What Do Jews Know?
"Jews already ‘knew’ that they were all direct descendants of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who was renamed ‘Israel’ by God.[ii] Thus they were all ‘literally’ Bnei Yisrael (Sons of Israel).
"Their God-promised and God-given homeland was
Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel), covering a huge area
‘from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates’.[iii]
"The ancient Jewish kingdom reached its early zenith, ruling the whole of that area, under King Solomon son of David. Eventually – to cut a long story short – the Jews were punished ‘for their sins’ and were exiled from their homeland by the Romans.
"But at the End of Days God will send his Mashiah ben-David (anointed scion of David), who will ingather the exiled Jews and return them to their homeland, the Land of Zion.
"All that remained for Zionist ideology to do was to secularize this sacred narrative.
"The eschatological bit, the ‘return’ to Zion, was converted into a political colonizing project – hence its very name: ‘Zionism’ – with the impressively bearded Theodor Herzl as secular messiah or his herald. The creative task of bringing the divine history down to earth was undertaken by the early Zionist historians."
Nile to the Euphrates?
Now that's hilarious.
Right, drivel?
Moshe Machover