Original sentence: However, the British censuses are believed by some to have significantly undercounted the Bedouin.If we exclude the Jewish population (although at the time a significant proportion of them would have been considered Palestinian), this implies 88% Muslim, 11% Christian, and 1% other.While most Palestinians define themselves as Arabs, some Palestinian intellectuals prefer to emphasize their continuity with the previous population of the area, and see themselves as Canaanite rather than Arab (cf.While there are various older or different definitions of the term "Palestinian" (discussed in a section of Definitions of Palestine), the overwhelming majority of uses of the term today are in reference to the people, mainly Arabs, whose ancestors inhabited Palestine before 1918
Edited sentence: While most Palestinians define themselves as Arabs, some Palestinian intellectuals prefer to emphasize their continuity with the previous population of the area, and see themselves as Canaanite rather than Arab (despite no evidence to this claim as there is no knowledge of what occured to the descendants of the inhabitants of Canaan at all-cf.While there are various older or different definitions of the term "Palestinian" (discussed in a section of Definitions of Palestine), the overwhelming majority of uses of the term today are in reference to the people, mainly Arabs, whose ancestors inhabited Palestine before 1949