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Genesis of the Kurds-Jews Relations, Part III
Friday, October 01, 2004
KurdishMedia.com - By Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur
The modern State of Israel was proclaimed by the politically passionate,
eastern bond Israelites on May 14, 1948 A.D. while putatively speaking, the
first stone for the worship of God, Yahweh, (Ya-Hew, in Kurdish), was laid in
the ancient city of Bethel, by the western bond patriarch Abraham in around 1948
B.C. Given the uncertainty associated with the amusing ages of the elders in the
Bible, the history of Abraham and the Israelites is estimated to be about 3900
years old.
The questions that bewilder many western and Middle Eastern people are, do the
modern Israelites who proclaim ownership of the Altar of Abraham on the land of
worship, the Holy Land, possess the same spiritual passion attributed to
Abraham? and specifically to Abraham’s grandson Jacob? could the modern eastern
bond track of Judaic faith be gently coupled with the original western bond
track of faith, as expressed by Abraham, Ishmael, Jacob and Esau Jacob’s elder
brother in order to attain a new cultural fusion among the peoples of faith? Or
in the last 3900 years the diversion in the faith has drifted apart so far that
as Samuel P. Huntington, Professor at Harvard University puts it, the clash of
civilizations is inevitable?
The answers to all these questions can not be provided by this article. However,
to provide some answers to the genesis of the Kurds-Jews relationship, a deeper
understanding of historical events is required. Understanding of history is a
necessity to cultural survival as it explains the resiliency of human spirit to
live in continuity under extreme difficulties. Most essential to that survival,
is seeking to connect our individual consciousness in unity with the
consciousness of the universe one through the dust of the soil created by the
trust we hold in one being.
From the May 14, 1948 to the present day, the expression of the passion of the
Israelites for the “Holy Land” has been well documented. In particular, since
the Jews also known by their language, Hebrew, after centuries of cultural
dispersion around the world were in late 19 century were determined to return to
the land of their ancestors. For further information, the word ‘Jew’, means
members of the tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, which presently, is referred to as
Judea, and it includes Ram Allah, Hebron, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Judah, was the great grandson of Abraham (Ur-Ayam), grandson of Isaac (Esshaq)
and the son of Jacob (Yacqub) and Leah (Poetic song). Leah was the elder
daughter of a farmer named Laban, born in the ancient city of Haran, located in
Central Kurdistan to the south west of the present day city of Diyarbakir.
According to the book of Genesis (Ketawi-Afarandin), Haran is a city where
Abraham (Ur-Aiyam) and his family arrived in where they stayed for several years
before he journeys on to the land of Canaan. God had promised Ur-Aiyam that his
children will inherit the land, that came to be known as the “Promised Land”.
This place is a strip of land in modern day Israel between Jordan and the
Mediterranean sea. History has it that the people of the city of Ur, were
hostile to Abraham and he was persecuted because he did not believe in the god
or gods who were worshiped by the people of Ur. Thus, after he is forced to
exile, he and his family arrived in Haran, located several hundred miles to the
north of Ur. Upon his arrival the local people gave him the name Ur-Aiyam,
meaning the Adam from Ur. After living among the indigenous people of ancient
Kurdistan for several years, he journeys on to the land of Canaan while leaving
a part of his family behind in Haran,. It is in Haran however, where Abraham
finds acceptance and spiritual solace that he carries with him to the Promised
Land. After arriving in Canaan with his wife Sarah and son Isaac and his elder
son Ishmael born to his second wife Hagar, they settle in Canaan and purchases a
piece of land where later in Bethel, near present day Jerusalem, he builds an
altar to worship his God Yahweh. Thus, this place of worship, has come to be
known as the Holy Land. When his son Isaac, becomes of age to take a wife,
Abraham sends his companion helper Eliezer back to Haran in Kurdistan, to find
Isaac a wife where he returns with Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham nephew
Bethool who had remained in Haran. From this marriage, a twin are born who are
named Jacob and Esau. Esau, who is also called Edom becomes the founder of the
Amalekite tribes who become a fierce enemy of the children of Jacob who will be
known as the Israelites. As Jacob grows older, according to his father’s wish,
he too, has to get a wife from Haran in Kurdistan. Thus, upon Jacob’s journey to
Haran, he works for his uncle Laban as a farmer so he could marry his daughter
Rachel with whom he had fallen in love. After seven years of work, his uncle
marries his elder daughter Leah to Jacob and asks him if he wants Rachel for his
wife, he has to work another seven years as a farmer. After working for fourteen
years farming in Haran, he returns to Canaan with his wives and children, among
them Joseph wrapped in the coat of many colors. A custom among the present day
Kurds as seen in their colorful clothing from the childhood up. On his journey
back to Canaan, at the Jabbok river near the Jordan River, he meets with a
divine being who tells him his name is no longer Jacob, but Israel. And thus the
children of Jacob and Leah and Rachel are called the Israelites. while the
children of Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, are known as the Ishmaelite who are
the present day Arabs and Muslims. The children of Esau, elder brother of Jacob,
become the Amalekites. Together, these groups of people are known as the Semitic
peoples which is derived from the word Shem (Shemite), the elder son of the
Prophet Noah.
Haran which is also called Carrhae, in 53 B.C., was the site of the crashing
defeat of the Roman army under the leadership of the Roman Triumvirate, Caeser
(Kaiser), Pompey and Craussus by the Partheo-Median army under the leadership of
King Sar-Nass (Surenas). In spit of the fact that by then, Zoroastrian religion
had become the dominant religion of the people of Media, Persia and Parthia, the
Romans begun to gradually accept and worship the ancient spiritual belief of the
Medes, Mithraism which had come into existence in 1400 B.C. around the city of
Haran in Central Kurdistan.
In the aftermath of this victorious battle, like the previous battles fought by
the Medes in 612 B.C. with the Assyrians and the battle of 609 B.C. with the
Lydians, the Medes under whose kingdom, the Spiritual history of Judaism was
well known and respected, showed continuous moral and political support for the
emancipation of the Jewish people who at the time had fallen under the
usurpation of various kingdoms in the region, in particular, under the King
Nebuchadnezzar II of Chaldean ..
The King of Medes, Astyages (Zehak), whose daughter Amytis was given in marriage
to King Nebuchadnezzar II of Chaldean empire, exerted his fatherly-in-law
influence to stop the King from invading Judah in 604 B.C. Unable to dissuade
the Chaldean King, as the result Judah was destroyed and for the first time
since the exodus from Egypt, the Jews (those who lived on the land of Judah),
after nearly 1500 hundred years of settlement in the land of Abraham and Jacob,
were forced to dispersed to exile in Babylon. In Babylon, the Jews lived in
servitude for several decades until Cyrus II, The Great, grandson of Astyges the
King of the Medes, in 538 B.C., conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews to be
free and could return to Jerusalem where they rebuilt their ancient Temple
again.
It is not the purpose of this article to write about the tumultuous history of
the Jewish people. However, it is important for us to recall the genesis of the
Kurdish-Jewish relationship and the role the Kurds have played throughout
history in shaping the cultural and spiritual history and identity of the Jewish
people. I briefly suffice to mention three more monumental events the detail
explanations of which can be the subject of future articles. These are: a) The
influence of the Kurdish Prophet, Zoroaster in 600 B.C. in forming the early
Jewish spiritual thinking. b) Suffering of the Jewish people under the rule of
the Roman appointed King Herod I of Amalekite origin. It was during this period,
around 5 A.D. when the Magi (Wise men) from Kingdom of Media (Kurdistan)
journeyed to Bethlehem to give the Jewish people the good news of the birth of
the King of the Jews, Jesus of Nazareth, who according to the Magi would deliver
them from bondage and sufferings. c) Treatment of the Jewish people with
kindness, justice and freedom of worship under the rule of Salahdin Ayyubi after
capture of Jerusalem in 1187.
Based on Biblical story of Genesis, the pre-Medic people of Kurdistan are in
part the progenitor of the Jewish people while the Medic people after 1400 B.C.,
are the co-founder of the Jewish faith. It is time for Kurds to learn more about
the history of the Jewish people in Diaspora under the domination of the
Greco-Roman empires and their dispersion into Europe in the last 2000 years. In
particular, understanding their recent history in Europe since the 18 century
and the development of the new political philosophy of Zionism is crucially
important to understand the faith and politics of the Jewish people as it is
practiced today by their representative government in Israel. For further
information, among the two main Jewish groups, Ashkenazi of German-rite group,
and the Sephardic Jews of Spanish-rite, ideology of Zionism is followed mostly
by the former group. Zion is the name of a hill outside of Jerusalem where King
David, King of Judah built a Temple and a palace around 1000 B.C. Due to the
atmosphere of anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews, particularly of the
Ashkenazi Jews in Europe, a Jewish activist by the name of Theodor Herzl, in
1896 called for the formation of a Jewish movement with the aim of returning the
Jews in Diaspora back to the Zion in Israel. This movement which is the origin
of political Zionism, like similar movements in the past received moral,
political and financial support by many financially successful Jews of Europe.
Among them one can mention the famous Banking family of the Rothschild and also
the great Jewish family of Italian origin, Montefiore, who lived in London and
was very influential in persuading the British government in supporting the
creation of the modern Israel. Among other radical groups who were instrumental
in the creation of the new Israel, were the Irgun and Stern groups who advocated
and practiced violence to reach their dream of creating the New Israel.
In conclusion, I emphasis the need for the Kurds to understand the history of
the Jewish people. In the course of creating the new Israel, much blood has been
shed which clearly deviate the modern practice of political Zionism from the
peaceful and spiritual teachings of Judaism. After all, which religion has not
advocated violence to reach their political aims. In this respect,
Zionic-Judaism is no different than Islamic Jihad against the infidels or
Christian Crusade against the un-pures!, a peculiar behavioral characteristics
attributed to all the children of Abraham in competing to inherit the world in
their father’s name.
As far as the future relations between the Kurdish and the Jewish people are
concerned, it is my opinion that the Jews should have the right to live in Judah
and Zion. They should have the rights to visit not only the birthplace of the
Patriarch Abraham in Ur, but also to visit their Matriarch place of birth,
Haran, in Kurdistan. They should get to know how to fall in love again with the
land and the people as Jacob did by tiling the soil. In return, the Kurds will
give them the spiritual solace they need to live again in a hostile land strange
to their newly acquired culture. They will once again experience the true spirit
of Jacob and Joseph wearing coats of many colors and by welcoming them back to
the land of their ancestors, the garden of humanity.
Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur,
Former President
Kurdish-American Education Society
Upland, California.
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Commonalities
Page One:
New Message on Israel.place
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From: SABRAH_GUY1
Message 1 in Discussion
Genesis of the Kurds-Jews Relations, Part III
Friday, October 01, 2004
KurdishMedia.com - By Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur
The modern State of Israel was proclaimed by the politically passionate,
eastern bond Israelites on May 14, 1948 A.D. while putatively speaking, the
first stone for the worship of God, Yahweh, (Ya-Hew, in Kurdish), was laid in
the ancient city of Bethel, by the western bond patriarch Abraham in around 1948
B.C. Given the uncertainty associated with the amusing ages of the elders in the
Bible, the history of Abraham and the Israelites is estimated to be about 3900
years old.
The questions that bewilder many western and Middle Eastern people are, do the
modern Israelites who proclaim ownership of the Altar of Abraham on the land of
worship, the Holy Land, possess the same spiritual passion attributed to
Abraham? and specifically to Abraham’s grandson Jacob? could the modern eastern
bond track of Judaic faith be gently coupled with the original western bond
track of faith, as expressed by Abraham, Ishmael, Jacob and Esau Jacob’s elder
brother in order to attain a new cultural fusion among the peoples of faith? Or
in the last 3900 years the diversion in the faith has drifted apart so far that
as Samuel P. Huntington, Professor at Harvard University puts it, the clash of
civilizations is inevitable?
The answers to all these questions can not be provided by this article. However,
to provide some answers to the genesis of the Kurds-Jews relationship, a deeper
understanding of historical events is required. Understanding of history is a
necessity to cultural survival as it explains the resiliency of human spirit to
live in continuity under extreme difficulties. Most essential to that survival,
is seeking to connect our individual consciousness in unity with the
consciousness of the universe one through the dust of the soil created by the
trust we hold in one being.
From the May 14, 1948 to the present day, the expression of the passion of the
Israelites for the “Holy Land” has been well documented. In particular, since
the Jews also known by their language, Hebrew, after centuries of cultural
dispersion around the world were in late 19 century were determined to return to
the land of their ancestors. For further information, the word ‘Jew’, means
members of the tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, which presently, is referred to as
Judea, and it includes Ram Allah, Hebron, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Judah, was the great grandson of Abraham (Ur-Ayam), grandson of Isaac (Esshaq)
and the son of Jacob (Yacqub) and Leah (Poetic song). Leah was the elder
daughter of a farmer named Laban, born in the ancient city of Haran, located in
Central Kurdistan to the south west of the present day city of Diyarbakir.
According to the book of Genesis (Ketawi-Afarandin), Haran is a city where
Abraham (Ur-Aiyam) and his family arrived in where they stayed for several years
before he journeys on to the land of Canaan. God had promised Ur-Aiyam that his
children will inherit the land, that came to be known as the “Promised Land”.
This place is a strip of land in modern day Israel between Jordan and the
Mediterranean sea. History has it that the people of the city of Ur, were
hostile to Abraham and he was persecuted because he did not believe in the god
or gods who were worshiped by the people of Ur. Thus, after he is forced to
exile, he and his family arrived in Haran, located several hundred miles to the
north of Ur. Upon his arrival the local people gave him the name Ur-Aiyam,
meaning the Adam from Ur. After living among the indigenous people of ancient
Kurdistan for several years, he journeys on to the land of Canaan while leaving
a part of his family behind in Haran,. It is in Haran however, where Abraham
finds acceptance and spiritual solace that he carries with him to the Promised
Land. After arriving in Canaan with his wife Sarah and son Isaac and his elder
son Ishmael born to his second wife Hagar, they settle in Canaan and purchases a
piece of land where later in Bethel, near present day Jerusalem, he builds an
altar to worship his God Yahweh. Thus, this place of worship, has come to be
known as the Holy Land. When his son Isaac, becomes of age to take a wife,
Abraham sends his companion helper Eliezer back to Haran in Kurdistan, to find
Isaac a wife where he returns with Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham nephew
Bethool who had remained in Haran. From this marriage, a twin are born who are
named Jacob and Esau. Esau, who is also called Edom becomes the founder of the
Amalekite tribes who become a fierce enemy of the children of Jacob who will be
known as the Israelites. As Jacob grows older, according to his father’s wish,
he too, has to get a wife from Haran in Kurdistan. Thus, upon Jacob’s journey to
Haran, he works for his uncle Laban as a farmer so he could marry his daughter
Rachel with whom he had fallen in love. After seven years of work, his uncle
marries his elder daughter Leah to Jacob and asks him if he wants Rachel for his
wife, he has to work another seven years as a farmer. After working for fourteen
years farming in Haran, he returns to Canaan with his wives and children, among
them Joseph wrapped in the coat of many colors. A custom among the present day
Kurds as seen in their colorful clothing from the childhood up. On his journey
back to Canaan, at the Jabbok river near the Jordan River, he meets with a
divine being who tells him his name is no longer Jacob, but Israel. And thus the
children of Jacob and Leah and Rachel are called the Israelites. while the
children of Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, are known as the Ishmaelite who are
the present day Arabs and Muslims. The children of Esau, elder brother of Jacob,
become the Amalekites. Together, these groups of people are known as the Semitic
peoples which is derived from the word Shem (Shemite), the elder son of the
Prophet Noah.
Haran which is also called Carrhae, in 53 B.C., was the site of the crashing
defeat of the Roman army under the leadership of the Roman Triumvirate, Caeser
(Kaiser), Pompey and Craussus by the Partheo-Median army under the leadership of
King Sar-Nass (Surenas). In spit of the fact that by then, Zoroastrian religion
had become the dominant religion of the people of Media, Persia and Parthia, the
Romans begun to gradually accept and worship the ancient spiritual belief of the
Medes, Mithraism which had come into existence in 1400 B.C. around the city of
Haran in Central Kurdistan.
In the aftermath of this victorious battle, like the previous battles fought by
the Medes in 612 B.C. with the Assyrians and the battle of 609 B.C. with the
Lydians, the Medes under whose kingdom, the Spiritual history of Judaism was
well known and respected, showed continuous moral and political support for the
emancipation of the Jewish people who at the time had fallen under the
usurpation of various kingdoms in the region, in particular, under the King
Nebuchadnezzar II of Chaldean ..
The King of Medes, Astyages (Zehak), whose daughter Amytis was given in marriage
to King Nebuchadnezzar II of Chaldean empire, exerted his fatherly-in-law
influence to stop the King from invading Judah in 604 B.C. Unable to dissuade
the Chaldean King, as the result Judah was destroyed and for the first time
since the exodus from Egypt, the Jews (those who lived on the land of Judah),
after nearly 1500 hundred years of settlement in the land of Abraham and Jacob,
were forced to dispersed to exile in Babylon. In Babylon, the Jews lived in
servitude for several decades until Cyrus II, The Great, grandson of Astyges the
King of the Medes, in 538 B.C., conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews to be
free and could return to Jerusalem where they rebuilt their ancient Temple
again.
It is not the purpose of this article to write about the tumultuous history of
the Jewish people. However, it is important for us to recall the genesis of the
Kurdish-Jewish relationship and the role the Kurds have played throughout
history in shaping the cultural and spiritual history and identity of the Jewish
people. I briefly suffice to mention three more monumental events the detail
explanations of which can be the subject of future articles. These are: a) The
influence of the Kurdish Prophet, Zoroaster in 600 B.C. in forming the early
Jewish spiritual thinking. b) Suffering of the Jewish people under the rule of
the Roman appointed King Herod I of Amalekite origin. It was during this period,
around 5 A.D. when the Magi (Wise men) from Kingdom of Media (Kurdistan)
journeyed to Bethlehem to give the Jewish people the good news of the birth of
the King of the Jews, Jesus of Nazareth, who according to the Magi would deliver
them from bondage and sufferings. c) Treatment of the Jewish people with
kindness, justice and freedom of worship under the rule of Salahdin Ayyubi after
capture of Jerusalem in 1187.
Based on Biblical story of Genesis, the pre-Medic people of Kurdistan are in
part the progenitor of the Jewish people while the Medic people after 1400 B.C.,
are the co-founder of the Jewish faith. It is time for Kurds to learn more about
the history of the Jewish people in Diaspora under the domination of the
Greco-Roman empires and their dispersion into Europe in the last 2000 years. In
particular, understanding their recent history in Europe since the 18 century
and the development of the new political philosophy of Zionism is crucially
important to understand the faith and politics of the Jewish people as it is
practiced today by their representative government in Israel. For further
information, among the two main Jewish groups, Ashkenazi of German-rite group,
and the Sephardic Jews of Spanish-rite, ideology of Zionism is followed mostly
by the former group. Zion is the name of a hill outside of Jerusalem where King
David, King of Judah built a Temple and a palace around 1000 B.C. Due to the
atmosphere of anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews, particularly of the
Ashkenazi Jews in Europe, a Jewish activist by the name of Theodor Herzl, in
1896 called for the formation of a Jewish movement with the aim of returning the
Jews in Diaspora back to the Zion in Israel. This movement which is the origin
of political Zionism, like similar movements in the past received moral,
political and financial support by many financially successful Jews of Europe.
Among them one can mention the famous Banking family of the Rothschild and also
the great Jewish family of Italian origin, Montefiore, who lived in London and
was very influential in persuading the British government in supporting the
creation of the modern Israel. Among other radical groups who were instrumental
in the creation of the new Israel, were the Irgun and Stern groups who advocated
and practiced violence to reach their dream of creating the New Israel.
In conclusion, I emphasis the need for the Kurds to understand the history of
the Jewish people. In the course of creating the new Israel, much blood has been
shed which clearly deviate the modern practice of political Zionism from the
peaceful and spiritual teachings of Judaism. After all, which religion has not
advocated violence to reach their political aims. In this respect,
Zionic-Judaism is no different than Islamic Jihad against the infidels or
Christian Crusade against the un-pures!, a peculiar behavioral characteristics
attributed to all the children of Abraham in competing to inherit the world in
their father’s name.
As far as the future relations between the Kurdish and the Jewish people are
concerned, it is my opinion that the Jews should have the right to live in Judah
and Zion. They should have the rights to visit not only the birthplace of the
Patriarch Abraham in Ur, but also to visit their Matriarch place of birth,
Haran, in Kurdistan. They should get to know how to fall in love again with the
land and the people as Jacob did by tiling the soil. In return, the Kurds will
give them the spiritual solace they need to live again in a hostile land strange
to their newly acquired culture. They will once again experience the true spirit
of Jacob and Joseph wearing coats of many colors and by welcoming them back to
the land of their ancestors, the garden of humanity.
Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur,
Former President
Kurdish-American Education Society
Upland, California.
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Article Other Articles by Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur (Total 14 articles)
Please forward this video to the Turkish embassy (5/22/2006) Kurdish
professionals should not be eluded into the high-tech business of death
(8/15/2005) Kurds poised to secede (8/3/2005) Celebrating the spirit of
the 4th of July (7/5/2005) KAES letter to UNESCO (6/3/2005) A Memorial
Day Poem (5/28/2005) Right to self determination: Aim of Kurds’ election
plan (1/9/2005) Kurdistan at the United Nations (11/23/2004) Genesis of
the Kurds-Jews Relations (Part II) (8/9/2004) Genesis of the Kurds-Jews
relations (Part I) (8/6/2004) Show ALL Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur's articles
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