Juan, thanks again for a clear and concise history. One point perhaps could be further developed and clarified later on. What happened in the first two centuries of the Common Era of the jewish population of the region? When Rome defeated Israel, what happened to the local population? You state in your post: "... there had been few adherents of Judaism, just a few thousand, from the time most Jews in Palestine adopted Christianity and Islam in the first millennium CE all the way until the 20th century." This would imply that the local population of Israel, after the Roman-Judaic wars, converted to Christianity then for a majority to Islam. Is it the case? Another narrative is that the jewish population of Judea and Galilea was either killed in a genocide or moved into the Diaspora.
Another way to ask the question is who are the Palestinians? Are they the jews of Jesus' time who converted away from Judaism, or are they people who filled in the void left after a genocide of the jewish populations? Or is it a combination of both?
Whatever the answer, it would have a minor impact on the current conflict. If the jJews were killed or removed by the Romans, that would not give any right to the modern jews to remove the Palestinians (the Italians I guess should be punished?). If Palestinians are converted Jews, however, there would be some irony in that the modern conflict would then be a fratricidal war between the descendants of those who converted and of those who did not.
Genetic analysis seems to indicate that Jews and Palestinians populations are very close. But it does not say, that I am aware of, if the common ancestry was in Moses' time or in the first millennium.
Juan, thanks again for a clear and concise history. One point perhaps could be further developed and clarified later on. What happened in the first two centuries of the Common Era of the jewish population of the region? When Rome defeated Israel, what happened to the local population? You state in your post: "... there had been few adherents of Judaism, just a few thousand, from the time most Jews in Palestine adopted Christianity and Islam in the first millennium CE all the way until the 20th century." This would imply that the local population of Israel, after the Roman-Judaic wars, converted to Christianity then for a majority to Islam. Is it the case? Another narrative is that the jewish population of Judea and Galilea was either killed in a genocide or moved into the Diaspora.
Another way to ask the question is who are the Palestinians? Are they the jews of Jesus' time who converted away from Judaism, or are they people who filled in the void left after a genocide of the jewish populations? Or is it a combination of both?
Whatever the answer, it would have a minor impact on the current conflict. If the jJews were killed or removed by the Romans, that would not give any right to the modern jews to remove the Palestinians (the Italians I guess should be punished?). If Palestinians are converted Jews, however, there would be some irony in that the modern conflict would then be a fratricidal war between the descendants of those who converted and of those who did not.
Genetic analysis seems to indicate that Jews and Palestinians populations are very close. But it does not say, that I am aware of, if the common ancestry was in Moses' time or in the first millennium.