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Defending Assyrians

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Saturday, May 3 2008, 19:59:35 (CEST)
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Instead of making jackasses out of ourselves insisting that we and only we can be descended from the ancient Assyrians there is much more important work to be done in rescuing the reputation of the ancients from the mess Europeans have made of it. Not only Europeans but the ancient Hebrews who wrote such god awful history. You have to feel for the Hebrews though…there they were, surrounded on all sides by magnificent civilizations while they had barely a pot among them. And talk about ingratitude…here the Egyptians, Babylonians and Assyrians send them to college, paying their expenses or putting them on “work-study” scholarships, teaching them all manner of things to the point that most of them never returned to dear Zion and instead they say we “stole them”…sure, they wept when they got to Babylon…they wept in wonder at what they were seeing…like going to Paris, France from Armpit, Wyoming.

My favorite bit of Hebrew fluff is the notion that the mighty Assyrians never could take Jerusalem. That’s assuming they ever wanted to, which I can’t imagine why. The Assyrian way was not to wipe out every man, woman, child and goldfish…as was customary for yahwe. Rather they exacted tribute…call it an annual tax for protecting Hebrews and others from attack. The Assyrians came in person to collect…and to show their strength and reaffirm their claims…they camped outside Jerusalem because they weren’t used to such shabby lodgings within and waited. In time the Hebrews delivered what was asked of them and the Assyrians left.

When Assyria was no more and the Hebrews huddled at a wharf in Alexandria a few centuries later to write down their holy book they decided the Assyrians had been stumped and held off by the terrible hosts of Hebrews…of all people. I mean the Hebrews admitted right up front that it was going to take someone else, with magical powers, to come build them any kind of decent kingdom…and the Assyrians couldn’t knock down their puny walls?

This Assyrian attitude about not killing the goose that lays the egg but rather collecting an egg now and then was also practiced by Muslim armies..in sharp contrast to Christians who destroyed everything in their wake….rather than burn villages and crops the Muslims preferred to allow the people to live, to till the land feed their families and pay a reasonable tax for protection.

Is it slandering the Jews to say they’re pulling our leg when they claim the Assyrians couldn’t enter Jerusalem? I think not…no more than it’s libel to claim the Assyrians wanted to.

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