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Originally posted by Hugh Glassbecause it has your water supply too?
only for a short time, for unfortuneatly we humans seem to have a need to argue about one thing or another.
why is it the grass in another mans field always looks better?
the article presents the posited academic theory that the Palestinians were originallyJewish and converted to Islam
The author suggests that there was no large-scale Diaspora out of Palestine -- that most Jews in Palestine necessarily remained in Palestine and over the centuries converted to Islam -- so their ancestors would today be known as 'Palestinians'.
He says that the presence of so many Jews in Eastern Europe and Spain is the result of the spread of Judaism in the 3rd and 4th centuries and so represent local conversions.
Therefore the notion of a 'return' to Israel by Jews who had no ancestral roots there is a mythology invented in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries to justify the subsequent invasion.
Genetic studies could address the believability of some of this.
Originally posted by spruce112358agreed.
The author suggests that there was no large-scale Diaspora out of Palestine -- that most Jews in Palestine necessarily remained in Palestine and over the centuries converted to Islam -- so their ancestors would today be known as 'Palestinians'.
He says that the presence of so many Jews in Eastern Europe and Spain is the result of the spread of Judais ...[text shortened]... the subsequent invasion.
Genetic studies could address the believability of some of this.
