The Jewish history of the Jews of Arabia

The Arabia Peninsula lying between the mainlands of Africa and Asia. It is separated from Africa on the south by the Red Sea and on the north by the Sinaitic peninsula and the strip of land which in modern times has been cut through for the Suez canal. On the south and southeast its shores are washed by the Indian Ocean, which has been constantly receding and allowing more of the land to emerge. On the east it is separated from Persia by the Persian Gulf, and on the north is bounded by the Syrian desert, which is but a continuation of the great desert lying in the heart of Arabia itself. This desert is relieved by a number of oases, on which grow palms and tamarisks in abundance, providing food and shade for the Bedouins. Arabia has no rivers, but is artificially irrigated. The land outside the desert is very fertile, especially on the western side; it is known on this account as Arabia Felix. Arabia has an average width of 600 miles and alength of about 1,200. Egress from the country is possible by the two land routes to the east and west; the eastern road leads into Babylonia and thence northward into Syria, the western into Egypt and thence southward, or directly north along the coast plain, which at some places furnishes an entrance into the interior of Palestine.

The first mention of Jews in the areas of modern-day Saudi Arabia dates back, by some accounts, to the time of the First Temple. Immigration to the Arabian Peninsula began in earnest in the 2nd century CE, and by the 6th and 7th centuries there was a considerable Jewish population in Hejaz, mostly in and around Medina, in part because of the embrace of Judaism by such leaders as Dhu Nuwas (who was very aggressive about converting his subjects to Judaism, and who persecuted Christians in his kingdom as a reaction to Christian persecution of Jews) and Abu Karib Asad.

The History of the Arabia Peninsula:

• Arabia
• Religion
• The Jews of Arabia
• The North
• The South
• Mohammed
• Mohammed and the Jews
• Mohammed’s Jewish Adversaries in Medina
• Mohammed’s Conquest of the Jews
• Influences on Mohammed

Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam, was born in Mecca in the year 570.

The world at that time had its physical centre somewhat around the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean sea. There for many hundreds of years the two great ‘world’ empires of Rome and Persia had confronted each other in a state of perpetual warfare, punctuated by brief periods of peace.

Our world was ready for change in the seventh century as conflict everywhere had undermined the old-established patterns of society.

The surviving Byzantine Eastern half of the Roman Empire, ruled from the splendid city of Constantinople, still controlled a broad swathe of territory in the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East. Remember that the coast of North Africa then was not arid as it is today, but covered with trees and very fertile.

The Jews helped the Persians in their conquest of Jerusalem in 614. The Byzantines exacted their revenge when they recaptured Jerusalem in 629. But the Persian and Byzantine empires were now in a state of utter exhaustion and impoverishment.

Arabia

The vast and mostly arid peninsula of Arabia adjacent to both the Roman and the Persian empires.

By the time of Mohammed, the merchants of Mecca controlled much of the transit trade between East and West. They bought goods off the ships at Aden and then transported them along caravan routes for sale in Egypt, Syria and Persia. The proceeds were used to buy manufactured goods, which were then brought back to Mecca and sold at the trade fairs.

Religion

The rudimentary and barely developed pagan worship of the Arabs was centred on the three hundred and sixty idols which surrounded the shrine of the Ka’aba in Mecca, to which the Bedouins flocked in annual pilgrimage. The Ka’aba housed a black stone sacred to all Arabs – which was most probably a meteorite that had once fallen flaming from the skies.

Some Arabs had developed an admiration for the more developed religions of the Jews and Christians.

This feeling manifested itself in signs of spiritual discontent such as the rejection of idol worship by a small number of seekers after the one God, who practised a religion of their own. There were also converts to both Judaism and Christianity in the settled populations of the desert oasis and in the deep South.

The Jews of Arabia

Before the coming of Mohammed, the Jews of Arabia, were few in number, and I have found only two references to them in Jewish sources. All we know of them comes from Arab historians, and from the Qur’an itself.

The North

I Will start on the Jews of the North.

Before Islam, they dominated many of the main oasis in the West of Arabia and had also settled in the present-day Gulf States – Bahrain in particular. There was even a tiny Jewish community with its own cemetery in Mecca. Curiously enough, Naim Dangoor told me that a Saudi Arabian father of many children from the Gulf area visited him with his family, about 8 years ago to ask for help in emigrating to Israel. He claimed to be one of a large group of Muslims of Jewish origin who had always maintained a separate identity, praying together and marrying only amongst themselves. Naim believed the story and contacted the Israeli Embassy on the man’s behalf – but without success.

Arab historians mention some 20 Jewish tribes, including two tribes of Kohanim. The Jews spoke Arabic, were organised into clans and tribes just like the Arabs, and seem to have fully assimilated the values and customs of desert society.

A contingent of 500 Jewish soldiers was supplied by Herod to accompany the Roman expedition set to conquer the Yemen in 25 BCE. It paused for a time at a place said in the Talmud to contain Jews. We may legitimately ask ourselves whether the Jewish soldiers were sent to act as links between the Roman armies and the Jews of Arabia.

Arab sources maintain that the Jews of Medina were survivors of the Jewish revolt against Rome.

Another theory is that the Jewish date-growers – and the cultivation of dates was the most common occupation – might have come from the Jordan valley as refugees from Christian Byzantine persecution.

Another obvious source of immigrants was, of course, Babylonians.

The Jews were engaged in agriculture, not trade which was exclusively in the hands of the Arabs.

According to Arab legends, Jews introduced the date palm and the honey bee into Arabia. Also, advanced irrigation and other new agricultural crafts.

The Jews appear to have been educated. It was their ability to read and write that made Bible stories and Midrashim generally familiar to the pagan Arabs – and those were the seeds from which Islam developed.

Perhaps most importantly of all, Jews also familiarised the Arabs with the belief in the coming of the Messiah.

The South

Many legends refer to early Jewish settlement in Himyar, present-day Yemen.

The first is that Jews accompanied the Queen of Sheba when she returned from her visit to King Solomon.

Arab historians claim that very large numbers of Jews – the figure of 80,000 is mentioned – arrived after the destruction of the First Temple, to join others already established there.

There is a story that Ezra the scribe cursed the Jews of Yemen for ignoring his call to return to Israel and help rebuild the Temple. In retaliation from then on, they refused to name their sons Ezra.

Arab legend ascribes the conversion to Judaism of the king and people of Himyar to two Jewish Rabbis from the oasis of Medina who cured the kind of a terrible illness on an expedition to the North of Arabia. The king was so impressed by the Rabbis that he and his generals converted to Judaism on the spot. He then took the Rabbis back with them to Himyar where they also converted part of the population – presumably members of the court and leading families. Himyar fell to the Christian Ethiopians in the year 525.

Persia sent an expedition to expel the Ethiopians and take control for itself. The Jews prospered for a time under Persian rule and maintained contact with their brethren in Babylon. But the economy of Himyar was in steep decline during this period, partly because of the warfare, and partly because of a catastrophic failure of the great dam that controlled its irrigation system.

Mohamed

Mohammed was born in Mecca in the year 570, at a time when guardianship of the Ka’aba and successful international trade had greatly enriched its ruling clans. We are told that the Meccans were swollen with pride and their society was an unhappy one, differing from that of other Arabs because of its rivalries, greed, and great disparity between rich and poor.

Mohammed came from one of the poorer and least influential of the ruling families of Mecca. Orphaned at an early age, he had a reputation for honesty and reliability.

Mohammed had already accompanied his uncle on trading missions to Syria, where he had come into contact with Christian monks and with Jews, when he was asked to lead a similar expedition himself on behalf of the wealthy widow Khadijah. This was successful; and he accepted Khadijah’s proposal of marriage on his return to Mecca. The marriage was a happy one. Khadijah bore him six children; and Mohammed took no other wife or concubine until after her death.

Thus freed from financial anxiety for the first time, Mohammed was able to devote himself increasingly to spiritual concerns. He made his own family live frugally, distributed much of his money to the poor, and was conspicuously kind to slaves.

He used to retire alone to an isolated mountain cave for days at a time in order to meditate and pray.

Mohammed received his first revelation in the year 610, when he was forty years old. An angel appeared to him in his cave and commanded ‘Iqra’ – recite! When Mohammed demurred, the angel ‘overwhelmed me in his embrace until I reached the limits of my endurance.’ Then the angel proclaimed what was to become the first verse or sura of the Qur’an:

‘Recite in the name of your Lord, the Creator, who created man from clots of blood.’

At first Mohammed doubted his own sanity. It was only three years later, when other revelations began to follow in quick succession, that he recovered his self-confidence and commenced his mission to the Arabs as the ‘Messenger of God.’

The revelations, transmitted by the angel Gabriel to Mohammed when in a state of trance, were taken down in writing by his followers as he repeated them later. They were collected together after Mohammed’s death, to form the Qur’an.

The message of the Qur’an is similar in essence to much Jewish and Christian teaching.

There is no God but Allah, the all-powerful Creator, and Mohammed is his Messenger.

There will be a Day of Judgement.

There is an afterlife in which the good will be rewarded and the wicked will burn in hell.

Life is to be lived according to divine law, with prayer and fasting, the giving of alms and the supporting of widows and orphans.

Mohammed had some success with the young and the poor, but he was ridiculed by the leaders of Meccan society.

The fact that he could not work miracles was held against him. His prayer ritual of repeated prostrations was alien to their proud Bedouin spirit; and the required total allegiance to the new community of Islam cut right across traditional tribal loyalties.

More important, Mohammed’s teaching that their idol-worshipping ancestors were burning in hell, outraged the Arabs, who had always venerated their forefathers.

Above all, the concept of only one God, and the resulting rejection of idols, seemed almost to have been designed to ruin the cult of the Ka’aba, the basis of Meccan prosperity. It would, quite simply, have been disastrous for business.

Mohammed made some converts to Islam among pilgrims who visited Mecca on the haj. A group from Medina, a desert oasis some two hundred and fifty miles away, secretly invited Mohammed and his followers to join them there to become their judge in disputes between their tribes.

So, in the year 622, Mohammed and seventy of his followers fled from Mecca to Medina. And that is counted as year one of the Muslim calendar.

Medina was occupied by three Jewish tribes and two pagan tribes who had once forced their way into the oasis; each tribe lived in its own fortified village. Mohammed was soon accepted as leader by the pagans and concluded a treaty with the Jews.

Unlike the Meccans, the pagans of Medina – who had long lived alongside Jews – were not shocked by the demotion of their gods to mere spirits under the new order. It did not affect their livelihood, and they were thrilled by the presence in their midst of the Prophet for the Arabs, with his revelations in their own tongue. There was a rapid tide of conversions to Islam; and Arab historians praise the Jews for preparing the ground for the favourable reception of the Prophet’s message.

Mohammed and the Jews

As a fellow monotheist, Mohammed looked to the Jews as his natural allies; and he no doubt hoped they would accept him as their long-awaited Messiah. Some Jews did so at once and I quote an Arab historian’s account of the first Jewish convert to Islam.

Many other Jews converted to Islam later and I am obliged to Naim Dangoor for his account of the Jewish ruler of Afghanistan visiting Mohammed at the peak of his power and accepting Islam.

The leading Afghan tribes, you may remember, still claim with pride to be descended from King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin – as again confirmed by Naim Dangoor’s account of the meeting of Eliezer Kedourie and King of Afghanistan in 1925, and also by official guidebooks of the country.

In a deliberate attempt to reconcile the Jews and gain their acceptance, Mohammed promptly adopted the Aramaic name ‘Medinta’ used by the Jews (‘al-Madinat’ in Arabic) in place of Yathrib, the old name of the oasis.

His followers were directed to face towards Jerusalem in prayer and to recite three daily prayer services and special Friday evening prayers in imitation of the Jews.

Ablutions and forms of worship were modelled on Jewish patterns. It seems that the Muslims had misunderstood the solemn Jewish fast of Kippur to be a celebration of victory over Pharaoh, for they too adopted the same day to celebrate their own successes.

Mohammed repeatedly compared himself to Moses and clearly regarded himself as his successor. According to the Qur’an:

‘Before this book there was Moses’s book…. and this book confirms it in the Arabic language.’

And again, in response to taunts arising from the Jewish origin of one of his wives, Mohammed proudly declared:

‘Aaron was my father and Moses my uncle.’

Above all, the Qur’an itself is full of Jewish elements.

Mohammed’s Jews Adversaries in Medina

It is clear that Mohammed knew the Torah only from hearsay and that he was much confused by imperfect knowledge of scripture and rabbinic legend.

"The Messenger was a proud man who could not tolerate public ridicule; and so, only eighteen months after his arrival in Medina, he began to order the assassination of Arab poets who had satirised him and also of certain Jews who had opposed him in one way or another.

His attitude to the Jews also changed radically. Mohammed demonstrated his displeasure with the Jews as a whole and his growing self-confidence and his independence of them by adopting measures designed to steer his followers firmly against Jewish practices."

Mohammed’s Conquest of the Jews

Mohammed next moved to eliminate the three Jewish tribes of Medina, by then considered a threat to the Muslim community in its struggle against its pagan enemies in Mecca.

One by one he accused them of treachery, of having broken their treaty with him by conspiring with his pagan enemies in Mecca. As already mentioned, the Jews were also accused of making common cause with the waverers within the ranks of the Muslims of Medina.

Curiously enough, the Jewish tribes made no attempt to defend one another against the common foe when pretexts were found to attack and besiege each of their villages in turn. They were eliminated one by one.

The first tribe was called on to accept Islam. When its members refused, a pretext was found to besiege its village. The Jews were expelled on condition to leave most of their possessions behind.

The following year saw the expulsion of the second tribe, accused of planning to kill the Prophet by dropping a rock on his head as he rested under a wall outside its village. Mohammed, who received divine warning of the plot, returned home unharmed before anything happened.

The second tribe, being in a less vulnerable position managed to depart carrying all their possessions with them. Muslims were ordered to turn towards Mecca in prayer and no longer towards Jerusalem – now with five daily prayer services instead of the Jewish three.

All traces of the Sabbath were eliminated when Friday was declared a day of public prayer on which work was allowed. The month-long fast of Ramadan was instituted in place of Kippur. The extra month instituted by the pagan Arabs long before Mohammed to reconcile the lunar year with the solar year, as practised by the Jews, was abolished. Since then the Muslim year has consisted of 12 lunar months, with no correction at all for the solar year.

In a complete change of emphasis, Mohammed began to lay far greater stress on Abraham, whom he claimed as the first Muslim, than on Moses.

Influences on the Mohammed

Though respecting Christians – Christian monks in particular, and accepting Jesus as a major prophet, Mohammed vehemently rejected the notion that Jesus was the Son of God a well as all idea of the Trinity. The Qur’an itself is full of unmistakably Jewish elements – Bible stories and midrashimin particular.

However, a major puzzle remains. Although Moses is mentioned over one hundred times and Jesus only twice in the Meccan period of the Qur’an, Mohammed’s often repeated dread of the Day of Judgement and hellfire is certainly more akin to Christian monasticism than to rabbinic Judaism.

Mohammed died of natural causes in the year 632, leaving the whole of Arabia united under the rule of Islam.

By definition, Mohammed – as Messenger of God and the last of the Prophets, was irreplaceable. Yet, a new leader had to be found at once if his achievements were not to be squandered.

The Arabs found it very difficult to elect a successor and bitter struggles between rival clans resulted in the violent death in office of three out of the first four Khalifs. One of them, and this is significant, was killed by a revolt led by a Jewish convert to Islam.

Those early controversies persisted; and it was the refusal of some to accept the legitimacy of any but a descendant of the murdered Khalif ‘Ali (cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet) that created the Shi’a movement, which permanently split Islam.

Welded together by Islam, their poverty and their greed, the half-starved Bedouin nomads erupted from Arabia with extraordinary vigour. The Byzantine Empire was humbled and the Persian Empire totally destroyed during their first twenty years of warfare.

By 732, one hundred years after the death of Mohammed, the Arab Empire stretched from the Atlantic in the West to modern Pakistan in the East. At one stage, the vanguard reached a point in France only two hundred and fifty miles from Dover before falling back into Spain. Progress was slower after that, with Sardinia, Sicily and parts of Southern Italy gradually added to the Islamic world.

Many hundreds of years later, of course, the Muslim world expanded again to include the Balkans in Europe – though Spain was lost to the Christians, much of the Northern half of the African continent, the whole of Northern India and parts of South East Asia, such as Indonesia. In retrospect, it is not difficult to find convincing reasons for the astonishing success of the comparatively small body of Bedouin tribesmen in defeating the armies of two mighty empires and then going on to conquer much of the civilised world.

There can be no doubt that Mohammed himself had the rare ability to inspire unlimited devotion in most of those who met him in Arabia.

Also the essential simplicity and egalitarianism of Islam suited the mentality of the Arabs, already discontented with their primitive form of paganism and aspiring to a nobler expression of their religious yearnings. The new creed of Islam, combined with the old fighting traditions of the Bedouin tribes, provided the Arabs with the self-confidence they needed to challenge the rest of the world.

Once the invasions started, belief in the one God who had chosen the Arabs and rewarded them with success after success became inspirational. Fighting, Arab-style, seemed to be the way of God as the Bedouin warriors used the deserts like seas – appearing suddenly from nowhere and, whenever necessary, retreating back where none could follow.

Looked at in another way, the Arab conquest was a classic invasion of the world’s settled lands by semi-starved nomads, seeking bread and booty – but this time, spurred on by the powerful missionary zeal of Islam.

It should not be forgotten that the Arabs exploded into a world exhausted by twenty-six years of constant warfare, a world whose inhabitants longed for peace and stability and had come to believe that great changes were inevitable. Christian heretics and Jews in the Byzantine Empire, to whom almost any change must have seemed for the better, welcomed the Arabs with open arms. The Christians and Jews of the Persian Empire too, weary of civil and religious strife, also willingly accepted the prospect of change.

Another important factor in the overwhelming success of the Arabs was the generosity of their surrender terms. For most pagans, the choice of Islam or the sword was not onerous; they too could join the ranks of the conquerors by simply declaring: ‘There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Messenger.’ Also, it soon became widely known that Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would not be harmed by the triumphant Muslims so long as they submitted to the new order by paying the poll tax, which often amounted to no more than the tax demanded by the former regimes.

The result was that, in time, almost all the defeated nations aspired to the name ‘Arab’. Though strict social barriers between Arabian and non-Arabian Muslims were erected in the first century following the conquest, those dissolved and merit alone became the key to advancement for Muslims in the expanding empire.

According to surviving records, Jews helped the Arabs in many places. From Syria to Spain, they opened city gates to the besieging armies; and in Spain, they often garrisoned the captured cities to enable the Muslims to sweep on to further conquests.

In 658, Gaon Yizhak of Pumbeditha, at the head of 90,000 Jews, was reported to have welcomed Khalif ‘Ali into Firuz-Shapur. The Exilarch Bustanay was even awarded one of the Persian King’s daughters by the grateful Arabs – and as another daughter was given to Husain, grandson of the Prophet, that was no mean gift.

The conquests of Islam united both halves of the Jewish people under a single political and cultural system. Arabic became the universal language, replacing the Aramaic, Persian, Greek and Latin they had previously spoken.

Jews, accustomed to adversity, found their change of masters an improvement. They survived the hardship brought about by the conquest and were eventually able to participate in the creation of the new Arabic civilisation that followed.

Islam, claiming to be God’s last and perfect revelation to mankind, extended limited toleration to members of the older monotheistic faiths on condition they submitted humbly to its rule. In contrast, the only choice open to polytheists was Islam or the sword – though the less wasteful alternative of slavery was often substituted for the sword.

The Qur’an frequently refers to Jews and Christians, who had received earlier revelations from God but had then distorted and corrupted them.

Though some of its suras (verses) mention Jews and Christians in friendly terms and are quoted in support of Islam’s tolerant attitude to fellow monotheists, others display very different sentiments. The Qur’an it must be remembered, came to Mohammed in stages throughout the many years of his ministry – from the time he was a persecuted outcast to that of his final role as the undisputed master of all Arabia.

Non-believers, though protected by Islam, were generally despised because of their wilful persistence in refusing to accept the words of God recorded in the Qur’an. However, unlike Jews in Christian Europe, they were neither hated nor demonised.

Mainstream (Sunni) Islam and Judaism have more in common with each other than with Christianity. First and foremost, they both share the basic concept of the absolute unity of God. Though Muslims accept Jesus as a major prophet, they strenuously deny that he was the Son of God. In the words of the Qur’an:

‘…Allah is one, Allah the eternal. He begets not and is not begotten. Nor is there anyone like him’.

Abraham is accepted as the first man to have received God’s revelations: and most other Jewish patriarchs and prophets are also revered by Islam.

Both religions are based on divinely given books. The Qur’an like the Torah, is the unchanging word of God; and every letter of its text is holy. Sunni Muslims go even further and believe that the Qur’an is eternal and untreated – as is the view of the Torah held by some Jewish mystics.

Muslim forms of worship are far closer to those of the Synagogue than the Church. Neither Islam nor Judaism employs priests with supernatural powers to serve at symbolic alters of sacrifice. Indeed, Jewish Rabbis and Sunni Alem receive similar training and perform much the same function. Other concepts such as the sanctity of Jerusalem, forbidden and permitted foods, and many others, appear to have come directly from Judaism.

The equivalent position of law in Islam and Judaism may not be a coincidence, for Islamic law first developed in Iraq, home to the great academies of Jewish learning. In both faiths, holy law governs every aspect of human activity and its very study is an act of worship. Both distinguish between ‘written’ and ‘oral’ law in much the same way; and in the development of ‘oral’ law, the mufti’s fatwa serves the same purpose as the Rabbi’s responsa (an authoritative statement of the law on an obscure or disputed point).

Another common feature of the two systems is that neither was imposed by the state or by a central ecclesiastical authority – as was the canon law of the Church – but was developed by the deliberations of independent scholars.

Condensed from a recent lecture at the Montefiore Hall, London. by Lucien Gubbay. This Article is split into ten sections :

SCENE: The water cooler at the office. An Anti-Semite is trying to convince a co-worker that the Jewish people should be blamed for "everything"

• Anti-Semite:  "All the world’s troubles come from the Jews"
• Average Joe: "Oh really, from the Jews??!"
• Anti-Semite:  "You know they have all the money in the world"
• Average Joe: "All of it? Seems to me that Bill Gates and Donald Trump have some, not to mention the Saudi Royal Family"
• Anti-Semite:  "They’re taking over the government too"
• Average Joe: "I can’t seem to remember any Jewish Presidents"
• Anti-Semite:  "Besides, they’re not pure Americans anyway"
• Average Joe: "My ancestors are from Italy, where are yours from?
• Anti-Semite:  "Never Mind! Like I said, our troubles are from the Jews"
• Average Joe: "OK, from the Jews,… and the Bicycle riders"
• Anti-Semite:   "Why the Bicycle riders??"
• Average Joe:  "Why the Jews?!!"

“Believing in Yeshua does not produce anti-Semitism. It may have been the convenient scapegoat for some, perhaps for many. For prejudice runs deep in the core of men’s experience. But belief in Yeshua the Messiah is not the cause of anti-Semitism. In fact, one Jewish source claims that modern anti-Semitism is not religiously motivated at all, "Modern anti-Semitism is thus built on racial, not religious foundations and the adoption of the prevailing faith no longer provides an escape route for persecuted Jews."

For a professing believers to side with the anti-Semite is to side not only against the Jewish followers of the Jewish Messiah who penned the Besora Tova HaGeula (Good News of Redemption), but it also invites the sternest judgment from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. To court God’s judgment doesn’t seem very rational or logical. But then foolishly blaming all of our troubles on the bicycle riders doesn’t either!

First, anti-Semitism is totally inconsistent with the stated attitude of Yeshua toward the Jewish people. To believe that our Rabbi Yeshua is the Messiah and then not reflect His attitude toward the Jewish people is the height of hypocrisy, let alone a fallacious inconsistency.

Yeshua was born a Jew, He lived as a Jew, and He died a Jew,… He lived in the midst of His Jewish people and He loved them with a love unparalleled in the annals of Jewish history. Those guilty of such an attitude show by their fruits that they don’t follow Yeshua the Messiah at all.”   You cannot claim to have the King of the Jews in your heart and also hate the Jewish people? Absurd!

A true follower of the Jewish Messiah loves the Jewish people.

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No solamente los israelíes son engañados, sino también los palestinos mismos. Ellos son usados tan solamente como medio para alcanzar la meta, ya que de ellos se está haciendo un pueblo que en realidad nunca ha existido. El nombre “palestinos” deriva de la palabra “filisteos”. Sin embargo, estos provenían originalmente de Creta (Caftor), ocuparon partes del territorio y destruyeron su población. En Deuteronomio 2.23 leemos: “Y en cuanto a los aveos que vivían en las aldeas cercanas a Gaza, los caftoritas procedentes de Creta los destruyeron y se establecieron en su lugar.” (vea también Jos. 13.3; Gn. 10-14; Jer. 47.4; Am. 9.7). Pero como los filisteos provenían de Caftor (Creta) ni siquiera eran árabes.

La palabra “Palestina” sencillamente es una expresión general para la tierra de Israel, la cual fue inventada por el emperador romano Adriano. Este sin embargo odiaba a Dios y a los judíos. En el año 135 d.C. reprimió el levantamiento de Bar-Kochba de los judíos. El quería destruir toda memoria de Israel y de Jerusalem, y de ahí en adelante dió a la ciudad de Jerusalem el nombre de Aelia Capitolina. A la tierra de Israel también le cambió el nombre por el de sus más encarnizados enemigos, los filisteos.

Con una honestidad increíble, uno de los líderes representantes de la OLP, Zuheir Mohsen, en el año 1977 confesó el bien calculado mal uso de ese nombre, por parte de los árabes que viven en la llamada “Palestina”.

“No existe un pueblo palestino. La creación de un estado palestino es un medio a favor de la continuidad de nuestra lucha contra Israel y a favor de la unidad árabe… Pero en realidad no existe ninguna diferencia entre los jordanos y los palestinos, los sirios y los libaneses. Todos nosotros formamos parte del pueblo árabe. Solamente por razones políticas y tácticas hablamos de la existencia de una identidad palestina, ya que está en el interés nacional de los árabes el oponer al sionismo una existencia separada de los jordanos. Por razones tácticas, Jordania que es un estado con fronteras fijas, no puede reclamar a Haifa y Jaffa. Yo como palestino, por el contrario, puedo reclamar Haifa, Jaffa, Beersheba y Jerusalem. Pero en cuanto se hayan restablecido nuestros derechos por la totalidad de Palestina, no esperaremos un minuto más para la unificación de Jordania y Palestina.”

El pueblo palestino es engañado, abusado y usado como punta de lanza contra Israel. En esta tierra sencillamente vivían árabes que mayormente provenían de Siria y Jordania, pero también judíos. En este sentido, también los judíos son palestinos. Por eso en su tiempo la Primera Ministra Golda Meir dijo: “Yo también soy palestina.” También fue Golda Meir quien dijo: “Recién podremos tener paz con los árabes, cuando estos amen más a sus hijos de lo que nos odian a nosotros.”

Las tierras del oeste del Jordán y Gaza se encontraban entre 1948 y 1967 bajo dominio árabe, es decir, jordano. Si hubiera existido una cuestión palestina en el sentido actual, ¿por qué entonces no se les dio un estado mientras se encontraban bajo el dominio árabe? Porque ellos nunca fueron reconocidos como pueblo independiente, sino que como árabes pertenecían a Jordania, a Siria o a otros países.

El nombre “palestinos” surgió recién en el año 1964, cuando el comité mayor árabe pidió a la Liga Arabe a favor de Palestina se le otorgase la formación de una Organización de Liberación de Palestina (OLP). Acerca de esto escribió el semanario egipcio El Mussawar:

“Una nación palestina es el resultado del avance de una planificación, ya que el mundo difícilmente aceptaría una guerra de cien millones de árabes contra una pequeña nación israelí.”

Antes del año 1964 los habitantes de “Palestina” sencillamente eran llamados “árabes”. Cuando el 15 de mayo de 1948 siete ejércitos árabes atacaron el recién nacido estado de Israel, los árabes de “Palestina” fueron llamados a evacuar sus territorios por un tiempo limitado y a ponerse a salvo hasta que Israel hubiera sido derrotado. Fueron los mismos estados árabes quienes animaron a los palestinos a hacer esto. Ellos no fueron echados por los israelíes. El 68% de ellos se fueron sin jamás haber visto un soldado israelí. Un refugiado palestino resumió la situación de la siguiente manera: “El gobierno árabe nos dijo: Salgan ustedes, para que nosotros podamos entrar. De modo que nosotros salimos, pero ello no entraron.”

Norbert Lieth

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The Land of Israel is the only place on earth which God says He owns in terms of property ownership that can be transferred. (Of course, we know the whole world is His, yet this one parcel of land on the earth has a unique relationship to Him.) About Israel, He says, "The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine: for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me" (Leviticus 25:23).

When we come to the modern-day Israel-Palestine issue, people often ask the question, "Just what right do Israel and the Jewish people have to this land?" Arguments are continually brought forth concerning the rights of the Palestinians and the rights of the Israelis that seem logical to the people who present them. But a basic question still remains in my mind as I listen to the many conflicting viewpoints concerning this parcel of land: "Who has the ultimate authority to determine rights concerning this special piece of real estate?" The biblical answer to that question is that God alone determines the "rights" that any of us have. Something is right or wrong because of Divine decree, not human feeling or human reason.

The existence of God previous to the creation of the universe and mankind gives Him the right to determine our "rights."

Let’s look together at what He has to say about the Land of Israel, the people He chose to possess it, and why:

Bereshit / Genesis 17:7-8 states: "And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

Summary … There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Arab problem: the myth that this land was "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews."

• As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn’t take Palestine [sic] from the Arabs; they took it from the British, who exercised sovereign authority in Palestine under a League of Nations mandate for thirty years prior to Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948. And the British don’t want it back.
• If you consider the British illegitimate usurpers, fine. In that case, this territory is not Arab land but Turkish land, a province of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years until the British wrested it from them during the Great War in 1917. And the Turks don’t want it back.
• If you look back earlier in history than the Ottoman Turks, who took over Palestine over in 1517, you find it under the sovereignty of the yet another empire not indigenous to Palestine: the Mamluks, who were Turkish and Circassian slave-soldiers headquartered in Egypt. And the Mamluks don’t even exist any more, so they can’t want it back.

So, going back 800 years, there’s no particularly clear chain of title that makes Israel’s title to the land inferior to that of any of the previous owners. Who were, continuing backward:

• The Mamluks, already mentioned, who in 1250 took Palestine over from:
• The Ayyubi dynasty, the descendants of Saladin, the Kurdish Muslim leader who in 1187 took Jerusalem and most of Palestine from:
• The European Christian Crusaders, who in 1099 conquered Palestine from:
• The Seljuk Turks, who ruled Palestine in the name of:
• The Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, which in 750 took over the sovereignty of the entire Near East from:
• The Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, which in 661 inherited control of the Islamic lands from
• The Arabs of Arabia, who in the first flush of Islamic expansion conquered Palestine in 638 from:
• The Byzantines, who (nice people—perhaps it should go to them?) didn’t conquer the Levant, but, upon the division of the Roman Empire in 395, inherited Palestine from:
• The Romans, who in 63 B.C. took it over from:
• The last Jewish kingdom, which during the Maccabean rebellion from 168 to 140 B.C. won control of the land from:
• The Hellenistic Greeks, who under Alexander the Great in 333 B.C. conquered the Near East from:
• The Persian empire, which under Cyrus the Great in 639 B.C. freed Jerusalem and Judah from:
• The Babylonian empire, which under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. took Jerusalem and Judah from:
• The Jews, meaning the people of the Kingdom of Judah, who, in their earlier incarnation as the Israelites, seized the land in the 12th and 13th centuries B.C. from:
• The Canaanites, who had inhabited the land for thousands of years before they were dispossessed by the Israelites.

As the foregoing suggests, any Arab claim to sovereignty based on inherited historical control will not stand up. Arabs are not native to Palestine, but are native to Arabia, which is called Arab-ia for the breathtakingly simple reason that it is the historic home of the Arabs. The terroritories comprising all other "Arab" states outside the Arabian peninsula—including Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, as well as the entity now formally under the Palestinian Authority—were originally non-Arab nations that were conquered by the Muslim Arabs when they spread out from the Arabian peninsula in the first great wave of jihad in the 7th century, defeating, mass-murdering, enslaving, dispossessing, converting, or reducing to the lowly status of dhimmitude millions of Christians and Jews and destroying their ancient and flourishing civilizations. Prior to being Christian, of course, these lands had even more ancient histories. Pharaonic Egypt, for example, was not an Arab country through its 3,000 year history.

The recent assertion by the Palestinian Arabs that they are descended from the ancient Canaanites whom the ancient Hebrews displaced is absurd in light of the archeological evidence. There is no record of the Canaanites surviving their destruction in ancient times. History records literally hundreds of ancient peoples that no longer exist. The Arab claim to be descended from Canaanites is an invention that came after the 1964 founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the same crew who today deny that there was ever a Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Prior to 1964 there was no "Palestinian" people and no "Palestinian" claim to Palestine; the Arab nations who sought to overrun and destroy Israel in 1948 planned to divide up the territory amongst themselves. Let us also remember that prior to the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, the name "Palestinian" referred to the Jews of Palestine.

In any case, today’s "Palestine," meaning the West Bank and Gaza, is, like most of the world, inhabited by people who are not descendants of the first human society to inhabit that territory. This is true not only of recently settled countries like the United States and Argentina, where European settlers took the land from the indigenous inhabitants several hundred years ago, but also of ancient nations like Japan, whose current Mongoloid inhabitants displaced a primitive people, the Ainu, aeons ago. Major "native" tribes of South Africa, like the Zulu, are actually invaders from the north who arrived in the 17th century. India’s caste system reflects waves of fair-skinned Aryan invaders who arrived in that country in the second millennium B.C. One could go on and on.

The only nations that have perfect continuity between their earliest known human inhabitants and their populations of the present day are Iceland, parts of China, and a few Pacific islands. The Chinese case is complicated by the fact that the great antiquity of Chinese civilization has largely erased the traces of whatever societies preceded it, making it difficult to reconstruct to what extent the expanding proto-Chinese displaced (or absorbed) the prehistoric peoples of that region. History is very sketchy in regard to the genealogies of ancient peoples. The upshot is that "aboriginalism"—the proposition that the closest descendants of the original inhabitants of a territory are the rightful owners—is not tenable in the real world. It is not clear that it would be a desirable idea even if it were tenable. Would human civilization really be better off if there had been no China, no Japan, no Greece, no Rome, no France, no England, no Ireland, no United States?

Back to the Arabs.

I have no problem recognizing the legitimacy of the Arabs’ tenure in Palestine when they had it, from 638 to 1099, a period of 461 years out of a history lasting 5,000 years. They took Palestine by military conquest, and they lost it by conquest, to the Christian Crusaders in 1099. Of course, military occupation by itself does not determine which party rightly has sovereignty in a given territory. Can it not be said that the Arabs have sovereign rights, if not to all of Israel, then at least to the West Bank, by virtue of their majority residency in that region from the early Middle Ages to the present?

To answer that question, let’s look again at the historical record. Prior to 1947, as we’ve discussed, Palestine was administered by the British under the Palestine Mandate, the ultimate purpose of which, according to the Balfour Declaration, was the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. In 1924 the British divided the Palestine Mandate into an Arabs-only territory east of the Jordan, which became the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan, and a greatly reduced Palestine Mandate territory west of the Jordan, which was inhabited by both Arabs and Jews.

Given the fact that the Jews and Arabs were unable to coexist in one state, there had to be two states. At the same time, there were no natural borders separating the two peoples, in the way that, for example, the Brenner Pass has historically marked the division between Latin and Germanic Europe. Since the Jewish population was concentrated near the coast, the Jewish state had to start at the coast and go some distance inland. Exactly where it should have stopped, and where the Arab state should have begun, was a practical question that could have been settled in any number of peaceful ways, almost all of which the Jews would have accepted. The Jews’ willingness to compromise on territory was demonstrated not only by their acquiescence in the UN’s 1947 partition plan, which gave them a state with squiggly, indefensible borders, but even by their earlier acceptance of the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan, which gave them nothing more than a part of the Galilee and a tiny strip along the coast. Yet the Arab nations, refusing to accept any Jewish sovereignty in Palestine even if it was the size of a postage stamp, unanimously rejected the 1937 Peel plan, and nine years later they violently rejected the UN’s partition plan as well. When the Arabs resorted to arms in order to wipe out the Jews and destroy the Jewish state, they accepted the verdict of arms. They lost that verdict in 1948, and they lost it again in 1967, when Jordan, which had annexed the West Bank in 1948 (without any objections from Palestinian Arabs that their sovereign nationhood was being violated), attacked Israel from the West Bank during the Six Day War despite Israel’s urgent pleas that it stay out of the conflict, and Israel in self-defense then captured the West Bank. The Arabs thus have no grounds to complain either about Israel’s existence (achieved in ’48) or about its expanded sovereignty from the river to the sea (achieved in ’67).

The Arabs have roiled the world for decades with their furious protest that their land has been "stolen" from them. One might take seriously such a statement if it came from a pacifist people such as the Tibetans, who had quietly inhabited their land for ages before it was seized by the Communist Chinese in 1950. The claim is laughable coming from the Arabs, who in the early Middle Ages conquered and reduced to slavery and penury ancient peoples and civilizations stretching from the borders of Persia to the Atlantic; who in 1947 rejected an Arab state in Palestine alongside a Jewish state and sought to obliterate the nascent Jewish state; who never called for a distinct Palestinian Arab state until the creation of the terrorist PLO in 1964—sixteen years after the founding of the state of Israel; and who to this moment continue to seek Israel’s destruction, an object that would be enormously advanced by the creation of the Arab state they demand. The Arab claim to sovereign rights west of the Jordan is only humored today because of a fatal combination of world need for Arab oil, leftist Political Correctness that has cast the Israelis as "oppressors," and, of course, good old Jew-hatred.

Lawrence Auster, FrontPageMagazine.com
Published: August 30, 2004

ארמלגוס – Armi-what?  2. Who, what, where and when is Armilus / Armilgus?  3. Does anyone know?  The Armilus is virtually unknown to the vast majority of people, even those who are Jewish and consider themselves religious!  A handful of Bible scholars have looked up the word in various encyclopedias and then take the person for which it stands about as seriously as do the encyclopedias.  If you do not believe this, just ask a rabbi, or any person who professes to have a knowledge or interest in the Jewish religion, about Armilus ("the Jewish Anti-Messiah" or "the last evil king against Israel and the Messiah").  I am willing to bet that they either look completely bewildered, or look at you like you should be put in an asylum! 

Many believe the Anti-Messiah or anti-Christ is a Christian concept, having nothing to do with Judaism.  This is not true!  The ancient rabbis wrote about him under the name of Armilus.  In this chapter we will quote rabbinical commentaries (such as certain Midrashim, Targums and selected writings of Bar Yohai) to illustrate this point.

In The Jewish Encyclopedia, it is admitted that a "Jewish Antichrist," called Armilus in ancient Jewish legend/tradition, will come to wreak havoc on the Jews of Jerusalem just prior to the Messiah coming to destroy him and save them.  The Jewish Encyclopedia says:  "ARMILUS:  In later Jewish eschatology and legend, a king who will arise at the end of time against the Messiah, and will be conquered by him after having brought much distress upon Israel.

The origin of this Jewish Anti-Messiah (as he can well be styled in view of his relation to the Messiah) is as much involved in doubt as the different phases of his development, and his relation to the Christian legend….[Rabbi] Saadia (born 892; died 942)…speaks of Armilus.  He mentions the following as a tradition of the ancients….If the Jews do not prove themselves worthy of Messianic salvation, God will force them to repentance by terrible persecutions.  In consequence of these persecutions, a scion of the tribe of Joseph [known as Messiah ben Joseph] will arise and wrest Jerusalem from the hands of the Edomites….Thereupon the king, Armilus, will conquer and sack the Holy City….then begin a general campaign against the Jews, forcing them to flee into the desert [Petra], where they will suffer untold misery.  When they have been purified by sorrow and pain (Zechariah 12:10), the Messiah will appear, wrest Jerusalem from Armilus, slay him, and thereby bring the true salvation….This creature, Armilus by name—the Gentiles called him Antichrist, says the ‘Otot’—will set himself up as Messiah, even as God Himself, being recognized as such by the sons of Esau….Armilus, inflamed against the Jews, will march against the Messiah.  But now God Himself will war against Armilus and his army and destroy them;  or the Messiah, as one version has it, will slay Armilus by the breath of his mouth."

Incredibly enough, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia admits, in so many words, that Armilus is the Anti-Messiah.  In this encyclopedia, under another heading near Antichrist and Armilus, there is a section called "Anti- christ."  This encyclopediareads:  "ANTI-MESSIAH, legendary opponent of the Messiah and leader of the heathen forces in the battle against the latter which will take place at the end of time.  Such a figure, under the name of Armilus, becomes a definite part of Jewish eschatology….[who] will overcome and destroy the Messiah of the house of Joseph and rule over the entire world, but will ultimately be defeated and slain by the Messiah of the line of David.  In Pesikta Rabbathi (edit. Friedmann, p. 161b) the Anti-Messiah is apparently identified with Satan and the Angel of Death…. According to Bousset and Moritz Friedlaender, the idea of an Anti-Messiah goes back to…Ezekiel’s prophecy of Gog, the prince of Magog, who was to attack Israel and to be miraculously overcome (Ezek. 38 and 39).  The pseudepigraphic writings describe him as a powerful tyrant, with the characteristic traits of Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod the Great, Caligula or Nero, or else as a false prophet, who established his power by means of deceptive signs and miracles (Ascension of Moses 8;  IV Esdras 13:33 et seq.;  Sibylline Oracles 3:46-92)."

The greatest of Satan’s deceptive miracles, which he will use to fool the world into receiving the Anti-Messiah as the Messiah, will be a counterfeit of the resurrection of our beloved Rabbi, Maran Yeshua!  Hitgalut / Revelation 13:3 speaks of this world leader receiving a fatal wound to his head, which is supernaturally healed.  This is the way Satan will catapult himself onto the world’s stage as the Messiah and Savior, and as the answer to the world’s quest for peace, including the solution to the Middle East Crisis.  He will accomplish this through a false miracle that will appear to be so great, all the world’s people will sit up and take notice—a man resurrected from the dead. 

The Mahdi, is the anti-Messiah too, who is the one and the same as the Armilus, to whom Islam sees as the saviour of the world, but in contrast to their anti-Messiah (for Islam), the mahdi hates Israel, and its goal is to bring Islam to the whole world. To us, Bible believers, this is the anti-Messiah, Armilus, the incarnation of pure evil. (Important Note: It is worth noting, that several visits from Mahmoud Aminajad to Bashar Al-ASAD, Mr. Mahmoud came back saying that he met the Mahdi.)

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders…." (II Thes. 2:9).

View this videos, it will be enlighten. This man explains the idea conveyed in this article quite good. Although, be warned, he uses the assume holy Name of HaShem. The video lenght in its total is about 2 hours or more.

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I have been fully aware, from my residence both in the UK and the USA, that the ordinary person in the street has very little knowledge or understanding – if any – of the history, culture and religion of either the Arabs or the Muslims. I am also sure that this ignorance is wide-spread all over the non-Muslim world. It is also a fact that most of the people who profess the Muslim faith have little comprehension of the Quran, Hadiths or Islamic history.

For the last twenty three years, I have been studying and researching the subjects of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, exploring their roots, their inter-relationships and their historical interactions. The Quran, especially, I have studied in my native tongue Arabic, and compared and contrasted the English and Arabic translations and interpretations.

My sole purpose in doing this research and enormous expenditure of time and effort – which has turned into a ‘mission’ – is to enlighten all those who are not followers of ‘Islam’ as well as all those who profess ‘Islam’ to make them aware of the real issues and facts based entirely on the Arabic language of the Quran, the Hadiths, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and Pagan Arabian religion and history.

I have tried my best to put all the relevant information at the immediate attention of the readers so that they do not have to look for them in all quarters for verification. All the Quranic verses are shown exactly as they are without alterations. All the relevant references are made clear by quoting books, chapters and verses.

Religion is invariably the most emotional, most volatile and most explosive subject to discuss. Belief is not subject to empirical deductions, to reality, to facts or to logic. Any true ‘believer’ will not question the ordinances and subjects of his/her belief. One can only accept the totality of that particular religion or not. One cannot pick and choose bits and pieces of a religion; for a true believer it is a matter of all or nothing.

A Muslim theologian will find many ‘explanations’ as to why the Quranic stories of the Bible are markedly and sometimes absurdly different from their originals. It will not matter an iota to him that his explanations are spurious and untenable when subjected to historical and theological scrutiny. As a convinced believer, he has no choice but to accept that everything he reads in the Quran as being Allah’s Truth.

Just as a ‘Muslim’ clings to the ‘truth’ of his religion, then he/she should not be surprised at all, that adherents of other religions have exactly the same rights and feelings. They too are just as extremely sensitive as to how others perceive them and their religion. Since the Quran and its interpreters use unambiguous and very strong language in attacking and denigrating the People of the Book – as well as all other unbelievers – it is therefore not unreasonable to expect a maligned religion and its adherents to defend themselves and prove otherwise.

There are of course many enlightened ‘Muslims’ in the world, but, unfortunately, the majority of them have little knowledge of the subject matter, and if they do know, are threatened with death if they contradict the majority. There are estimated over one billion ‘Muslims’ in the world today, most of whom do not understand the Arabic language or know much about Arab and Islamic histories. Since the Quran is written with a high standard of the Arabic language – which is difficult even for Arabic speaking people to fully comprehend – it is hence almost impossible to have it understood clearly by those who do not know the language.

People in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, for instance, although they profess to be fervent ‘Muslims’, in reality do not know more than the invariably one sided explanations, misrepresentations and misinterpretations perpetrated upon them by their religious leaders (Ulama).

The author Salman Rushdie, for example, was sentenced to death by an Iranian – a Persian and not an Arabic speaking – religious court, which misrepresented his views on the Quran.

On many occasions, TV screens show the hate-filled and contorted faces of ‘Muslim’ fundamentalists and their supporters screaming for Jihad (Holy War) and death and destruction not only for the USA but also for all Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Animists, Atheists etc. to name just a few.

‘Muslims’ are the only ‘religious’ group who demonstrate their anger and hate for all Unbelieving Infidels/Kuffar, by carrying their holy book, the Quran in one hand, and guns, grenades or swords with the other.

These manifestations are only the symptoms of a disease. To cure or combat the disease, one must find its source, its characteristics and its evolution. To comprehend – not to excuse – the reasons for such insane and irrational behaviour, and such intense hatred, one has to learn and understand the background of the people concerned: their core beliefs; their understanding of their theology and their history.

In the last twenty years, Islamic fundamentalism has grown enormously more powerful. It has spread its tentacles and terrorist cells not only to none Muslim countries, but has also become a serious threat to the stability and freedoms of many Muslim states from Algeria to Uzbekistan.

They have methodically and insidiously used the mosques and the religious education of their children to spread their CULT of hate. Already there are several ‘Muslim’ states controlled by despotic theocracies such as Iran, Sudan and Afghanistan to name but a few. Human rights and freedoms in these countries have no existence or relevance, since the ‘religious’ rulers have arrogated to themselves the sole right to act ‘In The Name of ALLAH’.

In these countries, more than half the population – all women – are oppressed, disfranchised, marginalized and their human rights trampled upon. They are treated more like Domestic Animals than Dignified Human Beings. The same ‘Muslim’ and Arab peoples, contrary to reality and facts, blame their misfortunes and poverty on the West and Others instead of on their mostly corrupt leaders and unconstitutional governments.

Putting it in the most basic and elemental context, the ‘engine’ that drives their apocalyptic rage is jealousy, envy, spite & ignorance. This may sound very simplistic; so be it, since nothing else can explain their disturbed mental condition.

They are jealous and envious of the success of many none Muslim countries – especially the Christian West and Israel.

They hark back to the centuries when ‘Islam’ was the dominant imperialist power on earth and find it extremely difficult to comprehend or accept the facts of life that while their power has ebbed away and diminished through their own faults, the West and Others – invariably democratic governments – have excelled and flourished because of their liberal and egalitarian societies.

It is always easier for people to blame someone else for their own failures, with the certain but dire consequences that they will never be able to rectify their situation unless and until they face facts and reality.

Without democratising and liberalising the Muslim peoples’ systems of authoritarian and unrepresentative governments and making them accountable, they will never be able to get out from their miserable circumstances and share the wealth that the world economies can offer.

"The greatest threat to the civilized world in the 21st century is not nuclear weapons, but most assuredly Fundamentalist Muhammadan Islam, with or without weapons of mass destruction. They believe and state clearly and unambiguously, that the whole world must be converted to their version of Islam and that no other religion should exist."

It is possible that the above statements will encounter a lot of disbelief and outrage among some people. Some may consider them ‘racist’ or ‘extremist’. The contents of this thesis aim to show beyond a reasonable doubt, that these statements are not only factual but also true, as they are based entirely on the words of Muhammad and his followers.

In the name of God -any god- millions of people have been killed, murdered and/ or exterminated. In reality, the gods that have been invoked had nothing whatsoever to do with the actions of the humans who were using/abusing their names.

History shows us without a shadow of a doubt, that religion was invariably used as a façade to hide the true purpose of all wars of aggression:

That is, the consolidation of power through fear and the acquisition of wealth in all its manifestations.

I have endeavoured to compile this thesis in a concise manner without compromising my objectives. My intention is to give the reader a panorama of the subject without delving into unnecessary details. I have done my best to put before the reader the history and our understanding of the traditions of the Arabs before Islam. This is followed by a brief history of the Arabs and the rise of Islam until the death of Muhammad.

Before exploring the history of the Arabs after Islam and their conquests, I have endeavoured to elucidate the background and genesis of the Quran, since it was – and still is – the propellant that ignited and sustained their belief in their theological supremacy over all others, thus leading to their conquests and expansion.

I have concentrated on what in my opinion are its most relevant chapters and verses and have compared and contrasted the Biblical, Scriptural and pagan Arabian religious narratives mentioned therein with their original versions, showing innumerable instances where the Quranic stories deviate substantially from them in form and content.

The final section describes the Arab and ‘Muslim’ conquests, concentrating on the most important personalities and events. The dynasties of Arab and Muslim rulers are plotted, but only the most prominent leaders are elaborated upon in detail. Maps, genealogies and family trees are supplied so as to keep the stories connected and in focus.

Copious definitions of Arabic words and expressions are supplied in as comprehensive a glossary of ‘Definitions’ as possible. The objective is to enlighten the reader under one ‘roof’ without overwhelming him with unimportant information.

This thesis has been made freely accessible to all because its only purpose is to inform and challenge the intellect of its readers. Any and all those who doubt anything within, can confirm or refute any of the information contained therein by using the internet, which holds more instant information than ever in the history of mankind.

All the author asks the reader to do is to use his/her God-given intelligence to evaluate, compare, contrast, research and investigate, arriving at their own conclusion.

Finally, the author is solely responsible for all the contents of this thesis, having had no recourse to any outside advisors, editors or publishers.

1st November 2000, London, England

Note: Since the September 11th attacks by ‘Muslim’ terrorists against the USA, the world media and books have inundated the public with information, misinformation and disinformation about Islam.

Politicians and theologians keep repeating the mantra that Islam is a religion of ‘peace’, when the history of Muhammadan Islam is written with the blood of conquests and subjugation of tens of millions of nations in at least twenty-five countries spanning three continents – Asia, Africa and Europe – stretching from India and China in the east to the Atlantic in the west. The subject peoples of these lands – who had their own religions and beliefs – did not voluntarily become ‘Muslims’ through dialogue and spiritual enlightenment.

I have had to wait until now, (6th May 2006), to put my thesis on line since no one was willing – because of fear of retaliation – to consider printing it into a book. In-spite of the dangers involved in exposing many facts that most would not dare mention, I have decided to take the risk of making my research public and available to those who seek facts and the truth.

PS: I have used the term Muslim in this Introduction so as not to confuse the reader at this stage. In my thesis, the term Muslim has been replaced by the more factual and accurate MUHAMMADAN MUSLIM.

Writen by: http://inthenameofallah.org/

See also: History The Jews of Arabia (Videos).

httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=01288769D5DD8B6F

Lo único que los palestinos modernos tienen en común con los antiguos filisteos es que ambos fueron invasores, ambos llevaron a cabo una ocupación de territorios que no les correspondían. El significado de palestinos es exactamente eso, invasores, o peleshet, del verbo pelesh, significando divisores, penetradores, o invasores.

Los filisteos (los peleshati) eran originarios de la isla de Creta. Siendo gente de mar llegaron hasta las costas del sur de Canaan donde se les llamó Peleshtim y Keretim. El primer territorio que ocuparon fue Gaza, una franja de territorio junto al Mediterráneo algo más ancha que la moderna Gaza.

Nunca llegaron a ocupar ninguna tierra relativamente cercana a Jerusalén, Hebrón y Jericó. Esto deberían tenerlo en cuenta los palestinos que tienen la pretensión de que Jerusalén les pertenece.

Si los antepasados de los palestinos son los filisteos, como algunos reclaman, la audacia de reclamar Jerusalén para ellos es una burla al mundo entero.

Los filisteos fueron en última instancia derrotados por David y reducidos a un grupúsculo insignificante. Los mejores de sus guerreros fueron escogidos para constituir la guardia personal de David. El resto fue avasallado por Sargón II de Asiria, desapareciendo consecuentemente de la historia para siempre.

A continuación un escrito relatado:

Escritas por Yoshiro Shagamori en 2002, estas preguntas siguen teniendo la misma validez y hasta el momento, no conozco nadie que las haya podido responder. Esto es un extracto de un artículo que escribió en Noviembre de 2002 denominado " Quienes son los palestinos?":

Si Ustedes están tan seguros que Palestina, el país fue fundado hace muchos siglos, o generaciones y registrada a través de la Historia escrita, espero que estén capacitados para responder a las siguientes preguntas:

¿Cuándo Palestina fue fundada y por quién?

¿Cuáles eran sus fronteras?

¿Cuál era su capital?

¿Cuáles eran sus grandes ciudades?

¿Cuál era la base de su economía?

¿Cuál era su forma de gobierno?

¿Uds. pueden citar por lo menos un líder palestino antes de Arafat?*

¿Palestina fue reconocida por algún país cuya existencia, en aquel tiempo no deje margen a interpretaciones?

¿Cuál era la lengua hablada en el país Palestina?

¿Cuál la religión que prevalecia en el país Palestina?

¿Cuál era el nombre de su moneda?

Escoja una fecha en el pasado y responda

¿Cuál era la tasa de cambio de la moneda palestina frente al dolar, yen, franco, etc.?

Desde que tal país no existe hoy, explique ¿por qué dejo de existir?

Si Ud. se lamenta por el destino de la pobre Palestina, responda:

¿En que época este país fue orgulloso e independiente?

Si el pueblo que Ud., por engaño, llama palestino es algo más que una colección de gente salida de otros países árabes y si ellos tienen realmente una identidad étnica definida que les asegure el derecho de la autodeterminación

¿Por qué ellos no trataron de ser un país árabe independiente desde 1947 y hasta la derrota devastadora en la Guerra de los Seis Días?

¿Por qué desdeñaron la oportunidad de establecer un Estado Palestina, basado entonces en la Resolución de Naciones Unidas de 1947, que establecíó simultáneamente el derecho del pueblo judío a tener su propio estado, que actualmente es el Estado de Israel?

Espero que Ud. no confunda a los modernos Palestinos con los bíblicos Filisteos.

Cambiar etimología por historia no funciona.

Es curioso que los palestinos quieran hoy lo que rechazaron en 1947, y que sigan insistiendo en la eliminación del Estado de Israel, legítimamente creado por Naciones Unidas, y que integra las mismas.

Conclusión: No existe una sola persona que pueda reclamar hoy lazos sanguíneos con los filisteos.

The question who is a Zionist is often a sterile (difficult) debate over semantics, rather than one of any substance. Contrary to popular concept, one does not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. A Zionist is anyone who believes that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants forever. "Forever" includes today!  Zionist is a term often heard, but it’s not always understood. Many people assume that to be a Zionist, someone must also be Jewish, or conversely, that all Jews are Zionists. This is not the case.

The Zionist movement is not universally supported by Jews. Even today, there are a number of Orthodox Jewish groups that believe that Zionism violates the Torah. For instance, the Neturei Karta, founded and based in Jerusalem, refuses to acknowledge the state of Israel, and makes the false argument that that Torah requires that the land seized from the Palestians in the 20th century must be returned to them.

On the other hand, a number of fundamentalist and evangelical Christians do support ideals of Zionism (The term Zionist can refer to non-Jewish supporters of Israel as well). Their support is religious in nature, sopported by the holy Scriptures. Contrary to popular opinion, Zionism did not begin with the Jewish holocaust, but the (Tanach) Hebrew Scriptures.

Zion is the city of the great King: The references in Scripture to Zion and Jerusalem are to be taken literally as the context may indicate, though they may also be spiritualized since they are a type of His heavenly abode. Those, therefore, who speak against Zion, speak both against God’s earthly and heavenly city.  The Hebrew Scriptures say concerning Zion:

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of HaShem’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. (not to Palestine) Yeshayahu 2:2  "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of HaShem, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of HaShem from Jerusalem. Yeshayahu 2:3

Coming world redemption through Mashiach, peace and prosperity from Zion, the Hebrew scriptures speak:

"For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." Yeshayahu / Isaiah 62:1

"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings [Mashiach's work] of good, that publishes salvation; that saith unto Zion, Your God reignet!” Yeshayahu 52:7

"HaShem will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise HaShem! " (Tehillim / Psalm 146:10).

Biblical Jewish eschatology envisions the construction of The Third Temple in Jerusalem associated with the coming of the Jewish Messiah, and thus, adherents of Orthodox Judaism anticipate a Third Temple. The al-Aqsa Mosque (the golden Pimple) or the abomination that causes desolation will be removed soon, so that it can open the space for the holy Jewish temple. The prophet Daniel says:

He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him” (Daniel 9:27).

The sons of Yishmael (Ismael) say:

The deputy chief of the Islamist movement in Israel Kimal Al-Khatib told thousands of children in a Saturday Islamist protest on the Temple Mount that the Jewish Temple will never be rebuilt. His speech was published in the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper Monday morning. “If the Jews think that their mourning will end and they will rejoice by destroying the Al-Aqsa mosque and building their Temple, we say to them that their dream will not be fulfilled and they will continue to mourn. Al-Aqsa is for Muslims only,” he said.

WorldNetDaily’s editor said:

"For the life of me, I don’t know how anyone can ignore what the Bible says about Israel and Jerusalem being the center of things. The very existence of Israel as a reborn Jewish state is a testament to God’s covenant with his chosen people. The United Nations may have been the worldly vehicle to proclaim the nation born in a day in 1948, but it was part of a heavenly plan. Has there ever been another nation that ceased to exist for nearly 2,000 years and was and reborn in a day, just as the prophet Isaiah predicted? I don’t know of any… If we don’t take the Bible seriously, … the Middle East conflict is reduced to a materialistic struggle over worthless real estate. There are forces at work in this conflict that cannot be seen or understood by man. It’s not only the focal point of the world, right now, it’s also the focal point of the spiritual universe."

The funny thing is that the Ismaelim / Edomim (Muslim) say that the Jewish temple never existed at Temple Mount, that its existence is "Zionist propaganda". Now they the say "never be REbuilt", so they admit they were lying before.

This abomination is the Dome of the Rock causes desolation for the worshippers of the true God. 

I think is time to stop thinking that all pictures of Jerusalem should include the GOLDEN PIMPLE. It is time to begin to hunger for the holy Temple of HaShem. The Golden Pimple (Dome of the Rock ) is not holy. It is time to ask HaShem to drop it. And to allow us to rebuild the holy Temple. Amen.

Just remember, it is not the end of the world. It may be just the beginning — or the birth pangs — of a new one." We must fight back, strengthen Israel, and influence.

Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. there has been a deep desire among many observant Jews both out in the Diaspora and back in Eretz Israel to rebuild the Jewish Temple.

At the present time the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple is quite impossible from a political perspective. The Temple Mount area is under rather strict Islamic control. They give the permission for all and everything that goes on up on this the most prized real estate on the planet. But the prophetic scriptures indicate that the political equation will change at some point (hopefully soon). And the Jewish Third Temple will indeed be rebuilt. We can only assume that those sad conditions we see and take for granted today will change quite dramatically as an outcome of some future history. It will of necessity have to be a major upheaval and a sudden turnaround in the political realities on the ground. At some point there will be a new peace on the Temple Mount.

What power will have come onto the scene to change the longstanding ‘status quo’ here? What national or international entity will have done this and what will have happened? Well at present we do not know exactly (I think a lot of chutzpa will help though). But one thing we can say with some assurance. At some future time the Temple Mount in Jerusalem will be taken out of Islamic control and secured for Israel. A very significant Middle East peace will be confirmed and guaranteed. This rebuilding of the Temple will at some future time be permitted and enforced by Jewish people who come to the realization that this is another commandment to be fulfilled!

May the Temple be built speedily then at last the false religions will disapear and all will glorify HaShem in the manner? that He commanded. May the Golden Pimple be gone, may Mashiach come to teach from it soon in our days!

I have prayed in the Temple mount. It was the most amazing experience I have ever had. This is the place where God has chosen to place His Name there. Why would I not want to do pray there! Why would I allow infidels (Muslims) to dictate what I should do in the place of my God?

Shalom my name is Mordecai I became a believer in HaShem in 2011. I was baptized as a Roman Catholic in my childhood and I later became Muslim when I was 20 yrs old. I decided to follow the path of Jesus when I was 5 yrs old because I thought it was a good thing to do, but my parents being secular they did not take me to Church, nor did we have a Bible in the house, I had the zeal, but with no knowledge of the Bible.

When I was 7 yrs old my parents moved to Ajax. Because the babysitters children were going to a Roman Catholic school, my parents wanted me to go there too. At the Roman Catholic school I learned a little bit about the Bible, but I only learned what they wanted me to learn which still wasn’t enough to combat Islam.

When I was 10 yrs old I was tested with the knowledge that I had, someone started to preach to me Islam and I believed it was from God, and that I had to give up believing in the Bible because God didn’t like it, I thought it was a sin to believe in the Bible. The reasons I believed Islam was the truth was because

1. I did’nt have in depth knowledge of the Bible,

2. I did’nt know when to take something literally and when to take something metaphorically,

3. In the Roman Catholic school they taught us not to read the dictionary, ‘only open the dictionary to find the definition of a word you do not know,’ that way you’ll never be smarter than the system.

I lived a secular life from 10 yrs old, until I was 20 yrs old, because I thought it was a sin to believe in the Bible, and I did’nt have a Quran either. When I became a Muslim I started to preach Islam, I realize I had to study the Bible in order combat Christains and Jews.

One of the main things Muslims use to combat Bible believers is to show them how the Bible was changed, and they do this by showing that there are contradictions int he Bible. I came to realize these were not contradictions, but merely differences of observation and opinion, not mistakes. The Bible was revealed, recorded, then later compiled, just as the Quran was. The man Muhammed claimed to be a messenger of HaShem, but one of the conditions for someone to be a prophet of HaShem is that they have to uphold the Torah given to Moses, (Deuteronomy 13:1-5).

Muhammed did not uphold what HaShem had commanded (The Torah) he came with something different. Muhammed claimed that to say that ‘God is our father and we are his children’ even metaphorically is blasphemy, but according to Jewish law it is not blasphemy to say that HaShem is our father and we are his children, as far as I know no prophet or messenger from Adam to Yeshua ever even brought this issue up, if it was so important it would be one of the first issues to be brought forth. Muhammed came with a different god and a different Messiah, Yeshua told us to beware and not to follow such people (Matthew 24:10-15).

Yes Islam makes some sense logically, but without the blessings of HaShem and a Holy Spirit to recieve, it is a ravening wolf (Matthew 7:15-28).

When I realized Muhammed was not a prophet I gave up Islam for good and started to focus on Judaism because they believed in one God and in his oneness. I was willing to become an orthodox Jew who did’nt believe in Yeshua simply because I did’nt know any other way to combat Christianity and. I started to listen to Tovia Singer and Asher Meza who are anti-missionaries. They expounded and tried to debunk the versus that believers in Yeshua used to support their claim that Yeshua is the Messiah ie; (Isaiah 7:14), (Zechariah 9:9), (Isaiah 53:7 & 53:9).

As I started to study these versus in depth I realized that I was wrong and the anti-missionaries were wrong. These versus that believers in Yeshua use, definitely do prove without a doubt that Yeshua is the Messiah! I repented and became a believer in Yeshua again. I went on Facebook to see if there was anyone who believed in Yeshua as I did without believing in the Trinity. I came across Beth Ha Derech, an orthodox rabbinical Messianic congregation in the same city where I live, what a blessing! Now I could even make Shabbat! Here is a sancturary where I can learn HaShem’s Torah with rabbinical commentary and about Yeshua the Jewish Messiah.

httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=01288769D5DD8B6F

Up to 85 percent of Arabs in greater Israel stem from Jewish ancestors, it is estimated. Some of them want to become fully Jewish, but most are scared to even talk about it.

[Freeman Note: This does NOT mean 85% of Arabs, who are of a different genetic structure. The researcher is talking about Arabs living in Eretz Yisrael during the various Moslem invasions and forcible conversions.]

“In our search for the lost Ten Tribes in India and Afghanistan, we seem to have forgotten to look for their descendants in our very own backyard.” So says the narrator in a new film about the efforts of a former hi-tech pioneer named Tzvi MiSinai to search out the Jewish roots of Israel’s Arab enemies – and to inform them of their Judaic heritage. [click here to see the video footage]

MiSinai has spent about a half-million shekels, he estimates, on these efforts. They include visiting dangerous places deep inside Palestinian Authority-controlled territory, hearing the stories of Arabs who remember observing Jewish customs, and distributing literature to Jews and Arabs alike.

One Arab says his father told him the secret of his family’s Jewishness on his deathbed, while another one, on the backdrop of a photo of the saintly Cabalistic sage Rabbi Abuchatzeira on his wall, says their roots have been known in his family for generations. Wrapping what apparently used to be kosher tefillin on his arm, he says, “My father used to do this, and he taught us to do it whenever someone was sick or in trouble.”

The Jews Who Didn’t Leave

It is generally accepted that most Jews left the Land of Israel after the failed Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE. Yet many remained, and of these, many are still here, after having been forced to convert to Islam. “It turns out that a large part of the Arabs of the Land of Israel are actually descendants of forced converts to Islam over the years,” says Rabbi Dov Stein of the nascent Sanhedrin rabbinical council. “There are some studies that say that 85 percent of the Arabs in Israel are descended from Jews; others say there are fewer.”

Ben-Gurion Agrees

The claims are not new. Early Zionist leaders David Ben-Gurion and Yitzchak Ben-Tzvi wrote in a book 100 years ago: “If we investigate the origins of the Felahim, there is no doubt that much Jewish blood runs in their veins.” The authors implied that these Jews loved the Land so much that they were willing to give up their religion. The reference is probably to an edict in the year 1012 by Caliph el-Hakim, who ordered the non-Muslims to either convert or leave the Land of Israel. It is estimated that 90 percent of the Jews chose the former, though many continued to practice Judaism in secret. The decree was revoked 32 years later – apparently too late for about 75 percent of the converts.

Tzvi MiSinai continues to convince Arabs in Judea and Samaria that they are likely Jewish. The film shows him passing through the Gush Etzion checkpoint and distributing  pamphlets both to Israeli soldiers – “so that you’ll know who you’re checking here” – and to the Arabs waiting there – “so that you’ll know who the majority of you are.” Asked by an Arab if he is from the peace movement, MiSinai answers, “Yes, yes, peace, so that we can live together as one nation.”

The Sawarka Bedouin Jews

One place where MiSinai has apparently found very strong Jewish roots is in the Bedouin tribe known as the Sawarka. There are about 3-4,000 of them throughout the Sinai and the Negev, and they “are all Jewish,” says a tribal leader in perfect Hebrew. With his face camouflaged for the cameras, the Bedouin says, “They had no choice but to convert; this was centuries ago… I remember my mother and grandmother wouldn’t light fire on Sabbath, and they had a special mikveh…”

Others, in a Bedouin village east of Hebron, also remember burning a small piece of dough (reminiscent of the Biblical command to separate a small piece of dough when baking bread), lighting candles at graves, and tearing clothes and sitting shiva for seven days, and not three as is Muslim practice.

Even today, ritual circumcisions are carried out after the seventh day of birth.  Many homes in some of the Arab villages have doorpost indentations for a Mezuzah, with a scroll placed in some of them.

In another village just south of Hevron, Muhammed Amsalem – a descendant of Spanish Jews – told Aharon Granot of Mishpacha magazine that everyone in town knows he and his clan are Jews: “Our elders tell us that our forefathers came to this land during the [15th century] Spanish Inquisition, via Morocco. They settled in Ramle. Then the Mamluks forced them to convert to Islam, and they moved to the South Hevron area.”

Amsalem says they decided to reveal their Jewish roots after the 1967 Six Day War when they learned that a Jewish community had been reestablished in Hevron. “But the Jews saw we had no knowledge of their religious practices and refused to accept us… If the Jewish community would be willing to receive us today, we would join them with great enthusiasm.”

In the area of the South Hevron Hills, half of the Arabs are aware of the Jewish origins. They used to talk about it openly, though no longer. One man who recently publicized a silver Chanukah menorah that had been passed down to him from his father and previous generations was hung by terrorists by his feet for six weeks, leaving him with permanent injuries.

Genetic Studies Back Claims

At the Hadassah Medical School labs, Prof. Ariela Oppenheim of Hebrew University performed an international genetic study that backs up conclusions of Jewish-Arab genetic similarities. “We found that despite the dispersion of Jews around the world for 2,000 years, they essentially kept their Jewish continuity,” Oppenheim said. “In addition, we found that the Jewish population is surprisingly close, genetically, to the Arabs living here in Israel.”

She said that the study shows that both the Arabs of Israel and the Jews are descended from the Kurds of Aram in Babylon – the birthplace of the Patriarch Abraham. 

“It’s clear that we’re all from the same family,” Oppenheim concludes. “Most unfortunately, however, there are conflicts even within families, and sometimes brothers fight as well. I wish this is what will bring the Redemption, but I’m very sad to say that I don’t think so.”

Some Want to Return to Observant Judaism

South of Hevron, in Yatta, there is a large formerly-Jewish presence – and some even want to return to active Judaism. It is widely known there that half the residents are of the originally-Jewish Mahamra clan – a name that means “winemaker,” a trade that is forbidden according to Islam. “The people in these areas converted to Islam later in history,” MiSinai says, “and therefore more customs and knowledge and artifacts have been preserved.” These include Jewish stars over the entrances to homes, while in at least one house, the family has hidden a mezuzah and tefillin in creative hiding spots. One man pulled out a small Hebrew booklet of Psalms and Tanya with which he says he continues to secretly pray.

Miro Cohen, a Jew from Tekoa, in eastern Gush Etzion, is very friendly with the Arabs in a nearby village known as Kawazbe – a name that he and they agree is merely a corruption of Kuzeiba, the original name of the famous Bar Kokhba.

“These people are the descendants of Bar Kokhba,” Cohen declares. One Arab sitting with him can count his ancestors eight generations back, ending with a grandfather named Kawazbeh.  Another village elder says openly that his grandfather was  a Jew who converted to Islam. Some of the residents want to return to Judaism; they don’t call it converting, because they are “already Jewish.”  On the other hand, Arabs with the name Kawazbeh have been arrested for terrorist activity against Israel.

Other areas where Arabs of Jewish descent reside are Kfar Anzah in Samaria, Samoa in southern Judea, villages in the Tel Arad area, and more. Rabbi Stein says, “We know that up to about 200 years ago, the Galilee village of Sakhnin was a Jewish town, with an active synagogue. The Turks pressured them to convert to Islam, but the people there know that they are of Jewish origins.”

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Av 20, 5769, 10 August 09; by Hillel Fendel
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As a bible believer I believe that the Palestinian (Arabs from the Arabian peninsula) should have their own state. They should have their own democratic government running their own issue (Hamas not Fatah, who was not democratic elected).

They should have their own territory, which they would be able to rule as they wish, and they should be able to vote for whom they want to with out any interference from any country (USA or any other), and the government voted democratically should be able to recognized and respected by the leaders of world, to respect the choices the people of Falestine makes (remember Hamas which means in Hebrew destruction, was voted by the people as the Falestinian government).

The Falestinian people should be able to create their own history (they got none, they are Arabs from many countries in the Arabian Peninsula, meaning, not natives from the land, squatters).

I believe that as Falestinians, and as Arabs they should have their own state any where they wish to, but NEVER in the land of Israel, the JEWISH homeland, but in any of the Arabian peninsula states they wish to (like South Arabia, Katar, Kuwait, Irak, Lebanon and Jordan) or even in the United States, in stolen lands from other peoples, like New Mexico, Ohaio, Los Angeles, Texas, Puerto Rico, (there is too many to go on) or even Washington (since president O Husain Obama loves them so much).

If any Arab or Christian wishes to live in the Jewish homeland, they should be able to pledge allegiance to the Jewish state. If they do not, they should be able to chose any other place to live, any where else, but ISRAEL, the Jewish homeland. (note from the writer: I do not hate Arabs, I love them, but I do not appreciate their wish to kill the people of God, Jewish people should be able to live in Peace).

The Palestinians should at least be able to pronounce their own name, since in Arabic there is not a P sound, so they sound it as Falesstinians.

I believe the coming of the mahdi, the Jewish anti-Messiah, whom will be defeated by the Jewish Messiah. The God of Israel will establish the kingdom of God here on earth, we will rebuild the Temple, and only those who call the name of HaShem (the God of Israel) will be saved. We want Mashiach now!

Please view this video: A Jewish Response to Barack Obama’s Cairo Speech

Summary: On June 4, 2009, US President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Cairo, Egypt that contained a distorted view of the Jewish people’s historical ties to the land of their forefathers, the land of Israel. This video by the Temple Institute in Jerusalem is a response to that speech.

While president Hussein Obama is busy preaching how peaceful Islam is… did he even just once, casually mention their history of violent Arab colonialism worldwide?

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet! The Religion of Peace? No, they mean the Religion of Piece, a Piece of Israel; Piece of America; Piece of the UK; Piece of Europe; Piece of Asia; Piece of . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nImmsxXoLO0

Pray for the protection of the people of Israel.

Hamas, Fatah Coordinate May 15 Assault on Israel

Hamas and Fatah, the twin terror groups that represent the "Palestinian people" in Land of Israel west of the River Jordan, are cooperating on a project for intimidating and embarrassing Israel on May 15. The date is the 63rd Gregorian calendar anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948.

Dr. Zakaria al-Agha, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said Monday that a joint Fatah-Hamas committee for marking "the 63rd Nakba Day" had been formed, and that negotiations were under way with "all of the nationalist and Islamic forces" in order to carry out a joint, central action on the day. The plans reportedly include mass marches toward Israel from all of the countries surrounding it, by Arabs and foreign sympathizers.

"Nakba," or "disaster," is what the Palestinian Authority Arabs call the establishment of the Jewish state, which occurred despite a concerted Arab attempt to kill the Jews in Israel.

An internet campaign dubs the events "the Third Intifadah" (or uprising).

Egypt is worried by the plans, according to a report on PA news agency Ma’an. It has raised the level of alert of its army and beefed up its forces in northern Sinai and the borders with Gaza and Israel, in preparation for May 15.

Nationalist Egyptians organizing through Facebook are reportedly preparing to leave El Arish May 14 and head toward Israel by land and on the sea. Egypt is preparing to close off all entrances to northern and southern Sinai in advance of this.

The post-World War One British Mandate for Palestine encompassed all of present-day Israel and Jordan. Despite the Balfour Declaration giving it to a Jewish homeland, seventy-five percent of the territory was given to the Arabs in 1923, creating a new country, Jordan. The remaining 25% – present-day Israel – has been contested bitterly by the Arabs ever since.

Hamas and Fatah are poised to sign a treaty of cooperation Wednesday in Cairo.

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by Gil Ronen

Tehillim / psalm 83

83:1 A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. 83:2 O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God. 83:3 For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head. 83:4 They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured ones. 83:5 They have said: ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.’ 83:6 For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant; 83:7 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; 83:8 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 83:9 Assyria also is joined with them; they have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah 83:10 Do Thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon; 83:11 Who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth. 83:12 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes; 83:13 Who said: ‘Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.’ 83:14 O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind. 83:15 As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze; 83:16 So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm. 83:17 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O the Lord. 83:18 Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish; 83:19 That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the Lord, the Most High over all the earth.

There are no difference between Islamic rule and Nazi-rule. Both are based on hate for God’s chosen people. Muslims who attack Israel are a cursed people. They need to be delivered from this false religion, and embrace the truth. The truth is found in the Bible.  We who know the Messiah have been set free from sins and wickedness. Islam is nothing but submission to a rule of hate, violence and destruction. Self-destruction in its most cruel and ugly form. There is not a single free and democratic state in the Arab World after 1.300 years of Islamic rule.

Israel is the radical opposite. 63 years after its rebirth. Israel is a state built on freedom, liberty and democratic values. A nation built on hope, hope for true peace and a better tomorrow. The Messiah will not come back to Mecca, nor Damascus. He will return to His own people in Jerusalem, to bring judgment on the wicked, and save those who are waiting for Him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_KfRYKEH0

The following is an unbelievable excerpted from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Parliament Hill Monday to a gathering of international parliamentarians and experts attending a conference on combating anti-Semitism:

Two weeks ago I visited Ukraine for the first time. At the killing grounds of Babyn Yar, I knew I was standing in a place where evil – evil at its most cruel, obscene, and grotesque – had been unleashed. But while evil of this magnitude may be unfathomable, it is nonetheless a fact.

It is a fact of history. And it is a fact of our nature – that humans can choose to be inhuman. This is the paradox of freedom. That awesome power, that grave responsibility – to choose between good and evil.

Let us not forget that even in the darkest hours of the Holocaust, men were free to choose good. And some did. That is the eternal witness of the Righteous Among the Nations.

And let us not forget that even now, there are those who would choose evil, and would launch another Holocaust, if left unchecked. That is the challenge before us today.

In response to this resurgence of moral ambivalence on these issues, we must speak clearly.

Remembering the Holocaust is not merely an act of historical recognition. It must also be an understanding and an undertaking. An understanding that the same threats exist today. And an undertaking of a solemn responsibility to fight those threats.

Jews today in many parts of the world and many different settings are increasingly subjected to vandalism, threats, slurs, and just plain, old-fashioned lies.

Let me draw your attention to some particularly disturbing trends.

Anti-Semitism has gained a place at our universities, where at times it is not the mob who are removed, but the Jewish students under attack. And, under the shadow of a hateful ideology with global ambitions, one which targets the Jewish homeland as a scapegoat, Jews are savagely attacked around the world – such as, most appallingly, in Mumbai in 2008.

We have seen all this before. And we have no excuse to be complacent. In fact we have a duty to take action. And for all of us, that starts at home.

In Canada, we have taken a number of steps to assess and combat anti-Semitism in our own country. But of course we must also combat anti-Semitism beyond our borders, – an evolving, global phenomenon. And we must recognize, that while its substance is as crude as ever, its method is now more sophisticated.

Harnessing disparate anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-Western ideologies, it targets the Jewish people by targeting the Jewish homeland, Israel, as the source of injustice and conflict in the world, and uses, perversely, the language of human rights to do so.

We must be relentless in exposing this new anti-Semitism for what it is. Of course, like any country, Israel may be subjected to fair criticism. And like any free country, Israel subjects itself to such criticism – healthy, necessary, democratic debate. But when Israel, the only country in the world whose very existence is under attack – Is consistently and conspicuously singled out for condemnation, I believe we are morally obligated to take a stand. Demonization, double standards, delegitimization, the 3 D’s, it is a responsibility, to stand up to them.

And I know, by the way, because I have the bruises to show for it, that whether it is at the United Nations, or any other international forum, the easy thing to do is simply to just get along and go along with this anti-Israeli rhetoric, to pretend it is just being even-handed, and to excuse oneself with the label of “honest broker.” There are, after all, a lot more votes, a lot more, in being anti-Israeli than in taking a stand. But, as long as I am Prime Minister, whether it is at the UN or the Francophonie or anywhere else, Canada will take that stand, whatever the cost. Not just because it is the right thing to do, but because history shows us, and the ideology of the anti-Israeli mob tells us all too well, that those who threaten the existence of the Jewish people are, in the longer term, a threat to all of us.

Earlier I noted the paradox of freedom. It is freedom that makes us human. Whether it leads to heroism or depravity depends on how we use it.

We are free citizens, but also the elected representatives of free peoples. We have a solemn duty to defend the vulnerable, to challenge the aggressor, to protect and promote human dignity, at home and abroad. None of us knows whether we would choose to do good, in the extreme circumstances of the Righteous. But we do know there are those today who would choose to do evil, if they are so permitted. Thus, we must use our freedom now, and them and their anti-Semitism at every turn.

Our work together is a sign of hope, just as the existence and persistence of the Jewish homeland is a sign of hope. And it is here that history serves not to warn but to inspire.

As I said on the 60th anniversary of its founding, the State of Israel appeared as a light, in a world emerging from deep darkness. Against all odds, that light has not been extinguished. It burns bright, upheld by the universal principles of all civilized nations – freedom, democracy, justice.

By working together more closely in the family of civilized nations, we affirm and strengthen those principles. And we declare our faith in humanity’s future, in the power of good over evil.

Reprint from Canada’s National Post Excerpt: Harper’s speech on Israel, anti-Semitism

Scott Maniquet  November 8, 2010 – 5:59 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfFdhIOoQM

Visit: Conservative Party of Canada | Prime Minister Stephen Harper

At a time where Zionism is defamed and slandered, this article sets out the truth.

I am a Zionist.

I believe that the Jewish people established itself in the Land of Israel, albeit somewhat late. Had it listened to the alarm clock, there would have been no Holocaust, and my dead grandfather – the one I was named after – would have been able to dance a last waltz with grandma on the shores of the Yarkon River.

I am a Zionist.

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator, and also to swear on the road. The Bible does not only contain my history, but also my geography. King Saul went to look for mules on what is today Highway 443, Jonah the Prophet boarded his ship not too far from what is today a Jaffa restaurant, and the balcony where David peeped on Bathsheba must have been bought by some oligarch by now.

I am a Zionist.

The first time I saw my son wearing an IDF uniform I burst into tears, I haven’t missed the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony for 20 years now, and my television was made in Korea, but I taught it to cheer for our national soccer team.

I am a Zionist.

I believe in our right for this land. The people who were persecuted for no reason throughout history have a right to a state of their own plus a free F-16 from the manufacturer. Every display of anti-Semitism from London to Mumbai hurts me, yet deep inside I’m thinking that Jews who choose to live abroad fail to understand something very basic about this world. The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear, but rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

I am a Zionist.

I was fired at in Lebanon, a Katyusha rockets missed me by a few feet in Kiryat Shmona, missiles landed near my home during the first Gulf War, I was in Sderot when the Color Red anti-rocket alert system was activated, terrorists blew themselves up not too far from my parents’ house, and my children stayed in a bomb shelter before they even knew how to pronounce their own name, clinging to a grandmother who arrived here from Poland to escape death. Yet nonetheless, I always felt fortunate to be living here, and I don’t really feel good anywhere else.

I am a Zionist.

I think that anyone who lives here should serve in the army, pay taxes, vote in the elections, and be familiar with the lyrics of at least one Shalom Hanoch song. I think that the State of Israel is not only a place, it is also an idea, and I wholeheartedly believe in the three extra commandments engraved on the wall of the Holocaust museum in Washington: "Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

I am a Zionist.

I already laid down on my back to admire the Sistine Chapel, I bought a postcard at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, and I was deeply impressed by the emerald Buddha at the king’s palace in Bangkok. Yet I still believe that Tel Aviv is more entertaining, the Red Sea is greener, and the Western Wall Tunnels provide for a much more powerful spiritual experience. It is true that I’m not objective, but I’m also not objective in respect to my wife and children.

I am a Zionist.

I am a man of tomorrow but I also live my past. My dynasty includes Moses, Maimonides, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Woody Allen, Bobby Fischer, Bob Dylan, Franz Kafka, Herzl, and Ben-Gurion. I am part of a tiny persecuted minority that influenced the world more than any other nation. While others invested their energies in war, we had the sense to invest in our minds.

I am a Zionist.

I sometimes look around me and become filled with pride, because I live better than a billion Indians, 1.3 billion Chinese, the entire African continent, more than 250 million Indonesians, and also better than the Thais, the Filipinos, the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the entire Muslim world, with the exception of the Sultan of Brunei. I live in a country under siege that has no natural resources, yet nonetheless the traffic lights always work and we have high-speed connection to the Internet.

I am a Zionist.

My Zionism is natural, just like it is natural for me to be a father, a husband, and a son. People who claim that they, and only they, represent the "real Zionism" are ridiculous in my view. My Zionism is not measured by the size of my kippa, by the neighborhood where I live, or by the party I will be voting for. It was born a long time before me, on a snowy street in the ghetto in Budapest where my father stood and attempted, in vain, to understand why the entire world is trying to kill him.

I am a Zionist.

Every time an innocent victim dies, I bow my head because once upon a time I was an innocent victim. I have no desire or intention to adopt the moral standards of my enemies. I do not want to be like them. I do not live on my sword; I merely keep it under my pillow.

I am a Zionist.

I do not only hold on to the rights of our forefathers, but also to the duty of the sons. The people who established this state lived and worked under much worse conditions than I have to face, yet nonetheless they did not make do with mere survival. They also attempted to establish a better, wiser, more humane, and more moral state here. They were willing to die for this cause, and I try to live for its sake.

From YNet, by Yair Lapid: