It does seem that the Arab nations have the greatest claim on the Holy Land. YET ... !
For 3,000 years different tribal groups and peoples have been fighting over what the three Abrahamic faiths have called the Holy Land. And Jerusalem most of all, it seems.
The Old Testament describes how violence, slaughter and warfare gave the land to the people of Israel in the first of the last three millennia. They saw it as Yahweh (God) giving them the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey.
Romans ruled the land when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE and the Jews were scattered to other parts of the world. They returned in 1948 CE to found the State of Israel. However, like the first time round, this was a victory in the War of Independence. Normally, the top nations have always claimed that no nation is allowed to profit from aggression. How did this slip through the net with the most disastrous consequences ever since for both Arabs and Jews but, particularly, for the Arab Palestinians?
The largely Judeo-Christian West won the 1945 war. It was a Judeo-Christian nation that was responsible for eliminating 6 million Jews in that war. Making recompense to the Jews must have been one factor.
Was a second factor the desire in Britain to wash their hands of the whole bloody mess that was killing their people? Three Jewish terrorist gangs saw off the might of the British Empire as Britain withdrew from Palestine. The King David Hotel terrorism saw 91 killed.
"The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on July 22, 1946, by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency." Wikipedia
Was a third factor the strong evangelical Christian wing of the Church in the USA who saw the victory in war for their friends, the Jews of whom Jesus Christ was one, a special sign from God? The God common to both Jews and Christians was fulfilling promises in the Bible, these Christians believe.
Certainly, since 1948 the Judeo-Christian West has always strongly backed Israel to the detriment of Palestinians who have lost out big time over these 76 years. Today, we continue arming Israel to the teeth for their War of Self Defence to totally eliminate Hamas for good and the good of all.
In the 19th century, Herzl a prominent Jew wanting a Jewish homeland was told by colleagues on returning from Palestine,
"The Bride is Beautiful but she is already taken."
Some Jews, however, were not going to have that. No way! Their chance came, once more out of warfare.
For me, the World Wars initiated by the Wicked West has caused the chaos and acts of genocide that is taking place in Gaza in nearly five months of eliminating Hamas. Yet, victory is still not achieved by the most powerful and well-equipped nation in the Middle East. The IDF must be incompetent, especially after 76 years of intermittent war that failed so disastrously on 7.10.23
It is a vicious and cruel way of attacking a defenceless nation that is immoral, illegal and disproportionate. This is the worst example of collective punishment for the poor Gazans.
Israel needs to try the Good Samaritan alternative, methinks!
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