This is your turf. If anyone leaves, it will be me. While we evidently disagree upon many points, and strongly at that, I wish you all the best....
The British were engaged in their usual "divide and conquer" tactics as it related to the Arabs and Turks (and also the Jews), and "the Arabs," in...
Dear Salishan, Good one (or should I say "g-spot" on)! Given the self-confessional nature of this thread, let this be clear: it wasn't until...
Dear Salishan, I think, to those of us raised in the Protestant tradition, wherein the word "church" evokes the smell of varnish on old church...
"Fanciful tales sprang up later, in which Alexander paid homage to the High Priest in Jerusalem and Yahweh sanctioned his subjugation of Persia...
It must be fairly easy for Jews to accept British promises as realpolitik when they are, comparatively speaking, the beneficiaries of British...
But you must mean this Esther: "... the chief character in the Book of Esther, derived, according to some authorities, from the Persian "stara"...
Ah, the old switcheroo. In this case, you switch the focus from what I actually said and respond with a non sequitur. My point is that lobbyists...
I didn't say they were. I said that Jesus said that there would be eunuchs for the kingdom and, speaking metaphorically not literally, I have...
Maybe we should take this moment in our ongoing a) tennis; or b) kickboxing match to enjoy a nice, ice-cold Gatorade. If the truth be told, I...
What happened is that you Israelis are -and have been- standing behind the best weaponry and military machine that money can buy. In case you...
One thing about it, neither the NRA nor the NAACP, for instance, has produced such a nest of spies as has AIPAC. Serv
Sorry. That would be buggering, or shagging, or, well, one gets the idea. Serv
Amen, bro! Glad to see you back in church! :D Serv
If, by that, you mean that you have not changed your opinion, how is it, then, that a "historian of the Hasmonean period," writing history as...
As I see it, the "Arab" or "Islamic" states to which you refer, following the demise of the Ottoman Empire, were as much or more an invention of...
In keeping with our continuing theme of Marduk (Mordechai), don't you mean Astarte? Serv
He probably makes an excellent father and mother. But seriously, I don't doubt that: sexuality is fluid and Jesus even said that there would be...
I don't understand. Are you excluding Sephardi as Jews? As I understand it, one of the points that Dayan makes in his article is that it is...
Do you mean the Arabs? That must be those whom Sir Mark Sykes was secretly buggaring while, above board, he was handing a piece of Palestine to...
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