{"id":81477,"date":"2020-11-09T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=81477"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T08:04:39","slug":"17-05-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=81477","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians\u2019 most dangerous enemy is \u2026 archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Palestinians\u2019 most dangerous enemy is \u2026 archaeology<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

STEPHEN M. FLATOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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STEPHEN M. FLATOW<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The mikvah was the latest in a series of discoveries in Israel during the past year, each of which contradicted the Arab propaganda narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n

(October 6, 2020 \/ JNS)<\/span> Pundits will tell you that the most dangerous enemies of the Palestinian Arab cause are the Gulf kingdoms that have decided to recognize Israel, or the European countries that are moving their embassies to Jerusalem, or the American politicians who refuse to keep underwriting the Palestinian Authority\u2019s debts.<\/span><\/p>\n

I disagree. I say that the Palestinians\u2019 most formidable foe is \u2026 archaeology.<\/span><\/p>\n

A 2,000-years-old mikvah<\/em> (ritual bath) was recently uncovered in the Lower Galilee. Most people probably would never have heard about the discovery if not for the dramatic photos of the entire structure being carried by truck to a nearby kibbutz for preservation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The remarkable sight of a truck-borne mikvah<\/em>, however, also makes one pause and reflect on the remarkable implications of the archeological find.<\/span><\/p>\n

It means that 2,000 years ago, the residents of the Lower Galilee were practicing the exact same religious rituals that Orthodox Jews throughout the world practice today. Those Galileans, in other words, were Jews. They weren\u2019t \u201cPalestinians.\u201d The word \u201cPalestine\u201d had not yet been invented. They weren\u2019t Arabs or Muslims\u2014the invasion of the Land of Israel by Muslim fundamentalists from the Arabian Peninsula was still 600 years in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

The news of the ancient mikvah<\/em> must have been quite a disappointment to Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas. On Sept. 25, he told the U.N. General Assembly: \u201cThe Palestinian people have been present in their homeland, Palestine, the land of their ancestors, for over 6,000 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those meddling archaeologists and their discoveries keep getting in the way of Palestinian propaganda!<\/span><\/p>\n

To make matters worse for Abbas, the directors of the excavation were Walid Atrash and Abd Elghani Ibrahim. You can tell by their names that they are not exactly Orthodox Jews. The P.A. will have a hard time getting anybody to believe that Atrash and Ibrahim are agents of a Zionist conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mikvah<\/em> discovery was just the latest in a series of archaeological finds in Israel during the past year, each of which contradicted the Palestinian Arab propaganda narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Givati Parking Lot excavation<\/a> in Jerusalem, archaeologists discovered Hebrew-language inscriptions dating back 2,600 years. One was a stone seal with the words \u201cbelonging to Ikkar son of Matanyahu.\u201d The other was a clay seal impression<\/a> that read \u201cbelonging to Nathan-Melech, servant of the king.\u201d They weren\u2019t in Arabic. And the names weren\u2019t Yasser or Mahmoud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Jerusalem, archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old paved road<\/a> that was used by Jews who made the annual pilgrimage to the capital at the time of the festivals of Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. It wasn\u2019t used by Arabs, or Muslims or \u201cPalestinians\u201d\u2014because there weren\u2019t any of them around in those days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, excavators from the University of North Carolina discovered two stunning mosaics at the site of a 1,600-year-old synagogue near Huqoq in northern Israel. One depicts a scene from the exodus of the Jews from ancient Egypt. The other shows images based on verses in the Torah\u2019s book of Daniel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note that the mosaics do not show scenes from the Koran. There is nothing Arabic of Islamic or \u201cPalestinian\u201d about them. They are Jewish, they are situated in Israel, and they are 1,600 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every new archaeological discovery about the ancient Jews constitutes another stick in the spokes of the wheels of the Palestinian Arab propaganda machine. Every physical fact in the soil of the country shatters the P.A.\u2019s lies. Every stone or seal or shard of pottery reminds us who are the real indigenous people of the Land of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stephen M. Flatow<\/strong> is a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, an attorney in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book, \u201cA Father\u2019s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror,\u201d is now available on Kindle.<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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