h2ohno said:
It is simply not true that the Jews 'hadn't been there' for thousands of years. There has never been a single period in the last 3,000 years in which there weren't Jews in Israel/Palestine. The leader of the Jewish people around the world continued to be the Nasi (prince or president) of Israel, for hundreds of years until the Byzantines abolished the institution. There were many Jewish revolts in Israel/Palestine against the Romans, Byzantines, and Persians for hundreds of years after Judea was destroyed. There were Jews there when the Muslims conquered the land in the 600s. There were Jews there when the Crusaders conquered it in the Middle Ages. Safed has been the home of the Jewish kabbalists for the last 500 years. The Jewish community of Hebron continued to live there uninterrupted for 3,000 years until the Hebron massacre of 1929. Every census of Jerusalem from the 1800s shows that the city had a large Jewish majority then. |
You could say the same for any other people that lived there for thousands of years. Claims on land of long gone empires are absolutely bogus anyway. Germany might as well claim Poland because they've been there a few times in history. And Norway can claim Canada and while we're at it let Italy have their North Africa land. Oh yeah, and how about we give all of North America to the natives? I mean they were first there and have lived there continuously for thousands of years.
It's all religious and political bullshit to stroke some few powerful people's power fantasy boner. So yeah, let's just nuke it, so no one can claim anything unless they want to claim an uninhabitable toxic wasteland submerged in water.
Last edited by vivster - on 11 December 2017If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.
