Why so abusive, Jim? What good you think it does your side of the argument?

As to "historical fact". My History teacher for Higher Schools, back in the 1940s, used to say that, properly speaking, "every history essay should begin with Adam & Eve". We all knew what he meant.

So where, historically, should this thread begin:
1200 BC (Moses)?
135 AD (Hadrian's diaspora)?
1880s-90s (beginning of Jewish immigration)?
1896 (Theodor Herzl's 'The Jewish State')?
1917 (Balfour Declaration)?
1948 (Declaration of State in accordance with UN Resolution followed by invasion by all surrounding Arab states)?...

It really doesn't do to oversimplify...

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