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Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by rogerstigers
So avoiding assimilation, which in premodern times, meant accepting a new religion, and rejecting Judaism, means they deserved the way they were treated by Christians and Muslims??
Clearly, you don't understand the ideological basis of Judaism, or of religion in general.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by BRAVO949
Your basic assumptions are wrong because you reading "comic book" class literature.
And what is "comic book" about it?
Arabs are not a race, first of all.
What are the criteria of a people??? I'm not saying "race" as the term race is generally, and superficially, associated with skin color. A people is united by various criteria, namely, a shared language, a shared culture, and a shared religion. Thus, the Arab people stretch from Mauritania to Iraq. In between these areas there are clusters of other groups, with other cultures, other languages, and other religions. These people are usually subordinated to the dominant culture/people - the Arabs.
Jews may have spoken the lingua franca of the region - arabic - just as they spoke Aramaic in the near east, and as they spoke the local tongues of whatever lands they found themselves in. This didn't make them a part of the general population.
Hence the term - "Galuth" - exile, which the Rabbis attached to the Jews living in lands other then Eretz Yisrael. Both Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews recalled this everyday when they turned to Jerusalem in prayer. Or when they said on Yom Kippur and Passover "Next year in Jerusalem", they were acknowledging a basic principle of their faith: That their existence is attached to Israel. That when they are not there, scattered and assimilated in gentile cultures, they were in exile.
Again, you show you're blatant ignorance of Jewish history. Jews always lived in their own communities, separated from the rest of the general population. This is basic history.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by Sigismundus
Read this book.
Dna and Tradition: the genetic link to the ancient Hebrews
You seem to be unusually interested in this anti-Jewish literature.
Are the Sephardim, also converts from Jews in Kiev? If not, then why do Cohanic Jews from Europe, and the Middle/North Africa/Persia, all share the same genetic type, that goes back 150 generations i.e. to a common ancestor, being Aharon.
And why do you always, and conceitedly, refer back to your pseudo-scientific paleo-Hebrew course you took way back when?? Who cares???
You're just annoyed - clearly - without all your capitalization - that the Jews are what they say they are, and various genetic tests have proven it.
Link
go spread your filth somewhere else,edit on 12-12-2011 by dontreally because: (no reason given)
They are not and never were. The vast, vast majority of the people we think of as Arabs are the descendents of people who lived locally before the Arabs came.
If all Arabs are simply Arabs then ethnically cleansing Palestinian Arabs into surrounding Arab countries is fine but Palestinians are the people more or less who were always there.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by BRAVO949
You people are disgusting.
So forget about the Mishna, completed 100 CE? Babylonian Talmud, completed 400 CE, in Baghdad? The Jewish communities of Baghdad? The deadsea scrolls? The many Tosepoth (additions) written between the 5th and 10th centuries.. What are these Jews? Phantoms? Made up material, even though they can be carbon dated to those periods??
You people are unbelievable with your propaganda and lies.
The JEWS ARE REAL. Both Sephardim and Ashkeanzim. why you think there would be mass conversions to Judaism amidst a Christian and Muslim hegemony is insane. It is illogical. And it never happened, because there was never an environment to ever foster such an event.
The term “Palestine” was given a political meaning for the first time in history by the British after World War I, when they took the region from the Turks and termed it “British Mandatory Palestine.” At that time (1920) Arab political and intellectual leaders spoke out vehemently against the creation of this new “Palestine” because the region was, in their minds, inextricably connected to Syria.
The Arabs of the area had their own designation for the region: Balad esh-Sham (the province of Damascus), or as-Suriya al-Janubiya (southern Syria). In fact, Arab nationalists protested the use of the term “Palestine” because for them “Palestine” was really southern Syria. Even the most vitriolic and vociferous Arab nationalist, the Hajj Amin el-Husseini, opposed creating “Palestine” separate from Syria.
For documentation see Marie Syrkin’s “Palestinian Nationalism: Its Development and Goal,” in Curtis, Michael, Neyer, Joseph, Waxman, Chaim, and Pollack, Allen, The Palestinians: People, History, Politics (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1975), p. 200.
Originally posted by BRAVO949
If you are paying attention the technique of arguing used to try and support the Apartheid state is Isreal is exactly like the techniques used but Communists and abortion advocates.
Makes perfect sense of course because the same group of happy-go-lucky funsters are behind all three freedom and tradition crushing movements.
Technique number one is attack, attack, attack.
In particular, take the weakness of Zionism, Communism and chidl murder and flip it around and accuse the other side and attack it.
reply to post by BRAVO949
UN vote on Palestinian state put off amid lack of support Palestinians to decide whether to press statehood issue after mustering only eight of nine votes needed to win approval
The Palestinian flag was raised for the first time on Tuesday above a UN agency, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in a diplomatic victory won despite stiff resistance from the US and Israel.
President Mahmud Abbas looked on as the flag was raised and the Palestinian anthem played, just weeks after Palestine won admission to UNESCO in move that sparked fury and reprisals fromWashington and Israel.
“President Abbas wants to show the importance he attaches to UNESCO,” a Palestinian diplomat said ahead of the ceremony. “And this is the first time that the flag will be flown at the headquarters of a UN institution.”
UNESCO said the flag-hoisting was a symbolic ceremony “to mark Palestine’s admission to the organisation” that takes place each time a new member joins.
The Palestinians were admitted to the body in late October, when the UNESCO general assembly voted 107-14 to make Palestine its 195th member.
Israel, for its part, took its own retaliatory measures, by deciding to accelerate settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank and freezing the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority.
Every month, Israel transfers tens of millions of dollars in customs duties on Palestinian-bound goods that transit through Israeli ports, but it often freezes them as a punitive measure during disagreements.
Faced with international criticism, Israel later lifted its freeze on the funds, which represent a large chunk of the Palestinian Authority’s budget.