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Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the bible the Canaanites were there first. Not sure what she's talking about.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And this is just one of the many things wrong in the Bible. Hebrew is a Canaanite dialect, mutually intelligible with the others. The Greeks didn’t distinguish Hebrew from Phoenician. The Bible though insists that the two people are distinct and that the ancient Hebrews must genocide the Canaanites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They're completely different which is why they needed to kill them. Emo Philips covered the distinction here:

https://youtu.be/l3fAcxcxoZ8