Who are israel's native people?

Answer 1

According to The Bible, Adam and Eve because they were formed from the soil. You can't get any more "native" than that. However according to academic concensus, e.g. University historians and archaelogists, the natives of Israel are the ancient Canaanites, semitic peoples who inhabited those lands from the time of the earliest stone age. Archeological evidence shows, the Canaanites predated even Babylon, and there is dispute now, as to whether or not to call Babylon the "cradle of civilization" because Canaanite cities in fact predate it. There is evidence of organized settlements in ancient Canaan, going all the way back to 10,000 B.C. Controversy surrounds such theories however because they suggest, the peoples of the Middle East were already civilized, having well organized societies, while Europe was still inhabited by Neanderthals. Whether they had organized settlements or not as early as that, remains contentested, and largely unproven, however what IS proven, is that the semitic people who went on to become the Canaanites, have been living there since their ancestors first left Africa, making the area one of the oldest continually inhabited and farmed places on earth. The reason, some have theorized, that most of the Arabian peninsula is desert, is because people have been living there so long, the soil was simply exhausted. That, is the general concensus and agreement; that the "natives" are the ancient Canaanites, who have been living there since early paleolithic times, almost since humankind learned how to make tools.