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History lesson

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Jews are the indigenous population of the land today called Israel.

The Hebrews first claimed the land of Israel about 1300 BCE, living as 12 tribes until being united into one under King Saul.

King David, the second king, established Jerusalem as the capital around 1000 BCE. ✡ The City of David can be explored today. 

David’s son, King Solomon, built the First Temple for the Jews in 957 BCE. The Second Temple was constructed in 515 BCE. A wall of this temple remains today.

Then, the kingdom was divided into two. The northern kingdom (Israel) lasted until 722 BCE when the Assyrians destroyed it. The southern kingdom (Judah) was taken over by the Babylonian conquest in 586 BCE.

Israelites or Judeans or Jews or Hebrews — all words describing the same group of natives — maintained a presence in their homeland throughout the diaspora. Then, in the 1800s, the Jews in the Disapora started a movement to return to their homeland — Zionism.

For comparison, the Muslims' Al-Aqsa Mosque was built during the Arabic caliphate's colonization and Islamification of the land, on top of the Second Temple, in 691 CE–which was over 1,600 years after the Jews first built their temple.

The reason that the Islamic mosque was built directly on top of the Jewish Second Temple was a symbol of the Islamic conquest of the region and its colonization of Jewish culture.

While Jews are the indigenous natives of the land, the Arabs are the colonizers of that land.

Calling Jews "colonizers" is not just wrong it's historically illiterate.

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  1. John the Drunkard Avatar
    John the Drunkard

    A new meme circulating among the useful idiots claims that Christians expelled the Jews from the Levant…and that the Muslim conquerors invited them back!
    No supporting evidence of course. I think they’re confusing 1492 and the destruction of the Second Temple.

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  2. Gibson Block Avatar
    Gibson Block

    Marina is repeating the biblical story when modern scholarship would offer her a better claim. According to archeologists there was no exodus as we know it. Israelites were just a group of Canaanites. So that makes their presence in the land more solid – but only in ancient times.
    She is also ignoring the fact that Jews were not a majority in the land for at least a thousand years before Herzl and although their relation to the land was very powerful in their culture, there was no reason for anyone else to respect it in practice.
    You can acknowledge these things and still support Israel. It was only ever going to be a tiny country with a lot to offer the region. There was and is a need for it. There would have been no wars and, presumably, no refugees if there had been no resistance to its existence. But that doesn’t mean that there was likely to be no resistance.

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