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girlactionfigure · 8 months

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Something else for those history deniers that think Zionism & Israel just popped up out of nowhere in the late 19th/early 20th century.

After Napolean was on the march through Italy & Egypt, he entered Eretz Israel (occupied then by the Ottoman Turks) in 1799.

He conquered Jaffa.

And as he approached Acre, he camped and made a remarkable decision that could have changed the course of world history.

Napolean issued a letter to the Jewish people offering they may return to their homeland & live as a free nation again, under French protection.

The letter stated, among other things, that it was addressed “to the rightful heirs of Palestine … Israelites, unique nation, whom, in thousands of years, lust of conquest and tyranny have been able to be deprived of their ancestral lands, but not of name and national existence!”

He went on to tell the “exiled” Jews to “rejoice” because France was offering “Israel’s patrimony!”

Then he exalted the Jews that “now is the moment … to claim the restoration of civic rights the population of the universe which had been shamefully withheld from you for thousands of years, your political existence as a nation among nations, & the unlimited right to worship Jehovah in accordance with your faith, publicly & most probably forever.”

Unfortunately, this offer could never be accepted or enforced.

Back then, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was still rather strong, and they sent a mass of troops that sent Napoleon packing.

Captain Allen

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