@Glennn,
Quote: Yeah but they're illegal occupiers who build illegal settlements--among other things--in contravention of International law
No mate, the ISRAELIS occupied that land from 15,000 B.C., apart from the times they were removed by superior forces such as the Persians under Nebuchadnezzar and other nations, for a while and then right up until 70 A. D., when they were removed by the Romans, after which, the Palestinian's moved in again.
The reason why God sent the descendants of Shem into the land of the firstborn son of Noah, Ham/Egypt, where they interbred with the descendants of Ham the firstborn for 215 years before God killed all the first born Egyptians, after which he called his son out of Egypt, in who was the spirit of Firstborn, was because of what Canaan, the son of Ham and youngest descendant of Noah had done to him while he lay naked in his tent in a drunken stupor;
Genesis 9: 24; When Noah sobered up and learnt what his youngest descendant had done to him, he cursed Canaan and blessed his second son Shem, on who, he then bestowed the blessing of first born.
Jubilees 7: 13; And Ham knew that his father had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed his son. and he parted from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. And he built for himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Ne’elatama’uk.
The Book of Jubilees Chapter 8: When Noah divided the Land among his three sons, Shem received the middle portion, from the delta of the river of Egypt, north to Lebanon and east to India, while Ham received the land of Africa to the south, and Japheth received the land to the north of Lebanon, which according to the book of Jubilees 8: 30; It is said that the Land of Japheth included the five great islands and a great land in the north. But it is cold, and the land of Ham is Hot, and the land of Shem (
The middle son) is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.
The sons of Noah then divided their portion of land among their sons, and it is written in Jubilees 9: 14; “And thus the sons of Noah divided unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, imprecating a curse on everyone who sought to seize the portion that had not fallen to him by lot. And they all said, ‘So be it; so be it,’ for themselves and for their sons forever throughout their generations til the day of judgement, etc.”
Then in chapter 10: 29; we read; “And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river Egypt, that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (That is to) the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of the Jordan and from the border of the sea. And Ham his father, and Cush and Mizraim, his brothers said unto him: ‘Thou hast settled in a land which is not thine, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if thou dost do so, thou and thy sons will fall in the land and be accursed through sedition; for by sedition ye have settled; and by sedition will thy children fall, and thou shalt be rooted out forever, etc.
And when in 15,000 B. C., they claimed their rightful inheritance, See Judges' 3, 1-2; So the Lord left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan.
He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before.