To manipulate an old Mosaic* phrase for my own current purposes, the situation now facing the world is that of a possible, even likely, conflict between ‘Islam’ and ‘Israel’ which tonight has most of the world on its feet clamouring at the gates of various embassies for revenge against whoever it was that today killed – by estimates – over 800 civilian patients at a large hospital in the Gaza strip. In other words, Palestinian civilians. Now this may just as quickly blow over with everyone going home to a new day tomorrow. But it may not, which means it will undoubtedly escalate into something much more devastating. You might even say it could be epoch ending in its scope.
*’Mosaic’ – “pertaining to Moses”, a distinction I make due to there being at least 68 different definitions of that word.
The “I” for an “I” in no way represents an equation. There are said to be a little over 2 billion Muslims but only 16 million Jews – although they do make a lot of noise for their size (and they are said to have nuclear warheads – but so does Pakistan, so I guess that cancels out). And then there is that other ‘Abrahamic’ (or ‘Mosaic’) religion – the Christians – who weigh in at a (nominally) hefty 2.3 billion, although they are a pretty …what’s the word …laidback …or ‘pathetic’ bunch on the whole when it comes to any notably religious activity. So, I reckon there’d be more elbow benders and loafers than ‘crusaders’ among them these days. So, if we leave aside the use of nuclear weapons, I guess the Muslims still come out on top of the betting.
Contrary to popular belief (in the west), this antagonism with Israel is not just an Arab thing but, using the ‘I‘s distinction I made, it is most definitely an Islam/Israel thing. Though the Arabs can get pretty feisty when they get worked up – and they have had plenty of practice, unlike the armchair generals of the west. Arabs are pretty much all Muslims (of one sort or another) but not all Muslims are Arabs. In fact Arabic Muslims are a minority (which makes it very easy for anyone of bad intent to bully them). A large proportion of Muslims live in various South-East Asia nations. Think Indonesia, which all by itself must be around half the Islamic population. And then there is Iran, and also Turkey – although Turkey has always been half and half with Christianity (more or less – not wanting to get into too much detail).
It may surprise many in the west to find that Iranians are definitely not Arabic but Aryans. In fact the name ‘Iran’ may be derived from ‘Aryan’. It may surprise some that Iranians are in fact of the same ethnic origin as the original Israelites (all are Semitic peoples – i.e. they speak a Semite language – which fact applies to most peoples of West Asia and makes ridicule of the common usage of the term ‘anti-semitic’), and all were the peoples closest to the original and only pantheon of the gods – the Annunaki – who settled in and established the civilisation of the Fertile Crescent, and for which purposes they re-created – from earlier marques of creation – a suitably intelligent human strain to be their workers and servants. I hesitate to mention that because of all the drivel with which cyberspace is permeated these days on that subject. You can safely reject pretty much all of that out of hand. But the Annunaki gods (they weren’t really gods of course – at least I think not – but a more advanced civilisation, the knowledge of most of which they gifted to us). That’s all I am going to say on that here. There is much more to relate and it is all recorded and stored in various museums around the world, with much of it to yet be unearthed in libraries yet hidden under the sands of Muslim West-Asia. And we know what Muslin fanatics are capable of doing to records and monuments which do not agree with their own religious doctrines. We must wait and hope for more enlightened times to pursue our ancient history. There is much to learn anyway from the records we do have.
I will say something more on information we do know and which is already part of accepted history. And, in all honesty, this is the real background we have probably forgotten today as to how firstly the Jewish/Arab and more recently the Jewish/Muslim contretemps came about. Sit down and listen, this may be new to you.
Abraham, originally Ab-Ram (a Sumerian name) is a central figure in all three (stating the obvious) Abrahamic religions. But who was Abraham (Ab-Ram)? He was a son of a family which, of necessity, had to leave their homeland in the city of Ur (the biblical ‘Ur of the Chaldees’). Why was that? It was because the whole region had to be evacuated around 2,000 BCE as a result of an ‘Evil Wind’ which drifted eastwards from the region of the ‘Cities of the Plain’ south of the Dead Sea. Sodom and Gomorrah were two of those cities, all of which were destroyed in spectacular fashion when the gods decided to play, well… ‘gods’ …during a family argument, unintentionally laying waste to their own comfortable earthly habitation ‘between the two rivers’. Everything began dying and they had to up-sticks and journey westwards, out of reach of the mayhem they had caused. They took two routes. One group, following the god Nannar (who may have been injured by the evil wind and unable to take a sea journey), settled in and set up his precinct in Harran now in southern Turkey (I think), or northern Syria (ruins can still be visited). The other group took a sea journey (in ocean-going reed vessels – a la Thor Heyerdahl style) down what used to be called the Red Sea – Now Persian Gulf, landing in what we now know as the Red Sea and dragging their ships across the Egyptian desert (which may not have been as difficult as it now sounds – there being much Nile flooding at the time) and setting up again in Egypt as the new Egyptian pantheon of gods, completely re-establishing themselves and beginning the civilisation of Egypt. All of this occurring around 2,000 BCE and throwing into doubt the already known to be dubiously concocted Egyptian history with its huge unexplained gaps which fit nowhere into surrounding nation’s histories. It all makes sense now, doesn’t it. That’s not a question but a statement.
Anyway, and this is why I mentioned a god in Harran earlier, it is recorded that Abraham’s father Terah settled his family also in Harran after a forced move from Ur. There is a connection. Terah, falsely dubbed an idol maker, was actually a priest (a high servant) of the god Nannar (also called Sin, from his nickname Su-en).
All of us (of a certain age at least) know that Abraham became the father of the nation Israel. A nation of 12 tribes named for the sons of a descendent of Abraham (I think Jacob, who was renamed Israel – though it has been a while and my memory is not clear on that. No time to check). Eleven of those tribes were whisked away by the powers that were, and dispersed to the four winds, so to speak. I don’t need to know, so please don’t tell me, where they went or who they might be now. That left just the tribe of Judah, centred on Jerusalem (the capital) and they were also whisked away, I think by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon and inheritor of the presumably now decontaminated (Was it nuclear? That is a question. I will tell you a probable – and again recorded – answer another time) lands vacated roughly 1.4 millennia earlier by the gods. We do know what happened to the Judaeans. They were held captive ‘by the rivers of Babylon – where we sat down’ for perhaps a couple hundred years in a very relaxed open-air prison where their writers, being ethnically related to the Babylonians, had ample access to the very historic records I mentioned earlier displayed in the great libraries of the time. And boy, did they make good use of that opportunity! The Israelites, now solely Judaeans (later Jews), had ample time and librarian privileges to concoct for themselves a history to equal no other, based largely on the ancient records, having a too similar creation story to the original, and also creating for themselves a supreme god above all others of the old pantheon. While it is difficult to associate this god with any single one of the Sumerian/Akkadian Annunaki pantheon, many sources hae concluded, although not authoritatively in my opinion, with Enlil, the prime son (though not the firstborn) of the great god Anu. Nannar, incidentally, of Ur and later Harran – god of Abraham’s family – was a son of Enlil, from his wife, Ninlil.
Ok, that’s enough ancient stuff for now. Suffice to say that when Cyrus the new king of the Achaemenid dynasty, which conquered most of West Asia, including Babylonia in 538 BCE, a few decades after the great Annunaki gods had mostly departed for other realms, decreed the Jews permission to return to their original lands and to build the new 2nd Temple to their newly acquired supreme ‘god’, with a documented history, complete, and written by themselves, adapted from known historical records during their captivity (no earlier records of their own wanderings having at any time existed to contradict their new version of history, and following the departure of the great gods they knew there was no-one else with authority to contradict it either) they were now set up with a story and a power base which has served them down the ages to today. Their Second Temple was built on the same Temple Mount in Jerusalem as the first had been by Solomon (destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar), and itself in turn destroyed by the Roman invaders in the year 70 CE. They were again dispersed by the Romans, their desolated lands taken over by Palestinians for some 1,900 years until a new Jewish state of Israel was re-established within the borders of Palestine by the British with the connivance of the US. The new Israel, still clinging to their own fictional account of their origins, has become a thorn in the side of the whole world ever since.
They, of course, want to fulfill their own recorded destiny by building a Third Temple on the same Temple Mount. The problem is that mount has been in the hands of Muslims for more than a millennium and has become a sacred site for Islam, with the construction of the Al Aqsa Mosque. A monument, a working monument, which would need to be pulled down in order to fulfill the wishes of the Jews. How awkward is that?
And that, in a nutshell (and with a lot of missing historical events, I know), is the situation and dilemma we have in front of us today. How on Earth this is going to end, I have no idea. Nor any great interest to find out. Maybe it is something for the great gods to sort out, if and when they return.
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