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Senior Israeli archaeologist casts doubt on Jewish heritage of Jerusalem

Middle East Monitor
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:24 UTC

A senior archaeologist at Tel Aviv University has cast doubt on the alleged Jewish heritage of Jerusalem. Israel Finkelstein's claims have been made in the face of official Israeli and biblical claims to the occupied city.

Professor Finkelstein, who is known as "the father of biblical archaeology", told the Jerusalem Post that Jewish archaeologists have found no historical or archaeological evidence to back the biblical narrative on the Exodus, the Jews' wandering in Sinai or Joshua's conquest of Canaan. On the alleged Temple of Solomon, Finkelstein said that there is no archaeological evidence to prove it really existed.

According to Finkelstein's university colleague, archaeology lecturer Rafi Greenberg, Israel is supposed to find something if it digs for a period of six weeks. But, Greenberg told the Jerusalem Post, Israelis have been excavating the so-called City of David in the occupied Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan for two years to no avail.

Professor Yoni Mizrahi, an independent archaeologist who has worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency, agreed with Israel Finkelstein. He said that the right-wing Elad Association has not found anything "saying welcome to David's palace" although that was taken for granted by Elad, as if the group depended on scriptural texts to guide them in their work.

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ashleyS · 2011-08-10T02:29:03Z

I'm not really into artifacts

I'm not really into artifacts or any old stuff just wanna share with you guys what I've heard in the news just a couple of days. It says there that the idea from the Kennedy Library vaults in Boston is going to appear, as reported by news reports. The “Jackie O videos,” crafted by Jacqueline Onassis and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., will focus on then Vice President Lyndon Johnson's believed involvement in the John F. Kennedy murder. Jackie O apparently thought LBJ and a “cabal of Texas tycoons” organized her husband's murder in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963. Article source: Jackie O tapes implicate LBJ in Kennedy assassination

Seeker · 2011-08-10T08:52:57Z

JFK and old artifacts...

A strange place to post a comment about the JFK conspiracy! Although perhaps considering the pivotal role of the age old Zionist/4th density biblical lies and the slow, historically inexorable slide to world totalitarian control it has compelled, the connection may be quite apposite! Anyhow, for your information, there has long been credible evidence of LBJ’s pivotal role at the helm of the plot including consistent and highly compelling evidence supplied over the past decade or so by his long term mistress and mother of his child Madeleine Duncan Brown. See the following brief interview as an example.

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My only vague doubt about the veracity of her testimony is that she is still alive, as so many other credible witnesses to key events have been ‘disappeared’ or ‘suicided’.

LBJ was a well known killer (a number of cases back in Texas have his name all over them) and was clearly psychopathic by nature. CIA operative and general mixer Howard Hunt, implicated up to his nostrils’ and outed by his own son, claimed on his death bed that LBJ was a central figure in giving the orders (along with all his other ‘buddies’ in the various over lapping occult secret societies, oil oligarchs and black ops groups discussed in the latest edition of Dot Connector: What do we really know about the Secret Space Programs?). However, it doesn’t change the likelihood that LBJ was merely the fixer, a tool in the hands of higher powers.

I would gently suggest ashleyS that if you want to learn anything meaningful about current conditions on this planet you should become extremely interested by the slug like trail left behind in our history, which you refer to as ‘artefacts or any old stuff’. And learning about the lies, the manipulations and the extreme nefarious purposes behind the bible, the pivotal role of Jerusalem in this Matrix and the claiming of the city as the one true capital of ‘God’s’ kingdom on earth, Israel, is as good a place as anywhere to start.

Astraea · 2011-08-10T10:49:55Z

Astraea

Professor Isreal Fikelstein is one of my favourite people of all time. He is not only a thoroughly nice person, civilised and gentle, he is brave and just simply honest and good. His book
"The Bible Unearthed." is fascinating. Read it asap. I so wish everyone would read it and stop being so blind and stupid.

Also, look for The 42 Commandments of Ma'at - you will see that the religion of the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians is the origin of the religion we call Christianity. The Jews have been fooling the World for a very long time - actually from about the 6th Century BC! That is when the "sinister Levites" found a way to corral and control - ruthlessly - the poor Judeans, and theyhave been doing so ever since! Time Judaism was shown to be what it is. It is not a religion but merely a political ideology or a cult. It is cruel in the extreme, especially to the poor people born into it.

Ruth · 2011-08-10T20:57:27Z

Hope he treads carefully

Lets hope he treads carefully if he is going to mix truth and science and then expect religion and politics to 'like' it and more to the point 'tollerate' him.

avatarian · 2011-08-11T06:21:31Z

Yeah

its a bit like some riligio-archaeologist scientist going to the Vatican and saying look, there is no evidence historical or archaeological about God...and by the way the world IS round and nature is older than man....we might see a return to burnings at the stake...modern method of course....EMW's.

Thank God for black english humour.....

ICU · 2011-08-11T14:20:05Z

Smoke n Mirrors

I would add that the religion of the Jews is nothing more than a complete fabrication from previous myths that predate their Torah by a thousand years and most likely longer. Look at the myths that have been translated from the Ancient Sumerians, this is where I believe that most of the creation myth that is in the Old Testament comes from, Cain and Able and the great flood are two of the most known. In the typical parasitical method the Jews attached themselves to the Sumerian myth and declared it as their own. I think the Jews were the first to figure out a comprehensive plan to use religion to manipulate humanity and from this beginning they have evolved to banking, education, politics etc. to maintain their control. The Jews understand how to use depth psychology, the unconscious mind, to keep the goyim (cattle) under control. This article is just another indicator that their supposed history is just smoke and mirrors. Hopefully humanity can begin to see the severity of the manipulation that has been perpetrated upon it before it’s too late!

ChewyBees · 2011-08-11T21:57:38Z

Sounds like 'Smoking Mirrors' Look it up...
It's never been a matter of humanity, as a whole, waking up to anything. That would only happen the minute they realized they were no longer in the body. It's really a matter of a percentage of humanity being awake and willing to do something about it. The balance has never been 7.99 billion against .1 billion. It's .1 verses .1 The .1 just on humanity's side just haven't been given the means to take the initiative. And by means I don't mean money, in fact, it will likely require the downfall of money, which we are seeing in Technicolor (coats) as I write.
The manipulation, as you state, is consented to and agreed upon the whole way. That's the only reason it continues. The only other explanation is that there are a select people on earth that have divine authority over the rest and we should all bow down to them as our masters forevermore. It that's the case, then why all the deceptions? They should just pull out the god card and play it, for god's sake.