There is no absolute truth about who has rights to the promised land that is universally accepted. Any claims are affected by politics, history, religion, and language. It is impossible to have an absolute, unified view on the issue given the different perspectives and how knowledge is acquired over time through these changing factors. The only path forward is sharing the land and ensuring equal rights and peace.

1. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
By Assia Chelaghma

2. Real life situation
The conflict in the Middle-East about who has the
right in the ‘promised land’ Jews or Palestinians.
Knowledge issue:
Is is possible to have an absolute truth about the
‘promised land’ that is universally accepted? If so,
who should decide it and on what standards is
should be based on?

3. ARAB-ISRAELI VIOLENT EVENTS
Israeli War of Independence 1948-1949
Retribution operations 1951-1955
Suez War 1956
Six-Day War 1967
War of Attrition 1967-1970
Yom Kippur War 1973
1978 South Lebanon conflict 1978
First Lebanon War 1982
South Lebanon conflict 1982-2000
First Intifada 1987-1993
Second Intifada 2000-2004
Second Lebanon War 2006
Gaza War 2008-2009

4. RECENT EVENTS
On which standards do politicians base their opinions about the promised land?

5. WHY ARABS ARE CONCERNED?

6. REASONS OF THE
CONFLICT
HOW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF EACH SIDE
ACQUIRED?
Historical aspect
Religious aspect
Political aspect

7. HISTORICAL ASPECT
WHOSE LAND?
 Defeat of Ottoman Empire in
World War I.
 Britain claims the control of
Palestine.
 Partition of the country between
Arabs and Jews.
 David Ben-Gurion proclaimed
the creation of the State of Israel
 On May 15, the United States
recognized the State of Israel
and the Soviet Union soon
followed suit.

8. KNOWLEDGE ISSUES
 whose land?
 To what extent we should trust history to
form knowledge and determine the absolute
truth?
 Who wrote history?
 Is history unbiased?
 Who can determine the right answer?

9. RELIGIOUS ASPECT:
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE IDEA OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN
WITH REGARD TO THE "PROMISED LAND" AND THE "CHOSEN
PEOPLE" OF JERUSALEM.
Jewish perspective
The Land of Canaan (Land of Palestine/Israel) was, according to the
Torah promised by God to the Children of Israel.
Muslim Perspective
Muslims also claim rights to that land in accordance with the Quran.
They argue that the Land of Canaan was promised to all descendants
of Abraham, including his elder son Ishmael, from whom Arabs claim
descent.
Christian Perspective
Christian Zionists support Israel because they recognize an ancestral
right of Jews to this land, as suggested, for instance, by Paul in
Romans 11. Some also believe that the return of Jews in Israel is a
prerequisite for the Second Coming of Christ.

10. KNOWLEDGNE ISSUES
 Does religion affect knowledge?
 To what extent?
 Should we trust holy books to make jugdements?
 How did God tell people about the promised land?
 How can we base knowledge on something that we cannot
check its validity?
 Did God know that there were people living in the
promised land?
 How can be base knowledge
 Is God unfair?

11. POLITICAL ASPECT
HOW DID THE POLITICAL CONFLICT INFLUENCED
KNOWLEDGE?

12. CONSEQUENCES
 Affecting knowledge
 Destorting facts
 Changing history

15. THE ABSOLUE TRUTH ABOUT THE
PROMISED LAND IS AFFECTED BY:
Politics
History
Religion

16. WHAT CAN AFFECT THE
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS WELL?
Language
Logic
Mathematics

17. LANGUAGE
JESUS, ONE PERSON…MANY
VIEWS
Christianity
Christ, The Saviour and Redeemer
Son of God, the Lord
Judaism
rejects the idea of Jesus being God, or a person of a Trinity, or a mediator to
God.
Jesus is not the Messiah.
"For us in the Jewish community anyone who claims that Jesus is their savour
is no longer a Jew and is an apostate".
Islam
Messenger of God and the Masih (Messiah)
The belief in Jesus (and all other messengers of God) is required in Islam.
The Qur'an mentions Jesus twenty-five times, more often, by name, than
Muhammad.
Jesus wasn’t a God incarnate or the son of God.

18. KNOWLEDGE ISSUES
To what extent language can contribute in blocking the absolute
truth?
The significane of the conflict:
Crusades: expansion of Christianity
Jihad: expansion of Islam
Milkhemet Mitzvah ‘ commandment war’ to keep the promised land
Consequences:
Terror attack
Invasion of Afghanistan
Gaza Bombing

19. ABSOLUTE TRUTH IN LOGIC
A proposition is said to have universality if it can true in all
possible contexts without creating a contradiction.
The relativist conception denies the existence of some or all
universal truths, particularly ethical ones (through moral
relativism).
Mathematics is a field in which those truths discovered, in
relation to the field of mathematics, are typically considered of
universal scope

20. MATHEMATICS
HOW MANY TRUTHS ARE THERE?
Everything is energy, vibrating at different frequencies, and the
frequencies that you focus on, that you pay attention to the most creates
your reality. This is the reality you're aware of. But it's not the only one.
Store A or Store B?
To you, it seems like there's only
one reality, however, because
you're only aware of the paths
you took, not the ones you didn't
take. But those other paths were
taken, by different versions of
you.

21. TRUE KNOWLEDGE THAT CONSTRUCT THE
ABSOLUTE TRUTH INVOLVES:
Certainty – it's hard if not impossible to deny
Evidence – it has to based on something but the
evidence can be doubtable
Practicality – it has to actually work in the real world
but not in the practical world
Broad agreement – lots of people have to agree it's
true (the more people believe the Earth is flat doesn’t
make it flat)

22. CONCLUSION
If we start doubting everything from the beginning to
find the absolute true, then everything will be
uncertain.
The only thing that is certain is that you are thinking.
To disaprove that you are thinking, you have to think.
Personal thought: there is only one absolute truth, but
there are many versions of it.

23. BACK TO THE KNOWLEDGE ISSUE
 It is impossible to have an absolute truth
 It is also impossible to have a unified view about whoe
land is the promised land.
 Sharing the land, having equal rights and stopping
violence.

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