Posted on 02/02/2002 9:22:59 PM PST by CommiesOut
But I read here a report from Hebrew University that the DNA structure of most Jewish people is not Semetic (though the Jewish language is), but is Indo-European and is closest to the Indo-European Kurdish People. But the joker in the deck is, well, so are the Palestinians.
The Romans were many things including meticulous record keepers. They were very clear about expelling and/or enslaving most Judean Jews (as opposed to those already in diaspora communities) after the Bar Kochba rebellion which ended in 133 CE. For 100 years before then, the Romans had pursued a policy of colonialization of Greek and Hellenized Syrian migration into Judea. After 133 the Romans implemented a policy of deJudaizing Judea. They renamed the province Palestine after the extinct Phillistines and renamed Jerusalem Aeolia Capitolina, building a pagan sanctuatry on Mt. Moriah.
There were a few more rebellions, the last one around 630 during the last Persian-Byzantine war. However, by that point, a majority of the population in Byzantine occupied Judea was Greek-Christian. The 1/3 of Palestinians whose families actually from the are actually from Palestine (as opposed to Arab immigrants from (1890-1947) are decended from converts (voluntary and foreced) as well as of Arabs who settled in land grants given to veterans by the Abbasid Fatamid Caliphates.
At any rate, our war with Al Quada had nothing to do with the Pashtuns, but with Al Quada attacks on the US.
Of course, you are free to spin anti-zionist/semetic conspiracy theories all you want. They have a wide audience among the Saudi and other arabs funding Al Quaeda.
Yes, that legend is particularly awkward, considering it was Jews who were removed in the Babylonian Captivity, not the other 10 Lost Tribes. They were removed earlier in the Assyrian Captivity.
>where emperor Nebuchadnezzar had taken the Twelve Tribes of Israel as slaves after conquering them in the 6th century B.C.
Wrong again. The 6th century captivity was of the Southern Kingdom, the Jews, consisting primarily of the tribe of Judah. The 10 Lost Tribes left over a hundred years earlier.
>Afghanistan, one of many countries where researchers hope to track down the vanished Jews.
Again, the basic premise is defective. The search for the Lost Tribes of Israel is not a search for lost Jews. The Lost Tribes were never Jewish. At this point, the entire premise falls apart
To see the real story of the Lost Tribes of Israel, click on my Profile.
For someone so hung up on Israel, you seem unable to spell it. Is English your first language? Or are you an Islam-Firster. You don't appear to agree with American foreign policy at all. Are you upset we are going to go after the 'evil axis' now? Is that why you are so grouchy all the time? Are you mad that Bush beat up on the Taliban?
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