Comment on Interesting analogy
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days agoThe 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.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
By 1947 they had been calling themselves Palestines for centuries
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 days 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.