Israel: Land Laying Wasted for 2,000 Years-Getting Developed Once Again

Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

1947 Plan of dividing the remaining land of Israel into a 2-State solution;
some for Jews and some for Arabs.  The Arabs refused to sign up for this.
They wanted all of it.  Jews took the deal; something better than nothing.  

The Jewish land of Israel is 260 miles long, 60 miles at the widest, and from 3 to 9 miles at 

the narrowest.  We're talking about a very small piece of real-estate.  

In this little space of Israel which is only 10% of the Promised Land, only 17% of it is arable.                                       

When Jews started returning to Eretz Israel in the late 1800s, they had to drain the land as so much was swampy or had become all desert.  
                                                         

Drainage of the Huleh Swamps

One way to get rid of all the mosquitoes
Drain the swamps with these thirsty trees

They planted eucalyptus trees to soak up the water.  They've
invented scientific ways of farming this impossible land for others, just waiting for the Jews' return.
Trees are continually being planted.  Never has so much been done to such undeveloped, impossible land.  
                                                         

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a garden suburb of Jaffa and named after a book.  In World War I, the people of Tel Aviv were exiled by order of the Turks, as it was still part of the Ottoman Empire.  
                                                          

Tel Aviv, a city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, is marked by stark 1930s Bauhaus buildings, thousands of which are clustered in the White City architectural area. Museums include Beit Hatfutsot, whose multimedia exhibits illustrate the history of Jewish communities worldwide. The Eretz Israel Museum covers the country’s archaeology, folklore and crafts, and features an on-site excavation of 12th-century-B.C. ruins.
The area (Metro)  population is 3,854,000
Tel Aviv itself has 429,515 

  It started to grow rapidly under the British Mandate, especially as Arab riots forced most Jews to leave Jaffa which was nearby.  By 1921 Tel Aviv became a separate town from Jaffa.  As a result of the 1936 Arab riots, a harbor was inaugurated; but had to close down in 1965.  In 1947-1948 in the War of Independence, fighting broke out between Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa which ended with the capitulation of Jaffa on the eve of the Israel's birth:  May 13, 1948.  The state of Israel was proclaimed the next day, May 14, 1948 at Tel Aviv which remained the seat of the government and the Knesset until 1949. 

In the meantime, Jaffa had been abandoned by most of the Arabs and was resettled with new immigrants.  The 2 cities were amalgamated in 1949 under the name:  Tel Aviv-Jaffa.  By 1990 the population was 317,800, but the Tel Aviv with the outskirts contained more than twice that number.  It was the major target for Scud missiles launched from Iraq during the 1991 GULF WAR. 
                                                                           

Osmanli Donemi Yafa, Filistin

Jaffa in 1890; a city of the Ottoman Empire, Palestine

Jaffa was known in Biblical days and was mentioned in the Assyrian documents. It was here that Jonah sailed from Jaffa.   It had marked the boundary of the Philistines, although in theory it was within the tribal area of the tribe of Judah; Judean territory.  During King Solomon's reign, and again after the return of the Jews during the Babylonian captivity, the trees-cedars from Lebanon were floated to the sea of Jaffa on their way to Jerusalem.
                                                                                 

From Jaffa one could see Jerusalem 

  Unloading them may have been done north of Tel Aviv.  During the Persian period (Iran), Jaffa belonged to the Phoenicians.  Judah the Maccabee, our hero in our Chanukah history, had avenged the massacre of the Jewish community there.  His brothers, Jonathan and Simon, took Jaffa in the battle and replaced the foreign population with Jews.  Then it became an important Jewish port until the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Romans.
Jaffa grew in size in the 19th Century  from the surrounding Jewish building of homes.    
                                                         

In 1946 the population had grown to 101,000 of which 30% were Jews.  Oranges were being exported from Jaffa.  

                                                      

Airport in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

A NEW ISRAEL: What Happened to Judea and Samaria ?

Nadene Goldfoot                                                         

1948:  David Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Moshe Sharett in BIRTH OF A NATION:  ISRAEL

On Israel's day of birth, May 14, 1948, the population in Israel was 806,000 of which 600,000 were Jews, the same number that came with Moses and was able to enter Canaan in about 1271 BCE.
                                                  

Joshua's reception in entering Canaan, the first battle
people who were taller and bigger than the smaller Israelites

We had to wait 3,219 years to regain a scrap of our original holy land of Judea and Samaria, yet still had to stay outside of it as King Abdullah, then of Transjordan, had manipulated it away from our proposed JEWISH HOMELAND, promised land by the British Balfour Doctrine,  the League of Nations and the United Nations.  
                                                   

With much angst and elation, Jews forged their way to Israel and LIFE,
only to be handed a rifle shortly after to deal with their first War,
Their War of Independence,
Like Entering the Promised Land with Joshua

   

The end of WWII left surviving Jews in death camps near death and wanting to get out of Europe.  Do you blame them after 6 million of their families had been brutally slaughtered in death camps or in fields in mass executions?  Even though the war was over, people in those countries were still trying to kill them, especially in Poland.  Jews needed a refuge, their own home.  
                                                       

1949 Armistice Lines of 20% left for Jews
Now divided for Jews and Arabs taking
much original Land away from Jewish section

The UN had taken that 20% of Palestinian land left for the Jewish Homeland and in 1947 partitioned it into Jewish and Arab states of which the Arabs flatly refused to agree to, wanting all of it for their part in helping in the war effort of WWII.  Though Jews did likewise, they agreed to such a deal feeling that half a loaf of bread was better than none at all after their going without their needs.  The Arabs' refusal was followed up with immediate attacks on Jews dwelling in Palestine, trying to drive them all into the sea.  The leaders of 7 Arab states;  Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Transjordan attacked the newly born Israel a few minutes after its birth on May 14, 1948.

Arabs were also living within earshot of the Jews in Palestine.  They were told by these very leaders to leave because they were coming to kill the Jews and take over the land.  200,000 to 570,000 Arabs hurriedly left their homes so they would not obstruct the victorious Arab armies in their planned massacre of any possible  Jewish defenders.    Some Arabs have cited 630,000 left Israel in 1948.  
                                                        

In a miracle, Israelis won against this onslaught.  Arabs who left could not return as their leaders told them to stay put.  They were settled in refugee camps, instead.  Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into Arab lands.  The whole after-affair was used as a weapon of sorts against Israel; psychological war; geographical war.  religious war.  

These Arabs which people today call the Palestinian Arabs were not all natives of the soil.  No, they had been Arabs living in the surrounding lands such as Greece and closer Arab neighbors like Syria looking for work with these new Russian immigrant Jews who were trying to build a country to live in.  
                                                       

Judea-Samaria (West Bank) Arab refugee Camp

Out of the 100,000 refugees since WWII, The Palestinian Arabs are the ONLY refugee group in the world that has NEVER been absorbed or integrated into their own Muslim Arab neighbors' lands. There was a hook in these facts.  If the Arabs had only been in Palestine for 2 years they were deemed "refugees" by the British who were the record keepers of the day-a job left over from the mandate.   Most of these Palestinian "Arabs" were new immigrants to Israel, many coming across the way from Syria.  Only a few had been there previously with any history, and then most had not owned any land, for the real landowners now were living in places like Paris.  These people had been the migratory sort, looking for odd jobs, work of any type for none existed for them involving their limited skills in their own countries.  
                                                          

Children in the Yemenite immigrants' camp at Rosh Ha'ayin, circa 1950.

Jewish refugees that streamed in from Arab countries the minute of Israel's birth because they were told to leave were completely absorbed into Israel, even as hard as it was on everyone.  Israel was now on divided territory losing it's 20% to probably a 10% section of land, the size of the USA's small state of New Jersey.  
                                                 

160,000 Arabs stayed in Israel in 1948 without running from the oncoming war.  200,00 to 570,000 had left temporarily, they thought,  for the  safety of neighboring states.  Many of those that remained are the Christian Arabs who live in Haifa.  They are not terrorists.  Israel has had good relations with the Christian Lebanese who were in in trouble in 1981-1982.  Major Hadad, their leader, would come into Israel for his R&R.  He also came to the Army hospital in Haifa.  We had a deal with him to take care of his family in case, G-d forbid, anything happened to him.  I might add that the Arab income is the highest in Israel compared to the rest of the Arab world.  Arabs are not required to serve in the IDF, either.  It's obvious as to why.  They couldn't be expected to kill their own people.
                                                    

Kurdish Jew that immigrated to Israel

At the same time that Arabs left Israel to help out their own Arab soldiers, 700,000 Jews living in Arab countries were kicked out of their homes, so had nowhere else to go but to Israel.  Yemen is one place that this took place.  They were driven from their country and came to Israel and were settled. 
                                                     

   
Israel is less than 1/3 rd  the size of Oregon, USA, or 1/19th   the size of California.  It is made of 10,840 square miles.  California has 160,222 square miles.  Israel stripped of its territories is only 8,000 square miles, or 2 1/2 times the size of the state of Rhode Island, USA.  Today the population is 8,487,469.  My records back in 2006 show that the population was 7,026,000.   That included 187,000 Israelis living in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), and 20,000 Israelis living in the Golon Heights, and 5,000 living in the Gaza Strip as it was before Israel removed themselves to give that parcel of land to the Arabs in the name of keeping the peace.  Also, there were 177,000 Jews living in East Jerusalem in historic ancient sites, revered so much by Jews who were Orthodox.  These Jews were not into fighting but preserving their heritage and religion.  
                                                       

Indigenous Land of the Jewish People

Out of these 7 plus million Israeli population, 5.4 million  as of May 2003 were Jewish in 2006.  Today we have a cool 6 million Jews in Israel.  In 2003 we had 77.5% of the population that were Jewish, 15.9% Muslims, 1.7% Arab Christians, 0.4% other Christian nationalities, 1.6% Druze -similar to Muslim religion, and 3.9% unidentified.  
                                                                             

Today as of October 4, 2018, "over the last 10 years, many migrant workers have moved to Israel from Africa, China, Romania, and South America. While there are no precise figures with many living in the country illegally, it's estimated there are up to 203,000 migrants, including 60,000 African migrants.
                                                           

Having children in Israel

Around 92% of Israelis live in urban areas. There were more than 300,000 Israelis in Judea-Samaria (West Bank) towns, 250,000 in East Jerusalem, and 20,000 in Golan Heights settlements;  as of 2009. 6.5% of the population is made up of Israeli settlers. Almost 8,000 were living in the Gaza Strip until they were evacuated during the country's disengagement plan a decade ago.

About 91% of Israeli live in urban communities

                                                       

Visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Tel Aviv

 such as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Rishon Letzion. 

                                                        

 I lived in Safed (Tzfat) on top of a mountain almost as high as Jerusalem.  It was cooler there and more like the Pacific Coast that I had left.  I taught English to the jr. high of 7th, 8th and 9th graders.  They started learning English in the 4th grades.  It took an extensive program of 10 months learning Hebrew 6 days a week with many other subjects pertaining to Israel and passing a 3 hour Hebrew test to gain my teaching certificate.  I taught Jews and Circassian Arabs in our school from 1981 to the end of 1985.  They studied Hebrew and either  Arabic or French and all studied English.  Many Jews were from Morocco and spoke French.  I was there during the 1982 incursion into Lebanon, always being aware of bombs that could be hidden in any piece of litter.  It was the experience of a lifetime.  

Resource: My speech of 2006.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/israel-population/
  

WHEN DID ARABS LIVE IN ISRAEL?

Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Husseini, an Arab and the Nazis of World War II
Hajj Mohammed Amin El-Husseini (1893-1974 and born in Jerusalem, son of a mufti of Jerusalem) was appointed mufti of Jerusalem in 1921.  His clan were rich landowners.  Palestinian nationalist leaders, including the grandfather of the PLO’s current top official in Jerusalem, sold land to Jews in the years before Israel’s founding.
Husseini was also head of the Supreme Moslem Council.  He may have been responsible for the 1929
attacks on Jews in Jerusalem.  "The riots took the form, in the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews accompanied by destruction of Jewish property. During the week of riots from 23 to 29 August, 133 Jews were killed and between 198–241 others were injured, a large majority of whom were unarmed and were murdered in their homes by Arabs."  What they did
was a massacre.

 In 1936 he organized the Palestine
disturbances attacking Jews.  The British with the 30 year mandate exiled him in 1937 so
he moved to Lebanon.  During WWII he participated in the Axis coup in Iraq, then went to Germany
and met with Hitler.  He was responsible for the liquidation of the Jews in the Muslim
parts of Bosnia.  After 1948 when Israel was born (May 14, 1948) he set up a short-lived "Palestine
Government" in Gaza, then later moved it to Cairo.
"Husseini opposed both the 1947 UN Partition Plan and King Abdullah's designs to annex the Arab part of British Mandatory Palestine to Jordan."
The Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews until Germany was stopped by the
Allies on September 2,1945.

The history of Arabs in Palestine starts after Mohammad died.
Let's look first at the Israelites who lived here for over 3,000 years
who came with Moses on the Exodus
before the Arabs came along.  

Aaron, brother of Moses:
Aaron's Descendants, the Cohens, who served in the Temple-as
the Priests  They were from the tribe of Levi, 3rd son of
Jacob and Leah.  The first born son of each  family served as a priest but after
the Golden Calf episode, Levites replaced the 1st born and Aaron's descendants
worked on Temple duties and taught about the 5 books of Moses.  Levites
were not given any land, but as teachers lived with all 12 tribes teaching.
Thus, many were taken away with the 10 Lost Tribes.  Today we
find they have the J1 and J2 (Y haplogroup) of DNA.
Many Arabs also carry this J1 haplogroup, believed to be from
our common ancestor, Abraham. 

Over 3,000 years ago, Israel was the birthplace of the Israelites which included the tribal land of Judea after King Solomon's death in 920 BCE who were later called the Jews.  King Saul had been Israel's ruler in about 1020 BCE, then King David ruled from 1004 -965 BCE, and then King Solomon, his son, from 965-930 BCE.  This is when the kingdom split into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.
                                                                       

By 721 BCE, the northern 10 Tribes of Israel were taken by the Assyrians leaving the southern tribe of Judah with some of Benjamin and one other tribal remnants.
                                                                             

Nabataean trade routes before Islam started in Arabia

This is the Arabian Peninsula.  Nabateans were people of Arab extraction who lived in Edom in 6th century BCE and had their capital at Petra (Jordan).  They originally were nomads and had a caravan route.  

The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate. From a geographical perspective, it is considered a subcontinent of Asia. It is the largest peninsula in the world, at 3,237,500 km². Wikipedia

"The earliest documented use of the word "Arab" to refer to a people appears in the Kurkh Monoliths, an Akkadian language record of the ninth century BCE Assyrian conquest of Aram, which referred to Bedouins of the Arabian Peninsula under King Gindibu, who fought as part of a coalition opposed to Assyria."  Remember, Assyrians attacked Israel in 721 BCE.  Aram was SYRIA.  Syria including Damascus goes back to the name, ARAM-DAMMESEK, originally an Aramean kingdom in Syria in the 10th to 8th centuries BCE with the capital being Damascus.  The kings of Israel, Judah and Syria had joined together in fighting against the Assyrians in 853, 848 and 845 BCE. 

The 1st Arabs arrived as conquerors and proselytizers of Islam in the 7th Century, 2,500 years after Israelites had settled there.  No other country or people claimed this Palestine.

Burning of Jerusalem, 2nd Temple in 70 CE by the Romans. 

                                                                               

Roman Soldiers killing civilians of Jerusalem

The Romans conquered the area in 70 CE and renamed the land PALESTINE for the enemy of Israel, the Philistines.  It was a name they made up, for there never was any country called Palestine.  Some of the population had never left and had continued to call the land ERETZ ISRAEL (the land of Israel).  With the king and some of the population gone, the land became decimated.  The missing population died in the destruction of Jerusalem and the burning of the Temple and all the starvation that was part of the results.  All this, but there always remained a Jewish population living on the land. People referred to it as Palestine, knowing it was just a wasted land.

                                                    MOHAMMAD  (570-632)                                                                                                                    

1.  Arabs invaded Palestine from Arabia from 661 AD to 750 AD by Umayyad Caliphs, and were then replaced by the Abbasids.  The 7th century was when the land came under the rule of nomadic Arabs, but it wasn't a country with a ruler.  These nomads let the land erode.  It was exposed to water erosion and destruction.  They were not part of the farmers who spread through other parts of the world.

2. In 969, the secessionist Fatimids of Egypt took control of Palestine by replacing the Abbasids.

3. Fights between Fatimids, their enemies and local Bedouins continued to fight each other.

4. Seljuk Turks invaded the wasteland of Palestine in 1071 and captured Jerusalem.  Then they marched south to Egypt.

5. Fatimids recaptured Jerusalem in 1096.
                                                                                   

1st Crusade

              ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM, CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS  KILLED JEWS THROUGHOUT EUROPE

6. 1096: Christian Crusaders came to Jerusalem, in a country divided between Fatimids and Selijuks.  Jews were on the side of  the Arabs.  All Middle Easterners looked alike to Crusaders.  They were warring Christians during the Middle Ages who had come to win Palestine from the Muslim control.
   1st Crusade:  (1096-9) attacks on Jews in N. France and Rhineland of Germany, massacring Jews in cities (Mainz, Worms, Speyer, Cologne, etc), then in Prague, later in Salonica. By 1099 Jews and Karaites were massacred.
  2nd Crusade:  (1147-9) more massacres in France and Rhineland caused by Rudolf, a Monk.  The Pope urged that the debt of crusaders to the Jews should be remitted.
                                                                           

3rd Crusade

  3rd Crusade:  (1189-92)  England joined the Crusaders, attacking Jews in York in 1190.
                                                                           

  4th Crusade 1320 called the Shepherds' Crusade with results of widespread attacks on  the Jews of S France and N Spain.

The Crusades started the age of unmitigated suffering for medieval Jewry living outside the land and inside the land of Israel.  Crusaders and their killings caused the displacement of Jewish merchants from their former favored position and thus stimulated the economic decline of the Jews.

A surprising outcome was that this caused the demand for credit on the part of the participants which stimulated Jewish financial operations in some countries of Europe.

After the Crusades

Arabs arabized Palestine in the ethnic and religious sense.  Jewish landowners were displaced by Arab settlers.  Arabs took over the Jewish holy places and excluded Jews entirely.

The demented Caliph Al-Hakim persecuted both Christians and Jews.

By 1517, the Ottoman Empire took control of the land of Palestine.  The held it for 400 years until 1917.  It remained practically uninhabited, a wasteland, made of swamps and desert.  No one did anything with it.  No farming existed.  It was as if it was waiting for the Jews to return and do something with it.

1880 was a year that many Russian Jews returned to their original land.  They had been suffering under pogroms in Russia against Jews.  Anti-Semitism had been growing in France and Russia and was spreading to other countries.  Arabs without jobs in their own lands followed Jews to get jobs in building.  Otherwise, there were very few living in Palestine under the harsh Turkish laws who taxed them very heavily.
   Jews created kibbutzim to live in.  Other Jews who came bought land from Arabs, drained the swamps, fought the mosquitoes and malaria, and started villages such as Tel Aviv.  They wanted their ancient land back as a country.
                                                                       

1914. WORLD WAR I STARTED WITH ARABS ON THE SIDE OF THE AXIS-THE GERMANS.

1917 WORLD WAR I ENDED, AND THE AXIS LOST THE WAR.  THIS MEANT THAT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS LOST.  These Turks kept their small part of the empire as Turkey.  The Ottoman Empire was now in the hands of the Allies who gave a 30 year mandate to Britain to control Palestine for them.  France was given the mandate over Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.  Abdullah over in Arabia was a prince who had no land to rule over and wanted one.  He made a deal with England and got 80% of Palestine, which was to go to the Jews for a much needed Jewish Homeland.
                                                                       

 So the British actually went back on their job of preparing the land for the Jews, leaving them mostly desert land. Jordan, populated by Arabs brought in by Abdullah, and now many so called "Palestinians," have a country across the river Jordan called Jordan, first designated to be the Jewish Homeland which is 80% of Palestine.

Resource:  Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini
My speech: June 15, 2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots
http://israelbehindthenews.com/old-palestinian-arab-families-sold-land-to-jews/2818/

After 3,000 Years; the 12 Tribes of Israel Meeting Each Other Again

Nadene Goldfoot                            

                                                                               

Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan Visit Jerusalem
a revered City of David, King of Israel (1010-970 BCE) son of Jesse of
the tribe of Judah.
It was some 200 years later when the ancestors of Pashtuns were taken away
by the Assyrians in 722-721 BCE.  The 1st king they knew was Saul, Israel's
first king, son of Kish of the tribe of Benjamin. 
They lived in Israel with King Solomon (961-920 BCE) who was
David's son.  The Pashtuns were the 10 Northern Tribes comprising
Jacob's descendants of his 12 sons as we understand today.   

How big do you think Israel is?  President Bush was shocked that it was so small, saying it could fit into a part of his Texas ranch. 
                                                       

"Prairie Chapel Ranch is a 1,583-acre (6.4 km²) ranch in unincorporated McLennan County, Texas, located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Crawford (about 25 miles(40 km) from Waco). The property was acquired by George W. Bush in 1999 and was known as the Western White House during his presidency."   Actually, the ranch is as big as 2.473438 sq miles big, 1/4 the size of Israel.  The state of Texas is made of 268,597 sq miles.  
Afghanistan is made of 252,072 sq miles.
Pakistan is made of 307,374 sq miles.  
USA is made of 3.797 million sq miles.  

The USA has gained Alaska and Hawaii, making 50 United States.  The lower 48 is shown above.  
                                                       

It was slightly smaller than the American state of New Jersey ( shown on the map as a piece of the coastline to the east of Pennsylvania-the yellow state), but with its territories gained back since 1967's ultimate attack by all the surrounding Arab nations it now has 10,762 sq. miles.

Their population in 2006 was 7,026,000.  According to the CIA of the USA, Israel's population was 6,353,117 including 187,000 new residents in Judea-Samaria (West Bank) and 20,000 in the Golan Heights and then the 177,000 in East Jerusalem which would be an Arab population.  Of these Jews, 76.4% were Israeli born Jews
22.6% European-born Jews
5.9% African-born Jews
4.7% Asian born Jews
23.6% non-Jews (Gentiles) which again would be the Arab population (mixed Christian, Muslims)
                                                           

When Israel was created on May 14, 1948, they had 600,000 Jews, the very same number that Moses had brought to the Promised Land he had brought his Jews of the Exodus to live.  Ironically, Jews lost 6,000,000 (million) Jews in the WWII's Holocaust.  
                                                         

As of on September 22, 2018, Israel's population was 8,485,501 and the area covers 20,770 sq km or 8,019 sq miles; 8 thousand sq miles is not very big.  

Compare this population with Mexico City which had 8,720,916 that same year in the inner part of their city proper.  Actually Greater Mexico City had the population of 19.2 million people.  The total area of Israel was 20,770 sq km which includes 440 sq m of water, or 8,000 some sq miles that makes up Israel, almost divided in half.  
                                                             

Moses and the 10 Commandments

Why must Jews live in their ancient of Israel today?  Why there?  Because their blood-line is from the Middle East, not from Bush's ranch in the USA.  Their original ancestors came from the area around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and had moved Westward in an Exodus to Ur, of today's Iraq as the group that Terah and his son, Abram had belonged to.  From Ur and Abram we get the command through Moses from G-d that we were to return to Canaan and live there, a place Jacob, Abram's grandson, had been living.  Jacob is the one who, after wrestling with an angel, was named ISRAEL.  
                                                        
The Bible is our compass, the Tanakh, that is, comprised of the 5 Books of Moses and the prophets, the Old Testament to Christians.  This is our story and our destiny.  Moses is our teacher.  With him, our ancestors traveled for 40 years learning about themselves and what their job was to do.  It included teaching their descendants, and here we are, a pared-down group of descendants of which less than half, 6 million,  are now living in Israel with another 6 million in the USA and 2 million still scattered in other parts of the world.  Jews as a group kept their faith, their belief in one G-d, even after losing 6 million people to those who hated them for being different.  
                                                        

Husseini with the Nazis, plotting against Jews in Palestine

At this time of finally, through blood and tears and much fighting, we have gained back our ancient land-enough to claim it to be Israel, and still we are now in the in-gathering stage of finding our lost 10 tribes, lost to us in 720 BCE by the Assyrian attacks.  The ugly head of anti-Semitism still exists, driving some of those not yet into Israel heading that way and wondering where they could live in this tiny space.  

                                                       

Fatah of Judea-Samaria and Hamas of Gaza,
leaders who can't get along with each other,
vying for power.

Now the nations that are leaders on this planet, including Trump's very recent decision,  are planning on the 2 STATE SOLUTION, something the Arabs really do not want as they view their own solution; taking over all the land for themselves their goal.                      

Out of this some 10,000 sq miles making up Israel today, where on earth are they plotting to cut land to make a Palestinian state?  There are many possibilities online, and this shows how impossible it is.  Remember, the Arabs are not willing partners of peace.  They swore to destroy Israel in 1967 at the Kartoum Conference.  Continued Peace has always been Israel's goal.  There are talks about land swaps.   
                                                        

Some rabbis and our prophecy says that we will never see the Moshiach (Messiah) until we are united again with out lost 10 tribes.  This is a vastly huge group of Pashtuns, mostly living in Pakistan and Afghanistan,  who are very happy living where they are, of course.  Pashtuns are thought to number 50 million.  They have about 13,750,117 in Afghanistan and 30,699,037 in Pakistan.  

As it stands right now, 801,000 people live in Jerusalem, the coveted city that the Arabs want to make over as theirs but which is the capital of Israel; from David's time onto today.
West Jerusalem, populated by Jews, has 400,000.  

The fact that the Palestinian Arabs have no history in this land other than riding through on their camels or at one time owning some land that they gladly sold at extremely high prices to incoming Jews, makes no difference, it seems.  They have no ancient claims like the Jews do.  There was never a country of Palestine.  1.7 million Arabs are already full citizens of tiny Israel, so the ratio is 1.7 million to 6 million, and must be kept at this ratio to keep Israel's claim of ownership.  
                                                    

Muslims in the world 

Israel is the only scrap of land in the world that is a Jewish country. You can barely visualize it on the map above.   There are 44 Muslim states with 1 billion people in an area 672 times the size of Israel.  22  of the 44 are sovereign Arab states right in the Middle East including oil rich Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, who steadfastly refuse to absorb the so-called "Palestinian refugees, preferring to keep them as political pawns in order to blame Israel for their plight.  The Arab world boasts at least 21 states with an area greater than that of the USA.  None of these states are a democracy, except now, possibly Iraq can become one, but that won't happen if ISIS has their way.  All these Muslim countries outnumber Israel, yet Israel had to win all the wars thrust upon her since 1948, no matter if the odds were ridiculous.  
                                                    

This is a Druze IDF soldier. Druze consider themselves to be Arabs in Syria and Lebanon, but not in Israel, except for a part of the Golan Heights Druze, who consider themselves to be Arabs.  They are wonderful
citizens of Israel, a population of 130,600.  They decided on their own
to serve in Israel's army.  Arabs are not expected to do this.  

Note that Israel has taken its Arabs who remained there in 1948 as full citizens along with the Jews, now totaling 1.7 million.  

Resource: My speech of June 15, 2006
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bush%27s+ranch,+pictures&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5-vezvOPdAhUM8IMKHTiVCPIQ7Al6BAgFEBs&biw=1687&bih=872#imgrc=C19M8CJp9C6Q6M:  Bush Ranch
 http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/israel-population/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtuns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze_in_Israel
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2013/06/demographics-of-jews-in-israel-and.html
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxvzKtPkzKlPRGGkCkWJzKGdfSfk Victor Sharpe article on 2 state solution-use Jordan.