Written by Chery E and NMH on X:
What many have failed to grasp, or simply prefer to brush under the proverbial rug, is that Jews as a people have been synonymous with the land of Israel for over 3000 years. Whenever one thinks of Jews, you immediately connect them with Israel, because Jews ARE connected to the land of Israel.
Zionism didn’t start in the 1890’s. Perhaps political Zionism in the modern era, but Zionism was first established when G-d spoke to Abraham and told him to go to the land of Israel. G-d didn’t tell Abraham to go to Israel and that he would make a great religion out of Abraham. He told him he would make a great people out of him. Judaism is more than just a religion. It’s a people. And it’s more than just a people… it’s a people of the land of Israel.
In 70AD, after the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem was burned down and destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Jews were massacred. Many more Jews fled the land into Europe. Many fled the land to other regions within the Middle East and North Africa. Some Jews stayed in Israel. But for the more than 1900 years since the Jews that fled became the diaspora, they have always prayed facing Jerusalem. This is a tradition of our faith since before Christianity and centuries before Islam.
As a people, regardless where we are today, a part of us more than just our DNA is intertwined with the land of Israel. When this minority of “Jews” tell you that they have no bond with their ancestral homeland, and that it’s the evil Zionists that have hijacked the religion, it’s simply the greatest untruth that can ever be told. Aside from evidence dating back as far as 1300BC and every year since proves the existence of the people and the nation of Israel and our connection, origin and right to the land, our very traditions we continue to keep to this day prove that Israel is a part of who we are, as a people and as a nation.
Israel is the home of the Jewish people, and has been for thousands of years. It will always be our home and it will always be ours. We are not the occupiers. Since 70AD we have been the occupied. In the mid 1800’s, with the even greater rise of antisemitism across Europe, many of the diaspora moved to the US, some to other parts of the Middle East, and some to… Israel. In the early 1900’s, as antisemitism exploded in Russia and then Germany, more Jews moved to Israel… they moved back home. And as much as the Muslim world and Arabs have tried desperately to do everything in their power to stop it, including through pogroms and massacres against our people, they failed, and our nation regained its rightful place as our land.
So whoever out there wants to label us as Zionists because you’re too cowardly to just say Jews, at the very least know what you’re talking about. Because we have every right to the land, and we have every right to defend it from those who for the last 1400 years have wanted only to extinguish us as a people from existence. WE are not the occupiers or the oppressors. But since 1948 and for the first time in 1900 years, we have the ability to defend ourselves against the real occupiers and oppressors, and whether the world likes it or not, we will.
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From NMH:
Ironically it was 101 times Chai (1818 years) from when the Jews were driven out of the land en mass around 130 CE until the state of Israel’s creation in 1948.
Israel does have a history of Arab rule, actually from the mid 600s until WW1 (besides a few decades during the crusader years), but it wasn’t “Palestine”, it was all different Arab caliphates then the Ottoman Empire, but that’s not where most of the “Palestinian people” come from.Where they mostly come from are the surrounding areas when the Jews starting coming en masse in the late 1800s they would come there for all the economic opportunities that they didn’t have where they lived.
Most of the people who became refugees from 1948 did so because they left when the Arab countries surrounding Israel said they were going to destroy it & “cleanse it of Jews” & intending to come back after, but it failed & now their fellow Arab counties use the Palestinian refugees as pawns.
At the same time Israel was founded all the Jews that lived in all these Arab countries were driven out, either by force or by pogroms that made it so dangerous to be there, Israel & the US mostly took them in unlike the Arabs who abandoned their own brethren.
For some reason when Jordan controlled the West Bank from 1948-1967 & the same with Egypt with Gaza, they didn’t establish a “Palestinian state”, because such a place never existed.















