Altering History and Altering Religion Deceptive Reasons

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

There is a movie about biblical David that is not following the story line found in the Torah (Bible).  

The "House of David" is a Prime Video series premiering February 27, 2025, that tells the story of David's rise to becoming King of Israel. The series, produced by Jon Erwin and Jon Gunn, features Michael Iskander as David, Ali Suliman as King Saul, and Martyn Ford as Goliath. Never-before-seen images of the series have been released, showcasing the cast and the series' visual style. 

"The TV series that portrays David as potentially born out of wedlock is House of David on Amazon Prime Video. 

While the biblical account doesn't explicitly state that David was illegitimate, the series takes "creative liberties" by suggesting this possibility or alluding to it. "

Of all things to be creative about, this is NOT one of them.  It's messing around with our family tree, our line of inheritance.  

"Some viewers have noted that this aspect of David's backstory in the show seems to be linked to "Jewish tradition" that posits David was considered illegitimate due to his mother's supposed lineage.  

Illegitimate means that the parents of a child were not married.

Jesse and the daughter of Ithra were married.  In those days,

men had many wives  (married them). It is not surprising that

Moses did not write down a woman's name while he did the men. What was he writing on?  Sheepskin, no doubt, something much harder than we use today.  Moses was a scribe of Egypt, schooled with the Egyptian princes.  It was common practice to leave out many women's names.  

 I take exception to this statement. I doubt very much that thisillegitimacy is in  our Jewish tradition.  

1. David, 8th son of Jesse, born (1000 BCE-died 960 BCE) of tribe ofJudah 4th son of Jacob and Leah.  Judah was one of the 12tribes that we Jews came from.    He was said to be a gingy(reddish hair).     Youngest son of Jesse, born in Bethlehem, married Saul's daughter, Michal. 

 The Book of Samuel states that Jesse had eight sons, namingthe first three as Eliab, Abinadab and Shammah, and David as the youngest.[8] The Book of Chronicles names seven sons ofJesse—Eliab, Abinadab, Shimea, Nethanel, Raddai, Ozem and David—as well as two daughters, Zeruiah and Abigail.[9]Among his grandchildren were the three sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab and Asahel; and Amasa, the son of Abigail.[10]

David became at age 25 armor-bearer of King Saul, was best friend of Saul's son, Jonathan.  David showed he was a great soldier when fightingPhilistines-husband of Saul's daughter, Michal. 

Of course, Davidas a teen had fought the giant Goliath, a Philistine from Gath (I Sam.17:21-10).  

Rather-King David, was the most important personage of the Jewish religion.Everyone wanted to be connected to his family.  To belong to the Sanhedrin, one hadto have a family tree showing the connection.  It was most important to have a family tree leading to king David for religious and political reasons.  Christians felt they had a family tree leading to David which differed from our established Jewishfamily tree.  This concept was part of the "proof" they needed to establish theirreligion.

I have pored over the Torah in the act of making a tree from the information which isthe only qualified information we have.  It is our research tool.

1   JESSE

b: in Bethlehem in 11th or 10th century BCE, grandson of Ruthand Boaz.

He lived in Bethlehem but for fear of King Saul; lived for a time in Moab.  The royal  house of David is known as "the stock or root of Jesse.  (Is.11:1, 10)  He married the daughter of Ithra.  

.. +Ithra's Daughter with Ithra having  DNA of J1haplotypeArab  or Jewish line

In the Torah (Hebrew Bible), Ithra is mentioned as the father of Amasa, who served as David's military commander. Ithra is also identified as Jether the Ishmaelite in some texts.

David's army would be made up of Israelites (Jewish) soldiers. 

A few of the soldiers might have been Ishmaelites, who werepeople who lived in N. Arabia between Egypt and the Assyrian border.  The Bible refers several times to their trade with Egypt.

Traditionally they are the Arab descendants of Ishmael and modern Arabs still claim this descent, which connects them to  Ithra's daughter and King David.  

In today's IDF, we have certain Arab tribes serving.  While Druze and Circassians are conscripted into the IDF, along with 
Jews, the Bedouin and Israeli Arabs, Christians and Muslims are not obliged to serve. 

An estimated 1,500 Bedouin are currently serving in the IDF. Around 606 Muslim Arabs volunteered to serve in 2020 compared with 436 in 2018.

Unlike today, Judaism is legally figured to have been carried in the family by the father.  The male line is the important line. 

Sometime during the Middle Ages, this proof of being Jewish switched to the mother.  If your mother was Jewish, you were legally Jewish.  

  Boaz was the son of Judah.  David was also said to be the son of Jesse,  an Ephrathite man from Bethlehem in Judah, who had 8 sons.  After fighting Goliath he became a soldier fighting the Philistines like his 3 older brothers did. "   Was Jesse the son of Judah or from Ephriam?  They still should produce the same DNA haplotype.  

History  from Aggadah (Haggadah) (below)

The part of Oral Law distinct from Haslakhah, ie that which does not deal with the laws incumbant upon the Jew in his daily activities.  From this follows the positive definition:  the Aggadah is primarily the sequel to those parts of the Bible which include stories and chronicles, sayings of the wise and moral instructions, and the admonitions and consolation of the prophets.   

"Jesse merited to be the ancestor of the royal house by virtue of his own good deeds. He expounded Torah to a multitude of 60 myriads (Yev. 76b). His father-in-law Ithra, an Ishmaelite, converted to Judaism and gave Jesse his daughter in marriage, when he heard him recite Isaiah 45:22 "Look unto Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth" (TJ, Yev. 8:3, 9b). After the birth of his sixth son, Jesse separated from his wife for three years but on one occasion attempted to seduce one of his female slaves. His wife, however, disguised herself as the slave girl (on the latter's advice), and it was thus that David was conceived (Yal. Mak. to Ps. 118:28). It was Jesse who encouraged David to slay Goliath and thus protect King Saul, seeing in it a continuation of the protection which Judah (David's ancestor) had afforded to Benjamin (Saul's ancestor) in Egypt (Tan?. B., Gen. 104). David's cruelty toward the Moabites (II Sam. 8:2) is justified by the fact that it was they who had treacherously killed Jesse after David had entrusted him to their care while he fled from Saul (cf. I Sam. 22:3; Num. R. 14:1). It is also stated, however, that Jesse was one of the four persons who were untainted by sin and died merely because death was decreed upon all mankind, as a result of the serpent's seduction of Eve. It is for this reason that Abigail, who was really Jesse's daughter, is referred to by Scripture (II Sam. 17:25) as "the daughter of Nahash" ("serpent"; BB 17a). Jesse is one of the eight "messianic princes among men" referred to in Micah 5:4 (Suk. 52b)."  

The show is noted for taking some creative liberties with the biblical narrative, though it also attempts to portray some aspects of David's story with biblical authenticity. It is important to note that this depiction in "House of David" is a creative choice made for the series and is not the traditional biblical account of David's birth."   THAT'S FOR SURE!

I ask, why change history?  Cecil B DeMille knew not to change the Ten Commandments in 1956.   

To change something so dear, so historical to us in our Bible is tochange much more. In this case, it is altering a legality;   a legal point in something that was very important;  our rights of descendancy.   

Today, people are trying to change historical facts recorded to benefitother groups about our historical religion.  

  That's not history. David lives in our history:

City of David is Jerusalem.  Then there's the Shield or Star of David  that was worn during the Holocaust forcing Jews to be identified;and there's the Tomb of David of the present Old City of Jerusalem,which is site E.  What I love is the song, David, king of Israel:Dah-veed, melekh Yisrael...chai, chai...It’s one of the first songs Jewish kids learn in Jewish preschool or summer camp:Dovid, Melech Yisrael, Chai Vikayam…. David, King of Israel, Lives Forever…

....The song's lyrics are simple and consist of only five words, which are repeated many times in some tunes.

English:

David, king of Israel, lives and endures.

Hebrew transliteration:

David, melekh Yisra'el, Ḥai veqayam.(vik-iy yam)

Hebrew:

דוד מלך ישראל חי וקיים

Source

      Known as the star of David; a Mogan David

 

Resource:

Tanach (Torah), the Stone Edition-Bible, ArtScrollSeries

 The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2024/11/wasnt-david-chosen-as-moral-person-and.html

https://aish.com/dovid-melech-yisrael-4-facts-about-this-iconic-jewish-song/

The PHILISTINES, That Abominable Enemy of Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

Philistines, by nature a fighting people, that abominable enemy of Israel, were a Mediterranean people, apparently originating from Asia Minor and Greek locations.  They found and settled in Israel's land in waves of emigration.  They were a  pagan people, believing in human baby sacrifice. Canaanites and their Phonician neighbors who burnt babies believed in human sacrifice.  They prayed to Dagon. He has also been called dgn, Dagana, and Dagan. Dagan and dgn both mean ''grain'' in the Semitic languages. In the Bible, Dagon was characterized as the chief god of the Philistines, who lived in the Canaan region, which is the location of modern-day Palestine, from about the 12th century BCE to 600 BCE. Abraham (1948 BCE died  in about 1773 BCE at age of 175. He was buried in a cave of Machpelah. He had put an end to human sacrifice when he attempted to sacrifice his son, Isaac and was stopped.  This is something he taught his people. 

1. One group during the pre-Abraham-Isaac-Jacob period and settle South of Beersheba in Gerar where they fought with Abraham and Isaac.  Gerar was in the Western Negev.  It's king was Abimelech and Abraham and Isaac had visited him.  Abimelech was a Philistine king.  Abraham concluded a pact of friendship with him as told in )Gen 20) that resembles, in some respects, the story of the latter's relations with Abraham's son Isaac in (Gen 26.)  To Abimelech, because of his friendly association with both Abraham and Isaac (our Patriarchs, the rabbis accorded him a place in Paradise among the Pious Heathens.  That's  quite an honor given to the major enemy of the rabbis' people, showing that a people are not born bad but can become bad!   

He reigned in the time of Abraham (Genesis 20:1-18).By an interposition of Providence, Sarah was delivered from his harem, and was restored to her husband Abraham. As a mark of respect, the king gave to Abraham valuable gifts, and offered him a settlement in any part of his country; while at the same time he delicately and yet severely rebuked him for having practiced a deception upon him in pretending that Sarah was only his sister.                     

     Vai Beach, Crete, Greece--why they left Crete is not known;  being a tropical island like paradise itself.   

2. Another group came from the island of Crete after being forced out of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, which is 579 years after Abraham had died.    They seized the southern coastal area of pre-Israel  where they founded 5 cities;  Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath.  They came to dominate parts of Judah during the period of the Judges.  King Saul, Israel's 1st king, at first repelled the danger but was ultimately defeated.  King David, 2nd king, however, ended the era of Philistine domination and overran Philistia.  He reigned in the time of Abraham (Genesis 20:1-18).

By an interposition of Providence, Sarah was delivered from his harem, and was restored to her husband Abraham. As a mark of respect, the king gave to Abraham valuable gifts, and offered him a settlement in any part of his country; while at the same time he delicately and yet severely rebuked him for having practiced a deception upon him in pretending that Sarah was only his sister.  He reigned in the time of Abraham (Genesis 20:1-18)..

GAZA =2 miles from the sea, was trading  post in Nabatean times passing from the Red Sea to  Mediterranean, had served as a base for Egyptian expeditions to the North. In the 12th century it was captured by the Philistines and became THEIR important city. housing their Temple of Dagon.  Moses gave it to the tribe of Judah but it remained in Philistine hands, and place of imprisonment and death of Samson.  In 720 BCE it was annexed by Sargon of Assyria, and then in 521 by Cambyses of Persia.  Alexander the Great made it a hellenistic city in 332.  Annexed by  Antiochus III of Syria in 198. 

It was in Israel's hands after 1967, but they gave it to the Palestinians where many now live.  

Ascalon/Ashkelon=, is a coastal city in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, 50 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, and 13 kilometres north of the border with the Gaza Strip. Mentioned in Egyptian execration texts of 19th cent. BCE.  At the end of the 13th century BCE, it was captured by the Philistines and became one of their 5 chief towns.  it retained its independence during the period of the Israelite kingdom but was captured by Assyria in 734 BCE.  In hellenistic times, Ashkelon was a center of Greek culture.  Herod adorned Ashkelon with gardens and fine buildings, although it was not under his rule.  Jews lived there in mishnaic and talmudic times, but it was considered outside the boundaries of Palestine-named as such after 135 CE.  Modern Ashkelon has been developed sine 1948 and incorporates the former Arab town of Migdal and the Afridar section. Many South African Jews live here now.   It's a tourist resort and also the terminal of an oil pipeline from Elath.  Population in 1990 was 56,800.  

Ashdod=20 miles south of Jaffa, a Philistine center in the 11th cent. BCE, site of a temple of Dagon.  In 711 BCE it became the capital of an Assyrian province.  later it was captured by the Hasmoneans.  Pompey took it in 63 BCE, but returned to Herod in 30 BCE. During British mandate, it was an Arab village.  A new town was developed there in 1956 with 74,700 in it in 1990.  It has a deep-water harbor that serves southern Israel, and an industrial area now.  

Ekron=most northerly of the 5 Philistine cities in ancient Palestine, mentioned in Assyrian and Egyptian sources and the Bible where the local god is called Baal Zebub.  the city was captured by Sargon in711 BCE.   It was given to Jonathan the Hasmonean in 147 BCE, and was a large village of Jews in the 3rd century CE.  Today's town  of Mazkeret Batyah is thought to be sitting on Ekron's original site.  

Gath=One of the 5 Philistine cities sitting on the coastal plain, home of Goliath the giant.  The city was captured by David, fortified by Rehoboam, and lost to Assyrian king, Sargon in the 8th cent. BCE.  In 1942 it became a communal settlement by eastern European youth.  then town of KIRYAT GAT is in the same vicinity but not Gath which is now a tel.  

A fresco found at the Minoan site of Knossos, indicating a sport or ritual of bull-leaping, the light skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women 

The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The palace-based Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe.   

   Thera,  about 70 miles (110 km) north of Crete in the sea. 

After the Minoan civilization was devastated by the Thera eruption, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-influenced organization of city-states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman Empire, an autonomous state, and the modern state of Greece once again.  The Thera eruption is thought to have occurred about 1500 bce, although, on the basis of evidence obtained during the 1980s from a Greenland ice-core and from tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, some scholars believe that it occurred earlier, possibly during the 1620s bce.

Much later, when the Israelite kingdom dissolved (after king Solomon died in 920 BCE and Judah was ruled by Rehoboam from 933 to 917 BCE and Israel  was ruled by Jeroboam (933-912 BCE) , the Philistines re-established their independence but were never thereafter a serious factor.  

In the Persian and Greek Periods, foreign settlers---chiefly from the Mediterranean islands--overran the Philistine districts.  From the time of Herodtus, Greeks called Palestine after the Philistines, (Syria, Palaestina).  Under Hadrian, the Romans gave the name officially to the former land of Judah-Palaestina-to rub the noses of the Jews in it because they were THE number 1 main enemy of the Israelites for such a long time. 

 The Jews under General Bar Kokhba had re-taken Jerusalem in 132 CE and held it until 135 and the Romans were embarrassed and so angry as to being caught with their pants down and allowing this to even happen.  

Resource;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crete

Last Days of Judah the Southern End of Israel

Nadene Goldfoot                                            

        King Saul, 1st king of Israel chosen by prophet Samuel because the people were clamoring for a king and not just judges.  They wanted to be like other countries.  Saul was the son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin.  The Philistines and Ammorites were the enemies then that he had to fight off. They kept an eye on the Moabites and Arameans as well.  Saul didn't get along with Samuel which was sad, because Samuel held more power.  He chose David to take his place.  

 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 captured by the Babylonians

 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.                                 

    League of Nations in the 1920s.  

Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) and Hussein Ibn Feisal (1885-1933) eldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca who led the Arab rising against the Ottoman Empire's Turkey in meetings about creating Israel-became King of Syria;  at first sympathetic to Zionism which he hoped to receive aid in building his future kingdom. Hussein was THE spokesman of the day, speaking for all Palestinians.   The two men met in Transjordan in 1918, Paris in 1919 and reached agreements.:  Chaim, a chemist who became 1st president of Israel;  born in Motel near Pinsk (Russia then-formerly Poland) 

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.                               

Brits taking their flag down in Palestine--Good bye---

Brits leaving Palestine on May 14, 1948, minutes after Israel's birth

 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. 

Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. I believe Russians and Iranians are today's invaders of Syria. 

 Sharif Hussein ibn Ali (c 1854 - 1931). Hussein was appointed Sharif and Emir of Mecca in 1908. He shared with his fellow Arabs a strong dislike for his Ottoman overlords and opposed the Ottomanisation of the Hejaz region. With British backing, Hussein launched the Arab Revolt against Ottoman forces in Arabia on 5 June 1916. At the Versailles Peace Conference, he was acknowledged as King of Hejaz but not as King of the Arabs. Hussein ruled Hejaz until 1924 when he was defeated by Ibn Saud and abdicated in favour of his eldest son Ali.

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.   

Abdullah I: bin Al-Hussein   (2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir of Transjordan, a British protectorate, until 25 May 1946, after which he was king of an independent Jordan. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Abdullah was a 38th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad. 

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.                           

 2021:  Queen Rania and King Abdullah II of Jordan; 2 girls and 2 boys:  Crown Prince Hussein, Princess Iman, Princess Salma and Prince Hashem.  (Hashem in Hebrew means-the name).  The present king, another Abdullah, has married a very beautiful Palestinian woman, mother of his children. 

                                                    

A view from Mount Gerizim of Mount Ebal in Samaria, the mountains on which the Israelites were commanded to pronounce the blessings and curses upon entering the Promised Land. Nablus, the Biblical Shechem, is located in between the mountains, where Abram built an altar to the Lord (Genesis 12:6–8; Deuteronomy 27). It's now an Arab city.  Shechem had been land held by Jordan.  It lies in the territory of the tribe of Ephraim, a levitical city and a city of refuge as well as being the center of the House of Joseph.  In fact, Joseph is buried here, and he's not an ancestor of the Palestinian Arabs !  Later on, Shechem was the cult center of the Samaritans.  What a history it has gone through!  It befuddles the mind.  

Today, Judah, which became Judaea under Rome, and now Judea and Samaria, is under the gavel of being sold off to the Palestinian Arabs in bartering for peace with Iran, USA and-oh yes, let's not forget-Israel in the latest deal offer. Iran has been allowed to create atomic energy which they will place in their rockets that threaten not only Saudi Arabia but the USA and Israel as well.  An atom bomb delivered in any manner is the greatest threat of all time, and it's coming from a meshugana enemy of Iran-a country taken over by extremist Ayatollahs. 

  We have a population today of one mind which differs from the new government in things like justice. We have a small more religious population taking the advantage of the Oslo Accords whereby there is land in "West Bank"-true name is Judea/Samaria for Jewish settlement who have villages and towns already created and lived in there that have been under the gun of the Arabs daily who feel unprotected except by themselves with some getting out of hand in their zealousness.        

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2023/08/rarely-mentioned-history-of-jews-from.html

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://en.vogue.me/culture/queen-rania-king-abdullah-release-unseen-festive-family-portrait-end-of-year-greetings/