If British, Israelis and Americans have malevolently tried to tie these multi-ethnic people to words Philistine and Canaanites, having led them to identify as Palestinians (I might have done so myself in the past, tempted to read too much into the unfortunate etymology, beguiled by certain writers and analysts in the nineties), then it could be that this is the very sin that is leading to the West’s increasingly dystopian, 1984-like, mass-surveillance riddled police-state with world war hanging over us like a cloud (mushroom variety?) or hovering over us as an eagle, and leading to the current trouble in the Middle East and Ukraine. God is a fearsome judge who hates sin.
