Posted on 01/30/2024 7:45:37 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
Actually, there has never been a country called "Palestine," and the Jewish people were the original inhabitants of this territory.
Many college students, and all of the anti-Israel protesters, erroneously believe that a country called "Palestine" was populated by a people called "Palestinians" until World War II, after which Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust began migrating there as "settlers" and took the land from Arabs. Today, so the narrative goes, they are colonial occupiers of "stolen Palestinian land," as the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) "Day of Resistance Toolkit" puts it.
There are many things wrong with these claims, most glaringly the fact that there has never been a country called "Palestine," and the fact that Jewish people were the original inhabitants of this territory.
While it's true that many Jews migrated to the British Mandate Palestine in the aftermath of pogroms in the 1930s and then the Holocaust in the 1940s, there has been a continuous Jewish presence in Israel since the beginning of recorded history – centuries before the birth of Muhammad and the advent of Islam. Jerusalem is mentioned 667 times in the Hebrew Bible and zero times in the Koran. Not one.
The further back in history one goes, the less accurate the term "settler" is when applied to Jews living in Israel. King Solomon's Temple, built sometime around the 10th century B.C., and destroyed by Babylonian invaders in 586 B.C., The Second Temple was built between 538 and 516 B.C., rebuilt around 20 B.C., and then destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
Islam ventured into the land of Israel as a colonial force in the 7th century. Muslims built the Al-Aqsa mosque on the site of Solomon's temple as an expression of their triumphalism.
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Most people are extremely uneducated and don’t even know that the Jewish people have lived and ruled at times in Israel for millenia.
Well said.
It always belonged to the Jews, not the Arabs or mooselimbs.
Specifically the city of Jerusalem, which King David and the Jews conquered in BC 1000, had just recently been conquered by the Jebusites (Canaanites) two centuries prior.
Which is the same story in just about any land today. Virtually nobody controlling some land today are descendants of the first race to move there. Almost everywhere was conquered. The left just picks which majority races to pick on as evil conquerors while ignoring all the others.
Even today, after millions of supposed Ashkenaz Jews from Soviet Union, majority of Israeli Jews acknowledge at least partial descent from Mizrachi/Sefardi Jews who are culturally closer to Arabs than to Europeans.
What is not pointed out is that Palestinians did not own the land. Other people always owned the land and Palestinians worked the land and gave the land-owners a share of the profits. It was serfdom.
When Jews bought the land, they chose to work the land themselves and keep the proceeds for themselves.
Total immigration 1948 to present is 3,416,441. This is in addition to about 480,000 mostly European Jews who immigrated to Israel during the British mandate.
Israel: Immigration to Israel
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/immigration-to-israel
Immigration to Israel: Introduction & Overview
Following their expulsion and after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE, the majority of the Jews were dispersed throughout the world. The Jewish national idea, however, was never abandoned, nor was the longing to return to their homeland.
Throughout the centuries, Jews have maintained a presence in the Land, in greater or lesser numbers; uninterrupted contact with Jews abroad has enriched the cultural, spiritual and intellectual life of both communities.
Zionism, the political movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland, founded in the late 19th century, derives its name from word “Zion,” the traditional synonym for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel. In response to continued oppression and persecution of Jews in eastern Europe and disillusionment with emancipation in Western Europe, and inspired by Zionist ideology, Jews immigrated to Palestine toward the end of the nineteenth century. This was the first of the modern waves of aliyah (literally “going up”) that were to transform the face of the country.
No, the majority are now from Europe, as more Russian Jews came after Communism fell. The Kazars myth is pure Antisemitism.
Jesus loves you. All I need to know.
I-slam is an utterly false religion that succeeds by brutalizing other people and by glorifying all of man's most base instincts. A map of the muslim world tells the entire story, there is no decent or legitimate way anything like that could be put together.
:Not even close, and Nader was a pro-jihadist hater of Israel:
The Khazar nation was real enough but it did not amount to Turkish tribes that converted to Judaism in the first millennium AD as is commonly believed. Every aspect of their culture was that of ancient Israel and not that of Hellenistic Jews of the first millennium; they were actually descendants of the tribes that Assyrians had carried off into seeming oblivion all those centuries prior.
It was the land of the Jews before Mohamed. This begs the question of who has the birth right of this land?
Etymologically “Palestine”is a homophonic derivative of “Philastine”.
What did David do to the Philastine’s champion, Goliath?
The settlers were the Romans, Turks, Brits and others who invaded Israel. Also the Arabs which, obviously, came from Saudi Arabia. The Jews were there before any of them.
Yep.
The term, “Philistine”, is used to refer to an art less barbarian. The Palestinians live up to that and then some.
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In the period between late Ottoman rule up through the British mandate period Arab immigration also flourished. The European Jews brought resources and technology to the land, irrigation and manufacturing which enabled more immigration from Europe and by Arabs from most of the surrounding regions. None of these countries existed until the British, and the French, sat down in a Beirut cafe and drew lines on a map. Before then Arab people could basically roam around the entire region. The land that is now Israel was relatively speaking barren except for Jerusalem, and the fertile lands in the north and west.
The 1948 partition was rejected as Israel was basically the last country to become independent from British rule, and the other countries all rushed in to claim the land for themselves. They didn’t want to claim the land to liberate it for “the Palestinians” they wanted territorial expansion. And while they lost the war in 1948 they did get more land. Egypt got the Gaza and parts of what is now southern Israel and Jordan got what is now called the West Bank. They didn’t call these lands “Palestine” they called them Egypt and Jordan. Then they called a truce and drew new armistice lines which held until the war of 1967.
And it should be noted, the word Palestine was endowed by the Romans, who changed the name from Judea to Palestine as punishment for the Jewish rebellion against the empire; Palestine being derived from the biblical enemies of the Israelites, the Philistines.
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