It is comforting to know that you can be predicted to put out the same untruths and mistakes over and over. This gives me multiple opportunities to present actual fact and history for the education of other people reading this thread.
Except...they really aren't. America isn't a Christian Nation, it's an American one. Germany isn't a Lutheran Nation, it's a German one. Japan isn't a Shinto Nation, it's a Japanese one.
Funny how I didn't mention those nations. I could mention England, which is a Christian country with a state church and everything. And, of course Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Sure. So why didn't they speak Hebrew in every day life?
Because they felt it should be the expression of scholarship, poetry and prayer (and particular conversations, especially between Jews from different areas -- Hebrew was a common tongue). And since it was in daily use, it was never dead.
Nope, they spoke the languages of where they lived. Yiddish is just a corrupted form of German.
And only some Jews spoke it. Some spoke Ladino, some spoke Aramaic. Some spoke other languages (Rashi wrote in Hebrew but often mentioned French words). That's because the Jews acclimated and added the language of where they lived to their list of languages to use. In Israel, there is no need to combine Hebrew with anything else.
Not in common use... dead language. Like Latin being used in the Catholic Church.
Absolutely in common use. Therefore, not a dead language.
Again, the Census of Palestine in 1800 recorded less than 7000 Jews in Palestine. There were 22,000 Christians.
en.wikipedia.org
Way to shift the goal posts! It seems you have forgotten what your claim was. See, you said " it would seen for what it was, another example of European Colonialism." and I pointed out that many Jews were not colonial as they never left, and many came from other places than Europe. You then turned it into a question of numbers at an arbitrary date. That is you running away from the fact that I presented which showed your claim to be wrong.
More shifting the goal posts, You made a claim about Zionism and I made reference to an historical event which undermines your claim. Instead of dealing with that, you just say "see above" which takes a reader back to your claim of numbers, which isn't what you started with.
So why do all your neighbors try to kill you?
Mostly, because their religion tells them to. Christians were driven often by the need to get revenge for the death of Jesus and Islam declared itself against Jews when the Jews rejected Muhammed. Do you think Martin Luther railed against Jews because of Israel? You clearly don't know history.
You should probably work on that rather than just trying to find someone you can beat up.
Who beats who up? Over 2 million Arabs live in Israel. Arabs from Gaza were, daily, coming in to Israel for jobs and for medical treatment until October 7. But who is to blame? You say it is the victim, Israel. Just more foolishness from you.
Or learn how to live with their neighbors. Certainly not "Steal someone else's land on a dubious religious claim". Because that would be stupid.
Good thing that isn't what happened. Land was sold, land was given by one ruling power to another. Land was lost in war and gained by the victor. All sorts of stuff happened, just not what you like to whine about.
Yawn, the problem is you are like the kind of people who scream "Racist" whenever there's a valid criticism of something. That's why I don't take anyone who calls me an anti-Semite to be a bit silly, especially when your conflict is with other Semites.
More stupidity from you. Not only didn't I say any of those things that you say come from the "kind of people" like me, but you still don't understand the word anti-Semitism. You're kind of pathetic, TBH.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
