The Jewish History of Israel

							The Jewish History of Israel

    From Moses to Netanyahu
           Maps of Israel




http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/israel_nbr90.jpg
          Exodus (Very early, near the
            beginning of all history)
http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/history
_wing/antisemitism/room1_timeline.cfm
      Early History (Continued)



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

BCE = Before Common Era
                   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.
          First Temple (David’s)
After the revolt of Jews had been suppressed,
Nebuchadnezzar’s 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.
           Second Temple




Destroyed in 73 CE by Romans, Jews banished
from Holy Land
Second Temple: Today
 Western Wall
http://www.netours.com/jrs/2003/westwall-
archaeology.htm
Third Temple: Tomorrow
          Jewish Memory
 2,500 years of Expulsions, murders, pogroms,
And the Florida Holocaust Museum timeline and
                 Museum maps
           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
          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 go to the bottom of this page:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/State/The%20State

          Does this sound like a national anthem?
Holocaust WW II

           • U.S. troops
             watching cart of
             bodies leave
             Dachau
             concentration
             camp.
    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.
U.N. Partition Plan 1947
Arab Invasion 1948
Armistice Lines 1948
Jews expelled 1948 - 1972
Arab Forces, May 1967
Cease Fire Lines, May 1967




 First time Jews hold Jerusalem since 73 C.E.
      Yom Kippur War




Check distances on these maps one and two.
Missile and Jet Distances
               Israeli War Casualties
WAR                     Deaths
Independence (1948)     6,373
Sinai (1956)            231
Six Day War (1967)      776
Yom Kippur (1973)       2,688
Lebanon (1982-85)       1,216
First Intifada (1987-
1992)
                        103
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
Constant Terror in the
    Background
       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
Current Threats to Israel’s 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.
                      Iran*
                     Jordan
                    Lebanon
                      Syria
                      Egypt
                  Saudi Arabia
What’s going on with Iran?

                President of Iran
                Mahmoud Ahmedinijad
  Mahmoud Ahmedinijad Quotes
• “Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the
  fire of the Islamic nation's fury,”
• "The West has given more significance to the myth
  of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant
  than God, religion, and the prophets,"
• "The world powers established this filthy bacteria,
  the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the
  nations in the region like a wild beast. … "[Israel]
  won support [from the other nations] which created
  it as a scarecrow, so as to keep the people of this
  area under control.“
• See ADL for additional quotes.
Iranian Stance on Nuclear Power

• Iran reserves the right to construct
  nuclear power technology (with dual
  capabilities of creating weapons)
• This coupled with Iran’s regular public
  announcements in favor of Israel’s
  destruction has raised Israel’s fears
              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