09 August 2005

Built by elves, apparently

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The New York Times? has an article on a remarkable archeological find in the City of David, alongside the Old City of Jerusalem. The kicker:

The find will also be used in the broad political battle over Jerusalem - whether the Jews have their origins here and thus have some special hold on the place, or whether, as many Palestinians have said, including the late Yasir Arafat, the idea of a Jewish origin in Jerusalem is a myth used to justify conquest and occupation. […] The archaeological debate is also partly a debate over the roots of Zionism and the effort to find Jewish origins deep in the land. [emphasis added]

The NY Times now considers the idea that Jews and Judaism originated in the Levant several thousand years ago in dispute?

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