"Thus said the Sovereign God to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are from the land of the Canaanites—your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel was likely born around the time that Josiah's reforms were kicking into high gear, so, you know, do with this what you will. (It signals to me that perhaps the Official State Narrative wasn't super persuasive before the Babylonians got to town.)
So where does all this leave us?
1) Israelites and Canaanites were likely basically the same peoples, with different customs. They were not "ethnically" different in any way, except that they eventually became a separate "ethnos" in the hiiiighly academic sense of "having a common national or cultural tradition," belonging to different peoplehoods, with different religious-tribal customs, different ideas about what made you an insider and outsider, etc. But were they "ethnically" different, in the way that we use it today? Nauxpe. Nope. Nawp. Which means...
2a) Both Israelites/Jews and Palestinians have existed on that patch of land as far back as history goes, and
2b) Those of us who have wayback Jew ancestry (see above: you can be part of the Jewish ethnos/people without being an ethnic Jew, dig) are related, genetically, to Palestinians. Surprise, surprise? (To whom, exactly??) And it also means that
3) The "God gave us this land to conquer and encouraged us to genocide the locals" narrative was originally a political fabrication and it has since been used for innumerable horrific political ends, including now."
"Do not pick sides, except the side of love which dares to speak the truth even if it’s risky; love that is committed to finding a way for all peoples to thrive, peacefully."
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/martinkramer/files/forgotten_truth_balfour_declaration.pdf
https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/conquest/?ref=life-is-a-sacred-text-newsletter
"Thus said the Sovereign God to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are from the land of the Canaanites—your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel was likely born around the time that Josiah's reforms were kicking into high gear, so, you know, do with this what you will. (It signals to me that perhaps the Official State Narrative wasn't super persuasive before the Babylonians got to town.)
So where does all this leave us?
1) Israelites and Canaanites were likely basically the same peoples, with different customs. They were not "ethnically" different in any way, except that they eventually became a separate "ethnos" in the hiiiighly academic sense of "having a common national or cultural tradition," belonging to different peoplehoods, with different religious-tribal customs, different ideas about what made you an insider and outsider, etc. But were they "ethnically" different, in the way that we use it today? Nauxpe. Nope. Nawp. Which means...
2a) Both Israelites/Jews and Palestinians have existed on that patch of land as far back as history goes, and
2b) Those of us who have wayback Jew ancestry (see above: you can be part of the Jewish ethnos/people without being an ethnic Jew, dig) are related, genetically, to Palestinians. Surprise, surprise? (To whom, exactly??) And it also means that
3) The "God gave us this land to conquer and encouraged us to genocide the locals" narrative was originally a political fabrication and it has since been used for innumerable horrific political ends, including now."
From. Your Life Is a Sacred Text
"Do not pick sides, except the side of love which dares to speak the truth even if it’s risky; love that is committed to finding a way for all peoples to thrive, peacefully."
Love this Alicia!
Thank you! May you have a peaceful, happy day! <3 Mua!