Anati goes further than Cohen in that he claims the invaders really were the Israelites. Both Cohen and Anati are in the unenviable position of having discovered truths which conflict with the accepted wisdom. And there is good reason to do this. The Middle Bronze Age invaders, after some centuries of rural settlement, expanded almost overnight into an empire, stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. History knows of one such empire.
Archaeology knows of one such empire.
The same adjustment which restores the Exodus and Conquest to history does the same to the United Kingdom of David and Solomon. The Empire fell, bringing the Middle Bronze Age to an end. The biblical accounts of the revolt of the ten northern tribes and the invasion of Shishak king of Egypt make the debate irrelevant. The period following the end of the Empire was one of much unrest, but saw tremendous literary achievements. Since this period, the Late Bronze Age, was the last period before the Iron Age, and since the Iron Age was believed to have been the Israelite Period, the Late Bronze Age was called the Canaanite Period.