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The River Jordon is the key to understanding this conflict.
1900s The British at this time were the most powerful nation on earth similar to the Americans a century later. England had also since c1650 been one of the few safe havens for Jews in a Europe of Jew haters. Many rich Jewish banking families like the Rothschild's lived in England and as it became clear that nowhere in mainland Europe were Jews safe from persecution (except perhaps Holland) Rothschild persuaded the British government to support the creating a safe homeland for all Jews in their Biblical Promised Land Palestine. Following the victory over the Germans and their allies the Islamic Turks in 1918 the English were in the right position to implement this strategy.
1918 From this date onwards Jews commenced a steady flow to Palestine particularly from Germany and Russia where Jewish extermination "programs" were most prevalent. At this time the English divided Palestine into two using the Biblical texts and the River Jordon. On the West side Palestine, the old promised land and on the East side Trans Jordon renamed simply Jordon. Palestine had few inhabitants by to-days standards as the land did not support effective farming. Indeed no Arab group had made Palestine their homeland. As soon as some Jews arrived they set about draining marshes, irrigating deserts and planting trees. Arabs from outside Palestine soon came to the area looking for the jobs created by the hard working, immigrant Jews and were welcomed as up to this time Jews and Muslims had always lived together in harmony. Unfortunately there is no history of Jews living in harmony with Muslims unless the Muslims werein a position to treat Jews as servants and defiantly not as equals or superiors. In Palestine (as in Cyprus) the local Muslims never showed the tenacious, entrepreneurial abilities of Jews (or Christians) and became jealous of their soon to be wealthier neighbours. Attacks on Jewish properties soon followed. When oil became an issue in the Middle East the English, rulers of both sides, tried to tread the middle path and did nothing to stop the flow of more, potentially trouble making Arabs, into Palestine looking for work.
1947 The English departed leaving the disaster waiting to happen to the United Nations:
- Their original concept of Jewish lands on both sides of the river Jordon had turned into a split into Jewish Palestine 25% and Arab Jordan 75%.
- Angry Arabs poised to kick the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea.
1948 As soon as the British were gone the Arab countries of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon agreed to not rest until they had "pushed the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea" and advised all Arabs living in Palestine to leave before the blood bath commenced. This created a huge refugee problem that exists even to-day.
For details of the last 50 years of Arab aggression CLICK HERE.
Suffice to say
- Of all the many battles in the last 50 years the Jews have only started one but have easily one them all.
- There is no evidence that the avowed intention of the Muslim Arabs is not still to remove the Jews from Palestine.
- The concept of Israel(The name given to Palestine by the Jews after 1948) and of ruling all the land west of the river Jordon is still the aim of the Jews as it was the aim of the British prior to 1948. To-day however the Jews are in a minority of one on this issue as the world seems to have no sense of history and pander to the Arabs initially because of their oil and now because of the concern of anti Western actions by Islamic extremists.
- The West Bank now expected to be part of Arab Palestine was the biblical Judea and Samaria of the Jews in the Bible.
- Jerusalem in the West Bank is an important area for Jews, Christians and Muslims. For Jews it was and is the heart of their culture and nation from c. 2000 BC to 70 AD when the Romans destroyed their Temple. For Christians Jerusalem is seen as the centre of the origins of Christian faith where Jesus spent much of his time. Muslims feel Jerusalem is their third most holy city even though Mohammed never went there. He claimed he visited Jerusalem in a dream with the purpose of meeting the ancient prophets of the Jewish and Christian religions.
- The ethnic spit in the West of the river Jordan is Jews 82%, remainder largely Arab.
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