Jews And Arabs: Land Conflicts

In the twenties, Zionists did buy some land for agriculture in Palestine, and Muslims who were poor and landless resented it. The Grand Mufti, al-Huseini, and other Muslim aristocrats made money selling this land to Zionist organizations at prices higher than they could sell to their fellow Muslims, but they also complained about Jews.

That was a mistakes done by previous Palestine's Muslim Leader. From the reading i make, certainly, it is quite hard to find the entry or note written by Muslims regarding to Israel matter. But as a muslim, i hope those reader may help me to elaborate more on this Palestine conflicts. Maybe share some knowledge based from Al-Quran about the Jews.

Starting with the Bible and supported by archeological findings, it is clear that Palestine was occupied by non-Jewish Semites long before the Jews claimed the "Promised Land," and long after. There is not even evidence that there were twelve tribes of Israel who occupy the land claimed by modern Israel. The book of Joshua is full of bloody gore on how God delivered on his promise, but there are no sources outside the Bible that verify that the whole of Palestine was conquered and occupied by Jews.

If the Book of Joshua is to believed, then it means that justification for a Jewish homeland is based on land taken by war 3,300 years ago and lost by war 2600 years ago. By that logic, Americans should give the southwest territory back to the Mexicans and the rest to the nation back to the Indians.

The roots of Zionism go back to 587 BCE, when the Jews were carried off to captivity in Babylon and their prophets encouraged them to believe one day that God would allow them to return to Palestine. Known as the Babylonian exile, it is recorded in the last chapter of 2 Kings and verified by Babylonian records.

In the messianic age the Hebrew prophets described, Jewish control included not only all the Promised Land but also the rest of the world, a notion commonly disregarded. The issue of Israel’s size is moot: the question is not where Jews live (Arabs never opposed Jews settling in Muslim lands) but rather Israeli sovereignty and government control, who rules where Jews live, an increasingly obsolete notion today as multinational governments like the United Nations and the European Union evolve. Globalization is directly related to the efficiency of communication and transportation, and the process, akin to nation-states assuming control of feudal towns, will doubtless continue to blur national boundaries.

In 63 BCE, the Roman general Pompey captured Jerusalem and the Jews became Roman subjects this time. The friction between the Jews and their Roman overlords continued until 70 CE, when Jerusalem was annihilated and Jews where forced to disperse from the area. What is known in Israel as the "Wailing Wall" is the only remnant of this last time when Jews lived together. A small contingent of Jews made one more attempt to capture back their land of milk and honey in 72 CE, but the attempt proved suicidal. In brief, these are the historical claims upon which Zionists claim Israel rightly belongs to the Jews.

In 1453, Constantinople was sieged by Ottoman sultans and became what is known as the Ottoman Empire. Islam was still the dominant religion.

In the twentieth century, World War I, ended control by the Ottomans, and Palestine came under British rule. To secure help from the Zionists, the British issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which endorsed Palestine as a national home for Jewish people all over the world. During the period of British mandate (1922-1948), the Jewish population grew from 50,000 to 600,000 people-the Palestinians numbered 1,300,000.

In 1939 the British terminated their support for Zionism, but it was the Holocaust that secured western sympathy for a Jewish state. By the time British abandoned Palestine in May 14^th, 1948, American Jews convinced President Harry Truman to support the Jewish declaration of independence for the new state of Israel. According to the initial British promise, Jews expected to receive all of the Palestinian land. Then a part of Palestine was carved out for the Arab locals who would not move to Jordan. Then Jews decided to take control of all of Palestine and settle with Arabs for whatever part of it for Israel. When the cause of Israeli independence seemed all but lost in 1947, sensible Jewish leaders persuaded others to agree to whatever Palestinian land the major powers were willing to concede to Israel through the United Nations.

Israel has been involved in four major wars since then—a clash with Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Six-Day War in 1967, the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, and Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Christian evangelicals support occupation by the Jews because they believe it is a necessary step for the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Visit: http://samsonblinded.org/titles/Israeli_expansion.htm#_Toc118557249 to read more in detail about Israel agendas.

Note: During my study to wrote for this entry, it is quite hard for me to find the Muslim's writter entry about this Israel's matter.