Yes, it belongs to God's people! This piece of land was
orginally created by the Christian God soley for his people! It's
in the bible!
Jews and Christians are united as one as God's people and they
own the right to Israel. I was the Muslims who conquered it in the
7th century and continue to stake a claim to the territory up till
today!
What about the Canaanites?
The Israelite tribes during the period of the guidance
and leadership of Moses and Joshua mainly had to contend with
nomadic tribes; in their contacts with such groups, they absorbed
some of the attitudes and motifs of the nomadic way of life, such
as independence, a love of freedom to move about, and fear of or
disdain for the way of life of settled, agricultural, and urban
peoples.
The Canaanites,
with whom the Israelites came into contact during the conquest by
Joshua and the period of the Judges, were a sophisticated
agricultural and urban people.
The name Canaan means "Land of Purple" (a purple dye was
extracted from a murex shellfish found near the shores of
Palestine).
The Canaanites, a
people who absorbed and assimilated the features of many cultures
of the ancient Near East for at least 500 years before the
Israelites entered their area of control, were the people
who, as far as is known, invented the form of writing that became
the alphabet, which, through the Greeks and Romans, was passed on
to many cultures influenced by their successors--namely, the
nations and peoples of Western civilization.
http://history-world.org/canaanite_culture_and_religion.htm
A
number of Maronite historians claim that the Maronites were the
descendants of theCanaanite/PhoenicianMarada (ܡܪܕܐ), the original inhabitants of Lebanon
who refused both Byzantine and
Arab authorities. The reason for their
adoption of the name is disputed and historian disagree whether
this is attributed to Mar
Maron, a 4th century Syriac Christian saint, or to John
Maron, the first bishop of Lebanon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronites#History
