Historical Revisionism

Right Whing Whiner Michael Coren takes on CUPE over their boycott of Israel. In his latest Toronto Sun column, which was published in other Sun papers across Canada, Coren engages in historical revisionism that one expects from the likes of Ernst Zundel.

Coren justifies the oppression of the Palestinian peoples by claiming the continous existence of a State of Israel, and denies the existence of the Palestinian peoples.

"The Jewish state, Israel, came into existence more than 1300 years before the birth of Jesus Christ and 2000 years before Islam existed. The Jewish people have lived in the country for more than 3000 years and resisted Greeks, Persians, Syrians, Romans and legions of other tyrants. There never was a Palestine. After the Romans murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews and destroyed entire cities they attempted to expunge any trace of Jews and Judaism from Israel. Thus they renamed the land after the ancient Philistines, a people who had creased to exist."

Gee Michael what state would that be again? The one ruled by King Solomon perhaps or the one founded by the terrorists of the Stern Gang.

United Monarchy
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The United Monarchy refers to a period in the History of Israel where the Twelve tribes of Israel were united into one monarchy under King Saul in roughly 1050 BC. The empire according to the Torah reached its height under the reign of King Solomon. Some scholars and historians doubt the extent of the monarchy described in the Torah, and instead suggest a smaller localized kingdom while others go further to doubt its existence

Because there is big difference between them.

You see the Palestinian peoples did exist at the time of Solomon, in fact you can check your bible to see. It's recorded in the Song of Songs, the Holy of Holies. The daughters of Jerusalem, indeed the main female voice in the song are; I am black but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem! Like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Where upon the threshing dance that is referred to in the text is a "Palestinian peasant dance, a wedding dance" according to Marvin H. Pope in his Biblical exegesis of the Song of Songs.

"Return, return, O Shulammite; return, return, and let us gaze upon you." "What will you see for the Shulammite, as in the dance of the two camps?

The Jewish Encyclopedia states:
Still another view regards the book as picturing the popular festivities held in Palestine in connection with the wedding-week. Of such festivities there are hints in the Old Testament (Judges xiv. 10-12; Jer. xvi. 9; Ps. xix. 6 [5]; comp. Matt. xxv. 1 et seq.); and Wetzstein (in his article "Die Syrische Dreschtafel," in Bastian's "Zeitschrift für Ethnologie," 1873, pp. 270 et seq., and in the appendix to Delitzsch's commentary on the Song) has given the details of the modern Syrian marriage celebration, in which he finds parallels to those of the poem. In the week succeeding the marriage the villagers assemble; the thrashing-board is set up as a throne, on which the newly married pair take their seats as "king" and "queen"; there are songs in praise of the physical charms of the pair, and dances, in which bridegroom and bride take part; especially noteworthy is the "sword-dance," performed by the bride with a naked sword in one hand (see vii. 1 [R. V. vi. 13]). In accordance with this view the "king" of the poem, sometimes called "Solomon" (an imaginative designation of a person of ideal beauty), is the bridegroom; the "daughters of Jerusalem" are the village maidens in attendance on the bride; the royal procession of iii. 6-11 is that of the bridegroom (comp. Ps. xix. 6 [5]); the dialogues, descriptions of bodily charms, and other pieces are folk-songs; according to Budde, the name "Shulamite," given to the bride once (vii. 1 [vi. 13]), is equivalent to "Shunemmite," and isan imaginative reminiscence of the fair Abishag (I Kings i. 3).

You see it was not the State of Israel, but the Kingdom of Solomon. "The kingdom of Solomon," says George Rawlinson, "is one of the most striking facts in Biblical history. A petty nation, which for hundreds of years has with difficulty maintained a separate existence in the midst of warlike tribes, each of which has in turn exercised dominion over it and oppressed it, is suddenly raised by the genius of a soldier-monarch to glory and greatness." Song of Solomon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And this Kingdom was ruled by a solar phallic prince who was crowned not by his father, David, but by his mother. Much to the chagrin of the patriarchs of the various semitic tribes, which included not just Jews but Arabs as well. As the Song says; Go out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon, upon the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his nuptials and on the day of the joy of his heart.

His truimph was his communal, polygamous marriage to hundreds of priestesses of various goddess religions of the time, as well as marriage into a variety of Semitic ruling families of the twelve tribes. There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and innumerable maidens.

Solomon
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The first half of his reign was, however, by far the brighter and more prosperous; the latter half was clouded by the idolatries into which he fell, mainly, according to the scribes, from his intermarriages. According to 1 Kings 11:4, he had 700 wives and 300 concubines. As soon as he had settled himself in his kingdom, and arranged the affairs of his extensive empire, he entered into an alliance with Egypt by a marriage with the daughter of the Pharaoh.


This as well as his trade deals with the King of Tyre, created a stable peaceful state. One that had not existed previously. The Kingdom of Jeruslaem (NOT the State of Israel) prior to Solomon was at war with their neighbours, and each other. Sound familar.

In fact Solomon's importance is such that he is Shlomo in Jewish and Suliman in Arabic. Hence his respect by all in the region is still held today as children are named after him. Qur'anic account of Solomon

There was no State of Israel but there was a Palestine and a Palestinian peoples, they were Semites just like the Jews. There were twelve tribes, there was a Kingdom of Jerusalem, and that is what is defined as Israel in the Old Testament. Michael Coren a self professed old Catholic should know his bible, but being a demagouge he prefers to revise history for his own ends whic is historical revisionism to justify the continuing Zionist State's oppression of the Palestinian peoples.

See Jay C. Treasts interesting website The Song of Songs


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