Is what is happening in israel in the bible

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Added to your Bookmarks. Share Now. Twitter Tweet. Wearing a black kippah and placing a prayer inside the crack of the historic wall, Trump sent a clear message that this holy site belongs to the Jewish People. He founded it as a successor to the Irgun, a militant paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine, which he also led. Later, Herut was joined by Gush Emunim Bloc [of the] faithful , an Orthodox messianic political movement committed to the establishment of settlements in the so-called West Bank Biblical Judea and Samaria.

Both parties firmly supported the belief that the land acquired by Israel during the Six Day War in is part of Eretz Israel and therefore belongs to the Jewish people. They claimed that for ideological and religious reasons, Judea and Samaria are rightly a part of Israel, and should therefore be annexed permanently to the State.

Today, the Gush Emunim party no longer officially exists, and Herut has merged with the center-right Likud party. While left-leaning party leaders often contend that territory must be relinquished in exchange for peace with the Palestinians, the ruling Likud supports the existence of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, since they consider that territory to be part of the historical-biblical land of Israel.

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After the war the British attempted to make good on all their commitments—including establishing the sons of Sherif Hussein, Abdallah and Feisal, as the leaders of the soon-to-be-independent states of Transjordan and Iraq—but none of the claimants were satisfied.

Compare the three sets of documents cited above, and determine to what degree they conflict with each other. URLs for these documents are provided at the end. With the collapse of the year-old Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, the victorious Allied Powers met in to determine the disposition of the former Ottoman territories. The northern half of the province of Syria was assigned to France, and the southern half — corresponding to the modern states of Israel, Jordan, and the areas known as the West Bank and Gaza — was assigned to Great Britain.

Soon, however, Britain found itself embroiled in a dispute between Jews and Arabs in Palestine that it could not resolve. Eventually, in , it put forth the Peel Partition Plan to divide Palestine into two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab. However, this plan was rejected by the Arabs and quickly shelved. With an eye to securing Arab support in the coming war with Germany, the British then moved to restrict Jewish immigration into Palestine in — at just the moment the Jews of Europe most needed a safe haven from Nazi Germany.

In hindsight, we can see that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Jews, lost their lives because of this policy. Find a map of the Peel Partition Plan and determine what percentage was planned for the Jews, what percentage for the Arabs, and what was to remain under international trusteeship. How did the two sides respond to it?

On November 29, , the United Nations voted in favor of Resolution , known as the UN Partition Resolution , dividing Palestine into three parts — a Jewish state, an Arab state, and the area in and around Jerusalem, which was set aside for governance under an international trusteeship. It was not everything Ben-Gurion wanted, but a small state was better than no state at all.

Not so for the Arabs, for whom partition of any kind was unacceptable. A civil war of sorts ensued immediately following the passage of the Partition Resolution, and after David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, , five Arab states invaded.

Notably, Arab possession of the West Bank and Gaza during the 19 subsequent years did not result in the emergence of a Palestinian state. One alternative to partition would have been establishing a bi-national state that protected the rights of both nations of Palestine; this was favored by a small minority of Zionists but rejected by the Arabs.

It is sometimes offered as an alternative even today. How would you assess the merits of partition vs a bi-national state in the s or 30s, and how would you assess it today? Some other Christians share these concerns. Anabaptists have long upheld the separation of religion and state.

As some Anabaptists have experienced, states which favor one faith or ethnicity frequently discriminate against minority groups. In general, statehood is not seen as an end in itself. States can sometimes help guarantee basic human rights. Governments are judged according to the extent that they deter evil conduct and approve the good. A sovereign state, Jewish, Palestinian or otherwise, is a potential tool to realize the ultimate goal — the wellbeing of all people, including Jews and Palestinians.

MCC works with both Palestinians and Israelis who are committed to nonviolence, whether they believe that peace, justice and reconciliation are best secured in the context of a two-state solution, or that this will be best achieved in the framework of one, bi-national state of equal citizenship.

Where the Spirit of God is at work, injustice cannot be ignored. Mitri Raheb says. Peace and the blessing on the land and on the two peoples will depend on this sharing. Only then will the biblical promises be fulfilled. Sign up to learn more about Palestine and Israel. Wagner and Walter T.

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