قناة التراث الشعبي الفلسطيني

what every American needs to know about Israel
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****Early History of the Region****
Before the Hebrews first migrated there around 1800 B.C., the land of Canaan was occupied by Canaanites.
Between 3000 and 1100 B.C., Canaanite civilization covered what is today Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon and much of Syria and JordanThose who remained in the Jerusalem hills after the Romans expelled the Jews [in the second century A.D.] were a potpourri: farmers and vineyard growers, pagans and converts to Christianity, descendants of the Arabs, Persians, Samaritans, Greeks and old Canaanite tribes.(1)

****The Jewish kingdoms were only one of many periods in ancient Palestine****
The extended kingdoms of David and Solomon, on which the Zionists base their territorial demands, endured for only about 73 yearsThen it fell apart[Even] if we allow independence to the entire life of the ancient Jewish kingdoms, from Davids conquest of Canaan in 1000 B.C. to the wiping out of Judah in 586 B.C., we arrive at [only] a 414 year Jewish rule.(2)

****the sophisticated water system in Jerusalem 1800 BCE****
Recent archeological digs have provided evidence that Jerusalem was a big and fortified city already in 1800 BCEFindings show that the sophisticated water system heretofor attributed to the conquering Israelites pre-dated them by eight centuries and was even more sophisticated than imaginedDr. Ronny Reich, who directed the excavation along with Eli Shuikrun, said the entire system was built as a single complex by Canaanites in the Middle Bronze Period, around 1800 BCE.(3)

****The present-day Palestinians ancestral heritage****
But all these [different peoples who had come to Canaan] were additions, sprigs grafted onto the parent treeAnd that parent tree was Canaanite[The Arab invaders of the 7th century A.D.] made Moslem converts of the natives, settled down as residents, and intermarried with them, with the result that all are now so completely Arabized that we cannot tell where the Canaanites leave off and the Arabs begin.(2)

****Jews attitude towards Arabs when reaching Palestine.****
Serfs they (the Jews) were in the lands of the Diaspora, and suddenly they find themselves in freedom [in Palestine]; and this change has awakened in them an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause, and even boast of these deeds; and nobody among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination.(4)

****Was Palestine the only, or even preferred, destination of Jews facing persecution when the Zionist movement started?****
The pogroms forced many Jews to leave Russia. Societies known as Lovers of Zion, which were forerunners of the Zionist organization, convinced some of the frightened emigrants to go to Palestine. There, they argued, Jews would rebuild the ancient Jewish Kingdom of David and Solomon, Most Russian Jews ignored their appeal and fled to Europe and the United States. By 1900, almost a million Jews had settled in the United States alone.(5)
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(1)Marcia Kunstel and Joseph Albright, Their Promised Land"
(2) Illene Beatty, Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan.
(3)The Jewish Bulletin, July 31st, 1998.
(4) Zionist writer Ahad Haam, quoted in Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest.
(5)Our Roots Are Still Alive."
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Results of a DNA study by geneticist Ariella Oppenheim appears to match historical accounts that Arab Israelis ((Palestinian 1948)) and Palestinians, together as the one same population, represent modern "descendants of a core population that lived in the area since prehistoric times", albeit religiously first Christianized then largely Islamized, and all eventually culturally Arabized.

American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

the Canaanites is belong to j haplogroups j1 and j2 the Palestinian is the native of Palestine - Nabataeans "bedouin and arab And are found mainly in the negev desert " and Canaanites "Palestinian people - are found mainly in among the population of gaza and west bank and other palestinian populations around the world "

@***@Natufian culture 12,500 to 9,500 BC.@***@
Jericho city is the oldest inhabited city in the world dated 9,500 b c was natufian not canaanite .

the canaanite inhabited palestine 4000 b.c to 3500 b.c

@***@Nabataean culture @***@
j1 in the Levant associated with the ancient Nabataeans. It entered Ethiopia in the Neolithic with the Neolithic revolution and spread of agriculture and delivered to the southern Levant and Arabian plate in one of the oldest human movements , Nabataeans archeological sites
Petra in Jordan
Bosra in Syria
Mad'in-Salah in northwest Saudi Arabia.
Shivta in Negev Desert of Palestine.

and by the way the Nabataean culture is related to the Natufian culture .

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