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Can the Bible be used as a legal document of proof of ownership of the State of Israel?
Unfortunately that's basically what the UN did in their
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. It reads in part:
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
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On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.SOURCEhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israe...State_of_IsraelSadly, we all know the consequences of such actions. To say the Jews own the land because their god said so is beyond the asinine. Immeasurable suffering has been the result. The Jews are an offshoot of the Canannites and share a deep cultural context (e.g. the God El, language etc.). But thanks to religion and the Zionists et al, we have a seemingly endless tumult--one that in all likelihood will end with war.
Zionism http://www.mideastweb.org/zionism.htmWho Owns the Holy Land? (Lloyd Geering, Lecturer, St. Andrew's Trust for the Study of Religion and Society, and Emeritus Professor of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals.../holylandi.html"Israel emerged peacefully and gradually from within Canaanite society"--A History of Jerusalem, Armstrong, Karen, p.23... And archaeology surprisingly reveals that the people who lived in those villages were indigenous inhabitants of Canaan who only gradually developed an ethnic identity that could be termed Israelite.--The Bible Unearthed, Finkelstein and Silberman, p.98So, can the Bible be used as a legal document? It has. Should it have? HELL NO!
Kindly,
Sean