[lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:59:46 -0600

Lawrence claims that the Jews have been in Israel for 3000 years. I don't think so. For the past 2000 they've been scattered over the face of the earth. The land of Israel-Palestine has been either the home of or governed by the Canaanites, the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Hurians, the Hebrews, the Philistines (from whom the name Palestine comes), the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Ptolemies of Egypt, the Seleucids of Syria, the Romans, Muslim Arabs (CE 638), the Abbasids in Baghdad, (750), followed by the Seljuks, Fatimids, and European Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks (1517) -- then it really starts to get complicated. Just thought Lawrence should know that the world is not as simple as he thinks it.


Thus, the Jews lived in the
area for approximately two millennia before the Muslims got there.  The
Muslims conquered them but didn't drive them out of the land.  Thus, their
presence in the land is approaching a continuous four millennia.

And do you grant that claim to the American Indians?


I admire the Jews because they are willing to fight for their land.  They
don't whimper, they don't whine and they are damned fine warriors.  You've
got to love them . . . well, some of us do.

That's the most empty, pathetic thing I've ever read. I support the State of Israel because nobody'll give the Jews a break. They NEED a homeland even though the idea of a religious state appalls me.


Mike Geary, former Tenderfoot, BSA.




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