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To: vladimir998

Professor Netayahu is probably the world’s most respected researcher and expert on this subject.

Apart from him, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the world renowned scholar, Jewish Educator, philosopher, social critic and author. Proclaimed by Time Magazine as a “once-in-a-millennium scholar”- I would match his credentials and knowledge on this subject against any you may have - world wide. Read his many volumes of research and commentary, you may just learn something, and begin to acquire a brain. Rabbi Spiro’s lectures would help you, as well. As would the writings of many other Rabbinic scholars on this subject.

Apart from them, if you are not fluent in Hebrew, Ladino, Arabic, Spanish, and Latin, then you have nothing to offer on this subject, other than revisionist garbage.

Why? Because all valid documentation involves communications and records from and by governments, The Catholic Church, the Rabbis, the Rabbinate, and the people who suffered through it- which were overwhelmingly, the Jews. My own family among them. Those communications and records are still around to read. And anyone who has actually studied this subject, or studied a source who did, would not be posting the nonsense that you are.


78 posted on 07/11/2011 8:47:26 PM PDT by Never A Dull Moment
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To: Never A Dull Moment

You wrote:

“Because all valid documentation involves communications and records from and by governments, The Catholic Church, the Rabbis, the Rabbinate, and the people who suffered through it- which were overwhelmingly, the Jews.”

That is exactly the opposite of Netayahu’s thesis. He claims they were overwhelmingly CHRISTIANS. Not only were they Christians, but they wanted to “remove themselves from anything regarded as Jewish, especially in the field of religion.” (page xix - as I already noted). The contradiction between what you say and what Netayahu insists on was already made clear in my own statement: “Another interesting thing about BN’s book is how he undermines people in this very thread. People who claim the inquisition was founded to forcibly convert Jews must never have read BN’s book since - as he makes abundantly clear on page xix - that he is a confirmed believer that the Jewish converts to Christinaity were faithful and willing converts to Christianity who wanted to “remove themselves from anything regarded as Jewish, especially in the field of religion.””

And that’s one of the reasons why you can’t be taken seriously. You tout a book which actually contradicts your own assertions and you do so glibly apparently not even realizing how you just undermined your own claim.

“My own family among them. Those communications and records are still around to read. And anyone who has actually studied this subject, or studied a source who did, would not be posting the nonsense that you are.”

So, quotes from Netayahu which contradict you are now nonsense? Fascinating. Let me know when you and the author you claim to respect so much actually agree.


79 posted on 07/11/2011 9:08:56 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Sweden - one of the next Muslim countries)
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