World Imperialism, Muslim Apartheid, and the Jewish National Resurgence The Jewish nation has resisted world

imperialism for two and a half thousand yea rs. When the first Jewish temple was destroyed by the forces of Nebuchadnezzar, the Judean kingdom fell under the first in a long series of oppressive foreign o ccupations. The first occupation came to an end after the Persian king Cyrus def eated the last Babylonian emperor. He issued a law requiring the rebuilding of t he Temple and encouraging the return to Israel. After this decree was reinforced by King Darius, the Temple, the house of G-d on earth, was rebuilt. Jewish nati onalism has fought globalization since the revolt of the Maccabees. The attempt by Syrian Greeks to force their way of life on the Jews of Israel resulted in a succesful revolt against the forces of cultural globalization. The Roman occupat ion, like the Syrian Hellenizers, attempted to destroy the Jewish nation. After a revolt against Roman rule, the General Titus destroyed the Second Temple in 70 C. E. The Jewish nation attempted to free itself once again from Roman imperial ism, but general Bar Kokhba and Rabbi Akiva were killed at Betar along with mill ions of Jews. In an attempt to destroy the Jewish culture and nation, the empero r Hadrian closed Jerusalem to Jews and renamed the land of Israel to Palestina i n 135 C. E. Life for non-Muslims in Muslim-conquered territories was characterized by a syst em of apartheid, also known as tolerance. The land of Israel was no exception. W hen Muslims conquered Israel in 638 C. E., the Judeophobic discrimination used b y the Byzantine occupiers was combined with the same tolerance that was extended to conquered Jews in Medina and Mecca. The conquered peoples of the Muslim empi re who decided not to convert were required to pay an extra tax and were not acc epted as equal witnesses in legal trials. This tolerance, or Dhimmitude, legitim ized persecution and humiliated its recipients. The return of Zionists to the Jewish community in Israel had been occurring ever since the Cyrus Declaration. The return to Israel is also known as aliyah, or a scent. During the Great War, in 1917, the British Empire gained control of the l and of Israel from the Turkish Empire. Following the approval of the League of N ations for the British Mandate in 1920, the British Colonial Office started work ing against the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate and working towards incorpor ating Israel into the British Imperial system. The traditional policy of "divide and rule" was implemented by encouraging Amin al-Husseini to incite Arab violen ce against Jews. During passover of 1920, the British occupiers allowed Arab rio ters to attack Jews in Jerusalem for three days, and arrested nineteen Haganah f ighters who had defended their neighbourhoods. The Jewish war hero of the Russia n army Yosef Trumpeldor and seven of his comrades died defending Tel Hai after B ritish and French forces withdrew from the city. When the House of Sa'ud gained control of Makkah, the Emir Abdullah was given control of the East Bank and it w as closed to Jews by British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill. Since 1921 it has been illegal for Jews to purchase real estate in Jordan. When aliyah was re stricted in 1936, Ze'ev Jabotinsky called for illegal aliyah to become the Israe li national sport. Over forty ships left Europe bringing tens of thousands of il legal immigrants. Two years before World War II, Jabotinsky said at the Great Sy nagogue of Warsaw that Jews must get rid of the exile, or the exile would get ri d of them. More than a decade later, restrictions on Jewish immigration were red uced with the Declaration of Independence of the Jewish state. Because of calls for migration of Arabs out of Jewish areas of the Mandate by th eir leaders, the heavy fighting between British-supplied Arabs and Jewish forces , and Arab hopes of total victory, many Arabs left their homes and became palest inian refugees. A palestinian refugee is defined by the United Nations Relief an d Works Agency as a non-Jewish human being who lived in the Mandate before Indep edence for at least two years, and any descendant of Palestinian refugees. Unlik e the more than 750,000 Jewish refugees of the war of Independence and most othe r refugees in the 20th century, the Palestinian refugees have not been resettled , but have been denied citizenship by most of the Arab states in which they resi de. The elected dictatorship that governs Israel has oppressed Jews in the 21st cent ury. The Jewish communities in Gush Katif were expelled from their homes by Prim

e Minister Arik Sharon, and their assets were given to Arabs. Specially trained riot attack horses trampled peaceful protesters in Amona. Jews in the ancient ci ty of Hebron were dragged out of two apartment buildings by Israeli police, and women were manhandled against Jewish law. The government continues to allow the Jordanian Waqf for the Holy Sanctuary to prohibit non-Muslim from praying on the Temple mount, and continues its policy of allowing the Waqf to destroy artifact s and erase Jewish history. The forces of globalization continue to break down the boundaries of nations. Sh rinking minorities continue to enjoy Muslim tolerance in the Muslim world, while the Jewish nation suffers under a corrupt oligarchy in their homeland. The Brit ish desire to maintain control of the empire has shifted to economic and diploma tic exploitation and control of the Middle East by the English-speaking world.