Canaan Was the Name of the Land and the Canaanites Were the Indigenous People of It, of What Much Later in the History of Civilization Virtually Concurrently Became the Biblical Promised Land of Israel and the Jews and the Palestine Homestead of the Philistines, the Palestinians
In truth, the land of what is now Israel was at first from time immemorial occupied by the Canaanites and was Canaan, https://www.britannica.com/place/Canaan-historical-region-Middle-East, Canaan - World History Encyclopedia, Canaan - Wikipedia , New Analysis of Ancient DNA Proves that Canaanites Survived Biblical Massacre | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net). Canaan was invaded sometime after the Canaanites gained their independence from, as a colony of, ancient imperial Egypt, after which Canaan fell under the shifting dominance of miscellaneously changing other foreign powers until it ultimately was invaded and permanently occupied and settled by the Israelites and Phoenicians, the latter come to be called the Philistines (currently the Palestinians), with Israel becoming the predominate power of the land of Canaan under King Solomon of Israel, but with it becoming substantially and increasingly displaced in population and culture to a marginal status centuries later by the Philistines, Middle Easterners then in all ethnic, cultural and linguistic aspects, and not Arabs nor of the Islamic religion (not until the Arab conquest shortly, in years, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in 632 CE), along with miscellaneous others, as well as welcomed there, by Roman authority, immigrants from the imperial Roman province of Arabia, under conquering imperial Roman rule and its dismemberment and dissolution of the intact kingdom of Israel, or Judea, in 70 CE and its further dissolution in sociocultural identity as a territory thereafter, under which the territorial members of the dismembered kingdom of Israel, including Judea, were eventually renamed Palestine by Roman Emperor Hadrian circa 132 CE, Titus | Roman Emperor & Conqueror of Jerusalem | Britannica, Palestine - Roman Rule, Jewish Revolts . Crusades | Britannica, Timeline of the name Palestine - Wikipedia, Palestine - Roman Rule , Judaea (Roman province) - Wikipedia . Both the ancient invader-settler Israelites and Phoenicians/Philistines who took over the land of Canaan were Middle Eastern Semitic peoples linguistically, culturally and ethnically, and not European or Arabic. Modern DNA tests on the skeletal remains of the Canaanites have linked the Canaanites to the Lebanese as their primary descendants and Iranians as appreciably in part having been among their ancestors, based on the following news links, Ancient DNA offers clues to the Canaanites’ fate (sciencenews.org), Ancient DNA reveals fate of the mysterious Canaanites | Science | AAAS; however, I heard the report on this genetic finding on radio in 2017, in which I clearly heard it stated that 12% of the Palestinian population is genetically linked to the Canaanites.The plan and actual undertaking for Jews to repopulate and reclaim Palestine as reestablished Israel began with Theodor Herzl, a European Austro-Hungarian Jew, the intellectual father of Zionism (the project for a reclaimed Jewish state in or in placement of Palestine) in the late 1800s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl, a project that led to occasions of mass violence in Palestine well before it climaxed into war in the late 1940s and the establishment of the nation-state of Israel by force of warfare in 1948 under the British [Governance] Mandate of Palestine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl. The assertion that Palestine as a geopolitical entity did not exist and that geographically it was a land without a people and Jews took it as a people without a land is inconsistent with the said war for its takeover, 1948 Palestine war - Wikipedia, Israel-Palestine conflict explained: How was Israel created, who attacked first, and why are they at war in 2023? | The Independent and the series of prior crusades of Europeans to militarily seize it, The Crusades: Definition, Religious Wars & Facts | HISTORY.
They must live in mutual respect, equal justice and peace or they are inclined to ultimately mutually perish and traumatize one another along the way, along with their politically significant others. And, equal justice and peace can only come with demonstrated thoroughgoing and resolute mutual political and legal respect first.
Etymology of the word Semitic and Semitism
semitic | Etymology, origin and meaning of the name semitic by etymonline
1797, denoting the major language group that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, etc., distinguished by triliteral verbal roots and vowel inflection; 1826 as "of or pertaining to Semites," from Medieval Latin Semiticus (source of Spanish semitico, French semitique, German semitisch), from Semita (see Semite).
As a noun, as the name of a linguistic family, from 1813. In non-linguistic use, it is perhaps directly from German semitisch. In recent use often with the specific sense "Jewish," but not historically so delimited.
semitism | Etymology, origin and meaning of semitism by etymonline
1848, "characteristic attributes of Semitic languages;" 1851, "characteristic attributes of Semitic people," especially "the ways, life, practices, etc., of Jewish people;" see Semite + -ism. By 1870 in the specialized sense of "Jewish influence in a society." However a Semitist (1885) was "one versed in Semitic languages."
also from 1848
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-ism
word-forming element making nouns implying a practice, system, doctrine, etc., from French -isme or directly from Latin -isma, -ismus (source also of Italian, Spanish -ismo, Dutch, German -ismus), from Greek -ismos, noun ending signifying the practice or teaching of a thing, from the stem of verbs in -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached. For distinction of use, see -ity. The related Greek suffix -isma(t)- affects some forms.
Semite (n.)
1847, "a Jew, Arab, Assyrian, or Aramaean" (an apparently isolated use from 1797 refers to the Semitic language group), back-formation from Semitic or else from French Sémite (1845), from Modern Latin Semita, from Late Latin Sem, Greek Sēm "Shem," one of the three sons of Noah (Genesis x.21-30), regarded as the ancestor of the Semites in Bible-based anthropology, from Hebrew Shem. In this modern sense it is said to have been introduced by German historian August Schlözer in 1781.
The credit, if such it be, of having originated the name "Semitic" (from Noah's son Sem or Shem) for the Hebrew group, is to be given either to Schlözer or to Eichhorn, — to which of the two is doubtful. The first known use of the term is in Schlözer's article on the Chaldæans, in Eichhorn's Repertorium, 8, 161 (1781), and he seems to claim the honor of its invention ; but a similar claim is made by Eichhorn himself, without mention of Schlözer, in his Allgemeine Bibliothek, 6, 772 (1794). [Philip Schaff, ed., "Religious Encyclopedia," 1889]
semite | Etymology, origin and meaning of semite by etymonline
Semite (n.)
1847, "a Jew, Arab, Assyrian, or Aramaean" (an apparently isolated use from 1797 refers to the Semitic language group), back-formation from Semitic or else from French Sémite (1845), from Modern Latin Semita, from Late Latin Sem, Greek Sēm "Shem," one of the three sons of Noah (Genesis x.21-30), regarded as the ancestor of the Semites in Bible-based anthropology, from Hebrew Shem. In this modern sense it is said to have been introduced by German historian August Schlözer in 1781.
The credit, if such it be, of having originated the name "Semitic" (from Noah's son Sem or Shem) for the Hebrew group, is to be given either to Schlözer or to Eichhorn, — to which of the two is doubtful. The first known use of the term is in Schlözer's article on the Chaldæans, in Eichhorn's Repertorium, 8, 161 (1781), and he seems to claim the honor of its invention ; but a similar claim is made by Eichhorn himself, without mention of Schlözer, in his Allgemeine Bibliothek, 6, 772 (1794). [Philip Schaff, ed., "Religious Encyclopedia," 1889]
also from 1847
