History predicts the death of Israhell

Started by yankeedoodle, April 26, 2023, 03:41:11 PM

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QuoteHistorians and educators have pointed out a critically important pattern in the history of Jewish self-rule. There are two pre-modern eras in which the Jewish nation enjoyed sovereignty in the land of Israel: at the end of the 11th century BC with the Davidic Kingdom and the first Temple in Jerusalem, and in 140 BC when the Hasmonean dynasty reestablished Jewish independence in Judea. But as each approached their 75th year of existence, each started to disintegrate because of internal strife and infighting. The Davidic reign over a united Israel effectively ended when it was split into the two competing kingdoms of Judea and Israel. The Hasmonean kingdom began to fall apart due to infighting between the sons of Alexander and Shlomtzion, the rulers of Judea in the first century BC.

Sovereign Jewish history tells us that at around the 75th year, experiments in Jewish self-determination faced the most dangerous threat of all: self-destruction.

The foregoing is excerpted from this artidle:
Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after 75 years. Can Israel defy history — again?
https://www.jta.org/2023/04/24/opinion/multiple-efforts-in-jewish-sovereignty-have-self-destructed-after-75-years-can-israel-defy-history-again