If the Tribe of Dan showed up?

[Cooper]

If the Tribe of Dan showed up on Israel's door step and said to the Jews, "Hey, your in my spot. What gives?" Would there not be a really weird and mind blowing feud.

[suminonA]

May I ask what your mother tongue is?

A.

[Cooper]

My Mother Tongue is American English

[suminonA]

Thanks.

A.

[Cooper]

After thinking for a moment. The best answer would be: Her tongue is red, sharp and quick.

[Jayelle]

Would you mind explaning what you mean in your first post? All I'm getting is word soup.

[Rei]

Nevermind that a group has already claimed to be the tribe of Dan.

[Cooper]

All I'm getting is word soup

For the those without a rural southern american back ground, I edited my origional post so everyday folks can understand. And it was really late at night..., well closer to morning for me, when I wrote it.

a group has already claimed to be the tribe of Dan

Let us see if they could make Israel let them take up their section of the much coveted dried up wasteland the Jews call their own. You thing they are pissed at the Palistinans. The Jews are already bent on making anyone who claims to be of simular decent into becoming Judah "Jews". Such as the people of Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, now Afganistan, who can't support what tribe they really come from with records that can be backed up, if they are even blood related or just culturely inflenced by traveling Jewish merchents.

And for the curious, concerning my pre-edited post at the head of this thread, the reference: "Squeeze over squeeze box", comes from the back woods hill-billy porch music get-to-gethers. A squeeze box is an accordian and the ones who played them ten to try and take up the whole porch. So squeeze over mean "Move it you jerk". That said, it also means come on over to play at my place, but it depended on the situation as to it's use.

[suminonA]

Cooper, in my case, it wasn't the "squeeze over squeeze box" that made the first version of your opening post incomprehensible, but the lack of any separating commas, plus the use of too many verbs in one place. Whenever one writes exactly the way they speak, with no pause between ideas, they fail to accomplish much communication with me …

A.

PS: read this:
cooper in my case it wasnt squeeze over squeeze box that made the first version of your opening post incomprehensible but the lack of any separating commas plus the use of too many verbs in one place whenever one writes exactly the way they speak with no pause between ideas they fail to accomplish much communication with me …

[Cooper]

Sorry about the confusion.

[Jayelle]

What I'm confused about is why specifically you are choosing "The Tribe of Dan" when 10 tribes were lost. Modern Jews can no longer trace their linage back to the two (unlost) tribes anyway. Those records were lost with the destruction of the temple, so it doesn't really make sense for the Tribe of Dan, Gad, Zebulon, Issachar, Reuben, Asher, Naphtali, Ephrium, Mannasah, or Simeon to just "show up".

[Rei]

Probably because some years back there was a controversy, which I believe is still present, although less so than when it first came up, where a marginalised group from Ethiopia who were following the Torah fled to Israel in a mass exodus. They claim to be the lost tribe of Dan, although when they arrived they were told that if they wished to be treated as Jews they would have to officially reconvert. I believe they are still discriminated against to some extent in Israel, or at least seen as a bit of an odd group.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

I believe they are still discriminated against to some extent in Israel, or at least seen as a bit of an odd group.

Actually, it's funny you say that, since just this week the media in Israel revealed the existance of a separate school for Ethiopians (and Ethiopians-born) in a city in Israel, which still causes some controversy here.

However, people are starting to "treat them as our own", though slowly; I believe in the end, they'll be a part of the whole country, as well.

[Rei]

There you go, then. And here was me trying to remember the discussion from Hebrew class last year. I do hope they are properly integrated into Israeli culture eventually.