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So what are they waiting for they could have wiped out Palestine a long time ago but they haven't.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Things become as simple as they really are, in everyone’s eyes, when all the wrong people, for all the wrong reasons stop trying to make them so complex!
Seriously?
Things are complex, look at your Rome topic.
Originally posted by BallsMahoney
I'm confused... what does the last several pages have to do with Israel boarding a ship filled with multi-nationals in international waters and executing peace activists?
Originally posted by gambon
I have not seen this film on here , immediate film of after the attack ..warning some graphic images
www.worldbulletin.net...
So what are they waiting for they could have wiped out Palestine a long time ago but they haven't.
It was primary witness to the fact that Zionist colonization of Palestine was of necessity an act of invasion. Menachem Begin once explained the consequences of this fact. When asked during a 1969 conference in the Israeli kibbutz of Ein Hahoresh about Israel’s refusal to recognize the existence of the Palestinians, Begin replied:
My friend, take care. When you recognize the concept of “Palestine,” you demolish your right to live in Ein Hahoresh. If this is Palestine and not the land of Israel, then you are conquerors and not tillers of the land. You are invaders. If this is Palestine, then it belongs to a people who lived here before you came.
Zionist success in the colonization of Palestine and the Judaization of the country hinged, among other things, on the propagation of the belief that no one would be victimized by the Zionist scheme. This, in turn, required that awareness of the Palestinian people be suppressed. The Zionist movement disseminated several versions of the myth of Palestinian non-existence. The first was that Palestine was a country without people. From the beginning the Zionists adopted the slogan: “A land without people for a people without land.” There are indications that the Zionist movement intended that this slogan be accepted in its literal meaning.
Even Max Nordau, the British Zionist leader, seemed to have been temporarily deceived by it. The famous Jewish philosopher Martin Buber related in his memoirs: “When Max Nordau, Herzl’s second in command, first received details on the existence of an Arab population in Palestine, he came shocked to Herzl exclaiming: ‘I never realized this--we are committing an injustice.’” The Zionists’ need to convince the world that their scheme victimized no one required them to maintain the delusion that Palestine was a land without people.
Ancient times
There are examples of Greek rulers desecrating the Temple and banning Jewish religious practices, such as circumcision, Sabbath observance, study of Jewish religious books, etc. Examples may also be found in anti-Jewish riots in Alexandria in the 3rd century BCE. Philo of Alexandria described an attack on Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE in which thousands of Jews died. Statements exhibiting prejudice towards Jews and their religion can be found in the works of a few pagan Greek and Roman writers.[2]
[edit] Early animosity towards Jews
The earliest occurrence of antisemitism has been the subject of debate among scholars. Different writers use different definitions of antisemitism. The terms "religious antisemitism" and "anti-Judaism" are sometimes used to refer to animosity towards Judaism as a religion rather than to Jews defined as an ethnic or racial group.
Edward Flannery traced the first clear examples of anti-Jewish sentiment (which he called "antisemitism"), back to Alexandria in the third century BCE. Alexandria was home to the largest Jewish community in the world and the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, was produced there. Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian, wrote that the Jews were expelled Egyptian lepers who had been taught by Moses "not to adore the gods." The same themes appeared in the works of Chaeremon, Lysimachus, Poseidonius, Apollonius Molon, and in Apion and Tacitus, according to Flannery. Agatharchides of Cnidus wrote about the "ridiculous practices" of the Jews and of the "absurdity of their Law", making a mocking reference to how Ptolemy Lagus was able to invade Jerusalem in 320 BCE because its inhabitants were observing the Sabbath.[3]
Peter Schäfer argued that antisemitism was first spread by "the Greek retelling of ancient Egyptian prejudices". In view of Manetho's anti-Jewish writings, Schäfer suggests that antisemitism may have emerged in Egypt alone.[4] The hostility commonly faced by Jews in the Diaspora has been extensively described by John M. G. Barclay of the University of Durham.[5] The ancient Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria described an attack on Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE in which thousands of Jews died.[6] In the analysis of Pieter Willem van der Horst, the cause of the violence in Alexandria was that Jews had been portrayed as misanthropes.[7] Gideon Bohak has argued that early animosity against Jews was not anti-Judaism unless it arose from attitudes held against Jews alone. Using this stricter definition, Bohak says that many Greeks had animosity toward any group they regarded as barbarians.[8]
[edit] Roman Empire
Relations between the Jews and the occupying Roman Empire were antagonistic at first and resulted in several rebellions. According to the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon, there was greater tolerance from about 160 CE.
In 19 CE, Tiberius expelled the Jews from Rome. This was reported by a several ancient historians.The Roman historian Suetonius said that Tiberius suppressed all foreign religions, sent Jewish young men, under the pretence of military service, to provinces noted for an unhealthy climate, that he dismissed all other Jews from the city, the penalty for non-compliance being life slavery.[9] Josephus, in his Jewish Antiquities[10], also reported that Tiberius ordered all the Jews to be banished from Rome. Four thousand were sent to Sardinia but more, who were unwilling to become soldiers, were punished. Cassius Dio also reports that Tiberius banished most of the Jews, who had been converting Romans to their religion.[11] Philo of Alexandria reported that the major enemy of the Jews was Sejanus, one of Tiberius's lieutenants.[12] Since Philo posthumously criticized Caligula, and this passage was written after Tiberius's death, it is possible that Sejanus was the prime mover in the persecution of the Jews.
The Jerusalem Talmud related that following Bar Kokhba's revolt (132–136 CE) the Romans slew very many Jews, "killing until their horses were submerged in blood to their nostrils."[13]
It has been argued that Roman policy prefigured European antisemitism.[14] The Romans refused permission to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem after its destruction by Titus in 70 CE, imposed a tax Jews at the same time (ostensibly to finance the Temple of Jupiter in Rome), and renamed Judaea as Syria Palestina. Another view of historians is that Rome suppressed revolts in all conquered territories and that Tiberius expelled all foreign religions, not just the Jews. Some accommodation was made with Judaism. The Jews of the Diaspora had privileges that others did not. Unlike other subjects of the empire they had the right to maintain their religion and were not expected to accommodate themselves to local customs. Even after the First Jewish–Roman War, the Roman authorities refused to rescind Jewish privileges in some cities. And although Hadrian outlawed circumcision as a mutilation normally visited on people unable to consent, he later exempted the Jews.[15]
Can you think of any other group of people in the history of mankind that has had this long history of rejection?
Some accommodation was made with Judaism. The Jews of the Diaspora had privileges that others did not. Unlike other subjects of the empire they had the right to maintain their religion and were not expected to accommodate themselves to local customs. Even after the First Jewish–Roman War, the Roman authorities refused to rescind Jewish privileges in some cities. And although Hadrian outlawed circumcision as a mutilation normally visited on people unable to consent, he later exempted the Jews.[15]
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Originally posted by DangerDeath
reply to post by Stormdancer777
Some accommodation was made with Judaism. The Jews of the Diaspora had privileges that others did not. Unlike other subjects of the empire they had the right to maintain their religion and were not expected to accommodate themselves to local customs. Even after the First Jewish–Roman War, the Roman authorities refused to rescind Jewish privileges in some cities. And although Hadrian outlawed circumcision as a mutilation normally visited on people unable to consent, he later exempted the Jews.[15]
They were privileged.
Possible reason? They bribed him.
Another reason: Divide et impera.
I'd vote for the first option.