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What your study proves is that Jews have been relatively homogenous for the last 2,000 years and that male Jews are more likely to marry converts than leave the tribe.
That doesn't mean that Palestinians are 'Caananites'. The Bedouin are probably the longest living group in the area, but their origins vary as well.
Genetics to NOT prove that the Palestinians were the 'ancient Caananites'. Not at all. Arabs have been moving in and out of the area for centuries. The current Pal population (including Arafat, I should add) doesn't have any more 'ingenious' claim than the Jews do.
I'm really sorry you buy into terrorist myths.
I see genetics all right when it suits your purpose. I said nothing about the Canaanites. Just reported what the research has shown which is that Palestinians are at the centre of Jewish ancestry having a closer relationship to the different clusters of Jews than the different clusters of Jews do to themselves. I read the research report. I have to wonder at your psyche which simply sees anything you do not want to see as a 'terrorist myth'. That reasoning is highly suspicious.
The Jews 'built' Palestine. That much has been demonstrated.
Did David unite the tribes of Israel into one nation and make Jerusalem their Capital? Modern archaeology is challenging the historical accuracy of this.
Very little evidence of this. Bible says David's empire flourished in the 10th century BC, but it lasted only 2 generations and it was usurped up by different rulers. It was not until the 20th Century 3,000 years under the conditions we all know that Israel again became an extensive fully fledged state.
David's Kingdom legitimises the existence of the Jewish State. The promised land for the chosen people.
The Egyptians had ruled this land for a long time then the philistines came from the west, probably from what is now Cyprus.
First king Saul's battle between David and Goliath is battle between David and Philistines.
Philistines were urban people and there is plenty of evidence of them. Archaeology shows the philistines were a cultured people.
The empire of the Philistines was real but what about the Empire on David?
Archaeology shows that settlement in the time of David, 1000 years BC were meagre, maybe just 20 villages, evidence of King David's nation building and not enough to build up even the smallest of armies. for nation building.
Finkelstein found that society at this time was comprises of shepherds and stock raising living in small groups bound together by kinship, family, clan and tribe.
Judah, David's apparent power base had no urban centre and the biblical projects attributed to his son Solomon never took place.
This view has been accepted in scholarly circles since the 1990's
2010 find Khirbet Qeiyafa Fortified walled town west of Judha, just beneath the surface. Dated to the time of King David
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Prof Israel Finkelstein Tel Aviv University 9th Century not tenth
No evidence has been found to suggest that Jerusalem was the centre of an empire in the 10th century
That David united the Northern and Southern tribes into a fabulous empire, ruled from his stronghold in Jerusalem, remains just that, a claim, nothing more.
Source
BBC - BBC TV blog: The Bible's Buried Secrets
If you watch this you will find that the power came not from the time of king David but from later and from the area which is now the West Bank.
and we know that among the descendants of these people are the Palestinians.
You simply cannot have it both ways. Say you have a right to the area because some middle east genetics have been found in you and then yell 'terrorist' when it is found that the people who have been living there all the time are the people who are strongest in such genetics.
