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Ever wondered how Israel was made? 1. Merneptah Stele names Israel c. 1209 BCE. 2. Northern Kingdom of Israel by the 900s BCE. 3. Southern Kingdom of Judah by the 850s BCE. 4. Assyria destroys the north in 722 BCE. 5. Babylon destroys Judah and the First Temple in 586 BCE. 6. Jews return under Persia and rebuild the Temple. 7. Hasmonean Jewish kingdom, 140–63 BCE. 8. Herod rebuilds the Second Temple. 9. Rome destroys the Second Temple in 70 CE. 10. Bar Kokhba revolt ends 135 CE; Jews barred from Jerusalem. 11. Hadrian renames Judea Syria Palaestina. 12. Jews remain in Galilee under Rome and Byzantium. 13. Jews live in the land after the 638 CE Muslim invasion. 14. Communities in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberias under Crusaders. 15. Crusaders massacre Rhineland Jews in 1096. 16. York massacre at Clifford’s Tower, 1190. 17. Four Holy Cities communities persist under Mamluks. 18. 1391 riots and forced conversions in Spain. 19. Spanish Inquisition from 1478. 20. Jewish communities continue under Ottomans after 1517. 21. Safed becomes a major Jewish scholarly center in the 1500s. 22. Black Death pogroms in Europe, 1348–1351. 23. Presence in the Four Holy Cities through the 1600s–1700s. 24. Old Yishuv continuous into the 19th century. 25. Hep-Hep riots in German cities, 1819. 26. First Aliyah begins 1882. 27. Second Aliyah from 1904. 28. Tel Aviv founded 1909. 29. Balfour Declaration 1917. 30. League of Nations Mandate 1922 includes the Jewish national home. 31. Jewish population grows under the Mandate. 32. 1940s pogroms in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere. 33. Holocaust, 1933–1945. 34. UN Partition Plan, 29 Nov 1947. 35. State of Israel declared 14 May 1948. 36. Five Arab states invade the next day. 37. Jews remain through Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, Ottoman and British rule. 38. Archaeology confirms Israelite presence centuries before later empires. 39. The name Israel appears in extra-biblical records before the Common Era. 40. Jews rebuild after each exile and conquest. 41. Four Holy Cities keep significant Jewish populations for centuries. 42. Ottoman records list Jews in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias and Hebron. 43. Jewish return waves in the 1700s–1800s before political Zionism. 44. Legal immigration under the Mandate increases the Jewish population. 45. Israel absorbs Holocaust survivors and Jews fleeing Arab and Muslim countries. 46. Quran calls them Bani Isra’il, Children of Israel, descendants of Ya‘qub. 47. Moses is told to enter the Holy Land Allah assigned them. 48. God settles the Children of Israel in a good dwelling. 49. The oppressed inherit the eastern and western parts of the blessed land. 50. After Pharaoh they are told to dwell in the land. 51. Jewish sovereignty in biblical, Hasmonean and modern periods. 52. Continuous Jewish residence across two millennia of foreign rule. 53. Empires conquered the land; Jewish communities remained. 54. Quran mentions Israel 40+ times. Palestine: 0. 55. A special thanks to archaeological records, ancient inscriptions, continuous communities in the Four Holy Cities, successive returns after exile, and the historical texts that document an Israelite and Jewish presence across more than 3,000 years.
Now you know how Israel was made.
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Surprise Surprise. 😕👇👇👇
The creator of the 'Palestine poppy' is an Oxford-educated paediatrician who has written books for Muslim teenagers justifying stoning and warning that homosexuality is 'a test from Allah'. Abdul Qader Ismail was accused of trying to 'hijack' Remembrance Day after he began selling an enamel pin shaped like a poppy in the colours of the Palestinian flag for £1.78 on eBay. The pin is listed as 'not for profit' with money being donated to Gaza charities. The Spectator can now reveal that Ismail is an active member of Greens for Palestine and co-sponsored the group's 'Zionism is Racism' policy. He is also the author of a book series titled An Introduction to Challenging Topics for Muslim Teens. ✍️ Noa Hoffman Article | spectator.com/article/reveal… | @hoffman_noa
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Ladies and Gentlemen. The truth about Humza Yousaf. 👇👇😬
In late October 2023, Scottish officials recommended giving UNICEF £100-200k for water and sanitation work in Gaza. On 30 October Humza Yousaf emailed them: if he was meeting UNRWA that week they should just announce an extra £250k to them instead. Officials fell in line. The money was announced on 2 November: the same day he sat down with senior UNRWA people in Edinburgh. His in-laws walked out of Gaza the very next day. That money went straight to the agency already riddled with Hamas. Years earlier its own former chief had openly said Hamas members were on the payroll. Pro-Hamas blocs ran the staff unions. Teachers and principals held ranks in the Al-Qassam Brigades. Rockets, tunnels and weapons kept turning up in their schools. Then after October 7 the UN itself found nine of its staff “may have been involved” in the attacks and fired them. American investigators later flagged over a hundred more for the same problem. So while his family was stuck in the strip, Yousaf overrode advice and steered taxpayer cash to the organisation with the worst track record of hosting and employing the people who started the war, and did it the day he met them.
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Murdering bastards.
🚨BREAKING: The Islamic regime has confirmed the death-sentence of 18 year old Melika Azizi was carried earlier today. Melika was arrested in January 2026 during nation-wide protests and charged with "moharebeh" (waging war against god for allegedly burning Islamic regime symbols. In court, Melika told the judge: "You let so many young people bleed. How can I remain silent? I don't care just kill me." She was a brave young lady!
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While Danny Tommo sits in jail, Bushra Shaikh is welcomed onto the BBC. She is an IRGC asset who has addressed terrorist rallies backing multiple proscribed groups and faced no consequences at all. This is two-tier Britain. Islamist extremists like her stay untouchable. Evil.
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While Danny Tommo sits in jail, Bushra Shaikh is welcomed onto the BBC. She is an IRGC asset who has addressed terrorist rallies backing multiple proscribed groups and faced no consequences at all. This is two-tier Britain. Islamist extremists like her stay untouchable. Evil.
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Abdul El-Sayed’s sister is deleting posts admitting that her family are active within the Muslim Brotherhood. It would be a shame if this went viral.
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“No one is above the law” IIhan Omar.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Britains's had enough. HD Please do not rip this content, but please share: repost or quote post.
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13 Generals, 27 Lieutenant Generals, 19 Major Generals, 5 Brigadier Generals today released this letter refuting the genocide allegations against Israel. Actual experts who know far better than historians and sociologists pontificating wildly out of lane. jinsa.org/wp-content/uploads…
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Everyone should read this post and follow this man. 👇👇👇
I was in Gaza when I condemned October 7—and I paid a heavy price for saying so. During the war, Hamas subjected me to severe intimidation and attacks because I spoke openly against what happened. I did not condemn October 7 from a distance or from safety; I condemned it from Gaza, while living through the consequences myself. My position has not changed. It comes from my conscience, my humanitarian principles, and my faith.
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The tunnels. 👇👇👇
She is standing on the only land border Hamas has. Iran doesn’t have one. Egypt does. Right now she is on the Philadelphi Corridor, the strip between Gaza and Egypt. Behind her is a tunnel tall enough for two of her, wide enough for a car, lined in cinder block, running into Egypt. The IDF has found more than 200 tunnels in that corridor. Nine of them cross the border. Hamas used them for years to bring in ammunition and rockets, and stored the weapons there on purpose, betting the IDF wouldn’t strike that close to Egypt. Iran gets the credit because Iran writes the checks and builds the rockets. Iran has no border with Gaza. The sea was blockaded. The Israeli crossings were screened. What got in came across an Egyptian state border, under it and through the Rafah gate. Remember Rafah? That same place Kamala Harris told the world she “read the maps”, and the place Biden warned Israel not to enter? Cairo flooded tunnels when the Sinai jihadists were the threat. Later the gate reopened, Egyptian intelligence took a commission on the trade, and the shafts were still there. Sisi’s son was a senior member of Egypt’s intelligence service who signed the agreement with Sinwar. Egypt says the tunnels do not exist. She is standing in one. The same ground is where six hostages were found dead, twenty meters under a child’s room… in Rafah. One of them was an American-Israeli. A family was trying to raise a kid above that shaft. The wall still has Mickey Mouse on it. Hamas dug the tunnel underneath, held them where they could not stand, and starved them. Then they shot them all in the head. It wasn’t the only house in Rafah with a tunnel under it, because every house in Rafah had a tunnel beneath it. Every single house. And it wasn’t the only one booby-trapped for the troops who came to clear it. That’s why the corridor isn’t a talking point. The media refused to acknowledge it. World leaders and the UN said it would be genocide. They said it would take Israel months to move the one million people who lived there. It took Israel just 10 days! Egypt is not a partner of peace. The peace treaty means nothing to them. Egypt IS the enemy. They are as bad as Iran and Qatar. They have never lived down losing three wars which they started against Israel. They’ve never recovered. They hate us for the humiliation we handed them.
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Exceptional courage. 🙏
A Statement of Conscience on October 7 I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being. On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first. But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity. This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it. But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken. I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire. Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven. So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy. And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it. So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance. The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again. Imam Tawhidi
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