PALESTINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY MAY BACKFIRE: In Palestinians, Jebusites, and Evangelicals David Wenkel writes in The Middle East Quarterly about a Palestinian attempt to undermine Evangelical support for Israel by claiming Palestinians are descendants of Jebusites who preceded the Israelites in Canaan.

They may want to rethink that strategy:

Still other evangelical Christians may see Palestinian claims of Jebusite heritage as reason to dismiss any righteousness to Palestinian national claims. God had ordered the Jebusites annihilated because of their sins. While Palestinians say that Jewish immigrants improperly displaced Palestinians, evangelicals may interpret Palestinian claims of Jebusite heritage as reason to further support Israel.

Back to the drawing board.

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