Here is a prime example of how modern European and Arab Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands are trying to redefine, delegitimize, and/or outright erase the Indigenous Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ to their lands – whether it be the Kurds and Jews of the Middle East Levant, the Sámi of Europe, or the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, and Shoshone still surviving in the Colonizer’s United States of “America” (this Colonizer, attempting Indigenous erasure on *two* continents, could not even say their names!).
J.A. from Colorado, USA: “Tsefan Josef, I am well aware that we have no solid evidence for the Biblical Exodus. The rest of your comment is pretty standard stuff except for the colonizing bit. The indigenous people of the ancient land of Canaan either died out, moved on, or were wiped out by migrating (invading) Semitic peoples – scholarly opinions differ. In fact there are very few pure indigenous tribes or cultures to be found anywhere today. We are all colonizers and/or colonized. Even in North America the native peoples rarely stayed where they originally settled, and they never constituted a single people or culture. The Native Americans now living in my region originated (as nearly as we can tell) much farther east. Like so many tribes, their ancestors were pushed west by Iriqois “colonizers”; and they, in turn, pushed the tribes they encountered farther west still.”
Colonizer, your attempts to erase Indigenous Peoples by making us equivalent to the historic Arab and European Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands – by saying, “we are all colonizers” – is sinfully and racistly anti-Indigenous! The privileged viewpoint of Arab and European supremacists upon occupied Indigenous Peoples’ lands around this entire world, full stop. Shame on you!
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Here is a perfect example of heartless racist demonization of an Indigenous People, courtesy of “Palestinian” *Arab* and Imperial European Colonizers of IP lands!
Note this Jew-hating racist’s own words: “The natives have no God. They have no divine spirit to respect. The graves of their beloveds and ancestors are merely dirt and sediment, perhaps some bones that inconvenience digging,” Noura Erakat #NouraErakat .
That last line, though, so Colonizer (of Indigenous lands) *supremacist*! Perhaps, this is why “Palestinian” Arabs feel so free to desecrate ISIS-style our Judean ancestors’ graves (tomb of Joseph, being most recent).
We Jews “respect” *our land, our ancestors, our ancestral way of life*. Despite not having the land space, we try to respect our *Arab* neighbors and live in peace with them. But, you see their thoughts in their words *and* behaviors! They provocate, attack and, then, lie by omission of their very acts.
It is these “Palestinian” *Arab* occupiers from down South who are land-squatting on Indigenous Judean land, who are stabbing at us with knives, who are descrating our ancestors’ graves, who are firing rockets at us, who are throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at us, who are literally scorching our Indigenous land with fire-laced balloons and kites, who are building tunnels into our land to blow our land up from below! All the while, waving their Arab Revolt Colonizer flag upon our Indigenous nation’s land, as an act of reclaiming our land for every conquesting Arab Caliphate that has occupied our land in CE history (learn about the Pan-Arab colors).
It is you racist Colonizer supremacists that have “no divine spirit to respect” our Indigenous People’s land! And this explains why you pray to Allah five times a day bowing to Saudi Arabia, not to Zion (Judea-Samaria/Jerusalem)! Judea-Samaria is not your ancestor’s land and is not *your* land, “Palestinian” *Arabs*.
Arabs and Europeans had their own ancestors and ethno-religions, until Muhammad, Tertullian, and Irenaeus invented Islam and Christianity in this CE period that *appropriates* BCE Jewish ancestors and Jewish myths.
You all have been colonizing, oppressing, murdering, and ruling over all of the Indigenous Peoples of this world ever since – then claiming victimhood when we fight back! The Jewish people will no longer be the violently scapegoated and victimized dhimmi of Arab and European Colonizers anymore!
Both Colonizers have given us Jews, an Indigenous People just trying to live life in peace, a BAD name everywhere in this world! And you wonder why we reject your modern religion’s appropriation of our Jewish ancestors and history and indigeneity upon *our* Jewish ancestral land!?!
We Indigenous Judeans never left our land! 3,000 years and still counting. And we have waited generations to decolonize ourselves from you. Yes, you oppressive, identity *appropriating*, land-grabbing Arab and European rulers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands around this planet!
May our Kurdish brothers and sisters find the yoke of “Palestinian” *Arab* occupation of their ancestral land removed speedily in our days, so our Kurdish brothers and sisters may know self-sovereignty again, too! May all Indigenous Peoples know freedom from “Palestinian” *Arab* and Imperial European Colonizer occupations of Indigenous nation’s lands!
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As the Indigenous Judeans of Judea-Samaria, we must stop playing the Arab and European Colonizers politics – if we are *ever* going to achieve living in peace. We, as an Indigenous People and as an Indigenous nation – the first IP nation in this world to decolonize on ancestral land – need to reject the false equivalency narrative that is daily thrown upon us by the world.
We, Israel, are not just *any* “nation” in this world, and we are not like any Arab and European Colonizer nation in this world. Israel is an Indigenous nation that is *occupied* by an equal number of land-squatting non-citizen “Palestinian” *Arabs* that refuse to recognize our Indigenous land Rights and Indigenous right to self-sovereignty upon our Jewish ancestral land.
NO OTHER NATION in this world, whether Arab/European Colonizer nation or Indigenous People nation, has this particular anti-Indigenous and constantly violent problem to deal with daily! Not *one* other nation is *this* occupied by Arab/European Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands! Only Israel, the Jewish people’s Indigenous nation.
We could have kicked these anti-Indigenous racist non-citizens that are occupying our Indigenous Judean land out of Judea-Samaria in 1967 and, perhaps, we should have. But, since we did not, foolishly believing that peace will naturally come, we now dare not! For 22 “Palestinian” *Arab* occupied countries in the Middle East and Africa are watching and just hoping for this excuse to commit a second Shoah upon our Indigenous people.
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Just the historical *facts* on ANE/BCE Judean history this year 5782 (2022) for the middle days of פֶּסַח (Pesach, the festival of “Passover”):
The people of Israel, which includes Judeans, became a distinct Indigenous People identity within Moab. Then, we became an ethno-nationality north of Moab and across the (Jordan) river, Judea-Samaria.
The people of Israel already existed along with the Hyksos and their West Semetic slaves during their latter years of reign in northern Egypt. The people of Israel are West Semetic peoples. The Hyksos rulers are West Semetic Canāanites that migrated down to North Egypt and became the ruling Pharoahs known within our Judean Torah.
These Hyksos Pharoahs ruled Canāan/Judea-Samaria for over 400 years. Until overthrown by native Egyptians seeking to reunite all of Egypt under native Egyptian rule only. This battle for reunification of Egypt and the exoduses it produced back to Judea-Samaria/Canāan occured in the 13th century BCE.
Fact one: The people of Israel, which includes Judeans, already existed as a distinct Indigenous People of Canāan at this time of return.
Fact two: The people of Israel, former Moabites (of what we know today as southern Jordan) became a distinct Indigenous People within Moab – “not with our fathers” before us! Then, began spreading northward and across the river.
Fact three: The people of Israel, which includes Judeans, became a ruling ethno-nationality on our Indigenous land after the fall of the Hyksos empire.
Fact four: Our ANE literatures testify to the facts that we were former Moabites, and that we did not wipe out and replace Canāan. Our ANE ancestral literatures admit that the people of Israel, which includes Judeans, lived with Canāanites.
Fact five: But, our inherited Canāanite historical experiences and our Israeli myths about ourselves tell a “tall tale” of cultural memory of being slaves in Canāan of the Hyksos Egyptian Empire, of Hyksos Canāan slaves that were brought to Egypt returning to Canāan, and of our conquest of West Canāan as we crossed the river.
Fact six: The Jewish people, we Judeans, are the only survivng Indigenous descendants of the Canāanite people! We preserve their/our language, their/our pantheon of god names, their/our laws and rituals for sustainment of the lands, their/our seasonal festivals, and their history through our origin myths.
Myths are not history. But, myths are often based in historical facts as source materials for our stories. It is important to know which is which, fact from fiction, so that we do not erase Indigenous Peoples within their lands!
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“In the inscription of Ka’ba-ye Zardošt, which is made after the Sasanian victory over the Roman army in 244 CE, the Sasanian king Shapur I (d.279 CE) mentions “the land of the Jews”, which was otherwise called “Palestine” by the Romans, as one of the lands that were under the control of the Romans.
Contrary to the claims of modern Arab nationalists, southwestern Levant was always considered as Jewish land, even when it was geographically called Palestine by the outsiders, such as Romans, the Sasanians as natives to the Middle East clearly refer to the region as the land of Jews “šahr az Jehūdiyā.” ” – Kurdish historian Himdad Mustafa, Apr 2022
https://www. facebook.com/100004470373172/posts/2136173646541627/
Learn from the Indigenous Peoples in this world!
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In our Jewish people’s wisdom talk, we call this: “Saving one life is saving the world!”
Outside of ongoing daily anti-Indigenous racist and terroristic behaviors, attempts to erase us and gaslight the greater world that they “non-indigenous” are *us* (and we are, somehow, the new them), despite their daily occupation of our Indigenous nation’s land and deliberate waving of their Arab Revolt Colonizer flag in our faces, all deliberate acts directed towards our Judean people by the historic Arab and European Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands – daily re-traumatizing the Jewish people generation after generation:
There is nothing more *worse* than the loss of life through generational trauma itself! All Indigenous Peoples’ share the same stories around this world – from Kurds and Jews to San and Sámi to Cree and Wampanoag to Māori and Lāhui (etc, etc, etc!) – and only communal recognition and embracement of the shared memories of Arab and European Colonizer abuses upon Indigenous Peoples’ lands will bring healing within our peoples.
We decolonize upon our land, one life at a time. We let the land restore us, and help another to decolonize. Soon enough, by working our hands upon the land of our ancestors, we find the strength as an Indigenous People to restore our nation’s self-sovereignty upon our land – despite the violent rejections and land-squatting protests of the Arab and European Colonizers *of* Indigenous Peoples’ lands.
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Opps! YHWH’s wrath was real, until he retired to El’s heavenly palace in the iron dome holding up the waters above.
The Jewish people became a distinct indigenous ethno-religious people in Moab in the 15-14th century BCE. We became a distinct ethno-nationality north of Moab and across the river (Judea-Samaria) after the fall of the Hyksos Egyptian Pharoahs and return of Canāanites back to Judea-Samaria/Canāan, in the 13th century BCE. We wrote our “Biblical” myths based on the cultural history and memories of our Canāanite ancestors.
The Jewish people are the only surviving descendants of the Canāanite people. So, it makes perfect sense that we would record a historic event in the form of a Jewish people identity myth. Even the native Egyptians in their war with the Hyksos northern kingdom recorded very unusual weather events in the 17th century BCE, which they attributed to Ba’al of the Canāanites.
“Tall el-Hammam, an ancient settlement near the Dead Sea. In a layer of ancient earth, archaeologists claim to have found evidence of an apocalyptic event: Melted rooftops. Disintegrated pottery. Unusual patterns in the rock formations that can be associated with intense heat. For another three to six centuries after 1650 B.C., the settlement’s 100 acres lay fallow.”
The remains of a city’s fiery demise near the Dead Sea have archaeologists at odds.
The scientific meltdown over a controversial discovery of ‘biblical Sodom’
The scientific meltdown over a controversial discovery of ‘biblical Sodom’
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