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Originally Posted by chaos23
Because the land was not theirs to be pushed out from  |
The destruction of the occupied Jewish state began in AD 70, with the seige and then destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman general, Titus. This was followed by the fall of other Jewish strongholds, notably the fortress at Masada. Josephus says more than a million people died during the seige; afterwards about 97,000 were enslaved. A great many fled to other parts of the Med. This was only the first Jewish-Roman war, but by the end of it, anything recognisable of ancient Israel was gone, because Titus had the temple razed to the ground.
This is a matter of historical fact. There was a nation called Israel, it was occupied, divided into Roman provinces, and when the natives got too restelss, it was brutally destroyed. So yes, the Jews were 'pushed out', and the descendents of those people do have a historical claim to the land west of the Jordan river.