The Jewish History of Israel

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The Jewish History of Israel

• From Moses to Olmert

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Maps of Israel
http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asi
a/israel_nbr90.jpg
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Exodus (Very early, near the beginning of all
history)
http//www.flholocaustmuseum.org/history_wing/anti
semitism/room1_timeline.cfm
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Early History (Continued)

• King Judah (10th - 6th Century BCE)
• First Temple of the Jews 826 BCE

BCE Before Common Era
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Early History
First Temple of the Jews, completed by Solomon on
Mount Moriah, where Abraham, the first Jew bound
Isaac as an offering to God, and the site of
where David (who slew Goliath) founded Jerusalem.
Original broad wall (3,000 years old, left),
rendering on right.
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First Temple (Davids)
After the revolt of Jews had been suppressed,
Nebuchadnezzars forces sacked Jerusalem. The
temple was stripped and burned. The structure,
central to the Jewish people for 370 years, had
been destroyed. The destruction of the temple
marks the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity
forcing Jews into the diaspora away from their
homeland in Judea.
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Second Temple
Destroyed in 73 CE by Romans, Jews banished from
Holy Land
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Second Temple Today
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Western Wall
http//www.netours.com/jrs/2003/westwall-archaeolo
gy.htm
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Second Temple Tomorrow
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Jewish Memory

• 2,500 years of Expulsions, murders, pogroms,
• And the Florida Holocaust Museum timeline and
  Museum maps

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Modern History

• Increasing number of Pogroms late 19th early 20th
  Century - no place is safe
• Zionism a desire to return to the Jewish
  homeland, comes at a time of increasing
  nationalism around the globe
• Considered Uganda, briefly
• Holocaust - 1/3 of all Jews murdered

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Hatikva

• As long as deep in the heart,
• The soul of a Jew yearns,
• And forward to the East
• To Zion,
• an eye looks
• Our hope will not be lost,
• The hope of two thousand years,
• To be a free nation in our land,
• The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

To hear the recording http//www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/
Facts20About20Israel/State/The20State
Does this sound like a national anthem?
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Holocaust WW II

• U.S. troops watching cart of bodies leave Dachau
  concentration camp.

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Lessons of the Holocaust

• Beginning with Pogroms and confirmed by the
  Holocaust, Jews concluded the world community
  would NOT come to their aid
• During Holocaust world Jewish population was
  reduced from 18 million to 12 million.

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U.N. Partition Plan 1947
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Arab Invasion 1948
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Armistice Lines 1948
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Jews expelled 1948 - 1972
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Arab Forces, May 1967
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Cease Fire Lines, May 1967
First time Jews hold Jerusalem since 73 C.E.
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Yom Kippur War
Check distances on these maps one and two.
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Missile and Jet Distances
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Israeli War Casualties
6,373
231
776
2,688
1,216
103
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Less well known confrontations

• First intifada, 1987 1993
• Lebanon invasion 1982
• Iraqi Nuclear Threat, 1982
• Second intifada, 2000
• Iranian nuclear threat
• For additional maps and descriptions see Jewish
  Agency for Israel

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Constant Terror in the Background
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Current Threats to Israels Existence
From the Israeli point of view, these nations are
predominantly Arab/Muslim and would like nothing
better than to wipe Israel off the map, giving
Palestinians a homeland.
IranJordanLebanonSyriaEgyptSaudi Arabia
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Israeli land for peace

• Returns Sinai to Egypt, 1979
• Withdraws from Lebanon Security Zone, 2000,
  Followed by war with Hezbollah in summer 2007
• Withdraws from Gaza, 2005, continued shelling
  from Gaza, 2005 - today

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Whats going on with Iran?
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Conclusions

• Jews and Israelis always under attack
• Self-defense and eternal vigilance is highest
  priority
• Arabs are the new Christians who hate the Jews
  (Christian Europeans still side with Arabs)
• There are no reliable Arabs to negotiate with