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Originally Posted by dyna mo
shit's been back & forth there for over 3000 years
bc = before christ.
1006 bc c. 1006-965; David becomes king of Israel and conquers Jerusalem
587 bc Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon destroys Jerusalem; Babylonian Captivity of the Jews begins
539 bc Babylonian empire conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia
167 bc Mattahias the Hasmonian begins Maccabean Revolt against Seleucid rule in Judea
16 July 622 Muhammad forced to flee Mecca for Medina; Becomes basis for Islamic tradition of the hijra
15 August 636 Battle of Yarmuk; Islamic forces under Khalid ibn al-Walid conquer Syria and Palestine
637 Islamic armies invade Mesopotamia
638 Islamic forces capture Jerusalem
et al.
3000+ years of fighting and you think the u.s. has killed more over there in the last 50 years?  |
Look it up, how many casualties the United States has in the Middle East including the Iraq/Iran war, supplying Afghanis to fight the Russians, the allied invasion of Lebanon and Syria, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Gulf War. It's a lot harder to kill someone with big knives and arrows like they did for the wars you listed than it is with bombs and bullets like the United States does today.
Just today I was reading about how a reverend in Iraq said that he believes things are the worst now for Christians living in Iraq than they have ever been - and Christians have been living in Iraq for 2000 years.