Comments on: The 10 Ages of Palestine

By: Sharlo

Sharlo — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:54:46 +0000

what a bias shallow and inaccurate description of historical events..
now how can i read about events i don’t know about in this site, and be confident about its accuracy?

the first Jewish exile was in the destruction of the kingdom of Judah (why Jordan?) by the Babylonians not the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians.
the Persian king allowed Jews to return from to Judah.
where they encountered people who were settled there by the Assyrians, called Samaritans.
and there was similar conflict between Jews and Samaritans back then as there is now with the Arabs.. of which many of them came to Palestine only in the 19th and 20th centuries with the powers renewed interest in the region.

and what is the purpose of the last segment in the article to show random pictures from demonstrations and terror attacks and headline it with “the results of the partition plan”..
that’s just simplistic tabloid material.

in any case the conflict between Arabs and Jews is not because of the partition plan, its because the lack of any partition plan.
the Arabs refuse any partition, ever!

By: me

me — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:01:22 +0000

For number eight you only give credit to the English beating the Ottomans, not the Arab Revolt. The English were more of a guiding force than the brunt of the attacks, Lawrence of Arabia probably being the most well known, who served mainly as a strategist and liaison. Sharif Hussein bin Ali and the Hashemite family deserves as much credit as the allied forces in the current shape of the Middle east.

By: Alice C. Linsley

Alice C. Linsley — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:55:37 +0000

Generally accurate, but missing imporant details about the Natufians, the Dedanites, the Joktanite clans, and the Ku*****es. The Hebrews were a Horite confederation until after the Babylonian exile. We can only speak of Jews after about 560 BCE.

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:50:08 +0000

The last picture seems like it should go on the awkward family photos website.

By: Witness

Witness — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:10:19 +0000

Thank you for sharing this valuable information. However, there is one point that must ALWAYS remain very clear to everyone who seeks the truth during these conflicts: Rupert Murdoch, the man who controls 60% of the world’s media, the man who can single-handedly change the opinion of the masses, has chosen a side during these conflicts, and that is the side of Israel. Not of the Jewish people, but of the State of Israel. “Israel” does not represent a people, it represents an ideal. This ideal (Zionism) is rejected by millions of Jews who rarely, if ever, have their voices heard. Those who oppose the state of Israel are labelled as “anti-semite”, or, in the case of Jewish communities, “self-hating Jews”.
If you have any doubts about this information, do your own research. But always keep in mind the sources of your information, and who they might be influenced by…

By: Ica

Ica — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:32:43 +0000

the arabs (muslims and christians) are already there, the jews are already there, give peace a chance. even IF the arabs/jews came into the land later, that is no excuse for fighting and killing each other. since there was an example of them coexisting peacefully (#5), that means there is hope that they can coexist peacefully once more. someday..sigh.... BTW, why is US giving so much money to israel when its own citizens are facing unemployment of 9,4%? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-wawro/no-b... http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/2009/11/11/am... http://www.bls.gov/

By: Amro Sehly

Amro Sehly — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:52:14 +0000

very subjective list. It is clear that this is a pro-Israeli list. When Ghandi was asked about the Israel-Palestine conflict he said, "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs… Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home." You can't just put some random EUROPEAN born jewish population into an Arabic state and expect the people living there to be fine and dandy, just because the Europeans themselves were so anti-semitic, they had to get rid of their so called "jewish" problem instead of developing tolerance and acceptance for their religion. Prior to the Israel – Palestine issue, the jews that were living there were being treated normally, there was no evident antisemitism with Arabs.

By: coolidge

coolidge — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:08:37 +0000

Excuse me ? Jews had spent two millenium out of Palestine. The only community which had continuously inhabited Palestine after the Jewish dispora was the Arabs. They have had spent over a thousand years living there.

They had built a civilization in Palestine, cities and towns etc. To suggest that they had behaved like marauders and squatters without love for this land is to boldly yet foolishly deny the facts.

Tell me, during which time when Palestine was already an Arab land when Jews were in the majority ? Was Jews in the majority in the 18th century ? Or perhaps 19th century or early 20th century ? Or perhaps in 1947 ? Which would have justified the creation of Israel ?

By: coolidge

coolidge — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:58:14 +0000

The creation of the State of Israel consisted of cleansing local Arab communities which had existed for over centuries. Remember Deir Yassin. Israel is nothing more than a military mechine holding on to its occupation of Arab land.

In 1947, Palestine was not divided between Jews and Arabs in the same way, for example, the Cypriots where the Greeks largely live in one part and the Turks largely living in another separate part.

The Arabs in Palestine were the overwhelming majority and they never got asked whether they were willing to part with the only homeland they knew. That homeland was stolen from them and now they are paying the price for refusing to surrender.

The only justification for the creation of Israel in and on Palestine is because in the Bible, God had promised it to the Jews. How can that be fair ?

The Arab fight for Palestine has nothing to do with religious extremism. It has to do with honor, dignity, life.

By: sue

sue — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:24:26 +0000

BTW, the Philistines were *neighbors* of the Jewish Kingdoms, not co-inhabitants. The Jewish kingdoms fought border wars with them; they were not an internal population. When the Jews were exiled from Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, the Romans renamed the land "Palestinia" after the Philistines as a sign of conquest and contempt, because they had been the enemies of the Jews. That is where the name "Palestine' comes from.

The description of the Philistines and "Hebrew Occupiers" arriving simultaneously in that territory is disengenuous at best, and highly misleading. Par for the course, for this article.