As I write this I am very tired of hearing the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu throwing the Holocaust up as the reason for some criminal activity he has committed. Purposely killing tens of thousands of people living in Gaza with bombs and artillery is okay because they wanted another Jewish Holocaust and he is defending Jews. He allows right wing Israelis to kill West Bankers without any attempt to apprehend them. He has broken agreements on not building houses in the West Bank where the Palestinians live using the Holocaust and Jewish right to the land.
According to the history of their people by Jewish Archeologists, they were a savage tribe that neither the Hittites nor the Egyptians want to mess with. Ramses I wanted to invade the people to the South and expand his empire to get resources. In order to protect his East Flank he hired that savage tribe to relocate there. They flourished with the yearly payments and not having to work on state projects like all Egyptians not in the army. In a matter of a few generations they quit being fighters and became lawyers, doctors, administrators, store keepers, etc. and worshipers of the Egyptian Gods. Some of the people thought their new life was against their heritage and persuaded the people to leave their lives of luxury. A good portion was forced by their new leaders to leave. They got out before the current Pharaoh could gather enough forces to go after them. They did not cross the Red Sea but the Reed Sea which was actually a tidal swamp. (Much of it is now the Suez Canal and Its infrastructure.) They left during low tide and the Pharaoh got caught during high tide. After they crossed over they split up for forty years to relearn their warrior ways. Their children absorbed the ways of their hosts. One family learned of a new God and its religion spread.
Now comes the “It’s Our Land” Netanyahu uses in his pronouncements. According to Jewish History they swarmed down the Golan Heights and slew every man, woman, child, and animal in what is now Northern Israel. As they expanded South their reputation caused tribe after tribe to leave or die. That’s how they got their land. Soon many of them were back into the professions who the Babylonians captured and took back to help grow their own intelligentsia group. They were captive about fifty years before being returned along with their families.
The Tigris River’s yearly flood may have been the basis for Noah and the Flood scribes would later use. The river people used large family and animal sized square boats made with reed and tar during each year’s flood.
Isn’t it interesting the war Netanyahu is waging against the Palestinians is very much like what those people did to the Tribes several millennia’s ago?
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