“There’s no connection between the ancient Philistines & the modern Palestinians, whose ancestors came from the Arabian Peninsula to the Land of Israel thousands of years later.” He ...

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...

The Philistines have been described as probably ... in the 12th century BCE and immediately made enemies with the Israelites. Years of conflict followed before their civilization crumbled, around ...