War … in the absence of Ephraim

Leadership by ‘House of Israel’ in exile

can prevent more war, lead to peace

The head and crown region of biblical ‘Judea-Samaria’ are the possessions promised to the non-Jewish children of Rachel more than 2,700 years ago.Head and crown outlines ancient Birthright of Joseph in the fields of Samaria and the fields of Ephraim.

The prophet Jeremiah writes of Rachel, beloved wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin, weeping for her children because she fears they no longer exist. But in His attribute of Justice tempered with Mercy,Grandfather promises Rachel “your children shall come again to their own border.” (Jeremiah 31:15-18)

This remarkable cry of Rachel who rested in a tomb apart from Jacob 800 years before Jeremiah “hears and records” her intercession, is sandwiched between references to Ephraim, as the “bechor” (Firstborn entitled to the “bechorah” – Birthright) in verse 9, and as a young bull unaccustomed to the “yoke” of Torah in verse 18.

The House of Joseph

Rachel’s intercession links directly to the progeny of her youngest grandson through her firstborn, Joseph, but indirectly to all of the non-Jewish “House of Joseph.” This includes the Manassah of eastern Asia found by Rabbi Eliyahu Avichayil mostly among the Shinlung of Burma and Thailand; and East M’nashe (so far linked to 38 Native American tribes, including the five nations of the Apache and the Navajo. See reprint of Ancient American magazine research at www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm). Benjamin is also part of Joseph’s house defined in spiritual terms since the divining cup of Joseph was found in his sack. Benjamin’s divided loyalties between the House of Joseph in the north and the Jerusalem Temple in Benjamin’s Jerusalem precincts means Benjamin exists today among both the Jewish community and assimilated Joes.

Where is the voice of the Firstborn?

The Firstborn with the voice of the Firstborn and who was given the Birthright (the head and crown region depicted in the picture-story in the outline above, generally known as the “fields of Ephraim and the fields of the Shomron) ” is Ephraim. Where is Ephraim? Should theologians view this dramatic change in the Middle East as the “propitious time” for Ephraim to come out of exile to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian quagmire?

The best evidence of Ephraims whereabouts comes from Jewish scholar Yohanan Hevroni ben David (John Hully) who established Ephraim’s identity as the Beit ‘Omri (House of Omri) in Assyrian exile. ‘Omri was a northern king who was respected by the Assyrians for his military prowess.  More than 100 years after his death, the people of the Northern Kingdom of the House of Israel were called by the Assyrians, “the House of “Omri.” But outside of the land of Israel, ‘Omri is pronounced Gomeri. The prophesied intermarriage and assimilation between a Hebrew family from Shem and the Gomeri from Yaphet, begins to fulfill the earliest biblical prophesies by Noach that the descendants of Shem and Yaphet would somehow dwell together. (Genesis 9:27, 10:2)

Ezekiel 37:22 states that the Houses of Judah and Israel will be reunited “on the mountains of Israel.” The only mountainous region aside from the small Carmel range near Haifa and the Sinai now in the hands of Egypt is “Judea-Samaria.” The recent rocket attacks from Gaza indicate that the Palestinian leadership cannot be trusted with high ground.

The Torah forbids Israel to intermarry among the nations. Only the Jewish and Native American communities have remained relatively intact.  The assimilation of Shem and Yaphet then occurs through the exile of the Shemite Northern Kingdom to the lands of Gomer in Ancient Assyria.

Linguistic clues ID ‘Ephraim’ as ‘Kymri‘ (Cimmerians)

Linguistic research has identified the Beit Gomeri as the Cymri (Kymri) or Cimmerians, when the name passes through Greek and English. These are the root stock of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples who settled — after traversing Europe — primarily in the Scandinavian countries to the north, and along the coast of Normandy before crossing the British Channel to populate Scotland and Kymri (Wales). The Cimmerians also populated Ireland. This means that the non-Jewish House of Israel is loosely described as the descendants of “Cimmerian” settlers across Europe and the colonization of and by Europe in the Americas and around the world. In other words, Ephraim is a multi-national, multi-ethnic people fully assimilated into every culture, language and people around the world.

Ephraim was/is also the biblical “group name” for all of the Northern Tribes of Israel in their exile. True to the prophecy of the example of the marriage of Hosea and Gomer, Ephraim has been scattered to the four winds, without mercy and totally disowned by God. The transition of Grandfather’s relationship to the Northern Tribes is telling in Hosea 1.

The Covenant Name of Mercy

He still is heard by His Divine Name connoting the Attribute of Justice tempered with Mercy when Jezreel is named, (literally the “seed God will scatter”).  Jezreel (Yizra’el in Hebrew) also evidences a change of the name “Israel” to mean “scattered seed.”

Lo-ruhamah (Without Mercy) is a name given when Grandfather’s relationship changes from the Divine Name connoting Justice tempered with Mercy to “Elohim” (God) or He in His Attribute of Strict Justice. The same relationship exists when the third child, Lo-Ami “Not My People” is named.

That connection to the Mercy of God remained for Israelite East M’nashe, however, whose exile occurred from 17-23 years prior to that of the remaining House of Israel residing west of the Jordan. This is evident with the permutations of the Divine Name, (the Hebrew consonants Y,H and W and H) sung and drummed with different vowel sounds among virtually all Native tribes. Ancient Hebrew sages say this is the name of Grandfather when He deals with Israel according to the terms of His Covenant, “Justice tempered with Mercy. “ The name of Mercy is known by those never removed from His covenant, the House of Judah and East M’nashe.

‘Unaccustomed to the yoke’

The name of His Strict Justice is known by those renewed or restored to His covenant (largely via the Church). But true to Jeremiah’s prophesy this branch of assimilated Ephraim has either disdained or never fully returned to the Torah  it once counted “a strange thing.” As a bullock unaccustomed to the “yoke of TorahEphraim within the Church abandoned its Torah foundation. Clearly, however, Jesus was sent to these scattered sheep and not the faithful of Judah or East M’nashe because these had no need of a renewed or repaired covenant, Instead, exile makes Restoration of the understanding of their original covenant paramount.

Attack commemorates 21 years of stopped ears

The Israeli attack in response to hundreds of unanswered Gaza rockets until last week marked the 21st anniversary of the Madrid Peace initiative. During those talks, “The speech nobody heard,” which tied the Torah read during the 8 days of those talks to the subject of the talks was published on the religion page of The Jerusalem Post. Israel’s choice of last week to retaliate means that same speech is still relevant because neither the Israelis nor Palestinians have heard or taken to heart.

‘Speech Nobody Heard in Madrid’ outlines biblical peace, contiguous Palestinian State

Repeated by demand from Above are the essential facts, now made crucial with the destruction wrought by this war. Strategically, Israel may be preparing for a confrontation with Iran by first exhausting the supply of Hamas missiles and perhaps Hizbullah missiles. Or is Hamas causing Israel to expend its expensive Iron Dome defense capabilitities? Regardless, the human dimension to this war and its outcome dictates a contiguous Palestinian state with permanently established BIBLICAL borders conditioned upon the end of the violence and bloodshed and on agreement that the modern Jewish state has a right to exist – The Zechariah Plan. See www.torah-voice.org

The two readings from the Torah during the Madrid talks, emphasized that the tomb purchased by Abraham for his wife Sarah cost him way too much silver but he did not object.  Instead, Abraham made it clear to the Hittite from whom the tomb was purchased that it would be an “ACHUZAT kever.”

Arab confederacy claims possession of ‘ne’ot Elohim’ (tombs) in Israel

Achuzat is a Hebrew noun from the verb achaz which means to “grasp or hold” something. So the tomb was a burial (kever) “hold” and an early LEGAL entitlement of the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the land promised their descendants by Grandfather. Others are the tombs of Rachel, the site of the Jerusalem Temple and a field purchased by Jeremiah at Anatot, a northern suburb of modern Jerusalem. Also, the “Kever Yoseif,” at Nablus, which was ancient Sh’chem. The tomb of Joshua, a descendant of Joseph, is believed to be located on the moutaintops of Itamar to the southeast of Nablus. Other tombs include that of Dan between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Ancient tombs establishing ancient Israeli “holds” to the land dot the landscape.

 Psalm 83 points out a confederation of Arab nations who conspire against Israel in order to boast that the “ne’ot Elohim” are “ours for a possession.” These are the “tombs of the righteous” as evidenced by King David’s description of being “made to lie down in a “ne’ot” (or green pasture). The forces opposing the Return of the House of Israel to be reunited with the House of Judah appear focused on claiming the spiritual stronghold of the “tombs.”

Christian tzaddik, Jewish tzaddikim, all ‘sons of God’

Just as Christians look to their tzaddik moshiah (righteous anointed one) on an “empty” cross, Orthodox Jews often pilgrimage to tombs of the righteous believing the tzaddik (righteous one) lives with one foot in this world and the other in the World To Come. Having overcome his/her evil inclination, he/she intercedes in both worlds for whomever honors him/her by visiting him/her while alive or his/her final resting place. This intercession is clearly stated in the case of Jesus, who like all tzaddikim were known as “sons of God,” but according to the meaning of this identity according to Halachah. See www.torah-voice.org/thedisputations.htm.

Two conflicting nations, peoples in womb of Rebecca

The Torah reading also established that Rebecca, wife of Isaac was having a difficult pregnancy. The Hebrew indicates someone was “running around” inside her womb. She went to a prophet who explained that she would give birth to TWO NATIONS and TWO l’umim (singular l’om). These are different and conflicting mindsets, ideologies and lifestyles. Rebecca was told Jacob and Esau would be rivals from the time they emerged from the womb and would NEVER find harmony. One would always be in ascendancy over the other. It is natural to see how this prophecy has been fulfilled in terms of the faith of Esau and the faith of Jacob.

The account of Jacob’s faith is recorded in Torah and the books of the Prophets. But Esau, the natural adversary of his brother, has gravitated toward the Koran, and the most radical interpretations of it. The words of Esau’s blessing by his father Isaac are telling. After Isaac is deceived by Rebecca into giving the blessing of the Firstborn to Jacob instead, Esau is told:

Is war a call for State of Israel to repent? Are Palestinians aggrieved?

“Behold of the oil of the Earth shall be your dwelling and of the dew of the heavens from above. By your SWORD you shall live, but your brother (Jacob) you shall serve; yet it shall be that when you are TAREED (aggrieved), you may cast off his yoke upon your neck.”  (Genesis 27:40)

This is not your ordinary grievance. This is a grievance that is tied to the blessing Jacob received, which his father, Isaac, had intended for Esau.

The sages of Torah believe Esau’s right to throw off the yoke is conditioned upon the Torah disobedience of Israel. If Israel observes the Torah faithfully and not casually, the yoke on Esau remains but if Israel observes only casually, Esau not only throws off the yoke, but becomes Grandfather’s “sword” against Israel.

The sword of Allah for Israel’s disobedience, Hamas embodies Esau

This is evidenced by the vow made centuries later by all of Israel for all time at Mt. Horeb to BOTH Grandfather and His Allah! The vow in Deuteronomy 29:11ff clarifies that the blessings in the previous chapter for Torah obedience come from Grandfather and the curses alluded to “by the sword” come from His AllahIslam or the form of radical Islam adopted by Hamas. This means Hamas is spiritually embodying the “House of Esau.”

Another biblical prophet, Obadiah, the only prophet whose words are recorded in the Bible who is descended from Esau, warned his people (today’s Palestinians) that when Jacob would return to his possessions (which began occurring about 1917), he would find those possessions occupied by the House of Esau . Further those Palestinians who remain in this Birthright region, would be annihilated. (Obadiah 17ff). This establishes the spiritual identity of the “occupiers” as Palestinians who occupy Jacob’s possessions, not the other way around as the British mandate and the media have asserted for the past 30 years. “Israeli occupied Palestinian (or Arab) territory” is how the Birthright has been falsely characterized by media since it became “No Man’s Land.”

Throwing off the yoke tied to ‘united strength’ of Arab confederacy

The feeling that Esau may now “throw off the yoke” because Israel has become largely a secular (meaning non-observant) Jewish state comes at a time when the Arab world is feeling its oats led by the Moslem Brotherhood. The Brotherhood now controls Egypt and has helped Hamas overcome a major obstacle. When Hamas uprooted control of the Gaza from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak agreed with Israel to close the borders of Gaza. Reopening those borders appears to be the major term from Hamas of this cease-fire, and a major concern to the Israeli leadership due to the likelihood that Hamas will simply re-arm.

The top Hamas leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, is stirring up the Arab world with talk that the 22 Arab nations are now stronger than Israel if they act in concert. Overall, Hamas is in a strong position to negotiate a truce deal, Mashaal claims while safe himself from Israeli attack. He cites the new diplomatic support since the Arab Spring, Hamas’ popularity in the Gaza and the large arsenal of rockets.

The Koran’s ‘holy war’ in two parts

Mashaal’s comments seem to be code words to the radicals among the Koran-faithful that the Arab Spring has united the Arab nations and their duty is to now “win the war.”

The Koran dictates this holy war in two parts. First there is the war of peace, which means one makes a treaty with his enemies ONLY until he becomes the stronger party. So “peace”, “truce”, or “cease-fire” in the Koran do not have the same meanings to the Western world. This may explain why it is necessary for Israel to always exact more force than has been exacted against her. Anything less is a sign of weakness to the radicals who follow Islam. When the Koran-faithful perceive themselves to be the stronger party, then the second part of the war kicks in.

War to the death

The war to the death applies to all lands that were at any time under the domain of Islam according to the literature disseminated by Hamas in the late 1980s. That would include Israel and Jerusalem although Muhammad never came to Jerusalem and the city is mentioned only in connection with a dream of Muhammad that his horse ascended to Heaven from the Rock today under the Dome of the Rock, the site where Isaac was offered and elevated.

Wells dug by Isaac, father of Jacob and Esau could locate border of Palestinian state

Isaac succeeded his father Abraham in the Torah portion read as the war erupted last week. He mystically offers a solution that could lead to a permanent end to hostilities … if Ephraim will step forward and claim his Birthright and Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists can locate the wells and Negev sites of Sitnah, Esek and Rehovot.

Sitnah, from the Hebrew “Satan” and Esek connote “enmity” and “vexation.” Wells dug by Isaac’s servants were claimed by the Philistines in whose land Isaac then sojourned. But when Rehovot was dug, the Philistines did not protest and Isaac was able to sojourn in peace. Find these wells somewhere in the Negev and you have the eastern border for a Palestinian State, which should minimally include the fertile Sh’felah and its five crop rotations yearly. The northern border may be alluded to by the prophet Zechariah as the Israeli cities of Ashquelon or Ashdod. (See my blog on “Boundary Stones”). If so, this would expedite the state with the infrastructure of a modern Israeli city. But all of Judea-Samaria would be absent of Palestinians and permanent borders would be established between Esau and Jacob.

Bush Road Map, Pre-’67 lines usurp biblical birthright, relate to economic curse

The Bush Road Map to Peace in the Middle East is alleged by Apache (Gershonite priests assimilated with never uncovenanted East M’nashe, www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm) to be at the root of the present economic curse on America and all nations who side with America in promoting a Palestinian state on Ephraim’s Birthright. The Road Map would have forged a Palestinian state out of the pre-1967 lines, which would have sandwiched Israel between Gaza and Hamas to the south and west and the formerly called “West Bankof the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the north and east.

Curiously those pre-1967 borders define the outline of a crown atop a man’s head, the head and crown falling entirely within the borders of Rachel’s kids.

Ephraim needed to assert Birthright claim

If Ephraim will stand and claim his Birthright, then “Judea-Samaria,” which has been the biblical name for the “West Bank” for the past 2,500 years, will be removed from the table as part of a Palestinian state. The region must accomplish what its name is prophesied to do: Return, reunite and reconcile the never reconciled families of the House of Judah (led by the kingdom of the House of David) and the House of Israel (led by the monarchy of the House of Joseph replaced by the Samaritans when exiled). In that dispute today mostly over Halachah (or how one practically walks out the commands of Torah), unless Palestinians would be willing to become part of the separate l’om (people) of Jacob through observance of Torah or minimally accept the Seven Laws of Noach, which preclude murder and “hamas” (violence), Palestinians would be out of place.

Hamas rockets abuse Palestinian role in peace, betray insincerity but Zechariah Plan awaits

Grandfather’s way is to close one door before opening another. The door to peace with Hamas rule of the Gaza is shutting. The Palestinian abuse of even closed borders (to acquire thousands of rockets) betrays an insincere partner for peace until that leadership is reformed or replaced.

A concept drawing of a contiguous Palestinian state according to the borders mentioned in Zechariah 9: The Zechariah Plan.

Regardless, a door to redraw a separate and contiguous and peaceful Palestinian state should open when the smoke clears from this war, after Israel has preempted Hamas rockets and possibly Hezbullah rockets and marginalized Syria’s chemical agent capability and taken out Iran’s nuclear reactor. Until then, the ultra-Nationalistic pride of the Palestinian people, which Zechariah wrote also would be removed – must be removed. When Palestinians are serious about peace, the Zechariah Plan – based on Zechariah 9 – awaits.

 

Zechariah envisioned contiguous Palestinian state, Return of Joes

This plan redraws the Palestinian state to include the Gaza and contiguous regions north and east of the Gaza, including parts of the fertile Sh’felah, which enjoys up to five crop rotations a year. The modern Israeli cities of Ashquelon and/or Ashdod are mentioned by Zechariah as possible northern borders. Certainly with Gaza’s infrastructure bombed to Hell, these two cities would meet that need. The leading reason the World Bank decided earlier this year that the Palestinians are not ready to declare a state relates to inadequate infrastructure. The present war has aggravated this shortcoming.

In exchange for this far better alternative than Judea-Samaria, the Palestininan population would vacate en masse the “fields of Ephraim” and “the fields of the Shomron” or the Birthright possessions of Joseph, which would become the possession of neither Jews nor Palestinians, but could be annexed by the State of Israel for the Return of the House of Joseph.

 Maggid ben Yoseif

Also see these related blogs:

  1. 31 July 2012:           Economic curse is ‘biblical’ for tampering with birthright

  2. 25 June 2012:          Israelis, Palestinians and Apache, Oh My!

  3. 5 June 2012:            Boundary stone discovery lends credence to ‘contiguous Palestinian state’ hinted by biblical prophet, Zechariah

  4. 31 May 2012:           The spiritual dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  5. 20 May 2012:           The biblical road map to peace between Israel and the Palestinians

 

 

 

 

Economic curse is ‘biblical’ for tampering with Birthright

The head and crown above designate the “fields of Ephraim and Samaria” or the Birthright of Joseph.

Global economic concerns, climate changes and increasingly weird weather prompt the question, “Could we be cursed?”

The wisest man who ever lived wrote in Proverbs 26:2, “a curse without a cause does not alight.” Genesis 12:3 states explicitly the cause of a “biblical” curse:

“I will bless those who bless you (Abraham) and those who curse you will cause themselves to be cursed.”

Have we or our foreign policies cursed Abraham or his seed?  Has America and the world somehow insulted Abraham or his firstborn, Ishmael?  Have we slandered the son or grandson of the Promise, Isaac and Jacob?  Or have we taken up the offense of Esau against Jacob?

A three-dimensional map shows the “mountains of Israel” on which Ezekiel 37 states the Houses of Judah and Joseph will reunite to be almost entirely in Judea-Samaria. This mandates a separate, contiguous state for Palestinians. The prophet Zechariah alludes to a state in the ancient Plain of the Philistines, never fully conquered by ancient Israel.

Foreign policy, media usurp, malign Birthright

Bringing current events into view, the proposed Palestinian state according to the pre-1967 armistice lines offers a sure cause for a biblical curse.  Those lines usurp the Birthright ceded by Jacob to his son, Joseph, “the fields of Samaria and the fields of Ephraim.”  Further, Obadiah, — the only biblical prophet descended from Esau – wrote that when Jacob would return to these fields, defined by the head and crown in the outline above, he would find them “occupied” by the “House of Esau.”

The fields of Samaria and Ephraim are seen to comprise the entirety of the “West Bank” of the (former) Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan north of Jerusalem.

As a student in graduate theological seminary in the mid-1980s, I worked part-time as a copy editor on a major metropolitan daily.  For stories I edited about the Middle East,  I made a “macro” key for my editing terminal to change The Associated Press and New York Times characterizations of “Israeli-occupied Arab/Palestinian territories” to the more correct and less editorializing, “Israeli-administered territories.”  I was almost fired for doing so.

‘Not one shall remain from the House of Esau’

Yes, American and World public, the media has either ignorantly or intentionally deceived and brainwashed you for more than 30 years by describing this region as “Israeli-occupied.”  The Bible stated more than 2,500 years before the Jacob-Esau enmity materialized into today’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that those who would be found in these fields “when Jacob was returned to his possessions” are the true biblical occupiers.  Obadiah also tried to warn his own people — Palestinians … and presumably Palestinian refugees who also would be returned to this region — all would be annihilated.  “Not one shall remain from the House of Esau.”

Birthright set aside for reunion of Joes with Jews

Now is not the blog to explain, but essentially, the Prophets foretell a reunion of the houses of Judah (the Jewish people today comprising the modern Jewish state) and Joseph, a non-Jewish branch of Israel still in exile and rediscovering its identity.  While the “Joes” are still in a preparation stage, the venue for their return and reconciliation with Judah was foretold in Ezekiel 37 as “the mountains of Israel.”  Discounting the small Carmel range near Haifa and the foothills of Mount Hermon in Lebanon, Judea-Samaria is the only mountainous region in Israel remaining without the Sinai, now in Egyptian hands.  Thus a voice is heard in Jeremiah 31:15-18 of Rachel weeping for her children millenia after her death.  Yet she secures the promise that her children will return to their own ancestral borders, the fields of Samaria and Ephraim.

These mountain plains and valley fields were known for 19 years as part of the “West Bank of the (former) Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.”  But for thousands of years their biblical name has been Judea-Samaria.  This name alludes to the prophesied reunion between the Houses of Judah and the still-exiled House of Israel led by the House of Joseph.  This is because the Northern Kingdom (today Samaria) was displaced by the Samaritans at the time of the Assyrian exile.   Therefore another region of the land of Israel – much more favorable and fertile — is set aside for a Palestinian state.  See our extensive blogs on the “Zechariah Plan,” www.torah-voice.org/blog, calling for mutual disengagements and modeled after an abbreviated and more humane version of the Cherokee Removals, the plan’s international precedent.

Bush Road Map to Peace in the Middle East ‘cursed’

The U.S. State Department plan to press Israel to cede this Birthright of Jacob to “Esau” – called the ”Bush Road Map to Peace in the Middle East,” is quite justly “cursed.”  The nations who join with the U.S. in pressing Israel to cede this region are party to this curse, which would result in the death of millions of Palestinians and presumably Israelis as well.  A note sent by courier from Apache prophetess Ada Fasthorse — greatest granddaughter of Geronimo — to the White House and received by special assistant to President George W. Bush, Andrew Ciaferdini, informed President Bush in July 2007 that his Road Map to Peace in the Middle East had brought a curse on America and instructed how to avoid the curse “growing much worse.”  Bush ignored her warning.

Apache recently identified along with the Navajo and 32 Athap(b)ascan Language Group Nations (minimally) as a remnant of the Gershonite priests who assimilated with Israelite East M’nashe, www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm, also believe a curse comes with a cause, which will be evident.

Ceding ‘head and crown’ region to Palestinian state ‘beheads’ Joseph

“The tread marks that run over you are why you are cursed,” said Jimmy Tenrivers, a Membreno medicine man and spiritual leader in southern Colorado.  He added that an Apache curse is also accompanied by “metote, ” confusion or the “fog of the mind.”

That  Israelite East M’nashe was exiled 17-23 years before the remainder of the non-Jewish House of Israel, also called the “Northern Kingdom,” under a different set of circumstances means East M’nashe and its priests went into its exile as the “preserved of Israel.” They were never removed from Covenant.  Therefore their prophets, like Ada’s grandfather, Geronimo, saw visions and experienced prophetic dreams.  See “Israeli’s, Palestinians and Apache, Oh My!” at www.torah-voice.org/blog.

Curiously Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 33 describe in the prophecies of Jacob and Moses a region that forms the outline of a “head and crown.” This outline (Heb. Partzuf) is formed out of the northern two-thirds of the proposed Palestinian state in the former “West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” Ceding this region to a Palestinian state then effectively “beheads” the Birthright — this head and crown region.

Bushes brought ‘bad Karma’ into Oval office

At this stage of the curse, it may be insufficient for America simply to amend its foreign policy with Israel and the Palestinians.  See our “Zechariah Plan,” www.torah-voice.org/Biblical_road_map.htm, the biblical alternative conditional, contiguous Palestinian state.  This curse must be dealt with at its roots.  This will require the involvement of the Bush family.

A great and unchangeable spiritual law exists:  “Whatsoever a man sows, that also shall he reap.”  Another way of explaining this is “Karma.”

The Bush family twice brought “bad” Karma into the Oval office. H.W. Bush was given the choice after the ceasefire in 1991 with Saddam, to support Israel’s infrastructure development in the Birthright region.  Instead, he sent Secretary of State James Baker to Israel to threaten Israel with three ultimatums to which Bush and Baker had agreed with Arab nations before the war; insurance to deter these nations from aligning with Saddam against the U.S. and its allies.

H.W. Bush, Baker threaten economic sanctions against Israel

Bush through Baker would withhold millions in U.S. loan guarantees on which the Israeli economy was then dependent, unless Israel agreed to a Palestinian state according to the pre-1967 armistice lines that usurp the Birthright.  But Baker also demanded that Israel extradite Robert and Rochelle Manning www.torah-voice.org/manning.htm in violation of its treaty with the U.S. forbidding political extraditions (showing the undue influence in the Baker State Department of the Anti-Arab American Discrimination Committee (ADC)).  New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, then writing for the Village Voice, also was “used” extensively by the ADC to plant misinformation and the ADC agenda in the media.  Finally, the ultimatum by Baker snubbed at the time by then Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, required Israel to abandon existing settlements and not build more.

Before these ultimatums, Israel had slowly been addressing the disparities between Israeli and Palestinian infrastructure.   The Israeli busses and bus stations were modern, well lighted and clean; the Palestinian equivalents not as nice.  Lighting in Jewish settlements was with quartz halogen lighting.  Palestinian settlements were lit up in yellow light.  There were also segregated school systems.   The Bush ultimatums, coming four years into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which was intensifying, hardened the resolve of the settlers and divided the Israeli government on the question of settlements. America would pay for its intervention and interference with 20 years in Iraq (ancient Babylon, which the prophet Jeremiah stated would be eternally cursed and never rebuilt and those who would attempt to rebuild it would also be cursed).

‘Beheading of Joseph and theft of his crown’

Native American spiritual elders understand the black roads that come from  tampering with a Birthright.    Native wisdom also understands the ill-fated Road Map which usurps the Birthright in “right-brain terms” as the “beheading of Joseph and theft of his crown.”  The ”tread mark” for this understanding is the head of the revered Apache leader, Geronimo, which met with its own “skullduggery.”

Geronimo was dug up by a raiding party at his Ft. Sill, OK., gravesite. Prescott Bush, father of H.W. and grandfather of W., who had extensive financial holdings in Germany used to assist the Nazi cause and benefitted personally from Holocaust labor, earlier highlighted his spiritual resume with “grave-robbing.”

Grave, bones of an Israelite prophet desecrated

 Geronimo’s skull was taken to Yale University to become part of the divinations, Satanic vows, unclean rituals and “death cult” of the secretive and Satanic Skull and Bones Society.    However, when Geronimo’s skull was chosen for these dark and foolish flirtations with an Evil that eventually demands repayment, no one knew he was a still-covenanted Israelite prophet.

 Tampering with the grave or bones of an Israelite prophet is a curse in itself.

 Maggid ben Yoseif

Postscript from MbY:  I am convinced that the spiritual root of the economic  curse under which the world labors is as written above. To prevent this curse from spreading further, the U.S. State Department should immediately take its hands off of Israel and allow Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate a unilateral settlement taking the pre-1967 lines off of the table permanently.

The GOP should adopt a plank at its Tampa convention protecting the Birthright by agreeing never again to press Israel to cede this region as part of a Palestinian state.  This is especially necessary because the GOP frontrunner is Mormon.  The theology of Mormons is especially specific as it pertains to the Birthright of Joseph.  Mormons believe Joseph’s inheritance is here in America and believe the New Jerusalem will be in Independence, Mo.   Further, the divination of Joseph (156) Smith (510)  = 666 published in 1830 called, “Book of Mormon,” written using a “seer stone” conjures a migration and history of a family of M’nashe that disagrees with the emerging DNA, historical-cultural, archaeological, linguistic and other evidence tracing Native American origins to Israelite East M’nashe. See www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm.  Further, Smith’s divination of the story of exile of his family of Joseph begins at least 140 years after East M’nashe and the Gershonite priests assigned to Gilead had already been exiled. See the only review of the Book of Mormon and the LDS Doctrine and Covenants commissioned by Native American spiritual elders at  www.torah-voice.org/BoMDCT.htm.

If the GOP frontrunner is elected, for the first time America would have a president “who knows not Joseph, nor Joseph’s Birthright.”  If this is a concern to you, please help me promote this understanding ahead of the Tampa convention.

To uproot the curse at its roots Yale University, its board and trustees must demand that the Skull and Bones cease its divinations and sorcery and Satanic rituals with human remains.  The secret society must return — in a sacred manner — the skulls of Geronimo, Mangus Colorados and the other young Apache dug up at Ft. Sill, OK.  When these have completed their journeys, a purification ritual must be held at the White House and then the curse may be lifted, assuming the Bush Road Map is also torn up.

This society has been allowed to operate at Yale in a culture of Satanic ritual just as perverse — if not more — than the football culture that permeated Penn State so that the university protected a pedophile coach and turned a blind eye to child sex abuse and homosexual rape.  Yale harbors those who yield their wills to “he who plots to destroy the world.”

The GOP and its radical “Religious Right” agenda has been looking for demons everywhere.  If these Christians are sincere and serious about reforming the spiritual blight covering America, let them bring their case to Yale to force the disarmament of the “stronghold of Satan,” the university harbors called Skull and Bones.  This society is more sinister than we have realized and now foments the mindset of “Satanic death cults,” a further evolution since both presidents Bush took their vows to Satan.  And the fruit of those vows:  Two unnecessary wars that have robbed the worlds’ economic capacity, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Americans and allies and maimed hundreds of thousands more and destroyed confidence in the American government.  The latter when Americans realized that just as in Vietnam, Iraq was a war fought for ulterior motives.

In fact, if an American could take off his American hat and lay down his American bravado long enough to view this war from the perspective of nations in the Middle East, it could be seen for what it was:  A provocation.  American oil companies in Kuwait were drilling directional wells into Iraqi mineral rights knowing that the administration of President George H. W. Bush would “have their back.” 

Satan cometh not but to steal, kill and destroy.

Israelis, Palestinians and Apache, Oh My!

H’’b

‘Horns of Re’eim’ (Deut 33:17)             revealed as shells of buffalo horns    used in Native purification lodges                                                                      As the World awaits the ‘mother of all letters,’ Maggid ben Yoseif offers a special ‘peace pipe’ and the ‘Mother of all Inipis’

WRITER/EDITOR’S NOTE:  I apologize that my reputation as a credible journalist is again on the line, as again, I must be “part of the story,” in reporting it.   The “Zechariah Plan,” a two-state solution alluded to in Zechariah 9, which I  researched from 1996-99 was presented according to protocol, first to Jerusalem’s spiritual leaders and then — through a series of arrests and illegal imprisonments that resulted, it came to the attention of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during the 2000-01 Al Asqua intifada.   The plan based on Last Day’s geography and a warning by the only biblical prophet descended from Esau is modeled after a more humane and abbreviated version of the Cherokee Removals of the 1830s – its international precedent.  It urged mutual disengagements over a few weekends of Israelis from the Gaza and regions contiguous including the cities of Ashdod and Ashquelon – the so-called “Plain of the Philistines” and all Palestinians from Judea-Samaria.  This was before Israel acted unilaterally to disengage Jews only from the Gaza region with no reciprocal disengagement of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria.  The plan was disseminated to Native American spiritual leaders first among the Twin Fires of Hopi and Cherokee Kituwah and then to a wider audience of the 500 Nations.  While the actual return is decreed by one of the Twin Fires for a “next generation,”  the “Mother of all Letters,” alluding to a declaration of a Palestinian state according to the pre-1967 lines, mandates a warning in the strongest terms possible NOW that this action usurps the Birthright of its true heirs who are neither Jewish nor Palestinian.  They are the House of Joseph still in exile but decreed their return to the “fields of Ephraim” and the “fields of Samaria,” the head and crown region in the outline above.  And the only family of Joseph never removed from its covenant exists today most remotely among the five remnant Nations of the Apache and the Navajo.  See www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm reprint of March 2011 Ancient American magazine article.  This article alleging a covenant that remains intact between — minimally — the 38 Athap(b)ascan Langauge Group Nations and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and is yearly renewed, has gone unchallenged since its publication.  Based on the presumed truths of the Zechariah Plan and the migrations of Israelite East M’nashe,  we offer this scenario to bring Israel and the Palestinians to the place of trust and peace. It interjects a third unilateral position regarding the Birthright of Joseph for the consideration of all who are Hebrews, whether they call themselves this or not.  The parties named are actual parties and these are their real Native names.  Seven Apache, led by direct descendants of the Israelite-Apache descendants of Geronimo are willing and waiting to carry out the role specified, since learning their origins among the priestly descendants of Israelite East M’nashe.

3-D map of Judea-Samaria reveals it to be the mountains of Israel on which the Houses of Joseph and Judah will reconcile and therefore not suitable for a Palestinian state

BEAR VALLEY, COLORADO — It looks and suffers like any other Lakota, Navajo or Apache inipi.  Sheets, blankets and tarps are draped and tied over a 16-pole womb that receives the seed of prayer in the steamy darkness rising from a pit of glowing hot “grandfathers” (stones) onto which water was thrown in the six directions.  As in every other inipi, the seeds herein are planted in humility with hearts crying for mercy and diligently seeking Grandfather (Creator) in every direction He may be found.

 Buffalo skulls lock horns but prop special chanuppah

 But this purification lodge lies in the heart of the old pre-settler Five Nation Apache confederacy.    The location just within the eastern precincts of the Sacred Four Corners is guarded by a very old chieftain spirit who a few with pure hearts, claim to have seen.   And perhaps prophetically, where there is usually only one, two buffalo skulls on the dirt mound altar are facing opposite with their horns seeming, again prophetically, to interlock.

Propped between the interlocking horns is a channupah (sacred pipe used anciently to seal peace treaties between Native tribes and the American government, more than 500 broken by the American government).  This is a very special channupah contributed for this occasion by “C(h)antewas(h)tewi’in” (Good heart woman), as told in her visions, “to seal the reunion of the houses of Joseph and Judah in Jerusalem.”   Although previously stewarded by two others, smoke had never been drawn from the simple carved Lakota stem and red pipestone bowl by the previous steward.   It had never been “activated” with a flesh offering until just before this inipi began, when Cantewastewi’in chose me to volunteer a sliver of my flesh and blood from the region where Orthodox Jews lay their “arm” t’fillin.

The Red Bead Family

Now a grandmother in her 70s, Cantewastewi’in, was so named by the late Cherokee-raised-by-Lakota spiritual elder, Dr. James Gillihan when he was the steward of the sacred channupah of Sitting Bull from which she drew smoke herself.

Although never earlier activated, the intentions that came with the pipe at its prior giftings also are significant to advancing the cause of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.  One of those intentions as expressed by Grandmother Cantewastewi’in is expressed by a simple red bead.  Dr. Gillihan distributed these beads to more than 600 “willing” Native elders, grandmothers and peace sympathizers around the world before his death, including the Dalai Lama, who is a member of the “Red Bead Family.”  The red bead promotes the simple but vital awareness that “we are all relatives, part of the same family.”  This chanuppah has Dr. Gillihan’s signature bead and motto, which carries the message of the inipi – and the COVENANT it establishes.

Smoke reserved for Jerusalem peace treaty

The chanuppah is loaded in the traditional way with the traditional pipe-loading songs, but sundancers descended from Israelite East M’nashe offer their prayers with the sacred tobacco stuffed into the bowl with the point of a deer horn.  Smoke will not be drawn from this chanuppah until the final peace is signed in Jerusalem which also allows the Return of the House of Joseph to their ancestral inheritances.

The fire was made with an offering of sacred tobacco from only cedars and pinion chosen (made sacred) by lightning strikes.  It is carefully and prayerfully built into a cradle to support the “grandfathers” (stones), also specially chosen with the offering of sacred tobacco from a nearby volcanic mountain pass.  The firekeeper, who guards its holiness and is certain about washing down all who approach with the smoke of sage and cedar,  is Running Buffalo, visited by Great Spirit in his very first inipi when younger but today a leader among the mixed, full-blood and untribed Apache remnant who comprise the descendants of Israelite East M’nashe at the eastern precincts of the Sacred Four Corners.  By the end of the lodge, Running Buffalo will have escorted and gingerly laid to the mouth of the pit in the inipi, more than 100 “grandfathers,” glowing, smiling and full of wisdom imparted with humility and suffering.

Lodge poured by Apache-Palestinian sundancer

Pouring the lodge is “Smiles,” a mixed Apache sundancer (according to the Lakota dance tradition) in his mid 20s, who also happens to be half Palestinian and – rare for a Native American — a student of political science.

Smiles pours water on the glowing ‘Grandfathers’ with the customary shell of a buffalo horn dipped in a bucket of water.  In this traditional manner, Moses foresaw an End-Tmes spiritual reunion of the “goring together of the thousands of M’nashe and the myriads of Ephraim” or the reconciliation of the House of Joseph. (Deut 33:17)

Little out of the ordinary has taken place until now the third of the four rounds of the inipi, sometimes irreverently called a “sweat” or “sweat lodge.” The customary Lakota songs were drummed and sung honoring the directions in which we seek Grandfather and honoring our living Earth Mother and honoring all of our relatives, especially the beasts of the field, the winged and the creeping things on Earth. Starman Joe, who also leads the singing of the permutations of the Divine Name, also honors the ‘wambli gleshka’ (spotted Eagle).   The one significant difference occurred when the channupah gifted by Cantewastewi’in was brought in so that I could touch it against the first six rocks, signifying the six directions from which we seek the Great Spirit.  Then the pipe was removed and replaced between the two buffalo skulls.

Divine Name unites ‘Hebrews’

I broke with protocol after the seventh grandfather arrived.  After first asking for permission from all my relatives,  “Hoa mitakuyasi,” (AH-HO M’TAK-OO-YAH-SEE) I sang and drummed the fourth pipe loading song, which is often not sung.

It was only two words, “Yah” and “Heh,” meant to invoke the “Wah” or “Holy Spirit” within the Divine Hebrew Name.  “Because,” the Great Spirit had earlier decreed, “all in this lodge, be they Israelis or Palestinians were Hebrews when their father Abraham crossed the Euphrates.”  See “Time of the We” at www.torah-voice.org.

Other than a few Apache songs kicked out by Bandido Don and Joe, the first two rounds were Lakota according to Hoyle, with all light and fresh air blocked out, songs sung in four stanzas include the singing and chanting in the steamy darkness of the permutations of the Divine Name, which identify these Apache as descendants of the assimilation of the Gershonite priests of Gilead East M’nashe and the family of Joseph set apart from his brothers.  Told by Geronimo and his chief warrior Victorio not to surrender but to mix with the “mountain people” until Geronimo said “we become a people again,” the Sundance brought to Colorado by Tomas Eaglebear about 10 years ago, has been the banner under which these untribed and mixed but fiercely independent Apache have reunited.

In this inipi, Smiles, a son of a Palestinian mother and Eaglebear, leads an awesome, amazing suffering as an Apache-Palestinian without prejudice, especially when it comes to flinging water on grandfathers and testing the limits of one’s spiritual endurance … and arrogance.

Biblical peace recognizes House of Joseph

Between rounds those in the lodge were offered a chance for fresh air and water outside, but inside, it was all about reaching that place of Brotherhood and mutual respect exemplified by the Red Bead Family and that would come only with shared suffering.

When negotiations stalled around the traditional sticking points — removal of settlements and return of refugees and status of Jerusalem — at Camp David, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Machmoud Abbas were contacted about considering the biblical alternative Zechariah Plan.  (See WRITER/EDITOR’S NOTE above).

As an effort to avoid a war that could destroy Israeli cities in the south and annihilate the Palestinians and returning Palestinian refugees to Judea-Samaria,   I suggested this inipi to make the Joes and their position known.  The northern two-thirds of the so-called former West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is the ancestral inheritance of neither Jews nor Palestinians.  It is the eternal inheritance and Birthright of the House of Joseph.  And inipi itself is a means of changing one’s attitude toward violence.

‘Sarah Palin would put down her shotgun’

Anyone who continues in the inipi lifestyle, which involves bowing low to the ground and declaring yourself related to the rest of Creation, and then receiving suffering from the natural combination of wind, wood, fire, rocks, water and steam, cannot remain the same person.  It is natural and spiritual to look “within,” which is what the word “inipi” entails.  And anytime you have the courage to do that, things can, and with the help of Creator, will change!

Even Sarah Palin would put down her shotgun.  In 2008, I and my mailing list of about 800 Joes were puzzled about for whom we would vote.  The major election time task of “spiritual” Native Americans, who usually do not vote themselves was to discern which candidate’s platform might bring the fewest curses on Turtle Island!  Uncertain about then Senator Obama’s position on whether to press Israel for a Palestinian state that would usurp our Birthright, we were seeking Spirit’s direction.  Finally, in inipi, the answer came, “Why don’t you vote for the choice of the four-leggeds?”  The next day, Governor Palin was observed on CNN shooting wolves – my totem – for sport.

When one makes a habit of bowing low toward all four leggeds and wingeds and receives the suffering dealt out as something personal shared with all Creation, the compound bows, shotguns, and rifles might begin to collect dust.

Spiritual priority to avoid curses, bless family of Abraham

We are all thinking this election will be about jobs, when it should be about the overriding biblical factor that determines a nation’s prosperity to offer jobs; whether or not that nation’s policies bless or curse the family of Abraham.  Especially tampering with a Birthright is a very black road, as all Native elders, grandmothers and medicine people know.

Ada Fasthorse, the eldest granddaughter of the Israelite-Apache prophet known as “Geronimo,” tried in July 2007 to warn President George W. Bush that an economic curse was coming for his tampering with the Birthright in promoting the ill-fated “Road Map to Peace in the Middle East.”  There are means to remedy this curse at the roots if the American leadership is ever interested in doing so.

Presidential candidates not invited due to spiritual concerns

So, noticeably absent from this “Hebrew” lodge are the American presidential candidates.  It was decided unilaterally that the U.S. Government had no legitimate unilateral interest in this spiritual matter and past political tampering has only worsened it.

The GOP candidate, as a Mormon embraces a faith that usurps the Aaronic priesthood, usurps the Birthright of Joseph in the land of Israel and even usurps the land of Promise as a homeland for all of Israel.   As a disciple of Joseph (156) Smith (510) = 666 who divined his Book of Mormon using a “seer stone” after contact with an angel of light during the same time period he was convicted of “glasslooking fraud,” credibility issues as well as Satanic concerns arise with a Mormon president.   A spirit with a clear Satanic agenda that would not honor the Birthright of Joseph would not be comfortable – and might not survive — a pure and sacred Native American inipi.  Remember that the covenant with the God of Israel, unlike the remainder of the Northern tribes, remains intact with Native Americans who comprise Israelite East M’nashe.  East M’nashe was exiled 17-23 years before his brothers across the Jordan and exempt from the terms severing West M’nashe and the other tribes from covenant..

The incumbent in support of pre-1967 lines for a Palestinian state, which also usurps the biblical Birthright, has reportedly been rethinking this position. But no official change in the Obama Administration’s foreign policy with Israel pressing for a state according to the pre-1967 lines has yet to surface, so to keep American politics out of the suffering between Israelis and Palestinians and Joes, President Obama also was not invited to this inipi.

Respect for ‘Mama’ needed before one can respect the life that comes from her

A word came forth in an earlier inipi, “Until one respects your Mother, that one cannot respect any life that comes from her.”  So Smiles knew when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Machmoud Abbas, stripped, covered with towels and bowed low to the ground and declared, “All my relations,” as they entered the inipi, that the two world leaders were within Creator’s design.

Finally, they had signaled their respect for “the beasts of the field, the birds of Heaven and the creeping things on the Earth, both the four-legged, two-legged and winged and all of Creation.”  Now and only now, could they adapt to the peace Creation is decreed by Creator and a peace Creation and Creator would oversee.   The Hosea 2:20 covenant necessary to reunite the land of Israel with its children, including Palestinian “daughters of Jerusalem” was at hand.  But that covenant also decrees the end of the sword and the bow and “violence in the Earth.”  For that to happen, these two would have to suffer still more.

World leaders silenced to hear decree of Joseph’s return

And so began the third round with the rock count at about 75.  Neither world leader was able to sit upright in the 140 degree steam and hardly able to speak, much less to pray when it was their turn.  And so for the first time, both could only listen as I offered this prayer on behalf of a third unilateral interest:  The House of Joseph still in exile.

Hoa Mitakuyasi,

Great Mystery, may You be applauded for your Wisdom in concealing the family of Joseph most separated from his brothers and for Your timing for him to be found.

Turn the hearts of the sons of the European settlers, sprinkled with Ephraim, to their father, Joseph; Turn the hearts of the Native sons of M’nashe to their father, Joseph. Turn the hearts of these and all of Ephraim assimilated at coastal regions about to be inundated, back to Joseph.  Turn the hearts of the Thai, Burmese, Cambodians and Vietnamese and Japanese from the seed of the sons of M’nashe who went East, back to their father, Joseph.

Merciful One, as calamities are poised to strike, turn the hearts of the sons of Judah to their father, Judah. Let Joseph and Judah reconcile in the Place You have set aside and according to the Truth of their father, Jacob, on the mountains of Israel in Judea-Samaria.

Turn the hearts of the House of Esau, sons of Isaac to their, father, Isaac. Let he who never left the Land promised to Jacob, show the House of Esau the wells he dug in the Plains of the Philistines.  And let Esau heed the words of their prophet, Obadiah and find refuge in a contiguous Palestinian state that honors the Birthright and Return of the House of Joseph to avoid a bloodbath.

Turn the hearts of all mankind to our father, Abraham and to his ever-patient, all-enduring hesed (everlasting kindness). Show the world the many myriads of nations his seed has become.  With the simple truth that all of our wars have spilled the blood of brothers, prick the hearts of the House of Joseph and all mankind to never learn the ways of war again and lay down the sword, bow and end violence in the Earth.

And turn the hearts of the fathers — the heart of Abraham to all of his children — the heart of Isaac towards the wall You placed between Jacob and Esau; the heart of Jacob toward all of his sons and the hearts of Joseph and Judah toward their sons and each other’s sons.

Hoa Mitakuyasi Oyasin

Maggid ben Yoseif

Boundary stone discovery lends credence to ‘contiguous Palestinian state’ hinted by biblical prophet Zechariah

As many are astonished concerning you thus: “an outline from a man!” … “his features mirror the sons of Adam!” Thus he shall startle many nations. Concerning him, kings (rulers) shall shut their mouths because that which was not told to them they shall see and that they had not heard they shall meditate to themselves

(Literal translation of Isaiah 52:14-15)

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 / 28 Kislev 5767. Revised & updated, June 4, 2012 / 14 Sivan 5772

NOTE:  Whenever we are critical of persons or policies, we do no service to anyone without proposing an alternative. The alternative proposed to the George W. Bush Administration’s Road Map to Peace in the Middle East is the “Zechariah Plan,” researched by MbY from 1996-99 and calling for a contiguous Palestinian State in the region generally known in the Bible as the “Plain of the Philistines.” MbY submits this exegesis for consensus and collegiality as the support for mutual disengagements and a humane version of the Cherokee Removals, the plan’s international precedent.

© 2012 Maggid ben Yoseif / Jerusalem Torah Voice

 

Tel Gezer Boundary Stone

The discovery of a 13th boundary stone at Tel Gezer, historically the border between Judea and the Plain of the P’lishtim announced last week, reinforces — from Heaven — the Zechariah Plan as a biblical alternative contiguous Palestinian state.

Ashdod, Ashquelon and Ekron are modern Israeli cities

Biblical alternative contiguous Palestinian state defining Plain of P’lishtim

and communities with local governments, schools, businesses and their own infrastructures. But if Israel and the Palestinians are unable to resolve their differences and war results, these regions nearest the Gaza could lie in ruins.  In fact, the biblical prophet, Zechariah, predicts that Ashquelon will not have inhabitants.

He makes this prediction for a time when “all of the people are looking to the Lord” concerning a burden of the Lord about Damascus and Syria, a scenario on the ground today.

Prophecy linked to burden in Syria

Obadiah, the only Edomite biblical prophet, foresaw none of his people, the House of Esau, remaining in the Birthright territory of Joseph in Judea-Samaria (the “fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria” in the former West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan). These fields comprise the lowlands in the mountains and valleys and make up the head and crown region of the outline above. Obadiah wrote that at the time Jacob would be returned to these possessions, they would be occupied by “the House of Esau.” Since the Palestinians today occupy this region, it is a logical conclusion that the House of Esau today occupies the possessions of Joseph and they must be relocated to avoid a blood bath.

Which brings us again to the prophet Zechariah’s End Times prophecy which alludes to a “population exchange.” These “mutual disengagements” would allow two separate but contiguous states to permanently separate two incompatible l’eumim (mindsets, ideologies or lifestyles). See www.torah-voice.org/Biblical_road_map.htm.  A contiguous Palestinian state comprising the ancient Plain of the Philistines would have as its northeastern border, Tel Gezer and would comprise Ashdod, Ashquelon and Ekron, the Gaza and the adjoining fertile Sh’felah, which affords up to five crop rotations a year.  It also allows a Palestinian state bordering Egypt, the nation with whom most Palestinians align and from which a great number if not a majority have migrated.  A contiguous Israeli state that would allow incorporation of Judea-Samaria without legitimizing the antithetical ideology of Hamas and Palestinian “ultra-Nationalism” could then proceed.

Zechariah’s prophecy should be primary source material

First, a little about Zechariah.  He was a prophet and priest who wrote about events in the far-distant future called the Last Days.  Chapters 9-11 involve Israel’s dealings with the nations, beginning with the people known as P’lishtim, which is the plural of the name, P’lishti, by which Yasser Arafat referred to the Palestinian people. In a Last Days context, therefore, Zechariah’s prophecy should be primary source material in formulating foreign policy with Israel that agrees with the Bible. The real irony is that the support base for the proposed Palestinian State in Judea-Samaria, the so-called “Road Map to Peace in the Middle East,” proposed during the administration of President George W. Bush, comes from the Christian Religious Right, which has been supporting an anti-biblical position.

9:1-2:    “The burden of the word of the Lord: in the land of Hadrach and Damascus its rest, when to the Lord shall be the eyes of man as of all the tribes of Israel. And in Hamath also which bordereth thereby; in Tyrus and Zidon, … though it be very wise:”

Timing of state relates to burden in Syria

The Lord is burdened by something going on in Hadrach, an out-lying region of Damascus (its — Hadrach’s — rest), Damascus itself, Hamath, another region in Western Syria that bordered Lebanon, plus two Mediterranean coastal regions in Lebanon. Tyre, in Southern Lebanon is below the Litani River and therefore part of biblical Israel. It lies on the same latitude as the northernmost Israeli settlement of Kiryiat Sh’mona. Sidon lies a few miles to the south of Beirut and on the same latitude as Damascus.

It is important to note that the time of this burden is ci l’adonai eyn adam v’kol shivtei Yisrael when or because the eyes of man as of all the tribes of Israel are looking to the Lord.  Something is taking place in Syria that has the world’s attention and which the Lord considers a burden.

The comment about Zidon being very wise is what you might call “tongue in cheek.”  This qualification gives it an End-Times context, since it refers to the time when the tribes of Israel are looking to reunite while this concern unfolds in Syria.

Revival of the House of Joseph

Zechariah prophesied after the 10 Northern Tribes of Israel led by the House of Joseph were exiled. The timing for this burden relates to the reviving of the House of Joseph, the major two tribes of Israel who remain in exile. The burden may even relate specifically to the preparation of the land for these non-Jewish exiles of Ephraim and M’nashe to return. We mention this possibility because Zechariah 10:10 indicates that when the House of Joseph returns, they will be so numerous that the land will not be able to contain them and they will spill over into Lebanon (today controlled by Syria and the Iranian Hezbollah) and the Gilead, which is in today’s Jordan and the ancient inheritances of Israelite East M’nashe, Gad and Reuben.  Israelite East M’nashe has been identified with 38 Athap(b)ascan Language Group nations including six who relocated to the Four Corners region of the American Southwest:  The five nations of the Apache and the Navajo.

9:3-4:    “And Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and He will smite her power (in, by means of, with) the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.”

Early Persian influence in Lebanon

Tyre was one of the fortified cities of the Canaanites mentioned in the Book of Joshua. Like Gaza and the land of the Philistines, Tyre was never fully conquered by the Israelites. Its inhabitants were never called Tyrians, but rather Sidonians, coupling its fate with Sidon to the north.  The great wealth for which the Sidonians were noted was acquired under PERSIAN rule, establishing an early claim to the region by Persia (modern Iran).  As we reported in a special edition of Jerusalem Vistas magazine: Apocalypse Now: Mixing Religion and Terror, published two weeks before the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the expansion of radical Islam closely correlates with the spread of the ancient Persian empire. Today, Iran (Persia) masterminds this spread throughout the Middle East and controls the sheikdoms of especially radical Shi’ties. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon, was also complicit in the Shi’a insurgency in Iraq.

Civil war would spread to Lebanon

The civil war about to erupt in Syria is sure to spread to Lebanon where the Persian Shi’ia radical Islam alluded to in this scripture are on the ground today in South Lebanon.  All eyes are on Syria.  The verses below indicate a major disappointment among the Palestinians connected with Syria.

Tyre also was a divided city, partly on the mainland and partly on an island that once existed connected by a causeway. The island is today submerged but ruins of a castle built into the mountainside with numerous cave entrances are still discernible on the mainland.  While many biblical scholars claim this judgment uttered by Zechariah already has taken place, they have no explanation for its “re-occurence” at the time the “eyes of man as all of the tribes of Israel are toward the Lord” and “Syria.”  Nor do they dispute that all of Zechariah’s other prophesies do pertain to a future time. There is also no existing record of any war between Israel and the Sidonians in Tyre and Sidon.  However, inhabitants of Tyre descended from Esau betrayed the House of Judah when it went into exile by turning in those who had escaped the Babylonian invasion and siege of Jerusalem.

9:5-6:    Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also and be very sorrowful, and Ekron that her expectation hath been ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the P’lishtim.

Destruction seen suggests different scenarios

The destruction in verse four is SEEN not heard by the inhabitants of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Ekron. Given the Mediterannean wind currents, a fire in or explosion in Lebanon or Syria could not be seen from Gaza and these regions in the far south. In our day, this alludes to some kind of media coverage of some devastating event in Lebanon and/or Syria … in the Last Days.  Fear, sorrow and shame about some kind of expectation or hope results. In the context of current events, we would submit that any manner of scenarios are possible.  Far fetched though it may sound, Israel could open the Good Fence in South Lebanon and allow Syrians who have relatives living in Israel in as refugees disproving many of the Palestinian suspicions. Or, as many foresee, Damascus could at this time become a “ruinous heap,” due to some kind of devastation, entirely possible in the context of current events and retalliation against the brutal Assad regime.

The mamzer (Heb. bastard) who lives in Ashdod is a bit of detail that awaits further clarification. Ekron, like Ashdod and Ashquelon are Israeli villages and cities constructed in the Plain of the P’lishtim.  Expectations that turn to shame occur between both Palestinians and Israelis at the time of whatever transpires in Syria and Lebanon.  You could say Ekron, Ashdod and Ashquelon “expected” to be part of the modern Jewish state and that expectation was “ashamed.”

Ashamed expectations suggests mutual disengagements

This ashamed “expectation” gives credence to mutual disengagements of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria and Israelis from the Plain of the P’lishtim.  The international precedent for these disengagements is the Cherokee Removals of the 1830s, although we would hope for a more humane and abbreviated version since no one would have to move further than five hours away and it all could be accomplished in a few weekends.  The Central Band of Cherokee under former Principal Chief Joe Sittingowl White proposed such a mutual disengagement plan with guarantees that all Removed — Palestinians and Israelis — would be relocated to better homes, orchards, lands and environs than they left.

The Lord’s promise to “cut off the pride of the P’lishtim” could be interpreted according to current events as the means to “dash the hopes of the Palestinian people for a state in Judea-Samaria.”

Palestinian designs on Judea-Samaria given cruel hope by U.S. State Department

Palestinian designs on Judea-Samaria have been given false and cruel hope by the U.S. State Department and the Bush Administration’s Road Map to Peace in the Middle East.  President Obama and the U.S. State Department in insisting on a Palestinian state according to pre-1967 lines continues the policy that would result in a Palestinian state that usurps the Birthright of Joseph.

9:7:    And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: and he, even he, shall remain for our God, and he shall be as a chief in Judah, and Ekron as the Jebusite.

Death of ultra-Nationalism signals radical move toward peace

Once the expectation for a Palestinian State in Judea-Samaria ends and the Palestinian people accept the Israeli leadership of the nation, the Palestinian people undergo a radical change toward peace. The verse literally suggests that the P’lishtim even adapt their lifestyle to eating kosher meats, although figuratively it suggests the end of the terror with shouts of “Allah Akhbar,” and violence and the abominable language in the Palestine National Charter calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.  Promises to remove this language have been made but not fulfilled.

The language “aluf” (chief or master) in Judah, implies that there may be no independent Palestinian state, however this would not rule out autonomy for the Palestinian people living in this contiguous area within the nation of Israel when the Palestinians who would be relocated to Ekron become as the peaceable Jebusites.

9:8:    And I will encamp about Mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now I have seen with mine eyes.

God-fearing Palestinians ‘remain for our God’

Contextually, the “house” God will encamp about is the new God-fearing Palestinian people “who shall remain for our God.”  These Palestinians would have their own autonomy in the regions of Gaza, Ashqelon, Ashdod and Ekron and probably the fertile Sh’felah adjoining them. God will protect those Palestinians who live in this area from the Israeli army, from instigators of trouble or oppressors passing through and from those returning, clarified two verses down as the House of Joseph.

Palestinians who leave Judea-Samaria will have safe haven in this autonomous Palestinian state within the nation of Israel as long as they live there in peace. But for those Palestinians who do not leave Judea-Samaria, the fate is dire. (See Obadiah 17ff below). Their hearts will be hardened and harbor the hatred of Esau toward Jacob, evidenced by Obadiah calling them “the House of Esau.”  This was predicted 3,700 years ago — long before the conflict materialized into Israelis vs. Palestinians

9:9    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout O daughter of Jerusalem: behold thy king cometh unto thee:  he is just and deserving to be helped; lowly and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Repentant Palestinians called ‘daughter’ of Zion, promised protection by God of Israel

Traditionally, this verse is believed to refer to the coming messiah. HOWEVER, contextually, once the Palestinian people have rid themselves of the mindset of Palestinian ultra-Nationalism, they are also called by God, a “daughter” of Zion and Jerusalem. He will send Israel a king who will be just, deserving and humble, possibly the king messiah.

9:10:    And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the river od ofsei eretz (even to the ends of the land).

Ultra-nationalist Palestinians promised destruction

The chariot of Ephraim may refer to the mass annihilation that will occur in the northern two-thirds of Judea-Samaria in the inheritance of Ephraim due to Palestinian resistance there. Or it could refer to the war-like nature Ephraim has become in his assimilation (another theological treatise for a later time).  As Obadiah phrased it , “at the time Jacob returned to his inheritances,” the fields of the Shomron and the fields of Ephraim  — both regions that are the inheritance of the House of Joseph — would be occupied by the House of Esau.

“And the House of Jacob would be a fire and the House of Joseph would be the flame and the House of Esau for stubble and they (Jacob-Joseph) would kindle in them and devour them and none would remain from the House of Esau.” (Obadiah 18).

U.S. State Department plan promises certain death to millions of Palestinians and returning refugees

As I have tried repeatedly to warn the last four American administrations, the worst thing the U.S. State Department can do is promote a Palestinian state in Judea-Samaria.  It means the eventual certain death of Palestinians living there now and the millions of Palestinian refugees who would return.

Our State Department, in taking the portion Jacob promised Joseph as his Birthright and handing it to Esau, is betting against the Bible. Judea-Samaria is set aside by the God of Israel for the return, reunion and reconciliation of the House of Joseph with the House of Judah.

The Return of the House of Joseph

In our June 6, 2006 Newsletter, we present the case for the identity of M’nashe among the wave of Chicano immigrants coming from the South into the American Southwest after earlier migrations from Aztlan, the Native Homeland in the North in proximity of the Four Corners.  Recent research published in Ancient American magazine, has shown that the majority of the Four Corners nations are a remnant of Israelite East M’nashe.  See www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm. M’nassah whose homeland is west of the Jordan, have been located among the 2 million starving and oppressed Shinlung in Burma and others in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Koreas and virtually all of Southeast Asia.  (Yes, brothers have fought brothers in all the World Wars and in Vietnam and Korea. See the May 15 blog titled Happy Mother’s Day for insights on ending “violence in the Earth.”)

Ephraim is an assimilated people most heavily concentrated in the isles and coastlands of the Earth. Therefore, the biblical policy the U.S. State Department should be pursuing is to help the Chicano people and persons being displaced from coastal regions due to hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and various Earth changes relocate to the inheritance of the House of Joseph. As the prophet Isaiah stated in the context of this return, “Send Me your Not Comforted (one of the judgments against the House of Joseph), homeless and “tempest tossed.”

Bill those who have profited off Mideast conflict

The oil companies and major defense contractors who have benefited from decades of State Department and CIA intervention in the Middle East on their behalf should contribute some of their obscene windfall profits toward picking up the tab for this relocation as well as the relocation of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria into the Gaza-region state. It is only fair, after all. State Department policies that have resulted in death and destruction in Israel, the Gaza, Lebanon and Iraq were put into effect to keep the energy sector profiteering on, lower-priced-than-could-be-produced-domestically, Arab oil.

Back to the exegesis. This king who will unite the nation of Israel with its Palestinian “state” therein will be an emissary of world peace. His dominion is defined here within the context of the borders of Greater Israel … or possibly a broader context that encompasses the entire world.  Again, another treatise. The Hebrew suggests either context.

9:11    As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Plight of Palestinians compared to that of Joseph in a pit

If the “thee” in verse 11 refers to the daughter of Zion in verse 9, it fits with the context of a repentant Palestinian people. Today, their plight appears as that of Joseph, who was thrown into a pit where there was no water. His situation looked hopeless. The House of Joseph comes out of that pit biblically and historically with the renewed covenant made possible by the blood of Jesus (Y’shua) and spiritual gifts commensurate with that covenant.  The same is promised to the Palestinian people when the violence and terror ceases.

On the other hand, the “thee” in verse 11 could refer to this emissary of world peace, whose covenant earlier applied to the assimilation of the non-Jewish House of Israel led into exile by the House of Joseph. In this case, the prisoners would depict the House of Joseph who would be free to return.

9:12:    Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even today will I bring again unto thee a maggid of double peace.

Shalom Shalom and Grandfather’s love & blessings,

Maggid ben Yoseif

The biblical road map toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians

More humane version of Cherokee Removal promotes mutual disengagements, contiguous states

Note:  Ordinarily, MbY does not copyright any of his writings.  Due to the controversial and technical nature of this topic and to be sure nothing is excerpted out of context, this article and the accompanying exegesis are copyrighted.  However, MbY will be happy to release permission to quote the contents in their entirety to anyone who will send him an email requesting this permission.  See Contact Information.

Copyright 2000 / Jerusalem Torah Voice in Exile

1.  The map at left compared with the outline at above right, (oriented by the Dead Sea), shows the head and crown region at top right as the ancient biblical inheritance of the non-Jewish House of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and M’nashe and part of Benjamin. These were the two sons of Joseph, who was the eldest of Rachel and Joseph’s younger brother, whose birth resulted in his mother, Rachel’s death.

2.  The prophet Jeremiah wrote more than 2,700 years ago in response to Rachel’s weeping for her children, long after her death that her children (the House of Joseph) would return to their biblical borders in the last days.  (Jeremiah 31:15-18).  These territories of Joseph also comprise the Birthright of Jacob.

3.  The head region (Shomron) is set apart by the God of Israel for a holy purpose; to return the non-Jewish House of Joseph to reconcile and reunite with the Jewish House of Judah, who has largely already returned.  These two houses of Israel hailed from two brothers, one jealous of the other, but who were reconciled before their deaths. However, their sons’ enmities and vexations have left the scars of a split kingdom, civil war and separate exiles.  This represents “unfinished business” in the family of Jacob for the God of Israel. Else, the light “Israel” is charged with becoming to the nations and the Word guaranteeing its bright shining expose God as a hypocrite.

In the same place where it was said of you, Lo-ami, (Not My People), you shall be called the sons of the living God.” (Hosea 2:1)

That place demands a return of Joes and the non-Jewish “House of Israel.”

4.  The prophet Obadiah’s vision of the House of Esau in the Last Days, at the time when Jacob would be returned to his possessions, indicates those possessions — including the Birthright of Jacob would be occupied by the “House of Esau.” Obadiah, himself a descendant of Esau, has tried to connect prophetically with the Palestinians living today in Judea-Samaria, formerly known as the “West Bank” of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  Biblically and historically, these Palestinians today because of where they live — in the Birthright land — and their hatred of “Jacob” are “the House of Esau.”  Obadiah’s is a disinterested voice in whom the Palestinians must listen. Their lives depend on it. And any nation’s foreign policy that supports a state for Esau in this Birthright region, merits the most serious of all biblically ordained curses:

God of Israel to Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you, but those who curse you I will cause to be cursed and in your seed all families of the earth shall be nivrecu (grafted or intermingled according Chizkuni, Daas Zekeinim, Rashbam and Tur).”

NOTE:  Esau’s historic hatred of Jacob is explained by the concept of incompatible “leumim” discussed below. Esau is a different “leum” (a people with the same or a compatible interest and mindset) than his brother, Jacob to whom this promise of blessing by God applies.

5.  Obadiah‘s vision urges the disengagement of the entire House of Esau from these territories of Joseph and concludes that those who remained would be annihilated.

“The House of Jacob shall be a fire, and the House of Joseph the flame and the House of Esau for stubble and I will kindle in them and devour them and not one shall remain from the House of Esau.” (Obadiah 17ff)

THE STATUS QUO:

 6.  A two-state solution was alluded to by the biblical prophet, Zechariah, some 2,600 years ago, according to our EXEGESIS, which examines the content of the prophecy in its context. The context includes both the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the worldwide spiritual move to unite and reconcile the House of Joseph with the House of Judah and return at least a remnant of the House of Joseph to its territories.

This contiguous Palestinian state (outlined in red in the maps above and below) is the domain of a fearful and sorrowful people whose “expectation” (connected to Lebanon and Syria) was ashamed. Zechariah referred to this people as P’lishtim, as the Palestinians also were called in the Arabic used by Yasser Arafat.  Zechariah observed their dwellings in the contiguous region of the Gaza, Ashdod, Ashqelon and Ekron. He also called their leader an “aluf” (chief or master) in Judah. But the state Zechariah described was “conditional.” Further, it would be orchestrated solely by the God of Israel.

God would first cause the “cutting off” of the “pride of the P’lishtim.” Cutting off the “pride” of an entire people, would to our thinking minds, suggest a mother of a war or a depression or some calamitous event. In the individual, the defense of ego is central and basic, even primal.  Nationalism has bred the same defense shrouded in such things as patriotism. But the national ego can also get out of control. Let’s call this “ultra-Nationalism” that defines the passionate “free will” of the people. But when the free national will contradicts THE Will, regarding Judea-Samaria and the reconciliation of Joes and Jews, for instance, the passion in that opposing will must be quelled.

A 3-D topographical map of Israel shows first that the “mountains of Israel” on which the House of Israel will reunite with the House of Judah (a biblical name for the modern Jewish state) lie almost entirely in Judea-Samaria.  This same region as a Palestinian state would make Israel virtually undefendable from a high-ground attack in Judea-Samaria. Denied their ultra-Nationalistic aim, it becomes necessary as Zechariah states to:

1) Take away the blood out of his mouth.

2) Take away the abominations from between his teeth.

In the context of current events and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the blood removed could figuratively relate to the ongoing terrorist attacks accompanied by shouts of “Allah Akhbar,” which would cease.  This could occur with the simple realization by both sides that Israel swore an oath to the God of Israel and to His (the God of Israel’s) Allah long before the time of Muhammad.   (The job of this Allah as described in Deuteronomy 29 is to “enforce” the imprecation or curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28).  Israel’s freedom from any of its enemies has always relied on its observance of Torah and Torah-based revivals.  When Israeli religious leaders reflect on the Torah not being considered in connection with this problem, they will come to the realization that it relates to the exclusion of the House of Joseph.

The abominations coming from between his teeth could be interpreted as the Palestine National Charter calling for the removal of the Zionist state and the death of all Israelis.  Despite much political rhetoric and maneuvering and promises to amend the charter, those terms remain.

As an aluf in Judah, the Palestinian state envisioned by Zechariah, may not be totally autonomous and would remain part of Israel, just as all states of the United States remain part of the U.S. 

8.  The “Zechariah Plan,” would involve the transfer or “disengagement” of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria to new homes, pastures and orchard lands in a contiguous region generally known in the Bible as “the plain of the Philistines.”  The Israelite tribe of Dan, which was given this region as its inheritance, failed to conquer its enemies and was eventually relocated to the North in the region of the Golan Heights. Victory in those early battles was tied to Walking the Walk. Obviously the tribe of Dan didn’t.  The Philistines, progenitor of the Palestinians in etymology and geography, but not necessarily geneaology, thrived.  At least until Israel Walks its Walk, the Palestinians have biblical precedent to the plain of the Philistines AND to be as thorns and bees as servants of “Allah.”

Thanks to State Department intervention in the Heavenly system of justice,  the thorns today are deadly roadside bombs and bees sting like terrorists.   Until the U.S. State Department began forcing Israel to succumb to the PLO’s demands for a Palestinian state in Judea-Samaria, Creator’s system of justice was in place.  The superior school systems, public transportation systems and services being provided in Jewish communities as opposed to Palestinian communities was pointed out in the Israeli media and was being addressed.

But when the State Department began insisting on a halt to infrastructure development and housing in Judea-Samaria, the State Department became at odds with the Zechariah Plan.  The Bush Road Map to Peace in the Middle East, as it was styled, blatantly stole the Birthright of Jacob given to Joseph in allocating it as part of this proposed unbiblical, non-contiguous and suicidal Palestinian State.

So if there ever was a nation for which a hands-off policy might be the best policy, it should be Israel, who will be judged by Creator directly and it is safe to say guided by Creator and who has been admonished to dwell “apart from the nations.”

8.  The Plain of the P’lishtim is loosely defined by the  fertile Sh’felah region contiguous with the Gaza and coastal cities to the north including Ashqelon and Ashdod.  The plan also involves further “disengagements” of the Jewish populations in the contiguous area comprising Ashdod, Ashqelon and Ekron.  This follows already heart-wrenching disengagements from Jewish populations in the Gaza area.

Considering that the Palestinians would get much more fertile land and favorable environs, the disengagement would be warranted.  Palestinians and Israelis required to disengage in this region would receive better houses, orchards, gardens and facilities than they had before disengagement.  The plan, modeled after a more humane and abbreviated version of the Cherokee Removals — thus it has international precedent — could be carried out in a few weekends obligating no moves more than 5 hours.

The trade off would be to separate the two different leumim into two contiguous states, permanently, providing security-controlled access highways to link both states and initially a superhighway to Jerusalem to accommodate prayers at the Al Aksa Mosque.

9. The contiguity is necessary as explained above to separate the two nations into two contiguous states and two “leumim.” This was prophesied of the two families, Jacob and Esau, to their mother, Rebecca, when the two unborn boys “agitated” in her womb.  The two would be unable to co-exist and one would be in ascendancy over the other … for life. Thus, each “leum” represents a people whose ideology and mindset differs … and conflicts. This mandates separate and contiguous states for each.

10. The northern two-thirds of Judea-Samaria (the head and crown region in the outline) vacated by the Palestinians would revert to new immigrants who are neither Jewish nor Palestinian.  They are “the House of Joseph.” Biblically and historically, these include Ephraim and M’nashe and part of Benjamin.

According to the Bible, the greatest concentration of Ephraim dwells in the coastal regions of the Earth including the coastal Americas.  The greatest concentration of M’nashe is split into two regions.

I.  The people identified along ancient southern Chinese trade routes in India, Burma, Thailand and other areas of Southeast Asia.  These refugees provide an immediate source of population to inhabit the Shomron as they are homeless and starving.  Rabbi  Eliyahu Avichayil in his book “Ha-Shevitim” (The Tribes) identifies  some 2 million “Shinlung” refugees as part of M’nashe.

II. Native Americans.  Research is ongoing through the Equahiyi-Wasi, a society formed by the Central Band Cherokee under the direction of past principal chief Joe “Sitting Owl” White,  to research archaeological, historical/cultural, linguistic, DNA and spiritual links between all Native American nations and “Abraham” and “Moses.”   The biblical story of a family of M’nashe separated from his brothers could point to Israelite East M’nashe among the 38 Athapascan Language Group nations including the Apache and the Navajo.  Or the set-apart family could be descendants of the Hopi migrating from Mexico and South and Central America and returning to the American Southwest and other parts of the U.S., in accordance with Native American prophesies that predate anything American on this continent.

This means the House of Joseph is shaping up to be a “refugee population” displaced largely by coming Earth changes that will affect coastal regions and “short-sighted” immigration policies in the U.S.

It also means that the Joes worldwide are more than sufficient to dilute the Palestinian majority population in the Shomron so that Israel may proceed with annexation of the region without legitimizing the politics of Palestinian ultra-Nationalism.  And that means many Palestinians may be persuaded to leave the Birthright of Joseph and find their biblical state as described in Zechariah 9.

And for the Israeli political party who solicits and invites the Joes to fulfill the vision of Zion, as a reunion of Joes and Jews, there is a ready-made political constituency of more than 2.5 million, with millions more eventually spilling over into Lebanon and the Gilead  (Zechariah 10:10ff).

 Maggid ben Yoseif

The writer resided among the Avuhaval and Sa’ayad clans of  East Jerusalem Palestinians before the Palestinian uprising and was chief newswriter and features producer for Middle East Television and a past religion writer and columnist at the Jerusalem Post.