Jerusalem, the Old City – Painting by David Roberts
It was French Baron Edmund de Rothschild whose passion was aroused to create a homeland for his own people that he first purchased land to be used for the first homeland of the Jewish people for settlements and for their capital in Jerusalem.
This same largess has today been extended through four separate Rothschild family foundations and to this day that are still sponsoring archaeological explorations seeking to establish firmly the Jewish identity to the Land of Israel. It was in 1913 that Raymond Weill conducted the first Jewish archeological excavation in Jerusalem, on land purchased by Baron Edmund Rothschild, in the old Jebusite city of David. It was here where the Burial Shafts of Tombs 1-8 were first located and believed to be the burial sites of King David and other kings of the Kingdom of Judah.
To some anti-Semitic global forces, these archeological digs are only a “red-herring” for “religious warfare” seeking to incite Arabic Palestinian to revolt in order to destroy the Islamic attachment to the Land of Palestine. On the other hand, the archeological digs and restoration of King Herod’s Fortress Palace at Masada overlooking the Dead Sea by the famous Jewish archeologist Yigal Yadin today has become the “icon” of the Jewish Patriot Warrior where all Israeli Defense Force inductees are taken and there on the sacred land where Jewish Zealots left their blood in defense of their land from the legions of Rome, Israeli soldiers take their oath of service to their country and their G-d.
Yet, the facts persist that the Arabic Bedouins and the local Palestinians have not had any attachment to “The Land”. This fact was analyzed by BibleSearchers Reflection’s blog, Destination Yisra’el with this analysis;
Destination Yisra’el – “The facts exist that the Jewish people did not migrated away from Judea and Samaria because of any personal reasons or earth catastrophic changes making the land unfit for them to live, but because they were driven away by the imperial forces of Rome. Over 90% of the Jewish population were either slaughtered or sent into exile as slaves to the rest of the Roman Empire, forbidden ever to return.
The reality factor, not stated in the following article, is the fact that the European countries have funded the Arabs and Palestinians, to the discrimination of the Jewish people with billions of dollars over the last three decades. Also, Muslim charities in the United States as well as all the Arab oil producing states including Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood headquartered in Egypt have all been government, and semi-government benefactors to the Palestinian people.
The Arabian, Syrian and Persian states have shown no desire to teach the Palestinians of Arab Bedouin descent, the ways of autonomous governing, the building of a civilization and social order for a long term possession of a homeland. Neither did they teach them the rules of governance to live in harmony with your neighbors including the Jewish people.
Rather they taught them the anti-thesis; to establish a state within a land that was designated to be the homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine with the goal to eventually destroy the State of Israel and remove the presence of the Jewish people from the Middle East, forever.
It is so easy to yield to the urge of demagoguery and begin branding Orthodox Jews, who desire to live on the land that was given to them by the G-d of Israel, as ultra-rightists, anarchists, hard-right factionists, and virulently anti-Arabists. The Arabs and the Jews were living in close proximity to each other 150 years ago in the days of the visits of American author, Mark Twain and Scottish painter David Roberts who testified in writing and paintings of that fact.
The whole premise of the Palestinian refugee is that they were refugees before the Jews ever began returning to the Land of Israel. But the truth is that no Islamic country in the Middle East wanted the Palestinians to live in their own national borders. The Balfour Agreement in 1917 by Great Britain designated that the entire Land of Palestine was to be a homeland for the Jews. This was prior to the reaffirmation by the League of Nations in 1922 that the Jews had the right to live in the entire Land of Palestine.”
The Sea of Galilee or Genezareth, looking towards Basham
by David Roberts, April 21, 1839, Publ. 1842
This “Land of Palestine” included both sides of the Jordan River, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Prior to the 1917 Balfour Agreement, the 1922 League of Nations resolution, the Arab Bedouin populations were present in meager numbers over the prior hundreds of years. Their diminished numbers were attested in the 19th travelogues of Mark Twain and other explorers that testified that Palestine was a desolate land; parched, barren, and depopulated.
Mark Twain (1860) – “A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action…We never saw a human being on the whole route. We pressed toward… Jerusalem…Jerusalem is... lifeless. I would not desire to live there. It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land… Palestine is desolate and unlovely. Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?”
Yet, two decades later after the 1922 League of Nations resolution, with the blessings of the United Nations, this entire land dedicated for a refuge for the Jewish people was partitioned again with unhanded agreements with Abdullah of Jordan, and 80% of the land promised for a Jewish homeland was taken away and transferred back into Arab hands.
The facts of history will attest, the Palestinians were a nomadic people with no ties living in a land. When they lived in Saudi Arabia, they sought to topple the throne of the Saudi king and they were exiled. The Palestinians living in Jordan with Yasser Arafat also planned a coup to overthrow the ruling Hashemite dynasty and they were exiled.
Weeks before the State of Israel was formally declared in 1948, the Egyptian government addressed the Arabs living in Israel to move out of the Land of Palestine so the Egyptian and other Arab countries could kill the Jews living in the land quickly and easily. Suddenly 500,000 resident-Arabs left voluntarily to other Arab nations as two million Jews arrived from the four corners of the globe.
Those who were once non-employed nomads, now employed by Israeli Jews, packed their bags and left in hopes of the promises that they would return and take possession of all Jewish people’s properties that were expected to be destroyed in the Arab genocide of the Jews. The fact is that the Arab nations seeking to slaughter the Jews in mass lost the war. They also refused to provide a homeland for the Arab Bedouins within their own lands that were now their refugees.
In the months before the final collapse of the rule of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, thousands of Palestinians, living in Iraq, were deported back to Israel. They were found to be plotting against the State of Iraq who gave with great largess money to every family of a suicide bomber fighting the Intifada against Israel.
Let the full historical truth come forth in the revelation of why the Arab countries do not want the Palestinian people to assimilate into their own countries and we come to a certain reality. Unlike America who opened her doors to the peoples of the world, the Islamic Arab states have closed their doors to the Palestinian people and to the Jews.”
Yet, it was this same American Agnostic Mark Twain in his “Testimony of the Indomitable Jew” that wrote in 1887, his stunning admiration for the “Indomitable Jew”;
Mark Twain – “If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but ONE PERCENT of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought to be hardly heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contribution to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded away to dream-stuff and passed away. The Greek and the Roman followed and made a vast noise, and they are gone. Other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in the twilight now or have vanished.
The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no showing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?” (Mark Twain, Concerning the Jews, Harper’s Magazine, September, 1887)
The Islamic dynastic families of the House of Saud revolted over the British and French Mandate’s decision to grant the international approval for the Jewish people to have their own homeland. This came with the stark realization that their “1260 years of occupation” of the “Land of Israel” was now over in the land where the United Empire of Kings David and Solomon once was the cultural center of the world. In a way the G-d of Israel let Islam protect their own cousins for 1260 years, while Apostate Roman Christianity unleashed the most devastating cultural, religious, and sociological decline in recorded history, when Medieval Europe was driven into the “Dark Ages” and “The Jew” became a non-person.
BibleSearchers Reflections – “Throughout the greater part of Jewish exile from Jerusalem, the Jews were a numerous and sizable population in the Arabic life and culture in the Middle East. During this age, the rabbinic schools at Sura and Pumbeditha became great Jewish institutions of higher learning. These schools became the nurturing grounds for the preservation of the Torah and the education for the majority of the Jewish rabbis and scholars.
“Jerusalem” – By David Roberts,
April 9th 1839, Plate 16 from Volume I of "The Holy Land"
It was the fourth Caliph of the Sunnis who was also the first Caliph or Imam of the Shi’ites, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the son-in-law to the Prophet Muhammad when he married the Prophet’s daughter, Fatima Zahra, that gave the Islamic ruling in 657/658 CE to free the Jewish academies of any political control within the Islamic world. This ruling came from the only Caliph or Imam that was accepted by both the Sunnis and the Shi’as. What it did was to remove the Jewish people from obtaining any political power that would become a rivalry to the Muslims. As such the Jewish people were no longer a political threat to the Islamic people.
Like Nebuchadnezzar of old, who caused one of the greatest catastrophes in Jewish history, within one generation, under the wise guidance of the Jewish Prime Minister Daniel, made Babylon a safe haven and the greatest city in the entire world became the Jewish educational mecca and the seeding ground to implant the ideas that there was a God of the Universe who created all mankind and wanted to establish a loving relationship with all men. So also under the guidance of the “finger” of the God of Israel, when the imperial power of authority swung from the Babylonians to the Persians, the only city that did not shed one blood of the Jewish people in that epic transition of political domination was the city of Babylon.
Like Cyrus the Great, who became a “messiah” to the Jewish people also with his marriage to the Jewess, Esther, imbedded the Jewish blood in the Persian royalty. This fact protected the Jewish people against their biggest threat of all time during their Babylonian and Persian exile; the threat of complete annihilation of the entire Jewish race living in the Babylon and Persian provinces by the Persian Prime Minister Haman the Agagite (Amalekite) who wanted to “wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth.”
Now within one generation of the Prophet Muhammad there came an Islamic Sharia ruling that would preserve and protect the Jewish people living in exile in the “wilderness” for the next twelve hundred and sixty years. Now only that, this ruling of taking away political power in the Islamic world would refocus the direction of the Jewish leadership. The attention of the Jewish leadership would not be to the possession of political power but for the preservation of the written Torah and the halakhah of how to live the Torah for the Jews in the Oral Torah or the Babylonian Talmud. This one fact did more to protect and preserve the Jewish people than any other thing during the Muslim era of political domination.
The Jewish educational centers at the rabbinical colleges at Sura and Pumbeditha in the seventh to the eleventh centuries were the settling time as the Jewish people established the mature understanding of their halakhah on how to keep the Torah of their covenant. As the first century Pharisee scholar, the Apostle Paul recognized, this halakhah was without a “faith” in their Messiah Yahshua but that did not negate that the Jewish people still remained in a covenant relationship with the God of Israel. They still fulfilled their responsibilities to preserve the Torah and the Oracles of God and the knowledge that here is a God of Israel who loves all mankind.
These centuries, as shown in the history of the Jews, depicted the development of a vigorous and thriving Jewish economic and religious cultural life. For centuries the religious and intellectual life of the Jews thrived in the only place on this planet earth that a true renaissance of learning and culture existed.
In an era in which the Jews were no longer threatened by extinction, the Jewish leaders took the title of Gaon (Excellency) and established the Jewish era of the Gaonim in Babylon. From the seventh to the eleventh centuries, as the Muslims were experiencing their “Golden Age or Islamic Cultural Renaissance” the Jewish people were experiencing a “Religious Renaissance.” All the questions on Jewish law and Talmudic Law were directed to the Jewish scholars at the rabbinic colleges at Sura and Pumbeditha which were debated with great intellectual freedom and recorded for all generations thereafter. This fact as been a source of great distress to Christians in later years as parts of these debates were taken in part and usually out of historical context and showed the defensive frustrations and anger over how the Jewish people had been treated by the Roman Christian Church over the ages.
When the Jewish political leaders lost all political power in the Islamic world, the emphasis of the Jewish leadership was now dedicated only to the spiritual or religious influence upon their own people. They were recognized to be the “dhimmi” or free non-Muslim citizens in a state that was governed by the Islamic-Sharia law. As a dhimmis, they were allowed to “practice their religion,” were given privileges of “communal autonomy” and governance over their own people with the guarantee of their personal safety and property. These privileges were honored, with only few exceptions, as long as the Jews paid a tax or tribute to Muslims and accepted the political supremacy of Islam.
In this Islamic pact with the Muslim political leaders, the historical facts suggest that the Jewish people were protected and preserved from the factions, battles and power struggles between the Sunnis and the Shi’as for over one thousand years. From that date on 657/8 CE until the modern age, the Jewish people were preserved within the Islamic culture until the imperial quests of the British and the French in 1917 CE began to politicize the condition of the Jews. This made the Jewish people the focal point of the relationship between the western occidental powers and the Islamic power elite in the Middle East.”
This was a time of peace and security when the unique Jewish religious, cultural and historical heritage was not threatened by anti-Semitism nor the threat of annihilation. The Western Roman world was in a marked decline. While Roman Christian persecution and Inquisition was raging across the continent of Europe while the Jews were prospering in the Arabic Muslim dominated regions of the Middle East and Africa. Unlike the Holy Roman Empire whose emperor was led by the spiritual pontiff of the Pope who had now usurped the temporal powers that was once placed only in the hands of the emperor, the Jewish Gaons were given spiritual but no political power and authority. They were in essence placed as a “neutral” party.
“Jerusalem from the Road leading to Bethany” by Scottish Painter David Roberts (1839)
Roman Catholic Europe was in a precipitous moral, religious and cultural freefall yet the Jewish people were “safe” in the hands of their Islamic benefactors. Here began a time of safety when the Jewish people were isolated and preserved from the chaos of the rest of the world. Here the vital intellectual reservoir, the spiritual independent of the Jewish people was preserved. Here the God of Israel chose to preserve in “hiding” in the “wilderness” the continuous faithfulness of His people, the preservation of the Jewish religious, economic and cultural life. As such the Holy Scriptures and the calendar of the Lord were preserved for the Time of the End. Here was an era of 1260 years that began in 657/8 CE and lasted until 1917 CE when the God of Israel cast his protective “net” over the Jews from the Tigris and the Euphrates River to the coastline of the eastern Mediterranean Ocean. The time was soon to come for them to be “called” out of these Islamic lands and return to the Promise Land that the God of Israel gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Yet the Land of Israel, after their return from the Babylonian and Persian exile remained under the dominion of the Jewish people in what was called the “Land of Judea” until after the destruction of Jerusalem and the 2nd restored Temple of Herod in 70 CE. Only then did it become known as the Roman Province of Palestine named after the Jews former nemesis, the Philistine people.
Wikipedia – “The name "Palestine" is the cognate of an ancient word meaning "Philistines" or "Land of the Philistines".
Before the Balfour Declaration was internationally recognized, the G-d of Israel put into the hearts of the dynastic family, “The Rothschilds”, that were best known as “The Jews” a yearning to help their own Jewish people to have a national home. Were they not the “last” of the 70 Tribes of people to obtain their own national homeland? As BibleSearchers wrote in the mini-article titled, “The Building of the Rothschild Temple in Jerusalem”;
BibleSearchers Reflections – “Out of this family, there arose the benefactor of the Jewish people and the eventual Zionist State of Israel. It was Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild who was the author, through his banker employee, Alfred Milner, of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 that officially came from the pen of British Foreign Minister, Lord Balfour. They used the influence of the British government to support the creation of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.”
Even so, even with the insistence of the British Foreign Minister Lord Balfour, it took 30 years for this reality to happen. It only came on the aftermath of the worse genocide and holocaust of any national peoples in history, when six million Jewish people were destroyed in the gas ovens of the concentration camps in Europe. Only then, the imperial quest of Adolf Hitler to conquer Europe was revealed to be caused by his passion to destroy all of the Jewish people living in Europe Continent.
Early in the 1920s the Jewish French Baron Edmund de Rothschild donated $50 million (worth several billion today) worth of land for the first Jewish settlements and cities. Even today, the Rothschild foundation funded the exploration of al-Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) by Dutch Archeologist Leen Ritmeyer where it is believed that Solomon’s Temple once stood. Even with Rothschild financing, Ritmeyer built a model of the Third Temple, which many Zionists believe is the model for the future dream temple for the Rothschilds. The dreams of the Jewish people were given a divine light of hope at that time.
Leen Ritmeyer’s Model of where Solomon built his Golden Temple for the L-rd
As the Jewish sages explain, the Nation of Israel was created to save the lives of Jews. Nowhere in the TaNaKh (Old Testament) does it state that the Jewish people cannot be saved by irreligious people or non-observant Jews. Actually the G-d of Israel has proclaimed that the saving of human lives was never exclusively reserved for observant Jewish intermediary intervention but even “sinners” and “fools” may be HaShem’s (“The Name”) agents.
Proverbs 26:10 – “The Great Master of the World (brings everything to fruition and to help Him accomplish these tasks, He (enlists the assistance of the fool and the sinner.” (Translated by Rabbi Nisan Aryeh Novick, “Fascinating Torah Prophecies”, pg. 87)
Though Jerusalem may be put up for sale, or even bought by non-observant Jews, the fool, or even wicked people will be doing the assigned mission given to them by the Almighty One. It will be accomplished because of one unquestionable axiom in Jewish history; “The State of Israel was created by HaShem to initially save the lives of the Jews”. As Rabbi Nisan Aryeh Novick observed;
Rabbi Nisan Aryeh Novick – “When the threats to annihilate Jews become a reality and no country in the world is there to intercede and protect the Jews, then HaShem intervenes to protect the defenseless Jews. The Nazi Holocaust testified to this condition. The State of Israel is a direct result of this condition.
The State of Israel was created by HaShem to save the lives of Jews – in the present and in the immediate future – in a world that mostly harbors murderous intentions against Jews or that is indifferent to our plight, to say the least.”
But why just the Jews? There are another Ten Tribes of the House of Jacob that have been promised, like the Jews to be redeemed by their ancestral homelands in Israel. Redemption will not come, until all Twelve Tribes have been reunited in “One Brotherhood” under the rule of the Maschiah ben Dovid (Messiah son of David). Therefore this axiom will be elevated to higher level of spiritual attainment for the “State of Israel was created by HaShem not only to save the lives of the Jews, but also to save of the lives of the Returning Lost Tribes of the House of Israel”.
You may Wish to Continue to Read the “Jerusalem for Sale” Series
Go to - “Jerusalem and the Holy Sites of the Jews have already been Bought and Given Away but not to Israel” - Part One; Jerusalem for Sale
Go to - “The “Indomitable Jew” and the Mega-Trends bringing the Land of Israel to its Full Messianic Fulfillment” - Part Two; Jerusalem for Sale
Go to - “The Esoteric Forces of Evil will Sweep “All Israel” (Judah and Israel) to their Final Redemption” - Part Three; Jerusalem for Sale
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