No Historic Justification for Tel Aviv, but Shiloh on The Other Hand...

It has never made any sense to me for the insistence by Leftist Israelis and others all over the world that Tel Aviv should be part of the modern Jewish State but not Shiloh.

Enormous storage jug found in Tel Shiloh. Shiloh had been the first Jewish spiritual and administrative Capital of the Jewish Tribal Nation before the reign of King David who declared Jerusalem the Capital City.

Last week I was in the Israel Museum and went to the archaeology department to visit the enormous Biblical time jug discovered in Shiloh about thirty-five years ago. Periodically I like to touch base with it since its presence there reaffirms that even the most Leftists of the academic archaeologists recognize the historic existance of Shiloh during Biblical times.

This time I noticed a map that showed the cities of the Biblical era.

Shiloh is listed/indicated, just where I live today, but there is absolutely no Tel Aviv. Look carefully at the coast directly west of Shiloh. You can see the Yarkon River and far (especially when you take into account how people traveled then) to the south is Ashdod. You can also see Beit El, Jerusalem and Shechem.  But when the Jewish People functioned as a nation thousands of years There was no city in the Tel Aviv/Jaffa area.

Jewish Historical Legitimacy is to the very cities and areas "Medinat Tel Aviv," Israeli the Leftist establishment keeps insisting must go to Arabs.

And even more ironic or hypocritical of the Leftists is the fact that Tel Aviv was established as the Jewish suburb or neighborhood of Jaffa, which was an Arab city at the time modern Zionists began to flock to the Holy Land. Jaffa Port was necessary for the Zionist commercial, industrial and political development. They invented Tel Aviv as a non-Arab city.

Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh

Shiloh, on the other hand, was totally empty of inhabitants, Arabs or others, when seven young Jewish families and a handful of yeshiva students moved here in January, 1978. There was no conflict with anyone besides the Israeli Government, the total opposite of Tel Aviv's history. All that was found in Shiloh were the Biblical artifacts from the time the Mishkan, Holy Tabernacle was in Shiloh for pilgrimage and worship, plus the remains of synagogues, churches and a mosque. In a very significant way, this is totally reminiscent of the condition Shiloh was in during the time of Joshua's conquest and settling of the Holy Land after wandering the desert for forty years.  There was no need for a military conquest for Shiloh. No war over Shiloh is mentioned in the Bible. Joshua was able to bring the Jewish People into Shiloh and establish it as the Capital without any opposition. It remained the Jewish Capital for about four hundred years.

To summarize:

• If, as according to the Left, we have no Jewish rights to Shiloh, then we have even less rights to be in Tel Aviv.
• If we have the right to have a Jewish/Zionist city in the Tel Aviv area, then we certainly have even more right to be in Shiloh!

What do you think?

Listening to the Ordinary Israelis

Just like the proverbial cabdriver who gets to meet and talk to all sorts of people, I have those experiences when tremping, aka hitchhiking. Frequently I stay quiet, and I almost always wait for the driver to start the conversation.

Tonight after my friend dropped me off at Ofra, a car immediately showed up on its way to Ariel, so I asked the driver if he'd mind dropping me off at the Shiloh Junction.

"Just get in quickly" was his reply.

I don't know how the conversation started, but we covered a lot of material very quickly. I think he started by asking if I live in Shiloh, and then we just got going especially talking about the absurdity that in this war, this time in history places like Ariel and Shiloh are among the safest in the State of Israel. We have no doubt, but most Israelis still think we live in what has been called "the wild west bank."

He and I disagreed on whether or not Medinat Tel Aviv,  "the State of Tel Aviv," which is what many Israelis, especially those in the south and north who feel ignored and slighted by the slights of the Israeli elitists. The phrase may also be used by the Tel Avivians who are proud of their status. Many haven't a clue as to how ignorant they are of what happens in the rest of the country. And I don't even think they care. He thinks that the missiles that landed on/in Tel Aviv educated them to understand what other Israelis go through all the time. I don't think they were "converted." Soon they will go back to "normal" and Medinat Tel Aviv will return to its oblivian.

My driver also made fun of the name of this military campaign "Operation Protective Edge" and can't understand why it got such a strange name that shows no desire to finish off our enemies, destroy them.

An Israeli soldier flashes the "V" for victory sign from an armored personnel carrier (APC) at an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ Jack Guez)

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He liked what Putin said about what to do with Hamas. I couldn't find what he told me on the google, so it may be a "legend" among Russian immigrants in Israel. According to him Putin suggests that Israel give Hamas 24 hours to surrender and then  the next morning, hours before the deadline, call to announce that he wants an answer immediately. Time's up.

And in Sha'ar Binyamin, in Yafiz and Rami Levy Jews and Arabs continue to work and shop together, as if nothing is going on in the rest of the country. One very large change is the number of Arab customers. Arab employees want to continue to get their salaries and feel comfortable in the world where Jews and  Arab somehow work peacefully together. But there are far fewer Arabs in the stores than I've ever seen in the three and half years I've worked there.

More updates as they come.