
This is scientifically illiterate. The claim that Canaanite, Phoenician, and Israelite ancestry belongs exclusively to Jews, and that Levantine Lebanese and Palestinians are merely transplanted Arabian tribes, contradicts a substantial body of peer-reviewed genomic research.
Genetics research found haplogroup J2 (M172), the primary Phoenician/Canaanite genetic marker, present in high proportions across Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian populations, distributed across both Muslim and Christian communities. Highest is in Lebanon with a clear coastal-to-inland gradient consistent with ancient Phoenician settlement patterns along the coast (Tyre, Sidon, Byblos etc..)
This marker is NOT an Arab import. The initial research consensus identifies it as the genetic signature of the Canaanite-Phoenician population, with its origins tracing to the Levant and Anatolia, predating Arab expansion by millennia. Islamic expansion introduced cultural and religious change but relatively limited genetic replacement
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