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" The problem with the city of Ashdod was that it was never a Jewish city. it was a Canaanite city. Then a Philistine city. And it was an Egyptian fortress. And an Assyrian fortress. But never a Jewish fortress. The coast of ancient Israel was Gentile. It was always Gentile. Phoenicians, Philistines, Egyptians. No Jews. In ancient times, it was only ever part of Israel in an ideological, not an actual, sense, as the first-century Jewish historian Josephus even seemed to recognize[1] What is also amusing is that the photo above, the photo Farah reproduces in his article, is a photo not of hewn stones, but of mud bricks. "
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:26:02 +0000

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