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Letter Writing
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Palestinian/Arab Perspective: Edward Said
Zionist/Jewish Perspective: David Harris
Dear Edward Said,
I am writing to you regarding the land of Israel. I believe that the Jewish people have a stronger claim to the land, through these several arguments I will provide evidence that the Jewish people have a stronger claim to the land of Israel than the Arabs.
The Jewish people have ancient ties to the land of Israel. The ties the Jewish people possess to the land date back 3700 years ago. There is evidence that the Jewish people settled in Palestine before the Arabs. The Jewish people have ancient biblical ties to the land. Throughout Palestine, there are thousands of Hebrew inscriptions. These aren’t just any …show more content…

These inscriptions mention our God YHWH, meaning the God of Israelites. They even name people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. They include certain words that are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. This reflects the community that used to live there and whose dominant language was Hebrew, who didn’t eat pork and worshipped a god YHWH. An example of one of these inscriptions comes from Jerusalem. Below the church of Scotland in a Jewish tomb from the seventh B.C.E, a silver cylinder had the inscription of: “May YHWH bless you and keep you. May YHWH make his face shine to you and give you peace”. These words are the words of the Priestly Blessing in the Hebrew Bible. A distinguished scholar Jeffrey Tigay of the University of Pennsylvania states that there are more than 1200 pre-exilic Israelites are known from the Hebrew inscriptions …show more content…

It is clear that the Jewish people have had ancient biblical ties to this land before the Arabs. Not only do the Jewish people have these ancient religious ties to the land, the Jewish people have been persecuted for centuries, making it clear that the Jewish people have a stronger claim to the land of

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