Hi Drexel,

First or all, love your knowledge of history. Pretty impressive.

You’re dates are probably right. But I did not say that Islam started in 780 BC. Islam may have started in 610 as you say. There is no conflict. The enemies of Israel believed in other gods prior to Islam — Magog, Babel, Dagon, Baal, etc. Israel’s mortal enemies can be traced all the way back to Abraham. The Israelites are ancestors of Isaac (his mother was Sarah). Islam believing Arabs and all the other opposing ancient religions came from the half brother Ishmael from the maid servant Hagar. But even within his own legitimate kids, the Israelites also had enemies from the 2nd generation — the twin brothers Esau and Jacob. It’s a complex family history. If you read Genesis, you’ll learn a lot about the origins of the war in the middle east.

A defining point was in 1095, Pope Urban makes a speech in Paris, saying ‘the Muslims are coming” that led to the Crusades calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land….

It is most interesting that the area of Palestine for century’s was far larger than ‘Israel’ today with the Jews/Christians & Muslims all living together with limited civil authority as Jerusalem was considered a sacred place for all of the then identified religions.

….and now, 2000 years later we continue to have a mess….

Drexel