Dear SteeleRedux,

Recent research shows the the Jews/Judeans and the Canaanites are one and the same! Joshua was himself a Caananite, who lived and conquered that land several centuries earlier than the Biblical account.

The story about the separate existence of "Jews" and Canaanites probably came about in order to cover up the embarrassing fact that until the reign of King Josiah, the Jews/Judeans, like everyone else, worshiped the usual fertility gods of the region, including in Jerusalem's temple. This is merely a cowardly attempt to claim "no, these were not us, it was them, the Canaanites, whom we conquered"...

As for Israel's indigenous population, most of them descend from Jews who continuously lived on their land and never went to exile. Although they converted into Islam over the centuries (in order to avoid the Jizya tax), in a way they are more Jewish than the European immigrants.

The first Zionists wished to embrace them as their own. Sadly they refused and responded with terror instead.

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Dear Foxy,

Peppe is as much an extremist as Netanyahu's coalition partners. The historical truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Baldrick,

Stop lying, only anti-Ukraine trolls were claiming that US weapons were being stolen and sold on the black market and so far you have provided zero evidence that this was true.

The Palestinians have as much right as Ukrainians to resist the occupation of their country.
Steeleredux,
That goes without saying & what also goes without saying is to be a considerate citizen !

One sided statements should be avoided in this volatile
situation. Innocent people on both sides are dying.

This conflict has been happening since 1948 and can't
be understood by people who don't live in those areas.
Many innocent people will continue to die unless pressure
is applied on both sides - and weapons, military equipment,
and money is withdrawn.

There are as many Palestinians living and working in Israel as there Orthodox Jews. The Jewish State accommodate peaceful Palestinians, as they do civil Palestinians in Gaza. It is the extreme Muslims Hamas funded by Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon that pose problems to the civilian Democratic State of Israel.

I can recognize persons like Steele, Foxy, and Paul supporting conflict and Hamas as justified killing of innocent people. Israel now must recover civilians taken hostage by Hamas without taking Palestinian civilian casualties. Hamas is guilty of war crimes, Israel now has to avoid crimes of war.

As usual, all the pompous prating by armchair warriors, who don't know their arses from their elbows, will continue until they get bored.

But, the Israeli-Palestian conflict will continue, just as it has for the past 75 years.