Palestine

Many of the people who immigrated to the "territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea" called Palestine came to build the harbors and infrastructure required in the building of the Suez Canal. But they also eventually came because of oppression, persecutions, and even genocide fueled by hate and bigotry. If all the religionists of the world who claim to follow Abraham, Moses, or Jesus were actually following their doctrine these conflicts.

Palestine the area

Palestine as a "noun 1. a territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea."

There was no Palestine people nor Nation nor Palestinian government nor nationality through most of the history of the area.

From the 5th century BCE the area had no distinct people, polity, nor form of government, but included an area that could reach from the Judean mountains to the Rift Valley of Jordan.

The first time we can find the use of the term Palestine(Ancient Greek: Συρίη ἡ Παλαιστίνη καλεομένη) is in "The Histories" by Herodotus where he refers to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt.

Subject district

At best it was merely a district or only a subject territory of Syria.

They went from being part of the Ottoman empire to being under British control who was trying to keep the peace.

While there were good people among the many group and faction living in that area called Palestine there were no faction that was innocent.

There still is not.

Palestine was just a place with isolated villages and towns ruled by others from the Romans to the caliphates and the Ottoman empire followed by the British rule.

The original borders of Palestine were not the creation of the local people but was defined by the British Mandate for Palestine and the Paulet–Newcombe Agreement.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was drafted secretly in 1916 between the British and French. They drew lines for the Middle East that would eventually be used to create nations.

The borders were established in the 1920s and were based on the 1906 Turco-Egyptian boundary agreement.

Some towns like Nazareth was predominately Jewish. There was simply no united people or polity called Palestinian.

In the late 19th century there was a movement called Zionism, which sought to create a state that was galvanized by thousands of Jews being displaced from nations where they had often lived in for centuries.

The canal

About 3/4 of the territory of Palestine was Arab before the Suez canal. During its construct the Arab doubled and the Christian population more than doubled as immigrants came to supply labor.

The Jewish population increased by six times during the same time.

The people in Palestine after massive project building the Suez canal were from all over the world who came there as laborers. Some were Christian, many were Jews. Jews lived in the same area of Palestine for centuries.

Before the end of WW 1 there was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Jewish "national home" in Palestine.

A congress

Finally, in 1919 Arabs living in Palestine joined together to hold the first Palestine Arab Congress in Jerusalem. Because of their own common hate and bigotry they established a "representative government". This would have not happened except for their opposition to the Balfour Declaration and a Jewish representative government already forming.

In 1920 the British deemed essential for peace to create "Mandatory Palestine" with Jews, Christians, and Arabs alike. Between 1922 and 1947 the Christian and Moslem population only increased by maybe 20%. The Jewish population during the same time increased by nearly 700% mostly through immigration.

Jews also lived in many other Arab and European nations like Egypt where they were some times kicked out overnight with all their property confiscated and bank accounts seized.

They regularly fled all over the world under the threat of brutal treatment or death and of course many went to Israel which fueled Zionism.

Palestinians fled Palestine at the encouragement of neighboring Arab countries before the war which was intended to drive all Jews into the sea including those who had lived there for centuries. When the war failed to destroy Israel the Palestinians that had fled were kept as refugees by those same countries rather than assimilate them into their own country. Yasser Arafat chose to keep Palestinians as refugees rather than allow assimilation or repatriation because he was becoming a billionaire at the expense of the refugees.

The war

Arab leaders rose to more power by fostering hate for the Jews from at least 1947 until now. But is that the real conflict?

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, or the First Arab–Israeli War, has led to a series of conflicts since the civil war in Mandatory Palestine. The conflicts continue because of blind guides seeking power over the people through hate and oppression of another. Neither side is entirely in the right but the people of both sides will continue to suffer without true repentance from their covetous practices.

They need to be on the side of Abraham, Moses and Jesus who was the Christ who were all in agreement. We need to be in agreement with them and not take sides with political entities which subject the people through the social welfare State.

The leaders of surrounding countries called Muslims to come out of the area of Palestine because they intended to annihilate the newly formed nation of Israel. After many deaths the nation still existed. This was not the result of any biblical prophecy.

Israel has always been the people who actually follow the ways of Abraham, Moses and Jesus who was the Christ. This is just two fools fighting in and endless struggle,both in need of repentance. Both are socialist states that do not follow the ways of Abraham, Moses and Jesus who was the Christ.

Genocide

Claims of Genocide by people often are the seeds of judgement and hate that leads to the absolution of a cycle of sin only to fuel the Fatal Sequence of self destruction.

The welfare state sears the conscience until the people sit in darkness. They deny their own willingness to defile their neighbor through abuse, covetous practices, and selfishness.

The people cry out as victims when they themselves have victimized others for years their is an hypocrisy that will lead them to destruction. If they oppress the stranger, the poor, the foreigner or members of their own family like their wives and daughters they sew the seeds that will blossom into Genocide, either of others or themselves.

Natives

In the case of the American Indian most of their deaths were the result of disease or tribal conflicts.

Before Strangers and pilgrims arrived in the Americas, native Americans were divided and had enslaved millions of other of their neighbors on the American continent. Groups of American Indians were already committing genocide on other groups of American Indians before white migrants arrived in America.

Their loyalty to tribal polities formulated the selfish political theory of manifest destiny despite the noble intent of the original White Pine Confederacy.

Serve self or others

The same is true of the private interpretation of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus who was the Christ. A blindness is established within the soul and mind of the masses who their appetite for benefits at the expense of others accept pride as a virtue, excusing envy and jealousy as justified.

Israel is not a geopolitical creation of men but it is a place where the spirit of God prevails. The kingdom of God is not a democratic state, nor a monarchy of me operating through the covetous practices of democratic socialism with its tables of the welfare state that should have been for their welfare but are always just a snare and a trap that leads men into bondage as merchandise and will curse children with perpetual debt due to their wantonness, greed, and avarice.

The way of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus who was the Christ set the captive free. It is the government of the people, for the people and by the people according to the libera res publica of the ancients.

Selfish destruction

Cain killed his brother in the first act of genocide. Joseph's brothers turned on their own brother out of the same poison of pride and jealousy but they themselves went into bondage for generations. Saul sought to kill David but destroyed himself because of his desire and addiction to power over others.

Selfishness leads to a loss of liberty and destruction.

There were large groups and individuals in the Middle East whose battle cry has been genocide of the people who had immigrated to that land before and after WW II. The Muslim religion has a history of oppressing their own wives and daughters to say nothing of the strangers in their midst, and the people of other religions who may fall to the oppression of their sword.

The Jews and certainly Zionists are also tempted by a similar ideology of manifest destiny that comes with the pride of a tribal superiority. Their identity as the superior or chosen people may justify their deeds and giving them a taste and even an appetite for power over others.

This foolishness brings darkness and then self destruction like the Saul Syndrome.

Who is the greatest fool?

Is it the fools who choose to fight or the fool who steps between the two fools fighting?