Roudy!
I've seen some of your posts and I was wondering what your response would be to this? My friend is against israel and is claiming they were nomads when they came into palestine in 1948...
"Nomad: 1st meaning from Webster's dictionary: a member of a people who have no fixed residence.
Balfour agreement of 1917, the united States she's that the creation of the state of Israel would be an idea they support. 1948, expiration of the Palestine mandate to the state of Palestine from the British, who opposed a Jewish or Arab state.
At the end of 1947 Truman supports UN resolution 181 and the creation of an independent Israeli state.
So up until 1948, no country; no state of Israel. Maybe a biblical idea of the "nation" of Israel.
Therefore, a non-centralized group that has fled from one country to another, and did not have a "home" of their own until the mid 20th century C.E is in fact suitable to be defined as nomadic."
My automatic response was this, although I'm not sure if it's a very good argument, please advise!!
In response:: "History doesn’t begin in 1917, it starts way before that. Your use of the term “nomadic” negates the fact that these Jews were returning to their historic homeland. Jews have lived in the land now called Israel for nearly 4000 years, tracing back to 1900 BCE. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city thousands of years ago. The story of the Jewish people, Israel, its capital, Jerusalem, and the Jewish Temple is ancient. They do indeed have a home, and it's a home where many of them have been displaced by brutal foreign conquerors. Despite being exiled, Jews have always returned and resumed their presence throughout the millennia, whether flourishing or as a minority.
The cultural memory and desire of a land these people have doesn't just magically appear without having strong historical ties or previous residency. Just because “Israel” wasn't on a map before 1948 doesn't mean that it wasn’t existent, it has always existed."
