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William Dever, a University of Arizona archaeologist, flatly calls Moses a mythical figure..! Some scholars even insist the story was a political fabrication, invented to unite the disparate tribes living in Canaan through a falsified heroic past...💡

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Nothing like mocking Christians instead of presenting the evidence. Funny how it is never mentioned that non Christians what to disprove the Bible when they look at archeology.

Instead of "Reclaiming the Road not Taken", this should be "Reclaiming the Bath Not Taken". 😂

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You are nothing but twisters of the truth about Palestine. Your goal was to make any link between Palestine and the Jews and changing so many names of various mountains, valleys, villages, and sites to make an easier narrative for the zionest Israelis who are occupying. Palestine currently. Shame on you ✌🏼🇵🇸

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This happens so often but when the audience clapped, my eardrums almost perforated. It's a good idea to put the audio through a compression filter or to simply lower the gain with rubber bands in post to avoid

PEF: Next time if you want a lecture on Jerusalem architecture or archaeology, I suggest you invite a scholar, not a journalist with shallow knowledge of the subject, a political agenda and an obvious distaste for anything Israeli. Pathetic what a supposedly scholarly organization degenerated into.

Lecture review. I watched all of it. The pain was excruciating. As was my disappointment. As expected, a thoroughly shallow lecture with some bogus scientific pretenses from someone with little scholarly knowledge on the subject degenerated early on into old fashioned Jew bashing under the guise of criticism of Israel. First, Mr. Lawler educates the audience on where Jerusalem is located. I think he assumes that his audience is particularly dumb on this occasion. What is curious is that he doesn't say Israel or even Palestine. According to him, it's "in the middle of nowhere" somewhere in the vicinity of Iraq that he assumes his audience only knows too well. Kind of what you'd expect from an arrogant white supremacist colonialist talking about uncivilized savage-land. "Middle of nowhere". No, Mr. Lawler, it's your native Norfolk Virginia is the middle of nowhere in all respects. With all due respect. ;) Then Andrew Lawler proceeds to accuse Israelis en-masse and without any evidence of digging solely for the purpose of "proving" that Jews were there before. Utter and baseless nonsense. Israelis don't need to prove anything to anyone. Israel right to exist is not suspended in mid-air waiting for some archaeological "proofs". The Jewish presence in the land is well documented by ample evidence even before modern archaeology was invented. It's not debated unless you're a deranged lunatic. Israel legitimacy is based in part on this, as well as to a far greater extent on a number of other factors that have nothing to do with ancient history or archaeology. Look it up. Archaeology also means nothing for the conflict resolution with Palestinians and other Arabs. Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain and Morocco didn't make peace with Israel because Israeli archaeologists had found some Jewish artifacts from 2,000 or 2,500 years ago. I'm sure that many Israeli archaeologists would be excited to make a rare find from the 1st or 2nd temple periods as they might be equally excited to make a rare find from the Canaanite, Byzantine or Islamic periods, but for some reason, it didn't occur to A. Lawler that those sinister and supposedly politically driven Israeli archaeologists dig for the love of science rather than to prove to Lawler that Israel has the right to exist. Hmmm, biased much Mr. Lawler? Or just stereotyping again? Then A. Lawler smeared all Israeli archaeologists by accusing them of wanting to wantonly bulldoze any finds that are not Jewish, and of being totally politically-driven inherently just because they are Israeli and Jewish. Using this logic, no American archaeologists should be trusted with digging in America as he/she may God-forbid be biased against pre-Colombians and politically driven to prove to Donald Trump that the Euros were there also. Supposedly, he heard this from Meir Ben-Dov with regards to some islamic era palaces at the south of Temple Mount that supposedly some israeli archaeologists (unnamed of course) wanted to bulldoze. Hmmm, not really sure if Ben-Dov wasn't relaying a joke, or perhaps Lawler made this up but in any case the remains of these uncovered palaces are still standing unbulldozed and in fact a part of the protected archaeological park, like many other monuments from the Islamic period. Every Israeli (let alone a scholar) KNOWS that ancient Israelites/Jews were not the only people living in the land throughput its long history and anyone claiming that Israel and Jerusalem have ONLY Jewish history and heritage would end up ridiculed or institutionalized. I'm not even saying that for any archaeologist a mere suggestion that an artifact should be tampered with, let alone destroyed would be the end of his/her career. I dont know of any israeli archaeologist who went on record calling for the destruction of Islamic era antiquities. Perhaps Mr. Lawler is confusing Israeli archaeologists (one of the best in the world, brtw) with ISIS or Taliban who did in fact destroy antiquities although I'm not sure they used bulldozers. Then Mr. Lawler suggests that Israeli archaeology ignores Muslim history. Wrong. Israeli archaeology dig sites often have multiple layers, including Islamic periods. They study and report on what they find. Just go to the Israel Museum and see a huge Islamic period department. Then Mr. Lawler mentioned some unnamed rabbi in cahoots with some unnamed Australian "arms dealer" looking for an ark of the covenant. Seriously? Hmm, sounds like a lunatic conspiracy theory that frankly proves nothing. Let me assure you that Israeli archaeologists are not looking for the ark of the covenant. Then he goes on to lament Israelis digging tunnels along the western wall which upsets some local and not so local Muslims (starting with Hamas and the PLO). Excuse me, but what doesn't upset the Muslim radicals these days? Mr. Lawler, you forgot to mention that PA has often used Jerusalem archaeology as an excuse to riot. "Al Aqsa is in danger" is a famous Palestinian battle cry, even if the dig is in the Negev. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Although the lecture is ostensibly about underground Jerusalem, Mr Lawler curiously didn't mention the Muslim waqf scandalous enlargement of the subterranean areas known as Crusader period "Solomon stables" on the Temple Mount without any archaeological supervision and using heavy equipment, and dumping the excavated soil with many remains going back millennia over the city wall. At the time it caused quite a stir in the world of archaeology but to Mr. Lawler it seems unimportant because it upsets his narrative of good Palestinians and bad Israelis. Then Mr. Lawler claims that Jerusalem is "occupied territory" and hints darkly that (Israelis might be stealing the archaeologically property of the "indigenous Palestinians". I mean, there is not even a pretense at objectivity. Mr. Lawler, you should at least term it disputed, if you want to retain any shreds credibility. Then Mr. Lawler made a bizarre statement "the more things change the more the stay the same", alluding that the Ottomans are back. Well, sir, let me assure you that: 1) things changed dramatically in 1948 and then in 1967. They are definitely not the same, just ask any Palestinian. 2) The Turks are most definitely not Ottomans, and although Erdogan has wet dreams about resurrecting the Ottoman caliphate, he is very unlikely to succeed 3) the Turks are most definitely not "back", and 4) nobody wants them "back", neither Jews nor Arabs. Providing some money for some bankrupt eatery or funding a library doesn't count. Let me tell you, Mr. Lawler, WHO is back. The Jews. And this time they are there to stay, So you need to get over it and stop fantasizing about some 'Ottomans" unless you want to become a laughing stock. Then Mr. Lawler comes up with the grandest peace plan of all that was eluding everyone for decades: Jerusalem should be dug by a join archaeological team of Israelis, Palestinians and the National Geographic. Wow. Why National Geographic? They are not archaeologists or even scholars, just Mr. Lawler's paymasters. Why Palestinian archaeologists? Wouldn't that be exactly the political agenda Lawler was lamenting so much? The scientific contribution of almost non-existent Palestinian archaeological scholarship would be, well, almost non-existent and therefore useless for the purpose. And in order to argue whether Jesus of Nazareth or King Hezekiah were a Jews or Palestinian Arabs, frankly you can do that remotely on FB which is awash with delusional Pallywood clowns making such claims. The last time I checked, the Palestinians still have half of West Bank and all of Gaza and they can dig there all they want if they have the money, desire and skills. They have none of each but there are plenty of unexcavated historical sites in the territories under their control where Israelis cannot go, that are being neglected and looted. Then a man in the audience was out of the blue and completely off topic claiming that Jews, Christians and Muslims were living happily and merrily under the Ottoman rule. Hmm, not quite but we've heard this fairly tale before. I mean, to put this is into perspective, they certainly faired better than Jews in nazi Germany or Spain under the inquisition but it would be dishonest to call it a happy merry co-existence. However, I'm not sure what it has to do with Israeli archaeology or any archaeology. I can assure you sir that Jewish, Christian and Muslim Israelis live far more happily in Israel than under the Ottomans and are not dreaming of living under the Palestinian or Turkish rule. One of the closing phrases from one particular woman in the audience was particularly fitting the overall mood of this hatefest: "zionists came and ruined everything" to the obvious pleasure of both Mr. Lawler and his audience. . Yeah, right. I think you meant Jews, m' am, we can see through your "anti-zionist" fig leaf. Oh, well, I think it's quite the opposite of "ruined" but the Pallywood clowns will have to get over it. They definitely ruined the Palestinian genocidal, racist, supremacist and anti-Jewish exclusionary agenda, so you have a point but still you will have to get over it. Finally, judging by the audience and their questions, I think PEF is still what it always was: a colonial thieving enterprise that is now infested with rabid Jew haters. I wouldn't be surprised if their blinding hate will drive PEF completely into the Pallywood narrative and its total denial of ANY Jewish history and heritage in the land. I'm glad PEF has zero presence in Israel. But perhaps they can team up with Hamas to dig some bones of 5 million years old palestinosauruses in Gaza with DNA matching that of Arafat. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That would be a step up from the above lecture in scientific ladder.

10:35 Jerusalem history didn't end in 1917 hahahahahaha

c 10:00 The Jewish-Roman war (aka the first Jewish Revolt) was not a civil war. The Romans were the foreign occupying power in Judea. While there were some conflicts between various Jewish factions (e.g zealots were notorious for turning against any Jew who they saw collaborating with the Romans), it was most definitely not a civil war.

Andrew: c. 4:00 the Dome of the Rock is not the 3rd holiest place in Islam. Al-Aqsa mosque is, and they are not the same. Al-Aqsa is a mosque in the souther end of the Temple Mount, and only a small part of it.

The Temple Mount (Haram al Sharif as the Muslims call it) is not a mosque and never was. Also, it's not "the al-Aqsa complex" either. Al-Aqsa is a mosque in the southern end of the Temple Mount, and it's the only mosque there, a small part of the Temple Mount. The attempt to pass the entire area as 'al Aqsa complex" is very recent (a few decades old at most) and is consistent with the attempt to turn the entire Tempe Mount into one huge mosque area by inserting prayer halls everywhere where none were before. The reason is obvious- to counter any Jewish claims to the site and to avoid potential sharing it. If Muslim waqf could, they would happily prevent any non-Muslim access at all. but after 1967 such segregation is no longer possible.

Whatever happened to King Hezekiah's "wife" (mentioned at 11:50)? Until now I had not heard about this fascinating 1863 incident. Is she still at the Louvre? 😀

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