The Jews of Medina
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The leader of the besieged Jews proposed that they either convert to Islam or, similar to Masada, kill their own women and children to prevent their being ravished and enslaved, and then fight the Muslims to the death. The Jews rejected both options and offered to surrender and leave Medina. Mohammed rejected their offer. The vanquished wine merchants tribe, who had twice refused to help the other besieged Jewish tribes, suffered the worst fate.
According to Muslim tradition, the blood of the decapitated Jews flooded the marketplace of Medina. A large, powerful, affluent Jewish community was destroyed in just three years. Our sages say that the Holy Temple was not destroyed by the superiority of the Roman forces.
It was destroyed by sinat chinam, senseless hatred among Jews. Dvirah , March 14, 6: Remember that unlike our Torah, which comands the same law for "the native and the stranger", most other systems apply only to their adherents. So it is for Moslems.
Did the Prophet massacre and persecute the Jews in Madina?
Anonymous , August 10, 2: See Mumhammad makes a clear distinction between muslims and non-muslims. When a muslim rapes anothers muslims wife. He will receive the death penalty. But non-muslims these rules don't apply. Turkey occupied Northern Cyprus in , ethnic cleansed out all the Christian Greek Cypriots from Northern Cyprus and brought in Muslim Turks from mainland Turkey to settle the newly created empty spots.
The Turks also massacred a few thousand Christian Greek Cypriots. Turkish troops are still there. There is a wall between the Turkish and Greek part of the island. The separation wall goes through Nicosia the Capital of Cyprus. Cyprus is close to Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean sea. Today, if in Turkey someone says that Turks did the Armenian genocide it results in three years jail. Anonymous , February 13, 8: Most of these countries were Arab. The Jews fled without their possessions, money, properties, businesses, etc.
They were never compensated. An example is Libya which had over , Jews prior to By it had zero 0 Jews left. Jews lived in these lands well before the Arab Muslim occupation of these lands. By far, most of these dispossessed Jews fled to Israel. Israel accepted them and integrated them in the Israeli society.
The , Arabs who moved out of Israel were never integrated in any Muslim country. They were used by the respective political elites for their own gain. The Arabs who stayed behind in Israel are equal citizens and are represented in the Israeli parliament called the Knesset, Israeli Supreme Court, military and some attained high military rank, diplomatic corps, etc. Most Israeli Arabs opt out from serving in the Israeli military. Road signs, postal stamps, etc are all written in Hebrew and Arabic.
The Jews who fled from Muslim lands left behind far more assets than the Arabs who left Israel. The Kurds are more deserving of an independent country than the Palestinians. The Kurds used to have their own country; they have their own culture, language, alphabet, etc. The Palestinians do not have these attributes. In the Maghreb North Africa the Berbers who are also the aboriginal people are being also discriminated by the Arab Muslim occupiers.
Leslie Benjamini , March 15, 8: I have written almost word for word the same response many times. It does my heart good to see someone else do the same. Also it is only the first generation that are refugees not every succeeding generation for 70 years. Ari Rondel Siegman ignores history and historical treaties. First there was the Balfour Declaration of Which mandated a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Next came the Treaty of Sevres 10 Aug which drew the boundaries of Palestine. This area was designated to be the national home of the Jews and temporarily was to be administered by Great Britain. The Jordanian occupiers destroyed 58 of the 59 synagogues of the Jewish Quarter of East Jerusalem, that they used the headstones of graves in the Mt. Olives cemetery to pave walkways for their latrines and ethnic cleansed all the Jews from East Jerusalem. The Jews were ethnic cleansed out of East Jerusalem in The Arabs attacked the newly reborned Jewish state and when hostilities stopped there was an armistice with an armistice line.
Meaning there was no peace treaty and no formal final boundaries. That is where we are still today. Divisiveness today is in the form of the left leaning Jews voting for left leaning politicians that are not at all interested in Jewish causes or Israel. How can we reach these people? Although the religious are ready to reach them, they have no interest in reaching the religious. Am Yisroel B'li Torah, hee k'guf b'li neshama. Thats a good story. Not to mention the price to pay for being a coward a.
Oh Man that was sickening to read. I always feel so disturbed when I read history. Its not stories it actually happened to a whole tribe. I can't even imagine the horror of knowing you lost your kids, being sold, wife's handed around. In Australia or Asia I have never heard any of these accounts of History I had no idea there was such severe persecution every where.
Israel should tell some of these stories in the west, people legitimately think Israel is just crazy paranoid, I Did. After studying up on all this I actually think Israel has been pretty restrained. I worry about the most pathetic things in my day I would be a wreck if I lived in Israel.
They were used by the respective political elites for their own gain. Because Abdullah Ibn Ubayyy had died a few months before, the Jews knew that no one would intercede on their behalf. A book and a decree, and massacre have been written against the Sons of Israel. History, however, is less sensible than Hollywood. Geert Wilders is a racist. There may very well be more to this story, if it happpened as recorded here, then we will ever know. The Palestinians do not have these attributes.
What makes this so scary is you know Saudi Arabians to this day are no different then then they were in I highly doubt there is another Abdullah Ibn Ubayyy. As a lapsed Jew I am affraid that history will repeat itself. They done this because they had guilt!! This was after Hitler told them to take the Jews or they would perish. All the British and Americans have done for the Jews, and that ain't much, all they have done, is put them in an impossible position because of the 'stealing' more and more land for illegal settlements, because if you are a Jew from Timbucktoo or any where else you can live in Israel, and to live in Israel you have to push the Palestinians further and further from their own land.
The author is incorrect, and tragically wrong. It was not sinat china that authored that genocide and exile in arabla. The arabs, his own tribe, had no idea as to how sociopathic his ideas were and to what length he would go to conquer and obtain.
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Nor did the jews. Just as today- such as the author did not have the ability to call evil evil and say Islam was and is evil, mohammed was and did evil and the jews then couldn't and the jews now can't. All she can say is to blame the jews for disunity. Which is tragically erroneous. All we have to do is examine Mohammed's stated Qu'ran, his actions, his history and say those words. But we are so miserably correct we never can say it. It wasn't Sinat Chinam- it was blindness. The real reason is not "Sinat Chinam" it is found in Deuteronomy Gary Katz , October 10, 8: Say what you will about Mohammed and his followers, but the article's point is still valid: This has been repeated throughout history, of course, whether Hitler taking Sudetenland or Turkey not smashing ISIS, which is just across its border.
My people the Jewish people have tried to live at peace with Muslims but they want the Jewish people to be destroyed because of Islam, it is so sad with all the rights Muslim Arabs have in Israel. I loved the article and thank you Aish for clarifying this story of too much truth. Doesbt sound like either religion. The Muslim Arab religious authorities permit the Temple Mount Compound, which is the Holiest Place on Earth to be used for picnics, soccer games and even the throwing of rocks or stones.
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This is an absolute desecration of the site of our Holy Sanctuaries!! Seven years ago, the Israeli Army and the Jewish population withdrew from Gaza for the sake of 'shalom' - peace. In June , that avowed enemy of Israel, Hamas was elected by popular 'Palestinian' Arab support and came to power in Gaza.
Hamas continues to launch attacks against Israel with its missiles and rockets, while Israel continues to supply it and the 'Palestinian' Arabs with food, medicines and fuel. It is quite apparent that Israel's policy of appeasement of the Muslim Arab World for the sake of 'shalom' - peace has failed, and failed abysmally!! Will Israel now consider relinqishing control of and withdrawing from the territories of Samaria and Judea too??
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Every time Israel retreats and withdraws from parts of the Holy Land for the sake of peace with the Arabs, they the Arabs demand more by moving the goal posts. We must confront stark reality. The Muslim Arabs, the 'Arab Spring' notwithstanding, will never accept the Jewish State of Israel, nor make peace with any kind of Israel - large or small.
Right now we have the spokesman for the President who is no friend to Israel, absolutely refusing to name Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel On the other hand we have a candidate who promises to be a true friend of Israel, who is traveling to Israel and Prime Minister and Mrs.
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Who are the majority of American Jews voting for The story of the Arabian Jews and the fact that America's Jews appear to be repeating the tragic story again is heartbreaking and difficult to understand. Did not Mohammed live from to c. Chaya , July 27, Yirmiyahu , August 1, 7: So if the dates are indeed correct google is fallible and NOT always the most reliable of sources to utilize.
Many websites profess accurate info when in fact it's only the case some of the time. He lived as a Merchant at the time he was in Medina married to a wealthy woman, so what would be the accurate dates to account when his actions with these tribes take place? Anonymous , July 27, 9: So sad that the one's enemies are all too often within one's own household! How can we be delivered from such selfishness, pride, arrogance, competition, greed, and perhaps, most of all, un-forgiveness!?!
This tragic history teaches us the necessity to help our brothers where they're in sufferings. Our blood is the same blood, our hearts need be attached in genuine love and solidarity. These always be my feelings. Anonymous said it all. True or not, the lesson to br learned is very true. When one group of pur people spit at, curse at , refuse to defend in the army of all Israelis, we become our own worst enemy. What ever happened to, "A light unto the nations"?
We cannot accept this story as true as it is based on Muslim sources. Jewish sources show that during the time of the Temple there was sinas chinam, so we know that this sadly, exists. Jews need to be united and believe in Israel. That is the first thing G-d told to the first Jew, to leave the land of Shinar Iraq and his father's house and go to the land of Canaan Israel. God gave that land to the Jews and their descendants forever, it is a promise! That is the destination of following the Torah, that Jews will live and prosper in their own homeland.
Conflicts are rising again among the Jews in Israel. Mofaz, the liberal who has his eye on being Prime Minister someday, made political friends with P. Netanyahu and, along with Livni, already has split with him. Protests going on about the military draft. Please, dear people Israel, with much of the world spewing their hate at you, stay united. The Jews in every other country should stand with you as well. No more bickering among yourselves. Although Jewish unity is important, we do not have to accept a story whose sole source is from the Muslim tradition.
Their tradition is based on whatever makes their leader look good versus the vanquished Jews. There may very well be more to this story, if it happpened as recorded here, then we will ever know. While it's nice to have a story to illustrate the impoirtance of unity, this story condemns, probabely falsely, thousands of Jews.
Anonymous , July 26, 4: It breaks my heart and at the same time this situation makes me angry. I'm Sephardi and I feel rejected by some I'm not saying all Ashkenazi sometimes. I just think this is the worst that can happen. Why not leave differences aside and come togheter, the Torah is very clear when it comes to Mitzvot, but sometimes we try to be better than our brethen and this is wrong and all of us Jews need to be united if we want to prevail!
Did the rest of the Jewish world really all that they could when my father mother was sent to Auschwitz and his father to Dachua, and my mothers family was machineed gunned in ditches they were forced to dig, not mention just a few??? This is a very powerful story that made me shudder, it also makes me want to board a plane and physical fight for Israel immediately. But there lies a battle outside of Israel that many other Jews and myself must become involved with, as the enemies try to persuade the globe against us literally.
We can draw a comparison, but to fathom the possibility is not far fetched, this is the problem, and why it's important to reach the young folks and the leftist before it's too late. Islam speaks in the Koran what it speaks, and that is the total destruction of Jews and others non Muslims.
This should not warrant only government official in Western democracies, but should expose the UN, who allows members of the Muslim Brotherhood to spew hate in a world forum. To all the Jewish scholars, lawyers, businessmen and women, judges, and so on, unless you have a design plan to change your identity or go underground, bride the Muslim brotherhood or surrender to them, if not, I advise you to wake and be smart. The Muslim brotherhood has all the evidence to track down Jews along with the help of their aids, I will not mention who, you should know, you are all wise and scholars.
They have an agenda, and thank God, their are nameless warriors of Israel that will not let her fall, because of misguided, naive leftist opinion. The King of Saudi has enough resources to buy police forces, so what the hell you think, that you can trust your local law enforcement when the light hits red alert, they will be the first to turn. Evaluate the way your local authorities deal with anti-Semitic incidents, they don't care, time to support the Jewish warriors that will stand up, don't be naive, Israel was established for a reason, and that reason will become apparent very soon, so to avoid high profile exits under a Marshal plan, support Israel now, invest, and move, as it is important to be on the land when the next Mohammed come.
Kind of hard to claim you're "the religion of peace", when your founder was a scheming murderous psycho. I wonder how many of it's practitioners really even know it's true history or care to? And yet the world still tries to negotiate and appease. I find that in many cases those who feel that they are superior to other Jews, such as then orthodox and Chassidim are the most intolerant and removed from all others. I assume their education has failed to include the love and brotherhood that us lesser educated feel towards our Brethren and our need for unity.
It really is a wake up or vanish world we live in so my bro's join us "other" Jews and survive. Nechama , July 24, According to most sources, individuals from among these clans plotted to take his life at least twice, and once they came within a bite of poisoning him. Two of the tribes--the Banu Nadir and the Banu Qaynuqa--were eventually exiled for falling short on their agreed upon commitments and for the consequent danger they posed to the nascent Muslim community. The danger was great. During this period, the Meccans were actively trying to dislodge Muhammad militarily, twice marching large armies to Medina.
Muhammad was nearly killed in the first engagement, on the plains of Uhud just outside of Medina. In their second and final military push against Medina, now known as the Battle of the Trench, the Meccans recruited allies from northwestern Arabia to join the fight, including the assistance of the two exiled Jewish tribes. In addition, they sent envoys to the largest Jewish tribe still in Medina, the Banu Qurayza, hoping to win their support. The Banu Qurayza's crucial location on the south side of Medina would allow the Meccans to attack Muhammad from two sides.
The Banu Qurayza were hesitant to join the Meccan alliance, but when a substantial Meccan army arrived, they agreed. As a siege began, the Banu Qurayza nervously awaited further developments. Learning of their intention to defect and realizing the grave danger this posed, Muhammad initiated diplomatic efforts to keep the Banu Qurayza on his side. Little progress was made.
In the third week of the siege, the Banu Qurayza signaled their readiness to act against Muhammad, although they demanded that the Meccans provide them with hostages first, to ensure that they wouldn't be abandoned to face Muhammad alone. Yet that is exactly what happened. The Meccans, nearing exhaustion themselves, refused to give the Banu Qurayza any hostages.
Not long after, cold, heavy rains set in, and the Meccans gave up the fight and marched home, to the horror and dismay of the Banu Qurayza.
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The Muslims now commenced a day siege against the Banu Qurazya's fortress. Finally, both sides agreed to arbitration. Sa'd, one of the few casualties of battle, would soon die of his wounds. If the earlier tribal relations had been in force, he would have certainly spared the Banu Qurayza.
His fellow chiefs urged him to pardon these former allies, but he refused. In his view, the Banu Qurayza had attacked the new social order and failed to honor their agreement to protect the town. He ruled that all the men should be killed. Muhammad accepted his judgment, and the next day, according to Muslim sources, men of the Banu Qurayza were executed. Although Sa'd judged according to his own views, his ruling coincides with Deuteronomy Most scholars of this episode agree that neither party acted outside the bounds of normal relations in 7th century Arabia.
The new order brought by Muhammad was viewed by many as a threat to the age-old system of tribal alliances, as it certainly proved to be. For the Banu Qurayza, the end of this system seemed to bring with it many risks. At the same time, the Muslims faced the threat of total extermination, and needed to send a message to all those groups in Medina that might try to betray their society in the future.