Re: Rightful claim to Israel?
The claim of the Jews to Palestine is based solely on religion (ie. God granted the land to Moses and his people), not on any traditional ties of modern Jews to the land. The Ashkenazic Jews, who make the majority of the world's Jewish population, did not originate in the Middle East and at the time of the ancient Hebrews they were likely living around the Black Sea region. The Ashkenzic Jews themselves claim to be descendents of the ancient Khazars who were converted to Judiasm after the diaspora from Palestine. Genetics reveal them to have been orginally a Turkic people who migrated west into Europe, so this seems to be verified fact. They are not, however, a semitic people. Only the minority Sephardic Jews can make this claim. And even then, that is not the same as saying they are direct ancestors of the ancient Hebrews.
One can see this in effect today. Even a convert to Judaism immediately is granted the right of settlement in Israel, even if their ancestors previosuly never set foot in the place. They are given a right to live there by mere fact of the religion they profess. Thus several years ago, a group of Peruvians who converted to Judaism emigrated to Israel and were immediately given legal and financial aid and protection to re-settle. Contrast that to the Muslim Palestinians who are reduced to Apartheid like "Homelands" (West Bank & Gaza Strip), and enjoy no such legal protection or privileges.
So, the only claim to the land on the part of the Jews is solely a religious one.
Can you imagine if a European country said that only Christians had the right to settle in their lands. There would be an outcry. But as with most things, there is one set of rules for the Chosenites and another for the goyim
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- Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922)
The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth.
For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
- Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation.
- Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature
Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation.
- Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
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