12-18-2023, 08:22 AM
(12-18-2023, 03:16 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Are you saying that King David did not exist and that the Egyptian Reliefs from that time period are incorrect? Not even including the references to David from the Quran? Those things mention King David as an Israelite King and Prophet of Allah.
Nope. I was highlighting the contradiction in your post about the Jews being there first. I mean, this is also not considering that the people we know as the Israelites weren't Jews as we know them, today, anyway as they were not monotheistic until the Babylonian exile when they first encountered Zoroastrianism which is when they ditched other deities in their religious texts. In addition, the non-Jewish inhabitants in the Palestinian territories are also descendants of those Israelites that remained during the various diasporas, often because of the inability to afford to leave, and they eventually converted.
Anyway, the whole "who was there first" thing is, as SSF and I discussed before, too complex to really use to justify anything in this conflict.
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