Nadene Goldfoot
Jews lived in Israel ever since it was Canaan, and yes, they took over this almost barren land of city-states, each with his own king with subjects never more than 1,000. They were told to live in this land by Moses who was told by G-d. They had lived there before when Abraham had led their ancestors till the drought during Jacob's day. Israelites had entered at the end of the Exodus from Egypt, about 1570 BCE or 3,600 years ago and remained there till this day with interruptions in the year 70 with the Roman forces taking Jerusalem, exiling those Jews they could catch. There had then remained a Jewish presence, but its government was in shatters.
King Jehoiakim was king of Judah, son of King Josiah and reigned from 608 to 598 BCE, made king by Pharaoh Necoh in succession to his brother Jehoahaz. For 3 years he was a subject to Egypt, but after Necoh was defeated at the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE, became a Babylonian vassal. In 601 BCE he joined the pro-Egyptian party in Judah in opposition to the advice of Jeremiah the Prophet who depicts Jehoiakim as a tyrannical oppressor. Jehoiakim died while Jerusalem was under siege by the Babylonians in 598 BCE.
Jeremiah tried to warn everyone, but who listens to prophet talking to G-d? He was part of Aaron, brother of Moses' family-the priestly family of men we find today with the DNA haplogroup of J1-the Cohen gene.The family lived NE of Jerusalem in Anathoth- of tribe of Benjamin; a village of today identified with the Arab village, Anata.
Jeremiah began his prophecy/news broadcasting as analyzer in 625 BCE. He started by scolding the nation of Judah of idolatry and after Josiah's reform in 621, warned it to keep the covenant then made with G-d. His prophecies were gloomy and aroused bitter resentment, but during the reigns of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, found supporters among leading personalities and priests, like Baruch-a member of a prominent family who joined him as a faithful friend and scribe. when Nebuchadnezzar ascended the Babylonian throne in 605 BCE Jeremiah forecast that he would conquer Judah. It came true!!! King Jehoiakim, fearing the effect of this prophecy on the populace, ordered the arrest of Jeremiah who was the forced to go into hiding until the country submitted to Nebuchadnezzar the following year of 597 BCE.
Jews had had an empire in this land. They had their own language, Hebrew. They had royalty of king, queen, prince and princess, a government, everything needed to create a country.
King Jehoiachin of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, then reigned in 597 BCE when the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar invaded the land the next year. He had succeeded to the throne at age 18 during this attack and reigned for 3 months and 10 days before capitulating to Nebuchadnezzar. He was taken to exile in Babylonia along with the others, remaining in detention until the accession of Evil-Merodach (son of Nebuchadnezzar II (reigning from 562 to 556 BCE) in 561BCE when the Judean king was released from prison(II kings 24-5: II chron. 36:8-10) by Merodach. Official Babylonian records relating to his captivity have been recovered. By my records, he was released at age 54, there since he was 18 years old.
Zedekiah (597-586 BCE) became Judah's last king; son of previous king Josiah, and appointed king by Nebuchadnezzar when King Jehoiachin was exiled. He took the throne at age 21. After 9 years of kingship under Nebuchadnezzar's power, he joined forces with Egypt. The result was bad; Babylonians invaded his kingdom and captured Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar then had his eyes put out and put in prison till he died. (II Kings 25: Jer.52). All because he had refused to join an anti-Babylonian coalition of neighboring kingdoms and in 594 had visited Babylon. 3 Kings in a row made mistakes and this was costly. It was a serious time with invasion from Babylonia happening.
The Jews had been attacked by Nebuchadnezzar and taken away from their land to Babylonia where they remained for 70 years until freed by the Persian king, Cyrus, king of the Queen Esther story in the Bible who may have even been her son or grandson. He admonished the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, which many did.
Israel was renewed with a 2nd birth after going through all preliminary preparation throughout World War I and the League of Nations with "Britain in control, and then the birth of the United Nations in 1947. November 29, 1947 Resolution recommended the establishment, in Palestine, of both a Jewish and an Arab state. The state of Israel was proclaimed by the Palestine Jewish authorities on May 14, 1948" the result of daily work, form filling, letter writing, meetings, promises and tears. At this time, there were 650,000 Jews in the land. The Arabs had turned the offer down. The Arab leaders refused to recognize any Jewish national rights in the land and were intent upon imposing complete Arab control over it. This Arab opposition erupted into violence in 1920, 1921, 1929 and from 1936 to 1939. the outbreaks consisted mainly of terror attacks against Jewish villages and urban communities.
In 1929 was the massacre of 67 Jews in Hebron and the destruction of their synagogues that put an end to the existence of that city's Jewish community there. Jews had lived there for the past 2,000 years. 517 Jews were killed by Arab attacks between 1939 and 1939.
On the eve of this momentous day in 1948, Great Britain relinquished its control of its 30 year mandate.
When the Arab armies soon invaded Israel in 1948, as they wanted not a piece of the pie but the whole thing, and that's what they were holding out for, no concrete help was afforded by the UN in implementing its resolution but UN mediators negotiated the following cease-fire and armistice agreements supervised by a Truce Supervision Organization with headquarters in Jerusalem.
Jews still exist. They didn't fade away into history like all the other nations. Only a few exist; Egypt and now Israel's government is revived-no longer dead. I repeat, Jews never left. There's always being some living on the land.
I'd say Syria only that is about to be swallowed up in a sinkhole. This was Aram in the bible,, land of the Phoenicians who was in constant friction with Israel and Judah until overrun by the Assyrians. They would not sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1948 or since.
Now in its 10th year, the Syrian conflict has led to more than 500,000 deaths and displaced an estimated 13 million—over half of Syria’s pre-war population. Over 6.2 million Syrians are internally displaced, and 5.6 million are refugees, predominantly in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey. In 2011 they had a population of 22,505,000 of 90% Muslim Sunni/Shi'as, still a belligerent people.
Today's Arab countries have no such history. They are not necessarily the descendants of the ancient countries that were neighbors of Israel or Judea. Today's people are direct descendants of Arabians of Arabs, specifically, Saudi Arabia. Both Jews and Muslims were called Palestinians before 1948. There never has been a country of Palestine, only the land named by the Romans in retaliation of Bar Kokhba's 3 years of holding Jerusalem against them. Romans named it for Israel's worst enemies, the Philistines. The PLO's talents do not include creating and running a country. Israel has been paying for their electricity, etc for many years, but they could afford to build tunnels used for smuggling in weapons to use against Israel.
As Prince of Arabia 2nd son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca of 4 sons of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and his first wife, Abdiyya bint Abdullah. and later, king of Hejaz which is part of Saudi Arabia, where Mecca and Medina lie, wanted land to rule. Being a 2nd son means he missed out on the kingship. He gave his support of his tribe and men to Britain during WWI and that led to his nomination as ruler of Transjordan in 1923. He had a moderate attitude toward Zionism and negotiated with Chaim Weizmann in 1922 but had a change of heart after hearing his people bicker about it, invaded Israel in 1948. Then he formally annexed the Arab-held part of Cis-Jordan in 1950 and proclaimed himself ruler of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. Supposedly, they are the direct descendants of Muhammad. He attempted to reach an understanding with Israel, but his people....the Palestinian Arabs, they called themselves....Abdullah died in an assassination in Jerusalem at the instance of the Mufti, Haj Amin el Husseini.
Transjordan of 1921 has become Jordan with the ruler being Abdullah. In 1952 his grandson became ruler, Hussein. In 1967 Hussein entered the war of 1967 against Israel with other countries. They were defeated and Israel took back the land now called the West Bank that in truth is Judea and Samaria. Hussein even had to expelled the Palestine Liberation organization from his country for a time. He was later reconciled with their leader, Arafat. In 1988 he stopped protecting them, giving the job to the PLO. His own support had been coming from the Bedouin tribesmen of his country that he had brought over from Arabia while a majority of its inhabitant of Jordan were now Palestinians. In 1992 the population of Jordan was 2 million of whom 85% were Moslem Arabs. By 2011, the population was 5,568,565 with 95% Sunni Muslims of the Shafi'i main fiqh.
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