You want me to give you something? OK, iwill give you toddlers. But then ask yourself why their are toddlers near rocket launchers, RPGs and AK-47s? Who is realy endangering them?

Also, you have mistaken some event from 1948. No one "forced Arabs out" of Israel en masse. In fact, they were encouraged to leave by other arab nations to clear the way for the (first modern) destruction of Israel. Woops, that didn't work out so well since they lost. This is the basis of the "nakba" reference you hear Arabs lament. "The Great Tragedy" if you will. Some Arabs were smart and said "I think I will be an Israeli citizen in this new country and live peacefully (we hope)". Many others chose to leave and were displaced of their own accord and have been pissed ever since that they participated in a war that they lost.

There was no expelling of Arabs.

Once again, I will ask why there are no (longer) bustling Jewish enclaves in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, etc...? Why not? Yet there are large Arab comunities in Israel with full Israeli citizenship... How many Jews have sat on Iran's Supreme court, or Syria's legislative council? Zero. Arabs serve on the Israeli Supreme Court and in the Knesset.

Stogie1020 wrote:

:-k

I wonder why it was called Judea? They prolly named it after some muslim...oh wait, he came after.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Let’s not let the fact that the Canaanites were there before the Israelites get in the way or that it hasn’t always been called Judea.

Of course we could go back as far as the cave drawings will take us but none of that matters because chances are the original settlers simply grunted and were so underdeveloped as a group that more likely they focused on surviving from one minute to the next than drawing pictures.

Abrignac wrote:

What was the sin of the Canaanites?
Canaanite culture was described as utterly corrupt, especially when it came to violence and abuse of the most vulnerable in their communities. The Old Testament presents the Israelites as an instrument of divine justice. These are not depicted as battles for plunder or power-grabs.

What did God say to do to the Canaanites?
The command to utterly destroy these people seems pretty clear, and Joshua, after taking control of the land, said that he did everything the Lord commanded (Joshua 11:20-23).

If you believe that god gave Jews the Ten Commandments and Torah (Old Testament), then this is the answer. All of this will be sorted out when the Messiah comes...

rfenst wrote:

^ that sounds like a straight man set up for a Don Rickles line…..

ZRX1200 wrote:

:-k

I wonder why it was called Judea? They prolly named it after some muslim...oh wait, he came after.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

To be even more precise the first humans known to have lived in the Levant, of which Judea is a part of, were Homo Sapiens from Africa. They inhabited the area as far back as 90,000 BCE. They were replaced by the neanderthals. It wasn't until some 79,000 years later that the Israelites appeared when they were led out of bondage from Egypt. In between what is now known as Judea was ruled by the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Philistines and a few other groups.

Perhaps when the Israelites landed there after many other cultures had or were inhabiting the area they chose to call it Judea??? Perhaps since the Israelites seem to have been the only group recording history at the time the name Judea stuck simply because it was the only name that was recorded in the only text being kept?

Abrignac wrote:

Pretty confident the term Judea came from the Romans when they had their expansive empire.

8trackdisco wrote:

The Old Testament was written by Jewish scholars. Parts of the which happened thousands of years before the advent of written history. It would be expected to be self-serving to some degree.

Abrignac wrote:

... later that the Israelites appeared when they were led out of bondage from Egypt.

Abrignac wrote:

... later that the Israelites appeared when they were led out of bondage from Egypt.

Abrignac wrote:

Abrahm> Issac> Jacob...

Judaism began before the Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians.

Also: "The biblical patriarch Isaac is recognized as a prophet of God by Muslims. As in Judaism and Christianity, Islam maintains that Isaac was the son of the patriarch and prophet Abraham from his wife Sarah."

rfenst wrote: