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In Jiang's reading, Abraham's promised territory from the Nile to the Tigris, grounding a political-religious claim over the Middle East.
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Promised land
In Jiang's reading, Abraham's promised territory from the Nile to the Tigris, grounding a political-religious claim over the Middle East.
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Glossary
The promised territory of Israel, described here as stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates and later as the destination after Exodus.
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He says the public legitimacy claim for Israel rests on Jews being descendants of ancient Israelites promised Palestine by God.
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Jiang says Jewish persecution creates three crisis questions about conversion, unjust suffering, and the absent promised land.
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Abraham is presented as the origin of Israel as chosen people and the promised land.
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Jiang reads Muhammad's message as a Moses-like call to recover a promised land given to Abraham's descendants.
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He defines the promised land in this Abrahamic frame as the territory from the Nile to the Tigris, especially the broader Middle East, not merely modern Israel.
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The third message is that God gave the promised land to Abraham's descendants, but empires, landlords, and the wealthy stole it, so jihad means fighting to take it back.
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He defines Zionism as the belief among some Jews that Jews are God's chosen people, Israel is the promised land, and Jews must return to Israel.
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He says Zionism is Israel's main political belief and justifies Israel through the claim that God promised the land to his chosen people.
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"So again, this is part of the plan where the British want to create Israel, but they're blaming the Jews for it, okay? They're..."
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"...question is if Yahweh promised the Jews a homeland called a promised land why don't they have it? Why are they kicked out? For..."
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"So why is this happening? This creates a crisis of faith. Okay? And so whenever there's a crisis of faith Jews believe it is..."
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"...see you as the chosen people and i gave you the promised land okay that's what israel is a promised land over time what..."
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"...abraham swore allegiance to yahweh in return yahweh gave him the promised land the promised land is not israel the promised land is all..."
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"middle east okay that's what the promised land is now this is important because abraham had a wife sarah sarah for most of a..."
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"...after Abraham and his seed. you have god promised you the promised land and now this land has been taken away from you okay..."
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"...a meritocracy. And the third message is God gave us the promised land. This land that extends from the Nile to the Tigris is..."
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"world in something called the Great Flood and this is a story of Noah's Ark remember Noah was beloved by God so God told..."
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"...he's the prophet who will deliver the israelites back into the promised land the pharaoh refuses to let the israelites go there's a major..."
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"...are the chosen people of God and that Israel is a promised land and therefore Jews must return to Israel okay does that make..."
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"...of Israel, right? Why does Israel exist? Because Israel is the promised land that God gave to his chosen people, okay? And this was..."
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