Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il Interesting Assumption, but wrong author: Dr. Landen Spiegelhaus

I am not a pro-Zionist, in fact I am anti-nationalist. I am against Jewish nationalism and I am against Palestinian nationalism. I reject the mythology of all nationalisms who try to root their legitimacy in a fictional past. It is you who seem to be attempting to defend a certain ideological stand despite the piling evidence to the contrary. Abraham and God are most likely not historical figures and therefore god could not have made a contract with Abraham. The lack of ANY historical evidence for any of the characters in the bible from the period before the time of King Solomon, and the similarity of many of these early stories with other of the regional mythologies, would suggest an uphill battle in attmepting to legitimize historical rights to land by these unsubstantiated myths. If Abraham and Moses are myth and the Jewish people did not recieve the 'Torah' at Mt. Sinai, it would suggest human design. This would also suggest that that not only does this fictionalize Judaism, but also Christianity and Islam which are based on the assumption of the historical reality of these events. Instead of living in the fictional past, let us live in the real now.

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