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Again get a history lesson. The Maccabes expelled the Greeks and the Israel entered the Jewish Golden Era for roughly 100 years. The Romans then took over.
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This may be so, but it does not take away the fact that it was Alexander who started the process of. By the time of the Roman conquest the Jews where quite widley spread (perhaps not as widley as they would become) which was-directly or indirectly-cuased by the Greeks. It was not a purley Roman notion and the Romans certianly did not start the exodus of the Jews.
I'm being pedantic here but many people down the ages have been perfectly happy fighting in a war-even gloryfid it. More specificly, mearly because there is conflict in the area does not mean some happiness can not be achived.
In the words of the great Mahatma Gandi(please excuse the dogey spelling) 'we may have problems but at least they would be our problems'
Of course its naive but then so is thinking an armed presense will solve anything. 'An eye for an eye and the whole worlds blind'- Gandi again