PLO Envoy: Canaanites Were Occupiers Too
December 28, 2011 9:47 by Pesach BensonIf Newt Gingrich’s comments about Palestinian identity weren’t explosive enough, a PLO diplomat makes a counter-argument that’s an absolute bombshell.
Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO’s chief representative in the US, says the Palestinians pre-dated the Canaanites in a Washington Post op-ed:
We lived under the rule of a plethora of empires: the Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, Israelites, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Crusaders, Mongols, Ottomans and, finally, the British.
Airekat’s claim doesn’t hold water if he’s basing his argument on the bible. Everyone knows the story of Noah and the flood; numerous ancient civilizations independently attest to a world-wide deluge as well. And Canaan — Noah’s grandson – moved to the Holy Land after being cursed for his role in debasing Noah.
That means Canaan moved into an empty Holy Land. I’m not aware of any scholarly research suggesting that anyone lived in the region before the Canaanites. I’ve heard Palestinian claims of Canaanite descent, but never that they pre-date the Canaanites. That’s a stretch.
I suppose Airekat’s original Palestinians living in Canaan ”from time immemorial” were really good swimmers.
Noah curses Canaan, by Voltaire
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Mark
5:32 am
Apr 05, 2012
Next step for these idiots: Adam and Eve were the first Muslims! Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to give the troglodytes any ideas….
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Frank Selch
1:30 am
Feb 26, 2013
No need to apologize; that is what Muslims believe anyway, because that is what is written in their book of confusions!
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John
12:33 pm
Feb 25, 2013
Why do other people have to give or start ideas for these people (troglodytes, good word!!)? Are they so stupid, thick or ignorant that they can’t come up with their own credible ideas?
I suppose the next thing will be that the equally (or worse) stupid people in the U. N. will be believing them & stating that Israel were never in the land & that actually the Bible is a modern book first published in 1967 in Greenland!
It makes me so cross that many people would prefer to believe a pack of lies, than the obvious truth. Thanks for listening! & God bless you all.
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Pastor Ortiz, Sr.
7:13 pm
Feb 26, 2013
Genesis 12:1-3 “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, (before his name was changed to Abraham); Get thee out of thy country, (Ur of the Chaldees) and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
This calling of THE LORD GOD, the only true GOD: 1) IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL!! 2) THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND IT 3) THE WORLD BLESSES OR CURSES THE NATIONS BASED UPON THEIR TREATMENT OF ISRAEL: GOD BLESS THE ISRAEL OF GOD!
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Gary Katz
11:08 pm
Mar 03, 2013
It’s only a matter of time until the Palestinians claim they were the first dinosaurs.
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Frank Adam
12:11 am
Mar 05, 2013
The Philistines were good swimmers – and occupying immigrants to Ha Aretz – after the Benei Israel.
Of the little we know Palestinians were one of the waves of proto Greeks who went further than Greece and in three moves across the sea which is why the Egyptian records refer to them as the Sea Peoples, landed on the N.Egyptian and Sharon coast; another wave – the Sheredanu – settled Sardinia and gave its name and I forget the target of the third lot.
A funny aspect of PLO fake and ignorant history is that some of us remember Arafart holding a “folk festival” of Canaanite dress and cookery etc but its PR dissolved in sniggering at the post Columbus, ingredients: paprika, tomato, maize….
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Gershon Goldsteen
11:26 am
Mar 05, 2013
The Palestinians today are recent Arab immigrants. All Arabs originate in Saudi Arabia and spread out to forcibly convert people to Islam. They invaded Israel in 639 CE, 7 years after Mohammed’s death, who never came to Jerusalem. In 135 CE the Romans renamed it Palestina trying to cut the link between Jews and their land. Palestina came from Philistines, then already extinct for centuries. Philistines is an Anglicised version of the original Hebrew Phlistim, which means invaders, who came from Crete and settled the coastal area. So they cannot be descendants of the Phlishtim. In fact the Arabs claim to come from our Abraham, who settled in Canaan many centuries after the Canaanites arrived.
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Gary Katz
4:17 pm
Mar 05, 2013
The Palestinians also claim to be Canaanites and they have recently stated Jesus was Palestinian. In short, they’ll say anything they think will help their “cause,” truth and evidence being irrelevant.
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Gershon Goldsteen
11:35 am
Mar 05, 2013
Sorry, I should have said the vast majority of today’s so-called Palestinians are recent immigrants. They came from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Egypt because they were attracted by the employment being created by the Jewish returnees in the latter half of the 1800′s. For example between 1920 and 1927 British records show that the Arab population, of what was then called Mandatory Palestine west of the Jordan River, increased by 70%. This was obviously not from natural growth. The best example of them not being locals is Arafat, who was born and raised in Egypt and never set foot in the Holy Land until after the, now infamous, Oslo Accords were signed.
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Mr Paul Emmett
3:35 pm
Mar 06, 2013
This needs to be repeated over and over again.
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Keith McLennan
2:29 am
Mar 10, 2013
The engraving is by Gustave Doré, not Voltaire.
And its title is “Noah Curses Ham” – although it was actually Canaan, Ham’s son, who got the curse. No one has ever been able to figure out why the curse fell on Canaan when it was Ham who transgressed! But the Middle East was never simple, even then.
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