Is it really a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab World??

(Part 1) originally published in September 2020

As any Arab knows by now, the nations of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain entered into a peace treaty with the Jewish state this month. It is a comprehensive agreement to cooperate in most spheres of life including an ongoing interfaith dialogue. This is of great interest to those at the Arab Heritage website because of the possibility of revealing both the past and future of Arabs!

To begin with, we should note that this peace agreement is with two and only two Arab countries. It is tempting for people to think this agreement is with the “Arab world” but it is not. It could become a basis for peace in the Middle East because initially, it was only the U.A.E. who was making it but then Bahrain entered in. If two countries make peace, then why not four? If four, then eight? You get the idea. It could potentially encompass all the countries of Ibrahim. If this idea scares you or worries you Reader, I would say be on guard as to what develops. Do not trust everything that comes from a Western world-led Israeli alliance. Humanity is both Good and Evil. We don’t want the Evil.  At the same time, there are a couple positive things that can come out of this.

The Good

“Everything is not what it seems”

This English idiom means that what something looks like on the surface may not be the reality underneath. For example, if someone buys a car that looks nice but the engine is not good, then the car may not be a good purchase. In the case of this new Accord, it is being passed off as an agreement between two Ibrahamic people – and this part is true. Both Judah and the Arabs are descendants of Abu Ibrahim (the Christian people are NOT a descendant of Ibrahim and I strongly disagree with their inclusion in the opening document).

What is NOT recognized among the world community or even among Arabs themselves is that this agreement is not an agreement between two distant people, the Arabs and Jews but between Jews and a much closer descendant of Judah (a.k.a. “the state of Israel”). Furthermore, this initial agreement WILL eventually lead to the Arabs being blessed in some economic ways that we will discuss in the second part of this article. All of this will happen….

Because the Bible predicts this.

Why should anyone care what the Bible says or even give it consideration?? The rest of this article will give one reason but another, a second one, is that the Bible speaks about many, many more prophecies about the Arab people than even the Quran does! Furthermore, a huge chunk, but not all, of those prophecies were given by the same Angel that gave the Quran to Mohammed – Jibril!! He spoke anciently to one of the Jewish nabis these prophetic things! (See our article “Allah in the Bible”)

Furthermore, Allah speaks of the Bible and the Quran as “His Books” and “His Apostles” in surah 4:136. If someone says they are mutually exclusive, this is not so! The Bible and Quran may seem to say different things but this is not so. Take the life of Ibrahim as example. Both the Bible and the Quran give a detailed history of the life of Ibrahim with few stories that overlap or agree but this does not mean that the two accounts are exclusive, one True and one False. Not at all! What we see is that the Bible gives a detailed account of Ibrahim’s first half of his life with Sara until Sara died and the Quran gives an account of Ibrahim’s second half of his life with Hajar and Ismail! That makes their stories not exclusive but inclusive! Whereas the Bible is totally silent about where Ibrahim lived and what he did after Sara died, the Quran explains fully that he lived with Hajar and Ismail in Mecca after he left an inheritance with Ishak in Canaan.

This author says it is good we have both accounts. Religions are exclusive by nature but History is to be studied and discerned because we All come from one set of parents. And that leads us nicely back to the subject of this article…

An abbreviated history of the Jews before Islam

As we started off asking, who is this agreement with and what will become of it? To understand the true, ethnic history of the Arabs, one needs to go back a millennium before Mohammed. This account is given much more detail in our mini-series articles “The History of Arab Heritage” but for the sake of this article, we will quickly review this history.

Both Judah (a.k.a. “the state of Israel”) and the Arabs are indeed the descendants of Ibrahim (the Western Christian world is not) but they are closer than cousins. Here is how:

Ibrahim married Sara and Hajar. Ibrahim had Ishak and Ismail, respectively from these two women.

Ismail had sons and one daughter named Basmat (note: Ismail and Esu’s descendancies come from B’reisheet/Genesis surah 36 from the Bible). Basmat married Yaqoub’s brother Esu and from them come the most notable line of Arabs. We at Arab Heritage like to remind people that Arabs did not come from just one direct descendancy though. In our mini-series, we explain that Arabs were a multi-plural ethnicity before Mohammed came along (p.b.u.h.).

This isn’t the full story though. The fuller story of Arab descendancy comes from what happened to the Jewish side:

Going back to above: Ishak had Yaqoub and Esu. Yaqoub had 12 sons and a daughter, one son whose name was Yehudah. Modern Judah comes directly from this man but because they became the largest tribe in ancient Israel, many modern Israelis just call themselves “Jews”. This term confuses the terms “Judah” and “Israel” as it relates to Arabs though…

The 12 sons of Yaqoub eventually became the ancient nation of Israel. The Quran does not deny this. From that ancient kingdom, came the Kings David and Suleiman.

When ancient Ashur took away the northern ½ of Israel, they left behind the surviving Yehudim (who became enslaved eventually). What the Arab world does not know or realize to this day is that those ancient Israelis were taken away to today’s northern Arabia. The Arab people after centuries of being puppets to eastern and western empires eventually homogenized into One ethnic group by the time Mohammed was born. The tens of thousands of ancient Israeli captives intermarried with the Arabs because they never went back to their homeland.

The long and short of this history lesson is that a significant number of Arabs are not “Jews” but Arab-Israelites! The Jews are not making peace with you as Cousins but as Brothers, brother to brother! The ancient Israelite kingdom is alive among the Arab League and some things significant and wonderful is going to happen to the Arabs in the coming years!

Stay tuned for part 2 which will outline that future…