Those who say the Hebrews were a branch of the Canaanites (despite what’s written in Genesis 10) ignore the fact that the “Habiru” were nomads in the countryside away from the cities in the Land of Canaan (which extended from the upper Euphrates to the Nile), nomads such as Abraham and his clan, who of course grew to become the nation of Israel while slaves in Egypt, who came out by the Wadi Tumilat to conquer Canaan when the Ice Age was ending. Some of the Habiru who had remained in the Promised Land no doubt joined with Joshua leading Israel to conquer the Canaanites circa 1400 b. c., and probably some slain for having sided with the cursed Canaanites.
