Are Todays Jews Really Ancient Israel?
Commentary on the News Thursday, September 18, 2003 Jack Kinsella – Omega Letter Editor Many times have I heard people say something like The Jews today don’t have a drop of Abrahamic blood. Or that, The Jews have no racial or historical connection to the Bible and Palestine. Some Christians explain who the Jews are, saying, The Jews (or Israel) are people who missed (or rejected) the coming of the Messiah and thus were cast aside by God, and so now God deals with the Gentiles. Arab historian Jarid al-Kidwa told an Arab TV audience, “all the events surrounding Kings Saul, David and Rehoboam occurred in Yemen, and no Hebrew remnants were found in Israel, for a very simple reason–because they were never here.” Al-Kidwa said: “Most of the Khazars [a Turkish tribe that converted to Judaism in medieval times] are the Ashkenazic Jews who arrived in Palestine. As Allah is my witness, in my blood flows more of the Children of Israel and the ancient Hebrews than in the blood of Ariel Sharon an