Our ties - and similarities - traditionally stemm from customary catastrophes. Flood was the first cause. "And forward the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to quietness on the mountains of Ararat" (Genesis, 8:4)
Next came an invitation to arms during the storming of Babylon. "Lift up a banner in the land! knock the trumpet among the nations! prepare the nations for battle against her; give notice to against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni And Ashkenaz" (Jeremy, 51:27)
