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Renegade
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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Re: Palestinians, history and struggle
| quote: | Originally posted by Palestinian
What happened to the Canaanites, Amorites, Jebusites, Philistines, Cretes, and other tribes who lived there since history began? They were there before the Jews arrived from Egypt. They were there when Jews named the land Israel and Judah 2000 years ago. They were also there when the Romans named the land Palestine. Jews lived amongst these tribes throughout time. |
On this point, the "Isrealites" were created when the Philistines went nuts along the west bank in about 1200-1500 BC and started ramsacking cities left-right and centre along the what is now known as the "West Bank". Refugees from several different cities of several different cultures (primarily the Canaanites though) were forced into the mountains of modern-day Isreal and formed their own culture. Through the need for these groups to "unite", Judaism - the first monotheistic religion - was created (these people were first refered to as "Isrealites" in an Egyptian tablet dated, from memory, about 1244 BC). This period of several hundred years spent as nomads in the modern-day Isreali mountains may be the basis of many Biblical myths about the history of the Isreali people, fwiw. I believe they reclaimed some land from the Philistines during this time (not sure though) and created the city of Jeruselum, which was then ramsacked by the Babylonians in the 7th century BC, with many of the Jewish people taken to Babylonia as prisoners. When Babylonia fell, Jeruselum was reclaimed and rebuilt.
Of course, none of this means that the "Isrealites" have any more of a right to the land you speak of than the "Palestinians" or vice-versa. The point is, though, that the Isrealites didn't steal this land from the tribes you're talking about, rather that the Isrealites were formed from the tribes you're talking about. In actual fact, there's probably a lesson for both sides of the debate here: you're both decended from the ancestors who had to unite, at one point, just to stay alive. Is the situation today that much different?
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Dec-19-2003 19:24
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