Covenant Promise Essay

Jewish people claim that their right to have the land now known as Israel comes from two main things: religious reasoning and that they controlled the land first and last. According to Jewish tradition, Abraham received the covenant promise, which said that he would have descendants as numerous as the stars and that they would inhabit the land of Canaan, which is the area known as Israel and Palestine. The covenant promise was believed to have been carried down by Abraham's son, Isaac, which means that Jews should be entitled to the land of Israel according to their religion. Another reason that Jewish people inhabited Israel from 300 BCE until 73 AD, when the Jewish diaspora occurred when the Romans invaded Israel. In 1896 the Zionist movement formed, which consisted of people who wanted to create a Jewish homeland. This dream came true in 1947 when Jewish settlers overtook the land of Palestine from the Arabs living there, however Israel has been at war with surrounding countries ever since. Israelis use this history as well as their version of the religious back story to defend their claims that they are truly the one group that should control the area in …show more content…
The Quran also has the story of the covenant promise, however muslims believe that Abraham’s son Ishmael and his descendants are the ones destined to inherit Canaan. Palestinians inhabited the land of Palestine from 1187 until 1448, when Israel invaded much of the land that was given to Palestine in the partitioning of Palestine and Israel the year before. Currently, Palestinians live in occupied territory, land which Israelis have settled in without permission or a right to do so, and they have limited rights. Palestinians are fed up with this and feel that they have divine right to control this land, as well as a right to inhabit this land based on their history living