2006-07-30 10:19:22 · 15 answers · asked by amyryam21 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I think that the Arabs and Jews are like the Vulcans and Romulans. Vulcans and Romulans were the same race a long time ago, but a difference in ideals caused them to split and go their separate ways, just like Arabs and Jews.
2006-07-30 14:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by Bastet's kitten 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are both "Semitic" races, originated in the same part of the world and so of course are very similar racially. More to the point are the Palestinians.
2000 years ago during the "Diaspora" about a third of the Hebrew people left Israel and wandered off through Europe and Asia. Of those who stayed behing in Isreal, some became Christian, some converted to Islam when it arrived and some remained Jewish.
During the first half of the 20th century, when the Jewish people began to migrate back to historic "Israel" they found the original Hebrew descendants referred to by the British as "Palestinian" using a term introduced by the Turkish Empire several centuries earlier.
They accepted the Jewish "Palestinians" as fellow Jews and incorporated them into the new state of Israel, but rejected the Muslim and Christian "Palestinians" as "outsiders," because of their religion.
Both Jews and Muslims hate and resist any suggestion that they are sprung from the same seed and are in fact the same race. The Palestinian (and all Muslim) militants insist that the Jewish Israeli is nothing more than a brutal European colonial invader, while the Israeli considers the Palestinian to be nothing more than an ignorant barbaric "native" a "sand-n*gger" if you will.
Genetic DNA testing tells us that this is not in fact true. The modern Israeli is nothing more than a "Palestinian Jew" coming home after a rather long absence, further the Palestinian Arab is nothing more than a "Hebrew Israeli" who stayed home and changed religions during the "Diaspora." They are at least "cousins" who share the same ansestors - the descendents of Moses and David on the one side ready to murder the descendents of Moses and David on the other side.
Its too bad they refuse to see each other in this light........
2006-08-01 08:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to all of their holy books, yes. Jews and Arabs are all descended from the same tribes.
2006-07-30 19:29:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Old Testament many peoples are descended from Abram/Abraham and his nephew Lot. I ain't gonn a name em all. I got Hulk Business elsewhere! So yes, it is believeable that many peoples had a common anscestor.
2006-07-30 17:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by obitdude2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the "out of Africa"theory, of the human race then we all share the same grand parents. This probably doesn't answer your futile question, if indeed it is a valid question.
2006-07-30 18:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not about believing... yes, both have the same "grandfather" and so do the christians
2006-07-30 17:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by Mircea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Dysfunctional families had a beginning somewhere.
2006-07-31 00:32:45 · answer #7 · answered by GJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So strange that no one refers to anthropological evidence. Let me just add this: Their languages are very closely related and their ancient histories overlap eachother constantly.
2006-07-30 18:10:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are both descended from Abraham.
I guess all families have problems.
2006-07-30 19:45:00 · answer #9 · answered by jackie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At this point, I am just super happy that I am not in either of those groups!
2006-07-30 17:22:28 · answer #10 · answered by AeroMidwest82 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋