> I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in that region who had their land occupied and was cleansed from the region.

And I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in that region who that ethnicity cleansed from the region according to their own holy book. :)

Deuteronomy 20:16-17 (God telling Joshua, leader of the Israelites, to go to war)

> 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.