Rigby5
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We know the archeological record for the area.How do you know the land was owned by the Canaanites?It’s ethnic cleansing anytime anyone does it. Is it wrong for Palestinians to remain on their land?What have Hamas and the PLO been trying to do for decades? Or is it only ethnic cleansing when Israel supposedly does it?
Is it their land?
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Absolutely.
The Jews officially left Palestine around 70 AD with the Roman Diaspora decree.
Those that hung around were killed by the Christian Crusaders.
By 1800 a few returned, but less than 5% of the population.
And it was never the Land of the Hebrew, it was the Land of Canaan, owned by the Canaanites mostly.
The Hebrew were temporary invaders who could long hold onto the land or the native peoples.
It always belonged to the Palestinians, and the Jews were never native.
There was no one there before the Canaanites.
We know the archeological record for the area.
The Canaanites go back to 6000 BC in Jericho.
The Hebrew tribes likely lived in the Sinai until a bad drought around 1800 BC, when they went to Egypt.
So Hebrew have no claim at all to any of Palestine except that is where King David reached the peak of Hebrew power.
But that only lasted for a few hundred years.
Link?
What sort of link are you interested in?
Since the Hebrew were nomadic before invading the Land of Canaan, we know they did live there before 1000 BC.
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The terms Hebrews (Hebrew: עברים / עבריים, Modern: ʿIvrim / ʿIvriyyim, Tiberian: ʿIḇrîm / ʿIḇriyyîm; ISO 259-3: ʕibrim / ʕibriyim) and Hebrew people are mostly taken as synonymous with the Semitic-speaking Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still nomadic. However, in some instances it may also be used in a wider sense, referring to the Phoenicians, or to other ancient groups, such as the group known as Shasu of Yhw on the eve of the Bronze Age collapse,[1] which, although not an ethnonym,[2][3] appears 34 times within 32 verses[4][5][6] of the Hebrew Bible.
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Hebrews - Wikipedia
Do you want to learn more about the natives, like the Canaanites, Chaldeans, Nabatinians, Phoenicians, Philistines, Urites, Amorites, etc.?
Because no one thinks the Hebrew were natives there.
If they had lived in the Land of Canaan, they would have had the River Jordan, so never have had to leave.