`  == Arabs and Palestine ==  I am not convinced with how the ancestry part stands at now. The Canaanite issue is not the only problem we have here! What about other Arabian states and tribes that inhabited Palestine like the Nabateans? Ghassanids Arab Kingdom? Iturean Arab kingdom? and more and more......  The ancestry part bluntly is written in a way that presents Arabs as 7th Century Islamic invaders new comers to Palestine!!... Arabs have been populating Palestine since 2500BC a fact that Bernard Lewis himself mentions in his book Arabs in History.. See the other Book by Philip Hitti.... Even Herod the Great was athnically an Arab and son of both Arab Sheikh and mother Sheikhah  ....  I think some editors here are not interested to see the word Arab in regard to Palestine's social and political history preceding the 7th Century. This is total unacceptable bias... And Jayjig, the stalking and removal of information under the accusation that it is an original research proves the ignorance of those who say it, not anything else.    `