On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: > Let's have some history here. The "Muslims" have not been at war against the > "Israelites" since Biblical times. That is completely wrong. Hell, there > haven't been any "Israelites" for nearly two millenia.
More to the point, there were no Muslims in Biblical times. The Muslims appeared around 600 years after Christ, centuries after the beginning of the Jewish diaspora. The Romans drove the Jews out of Jerusalem and Judea after their rebellion (66-135 AD). The Christians introduced anti-Jewish laws in roughly 300-600 AD, when Jerusalem was under Byzantine rule. I believe that it is generally accepted that until quite recently, in historical terms, the Jews fared much better under the Muslims than under the Christians. -- Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +44 117 982 0786 mobile +44 797 373 7881 ---------- THAT'S A CHANGE OF ADDRESS: I'm no longer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------
