History of Canaan (aka Palestine)

This looks pretty good, despite not much questioning the Torah narrative of the First Temple period.

Note that Jews (or Israelites) were never completely expelled.  In the Babylonian Exile, it was only elites who were taken prisoner.  Some others fled, so the Jewish Diaspora actually begins then.

Likewise after the sacking of Jerusalem, Jews were only banned from the city and nearby areas.  Many remained in the surrounding area.  Many snuck back into Jerusalem anyway, and it was not long before Jewish access to Jerusalem was officially granted for special days.

Basically, not all Jews (or other groups within Canaan) ever left the region.  And there were many other groups who were not Jews.  Canaan has always been multicultural and multiethnic, perhaps the most multiethnic place on earth.

And this only covers a one millenium period.  Such cities as Jericho were settled many millenia  earlier (9th Century BCE...among the earliest human cities).   Ancestors of all the people who settled Europe must have at least passed through Canaan at one time or another because it's the land bridge between African and Europe and Asia.  Plus, even 2000 years is so many generations ago, nearly all of our ancestors are common, we only differ in our proportion of ancestries and the portion that stayed in our genes across generations.  And we differ from the cultures that we identify with, selected and re-selected over and over by friends and influencers.  No such identification provides the right to displace settled people from their lands and homes.  Even ancestry and ancient injustice do not do that.  Modern injustice should be settled with as much justice as possible and humanity.  The minimum standard of justice for Palestinians demands full Right of Return and social equality to Jews in the full territory they were displaced from.

No one group has a unique claim on Canaan as their homeland.  Many groups do, and because of it's central location, everyone alive today has ancestors who once lived there.  In particular, the Palestinian Muslims and Christians of 1900 had as much likely descent from ancient Canaanites as European Jews, if not far more.

The Philistines were originally colonizers.  They created the coastal cities, like Gaza, which most impressed the Romans.  So, according to this account, the Romans named the area Palestine after the Philistines in 500 BCE.  (Though they were colonizers, within only a few generations even the Philistines had substantial native Canaanite descent.)  Another account I am now reading suggests the name Palestine goes back further than this.