If a man breaks into your home, and says that your home belongs to him, does he have the right to defend himself? Even as he ushers in more of his extended family to occupy the bedrooms of your children or parents? If you fight him does that make you the criminal? Even as he forces you down into the basement and builds a plywood enclosure to keep you imprisoned in the corner? If you escape and lash out in violent desperation, does that make you the terrorist? Does it make you evil?
Israel has no right to defend itself. Not even according to their own religion. What the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament) actually says is that Jews have the right to occupy and enslave the inhabitants of the promised land.
You see, back in the day, YHWH became so disgusted with humanity that he flooded the earth and preserved only one family. This was Noah, and his wife, the new mother of the human race, who isn’t given a name in Genesis because we know how YHWH feels about women. Also their three sons Sem, Ham, and Japheth, and their little grandbaby, Ham’s son Canaan. Genesis spells it out:
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. (Genesis 9:18-19)
But one day Ham encountered his drunk father asleep and naked and told his brothers to come take a look or something gay like that. Noah woke up and became so furious with Ham that he cursed Ham’s son to be the servants of Sem and Japheth’s future progeny. Noah, his head still perhaps swimming with wine, says “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers!” (Genesis 9:24). He says “Blessed be YHWH, the God of Sem! May Canaan be the servant of Sem” (Genesis 9-26:27).
Genesis tells us that Ham later had three more sons: Cush, Mizraim, and Put. It’s crucial to understand that just like Canaan, these names are all toponyms - they refer to specific geographical regions in Africa and the Middle East. Cush refers to modern day Sudan along the Red Sea. Mizraim refers to Egypt. Put refers to Libya. And Canaan of course refers to the land on the other side of the Red Sea, modern Palestine.
Canaan was the historical name of the country that was conquered by a group of former Egyptian laborers called the Habiru, who founded the nation of Israel. The Amarna letters provide insight into this time period in the 14th century BCE. Jerusalem already had its name at this time, called Urusalim in the cuneiform texts. The Amarna letters show the Habiru, a motley crew of outcasts, criminals, and hillfolk, waging a successful war against the wealthy city states of Canaan. They became the new masters of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem became the capital of Judah.
But were the Habiru actually Semites? In other words, were the Habiru Hebrew? The answer is no; despite having the same name with the same meaning, the Habiru bear no resemblance to the Hebrew. The Habiru were a caste; the Hebrew are a race. The Habiru were mercenaries and contractors; the Hebrew are slaves. The Habiru served under the Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten, a fierce iconoclast who pioneered a monotheistic religion. The Hebrew get some dude named Moses. The Habiru were actual historical figures; the Hebrew are a historical fantasy.
This discrepancy exists because the Jewish Bible was evidently adapted (ie plagiarized) from the Amarna letters and other historical (and religious) texts to begin with. The Jewish Bible was first published by the Library of Alexandria circa 250 BCE, which is exactly where we would expect copies of such texts to have been stored, until everybody started lighting them on fire for some reason.
So let’s get this straight: the Habiru conquered Canaan and founded Israel, but not because Canaan was cursed by his pop pop, rather because the Habiru outfought the Canaanite princes. The real nation of Israel was supplanted by the authors of the Jewish Bible and their history was spoofed all the way back to the beginning of time with a malign and impotent deity named YHWH. This is why the Bible takes such pains to explain why the people of Canaan must serve the Semites. Because the first holders of the Jewish Bible were not natives, they were colonists.
Now Jews in Palestine want to re enact their biblical fantasies of being owed a land and a living, because they just never get sick of the genocide, it’s what the Jewish Bible is all about and no people are ultimately spared from the wrath of YHWH, not even the Jews or the Israelites, such is his contempt for humanity. There is no such thing as a Semite! Only Jews with delusions of divine privilege and racial grandeur.
Of course, while Israel has no right to defend itself, it has every ability to defend itself, thanks to the generous lifetime concessions of American taxpayers and dollar savers. Israel also has the ability to wantonly murder civilians in violation of all international law, as they currently prove to us every day. Infinity billion dollars from the new Squeaker of the House will only help buff their ability to do so.
Israel could argue that might makes right. Then at least they would not be hypocrites. But instead, they hide behind the inverted morality of a book they call Hebrew, but which was first published in Greek. They claim the moral authority of six thousand years, but their scriptures only date back to 250 BC. Their “G-d” is a terrible lie and the only reason we have atheism in the first place. They promise to repair the world but their prophecies require the destruction of the planet.
It’s the apocalypse. Time’s up.
Bravo! We need a religious revolution just as we had a scientific revolution. John Hagee is a Christian humiliation too painful to think about. John Hagee is to religion what a witch-sniffer is to science.
You mentioned the Library of Alexandria, and alluded to its destruction by fire. I've been curious about this apparent act of arson, but I have not done a deep dive on the topic.
Can you suggest any good sources of information about it?