Oh gee...are you a 'Christian' to put a Christian spin on this?
Just because you're black doesn't make you a Christian.
As far as the so called 'Palestinians' are concerned, Israel being there at all is illegal and an expanded settlement.
Killing 50 to 60,000 Palestinians, doesn't matter. Takes a whole lot of them to make a dozen.
Israel must constantly expand for its own defense. And the land it has been promised by God involves much more than they have already. And, if you're a Christian, I'm sure you can appreciate that.
Quantrill
Being black doesn't make me a Chistian, but following Gods laws does.
That land was not given to them by God. It was given to them by the Balfour Declaration. Brtain originally wanted to put the Jews in Kenya.
Kenya was supposed to become the Zionist homeland. How would that have worked out?
A little more than four decades before they transformed Mandatory Palestine into the modern state of Israel, the leaders of the Zionist Movement, invited by Joseph Chamberlain, then British Colonial Secretary, turned their eyes to East Africa as a potential settlement for the world’s persecuted Jews.
Known as the Uganda Scheme, the initiative would have seen the relocation of hundreds of thousands of primarily eastern European Jews into what is now central-western Kenya; at the time, this region was part of the Uganda Protectorate, hence the name of the scheme. The sixth Zionist Congress, which was held in 1903 in Basel, Switzerland, dispatched a three-man commission to survey the land and report on its suitability for the venture.
According to a report from the meeting, published in a Jewish magazine of the time, the British offer was for the Zionists to set up “an autonomous Jewish settlement in East Africa, with Jewish administration, Jewish local government, with a Jewish governor at its head […] under British suzerain control.”
East Africa was not the first territory to which the Zionists, and their enablers, had turned their eyes in their quest to find a modern homeland for Jews. Nor was it the last. But it was the one that, outside of Palestine itself, was taken with a significant level of seriousness. It became particularly urgent following a deadly pogrom in Kishinev (modern Chisinau, Moldova) in April 1903.
Obviously, the initiative didn’t succeed. Its failure has been attributed, variously, to opposition by the then emergent white-settler community in Kenya, a malaise of indecision within the Colonial Office regarding how to administer the nascent East Africa Protectorate and, perhaps most importantly, the reticence of the Zionist leaders themselves.
Having long set their eyes on Palestine and its neighbourhood as the rightful place for a Jewish national homeland, the Zionists, at their seventh Congress, in Basel in August 1905, seized on the negative aspects of the fact-finding commission’s reports and rejected the British offer. Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement and main proponent of the Uganda Scheme, had died the year before.
The Zionists would eventually set up a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, but that was still two world wars and a Holocaust away. And when it finally came into being, its history proved, alas, to be one of near constant conflict with its neighbours and, especially, with the Palestinian Arabs who initially made up the territory’s majority population.
In one of the great 'what-ifs' of history the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, proposed in 1903 that Jews settle in modern-day Kenya to create a safe haven for themselves.
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