In The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest, John Walton suggests that the point of Israel\u2019s invasion was more about the dismantling of the community of which the Canaanites were a part than ending their lives. It could be compared to what the Allies set out to do during World War II. They were on a mission to end the Nazi regime, but that didn\u2019t mean they had to kill every German.