Samaritans

Foundational to the ideology of Hamas is the notion that the land of the Indigenous Jews and Samaritans was granted to the Arab-Muslim colonizers by God, and that to give any part of it back is to deny Islam.

Samaritans descend from ancient Israelites who worshiped at a temple on Mount Gerizim, tracing themselves to the northern Kingdom of Israel.

Jews and Samaritans revolted against Roman rule multiple times.

Samaritans are not Jewish, but they are Israelites.

Samaritans believe the original, divinely ordained location of Solomon's Temple is on Mount Gerizim.

Samaritans pray for Jews to return to the faith they view them as having left.

About half of all Samaritans live close to Mount Gerizim.

Samaritans acknowledge no book as holy beyond their version of the Five Books of Moses.

Samaritans and Jews did not get along in ancient times.

Samaritans claim descent from the ancient Kingdom of Israel.