SvennoJ said:
It's not even true. The Natufians were first in the area. Jericho was founded 9,600 BC, Jerusalem 3,000 BC. The Israelites 'invaded' in 1,290 BC, led by Moses across the Red Sea into then called Canaan. The Philistines (Hebrew word for invaders) came from Crete in the 12th century BC, shortly after the Israelites. So no, Palestinians were in the 'holy land' before Israelites. |
I agree with that but I need to add that there was no Exodus from Egypt. A group of hundreds of thousands can't wander around the desert for 40 or 50 years and not leave archeological evidence. Yet we find none in the Sinai desert. Not to mention Egypt owned and controlled the Sinai and Palestine areas at the time of the so called Exodus. So were the Israelites fleeing from Egypt into Egypt?