The Middle East
One of the most persistent and controversial issues in human history is the Middle East. Itcan galvanize people and stir emotions among individuals. It's a point of contention thatdeveloped wars and conflicts spreading across thousands of years. This work will notpresent all of the complexities of subjects in the Middle East. It will present an overview ofmajor Middle Eastern issues in the past and the present. Now, after the Iron Age, theMiddle East grew rapidly in agricultural and basic urbanization.Of course, the advancedcivilization of Sumeria existed in the Fertile Crescent region. The Sumerians had theplywood wheel invention, ziggurats, cuneiform alphabet scripts, and a competent roadsystem (full of trade, economics, and transportation).To this day, the ancient Babylon and
Egyptian Mystery religions plus architecture influence the design of structures to this day.One example is how the Luxor Pyramid in Las Vegas was based upon the Great Pyramidstructure as found in Egypt.
The Statue of Liberty was created by FreemasonAuguste Bartholdi. He took influence from the Goddess Libertas in theancient world.
The Goddess imagery existed in Babylon as well in many forms from Isisto Semiramis.The Statue of Liberty's head took influence from the solar deity of Apollo. The Statue is an occult outline of Bartholdi's view that illumination from the torch are togreet new visitors of America. Now, even in the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, the ancientSabean civilization had great resources and a complex civilization. Sabea is another namefor the name of Sheba in the S. Arabian/E. African region of the world. So, the history of theMiddle East extends beyond just the Fertile Crescent.Middle Eastern history is very long.After the Sumerian Empire ended. The Babylonian Empire took over much of the regionincluding ancient Israel. Civilization developed more in language, culture, architecture, and
other aspects. Later, the Assyrian Empire ruled the region. The Assyrians ruled manySemitic kingdoms as time went on
.Shamshi-Adad I, was one King who was involved in the OldAssyrian Kingdom. The Middle Assryrian Kingdom had leaders likeAshur-nadin-apliwho lived inca. 1193-1194 B.C. While this was occurring, Ishmaelite and other Arabian tribes in the ArabianPeninsula were existing and trading with tons of people in the Fertile Crescent region. The Neo-Assyrian Empire began later from 934 B.C.-609 B.C. Assyria was competing with Babylonia as toascertain supremacy in the region.
Tiglath-Pileser III is an Assyrian King who is consideredthe major King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He was a great military commanders who ruledvast lands.
TheBiblerecords him as
Tilgath-pilneser
(as described in2 Chronicles28:20).Assyrian inscriptions record, in the fifth year of his reign740 BC, a victory over Azariah (Uzziah),
king ofJudah, whose achievements are described in 2 Chronicles 26. He seized the northern halfof Israel.He had an alliance with Ahaz, who was the King of Judah. After this Empire was theindependent Neo-Babylonian Empire. It lasted from 626 B.C. to the invasion of Cyrus the Great in539 B.C. This was the time when many Hebrews (mostly from the Kingdom of Israel) were exiledin Babylonia. This set the stage for apostate Jewish people to create the Kabbala (a mysticalmerging of the Mystery Religions with apostate Judaism).The Medes and the Persian conqueringof Babylon marked the end of Semitic hegemony in the Middle East for centuries. TheAchaemenid’s Empire of Persian Kings ruled an area from parts of India to near Ethoipia. TheHebrew name for India back then was Hodu. This was in the area of the Indus Valley where thePersians called the area “Sindh” and the Arabic people “Hind.” India’s national name is evencalled Bharat.Later, The Persians rule most of the region afterward (with Cyrus, Cambyses II, and others as itsleaders) and then the Greeks came along. Alexander the Great was Macedonian and spread hisEmpire as far east as Western India plus Central Asia. He died in Babylon and 3 Generals carvedhis empire up. The book of Daniel gave accurate prophecies about the Persian and GreekEmpires.These leaders died and their allies took up power. In the Empire, various tribes andpeople break up the Greek Empire allot by the 200's-100's B.C. One easy example was theParthian Empire in Iran that lasted from 238-226 B.C. These Parthian horsemen defeated theGreek Seleucid Empire. The pro-Greek king Antiochus “Epimanes” persecuted the Jewish peoplein Israel. Jewish people lead by the Hasmonean family achieved indepencence in Israel to restoreworship at the Temple. The Jewish didn’t last long and fell under the rule of the Roman Empire.They soon became a rival to the ancient Roman Empire. Some believe that the Parthians camefrom the Dahae (and the Parni being Scythian tribes). At some point it was subjugated by theMedes. They once fought along side the Medes. King Mithridates I was a famous Parthian King.The Chinese explorerZhang Qian, who visited the neighboring countries ofBactria(a Central
Asian region composed in that day of Indo-European and other tribes. Today, it has many ethnicTajkis. Another mostly Indo European tribe was the Yueh-chi who formed the Kushan Empire inCentral Asia) andSogdiana(they were an Iranian people that also traded with China. The peoplemixed with the Turks, Bactrians, Chorasmians, the Persians, etc. They are among the ancestorsof the modernTajikandUzbek people) in 126 BC, made the first known Chinese report on
Parthia. In his accounts Parthia is named "
Ā
nx
ī
" (Chinese:
安息
), a transliteration of "Arsacid", thename of the Parthian dynasty.Zhang Qian clearly identifies Parthia as an advanced urbancivilization that farmed grain and grapes, made silver coins and leather goods. Parthians endedtheir reign in the 220's A.D. In this time, the Roman Empire conquered much of the Middle Eastespecially Israel. The Roman military leader Pompey conquered Jerusalem in 63 B.C. Israel waslater called Palestine. Before, Israel was called Judaea by the ancient Romans. The reason forthe change was that the Roman Emperor Hadrian was an anti-Semite. Hadrian hated the Jewishnation and seek to erase the name of Israel and Judah from the face of the Earth. That'simpossible of course since God blessed Israel. Regardless of its faults, God will always love theJewish people. No mention of Palestine exists before the time of the Romans at all.
Of coursethe Messiah Yeshua ben Joseph lived on the Earth during the times of the RomanEmpire.
Sassanids and other dynasties ruled Iran. The Roman Empire fell in the Western side by 476 A.D.
The Misnah and the Talmud was created from the time of Christ to about the 6th Century A.D.The Temple's destruction in 70 A.D. was predicted by Jesus Christ (
in the date of 9
th
Av 3830
). It eliminated many official records of Jewish genealogy. Also, it caused manyexpulsions of Jewish people from Israel. TheBar Kokhba revoltagainst theRoman Empirein 132
A.D. caused more expulsion of Jewish people from Jerusalem. Jewish people still existed inplaces from Europe, Israel, to Babylonia. Christianity spreads in the region as Christianity is aMiddle Eastern religion. Jesus Christ invented Christianity and Christians suffered harshpersecution by the ancient Romans on a constant basis.
The Arabs of Najran (southern Arabia)convert to Christianity in ca. 500 A.D.
From 313-636 A.D., theByzantine Empireruled Israeland afterwards the Persians came. The Jewish population recommend the Persians because theyfelt they could help them have deliverance from theByzantine Empire. The Muslim Empire camein the 600's A.D. Islam was created by Muhammad. Muhammad was a leader in Arabia whoclaimed that the angel Gabriel gave him the inspiration to teach about religion and God. He callsGod Allah which comes from 2 syllables (one is -al meaning the in Arabic and -ilah meaning theGod in Arabic. Scholars believe that Allah refers to the sun of the Mysteries as Allah was recordedin pagan Arabia before Islam was created). Muhammad died in 632 A.D. Islam is a work-basedreligion where you have to follow 5 pillars, praise, do alms, and other actions. Some Jewishpeople in the 600's A.D. were given the status of dhimmi. This was a state of being tolerated, butinferior position in society. That is just another world for a second class citizenship designation.The Islamic Empire for a time was very advanced in literature, mathematics, technology, andtrade in the region. TheUmayyadswas the first dyansty of the Muslim Caliphate reigning from660-750 A.D. It was huge spanning from Spain to parts of modern day Western India. The leadersof this dynasty were competed against the relatives and followers of Muhammad.Today, the Shia follow the relatives of Muhammad and Sunnis follow his followers. Thesubsequent Caliphate of the
Abbasid
was from 750-1258 A.D
. In that time, the Crusadescommenced where the Catholic Crusades temporary ruled much of Israel. Later, they weredefeated again and again in the 1100's-1200's A.D.
The Crusades had atrocities that werecarried out among the Catholics and the Muslims. It was about the accusation that Muslimswanted to rule the world. The Crusaders' response was excessive, because you don't go rape,murder, burn synagogues, and to try to steal land under the guise of "self-defense." The Mongolsunder Hulagu Khan conquered Baghdad for a while in 1258 A.D. Islamic powerful elites leftBaghdad into Cairo because of destruction the Mongols made even in Israel. After 1260 A.D., theMamluk Sultanate dynasty ruled much of the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire took over theFertile Crescent soon after.
The Ottoman Empire ruled Israel and other Middle Eastern areasfrom 1516 to 1923, but their origin goes back as far as 1299. So, they've existed for almost700 years in its history. Now, Jewish and Arabic presence in the Middle East spans forthousands of years. So, one is either deluded or a liar to say that Jewish people or Arabicpeople have no right to live in Israel
. People have a right to live wherever they want as humanbeings period. Now, here's examples of Jewish presence continuously in the Middle Easternregion. In 438 A.D., the Empress Eudocia of Byzantine allowed Jewish people to pray in their HolyTemple site. Many Jewish people welcomed Muslims when they came into Israel. The 7th centuryJewish exiles from Khaibar, Arabia (they were oppressed by Muslims in Arabia) traveled toJericho. During the Crusades, village communities of Jews in Galilee existed. In 1187 c.e., Jewsactively participated with Salah-ud-Din Al'Ayyub (Saladin) against the Crusaders in the conquestof Jerusalem. Saladin, who was the greatest Muslim conqueror, was not an Arab but a Kurd.
In the 1500's, Jewish people reconstructed the Jewish Quarter. Turkish Sultan Suleiman allowedmany Jewish people to return into the Holy Land in 1561. John Peters' "From Time Immemorial"book from 1984 have evidence to document this as well.
Ibn Khaldun, one of the mostcreditable Arab historians, in 1377 A.D. wrote:
"Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel extended over 1400 years... It was the
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Nice work Tim...like a hot knife on a butter. Hey...whenever I watch the news on the tv, I have this funny feeling that I'm like strapped on a lab chair with all these wires and sensor pads stuck in my temple while a Islamophobia show goes on in the tube! Mind you I'm Christian too.
Is Iran is such a bad ass to warrant such fear? Come on people! Ever heard of men and women rallying together in the on political something in some Arab countries, for instance in KSA? Dudes, people are going in the streets of Iran to do just that. For all we know, Iran is freer than what the news feeds us.
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