I said that the settlements must be stopped and that settlers must retreat from their fanatical philosophy.
Israel's borders are NOT subject to "manifest destiny".
ask the canaanites
You mean the people who, according to history and archaelogy
[but not according to the Bible!], were exactly the same people as the Hebrews?
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A point that is a little off the mark (if my current reading source is accurate) but on point. According to "The Evolution of God" by Robert Wright, the Israelites were the southern tribe and the Caananites the northern tribes of a contiguous region covering much of what is now Palestine and Israel and adjacent land.
Wright posits that for various reasons, notable among them being the assaults by the Assyrians on the Caananites, that the tribe of Israel was able to push their god Yaweh and THE God overrriding millenia of polytheism in the entire region.
Interesting book, and I only mention what I see as a possible nuance to what you say Numan, in that they may not have been the same peoples, but also not very different and sharing many of the same gods for a great portion of their existences.
This would tend to further undermine Jewish claims for territory or even special treatment of any kind. They apparently never were part of an exodus from Egypt but rather just another one of many tribes in the region.
That they were forced out of Europe and given land in Palestine hardly seems sufficient basis for our foreign policy in the region. We have stood by the Jewish state long enough for it to be established. If we had any obligation, that is the extent of it.
There is no moral or even strategic reason for us to arm and guard Israel any further. They should stand on their own as all other nations must.
It is time for the end of the guilt trip.
