Varför är vi här, frågar man på ledarplats i Jerusalem Post. Nya arkeologiska fynd visar att judarna verkligen fanns i landet redan för 3.000 år sedan. Det betyder att redan 1600 år innan religionen islam uppstod blomstrade den judiska kulturen i landet.
Vi kanske tycker att detta är en självklarhet, det har vi alltid vetat. Men efter att den moderna sionismen uppstod och judarna återvänt till landet har det funnits de som uttryckt tvivel på att judarna har någon historia i landet. Detta är bl.a. allmänt bland palestinierna.
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"...Over the weekend came a report that an ancient inscription had been deciphered testifying - yet again - to the age-old connection between the people and land of Israel.
On what in ancient times was a main road from the coastal plain to the hill country, Hebrew University of Jerusalem archeologist Yosef Garfinkel, digging in the northern Judean hills at Khirbet Qeiyafa - which borders on the Eila Valley (off today's Route 38) - found a piece of pottery with ink writing which dates back to the Davidic era.
The discovery was made a year-and-a-half ago. A number of scholars are examining the text though Prof. Gershon Galil, a biblical studies expert at the University of Haifa, just made his conclusions public.
The inscriptions, he said, are undoubtedly ancient Hebrew, using words such as almana (widow) that would have been written differently in other local languages. .."
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