Posted by Jeff from d53-251-230.try.wideopenwest.com (64.53.230.251) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 at 10:24PM :
In Reply to: Hebroo Re-doo posted by pancho from customer-148-233-71-62.uninet.net.mx (148.233.71.62) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 at 8:56PM :
Fred,
These historical musings are quite extraordinary. I had no idea that people spent their lives writing books in the most biased and obviously one-sided way that this one is written.
I would like to impart to you a quote from "The British Betrayal of the Assyrians" by Yusuf Malik. (First published in 1935)
"To make Assyria a modern State, two methods were invoked by Tiglath-Pileser. These methods had been used by his predecessors, but on a smaller scale. The Eqyptian, Babylonian, and Hittite Empires had conquered many people, but no attempts were made to reduce the subject-people into a centralized State. The conquered territories remained vassal States which merely recognized the suzerainty of their overlords and paid them an annual tribute. The Assyrians departed from this in two ways: (a) they detached the conquered people from their old loyalties - religious, traditional, racial, and territorial, but a well calculated, but reprehensible, system of deportation. The best example was the captivity of the Ten Tribes of Israel."
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I trust I've made my point clear.
-- Jeff
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