Books of Joshua & Judges foreshadowing todays corruption of Zionism

[u/melefofon]

Im sure Im not the first to see this foreshadowing of the last 100 years of palestinian/israeli history and the Books of Joshua followed by Judges. I looked around on Google and on this sub and didnt find anything so Im putting this idea out there for you...

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The early Zionists drew parallels between themselves and the book of joshua and likely took inspiration from the genocide of the canaanites at the hands of the israelites. At the beginning of Joshua the israelites are coming out of the dessert after escaping egypt (Foreshadowing the holocaust). God wanted to get rid of all of the canaanites because of how morally corrupt they were so he helped the israelites defeat them. God promised this land to the Israelites in this books and then after getting rid of all of the canaanites they split up the land amongst each tribe (Foreshadowing the war of 1948).

In the Book of Judges we are told all of these stories about how the israelites overtime became more and more corrupt and unethical. There are stories of tribe vs tribe annihilating eachother, gang rape and some really gory scenes. One of the main lessons to be learned from the book of judges is a warning of the corruption of the judges who were essentially the politicians. I see the Book of Judges as a foreshadowing of 1948 -> Present.

What does Judges tell us about how this war in palestine will end?

The story of Samson (aka: IDF) commits "an act of terror" with gods help and martyrs himself taking thousands of philistines with him to their death.

[u/Fun_Swan_5363]

AFAIK the U.S. in the 1800s appropriated these ideas to justify what was done to the Native Americans.

And, I suspect U.S. Zionism supporters are also right now thinking "Well the Israelites did it in Bible so it is okay to do it again now." Haven't had any friends and family actually admit this but I'll bet some do.

[u/melefofon → u/Fun_Swan_5363]

That's what I was trying to say...because they focus on Joshua, they are failing to understand their consequences.

I didn't know the early settlers thought that way. This applies to the "new world" colonizers even more than the Zionist...US is could be the most corrupt nation to ever exist...

[u/Fun_Swan_5363 → u/melefofon]

Yeah it's true. We basically genocided the Native Americans.