The Middle East: Everything That You Always Wanted to Know and No One Would Tell You: "Walking in Jesus Footsteps"

By Antonio Carnovale

This book looks at both sides of the conflict, the PLO and other Terrorist groups, Israeli State sponsored terrorism , the injustices that are perpetuated on a daily basis by the settlers and the early Jewish terrorist groups such as the Ingrum group and when you finally complete this book you will see that all sides have blood on their hands, NO ONE IS INNOCENT.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475996098

Antonio Carnovale

Graduated from Lyndon State College in 1972 with a Batchelor of Arts, received a Masters of Education from Antioch University, Specialist E-5 South East Asia 1967-68 Educator for 42 years, bilingual in Italian

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THE MIDDLE EAST:

EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALWAYS

WANTED TO KNOW

AND NO ONE WOULD TELL YOU

Walking In Jesus Footsteps

Antonio Carnovale

iUniverse LLC

Bloomington

The Middle East: Everything That You Always Wanted To Know and No One Would Tell You

Walking In Jesus Footsteps

Copyright © 2013 by Antonio Carnovale.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

DEDICATED TO THE FORGOTTEN

INTRODUCTION

As a young boy, I was introduced to the plight of the Hebrew people at a very early age, first in the movies such as the Ten Commandments, depicting the suffering of the Jewish slaves in ancient Egypt and then the Otto Preminger spectacular, Exodus, the movie depicting the struggle of the Jews in trying to establish the state of Israel, in school the Holocaust was discussed and studied all the time. Hollywood continues to produce movies such as Schindlers List, Sophie’s Choice, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and many, many more. You can turn your television on and whether it is NCIS or the History Channel, or the Jewish station, the general population of the United Sates is constantly fed the Israeli or Jewish point of view. But who speaks for Muslims in our country or better still, Palestinians?

I never could understand why the Jewish people, who have always been treated as the pariah of the human race, a people who suffered during the Holocaust have turned around and mistreated a people who have never done anything wrong to the Jews and in doing so, the Jews are committing a smaller holocaust in the name of a larger Holocaust.

Why is it that the United States, the greatest democracy in the world will defend Israel, right or wrong? In this book, we will look at the power of the Jewish lobby versus the Palestinians, why do we go after countries, building atomic weapons and look the other way, when Israel has between 100 to 200 atomic bombs, and why don’t we say anything and continue to give Israel billions of dollars every year, even when two of the top spies in US history have been agents of the country of Israel spying on the US, having done a terrible amount of damage to our national security.

Daniel Webster once said that There nothing so powerful as the truth. I hope I will do justice to that saying in this book and with the book maybe the truth will set the evil doers free, the Jewish expansionist, the Muslim and Jewish extremists. I think that we all pray to the same God, Allah or Yahweh, it does not matter what we call him, he is the same entity, and we are all people of Mother Earth and children of the book. I will not elevate one people at the expense of another. I will not demonize one people in order to praise another, but I will do my best to try and set the record straight, give you the truth and let you decide for yourself what is the truth, I will leave you with facts, you can scrutinize it ( the information I give you), you can verify it, but it will be my job to give you only the truth, without the propaganda from both sides and I hope that after reading this book you will have a new perspective on the Middle East based solely on the truth.

CHAPTER 1

THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Who are the Hebrews?

Early historical records indicate that the people that we know today as Jews migrated to what is Israel and Palestine today from the Two River Valley of Mesopotamia (the Tigris and Euphrates River in present day Iraq). The early Hebrews referred to present day Palestine as Canaan. The early Jews were nomads who based their life style on grazing flocks and herds and were not farmers, after repeated droughts in the area that we know as Israel, the Jews migrated to Egypt where contrary to popular beliefs and according to The History Channel, were not slaves, but rather served in the Pharaohs army as special operation troops.

The religious figure who is given credit for the founding of the religion and for leading the people that we know as Hebrews from Mesopotamia (Iraq) to present day Palestine Israel is Abraham.

According to most accounts a religious and military man, Moses, led the Jews out of Egypt crossing an area that is wet and marshy but passable at low tide and the next forty years according to new evidence the Jews trained in the Sinai region of Egypt until they had formed a well-trained and formidable military as they emerged as an organized people of twelve tribes under the leadership of King Solomon who ruled from about 970 to 930 BC and to conquest they came to control what is today Israel and Palestine with their capitol at Jerusalem. Jews today view Jerusalem as a symbolic tie to their past and in particular the Wailing Wall, which the Jews claim to be the remnants wall of their beloved King David.

Solomon’s death brought an internal struggle within the twelve Jewish tribes and a division of Jewish territory into the North, comprised of ten tribes and in the south forming the Kingdom of Judah. Israelis capital in the North at this time Samaria and Jerusalem would be the capital of Judah. Around 722 BC, the Assyrians attacked and overran Israel, scattering the ten tribes to the corners of the Mediterranean civilization where many Jews assimilated into other cultures losing their identities.

Judah remained independent for a few more years until a new enemy appeared on the horizon. The Chaldeans first defeated the Assyrians and then they turned their attention to Judah completely defeating the two remaining tribes and destroying the city of Jerusalem in 586 BC. The story of the Babylonian captivity is found in the Torah in psalm 137: By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion… how can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, Oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth. If I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Eventually the Persians conquered the Chaldeans and allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their city under Persian rule, the Persians ruled until they were defeated by the Greeks and Alexander ‘the Great’ in the 4th century BC.

Jews all over the world believe that they have a covenant or contract with God. Jews believe that if they follow the laws of God or the Ten Commandments, which were given to Moses on Mt. Sinai, God will guide them, while unjust actions by the Jews would bring catastrophe from the Lord upon the chosen people (the Jews).

Early Jewish religion was different from the other peoples of early civilization as the early Jewish religion was monotheistic and not polytheistic and forbade Jews to accept the conquerors religion and it also encourages a separation between Semites and other religious groups, a practice that strict Orthodox Jews still practice today. Israel in the psyche of a Jew is the Promised Land and in 1948, Israel was established in the Middle East at a time when over two thirds of the people who lived in what today is Israel were Arabs, and of course Arabs did not want to be ruled by Jews or to pay for the sins of the Germans, a moral obligation was settled. So what we ended up having were two religions and cultures claiming the same land. The perfect storm and a recipe for disaster which continues still today.

Who are the Palestinians?

I think that it is safe to say the Palestinians are descendants of the many early Middle East peoples, such as the Philistines, the Hyksos, Egyptians, Phoenicians and as many other peoples including Jews. I have always believed that the only difference between a Jew and a Palestinian is religion and their economic status.

The Middle East has always been a very transient area, with many different peoples marching through the area with the people of different cultures inter-marrying each other, the mixing of blood eventually created the person we know today as the Palestinian.

In general, Palestinians are followers of Islam, a religion that refers to Jews, Christians and Muslims as the children of the book (the Old Testament or Torah), and Muslims who travel on the Haj end up walking and praying around the Kaaba, a structure which supposedly was built by Abraham, the founder of the Hebrew religion and a prophet in the Islamic religion. There is a small community of Coptic Christians inside the Palestinian territory