritans, Greeks an old Canaanite tribes."
Marcia Kunstel and Joseph Albright,
"Their Promised Land".
The Present ?day Palestinians` ancestral heritage
"But all these were additions, sprigs grafted onto the parent tree?And that parentry was Canaanite? made Moslem converts of the natives, settled down as residents, and intermarried with them, with the result that all are now so completely Arabised that we cannot tell whether Canaanites leave off and the Arabs begin."
Ilene Beatty, "Arab and Jew in the land of Canaan."
The Jewish kingdoms were only one of many periods in ancient Palestine
(with a two-thousand years old hiatus)
"The extended kingdoms of David and Solomon, on which the Zionists base their territorial demands, endured for only about 73 years? Then it fell apart? if we allow independence to the entire life of the ancient Jewish kingdoms, from David?s conquest of Canaan in 100 BC to the wiping out of Juda in 586 BC, we arrive at a 414-year Jewish rule."
Ilene Beatty, "Arab and Jew in the land of Canaan."
How long has Palestine been specifically Arab country?
(from the 7th C to the 20th C = 1,300 years)
"Palestine became a predominantly Arab and Islamic country by the end of the seventh century. Almost immediately thereafter its boundaries and its characteristics ? including its name in Arabic, "FILISTIN" ? became known to the entire Islamic world, as much for its fertility and beauty as for its religious significance?In 1516, Palestine became a province of the Ottoman Empire, but this made it no less fertile, no less Arab or Islamic?Sixty percent of the population was in agriculture; the balance was divided between townspeople and a relatively small nomadic group. All these people believed themselves to belong in a land called Palestine, despite their feelings that they were also members of a large Arab nation?Despite the steady arrival in Palestine of Jewish colonists after 1882, it is important to realize that not until the few weeks immediately preceding the establishment of Israel in the spring of 1948 was there ever anything other than huge Arab majority. For example, the Jewish population in 1931 was 174, 606 against a total of 1,033,314."
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