Chapter 33 western asia plateau

To the west of the Pamirs, towering mountains form a series of plateaus that stretch westwards to the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. These plateaus have played an extremely important role in human history, so their names are familiar to readers today.Let’s talk about the most important part first.Unless Western ethnographers make wrong inferences, the race to which modern Westerners belong was conceived in these plateaus and valleys between the Indus River and the Eastern Mediterranean, and it is also here that human civilization started. area.It is in this region that man has mastered the foundations of science, and here he has established the first rules of the human moral code which essentially distinguish man from the animals.

From east to west, the first thing you see is the Iranian plateau.This is a saline-alkaline desert, surrounded by mountains, with an altitude of more than 3,000 feet.Despite being bordered by the Caspian Sea and the Karakum Desert to the north and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea to the south, the Iranian plateau receives so little rainfall that there is not a single river in the entire plateau worth mentioning.Several small, unremarkable rivers emerged in the Balochistan region -- a region occupied by the British since 1887 -- and finally emptied into the Indus.When Alexander the Great's army returned to Europe from India, the entire army was wiped out here due to lack of water. Therefore, the desert here is frightening.Separating the Baluchistan region from India is the Gilter Mountains.

A few years ago, the new ruler of Afghanistan was extremely publicized in Europe, swaggering all the way through the market, stole the limelight, and once caused a sensation.The Helmand River is an important river in Afghanistan.The river rises from the Hindu Kush, a large mountain that runs southward in the Pamirs, and disappears in the Sistan Salt Lake on the Iran-Afghanistan border.Afghanistan has a much better climate than Baluchistan and, in every sense, Afghanistan is more important.The ancient trade routes from India to North Asia and Europe had to go through central Afghanistan.This ancient trade road runs from Peshawar, the capital on the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan, to Kabul, the capital, then crosses the famous Khyber Pass, crosses the Afghan plateau, and reaches Herat in the west.

Some fifty years ago Russia and Britain fought for absolute control in Afghanistan.And the Afghans also happen to be fierce and brave fighters, so although those who went south and north to go deep into Afghanistan had no malicious intentions, they had to be more careful.The first Afghan war broke out in 1838-1842, and it left an almost indelible impression on the world-a few British people ran back to report that because they wanted to impose an unpopular leader on Afghanistan, As a result, the Afghans killed all the rest of the British who went with them.Since then, the British have always been cautious when entering the Khyber Pass, as if walking on thin ice, as if facing an abyss. When the Russians occupied Khiva in 1873 and advanced towards Tashkent and Samarkand, the British worried that one day they would wake up to the sound of Russian military maneuvers on the other side of Mount Suleiman. Their ears, so the British army was forced to move forward.In the end, the Tsar sent a representative to London to assure the honorable government of the Queen, and the Queen sent a representative to St. Petersburg to assure the noble government of the Tsar, that her move in Afghanistan was not the slightest bit of selfishness, but, on the contrary, an act of charity worthy of respect and admiration.Anglo-Russian engineers are hard at work on a remarkable project to build a railroad that will allow uncivilized Afghans to reach the sea and embrace Western civilization.

Unfortunately, this grand idea was bankrupted by the world wars.The influence of the Russians has been extended to Herat.Today, you can take a train from Herat, via Mare in the Socialist Republic of Turkmenistan, to the port of Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea, and then take a boat to Baku and Western Europe.Another route is from Mare through Bukhara and Kokand in the Uzbek Republic and finally reaches Balk.Who would have thought that it was located in the ancient country of Bactria (the name of the ancient country in Central Asia. Chinese history books call it Daxia. It is located in the northern part of Afghanistan today. The residents are Persians. The country was powerful from the end of the 3rd century BC to the beginning of the 2nd century BC. In the 8th century AD it was Destroyed by the Arabs——Translator's Note) Balk in the middle of the giant ruins was as important as Paris today 3,000 years ago, but now it has been reduced to a third-rate village.Zoroastrianism (also known as Persianism), the birthplace of this religious movement with a complete moral system is Balk. It not only controls the whole of Persia, but also expands to the Mediterranean region. After a makeover, Zoroastrianism even got a warm welcome from Rome .For a long period of time, Zoroastrianism has always been a serious problem for Christianity.

The railway built by the British ran from Hydera in Baluchistan to Baqueta, and from Baqueta to Kandahar in Afghanistan.Embittered by their defeat in the First Afghan War, the British retaliated aggressively in Afghanistan in 1880. Another place worth noting on the Iranian Plateau is Persia (now Iran——Translator's Note).All things must be reversed in extremes, the sun will be dizzy at noon, and the moon will eclipse when it is full.Persia was once like a sunny day, but now it is like a bloody sun.In the past, the name Persia represented the highest realm of painting and literature, and the highest standard of living art. At that time, it must have been a country with a lot of charm.In the 6th century BC, Persia ushered in her first glorious era.At that time, Persia was the center of a vast empire that stretched across Eurasia, from India in the east to Macedonia in the west, but she was finally destroyed by Alexander the Great.However, 500 years later, the territory of Xerxes and Cambyses (referring to Cambyses II, king of the ancient Persian Empire,?—522 before. He conquered ancient Egypt during his reign——Translator’s Note) era After being restored by the Sasanian Dynasty, Zoroastrianism was revived and restored to its original appearance.All the scriptures of Zoroastrianism were collected and organized into one volume, so the famous "Yaveda" joint publication of the interpretation of the scriptures was produced.In this desert, the rose of Isfahan finally blooms.

In the early 7th century AD, Islam defeated Zoroastrianism and the Arabs conquered Persia.If it is true that a nation is known by means of literature, Omar Kaiyang (Persian poet and astronomer, c. 1025 -1133———Translator's Note), a work of the son of a tent-man in Nishapur can be unfolded step by step.A mathematician (referring to Khwarizmi, formerly known as Muhammad Ibn Musa, 780-850. Arab, famous mathematician and astronomer, whose book "Integral and Equation Calculation Method" is the world's first representative book A monograph on mathematics. From which the word "algebra" derives from the title——Translator's Note) Celebrates the joys of love and the sweetness of old wines, and constructs his whole life in quatrains and algebra .Only those very perfect and mature civilizations are qualified to have such wise figures who teach and solve doubts in the hall of education.

Modern people have shown interest in Persia purely out of their own selfish desires.Oil was discovered in Persia.This is the worst thing that can happen to a country too weak to defend itself.Theoretically, the underground mineral deposits in any place should belong to the people who have lived in this place for generations.However, this is not the case in reality.Thousands of men and women live near the wells, where they can only occasionally find meager employment, while a few close friends of the sultan, who live in as far away as Tehran, have made a fortune from oil concessions .As for the profits, they all fell into the pockets of those foreign investors, and these people thought that "Persia" was just the name of a kind of carpet.

Persia is really unfortunate. She seems to be such a country: the discipline is weak, the economy is out of order, and it can never get rid of poverty.Instead of benefiting from her location, she suffered from it.Persia is just a desert, but this desert connects the east and the west, and communicates the two continents, which means that she will always be a battlefield, and will always be the target of rivalry.This is not only a great misfortune for Persia, but also a great misfortune for the entire West Asia region. Armenia and Asia Minor are the tail end of the plateau stretching from the Pamirs all the way to the Mediterranean.Armenia is a very ancient plateau located to the west of the Iranian plateau.This is another country struggling for survival in the cracks. Just as the volcanic rock surface of Armenia has been getting deeper and deeper for a long time, the people of Armenia have been living in dire straits for many years.Anyone traveling from Europe to India must pass through the towering Kurdish mountains of Armenia.Among the long-distance travellers, there must have been some such characters mixed in, who were notorious and murderous.Mount Aragats is Armenia's highest peak, at 17,000 feet high, a full 10,000 feet above the plains of Yerevan.After the great flood receded in the past, Noah's Ark landed on Mount Aragats.This must have been true, since the Belgian physicist Johann de Mandeville examined the site in the 14th century and found the remains of the ark on top of the hill.However, Armenians belong to the Mediterranean race and are our close relatives.When did they come to this place?We can't be sure.However, according to the latest death rate, the Armenians will die soon.This is because only in the year 1895-1896, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred by the Turks, the rulers of this plateau, and the Turks are not the cruelest killers, their brutality is not as good as Kurdish half.

Armenians are devout Christians.They converted to Christianity earlier than the ancient Romans, so the Armenian church still retains some ancient systems such as hereditary priesthood.But in the eyes of orthodox Catholics in the West, hereditary priesthood is simply outrageous.Therefore, when the Kurdish Muslims slaughtered and plundered Armenia, the Europeans did nothing and stood by. During the World War, the British army was besieged in Mesopotamia. In order to break the siege, the Allied Powers outflanked the back of the Turkish army from Armenia. As a result, the Armenians suffered innocently again.Although Lake Van and Lake Urmia in Armenia can be ranked among the largest alpine lakes in the world, they have always been little known. At this time, the names of these lakes suddenly appeared in current affairs news, and even Erzurum, This frontier city in Asia of the ancient Byzantine dynasty has never received so much attention since the Crusades.

When the war came to an end, the whole world was surprised by the Armenians.With a curse on all peoples who have trampled on them, the Armenians joined the Soviet Union, and thus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains, Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia emerged. Next, we leave the Turks and their victims for generations and continue westward into the plateau of Asia Minor. Asia Minor used to be a small province of the Ottoman Empire, but now it is a dream of the Turks to dominate the world.The Asia Minor Plateau borders the Sea of ​​Marmara, the Bosporus Strait, and the Dardanelles in the west, faces Europe across the sea, borders the Black Sea in the north, and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.A famous railway line, the Baghdad Railway, runs across the lower plateau of Asia Minor, connecting Istanbul with Baghdad on the Tigris River.For the past 30 years, the Baghdad railway line has played a very important role.Smyrna, an important port in West Asia, Damascus in Syria, and the holy city of Medina in the Arab world (the western city of Saudi Arabia, the second holiest city in Islam. From 622 to 661 AD, Muhammad preached in the city of Medina, and there are The Prophet's Mosque, with the Mausoleum of Muhammad in the temple --- Translator's Note) are all on this Baghdad railway line.The Baghdad railway line is so important that it has always been an object of contention between Britain and Germany. As soon as Britain and Germany reached an agreement, France stood up and insisted on sharing a share of future railway revenue.As a result, France gained control of the railways in northern Asia Minor.Since Trabzon in the north, an export port of Armenia and Persia, the communication line to the west still needs to be further constructed, so foreign engineers began to survey the terrain and plan to build a new one on the ancient land of Asia Minor. railway.It was in Asia Minor that the Greek philosophers in the Athenian colony realized the nature of human beings and the origin of the world for the first time; the solemn church contributed a firm belief to the world, and Europeans lived for 1,000 years because of the support of this belief, and it was in Asia Minor; The birthplace of Saint Paul and the place where he preached and saved people was also in Tarsus in Asia Minor; the battlefield where the Turks and the Europeans competed for the control of the Mediterranean was still in Asia Minor; Note) In a small dilapidated desert village, the dream of being the only messenger and prophet of Allah came into being, still in Asia Minor. Avoiding the coast as planned, the new railway will connect Adana, Alexandreda, Antioch, Tripoli, Beirut, Tire, Sidon and Jaffa, the only port on Palestine's rocky coast. , the main port for importing and exporting goods in the mountains --- these ancient and medieval mysterious ports have been bypassed. As soon as war broke out, as the Germans hoped, the new railway line played a huge role.Since this new railway was built by the Germans with the best equipment, and two large German warships were moored in Istanbul, the Turks joined the Axis after "considering twice".In the following four years, strategically, the railway came into being at the right time.Because the outcome of this war was mainly determined by the sea and the Western Front, when the Western Front collapsed and collapsed, the Eastern Front remained impregnable for a long period of time.What makes the whole world strange is that the excellent performance of the Turkish army in 1918 was related to their ancestors, the Seljuks (a branch of the ancient Turks. In the 12th century, the Seljuk dynasty was established in Asia Minor --- Rum Sultanate, Compared with the early 13th century when it entered its heyday——Translator's Note), it is not inferior at all.After the Seljuk Turks had conquered all of Asia, in 1288 they cast their eager eyes behind the impenetrable walls of Constantinople across the Bosphorus. Although Asia Minor is also a part of the Eurasian Continental Bridge, it has never encountered the bad luck of Armenia and Persia's Iranian plateau, so until then, the Asia Minor plateau was still quite rich.This is mainly because Asia Minor was not only an important part of this ancient trade route, but also the terminus of the trade route from India and China to Greece and Rome.When our world was just emerging, academic activities and commercial activities in the Mediterranean region were already active in various parts of West Asia, which had become colonies of Greek city-states at that time, instead of in mainland Greece.The ancient blood of Asia and the emerging peoples of Europe merged into one in Asia Minor, and a nation of incomparable wisdom and quickness emerged.Even among the peoples of the Levant today, notwithstanding the notorious traits of fairness in business, honesty, and so on, we still have a glimpse of the influence of the ancient blood.Because for hundreds of years, other nations have not been able to assimilate it. Finally, the day came when the Seljuks fell apart.This armed force has no humanity, and will always be trapped in the besieged voices from all sides.How glorious the great empire was in the past, now only this small peninsula is left.The sultans of the past were mighty, but now they are dead with their coffins closed.In Adrianople, the ancestors of the Sultan lived in Constantinople in 1453 after nearly a hundred years.At that time, they ruled the entire Balkan Peninsula, all of Hungary and most of southern Russia.Today, the only remaining territories of the Turks in Europe are these two ancient capitals. The fall of the great empire and the decline of Turkey today are the evil results of more than 400 years of dark rule.For thousands of years, Constantinople, the oldest and most important commercial monopoly city in the world, served as a grain distribution center in southern Russia; it was favored by nature and had the so-called "Golden Horn" The seaport of "Fujiao", where there are enough fish to feed the people of the world, is still Constantinople, but now, it has been reduced to a third-rate provincial capital city.After the war, Constantinople was already dilapidated. The Greeks, Armenians, Slavs, Crusaders, and all kinds of people from the Eastern Mediterranean coast filled the city. The former glory of the Turkish nation can no longer drive the country to develop into a modern country. Therefore, in order to reorganize the rivers and mountains, the leaders of the new Turkish state made a wise decision and chose Anna, 200 miles east of Constantinople. Ankara in the Tolia Mountains as their new capital. Ankara is also a very, very old city.In 400 BC, a tribe called the Gauls lived here, and it was the Gauls who later became masters of the French Great Plains.Ankara, like other cities on important trade routes, has experienced several booms and busts.Ankara has been occupied by the Crusaders, trampled by the Tatars, and even in 1832, the entire surrounding area was destroyed by an Egyptian army.However, Kemal Passan decided to build Ankara into a new capital for the restoration of his homeland.Against all odds, he traded the Greeks and Armenians living in Turkey for the Turks living in these countries.He also rebuilt the army and brilliantly restored credibility to the Turks.Turkey has received constant attention from the world because of Kemal, but, after 1,500 years of war and civil malpractice, can the mountains of Anatolia attract the attention of Wall Street financiers?It's hard to say, because valuable investment objects are what Wall Street financiers are constantly looking for. However, Asia Minor will always be the most important area for trade between Asia and Europe.Smyrna's former status was restored.The ancient female warriors, the Amazons, ruled and established their country in Smyrna, and the port city has flourished ever since.The country of the Amazons is a country of pure women. This country has a strange custom that only outside men are allowed to enter once a year. The only purpose is to continue the incense of the Amazon female warriors. will be executed. Back then in Ephesus (located on the west coast of Asia Minor, a colonial city of ancient Greece——Translator’s Note), the saints discovered that the god of Amazonian female warriors——Diana, the patron saint of virgins, was still worshiped by the local people.Today, Ephesus no longer exists on Earth, however, the area surrounding the ancient city of Ephesus most likely developed into the largest fig plantation in the world. Going west from Ephesus, crossing the ruins of Pergamum (this is an ancient literary and artistic center, which dedicated a wealth of sheepskin materials to future generations), the railway line bypasses the Troy Plain and meets the Marmara coast. It takes only one day to take a boat from Bandirma to Škudar, and the Orient Express (London-Calais-Paris-Vienna-Belgrade-Sofia-Constantinople) via Śkudar , drove to Ankara and Medina, and then passed through Aleppo - Damascus - Nazareth - Lud (here you can change cars to Jerusalem and Jaffa) - Gaza - Ismailia - Kannaha, Across the Suez Canal, along the Nile upstream, as far as Sudan. If the world war had not happened, Western Europe would have been able to transport passengers and goods from all over the world to India, China and Japan through this major transportation artery, and gain huge benefits from it.But until the devastation wrought by four years of war has yet to be fully recovered, people prefer to fly. The Kurds lived in the eastern part of Asia Minor, and they were the old enemies of the Armenians.Like the Scots or most of the mountain people, the Kurds have a very strong sense of blood. The tribes act independently, attach too much importance to personal honor and national traditions, and stay away from industrialized large-scale production and commercial activities.The Kurdish nation is very, very old.According to ancient Babylonian cuneiform documents and works of Xenophon (a disciple of Socrates, aristocrats, soldiers, slave owners, and historians of the ancient Greek city-state Athens, about 430 BC—about 354 BC——translator’s note) The records of Kurds and Western Europeans belong to the same race, but later they converted to Islam.Because of this, they have no confidence in their neighbors who believe in Christ.After the world wars, the muslim countries were concocted with disdain for their christian neighbours.However, they naturally have their reasons for doing so.Modern people know that when "official lies" are regarded as a strategy by Western powers, people have reason to be concerned about these things. When the dawn of peace appeared, people did not rejoice in it.The old hatred has not yet been resolved, and the new hatred is added.For part of the territory of the former Turkish Empire, several European powers acted as "trustees", and "trusteeship" is similar to "colony", except that the name is a little nicer.In terms of how they treated the locals, what these trustees did was not a little more "kind" than the Turks back then. Because the French had made a large investment in Syria, France took control of Syria soon after the war, formed a "French High Commission", and began to host 3 million extremely poor people with a large number of troops and huge funds. Syrians willing to be "hosted".Soon, the great nations of the former Syria put aside their mutual feuds, the Jews no longer looked down on Christians and Muslims, and the Christians stopped mistreating the Jews, and the Kurds fought against their blood enemies, the Lebanese Maronites. Catholics shook hands, now, they have only one common enemy --- France.In order to maintain their rule in Syria, the French had to build many gallows, so the social order was rebuilt, and Syria soon became the second place in Algeria.However, this does not mean that Syrians have accepted the reality, but that other Syrians have not yet gathered the courage and strength to continue fighting after the national leader was hanged. In Mesopotamia, a kingdom of Iraq emerged, and the ruins of ancient Babylon and the ruins of Nineveh (located near Mosul in Iraq, the capital of the ancient Assyrian kingdom--translator's note) became the territory of this kingdom up.However, the Kingdom of Iraq had been forced to become a vassal of the British, so the newly elected King Fisher could not really enjoy the freedom of Hammurabi or Ashurnasirbal (Hamurabi, about 1792-1750 BC, ancient The sixth king of the first dynasty of Babylon, the first relatively complete written code in human history --- "Hammurabi Code" is his masterpiece. Ashurnasibal, the ancient Assyrian emperor --- translator's note ).If the decision to be made was anything more important than digging the drains of ancient Babylon, King Fisher would have had to wait for London's permission. There is also Palestine (the land of the Philistines) in the Mesopotamia.Palestine is such a strange country that I dare not even write about her at length, because in doing so, perhaps the discussion of a small country would occupy the rest of the work.Schleswig-Holstein is the most inconspicuous small principality in Europe, and the land of Palestine is smaller than this small principality, but she has played a more important role than any major country in human history. The ancestors of the Jews originally lived in the desolate Eastern Mesopotamia. Later, they left their villages, crossed the desert in northern Arabia, crossed the plain between Mount Sinai and the Mediterranean Sea, and lived in Egypt for hundreds of years. At last, in the little strip of fertile soil between the Judean hills and the Mediterranean, their wandering footsteps finally came to a halt.After several fierce battles with the local aborigines, they finally occupied some cities and villages and established an independent Jewish state. They must have lived in misery in the land of Palestine.On the west side, the Jews had no access to the sea, because the entire coastal area was occupied by the Philistines and non-Semitic peoples from Crete; on the east side, they were cut off from the rest of Asia, because from south to north There is a Great Rift Valley whose deepest point is 1300 feet below sea level.The Great Rift Valley runs north between Lebanon and former Lebanon, along the valley of the Jordan River, Lake Tiberias (also known as the Sea of ​​Galilee, 520 feet below sea level), the Dead Sea (1,292 feet below sea level. California's Death Valley - the lowest point of the American continent, but only 276 feet below sea level) extends southward, then passes through the ruins of the ancient country of Edom (where the Moab people once lived), and finally reaches Aka in the northern part of the Red Sea Bawan (Idom, an ancient country in Southwest Asia. Moab, a Semitic country in the east of the Dead Sea in the 13th century BC——Translator's Note).At first, John the Baptist had chosen Palestine as his permanent residence. South of the Great Rift Valley is one of the wildest and hottest regions in the world.Bitumen, sulfur, phosphate rock, and other formidable concoctions abound.Modern chemical methods can be used to extract valuable things from it (the Germans established a powerful Dead Sea bitumen company here before the war), but the ancients were afraid of this place.They are convinced that, not because of an ordinary earthquake, but because of retribution against the evil god, the abyss of evil was destroyed. The first group of eastern immigrants crossed the Judean Mountains, which run parallel to the Great Rift Valley. When they saw that the scenery and climate there were quite different from those in the south, and what they presented was a completely different kind of scenery. At this time, they must have cheered and celebrated , because they found this "resort flowing with milk and honey".Going to Palestine these days, it is difficult to see milk or honey as flowers are almost gone here.This is not the result of climate change. Today's climate is similar to the climate when Jesus' followers traveled around.In those days, from Dahn in the north to Beersheba in the south, dates and fine wines were everywhere, and the needs of travelers could be met anytime and anywhere, and these Jesus believers would have no worries about eating and drinking along the way.The whole face of Palestine was changed by the demons of the Turks and the Crusader knights.The Crusaders destroyed a large number of irrigation projects left over from the time of the Jewish Kingdom and later the Roman rule, and the later Turks destroyed the remaining parts.As a result, this piece of land, which relied on abundant water sources for its harvest, dried up and died.In the end, people either sit and wait to die, or leave their hometowns, so that the place is empty.Jerusalem was reduced to a Bedouin-style village, where Christians and Muslims lived in endless struggles.Because Jerusalem is also regarded by Muslims as their holy city.Back then, under the intimidation of his shrewd wife Sarah, Abraham had no choice but to drive away his bastard son Ishmael and his biological mother Hagar. The Arabs believed that they were the descendants of that poor Ishmael. But Sarah's conspiracy failed. Ishmael and his biological mother did not die of hunger and thirst in the desert. On the contrary, he married an Egyptian woman and became the originator of the entire Arab nation.Today, Ishmael and his mother are still buried in the Kaaba (referring to a square stone hall in the Great Mosque of Mecca, with black holy stones inside, which is the center of Muslim pilgrimage around the world. When praying, Muslims all face the stone temple. In addition to the orientation of the city——Translator's Note), this place has become the most sacred place in Mecca. No matter how difficult the journey is or how far it is, every Muslim must come to the holy place for pilgrimage at least once in his life. As soon as the Arabs took over Jerusalem, they built a mosque on that black holy stone.According to legend, thousands of years ago, Solomon, another direct descendant of Abraham and a distant relative of the Arabs, also built a famous temple in the same place (Solomon, the king of Israel, reigned about 961-922 BC- ——Translator's Note).But the black stone and the famous Wailing Wall that surrounds it are the seeds of a bloody feud between Arabs and Orthodox Jews, and fighting has been fought over them.Today, these two peoples have been forcibly twisted together to form the Palestine mandate. What else can one expect for the future of the land of Palestine? When the British entered Jerusalem, the city was 80% Muslim (Syrians and Arabs) and only 20% Jewish and non-Jewish Christians.Britain is the largest Muslim empire in the world today. As the rulers, the British are of course unwilling to offend their loyal subjects, so they handed over 500,000 Palestinian Muslims to the hands of 100,000 Jews, and let the Jews deal with it, because they want to treat Muslims There are too many reasons for the Jews who do what they want and have other intentions. As a result, a compromise plan after the Versailles peace conference was concocted again, and these "peace treaties" and "mediation" will never satisfy everyone.Today, Palestine is managed by the United Kingdom. The dispute between the two hostile nations is mediated by the British, and the governor is also elected from among the most famous Jews in the United Kingdom.Palestine became an out-and-out colony and did not enjoy Arthur Balfour (1848-1930, British Prime Minister, 1902-1905, Foreign Secretary. In order to maintain British colonial rule in the Near East, in 1917 , he issued the "Balfour Declaration", supporting the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Palestine against the Arabs——Translator's Note) described "complete political independence", in the Palestinian movement (referring to the Zionist movement of the Jews) ———Translator’s Note) At the beginning, Balfort once said that the land of Palestine would become the future homeland of the Jewish nation, but now it seems that it is just some dishonest sweet talk. The Jews would not have complicated things so much if they had known what they were going to do in their ancient homeland.Eastern European Orthodox Jews, especially Russian Jews, wanted the land of Palestine to remain as it was, to be turned into a big seminary and a small Hebrew museum.Let the dead bury the dead—that famous adage is what the younger generation thinks.They believe that blindly worrying about the glory and glory of the past will only seriously affect the construction of tomorrow's glory and glory.They want to make the land of Palestine a modern country like other countries like Switzerland or Denmark.Palestine should not always cling to the painful memories of years of displacement and living under the fence, and compete with its Arab neighbors for a few ancient stones. Instead, the people should focus on building roads and canals. build on top.Perhaps these stones were once the well stones used by Liberia (a character in the Bible, the mother of Jacob, the ancestor of the Israelites--translator's note) to draw water, but now they have become her descendants A stumbling block to the progress of future generations. Most of Palestine is in the shape of a slope from east to west. Most of the area is blown by the gentle wind from the sea every day, and the whole land has moist nectar because of this gentle wind.If the barren farmlands of Palestine were reclaimed, figs would bring huge profits to the region.Perhaps Jericho, the only important city in the Dead Sea region, will once again become a trading center for dates. Foreign philanthropists will not consider Palestine as their prey because there is neither coal nor oil.As long as Yahweh and the Muslim majority are willing, they are perfectly at ease to solve their own problems.