Dear Kendall,

You wrote: "If you believe the old testement, it was the Palistinians who took over the "promised land" when the Jews were scattered."

I'm afraid that your knowledge of the Biblical and post-Biblical history is seriously flawed.

1) The Jews were "scattered" in the year 70 C.E. (A.D.). The narrative of the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the "Old Testament") ended several centuries before that.

2) The Palestinians are Arabs. The Arabs first arrived in Palestine in the 7th Century.

Sincerely,

Irwin Goldenberg