
National Security: Israel
The modern state of Israel is now 75 years old, created in 1948, about the time I was born. Its antecedents are much older, going back to the 32nd chapter of the book of Genesis, when Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, was given the title. The placename of Palestine is at least a thousand years newer, being given first by the Greeks and then repeated in the second century by the Romans.
There are many apologists who believe that the Jews took the land from the Palestinian Muslims. No, the Jews