There is no question that some of present day Jews are definitely descendents of the prophet Isaac and the prophet Abraham. However, to claim that other people, inclusive of the Palestinian people, are not descendants of Isaac is ridiculous. Either through voluntary or involuntary conversion, the majority of the Semitic Jews had converted, over time, to other religions, such as Christianity and Islam. Results of a DNA study by geneticist Ariella Oppenheim (a famous Israeli geneticist) appears to match historical accounts that Arab Israelis and Palestinians, together as the one same population, represent modern "descendants of a core population that lived in the area since prehistoric times", albeit religiously first Christianized then largely Islamized, and all eventually culturally Arabized. Referring to those of the Muslim faith more specifically, it reaffirmed that Palestinian "Muslim Arabs are descended from Christians and Jews who lived in the southern Levant, a region that includes Israel, Sinai and part of Jordan." Geneticist Michael Hammer praised "the study for 'focusing in detail on the Jewish and Palestinian populations.'"
The core of Israel's future problems lies in its crippled democracy (since it empowers people based on their religion). In order for it to survive, Israel has to continuously redefine its definition of "who is a Jew." Its current definition of "who is a Jew" is fluid-since it has been written to suite its domestic political agenda. This racist and crippled "Jewish Democracy" won't last. So if you agree with Israel's current status, then enjoy it while it lasts. Any civilization that bases itself on exclusion, rather than inclusion, sooner or later will self-destruct.
Finally, let's assume that it's a true fact that God made such a "promise" to Abraham's descendants (regardless of whether these descendants were Jews, Arabs, or even of non-Semitic extraction), then it must have been a racist promise-since it was based on the genetic make up of Abraham's heirs. The question which begs to be asked is this:
Is it possible that, at one point in history, God made a racist promise?
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Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European
By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer | October 08, 2013 11:00am ET
Quote- Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.
OUP is Oxford University Press
OUP stands for Oxford University Press there.
"A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages"
Paper known as Costa et al. 2013 (this specific genetic research team was led by University of Huddersfield archaeogeneticist Dr. Martin B. Richards)
They write: "Here we show that all four major founders, ~40% of Ashkenazi mtDNA variation, have ancestry in prehistoric Europe, rather than the Near East or Caucasus. Furthermore, most of the remaining minor founders share a similar deep European ancestry. Thus the great majority of Ashkenazi maternal lineages were not brought from the Levant, as commonly supposed, nor recruited in the Caucasus, as sometimes suggested, but assimilated within Europe. These results point to a significant role for the conversion of women in the formation of Ashkenazi communities, and provide the foundation for a detailed reconstruction of Ashkenazi genealogical history."
Dr. Eran Elhaik "The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses"
See the January 16, 2013 AFP article on Dr. Elhaik's paper
Gene study settles debate over origin of European Jews
(AFP) – Jan 16, 2013
PARIS — Jews of European origin are a mix of ancestries, with many hailing from tribes in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism and created an empire that lasted half a millennium, according to a gene study.
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Less than half of those polled -- 46 percent -- call themselves secular, while only 22 percent identify themselves as Orthodox or ultra-Orthodox, with 32 percent defining themselves as traditional Jews. More than half of the respondents -- 55 percent -- believe in the coming of the Messiah."
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2012/January/Survey-80-Percent-of-Israelis-Believe-in-God/
The synod's final statement, drawn up by a commission headed by Bustros, also said that "recourse to theological and biblical positions which use the Word of God to wrongly justify injustices is not acceptable.
"On the contrary, recourse to religion must lead every person to see the face of God in others and to treat them according to their God-given prerogatives and God’s commandments, namely, according to God's bountiful goodness, mercy, justice and love for us."
Speaking at press conference, Butros said: "The theme of the promised land cannot be used as a basis to justify the return of the Jews to Israel and the expatriation of the Palestinians."
"For Christians one can no longer talk of the land promised to the Jewish people," he said, because the "promise" was "abolished by the presence of Christ."
In the kingdom of God, which covers the whole world, "there is no longer a favoured people, a chosen people, all men and women of every country have become the chosen people," the Lebanese-born Butros said.
Hardline Jewish settlers in particular claim their right to build on Palestinian territory by saying it forms part of biblical Israel, the land promised by God to the Jews according to the Old Testament.
Butros also warned against the risk of Israel becoming an exclusively Jewish state, with a consequent threat to the 1.5 million Muslim and Christian Arabs living there.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to introduce a controversial loyalty oath to Israel as a "Jewish state" to apply to both Jews and non-Jews wanting to become citizens.
He has also made a freeze on settlement building conditional on Palestinian recognition of Israel's Jewish identity in what has been widely seen as a ploy to complicate US-backed peace efforts.
It's as possible as that God caused a bush to burn without being burned to ashes in order to get the attention of Moses.
Yes.
BUT, if so, it wouldn't be for the aggrandizement of the Jews, but for the glory of God alone.
It is as simple as it sounds: Jew, who has "right to return", is someone who defined as such (Jew) by the Nazi regime, During and before WWII.
Here is your definition: Person who's grandfather (or grandmother), was or is a Jew.
It is easier for me to accept such a Racist Israely law, since Israely regime, actually gives true citizenship to many people which are not jews, because being a Jew is not the only Criteria of receiving citizenship in Israel.
As for any deceived Christians that support Zionist "Israel" (that is the stupid Zionist "Christians") all that needs to be said to them is from the New Testament; Matthew 21:43- Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you (i.e. the Jews) and given to a people who will produce its fruit. (NIV Bible) Thus according to Christianity, Jews are not "chosen" anymore! Note that most Ashkenazi Jews are simply Khazars anyway!
and nothing else !!
Call it Promised-Land
call it Stolen-Land
call it Eretz Israel
call it Palestine
call it the Land of Canaan
call it the Occupied Land
call it yours !!
it is only a Land
The Israelis needed it for their expansion
and the Palestinians needed it
for their survival and existance.
Did God give it Golda Meier ??
Did Moses invade it with Egyptian-slaves ??
Did Richard Lion-Heart offer it to the Pope ??
it is all in a piece of Land
Did Salah el Ddin (Saladin) liberate it
did Hertzel steal it
did Jesus bless it
it is all about Land !!
is it a restitution after the Holocaust
is it a restitution after the Crusaders
is it a restitution after Napoleon´s defeat in Acre
Nonsense , it is only about a Land ??
Did General Allenby also liberate it ??
Did Al Khalifa Omar earn it ??
Did Jesus meet Mohammad in there ??
it is just a piece of Land ,
but without any Peace
Do the Zionists need it
Does Judaism can survive without it
Did God give it to some .........
and denied it to others
No Sir !! it is simply a piece of land
that stretches from the Tiberian-sea to the Red-sea
passing by the Dead-Sea
while it is all retained in the East
by the Mediterranean- Sea .
Did Rotchild purchase it ??
Did Balfour sell it ??
Did the Sultan of Istanbul abandon it ??
No Sir !!!
Balfour did not own it , so he could not sell it
and Rotchild was not even welcome
by the Sultan who owned it
No sir .........it is just a piece of Land
where
the Pagans once became Jews ,
where
the Jews ,later, became Christians
and where
the Christians became Muslims.
They all drunk from the river Jordan
and all have feared the same mighty God,
until the day the Zionists came.....
The Zionists who feared nobody
brought to us
death and destruction,
colonialism and apartheid
exile and deportation
and of course, they took the land.
That same Land I am talking about
the one called Holy-Land
or Promised-Land
Land of Canaan
or simply and unpretentiously
or normaly and historically ,
PALESTINE.
Nothing mystical about it
nothing miraculous nor diofvine,
the Whites did in South-Africa,
in North and South-America
even in Hawaii...... .
so why not in Palestine !!
it is just a piece of Land like all the others
and he who has the bigger-guns may keep it !!
Forget the United-Nations and International Laws
forget Human-rights , National-rights and even History
Do not mind about anything religious.....
Just see that you get, and you keep,
the bigger-guns .
It is all about a Land,
and he who has the bigger-guns ,
may keep it !!
Raja Ibrahim Khalil Ibrahim el Chemayel
...
Up to 3 million Israelites camped in a wilderness for 40 years, but no traces of their camps, burials, and millions of animal sacrifices could be found in ten years of excavations. This may be an argument from silence, but it is a silence that screams.
13: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel, with two portions for Joseph. 14: You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will become your inheritance.
Verses 15-20 Concern the specific boundaries of the land.
21: "You are to distribute this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. 22: You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who have settled among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 23: In whatever tribe the alien settles, there you are to give him his inheritance," declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel 47 makes it very clear. The land is an inheritance for the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Aliens are to be given a portion of the inheritance - within the division of land belonging to the Tribe of Israel in which they choose to live. It says nothing about the children of Ishmael having their own state, carved from the land promised the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Kaufman, a frequent critic of Israel who was raised as an Orthodox Jew, sharply criticized Israel in a House of Commons debate on Gaza, saying that "The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians."
The MP also commented on the claim that large numbers of the Palestinian victims were militants, saying that "I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants," he said.
Kaufman urged the British government to impose an arms embargo on Israel
I'm confussed....What is the truth,and only the truth!!
We are all The Creators children!Uphold one God,the God.What ever language or region your from and holy name you give Him,and He will give us the Light(Israel)!
Anyone asking this question is unaware that the Prophet Muhammad pnuh was indeed a descendant of the prophet Abraham from his son prophet Ismail. Thus Muslims are the descendants of the Prophet Abraham aswell.