You do not have to agree with me on Rom 11:26.
I presented 3 different views, and you were at liberty to present a fourth if you wished.
So it all hinges on you and I having an argument about Palestine now?
Really! If I was not such a trusting type I would have thought that you have a doctrine that cannot survive the test of reason and scripture.
Anyway, as they say fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
I am an Australian beekeeper, but the son of an immigrant.
My father was born in Palestine in 1933, and remembers the British Mandate.
My Grandparents were born in Palestine and remembered the Ottoman times.
My Grandmother was born in 1898.
Their ancestry was German, so they were Palestinians in the same sense that I now am an Australian.
The village that they lived in looks over the valley of Jezreel, and is now near the Ben Gurion airport.
The land that they lived in was called Palestine all over the world, and marked that way on every map, just as it has ever since the Crusaders left.
My "more reliable sources" are the witness testimonies of old people who WERE THERE. I have had the privilege of being able to listen to these people, but you are free to brush it all aside if smugness and ignorance are things that you value.
The Israelis did not come looking for peace, but with an army to have war and to get land.
Massacres against Arabs began after 1919, and increased until the 1945 war erupted.
My relatives were 'prisoners of war" under the British Mandate, and so had some protection for a time.
When the news of the British withdrawal was out, they were in trouble.
My fathers uncle was considered mayor of the village and was shot in the head by Jewish soldiers after refusing to sell the village for a ridiculously low price.
Two small boys were tortured to death in public by Jewish soldiers to "encourage" the people to leave.
A couple was shot in their home and a threat was issued to all that they would suffer the same fate if they did not go.
When they evacuated they had only one day to get to the ships provided by the British with what they could carry.
The fate of the Arab Palestinians was infinitely worse than theirs.
There used to be many Christians in the land too, and they did not suffer violence from the Muslims.
They were heavily persecuted by the Israelis.
The newcomers had a habit of bulldozing out anything that looks "Arab", so that they could tell the next immigrants that the land was empty. Many ancient artifacts suffered that fate, including the house of Jeremiah, which had been lovingly preserved both by Crusaders and Arabs.
They were complete foreigners, with no understanding or connection to the land.
Their "wailing wall" is not the remains of Herod's temple, but of a Roman fortress.
You wasted a lot of space with that rave about a Palestinian state.
People of any land are not defined by what sort of government they have.
Australians and Americans like to think they have a history too, yet both have been around for a much shorter time than the Palestinians.
