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Synagogue of ancient Jewish town uncovered
Nadav Man, Bitmuna
Published: 30.09.06, 16:53
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1. Ancient Israelite towns
Chaya ,   Bat Yam   (09.30.06)
I'm sure - if we were able to dig in Arab villages in Judea and Samaria - we would find more remnants of ancient Israelite towns destroyed by the Arabs during their conquest in the 7th century.
2. Synagogue of ancient Jewish town uncovered
Brooke ,   Thornhill Canada   (10.01.06)
And why is Israel not shouting this from the rooftops and making sure this is carried in all the newspapers and newscasts globally???. This historic find ABSOLUTELY ends all current and future debate .....as to who was here first and why ALL of Israel belongs ONLY to the Jews !!!!
3. More proof that Jews are the indigenous people of Israel.
Daisy ,   USA   (10.01.06)
4. Ancient synagogues
Joe Simon ,   Kfar Aviv, Israel   (10.01.06)
All of Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates, is ancient jewish territory. The Arabs are the interlopers.
5. Yes, very nice
Tomer ,   Hod Hasharon, Israel   (10.01.06)
I think we all knew that the Jewish people was here first. However. how about a tiny bit of consideration for the Arabs who *also* lived here for quite a long time in the global scheme of things. You can't erase hundreds of years worth of history quite so easily.
6. Hey Tomer #5
Daniel ,   Israel   (10.02.06)
Yes it is correct that a tiny monority of the Arabs in and around Israel can perhaps trace their history to the Arab occupation of Judea. However, the vast majority of the Arabs are late comers that came during the past 150 years who wanted to take advantage of the better living conditions that the returning Jewish people were creating in Israel. To admit that someone is living in a place is not the same thing as accepting the idea that the land belongs to him/her. Jews have lived in Europe for at least 1000 years and longer in most parts of the Middle East than the Muslim Arabs. Still no one is suggesting that Europe and the whole Middle East is Jewish or are you?
7. That`s clever Daniel #6...
Harissa ,   Israel   (10.08.06)
But under that light we end up thinking that Israel is no ones land..? It was part of the Roman Empire for the romans were stronger, then Ottoman for the same reasons, then British for the supra mentioned, so it will be part of the Israeli American Empire now or of the Islamic Jihadist ... or... The problem is that Daniel, we cannot take religious rights for historical rights, since religion is a question of faith while history involves scientific research, even if it is a social construction.
8. In Response to #7
Daniel ,   Santa Barbara, CA   (10.11.06)
I agree that there is a difference between religious claims to land (i.e. God gave the land to the Israelites) and historical claims to land (i.e. The archeological data available to us provides evidence of an ancient jewish nation in what is today Israel and the Territories). However, in the context of the Isareli-Palestinian conflict, such an observation is irrelevant becuase both the religious and archeological records support a jewish claim on the land.
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