What is Judaism?-5/ Israel-Assyria-Promised Land

 

Israel-Assyria and Ezra

 

The term Israel actually refers to Assyria, the main subject of these major historical breakthroughs. The Qur’an consistently corrects the stories of Ezrael in the Torah and talks about Assyria. And Holy Qur’an repeatedly says that the prophets and messengers mentioned are neither Jewish nor Christian. Assyria is not described as a historical narration but as an example and parable for all time as the fundamental empire of ancient history. In the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, etc., in the Qur’an, the Children of Israel are never mentioned. The nation of Abraham (pbuh) refers to the believers of the Sumer-Babylon-Assyria era under Hammurabi’s dominion. Jacob and the children of Jacob are also continuations of the nation of Abraham. Assyria exists as a city but is not yet an empire. The period when Assyria and its successor Egypt became great empires is the reign of King Sargon (Shar ukin) and after.

Moses (pbuh) appears in this era. The term Beni Asur (the Children of Asur), used for Assyrians, describes the rescue of Assyrian peoples captured during the Iranian invasion, under the leadership of Moses (pbuh) and their relocation to Egypt, and then their great war with the Iranian armies-Feridun-Pharaoh. The story of the Babylonian exile in the Torah is actually the story of the salvation and migration of the Assyrians under the leadership of Moses. But, thereafter, this story distorted by perplexing expulsion of the Iran-aligned colonial communities from Phoenicia-Jerusalem area during second Assyrians Empire under the reign of grandson of Salmanasur, Prophet Hizirnasir (Helper of Prophet Khidr – Nebuchadnezzar) and creating a dramatic history for themselves. (The story of Nebuchadnezzar and the exile in the Jeremiah section of the Torah provide the inspiration for creation of opera Nabucco by the Italian musician Verdi in 1856. The story combines the migration of the Assyrians in the 1200s BCE with the expulsion of other Iranian colonists 700 years later, portraying Zechariah (pbuh )as a Jewish king, Ishmael (pbuh) as a traitor, adding love stories from Homer’s Iliad, and turning all of it into a single event as a Jewish drama.)

The Qur’an does not emphasize the historical information but the lessons that should have been passed to the subsequent generations from this great struggle. The stories of Moses in the Qur’an never mention the word Jew. The terms Yehudi-Hadu are used more for the Canaan region during Jesus Christ’s time and for the Jews of Medina during Prophet Muhammad’s era. These subtle uses escaped the notice of Muslim commentators under the influence of Israiliyat.

The replacement of the concept of Assyria with Azra-Ezra originated from the need to adapt the names and beliefs of the communities brought to the region by the Persians after the downfall of second Assyria and invasion and location of the Indo-Iranians in the Assyrian countries. (So, it’s not about a Jewish exile but it is the story of the historical ‘first Israel’ like present-day Israel established by the Persians and Indian communities brought by them into region who later called themselves Jews. In this context, while the term Israel used by the Jews evokes Assyria, actually refers to Ezra’s tribe-people. Ezra was the vizier of the Persian king Cyrus-Kirosh-Keyhüsrev. The Persians gathered communities from central Asia, Afghanistan, ancient India’s Yehudya, Kolkata, Kochi-Kerala, and Mumbai-Maharashtra regions, who were engaged in trade, farming, and mercenary work, and brought them to the region for the campaign against Assyria and colonized Assyrian cities. The commercial activities were assigned to the Jews, the military activities to the nomadic warrior tribes from the Caspian-Central Asia region, and the religious ideological training and administrative tasks to the Iranian-Persian elite. (The efforts of Theodor Herzl, a German spy who tried to settle German Jews in Palestine in the early 20th century, the establishment of Izrail in the mid-20th century by Britain, the USA, and Russia, or the modern Achaemenid-Khamenei vizier, the modern Ezra, Qasem Soleimani who recruited poor Shiites from Afghanistan and Pakistan with money to fight and settle in Syria and Yemen, are similar examples of colonization!)

The Promised Land and the Chosen People

The expression Rabb used in the Torah actually refers to the Persian king Cyrus. Rabb means lord or king. While it is also used for God, meaning the ultimate lord of the universe, in the Torah it refers to Cyrus, making him the actual lord or king who brought the Jews to the stage of history. Arz-e-Mevud, the promised land, is the Assyrian lands promised by Cyrus to the Jewish community in return for their services. The Qur’an does not mention Arz-e-Mevud, but speaks of the fertile lands, the fertile crescent, namely Assyria. ‘The chosen people’ refers to the nation chosen by Cyrus and entrusted with a special mission and promised dominion over the region. Persians made similar promises to every community he brought to the region. There is no connection with God in this matter! God is not a king who chooses one of His created nation, to being serve by the others. (Again, there is no cursed nation in the Qur’an. God does not curse nations or people, but rather the behaviors that dehumanize them. Some Muslims’ claim that Jews are cursed contradicts the Qur’an. Muslims who commit cursed acts like murder, exploitation, massacre, oppression, and subversion also bear that curse. Making enemies of a community in every way and  eternally, is contrary to the Islamic faith and the Abrahamic virtue of justice.) But the Jewish god, Cyrus, is that king, and the Persians-Aryans as the inventors of the racism, like Iblis, still consider themselves special, chosen, regarding the rest as goyim, barbarians, inferior slave-like beings. The Jews, with this habitude, have regarded every king as their Rab all along the history who protected them. They used the title of Hammurabi-Abraham, meaning the lord-father of justice, for Cyrus, who occupied the region that was Abraham’s legacy. (In the Qur’an, some expressions that appear as Rab or Angel in the verses narrating the prophets and messengers, refer to the political authorities of that time as king, ruler, sultan. When used abstractly, Rabb refers to God, and angel refers to the known angels.) Today’s Rab for the Jews is the USA.

In the early period, the Jews (like the Indian-origin gypsies, with whom they possibly share a common ancestry as seen in every Jewish ghetto having a neighboring gypsy neighborhood) had no distinct religious belief or ethnic characteristic. This community is the remnants of the ancient Elam-Akkad-Ad and Semud tribes scattered in India and disliked among Indian communities, later went to India and settled there, being geographically Iranian. They were probably the lowest caste in the Indo caste system, the nameless ones (Parya), always despised and bearing a deep hatred for the majority of people. These communities were brought in the 538 BCE to invade Assyrian cities, exterminate and expel the locals, and rule on behalf of the Persians. Thus, the Jews are the first Rafidhi colonizers brought to the region by Iran. Ezra, who led this community, later became the name of the tribe itself; Azra-Izra-el.

 

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-Those interested can also look at Sumer, Assyria, Babylon, Hammurabi, Shalmaneser,

Ramses, Israel, David, Solomon, Elam, Iran, Persia, Cyrus, Alexander, Homer-Iliad, Greece,

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