Spanky |
08-15-2005 04:30 PM |
Cindy Sheehan, Brainless Moron?
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Excellent summation. Bravo.
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2. One thing I would like to add is that at the time of Jesus, Herod, and Josephus etc. everyone in the Levant - actually everyone in the Fertile Crescent spoke Aramaic. No one really knows why this language replaced all the other languages in the region it just did. The educated also spoke Greek, which was the language of the educated. In Egypt the masses spoke Aramaic, the rulers Greek (Ptolemy’s - descendants of Alexander's General) and the middle and upper classes spoke Coptic, which was close to the original Egyptian language but instead of using Hieroglyphs it used the Greek Script. When the Romans expelled the Jews in 57 A.D. this was a religious expulsion not an ethnic one. The Jews were kicked out but the other Aramaic speaking people were allowed to stay. All the lands that were conquered by the Arabs (the whole fertile crescent and North Africa) eventually adopted Arabic (including the Jews). So the Palestinians in Palestine are the same people that were there before they had just most had been converted to Islam and adopted the Arabic language. The Jews that stayed in the Middle East also adopted Arabic. So the tension between the Sephardic Jews and the Palestinians is really a religious issue not a racial one. However the Jews that moved to Europe may be a different story. In 861 the ruler of the Khasars (Caspian Sea to Kiev) converted, and had his entire nation convert to Judaism. It has been alleged that the European Jews (the Ashkenazi) are really descendents of the Khazar conversion and therefore their conflict with the locals in Israel is an ethnic dispute. In addition, they have no real blood tie to the Palenstian lands. I have no idea how valid that is.
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