posted on Sep, 14 2004 @ 08:20 AM
Hey Ghostrider and others on this thread:
First, let�s get something straight: modern Israelis are NOT related by blood to the ancient Israelites.
Here is what the "Jewish Encyclopaedia" has to say on the subject (as a rounded overview from their own publishers)
"It is a common assumption, ineradicable even in the face of so much evidence to the contrary, that "Jews" today constitute a "race, a homogeneous
entity" that is easily recognizable....it should be clear that in the course of their formation as a people and a nation they had already assimilated
a variety of racial strains from people moving into the general area they once occupied. This had taken place by interbreeding and then by conversion
to Judaism of a considerable number of non-semitic communities. . . .Thus, the diversity of the racial and genetic attributes of various Jewish
colonies of today renders any unified racial classification of them a contradiction in terms.
The Israelites (whatever you consider their ancient makeup, which was fluid to say the least) are today virtually extinct, their blood lines mixed
into the general population into which they were forcibly scattered abroad after Rome destroyed Palestine in AD 138 for the 2nd time (the first was in
AD 66-72).
Now about the word "Jew" (Yehud):
The generic term used today as �Jew� (Persian: Yehud) derives from the so-called mixed amphyctiony of Yehudah (Judah), which is derived from the
Hebrew word: Yahad (�community of tribes�) which ultimately derives from the Heb. Word YAD (�hand�):
Thus a �yahad� is a �holding of hands� (i.e. a community of tribes) and Yehudah was originally a conglomeration of several dozen non-related nomadic
�tribelets� (see below).
Today there are no longer any pure descendants of Yehudah alive
The Yehudites are for all intents and purposes, extinct. What exists today of Yehudites (Sephardim, fallashim etc. ) are racially mixed descendants
of these ancient tribal clans.
And today�s modern-day Israelis are of mixed European (non Semitic) Ashkenazi (Turko Ukrainian=European) descent for the most part ---and are �non
Semitic�----they have more of a "land claim" to the area around present day Kiev in the Ukraine (that is, if you base any of their specious Zionist
claims purely on bloodline lineage) than they would have any legitimate claim to the West bank or Gaza, or the land of "Israel" generally as it
appears on the modern western map today.
Only "Jews" who are descended from the so-called "Sephardim" (scattered all over the middle east, e.g. Yemen) and from the Ethiopian Fallashas
would have any tangible blood connexion to claiming that part of the world at all based on blood lines, and only tentatively at best
--------considering 3,000 years of Sefardi and Fallasha miscegenation (interbreeding) with the goyim (non Jews).
In point of fact, over 90% of Modern Israelis are NOT related by blood AT ALL to ANY of the varoius Israelitish clans (whether you count 10 or 12 or
16�see the Song of Deborah in Judges chapter 5) that were in existence possibly as early as 3,000 years ago, and any argument supporting such land
claims based on race or blood lines is fallacious.
People tend to use the word "Jew" very loosely today, especially in "dumbed down America" and most people do NOT know the origin of the word, nor
do they understand that 90% of people who call themselves "Jews" today (some 12 million persons, just a few less than the total number of Kurds in
the world) are descended from 9th century AD (non Semitic) Ashkenazim "converts" in present day Kiev (Ukraine) formerly the kingdom of
Khazaria---hemmed in as they were with Byzantine Christians fighting to the West and militant Muslims fighting from the East, the King of Khazaria
(renamed himself �Joseph�) converted to Judaeism in 780 AD (from solar paganism) because he wanted to steer a "Bava Metzia" ("middle gate")
between two warring entities.
For more than 200 years Khazaria was a prospperous "middle man" kingdom in negotiating trade (and war weapons, slaves etc.) between the two warring
Empires until "Christian" Moscow, tired of having a middle man selling weapons and materiel to both sides, came swooping down in the year 1003 AD
and destroyed Khazaria, sending 1 million NON SEMITIC OFTEN BLUE EYED Jewish converts westward in the direction of present day Lithuania, Poland,
Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England and other places in Russia.
Even most Modern Day "Jews" are often under the delusion that they are somehow blood-related to the Israelite clans...and are therefore "chosen by
their God (YHWH) " in some magical way---which they are not.
This is nothing but nationalist-racist propaganda, a la Adopf Hitler who thought the German Aryans were "the chosen-Master Race".
The physical remnants of the so-called �Israelites� are called Sephardim (from the Hebrew for Spain: Sefard) and had been wandering abroad since
before Rome again destroyed the province of "Palestina" in 136-138 AD (during the 2nd Revolt against Rome under Shimeon Bar Kosiba ("Bar Kokhba")
which also failed.
It is estimated that 900,000 Palestinian born "Israelite descendants" were annhialiated between the two Wars of Rebellion against Rome (AD 70 and
AD 136), virtually exterminating any "Israelite" blood-descendants.
One could say that anything closely related to "Israelite blood" in any one group of people today is virtually absent today: gone, extinct---yet
ironically the population that shows the GREATEST GENETIC AFFINITY to the ancient "Israelite" blood (if you read the modern Genetic Medical journals
this year) is....hang on to your hats.....the present day Palestinian population !!
Maybe the modern day Israelis should think about that one (or read some of the latest modern Genetic Research journals now coming out in print!!)
Today, less than 1 Million persons (less than 10% of world Jewry) are comprised of "Sefardi and Fallasha (Ethiopian) Jews" --two groups who might
still have some traces of the ancient "semitic" blood traceable back to the Israelites (like all Arabs, descended from Abraham as one of the
descendants of "Shem") , have been so intermixed by "breeding with the goyim" for the past 3,000 years, that the "Jew" today is no longer a
"race", but merely a �religion. �
The modern day Israeli is "non Semitic" if you were to do blood scans and genetic tracing as some have done, to their horror when the results came
back. Few of these stories however ever get published without being pulled from the shelves
And even a full blooded the "Israelite" was also not racial pure. David's grandmother "Ruth" was a Moabitess... and the Torah specifically states
in words placed into the Mouth of Moses (in late fake-Mosaic Hebrew however) :
NO MOABITE SHALL EVER ENTER THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL, NOT EVEN BEYOND THE 10th GENERATION, EVER...
The tribal clan chief ("king") David was a member of this mixed blood confederation of Judah, with all of his own Moabite blood mixed in, and thus
according to the torah could not even call himself an Israelite !!
Digging further back into the oral clan history, Abraham purportedly said,
A Wandering Syrian ready to starve was my Father: a Cannanite was my mother (i.e. two gentile, blood groups/nations) testifying that the whole
nation "of Israel" was comprised of foreign blood elements, and "there was nothing special about their bloodline" despite all the racist rhetoric
you hear from "Jewish" and "non Jewish" Zionists today...
Curiously, name of the (Tribes of) "Judah" does not even occur in the oldest writings in the Old Testament (e.g. the Song of Deborah) but seems to
have been a large "fake tribe" which was later made up of smaller, less politically powerful tribelets.
And its "fake" origin is also "made up" in the Bible to account for its political dominance after the fall of the 10 northern tribes in 721-701 BC
when Assyria attacked Palestine and annexed the Northern Kingdom.
Read WHO WROTE THE BIBLE by Elliot Friedman for a layman's backgrounder on the subject of: HISTORY CAN BE MADE UP...IF YOU KNOW HOW...
The so-called "Old Testament" (Hebrew Scriptures) was not even set into recognisable form until the time of Ezra in 480 BC long after the events it
purports to relate, and long after the "tribal confederation" of Yehudah had established dominance in Palestine (they survived the Assyrian attacks
to continue on politically until 587 BC when Babylon destroyed them and exiled anyone who worked in metals or who could write and foster a counter
revolution).
As the saying goes, the "Winners" generally end up writing the "history" as "history" shows...and they usually wind up by writing history in
"their favour.."
Now, take a look at the very word : "Judah" which derives etymologically from the Heb. "Yehudah" (the legendary "4th son of Yakkov") but
actually refers to MORE THAN ONE TRIBELET in ancient times: the name derives from "Yad" meaning "hand" and the cognate "Yahad" meaning "tribal
joining of hands" i.e. an amphyctiony or tribal "confederation".
The Greek word "Iudaioi" ("judeans") from which we derive "Jew" from today, is the translated equivalent of Yehudah---i.e. the many tiny
unrelated tribelets that comprised Yehudah.
Even Michah 5:2 says "Bethlechem-Ephratha, you who are not the least among all the tribelets ("clans") of Judah... " so the tribe of Judah was not
ONE tribe but many. And Zechariah and others in the OT refer to the "clans" of Yehudah.
Notice the RACIALLY MIXED COMPOSITION of the CLANS OF JUDAH:
Kalebites (in the territory around Hebron; Josh. 14:13-15; Judg. 1:20), Kenites (in the area around Arad; Judg. 1:16), Kennizzites (in the environs of
Debir; Josh. 15:15-19; Judg. 1:11-15), Jerahmeelites, and Othnielites.
NB There is NO RACIAL PURITY AMONG EVEN THE ANCIENT TRIBELETS OF JUDAH (i.e. Iudaoio, ancient "Jews").
If you read the so-called SONG OF DEBORAH in Judges chapter 5:14-19 you will notice something rather strange: THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (YEHUDAH) IS
COMPLETELY MISSING FROM THE LIST OF 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL! (so is the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Levi)
The tribes mentioned are: Benjamin, Issachar, Zebulun, Reuben, Asher, Dan, Naphtali, & Ephraim---FOLLOWED BY FOUR UNKNOWN TRIBES (presumably to keep
the astrological number 12 in tact):
9. GILEAD (not one of the "big" 12 in the Torah, unless related to GAD)
10. MACHIR ( ??)
11. BARAK (??)
12. MEROZ (??)
So much for the so called 12 Tribes.
If you read the Book of Revelation, see chapter 12 (first written during the 1st Jewish Revolt against Rome in AD 67-68, and later re-written at least
once in 96 AD ) you'll notice Manasseh mentioned as a full tribe and the Tribe of DAN completely missing altogether...
It is clear the ancient writers did not have a clear idea of their true history, but were trying to force the magic number 12 on the tradition by
whatever means necessary (12 being astrologically significant, and related to an ancient prophecy that Abraham's sons would be as the Constellations
of Heaven...notice how Ishmael--legendary father of the Arabs--- also has 12 sons...)
Even as far back as the time of David on, the confederation of Judah had incorporated considerable numbers of gentile, non-Israelites, leading to an
alternation between pro-Canaanite, non-Yahwist religious policies on the part of some kings and the reversal of such policies in periodic religious
reforms.
Adding to that was the fact that Palestine had been run over so many times by older, larger, more sophisticated Gentile nations (Assyria, Babylon,
Persia, Greece, Syria, Rome) whose soldiers and inhabitants were imported into the land and married into the local population, further eroding any
sense of tribal unity based on bloodline.
Witness the so-called Samaritan Schism in the north after 420 BC. which was based on blood differences as well as ritual separateness (i.e. Mount
Gerazim verses Mount Moriah, see the Gospel of John chapter 3)
So not only is the ancient Israelite amphyctionies non-identifiable with any accuracy, even more so are those who call themselves their
"descendants" and therefore have some kind of "divine right" to the land of Israel.
Whatever National Borders the Community of Nations gave to the Nation of Israel in 1948 (following an understandable worldwide sympathy of the after
effects of the German Holocaust) should NEVER be regarded as something that has anything to do with made up Divine Promises in Israelite folklore
(i.e. the so called "bible"--).
Modern day illegal settlement building and other forms of illegal and immoral land-grabbing in "Israel" (e.g. permanently moving perimeter walls
deeper and deeper into the West Bank on some phony notion of national security) with the lame excuse that they are doing this because "GOD gave us
this land" purportedly based on some phony racial links to the "Israelites" (who made up most of their "glorious and divine" history 1000 years
after the events they relate---to judge from the evidence of modern archaeology) has no place in the modern world and will only perpetuate the
slaughter of innocent lives which is now seemingly out of control in the region.