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@Lemming
Who was occupying the land before god gifted the land to the descendants of Abram?
Which turned out to be not a gift at all. No, they had to take the already occupied land that had it own established towns, cities and a king/s, by force and butchering "every living thing that breaths" in their path Deuteronomy 20:16, it was called Canaan.
I just recently heard a political commentator ( Melanie Phillips I think?) suggest that there was no one there but Bedouins with a few camels, goats, tents, pots and pans for cooking. This has to be a bare faced lie if the bible is to believed.