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Israel, Judah and Samaria were simply Canaanite States thatarose out of indigenous Canaanite culture and not from theinvasion of a mythical people called the Hebrews. 

Israel was a small Canaanite State that briefly achieved a goldenage, reaching its' height of power and glory in the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. The House of David never ruled inIsrael it ruled over the Canaanite State of Judah. 

Finklestein is convinced that the House of David did exist. Davidand Solomon were probably tribal chiefs in the hill country thatbecame the Kingdom of Judah Jerusalem was the Capital of Judah not of Israel. In the time of David and Solomon, Jerusalemwas an unimportant very small town with no great Temple. Themajor cult centers were farther to the north in the cities of Israel. Infact the great cities of Canaan that were previously attributed tothe Solomon were built by Israeli Kings like Ahab. 

It was under King Josiah that the Bible was finally written andsomething resembling modern Judaism begins to take shape inthe 7th and 8th centuries BC. It is political document that is

designed to glorify the Josiah and to connect him falsely with thegolden era when the state of Israel briefly rose up as a powerfuland advanced civilized center. 

The Bible is essentially a work of propaganda weaving, historicalfragments, and myths of various Canaanite peoples into apowerful justification for Josiah's rule and expansionist policies. 

I personally draw a positive conclusion from this research. As an American-Jew, I have long struggled with the contradictions andproblems of Zionism and the unjust policies of the State of Israeltowards Palestinians. For those brave enough to seize this

research in the right spirit, there is a solution in it for the problemsof the Middle East. Simply stated, European Jews, Middle EasternJews, and Palestinians are brothers and sisters and share acommon Canaanite ancestry. There were a small number of voices amongst the early Zionists who were against the creation of a separate Jewish state in the region. They lost out to the bigger faction lead David Ben-Gurion, who suffered from the disease of European colonialism. Ben-Gurion and those in his camp saw thenatives of the region as an obstacle to be eliminated. I believeJews around the world need to take pride not in Israel as amodern colonialist State but in the entire region Palestine as thehomeland of Canaanite and Israelite culture that we are

descended from. European Jews are simply EuropeanizedCanaanites, Palestinians, whether Muslim, Christian or Jewishwere simple Arabacized Canaanites. Even modern geneticresearch is proving that we come from the same ancestry. 

Think of Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans returning to their ancestral homelands to experience the culture and the people.They do not think they have the right to conquer the land anddispossess those who stayed behind. Rather they go back to re-connect with their cultural roots from those who are part of theliving culture. Because of Zionism, Jews lost the chance to returnto Palestine and re-connect with the Palestinians who are the

people that have carried forward the culture of ancient Canaan.Viewed in that light, I see the fight against Zionism as being asmuch my fight as the Palestinians fight. It is the Zionists whocreated a rift between family, where there should have beenfriendship and cooperation. It is modern Zionism that disconnected

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