Islamic State bulldozers 'erasing history' in Iraq

Considering the history of the Jewish people and what they did to the Canaanites.

7 They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man. 8 Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. 9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. 10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. 11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, 12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho. 13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle. 15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

And this is only on passage among many.

Would you have said the same thing when Hitler was killing the Jews during the Holocaust? "Considering their history, who cries for Israel?"

NO, of course not, what an utterly disgusting and detestable thing to say. How can the Jewish people be held responsible for something that their ancestors did over 2000 years ago? The same thing applies to the Assyrians. How can the Assyrians of today be held responsible for something that a king did over 3000 years ago.

You simply cannot compare the descendants from the actions of the ancestors from thousands of years ago.

The Assyrians of today are peaceful people who have suffered greatly. Genocides against the Assyrians, both ethnic and cultural have been ongoing for over a hundred year.

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