Rub the hot spots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and talk about the past lives of Jews and Palestinians from a historical perspective. There are many people to talk about in this life, so I don't need to be verbose.
According to historical research, the earliest civilization of all mankind was born in the Two Rivers Valley, which is historically called the Sumerian civilization. This civilization is very powerful, not only the earliest one, but also profoundly influenced and even spawned all the large civilizations in the world except the Chinese civilization, including ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and ancient India (ancient India was much less affected).
Ancient Babylonian and Assyrian bas-reliefs
But this civilization has the same dilemma as other ancient civilizations. It is to bully the backward barbarian tribes around them in the early stage, and to be invaded and conquered by barbarians in the later period. Then the victorious barbarian conquerors repeated the fate of their predecessors. After such reincarnation many times, the original culture and genes are constantly diluted, and it is difficult to find them in future generations. This is also the most special place of Chinese civilization, although compared with other ancient civilizations is the youngest, the degree of development is not necessarily higher than others, but the core of mainstream culture and a considerable proportion of genes are well preserved, and the reproduction has not stopped.
In the process of the continuous rise and fall of the civilization of the Two Rivers Valley, the ancient Egypt developed under its influence reached a higher level of civilization, although it was inevitable that the dilemma of the civilization of the Two Rivers Valley was constantly replaced. After the prosperity of a certain ancient Egyptian dynasty, it adopted the armed defense model used by all ancient civilizations, mercenaries. They paid from all over the world to recruit a large number of barbarians who were willing to work for money, and settled them on the border of the empire for border purposes. One of them was recruited near the Two Rivers Valley.
Ancient Egyptian painting in Louvre
It is no longer known where exactly these barbarians came from near the Two Rivers Valley. It can be tested that after they came to Egypt, they were influenced by the ancient Egyptian civilization, gradually civilized, and their strength continued to grow. This aroused suspicion among employers in ancient Egypt. No one knows who started the conflict first, and the result was that the employer was furious and led the other mercenaries to destroy the barbarian tribe. Then there was the book of Exodus, which is known to posterity.
Moses receives illustrations of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, the prophets of religion and belief, Judaism and Christianity
The fleeing barbarian tribes, led by their great leader Moses, managed to escape multiple calamities and rushed to what their hearts were "the promised land flowing with milk and honey", the legendary homeland. This Moses was a talent, not only a political leader of the tribe, but also a military leader and a spiritual leader. Even more powerful was the invention of a religion that later influenced the entire world. He also became now considered a "messenger of God" in the minds of nearly half of humanity (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam).
From the perspective of religious legend, the promised land to which the barbarians fled—the Jerusalem area—was the region that the greatest and only Creator promised them, and it was also the homeland where the barbarians' ancestors lived. But from the perspective of archaeological logic, this does not correspond to the actual situation. If this region is really their homeland, why would they give up such a rich land and leave for others? If they had been farming and breeding in the land for many years, it goes without saying that they would have been civilized early on, and basically lost their ability to fight bravely as mercenaries. Therefore, excluding the factor of religious legends, it is more likely that the great man Moses somehow learned the value of the land and inspired his people to go through religious mythology.
Aerial View Of A City
Moses was extremely powerful. The religious and organizational structures he forged soon regained their strength in later wars. The barbarians conquered Jerusalem and the surrounding area, established their state, the ancient state of Israel, and continued to expand their influence. Their religion, called Judaism, they also called themselves Jews. Blessed by religious mythology, the Jerusalem area has also become the inherent home of Jews who have lived for generations.
The good days of the ancient state of Israel and the Jews did not last long, first the conquest of the ancient Romans, and then the rise and conquest of Islam, so that the ancient state of Israel was wiped out in the long river of history, and the Jews who adhered to their religious beliefs had to leave their homeland and take root elsewhere. In order to identify their uniqueness and resilience, the departing Jews stipulated that only descendants of preserved blood and religion were eligible to become Jews. Former Jews who remained in their homeland and later re-integrated with their Semitic compatriots, Arabs (genetically speaking, both ancient Jews and Arabs were Semites), automatically lost their status to become Jews. Of course, this group of people did not care about this, and the people who later became Muslims were quite complacent, and together with the Arabs who conquered them, they formed the present-day Palestinians.
Ancient Israel. Leviticus
After talking about past lives, briefly talk about the logical relationship in this life. What is the relationship between Jews and Palestinians? Some say brothers, all descendants of the Semites. Well, a little bit. It would be more appropriate to say that the ancient Jews and the present Palestinians were brothers. However, modern Jews, with a fairly high proportion of European and other regional components mixed in blood, are far from the appearance of Middle Eastern Arabs (their ancestors are actually not different from Arabs). History is history, reality is reality, and there are two unspeakable religions entangled, and the things in this life seem to be clearer, but in fact they are more ambiguous, not to say.