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From: ut-emx!blais@emx.utexas.edu (Donald Blais)
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Subject: Re: Peace between Islam and Judaism
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:53:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.132801.15207@wpi.WPI.EDU> ekrem@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Ekrem Saban) writes:
>Hopefully yes. As a believing Muslim, I am sure that it is possible to
>live peacefully together. But I'm afraid politicians in the middle
>east are not so interested. James Baker is trying to find a solution,
>but he is obviously powerless or weak against the unwilling government
>of Israel. They seem not to want to co-exist with Muslims, and that
>kind of behaviour is partly the source of mistrust. 
>
>For example, on the entrance of the Knesset, it is said, is written
>"from the Nile to Tigris" which many Muslims see as a manifestation of
>zionism.

In the 10th century BC the empire of David and Solomon extended south
to the edge of the Sinai desert and north to the edge of the Euphrates
river not far from Damascus.  The kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the
capital city of Jerusalem were at the heart of the empire.  A verse in
the Bible uses these "ideal" empire borders in describing the land of
the children of Abram.

        bayyom hahu' karat YHWH at-avram brit le'mor
        lzar`aka natati et-ha'aretz hazot
        minhar mitzrayim `ad-hanahar hagadol nhar-prat

The Nile river is not mentioned.  The river of Egypt (nhar mitzrayim)
is considered by scholars to be a wadi that divided the Negev desert
of Judah from the Sinai desert of Egypt.
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