Yehoshua #10: Introducing Perek 3: Ethnic Cleansing? - Jan 26, 2026 - How are we meant to understand the command to eradicate the Canaanites, in light of the Torah's many examples and imperatives of compassion? It is not about their threat to us; it's about their identity. And the preference would have been to eradicate the identity and keep the Canaanim.