The ancestors of the Arabs, Abraham's son Ishmael and Esav (Esau), Isaac's
son, and their descendants mainly married Hamites, like Egyptians and Canaanites.
Consequently the Arabs are Hamites. As against this, Isaac and Jacob married
women from the bloodline of Abraham and Sarai who were Shemites. Abram's
bloodline is outlined in Genesis 22:20-29. Nothing is said of Sarai's lineage,
but Abraham made it clear that his request to her to "Say you are my sister"
(Genesis 22:23 and 20:2), wasn't a lie, since she actually was his half-sister
- Abram said to king Abimelech:
22 Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though
not of my mother; and she became my wife.
Whereas children are 50% related to each of unrelated parents and 100% to
each other, the 50% Abraham and Sarah's child Yitzchak (Isaac) received
from each of their parents, was mixed with genes of both of them. While
it will take a mathematician to work out this equation, the mathematics when
it comes to Ishmael is easier since his parents were unrelated, his mother
being a Hamite from Egypt (Genesis 25:22
...son (Ishmael), whom Sarah's maidservant, Hagar the Egyptian, bore
to Abraham. What is important to note, though, is that the percentage
Shemite genes in Ishmael's children was halfed by 50% from the 50% he'd received
from Abraham. This 50% was again halfed in the next generation and it kept
on being halfed down the line - since we can assume that his offspring didn't
marry into Isaac's family, except perhaps for a very few exceptions. By the
fifth generation his descendants only had 3.2% Shemite genes and it dropped
to less than 1% by the tenth generation.
Pres. Bashar Assad of Syria's saying, "we are also Shemites", is therefore
technically wrong, although there are exceptions, like with him himself in
that it is said that his grandmother was Jewish. His territory and
northern Iraq was the area where the Jews originated, causing a sector of
the population to be closer to Shemites than the Arabs from, say Edom. They
will be, for instance, descendants of Aram, the Chaldeans, etc. That area
and part of southern Turkey, was also occupied by a nation whose land Israel
was to receive, namely the Hittites, and King David did actually manage to
conquer them and occupy their territory, causing Jews to dwell there and
increase the percentage Shemite genes in the population. Most of Israel and
a proportion of Judah never returned from their exile to Babylon, to "west"
of the Jordan river, also increasing the Shemite content of the gene pool
in the area east of the Jordan.
Who knows in the end who from among the Arab population might have Jewish
blood? A very carnal Arab operating in the Jaffo Gate area of Jerusalem among
tourists, once told me that he thought about 25% of the Arabs (in Israel?)
have Jewish blood. I was surprised that he of all Arabs, would make such
a statement, but it also added credibility to the suspicion I had nurtured
that a large number of Arabs were originally Jews who lost their Jewishness
due to becoming Muslims (voluntarily or involuntarily).
At the time I had asked the Arab about the amount of Jewish blood in his
people, I also asked a young Armenian whose father owned a restaurant near
Jaffo Gate whether he wasn't perhaps Jewish. His answer, "chas vachalila"
(Hebrew, God forbid) that I am! This is also the attitude of millions of
people among the nations - until things get so bad in their own countries
that they even forge documents to try to obtain citizenship in Israel. Many,
including thousands of Arabs, just "arrive" in Israel and work illegally,
some for many years. In a way it is probably the fulfillment of prophecies
about foreigners helping to rebuild the land and serve the Jews, viz.
Isaiah 24:2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And
the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and
maidservants in the LORD'S land. They will make captives of their captors
and rule over their oppressors
Isaiah 60:20 "Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and
their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will
show you compassion Isaiah 62:5 Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners
will work your fields and vineyards.
Although some Arabs have Jewish genes, the general Arab population are Hamites
and they exhibit the phenomenon that they will need to serve their brothers
due to Noah's curse on his son, their forefather, Ham, when he found out
that he had dishonored him:
Genesis 9:24 25 When Noah awoke from his wine and
found out what his youngest son had done to him. He said, "Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.
26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be
the slave of Shem. 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth
live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.*~*
The Arabs, being Hamites, are inherently bound by the implication of this
curse, that manifests in a seeming inability to create employment for themselves
and they will mostly, for that reason, always be "Third World" people. In
our discussion about the role of crude oil in the Middle
East, we made the statement (1997): It is often asked why the Arabs
in the Middle East have all the oil while Israel, the land promised to be
overflowing with milk and honey, seems to have very little? The question
also needs to be asked: has Israel's neighbor's oil been all that much of
a blessing to them on a longer term? In other words, WHAT ELSE DO THEY HAVE
in terms of intellectual property and industries, apart from those set up
by other countries - mostly to manufacture weapons of mass destruction that
don't contribute to GDP. In other words, what other than oil contributes
to the gross domestic product of Israel and oil producing countries in the
Middle East? It is incredibly ironic that industrialized countries in
the west have benefited more from the Arab's oil than what they have benefited
from it themselves.
*~* It is interesting to note that this verse implies that
the descendants of the three brothers will always be linked along the lines
God knitted them together by means of Noah's blessings on them. The statement
in Genesis 9:27, "May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth
live in the tents of Shem", is difficult to understand. All the Jews
(Shemites) in the world will eventually return to Israel, the Promised Land
- by their own choice and forced by the world. Can it, however, be taken
literally that Japheth will live in the tents of Shem? During the 1990s large
numbers of non-Jews (Japheth) immigrated illegally from the former Soviet
Union and thousands of others from other countries such as Rumania, South
America, etc., also turned up in Israel (legally and illegally) to find work.
This causes a large contingent of Japheth's descendants to be present in
Israel. In the last days Israel will probably also accommodate a large number
of non-Jewish Zionists refugees who will be persecuted for their support
of Jews and Israel - See Prophetic Wakeup
Call! But these non-Jews living in Israel cannot possibly be all of Japheth.
All we can think "Japheth living in the tents of Shem" could mean,
is that it will be a manifestation in practice of the promise to Abraham:
"In you the nations of the world will be blessed". And the wonder of it all
will be that the nations will even be blessed more abundantly from blessing
Israel according to the promise to Abraham,
"I will bless those who bless
you".
This, of course, applies to Ham as well, as long as he doesn't rebel against
his role as servant of his brothers. It might even have lead to them not
being able to rule themselves, of which we have numerous examples in the
Arab world and in Africa. It is ironic that today's African Americans are
much better off than the offspring of their brothers who hadn't been taken
to America as slaves. Another consequence of this phenomenon is the absence
of functioning democracies in Hamite nations.
The present conflict in Israel with the Arabs will probably be resolved in
a major battle in which the number of Arabs will be dramatically reduced,
others will again pour in from Arab states (those left) to find employment
- but under a new set of rules in which they will not be a threat to Israel.
See "They bite the hand that
feeds them"
Evn Perach asserted the the following about the present situation in
Israel in a letter to Ha'aretz (20 Dec. 2000), titled, "Why are the Arabs
in Israel?" :
Dear Editor
Regarding "First, Some soul-searching" in Ha'aretz, of May 5, 2000: When
it comes to the "plight" of the poor Arabs in Israel, one needs to ask, "Why
are they in Israel in the first place?" With Israel, I refer to the
un-partitioned land of Canaan promised to Abraham, Yitzchak and Jaacov, the
land shown to Moses from Mt Nebo. Arabs are present in this land because:
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A few probably lived in the land as foreigners among the Jews in the times
of the Romans, of whom some might have remained with the Jews who weren't
scattered to the nations.
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A few more might have moved in during the time before the Jews started returning
in larger numbers in the late 1800s. (It must be noted
that the land of Israel becomes a wasteland when
the Jews are not living in it. Mark Twain for instance, said after his journey
from Jerusalem to the Galilee in the late 1860s, "I saw but one human
and one tree". This can also be seen from Ezekiel 36:33-34. The Lord
God of Israel says:
I will bring you home again to Israel, and rebuild the ruins. Acreage
will be cultivated again that through the years of exile lay empty as barren
wilderness; all who passed by were shocked (like Twain) to see the extent
of ruin in your land. (Living Bible - see also Ezekiel 38:8 -- not quoted
in the letter:
After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade
a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many
nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate**. They
had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in
safety)).
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***They could find employment like about 200,000 other foreigners from Rumania,
Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, South America, Jordan, etc.
My question is: If the Arabs have the right to Israeli land they say they
have, why didn't they develop anything on it before the Jews started returning?
It is now so easy to blame the Jews for insufficient development in areas
they occupy and to try to get things by wailing at the UN, heads of nations
and leftist Israeli humanists and self-centered, defeatist, military men
turned politician like Rabin, Barak, Sharon, Ben Eliezer, etc.].
Evn Perach
** This desolation can even today be seen in areas of Israel Arabs are occupying.
This phenomenon led to the line separating the so-called "Territories" from
the rest of Israel, being called the "Greenline" since there's very little
"greenery" beyond that line - except for the hills where Jewish "settlements"
have been established -- fulfilling the prophecy,
Ezekiel 36:2 "Son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. 2 This
is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy said of you, "Aha! The ancient
heights have become our possession." ... 7 Therefore this is what the Sovereign
LORD says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also
suffer scorn. 8 "'But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and
fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. 9 I am concerned
for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown. 10
And I will multiply the number of people upon you, even the whole house of
Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 I will increase
the number of men and animals upon you, and they will be fruitful and become
numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper
more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD
*** There wasn't room in the letter to point out that majority of Arabs,
now living in Israel and the so-called "refugees", only turned up in Israel
(of our day) after the Jews had begun returning to the land in the late 1800s
- mainly from eastern Europe - and started creating employment opportunities. |
