Koletsia wrote:I pose this question because as an anachronistic imperialist experiment it seems very strange that we allow them to slaughter the native inhabitants like the Israelites slaughtered the Canaanites thousands of years ago just so some whites from Europe can role play as ancient people. Seems kind of strange to me. What do you think?
They are ancient people. They've been around for millennia, and only slaughter the native inhabitants when rocket batteries, rocks and guns are within a hundred meters of them. Not when they're trying to set up a zealot nationalist state (glares at Bar Kokhba and the Sicarii).
Humans probably did stranger when there were 900,000 protostate villages anyway and the Jews were kicked out by the Romans and converted under pressure from later monotheists. After nationalists tried to genocide them, I think they deserve a place of their own to call home- actions of the government aside. All states are just army mobilization centers anyway, and armies are known for their love of using force on anything in sight.