Tribe Israel 1212 BCE

    If you listened to the Arabs, the Palestinians, and Muslims in general, you would think that Israel was an outsider, "the stranger," to the the Middle East, put there by the American and the Europeans during World War ll. This is religious disinformation accorded by the Koran to anything that is the for the "good" of Islam. It is known in the Koran as "taqiyya" and is a constant part of the Koran as well as Muslim politics and behavior. But it is not the truth no matter who says it and how many times it's said. According to Egyptian hieroglyphics carved in stone, the tribes of Israel were established in Canaan, ancient Palestine, as early as 1212 B.C.E. Archaeological diggings showed that there was a proto-Israel in the Jewish presence of South Palestine and present-day Israel as early as 925 B.C.E. If I am doing my math correctly, the Arabs weren't even in Levant then but began massing on the southern border in 632 C.E. preparing for the Arab Conquest of 638 C.E. The ancient records of the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Roman, the Byzantine, and the Muslim Empires all attest to the Jewish presence then.
To Be Continued
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary College