Yehuda Halevi Quotes
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain --
The Poet was Jewish residing in Muslim controlled Spain.
Yehuda Halevi, 1086-1145, Spanish Poet, Poem, “My Heart Is In the East,” 1141
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He uses the term Palestine to mean the entire area including Israel.
The cooperation between the Jews and Muslim Arabs invading Southern Spain represented a “Golden Age” for both groups. However, the Spanish Christians not only despised the Jews because they would not convert, but that they worked with and thrived with the Arab Muslims who the Christians viewed as invaders and occupiers of their land.
Often cited by temperance advocate Carry Nation; see also Hosea 4:6.
These kinds of inflammatory sermons are delivered with the approval of the king and royal family who crack down on any cleric who preaches what they do not approve of.
Most people are familiar with the people are familiar with the terrible persecution of the Jews in Spain by the Christians. Although there were a few examples of tolerance to Jews by Muslims when they controlled Spain and instances like modern Turkey. Generally however there is and has been Islamic persecution of Jews, Christians, and other non Muslims in almost all nations where Muslims have been in control. Until the Enlightenment, Christian persecution of other religions was just as bad if not worse.
This statement hardened the Israeli population away from anything that would bring Hamas more power. The PLO leader had, for ALL the Palestinian people, recognized the right of Israel to exist {633062}. The Israelis observe that this is a de facto declaration of war, and hence treat Gaza and Hamas as an enemy force to be reckoned with. See {635341} for another alarming reneging of the recognition of Israel.
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي Yahuḏa al-Lāwy; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in the Holy Land in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
