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> The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Already the first sentence put me off. Jews and Arabs have, in fact, gotten along very well for the majority of

> The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Already the first sentence put me off. Jews and Arabs have, in fact, gotten along very well for the majority of the past millennium. That last century has been the exception.

njharman 7y ago
It's also ignorantly false. Never is a very long time. They were the same peoples or coexisted peacefully for the majority of known history. Only "recently" has there been divisiveness.
- djohnston 7y ago
  what about the whole slaves in egypt bit?
  - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
    Those weren't Arabs.
  - antonvs 7y ago
    Aside from the fact that ancient Egyptians were not Arabs, mainstream history and archaeology no longer consider the Exodus described in the Bible to be a real historical event. Here's one article about this, from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-you-were-not-slaves-in-egypt-the-memories-behind-the-exodus-myth-1.7138961 https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-yo... > [The Exodus] never happened. For decades now, most researchers have agreed that there is no evidence to suggest that the Exodus narrative reflects a specific historical event. Rather, it is an origin myth for the Jewish people that has been constructed, redacted, written and rewritten over centuries to include multiple layers of traditions, experiences and memories from a host of different sources and periods.
allovernow 7y ago
I don't want to start a flame war but the Koran is explicitly unkind to Jews in a number of verses, within context[1]. It's the recent growing secularism that's been the exception. 1.https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/references-to-jews-in-the-koran https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/references-to-jews-in-t...
lggdn 7y ago
You get the same type of nonsense in regards to east asia. Like china, japan and korea have never gotten along and had been in an eternal state of war when in actuality, they had gotten along for most of the past millennium with the 20th century being an exception.

njharman 7y ago

It's also ignorantly false. Never is a very long time. They were the same peoples or coexisted peacefully for the majority of known history. Only "recently" has there been divisiveness.

djohnston 7y ago
what about the whole slaves in egypt bit?
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  Those weren't Arabs.
- antonvs 7y ago
  Aside from the fact that ancient Egyptians were not Arabs, mainstream history and archaeology no longer consider the Exodus described in the Bible to be a real historical event. Here's one article about this, from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-you-were-not-slaves-in-egypt-the-memories-behind-the-exodus-myth-1.7138961 https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-yo... > [The Exodus] never happened. For decades now, most researchers have agreed that there is no evidence to suggest that the Exodus narrative reflects a specific historical event. Rather, it is an origin myth for the Jewish people that has been constructed, redacted, written and rewritten over centuries to include multiple layers of traditions, experiences and memories from a host of different sources and periods.

allovernow 7y ago

I don't want to start a flame war but the Koran is explicitly unkind to Jews in a number of verses, within context[1]. It's the recent growing secularism that's been the exception. 1.https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/references-to-jews-in-the-koran https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/references-to-jews-in-t...

lggdn 7y ago

You get the same type of nonsense in regards to east asia. Like china, japan and korea have never gotten along and had been in an eternal state of war when in actuality, they had gotten along for most of the past millennium with the 20th century being an exception.