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  • Re: Why Aren�t the Arabs the �Colonizers�?

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Nov 2 17:24:44 2023
    On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 20:04:24 +0000, Keith Willshaw
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Historically they were. Colonisers come and go. Egyptians, Romans, North >Africans, the Arabs, Turks, English and French all took their turns.
    When General Allenby entered Jerusalem in 1917 he was displacing the
    Ottoman Turks. In 1940 there was already a substantial jewish group in
    Haifa.

    Heck in the time of Muhammed there were lots of Jews in Mecca and
    quite a few Arabs in Jerusalem....

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Nov 2 17:23:56 2023
    On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:22:32 -0700, a425couple
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    The work begun in the seventh century, in other words, is still incomplete.

    Heh heh - the catch of course is where one judges the baseline date to
    be - 7th century AD? 10th century BC? (when the first Jewish temple
    was built in Jerusalem), 2nd century BC (the Maccabean temple defaced
    by Antiochus Epiphanes), 1st century BC (the Herodian temple destroyed
    in 70 AD).

    How about 1918 (when the Brits captured Jerusalem) or 1948 or 1967?

    My point of course is that depending on which date you choose somebody
    is going to be enthralled, somebody else is going to be offended.

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