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	<title>Comments on: The Sunday Times and The Financial Times review Shlomo Sand&#8217;s The Invention of the Jewish People</title>
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		<title>By: Enecyirmgard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Enecyirmgard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: holidays in france</title>
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		<dc:creator>holidays in france</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: keplooleMok</title>
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		<dc:creator>keplooleMok</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ready and willing to solder together you guys.
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		<title>By: ToomTyclown</title>
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		<dc:creator>ToomTyclown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sua procura de carreto, mudança e frete para: Jardim Aeroporto, Lapa 11-2851-4868 ?acabou de encontrar</p>
<p>Seja bem vindo á negócio de mudança vem de encontra á necessidade para á residência ou empresa.</p>
<p>Mudanças que atende: Jardim Aeroporto, Lapa 11-2851-4868 faz com total responsabilidade e cuidado seus móveis até seu local de destino.</p>
<p>Nós cuidamos no trato de seus bens no dia do transporte seja ele de mudanças residenciais, comerciais ou para indústria.</p>
<p>Somos uma companha é pioneira em serviços de mudança nacional e internacionais. inclusive em casos de você precisar se mudar de um lugar bem próximo como: Jardim Aeroporto, Lapa 11-2851-4868 ou dentro do mesmo região ou estado.</p>
<p>Realizamos Nos casos de mudança interestadual e compartilhamento de mudanças de São Paulo para todos demais Estados Brasileiros. Podemos efetuar sua mudança com exclusividade ou juntamente á outras mudanças combinando data e hora na retirada dos móveis .</p>
<p>Também trabalhamos com transportes e mudanças fraccionada tanto para sua residência, negócio, comércio, eventos ou industria.</p>
<p>Veja os serviços opcionais para mudança ecônomica ou executiva na região de: Jardim Aeroporto, Lapa 11-2851-4868.</p>
<p>Desmotagem e montagem de móveis<br />
Içamento e remoção de móveis pesados<br />
Alugamos um espaço em nosso self store para seus móveis por tempo determinado pelo cliente<br />
Embalagem com plástico bolha<br />
Utensilios delicados embalamos com caixas de papelão e ondulado para maior proteção.<br />
Caixas de papelão á pronta entrega.<br />
Pessoal qualificado e experiente no trato e manuseio dos seis móveis.</p>
<p>Trabalhamos com veículos de pequeno e grande porta para transportar seu bens de forma adequada como caminhões baú e kombis novas</p>
<p>&#8230; Entre outros serviços.</p>
<p> peça uma cotação de preços sem compromisso.</p>
<p><strong>Confira (11) 2851-4868</strong><br />
Converse diretamente pelo MESSENGER: faleconosco.mudeja&#8221;arroba&#8221;hotmail.com<br />
Ou se prefefir envie uma mensagem para o EMAIL: cibele.metropolitan&#8221;arroba&#8221;hotmail.com</p>
<p>Visite nossa pagina web: <a href="http://blogtext.org/ovuc68/" rel="nofollow">http://blogtext.org/ovuc68/</a></p>
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		<title>By: warren</title>
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		<dc:creator>warren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about the idea that the original jews were black people and not the white people that so many are so fondly descriptive of. From My understanding after the flood noah had three sons shem, ham and japheth. From what I have read japheth started the caucasion race while ham preceded the black race and the children of israel lineage. In the book genesis the tenth chapter ashkenaz came from the seed japheth. How then has black jews turn white? Maybe it&#039;s true that the people who are called the jews today are nothing but jewish converts who for so long become quite fond of such a relationship that they decided to make the claim real, at least in their own minds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about the idea that the original jews were black people and not the white people that so many are so fondly descriptive of. From My understanding after the flood noah had three sons shem, ham and japheth. From what I have read japheth started the caucasion race while ham preceded the black race and the children of israel lineage. In the book genesis the tenth chapter ashkenaz came from the seed japheth. How then has black jews turn white? Maybe it&#8217;s true that the people who are called the jews today are nothing but jewish converts who for so long become quite fond of such a relationship that they decided to make the claim real, at least in their own minds.</p>
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		<title>By: kanan48</title>
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		<dc:creator>kanan48</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;There is a law in Israel, passed in 1985, which forbids political parties to openly oppose the principle of a Jewish state. Neither are they allowed to work for a change of this principle through democratic means. A party so doing will be banned from elections to the Knesset.

Democracy is thus denied to those citizens – even Jews – who wish to work within the parliamentary system towards replacing the Jewish state with a secular state which represents all its citizens’ equal rights regardless of religion or ethnic origin. This law alone prevents Israel from being seen as a liberal democracy of Western type.

All Jews living outside Israel are entitled by law to immigrate and become citizens immediately, while the Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their homes are prohibited from returning. This is a violation of international law.&quot; For full article here is the link:http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/115326-zionism-more-than-traditional-colonialism-and-apartheid</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;There is a law in Israel, passed in 1985, which forbids political parties to openly oppose the principle of a Jewish state. Neither are they allowed to work for a change of this principle through democratic means. A party so doing will be banned from elections to the Knesset.</p>
<p>Democracy is thus denied to those citizens – even Jews – who wish to work within the parliamentary system towards replacing the Jewish state with a secular state which represents all its citizens’ equal rights regardless of religion or ethnic origin. This law alone prevents Israel from being seen as a liberal democracy of Western type.</p>
<p>All Jews living outside Israel are entitled by law to immigrate and become citizens immediately, while the Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their homes are prohibited from returning. This is a violation of international law.&#8221; For full article here is the link:http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/115326-zionism-more-than-traditional-colonialism-and-apartheid</p>
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		<title>By: zachary esterson, PhD student, Cardiff</title>
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		<dc:creator>zachary esterson, PhD student, Cardiff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a PhD student immersed in many of the primary sources to which Shlomo Sand, specialist in modern French history, refers. There are plenty of British academics in Jewish history. Conspicuously, none were present here, or in any discussion with Sand.

The exile is assumed in rabbinic and Talmudic literature, as it is in Christian and Islamic. The Talmud is an expression of the rabbis’ resolve that every scrap of Jewish law, lore, custom and memory be retained in the face of the catastrophic loss of temple, Jerusalem, Judea and state.

In the Bellum Judaeorum. Josephus is too early to realise the loss of temple and Jerusalem is permanent, and he likely hoped for their return to the Jews. But there is no question that he perceives the loss of a Jewish state, of which Jerusalem is the capital.

Soon after Jews fall from favour. We hear no more of Hellenistic Jewish intellectuals, like Philo, whether Roman citizens or no. The destruction of the Alexandrian Jewish communities signals a decline in Hellenistic Jewish civilisation, a decline completed by the Christians. Jews no longer write Greco-Roman historiography. Hellenistic and Roman Jewish works, the provenance, in any case, of an elite, are lost. All Jews, empirewide, are punished for the rebels of Judea by collection of the temple tax. Indeed this likely plays a part in triggering the revolts in Alexandria and Cyrenaica. All Jews are thus identified as “Judeans”, and the Christians continue the policy. But now Jews are not only treated as de facto rebels, or potential rebels, against the Roman state and its gods, they are rebels against their own God, who now favours Greco-Roman gentile Christians, who inherit Jerusalem and Judea, now renamed “Palestine”, from their pagan predecessors, who acted as agents of divine wrath against Israel for rejecting or slaying Christ.

The “myth” of exile arises precisely because it is no longer possible to retain or research information about the past in detail. Except, for Jews, in the Talmud. It is a shorthand that most neatly encapsulates the Jewish experience of dispossession, disfavour, subjugation and displacement. Jews intermingle and intermarry, and the rabbis forge a pan-Jewish identity precisely because they fear Israel will be lost among the nations. Thereafter the tendency is less to convert new as to retain old Jews.

The assumption, indeed the necessity, that Jews are a people dispossessed of temple, city and land for their rejection of Jesus and the prophets only bolsters Jewish self-definition.

And the Christians continue the process of Jewish dispossession of the land of Israel by laws seeking to alienate or marginalise them. Yes, a sizable Jewish community remains in the land, largely in the Galil, whither many Judean refugees likely went.

Shlomo’s assertion that Romans did not exile peoples is idiotic: they certainly carried out tranfer or genocide against Dacia, the only other province, other than Judaea, to be renamed as a consequence.

Cassius Dio says 500 000 Judeans were killed during the suppression of the second Jewish revolt. Exaggeration? Possibly. But ethnic cleansing even by modern standards (and the Palestinian Arab Muslim and Christian experience springs to mind).

Judaea is changed to Syria Palaestina both to likely reflect that “demographic” change and to alienate Jews from the land for ever. It was never complete, sure. But I can tell you that every ancient Christian author, even those living in Palestine, speaks as though Israel has been completely dispossessed from the land, not because it necessarily reflects reality, but because it reflects things as they think they should be.

Which is why Jews have been regarded as a people dispossessed of temple, city and land, in Christendom and Islam, for most of Christian and Islamic history.

Especially Palestinian Christian and Islamic history.

In any case, one consequence of this is that, even in the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews in Europe, North Africa and Asia are regarded as more nationally Judean than, say, European or Arab, and are either killed, or effectively driven out: before 1914, mostly to America, after 1914, mostly to Palestine, or what became Israel.

Which is why the Jewish state of Israel is the second or largest Jewish community today, and certainly the one most identifiably Jewish (hence, unsurprisingly, the especial focus of hatred of antisemites today).

Sand’s holding a post-Revolutionary French notion of nationality as the touch stone of its definition is absurd: the Greeks and the Romans regarded Jews as a distinct ethno-national group, along with Syrians and Egyptians.

But, more to the point, Sand’s criterion proves the very opposite of his thesis: the granting to Jews of French citizenship was significant precisely because it was the first time since antiquity that Jews could transcend their (anciently regarded) Jewish ethno-nationality without having first to convert from Judaism to Christianity.

The intellectuals of the French Republic all assumed the Jews were an ethno-national group historically dispossessed because this was not merely how Jews saw themselves, it had been a datum of European culture for nearly 2000 years.

It was precisely this identity Jews were supposed to surrender in order to become French citizens. That was why orthodox rabbis viewed emancipation with such ambivalence, and why Liberal Judaism evolved as a response.

Conte de Clermont-Tonnerre to the General Assembly of the Republic ‘To the Jews as individuals everything, to the Jews as a nation nothing.’

It goes without saying that this presupposes Jews to have been a national group of some kind, although this was what Jews needed to abandon to become French citizens.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a PhD student immersed in many of the primary sources to which Shlomo Sand, specialist in modern French history, refers. There are plenty of British academics in Jewish history. Conspicuously, none were present here, or in any discussion with Sand.</p>
<p>The exile is assumed in rabbinic and Talmudic literature, as it is in Christian and Islamic. The Talmud is an expression of the rabbis’ resolve that every scrap of Jewish law, lore, custom and memory be retained in the face of the catastrophic loss of temple, Jerusalem, Judea and state.</p>
<p>In the Bellum Judaeorum. Josephus is too early to realise the loss of temple and Jerusalem is permanent, and he likely hoped for their return to the Jews. But there is no question that he perceives the loss of a Jewish state, of which Jerusalem is the capital.</p>
<p>Soon after Jews fall from favour. We hear no more of Hellenistic Jewish intellectuals, like Philo, whether Roman citizens or no. The destruction of the Alexandrian Jewish communities signals a decline in Hellenistic Jewish civilisation, a decline completed by the Christians. Jews no longer write Greco-Roman historiography. Hellenistic and Roman Jewish works, the provenance, in any case, of an elite, are lost. All Jews, empirewide, are punished for the rebels of Judea by collection of the temple tax. Indeed this likely plays a part in triggering the revolts in Alexandria and Cyrenaica. All Jews are thus identified as “Judeans”, and the Christians continue the policy. But now Jews are not only treated as de facto rebels, or potential rebels, against the Roman state and its gods, they are rebels against their own God, who now favours Greco-Roman gentile Christians, who inherit Jerusalem and Judea, now renamed “Palestine”, from their pagan predecessors, who acted as agents of divine wrath against Israel for rejecting or slaying Christ.</p>
<p>The “myth” of exile arises precisely because it is no longer possible to retain or research information about the past in detail. Except, for Jews, in the Talmud. It is a shorthand that most neatly encapsulates the Jewish experience of dispossession, disfavour, subjugation and displacement. Jews intermingle and intermarry, and the rabbis forge a pan-Jewish identity precisely because they fear Israel will be lost among the nations. Thereafter the tendency is less to convert new as to retain old Jews.</p>
<p>The assumption, indeed the necessity, that Jews are a people dispossessed of temple, city and land for their rejection of Jesus and the prophets only bolsters Jewish self-definition.</p>
<p>And the Christians continue the process of Jewish dispossession of the land of Israel by laws seeking to alienate or marginalise them. Yes, a sizable Jewish community remains in the land, largely in the Galil, whither many Judean refugees likely went.</p>
<p>Shlomo’s assertion that Romans did not exile peoples is idiotic: they certainly carried out tranfer or genocide against Dacia, the only other province, other than Judaea, to be renamed as a consequence.</p>
<p>Cassius Dio says 500 000 Judeans were killed during the suppression of the second Jewish revolt. Exaggeration? Possibly. But ethnic cleansing even by modern standards (and the Palestinian Arab Muslim and Christian experience springs to mind).</p>
<p>Judaea is changed to Syria Palaestina both to likely reflect that “demographic” change and to alienate Jews from the land for ever. It was never complete, sure. But I can tell you that every ancient Christian author, even those living in Palestine, speaks as though Israel has been completely dispossessed from the land, not because it necessarily reflects reality, but because it reflects things as they think they should be.</p>
<p>Which is why Jews have been regarded as a people dispossessed of temple, city and land, in Christendom and Islam, for most of Christian and Islamic history.</p>
<p>Especially Palestinian Christian and Islamic history.</p>
<p>In any case, one consequence of this is that, even in the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews in Europe, North Africa and Asia are regarded as more nationally Judean than, say, European or Arab, and are either killed, or effectively driven out: before 1914, mostly to America, after 1914, mostly to Palestine, or what became Israel.</p>
<p>Which is why the Jewish state of Israel is the second or largest Jewish community today, and certainly the one most identifiably Jewish (hence, unsurprisingly, the especial focus of hatred of antisemites today).</p>
<p>Sand’s holding a post-Revolutionary French notion of nationality as the touch stone of its definition is absurd: the Greeks and the Romans regarded Jews as a distinct ethno-national group, along with Syrians and Egyptians.</p>
<p>But, more to the point, Sand’s criterion proves the very opposite of his thesis: the granting to Jews of French citizenship was significant precisely because it was the first time since antiquity that Jews could transcend their (anciently regarded) Jewish ethno-nationality without having first to convert from Judaism to Christianity.</p>
<p>The intellectuals of the French Republic all assumed the Jews were an ethno-national group historically dispossessed because this was not merely how Jews saw themselves, it had been a datum of European culture for nearly 2000 years.</p>
<p>It was precisely this identity Jews were supposed to surrender in order to become French citizens. That was why orthodox rabbis viewed emancipation with such ambivalence, and why Liberal Judaism evolved as a response.</p>
<p>Conte de Clermont-Tonnerre to the General Assembly of the Republic ‘To the Jews as individuals everything, to the Jews as a nation nothing.’</p>
<p>It goes without saying that this presupposes Jews to have been a national group of some kind, although this was what Jews needed to abandon to become French citizens.</p>
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		<title>By: Randolino</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randolino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And could someone please tell what kind of property rights laws exist in Israel, that allow for persons to be driven from their homes?   

I honestly don&#039;t really get that part.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And could someone please tell what kind of property rights laws exist in Israel, that allow for persons to be driven from their homes?   </p>
<p>I honestly don&#8217;t really get that part.</p>
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		<title>By: Randolino</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randolino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I agree that most if not all Palestinians are surely a mix and of some Hebrew descent, (as I am as well), the contention of Shlomo Sand&#039;s, that &quot;no book exists&quot; about the exile is false.   Regarding first century Jewish events, Josephus, a first century Jewish historian who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem, wrote the book &quot;The Jewish War&quot;.   Much research and many books have been written about the events from A.D. 66 to A.D. 135.    Shlomo Sand is falsely claiming otherwise.  He hasn&#039;t done his homework.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I agree that most if not all Palestinians are surely a mix and of some Hebrew descent, (as I am as well), the contention of Shlomo Sand&#8217;s, that &#8220;no book exists&#8221; about the exile is false.   Regarding first century Jewish events, Josephus, a first century Jewish historian who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem, wrote the book &#8220;The Jewish War&#8221;.   Much research and many books have been written about the events from A.D. 66 to A.D. 135.    Shlomo Sand is falsely claiming otherwise.  He hasn&#8217;t done his homework.</p>
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		<title>By: Randolino</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randolino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is important to note that almost every person living today in Europe is directly descended from forefathers and foremothers who were living in Judea at the beginning of the Common Era. It would be virtually impossible to prove you are not a descendant. Your DNA doesn&#039;t lie.</description>
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