In light of the questionable status of present-day Zionist Israel's claims to the land upon which they find themselves situated... whether or not the historical research referenced in the article is accurate is not really the issue in my opinion.
It seems to me that the present State of Israel is to Biblical Israel what the Federal Reserve is to the Federal Government... In each case, they both use the 'same' term (Israel in the former and Federal in the latter), however, they are NOT what they would like us to believe they are. In case 2, the Federal Reserve is private corporation NOT Federal government department. In case 1, the State of Israel is Zionism NOT the heritage claimed ie Biblical Israel.
Lest any declare me anti-Semitic for such statements, I suggest you first consider the sources on the following sites (that are in agreement on this point):
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
Why Orthodox Jews are Opposed to the Zionist State
http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Zionism/opposition.cfm
I would also suggest a read through Arthur Koestler's "The Thirteenth Tribe" where you will learn that the bulk of Zionists actually find their lineage traceable to the Khazar Empire that converted to Judaism. That people group descend from Japheth (not Shem), hence opposition to such could only rightly be called "anti-Japhethetism"!!
Koestler's final paragraph includes the following:
It is perhaps symbolic that Abraham Poliak, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University and no doubt an Israeli patriot, made a major contribution to our knowledge of Jewry's Khazar ancestry, undermining the legend of the Chosen Race.
M-Theory's article brings forth many interesting historical questions and is somewhat dependent upon the JEDP documentary theory that many scholars accept and as many others reject... my studied opinion is the rejection of that theory.
That his article has garnered such attention (and plagiarism), is to me an indication of the importance upon which Rayelan has commented:
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THIS IS THE 2ND TIME M-THEORY'S ARTICLE'S BEEN STOLEN
Posted By: Rayelan
Date: Monday, 19 April 2004, 10:48 a.m.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=47620
Since David Booth has now included this article in his book... again... without giving anyone credit for it... it seems as if this article [the one from the thread I am posting under, namely:
Shock Secret Identity of Israel's Yahweh Revealed!
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=42815 ]
must be extremely important.
I urge everyone who hasn't read it to do so now!!
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That importance may be simpler than the argument of M-Theory's article... in short:
Zionist Israel exists upon the world stage based upon PERCEPTION...
AND the article questions a pillar of that perception.
For those scholars that have supported the State of Israel because they have been 'hoodwinked' (and, yes, that is an intentional masonic use of the word) by simplistic association with the Biblical Israel... Any argument that might lessen support from any source is intolerable.
This brings us to a recent posting by Jeff Rense:
The Failed Attempt To
Erase Palestinian History
The Greatest Thing Since Chocolate Cake
By Noam Chomsky
4-21-4
I'll tell you another, last case - and there are many others like this. Here's a story which is really tragic. How many of you know about Joan Peters, the book by Joan Peters? There was this best-seller a few years ago [in 1984], it went through about ten printings, by a woman named Joan Peters - or at least, signed by Joan Peters - called From Time Immemorial. It was a big scholarly-looking book with lots of footnotes, which purported to show that the Palestinians were all recent immigrants [i.e. to the Jewish-settled areas of the former Palestine, during the British mandate years of 1920 to 1948]. And it was very popular - it got literally hundreds of rave reviews, and no negative reviews: the Washington Post, the New York Times, everybody was just raving about it. Here was this book which proved that there were really no Palestinians! Of course, the implicit message was, if Israel kicks them all out there's no moral issue, because they're just recent immigrants who came in because the Jews had built up the country. And there was all kinds of demographic analysis in it, and a big professor of demography at the University of Chicago [Philip M. Hauser] authenticated it. That was the big intellectual hit for that year: Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman, everybody was talking about it as the greatest thing since chocolate cake.
Well, one graduate student at Princeton, a guy named Norman Finkelstein, started reading through the book. He was interested in the history of Zionism, and as he read the book he was kind of surprised by some of the things it said. He's a very careful student, and he started checking the references - and it turned out that the whole thing was a hoax, it was completely faked: probably it had been put together by some intelligence agency or something like that. Well, Finkelstein wrote up a short paper of just preliminary findings, it was about twenty-five pages or so, and he sent it around to I think thirty people who were interested in the topic, scholars in the field and so on, saying: "Here's what I've found in this book, do you think it's worth pursuing?"
Well, he got back one answer, from me. I told him, yeah, I think it's an interesting topic, but I warned him, if you follow this, you're going to get in trouble - because you're going to expose the American intellectual community as a gang of frauds, and they are not going to like it, and they're going to destroy you. So I said: if you want to do it, go ahead, but be aware of what you're getting into. It's an important issue, it makes a big difference whether you eliminate the moral basis for driving out a population - it's preparing the basis for some real horrors - so a lot of people's lives could be a stake. But your life is at stake too, I told him, because if you pursue this, your career is going to be ruined.
The rest of the article is a worthwhile read... and provided the context of my analysis on M-Theory's article... I trust you will recognize the connection between the two... namely - PERCEPTION is everything in the battle for your mind and its support!
http://www.rense.com/general52/sde.htm
Blessings,
Mammonator
: In a September 22nd, 2002 speech to visiting Christian
: Zionists, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asserted,
: "This land is ours... God gave us the title
: deeds..." However, recent scholarly research,
: including discoveries by an archaeological team from the
: University of Tel Aviv, not only deconstruct the Biblical
: Old Testament and Torah stories upon which this claim
: rests, but grant previously unthinkable credence to an
: ancient historian's claim that the Israelites of Exodus
: were actually the Hyksos, and therefore of Asiatic origin.
: To trace the foundations of this ongoing Biblical bonfire, we
: must go back to 1999.
: All hell broke loose in Israel in November of that year when
: Prof. Ze'ev Herzog of Tel Aviv University announced:
: "the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander
: the desert, did not conquer the land, and did not pass it
: on to the twelve tribes". Moreover, the Jewish God
: YHWH had a female consort - the goddess Asherah!
: His conclusion that the kingdom of David and Solomon was at
: best a small tribal monarchy, at worst total myth, has made
: enemies for him in the camps of traditional Jewish and
: Christian belief systems. He asserts: all evidence
: demonstrates that the Jews did not adopt monotheism until
: the 7th Century BCE - a heresy according to the Biblical
: tradition dating it to Moses at Mount Sinai.
: Tel Aviv University's archaeological investigation at Megiddo
: and examination of the six-sided gate there dates it to the
: 9th Century BCE, not the 10th Century BCE claimed by the
: 1960's investigator Yigael Yadin who attributed it to
: Solomon. Herzog, moreover, states that Solomon and David
: are "entirely absent in the archaeological
: record".
: In addition, Herzog's colleague, Israel Finkelstein, claims
: the Jews were nothing more than nomadic Canaanites who
: bartered with the city dwellers.
: The team's studies concluded that Jerusalem did not have any
: central status until 722 BCE with the destruction of its
: northern rival Samaria.
: However, the real bombshell is Herzog's discovery of numerous
: references to Yahweh having a consort in the form of
: Asherah. Inscriptions, written in Hebrew by official Jewish
: scribes in the 8th century BCE, were found in numerous
: sites all over the land. For Yahweh, supposedly the
: "One God", to have had a female consort and, of
: all people, the goddess Asherah, is dynamite of wide
: ranging significance.
: The Secret Identity of Yahweh
: The use of Yahweh as the name of God has always fuelled
: speculation and philosophical argument. YHWH, sometimes
: pronounced Jehovah, is taken to mean "I AM" or
: "I AM WHO I AM". There is also the puzzle of the
: rule that his mysterious real name is not to be spoken.
: The identification of the goddess Asherah (Asherat) as His
: consort somewhere within the original Jewish faith leads to
: some explosive conclusions about the identity of the
: Jewish/Christian God of the Cosmos, the one Monotheistic
: God with whom we are so familiar from western religion.
: But before looking at Asherah, and what she means to the
: identity of Yahweh, it is worth taking a look at another
: goddess, Ashteroth. Her significance will become evident a
: little later. Referred to as an "abomination" in
: 2 Kings, Ashteroth was an important deity in the Near East
: pantheons.
: To the Sumerians she was IN.ANNA (Anu's beloved) and is an
: important character in the Sumerian Epics. To the Assyrians
: and Babylonians she was Ishtar; Ashtoreth was her name for
: the Canaanites; to the Greeks - Aphrodite; the Romans -
: Venus. The most important equivalent however is the
: Egyptian goddess Hathor, who the Greeks identified with
: Aphrodite. Hathor was the wife of Horus, the God of War.
: Hathor is identified with the symbol of the cow, and
: statues of her in the 26th Dynasty (572 - 525 BC) in Egypt
: actually depict her as a cow.
: Asherah, (whose name means "she who walks in the
: sea") supposedly consort of the supreme god El, was
: also referred to as Elath (the goddess). According to the
: Ugarit tradition, whose clay tablets contain the earliest
: known alphabet, she was consort of El, and mother of
: seventy gods. She is also associated with Baal and is
: supposed to have interceded to her husband, the supreme
: god, on Baal's behalf, for the building of a palace - in
: order to grant him equal status with other gods.
: In the cuniform tablets of Ras Shamrah (Circa 1400 BCE) the
: head of the Pantheon was El; his wife was
: Asherat-of-the-sea (Asherah). After El, the greatest god
: was Baal, son of El and Asherah. Curiously, Baal's consort
: is his mother, Asherah. In the Lebanon traditions Baal is
: equated with Jupiter.
: Carvings of Asherah in Syria show her wearing Egyptian
: head-dress. She was also referred to later as "the
: cow" - a reference to her great age.
: Significantly, Baalat (an important Goddess at Byblos) is
: depicted in carvings as having cow's horns, between which
: is a halo. Baalat is in fact the form of Asherah when she
: appears alongside Baal.
: But what does this say about the identity of Yahweh? The Bible
: has always presented a confusing picture of Yahweh. In the
: light of Herzog's discoveries and conclusions that Yahweh's
: consort was Asherah, it deserves a closer examination.
: Exodus 6:3 states "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto
: Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty (El
: Shaddai), but by my name "I AM" was I not known
: to them." In the King James Version, "I AM"
: is translated as Jehovah (Yahweh) but means the same:
: "I AM". The use of "God Almighty" is a
: traditional translation of Shaddai, thought to have meant
: "Omnipotent", but arguably it could be linked to
: the Akkadian root word Shadu, meaning literally
: "mountains".
: And El Shaddai is only one of the versions of God described in
: Genesis. El Shaddai literally translated means, "God
: the one of the mountains", but there was also El Olam
: (God the everlasting one) El Elyon (God most high) El Ro'i
: (God of vision).
: The obvious question is, why did YHWH reveal himself to the
: patriarchs as El Shaddai? The answer lies in the religious
: traditions of Canaan, where Abraham is said to have lived
: for a time, and which were brought to Canaan by the
: Phoenicians. (In turn, the root of Phoenician religious
: tradition is Sumer).
: God-the-one-of-the-mountains has a Sumerian equivalent.
: ISH.KUR, the youngest son of Enlil, means God the one of
: the far mountains. Ishkur was also known as Adad or Hadad
: in Hebrew, brother of Nannar/Sin, and was the pre-eminent
: God of Canaan - El-Shaddai.
: According to biblical scholars who focus on the "P
: Source" for the old testament, Yahweh as a name is
: first used with Moses in Exodus, and is indicative of
: monolatory (exclusive worship of one of many Gods) rather
: than monotheism. The name Yahweh can also be translated as
: "I am who I am", literally a way of saying
: "mind your own business", a way of disguising his
: true identity. Yahweh does not appear until Exodus and,
: strangely, the god Baal is entirely absent in Genesis.
: (El Shaddai is still venerated in the Jewish faith in the form
: of the Teffilin, one of two small leather cube-shaped cases
: containing Torah Texts, traditionally to be worn by males
: from the age of 13. The Teffilin are worn in a manner to
: represent the letters shin, daleth, and yod, which together
: form the name Shaddai.)
: In Exodus 33:2 it states "And I will send an angel before
: thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and
: the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
: Jebusite: 33:3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for
: I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou [art] a
: stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee on the way."
: This Yahweh is prone to violence and seems to despise his
: chosen people. He is a perfect match for ISH.KUR (Hadad),
: whose land is occupied by the Amorites and Hittites, and is
: a known demonstrator of violence and contempt for his
: worshipers.
: ISH.KUR's image, traits, and symbols match those of Baal. He
: is also anti-Babylon and anti-Egypt, as is Yahweh. And like
: Yahweh's, the real name of the Canaanite Baal (Hadad) must
: not be spoken.
: On the basis of Herzog's discovery, the evidence within the
: Bible itself, the Sumerian, Phoenician and Canaanite
: traditions, the following is a logical conclusion and
: solution to the identity of the Jewish God of the Old
: Testament: ISH.KUR = Hadad = El Shaddai = Baal = Yahweh.
: (The Canaanite's Baal was also known as Moloch, who we will
: examine later.)
: This indicates, as does Herzog's work, that the Jewish people
: evolved from polytheism to monotheism with the promotion of
: a god who had been known by a variety of names, into one
: supreme God, Yahweh (whose real name must not be spoken),
: and that they adopted for this purpose, not the supreme God
: of the Pantheons, El, but his son - ISH.KUR, Baal, Hadad,
: El-Shaddai, an entity who was in open revolt against his
: father El, and ultimately aided in this revolt by his
: mother and consort, Asherah, (also known as Baalat,
: Ashteroth, Elat).
: This female entity was later merged by Greek and Roman
: traditions into Aphrodite and Venus, and known earlier to
: the Egyptians as Isis.
: Once we understand this, the etymology of the name Israel - Is
: (either Isis or tomb) Ra (Head of the Egyptian Pantheon) El
: (Lord - Baal) - makes far more obvious sense than the
: convoluted "Yisrael" yarn from the Hebrew faith.
: But what does all this do to the validity of the "Title
: Deeds" from God that Ariel Sharon refers to? Quite
: apart from the obvious conclusion that the god assumed to
: have given the "promised land" to his chosen
: people was just one god from a pantheon and not the alleged
: monotheistic only God of the cosmos, Herzog's findings
: corroborate theories that have been "out there"
: for some time.
: The Hyksos
: Like Herzog, the historian Josephus (c. 37CE - c. 100CE)
: denied the account of the Hebrews being held in captivity
: in Egypt, but he went a drastic step further about the
: racial origins of the Jews, whom he identified with the
: Hyksos. He further claimed they did not flee from Egypt but
: were evicted due to them being leprous.
: It must be said that Josephus has been vilified over the ages
: as a Roman collaborator by both Jewish and Christian
: scholars who have argued that the dating of the exodus of
: the "Hebrews" from Egypt in the Bible positively
: rules out their identification as Hyksos.
: However, Jan Assmann, a prominent Egyptologist at Heidelberg
: University, is quite positive in his writings that the
: Exodus story is an inversion of the Hyksos expulsion and
: furthermore that Moses was an Egyptian.
: Likewise, Donald P. Redford, of Toronto University, presents
: striking evidence that the Expulsion of the Hyksos from
: Egypt was inverted to construct the exodus of the Hebrew
: slaves story in the Torah and Old Testament. His book,
: which argued this theory, "Egypt, Canaan, and Israel
: in Ancient Times" was Winner of the 1993 Best
: Scholarly Book in Archaeology Award of the Biblical
: Archaeological Society.
: There is irrefutable evidence that the Hyksos, a mixed
: Semitic-Asiatic group who infiltrated the Nile valley,
: seized power in Lower Egypt in the 17th Century BCE. They
: ruled there from c. 1674 BCE until expelled when their
: capital, Avaris, fell to Ahmose around 1567 BCE.
: The Hyksos in Egypt worshipped Set, who like ISH.KUR they
: identified as a storm deity.
: Under the "inversion theory", Jewish scholars in the
: 7th Century BCE changed the story from "expelled"
: to "escaped" and as a further insult to their
: enemy, Ahmose, changed and miss-spelt his name to Moses,
: presenting him as leader of a Hebrew revolt. But there is
: also a strong possibility of two separate origins to the
: "Moses" character being merged into one, which I
: will come to later.
: Ahmose's success in 1567 BCE led to the establishment of the
: 18th Dynasty in Egypt. ThotMoses III overthrew the
: transvestite Pharaoh Atchepsut, and under ThotMoses IV
: Egyptian conquests extended beyond the Sinai into
: Palestine, Syria, reaching Babylonia and included Canaan.
: By the end of this expansion, Amenophis III (1380BCE) ruled an
: Egyptian empire whose provinces and colonies bordered what
: is now known as Turkey. This empire would have included the
: regions in which most of the expelled Hyksos now lived.
: Amenophis IV succeeded the throne in 1353BCE. He established a
: new monotheism cult establishing "Aten" as the
: one supreme god and he changed his name to Akhenaton.
: Married to the mysterious Nefertiti, Akhenaton declared
: himself a god on earth, intermediary between the one-god
: Aten (Ra) and humanity, with his spouse as partner,
: effectively displacing Isis and Osiris in the Egyptian
: Enead.
: Declaring all men to be the children of Aten, historians
: suspect Akhenaton planned an empire-wide religion. He
: banned all idolatry, the use of images to represent god,
: and banned the idea that there was more than one supreme
: god.
: It is alongside Akhenaten and his father Amenophis III that we
: find the second Moses.
: An important figure during this period was confusingly called
: Amenophis son of Hapu. He was First Minister (Vizier) to
: both kings. He is generally depicted as a scribe, crouching
: and holding on his knees a roll of papyrus. He more than
: anyone was responsible for authoring the religion in which
: the old gods were merged into one living god, Aten, who had
: been responsible for the creation of the Earth and of
: humanity.
: The symbol of this god, the sun disk, represented Ra, Horus
: and the other gods in one. The sun disk, in symbolism, was
: supported between the horns of a bull. The Son of Hapu says
: this about creation: "I have come to you who reigns
: over the gods oh Amon, Lord of the Two Lands, for you are
: Re who appears in the sky, who illuminates the earth with a
: brilliantly shining eye, who came out of the Nou, who
: appeared above the primitive water, who created everything,
: who generated the great Enneade of the gods, who created
: his own flesh and gave birth to his own form."
: The king's overseer of the land of Nubia was a certain Mermose
: (spelled both Mermose and Merymose on his sarcophagus in
: the British Museum). According to modern historians, in
: Amenhotep's third year as king, Mermose took his army far
: up the Nile, supposedly to quell a minor rebellion, but
: actually to secure gold mining territories which would
: supply his king with the greatest wealth of any ruler of
: Egypt.
: Recent scholarship has indicated Mermose took his army to the
: neighbourhood of the confluence of the Nile and Atbara
: Rivers and beyond.
: But who was this Mermose? According to historian Dawn
: Breasted, the Greek translation of this name was Moses.
: Does Jewish tradition support this identification?
: According to Jewish history not included in the Bible, Moses
: led the army of Pharaoh to the South, into the land of
: Kush, and reached the vicinity of the Atbara River. There
: he attracted the love of the princess of the fortress city
: of Saba, later Meroe. She gave up the city in exchange for
: marriage. Biblical confirmation of such a marriage is to be
: found in Numbers 12:1. "And Miriam and Aaron spoke
: against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had
: married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman."
: The end of Akhenaten's reign is shrouded in mystery,
: scholarship about which is beyond the scope of an article
: of this length. In summary, however, theories span from the
: death of Nefertiti from plague - Akhenaten's own death from
: plague or murder - to exile.
: On clear record, in contrast, is the return of Egypt to the
: Enead of the gods and a systematic attempt to erase all
: vestiges of Akhenaton and his cult in Egypt.
: Meanwhile, the expelled Hyksos, according to various
: historians, have been living in Canaan.
: It is here that a solution to the Biblical dating problem of
: linking the Israelites to the Hyksos appears.
: Using the dating of the Biblical Exodus and comparing it to
: the Egyptian dating of the Hyksos expulsion throws up a gap
: of about 400 years. Using the dating systems of the books
: of Judges and Samuel, this gap can extend to between 554
: and 612 years.
: However, there is clear historical record of post Hyksos Egypt
: extending its empire into Canaan, the land into which the
: Hebrews entered and lived, according to Biblical sources,
: for 400 years before establishing the kingdom of Solomon.
: The Hebrews living in Canaan were therefore under Egyptian
: rule. It is also here in Canaan that we can make a
: comparison between Yahweh and the Canaanite Moloch (Baal)
: and extrapolate a polemic inversion of the story of Pharaoh
: ordering the death of all the "first born" in
: Exodus.
: The worshippers of Moloch sacrificed their first born children
: to their deity through immolation. Worshippers of Yahweh in
: Canaan were also known to carry out child sacrifice on
: occasion, especially in times of hardship, although
: immolation (holocaust) was supposedly frowned upon.
: Slitting the child's throat, however, was acceptable.
: The sacrifices were carried out and the remains interred at
: sacred sites known at Topheth. Sometimes - although rarely,
: judging by the vast predominance of infant human bones
: found at Topheth sites by archaeologists - animals were
: sacrificed as substitutes.
: The Unification
: Modern historical disciplines studying the biblical era
: uniformly conclude that Exodus could not have been written
: earlier than the 7th century BCE, and certainly not by the
: Biblical Moses who at best is a fictional combination of
: Egyptian personalities.
: In Israel itself, 7th Century BCE is the period in which the
: archaeological evidence presented by Herzog suggests the
: emergence of Jerusalem as a cultural centre occurs.
: By all accounts, it is a cultural centre struggling to find an
: identity and nationality for itself and, given the
: discovery of the Jewish texts displaying Yahweh having a
: consort in the form of Asherah, it is not difficult to
: piece this jigsaw together.
: In 639BCE, Josiah, king of Judah, is known to have introduced
: wide-ranging religious reforms and brought additional areas
: of "Israel" under his control.
: It is during this period that "polemics" against and
: "inversion" of a wide variety of religious and
: cultural sources are brought together to form a religious
: and political unity.
: For Josiah's "inquisitors", where history is
: unheroic, such as the expulsion from Egypt in the form of
: the Hyksos, history is inverted. Where religion is bereft
: of moral unity, the cult of Aten is interweaved, satisfying
: existing belief systems within the region and bestowing
: upon the king, Josiah, the position of divine right through
: a lineage to Solomon and David - both replacements for
: Aten's ancestors and his temple-building reputation. Josiah
: also destroys the Topheth Temple said to have been built by
: Solomon in the Hinnon valley just outside Jerusalem, to the
: south.
: Within this unifying mechanism, there are obfuscations to
: mitigate existing belief systems, which require the true
: name of God to be kept secret, and for which there is
: precedence in the cults of Baal and ISH-KUR, all part of
: the mish-mash of the region, and all designed to plaster
: over the holes in the new Yahweh-based system. An important
: separation of the identities of Baal-Moloch-Yahweh is
: implemented, although the evolution of ISH-KUR to Hadad to
: Baal to Yahweh does not remain disguised owing to the later
: polemic against Babylon written up as Genesis.
: Well known in Egypt, including at the time of the Aten cult
: was the following passage from the Book of the Dead: I have
: not robbed.
: I have not coveted.
: I have not killed people.
: I have not told lies.
: I have not trespassed.
: I have not committed adultery.
: I have not cursed a god.
: Josiah's unification process takes Moses, an Ideogram
: combining the Ahmose who expelled the Hyksos, and the
: Mermose who led the Egyptian army to great victories, and
: credits him with receiving the Ten Commandments in tablets
: of stone. In reality these laws are an elaboration of the
: above declaration.
: Add to this the fact that the obscure Egyptian king's
: "Hymn to Aten" is almost "word for
: word" Psalm 104 in the Bible and we have another
: compelling "coincidence".
: These and other "coincidences" apparently convinced
: the renowned Psychologist Sigmund Freud, writing in his
: 1939 book "Moses and Monotheism", that the Jewish
: monotheistic faith had its roots in the Akhenaton cult
: religion.
: Josiah's unification should of course be applauded. It
: outlawed the Moloch cult and emphasised the spiritual
: morality of the Ten Commandments. The polemics and
: inversions adding a heroic slant to the history of his
: people are understandable and politically astute.
: But beginning c. 200CE, somewhere along the line, and unlike
: the Aten cult, supremacy of race is added to the Jewish
: faith.
: In summary, however, it is Herzog's discovery of Yahweh's
: consort Asherah in Jewish texts and his declaration of an
: archaeological absence of Solomon or David that is the
: scalpel with which to slice through all the fictions of the
: biblical Exodus and its suggestion of divine right and
: supremacy. For that reason, Herzog must not be forgotten.
: Even though his scholarship is ignored by the politics of
: modern day Israel, it contains a lesson for the rest of the
: world, and in particular for those nations who support
: Israel's supremacist doctrines.
: Israel, modern, needs to face up to the fact that it has no
: "divine right" to the land it occupies. Israel
: must rely instead upon an equitable settlement in light of
: its undeniable modern day colonisation and conquest - a
: reality its opponents must accept but without straying
: outside the boundaries defined by international law - i.e.
: the 1967 borders.
: It is a realist position, which most modern day western
: civilisations have come to terms with without claiming
: divine right or racial supremacy. They have accomplished
: this by recognition of human rights and an international
: standard of law limiting their behaviour (in most cases),
: reserving instead to a faith in the democratic institutions
: upon which their modernity and equitability is based.
: Given the religious and cultural battleground upon which
: Israel is placed, its absence of recognition of modern
: reality, and in a world armed with nuclear weapons, until
: Israel - armed with those weapons - separates itself from
: doctrines of "divine right" and "racial
: supremacy", it will continue to be the breeding ground
: for a fight against racial and political injustice - at the
: centre of the modern-day world's geo-political processes -
: which could bring our entire global civilisation to
: destruction.
: That surely, in the name of humanity, is reason enough to
: bring to an end such "biblical" fixations and
: dogmatism. It does not require us to abandon faith in God
: in order to do that. Our intuition of The Creator is as old
: as humanity and is not dependent upon a dusty old tome
: written by men and in the words of men.
: M-Theory
Serving Freedom
and Liberty
