The Palestinians In Ancient History

[JStone]

You are arguing a point that is not a point.

Evidently, not.

Eminent Historian Bernard Lewis...

By [Arabs] bypassing the Biblical Israelites and claiming kinship with the Canaanites, it is possible to assert a historical claim antedating the biblical promise and possession put forward by the Jews. This line of argument isaccompanied by the common practice in Arab countries, in textbook, museums and exhibitions of minimizing the Jewish role in ancient history or, more frequently, presenting it in very negative terms.

In terms of scholarship as distinct from politics, there is no evidence whatsoever for the assertion that the Canaanites were Arabs.

Whether the Palestinians are Arabs or Canaanites or whatever is irrelevant. It only smokescreens the issue.

Evidently, not.

Eminent Archaeologist and Historian, former Fulbright Scholar Eric Cline...

The claims that modern Palestinians are descended from the ancient Jebusites are madewithout any supporting evidence. Historians and archaeologists have generally concluded that most, if not all, modern Palestinians are probably more closely related to the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan and other countries than they are to the ancient Jebusites, Canaanites or Philistines.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Evidently, not.

Eminent Historian Bernard Lewis...

Whether the Palestinians are Arabs or Canaanites or whatever is irrelevant. It only smokescreens the issue.

Evidently, not.

Eminent Archaeologist and Historian, former Fulbright Scholar Eric Cline...

The claims that modern Palestinians are descended from the ancient Jebusites are madewithout any supporting evidence. Historians and archaeologists have generally concluded that most, if not all, modern Palestinians are probably more closely related to the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan and other countries than they are to the ancient Jebusites, Canaanites or Philistines.

That is the point that is not a point. That is irrelevant.

 

[JStone]

Whether the Palestinians are Arabs or Canaanites or whatever is irrelevant. It only smokescreens the issue.

Evidently, not.

Eminent Archaeologist and Historian, former Fulbright Scholar Eric Cline...

The claims that modern Palestinians are descended from the ancient Jebusites are madewithout any supporting evidence. Historians and archaeologists have generally concluded that most, if not all, modern Palestinians are probably more closely related to the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan and other countries than they are to the ancient Jebusites, Canaanites or Philistines.

That is the point that is not a point. That is irrelevant.

Evidently, not.

Rashid Khalidi, professor of Middle East history and director of the Center for International Studies at Columbia University and advisor to various Arab groups...

There is a relatively recent tradition which argues that Palestinian nationalism has deep historical roots. As with other national movements, extreme advocates of this view anachronistically read back into the history of Palestine over the past few centuries a nationalist consciousness and identity that are in fact relatively modern. Among the manifestations of this outlook are a predilection for seeing in peoples such as the Canaanites, Jebusites and Philistines the lineal ancestors of the modern Palestinians.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Evidently, not.

Eminent Archaeologist and Historian, former Fulbright Scholar Eric Cline...

That is the point that is not a point. That is irrelevant.

Evidently, not.

Rashid Khalidi, professor of Middle East history and director of the Center for International Studies at Columbia University and advisor to various Arab groups...

There is a relatively recent tradition which argues that Palestinian nationalism has deep historical roots. As with other national movements, extreme advocates of this view anachronistically read back into the history of Palestine over the past few centuries a nationalist consciousness and identity that are in fact relatively modern. Among the manifestations of this outlook are a predilection for seeing in peoples such as the Canaanites, Jebusites and Philistines the lineal ancestors of the modern Palestinians.

You are still off the real point.

 

[JStone]

That is the point that is not a point. That is irrelevant.

Evidently, not.

Rashid Khalidi, professor of Middle East history and director of the Center for International Studies at Columbia University and advisor to various Arab groups...

There is a relatively recent tradition which argues that Palestinian nationalism has deep historical roots. As with other national movements, extreme advocates of this view anachronistically read back into the history of Palestine over the past few centuries a nationalist consciousness and identity that are in fact relatively modern. Among the manifestations of this outlook are a predilection for seeing in peoples such as the Canaanites, Jebusites and Philistines the lineal ancestors of the modern Palestinians.

You are still off the real point.

No mention of Palestinians in ancient Hebrew literature.

Middle East Historian Bernard Lewis...

It is by now commonplace that the civilizations of the Middle East are oldest known to human history. They go back thousands of years, much older than the civilizations of India and China, not to speak of other upstart places. It is also interesting, though now often forgotten, that the ancient civilizations of the Middle East were almost totally obliterated and forgotten by their own people as well as by others. Their monuments were defaced or destroyed, their languages forgotten, their scripts forgotten, their history forgotten and even their identities forgotten. All that was known about them came from one single source, and that is Israel, the only component of the ancient Middle East to have retained their identity, their memory, their language and their books. For a very long time, up to comparatively modern times, with rare exceptions all that was known about the ancient Middle East--the Babylonians, the Egyptians and the rest--was what the Jewish tradiiton has preserved

 

[P F Tinmore]

Let me know when you find the point.

 

[JStone]

Let me know when you find the point.

The history of the people of the ancient Near East and the history of the Jewish People run parallel to each other. With each new people and empire to appear, the Jews were right there, from the Egyptians 3000 years ago and the Canaanites and invading Philistines originating from the Aegean [the Sea Peoples] and the later Assyrians and Babylonians and Persians and Greeks to the Romans to the Crusaders to the Ottomans...through to the British Mandate after WW I. Archaeological artifacts housed in the Cairo Museum, British Museum, Louvre and elsewhere verify those interactions with the Jews which are literally etched in stone.

The history of the Jews during Greek rule established by Alexander the Great and, subsequently, the Jews under the Roman Empire, from Herod renovating the Temple whose Western Wall remains intact today to the destruction of the Temple by Vespasian and Titus and the Jewish rebellions under Hadrian and the Hadrianic reprisals, and the development of Christianity as a Jewish sect [Jesus, after all, was a rabbi] are particularly well-documented.

Not so well-documented, however, during this vast and intensely studied span of time is the history of the civilization of the so-called Palestinian people. In fact, there is virtually no evidence of any Palestinian people interacting with the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans or any other empires over the course of millenia. This is most curious for an allegedly ancient Palestinian people with allegedly ancient roots. Hmmmmmm....

 

[P F Tinmore]

One of the Bedouin villages has a history that goes back to before the Ottoman Empire.

They were there before the Ottoman Empire, all through the Ottoman rule, through the British mandate, 60 years in Israel.

Then Israel bulldozed the village because they were trespassing.

Your focus is to smokescreen the issue that the Palestinians have the rights to Palestine.

 

[JStone]

One of the Bedouin villages has a history that goes back to before the Ottoman Empire.

They were there before the Ottoman Empire, all through the Ottoman rule, through the British mandate, 60 years in Israel.

Then Israel bulldozed the village because they were trespassing.

Your focus is to smokescreen the issue that the Palestinians have the rights to Palestine.

Ottoman Empire not exactly ancient history, dink. The Ottoman Empire ended in the 20th century after WW I. Jews lived in Israel thousands of years before any Ottoman Empire.

I see why your page says you suck goats off and you have zero reputational points after 2 years.

 

[JStone]

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[JStone]

If you jumble up the word "Palestinians" you get three other words:

Satan
Spin
Lie