When God made a covenant with Abram (Abraham) around the second Millennium BC, He told Abram that his descendants (the Jewish people) would be given a land of their own. It would stretch from the river of Egypt (believed to be a small stream south of Gaza now known as the Wadi el Arish) to the great river, the Euphrates. (Genesis 15:18-21) This land is known as the Promised Land (Canaan) and it encompasses the lands of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites of that day.

At this time, the West Bank and Gaza (occupied by the Palestinian people) are a part of the land promised to the Jewish people by God; a land that God has given them as an everlasting possession. (Genesis 17:8)

Although the Jewish people, at times, have not been in control of their land, never the less, the land that makes up the Promised Land (from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River and south from the Wadi el Arish north to the Euphrates River) has been promised to them by God. This being so, the land should not be divided up and given away. In fact, we see in the Old Testament book of Joel that God does not look favorably on the Promised Land being divided up by the nations. (Joel 3:1-2)

Sadly, much death and turmoil has occurred in the land of Canaan over who will occupy the land. The "Road Map To Peace" however (as put forth by the United States of America in a sincere attempt to bring about a lasting peace between the Jewish people and their Palestinian neighbors) is not the answer.