Well, your biggest confusion there is thinking Canaanites are Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims. The Canaanites are Canaanites, a seperate people entirely, who are pretty much extinct now. Both Canaanites and Jews preclude Islam by thousands of years. There were a few Jewish kingdoms, but wether or not they fullfill any prophecies, or biblical thoughts really has no place in a political conversation.
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Originally Posted by Courage the Cowardly Dog
Who was there first is a long and very religous debate. Although as I understand it in modern times in the 19th century Jews began to return and purchased some of the then useless land and began to settle it again, they created jobs and hence got many arabs who began to move in. This is also why Israel HAS to have checkpoints and not a zero tolerence fence because TO THIS DAY most of their workforce is Palestinian.
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It's actualy very clearly stated in the Koran, and logically one has to admit what it means when the Koran resurps passages of the first and second testaments. There were many other religions which "came first" but that's not so much the issue, unless someone tries to call Jews who are indegenous to the land "collonizers" or outsiders. Jews started returning to the land long before the 19th century, but you're very right in noting that along with the biggest Jewish influx also came a huge influx of Arabs too as the quality of life improved.
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