Published by The American Mercury in the Winter 1976 issue
by C.T. Gilbreath
THE REAL ESTATE in question is some 15U miles long
by about 100 miles at its widest point. It is
located at the Crossroads of the World.
The land, they call Palestine.
The city, they call Jerusalem.
The two combined, they call “The Holy Land.”
Today the Jews call it ISRAEL … And
the Gentiles call it, TROUBLE.
The Arabs claim title to this land as
they have lived there for generations.
The Jews claim title because they “saw it first.”
In clarifying the ownership of this property a title search run through any en-cyclopedia, Wells’ Outline of History, and Van Loon’s Story of Mankind reveals the following:
The Tell-el-Amarna Tablets show a town known as Urusaim, on the present site of Jerusalem, as early as 1500 B.C.
This town was taken by David about
1000 B.C.
935 B.C. Egypt conquered this land.
850 B.C. the Arabs took it away from them.
786 B.C. Israel (Jews) came into possession of Jerusalem and surrounding ter-ritory.
601 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered Palestine.
586 B.C. Jerusalem was sacked, and the temple was burned as well as the palace by the Chaldeans. The Jews were deported to Babylonia.
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