Abstract:
ABSTRACT
The centrality of ‘the promised land’ was and
remains the most crucial in the history of Israel.
Throughout the Torah, the land that Israel occupies
was divinely given to them by Yahweh, the
landowner. This theological idea of the land of
Canaan instigated the spilling of blood in and
around Palestine by the forces of possession and
dispossession. Israel’s continuance occupancy on the
‘land’ poses ethical, moral and xenophobic problem
on the people living around and on Yahweh himself.
This paper analyzed the issue from the moral point of
view and has suggested that a rethinking, reinterpretation,
reconstruction of the texts containing
the issue of land be done. We are of the view that
hermeneutics of ‘live and let me live’ on the part of
Israel, may go a long way to solving the antagonism
going on around Palestine.
