Chapter 33 Solomon's Pillar, Israel, Pakistan

It is indeed not easy to go from Egypt to Israel. No wonder it has been an endless pass for thousands of years.Our party spent six hours at the border of the two countries for formalities, but we didn't have any complaints, because if getting out of Egypt was easy, we would feel weightless instead. Entering Israel from the deserted Sinai Peninsula, Israel deliberately placed an internationally famous tourist attraction at the door, which is really a strong contrast.Eilat is not only beautiful, but also modern, making it hard to believe that you have just stepped out of a place where the sea is dry and the stone is still alive.

The current land of Israel is like an awl, and Eilat is just at the top of the awl. Therefore, after a sound sleep last night, I hurried north this morning, aiming at Jerusalem, which is nearly 300 kilometers away.But we stopped shortly after we were on the road, because we discovered a place called Solomon's Pillar.The name Solomon (David Solomon) is very attractive to me. He is the youngest son of David, an epoch-making hero in the history of the Jewish nation.Solomon succeeded David to rule the Hebrew Kingdom and ushered in a golden age that the Jewish people will recall for centuries. What happened to his stone pillar?

When I got closer, it turned out to be a copper mine in Solomon's era. There are several natural rock pillars on the cliff in front of the copper mine.All because that era was so fascinating, later generations took this name. I climbed up the steep slope next to the rock pillar and looked down, thinking: It is really not easy for the Jews.The Solomon dynasty was glorious in the tenth century BC, almost three thousand years ago; if we go further, the Hebrews moved from Mesopotamia to the Arabian desert under the leadership of Abraham and created the early Jewish civilization. Thirty-eight hundred years ago.It has been 3,300 years since Moses led his troops out of Egypt that we mentioned a few days ago.That is to say, it took the Jews about a thousand years before the tenth century AD to interpret their own stories in a very tragic way.There is moving spirit, decisive action and lavish construction in this story, which is in no way inferior to other early civilizations in the world.

The most admirable thing about them is that they did not hesitate to migrate again and again for national liberation.As long as you settle down, you can quickly create an ecology that is superior to others.If there is an element of enslavement in this ecology, they would rather give up and choose to wander. However, I really don't know why fate is so unfair to this nation, so many huge disasters befall them one after another, expulsion, killing, and enslavement, they can't get rid of it no matter what. Under my feet, the prosperity of Solomon's era sleeps peacefully, I don't know that so many earth-shattering events will happen behind me

In the sixth century BC, the Jewish kingdom was sacked by Babylon, and tens of thousands of people were taken to Babylon, which became a special term in history: Babylonian prisoner; Beginning in the first century BC, the Romans captured Jerusalem again and again, and the Jews, regardless of gender, old or young, would rather commit suicide than surrender, and the rest could only flee to foreign lands.But they were persecuted almost everywhere. Even in the Middle Ages after the fall of Rome, the situation of the Jews was still appalling; Until the middle of this century, Hitler also killed 6 million Jews in Europe, and Auschwitz alone executed 2.5 million Jews in 1943.This bloody historical fact has finally shaken the conscience of modern people.

There were many reasons why the Jews were repeatedly persecuted, but they later understood that not having a homeland was an important factor.Israel is a country they built with great difficulty, so every step they take here will affect a big question that spans thousands of years: Why are human beings so hard on their own kind? The Jewish nation is small, but due to disasters and wanderings, their figure far exceeds those who live and work in peace and contentment.In any corner of the world, you can faintly hear their singing from their sad eyes: Ah, Jerusalem! if i forget you, May my hands wither and no longer play the lyre;

if i forget you, May my tongue become hard and sing no more! In the global anti-Semitism frenzy, we Chinese are indifferent, showing a kind of tolerance and kindness isolated from the world.From the imperial court of the Song Dynasty to Shanghai during World War II, Jewish wanderers were treated kindly.As a result, Hebrew became closer and closer to Henan Bangzi, and even merged into the Shanghai accent. It was carried by the Yellow River and the Yangtze River and flowed into the sea to call distant relatives. On the morning of October 24, 1999, from Eilat to Jerusalem