It have never been a land called Israel or Yeretz israel,according to the history. Abraham lived around 1800 BC in Ur, Babylon (Mesopotamia, now Iraq), Can’aan (Palestine), and later in Makkah. He is the ancestor of Jews, and Arabs, and ideologically, of all Christians and Muslims. Isaac was his son from Sarah, and Ishmael (Ismail) was his son from Hagar (Hajirah) From his son Isaac descended Jacob (Israel) and the Children of Israel. Through his other son, Ishmael descended the Arabs and God’s last Messenger, Muhammad, the exalted.
Abraham’s father Azar, as the Chief Priest, was the most powerful man in Babylon, next only to the King. As the progeny of Azar, Abraham and Ishmael were entitled to the luxurious and powerful office of the Chief Priesthood in the court of King Nimrod. But they sacrificed all temptation in order to follow the Commands of God and strove to establish True Monotheism wherever they lived.
[Footnote: Midyan was the name of Prophet Abraham’s son from his third wife, Qatoora. His progeny had settled in the Arabian Peninsula as well, and Prophet Shoaib (Jethro) was sent to the Midyans during the times of Moses]
OT 23 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
MY HUMBLE RESEARCH: The lost tribes of Israel had migrated to Afghanistan and Kashmir, and in time, embraced Islam. Encyclopedia Americana, 'Lost Ten Tribes' vol XVII.
The House of Israel had divided into two clashing factions after Prophet Solomon's death in 928 BC. His mighty kingdom got split into a northern kingdom called Israel with its capital Samaria, and a southern kingdom called Judah with its capital Jerusalem.
The two tribes of Benjamin and Judah inhabited the southern kingdom whereas the remaining ten tribes lived in the northern kingdom.
Assyrians (the ancient West Asian Empire) invaded the Samarians and took them captive to their capital Nineveh in 721 BC. Since then, they have been so mysteriously scattered through history that they are still referred to as the lost tribes of Israel! Some surviving Samarians intermarried with the Assyrians, and their progeny has been called Samaritans. Only about 500 of the Samaritans are surviving in the present day Israel.
The other kingdom, Judah, based in Jerusalem was invaded and completely devastated by the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, in 586 BC. He destroyed Solomon's Temple and took the two tribes captive to Babylon.
King Cyrus the Great of Persia, after defeating Babylon in 538 BC, allowed the surviving 5% (about 50,000 out of a total of one million) Jews to gradually return to Jerusalem. This reverse exodus took place over a period of 140 years.
Sadducees and Pharisees were the two major Jewish sects during the times of Jesus Christ. The latter are the only surviving sect of Judaism today, although there has been further schism among them.
An interesting point is that first of all,the original inhabitants of palestine were tha Canaanites,the forefathers of the Palestinians,And the name palestinians is synonymous with "Canaanite".
second,The jews were the tribes that migrated from Egypt to the Land of Canaan,Palestine.Then they lived alongside this people.Third,as generally happens,the people mixed over the years.
then two great religious revulotions happend in Canaan,Palestine. one christianity,other was islam.some converted to islam or christianity.The jews were the only ones who were not affected by these changes,wich encompassed all leveld of society.
Todays jews refer to a forced exile of jews from the land of canaan,wich took place 3000 years ago.In history this even is mentioned in a vague manner,and only on the basis of jewish sources.Not all the jews were exiled by Nebuchadnezzar.Their forced deportation was due to the protests of the canaanites,the true owners of Palestine.
All the important religious political and social changes,such as the advent of christianity and islam,took place 500 to 100 years after this event.The evidence indicates that the jews did not emigrate to the West,and the western ashkenazi jews are the descendants of people who converted to judaism.Only the sephardi ,or eastern jews ,who lived in Iran and Arab countries could claim that there was a time when they had acturally lived in Palestine.Ashkenazi jews are in fact khazars.
They mixed with other jews,but they are not descendent from the 12 sons at all.Genetid testing by isrealis confirm the origin of Ashkenazis,linking them to the people around tha cacus mountains,such as Turks. See Haplogroup R-m17
Ashkenazim have an elevated frequency of R-M17, the dominant Y chromosome haplogroup in Eastern Europeans, suggesting possible gene flow. In the present study of 495 Y chromosomes of Ashkenazim, 57 (11.5%) were found to belong to R-M17. Detailed analyses of haplotype structure, diversity and geographic distribution suggest a founder effect for this haplogroup, introduced at an early stage into the evolving Ashkenazi community in Europe. R-M17 chromosomes in Ashkenazim may represent vestiges of the mysterious
Khazars.
Ashkenazim were found to have a significantly higher frequency of the R-M17 haplogroup compared with Sephardic and Kurdish Jews. Interestingly, Behar et al6 reported R-M17 to be the dominant haplogroup in Ashkenazi Levites (52%), although rare in Ashkenazi Cohanim (1.3%) and Israelites (4%). R-M17, the most common haplogroup in Eastern Europe, was suggested to have originated and started to expand in the Ukraine, probably in a Paleolithic population after the Last Glacial Maximum about 13 000 years ago.
The average frequency of the haplogroup R-M17 in Ashkenazi Jews (11.5%, 57 individuals) is significantly higher (P<0.05) than that in Sephardic Jews (3.9%), Kurdish Jews (4%) and Palestinian Arabs (1.4%).
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