Now I will quote the very same article that YOU got your lazy ass to do.
"They are best known as the people who lived “in a land flowing with milk and honey” until they were vanquished by the ancient Israelites and disappeared from history. But a new scientific report reveals that the genetic heritage of the Canaanites survives in many modern-day Jews and Arabs." (First paragraph of
https://archive.is/biLke).
Second paragraph then furthermore starts saying, and I quote, "The
study in Cell also shows that migrants from the distant Caucasus Mountains combined with the indigenous population to forge the unique Canaanite culture that dominated the area between Egypt and Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, lasting from approximately 3500 B.C. until 1200 B.C." with, fun fact, a guy from Jerusalem's Hebrew University, says that all individuals from the sites they researched (From the Modern Levant, aka where Israel, Sinai, Palestine, Lebanon, and so on are, to the Caucasus and Iran were all sharing more than half of their own DNA with the Canaanites that infact, 90% of the Lebanese can trace their DNA ancestry to the Canaanites. Palestine can only do half much like the Jews. This article further finishes off with "“the present-day inhabitants of the region are, to a large extent, descended from its ancient residents,”"
So no, the Canaanites were not Arabs. They lived between the Egyptian Pharoahs (At this point, Egypt was not the modern day Islamic Arabic. It became so around 640 CE, after the fall of Rome) and Mesopotamia which was Arabic.
The Jews literally spawned from the Canaanites. So the Jewish Arabs were there before the Palestinians who claim their descendance from Canaan, yet both the Jews and the Palestinians are only more than 50% Canaanite. Lebanese are 90%.