Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo: Archeology+History

antiwar.com — The idea of a Jewish nation?the founding myth of Israel-was invented around 1900. Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land; Palestinians are descendants of the original inhabitants; many Jews are descendants of the Khazar kingdom in Russia (Ashkenazi}; the Zionist ideal of return to the Promised Land was alien to Judaism; exile = a Christian myth. Oct 9, 2008 View in Crawl 4