I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, . . . but are

the synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 2:9; 3:9

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advocating a “single-state” solution -- a binational state where all residents of what are today Israel and the Occupied Territories share the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship -- was a relatively mainstream position to take. In fact, it was one of several competing plans considered by the United Nations when it created the state of Israel in the 1940s.

But the idea of a single, binational state has more recently been marginalized -- dismissed as an attempt to destroy Israel literally and physically, rather than as an ethnic and religious-based political entity with a population of second-class Arab citizens and the legacy of responsibility for world’s longest-standing refugee population.

A logical conclusion of Zand’s work exposing Israel’s founding mythology may be the restoration of the idea of a one-state solution to a legitimate place in the debate over this contentious region. After all, while it muddies the waters in one sense -- raising ancient, biblical questions about just who the “children of Israel” really are -- in another sense, it hints at the commonalities that exist between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Both groups lay claim to the same crust of earth, both have faced historic repression and displacement and both hold dear the idea that they should have a “right of return.”

And if both groups in fact share common biblical ties, then it begs the question of why the entirety of what was Palestine under the British mandate should remain a refuge for people of one religion instead of being a country in which Jews and Arabs are guaranteed equal protection -- equal protection under the laws of a state whose legitimacy would never again be open to question.

 

Joshua Holland is an AlterNet staff writer with the Independent Media Institute.

This story is published online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/122810/

The Jewish Encyclopedia: Khazars (Chazars)

 

Jewish writer Arthur Koestler detailed the Khazar origins of most Jewish people in his book, The Thirteenth Tribe.

 

    The JEWISH ALMANAC clearly spells out this “IDENTITY CRISIS”:

 

   A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TERMS FOR "JEW"

 

   “Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an ‘Israelite’ or a ‘Hebrew.’ ”

 

Furthermore, in the San Diego Union (August 28, 1966) Leo Heiman quoted Nathan M. Pollock, a professor of Medieval Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, who, after spending forty of his sixty-four years in research, confirmed the preceding statement from The Jewish Almanac:

 

   The Jews That Maybe Aren’t

 

   By Leo Heiman: Coplan News Service (Tel Aviv)

 

   Nathan M. Pollock has a beef with the Israeli government.

 

   His elaborate plans to celebrate this September the 1,000th anniversary of the Jewish Khozar alliance were summarily rejected.

 

   An elderly meek-looking man who migrated to Israel from Russia 43 years ago, Pollock ekes out a living as a translator of Scientific texts and proofreader in publishing firms.

 

   But his great passion, hobby and avocation is historic research.

 

   He has devoted 40 of his 64 years to trying to prove that six out of 10 Israelis and nine out of 10 Jews in the Western Hemisphere are not real Jews' Jews, but descendants of fierce Khozar tribes which roamed the steppes of southern Russia many centuries ago.