There was no such thing as a self-governing Palestinian state before
There was no such thing as a self governing United States of America before the War of Independence. Did this make it right when the Superpowers of the day diced the country up between them?
You know, it's amazing how little affection the Eastern European Jews I know have for their "homelands."
I worded that badly. I meant that the Eastern European Jews must once - maybe 50 generations back or more - have come from the middle east. They didn't arise by prostelytisation, they're not converts, so if you go back far enough their ancestors must once have known Judea.
I don't believe Eastern European Jews anywhere (even Manchester) have much of a hankering for their old places of residence. We have a TV programme where well known people research their ancestry, and they've done a couple of people whose family fled from that area. In both cases, it was virtually never talked about in the family. Too many bad memories.
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Date: 2008-07-03 09:08 am (UTC)There was no such thing as a self governing United States of America before the War of Independence. Did this make it right when the Superpowers of the day diced the country up between them?
You know, it's amazing how little affection the Eastern European Jews I know have for their "homelands."
I worded that badly. I meant that the Eastern European Jews must once - maybe 50 generations back or more - have come from the middle east. They didn't arise by prostelytisation, they're not converts, so if you go back far enough their ancestors must once have known Judea.
I don't believe Eastern European Jews anywhere (even Manchester) have much of a hankering for their old places of residence. We have a TV programme where well known people research their ancestry, and they've done a couple of people whose family fled from that area. In both cases, it was virtually never talked about in the family. Too many bad memories.