Childhood, always take the radio secretly listen to shortwave, waves that came and gentle biblical interpretation can always attract me. At first, only to hear that rich magnetic voice, although at the time that the content is not important, but there are a few name is deeply engraved in my mind, that is, Jerusalem -- israel......
Since then, Israel this mysterious country, became a place I always look forward to. Grow up gradually, into adulthood, although childhood yearning for the life and work of busy gradually fade, international political news reports have once again brought me back to my childhood dream......
Israel, has always been the focus of attention of international society. Although half of his land surrounded by desert; though his total territory area is only slightly inferior to Beijing; he is the only one in the Middle East oil-producing countries not; he is the three largest religion believers the sacred heart. But his history is full of blood and tears; full of a lot of controversy; full of beach and war; more full of infinite mystery.
In IsraelIsrael, the west along the Mediterranean Sea, east of the Arabia desert, sixty miles north and south zone is narrow, camels traffic must pass through, is known as "a land flowing with milk and honey". Although the taste of Mediterranean countries tourists had been accustomed to seeing blue sea, blue sky, Jinshatan, but Israel this extremely poor land, but with a massive desert oasis, and grow into a piece of date palm forest in heavy saline land and leading.
Come with me, go slowly uncover the mysterious veil of the Holy land......
Listen, history in a whisper
"If you love him, he went to the United States of America send; if you hate him, delivers him to go to the United States of america......" This is a N long years ago on a TV show. But if you've been to Israel, you will say: "if he had faith, he was sent to Israel; if he has no religious faith, delivers him to go to israel"......
If we say the history of the Chinese nation are long, the history of Israel as well as a masterpiece, after 4000 years of vicissitudes, and crown to not only religious aura, also let the land covered with a layer of mysterious veil.
If we enter the time tunnel, we can follow in the footsteps of Abraham before 4000, will see the ancient ancestors of the Jews -- ancient Semitic branch of the Hebrew people, they named "Israel", and put the name given to the land, the Jews as core Israel for their nation and the spiritual life, known as the "holy land" or "land of promise".
When King David Lvzhong ended 430 years of Egyptian life moved back in the land of Canaan, the kingdom of Israel since the establishment of. No matter the reign of King Solomon in the North-South divide what is right and wrong, when the Babylon captured Jerusalem and the temple, on fire, the more difficult for the nation was again into the abyss of misery.
The history is so ruthless, the temple reconstruction, Herod's expansion, grand buildings are not Rome downfall, and most of the Jews were expelled from Palestine, diaspora in Europe, the name changed to "Syria - Palestine", tried to erase the Jews for thousands of years and the the land is connected. Even so, there is still a small part of the Jews remained in Palestine, but the main Jewish population from southern to northern Israel, tenacious belief and not let them down, as in this period in Judaism the most important classics "Tamud".
Experienced the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Babylon, Rome, and other ancient Byzantine rule, Jews fading in the region gradually and deported, scattered all over the world, remains even Chinese have Kaifeng synagogue. Even so, the Jewish suffering does not end, in 638 ad, the Muslim seized control of the region from the Byzantine Empire, after a number of Muslim countries ruled the area; including the Umayyad Dynasty, Abbas Dynasty, as well as the flower Son La Mo Hemeng ancient, in 1260 to 1516 by the Mamou Luke rule, then to become a province of Osman empire in 1517......
After centuries of exile and migration, scattered in the world area of the Jews to escape persecution, began to return to Palestine, namely ancient Jewish land. The Jews to buy land from the Osman Empire and the Arabs and settled. With the rise of "the Zionist movement", calling on the whole world Jewish return, restore the national way of life.
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"Time can kill everything" that didn't seem to apply to Israel in nineteenth Century, the end of the good luck not to Israel, from 1897 to 1939, convened in Basel from the first session of the "World Zionist Congress," to limit Jewish immigration uk white paper, Jews and there have been four return wave, which is an important reason of tension and the Arabs in the relationship.
Entered in twentieth Century, from 1933 until 1948, not lift the Nazi Holocaust shadow, the Israeli war independent Arab violence and cause, more make the land and the people's suffering.
Seems to be bad luck always refused to let go the more difficult for the nation, although the Jews that it was God on their test, 50 years of British and French Allied war on Egypt, 60 in the 6 day war, 70's "operation wrath of God", 80's war in Lebanon and the Palestinian uprising, 90 years the fish in the moat suffer the Persian Gulf war......
The beginning of the twenty-first Century, the Middle East peace talks fail, the war in Lebanon, the Palestinian-Israeli war...... Until the middle of twenty-first Century, finally let the battered country calm a little.
Israel is not only the historical heritage, but also full of mysterious religious. Judaism is the world's three largest a belief in God, the earliest and most ancient religion, but also the Jewish way of life and beliefs. The major commandments and teachings of Judaism, from the Torah, i.e. the first five books of the bible.
In 2008, the highly religious and mysterious, and war and countries open to Chinese tourists, perhaps because of the fear of war, few people dare to, even before I left, and friends discouraged: don't go to the Middle East, particularly in Israel, there is a mess, they will be the explosion, can occur at any time of war...... In fact, they do not know, even in wartime, every year tens of thousands of tourists. Don't underestimate the full of conflict and controversy in the country, this is nearly half the world's faithful pilgrimage to the holy land, is the eyes of Westerners in the western world of ultimate, is one of the major tourist country global push, because he was known as "life must go to the place"!
Come with me, go slowly uncover the mysterious veil of the Holy land......
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