"Behold, I drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. Be vigilant lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you come, lest it be a snare among you." (Shemot 34:11-12)
The Arbabanel writes: ".... Since the All Mighty drives out His enemies it is unseemly that we should make a covenant with them because this would be a desecration of His honor. How much more so that friendship and a treaty with them will not succeed since after the Israelites took their land from them there is no doubt that they will always seek evil for Israel. And this is the meaning of what it says: 'the land to which you come,', i.e., since you, Israel, went into that land and took it from its inhabitants and they feel oppressed and robbed of it, how will they preserve a treaty of friendship? Rather, it will be the opposite, and they will be 'a snare among you,', i.e., when war shall break out they will join your enemies and fight you."
"And you shall drive out ALL the inhabitants of the Land." (BaMidbar 33:52)
Or HaChaim writes: " And although the verse specifically said in the case of the seven nations 'you shall utterly destroy them,' here it speaks in addition to the seven nations found there. And that is why it said specifically ALL the inhabitants of the land, i.e., even those who are not of the seven nations.
The above was noted and translated by Rabbi Meir Kahane. I took it from his penultimate article in the Jewish Press, November 2, 1990, one week before he was murdered. Rav Kahane concludes:
The seven nations do not have their special status alone, but rather all people who were there before the Jews arrived, and who see the Jews as robbers who took the land from them, have the same kind of attitude and approach of hate and revenge - and thus, the same legal status.
