These ranged from the conquests of Pompey, who about 130 years earlier had turned Judea into a vassal kingdom, to the final Jewish revolts that broke out at the start of the second century.The consequences of these battles were felt all over the Roman empire.
Mr Bennett, who once led the Judea and Samaria Settlement Council, says the conflict with the Palestinians is pretty well insoluble.
Manuel Chaves, a minister, likens their meetings to those of the bickering Peoples' Front of Judea in the Monty Python film "Life of Brian".In this section Showing the strain Tanks for sale The lofty Mr Erdogan Estonian exceptionalism Europe's most earnest protesters The euro's real trouble Correction: Kurdish basketball ReprintsBut politicians ignore the indignants at their peril.
The whole land included the West Bank, Judea and Samaria to him; it could also have enfolded Sinai, as far as he was concerned, until the Camp David accords of 1979 with Egypt limply gave that away.
That is still unacceptable to the Palestinians, but to Israelis on the national-religious right, offering up 85% of divinely promised "Judea and Samaria" is a betrayal verging on apostasy.
He handed back part of Hebron, breaking Likud's taboo against giving up land in "Judea and Samaria", as many Israelis call the West Bank.
Casting about for a new name for Judea, the Romans recalled the Philistines, an Aegean seafaring people of hundreds of years earlier.
He arrived in Judea as governor in the year 26 and stayed for ten uneasy years.
Judea was expunged from the maps, and renamed Syria-Palestina.
Coins were minted with the words Judea capta.
If they are not careful, the sceptics may end up looking like the squabbling factions in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (the Judean People's Front, the People's Front of Judea, and so forth).Until the launch of New Europe, the most prominent of the larger Eurosceptic groups was "Business for Sterling", a lobby group dedicated to fighting the notion that British business wants the euro.
