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| Biblical Israel showing the 12 Tribes |
You do NOT need to be a Jew to be a Zionist!
A ZIONIST SIMPLY BELIEVES IN ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A NATION IN PEACE.
Zion is Jerusalem. It is the hill on which the City of David was built approximately 3000 years ago on land King David purchased.
Palestinian leader Abbas says all of Jerusalem belongs to the Muslims. They will settle for nothing less!!
Clearly Hamas is willing to let EVERY SINGLE Palestinian die and every school, Mosque, and hospital be destroyed rather than surrender their weapons and live peacefully with Israel. The Muslim leaders in Iran, Yemen, Syria, Turkey and Gaza do NOT want peace. They want ALL of Israel -- "From the River to the Sea!"
THE SEA MAKES SENSE
The ancient Philistines occupied the southern coast where Gaza is today more than 3,000 years ago. The Philistines are believed to have come from the island of Caphtor, which may have been Crete. The Philistines are believed to have been part of the group known as the "Sea Peoples" that migrated from the Aegean region to the southern coast of Canaan around 1175 BC.
The Palestinian's are not modern day Palestinians!
The Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites. They were portrayed in the Bible as a crude and warlike race. Even today it is considered an insult to call somebody a "Philistine."
Goliath was a Philistine. Goliath is the infamous giant and “champion of the Philistines,” who first appears in the Bible in 1 Samuel 17:4. The boy David slew Goliath when Philistines had come up to make war against King Saul in the 11th Century BCE.
ISRAEL IS THE ORIGINAL JEWISH HOMELAND
Israel is the one and only Jewish homeland in a vast region of Muslim countries. 
Here is a map during King David's period prior to the Romans conquering the region. The Jews controlled a region that was much larger than present day Israel.
Virtually every nation in the world today is the result of battles fought and won. Nations are created with the blood of men. No peoples fought harder than the Sons of Jacob. No nation that exists today fought those battles as long ago as Israel. No nation that exists today has their battles documented in the ancient texts of the Bible and the Book of Jasher.
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Joshua and the sons of Jacob, the Israelites, defeated several peoples during their conquest of the Lands' Adonia promised Abraham and Moses that are described in the bible. The primary groups mentioned include the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. Notably, they defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, who were among the last of the Rephaites.
The Children of Israel suffered horrible defeats too. They were overrun by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Romans and eventually the Ottoman Empire which was the Turkish. The Ottoman Empire controlled all the territory that we know as Israel, Judea and Samaria until WWII.
Perhaps the most well know battle fought by Israel is the one against the Seleucids. People don't remember the Seleucids, they remember who defeated them -- the Maccabees! That's how we got the Feast of Dedication -- Hanukkah!!
The Seleucids were a Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled the Seleucid Empire during the Hellenistic period, from 312 BC to 64 BC. Founded by Seleucus I Nicator, a general under Alexander the Great, the empire included territories in modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria, and parts of Turkey and Central Asia.
No body in their right mind would say that Israel today belongs to any of ancient empires. Those empires are dead, but Israel is alive!!
Notice their wasn't one ancient battle with the King of Palestine. Notice their wasn't a Palestinian Empire. How is that?
Check out my blog about the Maccabees
After a series of Jewish-Roman wars between 66 and 136 CE including the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-136 CE) which left Jerusalem in ruins and Jews scattered around the world, the Romans renamed the region to "Syria-Palaestina” as a reference to the Jew's arch enemies the Assyrians and the Philistines. The Romans also renamed Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina. This was part of Emperor Hadrian's efforts to Romanize the city and erase its Jewish identity.
The Romans are long gone, but Israel lives!!
ISRAEL HAD THE DEED LONG BEFORE THE ROMANS!
The Israelites own the deed to Jerusalem!! It is in the bible.
1 Chronicles 21:18-28 (ESV) -- David Builds an Altar:
Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.
Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.
And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”
Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.”
But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
EVEN BEFORE THAT ...
Way back in the time of Moses, God told the people of Israel that he had already chosen a place for his dwelling place in the Promised Land, mount Moriah, long before they’d even got there:
“You are to seek only the place Adonai your God chooses from all your tribes to put His Name to dwell—there you will come.” (Deuteronomy 12:5)
God marked out Zion in the BIBLE in Genesis 22 when God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah.
THAT SPOT WHERE GOD TOLD ABRAHAM TO SACRAFICE ISAAC IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT TODAY!!!
Conversely, Jerusalem (Zion) is not mentioned even one time in the Quran which was written some 3600+ years later in ~610 C. The Al-Aqsa Mosque was built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 685 and 715 CE.
By the way, the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been destroyed by earthquakes multiple times and rebuilt:
- 714 CE: The eastern part of the mosque was destroyed by an earthquake but was rebuilt.
- 746 CE: A large portion of the mosque was destroyed by an earthquake and rebuilt in 758.
- 1033: The mosque was destroyed by another earthquake and rebuilt shortly after.
Various empires, such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and eventually the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire each controlled the region for a time.
It was conquered by the Ottoman Turks who invaded and occupied it for 402 years (1516-1918). The Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I in October 1918. Great Britain took over Jerusalem after World War I.
The Balfour Declaration was a statement issued by the British government in 1917 that expressed support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland. The declaration was sent in a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, on November 2, 1917. The letter was intended to be passed on to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, and the declaration was published in the press on November 9, 1917.
No nation has as great a claim to Israel, Judea and Samaria as the Jews do today!
SO I ASK YOU: ARE YOU A ZIONIST?
