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Holy Land: Holy Trouble! The 20th Century has been a hotbed of Holy Land tensions Monday, February 6, 2012
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Holy Land:Holy Trouble!

The 20th Century has been a hotbed of Holy Land tensions

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Holy Lands - Roman

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Holy Land Sacred to Jewish

Why?

Jerusalem = ancient capital city

this region is considered their ancestral homeland (before they were kicked out back around 500 BCE!)

Jerusalem has Western or Wailing Wa$ - of the Second Temple - most sacred site in Judaism

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Holy Land Sacred to i

Why?

It’s a$ about Jesus Christ! Christians regard Jesus as their Messiah and Saviour - messenger 'om God

Holy Land (Bethlehem + Jerusalem)- places where Jesus was born, crucified and resurrected

This area became Christian a)er the Roman Emperor Constantine forced everyone to adopt Christianity (313)

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Sacred to Islam

Why?

Jerusalem - place where Mohammad (Muslim’s Messiah, next a)er Jesus) ascended to heaven

3rd most sacred site in Islam

Holy Lands conquered by Muslims in 7th Century

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Holy Land

Has been largely in the Muslim World since the 7th century: Seljuk Turks, Ottoman Empire

WWI - Ottoman Empire breaks up a)er losing (they joined Germany and lost). Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Kuwait are created. These “countries” had never existed before

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20th Century1917 - Britain gives the OK for Jewish folks to start immigrating to Palestine

1920‘s-30‘s: Jewish numbers grow in Palestine

1930’s - Hitler’s rising power = rising tensions against Jewish people in Germany

WW11 + Holocaust: mi$ions of Jewish people ki$ed in Europe

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Effects ofWorld War 11

Post-Holocaust: The world is ashamed

Jewish people need a safe place to go

Many believe they need to create a homeland somewhere

But where? Wherever they go wi$ cause tensions with the local people... (eg: Europeans “discovering” America)

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Holocaust Solution?

Palestine was chosen as a safe place for Jewish people to create a new homeland - where they wi$ be safe 'om persecution

Reasons?

i) Ancient Jewish Holy Land

ii) Jewish people have been moving there since 1917

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What problems might this lead to?

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Holy Lands

Today there are constant tensions in the Holy Land between Palestinians (who are mainly Muslim but also Jewish + Christian) and Jewish settlers.

Hundreds of people die and live in fear every year in Palestine and Israel as a result

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Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss

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