Mondoweiss – by Philip WeissTwo new articles deal with political/genetic controversies over the origins of “the Jewish people” (of whom I consider myself a part for one tribal reason or another). Here is Israeli historian Schlomo Sand in Le Monde Diplomatique, writing, “Israel Deliberately Forgets Its History.” Sand says that the Jewish exile of 70 AD is a myth, and “the Jews” of Europe were created by conversion.
Then there is the question of the exile of 70 AD. There has been no real research into this turning point in Jewish history, the cause of the diaspora. And for a simple reason: the Romans never exiled any nation from anywhere on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean…
But if there was no exile after 70 AD, where did all the Jews who have populated the Mediterranean since antiquity come from? The smokescreen of national historiography hides an astonishing reality. From the Maccabean revolt of the mid-2nd century BC to the Bar Kokhba revolt of the 2nd century AD, Judaism was the most actively proselytising religion…
The most significant mass conversion occurred in the 8th century, in the massive Khazar kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas. The expansion of Judaism from the Caucasus into modern Ukraine created a multiplicity of communities, many of which retreated from the 13th century Mongol invasions into eastern Europe. There, with Jews from the Slavic lands to the south and from what is now modern Germany, they formed the basis of Yiddish culture…
Until about 1960 the complex origins of the Jewish people were more or less reluctantly acknowledged by Zionist historiography. But thereafter they were marginalised and finally erased from Israeli public memory. The Israeli forces who seized Jerusalem in 1967 believed themselves to be the direct descendents of the mythic kingdom of David rather than – God forbid – of Berber warriors or Khazar horsemen. The Jews claimed to constitute a specific ethnic group that had returned to Jerusalem, its capital, from 2,000 years of exile and wandering.
Hillel Halkin somewhat concedes the point in Commentary, writing that DNA studies suggest that “Jews” owe a lot to intermixing of genes in eastern Europe and Asia. Halkin briefly sounds an enlightened note:
Perhaps one day Israel will be become the “state of all its citizens”
that democratic values require it to be, a country of Hebrew-speaking
Jews, Muslims, and Christians, all equal before the law. Although the
great majority of secular Israelis do not yet subscribe to this point
of view, more and more will come to it if things continue on their
present course.
As for Palestine, Schlomo Sand suggests that the Palestinians are the people we call “the Jews” in the Bible:
Apart from enslaved prisoners, the population of Judea continued to live on their lands, even after the destruction of the second temple [in 70 AD]. Some converted to Christianity in the 4th century, while the majority embraced Islam during the 7th century Arab conquest.
Most Zionist thinkers were aware of this: Yitzhak Ben Zvi, later president of Israel, and David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, accepted it as late as 1929, the year of the great Palestinian revolt. Both stated on several occasions that the peasants of Palestine were the descendants of the inhabitants of ancient Judea.
I guess that’s why I’m for the right of return. Hey, we’re all just people. Can’t we all just get along??
For Bible Thumpers: In Arthur Koestler’s “The Thirteenth Tribe”, which has been endorsed. by Professor Sand, the Khazars of Southern Russia were known as Magog in ancient times.
Today’s Israelis are descendants of Magog, and Palestinians are descendants of the Hebrews.
Doesn’t Revelations say something about Magog attacking Israel? Is that what is happening in Palestine right now?
Another point to consider: Zechariah 13:8 talks about the destruction of 2/3 of the Israelites in both Israel and Judah in the last days (not “Jews” but Israelites)…if Sand has his facts together that suggests that Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and soon in the Occupied Territories is a precursor to the return of Christ…maybe. (Maybe this is why some Christian Zionists WANT the genocide of Palestinians!)
Another thing: Genesis 9:27 talks about Japheth “dwelling in the tents of Shem” or “being grafted onto Shem”…the Khazars are related to Ashkenaz (hence the term Ashkenazi Jews), who was the grandson of Japheth. The Khazars are also known to inhabit the lands around Magog (another grandson of Japheth) so the comment about Gog/Magog referring to the so-called “Jews” running Israel today makes sense. Thanks.
“The truth i is that the “jews” and the Arabs are very similar; they are closely related. Modern DNA testing has proven this. The modern “jews” are the Canaanites of the Bible (Edomites primarily, descended illegitimately from Esau and his Canaanite wives) – who stole TRUE Israel’s identity (which we shall discuss). The Arabs themselves also have significant Canaanite blood.
*The descendants of Ishmael (Arab nations) were rejected by God and Ishmael was forced to leave the land of Israel. Ishmael then first married other pure Hebrew peoples. However, in time, Ishmael’s descendants married Canaanite (and African) peoples. In truth, the Arabs, (though not pure) probably have more Semitic blood (though only a very small amount) in them than the “jews” do.”
From “A Greater Miracle Than The Lost Ten Tribes Discovered…” Cleraubat – p. 26.
This from the same book…
“As we already saw, the modern “jews” are descended from Esau’s illegitimate children through Canaanite wives and came to be called Edomites. Edom was a nickname for Esau. However, there were other branches of Esau’s illegitimate Canaanite offspring; one through Amalek; they were known as Amalekites. (See Gen. 36: 1-19.)The Edomites and Amalekites were 2 of Biblical Israel’s worst enemies. The Edomites achieved the zenith of their evil nature in the rancid fruit of the “jewish” Bolshevik Revolution and actualized their namesake’s identity: Edom means “red” and the “jewish” Bolshevik Communists came to be known as “Reds”. The Jewish Encyclopedia (1925) records, “Edom is in modern Jewry.” (vol. 5, p.41)
[The true descendants of the Biblical Israelites are the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and related peoples of Christendom. The modern “jews” who claim to be “Israel” are the Canaanites: who stole true Israel’s land and identity after true Israel was conquered and deported as captives to Assyria and Babylon (because of their sins in adopting Canaanite ways and rejecting God’s ways). 99.5% of these true Israelites never returned to the land of Israel, but in fulfillment of prophecy, migrated into Europe at the very same time the Germanic, Scythian, Celtic, and other related peoples suddenly “appeared” out of nowhere.
See “Uncovering the Mysteries of Your Hidden Inheritance”.
I’d say that was the main reason the Bolsheviks murdered 66 million (mostly Christian) Russians, as well as the Germans being demonized and massacred.
I honestly think DNA testing on many (not just a few, but many) Northern Europeans (which could prove the British-Israel or Christian Identity memes…again, grafting Japheth onto Shem) could finally prove if this meme is correct or not. I would really like to know if I am (as well as my husband) descended from one of the twelve tribes of Israel, and which one. For one thing, the tribe of Dan is NOT mentioned among the twelve tribes in the Book of Revelation.
“For one thing, the tribe of Dan is NOT mentioned among the twelve tribes in the Book of Revelation.”
Maybe this is why, DL:
“Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.” Gen. 49: 16, 17 KJ.
Israel’s (Jacob’s) blessing (curse?) on Dan.
Some Bible scholars believe this means that the Antichrist will be from the tribe of Dan. So do I.