Steg wrote: > > Because i can't really think of any time before the > modern period when Arabs and Jews conquered each other > in that area... Jews vs. Canaanites, > Greece vs. Jews, > You forgot: Egypt vs. Jews, Jews vs. Jews, Assiria vs. Jews, Babylon vs. Jews, Jews vs. Samaritans
> Jews vs. Hellenized Syria, Rome vs. Jews, > Between Antiochs vs Jews and Rome vs Jews, there was an Arab vs Jews conflict, when the king of the Nabateans [sp? capital at Petra] attacked Judea under the father of Herod the Great, who had to call Rome for support. > Persia vs. Rome, > Arabs vs. Rome, when Zenobia was Queen of Palmira. > Arabs vs. Persia, > Or Arabs vs. Bizantium? And Muhammad expelled the Jews from Jerusalem. > Christian Europe vs. Arabs, Ottomans vs. Arabs > (or did the Ottomans conquer it from the Crusaders?)... > No, the Crusaders were finally defeated by someone from Egypt [IIRC] Alberto Monteiro
