Before I commence with my explanation and a bit of history, I would like to clarify few things:
I was born in Kazakhstan, which is a post soviet union country. I am half kazakh and half arab. But, as all of you know, I live in London. So, my roots are from Mecca (from my mum side). And kazakh (from dad side). Won't go in detail about where exactly as it has no relation to the topic I am about to go in. Based on that, my knowledge is purely based on just history and no personal matter, if some of you thought that I am for arabs, etc.
First of all, there was no such a thing as Israel until 1949. Well, techinically 1948 because of declaration.
Why did it happen?
Certainly, there has been a lot of efforts politically over the years, definitely since the creation of state of Israel.
Let's get back to history a bit deeper:
Prophet Ibrahim (as) had two wifes - Sarah and Hagar.
Sarah, who gave birth to Isaaq, where Jews are coming from. And Hagar, who gave birth to Ishmael, where the arabs continued.
Now, before all this, there were only arabs, just to clarify.
What is described above is the roots of the conflict in Palestine now.
Why? Jealousy between the sons of two wifes of Ibrahim, bare in mind that in bible, Hagar mentiones as a servant or slave. But in reality, she was an empress. (For those who did not know).
As well all know, why do great empires come to an end? Because of internecine strife.
Please, there was no islam at the time. And people, at least the ones mentioned here, believed in one God.
Now, when Ibrahim was told to leave his wife and son in deserts, it happened to be so that that was the foundation for Mecca.
But what is known by Palestine now, the holy land, had started from Isaaq.
Now, don't get it twisted, that wasn't the real issue.
The real issue came around after Moses became the prophet. That is, if I'm not mistaken, after approximately 1000 years after Ibrahim.
Skippping all little details, not talking about 12 tribes, etc.
Abraham spoke the Hebrew language and his descendents, therefore, are called Hebrew people. But a grandson of Abraham, by the name of Jacob, was given the title of Israel by God in one of his revelations, and the descendents of Jacob began to be called Israelites. Jacob had twelve sons from whom descended the Biblical Twelve Tribes.
A son of Jacob, by the name of Joseph, was appointed a governor of a province of Egypt by a benevolent king. During his time many Israelites migrated to Egypt from their homeland in the Canaan Babylonia area. The later kings of Egypt, however, treated the Israelites badly who spent the next three hundred years in bondage and servitude under their Egyptian masters.
Some five hundred years after Abraham, one of his descendents by the name of Moses arose and unified the Israelites living in Egypt. Moses eventually led the Israelites out of Egypt towards the land of Cancan.
On the way to Canaan, Moses experienced a vision on Mount Sinai and received the famous Ten Commandments from God. These ten Commandments became the foundation on which the teachings of the Torah were later amplified. Although Judaism contains teachings going as far back as Noah and Abraham, its present form and structure was established essentially by Moses.
After the death of Moses and after their wanderings in the desert for nearly forty years, the Israelites finally settled down in the Canaan area. Here, in the year 1043 BC, the first Israelite kingdom was established by King Saul. Saul was followed by the two great prophet kings of the Israelites, David and his son Solomon. After the death of Solomon, the united kingdom of Israel broke up into two separate kingdoms: the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.
The northern kingdom of Israel lasted until 722 BC when its capital, Samaria, fell to the conquering Assyrians. The southern kingdom of Judah lasted till 586 BC when its capital, Jerusalem, fell to the conquering Babylonians. The Babylonians exiled the Jews from Jerusalem and destroyed their holy city. It was only when Cyrus of Persia defeated the Babylonians in 539 BC that the exiled Israelites were allowed to return to their homeland and rebuild the city of Jerusalem.
The six hundred year period, from the start of the united kingdom to year 400 BC, is one of the most glorious periods in the Israelite history or, for that matter, the history of the world. It was during this period that most of the known prophets of the world appeared. One could even call this period the Age of the Prophets.
Some of the great prophets like Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Amos, Ezekiel, Job, Ezra and Malachi appeared in this period. It was also during this period that the founders of four other great religions, Mahavira, Buddha, Confucius and Lao tze, appeared in India and China. With the death of Malachi, the last of the Israelite prophets, the Old Testament comes to a close around 400 BC.
The Old Testament, or the Hebrew Bible as the Jews prefer to call it, is the sacred book of Judaism. It contains not only the five books of Torah revealed to Moses, but many other books attributed to later prophets such as Joshua, Samuel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Job, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Zechariah and Malachi.
Besides the Hebrew Bible, there are two other texts considered sacred by the Jews: the Mishnah and the Talmud. The Mishnah is a collection of religious laws arranged in six orders which cover agricultural tithes, festivals, marriage, civil laws, sacrifices and ritual purity. The Mishnah was codified around 200 A.D. under Rabbi Judah the Prince. The Talmuds are commentaries on the Mishnah and were written by the middle of the sixth century A.D. in Aramaic, the everyday language of the Jewish people of the time.
This is just a very small conclusion that could have been done.
Now, after 2nd WW, Jews wanted their land back but couldn't do so because Ottoman Empire did not allow any arab to sell any land to a jew so that those could not own anything. But since Ottoman Empire came to an end, England was in charge of those lands. Jews knowing the situation started to bribe the government. Government responded with a simple message: Why don't you simply buy of off them (Arabs) the land you want, after that, we do the talking. Maybe thousands years ago, same arabs would die for that holy land, but now, it was sold at a very high rate knowing that Jews wanted it.
So, here comes the declaration and creation of state of Israel. During the 2nd WW, Jews wanted Crimea (was situated in USSR if you didn't know mr. rude boy) by bribing Stalin. Stalin had to accept the deal due to his early mistakes at the start of the war. But as he got the money from American Jews, he gained power and of course, as you may already know, after winning and getting its portion of the money, Stalin and USSR could pay off the money and Crimea was left within.
So many people told Arabs, do not sell the land, you will win at the end. But well, they did it and now - we have to face the consequences.
If you have anything against my facts above, please, state them with the same respect as I posted my reply to your rude comments.
If I'm being honest, you act like bedouin and a plug in each barrel.
And here I come again, Long Live Palestine.
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