LETTER: No evidence to support myths around Israel
Palestinian Jews converted first to Christianity and later to Islam, which ironically gives present-day Palestinian Muslims a far more genuine claim to the Holy Land than either Christians or Jews
That all three Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — have historical and emotional connections to the “Holy Land” is indisputable. Chris Eden’s arguments are absurd (“Chris Thurman errs in assessment of Israel,” May 26). Chapter one of the book of Genesis describes how God created the heavens and the earth in six days, and rested on the seventh. Does Eden really believe in this year of 2021 that the world was created in only six days? Or does he really believe that Eve had a conversation with the serpent in the Garden of Eden?
Likewise, Abraham, Moses and King David are allegorical myths. Modern Israeli historians have also demolished the myths that Jews were forcibly exiled by the Romans following the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. There is no evidence to support that myth. ..
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