Did you know that until Yasser Arafat, Jews living in the British controlled "Mandate Palestine" were called Palestinians?
The Jewish newspaper was called the The Palestine Post. It was renamed The Jerusalem Post after Israel's independence.
The Jewish Symphony Orchestra, comprised of Jewish musicians was named the Palestinian Orchestra. It too was renamed, to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra after Israel's independence.
GIVE ISRAEL BACK TO TURKEY
Before the territory, we call Israel today, was controlled by the British, as part of the British Mandate, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, which is modern day Turkey. So should we give Israel back to Turkey? Were the Ottoman Turks there first?
NOW IT GETS CONFUSING!
The Ottoman Turks took control from the Mamluk Sultanate. The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria, and surrounding regions from 1250 until it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517. The problem is, we can't give Israel back to the Mamluk Sultanate because it no longer exists.
Perhaps we should give Israel back to the Ayyubid dynasty which controlled Israel before the Mamluk Sultanate. But like the Mamluk Sultanate, the Ayyubid dynasty no longer exists.
GIVE ISRAEL TO THE CRUSADERS
Wait a minute. The Christian Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and surrounding territories during the First Crusade, capturing Jerusalem itself on July 15, 1099. So should we give Israel back to the "Crusaders?"
But the Crusaders weren't a "nation." The Crusaders were primarily composed of European Christians from France, Germany, Italy, England and other "European" knights and soldiers from various regions. They were all Christians. So maybe Israel should be given to the Christians.
Then again, the Crusaders took what is Israel today from the Fatimid Caliphate. But hold on because before them there was the Abbasid Caliphate, based in Baghdad. And before that the Umayyad Caliphate which ended in 750.
GIVE ISRAEL TO THE BYZANTINES
Hold on! Before the Muslim conquest, the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) controlled the area of Israel. So we should give Israel back to the Byzantine Empire. But the Byzantine Empire was a direct continuation of the Roman Empire. OK then, so we should give Israel back to the Roman Empire! But the Roman Empire doesn't exist today, so we can't give Israel back to the Romans.
NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE
Who did the Roman Empire take Israel from? Who controlled Israel before the Romans? That's the answer --THE JEWS! And unlike all those others that came after, the Jews still exist!! Problem solved!
For over 2000 years the world has had a problem with the Jews. Ever since the Jewish–Roman rebellions from 66 to 136 CE, when the Roman Emperor Hadrian had the Temple destroyed, Jews were driven from their land, and he renamed Judea to "Syria Palaestina" in a deliberate effort to erase the Jewish connection to the land, the Jews have had "a problem."
The problem was where ever Jews went, eventually their host country had a problem us. Intially the Jews would be a blessing to nations that accepted them. But then Jew hatred would ensue and the Jews would have to leave. Interestingly, after we did, MANY of those countries declined too.
The last leader to try solve the "Jewish Problem" was the Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich. He can too close -- his so called "final solution" murdered half the Jews in all of Europe. Jews survived, the Third Reich didn’t.
In an ironic twist of fate, Hitler's "final solution" turned out to be the final time that Jews would need to run to a foreign land!
Ezekiel 37:11-14 -- Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”
THE ANSWER HAS BEEN THERE ALL ALONG
The Jewish Problem solved itself of May 14, 1948 when Israel was created in a day! The answer to the Jewish Problem IS Israel!
Amazingly, after nearly 2000 years the Jewish Problem "solved itself." Praise God -- Hallelujah!!
Isaiah 66:8 -- Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Epilogue:
why do you forsake us for so many days?
21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
Renew our days as of old—
22 unless you have utterly rejected us,
and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
