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Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Middle Eastern history knows how Israel came into existence and later came to be known as Palestine for 1,800 years.
Before the land was called Israel, it was known as Canaan until the 13th century B.C. when the Hebrews, led by Joshua, conquered that pagan nation.
Israel then became Palestine in 130 A.D. when Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the Jewish nation Syria Palaestina after he crushed the Bar Kochba rebellion that sought to win Israel's independence from Rome.
Hadrian was so angered by the uprising that he renamed the land after the ancient Philistines that had once existed along the southern coast of the Great Sea that's now called the Mediterranean Sea.
Those who call themselves Palestinians claim to be the descendants of the Philistines. But they aren't because the ancient Philistines were a non-Semitic tribe of light-skinned people. And the Palestinians aren't the descendants of the Canaanites either.
The modern Palestinians aren't an indigenous people. They're the descendants of Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, Assyrians, Bedouins and Turks that drifted into that land over the span of several centuries from different venues in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
In fact, Yasser Arafat, who claimed to be a Palestinian and founded the PLO in 1964 was actually an Egyptian who was born in Cairo in 1929.
Despite the historical evidence, the world eagerly embraces the canard that the Palestinians have lived in that land for over 3,000 years.
That canard, which comes from the Islamic world, claims that the Jews conspired with the United Nations in 1948 to steal the land and claim it for their own. What bull.
Even the Bible, that traces human history back to its beginning, clearly reveals that no such indigenous people called Palestinians ever lived in or controlled that land.
And please don't tell me that the Jews perverted the Bible because they didn't. If they had perverted the Bible, the name of Jesus Christ would be unknown today.
Rather, the Bible accurately foretold of Israel's birth as a nation centuries before it happened. (Genesis 15) The Bible also foretold of Israel's rebellion against God and her subsequent diaspora, and her return as a nation once again in the last days.
Here's one example: "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: 'I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.'" (Ezekiel 37:21-22)
Ezekiel recorded that prophecy about 2,600 years ago. The two kingdoms mentioned in his prophecy refer to Israel, the northern kingdom and Judah, the southern kingdom. They don't refer to Israel and Palestine.
Why does the Islamic world continue to claim that Israel illegally occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians? Because Islam reviles the Jews and teaches that they must be eliminated before the Imam Mahdi (Islamic Messiah) can appear and establish his global caliphate. That's why Adolf Hitler, who was a detestable pagan by Islamic standards, is considered a hero in the Islamic world.
The world eagerly embraces the lie that Israel is a rogue nation that occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians. And the nations of the world are convinced that peace will never come to the Middle East until Israel is destroyed and the Jews have been removed from that land.
However, Israel isn't going anywhere. Those who fight against Israel are fighting against God. And you know who's going to win that battle.
The prophet Zechariah, who lived about 2,500 years ago, recorded this prophecy: "On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." (Zechariah 12:3)
Indeed. The weapons of the godless nations will not remove Israel. But God will remove the godless nations. And that might begin with the United States that has suddenly become an enemy of Israel under the detestable Barack Obama.
In fact, Yasser Arafat, who claimed to be a Palestinian and founded the PLO in 1964 was actually an Egyptian who was born in Cairo in 1929.
Despite the historical evidence, the world eagerly embraces the canard that the Palestinians have lived in that land for over 3,000 years.
That canard, which comes from the Islamic world, claims that the Jews conspired with the United Nations in 1948 to steal the land and claim it for their own. What bull.
Even the Bible, that traces human history back to its beginning, clearly reveals that no such indigenous people called Palestinians ever lived in or controlled that land.
And please don't tell me that the Jews perverted the Bible because they didn't. If they had perverted the Bible, the name of Jesus Christ would be unknown today.
Rather, the Bible accurately foretold of Israel's birth as a nation centuries before it happened. (Genesis 15) The Bible also foretold of Israel's rebellion against God and her subsequent diaspora, and her return as a nation once again in the last days.
Here's one example: "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: 'I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.'" (Ezekiel 37:21-22)
Ezekiel recorded that prophecy about 2,600 years ago. The two kingdoms mentioned in his prophecy refer to Israel, the northern kingdom and Judah, the southern kingdom. They don't refer to Israel and Palestine.
Why does the Islamic world continue to claim that Israel illegally occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians? Because Islam reviles the Jews and teaches that they must be eliminated before the Imam Mahdi (Islamic Messiah) can appear and establish his global caliphate. That's why Adolf Hitler, who was a detestable pagan by Islamic standards, is considered a hero in the Islamic world.
The world eagerly embraces the lie that Israel is a rogue nation that occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians. And the nations of the world are convinced that peace will never come to the Middle East until Israel is destroyed and the Jews have been removed from that land.
However, Israel isn't going anywhere. Those who fight against Israel are fighting against God. And you know who's going to win that battle.
The prophet Zechariah, who lived about 2,500 years ago, recorded this prophecy: "On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." (Zechariah 12:3)
Indeed. The weapons of the godless nations will not remove Israel. But God will remove the godless nations. And that might begin with the United States that has suddenly become an enemy of Israel under the detestable Barack Obama.
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