THE JEWISH CLAIM TO THE LAND

THE JEWISH CLAIM TO THE LAND

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

By Shachar Ben Avraham

The Palestinians claim that the land of Israel has belonged to them "from time immemorial". The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that the entirety of Israel is "occupied" territory. Faisal al-Husseini, a recently deceased leading Palestinian spokesman, made the point in 2001 when he declared that the West Bank and Gaza represented only "22 percent of Palestine”

He also said "When we are asking all the Palestinian forces and factions to look at the Oslo Agreement and at other agreements as 'temporary' procedures, or phased goals, this means that we are ambushing the Israelis and cheating them." Their goal was "the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea," (the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea-all of Israel.)

We know what the Palestinians say. But what does G-D say? What does the BIBLE say about the land?


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FROM THE BIBLE

GENESIS 15:18-21: 18In that day the LORD made a covenant with Avram (Abraham) , saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Perat: the Kinim, the Kenizzi, the Kadmoni, the Chitti, the Perizzi, the Refa'im, the Amori, the Kena`anim, the Girgashi, and the Yevusi."

G-D gave this land to Abraham. The 'great river' is the Euphrates River. This is a desert stream on the borders of Egypt. It is now called the Wady el-'Arish. The present boundary between Egypt and Palestine is about midway between this wady and Gaza.

In NUMBERS, Chapter 34, G-D gives an more descriptive explanation for the borders of the promised land.

NUMBERS 34:1-12: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor: From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.

And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham: And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward: And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.



G-D promised this land as an EVERLASTING POSSESSION to the descendents of Abraham, through Isaac and Jacob (Israel).

GENESIS 17: 7-8 And I will establish my covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a G-D unto thee and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Caanan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their G-D."



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FROM THE KORAN

We know what the BIBLE says about who the land belongs to. Now what does the koran say?

The koran says that allah gave the land of Israel to the Jews and that he will restore them to it at the end of days.

By now you may be scratching your head. Surely this can't be accurate. Every Arab nation in the Middle East, and every good (and bad) Palestinian will tell you that the land belongs to them. So lets see just what the koran does say.

Surah 17 The Children of Israel [17.101-104] And certainly We gave Musa(Moses) nine clear signs; so ask the children of Israel. When he came to them, Firon(Pharaoh) said to him: Most surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a man deprived of reason. He said: Truly you know that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent down these as clear proof and most surely I believe you, O Firon, to be given over to perdition. So he desired to destroy them out of the earth, but We drowned him and those with him all together; And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.

Here it is clear that allah of the Koran, as well as the real G-D of Israel, has given the land to the Israelites.

In Surah 5 The Dinner Table 5.20-21] And when Musa said to his people: O my people! remember the favor of allah upon you when he raised prophets among you and made you kings and gave you what He had not given to any other among the nations. O my people! enter the holy land which allah has prescribed for you and turn not on your backs for then you will turn back losers.

Surah 3 The Family of Imran [3.26] Say: O Allah, Master of the Kingdom! Thou givest the kingdom to whomsoever Thou pleasest and takest away the kingdom from whomsoever Thou pleasest, and Thou exaltest whom Thou pleasest and abasest whom Thou pleasest in Thine hand is the good; surety, Thou hast power over all things

Therefore, from an Islamic point of view, there is NO fundamental reason which prohibits Muslims from recognizing Israel as a friendly State.

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FROM MAN

In 1917 Balfour Declaration: “ His Majesty's Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

1919 Paris Peace Conference: " 2)...the Country of Eretz-Israel, within its historical boundaries to be defined by a special Commission, shall at present be entrusted to the care of Great Britain, which in its capacity of trustee, shall place the country under such conditions -- political, administrative, economic etc... -- as will lead up to the steady enlargement and development of the Jewish settlements, so that it may ultimately develop into a Jewish Commonwealth on national lines ...


1919 Letter from Emir Feisal (later King of Iraq) to Felix Frankfurter (member of the American Zionist delegation to the Peace Conference and legal advisor to Chaim Weizmann) expressing sympathy with the Zionist movement and support for its proposals at the Peace Conference, March 1, 1919: " "We are working together for a reformed and revived Near East, and our two movements complement one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist ... and there is room in Syria for us both."


1919 Covenant of the League of Nations Article 22 June 28, 1919: "Article IV: All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews in Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants upon the land through closer settlement and intensive cultivation of the soil. In taking such measures the Arab peasant and tenant farmers shall be protected in their rights, and shall be assisted in forwarding their economic development.



1922 San Remo Conference: Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; ...
Article 2. The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.

1922 British White Paper: "Further, it is contemplated that the status of all citizens of Palestine in the eyes of the law shall be Palestinian, and it has never been intended that they, or any section of them, should possess any other juridical status. So far as the Jewish population of Palestine are concerned it appears that some among them are apprehensive that His Majesty's Government may depart from the policy embodied in the Declaration of 1917. It is necessary, therefore, once more to affirm that these fears are unfounded, and that that Declaration, re affirmed by the Conference of the Principle Allied Powers at San Remo and again in the Treaty of Sevres, is not susceptible of change. "

1922 The Palestine Mandate The Council of the League of Nations: July 24, 1922: “Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; “

1937 Peel Commission, appointed in the late 1930's to investigate the 1936 Arab riots, stated “ the field in which the Jewish National Home was to be established was understood, at the time of the Balfour Declaration, to be the whole of historic Palestine, including Transjordan.”




1922 partitioning between Jewish and Arab sectors



1937 Peel Commission plan


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So we have the HOLY BIBLE, the koran, and several governmental declarations giving this land to the Jews as a national homeland.
Then we have the British Government trying to take back 78% of that land.

What G-D gives as an everlasting covenant, man isn't going to take away!

The promised land and Jewish nationhood

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

The promised land and Jewish nationhood

· The land of Israel was promised to Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, over 3700 years ago.

· The Jewish slave nation which left Egypt 3300 years ago, under the leadership of Moses, embarked on a journey of national liberation. Their goal was to establish national life in the land of Israel and fulfil the biblical covenant.

· The first Jewish "state" was established in Israel during the period of the kings and the prophets, and lasted for around 600 years - from 1175 BCE to 586 BCE. Its leaders included King David and King Solomon, and the prophets Samuel, Deborah and Isaiah.

· Ever since that time, the Jewish people have had a continuous and unbroken physical presence in the land of Israel.

Destruction by the Babylonians and Romans

· The Jews never voluntarily abandoned Israel. But twice the nation was shattered by conquering empires.

· The first Jewish kingdom was eradicated by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered, the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and those Jews who survived were taken as prisoners into exile in Babylon.

· Within two generations, Jews had started to return. They rebuilt Jewish life, and constructed a second temple in Jerusalem. This revived period of independent national life in the state of Judaea lasted for around 400 years, under the leadership of such figures as Ezra, Simon the Just, Judah the Maccabee, and the Rabbi Hillel.

· This second period of nationhood was also ended by merciless invasion - this time by the Romans, who destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE, killed vast numbers of Jews with extreme cruelty, and dispersed the remainder to various countries of exile.

· The second Jewish exile lasted for over 1800 years.

· While Jews did enjoy periods of relative stability in some of the countries to which they were dispersed, their overall experience was one of intense persecution and anti-semitism.

· The establishment of the modern State of Israel has marked the end of this era of dispersion and exile.

Survival in Exile - with a vision of a rebuilt Israel

· Despite the devastation of the second Jewish state, and the centuries of exile which followed, the Jews never lost their connection with the land or their faith that they would eventually return.

· In their effort to erase the Jews' bond with the land, the Romans changed the name of the country from Judaea to Palaestina.

· Small numbers of Jews continued to live in scattered locations in Palaestina, such as Jerusalem, Tiberias and Safed. But it was not only this physical presence which maintained the Jewish connection, but also Jewish religious practice.

· When a Jewish person prays, he or she must face in the direction of Jerusalem. The daily prayers include the following pleas for Divine assistance:

"Behold our affliction, take up our grievance, and redeem us, speedily for Your Name's sake, for You are a powerful Redeemer … May You shine a new light on Zion, and may we speedily merit its light … Gather us together from the four corners of the earth"

· Jews frequently made the hazardous journey from abroad to settle in the land, including the great rabbinical leaders Nachmanides (13th century, from Spain) and Ovadia Bertinoro (15th century, from Italy).

· Israel was seen, even during the bleakest periods of Jewish persecution, as the place in which Jews would eventually gather to re-establish the country and in due course herald a messianic age of universal peace and universal values.

The Modern Return to Zion

· In the 18th century, increasing numbers of Jews began to return to the land, mainly religious Jews. By 1844 a majority of the population of Jerusalem was Jewish.

· Anti-semitism and modern nationalism in Europe each accelerated this return. The influx of Jews (religious and non-religious) peaked during the 1890s, early 1900s and in the 1930s, and then in 1945-8 following the Nazi Holocaust.

· In the 19th century, the vision of the return to Zion broadened out to embrace various non-traditional strands of Jewish thinking.

· Socialist Jews saw a revived Jewish nation as the way to end Jewish persecution, to enable Jews to be economically productive in an equal society, and to contribute to the betterment of humanity. The Israeli kibbutz is a unique social experiment which resulted from this vision.

· Assimilated Jews, guided by Theodore Herzl, viewed the prospect of the return to Zion as a cure for anti-semitism and as a way for the Jewish people to become a "normal" nation like any other.

· Politically right-wing Jews, whose guiding influence was Ze'ev Jabotinsky, viewed the return to Israel as a way to restore Jewish dignity, and to enable the Jewish people to defend themselves.

· Religious Jews, meanwhile, saw the return to Zion as the way to fulfil the ancient Biblical vision, and restore Jewish nationhood as it had existed at the time of the Jewish temples in Jerusalem.

· Each of these groups had passionate followers, dissenters and critics. Together they expressed, in their varied ways, different Jewish visions for Israel. They together comprise the modern Zionist movement.

· The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, led by David Ben-Gurion, marked the culmination of this movement.

· The connection between the Jewish people and the land - fragile for nearly 2000 years - had been restored. And in the 54 years since the declaration of independence in 1948, Israel has sought to have that connection recognised as legitimate by the Palestinian people and by the Arab world, and to achieve a secure and just peace with them.

Challenges of the Jewish people in Israel

· The Jewish people in Israel face massive challenges:

· nation-building: to maintain a young country in a way which combines loyalty to the values of Judaism with the running of a modern state;

· in-gathering of the Jews: to attract Jews from around the world to live in the country and contribute to its growth; while not negating the significance of Diaspora Jewry

· reaching peace and coexistence: to achieve peace and coexistence with the Arab world and the Palestinian people. The unending violence is a tragedy for the Jewish people who struggled for so long to regain national independence and freedom from fear; and

· participation in the family of nations: to perform a positive role among the family of nations of the world, contributing humanitarian principles and Israel's technological expertise for the benefit of the wider world. The Biblical tradition envisages a Jewish nation living in accordance with the values of social justice and peace, while relating in mutual respect with the non-Jewish peoples of the world.

Negating Jewish history

· There is a tendency, not only in the Arab world, but among many western critics of Israel, to characterise Israel as an artificial, 20th century phenomenon.

· It is depicted as the creation of "corrupt" external forces: either as a mistake resulting from British colonial incompetence, or as an entity which was created by the European powers after World War II in order to soothe their collective guilt over the Nazi extermination of the Jews.

· These versions of history suggest that the Jewish presence in Israel has been unjustly "imposed" on the Palestinian "victims" by cynical Western forces, and usually continue by claiming that the external "occupation" is now being perpetuated by the United States.

· This narrative is a travesty. It negates the course of Jewish history, and the moral basis for Jewish national existence.

· The right of the Jews to live permanently as a nation in peace and security in Israel has overwhelming historical, political and moral legitimacy.

Reconciling Different Rights

· There are, of course, fundamental issues to consider arising from the basic Jewish right to a national homeland:-

· How much of the territory is necessary to fulfil Jewish national goals?

· What historical connection and claim to the land do the Palestinians have?

· What are the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians today?

· How can the legitimate rights of the Israelis and Palestinians be reconciled, so that neither is pursued at the expense of the other?

· Each of these topics will be dealt with in other Beyond Images Briefings.


Conclusion - Towards Acceptance and Coexistence

· The refusal of the Arab and Palestinian world as a whole to recognise the legitimacy of Israel lies at the heart of the conflict.

· If that acceptance were forthcoming, in actions and not simply in words, then the basis would be created for peaceful coexistence.

The San Remo Conference - Israel boundries

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

The San Remo Conference

Filed under: Israel, Israel boundries

In 1920, the San Remo Conference determined that the legal title to the Land of Israel – including Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria – belonged to the Jewish people. The San Remo resolutions were incorporated into international law through the mandates issued by the League of Nations, and their legal force has never been canceled or superseded by any subsequent treaty or binding international resolution.


The San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920 - which included the Balfour Declaration in its entirety - in shaping the map of the modern Middle East, as agreed upon by the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers (Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States acting as an observer), and later approved unanimously by the League of Nations; the Resolution remains irrevocable, legally binding and valid to this day.

“Emphasizing that the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the exclusive national Jewish rights to the Land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine.

“Recalling that such a seminal event as the San Remo Conference of 1920 has been forgotten or ignored by the community of nations, and that the rights it conferred upon the Jewish people have been unlawfully dismissed, curtailed and denied.

“Asserting that a just and lasting peace, leading to the acceptance of secure and recognized borders between all States in the region, can only be achieved by recognizing the long established rights of the Jewish people under international law.”

Fifty-one member countries - the entire League of Nations - unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:

“Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”

Jews are in the Land of Israel as of right and not on sufferance.

Any attempt to negate the Jewish people’s right to Palestine-Eretz-Israel, and to deny them access and control over the area designated for the Jewish people by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of international law.


The participants at last month’s conference came from Europe, Israel and North America. Their message was clear. It is long past time for Israel and the Jewish people to begin asserting our rights to our capital city and our land.


San Remo, 26 April, 2010 – Invited guests from three continents, among them the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Danny Danon, commemorated on Sunday 25 April the 90th Anniversary of the signing of the San Remo resolution of 1920 at a gathering at the actual site of the original conference, the historical Villa Devachan in San Remo, Italy. At the event Deputy Speaker Danon spoke about ”the importance of raising awareness of the reconstitution of the Jewish state 90 years ago in San Remo which has since been forgotten and ignored by a large part of the international community, including the media. However, in recent years several respected international lawyers and scholars, among them Jacques Gauthier and Howard Grief, have helped raise awareness of the legal foundation of the modern state of Israel which came into effect when the Balfour declaration was incorporated into international law by the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers in San Remo in 1920 and later approved unanimously by the League of Nations at the Peace Conference in Lausanne in July 1922.

”- At a time when even the core existence of Israel as a Jewish state is being challenged by its enemies it is of vital importance that we take a closer look at international law,” said conference organizer Tomas Sandell from the European Coalition for Israel. He then reminded the audience that ”the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the national Jewish sovereignty on the land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine.”

”- This marked the end of the longest colonization in history,” noted Salomon Benzimra from Toronto. ”Palestine has been occupied and colonized by a succession of foreign powers for about 1,900 years (Romans, Byzantines, Sassanid Persians, Arabs, Crusaders, Mameluks, and Ottoman Turks). This early episode of liberation, which preceded the global decolonization process by more than thirty years, should be welcome by all progressive minds.”

The 90th Anniversary was initiated and hosted by the European Coalition for Israel, a non-Jewish grass roots movement based in Brussels which promotes EU-Israeli relations, and with the support of Canadian Supporters for Israel’s Legal Rights based in Toronto. The event was sponsored by the City of San Remo and supported by Members of Parliament. Among personal greetings which were sent to the solemn event on Sunday were those of Robert Lloyd George, whose great grandfather, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, was one of the original signatories of the San Remo resolution.

At the stairs of the historical Villa Devachan the pledge of 1920 was symbolically re-affirmed by representatives from the original signatory countries, including the United Sates, who signed a ”Second San Remo resolution” which reaffirms the non-revocable rights of Israel which were enshrined in international law 90 years ago and are still valid to this day.

8 points for peace in Israel - Arab conflict

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

8 points for peace in Israel - Arab conflict



The salient question before any peace deal: Is there responsible Palestinian leadership courageous enough to make bold decisions toward a real peace, which is supported by a majority of the population?
The key points of any agreement must include:


1. End of conflict. 2. End of claims.

3. Recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland.

4. Recognition that Israel is not occupying Arab land.
5. Recognition of the experience of Jewish, as well as Palestinian, refugees.
6. No cleansing of Jews from Palestinian territory, just as Israel does not advocate uprooting Arabs from Israel.
7. No reliance on outside enforcement.
8. Most importantly, serious educational effort must start immediately to promote peace, stop propaganda and dismantle terror infrastructure. Otherwise, what gets reinforced is the traditional teaching of Muhammad that permits deceiving the enemy in order to accumulate enough power to destroy them later, as he did to the tribe of the Quraish in Medina. This was one of Yasser Arafat’s favorite ways of explaining why he negotiated with Israel.
This will undoubtedly take a bit more time, but it is better to have a durable peace than a shaky interim pseudo-agreement.

Japanese View of the Arab Palestinians'

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

Japanese View of the Arab Palestinians'
Couldn't have said it better.
One Picture = 1,000 Words

Is the world just plain stupid?
An interesting questionnaire for Palestinian Advocates
By Yashiko Sagamori

If you are so sure "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history," I expect you to be able to answer a basic questions about that country of Palestine:
1. When was it founded and by whom?
2. What were its borders?
3. What was its capital?
4. What were its major cities?
5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
6. What was its form of government?
7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
9. What was the language of the country of Palestine ?
10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine ?
11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese Yuan on that date.
12. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation.
Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?

Here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people that are mistakenly called"Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or throw outs of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
The truth: these people are Illegal squatters on the land in the Country of Israel.

There is No Such Thing As “Arab Palestine”!

There is No Such Thing As “Arab Palestine”!

“Palestine” is the name that the Romans gave to the land of Israel when they conquered this land 2000 years ago.

* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” nation.
* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” state.
* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” kingdom.
* There were never in the history of the world “Palestinian” kings.
* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” capital.
* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” essence.
* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” heritage.
* There was never in the history of the world a “Palestinian” culture.
* The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

The “Palestinians” are Arabs who were brought to the region by the Ottoman empire as part of the Muslim occupation in the region. They are definitely not the tribes from Crete who settled down in the 5 cities of Gaza strip after the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. These tribes were called Philistines and they weren’t Arabs at all and the nowadays “Palestinians” are definitely not their descendants. The Philistines don’t exist as a nation nowadays.
There’s no “Palestinian” nation but an ARAB one which went out of the Arabian Peninsula and occupied dozens of lands, including the land of Israel.
The Arabs who were living in the land of Israel started to call themselves “Palestinians” only after the establishment of Israel in 1948 and prior to it they called themselves just ‘Arabs’ and this is how they called their organizations (‘Arab Higher Committee’) and their struggles (‘The Great Arab Revolt’) and nick named the land of Israel in different names such as ‘Southern Syria’.
There was an Israeli state in the land of Israel 2000 years before the evil prophet of Islam allegedly flying on a “magical horse” from Mecca to Jerusalem.
* There was an Israeli nation in the land of Israel.
* There was an Israeli kingdom in the land of Israel.
* There were Israeli kings in the Israeli kingdom of Israel.
* There was an Israeli capital in the kingdom of Israel.
* There was and there is an Israeli essence.
* There was and there is an Israeli heritage.
* There was and there is an Israeli culture.
Israel isn’t just a name of a state. It’s first and for all a name of a nation (Am Yisrael). Israel is the name of the father of the nation (Jacob) and Israelis are his descendants. The real meaning of the word ‘Israeli’ is someone who belongs to the nation of Israel and not only “a citizen of a state called Israel”.
The word ‘Jews’ was invented by gentiles. When the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans occupied the land of Israel they called all the Israelis in the name ‘Jews’ because at those days the tribe of Judah was the biggest and the dominant tribe which survived the exile of Assyria in which 10 tribes of Israel were exiled. The tribe of Judah lived in the Judean desert thus the gentiles who occupied the land of Israel called the members of this tribe (and also the ones of Benjamin and Levi who joined it) in the name ‘Jews’.
When Israelis (Jews) who live abroad go to synagogue they don’t read about Jews in the prayer books nor in the Torah but about ‘The Nation of Israel’, ‘The Children of Israel’, ‘The House of Israel’, 'Shema Yisrael’ etc. They are Israelis because they belong to the nation of Israel even if they aren’t citizens of a state called Israel. Both the words ‘Jews’ and ‘Israelis’ refer to nationality, to ethnic identity and not to religion. Jews are members of the tribe of Judah and not “people who believe in Judaism”. And the nation isn’t called Judah but Israel, and so does the land and in the future the 10 tribes will return to this nation.
That’s why Arab citizens of Israel don’t define themselves as Israelis but as Arab/”Palestinian” citizens of a state CALLED Israel. They aren’t members of the Israeli nation but of the Ishmaelite nation. Ishmael used to shoot arrows at Isaac (father of Israel) while saying: ”I’m only playing…” That’s why there’s no “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” but a WAR that the Ishmaelites/Arabs opened on the Israelis. Also Muhammad murdered Israelis in Saudi Arabia who refused to accept this murderous pagan dream.
Couple of facts about Israel that the haters of Israel don’t like:
1. Israel became a state in 1312 B.C.E., two millennia before Islam.
2. Arab refugees from Israel began calling themselves “Palestinians” in 1967, two decades after (modern) Israeli statehood in 1948.
3. After conquering the land in 1272 B.C.E., Jews ruled it for a thousand years and maintained a continuous presence there for 3,300 years.
4. The only Arab rule following conquest in 633 B.C.E. lasted just 22 years.
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem was the Jewish capital. It was never the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even under Jordanian rule,(East) Jerusalem was not made the capital, and no Arab leader came to visit it.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the bible, but not once is it mentioned in the Qur’an.
7. King David founded Jerusalem; Mohammed never set foot in it.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem; Muslims face Mecca. If they are between the two cities, Muslims pray facing Mecca, with their backs to Jerusalem.
9. In 1948, Arab leaders urged their people to leave, promising to cleanse the land of Jewish presence. 68% of them fled without ever setting eyes on an Israeli soldier.
10. Virtually the entire Jewish population of Muslim countries had to flee as the result of violence and pogroms.
11. Some 630,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948, while close to a million Jews were forced to leave the Muslim countries.
12. In spite of the vast territories at their disposal, Arab refugees were deliberately prevented from assimilating into their host countries. Of 100 million refugees following World War 2, they are the only group tohave never integrated with their co-religionists. Most of the Jewish refugees from Europe and Arab lands were settled in Israel,a country no larger than New Jersey, USA.
13. There are 22 Muslim countries, not counting Palestine. There is only one Jewish state.
14. Fatah and Hamas constitutions still call for the destruction of Israel.
Israel ceded most of the west bank and all of Gaza to the Palestinian authority, and even provided it with arms.
15. During the Jordanian occupation, Jewish holy sites were vandalized and were off limits to Jews. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian holy sites are accessible to all faiths.
16. Out of 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions up to1990, 97 were against Israel; out of 690 general assembly resolutions,429 were against Israel.
17. The U.N. was silent when the Jordanians destroyed 58 synagogues in the old city of Jerusalem. It remained silent while Jordan systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing the temple mount and western wall.
18. Arabs started all five wars against Israel, and lost every one of them.
It is insane that the government of Israel is actually talking peace with these murderous beasts. There is no peace with those whose goal is to make the world clean of all Jews. There was no peace with Nazis, there is no peace with Islam which preaches every Friday sermon to kill Jews.
Rabbi Kahane was a modern prophet. He proposed that Israel relocates the arabs who do not want to live in peace with the Jewish people, in the Jewish state. There are 22 Muslim arab nations and only one Jewish nation.