In a letter to Weizmann he predicted that the "New Judaea" would not only be good for Palestine but serve as a "reconciling and awakening force among the neighbouring Arab peoples".Zionism, and the Guardian, are older and wiser now.
Most of the settlers there and in Jerusalem, whom he numbered at 650,000, would be on the Israeli side of an adjusted border; an indeterminate number of Jewish settlements in "Samaria and Judaea", his preferred biblical name for the West Bank, would "end up beyond Israel's borders"—and would therefore, by implication, have to be removed.
In the first century AD, the Zealots and Sicarii, two Jewish sects, attacked the Roman occupiers of Judaea and their allies in public places.
About 2,000 years ago at a village in Judaea, one of the smaller of the provinces that made up the mighty Roman empire ... ..
The cumulative effect of such campaigns was aptly described by Josephus, a classical historian who chronicled the anti-Roman insurgency in Judaea: "The panic created was more alarming than the calamity itself; everyone, as on the battlefield, hourly expected death.
But this did not prevent his appointment, in February 67, to the command against the Jewish rebellion in Judaea, the scene of two disastrous Roman defeats in the previous year.
The emperor Augustus deposed the unsatisfactory Archelaus in ad 6, however, and transformed Judaea, Idumaea, and Samaria from a client kingdom into an "imperial province".
He retained Antony's ring of buffer client kingdoms, although he incorporated some, including the most celebrated of them, Judaea; he made it a province in ad 6, respecting, however, some of the customs of its Jewish inhabitants.
The Senate thereupon recognized Vitellius; but the soldiers along the Danube and in the east supported Vespasianus, the commander in Judaea.
That same year Vespasian's elder son, Titus, brought the bloody war in Judaea to its end by besieging, capturing, and destroying Jerusalem.
In 137 bc he and his brother Judas commanded the force that heroically repelled the invasion of Judaea led by Cendebeus, the general of the Syrian king Antiochus VII Sidetes.
