Guys, you need to read between the lines ^^
It was a desert (compared to developed countries), the return of the Jews have already started from decades before, and in Israel (Palestine was a name given by Roman Empire to humiliate the Jews because in the history before, there was the Philistines in Aza (Gaza) people who attacked Jews every times...) there was already commerce between Arabs and Jews, there was peace btw, but in many place of Israel, it was a desert really, buildings where primitive, it was a very simple civilization, nothing compared to how it was in Europe for example, in that sense it was a desert 😉
According to the Mishna, it was the Falasteen (Philistines) who welcomed and cared for the Jews after 40 years in the desert.
Yes, there were later wars and land grabs by Judah against the Falesteen. (The more things change...) The Sages excused this perfidity by asserting (without textual or other evidence) that there were two peoples called Falasteen.
Palestina or Syria Palestina was a name the Romans gave the whole region when they made it a Provincia.
Because the Falesteen (Palestinae in Latin) had been the most loyal to Rome. More loyal than Judah, Ysrael, Samaria, the Canaanite city-states or the Phonecian city-states, all of whom became parts of Roman Palestina.
"The Sages excused this perfidity"
Thanks, I understand you intention from now
I live to teach!
[ takes a bow ]
your intention is not honest, Israeli Sages are religious at the higher level, there is absolutely no excuse for any perfidy in the Judaism, stealing is one of the worse thing you can do
I happen to agree. And yet...
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