Comment on Interesting analogy

• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ve all been dead for about two millennia

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The area has had a population for thousands of years. The original Canaanites are the people who were still living there in 1947 when would be Israelis invited themselves to that land.

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      By 1947 they had been calling themselves Palestines for centuries

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well more like millennia. The Romans called the area Syria-Palestine. The Canaanite thing is really just to demonstrate that the Israelis weren’t the original inhabitants even in ancient history.

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• Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I honestly have no idea who those people are

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The people the tribes of Israelites conquered to take ancient Israel.

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    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe im encroaching on a bit of history i dont know well enough, but isnt tribes of Israelites just a fancy way of saying Egyptian refugees? Deport them - I bet they even came in caravans, didn’t they?

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lmao it’s a little more complicated than that, I’m being very unserious.

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