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To: marcos who wrote (160840)	4/22/2005 3:29:43 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Are you serious suggesting that today's Palestinians have some kind of cultural continuity with the Caananites of three thousand years ago? What a hoot! You're right that the Palestinians of today must be descended in part from the Jews...ditto the Byzantines, Romans, Syriacs, Crusaders, Kurds, Turks, Circassians, Mongols, Arabs, etc, etc. Everybody and his brother has tromped through that region of the Levant in the last 2000 years.

To: marcos who wrote (160840)	4/22/2005 8:33:38 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

"...one subset of one tribe wanders off to Europe for the best part of two millennia, keeps entirely separate from the folks around them" as if there was a choice in europe. But i gather the Jews were responsible for the Inquisition et al as well as giving Hitler his raison d'etre. So you still might be DD after all.

To: marcos who wrote (160840)	4/22/2005 10:19:16 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There is some evidence that the Philistines came from the west, and the Hebrews are one of their descendents. Don't know all the details. There is a school of thought that there never was a unified Hebrew nation ala King David & Solomon style. This thinking is inspired by several problems: 1) The lack of significant mention of such in other nations from the time, 2) The lack of ruins supporting such, and 3) the fact that the earliest authentic records are from the Jewish times after the split of Israel & Judah (King Josiah??). There is much evidence (most of Jewish philosophical thought) for Chaldean origins of Jewish culture as well, which is to the east. A time machine would be really great!