A list being circulated over the Internet asking people to read these facts about Israel and the so

Common Myths & Explanations A list being circulated over the Internet asking people to read these "facts" about Israel and the so-called "Arab Israeli Conflict." The confused PR is intended to influence people who have little information about the history or the facts of the situation. Most of the 20 "points" are classic Zionist myths that have been debunked even by Israeli historians. But perhaps these answers will be useful in public discussions and responding. 1. MYTH: Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. Israel did not "become" a nation (need definitions for both) and it is important not to compare apples to oranges. Israel of today has little to do with "Israel" of 3000 years ago. Archeologists at Tel Aviv University showed that city states and kingdoms were routinely made and obliterated in the ancient land of Canaan while the natives survived and continued to live. Ethnic cleansing was only recently practiced (1947-1949). The Israelites evolved from local Canaanites (archeological evidence, not the stories of the bible which were never intended to be taken literally). But even if one is to take the stories of the bible literally, there is plenty of "evidence" in the bible that Hebrews prospered with Adomite and other Canaanites. These are not states or nations in the modern sense. In either case, what is the relevance of this to politics in the Middle East? ...