[QUO="WorldEX, post: 18520472, member: 17997"]They were pushed off the land by invading Muslims forces.
In 165 BCE, after the religion-driven
Maccabean Revolt, the independent orthodox
Hasmonean Kingdom was established. In 64 BCE the Romans conquered Israel, turning it into a Roman province. Although coming under the sway of various empires and home to a variety of ethnicities, the area of ancient Israel was predominantly
Jewish until the
Jewish–Roman wars of 66–136 CE, during which the Romans expelled most of the Jews from the area and replaced it with the Roman province of Palaestina, beginning the Jewish
Diaspora. After this time, Jews became a minority in most regions, except
Galilee, and the area became increasingly
Christian after the 3rd century, though the percentages of Christians and Jews are unknown, the former perhaps coming to predominate in urban areas, the latter remaining in rural areas
[1] Jewish settlements declined from over 160 to 50 by the time of the Muslim conquest.
Michael Avi-Yonah calculated that Jews constituted 10–15% of Palestine's population by the time of the
Persian invasion of 614,
[2] while
Moshe Gil claims that Jews constituted the majority of the population until the
7th century Muslim conquest (638 CE).
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The people you speak of in this article don't make up the majority of the so-called Jews. They are a bunch of white folks recruited from other parts of the world. Russia, Germany and other places. There are Muslim people or Arabs who have lived their before Christianity and then Islam even existed. They became Muslim over time but have been in that area longer than even the Jewish inhabitants. What you posted is somewhat misleading brother.