Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s new deputy foreign minister’s speech in which she
claims all the ‘holy land’ belongs to Israel is making the rounds in the media. Good that the media is showing
these appalling claims, but it is also the responsibility of the media (now
Western mouthpiece media) to explain realities as well. The ancient Land of Canaan which was known as 'the crossroads of
the ancient world' (its importance was in the centrality of it - the corridor,
the passageway, the sea outlet - a place where surrounding nations had to come
to in order to fight each other and win or lose in battle) was and has always
been home to Cannanites (present day Palestinians. For well over 5000 years
ago, in spite of conquest by Egyptians, Turkish, Assyrian, Persian, and Jewish
(David and Solomon and the Ten Tribes of Israel), the land belongs to
Palestinians according to the Atlantic Charter (self governing right) as the
Canaanites were the first, which gave them priority; their descendents have
continued to live tehre, which gives them continuity; and with the exception of
the 800,000 refugees, they continue to live there. The Canaanites are the
Palestinians or the Arab population of today. The legal occupants of the land
and certainly not the Jews/Israelis. Putting aside human laws, even if one does
believe in God's land to the Jews as claimed, Abraham did not promise the land
to the Jews alone. When Abraham made a covenant with God through circumcision,
all the land of Canaan was promised to him as 'an everlasting possession'. When
the Bible says the word 'to thy seed', it included Arabs. Both Moslems and
Christians can claim descent from Abraham through his son Ishmael. Moreover,
when the covenant of circumcision was made with Abraham (Genesis xvii), and the
land of Canaan promised as 'an everlasting possession,' it was Ishmael who was
circumcised - Isaac had not been born yet. Furthermore, on every Jewish
festival, Jewish voices say: “Umipnay chatoenu golinu mayartsaynu" -
"Because of our sins we were expelled from our land". It is believed
that at a predestined time, God will send the Jews the Messiah and they will be
able to return to the Promised Land. Jews are to accept exile and not attempt
to force their way back. They stayed away from Jerusalem for 2,000 years
because their religion forbade them from returning, not because they could not
return. Yet today, those who are violating the laws of man and lay claim to
‘Eretz Yisrael’ as God’s land promised to them, are the ones who are betraying
the very God they pretend to worship. So it seems that both Atlantic Charter
and the "holy" writ are irrelevant when it comes to Israeli genocide
and expansion. Shameless murderers and even more shameless those who support
them.
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