Common misconceptions

Appeared in Egyptian gazette on 25^th August, 2006

Common misconceptions cleared up

One of the ways Zionists used to reach their goal was to distort the terms to obtain what they have no right to have. They were able to establish these terms even in the thinking of Arabic writers and politicians.

They claim that the Jews are descendants of Jacob and them alone. This is far from the truth. The Jews were first named Jew _ which means in Hebrew, and Arabic 'coming back'_ when they came back to worshiping the Living God after they worshiped the golden calf. Therefore, the Jewish ness is a belief not a racial identity. This was fact since Moses and Aaron worshiped only the Living God so they cannot be called Jews. Some of the Pharaohs Joined Moses Belief. Prophet Solomon had preached God's religion to Sheba people and they joined his religion I.e. they became Jews. In a few centuries before the message of Jesus, the Jews were scattered in many places, and they preached their religion to the nations where they live. This is clear from Acts 2: 5 “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.” And from Acts 15: 22 “For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.”

We therefore conclude that there are Jews who are not from Jacob’s descendants. We can estimate they are half of the Jews.

When Jesus was sent he damned only Jerusalem as in Matthew 23: 37, Luke 13: 34, 35. Of coarse the damnation was to those who lived in it not for the holly city, i.e. Judas tribe. God informed him that this tribe will refuse God’s religion. We can therefore estimate the percentage of Jews from the descendants of Jacob now by around one-tenth only since the tribes of Israel are twelve.

When the Prophet Mohammad was sent, most of the regions where most of Jacob’s descendants lived embraced Islam. This means that most of Jacob’s descendants were now Muslims. We can say then that most of the people who are called now Palestinians Lebanese and Syrians are from Jacob’s descendants. A good portion of Iraqis and Egyptians are also from this race. This may be the meaning of what is in Isaiah 19: 18 – 25.

Other evidence that the majority of Jacob’s descendants were not Jews is that number of this race was at the time of Moses around one million (after adding who are less than twenty years old). If this number were correct, there would be in excess of one billion now. Today, the Jews number less than twenty millions.

They also claim that they are God’s chosen people. The truth is that God’s chosen people are those who worship God by sincerity of heart and deeds what ever their race. The covenant with Abraham was conditioned In Genesis 17:1- 20 “The Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee... And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God… And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.... This is my covenant, which ye shall keep.... And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed... He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant” which means that who keeps the covenant (to worship God, and circumcise) whether he is from Abraham’s seed or from the stranger will be from God’s people.

They also claim that they are the only descendants of Shem. Shem’s descendants according to the Bible are: The descendants of Elam, descendants of Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud and Aram. (Geneses 10: 22).

A grandson of Arphaxad is named Eber, who had two sons, Peleg and Joktan.(genesis 10: 25) and the earth was divided between them. Among Joktan descendants we find the names of Arabic tribes (Hazaramaveth, and Almodad). We find in Geneses 10: 21 “Children of Eber”, which means that the tribe at that time is that we call now Hebrew. From the descendants of Peleg was Abraham. Abraham was called Hebrew in Geneses 14: 13, then all his descendants (Ishmael, Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.) should be Hebrews. On the other hand we find in Arabic dictionaries that Arabic that Arabs are the descendants of Qahtan son of Eber, and those tending to be Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael the son of Abraham. The opposite of “Goyim” is Hebrew, and the opposite of Arab is “'Agm”. Then it seems that Arab and Hebrew are the same race, and that the descendants of Eber had changed a little the names of their ancestors through generations, it is most common to change the position of letters in the word through the evolution of languages.

The result is that Jacob’s descendants are a very small tribe from the Arabic (or Hebrew) people, who are only a tribe from the descendants of Shem.

They also speak about what they call “Hebrew state”. There was no and there will never be a state by this name since Hebrews were divided in hundreds of tribes before the states emerged.

They claim too that since they are descendants of Jacob_ which we have proved not to be the case_ deserve the land promised by God to Abraham.

This land once is called “all the land of Canaan” in Geneses 17:8, and elsewhere: “Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:” (Geneses 15: 18) The truth is that there are two promises one of which should be fulfilled by a descendant from the one who was about to be sacrificed “seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.” (Geneses 22: 12), “for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son… And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.” This must be Ishmael, before the birth of Isaac. This promise which had been fulfilled by Mohammad, the other will be fulfilled when Jesus will be sent back (not sent for the first time as Jews believe.) when he will, by God’s permission, cleanse his region (Land of Canaan) of those who rejeted him and tried to kill him, and gather all who believe in the only true God there, right before the last day “Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” (Mathew 3: 12), and about the same in Luke 3: 17), Mark 13: 27, Mathew 24: 31.