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Posted by townsend (A) on May 08, 2006 at 16:04:44

In Reply to: Arab Propaganda always fails to note the posted by ArdRi on May 8, 2006 at 06:23:40:

". . . preexistance of Israel in Jerusalem from when King David paid the previous owner for the land."

If you are going to appeal to the Bible to settle the matter, you might want to review the history BEFORE the books of Samuel and the reign of David.

Genesis talks about "Canaanites in the land," and this was before Abram and his descendants set foot in the land.

Canaanites, naturally, were the native inhabitants of Canaan, a geographical name found in the Bible and other Near Eastern texts (Assyro-Babylonian and Egyptian texts). Terms like Syria/Palestine and Israel (originally name of a person/people, not a geographical name) belong to a much later period.

At any rate, native inhabitants were dwelling there long before the Israelites arrived . . .

townsend