ANCIENT Jewish community in China

[ralph]

--- http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 68,00.html --- just interesting , I never imagined an 'ancient' community of JEWS in China !! Then again , humans travel , they have ancent Caucasian mummys somewhere in China .

[ralph]

actually , the article is about a few young Chinese Jews moving to Israel to join IDF but I guess I focused on what I really found to be interesting to me in my opening post .

[planosteve]

There are also Palistinian Jews.

[ralph]

yeah , sure Steve , also Persian Jews but what struck me was the idea of Chinese Jews because China just seems far away . Talking about the Persian / Iranian Jews on another board . There are about 8 to 20 thousand of them out of a population of about 77 million Iranians / Persians . Palistinian Jews , yeah , I suppose so , wonder if there are any Synagogues in palistine .

[GFB]

There are also Palistinian Jews.

Define those, please.

[planosteve]

There are also Palistinian Jews.

Define those, please.

Palistinians are the indiginous people who were living in the area before the state of Israel was declared. They weren't all Muslims. There were Christians and Jews also. Some stayed in Israel and some left.

[millergrovesue]

Very interesting. I had no idea there were Jews in ancient China. Love the first names of two of the man. So very Jewish.

[ralph]

yeah Sue , I figured that there might be converts but I think that these guys have the blood links to ancient Jews . Guess that it was TRADE that moved them to China [maybe]. Also interesting are the supposedly ancient Caucasian mummys said to be found in some area of China .

[jellowrestling]

There are also Palistinian Jews.

Define those, please.

Palistinians are the people who were living in the area before the state of Israel was declared. They weren't all Muslims. There were Christians and Jews also. Some stayed in Israel but the vast majority left.

FIFY. Jews are the "indigenous" people.

[GFB]

There are also Palistinian Jews.

Define those, please.

Palistinians are the indiginous people who were living in the area before the state of Israel was declared. They weren't all Muslims. There were Christians and Jews also. Some stayed in Israel and some left.

Yes, Jews and Muslims shared the area for centuries...but the problem is..you called them "Palestinian Jews."

There has never..at any point in history..been a country called Palestine.

[planosteve]

There has never..at any point in history..been a country called Palestine.

I think I heard a blonde on Fox say that once. Yes I know. It's not a country it's a region. That's like saying there were never any Indians because there was never any country called Indiana.

[GFB]

There has never..at any point in history..been a country called Palestine.

I think I heard a blonde on Fox say that once. Yes I know. It's not a country it's a region. That's like saying there were never any Indians because there was never any country called Indiana.

Poor analogy..but the point is, the Jews of old lived in Israel..Israel WAS a country.

There has never been a country called Palestine..and therefore, has never been a people called Palestinians.

It's a term that was made up of the Jordanians and Syrians that those two countries didn't want after Israel kicked their butts.

[planosteve]

There has never..at any point in history..been a country called Palestine.

I think I heard a blonde on Fox say that once. Yes I know. It's not a country it's a region. That's like saying there were never any Indians because there was never any country called Indiana.

Poor analogy..but the point is, the Jews of old lived in Israel..Israel WAS a country.

There has never been a country called Palestine..and therefore, has never been a people called Palestinians.

It's a term that was made up of the Jordanians and Syrians that those two countries didn't want after Israel kicked their butts.

I didn't say it was a country, it was a region. There was never a country named Israel until 1947 after the Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel.

[GFB]

Israel was a country..as much as anything COULD BE a country 2000 years ago.

Point is, if Palestine was not a country..there were no Palestinian Jews.

2000 years ago, there were Israelites and Philistines. The Philistines were the ancient version of what we call Palestinians.

Just the local sick, warring, bitter, "we want what you guys have" bunch of losers. They just hadn't yet figured out how to strap bombs on.

[planosteve]

[url]Point is, if Palestine was not a country..there were no Palestinian Jews.[/url]
So, if they don't exist, who are these? Crisis actors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmS7rD_4mPA

[GFB]

[url]Point is, if Palestine was not a country..there were no Palestinian Jews.[/url]
So, if they don't exist, who are these? Crisis actors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmS7rD_4mPA

Jews existed..Palestine didn't.

So don't try to define ancient Israelites as some kind of Palestinian people.

That's what you're trying to do.

[planosteve]

[url]Point is, if Palestine was not a country..there were no Palestinian Jews.[/url]
So, if they don't exist, who are these? Crisis actors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmS7rD_4mPA

Jews existed..Palestine didn't.

So don't try to define ancient Israelites as some kind of Palestinian people.

That's what you're trying to do.

No, what I'm trying to do is show you that there are Palestinian Jews. Jews that lived in an area they called Palestine for hundreds of years like the ones in the video who were forced out of their ancestral lands by the Zionists.

[planosteve]

Anybody notice the wors Israel here?
The people living in what is now Israel were called "Palestinians" regardless of what religion they followed.

[GFB]

Hilarious..the League of Nations collapsed quickly.

And everyone knows that in the early 20th century..there was no country called Israel.

We fixed that later on.

[planosteve]

Hilarious..the League of Nations collapsed quickly.

And everyone knows that in the early 20th century..there was no country called Israel.

We fixed that later on.

But... but....but... You just said that Palestine didn't exist. Then what did "Mandate for Palestine" mean?