Jews Connection To The Land
You are living in a world of delusion if you think Jews are going to magically forget about Israel, they havent for 3000 years.
Jews are indigenous to the land. It is the land where they formed their religious, national, and ethnic identity.
Every week Jews read from the bible in synagogues in Hebrew (a language native to the land) about events and people based in that land, whilst facing Jerusalem.
Almost all major Jewish festivals involve events in that land.
Every Passover and Day of Atonement Diaspora Jews say “next year in Jerusalem”, and the word Zion also refers to our reverence for that city.
Zionism was born out of a necessity to solve the centuries old problem of anti-Semitism. We can now defend ourselves from the Hitlers and Yahya Sinwars of this world.
The land was stolen from Jews, it is justice that they made it back.
Jews were the majority populace of the land of Israel from 1200BC until the 4th Century AD, (that is over 1500 years).
A common misperception is that the Jews were forced into the diaspora by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 A.D. and then, 1,800 years later, suddenly returned to Palestine demanding their country back. In reality, the Jewish people have maintained ties to their historic homeland for more than 3,700 years. A national language and a distinct civilization have been maintained.
The Jewish people base their claim to the land of Israel on at least four premises: 1) God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham; 2) the Jewish people settled and developed the land; 3) the international community granted political sovereignty in Palestine to the Jewish people and 4) the territory was captured in defensive wars.
The term “”Palestine”” is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century B.C., settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century A.D., after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word “”Filastin”” is derived from this Latin name.
The Twelve Tribes of Israel formed the first constitutional monarchy in Palestine about 1000 B.C. The second king, David, first made Jerusalem the nation’s capital. Although eventually Palestine was split into two separate kingdoms, Jewish independence there lasted for 212 years. This is almost as long as Americans have enjoyed independence in what has become known as the United States.
Even after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the beginning of the exile, Jewish life in Palestine continued and often flourished. Large communities were reestablished in Jerusalem and Tiberias by the ninth century. In the 11th century, Jewish communities grew in Rafah, Gaza, Ashkelon, Jaffa and Caesarea.
Many Jews were massacred by the Crusaders during the 12th century, but the community rebounded in the next two centuries as large numbers of rabbis and Jewish pilgrims immigrated to Jerusalem and the Galilee. Prominent rabbis established communities in Safed, Jerusalem and elsewhere during the next 300 years. By the early 19th century-years before the birth of the modern Zionist movement-more than 10,000 Jews lived throughout what is today Israel.
When Jews began to immigrate to Palestine in large numbers in 1882, fewer than 250,000 Arabs lived there, and the majority of them had arrived in recent decades. Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: “”There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history, absolutely not.”” In fact, Palestine is never explic of this world.
Jerusalem was NEVER a Muslim capital *** Jerusalem has stood at the center of the Jewish people’s national and spiritual life since King David made it the capital of his kingdom in 1003 BCE. The city remained the capital of the Davidic dynasty for 400 years, until the kingdom was conquered by the Babylonians.
Following the return from the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE, Jerusalem again served as the capital of the Jewish people in its land for the next five and a half centuries.
During Muslim rule over the city, whether Arab or non-Arab, Jerusalem was never made the political capital of a Muslim entity or even a province within the Muslim empire. Under Muslim Arab rule (638 – 1099) by the Umayyad, the Abbasid and the Fatamid , caliphs, Jerusalem was ruled from Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo respectively. In the eighth century, the city of Ramla was made the capital of the district which included Jerusalem
Archaeological, historical and genealogical evidence proves the fact that Jews are the indigenous population of the Southern Levant.
In contrast, Palestinian Arabs descend from 3 primary groups: Muslim invaders, Arab immigrants, and local converts to Islam. The Muslim conquest of Byzantine Palestine in the 7th century CE is a textbook example of settler-colonialism, as is subsequent immigration, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries under the Ottoman and British Empires.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinians-settlers-colonialism/
Koran Surah Al AHRAF 7:137, Allah promised the land to Israelites, our history is even in your Koran.
You are living in a world of delusion if you think Jews are going to magically forget about Israel, they haven’t for 3000 years.
Jews are indigenous to the land. It is the land where they formed their religious, national, and ethnic identity.
The land was stolen from Jews, it is justice that they made it back.
Zionism was born out of a necessity to solve the centuries old problem of anti-Semitism. We can now defend ourselves from the Hitlers and Yahya Sinwars of this world.