And these people were the ancestors of the land. There were many rulers over these "tribes" from before the time of Christ.
No, they themselves had come in the previous couple of hundred years. Don't buy the load of baloney the Palestinians are selling. Everybody has come through that patch of land in the last 2000 years - Greeks, Jews, Romans, Idumeans, Turks, Circassians, Bedouins, Druze, Arabs, Copts, you name it.
But when you surgically implant a new nation into the existing body politic
There was damn little of a body politic. The area was a sparsely inhabited backwater, long ruled badly by absentee rulers far away. Mark Twain visited Jerusalem, that great city, in 1867. He reported that it was the size of an American village of 4000 and he could have walked around its walls in an hour.
It was european Jews who were mainly transplanted to Israel. They were given autonomy over themselves and the land.
They weren't transplanted. The returned to the land of their ancestors. Most Israelis today, btw, are Misrahim - Jews of the Arab lands. Their ancestors never even saw Europe. |
