Forgotten Facts Regarding The Middle East

Forgotten? Or Ignored? YOU decide...

In light of the insanity manifesting itself in the Middle East today, maybe we need to take a close look at some reality…C.L.

1. The Jews in the world today are comprised of two large groups known as the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim.

2. The Sephardic Jews are descended from the Palestinian Jews of the first and earlier centuries who settled in various Mediterranean countries from which they spread into the nations of Western Europe. Sepharad was their name for Spain in which there was a large settlement of Jews even in pre-Christian times.

3. The Ashkenazim are descended from the Kazars or Chazars who established a strong kingdom in what is now Southern Russia from which they spread into the nations of Eastern Europe. The Kazars adopted Judaism as a national religion in about the eighth or ninth century and thus became proselyte Jews.

4. A well known Jewish author, Arthur Koestler, in his book, The Thirteenth Tribe, stated that in the 1960's only about 500,000 Sephardim lived in the world, while there were about 11,000,000 Ashkenazim.

5. Koestler further stated that the Kazars trace their ancestry back to Japheth and not to Shem. Therefore they acknowledge that they are neither Semitic nor the descendants of Abraham.

6. Zionist political leaders today have not only been content to allow but to foster the misconceptions concerning their origins in the minds of Gentiles, particularly Christians who have a high regard for the Biblical accounts of a special relationship between the children of Abraham and the land of Palestine.

7. The two leading parties of the Zionist state of Israel today, The Labor Party, and the Likud Party, are both largely Ashkenazim in their make up. The Sephardim in their midst have little representation in government and have considerable difficulty in finding jobs and housing.

8. The nation of Israel today is a secular state and considers the religious Jews, largely the Sephardim, as a problem. The majority of the Ashkenazim regard themselves as atheists.

9. The Ashkenazim, not being of Abraham nor even Semitic, have no more historical claim to the land of Palestine than the Eskimos or Hottentots.

10. The Sephardim are the only Jews who may have some justifiable claim to Palestine as their ancient homeland. However, a careful consideration of this claim reveals some problems.

11. Abraham was not a Jew. If he were, then all his descendants would also be Jews, including the Arabs who claim descent from Abraham through his son Ishmael.

12. Neither were Isaac, Jacob, the twelve sons of Jacob, Moses, nor David ever called Jews in the Bible.

13. After the death of King Solomon, the people of Israel became divided into two nations which were the Kingdom of Israel in the north and the Kingdom of Judah in the south.

14. The Kingdom of Israel was nominally made up of ten tribes, and never had a king of the line of David.

15. The Kingdom of Judah was made up of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. This kingdom always had a king of the line of David until the time of the Babylonian captivity.

16. The word “Jew” is a diminutive of the name “Judah”. It is not used in the Bible in reference to the man Judah nor even to the tribe of Judah. It always refers to the Kingdom of Judah, and means a remnant or a fragment of Judah. It is used in the Bible the very first time in II Kings 16:6 and here in the latter sense.

17. The people of the northern Kingdom of Israel occupied what is now called Samaria, Galilee, the Golan Heights, and the northern coastline up to Tyre. These people are never called Jews in the Bible. The ancestors of today's Jews never lived in these lands.

18. The southern coastline of Palestine, including Gaza, was inhabited in Old Testament times by the Philistines and the people of Judah or Israel never lived there.

19. The northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in the second half of the eighth century B.C. The people were deported to regions of Media by the Assyrians.

20. The Assyrians brought in people from five small nations to inhabit the conquered lands of Israel, and the resultant mixture of these people became known as the Samaritans. They were not of Abraham.

21. 130 years after the Assyrian captivity of Israel, the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by Babylon. The people of Judah were carried captive to the city of Babylon, and this captivity is known as the Exile.

22. There is no known mixture of the people of Israel and the people of Judah during their captivities. These captivities occurred in different centuries, they were brought about by different foreign powers, and the two peoples were sent to different geographical regions. While still in Palestine, these two peoples were not the best of friends, anyway.

23. In the fifth century B.C., a remnant of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. They established the Nation of the Jews which endured until 70 A.D.. These people were well known as Jews, and their history is related by Josephus.

24. The Jews of the first century had no dealings with the Samaritans and certainly never lived in Samaria.

25. The Sephardic Jews of today have no historical claim whatsoever to the West Bank lands of Samaria, the Golan Heights, the northern coastline, etc., since no ancestor of the Sephardim ever lived there.

26. These misconceptions and false premises have become so entrenched in our thinking, our culture, and our Christian traditions that we have been misled into error regarding these matters. To the extent that American foreign policy is based upon such false assumptions, to that extent we are headed for disastrous consequences since truth has a way of eventually catching up with us.

27. Since the Ashkenazim who control Israel today are neither Abrahamic nor even Semitic, then they have become the most vicious Anti-Semitic group in the world in their merciless treatment of the Semitic Arabs in Palestine, both Arab and Christian. Are Zionists practicing Genocide? The answer to that is becoming more obvious by the day.

Sources:

The Holy Bible, Flavius Josephus, The Jewish Encyclopedia, Arthur Koestler, Alfred Lilienthal, Benjamin Freedman

Revelation 3 vs 9: Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

This list of facts was compiled by Joseph Jacobson in 1977

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Hmmmmm….so what do you think?