Present Mideast issues can’t be adequately dealt with unless the true historical basis for Israeli national sovereignty is understood. There is strong evidence from both biblical and secular sources.

Palestinians aren’t the descendants of the original owners of the land. A nation of seven allied groups lived there between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. They were called Caanites and the land was Canaan. This is known because there was trade with peoples around, including Egypt. Some of their correspondence has been found.

They were incredibly degraded, sacrificing infants, bestiality. I’ve seen photos of their status depicting it, mass disease-causing sex orgies linked to idol worship, and general, extreme cruelty.

A small Chaldean family group from the Mesopotamian city of Ur migrated to Canaan. They were led by Abraham, recorded by the Jewish Torah in Genesis. Several decades later, another group of descendants led by Jacob, who was Abraham’s grandson, entered Egypt to escape a severe famine. They increased greatly there in the next 400 years, but were miserably enslaved. Led by a great legal innovator, Moses, they made a mass escape. They lived in the desert and oasis south of Canaan for 40 years and were known as Hebrews or Israelites.

Then they entered Canaan, maintaining God intended it for them, because the iniquity of the Amorite was now full. Amorites were a large, allied tribe there. The Canaans were killed in battle or driven out. A minority was assimilated. They had sent to Egypt for aid, saying the Habiru were attacking. However, Egypt has its own internal and foreign troubles and was likely focused on MEGA which is Make Egypt Great Again efforts. No aid was sent and the Canaanites were eventually destroyed. None are alive today and they make up a tiny part of the Mideast genetic pool.

In the following centuries, Israel was conquered by empires of Babylon, Persia, Assyria, Syria, Greece, Rome, Arab Muslims, Catholic crusaders and the Ottoman Turks. Many Israelis were exiled but a significant number always remained. Most never gave up their national claim.

Other groups infiltrated Israel long before and around the time of Jesus Christ. One was the Edomites or Idumeans, from south and east of the Dead Sea, which is present day Jordan. A few became rulers, such as King Herod the Great, who was an Edomite installed by the Romans. Edomites are the basic genetic ancestors of the Palestinians mixed with Arabs and likely some people brought in by conquerors to occupy and work the land.

The Romans worsened later historical misconceptions by naming a combined Israel-Jordan area Palestine after the Philistines, who were a seafaring people who had previously conquered the Gaza Strip. Romans were locked in bitter hatred with the Jews, named after Judah, a large Israelite tribe. They massacred many thousands in rebellions of 70 and 130 A.D. Many Jews then fled to distant countries, but those remaining clung to their national claims.

Finally, after centuries of largely foreign control, the British gave up their post-World War I mandate there. Israel was restored in 1948 as a Jewish homeland, backed by the U.S and the U.N.

Israel has the valid prior claim to the land. They ruled it on and off after the Canaanite defeat thousands of years ago and later Jewish residents never gave up national status. This includes modern Israel, the West Bank, and originally, the Gaza Strip. Local control was ceded to Gaza. However, the Hamas terrorists took over with ongoing disastrous results.