Sunday, November 15, 2009
Jews in American history
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Israel
- What the Bible says
Jewish history began about 4000 years ago with the patriarchs – Abraham, his son Isaac, and grandson Jacob. Some Arabs said that they lived there before, and that’s correct but it was after the Jews went from Israel (in that time I think it was called Canaan) to Egypt because they didn’t have food. In the Bible says that God promised Israel to the Jews, that it was for them (that’s when Moses took them and unslaved them fromt the egyptians, and they were in the desert, etc.).
Also king David united the 12 Israelite tribes into one kingdom establishing Jerusalem as the capital of the monarchy.
The Kingdom of Israel was crushed by the Assyrians (722 BCE) and its people carried off into exile and oblivion.
On 14 May 1948, when the British Mandate came to an end, the Jewish population in the Land numbered some 650,000, comprising an organized community with well-developed political, social and economic institutions - in fact, a nation in every sense and a state in everything but name.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/History/
Zionists
Zionists are the people (with whatever religion, race, etc.) who believe that the Jews deserve a nation of their own which should be Jerusalem. Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people.
Most Jews have always been Zionists, they have always though that they are a nation or people.
Zionism in Israel
Israel was a thirsty country, and zionism brought water to this country. Nowadays, glass and steel towers rose from sand dunes. Jews and Arabs have the benefits of water thanks to Zionism.
I think being a zionist is great, but there are actually some jews that don’t agree with Zionism.
"The Zionists do not make Jews heretics in order to have a state, they want a state in order to make Jews into heretics!"
Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik of Brisk (1853-1918)
"The Jewish people have suffered many (spiritual) plagues -- the Sadducees, Karaites, Hellenisers, Shabbatai Zvi, Enlightenment, Reform and many others. But the strongest of them all is Zionism.
Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik
His son Brisker Rav later explained this, he said that it was because the Zionists “attacked the center point of Judaism”
http://www.zionism-israel.com/Zionists.htm
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
