Joshua and a "Palestinian" State

Day 27 of my bible reading has brought me to Israeli cartographers heaven. The book of Joshua states clearly all the boundaries for all the tribes of Israel, including the outer borders of the entire land of Israel. Today's chapters are tedious in detail of the names of towns and villages, rivers and valley's and boundary lines.

Joshua 18:1-6

The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The country was brought under their control, but there were still seven Israelite tribes who had not yet received their inheritance. So Joshua said to the Israelites: "How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you? Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me. You are to divide the land into seven parts...”

I don't know how long they had been in the land and had not taken full possession of it all, except that Joshua was old now. Wars and conquering take time but apparently they should have been further along by now. I'm intrigued by all the specifics even though most of it means nothing to me in terms of location (or even pronunciation!) except that it obviously means a lot to God. Joshua is sending 21 men out survey the land, write a detailed description and report back so that the land can be given to his people.

So, why now after all these years do people think they can divide up the land of Israel and give it to non-Jews? Why would bible reading people think its ok to do this? Just read chapters 13-21 in Joshua. Just read the subtitles. It's 9 chapters on the land of Israel belonging to the children of Israel. Not to Arabs. Sorry. And it's not just the book of Joshua. It's repeated again in Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Ezekiel and more. Not to mention the promise to Abraham in Genesis. Yet, we've got Christian people, prominent political policy-maker people, saying it's a good idea to give away part of that same land, that God, in very specific terms, has already given to His people, the Jews.

And yet here is what Micah also says;

In that day your enemies will make fun of you by singing this song of despair about you:
“We are finished, completely ruined! God has confiscated our land, taking it from us.
He has given our fields to those who betrayed us.”
Others will set your boundaries then, and the Lord’s people will have no say in how the land is divided.

(Micah 2:4-5)

This is saying that the enemies of Israel will divide up the land and do with it as they please. No nation that considers itself allied with Israel should have any conversations about dividing up that land. In truth it makes no sense to me whatsoever to be, on the one hand, fighting a war on terror and on the other hand, saying, gee I think giving some land of Israel's to terrorists might work for peace. The interesting thing about this line of thinking is that, after having forcibly removed Jewish families from their homes to give Gaza to the “Palestinians”, the peaceful reciprocation became the daily launching of Qassam rockets over the border. Nice. I think this is called Land for Peace. Apparently, the land allotment wasn't big enough or something. Unless the definition of peace changed recently without my knowledge. So, I guess we need a Joshua or two to step up to the plate. I don't know. But if the ancient Jews had trouble securing the land thousands of years ago it should come as no surprise that it's difficult today. I just don't like being under governmental leadership that advocates messing with those ancient boundary lines. That makes us as an enemy of Israel and not an ally. And if you think the scriptures are clear on boundary lines you should see what it says about Israel's enemies. Oy.