There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding and controversy over a piece of real estate in the middle east commonly referred to Israel. To be clear, Israel
was a man and his descendants
a "people".
Their "promised land" was inhabited by people before they arrived there several thousand years ago. Namely, the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.
In Genesis 15:18-21 the boundary of the promised land is clarified in terms of the territory of various ancient peoples, as follows:
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."
Said land has been
under various occupation and rule over the many centuries since and said people have been literally exiled and banished multiple times. The ones that remained were indeed a minority. The rest were scattered around the known world, presumably by God (if you believe in divine intervention, which is the basis for their own claim to the land).
Israel as a nation state has only been in existence since 1948 and only recognized as such by anyone else a year later. They, and the allies, violated agreements, treaties, and promises in the process of installing the state and have continued to do so ever since. For 60 years their presence there has been marked by violence and military action. Even though Palestinians are descendants of Abraham, through Esau, and the land was given to
ALL of the descendants of Abraham, the Israel has oppressed and slaughtered their cousins ever since.
I have no intention of defending myself from claims that I am anti-Semitic. I am not. Those are just base, slanderous attacks by people with poor debate skills and a poor understanding of history. I am anti-Zionist and anti-war. I'm also a bit "anti-mythology as a doctrine" (well, actually a lot).
I personally believe that everyone should just step back and let the state of Israel do what it is going to do and see for ourselves who in this world is the greatest threat of using nuclear weapons (
after the US, of course). We have ALL known that Israel possessed these weapons for decades while the world collectively, officially denied it. However,
the Pentagon admitted the fact recently while the media distracted us with other things.
The greatest threat to world security is not a nation but an ideology. Anyone anywhere who believes that "God is on their side" in their quest for world dominance and extraction of material wealth cloaked in the guise of "security" or "self-defense" and are willing to commit genocide or bring about mass extinction is not only delusional, but THEY are the threat. Christian, Jew, Muslim,... I really don't care.
If you believe that your imaginary friend makes you special, you are right - but not in the way that you think.
People would do well to read a book and check Google once in a while before they start spouting nationalist, racist, fascist shit. You are turning in to the thing that killed millions of Jews 7-8 decades ago. Hell,
Israel is turning into what they hate the most!
And if you shout hateful shit at me or any other minority, I will cut you with my tongue like a knife and I will defend them and myself to the last breath.
And anyone who believes that their god wants them to destroy other people or the planet has a pretty shitty god and needs to be put down for the benefit of the herd, lest they harm others or infect others with their delusions.
