Ihab Salim-Independent journalist-Sandviken-Sweden-INA:

Canaanite civilization is an ancient civilization emerged since 5000 BC in the region of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria,the name of the Canaanites came in the Torah Genesis Chapter 10 verse 19:((The Canaanite borders extended from Sidon toward Gerar until Gaza, and toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Tzevoyim, until Lasha)).
the Canaanite are Arabs al-Qahtaniya, which migrated from southern Arabian Peninsula,the Canaanites who inhabited the coastal areas north of Tyr until the upper coast of Syria called the Phoenicians,the Canaanites who lived in Palestine were called Filstien,were the first humans lived there.
the Canaanites Speak Language Alamurion,historic monuments
of the Palestinian Canaanite Exposure to Operations of hide and destruction and theft always by the Zionist movement.

The name:

the Theories about the name of Canaanites:

1-go back to Kanaan Ben Sam Ben Noah
2-Name carries the meaning of the color red Purple because of the color of their skin red or the red dye which they manufacture.
3-Name Canaa mean against the high,therefore Canaanites were the inhabitants of the occupied low.


Jerusalem Canaanite:

The first name of the city of Jerusalem is (Aursalm) before five thousand years,the proportion of the founder (Salem),(City Lebos) is the name the other,a reference to the name (Alibosien Canaanites),its king (Malky Sadek) was a peace-loving under the Prophet Ibrahim,until he was called (King of Peace),Because of this, called (the city of peace).
The city is called in Arabic translation of the ancient texts of the Bible and the Torah ((Jerusalem), the Arabization of the name Alkanaani (Iroshlim).
In accordance with the travel of Kings II(one of Asfar Altnach and the Torah),Jerusalem was known as the name (AL-Quds),referring to the Canaanites Alibosien,they are original Arabs,Prophet David took Jerusalem(AL-Quds) in 1004 AD.
in the The Middle Ages,especially in a document Omar bin al-Khattab,the city took the name (Ailia) or (Elia),shortened name (Cologne Kapetolina Elia),who took the city by the Romanian authorities Alambrootoorip in 131 AD,the city called also (Bet AL-Maqdes),the Palestinians Canaanites call it today name (AL-quds AL-Sharif),to confirm the sanctity of the city,While the Israeli occupation called the(Jerusalem AL-Quds).
The historic first letters to the city in the ancient Egyptian curse in 18 century BC,when they were called (Eshmam),one of the enemy groupings of Pharaohs,the city called (Rchillmm) in the annals of the Pharaohs in the century 14 AD,in the Tel el-Amarna letters written in Akkadian name (Aroslima),the Historical records indicated that the city is Canaanite Arab.
City of Jerusalem is a holy city to Muslims,Christians and Jews,the city suffered many invasions because of its religious and geographical location,the Persians burned in 614 AD,the Crusaders occupied the city in 1099 AD,then the Iraqi Kurdish leader (Salah al-Din AL-Aioby) the expulsion of the invaders,Salah al-Din was born in the village of Tikrit,it is the same village where Saddam Hussein was born,then the Alosamnyen occupied the city,then the British,but the campaign was the heaviest in its history by the Israeli occupation,Israel occupied the western part of the city in 1948,to declare the capital of Israel in 1949,then the Israelis had occupied the eastern part of the city in 1967,it is the part that contains the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Resurrection of the Palestinians Canaanites and the world.
It is important to say that the Canaanites Palestinians are Arabs, Muslims and Christians, Jews and other religions and had been living in peace in Palestine without distinguishing between religions.