who was first in the land of israel; arabic or jewish people or other?
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>>>>I'm just curious who was historically the first on the land….\n\nThe trouble is that the question makes no sense. Both historically and mythologically the Jews were Arabs. They aren’t a different people, they are simply a different religious sect. Prior to the rise of Islam around 1500 years ago the Middle East and North Africa was home to thousands of different religions, and one of those religions was Judaism. The different sects were in a state of near perpetual war with their neighbours as well as with the great powers like Babylon and Egypt.\n\nFrom a purely historical perspective it seems that one of the numerous religious sects living in Palestine gained the upper hand, either through theocratic means or through warfare or a combination of the two. Gradually they absorbed all the other people of that region and formed the state of Israel.\n\nBear in mind also that even at the time of Christ present day Israel wasn’t entirely Jewish occupied or controlled. Much of it was in Samaria, the Samaritans being a Hebrew but not Jewish sect that didn’t accept the absolute sanctity of the temple.\n\nSo as you can see it’s not a simple case of saying the Arabs or Jews were there first. Historically Jews are Arabs and Jews never historically occupied all of what is now Israel.\n\n>>>> were the jews exiled or chased out or volunteerily left?\n\nA little from column A, a little from column B.\n\nRemember how at the time of Jesus Israel had been occupied by the Romans?  Needless to say the Jews didn’t like that, and the situation was further aggravated by the Romans doing various stupid and offensive things. Eventually the people of Jerusalem and much of Judeaea got fed up and rebelled. A lot of Romans were killed, a lot more Jews were killed, a lot of Jews killed themselves rather than be captured. \n\nThe Romans ascribed the unrest to a religious source and decided that enough was enough and The Temple was torn down. \n\nWithout the temple to sacrifice at the Jews had no strong reason to cling to Israel, and combined with Roman persecution they mostly decided to leave in several waves over the next few hundred years.\n\nSo you could say that it was a voluntary Exodus, but it was just as much a refugee movement.\n\n>>>>Why did the international community choose the land in dispute now?\n\nBasically because\n\n1)It is the traditional Jewish homeland and a lot of Jews wanted it back.\n2)Jews had a lot of political clout in Washington after the war.\n3) Jews had been regularly slaughtered in Europe over the last 2000 years, and the recent Nazi holocaust was by far the worst example. A lot of people tjought that it would be a good idea not let it keep happening, and decided the best way to do that would be to give the Jews their own country outside Europe.\n\nCombine those three factors and you see a simple solution to all problems/ The fact that Palestine was a British colony/protectorate at the time and Britain wanted to offload all its colonies as fast as possible helped no end.\n\nBenji Man  wrote:\n>>>>>Africa is the cradle of civ so I will go with an early nomadic african people.\n\nAfrica is not the cradle of civilisation. Asia is without a doubt the cradle of civilisation with a second nucleus in Central America.
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Arabic is a cousin language of Hebrew, as well as aramaic. The early armenian Christians came from the early Syrian Church which would have used the Aramaic form of the word. \n\nIn Hebrew it is Elohim. In arabic it is Allah. The words ligustically are quite similar and do come from each other.
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The Palestinian/Arab/Moslem community will never allow a non-Muslim, non-Arab, non-Arabic-speaking community to live, prosperously, in their midst. It counters everything they believe, that Islam is superior, and therefore moslems must rule the world, that the Dhimmi community (dhimmi are the non-Moslem, "people of the book," including Jews and Christians) who are to be subjugated, can not be so much more prosperous than they. Because for decades and decades, the leadership of the Palestinians taught their people to hate. \n\nThe Palestinians were never absorbed into the countries in which they were told to flee to, by the Arabs, when Israel became a State::\n\nPalestinians of Lebanon were never granted citizenship, they were kept in camps, where the Lebanese blamed the Israelis.\n\nPalestinians of Jordan were never granted citizenship, they were kept in camps in the "West Bank" where the Jordanians blamed the Israelis.\n\nPalestinians of Syria were never granted citizenship, they were kept in camps where the Syrians blamed the Israelis.\n\nPalestinians of Egypt were never granted citizenship, they were kept in camps in the Gaza Strip, where the Egyptians blamed the Israelis.\n\nWhen Barak, the Prime Minister of Israel, went to the peace table with Arafat and Clinton at Camp David, Barak gave him all but about 3% of what Arafat wanted, Arafat said no, and began the Intifada, the violence, again. Look this up on the internet, anywhere, you will see what i mean.\n\nThere will be no peace until there is no Israel, and the world, when it happens, will sadly say they're sorry, and then the terrorists will turn their attention toward the West. \n\nSource(s):\nFROM TIME IMMEMORIAL: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine; by Joan Peters\n\nMYTHS AND FACTS ONLINE:\nA Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html
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before the establishment of the state of israel, there were some arabs in the country, under the british mandate. then jewish ppl immigrated to israel in order to establish a "national house" for all the jewish ppl in the world. the british army first supported them, then supported the arabs. in 1948 when Ben Gurion (first israeli prime minister) declared about the establishing, the War of Independence broke out and lots of arabs escaped to neighbour arabic countries. in 1967, there was a war, and on that time, many arabs came back and got autonomy is israel's territory. since then the settled in West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Gaza Strip, and more areas. also there were some arabs the didn't leave the place in 1948, and they are israeli citizens and calles Israeli Arabs.\nthat's how Islam reached Israel.
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Arab citizens in Israel have all the rights and privileges as anyone else in Israel.  Unlike every single surrounding arab state, Israel is an enlightened democracy.  I think that is something people intentionally overlook about Israel.  Israel is not, in fact, a jewish state.  It may have begun that way, but it has not been that way for a long, long time.  Israel is a jewish and arab state.  It actually is the ONLY state in the middle east where arabs are free and have human rights.
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I disagree with your analysis of an ethnic group...the Jewish people were stateless for thousands of years. \n\nGypsies, too, although they don't quite count as an ethnic group. well...they kind of do.
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Hebrews are a race of people. Jewish is a religion. Israeli is a nationality. You can be Jewish but unless you are born of Hebrew descent you can't be a Hebrew. It's like being of Cherokee descent rather than European descent. Kapeesh?
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There are no such people as "palestinians" they are only arabs, no more no less. There has never been a language, culture, history or people known as palestinian. NOR has there ever in all history been a nation, state, or country called palestine.... Thus palestinians are arabs.. that should start one thinking...  some arabs began to apply the term palestinian to themselves only as far back as 1963 when egyptian born arafat used it to describe arabs... even israeli arabs call themselves ARABS and not palestinians... No, by the way Not ALL of them are terrorists, but many are, and many more support terrorism. Over all, its a religious war by the 1.2 billion muslims and 56 nations of islam against the one jewish nation...
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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were the founders of the people and men of faith, but they never called their religion "Judaism".  In fact the word "Judaism" never appears in the Bible (not even in the Christian Bible).\n\nObviously in Judaism G-d is the Creator.  But I don't think that is quite what you are asking. \n\nJudaism is founded on Torah.  Torah is the 5 books of Moses - Genesis through Deuteronomy. So Moses is perhaps the personality that you are looking for.  \n\nThe story of the Exodus is often looked upon as being like a betrothal and marriage. The descendants of Jacob - the children of Israel - had become slaves in Egypt.  G-d sees this and like an angry boyfriend comes in, curses the Egyptians with 10 plagues, takes Israel out.  He leads them through the waters of the Red Sea and kills the enemies that are following them.  He then leads them to Mount Sinai where He gives them His Covenant. (Much as the marriage contract is read in a traditional wedding.) Read Exodus 1 through 20.\n\nIsrael entered into the Promised Land and generations later the nation was split into 2 kingdoms.  Israel was the northern kingdom and Judah was the southern kingdom.  Israel was conquered by Assyria and the people there were dispersed amoung the nations and no one knows where their descendants are now.  Judah was taken into captivity by Babylon but was allowed to return.  They were later conquered again by Greeks and then by the Romans.  \n\nSince the area was called Judea, the nation was called Judah, and the people were called Jews; the unnamed religion of the people became known as "Judaism".
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Abraham was the first Jew.  G-d promised the land of Israel to Abraham and his Jewish descendants.\nWhat is it that you do not understand???
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It all started out only as Arabs against Israelis which eventually turned into Muslims against Jews because, most Muslims are Arabs (but not all Arabs are Muslims, and there are Muslims who are not Arabs) and Israelis are Jews.\n\nHow did this started?  It all started way-back in the Time of Abraham.  Abraham's wife, Sarah, was not able to bear children so she let her husband to take one of her maid to bed for the sake of child-birth.\n\nThat maid did gave birth to a son, Ishmael.  Sarah eventually was blessed with a son, Isaac.  Thus, Ishmael and his mother were both exiled into the desert by the order of Sarah.\n\nGuess what?  Arabs are from the line of Ishmael whilst the Jews are the lineage of Isaac.  They are fighting for the Right of Inheritance over their "Father's Land".  Sibling issues that gone international, crazy.
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It is the religin of jews, its book is "Altawra" and its prophet is Mousa(pbuh), but other prophet had led jews as Soliman and David while the jews had a government for about only 70 years in Palestine(in the middle east) and which make the jews after thousands of year decided to choose Palestine to be collected in again and set their nation after they worked long years in forming Zionism movement.According to some jewish books, Jews says that they have the right to relocate the countries of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, syria, Iraq and Iran in the Jews nation besides Palestine which they occuppied since 1948.But I have to mention here that many Jews refused to go to Palestine as God forbid that.
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schneb, on the contrary, 2500 B.C the cannanites from southeast Arab occupied the area and were said to be the first to occupy the land. They were said to be the first to name the area Urusalem i.e. Jerusalem. The first king and religious leader of the tribe was Sadek. It was said that during the time of Sadek, Abraham (a prophet in Islam as well as few other religions) brought Islam to the area.\n\nIt should be understood that for Muslims, the religions of their forefathers' prophets has always been Islam i.e. Adam is a muslim, Abraham is a muslim, Moses is a muslim, King David is a muslim as well as Solomon and Jesus. Mohammed was sent to redirect the faulty that mankind has created in this initially pure religion by altering and mending the books of God i.e. Torah, Bible and Zabur (sorry not sure of the English translation for this particular book). The Quran is, as believed by the muslims, words of God that corrects the amendments as well as bringing the messege of God's One-ness.\n\n2000 B.C. the Amorites (from the same origin as the Cannanites) joined in with the Cannanites followed by the Phonicians that came from the north.\n\nThen only at around 1300-1200 BC, the Philistines race occupied the south of Jerusalem. It is believed that it was around this time that Moses and his followers left ancient Egypt which was then (believed to be) ruled by Ramses II. His followers were said to be of 6000-8000 people. They occupied East of Jerusalem i.e. East of Dead Sea which did put pressure on the Cannanites, the original occupier of that area.\n\nThe Quran doesn;t mention Jerusalem by Jerusalem or by its arabic name,Baitul Maqdis. The Quran refers it by the name of the Holy Mosque within Jerusalem, Masjid Al-Aqsa.\n\nIt was between 1025-586 BC that the Israelites, followers of a few prophets in Islam (different time span), e.g. King David and Solomon, occupied Jerusalem. It was also within this time that the First Temple was built i.e. around 3000 years ago.\n\n586 BC - King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered the Israelites and brought them to Babylon as prisoners of war. It was between this time that the Old Testament was WRITTEN.\n\n539-331 BC - Persian King, Cyrus defeated the babylonians and conquered Jerusalem. He allowed the Israelites brought to  Babylon (above) to come back to Jerusalem.\n\nThe authorities in Jerusalem changed hands quite a few time after that, starting with Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Maccabean Jews, King Titus of Rome (that completely destroyed the Temple and killed many Jewish people in Jerusalem), Uryanus of Rome (prevent a rebellion from Jews at 117-138 AD and almost wiped out the whole Jewish population in Jerusalem) and finally the Byzantine Empire until 636 AD when Muslims under the leadership of Umar Al-Khattab, the 2nd caliph after the life of Mohammed.\n\nThus, it is almost impossible that Jerusalem been a Jewish capital for 3300 years if there were so many empires taking turns to conquer Jerusalem, what more with the likes of mighty Rome.\n\n363 AD, the muslims take over Jerusalem from Byzantine under the Umariyah Peace Treaty. There was no war on that day, as the Byzantine surrendered peacefully.\n\n7th June 1099, the Crusades army took over Jerusalem. 70,000 people were killed despite seeking refuge in mosques. They remained in charge for 91 years.\n\nBetween then and 1187, battles took place between the muslim army lead by Salahuddin Al-Ayubi (Saladin) and the crusades army. A 3 year ceasefire treaty was signed between the 2 parties. But during the early months of 1187, Arnat, one of the generals in the crusade army broke that treaty by ambushing a muslim trade convoy from Egypt to Damascus. Saladin demanded the convoy to be released but Arnat replied synically, "Tell Mohammed to release you all" At that time, Saladin swore to kill Arnat.\n\nMay 1187, Battle of Shufuriyyah between the muslim army and the Crusade army took place to lure the crusade army out of th
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Palestine was conquered by the Arabs.  Jerusalem was overrun in 638AD
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Hello:  Noting your question correction regarding the 12 tribes of Israel.   The history of Israel, as recorded in the Tanack, (OT version of the Original Text) indicates that shortly after the invasion of the Assyrian armies, the ten northern Israel tribes were dispersed north to Assyria, and scattered among that nation in assimulation.  The two tribes remaining of the Southern area of Israel, were Judah and Benjamin, along with some of the remnants of several of the northern tribes who fled at the time of the invasion south into Judahs area, notables of that were Levites.  As the survivors were living in the tribal area of Judah, all that lived there became known as Judahites, and that was later shortened to Jews... the majority of Judahites or Jews were later scattered with the additional invasion of the Babylonian conquest, where a strong community grew for the seventy years of captivity, then approximately 20 percent returned to Jerusalem when the Persian king, Cyrus, allowed the Jews to return to rebuild Jerusalem.    The Arab nations that surrounded the area of Israel were not Palestinians, nor were they Phillistines, as the Phillistines inhabited the southern coastal area and were eventually killed or died during their final years in the Philistia area after King Solomons reign.    It was shortly before WWII that England occupied the Israel area, and renamed it Palestinia,  hence the name of all sojourners there became known as Palestinians....which had nothing to do with the previous area of Philistia or Phillistines...Todays present Palestinians are Arab,refugees from the various Arab nations that rejected them from the Arab states of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.   Sincerly
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There are several Semitic peoples. However the term "anti-Semitic" is a term that specifically means a hatred of Jews.
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casue they were jews.