Jews

[dave_c]

In what year were the Jews expelled (if they were I'm not too sure) from pre-Palestine Israel by the Syrians/Arabs? And Why?

[kempie]

I am not aware of Jews being expelled from (pre-) Israel but rather from other Arab states, forcing mass migration into Israel in 1948. There certainly was a Palestinian Arab Exodus at that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_exodus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine

[reportmonkey]

Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70AD so just shy of 2000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Jerusalem

[Chessman]

The Jews were not expelled from pre-Palestine Israel, They were expelled from Judea, by the Romans, because they kept rebelling, At one time there were two Jewish sttes, Israel and Judea, only Judea suvied to be conquered by the Roman. Incidently, originally the name Jew had nothing to do with the reigion, the people were called Jews after the country they lived in, much like the English are called after England.

[Chessman]

Something I forgot, Palestine is the modern term for Philistine.

[kempie]

Likewise Semitic means 'descendents of Shem' and does not mean exclusively Jews but also includes Arabs.

Strange how Israel calls Arabic nations "anti-semitic".