the land of the Philistines is Gaza

Before you get to the song on the Red sea the Book of Exodus explains that the reason God did not take Israel directly through the land of the Philistines is because there was a worry that Irael might see war and decide to return to Egypt. The reason I believe is that in fact, the Philistines were so powerful that as far za I know, they were never conquered until Rome took them out in the last of the Punic Wars. [Rashi says that the Canaanites were weak, and that is why they had to have strong fortified walled cities. But the Phlistines were strong.] The reason I say this is that if you look in the Book of Numbers chapter 34 you will see where the people of Israel were commanded to conquer. That is where the borders of Israel were defined. The southern border goes from the salt sea until kadesh barnea and from there to the stream of Egypt and then towards the Mediterranean Sea. All that land is south of the Philistines. And in fact, in the covenant between the pieces of Abraham the patriarch there was a promise to give to his descendants all the land from the Euphrates until the river of Egypt the Nile. {That is not the same as the stream of Egypt which is right below Gaza. so, this land was promised that in the end of days this would be part of Israel. But even in the time of Joshua, that land was never conquered. Even when the tribes dived up the land, they never divided the land of the Philistines since they had not yet conquered it. Which raises the question if Israel ever takes over Gaza completely, then to which tribe would it belong? I asked this in the Litvack beit midrash study hall in my area, and someone suggested it would belong to Trump in order to build Trump Tower. At any rate, King David and King Solomon never conquered this area. [the tribe of Judah conquered that area in the time f the judges. see the book of Judges chapter 1.] Scipio Africanus (Rome) destroyed the entire nation of the Philistines [Phoenicians]in the last Punic war. [Philistines were all along the coast from the south of Israel until Carthage. Carthage was the capital city. Philistines were in general pirates. While Rome tried to do business in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Philistines kept getting in the way until war after war occurred. Rome was almost destroyed. Then Scipio Africanus decided to take the fight directly to the home base of the Philistines, Carthage. And that was that.] It occurred to me that even the patriarchs had trouble in Gaza. Abraham lived there many years until he had much trouble until left that land to go live in the land of Canaan in Beer sheva. Isaac I think I recall wanted to go live there until he was told by God to stay in the land of Canaan. The only reason this land is part of Israel is because it is within the borders that were defined by God to conquer even though Joshua and David and Solomon never in fact got around to finishing the business. I also think that Sidon (Zidon in Hebrew ) was originally a Canaanite city, but that at some point it was taken by the Phoenicians. [The Phoenician were not Canaanites]. Zidon [Sidon was the name of the first born of Canaan as it says in Genisis] I might mention that there were Canaanite that were outside the borders of the land designated by God for the children of Israel-as we see with sichon the king of the emori who ruled in the area beyond the Jordan river. Also the land of the plishtim was included, yet they were not Canaanites