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The Palestinian/Jewish Question

By Matt Ward




Recently my wife, a geography teacher, currently teaching Religious Education stated that she had taught her children the realities and causes of the Palestinian /Jewish issue stating , “It’s because the Jews have been persecuting the Palestinians in their land for thousands of years, isn’t it?”

She looked at me and all I could do was shake my head in shock and bemusement saying, “No…No, it’s not that at all?”

She then looked at me saying “Really? Because that’s what I’ve taught all my GCSE RE groups at school. Oh no, am I wrong?”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and then attempted to explain before she cut me off and said this was a discussion for another time since we were... “on our way out.”

For Christians this is a crucial point. One of the reasons anti-Semitism is so rampant in the church right now is because this belief is so prevalent and is left unchecked. People in society and the church have bought wholesale into the belief that the Palestinians are a people wronged by the Jewish state, a people who continue to be wronged and that this situation has been going on for a long, long time.

A colleague at work, a math teacher who is a Muslim man explained it to me this way one morning when I enquired from him innocently, what he thought the cause of the Palestinian / Jewish issue was.

His reply, “Matt, if you lived in a big house with all your family and the Jews had come and kicked you out of most of your house and told you that now you can live with all of your family in just the tiny front room, you would act like the Palestinians too.”

It’s the same argument. The same lie. That at some point in the past the Palestinian people, a separate group of people lived in the land we now know as Israel/Palestine and that the Jews came and subjugated them, placing them into the Gaza Strip, oppressing them and suppressing them to this very day.

Nearly the entire world has bought into this lie. And it is straight from the pit of hell.

The truth is somewhat different.

The truth is that the Jews have been in diaspora for nearly two thousand years, thrown to the four corners of the earth, stateless wonderers until 1948 when they regained their homeland. How can they possibly have persecuted the Palestinians when they were not in their own land but scattered throughout the world?

How can they possibly have persecuted the Palestinians when the Palestinians themselves were not in Palestine until 1948! If you or anybody had gone to Israel, Palestine or Jerusalem in 1900 what would you have seen? An Arab people living peacefully, eking out an existence. Or a desolate, empty landscape devoid of inhabitants. A barren wasteland. Ruinous and forgotten?

The Real History of the Region

In 70 AD the full might of the Roman Empire came against that region. The Jews living then in Israel, just a short time after the death of Jesus in circa 33AD had rebelled and the Emperor Vespasian sent his son, General Titus with his Tenth Legion to crush the revolt. And crush it they did. Millions of Jews died in the siege of Jerusalem with the Jewish inhabitants so oppressed that they were reduced to cannibalising their own children to survive.

When the end came it was carnage. Those not slaughtered by the Roman hoard where reduced to slavery and marched off to the Roman Empire with the rest scattered to the winds of the earth. So hated were the Jews by the Romans that they then renamed Israel Palestine as a deep insult to the Jews. They renamed Israel after the Jewish peoples oldest and most hated of enemies, the Philistines, long since extinct.

This is where the name “Palestine” comes from. From the Romans. Today’s Palestinians take their name from the land, the land is not named after the Palestinians.

But the Romans weren’t finished. So hated were the Jews by the Romans that they then sowed salt into the earth, so that nothing would grow there. And nothing did grow there for two thousand years.

If you or I could have visited Israel, Jerusalem or Palestine in 1900 we would have found a barren land, devoid of inhabitants with the exception of small nomadic groups wandering here and there. There were no Palestinians there, there were no Jews there.

A Modern “Unpleasant” Truth

What then is the reality of this land, amidst all the lies and propaganda? It is this.

The Palestinians, who in reality are Jordanians, have been in the land exactly the same amount of time as the Jews, since 1948. The UN Mandate that granted a homeland to the Jews in 1948 was the time the currently known as Palestinian People were placed into the current Gaza Strip and it was the Emir of Jordan that made the decision to annex them in Gaza, not the Jews or the UN. It was Arabs that began the persecution of this people, not the Jews.

Furthermore the original UN mandate for a Jewish homeland, also, in the same charter granted the Palestinians their own homeland beside Israel – but they said no! The reason they said no is the same reason they have declined a homeland on each occasion so far…because it’s not about getting a homeland, it’s about getting rid of the Jews from Palestine.

As Christians we should be under no illusion. On this issue there is no middle ground. Biblically that land belongs to the Jews and all of the land too, not just the small portion currently defined as Israel.

We are seeing prophecies come to pass in our own time about this nation and need to beware as God clearly says, “…for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye” (Zechariah 2:8.)

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people” (Zechariah 12:3).

Jerusalem is a burdensome stone right now, today. Of Jerusalem God himself says:

“See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me” (Isaiah 49:16) .

God loves Jerusalem and Israel and He loves the Jewish people though He has been dealing with the Gentiles for a season during this Church Age, but He has not forgotten about the sons of Abraham,

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!” (Isaiah 49:15).

The land belongs to Israel. God has not yet finished with the Jewish people. Be on the right side of history

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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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This issue of the two people who are, in reality, two brothers who went two different directions is about the "Birthright". It began when Isaac & Rebecca had twin sons. Esau was the elder who gave up his "Birth Right" to his younger brother Jacob.

This took place after Abraham's son Isaac, the Son of Promise , given to him in his old age AND it took place when Abraham had already been established in the Land of Promise given to him by Almighty God.

So, it can be established, the two brothers were born in the Land of Israel.

Scripture tells us this in Romans 9:11-13 that God loved Jacob (Israel) and hated Esau (Edom, contemporary Palestinians) even in their mother's womb. This may sound extremely harsh, especially for God. But, He being The Almighty One, knew Esau would become a profane, licentious and rebellious person who would hate his brother Jacob.

Esau, showed indifference to his birthright and he showed indifference to the righteous standards of his parents by marrying two women who were not followers of God.

God had revealed to Rebecca that her oldest twin, Esau, would serve the younger Jacob. Rebecca acted on this revelation by having Jacob trick his father into bestowing the blessing, normally, reserved for the oldest upon himself.

Yes, it was through trickery that Jacob gained the promise that God had for him. It cost him dearly and he had to flee for his life. All his life, he had one misfortune after another as he lived many years in exile. (Hasn't Israel, the nation, also lived many years in exile?)

Esau did receive a blessing from his father Isaac, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above, you will live by the sword and you will serve your brother, but when you grown restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck". This means that they would not reside in "The Land" (Israel). This grudge between brothers continues to this day.

Esau (the Edomites) has thrown off the yoke and is determined to get back the birthright he believes is rightly his. This is what is playing out in Israel today. You may think the Edomites/Palestinians have a right to feel this way but we must go back to the Bible and how God has determined it from the get-go. God's Word is the Only and Final Authority.

These Edomites were given land to the East (which is in modern day Jordan). Has Jordan been part of the on-going trickery by the United Nations to get rid of the Real Israelites by moving these people into the newly declared Land of Israel in 1948. You bet.

God, in His Sovereign knowledge, could not have Esau, after giving up the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, be the one through whom the Messiah would come forth. Christians, please keep this in mind when you try to separate the facts from propaganda.

Sure, since the Land of Israel was pretty well deserted by the events of 70 AD and the Edomites are a nomadic tribe, they occupied parts of Israel but it was not legally theirs. They did not thrive in the land, as was explained in this article...they were simply living like they always did, wandering about with their herds. Even, many of the original Jews were still in the land. They lived side by side for all practical purposes.

When the Arab Nations did not accept the portion set aside for these "wanderers" renamed Palestinians by the revived Roman Empire known as the "United Nations", the people of Israel even offered them citizenship in the land but no, the Palestinians/Edomites believed the Egyptians and Jordan who assured them that they would destroy Israel so they best leave the land.

Well, we know Israel won against great odds and now the Palestinians are constantly making the world believe that they have a right to the land, when they didn't own the land in the first place and actually left it when the Arab nations decided to destroy Israel at it's first year, legally, declared a Nation once again.

So, it needs to be known who it is that is keeping these squatters on the land in the portion known as Gaza in their impoverished condition.

Let's not forget Arafat, the Egyptian who became the first head of the so-called Palestinian Authority. Billions of dollars came from Europe and the United States to help these people get a foot-hold of making something of themselves in this land called Gaza but the money didn't go to the people.

It is a fact that can be searched out on-line, that Arafat squirreled billions of dollars into Swiss banks. He even married a woman to cover up the fact that he, himself was a flaming homosexual. That woman was the wife of one of Arafat's top terrorist leaders. She was paid off and lives in luxury in Europe for her part in the plot. The daughter claimed to be Arafat belongs to this terrorist leader whom did spend years in Israeli prison for his part in crimes against Israel.

I say all of this to show you, that although Israel, herself, has crooked leaders in her own government, the nation of it's people have done their best to help the people despite the on-going hardships put on them by their own people, the Arab nations that surround Israel. It has been Israel's best doctors and hospitals that have been their for the renamed Edomites.

You see, they need this "Cause" to stir up the nations against the one people and land that Almighty God called "His Land".

God cemented the Covenant of this Land in Genesis 35:11-12, "And God said unto him., I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come out of they loins and the Land which I gave Abraham, and Isaac, to thee I will give it and to thy seed after thee will I give the Land". It was with this declaration that God changed Jacob's name to Israel.

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