THE ORIGIN and the DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH NATION
THE ORIGIN and the DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH
NATION
In the year 1741 BCE, Abraham began
his long journey from Haran to Canaan - a journey which would change the history of the
world and have a profound effect on the development of most major religions.
The Jewish people can trace their
origin to Abraham, who established the belief that there is only one God, who
is the "creator of the universe"- is based on the old Biblical
testament! The name Israel is drawn from the name given to Jacob. His 12 sons
were the seeds of 12 tribes that later developed into the nation of Israel . The name
Jewish derives from Yehuda (or Judah) one of the 12 sons of Jacob which Jewish
Kings evolved, including the future Messiah.
The descendants of Abraham
crystallized into a nation about 3,000 BCE after their exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. They crossed the Red sea and headed for Canaan which consisted of the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites,
the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, (seven nations)
and the Philistines in the location where Gaza is today.
The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by their
Jewish heritage, tradition and religion. The Jewish identity is ethnic,
religious, traditional and cultural.
While a large number of Jews are
descendants of Jewish parents, some are converts to Judaism from other
ethnicities. People, whose religion is not Judaism but are descendants of
Jewish parents also identify themselves as Jews and have a strong cultural and
historical bond with the Jews and the land of Israel ; which dated
back to about 1280 BC.
The Jews have a belief deeply
ingrained in their traditions that they are a Chosen People of God and that the
land of Israel, formerly called Canaan, is the Promised Land pledged by God to
their patriarchal forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as the land where their
descendants will live peacefully for ever and be a blessing to the world.
During King Solomon’s era, the Jewish
people controlled territory from The Red Sea, Sinai extending all the way to the Euphrates River in Iraq .
Jews in every part of the world,
since their dispersion in the Diaspora have longed and prayed at least 3 times
a day to return to Israel with the rebuilding the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem,
since generations.
Throughout history of Jewish
Generations in the Diaspora; there was always a continuous Jewish community in
The Land of Israel. They suffered persecution and violence in their own
occupied homeland.
Few ethnic groups in the world can
pride themselves of having a history as long and as uninterrupted as that of
the Jewish people, though they did not live in their own country for several
centuries and were persecuted and abused. The Jewish people throughout over 20
centuries have showed remarkable resilience and survived repeated onslaughts,
persecution and pogroms from many quarters in their long history.
The Jewish sense of nationhood was
often kept alive by the deeply entrenched religious and social traditions that
were passed down by family elders to successive generations. They remained
tightly knit together even while leading secluded lives in diverse
circumstances in various parts of the world adopting the cultures and languages
of the host countries, but most maintaining their traditions.
The Jewish peoples contribution to
medical, economic and industrial growth was and is remarkable, in spite of the
ridicule and political persecution they were and are subjected to since the
medieval times. The Jewish homeland was
and is The Land of Israel since the time of Abraham; but Jacob and his family
left for Egypt during a
famine. Years later Moses lead them back
to The Land of Israel where the Jewish people built two Temples in Jerusalem . The Land of Israel was later conquered by the Assyrians,
Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and afterwards various Muslims, Crusaders and other
Middle Eastern countries controlled it for centuries as occupied territory
until after WWI. The Allied Powers in combination with the British gained
control of The Land of Israel from the Ottoman
Empire .
In the 1800's the Ottoman Empire
realized that their revenues from the land is decreasing due to increased
desolation; they changed the laws and invited the Jewish people from around the
world back to their homeland in the Land of Israel and encouraged them to
develop the land.
After WWI the British issued the
Balfour Declaration in 1917 and in 1920, The Supreme Allied Powers Allocated
The Land of Israel aka Palestine to the Jewish people as their historical land as
international law, and allocated over 5 million sq. mi. to the Arabs. The League of
Nations followed the
terms of the Supreme Allied Powers and set-up the Mandate for Palestine to advance Jewish immigration and bring about the
sovereign Jewish National Home in Palestine .
The British volunteered to assume
that responsibility; but the British violated the terms of the international
law and assigned over 77% of land previously allocated to the Jewish people to
the Arabs as the New Arab state east of The Jordan River, furthermore, the
Arabs confiscated all their assets and expelled all the Jewish people from the
new Arab state of Jordan.
The Jewish people had no choice but
to accept all the reduced territory which included everything west of the Jordan River .
During the ensuing years, the British
turned a blind eye while hundreds of thousands of Arabs came illegally into the Land of Israel . Many local conflicts developed where the Arabs
were instigated to attack the Jewish population while the British stood by.
Before WWI many Jews tried to
immigrate to the Land of Israel aka Palestine and after WWII many Jewish survivors
of the holocaust tried to come to The Land of Israel, but the British sent
their agents to blow-up Jewish refugee Ships under “Operation Embarrass”.
Eventually against all obstacles, the Jewish population grew to a substantial
number and fought back against the violence by the Arabs and their British
co-conspirators.
The British who were attacked by the
Arabs and the Jews finally decided they had enough and in early 1947 notified
the U.N that they are relinquishing their obligation and duty as trustee under
the Mandate for Palestine to take effect in May 1948.
The UN without authority and in
violation of international law and treaty voted and recommended to partition
the Land of Israel a second time and set-up another second new Arab
state.
The Jewish people accepted the
recommendation and on the 14 of May 1948 declared the sovereign state of Israel
but the Arabs refused to accept such a recommendation, they wanted it all,
without any Jews, just like Jordan. Subsequently 5 Arab Armies and Arab
militias attacked the newly reconstituted sovereign state of Israel ; the Arab
armies and the Arab League asked the local Arabs to vacate their homes while
they were destroying Israel . It is
interesting to note, that the world community did not apply any pressure on the
Arab countries to stop and withdraw their armies. The Jewish people were
fighting for survival and eventually prevailed and defeated the advancing Arab
armies, but in the process lost some territory and The Ancient City of
Jerusalem.
During the ensuing years the
neighboring Arab countries consistently sent Arab terrorists to attack
neighboring Jewish communities.
In 1956, Egypt president
Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and declared
a shipping embargo, which stopped Israel shipping
lanes to Africa .
After the U.S. exerted
pressure on Israel to return
the Sinai Peninsula ; Israel withdraws
its forces. A UN peacekeeping force was placed as a buffer and the Egyptians
agreed not to have any military presence in the Sinai
Peninsula and the terrorist’s activities from Egypt resumed
their attacks against Israeli communities.
In the spring of 1967; the president
of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser’s military force was rearmed and retrained by the Russians
with the latest military equipment. Nasser requested
the UN peacekeeping forces to leave. He sent over 100,000 troops to the border
with Israel ; set up a
confederation of Arab Nations with Syria and Jordan ; whereby
Syrian troops were massed along the border with Israel . At this
point Nasser went on the radio and announced the
new Arab Confederacy and told his nation that he is preparing to attack Israel and take
over Israel . Much
diplomatic pressure was applied to try and calm the winds of war; but to no
avail. Nasser was persistent on his threats and
kept sending additional military units and supplies to the border with Israel .
In the early morning of June 5th, 1967 , in a critical
defensive action Israel sent its
Air-force to neutralize the Arab Air-forces. Within 8 hours, Israel destroyed
all the Arab Air-forces. Israeli forces advanced in the Sinai, and within 3
days were at the Suez Canal with The
Egyptian Army defeated. Meanwhile, Israel military
forced defended against Syrian shelling of Jewish communities from the Golan
Heights . Israeli forces pushed forward and took over the Golan
Heights and defeated the Syrian Army.
The Jordanians kept firing and
shelling Israeli positions in Jerusalem and from the
West Bank . Israel kept sending
diplomatic messages to Jordan ’s King
Hussein to stay out of the war and Israel would not
attack Jordan . King
Hussein of Jordan ignored and attacked. Israel responded
and liberated the ancient city of Jerusalem and its
surrounding communities. Israel ’s military
forces also liberated the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria , all the way
to the Jordan River .
In the following years, the Arabs
continued to send terrorists across their borders with Israel and attack
its citizens. Many Arabs who stayed in the liberated territories since June
1967 and were under Israel ’s autonomy
benefited greatly. Their economic, health and education improved substantially.
On October 1973 during the holiest
holiday in the Jewish calendar; The Arab armies of Egypt and Syria started a
major offensive against the Jewish state. At first Israel ’s limited
defenses during that day suffered heavy loses and the Arabs made some
territorial advances. Israel immediately
recalled all their reserves defended their territory and pushed back the
invading armies of Egypt and Syria . Israeli
forces recaptured the Suez Canal and reached
within 30 miles of Cairo . On the
Syrian front, Israeli forces pushed the Syrian forces from the Golan
Heights and reached within 20 miles of Damascus . The Arabs,
who were re-supplied with advanced weapons by the Russians, lost the war of
aggression against Israel for the
fourth time.
In the years following the October
1973 war; there were numerous attempts to bring about peace in the region.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was persuaded that peace is the best solution and
he makes a historical trip to Israel on November 19, 1977 , he made a speech in front of the
Israeli Knesset – Parliament.
A comprehensive peace
agreement was signed by Egypt and Israel two years after
the visit, in 1979; Following the Camp David
Accords and facilitated by the United States ;
President of Egypt Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed
the treaty in Washington ,
DC .
In 1988 Jordan relinquished
its territorial conquest in the West Bank
aka Judea and Samaria . In 1994 Jordan signed a peace
agreement with Israel .
In 1993 and 1995 Israel signed the Oslo
Accord. Israel allowed the Arabs to set-up the Arab PA administration in most
of the West Bank headed by Arafat and later when Arafat died by Abbas. The
Arabs immediately started terror and violence. This pattern of terror and
violence by the Arabs continued until today; with the Arabs promoting and
educating their children and the masses to commit terror and violence,
supporting suicide bombers and terrorists and blaming Israel for their
predicament.
In 2005 Israel vacated Gaza for the sake of peace
and forced the evacuation of Jewish communities and settlements bordering Gaza . This action back
fired on Israel ;
since Hamas took over control of Gaza and has been firing
thousands of rockets at Israel ’s population
centers. Israel
had to send its forces to Gaza
three times to destroy the rocket launchers and demolish tunnels that snaked
their way into Israel
for the Arab terrorists to commit terror, violence and kidnapping.
What the future holds
is anybody’s guess.
Local Arabs is the description of the Arabs in what was formerly known as the region of Palestine, which is the Land of Israel.
ReplyDeleteIt is an insult and it is promoting the perpetration of a fraud by calling the local Arabs nothing else than local Arabs. Prior to the mid sixties they were called Arabs all of a sudden they woke up one morning and decided in order to promote their fraud and deception to assume the title the Jews had since the Romans renamed the Land of Israel Palestine and Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina.
YJ Draiman
Local Arabs is the description of the Arabs in what was formerly known as the region of Palestine, which is the Land of Israel. It is an insult and it is promoting the perpetration of a fraud by calling the local Arabs nothing else than local Arabs. Prior to the mid sixties they were called Arabs all of a sudden they woke up one morning and decided in order to promote their fraud and deception to assume the title the Jews had since the Romans renamed the Land of Israel Palestine and Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina.
ReplyDeleteYJ Draiman
Also, let's not forget that not only is the word Palestine a Roman miss-spelling of philistine with no Arabic roots whatsoever and the only area the Philistines had was the Gaza area, the rest had 7 other nationalities; it's only purpose was to insult the Jewish people and serve as a constant reminder that they had been conquered by the Romans. There is a certain irony in the idea that these Arabs would choose a Roman name over making up their own. But that fits their method of operations in that all they do is take what is NOT theirs. Be it the land of Israel, the bodies of innocent women and children, the freedom that the EU and the U.S.A. insists on giving them, thus to abuse and threaten. Why wouldn't they steal a name designated for the Jews by the Romans also? Principally since until 50 years ago the Arab themselves considered is as an insult to Arabs. Abbas the terrorist with a murder conviction belongs in Jail and should be hanged for his crimes.
The U.N. cannot create or modify countries or territories, they can only recommend (see the UN Charter it is only advisory). Israel was reconstituted by international law in 1920 which allocated Palestine for the Jewish homeland and the Arabs were allocated over 5 million sq. mi., the British in violation of international law took away 77% of the land allocated to the Jewish people and gave it to the Arabs as their state east of the Jordan River.
ReplyDeleteThe Jews were not given the land in Israel and the Jewish part of the land was purchased from the rich Arab landowners at a premium price. During testimony in front of the British Peel Commission January 12, 1937 The Hajj Amin el-Husseini, the intractable opponent of Zionism, a Jew-hater who killed over 12,000 Jews in Bosnia on par with Hitler, admitted under questioning that no Arab land was stolen; no Arabs were wiped out, no villages destroyed. Rather, the Jews bought hundreds of thousands of dunams (about ¼ of an acre) of land from willing sellers, often from absentee Arab landowners. During the 1948 war of Independence; Five Arab nations waged war on the Jewish state and got their skull handed to them. At that point, they earned it. Countries have tried to knock them off the hill, but Israel keeps winning, so, yeah, it's their land now. Deal with it. And sweetie, Hamas is a terrorist group. Innocent people are being slaughtered by Hamas...and then they hide behind innocent people as Israel fires back. It's surprising to see an American eat up Hamas's propaganda so easily.
"We must be ready to sacrifice all for our country Israel. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must continue to acquire proficiency in defense and display determination and stamina in purpose." Never surrender - we are fighting for our survival and the alternative is extinction. Israel's mission first and foremost is to take care of the Jewish people and insure their safety and security in Israel. Israel's obligation is to its Jewish People and not to pacify the world at large. The historical facts are that for thousands of years the world at large has always persecuted the Jewish people and stood idle while millions of Jews are exterminated and persecuted. Right now we are in a badly separated, internally struggling, bickering state both within Israel and also in the Diaspora. And our enemies are happily latching onto this internal fragmentation exploiting us against each other and leading successful campaigns against us on all fronts. No political wisdom, trickery or weapons and a mighty army can save Israel or Jews worldwide unless we rise above our differences, above our argumentative nature and form a single united Nation that is impenetrable. And that wouldn't just save us but would blaze a trail of hope for others in this crazy world where there are no allies or friends any more only enemies waiting for the opportunity to destroy each other. We may not agree on everything, but we must respect each other and work together for our common goal which is survival in this hostile world which is on a spiral of deterioration.
ReplyDelete"A United Israel is a Strong Israel"
YJ Draiman