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Uh, well they should probably decide if they're Phillistines, or Canaanites and get their stories straight, right?

I suppose the idea is to manipulate the terminology to mean "from the land of Canaan", in which case, anyone can be a Canaanite if it means winning an argument. Even then, one belief is the Canaanites mainly became the Lebanese Phoenicians. Another large group of Canaanites became Jews, were wiped out, or both. Phillistines are from Crete/Greece/Asia Minor and they were actually invaders who went to war against a Jewish/Canaanite resistance over the area we now call Gaza. So what's super absurd is claiming both titles AND calling themselves semitic Arabs. You can also find scholarly essays claiming these Palestinian Arabs were also Jebusites, and really any tribe you can mention that's fallen off the face of the earth, in some desperate attempt to claim an indegenous right and erase the fact that they are the descendents who threw the Jews off the land after 2000 years. You won't find a single book published in Arabic which refers to any one Palestinian people prior to Israel's creation.