Haaretz page layout has become awful. Banners sliding in from the top. Banners sliding in from the bottom. Banners which play thunder sounds.

It's a clickbait article, too. This isn't a new discovery. The Daily Mail had an article about it in 2011.[1]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032155/Caves-Hirbet...

Anybody know how this compares to Biblical history? This would have been around the time the Gospels were written, and Galilee is mentioned a lot in the New Testament. But was Christianity growing in Galilee at the time?

An interesting article. But those caves were very... obviously there? Like a village full of people could look up at the cliff face and see the caves' entrances.

You can't tell me that teenagers from those villages weren't going up there and getting into some sort of trouble.

And I thought it was Palestinians all the way down ...

Not a recent discovery. I worry that these misleading headlines get recycled as anecdotal justification for Israeli land claims.

Jews were exiled from the land of Israel by the Romans in 135 C.E., after they defeated the Jews in a three-year war, and Jews did not have any control over the land again until 1948 C.E. http://www.jewfaq.org/israel.htm

I mean, what goes around comes around when you're comitting mass genocide to take people's land. A whole lot of Canaanites had to die to make ancient Israel known as ancient Israel.

There was no genocide of the Canaanites. That's myth, not historical fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua#Historical_and_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_...

You aren't some kind of Canaanite genocide denier are you?

Duh, the Bible is not true?