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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