tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097749014220347853.post5312566339264027766..comments2024-01-30T12:26:03.019-05:00Comments on The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Knowing Who Your Friends AreMighty Garnel Ironhearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09571194550300367249noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097749014220347853.post-50037209106995549782009-05-23T21:19:32.297-04:002009-05-23T21:19:32.297-04:00One of the billion plus contradictions in the Jewi...One of the billion plus contradictions in the Jewish books is of course the question on what constitutes Eretz Yisrael. Different books give different geopraphies for what the so-called holy land such as Numbers 34: 1-12 VS Ezekiel 47: 13-20. For visual map that shows this contradiction please go here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Map_Land_of_Israel.jpg/428px-Map_Land_of_Israel.jpg<br /><br />So if Jews cannot even decide what the so-called holy land is, then it hard to decide what should be given to you. This added with the fact that archaeology has already shown that in fact the history in those books is little more than political propaganda of Judea's kings, since in reality Jews have never had access to all of biblical Canaan.<br /><br />For example AMOS 9:14,15 claims that after the Babylonian exile they would never be uprooted again, but indeed through history we learn they were were uprooted again in ca. 130 CE following the Bar Cochba revolt.<br /><br />That said, there is something important to bare in mind. The Arabs had control of and residence in Jerusalem for close to 13 centuries, which is as long a time or more than that for which the Bani Israel had sovereignty over the area from the conquest of Canaan in ca 1250 CE to the Roman invasion of 70 CE. The Arabs have just as much historical tie to the area as the Jews, if not more. So the idea that Jews have explicit right because their ancestors lived there God knows how long ago is ludicrous.<br /><br />And here is the most important part. Many Jews are descendants from later converts (ever wonder about all those blond haired Jews...). Jews had largely already left prior to any Muslims coming in there, and no, it wasn't because the Romans kicked them all out. That's a distortion of history, Jews had been leaving for other lands for some time, such as to Egypt (Alexandria) and other areas, not out of persecutions, but for the same reason so many people in the "third world" leave their homelands today, economic opportunities. From what I recall, population estimates indicate that prior to the Roman sack, the majority of Jews were already living outside of Palestine. Even after the Roman sack of Jerusalem, there was still a Jewish presence in Palestine after that. How can the descendants (thousands of years later) of people who voluntarily left, or whose ancestors were never there in the first place, lay any claim to the land today?<br /> <br />for a non-biased source for the above date here you go:<br /><br />"Writing in 1971, Salo W. Baron estimated the Jewish population within the borders of the Roman empire at just under 7 million, with slightly more than a million others living outside its borders, mostly to the east; the Jewish population of Palestine he placed at not higher than 2.5 million (Encyclopaedia Judaica [New York: Macmillan, 1972], vol. 13, p. 871). Paul Johnson writes “Though it is impossible to present accurate figures, it is clear that by the time of Christ the diaspora Jews greatly outnumbered the settled Jews of Palestine: perhaps by as many as 4.5 million to 1” (A History of Christianity [New York: Athenaeum, 1976], p. 12). Subsequent estimates generally fall between these extremes. Thus, Wayne Meeks in The First Urban Christians (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983) estimates 1 million Jews in Palestine, 5 million to 6 million in the diaspora."<br /><br />SOURCE: Encyclopaedia Judaica and Yale University Press<br /><br />JEWISH HISTORICAL REVISIONISM BE DAMNED!!!!Shalmohttp://www.codoh.comnoreply@blogger.com