Naftali Bennett’s lost tribe – Middle East Monitor

The information of the arrival of 235 displaced Jews to Israel by way of Ben Gurion Airport on 13 October went straight over our heads. These immigrants arrived from the town of Manipur in India, claiming that they have been Jews descending from the misplaced biblical tribe of Menashe. Their Judaism was found coincidentally by Michael Freund. He’s an energetic member of the workplace of the previous Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. As for a way he found they have been Jewish, he employs a novel strategy of merely noticing they observe Sabbath, preserve kosher, and observe the Jewish legal guidelines of purity.

The brand new arrivals will be part of their neighborhood who have been dropped at Israel years in the past, their numbers are estimated at 5,000 at the moment. Israel is planning to deliver the remainder of the tribe to Israel quickly, most of whom, particularly the youth, will likely be pressured to affix the military to suppress us. They are going to be deployed on the checkpoints. The remaining will turn into settlers who take over our land.

The discoverer, Michael Freund, founding father of the Shavei Israel affiliation, claimed that the members of Bnei Menashe tribe are descendants of the Jews exiled by the Assyrian Empire 27 centuries in the past.

This “astonishing” discovery will not be primarily based on any science, however on the demographic calculation in Israel, which is a calculation primarily based on altering the indigenous individuals of Palestine by bringing in different nationalities and sects, claiming they’ve a biblical proper. That is no doubt ethnic cleaning!

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This act will not be restricted to Michael Freund and his affiliation, Shavei Israel, however was supervised by many of the ministries in Israel, the Ministry of Aaliyah and Integration, the Jewish Company, the Ministry of Inside, and the Ministry of Housing, along with monetary supporters, at house and overseas.

This coverage could also be acceptable in a rustic that lives by itself legally-recognised land, however as an alternative, it’s occurring in a state that has occupied our land, making it against the law towards humanity. We’re being stripped of our rights in order that new immigrants are granted them. On the identical time, the Israeli Inside Ministry refuses to grant the indigenous individuals who have been born on their very own land humanitarian and authorized reunification permits. Not solely this, however it’s also displacing the residents of the Negev, demolishes their villages, expels the residents of Jerusalem and the Galilee, seizing their properties, and demolishes the villages of the indigenous individuals within the Jordan Valley.

Sadly, this file not features media consideration. Many of the Palestinian media doesn’t even monitor these day by day racist immigrations from everywhere in the world. There isn’t any legislation on the earth that justifies the expulsion of indigenous individuals as a result of their occupiers declare to be descendants of a misplaced Jewish tribe, who lived within the space 27 many years in the past.

I wish to remind readers that there are ten Jewish tribes which can be nonetheless misplaced out of a complete of 12 Jewish tribes.

There are solely two tribes in Israel: Benjamin within the north, and Judah within the south, and even they don’t seem to be full.

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As for the ten tribes nonetheless lacking as of the date this text was written, they’re: Reuben, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh.

There are those that pave the way in which for the displacement of huge numbers of the world’s inhabitants, not solely rabbis, as Ovadia Yosef did when he issued a ruling that the Falashas are the descendants of the Jewish Dan tribe in 1972, but in addition researchers and politicians who’ve claimed that the Romans are additionally among the many misplaced tribes.

Israel genetic researchers have beforehand famous that gypsies are among the many misplaced tribes as nicely!

The sequence will proceed and won’t finish, as a result of the Prime Minister of Israel is a settler chief, named after the misplaced Jewish tribe of Naphtali. He and his get together will stay in a relentless seek for his misplaced tribe!

This text first appeared in Arabic in Al-Ayyam on 20 October 2021

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