Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I'm confused by the point you're trying to make here...
Are you claiming the Israelis didn't take Palestinian land???
Yes. The Israelites did not "take" Palestinian land for two reasons.
In or about 1500BC, 2000 years before the advent of Islam, there was no singular group of people called Palestinians, the word applied to an entire region not defined by borders. Before the Romans, the land was known as Canaan. "Palestina" was the term the Romans used, taken from the pagan Philistines who inhabited the coastal region now known as the Gaza Strip. In the eyes of the Romans, everyone living in that region were "Palestinians".
But above and beyond all that is the promise God made to Moses, and the covenant God made with Abraham.
The book of Numbers, chapter 34:
The Boundaries of Israel’s Land
34 The Lord said to Moses, “Give the Israelites these instructions. When you enter Canaan, the land that will be given to you as your inheritance has these borders:
“The southern side includes part of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. In the east the southern border starts from the end of the Dead Sea and turns south of the Akrabbim Pass. It then goes past Zin and ends at Kadesh Barnea. From there it goes to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon. From Azmon it turns toward the River of Egypt so that the border ends at the Mediterranean Sea.
“The western border is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
“The northern border extends from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor, and from Mount Hor to the border of Hamath so that it ends at Zedad. From there the border goes to Ziphron and ends at Hazar Enan.
“The eastern border extends from Hazar Enan to Shepham. From Shepham the border goes down to Riblah, east of Ain, and continues along the eastern slope of the Sea of Galilee. Then the border goes along the Jordan River so that it ends at the Dead Sea.
“This will be your land and the borders around it.”IOW, the King of the Universe bequeathed the land called "Israel" to the Jews.
Regarding the harsh critics of Israel, the Jew haters and anti-Semites, especially those insane hateful bastards -
the 21st century
Hitler Jugend - protesting in America and all over this fkd up world in support of Hamas
against Israel, screaming for the eradication of Israel and the extermination of the Jews, I know how they would respond to the notion that the One God who created this universe, the earth, and all life within it has the right, the power, and the authority to bestow any piece land on any group of people He chooses.
And there isn't a damned thing anyone can do about that.
I'll put it this way. If I was 19, knowing what I now know and I had the money, I'd fly to Israel and join the IDF,
help the Israelis defeat the evil scum, even if it cost me my life.