Timothy Birdnow

The Washington Post seems confused about where Jews "belong".

After asking the question they had to beat a hasty retreat and deleted the post.

WaPo deletes post about confusion on 'where Jews belong' after ...

Jews belong in two places:

1.Israel

2. Any other place outside of Israel where they live.

What is so complicated about either of those statements?

Jew is a term for the Tribe of Judah, who historically lived in the southern part of greater Israel. When the ten northern tribes of the 12 seceded from the Kingdom they kept the name Israel while the small tribe of Benjamin (and the Levites) remained in Judea, hence the name.

And while they were forcibly evicted from the land God had given them twice - notably by the Babylonians and later by the Romans - they came back. And even when they had been sent into exile there still remained many Jews not worth deporting to either Babylon or Rome. They have always been in this land since the time of Moses.

Possession is 9/10ths of the law, the old saying goes. They always possessed it, even if they had overlords and johnnie-come-lately colonists.

"Palestinians" don't exist as a people. The name was created by the Romans, a corruption of Phillistia, and it was given to the region as an insult to the Jews who lived there. Rome sought to remove the Jewish influence over the region, so they changed the names of places. The Sea of Gallilea became Lake Tiberius. Sh'chem was renamed by the Romans to Neopolis, Mabartha became Neapolis. Jerusalem became Aelia Capitolina after the emperor Hadrian crushed the second rebellion. And it was Hadrian who changed the name of the entire land to Palestine.

"Palestinians" are immigrants, many illegal, who started coming to take jobs being created by returning Jews during the british mandate, and they came from places like Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. They are not an unique people but rather a mix of different Mulsim peoples. Acting as though they are a traditional people with their own culture and heritage is rather like saying the illegal aliens who invaded the U.S. are aboriginal and have their own culture and tradition and are entitled to own the whole Southwest.

They aren't; they're scofflaws. A great many of the Palestinais are likewise.

In fact when the U.N. first partitioned the land these "Palestinians" had their own country - Transjordan. But the king of Transjordan couldn't maintain order int he lawless West Bank and in Gaza, so he simply dumped the territory and closed off his border. To this day the Jordanians won't let Palestinians come in. THEY knew these were bad people.

(BTW back in the '20's and '30's Ramallah was predominantly Christian. The Moslems have since driven out most if not all of the Christians there and it is an Islamic hellhole.)

At any rate the Jews have every right to this land. And they have every right to live in places where they immigrated, as do everyone else who immigrates legally.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 09:28 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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