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| Jacob started it all. He was the younger twin of Isaac and Rebekah who bought his brother Esau's birthright from him. At Haran he married his uncle Laban's 2 daughters, Rachel and Leah. Through them and their 2 handmaids, Bilhah and Zilpah, he had 12 sons and 1 daughter. Leah had Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulin and Dinah. Rachael had Joseph and Benjamin. Bilhah had Dan and Naphtali. Zilpah had Gad and Asher. It was Joshua of the tribe of Ephraim some 400 years later who commanded the descendants of the 12 sons: some 600,000 slaves and told them where to live as decided by drawing lots. Since Joseph stayed in Egypt, his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim were included in drawing lots His ancestor, Abraham, came from Ur of the Chaldees/Cassites which was an ancient Babylonian city. Then his family moved to Haran which was a trading town of NW Mesopotamia, center of a moon cult religion. Around it were the Habiru (Hebrews where Terah, Abraham's father lived.) The land Jacob lived in was Canaan, the name for Syria in the 15th to 13th centuries, but used for the coast of Eretz Yisrael. It was made up of small city-states. |
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| Assyria of W Asia had an aggressive kingdom in the 20th century BCE.The name of Canaan comes to us from 15th century BCE. 11 different kinds of peoples lived here between the Nile and the Euphrates. The Assyrian Empire was at its greatest in 650 BCE so this map states. Note: Syria was called Aram in Biblical days. Damascus and Jews goes back to David in whose realm it was comprised; the capital of Aram-Dammesek- important in the period of Kings as either friend or foe of Israel. David ruled Israel from 1010 BCE to 970 BCE. |
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| Israel and her neighborhood: The name of Canaan comes to us from 15 century BCE. 11 different kinds of peoples lived here between the Nile and the Euphrates. Jacob and his 12 sons had been living in Canaan which became their kingdom of Israel, thus the name of Israel. Originally they had been the Ivreem from the EAST (rivers of Tigris and Euphrates). They spoke Hebrew (Ivrew-Ivreem). The whole population has since changed; there is no more Moab or Edom: there is Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Egypt and now Israel still exist along with the city of Damascus and the nation who owns that city, Syria. " The modern name of Syria is claimed by some scholars to have derived from Herodotus' habit of referring to the whole of Mesopotamia as 'Assyria' and, after the Assyrian Empire fell in 612 BCE, the western part continued to be called 'Assyria' until after the Seleucid Empire when it became known as 'Syria'." |
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| 12 tribes 1,200-1030 BCE according to the book of Joshua |
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| In 400 years since their absence, kingdoms had developed who were not happy with new invaders, the returnees who had now grown from a family of 70. |
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| United Kingdom of Israel during Saul and David's reign 1020-970 BCE |
We come to the year 1922 CE and the land now looks like this.
In 1949 Israel looked like this below:
Note that the white area is Samaria and its lower area is Judea. "According to the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites captured the region known as Samaria from the Canaanites and assigned it to the Tribe of Joseph." Since Joseph lived in Egypt, the land went to his sons, Manasseh and Ephriam."
"After the death of King Solomon (c. 931 BC), the northern tribes, including those of Samaria, separated from the southern tribes and established the separate Kingdom of Israel. Initially its capital was Tirzah until the time of King Omri (c.884 BC), who built the city of Shomron and made it his capital."
Judah was given the name of Judea by the Romans which came under their rule in 63 BCE, renamed Palaestina in 135 after fighting a war over Jerusalem with the Jewish Bar Kokhba general and his men who lost the battle.
Judea and Samaria was populated by Arabs, most who entered when Jews had returned from the Galut (Jewish Diaspora) of Russia, etc, in 1880 and was referred to as the West Bank by the world other than Israelites. Gaza also
was emptied and given over to these Arabs who became citizens of Hamas terrorism rulership, used to attack Israel.
Today's Peace Plan by Trump with Jared Kushner, son in law
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| Beitar Illit (ביתר עילית) is an Israeli city of 56,746 established in 1985 in the Gush Etzion area which is 6.2 miles south of Jerusalem in the northern Judean Hills. Its population are mostly Orthodox Jews, who have studied the area, wanting to live where their ancestors had lived. You'll sometime notice that journalists refer to it as a settlement. |
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| The plan was ignored by the Palestinians who vowed not to accept it anyway. They've ignored all offers for the past 70 years as it is. Arabs attended in 1967 after the war the Khartoom conference in Africa. They vowed to never accept Israel or any peace plan. Jews living in Judea/Samaria's Neve Menachem are also not happy with the plan. These 200 mostly English-speaking families live in this town in Samaria
Karnei Shomron (Hebrew: קַרְנֵי שׁוֹמְרוֹן, lit. "Rays of (light of) Samaria") is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council established in 1977 in the West Bank, east of Kfar Saba. Karnei Shomron is located 48 kilometres (30 mi) northeast of Tel Aviv and 85 kilometres (53 mi) north of Jerusalem. In 2018 it had a population of 7,713.
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this, and they have excellent reason. Read Professor Kontorovich's comments on these areas. He says they do not violate international law.
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Resource: Tanach, the Stone Edition;Torah/Prophets/Writings
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
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