Maybe the Mossad did just that; but it’s the fear of God that the Israelis/Jews need!
special for Yehuda & Shomron settlements
THE HABBANIS
http://www.biblediscovered.com/am-sgulah-ani-maamin/the-israelite-tribal-warriors-of-g-d/
The story is as follows: A wild, vicious Arab tribe was plundering the Hadramaut region, destroying town after town, massacring the inhabitants. They came upon a town full of Jews, about 13,000. Even the Arabs among them threw up their hands, in total despair. Suddenly 10 Jewish Habbani warriors came on the scene, and waged war on their behalf, against the force of 1,000 bloodthirsty marauders. When they were finished, every last Arab marauder was dead, and not one of their own. The elder rabbi even went on to describe the deadly harpoon-like weapon the Habbanis used.
Though isolated, the Jews of Habban did maintain some level of contact with other Yemenite Jewish communities though such contact was infrequent and usually resulted in disputes over some point of Jewish law.
While complete details in the Biblical account of a system of fighting forms are not extant, the Midrashic, Talmudic, and Rabbinic accounts testify to fighting and combat strategies used by the ancient Israelites as well as legendary depictions of Israelite combatants. In Yemen this was known by tradition to be the most ancient nussaH in the region from the original Hebrew arrivals to Yemen during the reigns of King David and Solomon. On the surface, it is an ancient discipline of deadly combat techniques based on the both Paleo-Hebrew and Ashurith-Hebrew [the common square font] alphabets, and organized into tribal sets according to their various methods and approaches.
Abir techniques carry a spiritual power that must be seen (and felt) to be believed. Beyond its fighting application, Abir is also meditative discipline that can bring the warrior to perfect joy and nullification of the ego: humility that enables the warrior to become a conduit of G-d’s Will (in Hebrew, “Sinor” [conduit] and “RaSon” [Divine Will] are of the same letters). The tradition also includes the tribal dances of the Hebrews, such as King David danced before the Ark. Habbanis say, “many die sanctifying G-d’s Name, but the Abir lives sanctifying His Name.”
In Yemen, it is generally well-known that in this isolated region, Jews preserved Torah learning traditions that were long lost elsewhere, such as authentic Hebrew pronunciation and the original scribal traditions for preparing animal hides for ritual items prescribed by Torah law. Many elder Yemenite Jews are aware of how the Habbanis alone, among the various Jewish communities in Yemen, which flourished in the region long before the rise of Islam; lived a life of freedom, never allowing themselves to be subjugated to “dhimmi” status–the demeaning second-class rank of non-Muslims. Unlike the men of the Baladi and Shammi communities who were under the ban, the Habbanis proudly wore full turbans, rode on horseback as expert horsemen, and wore their weapons openly. The Arabs feared them.
The freedom of the Habbanim, was maintained by a legacy of unmatched warriorship. It was a tradition preserved from time immemorial which their freedom and very survival depended upon. It was this mightiest of Abir warrior chiefs who caused the Al Wahidi and Aleewa sheikhdoms, the two largest warring tribes of Southern Arabia, to put down their weapons against one another, coming under his authority as their protector and advisor. This thwarted a plan to massacre all the Jews of Habban and greater Yemen.
An anthropological Master’s thesis on the community by Ma`atuf Sa`adia bin YiS’Haq of blessed memory from the town of Bareqeth documents: Habbani Jewry [of Hatzarmavet] in the Last Generations); of the Jewish history at the Bar Ilan University was completed. Sa`adia published his historical and anthropological research on Habbani Jewry in 1987, providing testimony to the Arab pogroms against the community as they prepared for their emigration to Israel at the beginning of the state. The Israelite warrior discipline was preserved in its purity by one family, the Sofer-Ma`atuf DoH family.
They have maintained a presence both in Yemen and Hevron from time immemorial. The patriarch, Brihim bin Hassan (Avraham ben Hoshen, est. 5621-5731) was representative of the Jewish communities of Yemen to the king. Moreover, Ma`atuf Sa`adiah bin YiS’Haq of blessed memory, in his aforementioned work, Brihim “turned into the highest religious-halakhic authority in his time”. His own father, YiS’Haq bin Salem of blessed memory remembered the great mori-chief in vivid detail, although being just a child at the time. According to the family’s rich oral tradition, he was the scion of a long dynasty of Israelite warrior clan heads stretching back to the times of King David: He was the 49th “Aluf Abir”, a title passed down from grandfather to a chosen grandson: the inheritor of the full Abir warrior heritage. (The other children were also trained, but not in the full range of this vast martial tradition.) Before circumstances forced him to escape the region to join his kin in Israel, he was protector of the British military brass in Hadramaut before Yemen’s independence. A number of his esteemed sons and brothers became personal guards to Arab kings of the region. This included Abdullah ibn Hussein of Jordan the royal house of Ibn Sa’ud, and the sheikh of the Al Khuwaiti tribe (Oman)-the most feared and powerful sheikhdom in Southern Arabia at the close of the British colonial period. The Jewish Habbani chief passed the hierarchy to his grandson Yehoshua Avner.
Under his grandfather and father’s wing, Yehoshua Sofer mastered the art of his forebears by the age of 25. Having grown up together with the Aluf Abir’s father, Ya`aqov Moshe (Awad bin Brihim) in the same five-storey house, ‘Beith il DoH’ (lit. ‘House of DoH’, i.e. the DoH clan), Awad bin S’leiman has been an indispensable informant for us. Out of numerous unique characteristics of Abir that stand alone among the warrior arts, five are as follows:
1. The curved, bow-like motion of all arm and leg movements (hence the name “Qesheth”, meaning “bow”). This is especially noticeable in the leg strikes, which are circular in motion. It is unlike any fighting system that exists.
2. The exactly parallel treatment of arms and legs, as opposed to the dichotomous way the upper and lower limbs are viewed in foreign systems.
3. The continual, fluid, dance motion in Abir, rooted in a spirit of pure, simple joy and humble surrender of one’s will before G-d. As opposed to the arrogant focusing of one’s own energy, common in other forms, the Abir warrior strives to become a perfect vessel of Divine Will, and a conduit of the energy of Creation.
4. A fighting system devised of the distinct shapes of an ancient alphabet. A tradition from time immemorial, the Hebrew warriors fight according to the distinct, sacred shapes of the modern and paleo-Hebrew letters. No other system is comprised of anything like it.
5. A received tradition from the Abir’s ancestors through the ages is a repeated cry of praise to G-d that punctuates our workout: “Adonenu, Bor’enu, YoSrenu, Roph’enu!” (Translation: “our Master, our Creator, our Maker, our Healer!”) These and other Hebrew call-and-response cries between the Abir trainer and warriors-in-training are entirely unique in the world.
Abir of importance is an element of the practice of Torah Judaism, one must be torah observant. It incorporates a keen awareness of Divine Providence; and how we must depend on HaShem for our bodily condition and the circumstances; since it is more than a fighting system; it is a spiritual way of life. It also involves desert training with expertise in horsemanship and more! Abir is an investment in the physical and spiritual health of the Jewish People, bringing Jews from every background the opportunity to train in one of the most effective martial arts on earth, which reclaims their heritage and G-d’s Commandments. For more info, visit the Abir Warrior Arts web site in Israel.
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NOTE: Yes, there is less body to body combat in our era, but this could come to be a powerful weapon for the Yehuda and Shomron settlement areas, as our enemy(ies, farsi is heard all over the area) does invade with hand weapons; then it would be possible to deal with them in a direct manner.
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