I would agree the reasoning is solid, but perhaps the thought I would offer is that you give some reconsideration to the paradigm that might be called the "Biblical worldview".
It crystallized for me some years ago when I heard the late researcher Tom Horn use that phrase, that his analysis was with the "Biblical worldview". I thought, "Isn't there only one worldview, what me might call 'The Truth of the Universe' or something? Does the Bible not simply describe and help us understand some part of that Truth?"
I figured out that for the great many adhering to the "Biblical worldview", truth sprang from the Bible. Well, I think most will admit the Bible contains many conundrums, contradictions, and various counterintuitive events and puzzling statements. The problem, as I came to see clearly, was that to resolve these problems, people would read into the Bible, creating "truths" that were not there in the text.
I came to see that to correctly understand and interpret what was there in a sensible way, you had to look at the history and circumstances surrounding it. Well, to be clear, to look if necessary anywhere in the whole of the Universe.
That was the paradigm shift. As with Copernicus, everyone has a choice to make and few are ready to confront that choice, let alone accept change. Maybe I wasn't built that way so all I can say is that it wasn't difficult for me.
Once I had this clearly in mind, pieces began to fall into place and much in the Bible and the world began to make more sense. As to the present topic, just what the hell is going on with "the Jews", there are a couple of examples from the study of history that (IMHO) greatly clarify points you touched on.
One is that "the Jews" as the concept we now have simply did not exist until a couple of hundred years ago. Even leaving the Khazarian Hypothesis out, the present group has little to do with the Old Testament group. The concept was entirely dreamed up as the tool we've all seen being used for malevolent purposes for a century. I wrote some of this up in a comment here:
People professing the Jewish faith lived peacefully, assimilated into their various communities and nations all across the Mediterranean Basin, for many centuries following the expulsion. Really, they were just the same as the vast majority of Jews in Germany until external forces decided to use that subgroup as a tool also.
Looking back further, even something taken as well understood, the "Babylonian Captivity", is entirely misunderstood when history is consulted. I was stunned to find out that when the 70 years was over, only 4% (an estimated 40k out of 1m) went back to Jerusalem. Does that sound like slavery? Not to me.
Even the beginning of the period is upside-down. They try to suggest there was a "Siege of Jerusalem", but there was no battle at all. It looks to me like they all went with Cyrus back to Babylon as something other than captives. What those circumstances were is a much longer story, but my point here would be that no one else ever addresses themselves to it head-on as we are doing here.
Just as a final thought, the Biblical worldview holds that Israel is going to be destroyed in the big Battle of Armageddon, however one wishes to define that. Since the fateful October 7th, it struck me that the "Jewish State of Israel"--which had been teetering on the edge for a couple of years--would not survive what had been unleashed, however it might ultimately play out.
I very much consciously thought of it as the "Armageddon" we would live to see the end of and organized my notes along those lines, tracking the course of the implosion. No one with the Biblical worldview--those looking for the end of Israel--seems to have interpreted events this way, which I find quite ironic.
I would agree the reasoning is solid, but perhaps the thought I would offer is that you give some reconsideration to the paradigm that might be called the "Biblical worldview".
It crystallized for me some years ago when I heard the late researcher Tom Horn use that phrase, that his analysis was with the "Biblical worldview". I thought, "Isn't there only one worldview, what me might call 'The Truth of the Universe' or something? Does the Bible not simply describe and help us understand some part of that Truth?"
I figured out that for the great many adhering to the "Biblical worldview", truth sprang from the Bible. Well, I think most will admit the Bible contains many conundrums, contradictions, and various counterintuitive events and puzzling statements. The problem, as I came to see clearly, was that to resolve these problems, people would read into the Bible, creating "truths" that were not there in the text.
I came to see that to correctly understand and interpret what was there in a sensible way, you had to look at the history and circumstances surrounding it. Well, to be clear, to look if necessary anywhere in the whole of the Universe.
That was the paradigm shift. As with Copernicus, everyone has a choice to make and few are ready to confront that choice, let alone accept change. Maybe I wasn't built that way so all I can say is that it wasn't difficult for me.
Once I had this clearly in mind, pieces began to fall into place and much in the Bible and the world began to make more sense. As to the present topic, just what the hell is going on with "the Jews", there are a couple of examples from the study of history that (IMHO) greatly clarify points you touched on.
One is that "the Jews" as the concept we now have simply did not exist until a couple of hundred years ago. Even leaving the Khazarian Hypothesis out, the present group has little to do with the Old Testament group. The concept was entirely dreamed up as the tool we've all seen being used for malevolent purposes for a century. I wrote some of this up in a comment here:
Why did Hitler think it was acceptable to try to try to export Germany's Jews to everyone else, who didn't want them either? (conspiracies.win 9/29/2024)
People professing the Jewish faith lived peacefully, assimilated into their various communities and nations all across the Mediterranean Basin, for many centuries following the expulsion. Really, they were just the same as the vast majority of Jews in Germany until external forces decided to use that subgroup as a tool also.
Looking back further, even something taken as well understood, the "Babylonian Captivity", is entirely misunderstood when history is consulted. I was stunned to find out that when the 70 years was over, only 4% (an estimated 40k out of 1m) went back to Jerusalem. Does that sound like slavery? Not to me.
Even the beginning of the period is upside-down. They try to suggest there was a "Siege of Jerusalem", but there was no battle at all. It looks to me like they all went with Cyrus back to Babylon as something other than captives. What those circumstances were is a much longer story, but my point here would be that no one else ever addresses themselves to it head-on as we are doing here.
Just as a final thought, the Biblical worldview holds that Israel is going to be destroyed in the big Battle of Armageddon, however one wishes to define that. Since the fateful October 7th, it struck me that the "Jewish State of Israel"--which had been teetering on the edge for a couple of years--would not survive what had been unleashed, however it might ultimately play out.
I very much consciously thought of it as the "Armageddon" we would live to see the end of and organized my notes along those lines, tracking the course of the implosion. No one with the Biblical worldview--those looking for the end of Israel--seems to have interpreted events this way, which I find quite ironic.