Nadene Goldfoot
This was a terrible event since the other 10 tribes had most of their population taken away by Shalmaneser and then Sargon of the Assyrians in 721 BCE, just 144 years earlier. It was when the Assyrians who had been attacked by the Babylonians had gained their land. Now the Babylonians were all-powerful. Sargon had taken 27,290 Israelites to Assyria and Media, and then replaced them with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners. At least they didn't waste life, they just traded prisoners for better prisoners. THEY TOOK ISRAEL'S BEST.
Nebuchadnezzar was a warrior-king, often described as the greatest military leader of the Neo-Babylonian empire, known as Kasdim or land of Shinar(Chaldees). He ruled from 605 – 562 BCE in the area around the Tigris-Euphrates basin. Nebuchadnezzar had inherited the Assyrian empire. He had Jews in Babylon already. Now there was quite a large population of Jews in Babylon.
Persia was once a powerful empire. Jews first locked horns with them when the Babylonian Empire was then conquered by King Cyrus of Persia in 538 BCE, and it had been Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonians who had overcome the Jews and taken them to his land as slaves. So Cyrus did the Babylonians in, and freed the Jews. Cyrus not only had overrun Persia but that also included Judah which was included in the package being Nebuchadnezzar had taken that land. Now Cyrus had both. Being Cyrus was so kind to the Jews, it was thought that perhaps he was the son of Esther and Ahasueros.
For the next 2 centuries, both the mass of Jews in Exile in Mesopotamia and in the homeland in Judah were under Persian rule. It was under Cyrus that there took place the return from the exile to Judah which, however, continued to be a Persian province with some degree of local autonomy.
Cyrus II died in 529 BCE. He had had an enlightened policy towards his subject peoples and in 538 had granted permission to the exiles of Judah living in Babylon to return to their homeland and rebuild the Temple as told in (Ezra 1:1-44) and (II Chron. 36:22-3). The Jewish exiles regarded Cyrus as a dlvine agent.
Haman, chief minister of Ahasuerus, king of Persia as told about in (Esther. 3-9 in the Bible/Tanakh.)is the evil element in our history. His resentment of the independent attitude of Mordecai, the Jewish minister, led him to detest all Jews and he planned their annihilation. He may have found out that Queen Esther was not only Jewish but the niece of Mordecai. His scheme to kill all the Jews in the kingdom was ended by Esther who spoke with her husband about it. Haman's sons were hung along with him for plotting the slaughter of the king's citizens. This event was most important to the Jews as his plot actually started and Jews had been killed. They remember it with Purim, which comes in the Spring.
This is how the Empire of Israel was slowly sliced off; the empire of former Egyptian slaves who became the most famous literate and wise kingdom in the Middle East, known of far and wide, even by Ethiopia whose queen had come to investigate for herself and became pregnant by King Solomon, left with his child to become king of Ethiopia later on.
Persia has taken back their Persian name of Iran and find themselves in competition as the most powerful Islamic state which they have had to prove to other Muslims by warring with Iraq in the 1980's to the point where they were using boys as soldiers, which Iraq was also forced to do. Iran follows a different Islamic path than the other Moslem state do. They are Shi'as and the others are Sunnis. So they have several horses in the race for being the leader of Islam. Saudi Arabia is their biggest contender. Iran is run by an Ayatollah, a religious leader who dictates to their president, and the Ayatollah is very aware of Israel's rebirth and is full of hate for the tiny country. It's the old saw come to life; wanting to destroy Israel and its Jewish people. Has Haman been reincarnated this way? His goal sure has.
A "firestorm started when Nazila Fathi, then the Tehran correspondent of The New York Times, reported on October 5, 2011, a story almost six years previous, (in 2005) that was headlined: “Wipe Israel ‘off the map’ Iranian says.” The article attributed newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks to a report by the ISNA press agency. Ahmadinejad is the puppet under the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The article sparked outrage around the globe, with then-President George W. Bush and other world leaders condemning Ahmadinejad’s statement. The original New York Times article noted that Ahmadinejad said he was quoting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic revolution, but that aspect was largely overlooked". On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini’s leadership.
"Iran’s 2nd supreme leader has called Israel a “cancerous tumor” that “will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed” in an annual speech in support of the Palestinians." Iran wants to be the Muslim country freeing them. That will put them in the lead, the best of all the other Muslim countries. Said in 2020, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's speech marked a subdued Quds Day for Iran, which typically sees government-encouraged mass demonstrations in Tehran and elsewhere in the Islamic Republic, as well as Iranian-allied nations. “Al-Quds” is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
TEHRAN — On May 8, 2021, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called Israel “not a country, but a terrorist base” during a speech on Al-Quds Day, an annual show of solidarity with the Palestinians. Thousands massed for rallies across several Muslim-majority countries including Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan for the day, seen in Israel as an expression of hatred and anti-Semitism.
We've gone through 2 Ayatollahs behind the scenes of threatening Israel to the maximum of being destroyed. There is no love lost between the two countries. Iran started building a nuclear power plant in which to make a nuclear bomb they will use to destroy Israel.
Operation Opera (Hebrew: מבצע אופרה), also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
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