Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Corey Gil-Shuster" channel.

@AlahuSnackbar "Argument’s an intellectual process. Contradiction’s just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says!"
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@patriotsforisrael2025 China? Although you can't really call Chinese philosophy the worship of a god, it has at least as much continuity as Judaism does. Also, arguably, India. Of course the religion and language have both changed, but so has Israel's - modern Hebrew is a reconstructed language, not a living tradition of a first language for its speakers. As is the polity of Israel - there's a pretty huge gap (about 1800 years) in the continuity Krauthammer was claiming.
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@patriotsforisrael2025 It originally belonged to the Philistines, but they've been gone for a very, very long time - they got the same treatment the lost tribes got from Assyria. Gaza was not part of David's kingdom.
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@Reem_Arabian "I am completely ignorant about archaeology in Israel." - fixed it for you. Earliest mention of Israel in Egypt is the Merneptah stele from 1209 BC. If you mean there is no Egyptian record of the Exodus, you are correct. Here's a good starting point for you but of course Wikipedia is no match for a university education (but I can't provide a link to that, you have to get it yourself): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_archaeology
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plo8920 Genetic tests have confirmed that Ethiopian Jews have ancestors from ancient Israel. Obviously they intermixed with other Ethiopians a fair bit since then.
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@stjohnssoup Syria was using the Golan Heights to shell Israeli civilians in what was supposed to be peacetime. When Syria invaded Israel without provocation in 1967, Israel defeated the attack and occupied the heights to prevent further attacks. Israel has offered numerous times to return the heights in return for peace, but Syria has refused. As long as Syria remains effectively at war with Israel, Israel has every right to occupy the heights in order to defend its citizens from attack.
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@simko8665 " Christianity began only with Paulus" That's a pretty offensive thing to say - it's up there with "Jews are really just Khazars". Like any other religion, Christianity means what Christians say it means, to say otherwise is to deny our agency, and every believing Christian without exception says Christianity began with Jesus Christ. And yes, he and his disciples were all Jewish - the religions didn't definitively split until sometime after his death. And if the definition of "Christian" is one who believes that Jesus was and is the Son of God and the Savior of all humanity, then yes, Jesus absolutely lived and died as a Christian as well as a Jew.
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@patriotsforisrael2025 It IS a Christian holiday as well as a Jewish one, although the associated symbols and rituals have diverged widely and different meanings are assigned to them and it. What do you think Easter is called in just about every European language other than a few Germanic and Slavic ones? Both Paul and John the Evangelist explicitly compared Jesus to the Passover lamb whose sacrifice redeems us.
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@Gabriel-dy6pm A client kingdom was still a sovereign state - just one that had better remember who its friend was and keep that "friend" happy. There was no Jewish kingdom in the 2nd century AD, but there absolutely was in the first century BC. The process of it becoming another province ruled from Rome was a lengthy and messy one, as with much of the Roman Empire. You're correct that the iron age kingdoms had been destroyed, but you're forgetting all the history from the Maccabees to the Herodian dynasty. Not to mention, being part of a larger polyglot empire doesn't erase people's culture - otherwise Putin would be right about Ukraine. But Palestine has not only never been a sovereign state, it was never identified as a distinct culture or people, distinguished from all the other Arab people living under Ottoman rule, until the late 1960s.
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@Gabriel-dy6pm What are the internationally recognized borders of India and Pakistan? Or of China and Tibet?
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@@LS-jr5yc "So, we find roman coins in Palestine, does that mean they have a clain to jerusalem. If the Phonecians find a phonecian coin in Carthage, would that give them a righ to that modern day conuntry." In both of those cases the people who made the coins were foreign colonists. Jews were not foreign colonists in Israel, that was and remains their only homeland.
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@elsemorris906 "Jesus was born to a JEWISH mother which automatically makes Jesus a Jew since Jewish law. observes matrilineal descent." Modern and medieval Judaism define it that way. Jews in ancient times did not, or else David's grandfather Obed wouldn't have been Jewish and neither would Solomon's son Rehoboam, from whom the royal line of Judah descended. There's not a whisper in the Torah about matrilineal descent. Exactly how and when that changed is in interesting and as of now still incomplete story. But it parallels a fundamental shift in the concept of what it means to be Jewish. Likewise, modern Jewish authorities say that any Jew who comes to believe that Jesus was the Messiah and joins a Christian church is no longer Jewish. Since Jesus believed that he was the Messiah and considered himself the founder of the Christian Church (he calls it my church when saying Peter will be the rock on which it is built), at least he's portrayed in the Gospels, by modern standards he was not Jewish, but Christian. However, like matrilineal descent, that doctrine only developed some time after Jesus lived and died, so by the standards of his own day even the highest Jewish authorities agreed that Jesus was a Jew (which is why they wanted to execute him for blasphemy - they wouldn't have given a fig if a Roman or Greek had proclaimed themselves the messiah, beyond telling their followers to have nothing to do with him). I'm not saying all this to be pedantic, but to point out the danger of asking questions or making statements about ancient history without thoroughly understanding the context. Today, saying "___ is a Jew" carries a different set of meanings and expectations than it did in Jesus' day, so while you are correct in saying that Jesus was a Jew and considered himself to be a Jew, that means something very different than it does for someone saying the same thing today.
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methodius--9405 But the Muslims are simply wrong. I can point to exactly where in the Bible the trinity is outlined, Matthew 28:19. You still haven't pointed out where any of the things elsemorris906 is asking about can be found in scripture, or even anything hinting at them.
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@donaldcarpenter5328 Apparently you don't. Google "Maccabees". And most scholars consider antiquity to extend six or seven centuries, more or less, into the Common Era. 130 doesn't even qualify as late antiquity, that's still the classical era.
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@_Adee_ How do you define Christian? And why did Jesus refer to my church in Matthew 16:18 if he was not part of it? Isn't the pastor still a member of the church?
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@BigPerm6999 I mean, I guess technically Homo erectus were the first. But there aren't any of them around to dispute the issue.
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@ahmedabdelazeem9690 How do you prove that? Also, I guess the same reason I don't have the right to return to England or France.
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@ahmedabdelazeem9690 First of all, there are very few if any Jews whose ancestors are entirely European. Second, because Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, not individuals. Arabs have many countries to be their homeland, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia. Jews only have Israel. Third, it's not based on race.
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That mention is by the name Israel - there are many other records that mention it or its rulers by other names found in the Bible.
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