This is the Land that shall fall to you as an inheritance
Numbers 34:2
**photo courtesy of Menachem Brody, www.shechem.org**
"You shall possess the Land and you shall settle in it,
for to you I have given the Land to possess it"
Numbers 33:53
If you believe that the return of the Jewish people to Israel after two thousand years of exile is the most profound miracle of the twentieth century.
If you believe in the prophesies that the return of the Jews to Israel heralds the end of days,
Then participate in the unfolding of the prophecies.
In 1967, there was not one Palestinian on this planet. We created the Palestinians by forcing West Bank Jordanians and Gazan Egyptians to redefine themselves. Between 1948 and 1967 every single Palestinian was a full-fledged Jordanian or Egyptian citizen. Currently, the Palestinian Authority governs 99% of the Palestinian population. This 99% of the population lives on 42% of the approximately one and a half million acres that comprise the West Bank and Gaza. It is that one percent of the Arab population that is peppered in Area C that is critical to the successful resolution to the disputed 58% land mass. A large part was Jordanian government land and is now either officially a nature reserve or Jewish National Fund land. The small portion that is privately held by Palestinians is what prevents Israeli annexation of this 58% of the West Bank and Gaza.
We can end the conflict simply by investing. By buying out just 1% of the Arab population in Judea and Samaria, Jews can reclaim 58% of the land. In fact, it is much less than the one percent, as the overwhelming majority of Arabs that occupy Area C (58% of the West Bank) is illegal Arab squatters. Just as every Jew that lives in Yehuda and Shomron (Judea and Samaria) must prove ownership of their property, every single Arab living in Yehuda and Shomron should be made to show that they have similarly registered their land, proving their ownership through the Ottoman, British and pre-1967 Jordanian records. If they cannot prove ownership, they must be removed from those properties just as Jews are forcibly removed from properties they fail to register. By fining these squatters and forcing them to move, and buying out the rest, the entire area is de facto annexed to Israel. The Arabs in the remaining 42% of the West Bank must also be required to prove ownership. Those Arabs in illegal possession of land around the villages in Area B must be compelled to evacuate. This land, together with land purchased by Jews, is de facto also annexed to Israel.
YeshaHomestead is a movement that maintains that Jews have no less right to buy and live in land purchased legally than did Theodore Herzl’s group have any right to buy and take possession of land and homes from Palestinians in the early 1900’s.
YeshaHomestead is attempting to purchase Arab villages and farms. If you think that purchase is not a legitimate vehicle for a country to lawfully obtain territory, you will require Manhattan to be returned to the Indians, Alaska returned to Russia, and the Louisiana Purchase, the entire United States Midwest, returned to France.
Against all odds, the ashes of a people have resurrected a prosperous country. Rather than claiming our inheritance, we have been acting like thieves caught in the night with stolen goods. The entire Holy Land is ours and we don´t have to apologize. It is the end of days. We have come home and it is time for the interlopers to leave.
There is absolutely no justification in perpetuating the delusion that the entire West Bank is not Israel. Palestine was a name the Romans gave Israel when they conquered it in 77 CE. It was always a colony, first of the Roman Empire, then of the Ottoman Empire, and, after WW I, a colony of the British Empire. The British divided Palestine along the Jordan River: the East Bank, 80% of Palestine, was given to Arabs and renamed Jordan, and the territory of the West Bank of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean was returned to the Jews for a Jewish homeland. This became Israel - a mere fraction of its original size. In 1948, the Egyptians and Syrians attacked the new Jewish state, and, until 1967, Jordan illegally occupied the West Bank.
In the Six-Day War, Egypt committed an act of war by blockading the Straits of Tiran and Israel used military force to remove the blockade. After the second day of the Six-Day War, Jordan attacked and the West Bank was restored to Israel. The United States takes the position that as Israel fired the first bullet, it technically attacked Egypt and therefore is unjustified in retaining Gaza. However, even the United States must agree that as Jordan attacked Israel, they have no legal claims to the West Bank.
