Will this resolve the conflict over who owns Jerusalem?

4,000-Year-Old Tombs Found Near Jerusalem Mall
Mati Milstein
for National Geographic News
November 21, 2006

"Not far from Jerusalem, Israel's biggest shopping mall, builders accidentally uncovered a 4,000-year-old cemetery last summer. This month the ancient site began yielding jewelry, armaments, and ritual offerings.

The cemetery find suggests that the Canaanites—a Semitic people who inhabited ancient Palestine and Phoenicia beginning about 5,000 years ago—had a much more extensive settlement in the city than previously thought."

Pete's Points:

I like this news. It should assist well meaning Israelis and Palestinians to resolve one of the major issues that have burdened discussions and negotiations between the parties about ownership of the land in Jerusalem.

Neither side owns it. It belongs to the descendants of the Canaanites who lived there - unless of course anyone is prepared to admit that it belongs to the group of people who conquered it last.

If this reality is admitted then those who are there NOW have the final claim to ownership unless they themselves are ousted.