‘Historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel, and the roots of the Jewish people in the area run deep.’
ed note–as always, a laundry list of ‘must knows’ that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, L&G, is the fact that the author of this piece, Michael Freund, is not just the average, run-of-the-mill Hebrew with an opinion. He is nothing less than a ‘former’ advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, and all can assume that despite the fact that Freund may not be receiving a government paycheck for his advice anymore, that nevertheless, the 2 maintain close and regular contact with each other as ‘BFFs’.
Now, as to the piece itself, nota bene the following…
The piece below is not just some literary manifestation of the board game Trivial Pursuit. It is agenda-driven and agenda-oriented, a fact made Kristol clear with what appears in the very last paragraph of the piece, to wit–
‘Earlier this year, an Israeli organization called ‘Awaken, O North’ was founded with the aim of encouraging Jewish settlement in southern Lebanon and has called upon the government to act, and while some may view this idea as far-fetched, it is worth remembering that just a century ago, so too was the notion of a sovereign Jewish state…’
A little diddy that ends with–
‘After all, today’s dreams have a tendency to portend tomorrow’s reality, and especially in the Middle East…’
In other words, L&G, what our scheming and devious ‘proud Jew’ is doing here is what’s referred to in intelligence parlance as ‘OPE’, or ‘Operational Preparation of the Environment’, where ideas, themes, soundbites, slogans, etc, are injected into the collective consciousness of large groups of people as part of the ‘sales pitch’ for whatever upheaval is planned for later on.
So, the bottom line is that the feral and fever-brained Jews, now engaged in a war with Lebanon (just as they are in Gaza) intend to absorb it into ‘Greater Israel’, just as they did with Palestine, and as they intend to do with every other country in the Middle East.
Today, it is an OpEd with the title ‘Southern Lebanon is actually Northern Israel’, but tomorrow, it will be ‘Western Jordan is actually Eastern Israel’…
Next week it will be ‘Northern Egypt is actually southern Israel’, and the month after that, it will be ‘Western Syria is actually Eastern Israel’, and so on and so on, a classic case of–
‘How the Jews Do it’…
The other important fact to keep in mind is the following, ladies and Gentile-men, something that should function as the proverbial ‘no-brainer’ if Gentiles would simply use the brains that the Creator gave them in the fashion intended–
As the OpEd below makes Kristol Clear, the justification for not only the conquest/theft of Lebanon and all the other countries in the region, but as well, for all the bloodshed, murder and genocide that has taken place over the course of the last century, all of this is the DIRECT result of those ‘prophecies’ and pronouncements that have been part of Judah-ism for the last 3,000+ years.
It did not begin with ‘Zionism’, nor with the very Hebraic/heavily bearded Theodor Herzl…
Nor does all this murder and mayhem stem from the poisonous teachings of the Babylonian Talmud as many ‘experts’ on all things related to Judaica claim…
Rather, the ‘Genesis’ of this problem began exactly with that very word, ‘Genesis’, as in the ‘Book of Genesis’, the very first of the Hebraic ‘scriptures’ that outline the method and the madness by which they–the ‘children of Israel’–are to take over first the Middle East, and then, the rest of the world, to wit–
‘On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates’… –Book of Genesis, 15:18
And–
‘Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border…’ –Book of Deuteronomy
And as far as those Gentile peoples that resist or otherwise react negatively to the Jews and their plans & actions in taking over their countries?
‘For the nation which will not bow down and serve you shall perish, it shall be utterly destroyed…’
In other words, L&G, the followers of Torah Judah-ism, the ‘children of Israel’ as they love to refer to themselves, are hell-bent upon taking over the entirety of the Middle East, and after they have achieved that, their plans are to then take over the entire world, just as their infernal and Apocalyptic ‘scriptures’ and ‘prophecies’ command them to do, and it is only a fool intent upon (or else cooperative with) his/her own destruction that ignores OpEds such as this that serve as a death warrant of sorts for all 8 billion Gentiles living on God’s green earth.
Michael Freund for Jpost
As the IDF battles to clear southern Lebanon of Hezbollah terrorists, it is worth highlighting an intriguing historical fact, one that many seem to have forgotten.
Having grown up with an international boundary between the Jewish state and our neighbors to the north, we take it for granted that this is how it has always been and should be.
But the truth is that the current border between Israel and Lebanon is little more than a century old and is entirely artificial, a relic of a time when European colonialists whimsically drew lines on maps over a bottle of brandy in smoke-filled rooms.
Historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel, and the roots of the Jewish people in the area run deep. Whether or not this can be translated now into a political reality is a far more complex question, but there is simply no denying our connection to the land.
Indeed, back in biblical times, southern Lebanon was clearly part of the Land of Israel. In the Book of Genesis (10:19) it says, ‘and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Tsevoyim as far as Lasha.’
Sidon, a city in Lebanon, is about halfway between the current Israeli border and Beirut.
Just prior to his death, our biblical patriarch Jacob blessed his 12 sons, and the blessing he gave to Zevulun was ‘Zevulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships; his border will extend toward Sidon’ (Genesis 49:13).
The Book of Joshua (13:6) mentions Sidon explicitly as being promised to the Jewish people, and it also says (19:28) that the border of the tribe of Asher extended to Sidon.
Interestingly, the midrash in Bereishit Rabbah (39:8) says it was in Tyre, a city now 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of the Israeli border, that God promised the Land of Israel to Abraham.
The midrash quotes Rabbi Levi, who said, ‘When Abraham was traveling through Aram Naharayim and Aram Nahor, he saw them eating, drinking, and reveling. He said: ‘Would that my portion not be in this land.’ When he reached the Promontory of Tyre, he saw them engaged in weeding at the time of weeding, hoeing at the time of hoeing. He said: ‘Would that my portion be in this land.’ The Holy One blessed be He said to him: ‘To your descendants I will give this land’’ (Genesis 12:7).
Further evidence of the Jewish link to the area can be found in the various holy sites and tombs of the righteous in southern Lebanon.
The most well-known is the Tomb of Zevulun in Sidon, which for centuries was a place of pilgrimage for Jews from throughout the region and beyond.
In the 16th century, Italian rabbi Moshe Basola visited the tomb and wrote about it, and in the middle of the 18th century, Rabbi Yosef Sofer said that families would gather and hold festive meals adjacent to it. Rabbi Natan of Breslov described having an uplifting spiritual experience at Zevulun’s Tomb; and when Sir Moses Montefiore visited Israel in the 19th century, he also traveled to see it.
The tomb of another biblical figure, Oholiav ben Ahisamakh, who assisted Bezalel in constructing the Tabernacle in the desert, is located in the village of Sojoud in southern Lebanon.
According to Israeli archaeologist Zvi Ilan, Oholiav’s burial place was an important Jewish pilgrimage site during the Ottoman period. Local Arabs also revered the site and said that it was the tomb of a ‘Jewish prophet.’ As recently as the early 20th century, Jews in Safed used to travel to the tomb to perform the custom of upsherin, a boy’s first haircut, something that nowadays is commonly done in Meron.
Yet another Jewish holy site in southern Lebanon is the tomb of the biblical prophet Zephaniah, which is located in the Lebanese village of Jabal Safi. Some have speculated that the name of the village is derived from the prophet who was buried there.
It should perhaps come as no surprise that one of the oldest synagogues in the world is located in Sidon’s Harat-Al-Yahud, or Jewish Quarter. Built nearly 1,200 years ago in 833, it is believed to have been constructed on the site of an older Jewish house of worship dating back to shortly after the destruction of the Second Temple.
Though no longer in use due to the emigration of most Lebanese Jews during the country’s civil war between 1975 and 1990, it stands as a silent testament to the long-standing Jewish presence in the region.
How was southern Lebanon cut off from Israel?
So just how was southern Lebanon essentially cut off from northern Israel? The origin of this division happened a century ago.
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France reached a secret accord in 1916 called the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which effectively divided much of the Middle East into spheres of influence between London and Paris.
Basically, a line was drawn on a map, and it was that scribble which essentially came to serve as the border between Israel and Lebanon as we know it today.
Earlier this year, an Israeli organization called Uri Tsafon (Awaken, O North) was founded with the aim of encouraging Jewish settlement in southern Lebanon and has called on the government to act, and while some may view this idea as far-fetched, it is worth remembering that just a century ago, so too was the notion of a sovereign Jewish state.
After all, today’s dreams have a tendency to portend tomorrow’s reality, and especially in the Middle East.
The writer served as deputy communications director under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
I’m sure that whack-job Mike Huckabee would approve.