Israel conflict from 1834 Women’s perspective

Dear Readers,

Today is the day where my readers will rethink if they want to continue reading my blog, simply because of what I will anticipate won’t be to a topic to their liking: The restoration of the nation of Israel as only one solution without diluting the issue into borders with Palestine or other Arab states.

To dwell in this undiluted view of the Israel problem is to look back at how women in early 1800’s saw the issue and explored the issue in magazines and journals that brought rather than closure, the ideological framework of the concept of State of Israel.

The ideological framework of the concept of State of Israel in the West is first and foremost Christian ideology. This subjective point of view I postulate in this blog post, has a Material History which we will not dwell here as I am not an archaeologist, but which forms the basis of what I postulate, as archaeological findings of several natures prove the existence of the ancient Israel nation in the Middle East.

The Christian Ideology of the concept of Israel is pre European colonialism and is based, according to the evidence I found, in a set of Christian beliefs that evolved to embody political ideologies with gained momentum after the Second World War.

The fact that the concept of state of Israel is primarily mediated by the notion of Jewish people and Jewish Religion does not mean that is not originally appropriated by the notion of Christianity and of Christian Religion based in Jesus Christ with a strong connection to Jerusalem.

Moreover, that not only the latter appropriation preceded the concept of state of Israel as a state for those exiled, but was not for Christianity itself the concept of Israel as defined in this paragraph would not exist at all.

I draw attention to an excerpt of a letter to the editor of the Christian Lady’s Magazine in 1834,

The reader writes to the editor Charlotte Elizabeth about Jerusalem as the point of origin for all Christians and for Christianity as a unifying Religion that ought to be taught all over the world, as long as Christians are still practising what we preach and developing the lands, inclusive Jerusalem, where we preach the Christian Gospel.

‘Beginning at Jerusalem’ can also be broadly interpreted as ‘beginning at home’, and this is of course another simplistic realization that the origins of Christianity lie in Jerusalem, next to where Jesus Christ was crucified.

The Christian Lady’s Magazine vol 1 1834 is replete of examples of where Christians are mentioned as Hebrews interchangeably, and such instances are all drawn from the Holy Bible. For example in page 567 ” In the first chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews, the third verse, Christ is spoken of as “”the express image of God’s person””, In ‘On the General Resurrection, pages 535-542.

However, in the same volume Jews are seen as wanting and needing to have a place called home or wanting their Israel state back. For example,

The fact that this poem starts with how the Jews have no friends of their own to help them in their lonely quest of wanting their home back and that the author goes on by asking the readers to rise as Christians to ensure the glory days of Jerusalem are back, is another example of how the Christian ideology not only precedes but equally propels the modern concept of Israel State as a returning home for those in exile.

More than that, how Christian ideology from a Late Georgian Christian Women point of view sees the Jewish people as the only tools to guarantee the security of Jerusalem for Christian purposes and the cultivation of the abandoned lands of surrounding Jerusalem for ideological purposes of the spread of the Gospel of Christ in all Nations.