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!