Let me say from the beginning that I don’t hate anyone as a general rule. I look for and desire to see the good in every human being as I believe everyone else should do as well. If someone has been influenced by an evil mindset in ideology, then my first reaction is not to commence hating that person but rather to make an attempt to shake that person out of that destructive mindset by using logic and reason, along with a persuasive passion for what is spiritually right and true.However, because this is not always possible regardless of the amount of truth that is placed before certain individuals, and because there are those who will always love the evil inwardly more than righteousness, I believe that there can is righteous-based hatred regarding some humans. I don’t believe in living a life for the sole purpose of hating for any cause as do certain political, religious, and non-religious hate groups. But there are things in this life (including evil devoted people) of whom it's righteous to hate.
God judges hatred along with all motivations of the human heart by His law and not by man’s westernized liberal conceptions. There is a big difference between hating your personal enemy on a personal level for personal reasons, and hating an enemy of God on a spiritual level for spiritual reasons. Examine what the scripture states:
"Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting." - Psalms 139:21-24. (also see II Chronicles 19:2)
In this segment from the book of Psalms, the psalmist was searching his heart before God in which he was making sure that his godly resistance towards his enemies - in the form of righteous hatred - was in check. In this passage Israel’s enemies are the ones who hates God. For the psalmist, his thought was that if he did not have a "perfect" hatred towards God’s enemies, then his thoughts of not hating God's enemy would be of a wicked way within his heart. From my point of view, the politically-correct secular world could learn volumes from the simple declaration that this psalmist proclaimed and of which the first and second Jewish Temple singers sang the psalm:1
“Do not I hate them, O YHVH that hate thee?” and "I hate them (God's enemies) with a perfect hatred"
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I have heard people say that they may hate the things evil people do but not the person themselves. I agree with that concept in general but not as an overall concept. An individual can sink so much into evil that they become “as one” with their wickedness. There is a place in the realms of evil where a person has sold out "soul" lock, stock and barrel in effect crossing the point of no return where their whole lives can only be devoted as an enemy against God. Such was the case with Pharaoh during the time of the Exodus whose heart become more hardened after each manifestation of the ten plagues of Egypt.
To bring this reality into modern times, I do not and cannot love any part of Adolph Hitler including his very soul. I not only hate the things that he did on earth but I also hate him spiritually as God's enemy as well. How about you? Are you a hater of Hitler's very soul?
Fact: There is no separation between Hitler's soul and his Holocaust deeds that he did on earth both now and forever.
Hitler made a choice to become the image of evil rather than expressing the image of God he was made in. I don’t believe God loves him but rather hates him insomuch that Hitler’s soul (and not just the things he did) is in a place of the eternally damned where he will be forever separated from the God of mercy, justice, and righteousness. So in trying to be like minded with God’s thinking towards Hitler, I hate the expressed devil that Hitler was and forever shall be known. I not only believe that it's a righteous act to hate Hitler, but in fact it would be evil of me or anyone else not to do so as the above Psalm of David plainly points out. Furthermore, the so-called do-gooders who actually love Hitler are the ones most likely to support him and his deeds.
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Hitler is not the only ambassador of evil to walk around in human form. I feel the same way with the likes of other such devils as Yassier Arafat, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and now Jimmy Carter who has devoted the rest of his evil life to the cause of Israel's murderous enemy. These men are not simply misguided fools that are followers of evil (a place where true repentance and the turning away from evil are still available to such a person) but they are in fact actual leaders and forgoers of evil for the sole purpose of leading others in their evil!
Since false prophets don’t repent, (no false prophet in the Bible ever did) I have no desire to pray for these men and others like them for a change of their evil ways. Rather, I choose to pray according to God’s promise to them which is for their destruction as God sees fit according to their relentless evil and unrepentant deeds upon this earth.
"And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face." - Deuteronomy 7:10 (See also Isaiah 59:18).
Therefore, my Bible-guided prayer is, "May YHVH according to His holy and righteous Torah promise, repay the Arab-Palestinians to their face, along with and all who support them in their terrorist-expressed hatred acts against YHVH's chosen people."
The Palestinians:
There isn't a greater enemy towards the nation of Israel in all the world today than the Palestinians! The Palestinians have taken the title from the German Nazis as "the greatest threat" to the Jewish nation. Mein Kamph gave way to Jihadi - both meaning "my struggles" in both German and Arabic. When Hitler's struggles expired the Islamic struggles picked up the banner. What now is at stake in the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians that wasn't at stake during Hitler's Final Solution is the possibility of the most evil people in all the earth, worshiping the most evil god (their god Allah), in the most holiest place (Jerusalem and the Temple Mount) in all the world!
The rebirth of Israel as a nation has given rise to Allah (an Arabian deity) wanting to be worshiped by his subjects at the very place designed for the God of Israel to be worshiped (see Psalms 132:13,14). Just the possibility of this scenario alone should show the secularists that there is a God of Israel that holds an everlasting covenant with the Jewish people (see Psalms 105:8-10). For it is impossible to ask for better stage to be set from what we see in the Middle East today to begin an all out "end of the age" showdown between good and evil.
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
World actions of this nature adds a greater significance to the end-time war between good and evil (Ezekiel 38:16-23). Besides the 7.4 billion pledged the to Palestinians, billions of dollars more are added in the form of state of the art weaponry being sold to the enemies of Israel >http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/.
Along with the billions of dollars that the UN is pledging to the Palestinians, the world's plan for tiny Israel becomes very clear! If the nations hadn't taken upon themselves to support Israel's greatest enemies there would not have been a need for Zechariah 12:9 to have been written: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
- Among the two great political parties that rule the Palestinians (Al-Fatah in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip) both covenants from both parties call for for an arms struggle and the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel. http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html
- The greatest forms of child abuse in all the world occur among the Palestinians. Children who are barely old enough to speak are taught to Jew-hate with words they don't even understand. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZL0C2QvqIlo This gives heed to the saying, "they drink the hatred with their mother's milk"! Just the picture alone (at the top of the article) speaks volumes of the Palestinian society.
- Children TV shows are shown in the name of Shahid (martyrdom). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c6lbFGC4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4zgURMOZ6k
- Shahid (martyrdom) for children is glorified of official PA and Hamas television. http://www.pmw.org.il/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm
- An exhibition of glorifying and celebrating suicide / mass murder is displayed with Palestinian gleeful acceptance at Al Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus in September, 2001. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/sbarro.htm This exhibition included many displays of body parts one of which was a bloody set of blue-jean wearing legs with no torso connected, still sitting on a chair. The bombing of Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in which the exhibition re-enacts hits a little close to home. My wife and I personally eat there three years before this massacre occurred.
- School text books promote anti-Israel and pro shahid-martyrdom. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/patext1.html http://www.edume.org/research/testimonies/2007-05-15.html http://www.pmw.org.il/getresults/political/index.html#i214759
- Women who sends their sons to Jew-murder are given high status in Palestinian society, even to run for a government office. http://www.amitiesquebec-israel.org/texts/mother.htm
- Suicide murderers are glorified all through Palestinian controlled areas, in the form of billboards, street names, names of soccer fields, trading cards, names of hospitals, new babies named after suicide bombers, and children's events, songs, chants, and poems during parades, ect. http://programs.ssrc.org/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/allen/ http://www.zoa.org/2003/07/palestinian_aut_13.htm Even "Saddam Hussein" whose Scud missiles hitting Tel-Aviv civilian areas brought Palestinian cheers, is honored in the Palestinian city of Jenin> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53882
- Suicide for the murder of Jews is an accepted norm and is a high form of religious devotion. Outside of martyrdom, there is no guarantee of reaching paradise for oneself and family members. This is one of the reasons candy is passed out in celebration at suicide / murderer's funeral. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013234.php
- One Hundred Thousand citizens of the would-be future State of Palestine attended the funeral of Yahya Ayyash (a.k.a. "the Engineer") not to mention the many funerals of other Palestinian terrorist and terrorist spiritual teachers like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin! I wonder how many of these one hundred thousand funeral attendees of Yahya Ayyash would consider themselves Palestinian moderates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash Moreover, this Palestinian hero has traffic squares named after him in both Jenin and Jericho with no Palestinian complaints. Imagine that! This issue of glorifying and mass murderer among the Palestinians even became part of "peace" negotiation with such a people. See "article 6" section "h" > http://www.israelmfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Israeli+View+on+Palestinian+Security+Commitments.htm?DisplayMode=print
- Palestinians seek to destroy the God of Israel through a revised history of Holocaust and Temple denial, and stand as a barricade between God and His fulfillment of the covenant He has with His chosen people, the Jews. http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/facultyforum.cgi?ID=1735
Muslim religious fervor has many different facets of Jew-murdering expressions that are fully exposed in the Palestinian society. From passing out candy at shahid funerals to eating flesh and drinking blood of Jewish victims as they did on October 12, 2000 in Ramallah> http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014886.php Yet, the Muslim world has the audacity to vilify Israel as the blood-libel people and state. It is these Palestinians who are on the front lines (even occupying a huge portion of the ancient land of Israel) in the Islamic war against the God of Israel!
The 64,000 dollar question: Does the God of Israel "hate" the Palestinians?
The politically-correct answer would be, "God loves everybody". However, the Bible is never politically correct. The Bible states very clearly that God hated Esau, who like the Palestinians wished to destroy Jacob / Israel.
"I have loved you, saith YHVH. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith YHVH: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated (Hebrew: sanay-ti) Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi 1:2,3
The New Testament correctly applies this scripture of God's hatred of an individual as also to the nation that proceeded from that individual (see Romans 9:12,13). The land that should be considered for a Palestinian state is all contained in the ancient writings of which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about -the Bible. Aside from Mecca, the Palestinian spiritual base is that of Esau's - Mt. Seir in Jordan, which is why the prophecies of Ezekiel against Israel's most vicious enemy is not against the West Bank, for that is Israel's land and not the Palestinians! http://www.danielpipes.org/article/298
Take another look at the list above as to what the Palestinians are capable of and then see if you notice any similarities in the following scripture: "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end...Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; [sound familiar? > http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/02/palestine-from-the-river-to-th/ ] whereas YHVH was there: Therefore, as I live saith YHVH God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I have judged thee. - Ezekiel 35:5, 10-111
One of the hardest scriptures for most people to understand and one that I personally had an atheist use in trying to discredit the Bible, is Psalms 137:7-9 which reads:Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
As God commanded Israel to hate Amalek that his name be blotted out from under heaven for his deeds in using cowardly acts against Israel in possessing her land of inheritance (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) the modern Amaleks of today should be hated for their cowardly terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians who claim their land of inheritance as well. May Arafat's name and the names of those who support his goal be blotted out from under heaven! Amen? Amen!
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1801 – 2000 of 3878 Newer› Newest»From the website elderofziyon.blogspot.com an article is titled
"NGOs silent as an Arab hero is shunned for saving Jews" on Tuesday August 09, 2016
the article says
"Rabbi Mark's funeral
In July, I reported about the Arab heroes who helped save the children of the fatally wounded Rabbi Miki Mark. Yet the names of the heroes were not publicized at that time. Only a little later did the New York Times report his name.
At the same time, Palestinians were honoring their versions of "heroes" - a group of children who had viciously attacked Jews with knives.
I wrote then:
The first set of Arabs, the true heroes, do not allow their names to be publicized [the NYT did publish their names afterwards - EoZ}. They don't want their neighbors and friends to know that they saved the lives of Jews.
The families of the second set of Arabs, terrorists who are treated as heroes, are very proud of their sons and are thrilled to announce the names and publish the photos of these murderers and would-be murderers to the world.
Anyone who self-righteously tries to describe the Israelis and Palestinian Arabs as morally equal - those who say that both sides have suffered, both sides are at fault, both sides are in a "cycle of violence" - are very, very wrong. And the proof is right here.
Terrorists like those who murdered the Marks are heroes to the Palestinians, as we have seen countless times.
The actual Arab heroes - the people who saved the lives of their enemies - are not heroes at all to their people, and in fact their heroism is something not to be spoken about in public. Their names and faces are not known. The only articles about them are from Israeli media, not from Palestinian media.
There is no moral equivalence between the two sides. For Palestinians, terrorists are heroes and real heroes are an embarrassment.
Israelis and Palestinians are moral opposites.
This has become even more apparent in this update from Times of Israel:
The Palestinian man who saved the children of a West Bank rabbi after a deadly terror attack that killed him has been fired from his job, according to the head of Har Hevron Regional Council.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Yochai Damari said that the man is now unemployed due to Palestinian opposition to his actions and should be assisted by Israel.
“I met with him and he asked me to help remove any obstacle preventing him from receiving a work permit,” Damari wrote. Such a permit would allow the man to obtain employment inside Israel.
The idea of Palestinians honoring those who save Jewish lives is ludicrous.
What is worse is the hypocrisy of the scores of "human rights" NGOs operating in the territories.
They could step in and honor the couple who first arrived to help the Mark family. They could offer a job for someone who obviously cares about human rights. They could publicize the failings of Palestinian society to help make it better. (Don't they claim that this is why they criticize Israel?)
But they are silent. They condone Arab antisemitism by not saying a word when it manifests itself, and they shy away when given the chance to practice what they preach. And they certainly don't say anything when Arab murderers are honored.
Their concern for human rights ends when the humans involved happen to be Jews - or even Arabs who don't consider Jews to be their enemy.
(h/t Gary Willig, who also wrote about this incident at Times of Israel)"
Also from the website elderofziyon.blogspot.com an article on Wednesday July 21, 2010
is titled
"Why the silence over Arab persecution of PalArabs?"
Khaled Abu Toameh touches on one of the major themes of this blog:
When was the last time the United Nations Security Council met to condemn an Arab government for its mistreatment of Palestinians?
How come groups and individuals on university campuses in the US and Canada that call themselves "pro-Palestinian" remain silent when Jordan revokes the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians?
The plight of Palestinians living in Arab countries in general, and Lebanon in particular, is one that is often ignored by the mainstream media in West.
How come they turn a blind eye to the fact that Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and many more Arab countries continue to impose severe travel restrictions on Palestinians?
And where do these groups and individuals stand regarding the current debate in Lebanon about whether to grant Palestinians long-denied basic rights, including employment, social security and medical care?
Or have they not heard about this debate at all? Probably not, since the case has failed to draw the attention of most Middle East correspondents and commentators.
A news story on the Palestinians that does not include an anti-Israel angle rarely makes it to the front pages of Western newspapers.
The demolition of an Arab-owned illegal building in Jerusalem is, for most of these correspondents, much more important than the fact that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon continue to suffer from a series of humiliating restrictions.
Not only are Palestinians living in Lebanon denied the right to own property, but they also do not qualify for health care, and are banned by law from working in a large number of jobs.
Can someone imagine what would be the reaction in the international community if Israel tomorrow passed a law that prohibits its Arab citizens from working as taxi drivers, journalists, physicians, cooks, waiters, engineers and lawyers? Or if the Israeli Ministry of Education issued a directive prohibiting Arab children from enrolling in universities and schools?
Ironically, it is much easier for a Palestinian to acquire American and Canadian citizenship than a passport of an Arab country. In the past, Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were even entitled to Israeli citizenship if they married an Israeli citizen, or were reunited with their families inside the country.
Lebanese politicians are now debating new legislation that would grant "civil rights" to Palestinians for the first time in 62 years. The new bill includes the right to own property, social security payments and medical care.
Many Lebanese are said to be opposed to the legislation out of fear that it would pave the way for the integration of Palestinians into their society and would constitute a burden to the economy.
I would add that there a a couple of other major reasons why the Lebanese are almost all against granting Palestinian Arabs equal rights."
the article lastly says
"One is that there is still a legally mandated balance between Shiites, Sunnis and Christians in Lebanon. A new influx of hundreds of thousands of mostly Sunni Palestinians would upset the demographics, and Lebanon is very sensitive to demographics. In fact, Lebanon has avoided doing a census for that very reason - the fear that it will be discovered that the number of Christians has been shrinking and that Sunnis and Shiites have been growing.
The other reason is that there is still a lot of resentment over the PLO's role in the civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people in the 1970s and 1980s. For all the pro-Palestinian Arab rhetoric that Lebanon spews, in the end they really don't love their Palestinians at all - quite the opposite.
The Arab supposed support for their Palestinian brethren is pretty much limited to only how they can be used as pawns to hurt Israel. When it comes to concrete actions that would actually help the Palestinian Arab economy, or their quality of life, Arab nations are far less forthcoming.
And this answers Toameh's question of why Arab mistreatment of their Palestinians is muted - because it does not have anything to do with Israel, and that is the entire reason that the Palestinian Arabs exist as a people today. Practically their entire quasi-nationhood is a fiction that was foisted upon them by decades of abuse by their Arab neighbors, and if they would have been integrated into Arab societies the way that a similar number of Jews from Arab countries were integrated into Israel, there would be very few people identifying as "Palestinian" today - and the major weapon that the Arabs have against Israel would disappear.
Modern Palestinian Arab nationalism began as a purely anti-Israel movement (Fatah and the PLO were founded in the early 1960s, before any "occupation.") It is not an expression of hundreds of years of any sort of cohesive unity - there never was any, and there still isn't. Their peoplehood is from 62 years of being treated like garbage mostly by their Arab brothers, and those are the people who should take their fair share of the responsibility to eliminate the scourge of millions of fake "refugees" that they have hosted and persecuted for six decades."
Another Article from elderofziyon.blogspot.com on Friday October 4, 2019 is titled
"Slavery by Palestinian Arabs continued into the 1950s" the article says
"I just became aware of this 1998 paper by (the late) Susan Beckerleg of the Department of Public Health and Policy,London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She describes the origins of black Arabs in Palestine, and has the most comprehensive description of modern slavery by Palestinians, mostly Bedouin.
Excerpts:
Although Africans have been in Palestine for centuries, most people know little about this migration. For centuries, under the Ottoman Empire and before, slaves were brought from Africa. Some older people today remember stories told by their parents or grandparents of how they came to be in Palestine. Therefore it is possible to discover something of the later history of slavery. Several people mentioned that they had heard that there was a big slave market in Egypt and one 'white' Bedouin told me that his grandfather had been a slave trader who travelled regularly to Egypt. Most people with any idea of where their ancestors came from mention Sudan or Ethiopia. Sometimes they know the name of the town. ...
In Gaza I spoke to people of Bedouin origin who had been living in the Nagab [Negev] prior to 1948.
These people of Bedouin origin currently resident in Gaza and the Nagab recall being told by their elders how children were kidnapped or bought in slave markets and brought, sometimes carried in the camel saddle-bags, to live with important Bedouin families. This occurred in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The children were often the only Africans living with the family. They looked after animals, grew wheat and barley and performed household tasks. People told me that the Bedouin did not use the girls as concubines, although in the West Bank they did 'marry' female slaves. Only big wealthy families owned and traded in slaves. Black people were scattered throughout Palestine living with white families who 'owned' them. However, some families needed slaves to help in self- defence when they were weak in number. It is possible that within the twentieth century adults were also brought from Africa and sold as slaves. One elderly man reported that in his youth he had come across African men who were strong, bore tribal scars on their faces and spoke little Arabic."
the article continues
"One 'white' Bedouin man told me that slaves used to be branded like animals, but that there were no papers concerning ownership or origins. In the family unit, there were sometimes also other slaves who were white, or low status dependants, such as hamran. But one man told me that a white slave would never have answered to a black slave.
In the Nagab the Bedouin had a three tier social and political system. Sheikhs were drawn from the Samran, the original Bedouin. Attached to them as clients were the Hamran, families who were originally felaheen, but required protection and/or land from Samran families. The Abed, the slaves, were on the bottom tier and did not have the same rights or status as free people.
Slaves did not count in blood feuds between families. Several people told me that if a black man killed a white man, the death of that black man would not count. Payment (sulha) could be made in money or by the giving of a slave of a certain height. If a black man kills a white, the family of the deceased may kill the 'owners' of the black man. Recently, in Rahat in the Nagab, a black boy eloped with a white girl. They were discovered and the girl killed by her family. However, the boy survived and subsequently married a black girl.
Under the old system slaves could not sit in the shig at the same level as their masters. In some places this is still observed, with the role of the black people being to serve tea and coffee to the white people.
Slavery appears to have been an active institution under Ottoman rule. The British Mandate of Palestine was established in 1917. Slaves were not given release papers and there appears that the British made little formal effort to end the system of slavery in Palestine. Rather, as economic and social conditions changed, the institution faded away in some areas, but still operated other areas until the 1950s.
In some areas slavery as a way of life appears to have continued into the 1950s. One black (sumr) man who came to Palestine as a migrant worker from Egypt and was caught up in the war of 1948 recalls life for black people attached to the Al Huzail. He had been working in the orchards near Rishon with black people of the Abu Barakat. When war broke out they fled back to their home area of the Al Huzail where Rahat has now been constructed. When the Egyptian man arrived there he found black people growing wheat for Al Huzail. They were given food and, if they requested it for a special purpose, money. Slaves and masters lived separately in black tents. There was no intermarriage and no concubinage. The Egyptian man slept in the Sheikh's shig and worked as a shepherd, but received no wages. The Sheikh arranged his marriage to a white girl from Gaza. However, after 1952 under the Israelis, when the census was taken, slavery as an institution faded away."
& lastly says
"The report also notes that there was an influx of African Muslims to Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and they now consider themselves "Palestinians:"
Most contemporary members of the African community came to Jerusalem as pilgrims and workers under the British Mandate of Palestine (1917-1948). They came mostly from Senegal, Chad, Nigeria and Sudan. They regard themselves as Palestinian and played an active role in the Intifada. Some of the Africans arrived as part of the Egyptian led 'Salvation Army' which aimed to liberate the Palestinian areas held by Jews in 1948. After the defeat of that army and its retreat to Egypt many Africans returned to their original countries, while others preferred to stay in Palestine.
I found a little corroboration that Bedouin in the Negev had slaves as late as the 1925 from this JTA article:" The Article is shown on the elderofziyon.blogspot.com article
(h/t Robert Affinity)
A Happy Article from the website elderofziyon.blogspot.com on Sunday October 6, 2019 is
titled
"Arab plumbers in Haifa refuse to charge Holocaust survivor"
the article says
"Here is a nice story that was only in the Hebrew-language media a couple of weeks ago.
Simon and Salim Matri, Arab citizens of Israel, came to do plumbing work worth around NIS 1000 for an elderly woman, Rosa Meyer, in Haifa.
As they spoke to her, Rosa revealed that she was a Holocaust survivor.
Simon said, "At one point, while working, my brother Salim started talking to Rosa about her life. Her life story touched me. At that moment, I decided I wouldn't charge her a penny."
The wrote on the invoice, "Wishing you health to 120 years old. Amount to pay: 0 ."
When Meyer saw the invoice, she was moved to tears. "The brothers really surprised me. It was so exciting and gratifying, and I thanked them very much," she told Mako.
"We did it wholeheartedly," says Simon, "We left our phone number to Rosa and told her to call us with any trouble she had, and we'd come to help her for free. That's the education we got at home - helping people. Money is important, but not the most important. It's important to be human. " A Heartwarming Picture is shown in the Article of Rosa with the two Arab plumbers
From the website Israelnationalnews.com an article is titled
"There is no "radical Islam" and there is also no "moderate Islam" "
The two expressions were coined by those who think that the real Islam is the moderate one and that the radicals hijacked it.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, 12/11/15 10:47
Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. He served in IDF Military Intelligence for 25 years, specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups and the Syrian domestic arena. Thoroughly familiar with Arab media in real time, he is frequently interviewed on the various news programs in Israel.
the article says
"Beginning more or less with 9/11, the expression "radical Islam" became the accepted way for the media, politicians and public to define the religious and ideological foundations of Islam-based violence when referring to what the world calls "terror." This expression was meant to be contrasted with "moderate Islam" which presents Muslims as ordinary people who wish to live in peace with all of mankind - Christians, Jews, Buddhists, unbelievers and the rest of us. The world created the image of two Islams, one radical and impossible to live with, and one moderate and "just like us."
This differentiation between "radical" and "moderate" Islam is what gave rise to the claim that Islam had been "hijacked" by the radicals, implying that the real and original Islam is the moderate version, not the false, radical one.
This is what allows today's Europe to relate positively to the wave of mostly-Muslim illegal immigrants washing up on its shores – they represent "moderate Islam" and all they want is to live in peace and harmony with their European neighbors.
Permit me to raise some doubts concerning the psychological mindset that claims the existence of two types of Islam. In order to do this, let us clarify an important point: Islam is a text-based framework of ideas and behaviors, covering religion, culture, strictures, politics, law and economics. It is an all-embracing way of life. The most basic text is the Qu'ran, followed by the Hadith (oral tradition) and the Sira – biography – of Muhammad. The Sharia, Muslim law, is a system of binding laws and injunctions that Muslims are obliged to obey.
There are no two Islams, no moderate one and no radical one, there is just one Qu'ran that includes everything: verses on Jihad and all out war against unbelievers along with verses that speak of recognizing the "other" and living beside him.
There are no two types of hadith, one radical and the other moderate; there is just one body of hadith that includes everything, both violent and moderate ideas.
Muhammad does not have a moderate biography and a radical one; there is only one life story of the prophet of Islam and it has stories that express a radical, violent approach and others presenting a moderate one.
There is also just one Sharia that includes everything, from the radical cutting off of a thief's hands to the unquestionably moderate admonition to care for the poor and indigent.
That being the case, there is no "moderate Islam" and no "radical Islam", just one Islam that incorporates both terms, ranging from extreme radicalism to extreme moderation. In practice, we see people with different cultures, some of them extremists and some moderates, all finding verses, ideas, precedents and laws that support their views on life and society in the same Qu'ran, Hadith, Sira and Sharia. The radical Muslim chooses to quote sources that support his extremist approach, while the moderate Muslim finds sources to buttress his moderate approach."
the article continues
"Those two Muslims, the most extreme and the most moderate, are "kosher", because they both rely on legitimate Islamic sources, and neither can claim that the other "hijacked" Islam. All the Muslims in the world, all one and a half billion of them, men, women and children, are to be found somewhere on the moderate-extremist continuum. They may live alone or as part of families, tribes, organizations and societies.
Islamic State is a state established and continuing its operations with the participation and cooperation of a large body of Muslims and converts to Islam who are on the extremist tip of the continuum. Al Qaeda is right there next to them, as are Hamas, Hezbollah and all the other terrorist organizations. On the other end of the continuum, the moderate one, are the members of the "Muslims facing Tomorrow" organization, a totally moderate group of Muslims living in Toronto, Canada.
Along the scale connecting the endpoints of the continuum, one can find all the other Muslims in the world, each one on a point of his choosing, somewhere between radicalism and moderation. His place on the continuum is a dynamic, not a static one, and a once moderate Muslim can undergo a process of radicalization, while another, who was an extreme radical can change his views and become more moderate. Life has a way of moving people along the continuum, making it harder to predict the future of an individual or group.
Moderate Muslim migrants live in harmony with the foreign societies to which they have migrated. They blend in nicely, work for a living, are law abiding and contribute to the economy and society that absorbs them. More radical Muslims who migrate to new societies tend to live in the enclaves that preserve their culture and way of life, only partially blending into society and the work force and constantly attempting to influence and change for their own ends the society that let them in. If they are on the violent side of the continuum, that violence will be turned on the society that accepted them - a fact that is most evident in today's Europe." of course there are Many Decent Muslims who would Never Become Violent or Dangerous or Commit Violent acts of Terrorism, but Islamic Extremism is a real danger to America & The World"
From the website www.commentarymagazine.com an article is titled
"Why Aren’t Tibetans Knifing Chinese?"
NOVEMBER 11, 2015 BY EVELYN GORDON
the article states
"The idea that the recent wave of Palestinian terror is an understandable (albeit reprehensible) response to Israeli actions appears to be gaining currency among liberal Jews. After Peter Beinart propounded a layman’s version of this theory last week in a Los Angeles speech, sociology professor Samuel Heilman dressed it up in academic jargon for a Haaretz op-ed this week. The theory has many problems, and Jonathan Tobin discussed several of them in his post on Tuesday. But I’d like to add one more: It completely fails to explain why other ethnic groups in comparable situations haven’t responded with periodic outbreaks of vicious violence. The fact that this Palestinian response is far from universal argues that it stems not from their “relative deprivation,” to quote Heilman’s learned phrase, but from something specific to Palestinian culture and attitudes.
Heilman defines “relative deprivation” as “the discontent or deprivation people feel when they compare their positions to others around and like them and realize that in comparison to them they have less of what they believe themselves to be entitled than those around them,” and says it “perfectly describe[s] Palestinians under occupation.” Thus far, his argument is uncontroversial. Palestinians undoubtedly do compare themselves to Israel, and this comparison is undoubtedly frustrating. By almost any yardstick – national sovereignty, civil liberties, democracy, economic welfare – Israelis have a better life than Palestinians do.
Where the argument breaks down is his assertion that this frustration naturally leads them to “explode and strike at anything that walks down the Jewish street.” Or as Beinart put it, that “today’s Palestinian terrorism is a monstrous, demented response to Israel’s denial of basic Palestinian rights.” For if that is true, comparable situations elsewhere in the world should have produced comparable outbreaks of violence. And they haven’t.
Take, for instance, Tibet, which has been occupied by China since 1951 – longer than Israel has controlled the West Bank. The occupation certainly hasn’t brought prosperity to Tibet, which has the highest poverty rate in China. Moreover, Beijing has sought to eradicate Tibetan culture and religion, a process that reached its climax when the government asserted the right to choose the next Panchen Lama, the second-highest post in Tibetan Buddhism’s religious hierarchy. Israel, by contrast, scrupulously respects Palestinians’ religious freedom. Finally, there has been such an influx of Han Chinese settlers into Tibet that ethnic Tibetans are now a minority in “greater Tibet,” whereas Palestinians, despite Israel’s much-hyped settlement activity, remain an overwhelming majority in the West Bank.
So by the Heilman/Beinart standard, one would expect Tibetans to respond to their relative deprivation by launching periodic waves of vicious violence against the Chinese. And yet, that hasn’t happened. Instead, there has been a wave of self-immolations, and even those have been few and far between. According to the International Campaign for Tibet, 143 Tibetans have set themselves on fire as an act of protest since February 2009 – a shocking figure, but spread out over almost seven years. By comparison, there have been 65 Palestinian stabbing attacks in the last six weeks alone.
In short, something in Tibet’s culture or leadership caused Tibetans to respond very differently to “relative deprivation” than Palestinians have."
The article continues
"Alternatively, consider the American civil rights movement. American blacks in the mid-20th century undoubtedly suffered relative deprivation. Despite being American citizens, southern blacks were often denied basic rights like the right to vote and subjected to segregated buses, schools, parks and water fountains, and of course, they were also far poorer than whites. Thus by the Heilman/Beinart standard, one would have expected them to respond with periodic waves of vicious violence against American whites.
Yet that didn’t happen. There were occasional violent riots, but there were no mass waves of stabbings, shootings or suicide bombings by blacks. Instead, the civil rights movement opted for nonviolent civil disobedience. Something in mid-20th century American black culture or leadership caused American blacks to respond very differently than Palestinians have.
Nor is it hard to figure out what this “something” is. The Tibetans’ revered spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, tirelessly preaches nonviolence. Black civil rights leaders, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., also tirelessly preached nonviolence. And these messages were reinforced by other civil-society institutions, first and foremost Tibetan monasteries and black churches.
In contrast, Palestinian culture is steeped in support for violence and loathing for Jews and Israelis, as Daniel Polisar pointed out in a sweeping analysis of Palestinian opinion polls for Mosaic Magazine this month. Palestinian clerics, political officials and media outlets routinely denigrate Jews as “apes and pigs,” glorify terror attacks (see, for instance, here, here and here) and actively incite to violence (see, for instance, here or here). And that’s in the “moderate” Palestinian Authority. Hamas, needless to say, is even worse (like the Gaza cleric who urged young Palestinians to “cut Jews into body parts”).
Relative deprivation may goad people to react, but whether they react constructively or destructively is entirely their own choice. Palestinians could have chosen to emulate U.S. civil rights leaders and respond constructively to their relative deprivation – for instance, by accepting one of Israel’s repeated offers of statehood. That they have chosen instead to respond with repeated outbursts of vicious violence has nothing whatsoever to do with anything Israel has done, and everything to do with their own culture and leadership." People have been pointing out that Tibetans have things Much Worst, Much Worst and are suffering far more than the So-called "Palestinians" and their alleged sufferings, Yet Tibetans don't Murder innocent people, People have said Israel should have wrapped Arab
Suicide/Homicide Bombers in Pigskins like the Russians did to the Muslim Terrorists after the horrific Moscow theater hostage crisis which was from October 23-26, 2002 , look it up, on Wikipedia: Moscow theater hostage crisis
From the website nationalreview.com an article is titled
"Making Sense of Palestinian Logic"
By DANIEL PIPES
May 4, 2019 1:37 PM the article says
"Palestinians do weird things. A few days ago, the Palestinian Authority (PA), which rules most of the West Bank, refused to accept the tax revenues it is owed by the Israeli government. Today, Hamas, which rules all of Gaza, launched more than 200 rockets into Israel.
Both of these are, on the surface, self-defeating steps that make no sense. Not taking the money means the PA could collapse; firing rockets means Hamas is getting battered militarily by the far superior Israeli forces.
So, why do the leaders of these quasi-governmental entities take such apparently self-defeating steps? Because they bring results. Follow the logic:
Israelis thriving in nearly every domain, from demographics to economics, from democracy to cultural creativity.
The Palestinians feel isolated and weak because the Arab states have basically come to terms with Israel’s existence, leaving the struggle to secondary players such as Iran, Turkey, and the global Left.
No matter their weakness, the leaders of the PA and Hamas remain committed to the elimination of the Jewish state, meaning that they cannot live in peace next to Israel.
Contrarily, the Israeli public cherishes normality and, especially since the 1993 Oslo accords, has been ready to pay a price for it.
Therefore, the Palestinians play a game of chicken, disturbing the quiet in return for an Israeli pay-off. The Palestinian Authority says, “Give us the money you’re holding back that we use to fund attacks on Israelis or our whole structure will come crashing down and you’ll have a much bigger mess on your hands.” Hamas says, “Give us access to the money Qatar is sending us or we will make life miserable for you, with rockets raining down during your Memorial Day, your Independence Day, and the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest.”
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Palestinian logic boils down to blackmail: You Israelis are rich, strong, and happy, so we will make you miserable unless you give us access to more money. It’s weird, it’s sick, but it usually works, especially given an Israeli security establishment for whom quiet is the first priority.
So, expect these tactics to succeed and be deployed time and again into the future." People have also pointed out that CORRUPTION is also a Major Cause of "Palestinian" Suffering, how the so-called "leaders" of the Palestinian people are the Major cause of their people's suffering, NOT Israel, it's not Israel's Fault, it's their own fault
Also from nationalreview.com an article is titled
"The Bob Newhart Peace Plan"
By KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
September 16, 2018 4:30 AM
President Bill Clinton looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO leader Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing a peace accord at the White House in 1993. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)
The Palestinians need to stop making war before their conflict with Israel can be resolved.
the article says
"There’s a Bob Newhart sketch you probably know: A woman walks into a therapist’s office and says that her life is being spoiled because she spends all of her time obsessing over the fearful possibility that she will be buried alive in a box. His advice:
“Stop it!”
She’s resistant, and lists her other problems:
“I’m bulimic. I put my finger down my throat and—”
“Stop it!”
“I have self-destructive relationships with men.”
“Stop it!”
Etc.
There is a great deal of wisdom in that. Jay Nordlinger likes to tell a story about “B-1 Bob” Dornan, the Republican congressman from California. He was a famously tough guy, an Air Force captain who survived two parachute bailouts in the Fifties and registered black voters in Mississippi in the Sixties. He said the hardest thing he ever did was quit smoking. But it’s the easiest thing in the world to do: You just stop it. Drinking, drugs, eating junk food — giving any of those up is a purely negative achievement. You just don’t do it anymore. Simple. “Simple as a flower, and that’s a complicated thing.”
This week marks 25 years since the Rose Garden ceremony celebrating the signing of the Oslo Accords. You’ll remember the famous picture of a beaming President Bill Clinton kind of shoving PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin toward each other to shake hands.
Like many of the purported victories of the Clinton administration, that moment of triumph has not aged very well. As Herb Keinon writes in the Jerusalem Post:
The longed-for peace still tarries, the New Middle East of Shimon Peres, one of the architects and leading proponent of the Oslo Accords, never emerged. In fact, some argue that the handshake 25 years ago did not improve the chances of peace between Arabs and Israelis, but actually — because it raised and then dashed hopes — pushed them farther away. A quarter-century since the formal kickoff of the Oslo process, peace between the two sides has rarely felt more distant.
A peace plan isn’t peace. Peace negotiations aren’t peace. Nobel Peace Prizes aren’t peace, either, though they were handed out after Oslo."
the article continues
"Peace is peace.
And war is war: There were 169 Palestinian suicide attacks between 1993 and 2016, targeting shopping malls, bus depots, the streets of downtown Jerusalem. In 2014 alone, there were 4,500 rocket and mortar attacks on Israelis. The Palestinians still proudly celebrate their stunning military victory over a pregnant woman, seven children, and five other civilians eating pizza at the Battle of Sbarro. There is constant violence on the Gaza border, and balloons and kites now are used to deliver incendiary devices into Israeli cities. There are practically no diplomatic relationships between the Israeli government and the Palestinian government, partly because the Palestinians have two competing governments run by two competing terrorist organizations: Fatah in the West bank and Hamas in Gaza. The United States government has announced that it will cease funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and an Israeli newspaper reported that the Trump administration, through Jared Kushner and his representative Jason Greenblatt, had offered the Palestinians $5 billion to come to the negotiating table again — a claim Greenblatt denies. President Trump has suggested that he’ll rely on financial leverage to motivated the Palestinians, telling reporters: “I’d say, ‘You’ll get money, but we’re not paying you until we make a deal. If we don’t make a deal, we’re not paying.’”
Another deal. One cannot fault the administration for trying. What else is there to do?
If only Secretary of State Bob Newhart were here to offer the Palestinians some sound advice: “Stop it.”
The conflict in Israel might be settled 1 million different ways, but Palestinian powers reject 999,999 of those possibilities in favor of the one outcome that the Israelis cannot accept: the elimination of the Jewish state as such. To the extent that the Palestinian powers have the consent of the people they purport to rule, this is what is being consented to: war and more war, misery and more misery, with the Palestinians themselves suffering some of the worst of it. But the Israelis cannot make peace with people who will not make peace with them. They can only do what they have tried to do: protect themselves and look for harm-reduction opportunities."
More Nutcase Anti-Semitic Conspiracy "Theories"
the website elderofziyon.blogspot.com has an article on Thursday November 29, 2018 titled
"Canadian Arabic newspaper says Jews built the Titanic just to sink it and kill three businessmen" the article says
"Ahram-Canada is a (mostly) Arabic news site that says it is a "platform advocating human rights, and is against racial discrimination in all its forms, colors and justifications. ...The newspaper is not limited to one thought but allows all to express freely and openly in the face of backward thought, but within the limits of love of others even different from us. "
It just published an antisemitic conspiracy theory that definitely wins points for originality.
Calling it the "smartest Jewish murder in history," Ahmed Zaki starts the theory off by saying:
The Jewish Freemasons built the giant Titanic ship and charged it with the fictional costs, only to kill three businessmen, who built it with a magnificent construction, to drag them on board, and then sink them into the ocean floor and bury the secret with them for ever. The [businessmen were against] the idea of creating the Federal Reserve! They loved to be rid of them in order to pave the way for the new world order.
The conspiracy theory that the Titanic was not sunk by hitting an iceberg but was in fact sabotaged is not original to this newspaper, I found this article discussing the absurd theory. But the claim that Jews were behind it - namely, JP Morgan, who wasn't even Jewish - is a new Arab twist.
The editor of Ahram Canada is Medhat Oweida. He is also running for office.
Medhat Oweida Announces Campaign for Candidacy to Run in the Federal Conservative .Nomination for the Riding of Mississauga Streetsville .
Medhat Oweida declares his candidacy to run in the federal Conservative nomination for the riding of Mississauga Streetsville. Medhat is a proud resident of Mississauga Streetsville with a background in law, social work, media and human rights activist. He has served the community with a strong passion for great Canadian heritage. His passion to run in the federal Conservative nomination for the riding of Mississauga Streetsville is to implement core service values rooted in Andrew Scheer’s platform and vision for a Conservative Government in upcoming election.
The article very possibly violates hate speech laws in Canada, and the editor of the newspaper is running for office. Nice!"
Another Article about the LIE of the "Cycle of Violence" and about the Moral Superiority of Israel & it's Jewish Citizens,
From the Los Angeles Times website, www.latimes.com an article is titled
"‘Cycle of Violence’ Is a Middle East Lie"
By YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI
JAN. 23, 2002 12 AM
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI IS THE ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC AND A SENIOR WRITER FOR THE JERUSALEM REPORT. the article says
"JERUSALEM--There is no cycle of violence.
One side has religious fanatics who are violent and hateful but discredited by the mainstream public and repudiated by most of its religious leaders. The other side has religious fanatics who are violent and hateful and celebrated by the mainstream as holy men.
One side is ready to compromise for peace and has abandoned its dream of complete possession of the contested land. The other side insists on absolute ownership of the land.
One side is prepared to stop arguing about history and give precedence to the future. The other side is still fighting medieval wars against infidels.
One side has painfully concluded that both sides in this decades-long conflict have inflicted and suffered injustices. The other side believes that only it has suffered injustice and attributes all wrongs to its enemy.
One side believes that this is a tragic conflict between two legitimate national movements. The other side believes this is a conflict between native sons and foreign interlopers.
One side was so sickened of being occupiers that it empowered its archenemy and armed his terrorist forces and offered him shared sovereignty over its capital city. The other side rails against the injustice of an occupation that the occupier offered to end.
One side has accepted international compromises for a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, beginning with the Peel Commission of 1937, through the U.N. partition plan of 1947, through Camp David 2000 and Taba 2001. The other side has responded to each of those compromises with terrorism and war, and then complains to the world about the injustice of its defeats.
One side turned to its current hard-line leader only after its peacemaking leader returned from negotiations with war as the counteroffer. The other side never produced a leadership committed to compromise.
One side teaches its children songs of peace. The other side teaches its children songs of blood and fire.
One side maintains free media that criticize their own government and army and report on the other side’s suffering. The other side maintains controlled media that tell its people the Holocaust never happened and that Sept. 11 was a well-earned blow against the United States.
One side anguishes and debates when its army commits an immoral act. The other side dances in the street when atrocities are committed in its name.
One side tries to prevent civilian deaths during battle. The other side defines the battle as a war against civilians.
One side produces mothers who protest against sending their sons into war. The other side produces mothers who boast about the suicide deaths of their terrorist sons and declare their willingness to sacrifice even more sons for the cause.
There is no cycle of violence." There was NO "Cycle of Violence" in 2002, and there is No
"Cycle of Violence" Now, As Always Israel & it's Jewish Citizens are Morally Superior & Humane,
An old article from the website elderofziyon.blogspot.com is from Friday March 1, 2013
is titled
"Another Palestinian Arab dies in custody - but there will be no riots"
From Ma'an: the article says
"A prisoner being held in a Palestinian Authority jail in Jericho died on Friday, a senior Palestinian official said.
Ayman Mohammad Sharif Samara, 40, died while being detained on charges of assault, Palestinian Authority attorney general Muhammad Abdul-Ghani al-Uweiwi told Ma'an.
He was arrested on Friday and transferred to a nearby hospital, where he passed away, al-Uweiwi said.
The PA attorney general denied that the prisoner was tortured or beaten during interrogations and said that an autopsy would be performed and the results made public once completed.
An investigation into his death has already begun, al-Uweiwi added.
Why no demand for an international investigation? Why no riots about the uncanny coincidence of a prisoner dying the day of his arrest? Why no uproar?
Ah, it is another application of the Middle East version of the Inverse Square Law:
The amount of outrage over an Arab death is inversely proportional to the square of the possibility that the death can be blamed on Jews." a Link is given to the Wikipedia entry for the Inverse Square Law in Physics
From the website israellycool.com an article is titled
"Israel One of Least Miserable Countries in World. As For Our Neighbors…"
By David Lange -October 7, 2019 the article says
"A site called Visual Capitalist has come up with a graphic showing a ranking of the most miserable countries in the world (based on the economic variables inflation, lending rate, unemployment rate, and GDP per capita growth).
Note how while Israel is in 20th position (out of 95 countries), our neighbors are not doing so well: Iran is third last, and Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan are right near the bottom. As for Venezuela under Roger Waters’ buddy Maduro…" Venezuela is #1 on the Misery list , while people have said that Roger Waters Sucks & Pink Floyd Sucks, they both Suck , click on the Article to view the list
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Why Arabs Hate Palestinians"
Sep 9, 2019
You simply cannot burn pictures of the Saudi crown prince one day and rush to Riyadh to seek money the next.
by Khaled Abu Toameh, The Gatestone Institute
the article says
"Is it true? If so, why? Sadly, the Palestinians are known for betraying their Arab brothers, even effectively stabbing them in the back. The Palestinians, for example, supported Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait – a Gulf state that, together with its neighbors, used to give the Palestinians tens of millions of dollars in aid each year.
This disloyalty is precisely how a growing number of Arabs, particularly those living in the Gulf states, have been describing the Palestinians for the past few years.
In recent months, however, Arab criticism of the Palestinians, mostly aired through traditional and social media, has further escalated, and sometimes turned ugly.
Some Arab writers and journalists expressed outrage over the Palestinians’ opposition to peace plans, particularly the US administration’s yet-to-be-announced “Deal of the Century.”
They accused the Palestinians of losing countless opportunities and said that the “Deal of the Century” could be the Palestinians’ “last, best chance to achieve a state.”
Khalid Ashaerah, a Saudi, denounced the Palestinians as “traitors” and expressed hope that Israel would be “victorious” over the Palestinians.
The Arab attacks on the Palestinians reflect an intense and increasing disillusionment in the Arab world with the Palestinians and anything related to them.
At the core of this deep sense of disillusionment is the Arabs’ belief that despite all they did to help their Palestinian brothers for the past seven decades, the Palestinians have proven to be constantly ungrateful toward the Arab and Muslim people and states.
Such a widespread view as that now being expressed in various Arab states accuses the Palestinians of betraying their Arab and Muslim brothers. As an Arab saying goes, it accuses them of spitting in the well they have been drinking from. The image refers to the financial aid that Palestinians have received for decades from many Arab states.
Until a few years ago, it was the Egyptians who were spearheading the anti-Palestinian campaign in the Arab world. Prominent Egyptian media personalities, journalists, writers and politicians seemed to be competing for a blue ribbon on who could attack Palestinians harder.
The Egyptians focused their criticism against the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip — a coastal enclave that has a shared border with Egypt. The Egyptian critics, who are mostly affiliated with the regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, see Hamas — an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood organization now outlawed in Egypt — as a threat to Egypt’s national security and stability.
These critics also seem incensed at Palestinian criticism of Sisi for having alleged good relations with Israel and the US administration.
The Palestinians seem to believe that Sisi is conspiring against them, together with Israel and the US administration. They point out, for example, that last May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sisi “my friend.” Netanyahu had thanked Sisi after Egypt sent two helicopters to help extinguish wildfires in Israel. “I would like to thank my friend the Egyptian president, Sisi, for sending the two helicopters,” Netanyahu announced."
the article continues
"“Instead of defending their cause, the Palestinians are insulting Sisi and the Egyptian people,” a prominent Egyptian journalist, Azmi Mujahed, said.
“I have a message to send to the Palestinian beggars who sold their land and honor: You are cursing Egypt and its army and president. You are a group of despicable folks. Whoever insults our president insults all of us.”
The Egyptians’ attacks on the Palestinians reached a peak in 2014, when several prominent writers and journalists called on their government to expel Palestinians and launch a military strike against the Gaza Strip. The fierce attacks came amid reports that the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip were providing support to ISIS-inspired terrorist groups waging war on Egypt’s security forces right in its Sinai Peninsula.
Egyptian writer Lamis Jaber urged the Egyptian government to expel all Palestinians and confiscate their property. She also called for arresting anyone who sympathized with the Palestinians. “We give aid to the Gaza Strip, and in return they [Palestinians] kill our children. They are dogs and traitors.”
Jaber further pointed out that while Palestinian patients are being treated in Egyptian hospitals free of charge, the leaders of Hamas are enjoying themselves in “seven-star hotels” in Turkey and Qatar.
Jaber is just one of several leading Egyptians who have been waging a campaign against the Palestinians in recent years — a move reflecting Arab disappointment with Palestinians’ “ungratefulness” and “arrogance.”
The message the Egyptians are sending to the Palestinians is: We are fed up with you and your failure to get your act together and behave like adults. We are also fed up with you because after all these years of supporting you and fighting for your cause, in the end you are spitting in our face and offending our president."
the article continues
"Telling it Like it is
Now it seems that it is the Saudis’ turn to “tell it like it is” to the Palestinians. Like their Egyptian colleagues, many Saudi writers, bloggers, activists and journalists have taken to social media to denounce the Palestinians in an unprecedented manner. Some Saudis, for instance, are describing the Palestinians as terrorists and accusing them of selling their land to Israelis.
These denunciations are coming not only from Saudis, but from a growing number of Arabs in other Arab and Muslim countries, particularly in the Gulf.
Like the Egyptians, the Saudis seem enraged by the recurring Palestinian attacks on the royal family in Saudi Arabia, especially Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In the past two years, Palestinians have burned Saudi flags and photographs of bin Salman during demonstrations in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza Strip. Why? The crown prince is seen by Palestinians as being “too close” to Israel and the US administration.
Like the Egyptians, the Saudis feel betrayed by the Palestinians. Saudi Arabia for years has given the Palestinians billions of dollars in aid, but this has not stopped the Palestinians from bad-mouthing Saudi leaders at every turn.
The Saudis are now saying that they, too, are fed up. Their outrage reached its peak last June, when Palestinians assaulted a Saudi blogger visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinians spat in the face of the blogger, Mohammed Saud, and accused him of promoting “normalization” with Israel by visiting the country.
Since that incident at the holy site, many Saudis and citizens of Gulf states have been waging daily attacks on the Palestinians, mostly on social media.
Defending Israel
Saudi blogger Mohammed al-Qahtani wrote:
“To all those in Israel who are listening to our voice: We call for transferring the custodianship over Al-Aqsa Mosque from Jordan to the State of Israel so that the despicable assault on the Saudi citizen, Mohammed Saud, will not recur.”
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"This is an extraordinary statement from a Saudi writer, and would have been totally unthinkable just a few years ago. A Saudi national is saying that he prefers to see an Islamic holy site under Israeli custodianship (rather than Jordanian custodianship) because only then will Muslims feel safe to visit their mosque.
Other Saudis seem extremely unhappy with the Palestinians’ relations with Iran. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two terror groups controlling the Gaza Strip, receive financial and military aid from Iran and political backing from Turkey. The Saudis and other Gulf states see Iran, not Israel, as the major threat to their stability. Because of that, these states have come closer to Israel in recent years. Israel and they have a common enemy: Iran.
Remarkably, a Saudi writer, Turki al-Hamad, did what even many Western leaders refuse to do: he dared to condemn Hamas and other Gaza-based groups for firing rockets at Israel. Al-Hamad, denounced the Palestinians for allowing themselves to serve as puppets in the hands of Turkey and Iran.
Commenting on a recent barrage of rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, he said: “Iran and Turkey are facing a crisis [an apparent reference to economic and political crises in Iran and Turkey] and the Palestinians are paying the price.” In other words, the Palestinians have chosen to align themselves with two countries, Iran and Turkey, that support the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.
Another Saudi writer, Mohammed al-Shaikh, repeated the old-new charge in the Arab world that wherever the Palestinians go, they cause trouble.
“Palestinians bring disaster to anyone who hosts them. Jordan hosted them, and there was Black September; Lebanon hosted them, and there was a civil war there; Kuwait hosted them, and they turned into Saddam Hussein’s soldiers. Now they are using their podiums to curse us.”
In another comment on Twitter, al-Shaikh called for banning Palestinians from performing the Islamic hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. His comment came after a video surfaced showing Palestinians, during the recent hajj, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting, “With blood, with soul, we redeem you, Al-Aqsa Mosque!”
The Saudis have strict rules banning political activities during the hajj. Al-Shaikh apparently viewed the Palestinians as using the pilgrimage to Mecca to stage a demonstration, stir up trouble during the hajj and embarrass the Saudi authorities.
“The dogs of Hamas,” al-Shaikh said after viewing the video, “should be banned from performing the hajj next year because of their obscene behavior.”
Fahd al-Shammari, a Saudi journalist, attacked Palestinians by calling them “beggars without honor.” He went as far as saying that a mosque in Uganda is more blessed than Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is a Jewish holy site.”
& lastly says
"Biting the Hand that Feeds You
The Palestinians can only blame themselves for damaging their relations with the Arab states. Biting the hand that feeds you has always been a policy for which the Palestinians have paid a heavy price.
Burning photos of Arab leaders and heads of state on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has proven to be a big mistake. You simply cannot burn pictures of the Saudi crown prince one day and rush to Riyadh to seek money the next. You cannot shout slogans against the Egyptian president one day and go to Cairo to seek political backing the next.
Many people in the Arab countries are now saying that it is high time for the Palestinians to start looking after their own interests and thinking of a better future for their children. They no longer see the Palestinian issue as the main problem in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arabs seem to be saying to the Palestinians: “We want to march forward; you can continue to march backward for as long as you wish.”
What they see is Palestinian stagnation, mainly thanks to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders, who are too busy poisoning their peoples’ minds and ripping each other to shreds to have time for anything positive. The Palestinians may just wake up one day to discover that their Arab brothers can truly no longer be duped.
Ahmad al-Jaralah, a leading Kuwaiti newspaper editor, was even more blunt, saying:
“The Palestinian cause is no longer an Arab concern. We fund the Palestinians, and they respond by cursing us and behaving badly. The Arabs and Muslims no longer applaud the Palestinians. We should not be ashamed to establish relations with Israel.”
Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute. Most of the Conflicts in the Mideast are unrelated to the
Israeli-Arab Conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, virtually all of the Conflicts in the Middle east are Arabs Killing fellow Arabs, and Remember the Long War between
Iraq & Iran from 1980 to 1988
From Wikipedia it says about the Iran-Iraq War
"The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and it ended on 20 August 1989, when Iran accepted the UN-brokered ceasefire. Iraq wanted to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state, and was worried that the 1979 Iranian Revolution would lead Iraq's Shi'ite majority to rebel against the Ba'athist government. The war also followed a long history of border disputes, and Iraq planned to annex the oil-rich Khuzestan Province and the east bank of the Arvand Rud (Shatt al-Arab).
Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's post-revolutionary chaos, it made limited progress and was quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive[55] until near the end of the war.[50] There were a number of proxy forces—most notably the People's Mujahedin of Iran siding with Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdish militias of the KDP and PUK siding with Iran. The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, France, and most Arab countries provided political and logistic support for Iraq, while Iran was largely isolated.
After eight years, war-weariness, economic problems, decreased morale, repeated Iranian military failures, recent Iraqi successes, Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction, lack of international sympathy, and increased U.S.–Iran military tension all led to a ceasefire brokered by the United Nations.
The conflict has been compared to World War I in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across fortified defensive lines, manned machine gun posts, bayonet charges, Iranian human wave attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons by Iraq, and, later, deliberate attacks on civilian targets. A special feature of the war can be seen in the Iranian cult of the martyr which had been developed in the years before the revolution. The discourses on martyrdom formulated in the Iranian Shiite context lead to the tactics of "human wave attacks" and thus had a lasting impact on the dynamics of the war.[56]
An estimated 500,000 Iraqi and Iranian soldiers died, in addition to a smaller number of civilians. The end of the war resulted in neither reparations nor border changes." The war ending in a Stalemate , see the Wikipedia entry for additional information
From the website of the New York Post Newspaper, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"What Christians can learn from Jews about atonement"
By Timothy Cardinal Dolan October 7, 2019 | 8:14pm
the article about Yom Kippur says
"It may seem unusual for a Catholic cardinal-archbishop to be so mindful of this particular Jewish holy day. And yet the Jewish Day of Atonement has always had a special resonance for me. While I respect the religious observances of all faiths practiced in this great and diverse metropolis, this one, for me, is particularly inspiring.
During my happy years as a young parish priest, I often heard my pastor counsel the couples he was preparing for matrimony. He told them: “The six essential words you must repeat often if your married life is to be faithful, and forever, are ‘I love you,’ and ‘I am sorry.’ ”
Wise advice, and if I understand this moving holy day our Jewish community commences at sundown Tuesday, those are the six words they will profess to the Lord, individually and communally.
We owe the Jews a lot, especially those of us who profess to be Christian. As Thomas Cahill observed in his book “How the Jews Saved Civilization,” before the people of Israel, ancient humanity pictured their gods as ruthless, vindictive, punishing. No use confessing sorrow to them, because mercy wasn’t a characteristic of those strange gods. Sure, you could try to bribe them or buy them off, but forgiveness? Forget about it!
The God of Israel is different. The Hebrew sacred texts tell us that the one true God, who revealed Himself through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and the prophets, is all about mercy — “slow to anger and full of forgiveness,” as the psalmist sings. In fact, biblical scholars tell us that merciful is the adjective most used in the inspired texts to describe God.
We usually only say “I’m sorry” to those we love. And those we love are moved by that contrition. There is yet another profound insight from the faith of Israel: God loves us, craves our love in return, is eager to forgive us, if we but ask, and likewise wants us to pardon one another.
The Jewish penitential tradition also teaches us a poignant lesson about responsibility and admitting sins. Once, on New Year’s Eve, a reporter asked Mother (now Saint) Teresa of Calcutta, “If you could change one thing in the world this New Year, what would it be?” Her reply: “myself.”
The recognition that every one of us is a sinner, and that God calls each of us to change, to conversion of heart, is, as my rabbi friends tell me, at the core of this great holy Day of Atonement.
At a time when, more than ever before, people seem ready to ascribe the basest of motives to anyone who dares to disagree with their firmly entrenched positions, how revitalizing it is to stop, look inward and examine our own motives and express contrition when they are less than noble.
In a society that dodges blame, denies guilt, accuses rather than atones, how refreshing to see a community admit sin and ask forgiveness.
In a world dripping with violence, vitriol and vengeance, how consoling to recognize that God passionately, personally and eternally loves us and yearns only for our love in return.
I began with the example of a married couple. Well, God revealed to the Jews that He loves the People of Israel as a husband loves his wife.
The key to that historic marriage are the six magic words to the Lord, repeated often: “I love you! I am sorry!” If we say those words with sincerity, the Lord will respond: “And I loved you first. You are forgiven.”
The streets, synagogues and homes of New York City resound with those six words beginning Tuesday night. This Catholic archbishop sincerely says: “Thanks, Jewish friends! We need you and your witness.”
I wish all of you a grace-filled Day of Atonement."
Timothy Cardinal Dolan is the archbishop of New York
From the website commentarymagazine.com an article is titled
"The Anti-Semitic Disease" and it says
Hatred of Jews is not only irrational, it is self-destructive, of nations as well as of individuals.
JUN, 2005 BY PAUL JOHNSON
the article says
"The intensification of anti-Semitism in the Arab world over the last years and its reappearance in parts of Europe have occasioned a number of thoughtful reflections on the nature and consequences of this phenomenon, but also some misleading analyses based on doubtful premises. It is widely assumed, for example, that anti-Semitism is a form of racism or ethnic xenophobia. This is a legacy of the post-World War II period, when revelations about the horrifying scope of Hitler's “final solution” caused widespread revulsion against all manifestations of group hatred. Since then, racism, in whatever guise it appears, has been identified as the evil to be fought.
But if anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive. It is a disease to which both human individuals and entire human societies are prone.
Geneticists and experts in related fields may object that my observation is not scientifically valid. My rejoinder is simple: how can one make scientific judgments in this area? Scientists cannot even agree on how to define race itself, or whether the category exists in any meaningful sense. The immense advances in genetics over the last half-century, far from simplifying the problem, have made it appear more complex and mysterious.1 All that scientists appear able to do is to present the evidence, often conflicting, of studies they have undertaken. And this, essentially, is what a historian does as well. He shows how human beings have behaved, over long periods and in many different places, when confronted with the apparent fact of marked racial differences."
The article continues
"The historical evidence suggests that racism, in varying degrees, is ubiquitous in human societies, so much so that it might even be termed natural and inevitable (though not irremediable: its behavioral consequences can be mitigated by education, political arrangements, and intermarriage). It often takes the form of national hostility, especially when two countries are placed by geography in postures of antagonism. Such has been the case with France and England, Poland and Russia, and Germany and Denmark, to give only three obvious examples.
The degree of this hostility can increase or diminish as a result of historical change. Thus, the Scots and the French were natural allies and on very friendly terms when they had a common enemy in the English; but after the union of Scotland with England, the Scots absorbed the broad anti-Gallicism of the British nation. Similarly, the creation of the European Union has diminished cross-border nationalist hatred in some cases (especially between France and Germany) while increasing it in a few others (Germany and Denmark).
By contrast, anti-Semitism is very ancient, has never been associated with frontiers, and, although it has had its ups and downs, seems impervious to change. The Jews (or Hebrews) were “strangers and sojourners,” as the book of Genesis puts it, from very early times, and certainly by the end of the 2nd millennium B.C.E. Long before the great diaspora that followed the conflicts of Judea with Rome, they had settled in many parts of the Mediterranean area and Middle East while maintaining their separate religion and social identity; the first recorded instances of anti-Semitism date from the 3rd century B.C.E., in Alexandria. Subsequent historical shifts have not ended anti-Semitism but merely superimposed additional archaeological layers, as it were. To the anti-Semitism of antiquity was added the Christian layer and then, from the time of the Enlightenment on, the secularist layer, which culminated in Soviet anti-Semitism and the Nazi atrocities of the first half of the 20th century. Now we have the Arab-Muslim layer, dating roughly from the 1920's but becoming more intense with each decade since."
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"What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense. In the whole of history, it is hard to point to a single occasion when a wave of anti-Semitism was provoked by a real Jewish threat (as opposed to an imaginary one). In Japan, anti-Semitism was and remains common even though there has never been a Jewish community there of any size.
Asked to explain why they hate Jews, anti-Semites contradict themselves. Jews are always showing off; they are hermetic and secretive. They will not assimilate; they assimilate only too well. They are too religious; they are too materialistic, and a threat to religion. They are uncultured; they have too much culture. They avoid manual work; they work too hard. They are miserly; they are ostentatious spenders. They are inveterate capitalists; they are born Communists. And so on. In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts. Like all mental diseases, it is damaging to reason, and sometimes fatal.
Irrational thinking is common enough in each of us; when anti-Semitism is added in, irrational thinking becomes not only instinctual but systemic. An experienced anti-Semite constantly looks for “evidence” to confirm his idée fixe, and invariably finds it—just as a Marxist, looking for “proof,” constantly uncovers events that confirm his diagnosis of how the world works. (Not surprisingly, anti-Semitic theory as evolved by the young Hegelians played a major role in the evolution of Marx's methods of analysis.)"
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"Anti-Semitism is self-inflicted, which means that, by an act of will and reason, the infection can be repelled. But this is not easy to do, especially in societies where anti-Semitism has become common or the norm. What is in any case clear is that anti-Semitism, besides being self-inflicted, is also self-destructive, and of societies and governments as much as of individuals.
An important instance of this historical law is the expulsion of the Jews (along with the Moors) from Spain in the 1490's, and the subsequent witchhunt of New Christians, or converted Jews, by the Inquisition—a process that took place at precisely the moment when Spain's penetration of the New World had opened up unprecedented opportunities for economic expansion. The effect of official anti-Semitism was to deprive Spain (and its colonies) of a class already notable for the astute handling of finance. As a consequence, the project of enlarging the New World's silver mines and importing huge amounts of silver into Spain, far from leading to rational investment in a proto-industrial revolution or to the creation of modern financial services, had a profoundly deleterious impact, plunging the hitherto vigorous Spanish economy into inflation and long-term decline, and the government into repeated bankruptcy.
The beneficiaries of Spanish anti-Semitism, in the near term, were the northern (Protestant) areas of the Netherlands, where an influx of Jewish refugees settling in Amsterdam and Rotterdam led to the accelerated development of the mercantile and financial sectors and the establishment for a time of Dutch global economic supremacy. In the longer term, the beneficiaries were England and the United States of America. England ceased to practice institutional anti-Semitism in the mid-17th century, when Jews, who had been expelled from the country in 1290, were permitted to resettle there (and practice their religion) without the need for special privileges. This pattern was repeated in the English colonies in America, so that the new republic became, ab initio, an area where anti-Semitism never had any force in law."
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"By the end of the 18th century, the world's first industrial revolution was an accomplished fact in Britain, and by the end of the 19th century the United States had emerged as the world's leading industrial and financial power, which it remains to this day. Theorists of comparative economic efficiency, like Max Weber and R.H. Tawney, used to point to the role of Protestantism (especially Calvinist “salvation panic”) in the development of “Anglo-Saxon” industrial supremacy. The trend now is to stress the role of immigration, with Jews playing a significant role.
In the evolution of modern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, anti-Semitism once again proved self-destructive. The occupation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 led to a significant exodus of local Jews to Paris and the rapid growth of anti-Semitism in a country already long harboring the disease. One consequence was the Dreyfus affair—the Dreyfuses were an Alsatian family—which convulsed France for the better part of two decades.
The ensuing cultural civil war weakened France in a number of ways, not least militarily, and in the early years of the 20th century helped to persuade the Germans that France would prove an easy target, as indeed it was in 1914. A longer-term effect of the Dreyfus affair was felt in the French collapse and capitulation to the Nazis in 1940, as well as in the character of the subsequent Vichy regime.
Another outstanding case was Czarist Russia. Under Catherine II, the early elements in what was to become a complex system of anti-Semitic laws were introduced in the late 18th century after the partition of Poland, which gave Russia a large Jewish minority for the first time. Thereafter, prohibitions and restrictions were constantly enlarged and made more stringent, and were reinforced by official encouragement of “popular” pogroms. The result was a large-scale migration of Jews to the West, particularly to Britain and the United States—again to the economic and cultural benefit of the Anglo-Saxon powers. Russia was correspondingly weakened, not only by the loss of talent but also by the immense increase in administrative corruption produced by the system of restrictions."
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"The country was damaged in another way, too. The legal enforcement of Russian anti-Semitism became a model for the subsequent Soviet system of internal control, which can be understood as an extension to the population as a whole of laws that once oppressed Jews only. The aftereffects, including rampant corruption, are still to be felt at all levels of Russian society today.
But the most notable “victim” of anti-Semitism was Germany under Hitler. Among historians, it is still considered morally essential to demonize Hitler and to condemn unreservedly everything he and the Nazis did. But there are compelling reasons, quite apart from the interests of objective scholarship, why this should end. Hitler was not a demon but a human being, just as were Attila and Barbarossa, Luther and Wallenstein, Frederick the Great and Bismarck.
Though from a humble background and poorly educated, Hitler possessed a fierce intelligence, a strong artistic imagination, and great powers of articulation. His career as a soldier in World War I testified to his courage, and everything he caused to happen afterward showed a strength of will rare at any time. To this he added formidable organizational powers, the capacity to inspire loyalty, strategic clarity balanced by tactical flexibility, and oratory of a high order, spiced with a valuable talent for making people laugh. His creation, virtually from scratch, of a nationwide mass political party that he drove forward to electoral victory in what was then perhaps the best-educated country in the world, all in little over a decade, has few parallels in the history of politics.
All this bears witness to Hitler's abilities. As for his criminal defects and deformations, we are rightly aware of them: his inveterate thuggishness and brutality, his narrow chauvinism, his seemingly unappeasable lust for conquest and domination. And, above all, his anti-Semitism, which, while exacting its toll in millions of innocent human lives, in the end proved fatal to his own world-conquering ambitions."
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"It is not clear from the record exactly how, why, and when Hitler became a strident anti-Semite. What is clear is that by the early 1920's, he was already a violent hater of Jews. As time went on, his anti-Semitism grew until it took entire possession of his intellect and became the dominant factor in all his strategies and decisions.
It is often assumed that Hitler's anti-Semitism helped pave his way to office. I have never seen any convincing attempt to prove this with detailed, statistical arguments. In Austria and parts of southern Germany, anti-Semitism was indeed widespread. But in central and northern Germany, Jews were well assimilated and performed obvious services; there, anti-Semitism had to be incited. My own belief, considering Germany as a whole, is that Hitler's anti-Semitism, along with the street-brawling to which it led, was rather an obstacle to electoral victory. It repelled more voters than it attracted, and diverted attention from the four policies that undoubtedly put him in a position to win large numbers of votes: his absolute opposition to the terms of the Versailles treaty; his radical call for an end to the Weimar economic system, which had promoted hyperinflation and so stripped the middle class of its savings; his equally radical proposals for ending mass unemployment; and, not least, his vehement hostility to Communism, which most Germans hated and feared.
If Hitler achieved power not because of but despite his anti-Semitism, once he was in power his unrelenting obsession with the Jews corroded his judgment at every turn. His increasingly violent persecution of Jews also alienated other nations whose publics might otherwise have been won over to at least some of his aggressive demands in foreign policy. So central was anti-Semitism to his view of the world that the repugnance of others merely confirmed, for him, the existence of the very Jewish conspiracy against which he had warned for many years. It was this same conspiracy, he threatened, that would be to blame for any war that might break out, and this war would in turn provide both occasion and justification for implementing his “final solution” to the “Jewish problem.”
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"Anti-Semitism thus led Hitler to fight a needless war against Britain and France and then, military dominance having been effectively achieved in mainland Europe, to extend the war in such a way that he could not possibly win it. He invaded the Soviet Union, his formerly compliant and quiescent ally, thereby giving Germany a war on two fronts—precisely the configuration he once argued had been fatal to Germany's chances in World War I. Then, when Japan attacked the United States in December 1941, he made the totally irrational decision to declare war on America. Both these acts of madness bore the marks of a collapse of judgment brought on by the intellectual disease of anti-Semitism, the first of them pursued in order to extend the “final solution” eastward and the second out of the lunatic notion that the rulers of the United States were themselves a key component of the Jewish world conspiracy. At the beginning of 1941 Hitler had been in a position of enormous global power; at the end of it, his country's eventual defeat and his own annihilation were certain.
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As an example of the self-destructive force of anti-Semitism, the case of Hitler and Nazi Germany is paralleled only by what has happened to the Arabs over the course of the last century.
The year 1917 saw both the issuance in London of the Balfour Declaration, authorizing the creation of a Jewish “national home” in Palestine, and the wartime British occupation of Jerusalem, followed thereafter by an international mandate to govern the country. In the Balfour Declaration the British pledged to use “their best endeavors” to further the national-home project, but “without prejudice to the rights of the existing inhabitants.” At this stage, many Zionists themselves did not necessarily envisage a sovereign Jewish state emerging in Palestine. Thus, Chaim Weizmann, the prime mover behind the Declaration, imagined that Jewish immigrants, whose ranks included a growing number of scientific and agricultural experts as well as many entrepreneurs, would play a key role in enabling the Arabs of the Middle East to make the most effective use of their newly developing oil wealth."
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"Had Jewish-Arab cooperation been possible from the start, and had money from oil been creatively invested in education, technology, industry, and social services, the Middle East would now be by far the richest portion of the earth's surface. This has been one of history's greatest lost opportunities, comparable, on a much greater scale, to Spain's mismanagement of its silver wealth in the 16th century. Anti-Semitism, helped by an ingenious forgery, was the key to the disaster.
In the 1890's, the Czarist secret police, anxious to “prove” the reality of the Jewish threat to Russia, had asked its agent in Paris (then, with Vienna, the world center of anti-Semitism) to provide corroborating materials. He took a pamphlet written by Maurice Joly in 1864 that accused Napoleon III of ambitions to dominate the world; re-wrote it, substituting the Jews for Napoleon and dressing up the tale with traditional anti-Semitic details; and titled it The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It resurfaced in Russia after the 1917 coup by the Bolsheviks, who were widely believed by their White Russian opponents to be Jewish-led, and thence made its way to the Middle East. When Weizmann arrived in Jerusalem in 1918, he was handed a typewritten copy by the British commander, General Sir Wyndham Deedes, who said: “You had better read all this with care. It is going to cause you a great deal of trouble in the future.”
In 1921, after a full investigation, the London Times published a series of articles exposing the origins of the tract and demonstrating beyond all possible doubt that it was a complete invention. But by then the damage that Deedes had warned about was done. Among those who read, and believed, the forgery was Adolf Hitler. Another was Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, head of the biggest landowning family in Palestine. Al-Husseini was already tinged with hatred of Jews, but the Protocols gave him a purpose in life: to expel all Jews from Palestine forever. He had innocent blue eyes and a quiet, almost cringing manner, but was a dedicated killer who devoted his entire life to race-murder. In 1920 he was sentenced by the British to ten years' hard labor for provoking bloody anti-Jewish riots. But in the following year, in a reversal of policy for which I have never found a satisfactory explanation, the British appointed a supreme Muslim religious council in Palestine and in effect made al-Husseini its director."
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"The mufti, as he was called, thereafter created Arab anti-Semitism in its modern form. He appointed a terrorist leader, Emile Ghori, to kill Jewish settlers whenever possible, and also any Arabs who worked with Jews. The latter made up by far the greater number of the mufti's victims. This pattern of murdering Arab moderates has continued ever since, and not just among Palestinians; we see it in Iraq today.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, the mufti rapidly established links with the Nazi regime and later toured occupied Europe under its auspices. He naturally gravitated to Heinrich Himmler, the official in charge of the Nazi genocide, who shared his extreme and violent anti-Semitism; a photo shows the two men smiling sweetly at each other. From the Nazis the mufti learned much about mass murder and terrorism. But he also drew from the history of Islamic extremism: it was he who first recruited Wahhabi fanatics from Saudi Arabia and transformed them into killers of Jews—another tradition that continues to this day.
Over the last half-century, anti-Semitism has been the essential ideology of the Arab world; its practical objective has been the destruction of Israel and the extermination of its inhabitants. And this huge and baneful force, this disease of the mind, has once again had its customary consequence. Just as Hitler ended his life a suicide, having failed in his mission of destroying the Jewish people, so 100 million or more Arabs, marching under the banner of anti-Semitism, have totally failed, despite four full-scale wars and waves of terrorism and intifadas without number, to extinguish tiny Israel.
In the meantime, by allowing their diseased obsession to dominate all their aspirations, the Arabs have wasted trillions in oil royalties on weapons of war and propaganda—and, at the margin, on ostentatious luxuries for a tiny minority. In their flight from reason, they have failed to modernize or civilize their societies, to introduce democracy, or to consolidate the rule of law. Despite all their advantages, they are now being overtaken decisively by the Indians and the Chinese, who have few natural resources but are inspired by reason, not hatred"
& continues
"Yet still the Arabs feed off the ravages of the disease, imbibing and spreading its poison. Even as they keep alive the Protocols itself, now published in tens of millions of copies in major Arab capitals, they have embellished its lurid fantasies with their own, homegrown mythologies of Jewish wickedness. Recently the Protocols was made into a 41-part TV series, filmed in Cairo and disseminated throughout the Muslim world. Turkey, once a bastion of moderation, with a thriving economy, is now a theater of anti-Semitism, where hatred of Israel breeds varieties of Islamic extremism. At a time when at long last there is real hope of democracy taking root in the Arab and Muslim world, the paralysis continues and indeed is spreading.
In Europe, too, anti-Semitism has returned after being supposedly banished forever in the late 1940's. Fueled by large and growing Muslim minorities, whose mosques and websites propagate hatred of Jews, it has also been nourished by indigenous elements, both intellectual and political. It has even penetrated mainstream parties anxious to garner Muslim votes—New Labor in Britain being a disturbing example.
No less worrying, to my mind, is a related European phenomenon—namely, anti-Americanism. I say “related” because anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism have proceeded hand in hand in today's Europe just as they once did in Hitler's mind (as the unpublished second half of Mein Kampf decisively shows). Like hatred of Jews, hatred of Americans can similarly be described as a form of racism or xenophobia, especially in its more vulgar manifestations. But among academics and intellectuals, where it is increasingly prevalent, it has more of the hallmarks of a mental disease, becoming more virulent, widespread, and intractable ever since the United States began to shoulder the duties of the war against international terrorism."
& continues
"After all, to hate Americans is against reason. For centuries, and never more so than at present, the U.S. has harbored the poor and persecuted from the entire world, who have found freedom and prospered on its soil. America continues to receive more immigrants than any other country; its most recent arrivals, including the Cubans, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, and the Lebanese, have become some of the richest groups in the country and are enthusiastic supporters of its democratic norms. Indeed, since American society is now a vibrant microcosm of the human race, I would say that to hate Americans is to hate humanity as a whole.
That anti-Americanism shares many structural characteristics with anti-Semitism is plain enough. In France, as we read in a new study, intellectuals muster as many contradictory reasons for attacking the U.S. as for attacking Jews.2 Americans are excessively religious; they are excessively materialistic. They are vulgar money-grubbers; they are vulgar spenders. They hate culture; they are pushy in promoting their own culture. They are aggressive and reckless; they are cowardly. They are stupid; they are exceptionally cunning. They are uneducated; they subordinate everything in life to the goal of sending their children to universities. They build soulless megalopolises; they are rural imbeciles. As with anti-Semitism, this litany of contradictory complaints is fleshed out with demonic caricatures of particular individuals like George W. Bush. Just as 14th-century Christians once held the Jews responsible for the Black Death, Americans are blamed for all the ills of today's world, starting with (real or imaginary) global warming. Particularly among French intellectuals, such demonization has become almost a culture, a way of life, in itself.
Especially disturbing is the spread of the cult in Germany. There, in the 1920's, anti-Semitism was a feature of the social demoralization produced by defeat in World War I. Germany is now becoming demoralized again, for a variety of reasons: appallingly high unemployment; falling living standards relative to the U.S., Britain, and other advanced nations; declining population figures, giving rise to anxiety about the future of the workforce and the security of the pension system; and the inability of the country's leaders to address any of these problems."
& lastly says
"In the post-World War II period, ironically, Germany prospered mightily by looking to the U.S. for entrepreneurial inspiration as well as political and military leadership. For the past quarter-century, it has fallen increasingly under the spell of France and the French fantasy of a European superstate that will rival America. Precisely during this period of French hegemony, Germany has entered upon an accelerating economic decline, already relative and soon to be absolute.
For Germany now to turn on America as the source of its woes makes no sense at all. But then a country in the grip of a disease of the mind cannot be expected to behave rationally. Despite all its efforts, Germany, it seems to me, has not learned the essential lesson of its Nazi past, namely, to flee the plague of unreason. Looking at Europe as a whole, and at the continuing malaise of the Middle East, I suspect we are approaching a new crisis in the pathology of nations. Once again, America is the only physician with the power and skill to provide a cure, and one can only pray the hour is not too late for the patient to be revived."
The website smh.com.au has an article titled
"Naomi takes a stand"
July 15, 2004 — 10.00am
the article says
"Supermodel Naomi Campbell is fronting a US poster campaign to combat anti-Semitism.
Campbell will soon be plastered on telephone booths all over New York City in ads featuring the tag-line "Anti-Semitism is Anti-Me" as part of a campaign by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The League, which was founded in 1913 to counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry, has chosen Campbell as their first celebrity figurehead.
"The new campaign, aimed to reach and engage a broad and diverse audience, is designed to change the perception that anti-Semitism is strictly a problem for Jews," said Abraham H Foxman, ADL National Director.
"Anti-Semitism is everyone's problem. Anti-Semitism in a society is an expression of a hatred of the other, it is contrary to our values of democracy, diversity and acceptance."
The ADL says the other two faces shown on the "Anti-Semitism is Anti-Me" campaign are Lutheran Christian minister Kathleen Rusnak and a young Asian-American child called Jacob." Anyone can look up these articles on Google or Bing search engines
From the website news.yahoo.com an article is titled
"The synagogue massacre was actually in Mister Rogers's neighborhood. What would he say?"
Michael Walsh Reporter,Yahoo News•October 29, 2018
American educator and TV personality Fred Rogers of the television series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” circa the 1980s. (Photo: Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images)
the article says
"Fred Rogers lived in and filmed “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” in the historically Jewish Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, where an anti-Semite opened fire at a Saturday morning service in the Tree of Life synagogue, killing 11 worshipers. Two other congregants and four police officers were injured. Rogers’s connection to the area quickly spread throughout the country but it was already well-known throughout greater Pittsburgh.
The Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College in Rogers’s hometown of Latrobe, Pa., 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, is dedicated to preserving Rogers’s legacy and fostering research in early childhood development and education based on his philosophy.
Karen Struble Myers, a spokeswoman for the Fred Rogers Center, was finishing her morning coffee at home before leaving for the day when she saw a breaking news alert from a local television station on Facebook about the shooting.
“I was worried and frightened for the community because I know so many people in Squirrel Hill. There is also a certain amount of disbelief that anything of this magnitude would ever happen in such a peaceful, community-minded neighborhood, and then of course, there is the connection to Fred Rogers,” Myers told Yahoo News.
People hold a sign in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, after the mass shooting. (Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP)
“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” ran on public television from 1968 until 2001 — he died in 2003 — and a documentary about his life titled “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” that was released this year revived interest in his work and worldview, particularly in light of the current political climate. As seen in the film, Rogers delivered a special message to children after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Since the recent tragedy struck so close to home, his fans are wondering what words of comfort he might have in this situation.
“Despite the deep grief in neighborhoods across the country, he would encourage us, just as he did after 9/11, to be good neighbors and to help the children in our lives to feel safe,” Myers said. “His affirming message about our inherent likeability and worth would bring comfort to many.”
The Anti-Defamation League said the Pittsburgh shooting is believed to be the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in American history. Those less familiar with Rogers might not know that he was a devout Christian with a deep appreciation for the wisdom of various faith traditions, including Judaism.
“Fred Rogers was a deeply spiritual person. Although he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, he also studied Buddhism, Catholicism, and Judaism,” Myers said. “Most of his reading for personal enjoyment was focused on learning about other religions. Fred worked extensively with his friend Rabbi Earl Grollman on the series of programming about divorce, and he based ‘The Giving Box’ on Jewish tradition.” "
the article continues
"Rogers came up with “The Giving Box” to help families create their own traditions of giving and receiving so children can learn how to be good givers and receivers from their parents. He was inspired by the Jewish tradition of the Tzedakah Box, which promotes charity.
In 1997, Rogers spoke to the American Jewish Committee. The full transcript of his speech is at the center, but archivist Emily Uhrin told Yahoo News that a specific line jumped out to her as fitting for this moment.
“What a privilege to be in the company of those who personify hope for the next generation!” Rogers said. “You show the world what the opposite of hate looks like.”
The center’s staff will spend the next week contributing to and participating in the many events to mourn the loss of Saturday’s victims, promote unity and celebrate diversity.
Roberta Schomburg, the Fred Rogers Center’s interim executive director, is taking part in a panel on WQED, a PBS-affiliated television station in Pittsburgh, on how families and caregivers can support children during national tragedies." after the Pittsburgh massacre, actors Tom Hanks & Michael Keaton helped bring comfort the People of Pittsburgh
From The Canadian Jewish News Website, www.cjnews.com an article is titled
"WON’T YOU BE MY (JEWISH) NEIGHBOUR?"
By Michael Taube - February 1, 2017
the article says
"Developing a column can be a fascinating process. A writer may have a particular vision in mind before putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), but the final result could end up being completely different.
That’s what happened to me. I fully intended to write about either U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration or the federal Tory leadership race and finally settled on, of all things, Mister Rogers and the Jews. Go figure.
I came across a piece in the Jewish Chronicle (distributed in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia) about Pittsburgh synagogue Rodef Shalom Congregation’s decision to posthumously award the late children’s entertainer and Presbyterian minister with its 2014 Pursuer of Peace Award. According to then-executive editor, Lee Chottiner, this biannual honour is bestowed “upon an individual from the Greater Pittsburgh community whose work and commitment contributes to the pursuit of peace through interfaith understanding and humanitarianism.”
Fred Rogers, who died in 2003, was the award’s third recipient, preceded by Bishop David Zubik (Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh) and Bill Strickland (president and CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation). It was accepted by Rogers’ widow, Joanne.
Rodef Shalom’s Rabbi Aaron Bisno told the Chronicle, “When you hear his words, there is the most beautiful expression of peace. Fred Rogers speaks directly to each of us. There’s a saying in the Talmud: ‘Words from the heart go to the heart.’ And Mister Rogers spoke to our hearts.”
Here’s another intriguing component: The synagogue is located across the street from WQED, “the Pittsburgh public television station that produced Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for years.” Rabbi Bisno has a “cardigan sweater and loafers in his study and likes to wear them on cold or rainy days,” much like Rogers did on TV. When he puts them on, he said, “I think of Mr. Rogers and how privileged I feel to be a part of this neighbourhood and to have the opportunity to feel neighbourly.”
After reading this article, I wondered if Rogers had some sort of personal connection to Judaism."
the article lastly says
"I found three interesting tidbits of information in this regard:
First, the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning & Children’s Media has a short blurb about his book The Giving Box: Create a Tradition of Giving With Your Children (2000). It turns out that “like all of Fred’s work, The Giving Box has a spiritual basis. Fred was inspired by the Jewish tradition of the tzedakah box, which promotes saving and philanthropy.”
Second, there are several Jewish references in the 1977 prime-time special Christmastime with Mister Rogers. The Neighborhood Trolley rolls down the track with a double-sided banner: “Merry Christmas” on one side, and “Happy Chanukah” on the other. He briefly talks about the latter holiday and even spins a dreidel.
Third, Hedda Sherapan, one of the Fred Rogers Company’s longest-serving members, is Jewish. (Her grandfather was a Holocaust survivor.) She started as an assistant director for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in 1966, and later became associate producer. Rogers convinced her to take a master’s degree in child development. She eventually became director of early childhood initiatives, and is currently a curriculum consultant for Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood on PBS Kids.
Here’s how Sherapan described Rogers last October: “I had such great respect for his wisdom and his commitment to serve children and families in an authentic and meaningful way – so I wanted to do my very best. I learned a lot from stretching myself to always be better… and I learned a lot from him because he always elevated whatever writing I did.”
It’s no secret that Rogers viewed people from different walks of life as God’s children. He had no time or patience for prejudice. Yet, it was still interesting to discover, in a column I didn’t originally intend to write, the great respect he had for the Jewish community.
Mister Rogers was a good neighbour, indeed."
From the website forward.com an article is titled
"Hamas Official Calls On Palestinians Abroad To Kill Jews"
July 16, 2019 By Cnaan Liphshiz
Hamas Official Calls On Palestinians Abroad To Kill Jews by the Forward
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the article says
"(JTA) — A senior Hamas official urged Palestinians abroad to kill Jews in Israel and beyond.
“All of you 7 million Palestinians abroad, enough of the warming up. You have Jews everywhere and we must attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing, if God permits,” Fathi Hammad, a Hamas Cabinet minister until 2014, said Friday in a speech in Gaza.
A Hamas official in Gaza said Hammad’s views do not represent the official position of Hamas, which is considered a terrorist movement in the European Union and the United States, among other countries.
“These are personal statements that do not represent Hamas. They are no more than emotional comments that he may have said because of the killing of one of our members,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the Israeli press, told The Times of Israel. “Our problem is not with the Jews, but rather the occupation and the Zionist movement that is occupying Palestine.”
The Israeli military acknowledged that it killed a Hamas member at the Gaza border by mistake on Thursday, and Hamas threatened in a statement that “Israel will pay for its actions.”
Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, on Monday condemned Hammad’s statements.
“The just values of the Palestinian cause include love for freedom, justice and equality,” Erekat tweeted Monday. “The repugnant statement of Hamas leader Mr. Fathi Hammad about Jews doesn’t represent any of them.” " Very Disturbing Comments by the hate Crazed Psychotic Hamas "Official" Hammad , Disturbing also how at times Arab Terrorists have dressed and acted as "Civilians" in order to Deceive Israeli Troops & Civilians
From the website memri.org an article on July 12, 2019 is titled
"Hamas Political Bureau Member Fathi Hammad Calls on Palestinians All over the World to Slaughter Jews, Says: If Israel Doesn't Lift the Siege by Next Friday, We Will Kill the Jews with Explosive Belts and Knives"
the article says
"Hamas Political Bureau member Fathi Hammad said in a July 12, 2019 speech at a March of Return rally that aired on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas-Gaza) that Israel has until the following Friday (July 19) to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip and implement its understandings with Hamas, lest the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and all over the world use the "many methods and means" that are "up their sleeves" to "powerfully explode" in Israel's face. He said that, contrary to what Israel thinks, the Gazans are not rational, and that if they die, they will do so honorably while cutting off the heads of Jews and killing them with explosive belts, which he said Hamas has been actively manufacturing in factories. Calling on the seven million Palestinians abroad, whom he said have been "warming up" and "preparing," Hammad said: "Enough warming up... We must attack every Jew on planet Earth and slaughter and kill them." Hammad also encouraged Palestinians in the West Bank to purchase knives in order to cut the necks of Jews, saying that knives only cost five shekels. He added: "We will die while exploding and cutting the necks and legs of the Jews. We will lacerate them and tear them to pieces, Allah willing!"
Fathi Hammad: "We say to the Zionist enemy that it has exactly one week – until next Friday. If it does not lift the siege by then, and if it does not implement the understandings [with Hamas]... We have many methods and means up our sleeves, and they are just waiting for the green light to powerfully explode in the face of the enemy, Allah willing. They think that we are rational people. Well, we aren't. The people of Gaza are not rational. For 70 years in Gaza, the Zionist enemy tried to change our genes. [Our genes] have not changed. On the contrary, they have progressed even more, and they are ready to blow up in the face of the enemies, Allah willing. You have one week, oh Zionist enemy! If you do not lift the siege... Well, we will not die standing [idly by]. We will not die of starvation. If we die, it will be while we are killing you and cutting off your heads, Allah willing.
"If you don't lift the siege, we will explode in the faces of our enemies, Allah willing. And the explosion won't just be in Gaza – it will also be in the West Bank and abroad, Allah willing. Our brothers abroad are still preparing. They are warming up... They have been warming up for a year and a half... Oh, you seven million Palestinians abroad, enough warming up! There are Jews everywhere! We must attack every Jew on planet Earth – we must slaughter and kill them, with Allah's help. Enough warming up!
"And I say to those in the West Bank: How long will you sit in silence? You can buy knives for five shekels! How much is the neck of a Jew worth to us – isn't it worth five shekels, or even less?
"By Allah, [the Jews] will be killed by our [explosive] belts, Allah willing! There are new factories for [explosive] belts and they are up and running. Anybody who wants one can wait his turn... you can have one, and you, and you... Go!
"May the mediators and the Zionist enemy hear this message! If we die, we die – but we will die with honor, while attacking, and not while retreating! We will die while exploding and cutting the necks and legs of the Jews! We will lacerate them and tear them to pieces, Allah willing." Very Sick Evil Wicked Satanic Diabolical Demonic Comments showing Unspeakable Evil
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Israeli, Jewish Leaders Respond to Germany Yom Kippur Attack" on October 10, 2019
Reuven Rivlin
the article says
“I call on the German authorities to continue taking determined action against anti-Semitism,” Prime Minister Netanyahu stated after deadly shooting in Germany during Yom Kippur.
By JNS
"Israeli and Jewish leaders issued messages of solidarity and calls for action after a neo-Nazi gunned down two people and injured several others in Halle, Germany, on Wednesday, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
“On behalf of the people of Israel, I send condolences to the families of the victims and wishes for a quick recovery to the injured,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter following the attack. “I call on the German authorities to continue taking determined action against anti-Semitism.”
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tweeted on Wednesday that he was “stunned and pained by the terrible anti-Semitic murders in Germany today, during the holiest and most important day of the year for all Jews around the world.”
He called on “the leaders of Germany and the free world to bring the full force of law against anti-Semitism and its results.”
The assailant, who has been identified as Stephan Balliet, 27, first attempted to break into a synagogue, but was unable to open the massive wooden doors, which were bolted shut.
After failing to gain entry to the synagogue, Balliet shot a passerby, a woman in her 50s. Minutes later he attacked a nearby kebab shop with bombs and improvised weapons, killing one. Balliet livestreamed the attack on Twitch, with the 35-minute video being viewed by 2,200 people in the 30 minutes before it was taken down, according to the video platform.
The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, asserted on Wednesday that “we have not experienced an incident of this kind ever before in Germany.”
“It shows that right-wing extremism is not only some kind of political development, but that it is highly dangerous and exactly the kind of danger that we have always warned against,” he added.
Jewish Agency chief Isaac Herzog said in response to the incident that “the entire world sees and hears what is happening and must understand that there can be no compromise in the fight against hatred of Jews and anti-Semitism.”
Herzog said the Jewish Agency would support Halle’s Jewish community."
the article continues
"“We share in the mourning of the families whose loved ones were murdered, wish the wounded a speedy recovery and send strength to the worshipers and members of the community who are in deep mourning,” he said.
Herzog went on to say that he had spoken with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, “who expressed his deep disturbance regarding the attack on the synagogue in Halle, saying, ‘This is an attack on all of us. We all stand together on the frontlines against anti-Semitism.’ ”
Orthodox Union executive vice president Allen Fagin said in a statement that this “senseless act of anti-Semitic violence was not only a heinous attack on the Jewish community of Halle, but … yet another example of anti-Semitism in Germany, which continues to proliferate. Every Jew has the right to practice their religion without fear of being a victim of terror.” An attack on one Jew is an attack on all, said Fagin, adding that “our prayers and thoughts are with our brethren in Halle.”
Chief Rabbi of Berlin Yehudah Teichtal said, “We stand alongside the community that has been harmed and weep over those murdered. The cruel method of the attacker is indescribable, and especially the fact that it happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day for the Jewish people.”
He said he learned about the attack in the middle of the Yom Kippur prayers.
“A senior security official approached me in the middle of the Musaf prayer and informed me of the attack. Immediately, the security of our synagogue was increased, alongside other synagogues,” reported the Chabad rabbi.
“We talked about the attack with our synagogue worshipers. We emphasized the great miracle the community had because their door was locked, thus avoiding a much more serious incident, and of course, strengthened their spirit, with a prayer for a year of good news.”
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"A State That Threatens Jewish Genocide Isn’t Normal" on October 9, 2019
the article says:
"Why is Europe still trading with Tehran? Why are Democrats still planning on reinstating a nuclear deal that doesn’t stop them from getting a bomb?
By Jonathan S. Tobin, Editor-in-Chief, JNS
"Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, gave a speech last month in which he celebrated Iran’s military might and its goals. As is Tehran’s policy, the IRGC commander refused to use the word “Israel,” but had plenty to say about the Jewish state.
According to the state-controlled IRNA news agency, Salami said that 40 years after the Iranian revolution that put the Islamist regime in power, it had “managed to obtain the capacity to destroy the imposter Zionist regime.” And lest anyone think that the amassing of military might was purely defensive in nature, Salami also maintained that, “That sinister regime must be wiped off the map” and this is no longer … a dream.” It was, he boasted, “an achievable goal.”
Salami isn’t the first Iranian leader to make such threats. They have been a staple of Iranian political rhetoric for decades, including from the country’s top ayatollahs who run that theocracy. But the fact that the IRGC—the terrorist group that runs Iran’s international terrorist network, as well as the entity that exercises a great deal of influence over its economy through the companies it owns—is still spouting talk about wiping out the sole Jewish state on the planet does raise some interesting and painfully obvious questions to which there are no good answers.
The first concerns the unwillingness of Iran’s European trading partners to confront the fact that they are still seeking to cultivate good relations with an Iranian regime that embraces genocide of Jews as a legitimate policy goal.
For instance, Germany is working hard to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal that enriched and empowered Tehran while also giving it a path to acquiring weapons that would make good on its threats to wipe Israel off the map.
Yet when asked directly whether Salami’s statement was proof of the regime’s anti-Semitism, the German Foreign Ministry, which said it opposed “anti-Israel rhetoric,” had nothing to say.
Nor is Germany alone in that respect. The leading countries of Western Europe are up in arms over the Trump administration’s efforts to isolate Iran and force it to renegotiate the nuclear deal. France recently floated the idea of offering a $15 billion loan to Tehran, which was, in effect, a proposal for a ransom payment that would cause Iran to stop attacking shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf and oil facilities in neighboring countries.
Despite Iran’s provocations, the European Union and its foreign-policy minister, Federica Mogherini, speak as if efforts by the United States to end the nuclear threat are the obstacle to peace, rather than a government that remains the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and which continues to speak of genocidal attacks on Israel."
the article continues
"Despite the inconsistencies in his foreign policy—with the betrayal of the Kurds to Turkey this week being the most egregious example—President Donald Trump remains the only world leader committed to actually stopping Iran rather than enabling it.
Waiting for January 2021?
Some in Israel and America were worried by Trump’s refusal to respond with military force to Iran’s provocations and by his willingness to meet with Iranian representatives to talk about strengthening the nuclear deal. But it appears as if Iran now has no intention of talking to Trump. It may be that they were never serious about dialogue, or that the Democrats’ impeachment efforts have convinced them that Trump is doomed to defeat in November 2020.
They appear to be listening to the advice of those who have advised them wait until January 2021, when any one of the Democrats running against him will reinstate the disastrous pact promoted by President Barack Obama and lift Trump’s sanctions, which have had a devastating impact on Iran’s economy and its ability to spread terror.
Supporters of Obama’s deal argue that at the time, it was the best way to forestall an imminent Iranian nuclear threat and that the only alternative was a war that no one wanted. But Trump has proven the falsity of that claim. The alternative to appeasement of Iran is Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” to strangle the Iranian economy, which will eventually force the Iranians back to the negotiating table. Or at least it would if the West sticks to it, whether or not Trump is in the White House.
While the Democratic presidential field has shown little interest in foreign policy other than to speak of Trump’s unfitness for office, the candidates ought to be asked about what they intend to do about Iran’s continuing genocidal threats and why a pact that offered it a path to a nuclear bomb should be reinstated.
Iran isn’t a normal country, and neither Europe nor America’s opposition party should speak as if it were.
Mere antipathy for Trump and respect for Obama’s legacy isn’t a good-enough answer as to why support for the nuclear deal’s reinstatement is still a consensus issue among Democrats. The same applies to Europe’s belief that the profits it would continue to make from doing business with Tehran is more important than isolating a terror-supporting regime that wants to kill millions of people."
We mentioned this before on the Comments to this blog, but this is indeed a Very Heartwarming True Story, from the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"HEARTWARMING: Arab Plumbers Charge Holocaust Survivor Zero Shekels for Repairs" on October 10, 2019
the article says
"Watch and learn about this moving and uplifting story of two Arab plumbers and a Holocaust survivor. It will blow you away!
The Israel-Palestinian conflict makes many people think that Arabs and Jews hate each other and don’t coexist peacefully anywhere in Israel.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Watch and learn about this moving and uplifting story of two Arab plumbers and a Holocaust survivor.
It will blow you away!" A Link to a YouTube video is shown describing the Story in Detail
From the website thefederalist.com an article is titled
"5 Reasons Christian Support For Jerusalem Is Not About The End Times" the article says
While some Christians believe there is theological significance to Jews controlling their historic homeland, for many the reasons are practical, not theological.
by Luke Moon
DECEMBER 18, 2017
"It’s been a week since President Trump declared that the United States would finally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Unsurprisingly, Palestinian leadership called for three “Days of Rage.” Also unsurprisingly, some Christians have decried the move as Trump simply fulfilling his campaign promise to end-time-prophecy-obsessed evangelicals.
These evangelicals are supposedly in error because they allow their theology to improperly influence their view of foreign policy. Yet there are numerous reasons—political, pragmatic, and biblical—that Christians are celebrating the news about Jerusalem. Here I decided to limit it to five.
1. Sovereign Countries Have a Right to Determine Their Capitals
It may come as a shock to many, but the de facto position around the world is that independent states get to pick the capital of their country and have it be recognized as such. Israel is both an independent state and has picked its capital: Jerusalem.
Many government offices are located in Jerusalem. The holiest site to Judaism (the religion of most Israelis) is in Jerusalem. Why shouldn’t the world recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital? Supposedly, it’s because for the last 50 years the city has been up for grabs and we don’t want to jeopardize peace by recognizing the reality on the ground. Yet every U.S. administration has used the status of Jerusalem as both a carrot and stick, and the Israelis and Palestinians are no closer to peace."
the article continues
"2. Terrorism Occurs Regardless of What Position We Take
In the age of whataboutism, the inevitable follow-up question to support for Israel is “What about the Palestinians?” Well, even before President Trump publically announced the U.S. position, Palestinian Authority President Mahmood Abbas called for the days of rage. So regardless of what the actual position would be, violence was going to fill the streets of the West Bank.
Missing from much of the commentary was that Trump never said the capital of a potential Palestinian state could not also be Jerusalem. In fact, Trump said the opposite: “We are not taking a position of any final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, or the resolution of contested borders. Those questions are up to the parties involved.” It seems that the rioters are against recognizing any Israeli sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem, and that presents a serious obstacle to peace.
3. Much Support Is Historical, Not Theological
For many Christians, support for Israel is not rooted in prophecy about the future, but in stories from the past. It is not uncommon for U.S. Christians to support Israel politically, but not theologically. These Christians see Jerusalem as the capital of Israel because it has historically been the capital of Israel. They do not ascribe any theological significance to the modern state of Israel or Jerusalem.
For these Christians, Jesus’s universal message fulfills and supersedes God’s particular message to the Jews. That theological position does not prevent them from supporting Israel. These Christians support Israel because it’s the only real democracy in the Middle East that provides religious freedom and the rule of law. These Christians value consistency in international affairs and see mistreatment of the Jews by the United Nations and other international political institutions as an injustice against a people that has a long history of suffering."
& continues
"4. Christians Have Not Always Been Pro-Jew
Of course, theology matters, and numerous theological views encourage Christian support for modern Israel and the Jews. However, for most of church history the dominant theology towards the Jews was pretty brutal. Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther called on Christians to antagonize Jews who refused to convert to Christianity. Four hundred years before that, Crusaders packed synagogues with Jews and set them ablaze.
So the Christian trend of supporting the Jews and their return to Jerusalem is a fairly new phenomenon. Many claim that it is because of the rise of Dispensational theology, which teaches that Jews’ return to Israel marks the nearness of Christ’s return to earth. Certainly the spread of this theology has helped, but maybe it’s also because once we decided to stop trying to kill Jews we found we had more in common than we thought.
Is it really such a bad thing that Dispensational theology helped Christians changed their view of the Jews? Do we really want to go back to the days when Christians hated Jews, where we heaped the guilt of deicide upon them? Theology concerning Israel and the Jews does matter, and there is lots of good variety on the subject, but the railroad tracks leading to the death chambers of Europe should remind us of where anti-Semitic theology ends."
& lastly says
"5. Muslim-Majority Countries Persecute Christians, and Israel Does Not
Unfortunately, many Christians of the Middle East are unable to be objective about Jews and Jerusalem. In private, I’ve heard many whispered accounts from Christians about how they long for the freedom that the people of Israel enjoy. Publicly though, they are obligated to parrot the demands of the Muslims around them. The few brave Christians who have dared to speak in support with insufficient hatred of Israel and the Jews have been driven from the region, disowned by family left behind.
In a recent trip to Jordan, I could not even get a Catholic priest to admit publicly that the Temple Mount was ever Jewish. The refusal of the head of the Coptic Church in Egypt to meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence should be seen as a statement by a hostage to fear of being on the wrong side of an angry Muslim mob.
Now that the United States has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the violent reactions are beginning to wane, it’s time for the hard work of peacebuilding and truth-telling to begin anew. There is more to the Middle East, Israel, and Jerusalem than the binaries and hatred often on display.
Every day, Jews, Arabs, Druze, and Arameans work together, talk together, play together, and sometimes even pray together. Christians in the United States and around the world can celebrate with Israel and welcome Arabs and other peoples of the region to envision a pluralistic, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic Middle East, where the rule of law and basic human rights flourish. Changing the status quo on Jerusalem provides an opportunity for this vision to become reality" Many Christians have argued that all Christians in America & Worldwide have a Moral Obligation to Support Israel as a Way of Making Reparations & Restitution for 2,000 years of Christian Anti-Semitism & Jew-Hated leading up to the Nazi Holocaust, the murder of 6 Millions Jews during World War II, some Scholars estimate as many as 10 Million, as Many as 10 Million Jews were murdered throughout the centuries, in the 2000 years BEFORE the Nazi Holocaust, These Christians argue that all Christians need to make Amends for the Painful Tragic Ugly Past, and be More Pro-Active in Supporting Israel & Combating Anti-Semitism
From the website for Christians United For Israel, CUFI.ORG it says
"CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
The Middle East is one of the most dangerous places for Christians to live. The ancient Christian communities in that region have been decimated by terrorism and persecution. Israel is the only safe place for Christians in the Middle East. In other places, Christians face daily threats of imprisonment, torture, and execution. We pray for the protection of Christians throughout the Middle East and want to raise awareness of the dangers they face."
Another good article from Christians United For Israel, cufi.org is titled
"Supporting Israel: Being Salt and Light in the World"
the article says
"Hovsep Chaparian’s parents are originally from the Middle East and several of his extended family members still live in Syria and Lebanon. Many of his family members hate Israel. But Hovsep’s parents raised him with a love for Israel because of their Christian faith.
This love began with Hovsep’s great-grandfather, a prominent Lebanese Christian who was heavily persecuted until his death. Before he died, Hovsep’s mother remembers her grandfather talking openly about his love for Israel and how it was a place, unlike Lebanon, where Christians could feel safe.
Hovsep joined CUFI on Campus as a Bonhoeffer Fellowship student and visited Israel for the first time in August 2016. Hovsep’s time in Israel enabled him to experience what is his great-grandfather shared with his mother. He saw with his own eyes that Israel is the only safe place for Christians and other minorities in the region. Hovsep saw that Israel is the only place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews all have the freedom to worship and speak out for what they believe.
Before coming to Israel, Hovsep had considered himself pro-Israel, but he also wondered if perhaps Israel and the Palestinians were equally to blame for the lack of peace. That idea was shattered once he saw the reality of life in Israel for himself. Walking through Jerusalem, he noticed the way Israelis displayed an unusual level of tolerance for the people who were selling anti-Israel propaganda and items declaring hate for the Jews. He realized that the Palestinians had total freedom of speech and the freedom to express their grievances without fear of reprisal from their Jewish neighbors. No Christian or Jew could go into an Arab country and dare openly criticize the government, but in Israel no one had any fear of speaking out against the government. To him, that proved that the narrative he’d heard in the media about Israel being intolerant and oppressive towards the Palestinians is totally false.
The Bonhoeffer Fellowship students met with an Arab Christian pastor in Bethlehem, who impressed Hovsep with his love for both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people. Pastor Khoury has been relentlessly attacked by his fellow Arabs for being both a Christian and pro-Israel, but he has not let it harden his heart towards them. Pastor Khoury loves Israel, and he loves the Palestinian people, and he sees no conflict between the two. Neither does Hovsep.
Going to Israel as a Bonhoeffer Fellow provided Hovsep with something invaluable: moral clarity. He was surprised by the diversity and the freedom he saw in Israel, which can’t be found anywhere else in the Middle East. He was amazed by the courage of people willing to love people who hate the very existence of Jews and Christians in the Middle East. He saw firsthand how hard Israel works to be fair and just while still protecting its people from threats of terrorism. The experience left him with a very clear understanding of his personal responsibility as a Christian to be the salt and light in the earth, and to be a leader with moral clarity on important issues like supporting Israel and advocating for true justice.
When Hovsep came home, he immediately put that principle into action. At Azuza Pacific University where he is a Senior, he began working within the student government to draft and pass legislation that would prohibit any anti-Israel boycotts, divestment, or sanctions (BDS) activity on campus. After graduation, Hovsep plans to enter the military and later pursue a career in politics where he hopes to become one of our nation’s leading voices for moral clarity on behalf of Israel and the godly pursuit of truth and justice."
From the website louderwithcrowder.com an article is titled
"Michigan Muslim Woman Openly Defends The Stabbing of Jews. Yes, All Jews…"
BRODIGAN MONDAY JANUARY 4 2016
the article says
"This Michigan woman must be one of those moderate Muslims we’ve been hearing a lot about. Scratch that, it’s the moderate Muslims she’s mocking. You know, the ones who don’t support stabbing Jews…
Allan disparaged Muslims who claim Islam does not allow stabbing attacks, accusing them of trying to be “muftis” and telling them to “go back to watching Turkish soap operas.”
Throughout the video, titled, “Is Stabbing Jews Haram [Forbidden]?” she notably used only the word “Jews” to describe the target of stabbing attacks, not “Israelis.”
Appearing to compare Jews to animals, she likened those who believe stabbings are prohibited under Islam to defenders of “animal rights – not human rights, but at best, animal rights.”
MEMRI reported that in 2012, Allan told Jordan’s Roya TV that she represented the State Department’s U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) in the Jameed Festival in Jordan, a food and culture event honoring rural women.
The video appears to have been removed from YouTube, but you can see it here.
If you’re in the mood for a video that hasn’t been removed from YouTube, let us suggest Hammer Dropped: Ex-Muslim Woman BLASTS Government on Limiting Free Speech and Watch This Ex-Muslim Woman Utterly Destroy Islam.
Much like the story last week of the migrant rapist in Germany, the story here isn’t so much about what Lina Allen says, but the fact that she feels so freaking comfortable saying it publicly, on camera… with no fear of remorse. I know it makes us feel safer to think that this mindset is atypical in Islam, that it’s held by only a tiny, tiny, single-digit minority of Muslims.
It’s not.
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This is not uncommon at all. But don’t take my word for it. Look to the laws of Islamic countries across the globe. Look to the statistics reflective of Muslim’s views on Jews and converts as a whole. Look at the statistics on Muslims who support Sharia law *(which, incidentally, isn’t all that friendly to the Jews). Let’s even assume for a second that only twenty percent of Muslims feel the way Allen does. That’s still a population that numbers in the EIGHT FIGURES! For contrast, the Westboro Baptist Church only has an estimated four and a half members."
the article continues
"Obviously, active terrorism is not mainstream Islam. Obviously.
But “moderate Islam” isn’t all that good either. Because what this woman espouses in this video, in contrast with even mainstream views in the Islamic world (in Islamic countries)… is actually still pretty damn moderate. Watch the video below to learn more about the myths and realities surrounding “moderate Islam.” " A Link to a YouTube video is shown, the YouTube video is Titled "Moderate Islam: A MYTH! (Featuring Dana Loesch)"
The comments many people gave in reply to this louderwithcrowder.com article are worth reading , Many Men & Women alike would agree, that when a Female, when a Woman,
When any Female or Woman , when any Female or any Woman, Supports Terrorism or Hate against Jews or Israel or is Racist, it is FAR MORE Satanic,Diabolical,Demonic, Unspeakably Evil,Disturbing and from the Pits of Hell, than when a Man or a Male is Racist or Supports Terrorism and Hate against Jews and/or the state of Israel, It is FAR MORE Disturbing & Satanic when the Hate comes from any Woman or Female, This is NOT "Sexist" but the Truth, Let's be Clear
We at this blog, feel Women should be Treated with Dignity & Respect and should have Equal Rights and Freedoms as Men !! That Women make Great Contributions to Society, for that we are grateful & thankful, That Women are Equal in Intelligence & Ability to Men in Many Ways, Maybe even Superior to Men in Some Ways, Equal Rights for Men & Women, Equal Pay, etc, definitely, but it is NOT lady like or "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice"
for any Woman or Female to Spew Hate & Support for Violence & Terrorism, It's wrong & evil when Men do it, but it's also More disturbing when Women do it, it's NOT "Sexist" or
"Degrading" to Women to say that, we at this blog are NOT "Sexists" but stating the Truth, A fellow Christian friend of mine said years ago "Rather than being a Religion of Peace, Islam often sadly leaves people in pieces" sad but true,
The above article from louderwithcrowder.com about the Ugly Unattractive Michigan Woman that probably smells bad, the article also mentions that Hate Group, Westboro Baptist Church, the "leader" of that Hate Group Cult
Fred Phelps thankfully died in 2014, Good that he's dead, Good that Fred Phelps is dead, he can rot in hell, very hate filled evil man
He was a disgrace to Christianity
From Wikipedia is said about the late loser Fred Phelps
"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Fred Waldron Phelps
November 13, 1929[1]
Meridian, Mississippi, U.S.
Died March 19, 2014 (aged 84)
Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Education
Associate's degree, John Muir College, 1951
Law degree, Washburn University, 1964
Occupation Pastor, lawyer
Organization Westboro Baptist Church
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Margie Marie Simms (m. 1952)
Children 13, including
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com A book that seems interesting is, titled
"Anti-Semitism: A Disease of the Mind" Published in 2014
by Theodore Isaac Rubin
the description says
Overview
"A groundbreaking work on the psychodynamics of bigotry and anti-Semitism.
As a child, Ted Rubin could not understand why some people hated him and his family only because they were Jews. He soon discovered that other groups were hated and that bigotry was a dangerous disease that destroys its hosts as well as its victims.
As a psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin learned that anti-Semitism and other deep-seated prejudices are nonorganic diseases of the mind: malignant emotional illnesses that can be treated only by first understanding the unique psychodynamics involved. Little has been written about this aspect of bigotry. Anti-Semitism is a bold endeavor to shed light on one of humankind’s most destructive and contagious illnesses, and it offers hope and healing for the future.
In Anti-Semitism, Rubin lays the groundwork for a person to successfully overcome hatred, to understand where it comes from and why, and to recognize that anti-Semitism devastates people, cripples self-esteem, and is capable of “engendering great suffering, horror, and murder.” Anyone who has wrestled with hatred or bigotry, either as the victim or the host, will find clarity and direction in Dr. Rubin’s eloquent analysis."
From the website www.washingtonpost.com an article is titled
"‘Jew.’ Why does the word for a person of my religion sound like a slur?"
By Susan Sommercamp
May 3, 2016 at 6:00 a.m. EDT the article says
"My first boss right out of college was terrific — ambitious, warm and open to friendly lunches outside the office.
Then one day in December, the topic turned to her plans for Christmas.
She asked where I would be celebrating the holiday, and I said, “Oh, I don’t celebrate Christmas. I’m a Jew.” She gaped.
I wasn’t expecting her response: “Why would you say something so derogatory about yourself?”
“What?”
She whispered, “You called yourself a Jew. That’s an awful word to use. It’s like saying n—–.”
“No, it’s not. I’m just saying that I’m Jewish.”
“They’re not the same. ‘Jewish’ is fine. ‘Jew’ is not. Really, I’m surprised you just said it out loud at work.”
I tried to explain that to say one is a Jew is not offensive in the slightest, but she was adamant.
At the time, I thought her misinterpretation of the word was a one-time aberration. But unfortunately, in the 24 years since, I’ve heard the word “Jew” — the simple noun that describes a person of my faith — used as a term of disparagement again and again.
It’s hurtful for such a negative slant to be attached to a word with so much positive meaning for me.
Each time I hear “Jew” used with contempt, it stings as though I’m hearing it for the first time. “Jew” is almost as personal to me as is my own name. It’s part of my identity. Use “Jew” as a defamatory word, and I feel like I’m under attack.
At its very beginnings, the word “Jew” was just a noun. It came from the Hebrew word Yehudi, which is derived from the name Judah, one of the patriarch Jacob’s sons. The word Judaism stems directly from Judah-ism, the religion of the Yehudim.
But for almost as long as there has been Judaism, there have been stereotypes about Jews. By the time the Christian heroes of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” referred to Shylock repeatedly as “the Jew,” there was no question that the word was a slur, not just a noun noting Shylock’s religion.
Perhaps the most indelible image of the word “Jew” branded in our collective memory is the tragic sight of the Jews of Nazi-occupied countries, forced to wear yellow Star of David badges that simply read “Jude”: German for Jew.
The Nazis meant for the word for their religion alone to dehumanize and isolate these men, women and children. And decades after the defeat of the Nazis and the genocidal ideology they embraced, that choking negativity has clung stubbornly to the word on those yellow stars.
A photograph of Anne Frank with her father Otto and sister Margot, displayed alongside yellow stars worn by Dutch Jews. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)
Today, “Jew” is used as a barb not just by the rare skinhead or white supremacist, but by well-meaning, often educated, people. I’ve been in social situations in which someone throws the word “Jew” at another when attempting to be funny, generally in connection with a stereotype involving finances. Both my daughters have heard children in their schools casually use the phrase “Jew him down,” meaning bargain, without seeming to recognize the very dated prejudice they carry forward when they use that phrase."
the article continues
"These jokes might seem inoffensive, but they are harmful nonetheless. Unless we do away with them, the underlying hostility will only continue on for generations.
A swastika was drawn on a black student’s door at one of the country’s most prominent Christian colleges
My older daughter, a college sophomore, attended a sorority mixer with the Jewish fraternity on campus. The fraternity members handed out cute T-shirts emblazoned “Party with Jews” with a Star of David across the front. I thought the shirt was adorable, as did my daughter and her friends.
I showed a picture of it to a Jewish acquaintance, thinking she would agree. Instead, she took offense.
“I don’t like that it says ‘Jews’ on it. It sounds disrespectful,” she said.
“In what way is that disrespectful?”
“Because it says ‘Jews.’ To most people, that’s a put-down. It’s making fun of them for being Jewish.”
She is a teacher, as much as she is a Jew. I doubt she would take offense to a shirt saying, “Party with teachers.” The other nouns that describe our identities are not emotionally charged, and “Jew” should not be either.
I look forward to the day when we fully reclaim the word for our religion, so it is finally freed from the stain of years and years of casual, consistent antipathy.
When that day comes, I know what I’ll be doing: partying with Jews."
From the website religionnews.com an article is titled
"Campus anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem" by Jeffrey Salkin
February 27, 2015 Min Read
the article says
"Ah, college memories!
I attended a university with many Jewish students. One year during Hanukkah, the Jewish students’ organization sponsored a menorah-lighting, which ended with a group of us dancing the hora around the menorah.
A few evenings after that, a student lit a menorah in his dorm room, left the menorah unattended, and accidentally set fire to his room.
The next day, I overheard some students snickering in the cafeteria: “Do you think that the Jews are going to burn down the entire dorm and dance around it?” Echoes of the accusations of the Jews burning down the Reichstag in Germany, 1933.
READ: Anti-Semitism a big problem on U.S. campuses, report says (RNS)
Fast forward to this week. An online survey of 1,157 students, conducted by Trinity College professor Barry Kosmin and associate professor Ariela Keyser, reveals that more than half of American Jewish college students report that they have experienced anti-Semitism on campus.
Anti-Semitism has become politically correct — even chic.
Just in the last few weeks…
At UC-Davis, students voted on a resolution to endorse a boycott of Israel — accompanied by the cries of Allah hu-akhbar. Then, to top it off, a Jewish fraternity was painted with swastikas.
At UCLA, members of the Undergraduate Student Association argued that Rachel Beyda shouldn’t be appointed a justice to the Judicial Board of the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Most people agreed that she was eminently qualified. But, she is Jewish, and several of her fellow students made vague references to this being a “conflict of interest, because of her involvement in the Jewish community.”The reason why this should be a conflict of interest? Totally unclear and unstated. Ultimately, Rachel’s candidacy was approved, but the whole incident was, to say the least, unsettling.
“Haters gonna hate,” they say — and in this case, the haters are students, faculty members, and administrators. Imagine being an undergraduate and standing up to a professor who is trashing Israel. Groups like Students for Justice in Palestine actively nurture hatred of Israel and advocate terrorism against Israel. The hate takes the form of BDS, anti-Israel rallies, verbal attacks, vandalism, and even physical threats. This movie makes the threat real and palpable.
Once upon a time, there were red lines between criticism of Israel’s policies, denial of Israel’s right to exist, and full-blown anti-Semitism. Those lines have increasingly blurred, and in some cases, they have disappeared.
If you want to read an excellent literary exploration of campus anti-Semitism, check out Nora Gold’s recent novel, Fields of Exile. It tells the story of Judith, an idealistic graduate student in social work at a Canadian university. She loves Israel, and she has spent much time in the Jewish state. As the story unfolds, Judith comes to understand that her department is a hotbed of anti-Israel activism, which exists under the guises of tolerance, diversity, and the cult of Palestinian victimization. She is increasingly marginalized. Her story does not end well. It is a wakeup call.
How do we begin to fix this situation?"
the article continues
" College presidents can speak out on the issue of campus anti-Semitism – just as European leaders have spoken out against anti-Semitic acts. How about a joint statement from a broad coalition of presidents and chancellors, in a full page ad in the New York Times?
Student governments can condemn anti-Semitism. That’s what UC-Berkeley just did.
Remind people that anti-Semitism is as unacceptable as racism, heterosexism, sexism, lookism, classism, etc. In the current taxonomy of “isms,” the hatred of Jews winds up on the bottom — and it is even justified in the name of protesting Israeli actions. Anti-Semitism should be named and exposed.
Bring thought leaders and faculty members to Israel, in order to expose them to realities on the ground.
Work with the Anti-Defamation League to make sure that campus anti-Semitism is on its agenda. Make sure that local ADL directors and staff members have relationships with campus leaders.
Jewish educational institutions – day schools, religious schools, youth groups, summer camps — need to educate young Jews so that they can understand and fight back against anti-Semitism. Make this an educational priority. Tell Jewish parents: the only way that your kids will be able to respond to the challenges on campus is for them to continue their Jewish education beyond the tender age of puberty.
Continue to strengthen Hillel. Jewish students need to know that Hillel, and other Jewish student organizations, is where they will find community, spirituality, Jewish content – and support.
Hillels can continue to reach out to other campus organizations, especially other religious organizations, and continue to strengthen those relationships. They are crucial in difficult times.
There is an old cliché: “The war has come home.” Forgive the military metaphor, but this is a war: a war for the heart, mind, and soul of the American university. If American academia looks the other way as Jewish students are intimidated, then they will cease to have any kind of moral force. They will have squandered their entire intellectual legacy.
If the Jews lose this war, then everyone loses. Too much is as stake to let that happen."
From the website tripadvisor.com a Post is titled
"Israel is a magical place - thank you all." - Tel Aviv Forum
Middle East Israel Tel Aviv District Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Travel Forum
the person typed
"Just came back yesterday and absolutely in love with this country.
Not at any point we felt unsafe or unwelcomed.
It is a shame that people in USA do not know what a beautiful country Israel is. What was created in 65 years is impossible to imagine.
Every tree has it's own irigation system and gardens and parks in the middle of the desert are unbeleivable.
The food is awesome, the people are firendly, the history is unlike anywhere else in the world.
From hassle and bussle of Tel Aviv, to the beige and healy Jerusalem, wonder of the Dead Sea and Miami-like Eilat, Roshe Nikra and Bahaian gardens, Nazareth, Lake Kineret, Cesaria and much more places I did not mention - IT IS A WONDER THAT NEEDS TO BE PRESERVED.
We are life-long supporters and now devotees of Israel.
Thank you all for your help.
We did rent a car and are very glad we did. WIthout it we would not see half of the things we did.
Again: IT IS VERY SAFE!"
From the website for CBN News, www1.cbn.com an article is titled
"Demi Lovato: Being Baptized in Israel Filled 'God-Sized Hole in My Heart"
10-05-2019
Lindsay Elizabeth
the article says
"On Tuesday, actress and singer Demi Lovato shared that she recently had the “amazing opportunity” to visit Israel, where she was baptized in the Jordan River, “the same place Jesus was baptized.”
Lovato, who grew up Christian and has Jewish ancestry, said that when she was given an opportunity to travel to the places she’d read about in the Bible, she said yes.
The pop singer shared that she felt her spirituality come to life on the trip, experiencing a “connection to God” — something she said she had “been missing for a few years now.”
“There is something absolutely magical about Israel. I’ve never felt such a sense of spirituality or connection to God…something I’ve been missing for a few years now,” she wrote. “Spirituality is so important to me…to be baptized in the Jordan river…I’ve never felt more renewed in my life.”
“This trip has been so important for my well-being, my heart, and my soul,” she added. “I’m grateful for the memories made and the opportunity to be able to fill the God-sized hole in my heart. Thank you for having me, Israel.”
The 27-year-old singer also shared a photo of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Center in Jerusalem.
“My heart was absolutely broken in Yad Vashem. This was such a beautiful tribute and a reminder that we can never forget,” she wrote in a separate post, sharing several photos from the memorial.
Lovato also shared another photo of herself with a child at the Shalva National Center, a nonprofit organization that supports children with disabilities, writing “What an amazing center for children with special needs.”
Lovato also visited the Shalva National Center for children with special needs, where she wrote she “fell in love” with one of the little girls there.
The Push-back
The comments on her baptism photo were turned off, but that did not stop people from leaving anti-Israel, pro-Palestine comments on Lovato’s other posts.
“Are you kidding me? Palestine literally exists,” one user wrote, adding, “Free Palestine.”
“There’s a lot of injured Palestinian children they was attacked by the Israeli Occupation Army, hope you’ll visit them next time,” another user added.
Other users commented hundreds of Palestinian flags, hashtagging “free Palestine,” while calling Lovato a racist.
“Calling Israel a ‘magical place’ and posting about their work for Israeli children with special needs meanwhile Israel is deliberately injuring thousands of Palestinian children leaving them permanently disabled with barely any access to medical care simply because they’re Palestinian,” one angry user wrote. “Your hypocrisy and racism is clear.”
Lovato has not addressed the push-back she received from her angry followers, and there’s certainly no need to. The spiritual renewal she’s experienced warrants only celebration, not an apology." Don't listen to Anti-Israel lies, Israel isn't "deliberately injuring thousands of Palestinian children" Arab Terrorist groups deliberately put Arab Civilians in harms way, and uses Arab civilians as Human Shields, Arab Terrorist groups are to blame for the large number of civilian deaths & injuries on their side, it's their fault, it's NOT Israel's fault, Israel does Everything Humanly Possible to Avoid injuring & killing civilians, Israel protects Civilian Lives , it's enemies don't
From the website israelamerica.wordpress.com an article is titled
"Jordan is Palestine. Palestine is Jordan"
by Gary Fitleberg
and it says
"Jordan is Palestine. Palestine is Jordan.This is the royal decree and sentiments of two of the kings of Jordan.
“Palestine and Jordan are one…” said King Abdullah in 1948.
“The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan,”said King Hussein of Jordan, in 1981.
Let’s closely examine the facts of history from the Arab perspective, rather than the Jewish one, regarding Jordan and Palestine.
“Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate,” Prince Hassan of the Jordanian National Assembly was quoted as saying on February 2, 1970.
Accordingly, Abdul Hamid Sharif, Prime Minister of Jordan declared, in 1980, “The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture.”
In other words, Jordan is Palestine. Arab Palestine. There is absolutely no difference between Jordan and Palestine, nor between Jordanians and Palestinians (all actually Arabs).
This fact is also confirmed by other Arabs, Jordanians and ‘Palestinans’ who were either rulers or scholars.
“There should be a kind of linkage because Jordanians and Palestinians are considered by the PLO as one people,”according to Farouk Kaddoumi, then head of the PLO Political Department, who gave the statement to Newsweek on March 14, 1977. Distinguished Arab-American Princeton University historian Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American Committee,
“There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history.”
According to Arab-American columnist Joseph Farah,
“Palestine has never existed – before or since – as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and briefly by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland. There was no language known as Palestinian. There was no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a Palestine governed by the Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.”
These authoritative, honest statements are by Arabs, Jordanians and Palestinians, and absolutely must be taken at their face value and word.All right, so you’re not quite into quotes. How about these tasteful tidbits of historical facts?
* Jews, not Arabs, have lived continuously in the ancient Biblical Promised Land of Israel, especially Judea and Samaria, for 3,700 years. This land was given as a gift by G-d to the Children of Israel (Hebrews, Israelites, Jews) and is so stated in all of the three monotheistic religions’ holy books – Old Testament, New Testament and Quran. Faithful followers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in the same one G-d and therefore must believe the word of their G-d. G-d does not make and break his promises. There is a very valuable lesson to be learned by all his children and faithful followers.* The current queen of Jordan is an Arab ‘Palestinian’.
* Approximately half of Jordan’s prime ministers since 1950 have been Arab ‘Palestinians’.
* More than 2/3 of the Jordanian people are Arab ‘Palestinians’.
* The majority of citizens residing in the capital of Amman are Arab ‘Palestinians’.
* Arab ‘Palestinians’ constitute not less than one half of the members of the armed forces, according to the late King Hussein, as broadcast on Amman Radio February 3, 1973.
* The majority of other security forces are Arab ‘Palestinians’.
* Jordan occupies 77% of the original Palestine Mandate (originally promised to the Jewish people). The population density of Jordan is less than 61 people per square mile leaving lots of room to absorb many more of their brethren and cousins."
the article continues
"Want to delve even deeper? Let’s explore further. We all need to refresh our memory, as ‘short-term syndrome’ has taken over. Now for a little history lesson, for those who do not recall the reality of the past.The British tried to placate the Arabs by giving them part of the land designated under the Palestine Mandate (originally allocated under the Balfour Declaration for the establishment of a Jewish homeland). Britain created an entirely new province by severing 77% of historic Palestine (and an additional 3% was also allocated to Syria), on the eastern bank of the Jordan River (some 35,000 square miles), and establishing the state of Transjordan.
Faisal, who had been King of Syria, was deposed by the French, so the British offered him the throne of Iraq, which he accepted. Faisal’s brother Abdullah was installed as the new nation of Transjordan’s ruler on April 1, 1921 (April Fool’s Day), thereby completing the appeasement of Arab rulers.
During the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, in which nine Arab nations attacked Israel, they took control of the ancient biblical territories of Judea and Samaria (Jewish territory, which was “occupied” for nineteen years until 1967, when it was liberated and reconquered in yet another defensive war).
On April 24, 1950, Abdullah formally merged all of Arab-held Palestine with Transjordan and granted citizenship to all Arab residents and settlers (the vast majority of whom arrived the 1920s for economic reasons).
The Hashemite Kingdom was no longer only across the river so the prefix “Trans” (meaning “across”) was dropped, and henceforth, the land became known as Jordan; i.e., Arab Palestine.
Remember, Jordan is Palestine. Arab Palestine.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to King Abdullah, King Hussein, Prince Hassan, Farouk Kaddoumi, Phillip Hitti and Joseph Farah, Arab, Jordanian and Palestinian authorities on the subject; and listen to the historical facts, as well"
From the website of the Jerusalem Post, jpost.com an article is titled
"PAUL MCCARTNEY: 'HEY JUDE' ISN'T ABOUT THE JEWS" the article says
The Beatles singer said the song's name made some people angry when it was released.
BY AMY SPIRO SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 11:37
1 minute read.
British musician Paul McCartney performs during the "One on One" tour concert in Porto Alegre, Brazil. (photo credit: REUTERS)
the article says
"Paul McCartney had no idea anybody would associate the now iconic Beatles song “Hey Jude” with the Jews. That was, until he got a very angry phone call.
In a video interview with GQ magazine published this week, the former Beatles singer was discussing the origins and history of many of the band’s most famous songs.
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The song, he said, was originally going to be called Hey Jules, for John Lennon’s son Julian. But later, McCartney decided he preferred the name Jude instead.
“I didn’t realize it meant Jewish,” the singer said in the video published on Monday.
“Actually I nearly got into trouble, because we put it up on a window of our shop... so that people going by on the buses would see.”
McCartney was referring to the Apple Boutique, a shortlived business venture the Beatles opened in London in 1967.
But one day in 1968, McCartney said, “I got this furious phone call from this guy, Mr.
Leon, who was Jewish, he said: ‘What are you doing, how dare you do this.’” The singer added that “In Hitler’s day, in the Nazi thing, ‘Juden raus’ meant Jews out. And I didn’t connect.”
The man, McCartney said, was very angry, and threatened to send his son round “to beat you up.” But the Beatles legend assured him that “no, no, no, wait a minute, I swear to you it’s nothing like that... cool it down, it has nothing to do with that, you’ll hear when you hear the record. It’s just a name in a song.”
McCartney said that while he calmed Mr. Leon down, “suddenly I was alerted to the fact that it would have caused him a lot of problems, because his family will have experienced that firsthand probably.”
According to several books about the history of the Beatles, many others in London’s Jewish community were unhappy with the words “Hey Jude” on the storefront of the Apple Boutique. Controversy aside, the store, one of the Beatles first business ventures, was open for less than a year before closing its doors." that's OK Paul, we Love You & The Beatles
I found this satire sarcastic article on the website preoccupiedterritory.com it shows how nutty & crazy Pro-Palestine people are, the article is titled
"Why Have Palestinians Been Ethnically Cleansed From ‘The Flintstones’?"
and it says
" January 1 – It’s bad enough that Palestinians in real life have suffered displacement, persecution, and Othering, but when those phenomena extend even to the realm of beloved children’s shows, we know our society has a problem. Every reference to Palestinians and Palestinian suffering has been erased from the animated series The Flintstones, leaving not a trace of that ancient and noble civilization in its whimsical depiction of prehistory.
People of conscience everywhere must protest. The erasure of Palestinians from homes and communities is bad enough, but the injury is compounded by the indignity of a Bedrock in which audiences are led to believe no such group ever existed. Our ancestors cry out to be acknowledged, while Hanna-Barbera and their callous storyboard artists dismiss them as figments of someone’s imagination. Enough.
Some may wonder why I focus now on a discontinued cartoon series from the 1960’s instead of on current issues, but they miss the point: all oppression is related, and the series is in perpetual reruns anyway. We do no one a favor by ignoring the plight of our brethren absented from The Flintstones; in fact we do ourselves and all those we claim to support a disservice when we dismiss the Palestinian refugees from Bedrock as somehow less worthy of our attention. We are all allies in this struggle against colonialism, Apartheid, dispossession, and predatory saber-tooth cats.
There is no reason why others struggling against discrimination and cultural genocide in Bedrock cannot join forces to combat these evils. Rampant exploitation of dinosaurs in the stone-age town need not be tolerated simply because some of us prioritize justice for Palestinians. Activists of every stripe can join as one to destabilize and ultimately bring down the structures of oppression that affect us all. Even Bedrock, a metaphor for stability, will be shaken and rebuilt to reflect a just society where Palestinians will regain their rightful place at the head of all social justice causes.
So let us rise up now and fight the erasure of Palestinians from The Flintstones. Fight the all-white, all-male composition of Bedrock, and of Fred Flintstone’s bowling league. Raise a cry of protest over Barney and Betty’s decision to adopt yet another blond-haired, light-skinned baby instead of choosing to make their home a place where a refugee baby is welcome. Together we can make the stone age a beautiful place where Wilma and Betty can celebrate their femininity in that symbol of empowerment, the hijab"
Did anyone see the 2001 film "Focus" From Wikipedia it says about the film
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Focus (2001 film)
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by Arthur Miller
Starring
William H. Macy
Laura Dern
David Paymer
Meat Loaf
Cinematography Juan Ruiz Anchía
Edited by Tariq Anwar
David B. Cohn
Distributed by Paramount Classics
Release date
September 9, 2001
Running time
106 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $645,418[1]
Focus is a 2001 film, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, and Meat Loaf based on a 1945 novel by playwright Arthur Miller.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
3.1 Critical response
4 References
5 External links
Plot
In the waning months of World War II, a man is mistakenly identified as a Jew by his antisemitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and ethnic persecution, he finds himself aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
Cast
William H. Macy as Lawrence 'Larry' Newman
Laura Dern as Gertrude 'Gert' Hart
David Paymer as Mr. Finkelstein
Meat Loaf as Fred (as Meat Loaf Aday)
Kay Hawtrey as Mrs. Newman
Michael Copeman as Carlson
Kenneth Welsh as Father Crighton
Joseph Ziegler as Mr. Garage
Arlene Meadows as Mrs. Dewitt
Peter Oldring as Willy Doyle
Robert McCarrol as Meeting Hall Man (as Robert Mccarrol)
Shaun Austin-Olsen as Sullivan
Kevin Jubinville as Mr. Cole Stevens
B.J. McQueen as Mel
Conrad Bergschneider as Tough's Leader
The Wikipedia entry for 1945 novel "Focus" by Arthur Miller
states
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Focus (novel)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Focus is a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller which deals with issues of racism, particularly antisemitism. In 2001, a film version, starring William H. Macy, was released.
Plot summary
The novel is set in New York towards the end of the Second World War. Its protagonist is a Gentile named Newman, a personnel manager for a large company, who lives with his mother. Newman, though too timid to do much about them, shares the prejudices of his neighbor Fred, who is determined to deal with the "new element" in their neighborhood, particularly a Jewish candy store owner called Finkelstein.
However, a new pair of glasses have an unfortunate effect on Newman, altering his appearance in such a way that he begins to be mistaken for a Jew. He hires a prospective secretary whom his boss thinks is an assimilated Jew using a WASP-sounding fake name, and is told he will not get a promised promotion and will be moved to an office where fewer people could see him. He is furious about being mistreated and quits; ironically, he later gets a new job at a company where the owner and many of the staff are actually Jewish.
As antisemitism mounts throughout the city, a Christian Front-type group organizes to turn general ill will into action, Newman marries a girl called Gertrude. She has seen antisemitism mobilized at close quarters before, when she lived with the ringleader of an organization that abused Jews in California (someone whose views that the U.S. will soon get rid of all Jews she notes without any editorial comment), and recognizes how risky a position Newman is in when his garbage can, as well as Finkelstein's, is turned over in the night. She has also been mistakenly identified as Jewish, and is angry at this, because she is a Christian and is disgusted that anyone would think she is Jewish, not because she thinks anti-Semitism is wrong and hateful.
Newman's principles and character mean that he would prefer to stand aside while the persecution of Finkelstein continues – his own latent antisemitism tacitly endorses it, while his reticence makes it hard for him to participate. But, accidentally caught up as a victim, non-participation is not an option.
An attempt by Newman to convince Fred and his collaborators of his allegiance to their cause by attending an antisemitic rally results only in his being again taken for a Jew, attacked and ejected. Approached afterwards by Finkelstein, Newman tries to politely sell Finkelstein on the idea of leaving the neighborhood and moving somewhere where he will not be threatened. Finkelstein forcefully tells Newman he will not move: the anti-Semitic forces want to take over the U.S. (confirming what Gertrude told him earlier) and their crusade against Jews does not make any sense in that context because Jews comprise a very small percentage of the population.
Finally, Newman and Finkelstein are together attacked in the street by a gang of men, whom they fight off. Newman realizes he cannot count on Gertrude and walks away from their marriage, later going to the police to report the attack. Asked by an officer "How many of you people live there?" he declines to correct the mistake, realizing that by accepting it he sets himself against those who have abused him, rather than against their intended targets."
From archive.nytimes.com the Review of the 1945 Novel "Focus" says
November 24, 1945
Books of the Times
By CHARLES POORE
Pirandello might have devised the plot on which Arthur Miller has based "Focus," an unusual novel of a man's inhumanity to man. It is the story of a Christian Caspar Milquetoast who suddenly looks Jewish when he begins to wear glasses, and thus encounters the full force of a malevolent bigotry he had been able to regard with considerable objectivity before.
The scene is New York City, the time is during the war. Lawrence Newman, born of a family that had come from Aldwich, England, in the Eighteen Sixties, is a rather mousy personnel man in a huge company full of racial bias, which he shares. He is unmarried, and he lives an extremely self-contained life with his invalid mother, who remains shadowy and vague throughout the story. He feels rather superior to his suburban next-door neighbor until the day comes when he realizes that the neighbor is a member of the forces trying to drive him out of the neighborhood. Then he fears him, and tries half-heartedly to ally himself with those forces. They repudiate him, and, at long last, he begins to fight.
That is the main story. Woven into it there is also the story of Newman's marriage, in middle age, to a woman he refused to hire when she asked him for a job, and who helped him to get a job when he lost his own. There is about her the same exasperating elusiveness that there is about the other characters, who seem to change arbitrarily rather than to develop. In her case this quality is heightened by the fact that she is constantly altering the story of her own past, so that you never know quite what to believe about her except that she serves as a useful foil for Newman's frustrations and fears.
It is easy to say that Mr. Miller's book is better as a text than as a story. In fact, it is almost inevitable that it should be said; Mr. Miller must have resigned himself to that judgment before his book was published. But the truth of the matter is that "Focus" is better as a lecture-and certainly a much needed one-than it is as a story about human beings. There is no getting away from that.
Everything is too pat; the bigoted friend right next door who also works for the same company; the reversal of roles between Newman and his wife; the fact that his wife had known the same kind of organization Newman is up against when she lived in California; the bitter irony of his dilemma. The trouble seems to be that Mr. Miller does not give his characters sufficient free play. He won't let them alone. He manipulated them like marionettes and they remain marionettes. Yet he can let a story flow freely when he wants to, as he shows when he tells the legendary tale of Itzik, late in the book.
As in other novels that are written to drive home a thesis, the background of "Focus" is more convincing than the people. Mr. Miller knows New York well, and his pictures of it are truly drawn. He can give you a subway ride, or a tour through a suburban wasteland, or a picture of the city on a sweltering night that would make any New Yorker in exile homesick. And he can write eloquently. If he never convinces you of the reality of Lawrence Newman he leaves you in no doubt of the existence of the rancorous, fear-born prejudices Newman had to face."
From the New York Post website, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Rashida Tlaib doesn’t love free speech, she hates Israel"
By Post Editorial Board July 24, 2019 | 7:52pm | Updated
the article says
"Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks at the NAACP's annual convention in Detroit.REUTERS
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) made her views crystal-clear on the House floor Tuesday when she rose to oppose a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement: She hates Israel with a passion.
Specifically, she stood to protect “the right to boycott the racist policies of the government and state of Israel.”
The BDS movement calls for action to make the Jewish state feel pain because it’s supposedly the prime cause of Palestinian suffering.
That is, BDSers single out Israel for condemnation even though it does more to protect human rights than any other country in its region. Palestinians in Israel have far more rights than those governed by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Yet Tlaib opted to equate Israel’s critics with the opponents of the Nazis and apartheid, noting: “Americans boycotted Nazi Germany in response to dehumanization, imprisonment and genocide of Jewish people.” And: “In the 1980s, many of us in this very body boycotted South African goods in the fight against apartheid.”
Then again, this is a member of Congress who said that the Holocaust gives her a “calming feeling” because it lets her think of how her Palestinian ancestors gave up their land to “provide a safe haven for Jews in our world.” Right.
Tlaib also echoed the main argument of the bill’s other opponents, saying, “I can’t stand by and watch this attack on our freedom of speech.”
Thing is, this wasn’t a bill to outlaw or even regulate anything. It was just a purely symbolic measure opposing those who single out Israel for condemnation when it behaves better than most of the world’s nations.
Which is why it ultimately passed, 398-17. Even Tlaib’s fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) supported it.
That’s how extreme Tlaib is." Let's hope the 4 "Congresswomen" in the Ugly Loser Squad are NOT re-elected, BDS & BS , Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Expression is indeed Important, but Ugly Loser Anti-Semite Anti-Zionist, Anti-Israel Cowards hide behind "Free Speech" to unjustly vilify & demonize Israel, the only Democracy in the Mideast, God's Holy Nation ,
The 4 "Congresswomen" in the Ugly Loser Stupidity "Squad" sicken most Americans
From the website atlantablackstar.com an article is titled
"10 Facts About The Arab Enslavement Of Black People Not Taught In Schools"
By A Moore -June 2, 2014
the article says:
"The Number of People Enslaved
The number of people enslaved by Muslims has been a hotly debated topic, especially when the millions of Africans forced from their homelands are considered.
Some historians estimate that between A.D. 650 and 1900, 10 million to 20 million people were enslaved by Arab slave traders. Others believe over 20 million enslaved Africans alone had been delivered through the trans-Saharan route alone to the Islamic world. Dr. John Alembellah Azumah estimates in his 2001 book “The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa” that over 80 million more Black people died over that route.
castrated african guarding harem in tunis
Arab Enslavers Practiced Genetic Warfare
The Arab slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves. Black boys between the age of 8 and 12 had their scrotums and penises completely amputated to prevent them from reproducing. About six of every 10 boys bled to death during the procedure, according to some sources, but the high price brought by eunuchs on the market made the practice profitable.
Some men were castrated to be eunuchs in domestic service, and the practice of neutering male slaves was not limited to only Black males. “The calipha in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace,” writes author Ronald Segal in his 2002 book “Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora.”
the article continues
"Arab Slave Trade Inspired Arab Racism Toward Blacks
Its important to note that Arab is not a racial classification; an Arab is almost like an American in that people classified as Arab today could be Caucasian (white people), Asiatic or even Arabized Africans. In the beginning there was some level of mutual respect between the Blacks and the more lighter-skinned Arabs. However, as Islam and the demand for enslaved Blacks grew, so did racism toward Africans.
As casual association with Black skin and slave began to be established, racist attitudes towards Blacks began to manifest in Arabic language and literature. The word for slave —abid — became a colloquialism for African. Other words, such as haratin, express social inferiority of Africans.
arabs enslaving african women as concubinesArab Enslavers Targeted Women For Rape
The eastern Arab slave trade dealt primarily with African women, maintaining a ratio of two women for each man. These women and young girls were used by Arabs and other Asians as concubines and menials.
A Muslim slaveholder was entitled by law to the sexual enjoyment of his slave women. Filling the harems of wealthy Arabs, African women bore them a host of children.
This abuse of African women would continue for nearly 1,200 years."
& continues
"Arab Slave Trade Ushered in The European Slave Trade
The Arab slave trade in the 19th century was economically tied to the European trade of Africans. New opportunities of exploitation were provided by the transatlantic slave trade and this sent Arab slavers into overdrive.
The Portuguese (on the Swahili coast) profited directly and were responsible for a boom in the Arab trade. Meanwhile on the West African coast, the Portuguese found Muslim merchants entrenched along the African coast as far as the Bight of Benin. These European enslavers found they could make considerable amounts of gold transporting enslaved Africans from one trading post to another, along the Atlantic coast.
La_Vengeance_des_fils_dAntarThe Arab Slave Trade Sparked One of The Largest Slave Rebellions in History
The Zanj Rebellion took place near the city of Basra, located in present-day southern Iraq, over a period of fifteen years (A.D. 869–883). The insurrection is believed to have involved enslaved Africans (Zanj) who had originally been captured from the African Great Lakes region and areas further south in East Africa.
Basran landowners had brought several thousand East African Zanj people into southern Iraq to drain the salt marshes in the east. The landowners forced the Zanj, who generally spoke no Arabic, into heavy slave labor and provided them with only minimal subsistence. The harsh treatment sparked an uprising that grew to involve over 500,000 enslaved and free men who were imported from across the Muslim empire."
& continues
"arab slavery of africans
Arab Enslavers Avoided Teaching Islam to Blacks to Justify Enslaving Them
According to some historians, Islam prohibited freeborn Muslims from being enslaved, so it was not in the interest for Arab slavers to convert enslaved Africans to the religion. Since converting enslaved Africans to Islam would grant them more rights and reduce the potential reservoir of people to enslave, propagators of Islam often revealed a cautious attitude toward proselytizing Africans.
Still, if an African converted to Islam he was not guaranteed freedom nor did it confer freedom to their children. Only children of slaves or non-Muslim prisoners of war could become slaves, never a freeborn Muslim.
African_slave_trade
The Time Period
The Arab slave trade was the longest yet least discussed of the two major slave trades. It began in seventh century as Arabs and other Asians poured into northern and eastern Africa under the banner of Islam. The Arab trade of Blacks in Southeast Africa predates the European transatlantic slave trade by 700 years. Some scholars say the Arab slave trade continued in one form or another up until the 1960s, however, slavery in Mauritania was criminalized as recently as August 2007."
& lastly says
"The Arab Slave Trade Allowed More Upward Mobility Than the European Slave Trade
Upward mobility within the ranks of Arab slaves was not rare. Tariq ibn Ziyad — who conquered Spain and whom Gibraltar was named after — was a slave of the emir of Ifriqiya, Musa bin Nusayr, who gave him his freedom and appointed him a general in his army.
Son of an enslaved Ethiopian mother, Antarah ibn Shaddād, also known as Antar, was an Afro-Arabic man who was originally born into slavery. He eventually became a well-known poet and warrior. Extremely courageous in battle, historians have dubbed him the “father of knighthood … [and] chivalry” and “the king of heroes.”
This kind of upward mobility did not occur in the European slavery system.
enslaved white women
Arab Slave Trade Not Limited To Africa or Skin Color
One of the biggest differences between the Arab slave trade and European slaving was that the Arabs drew slaves from all racial groups. During the eighth and ninth centuries of the Fatimid Caliphate, most of the slaves were Europeans (called Saqaliba), captured along European coasts and during wars.
Aside from those of African origins, people from a wide variety of regions were forced into Arab slavery, including Mediterranean people; Persians; people from the Caucasus mountain regions (such as Georgia, Armenia and Circassia) and parts of Central Asia and Scandinavia; English, Dutch and Irish; and Berbers from North Africa." There are many More articles on this website atlantablackstar.com about Arab racism towards blacks, Arab abuse of Blacks,
Anti-Israel, "Palestine" Supporters never mention this evil disturbing fact about Arab History, the evil Arab slave trade & Arab abuse of Black People,Arab Racism towards blacks,
Anti-Israel supporters of "Palestine" & "Palestinians" are dishonest liars,Frauds & Hypocrites, their Hypocrisy & bias is sickening , they don't even truly care about the so-called "Palestinians" they just use them as Pawns to get at Jews and Israel
From the website jta.org , the Jewish Telegraphic Agency an article is titled
"Why did Cameron Diaz have a Jewish wedding?"
BY GABE FRIEDMAN JANUARY 6, 2015 5:37 PM
Cameron Diaz (Wikimedia Commons)
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the article says
"Last night Cameron Diaz married Benji Madden, the guitarist for the popular punk rock band Good Charlotte, at her Beverly Hills home.
In an interesting twist, the couple had a Jewish ceremony — despite the fact that neither appears to be Jewish.
Diaz’s father was Cuban, and her mother has English and German ancestry. Madden, who started Good Charlotte with his twin brother Joel, was born to Robin Madden and Roger Combs. There is no evidence that he has any Jewish ancestry.
Furthermore, while some high-profile celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna have converted to Judaism or shown interest in Kabbalah, it is not readily apparent that Diaz and Madden have done either of these.
So why the Jewish wedding? US Weekly reported that the ceremony was complete with crushed glass, heartfelt chants of “mazel tov” and even a traditional Yichud ritual, during which the newlyweds were left by themselves in a private room after they said their vows.
One possible clue to a solution could lie in Madden’s middle name, which, according to his Wikipedia page, is Levi. Perhaps there is some kind of conversion or interest that the tabloids have missed there.
The other possible phenomenon at work is the Jewish wedding’s transformation into a chic cultural statement.
Rachel Shukert expands on this in Tablet:
For the first time in the history of America, Jewishness — and not just the bagels-and-lox part — is aspirational. There’s a Seder in the White House, and rabbis gave the invocation at the conventions of both major political parties … Ralph Lauren built an empire giving us all WASP anxiety; now the WASPs want to be Jews.
The truth behind the Diaz-Madden wedding may turn out to be more straightforward, but having a Jewish wedding — even if the couple isn’t Jewish — might just be the next trend in Hollywood." Ha, Take That Anti-Semites & Jew Haters, Cameron Diaz had a Jewish wedding !!
From the website forward.com an article is titled
"Inside the Heads, Hearts and Yarmulkes of Jewish Cops"
Sam Kestenbaum January 18, 2015 gettyimages
the article says
"Rabbi Gary Moskowitz served on the New York City Police Department for nearly a decade, during which he worked as an undercover narcotics cop and patrolled Times Square. Still, he says that many people could never fully grasp the idea of a Jewish police officer.
Moskowitz remembers chasing down a mugger near Columbus Circle in Manhattan and wrestling him to the ground. A passerby did a double-take when he saw Moskowitz, an observant Jew who wears a skull cap, handcuffing the thief.
“What is that? What are you wearing on your head?” Moskowitz remembered the passerby asking. “This?” Moskowitz asked, pointing to his yarmulke. “It’s the new summer police uniform,” Moskowitz deadpanned. “No, of course,” he said after a beat, “it’s a yarmulke.”
“My God,” the man said, his eyes widening, “you’re really Jewish?”
“People don’t look at Jews as being forces of change,” Moskowitz said, “as being strong like that.”
While some Jewish groups have taken to the streets as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, denouncing police brutality and racism, there are thousands of Jews who belong to that police force, in New York and across the country. Paradoxically, both cops and their critics feel motivated by their faith and background. Like the Jewish leaders who feel a religious obligation to condemn the killing of young black men at the hands of the police, Jewish cops often feel in their work a sense of moral mission that is intertwined with their Judaism.
“As a Jew, I’m conscious of historical injustices through American history. I know what was fought for during the civil rights movement,” one Jewish police officer said, speaking anonymously because interviews with active-duty NYPD officers must be approved by their office of public information."
the article continues
"He called the deaths of Eric Garner and others “tragic,” but said that in his experience, racism was not prevalent in the police force and had nothing to do with the killings. He said that Jewish activists and other demonstrators are simplifying the issue: “It’s not black and white. As I’m struggling with someone during an arrest, I’m not thinking about what they look like.”
There are about 3,000 or so Jews in the NYPD, a small percentage of the 34,000-strong total police force in the city, said Rabbi Alvin Kass, chief chaplain of the NYPD. Still, Jews have a historic connection with policing in the Americas, dating back to the time when this city was called New Amsterdam and was a Dutch settlement, Kass said.
A Polish-born Jew named Asser Levy, who came to this continent in the 1600s, protested a prohibition that existed then against Jews serving in the colonial militia, Kass recounted. His demands were eventually met by the governor of the time, Peter Stuyvesant, and Levy was allowed to take up arms alongside other colonialists. More recently, a book by Virginia psychologist Jack Kitaeff, “Jews in Blue,” gives in-depth portraits of dozens of Jewish police officers through American history.
Jews serving in the force have had to combat general prejudice and stereotypes about typical “Jewish professions,” sometimes from within their own families. “The stereotype of Jews is that they’re doctors, lawyers or businessmen, or accountants,” Kass said.
But Jews may be well suited to the challenge of police work, Kass thinks, because Judaism provides a moral framework, a tool for navigating the streets of America, for dealing with what Kass called the “unsavory realities of the human existence.”
& continues
"“According to the Talmud, humans have two inclinations: the good inclination and the bad inclination, positive and negative. They are always struggling with each other,” Kass reflected. “The whole system of mitzvot is meant to channel human behavior in positive ways, to ensure that the good inclination prevails over the bad. That’s the challenge of human life, that’s what Judaism is about.”
New York’s Shomrim Society is the oldest and largest fraternal organization for Jewish law enforcement in the country. It was founded in 1924 and has around 3,000 members, some of whom are retired police officers, said Kass, who is the group’s chaplain. There are other Shomrim Society chapters scattered across the country.
Like Kass and others, Moskowitz, who left the force years ago and now teaches self-defense, said that he was guided by Jewish spirituality during his years in law enforcement. “My Judaism is based on tikkun olam. Being a cop allows you to change people’s lives,” Moskowitz said.
But unlike other Jewish police interviewed, Moskowitz has many misgivings about police tactics. “They can’t tell the difference between a good black man and a bad black man,” Moskowitz said, referring to the NYPD and the death of Garner. “Surely there’s lot of crime, but the cops should be able to tell the good guys from the bad guys.”
Moskowitz distanced himself from the larger protest movement (“I’m not a bleeding-heart liberal,” he stressed), which he said misses the real problem. “This is not a black-and-white issue, this has to do with lack of training.”
& continues
"Now 57, Moskowitz was deeply moved years ago by his relationship with the controversial founder of the Jewish Defense League, Rabbi Meir Kahane. Moskowitz attended a JDL training camp as a young man and was transformed. Bullied as a boy in the Bronx, Kahane’s message of Jewish self-defense was resonant.
“I used to be jumped by black and Hispanic kids in my neighborhood,” Moskowitz said. “After camp, I was in perfect shape. I was able to defend myself.”
Moskowitz later had an ideological falling-out with Kahane, but the JDL founder’s teachings helped Moskowitz imagine a new paradigm of Jewish manhood, one that carried over into his police work. Similarly, other Jewish police officers said that serving in law enforcement helped them break down common stereotypes about Jewish men being “intellectuals” and not “warriors,” one officer explained.
by the Forward
Courtesy of Jerome Cobert...
Warrior: Jerome Cobert’s family was wary when he became a cop.
The family of 51-year-old Jerome Cobert, founding member and president of Northern California’s Shomrim Society chapter, was wary of his decision to go into policing.
“Coming from a Jewish background, there was some trepidation and suspicion about authority figures. We’re only a few generations out of the Holocaust,” said Cobert, who grew up in Los Angeles. And his mother was afraid that any profession involving a uniform was too “Nazi-like.” “If I’m going to maintain my relationship with family, I’m going to have to show them that I’m a cop, but I’m still Jerome,” he said.
On the streets of Berkeley, where Cobert first worked as an officer in 1995, he would run into activists, including Copwatch, a group that monitors police misconduct and brutality. When he did, he said, he tried to listen: “They’re pushing an agenda, anti-cop, anti-authority, but I found that people wanted to be heard. I realized we could solve some problems this way.”
and lastly says
"In part, Cobert thinks his Jewish upbringing is what taught him to approach situations like this, looking for a multiplicity of viewpoints. “In Judaism, you’ve got five guys, seven opinions. I try to empathize, stop and listen to people, give people one more chance,” he said.
Steve Harris, a 54-year-old retired Bay Area police officer who is now an inspector for the district attorney’s office, recounts that his parents were also wary of his joining the police force — they would have preferred a legal career for him — but they eventually warmed to the idea. Like others, Harris says family stories passed down about Jewish persecution informed his sense of justice and morality.
Harris, who follows Lubavitch practice, was in New York in December to attend the funeral of Rafael Ramos. When Mayor Bill de Blasio began speaking, Harris was surprised to see hundreds of New York police officers turn their backs in protest. He didn’t know what was going on.
“It’s de Blasio, you turn your back,” he remembers someone telling him. “I turned around. I’m not happy with de Blasio,” Harris said, echoing the accusations that de Blasio has encouraged anti-police sentiment in New York. “For someone who’s never walked in our shoes to make statements that undermine the public trust, that’s the wrong thing. I am in solidarity with my brothers in blue, even though we worship differently. I would die for them in a heartbeat.”
The Jewish experience of otherness, of being an outsider, may be “part of the psyche of Jewish officers,” Kass said, but their presence on the force speaks to another chapter of the Jewish experience.
“Jews came from societies where police officers were agents of oppression. Jews have become law enforcement, preserving and protecting human dignity,” Kass said. “That’s a transformation.”
From the website of the New York Daily News, nydailynews.com an article is titled
"High-ranking Jewish members of NYPD discuss shared values, policing ahead of NYC's Celebrate Israel parade"
By LAURA DIMON
JUN 03, 2018 | 7:40 AM
NYPD chief chaplain Dr. Rabbi Alvin Kass (r.) and NYPD chief surgeon Dr. Eli Kleinman (l.) before the annual Israel Day Parade. (Susan Watts / New York Daily News)
the article says
"Each year at the Celebrate Israel parade, the police contingent is greeted with roaring applause — a fact that doesn’t surprise the two highest-ranking Jewish members of the NYPD, who say Judaism and policing share many of the same fundamental values and that cops have long enjoyed support from the Jewish community.
“There’s really nothing more Jewish than being a police officer,” said chaplain Alvin Kass, the longest-serving chaplain in department history. “To try to take care of people, protect life, safety, security, well-being, I can’t think of anything which is a greater fulfillment of God’s will.”
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Kass, 82, and Dr. Eli Kleinman, chief surgeon for the NYPD, have marched at the 40,000-person event for more than 20 years. Ahead of Sunday’s parade, they spoke passionately about the principles that guide their work and faith.
Kleinman, who’s worked with the department since 1986 and became a chief in 2003, is the eldest child of two Holocaust survivors from Poland. He called his faith “the most important part of my personal life.”
“My father was exceedingly proud that I was in the police department,” he said. “We’re not police officers and we are never on the front lines doing what the police officers do on a day-to-day basis. But we see what they do, we know their travails, we know their families anxieties, we're with them at some of those poignant moments in their lives.”
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“Being a police officer, from the very beginning of time, has been an essential function in society, indispensable to survival,” said Kass, who serves as the religious leader of NYPD Shomrim Society.
“People recognize fully that life would not be safe without (police officers) and that these people are putting their lives on the line,” Kleinman added.
The top doc and octogenarian rabbi — who often work together as a team to ensure the police officers’ health and wellness — said cops of all faiths receive waves of gratitude at the parade.
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“The crowds are quiet until the NYPD Jewish police contingent comes, and you get all this cheering and clapping,” Kass said. “Jewish people are very pro-police.”
“The Israel Day parade is a great parade for the NYPD and for everybody, and the NYPD is treated royally there,” Kleinman told the Daily News. “You're not going to see any banners criticizing the NYPD at that parade.” Many People have said that Jewish Americans are excellent NYPD Police Officers, just like Italian & Irish Cops, along with many Excellent
Asian American,Hispanic American & African American officers,
From the satire humor website "The Onion" which calls itself "America's Finest News Source"
and article is titled
"Woman In Burqa Condemns Woman In Chador"
12/05/01 3:00PM
the article says
"GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN—Outraged by the recent loosening of dress codes in her country, burqa wearer Uliya Salah condemned fellow Afghani Raheela Asaad Monday for appearing in public wearing an upper-face-revealing chador.
The burqa-wearing Salah, who is outraged by Asaad's (far right) immodest dress.
"Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see," said Salah, watching Asaad walk past her in downtown Ghazni. "Has she no shame?"
Not wanting to risk the chance that a stranger might be forced to hear a woman's voice, Salah whispered her indignant remarks through the small mesh square in her garment.
"Perhaps one could wear that sort of thing in the deepest recesses of one's home, where even male family members are not allowed," Salah said. "But doing so in public like that is outrageous. The harlot may as well strip off her veil and reveal her hair to the world."
As a strict follower of Pashtun traditions, Salah said she finds it laughable that Asaad considers herself to be a devout Muslim.
"[Asaad] is clearly pursuing her darkest passions," Salah said. "Now that the Taliban is no longer here to protect their virtue, many of the women in the city have begun to walk around in shockingly immodest garb, shamelessly wearing next to nothing on their hands."
Asaad's garment was not only too revealing, Salah said, but it also bore numerous decorative touches—a mark of the sin of vanity.
"Did you see that small line of embroidery at the border of her veil?" Salah asked. "What is next? A series of stripes at the hem of the garment near the ankles? I pray to Allah that I never see the day."
Salah has been in a near-constant state of outrage since Nov. 13, when the Taliban was ousted from her village. On that day, emboldened by the Northern Alliance victory, hundreds of women threw off their conservative burqas in favor of skimpy, low-cut chadors that exposed portions of their faces.
"It is sinful for a woman to tempt a man by revealing the color of her eyes to him," Salah said. "But the women around here leave nothing to the imagination. The pupil, the iris, the cornea… It's all right out there in the open for men to ogle."
Now that dressing less conservatively no longer carries the risk of public whipping, Asaad said she may wear jewelry or Western fashions beneath her chador.
"It is an important part of both my religion and my culture to observe full hajib," said Asaad, who has worn traditional garb since she was 13. "I keep my body covered when in the presence of men. In the mosque, I am careful to keep my eyes lowered at all times. But it would be nice to wear something different once in a while, like a shoe with an attractive but respectful heel."
Salah was outraged by the notion."
the article continues
""Only whores of Babylon wear heels!" Salah said. "Under the Taliban, it was illegal to wear high heels or any other shoe that produces a sound when walking, because a man must not hear a woman's footsteps. What is this world coming to?"
Asaad said she is eager to return to her old life, before she was confined to her house and only allowed outside when escorted by a male relative.
"Of course, there are many things women should not do, like watch television or go to dances or read Western fashion magazines," Asaad said. "But I did miss being able to leave the house."
Asaad said she also hopes to return to school-teaching, which was her occupation before the Taliban forbade women from working.
"I taught math and reading and other subjects to young girls," Asaad said. "I taught them how to read the words of the prophet Mohammed and how to be a devoted follower of Islam."
Salah questioned Asaad's claims of devotion to Islam, citing a scandal in which she was involved last year. In May 2000, despite restrictions against women being examined by men, Asaad was caught attempting to see a male physician for treatment of kidney stones. It was only through a large bribe to Taliban officials and a three-month period of seclusion in a neighboring village that she escaped execution.
"It makes me sick to look at women like Raheela Asaad," Salah said. "She deserved no less a punishment than death for her blasphemy."
Despite the scandal and her liberal interpretation of Islamic law, Asaad said she is not ashamed of her actions.
"I am proud to be a modern woman," Asaad said. "I believe that women should be allowed to attend the university, so long as the school provides a separate area for women to sit in and they do not speak to the instructor before being spoken to. I even think it is acceptable for a young woman to ride a bicycle, provided she is out in the country where no man can view it. This is the 21st century, after all." Look up the article to see the pictures, on the website theonion.com
From the website of the New York Post, nypost.com an article is titled
"The ridiculous rush to paint Trump as an anti-Semite"
By Jonathan S. Tobin
October 8, 2019 | 8:28pm | Updated
the article says
"President Trump was accused of being anti-Semitic after he called Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (above) "shifty."
No blow is too low when President Trump feels compelled to counterpunch his opponents. Democrats are supposed to claim the moral high ground. But each spurious slur and dubious charge they level to justify their impeachment push lowers that high ground.
Consider the Dems’ bogus bigotry charges. False accusations, as everyone knows, hinder the battle against real evil. That’s what Democrats are doing when they falsely accuse Trump of being an anti-Semite.
The claim became a talking point for the #Resistance as the Ukraine investigation has become the focus of their attempts to oust him from office. What’s their evidence? Trump called the Democrats’ impeachment ringleader in the House, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), “shifty.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said using the word meant that Trump was engaging in “deliberate, atrocious, targeted anti-Semitism.” CNN pundit Peter Beinart said it showed Trump was systematically using “anti-Semitic stereotypes” that might encourage mass killings. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank tweeted that Trump was trying to portray impeachment as a Jewish project, thus proving the columnist’s previous assertion that the president was making America an “unsafe place for Jews.” Really?
Anti-Semitism has classically framed Jews as deceitful. But Trump never mentioned Schiff’s religion or that of New York’s Rep. Jerry Nadler, the other House committee chairman pushing for impeachment. Other Democrats such as Beto O’Rourke whined about Trump calling the two “savages.” Ironically, that’s a word Yankees fans have embraced as a compliment since manager Aaron Boone’s epic tirade at an umpire in July. In the political context, it’s unquestionably coarse. But now we’re supposed to see it as proof of Jew-hatred?
Name-calling isn’t civil. But Schiff’s continuous over-promising and lying about the Russian collusion hoax shredded his credibility. The same is true of the dishonest manner in which he has promoted the Ukraine charges against Trump. Noting this has nothing to do with his faith. Being Jewish shouldn’t open anyone up to prejudiced attacks. But neither should it shield partisans from harsh criticism.
The anti-Semitism talk is especially rich coming from AOC, who has used language like “concentration camps” to falsely claim Trump’s immigration policies were comparable to those of Nazis and defended her fellow Squad members Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar when they used overtly anti-Semitic language to besmirch supporters of Israel.
The question is: Why doesn’t the Anti-Defamation League, the group that was once the definitive source on the subject, call out Democrats and their media allies for cheapening the discussion on the topic at a time when a rising tide of anti-Semitism is spreading around the globe?"
the article continues
"The answer is that the war on Trump is a higher priority for liberals, including liberals at the ADL, than the fight against hate.
The “shifty” brouhaha isn’t the first effort to smear Republicans for having the chutzpah to bash Jewish Democrats. Liberal media outlets have routinely labeled as anti-Semitic the least criticism of controversial leftist mega-donor George Soros (though some of the attacks Soros faces are unquestionably anti-Semitic). And the ADL, which in recent years has shredded nonpartisan principles, has supported this false argument.
Whatever else you may think of Trump, this is one charge that should be rejected out of hand. Trump is the most pro-Israel president we’ve ever had. He had the courage to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. His administration has taken aggressive action against Jew-hatred on college campuses. He has Jewish family members and a cabinet staffed with Jews. But Jewish Democrats have adopted the “Anyone-I-don’t-like-is-Hitler” Twitter meme as their slogan.
If anti-Semitism becomes just one more brickbat to be tossed around in the course of a debate on impeachment, then it loses its real portent as a genuine threat to Jews and democratic societies. Democrats have plenty of arguments to use against Trump. They should stop trying to weaponize and cheapen anti-Semitism for partisan purposes." People have been saying the 4 "congresswomen" in "The Squad" are basically circus clowns,
We at this blog say God Bless President Donald Trump & Vice President Mike Pence for
Supporting Israel, granted they aren't perfect, but they are far better than Hillary Clinton, but Christian, Jewish & Other Israel Supporters Must Remember that the one to TRUST the MOST to Protect Israel is God !!!! God more than any human being , never stop trusting in God & having Faith in God to Protect Israel, Trust God first, God will never allow Israel or it's people to be destroyed , God will never abandon Israel, Look to God first !!! Trust in God first !!!
Another Good Article about Jews in the NYPD is from the website jta.org, an article is titled
"This Jewish man was once New York’s toughest cop. Now he’s a TV star."
By Curt Schleier September 12, 2017 5:21 pm
Ralph Friedman in "Street Justice: The Bronx" on the Discovery Channel. (Courtesy of the Discovery Channel)
the article says:
"(JTA) — There are almost as many reality cop shows on television as there are Real Housewives. “Cops” is the granddaddy of them all, in its 30th season, plus there’s “Night Watch” and “Live PD,” to name just a few.
The newest is “Street Justice: The Bronx,” which premieres Sept. 19 on the Discovery Channel.
The series’ trailer features a heavily tattooed, muscular older gentleman, head shaven, wearing a 41st Precinct T-shirt. As dramatic music pulsates in the background, he describes how dangerous the streets of the Bronx were in the 1970s, when he patrolled there. Words flash on the screen describing him as the most decorated detective in NYPD history.
And then he introduces himself: “My name is Ralph Friedman and these are my stories.”
From the get-go, it’s clear that this cop isn’t like all other cops. Friedman, 68, made over 2,000 arrests and earned 219 department awards, plus another 36 civilian honors. He was cut by knives and razors, and had bones broken by tire irons. (Never shot, thankfully.)
And then there is his background: Friedman grew up in a largely unobservant Jewish family in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, only a few subway stops north of Yankee Stadium. He remembers staying home on the High Holidays and studying for his bar mitzvah, but “never pursued anything further than that.”
After high school, he took a job with a moving company making $4.50 an hour.
“That was tremendous back then because everyone else was making $1.15,” he said.
On a lark, Friedman accompanied some friends who were taking the police civil service exam. He passed and was called in nine months later.
“Being a cop you could have a future, even without a college degree,” he said. “If I stayed a mover, I’d be lifting that same refrigerator for 30 years.”
Friedman joined the NYPD Shomrim Society — the association of Jewish cops — from the moment he took the job, and is still a member. Today there are approximately 3,000 Jews in the New York Police Department in a total force of 34,000.
Still, Friedman’s decorated career lasted just 14 years — his time at the NYPD cut short, ironically, not by a bad guy but a fellow cop. The “coup de grace that ended my career,” he said in a telephone interview, occurred when he and a partner were racing in an unmarked car to a signal 10-13 — “officer needs assistance” — and were struck by a blue-and-white police car rushing to the same call.
His car was T-boned right where he sat, resulting in 23 broken bones, a hip shattered into 100 pieces and a disability pension. It took him more than two years to recover.
Unable to work, Friedman traveled and worked around his house. But his quiet existence changed in 2015, when the New York Post did a major story about him that caught the attention of St. Martin’s Press. In July, the book publisher brought out his memoir, “Street Warrior: The True Story of the NYPD’s Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him.” Jupiter, the company that produces “Street Justice,” took note.
The series uses a combination of archival footage and re-creations to trace some of the more dramatic moments of Friedman’s career. In the premiere episode, for example, a young Friedman is working the precinct desk when a detective upstairs is shot and killed by a perp who grabbed the cop’s gun while being fingerprinted.
Friedman’s stories may seem like dramatic fiction, but not to anyone who lived in the area during that time. Sections of the Bronx more closely resembled Mosul than a part of the Big Apple with its vacant, burned-out buildings lining major thoroughfares."
the article continues
"It’s no surprise that his precinct, the notorious 41st, was known derisively as Fort Apache. It encompassed only about two square miles, but it was the scene of over 100 homicides annually during this period.
The Bronx is in the midst of a resurgence fueled in part by a continuing decline in crime that some, like Friedman, credit to aggressive police tactics that have lately fallen out of favor. New York City’s current mayor, Bill de Blasio, made reducing stop-and-frisk policing a key plank in his mayoral campaign. Before he took office, a U.S. District Court judge said the tactic could be unconstitutional, and the department worked to decrease the frequency with which stops were being used by police. In 2013, the same judge said that stop and frisk was racial profiling by another name.
Friedman, unsurprisingly, is not pleased with the changes.
“When I was on the job, they wanted you to be very proactive, go out and arrest bad guys and do your job,” he said. “Today it’s not like that with this mayor. Police are more reactive, after a crime has been committed. They don’t want you out there doing real police work. Today, no one has your back.
“When we went out and stopped a guy on a hunch and found a gun or drugs, it was considered a good arrest. Today you’re violating the guy’s rights. You’re being micromanaged and the public will suffer.”
Asked if he felt there was any truth to the accusations of racial profiling, Friedman was interrupted by the Discovery Channel public relations person person, who ordered “next question.”
But Friedman did not have to answer the query for a reporter to get a feeling for his views.
“I would love to be a cop today, but I don’t think my methods would blend in with today’s policing,” he said.
In the show and in an interview, Friedman comes across as a no-nonsense, unapologetic guy."
the article lastly says
"If I said you were under arrest, you were under arrest,” he recalled. “You could go easy or hard, but you were under arrest.”
Asked what the public misunderstands about police work, Friedman said, “I don’t think they understand how dangerous even the menial jobs we do — breaking up a family dispute or pulling over a vehicle — can be. You don’t know who is in that car. Did he commit a murder or a robbery. Did they jump bail?”
But you don’t need to take Friedman’s word for it. One of the re-enactments on the six-episode series begins with what seems like a family dispute but ends in gunfire. Friedman and his partner, Kalman Ungar, walk into an apartment and a man jumps out of a hallway and starts to fire at them.
Ungar is hit five times but the shooter — who, according to the show’s version, had just beat up his girlfriend — seems unscathed, despite the number of shots aimed at him. With his revolver empty, he attacks Friedman. In hand-to-hand combat, Friedman uses the last bullet in his gun to shoot the criminal.
Fortunately, Ungar survived his wounds. The shooter did not. (A contemporaneous New York Times account of the same 1972 shooting says the shooter had reported a robbery, and had mistaken the plainclothes detectives for the thieves.)
Friedman says he never experienced anti-Semitism on the job.
“People saw that I could handle myself,” he said. “And I think I gave a better impression of Jews because I could handle myself.”
Back in Friedman’s day, the department had a reputation for being an Irish stronghold. The NYPD is more diverse now, and that “is a good thing, without a doubt” he said. “It reflects the makeup of the city. Good cops come in all shapes, sizes and colors. It’s the person.”
Friedman’s hard-nosed attitude vanishes when he is asked which life he likes better.
He laughs, then says: “There’s nothing better than being a cop on the street. There’s nothing better in the world than taking bad guys off the street. It was like an adrenaline rush.
“But that’s a different life that’s behind me,” he adds. “Now it’s nice to be recognized and meet people interested in my story.”
Safer, too."
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Ending the ‘Occupation’ myth"
Feb 20, 2019, 1:10 PM
the article says
"The scope of the myth of Israel as an occupying power over Palestinian land is far-reaching and few know the historical truths. In order to start an Israeli-Palestinian peace process from an informed frame of reference, it is important to debunk the myth that Israel is an illegitimate colonial “occupier” and to clarify that “Palestine” is a geographical area, not a nationality.
Legal Establishment of Israel Under the British Mandate
International law dating from WWI shows that the Jews were given authority to return to their homeland and establish it within all of the borders of the British Mandate for Palestine. This included the land not only “from the River to the Sea,” but also the land of Jordan. The initial peace Treaty of Versailles was followed by other treaties, which, among other work, partitioned the Ottoman Empire. To that end, the major powers met at San Remo and resolved to entrust
the administration of Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to a Mandatory, to be selected by the said Powers. The Mandatory will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on the 8th [2nd] November, 1917, by the British Government [the Balfour Declaration], and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people….
San Remo Resolution, April 25, 1920
This resolution was formalized in the Treaty of Sèvres (replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne, with the same resolution) and adopted unanimously by the League of Nations, whose member countries recognized “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstitutingtheir national home in that country.” The British were given the Mandate for Palestine, which included the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and what is now Jordan.
The San Remo Conference, Treaty of Sèvres, Treaty of Lausanne and League of Nations granted no nation or people land in any part of Palestine other than the Jewish people. Moreover, Article 5 of the Mandate provided that “The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power.” The intent of keeping Palestine inviolate for the Jewish homeland is clear.
Yes, Even Judea and Samaria
At the time of the British Mandate for Palestine, there were no independent Arab nations. Political rights to self-determination for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of Nations in the French Mandate, which included Syria and Lebanon and another British Mandate over Iraq. There have been no subsequent treaties with regard to Judea and Samaria; these regions are still part of the territories over which the Jewish national home can be re-established. Article 6 of the Mandate specifically provides that “The Administration of Palestine … shall facilitate Jewish immigration … and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land.” The Mandate thus granted Jews the right to settle anywhere in Palestine, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, a right unaltered by international law and valid today. Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and all of Jerusalem are legal."
the article continues:
"No Legal Change Since
Since then, Israel’s undeniable right to establish homes in the West Bank have not been changed by the U.N. or any actions of Jordan. U.N. Resolution 242 (partition plan of November 29, 1967) was a recommendation that was never accepted by the Arabs. Judea and Samaria have also never been part of Jordan. The “borders” established in 1967 were not meant to be permanent borders but were the cease-fire lines between Israeli and Jordanian armies at the end of the 1967 War and the1948 War of Independence.
Occupation Refers to a State — But Palestine Never Was and Is Not a State
As to the notion that “Palestine” is somehow the name of a wrongfully dispossessed indigenous people, “Palestina” was the name chosen by the Romans to replace “Judea” to eliminate Jewish sovereignty after Judea’s failed revolts in the first century. Historical and political documents of the early 20th century speak of the Jews and Arabs of Palestine, not the Jews and the Palestinians. (Before 1948, Jews used the word “Palestine” for Jewish organizations: The Jerusalem Post, founded in 1932, was The Palestine Post until 1948; Bank Leumi L’Israel, incorporated in 1902, was the “Anglo-Palestine Company” until 1948; the Jewish Agency – assisting Jewish settlement since 1929 – was the Jewish Agency for Palestine; and the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was formed in 1939 as a merger of the United Palestine Appeal and a part of the Joint Distribution Committee.)
Moreover, Arabs outside of Palestine have always viewed the “Palestinians” as part of the larger pan-Arab nation, not as having a separate identity, and they did not establish a “Palestinian” state in 1947 when the UN recommended the partition of Palestine into “an Arab and a Jewish state” (notably, not a “Palestinian” state). “Palestine” as an idea for an Arab people was created only in 1964, when the PLO was formed to “liberate” Palestine through armed struggle.
In contrast, Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people and has been continuously for over 3,000 years as evidenced not only in hundreds of references throughout the Bible but also in countless archeological relics and existing structures throughout the region, including Judea and Samaria (an area that the PLO first began calling the “West Bank” in 1950). “Palestinians” are Arabs who moved to what is now Israel mostly in the 20th century.
Any negotiators attempting to create a fair and lasting peace should take account of the present realities, but must also be accurately informed of the past. They must acknowledge that whereas most countries have been created by invasion and conquest, Israel was created by international law and thus has more claims to legitimacy than most countries in the world. As Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, of the Jewish Agency for Palestine stated to the UN in 1947,"
& lastly says
"…the Balfour Declaration implied that the whole of Palestine, including Transjordan, should ultimately become a Jewish state. Transjordan had, nevertheless, been severed from Palestine in 1922 … subsequently… set up as an Arab kingdom. [To propose that]… a second Arab state.. be carved out of the remainder of Palestine, with the result that the Jewish National Home would represent less than one eighth of the territory originally set aside for it [is unjust]. Such a sacrifice should not be asked of the Jewish people."
Another Article from blogs.timesofisrael.com is titled
"What’s Your ZQ?— Zionist Quotient"
Oct 12, 2019, 12:01 AM
Theodore Herzl in Basel, 1897
the article says:
"Are you a passionate Zionist?
I bet you think you are.
Well, here’s a way you to find out.
Take the Zionist Quotient Quiz.
You may ask, “Who are you to create such an important quiz?”
Well as a Jeopardy fan, a former high school teacher, and a Zionist, I’m pretty good at crafting, giving and grading quizzes.
But I want to know if you, my Times of Israel readers are Zionistically intelligent or Zionistically challenged.
Do you have a high ZQ— Zionist Quotient?
I bet you think you do.
So I created this Zionist quiz to challenge my audience and to determine if my readers have the requisite knowledge to fully comprehend my stories.
Well, here are 12 questions (one for each tribe) and one extra-credit question to help improve your score.
The Quiz
.What was the name of Theodore Herzl’s 1896 pamphlet—where he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state?
.What two names did David Ben-Gurion consider for the independent Jewish state?
.What two geograghic locations did Herzl propose for the Jewish nation?
.Fill in the blank: Zion is a____ in the city of Jerusalem.
.Who established a colony for Jews in Palestine in 1854?
.Where was the first Zionist Congress held in 1896?
.Who was elected the first president of Israel?
.What is the name of the British document that endorsed the creation of a Jewish homeland in 1917?
.Fill in the blank: The ____ Paper of 1939 planned to end Jewish immigration to Palestine by 1944 after that date it would be subject to Arab consent.
.Who was the founder of revisionist Zionism?
.Fill in the blank: Revisionist Zionism ideology is the basis for_______ -wing politics in Israel.
.Fill in the blank: The ____ David Accords were signed by Sadat and Begin on September 17, 1978.
Operation _____ Carpet concerned the airlifting of Jews from Arab Countries.
the article continues
"The Answers:
Der Judenstaat
Israel and Zion
Palestine and Argentina
Hill
Sir Moses Montefiore
Basil, Switzerland
Chaim Weizmann
Balfour Agreement
White
Ze’ev Jabotinsky
Right
Camp
Magic
The Analysis:
Since I considered this an easy test, if got more than 4 wrong, I recommend you work on your Zionistic studies.
Recommendation:
Here is a little nudge to help you raise your score for the next quiz, read “O Jeru-salem”—Day by Day and Minute by Minute the Historic Struggle For Jerusalem and the Birth of Israel— authored by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre.
On audio read by Theodore Bikel.
You’ll love it. I promise.
To My Readers:
Let me know your score.
Share this quiz with your friends to see if they are intelligent Zionists.
Was the test too hard or too easy?
If you want to submit additional questions for the next Zionist Quotient Quiz, please do so in the comment box below.
Thanks for your participation."
Another article about the LIE of the "Occupation" is from The Wall Street Journal
website www.wsj.com
the article is titled
"Israel and the Occupation Myth" and it says
The hatred and violence that killed five members of the Fogel family existed before the Jewish state did.
By Danny Ayalon
Updated March 29, 2011 12:01 am ET
the article says
"The recent murder of a family of five in Itamar shocked Israelis to their core. A terrorist broke into the Fogels' home before stabbing and garroting to death the two parents, Udi and Ruth, and their children Yoav, 11 years old, Elad, 4, and almost decapitating Hadas, who was only three months old.
There has since been very little outcry from the international community. Many nations who are so used to condemning the building of apartment units beyond the Green Line remained silent on this sadistic murder. Meanwhile, the few international correspondents to have covered the massacre have placed it in the context of ongoing settlement-building and Israel's so-called "occupation."
However, regardless of one's views on which people have greater title to Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, it is a historically inaccurate distortion to claim that the occupation that breeds this type of violence. If this mantra were true, then it must be the case that before the occupation there was no violence. This defies the historical record.
In 1929, the Jewish community of Hebron—which stretches back millennia, long before the creation of Islam and the Arab conquest and subsequent occupation of the area—was brutally attacked. The Jews who had been living peacefully with their Muslim neighbors were set upon in a bloody rampage, inspired by Palestinian Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later became notorious as Hitler's genocidal acolyte during the Holocaust. In two days, 67 Jews were hacked or bludgeoned to death. Jewish infants were beheaded and Jewish women were disemboweled. Limbs were hacked off the dead as well as those who managed to survive.
On visiting the scene shortly after the massacre, Britain's High Commissioner for Palestine John Chancellor wrote to his son "I do not think that history records many worse horrors in the last few hundred years."
the article continues
"This and other similar pogroms happened, not only before the "occupation" of Judea and Samaria, but even two decades before the state of Israel was reestablished. From 1948 to 1967, Judea and Samaria were illegally occupied by Jordan, which renamed the area the West Bank, in reference to the East Bank of the Kingdom of Jordan that fell beyond the Jordan River. Not one Israeli was allowed into this area, yet nor did Israel know one day of peace in that time, during which it saw brutal attacks launched from the West Bank against Israeli civilians.
Further evidence against the mantra that the occupation breeds violence can be culled from Palestinian sources. Take Hamas's founding charter, for instance, which does not mention occupation or settlements. What is does contain are calls for the complete destruction of Israel, down to its last inch, such as: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." The charter goes even further, aspiring to a point in time when there will be no Jews left anywhere in the world.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organization, currently headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, notes in its founding charter that "this organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank," while still calling for a "liberation of its homeland." This was written in 1964, fully three years before Israel conquered the West Bank during the Six Day War.
It's safe to say that the violence and terror visited upon Israelis has little connection to "occupation" or settlements. This myth has no historical foundation, but is easy to proclaim for those who have little understanding of the conflict.
Yet these fatuous canards only make our conflict harder to solve. The recent massacre in Itamar highlighted the Palestinian Authority's ongoing incitement to violence through its media, mosques and educational system. At this point, the basic parameters of the peace process need an overhaul. If our aim is to reach a peaceful resolution, then merely ending the "occupation" would far from guarantee that, as history has shown.
Israel was assured in the past by the international community that if it just retreated from Gaza and Lebanon, peace would flourish and violence would come to an end. In both cases, this hope proved deadly wrong, and millions of Israelis have been subjected to incessant attacks from these territories since the retreat."
the article lastly says
"This is not about "occupation" or territory; it is about meaningful coexistence. Only when the root ideological causes of our conflict are solved can Israelis and Palestinians make the painful concessions necessary for peace.
Mr. Ayalon is the deputy foreign minister of Israel."
Also from the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Rooting Out Evil"
Oct 11, 2019, 11:58 PM
the article says
"As the heavens opened to accept our final lamentations and Yom Kippur – our holiest of the holiest days – came to a close, we were shaken back to reality upon hearing of the violent antisemitic attack against a synagogue in Halle, Germany. The miracle would have been a massacre had the Nazi gunman broke through a fortified door intending to murder the 80 worshippers who were in silent contemplation. Instead, and sadly, he murdered two people near the synagogue.
Of late, and despite its dark history, there has been a surge of antisemitism in Germany. In 2018, the head of German police reported a whopping 1,800 antisemitic crimes representing a 20% increase from the previous year. Moreover, violent crime against individual Jewish people rose from 28 in 2017 to 48 in 2018. No wonder the hate crimes police unit failed to show up at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin for our meeting with Compassion to Action senior police, education and political leaders. We were disappointed and the moment failed to pass unnoticed on Canadian law enforcement.
Just recently, Germany’s antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein (full disclosure: whom I have met in Toronto) made world-wide headlines when he warned the Jewish community not to wear the yarmulke in public, citing public safety concerns after a man wearing the Star of David was beaten down and kicked in the centre of Berlin. The international outrage over that statement was swift over this renewed and recurrent sense of marginalization, isolation and victimization of Jewish-German citizens. The German newspaper Bild began a campaign of solidarity with the Jewish community asking all Germans to wear a yarmulke as a protest against antisemitism. With pressure building, Klein backtracked on his call for Jews to stop wearing yarmulkes in public.
German antisemitism is still a problem. Now we are all asking, has their genocide against the Jews ended their centuries-old hatred against us? While Germany has confronted its past and continues to educate and advocate, not enough is being done to confront its historical record. Campaign posters in so-called ‘Luther country’ Thuringia have raised the specter of antisemitism in recent days. Apparently and according to reports, the NPD party, which is classified as a “neo-Nazi party by the Counter Extremism Project,” is using images of Martin Luther and slogans like “defend the homeland” on campaign signs"
the article lastly says
"In his infamous 1543 treatise “On the Jews and Their Lies,” Luther called for the burning of synagogues, confiscation of Jewish prayer books and religious writings and expulsion of Jews from cities. This treatise some 500 years before the Holocaust contributed to the antisemitism that prevailed in Germany then and still to this day. It’s time to think about the roots of antisemitism in all their manifestations and work toward eradicating them. Only then can the world confront this social ill which has plagued humanity for more than 2,000 years.
The Holocaust itself did not begin in 1933 – it took centuries of transmission of hatred from one generation to the next for this tsunami of hatred to materialize into a genocide. To understand the Holocaust itself, one must understand the history of antisemitism and its purveyors; thus, all lessons about the Holocaust must include this complex context that gave rise to Nazism itself.
Each year when we travel with senior Canadian leaders on our annual journey to the death camps, we spend much time peeling away the layers of antisemitism. The Holocaust did not happen in a vacuum. It was brought upon by centuries of defamatory rhetoric against the Jewish nation, manifesting in hundreds of occurrences of organized massacres (called pogroms), expulsions and ghettoization of Jewish communities. It is said that in Munich on this day (October 11th) in 1285, 180 Jewish people were killed by a mob who falsely believed Jews purchased and killed a Christian child.
We have a chance to make the world a better place and to root out evil and the violent tremors which still try to break down our synagogue doors."
Also from blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Germany’s Anti-Israel Policy Bears Tragic Fruit" the article mentions the logic of cause and effect, the article is dated October 11, 2019 at 4:46 PM
the article says
Chancellor Angela Merkel at the UN on 25 September 2015. (UN Photo/Mark Garten)
"The reactions of German political leaders on the neo-Nazi attack on Yom Kippur in the synagogue in Halle were as expected. According to Jerusalem Post, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government voiced outrage over the attack on Yom Kippur and urged tougher action against antisemitic violence. “That on the Day of Atonement a synagogue was shot at hits us in the heart,” Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wrote on Twitter. “We must all act against antisemitism in our country.”
Powerful statements, but – don’t they just get it, or – are they stupid, or – could they have an agenda?
It looks as if they could. In my August post Political Antisemitism Poisons the Streets of Europe I wrote the following:
Haven’t the European leaders ever thought the consequences of their politics which always present Israel in a bad light, as an aggressor, occupation power, human rights abuser, apartheid state etc? Don’t they understand the logic of cause and effect?
When something happens, they are marching in the front row demonstrating their support and sympathy for the Jewish community. And the next day they are back on track to join haters of Israel in New York and Geneva condemning the Jewish state again.
And what happened immediately after the Yom Kippur attack?
Surprise, surprise: Mrs. Merkel was pictured attending an evening vigil at a synagogue in Berlin to honor the victims of the attack.
And what will happen next?
Business as usual. Meaning that Germany will condemn Israel again in the UN. And, as seen, it continues condemning Israel through its close partnership with Iran – no matter what Iranian leaders or generals say.
In the aftermath of the attack, Dr. Hillel Neuer, Director of the UN Watch published a post on his Facebook page, listing Germany’s voting behaviour in 2018 in the UN, and it shouts far louder than Merkel’s and her team’s “outrage”.
The German UN voting record shows us that while Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia and Syria each were condemned only once in 2018, Israel’s actions deserved in total 16 (SIXTEEN!) condemnations from the German government. Germany introduced 0 (ZERO) condemnations of China, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela, etc.
It seems the Germans really don’t comprehend their moral position toward the Jewish State. For a good reason Dr. Neuer is asking Foreign Minister Heiko Maas: Why?
I salute the European Coalition for Israel and its Founding Director Tomas Sandell who immediately called upon the President designate of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to immediately on her installation call together a European crisis summit in Brussels on the alarming rise of anti-Semitism.
Maybe she is a different kind of a German…"
From the website www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Stephan Balliet confesses to German synagogue attack, admits anti-Semitic motive" and it says
Lawyer says his client, who killed 2 people in Yom Kippur shooting, stands by his actions: ‘He blames others for his own misery and that’s what ultimately triggered his action’
By Hui Min NEO
11 October 2019, 11:06 pm 1
Stephan Balliet (Screengrab) the article says:
"AFP — The German suspect in a deadly attack targeting a synagogue has admitted to the shooting rampage and confessed that it was motivated by anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Stephan Balliet, 27, made a “very comprehensive” confession during an interrogation lasting several hours, said a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe.
“He gave an extensive confession. He confirmed far-right and anti-Semitic motives” for the attack, the spokesman said.
Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer warned meanwhile in an interview with the ZDF broadcaster that there was now an “elevated” threat of another anti-Semitic or terrorist attack saying around half of 24,000 suspected far-right extremists had an “affinity” with firearms and could engage in violence.
Seehofer warned that more attacks could happen “at any moment” and that Berlin was taking the matter most seriously and was “extremely alert.”
Balliet is accused of shooting dead two people in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, after he tried and failed to storm a synagogue.
The man, who was described by neighbors and his father as a loner who spent much of his time at a computer, had filmed and live-streamed the assault.
The victims, a German man and woman, appeared to be chosen at random when the assailant failed to gain access to the synagogue he had besieged with gunfire and homemade explosives, as the frightened congregation barricaded itself inside.
Police eventually captured Balliet after a gun battle that left him wounded.
Balliet’s lawyer Hans-Dieter Weber told public broadcaster Suedwestrundfunk that his client stood by his actions.
“It would be nonsensical to deny it, and he didn’t do that,” said Weber.
“In his view of the world, he blames others for his own misery and that’s what ultimately triggered his action.”
Loser
Balliet’s confession came as Jews prepared to mark the Sabbath from sundown, with solidarity actions also planned across the country, including at the synagogue targeted in Halle.
Hours ahead of the Sabbath, Max Privorozki, who heads the Jewish community in Halle, said Jews would not allow themselves to be intimidated by the assault.
Around 50 people were in the synagogue to mark the holy Jewish day of Yom Kippur when the assailant had tried to shoot his way into the Jewish temple.
Armed with weapons he is believed to have built himself and along with four kilos (nine pounds) of explosives in his car, Balliet began his rampage at noon.
Jana Lange, 40, was killed outside the Halle synagogue on October 9, 2019. (Facebook)
Throughout a video the shooter made of his actions using a helmet-mounted smartphone, his rage bubbles to the surface, when he calls himself a “fucking idiot,” a “failure” and a “loser.” "
the article continues
"Massacre planned
Investigators searching Balliet’s father’s apartment found a 3-D printer, which could have been used to manufacture firearms, according to Spiegel magazine.
Police have also confiscated a hard-drive from his bedroom in the apartment he shared with his divorced mother.
Spiegel revealed that Balliet had learned to handle an assault rifle during six months of military service in 2010 and 2011, when he was 18.
“Retrospectively we can be glad he did not learn much in the army otherwise he could have killed many more people in Halle,” Spiegel quoted an army source as saying.
Police cars on October 10, 2019 in front of the cordoned of house in Benndorf, eastern Germany, in which the German suspect in the Halle shooting lived with his mother. (Axel Schmidt/AFP)
Federal prosecutor Peter Frank called the act “terror” and said it had been planned to be a “massacre.”
Noting that it was only thanks to the Halle synagogue’s own security measures that the assailant had been kept from penetrating the temple, Jewish leaders have demanded authorities to do more to protect the community.
On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed that there would be “zero tolerance” for hate, while Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said protection will be stepped up immediately for all Jewish sites and institutions in Germany.
Germany has taken pride in the rebirth of its Jewish life since the Nazis’ World War II slaughter of six million Jews across Europe.
The community has grown to about 225,000 thanks in large part to an influx from the ex-Soviet Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall." At least Stephan Balliet realizes and knows he is a "f--king idiot" "failure" and a "loser" in his own words, he admits it, he's a loner loser,
what a shock, big surprise there, big surprise, In all fairness, Not every loner is a loser, Not every loner is a loser, but Stephan Balliet IS a LOSER ,
From the website washingtontimes.com an article is titled
"DERSHOWITZ: Hamas' dead baby strategy"
By - The Washington Times - Friday, January 16, 2009
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
OP-ED:
the article says
"The Hamas “dead baby” strategy - to cause as many civilian casualties as possible by firing its deadly rockets from schools and densely populated areas - is producing understandable outrage around the world. What is not understandable is why the outrage is directed against Israel, which is a victim of this strategy, rather than against Hamas, which is its perpetrator. Hamas knew exactly what it was doing when it fired more than 6,000 rockets at Israeli kindergartens, elementary schools and playgrounds from behind its own children. It was playing Russian roulette with the lives of Israeli children in order to provoke a defensive response from Israel.
Hamas knew that Israel, like any democracy, would have to take whatever military action was necessary to stop the rockets. As Barack Obama put it when he visited Sderot, a town that had been victimized by more than 1,000 rockets and several deaths: “If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” Hamas also knew that Israel could not stop the rockets aimed at its children without accidentally killing some Palestinian children because Hamas was using Palestinian children as human shields for its rockets. Despite its best efforts to avoid killing civilians - Israel gains nothing from such “collateral damage” and loses much-Israeli missiles have killed dozens of innocent children who were deliberately placed in harm’s way by Hamas terrorists.
Hamas also knew that the media would show the dead Palestinian children around the world and cause outrage to be directed against Israel for causing their deaths. Indeed, it had its camera crews out and ready to film and transmit every gruesome image of every dead Palestinian child. Well not quite every Palestinian child! When a Hamas rocket aimed at Israeli children misfired and killed two Palestinian children, Hamas censored all images of these dead Palestinian children, because they were killed directly by Hamas rockets rather than indirectly by Hamas using them as human shields. That is the way Hamas manipulates the media coverage of its gruesome “dead baby” strategy.
The media, of course, serves as Hamas’ facilitator. I am not suggesting that the media not show these horrible images, but rather that they should present them with a critical perspective, indicating the actual cause and the real culprit - namely Hamas and its cynical double war crime strategy of targeting Israeli children and hiding behind Palestinian children. A cartoon that is making its way around the internet does a better job of explaining the Hamas strategy than any photograph or video. It shows an Israeli soldier and a Hamas terrorist shooting at each other. The Israeli soldier is standing in front of a baby carriage, protecting the baby. The Hamas terrorist is firing from behind a baby carriage, using the baby as a shield. That is the reality."
From the website gatestoneinstitute.org an article is titled
"When Was the "Palestinian People" Created? Google Has the Answer."
by Jean Patrick Grumberg
November 20, 2017 at 4:00 am
the article states
"All people born in British Mandatory Palestine between 1923-1948 (today's Israel) had "Palestine" stamped on their passports at the time. But when they were called Palestinians, the Arabs were offended. They complained: "We are not Palestinians, we are Arabs. The Palestinians are the Jews".
After invading Arab armies were routed and the Arabs who had fled the war wanted to return, they were considered a fifth column and not invited back. The Arabs who had loyally remained in Israel during the war, however, and their descendants, are still there and make up one fifth of the population. They are known as Israeli Arabs; they have the same rights as Christians and Jews, except they are not required to serve in the army unless they wish to.
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese." – PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 1977.
In an op-ed in the Guardian on November 1, 2017, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas called on the UK to "atone" for the century of "suffering" that the document allegedly wrought on the "Palestinian people." Abbas reiterated the claims he has been making since 2016, to justify a surreal lawsuit he has threatened to bring against Britain for supporting the "creation of a homeland for one people [Jews], which, he asserted, "resulted in the dispossession and continuing persecution of another."
the article continues
""Palestinians" were the Jews who lived, along with Muslims and Christians on land called Palestine, which was under British administration from 1917 to 1948.
All people born there during the time of the British Mandate had "Palestine" stamped on their passports. But the Arabs were offended when they were called Palestinians. They complained: "We are not Palestinians, we are Arabs. The Palestinians are the Jews".
Bernard Lewis explains:
"With the rise and spread of pan-Arab ideologies it was as Arabs, not as south Syrians, that the Palestinians began to assert themselves. For the rest of the period of the British Mandate, and for many years after that, their organizations described themselves as Arab and expressed their national identity in Arab rather than in Palestinian or even in Syrian terms."
When Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, five Arab armies joined up to try to kill the infant nation in its crib. After they were routed, some of the local Arabs who had fled the war wanted to return, but they were considered a fifth column and most were not allowed back. The Arabs who had loyally remained in Israel during the war, however, and their descendants, are still there and make up one-fifth of Israel's population today. They are known as Israeli Arabs; they have the same rights as Jews, except they are not legally required to serve in the army. They may volunteer if they wish to.
Israeli Arabs have their own political parties. They serve as members of Knesset and are employed in all professions. The moral is, or should be: Do not start a war unless you are prepared to lose it -- as the Arabs in and around Israel have done repeatedly, in 1947-48, 1967 and 1973.
Incidentally, the land that was being held in trust for the Jews in the British Mandate for Palestine initially included all of what is now the Kingdom of Jordan, which was granted its independence in 1946 as the Kingdom of Transjordan." A Map is shown in this article
& continues
"Less than a week after the article in the Guardian, Omar Barghouti, the instigator of today's attempts to destroy Israel by suffocating it economically, echoed Abbas in a Newsweek piece, calling the Balfour Declaration "a tragedy for the Palestinian people."
The same sentiment was expressed at the end of September in a lecture delivered by Rashid Khalidi -- the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University -- at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in New York City: that the Balfour Declaration "launched a century-long assault on the Palestinians aimed at implanting and fostering this national homeland, later the state of Israel, at their expense..."
Khalidi's claims, like those of Abbas and Barghouti, are false. Prior to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, there were no "Palestinians." As the prominent Lebanese-American historian and Mideast expert Philip Hitti stated in his testimony before the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: "There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not."
Authors Guy Millière and David Horowitz elaborate on this in their 2015 book, Comment le peuple palestinien fut inventé ("How the Palestinian People Were Invented"), illustrating that the purpose of the fabrication was "to transform a population into a weapon of mass destruction against Israel and the Jewish people, to demonize Israel, and to give totalitarianism and anti-Semitism renewed means of action."
The ploy for a while worked beyond expectations. The term "Palestinians" was used across the world -- including in Israel -- to define the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza; it is often employed also to describe Arabs with Israeli citizenship. The narrative that the Jews displaced them by establishing a state completely contradicts the facts.
What are these facts? When was the "Palestinian people" actually created? Simply using the Google Ngram Viewer provides the answer.
Ngram is a database that charts the frequency that a given phrase appears in books published between the years 1500 to 2008. When a user enters the word phrases "Palestinian people" and "Palestinian state" into the Ngram search bar, he discovers that they began appearing only in 1960.
In his November 2, 1917 letter to Walter Rothschild, the leader of Britain's Jewish community, Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour wrote:"
and lastly says
""His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine [emphasis added], or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
Finally, apart from Ngram, there are the words of the PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, who, in a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw, stated:
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.
"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
Jean Patrick Grumberg is a journalist for the French-language news site Dreuz.
From the website fredmaroun.blogspot.com an article on Saturday July 19, 2014 is titled
"Proportionality" in the Israel/Gaza War" and it says
"One question that often comes up in the ongoing (and third) war between Israel and Hamas is the issue of proportionality. As of this writing, 318 Palestinians and one Israeli have been reported killed. So why the discrepancy?
I will answer this question in two ways: first to simply explain why the discrepancy, and second to explain why the question is misleading and largely irrelevant.
The discrepancy in counts is due to a number of factors:
Israel has built an anti-rocket system called Iron Dome that is very effective at intercepting rockets and destroying them before they can reach populated areas.
Israel has built shelters for its civilian population and has trained its citizens on using them when they hear sirens announcing the arrival of rockets.
Hamas did not build any way to protect its civilians; they have instead used their resources to build shelters for Hamas terrorists and for rockets and to build tunnels to smuggle weapons.
Hamas knows that it cannot win militarily. Its strategy is to ensure that as many civilians die as possible to increase external pressures on Israel to accept Hamas terms, i.e., the release of criminals and the end of Israel’s blockade on weapons to Gaza. Therefore, Hamas uses civilians as human shields and coaxes them into going near likely targets.
Despite the high number of Palestinian casualties and Hamas’ best efforts at increasing civilian casualties, a large number, if not most Palestinians dead are Hamas terrorists (accurate estimates are not available at this time).
The number of reported casualties on the Israeli side does not account for Israelis who have died or have had serious medical problems as a result of panic during rocket attacks."
the article continues
"Despite all of the above, I question the validity of the question in the first place. Israel is attacking Hamas in order to stop rocket attacks into Israel, and Israel has the right and even the duty to defend its citizens. Despite the use of Iron Dome, the rockets still terrorize Israeli citizens and cause damage to the Israeli economy. No sovereign nation on earth would accept that its citizens be terrorized without attempting to stop the attacks. The fact that Palestinians have far more casualties than Israel isn’t really relevant because Israel does not target civilians, and each and every civilian death is Hamas’ fault.
The low number of Israeli casualties is not due to lack of trying on Hamas’ part. If Hamas rockets were not intercepted by the Iron Dome, the number of Israeli casualties would be far higher than Palestinian casualties. Let’s look at it this way: if a Hamas rocket managed to reach a large building in Tel Aviv and killed thousands of Israeli civilians, would that mean that by virtue of proportionality Israel would now be justified in killing thousands of Palestinian civilians? Of course not.
The war in Gaza is not a football game. When Germany beat Brazil 7-1 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, near the end of the game many German fans felt sorry for Brazil because they did not want to humiliate Brazilians. In that case, speaking of proportionality made sense – there is no need for Germany to win by a huge margin in order to win the cup. The war in Gaza, however, is not a game. It is an attempt by Israel to stop terrorist attacks on its citizens. If Israel stopped its operation without reaching its objective and simply because of the need to maintain some misplaced proportionality, would that be desirable? Certainly it wouldn’t be desirable because Israelis would continue to be terrorized by Hamas rockets and sooner or later Israel would have to go after Hamas again anyway.
The one and only way to end repeated wars in Gaza is to stop Hamas and its allies from attacking Israel. This can be done in two ways, either by Israel putting so much control over Gaza that terrorists can no longer re-arm, or it can be done by having the Palestinians choose a Gaza leadership that is willing to recognize that violence is not the answer. The latter is of course the preferred outcome, but lacking that, no reasonable person can blame Israel for attempting to achieve the former, and each and every casualty along the way is Hamas’ doing." Fred Maroun writes great articles, We don't agree with him on everything, but overall his articles are great
On the website fredmaroun.blogspot.com it says
"Fred Maroun's blogs
Fred Maroun is a Canadian of Arab origin who lived in Lebanon until 1984, including during 10 years of civil war. Fred supports Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, and he supports a liberal and democratic Middle East where all religions and nationalities, including Palestinians, can co-exist in peace with each other and with Israel. More blogs by Fred Maroun can be found at http://www.jpost.com/Blogger/Fred-Maroun and http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/fred-maroun/."
From the website gatestoneinstitute.org an article is titled
"What to Expect from an Independent Palestinian State"
by Fred Maroun
June 15, 2016 at 4:00 am
the article says
"Palestinian leaders have repeatedly shown that their priority is not peace, or a two-state solution, or a Palestinian state, but repression.
If a Palestinian state is created without correcting these destructive practices, it is highly likely that the new Palestinian regime will follow the same pattern already established, and be a hatemongering, corrupt, undemocratic, oppressive, belligerent, and ineffective regime. This would not only be a security threat for Israel, it would mean more of the same for the Palestinians.
France, with the support of the United States, is leading a new attempt at peace between Israel and the Palestinians, with the implied goal that an independent Palestinian state would be created -- but what should we expect from such a state?
Although past behavior is not a perfect predictor of future behavior, it is a strong indicator of it, especially if no corrective action has been taken.
Violence
When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared, "The dawn of freedom rises with the evacuation of the last Israeli soldier and settler." Yet, instead of using that freedom to build a successful economy, Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses that the settlers had left, and terrorists launched rocket attacks against Israel. These attacks forced Israel to institute a naval blockade of Gaza, to limit the supply of weapons to terrorists.
The Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s provided a transition period meant to lead to Palestinian statehood. However, instead of peaceful coexistence with Israel, the Palestinian leadership launched an assault that became known as the Second Intifada.
During the recent stabbing attacks by Palestinian terrorists, Abbas declared, "Each drop of blood that was spilled in Jerusalem is pure blood as long as it's for the sake of Allah. Every shahid (martyr) will be in heaven and every wounded person will be rewarded, by Allah's will."
These violent actions and the incitement are not exceptions. They are part of a pattern of Arab denial of the Jews' right to exist, which started well before Israel declared its independence, and that caused several wars and innumerable terrorist attacks against Israel."
the article continues
"Lack of democracy
Palestinian democracy has so far been a failure. Yasser Arafat was elected in July 1994 as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) for a four-year term, but he stayed in power, without further elections, for more than 10 years until his death in November 2004. Mahmoud Abbas was elected President in May 2005, and is still in office, without further elections, eleven years later.
Hamas, which won the PA legislative elections of 2006, was never invited to take the PA reins of power, but it took control of the Gaza Strip through a violent overthrow of Fatah, and still controls Gaza -- also without further elections -- ten years later.
Fatah and Hamas have used elections to create a semblance of democracy, and both have abused their authority to go far beyond their legitimate mandates. Both routinely use control of the media, control of the education system, and violence to maintain their power, as documented extensively by Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh.
Corruption
Corruption in the PA and Hamas is widely recognized, by commentators who range from extreme anti-Israel, to somewhat moderate pro-Palestinian, to pro-Israel.
As reported by CBS News in 2003, "Yasser Arafat diverted nearly $1 billion in public funds to insure his political survival, but a lot more is unaccounted for."
Abbas has continued the tradition. Haaretz reported that the Panama Papers "show that Tareq Abbas, the son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, held shares worth nearly $1 million in a company associated with the PA".
Khaled Abu Toameh has written that, "$4.5 billion the Americans invested in promoting Palestinian democracy went down the drain or ended up in secret Swiss bank accounts."
Hamas, which was elected partly in opposition to Fatah corruption, is just as corrupt. Moshe Elad wrote in Tablet Magazine that the Hamas government, "is centralized and corrupt, it lacks effectiveness, bribery plays a very important role in society, and nepotism is prevalent, with just few families or relatives benefiting from state monopolies on basic services and commodities".
Associated Press reported that 95.5% of Palestinians in the West Bank believe that the PA is corrupt while 82% of Palestinians in Gaza believe that Hamas is corrupt."
& continues
"Promotion of hatred
As noted previously, promotion of hatred by Palestinian leaders is widespread, and it is the main obstacle to peaceful co-existence with Israel. An example of Palestinian hate propaganda is a made-for-children movie where, as reported by London's Daily Mail,
"The little girl, dressed in a hijab, is seen pretending to stab two boys dressed as Israeli soldiers, who respond by 'shooting' her. Then, amid cheers from the baying crowd, a boy dressed as a masked terrorist massacres the soldiers with a replica semi-automatic weapon."
The newspaper added that the video was filmed at a "festival of hate," which was partly funded by a UK charity supported by British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and some other Labor MPs.
Oppression of the Palestinian people
Both Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza run their governments as dictatorships, where freedom of speech is denied and where dissent is punished by jail, beatings, torture, or death. This retribution is widely recognized, even by organizations that are often considered biased against Israel, such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI).
In 2011, in a 35-page report, HRW documented "cases in which security forces tortured, beat, and arbitrarily detained journalists, confiscated their equipment, and barred them from leaving the West Bank and Gaza."
In their 2015/16 report, Amnesty International wrote,
"The Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and the Hamas de facto administration in the Gaza Strip both restricted freedom of expression, including by arresting and detaining critics and political opponents. They also restricted the right to peaceful assembly and used excessive force to disperse some protests. Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees remained common in both Gaza and the West Bank."
& lastly says
"Lack of economic drive
Palestinian leaders have concentrated all their efforts on waging war against Israel and increasing their own personal wealth. The best economic opportunities presented to average West Bank Palestinians are in working on settlement construction or commuting daily to jobs in Israel.
The lack of Palestinian economic development in the West Bank is often blamed on Israel, yet when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian leaders did not seize that opportunity to build the economy of Gaza. They chose instead to spend their resources on rockets, terror tunnels, and enriching the leaders of Hamas.
Bad behavior is rewarded
Those who provide funding to the Palestinians are aware of this behavior, yet they have not used their influence to curb it. In fact, they reward it.
The Palestinian leadership in Gaza is rewarded for every war it initiates with Israel in two ways. During the war, it is rewarded by the international media, which provides wide coverage of Palestinian casualties while ignoring the terrorist actions that led to those casualties (thus playing into Hamas's "dead baby strategy"). After the war, Gaza's leadership is rewarded when more funding is provided for reconstruction, despite the knowledge that a large portion of it is used to rebuild the terrorist arsenal.
The Fatah/Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank is rewarded by international donors who provide ongoing funding to President Mahmoud Abbas while knowing the extent of the corruption of his regime and its lack of democracy.
Realism
Palestinian leaders have repeatedly shown that their priority is not peace, or a two-state solution, or a Palestinian state, but repression. If a Palestinian state is created without correcting these destructive practices, it is highly likely that the new Palestinian regime will follow the same pattern already established, and be a hatemongering, corrupt, undemocratic, oppressive, belligerent, and ineffective regime. This would not only be a security threat for Israel, it would mean more of the same for the Palestinians.
Current talk by Western leaders of peace, a two-state solution, and a Palestinian state makes no mention of these dangers. If those leaders wish to achieve a lasting peace that is beneficial to Israel and the Palestinians, rather than to create an unstable situation that could cause irreparable damage to both sides, peace discussions must account for the Palestinian reality."
From the website sciencedaily.com an article is titled
"Jews Are The Genetic Brothers Of Palestinians, Syrians, And Lebanese"
Date:
May 9, 2000
Source:
New York University Medical Center And School Of Medicine
the article says
"If a common heritage conferred peace, then perhaps the long history of conflict in the Middle East would have been resolved years ago. For, according to a new scientific study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.
"Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4,000 years," he says.
The researchers analyzed the Y chromosome, which is usually passed unchanged from father to son, of more than 1,000 men worldwide. Throughout human history, alterations have occurred in the sequence of chemical bases that make up the DNA in this so-called male chromosome, leaving variations that can be pinpointed with modern genetic techniques. Related populations carry the same specific variations. In this way, scientists can track descendants of large populations and determine their common ancestors.
Specific regions of the Y chromosome were analyzed in 1,371 men from 29 worldwide populations, including Jews and non-Jews from the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe.
The study, published in the May 9 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that Jewish men shared a common set of genetic signatures with non-Jews from the Middle East, including Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese, and these signatures diverged significantly from non-Jewish men outside of this region. Consequently, Jews and Arabs share a common ancestor and are more closely related to one another than to non-Jews from other areas of the world.
The study also revealed that despite the complex history of Jewish migration in the Diaspora (the time since 556 B.C. when Jews migrated out of Palestine), Jewish communities have generally not intermixed with non-Jewish populations. If they had, then Jewish men from different regions of the world would not share the same genetic signatures in their Y chromosome.
"Because ancient Jewish law states that Jewish religious affiliation is assigned maternally, our study afforded the opportunity to assess the contribution of non-Jewish men to present-day Jewish genetic diversity," says Michael Hammer, Ph.D., from the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is the lead author of the new study. "It was surprising to see how significant the Middle Eastern genetic signal was in Jewish men from different communities in the Diaspora," he says." Many people have said that while Jews & Arabs are indeed very similar genetically & closely related genetically, there are still genetic differences between Jews and Arabs, they are NOT the same as Each Other
The authors of this study are: Dr. Ostrer from NYU School of Medicine; Michael F. Hammer, Alan J. Redd, Elizabeth T. Wood, M. Roxane Bonner, Hamdi Jarjanazil, and Tanya Karafet from the University of Arizona, Tucson; Silvana Santachlara-Benerecetti, University of Pavia, Italy; Ariella Oppenheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Mark A. Jobling, University of Leicester, England; Trefor Jenkins, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Batsheva Bonne-Tamar, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
From the website www.zionism-israel.com an article is titled
"The Myth of the Israeli Bantustan offer at Taba and other myths"
the article states:
"A long time ago, in an alternate universe...
The common anti-Zionist narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on a few foundation myths, some of which are very popular and persistent in the Middle East. New myths are added to correspond with each actual historical event. To review some of the main ones:
1- Myth: "Zionist Settlement displaced the Palestinian Arabs" - The fact is that Palestinian Arab population multiplied and prospered by any possible measure between 1917 and 1948, and a result of the Zionist settlement and not despite it. (see Zionism and its Impact and Did the Zionists plan to dispossess the Arabs of Palestine?)
2. Myth: "Massacres and racism of Arab Palestinians was a reaction to Zionist cruelty and massacres" - The first Arab-Palestinian massacres were in 1920, and the first anti-Semitic remarks were made about then, if not before.
For example, in March of 1921, Musa Kazim El Husseini, deposed as Mayor of Jerusalem because of his part in riots earlier that year, told Winston Churchill:
The Jews have been amongst the most active advocates of destruction in many lands... It is well known that the disintegration of Russia was wholly or in great part brought about by the Jews, and a large proportion of the defeat of Germany and Austria must also be put at their door.
(Benny Morris, Righteous Victims, Knopf 1999 Page 99)
A month later there were bloody Arab pogroms in several towns in Palestine, not against Zionist "settlers" who supposedly displaced Arabs, but rather primarily against ancient Jewish communities such as those in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed. Worse riots and massacres occurred in 1929 and again in 1936-39. (see Arab Riots and Massacres of 1929)
3. Myth: "The occupation is the source of Palestinian violence" The PLO and Fateh were formed in 1964 and before, with the aim of "liberating" "Palestine" - that is, destroying Israel. They used terrorism and advocated a pan-Arab war to "liberate" Palestine. The 1967 6-day war was the result of this activity. See - Isn't the occupation the cause of the conflict and violence? and Did the Zionists plan to dispossess the Arabs of Palestine? and Why doesn't Israel withdraw from the Occupied territories and end the occupation if it wants peace?
4. Myth: "The riots and violence in September 2000 broke out because Ariel Sharon entered the holy Al Aqsa mosque." The fact is that Ariel Sharon never entered the Al Aqsa mosque. He walked on the Temple Mount, Haram As Sharif, which is supposed to be a holy place accessible to everyone. Of course the mosque, reputedly the site of the Jewish Temple should in theory be accessible to anyone as well, but Sharon didn't go there.
5. Myth: "Negotiations broke down at the end of 2000 because Israeli PM Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians only "Bantustans" - disconnected islands of Palestinian sovereignty, and failed to offer Palestinian control over holy places in Jerusalem. "
the article continues stating about Myth # 5
"This myth has achieved great popularity, but it has no relation to the facts. Below is a brief account of the negotiations adapted from the MidEastWeb Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from which it is evident that:
Israel offered the Palestinians a contiguous state in 97% of the territory of the West Bank plus Gaza.
Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the Haram as Sharif (temple mount) would be incorporated into Palestine.
Chief US Negotiator Dennis Ross blames the Palestinians for the breakdown of the talks.
US President Clinton believes that Arafat made a "colossal historical blunder" in rejecting Israeli terms.
Saudi Arabian ambassador Prince Bandar Ibn Sultan said, "If Arafat does not accept what is available now, it won't be a tragedy, it will be a crime.
Palestinian spokespersons and supporters deliberately distorted the offer that was made and claimed that "all what was circulated that Israel proffered to the Palestinian side great concessions is incorrect," and fabricated maps to look like the offer was "Bantustans."
From MidEastWeb Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(Copyright by MidEastWeb for Coexistence, adapted and reproduced by permission)
Negotiations for a final settlement at Camp David in the USA, in July, 2000 ended in deadlock. Palestinians insisted that refugees should have the right to return to Israel, which would produce an Arab majority in Israel. Israel insisted on annexing key portions of the Palestinian areas and on leaving most settlements intact, and offered only a limited form of Palestinian statehood. Palestinians claim that the only offers made at Camp David included cantons or "Bantustans" that would make up the Palestinian State. This apparently characterizes initial Israeli proposals. However, in his book, The Missing Peace, 2004, Dennis Ross presents a map, shown at right, that supposedly reflects the US compromise proposal at Camp David, to include about 91% of the territory of the West Bank. Both sides agreed on Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Palestinian violence erupted on September 28, 2000, triggered by a visit of Ariel Sharon to the Temple mount in Jerusalem. This location, called the Haram as Sharif in Arabic, is also the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque, holy to Muslims. False rumors spread that Sharon had entered the mosque, helping to fan the unrest. The US called a summit conference in Sharm-El Sheikh in October, in order to bring about an end to the violence. Both sides vowed to put an end to the bloodshed and return to negotiations. At the conference, it was also agreed to set up a US led investigative committee that would report on the causes of the violence and make recommendations to the UN. This eventually resulted in the Mitchell Report. Shortly thereafter, however, Arab leaders and Yasser Arafat met in an extraordinary Arab League Summit in Cairo, and issued a belligerent communique praising the Intifada and calling for an international investigative commission rather than the one agreed upon in Sharm El Sheikh. About two weeks later a suicide bombing in Jerusalem put an end to the truce."
& Continues
"Time was running out for negotiations, as Israeli PM Ehud Barak faced elections and US President Clinton had completed his term of office. Negotiations in Washington in December of 2000 failed to produce an agreement. President Clinton provided Bridging proposals and requested that the sides agree to the them by December 27. The outcome has been deliberately obscured by many, but Dennis Ross, chief US negotiator, was unequivocal in his memoir (Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, 2004, pp 753-755).
According to Ross's summary, (and as published in the Bridging proposals) Clinton's proposal gave the Palestinians about 97% of the territory of the West Bank and sovereignty over their airspace. Refugees could not return to Israel without Israeli consent. An international force would remain in the Jordan valley for six years, replacing the IDF. Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the Haram as Sharif (temple mount) would be incorporated into Palestine. Saudi Arabian ambassador Prince Bandar Ibn Sultan said, "If Arafat does not accept what is available now, it won't be a tragedy, it will be a crime." (Ross, The Missing Peace, 2004, p.748).
The Israeli government met on December 27 and accepted the proposals with reservations, which according to Ross, were "within the parameters." The Palestinians equivocated. The deadline passed, and no definitive Palestinian reply was forthcoming. According to Ross, on December 29, he told Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei):
Mark my words, they [the US] will disengage from the issue and they will do so at a time when you won't have Barak, or Amnon or Shlomo, but at time when you will have Sharon as Prime Minister. He will be elected for sure if there is no deal, and you 97% will become 40-45 percent; your capital in East Jerusalem will be gone; the IDF out of the Jordan Valley will be gone; unlimited right of return for refugees to your own state will be gone.
Abu Ala replied:
"I am afraid it may take another fifty years to settle this issue."
(Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, 2004, p. 755)
The map at right was presented by Ross in The Missing Peace. It illustrates the approximate boundaries of the Palestine state under the Clinton bridging proposals, omitting land to be ceded by Israel to Palestine.
Click for Larger Map of Palestinian State Proposal
At a memorial dinner held in November 2005 in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, President Clinton said that Chairman Yasser Arafat had made a "colossal historical blunder" in refusing the terms, causing the breakdown of the peace process. (Haaretz, Nov. 14, 2005).
Palestinian negotiators present a different version. On November 13, 2005, the Palestinian Authority International Press Center related these remarks of Palestinian Minister of Information, Nabil Sha'at, on the anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat"
& continues
"He also set out that Israel has never endeavored to reach a final solution during the second Camp David negotiations, putting to rest the rumor which tells that Israel proposed for the Palestinians a state with 97% of the West Bank and 10% of the Jordan Valley.
He went ahead as saying, "all what was circulated that Israel proffered to the Palestinian side great concessions is incorrect," asserting that Israel rejected to give back Jerusalem to the Palestinian, and above all it kept adamant to annex the settlements blocs to the city of Jerusalem.
Minister Sha'at made clear that this point led the negotiations of Camp David II to a gridlock.
What was suggested by Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, was only to give Arafat a presidential headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem, but the late president rebuffed this suggestion roundly, he added.
However, Palestinians have never disputed the published version of President Clinton's bridging proposals in which it is quite clear that the Palestinians would have sovereignty over Arab East Jerusalem, including the Haram as Sharif (temple mount).
In last minute negotiations at Taba on January 21-27 2001, under European and Egyptian patronage, the sides failed to reach a settlement despite further Israeli concessions. Though both sides agreed to a joint communiqué saying they had never been so close to agreement, substantive disagreements remained about the refugee issues and final settlement maps. Israeli PM Barak broke off negotiations on January 28, 2001, suspending them until after the elections. Barak had hoped to reach a deal he could present to the Israeli public, and was angry and disappointed. Negotiations were terminated because Barak, who had furthered the peace process, was voted out of office at the beginning of February and replaced by a right wing government headed by Ariel Sharon.
No official maps were actually presented by or to the sides during the negotiations. Following the failure of the negotiations, the Palestinians continued to claim that Israel had offered only "Bantustans" in the West Bank. The Israeli government did not publish any maps. Dennis Ross, who headed the US negotiating team, summarized the proposals presented by the USA in the maps presented above. The Gush Shalom group and the Foundation for Middle East Peace also published a map of an offer supposedly made by the Barak government at Taba. This map is based on "Palestinian Sources." In this map there is no longer a security Zone in the Jordan valley to be guarded by the UN. You can see this map below at left. The map is deceptive for several reasons.
1. It states "Based on a 5% West Bank Territorial Transfer to Israel." - The map shows a 3% swap of Israeli land to Palestine, but that is not taken into account.
2 The map shows what people took to be Bantustans - areas of dark gray and areas of light grey. In fact all the areas were to become part of the Palestinian state. The dark areas are the current areas A and B, while the light areas were the additional territory ceded to the Palestinian state by Israel. This bogus color coding was apparently done deliberately, to create the impression that the offer was "bantustans." The correct picture is shown in the same map, modified at right, so that all the territory of the Palestinian state is shown in the same color, as it should be. This map is quite similar to the one shown by Dennis Ross, except that the little area that was to be annexed to Israel in the north is gone, and there are some other minor border changes.
Deceptive Map
Actual Map"
and lastly says
"1. This map was published by Foundation for Middle East Peace, based on Palestinian sources. The dark and light gray areas are meaningless in terms of the settlement, and were left deliberately to give the impression of "Bantustans."
2. The above version of the same map has eliminated the bogus color coding to show what was probably the actual offer made by Israeli negotiators at Taba - a contiguous Palestinian state in most of the West Bank plus Gaza, including a shared Jerusalem. That is the offer that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian negotiators turned down. Arafat's "historic blunder" as President Clinton termed it. "A crime" in the words of Saudi Prince Bandar.
One of the major outstanding questions was the refugee problem. U.S. President Clinton had believed there were only differences of wording between the Israeli and Palestinian approaches. Clinton's Bridging proposals called for allowing refugees to return from abroad to the Palestinian state. They could return to Israel only with the agreement of Israel. However, at Taba, the Palestinian proposal called for eventual return of all the refugees to Israel. This proposal was unacceptable to Israel as it would create an Arab majority in Israel and put an end to Jewish exercise of the right to self-determination. (see Why shouldn't Palestinian Arabs have the Right of Return?)" Good Maps are shown in this Article,, including an Actual Map which shows the Pro-Israel Truth, and the Deceptive "Map" Don't be Fooled by the Bantustan LIE
From the website www.fuelfortruth.org an article is titled
"10 Israel Facts"
Jews are called Jews because we come from Judea. We are indigenous to the Middle East and there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the land of Israel for thousands of years.
Palestine was the name given by the Romans following the capture, destruction and expulsion of Judea. Jews ended up in Europe the same way African Americans ended up in the United States - white people invaded our land and uprooted us.
There has never been an independent Palestinian state. A self-identifiable, self-ruling and recognized Palestinian entity never existed until the Arab Palestinian national movement in the 20th century.
The borders of modern-day Arab countries were created by Europeans. Before Britain and France carved up the Middle East following World War I, the region was part of the Ottoman Empire and the territory divided into urban-centered municipalities called sanjaks. The sanjaks of Jerusalem, Nablus, Acre and Beirut are part of present-day Israel.
Zionism was a movement launched in the 19th century for the re-establishment, development and protection of a Jewish state in the land of Israel. Returning to Israel has been a central, driving force of the Jewish people for millennia. As is said during every Passover Seder: "Next year in Jerusalem."
Jews did not steal land from Arabs when they returned enmasse to Israel in the late 19th and early 20th century. They legally purchased land from absentee landowners living in Arab capitals to build kibbutzim and communities. Local Arab tenants were often displaced following the purchase so Jews could be hired to work the land.
The Arabs of Palestine were offered their own state, side-by-side with Israel in 1947, when Britain relinquished their Mandate to the United Nations. They, along with the surrounding Arab countries, rejected the partition recommendation (UN Resolution 181), which resulted in civil war and an invasion of five Arab armies to destroy the Jewish community of Israel.
Nearly 80% of what was meant to be an Arab Palestinian state was stolen by Jordan (Judea & Samaria/West Bank) and Egypt (Gaza) during the 1948 War of Independence. During the next two decades under their control, they never gave the Palestinians independence. During the Six Day War of 1967, Israel gained that territory in a defensive war when Arab armies massed troops along her borders and once again threatened destruction.
Israel offered the Palestinians 97% of the land they claimed to be fighting for in 2000, making Israel the first and only country ever to offer them a state. This offer was rejected with no counter-offer. A similar offer was made in 2008 with the same result.
Israel voluntarily withdrew from Gaza in 2005, removing all soldiers and civilians, giving full control to the Palestinians in hopes of peace. The terrorist organization Hamas now controls Gaza and has launched over tens of thousands of missiles indiscriminately into Israel, resulting in multiple wars in the 21st century."
From the website www.zionism-israel.com
an article is titled
"Who is Racist in the Middle East - Zionism or Arabism?"
08.03. 2006
the article says
"Is Zionism racism? That is what is claimed by many, including a now repealed UN Resolution. The proof is lacking. However there is surely racism in the Middle East. Here are some examples of "information" about Jews in Arab
world media:
"Jewish women are whores"
"Israel invented Avian Flu"
"Judaism is not a monotheistic religion"
"Jews bake matzoth from the blood of Christian children whom they kill."
“Jehovah is a god of hatred, fear, and blood, who is content with visions of carnage and takes pleasure in the scent of blood…"
"Hitler was right"
Is every criticism of Israel "Anti-Semitism?" Of course not. How about criticisms like those? Are they legitimate criticism of the Israeli occupation and the "racist" nature of Zionism? How about that nasty Jehovah fellow?
Can we imagine the furor if someone, say a Danish newspaper, wrote that Allah is not beneficent and merciful? Wouldn't embassies burn? Wouldn't Arab world newspapers write about the neocon Zionists stirring up a war of civilizations?
These criticisms target Jews, including citizens of the countries in which the were published, anti-Zionists, and Jews against Zionism: Big Jews, Little Jews, Orthodox and Secular, Rich and Poor. It doesn't matter. "Criticisms" of this type are nothing new. They are older than the State of Israel and older than Zionism. The first well publicized Arab World "blood libel," the accusation that Jews made ritual Matzoth by slaughtering Christian children and using their blood, probably occurred in Damascus in 1840. In 1961 this fine tradition was continued by Mustapha Tlass, Defense Minister of Syria, who wrote a book 'explaining' that the blood-libel accusation is really a fact, and that the Damascus accusation of 1840 was justified. This triumph of intellectualism has been reprinted many times in Syria. Arab world anti-Semitism is a sad fact that is documented quite extensively (See Arab and Muslim Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism and references below). Racism is evident in books, newspaper articles, television serials, movies and schoolbooks. Little children are taught that Jews are evil. With that sort of education, what sort of government will they elect if there is ever democracy in Egypt or Syria?
At
Racism in the Middle East - Zionism or Arabism? there is a document that gives a tiny sampling of the available "literature."
See also:
Arab Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism 1997
Arab Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism -1998
Arab Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism 1999
Arab Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism -2001
Arab Anti-Semitism -2002
Arab Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism 2003
Arab Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism -2004
Mahathir Mohamed - OIC Congress address
The Problem of Muslim Anti-Semitism - Irfan Khawaja
Of course, we hope for changes in in the Arab and Muslim world, and not all Muslims or Arabs must be judged by the ranting of extremists. It is strange though that so many progressives who are concerned about Zionist "racism" are not concerned about Syrian or Egyptian racism. A good deal of this material is published in countries that are supported by the USA like Egypt, and it is published with the blessing and support of the local regime. Ask your congressperson if they know about it.
What would happen I wonder, if someone made the claim, based on the above, that "Islam is Racism" or "Arabism is Racism?"
Ami Isseroff
An extensive and detailed report is at
Racism in the Middle East - Zionism or Arabism?
From the website www.zionism-israel.com another article is titled
"Zionism and its Impact" the article says
Impact of Jewish settlement on Arab Palestinian Economy and Society
July 15, 2005
What was actual impact of Zionist Settlement on the Arabs of Palestine?
A widely circulated article by Ann M. Lesch, entitled "Zionism and its Impact" (undated article at the Washington Report of Middle East Affairs originally at the "Encyclopedia Of The Palestinians" )1 charges that the Zionist movement had the aim of expelling the Arabs of Palestine, and accomplished its aim by carefully thought out policies from the start of the British Mandate until the Israeli war of Independence in 1948. Lesch claims:
The dispossession and expulsion of a majority of Palestinians were the result of Zionist policies planned over a thirty-year period. Fundamentally, Zionism focused on two needs:
to attain a Jewish majority in Palestine;
to acquire statehood irrespective of the wishes of the indigenous population. Non-recognition of the political and national rights of the Palestinian people was a KEY Zionist policy.
....
The implementation of those approaches led to the formation of independent Israel, at the cost of dismembering the Palestinian community and fostering long-term hostility with the Arab world.
Lesch's article is an amplification of the thesis propagated by Arab Palestinians and anti-Zionists since the inception of the Zionist movement, that Zionist settlement of Palestine was aimed at dislocating the Arabs and would have that effect. The unspoken reasoning behind the thesis was that Palestine was like a full box. If one person was put into the box, another would have to be taken out. The idea spread rapidly among the Arabs of Palestine, who managed to convince the British as well, and caused them to limit Jewish immigration to Palestine. That was the result of anti-Zionism and its impact.
Zionism and its Impact on Population of Palestinian Arabs
The evidence does not support Lesch's assertions. Zionist immigrants did not displace Palestinian Arabs in mandatory Palestine. Quite the opposite, the Arab population of Palestine grew at a tremendous rate between 1922 and 1948.2 In 1922, at the start of the British Mandate there were some 589,000 Muslim Arabs and 71,000 Christian Arabs in Palestine, a number that is probably an overestimate. By 1945, there were well over 1.2 million Arabs in Palestine and perhaps over 1.3 million by 1948. The Arab population of Palestine had about doubled during the years of the mandate. If the Zionists were plotting and planning to evict the Arabs of Palestine, the supposed Zionist policy would have to be judged a miserable failure. At the same time, the Jewish population grew to over 600,000. The land that had held 753,000 people in 1922, held about 1.9 million in 1948. The "full box" of Palestine turned out to have very elastic walls. As it has done elsewhere in the world, immigration to Palestine stimulated the economy and resulted in a higher standard of living for everyone. The immigration of Jews and the investment of Palestine were due directly to Zionism and its impact."
the article continues
"The people of Palestine enjoyed a far higher standard of living in 1945 than they did in 1922. The standard of living and the welfare of the Arabs of Palestine rose much more quickly than they did in neighboring countries. In 1922-25, average infant mortality for Muslims was 190.39 per thousand infants. By 1938, this figure was 127.58 per thousand. By way of comparison, infant mortality in neighboring Egypt was 163 per thousand. In Rumania in that year, the report of the League Mandates commission tells us that infant mortality was 183 per thousand, and in Poland it was 140 per thousand.3
Zionism and its Impact on Displacement of Arab Farmers
In 1936, a commission of inquiry found that 654 Palestinian families had lost their lands as the result of Zionist purchases, out of a total of 61,408 Arab families that owned or tenanted land. In other words, slightly over 1%. These families lost 46,633 dunams of land, which is less than 1% of the 6,440,000 dunams of land in Palestine that were deemed to be arable.4 That was the extent of the dispossession.
The land purchase used to dramatize the dispossession of the Arabs of the Galilee was the purchase of the Sursuk lands in the Valley of Jezreel. The Sursuks were absentee landlords who lived in Beirut. Much of the land had fallen into disuse, and was unirrigated. The claims of the Arabs of dispossession by this purchase were examined by Sir John Hope Simpson in 1930. The Simpson commission was set up to examine the causes of the riots of 1929. Very likely it was clear from the start that its purpose was to blame the riots on Zionist immigration, and to justify a finding that would require curtailment of Jewish immigration to Palestine. This they did. However, despite having every motivation to blame the Zionists for "dispossession" of Palestinian Arabs, Simpson wrote:
Government responsibility towards Arab cultivators.—The Jewish authorities have nothing with which to reproach themselves in the matter of the Sursock lands. They paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay. It was not their business, but the business of the Government to see to it that the position of the Arabs was not adversely affected by the transaction. In Article 6 of the Mandate it is the duty of the Administration of Palestine to ensure that the rights and position of the Arabs are not prejudiced by Jewish immigration. It is doubtful whether, in the matter of the Sursock lands, this Article of the Mandate received sufficient consideration.5
Thus, contrary to the assertions of Lesch and others, the Zionists did take into account the existence of the Arab population, and did consider their needs and the demands of justice and compromise.
Moreover, Simpson quotes from a letter by Yehoshua Hankin, the Zionist land agent, who stated:
" . . . . Had we desired to disregard the interests of such workers of the land as are dependent, directly or indirectly, upon lands of the landlords, we could have acquired large and unlimited areas, but in the course of our conversation I have pointed out to you that this has not been our policy and that, when acquiring lands, it is our ardent wish not to prejudice or do harm to the interests of anybody. "
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"Zionism and its Impact: Who did not want a compromise?
Lesch is adamant that the Zionists were unwilling to entertain any compromise, but the record shows that it was the Arabs of Palestine who consistently refused to compromise.
In 1937, the British government announced a plan to partition Palestine, known as the Peel Commission plan. The plan was not the doing of the Zionists, but rather an attempt by Britain to renege on the international mandate commitment to a home for the Jewish people in Palestine, by making a tiny state for the Jews within Palestine. The plan was rejected by the Arabs, who refused to consider any compromise whatever. Lesch based much of her argument on this plan, which she presents as adverse to the Arabs. Lesch wrote:
...However, the British PEEL COMMISSION's plan, announced in July 1937, would have forced the Palestinians to leave the olive- and grain- growing areas of Galilee, the orange groves on the Mediterranean coast, and the urban port cities of HAIFA and ACRE. That was too great a loss for even the National Defense Party to accept, and so it joined in the general denunciations of partition.
Lesch's description of the Peel Plan is not quite incorrect. Haifa and Acre were part of the mandated area according to some versions of the Peel Plan, and not part of any Jewish state.
The plan began by offering a relatively small area to the Jews, and then, to meet Arab objections, this tiny area was made smaller in successive maps. The map at right represents the last map that the Arabs rejected. The "Jewish State" would have been a tiny area between Tel Aviv and Hadera, with a second tiny enclave below it, encompassing the area of Yavne, Zikhron Yaakov, Rehovoth and Gedera The Arab state would have extended down to include Gaza, and the rest would be "mandated territory." The Arabs of Palestine would not have lost Acre, Haifa or the Galilee, all of which would remain under mandate and closed to further Jewish immigration. ( Click for complete maps of the Peel Plan )
Because of the economic inequality between the Jewish state, which would hold about 27% of the population, and the Arab state, which would hold about 73% of the population of Palestine, the Peel plan required that the Jewish state would pay the Arab state a "subvention."
The Arabs of Palestine rejected the Peel plan as later, in 1947, they rejected the UN Partition Plan for Palestine.
Zionism and its Impact: Map of Peel partition
Along with their recommendation for partition, in order to create a state with a Jewish majority and ensure an end to the friction, the Peel commission had recommended transfer of the populations in the different areas:
If Partition is to be effective in promoting a final settlement it must mean more than drawing a frontier and establishing two States. Sooner or later there should be a transfer of land and, as far as possible, an exchange of population.
The Treaties should provide that, if Arab owners of land in the Jewish State or Jewish owners of land in the Arab State should wish to sell their land and any plantations or crops thereon, the Government of the State concerned should be responsible for the purchase of such land, plantations and crops at a price to be fixed, if requires, by the Mandatory Administration. For this purpose a loan should, if required, be guaranteed for a reasonable amount."
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"This bilateral, voluntary, and at that time accepted procedure caused quite a bit of debate in the Zionist executive, not because of doubts about the wisdom or fairness of uprooting Jews, but because of doubts of the morality of uprooting Arabs. Nonetheless, the imperative posed by the obviously looming tragedy in Europe, which required finding a safe home for Jewish refugees quickly, prevailed. This acceptance of the British program has since been turned by anti-Zionists into a lever to "prove" that Zionism is racist and intended all along to expel the Arabs. Equally, it has been used by Zionist extremists to falsely assert that transfer is moral and was always a part of the Zionist program. It was not. It was viewed as a necessary evil.
Zionism and its Impact on Arab literacy
Another major complaint against the Zionists is that they did not provide for the welfare of the Arabs of Palestine, and in particular their education. Lesch wrote:
Finally, the establishment of an all-Jewish, Hebrew-language educational system was an essential component of building the Jewish national home. It helped to create a cohesive national ethos and a lingua franca among the diverse immigrants. However, it also entirely separated Jewish children from Palestinian children, who attended the governmental schools. The policy widened the linguistic and cultural gap between the two peoples. In addition, there was a stark contrast in their literacy levels (in 1931):
93 percent of Jewish males (above age seven) were literate
71 percent of Christian males
but only 25 percent of Muslim males were literate.
Overall, Palestinian literacy increased from 19 percent in 1931 to 27 percent by 1940, but only 30 percent of Palestinian children could be accommodated in government and private schools.
Palestinian Muslim Arab literacy improved, but not as fast as that of the Christians or the Jews. According to Lesch, this is the fault of the Zionists. It is difficult to see why the Zionists should be blamed, rather than the Christians for example, or perhaps the Muslims. The Zionists and the Christians did not prevent the Muslim Arabs from implementing their own school system. The Jews were not after all, to be expected to teach Arabic or to force their own children to learn Arabic, and the Arabs were not interested in learning Hebrew. The British for their part, were unwilling to host separate schools. The British collected taxes from the entire population of Palestine, and distributed benefits on a per-capita basis. Since by 1948 each Palestinian Jew was producing four times as much as his or her Arab neighbor. the Zionist enterprise in Palestine was subsidizing the health, education and welfare of the Arabs whether they liked it or not. The British, being insolvent, were unwilling to invest any funds of their own. The Arabs of Palestine used whatever group spirit and organizational capability they had toward the single end of expelling the Jews, and failed to erect communal institutions such as those developed by the Zionists. Nonetheless, owing in large part to the taxes paid by the Zionists, the literacy and health of Palestinian residents improved steadily from 1922 to 1948."
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"Zionism and its Impact on Arab Economy
Despite the claims of the Mufti and his supporters, Arabs prospered in mandatory Palestine, whether because of improved British administration, or because of Zionist investment. Zionist investment in industry in Palestine was considerable and was noted by the British in their mandatory reports. True, the investment resulted only in creation of industries owned by Jews, but these industries also employed Arabs and did business with Arab businesses. Lesch claims that Jewish enterprises employed few Arabs. She does not mention that Arab enterprises employed almost no Jews at all.
The Simpson Report5 of 1930 noted:
Of existing industrial establishments 1,236, with a total capital in excess of one million pounds were in existence before the War. Since the War therefore the number of establishments had increased up to the date of the Industrial Census by 2,269 or 183 per cent, and the capital by two and a half million pounds, or 250 per cent. This is a very material increase and it is almost entirely due to the importation of Jewish capital and the immigration of a Jewish population.
The table below shows what was happening until 1931:
Zionism and its Impact:
Selected Indicators of Capital Formation and Infrastructure Development: 1922-1931 6
Capital Stock Capital Imports Capital Deepening Consumption of Electricity Telephone Lines Kilometers of Metalled Roads
1922 5,056 3,821 84.2 450
1924 6.541 5,522 90.3 3,526 580
1926 9,603 5,013 90.8 2,344 5,611 631
1928 12,022 2,891 98.6 2,974 8,780 706
1931 16,539 3,225 95.2 9,546 14,557 922
Almost all of the investment was Zionist investment. The telephone lines, roads and electricity were paid for by Zionist investment and taxes generated by that investment, and this was only the first decade of the mandate, before massive Zionist immigration."
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"There was of course, nothing to prevent Arabs from raising capital and investing in Palestine. They could have enlisted the patronage of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arab for example. No Arabs were expected to invest in Jewish industries, so it is beyond understanding why Zionists should have been expected to invest in Arab industries. However, even without intensive investment or an overall plan or community framework, the Arabs prospered, because of the investment brought by the Jews and because the British employed a great deal of Arab labor to develop the port of Haifa. Undeniably, the British investments of the war years fueled Arab and Jewish prosperity in Palestine, but the figures we are giving here are mostly from prewar years.
The impact on Arab prosperity in Palestine was profound. Palestine had been the poorest country in the region Before the first World War, it had been a country of net emigration for Arabs. During the mandate period, it became a country of net immigration for Arabs as well as Jews. By 1932-36, it was one of the richest, and the Palestinian Arabs took part in the prosperity as shown in the table below.
Zionism and its Impact:
Economic Performance and Standards of Living In Middle East Economies: 1932-1936 6
Per Capita Income Industrial Daily Wages Per Capita Consumption of Foodstuff Net Productivity Per Agricultural Workerd
Egypt 12 NA 16.0 90.1
Syria 13 50-310 19.0 97.6
Iraq 10 40-60 13.8 93.2
Transjordan NA NA NA 90.1
Arab Palestinians 19 70-500 22.9 186.3
Clearly there is no evidence in the above figures to suggest that anyone was dispossessing the Palestinian Arabs or impoverishing them or wrecking their society. The greater prosperity of the Arabs of Palestine, was at least compatible with, and very possibly, it was in large measure due to, Zionism and its impact.
In 1922, there were 22,000 dunams of Arab land producing citrus crops. In 1940, there were 140,000 dunams of Arab citrus land, mostly producing crop for export in Palestine. In 1931 Arabs had 332,000 dunams of olive groves and apple orchards. By 1942 they had 832,000 dunams under cultivation.7
Zionism and its Impact: Why the Arabs had no part in the Government of Palestine
Lesch wrote:
"The Zionists were strongly critical of British efforts to establish a LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL in 1923, 1930, and 1936."
This implies that it was the fault of the Zionists that Arabs did not participate in the government of Palestine. That is untrue. The British were forced to note in their 1930 report to the League of Nations that the Arabs had refused every opportunity given them to participate in the government of Palestine:
... in February and March, 1923, an attempt was made to hold elections ...
"The attempt failed owing to the refusal of the Arab population as a whole to co-operate ...
"Two further opportunities were given to representative Arab leaders in Palestine to co-operate with the Administration in the government of the country...
"Neither of these opportunities was accepted... 8"
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"It should be remembered that Palestine, prior to 1917, had never had any sort of representative government, and that the Arabs of Palestine had been governed by the Turks. They had at times raised revolts against the Turks, but these never took on a national character. Prior to the late 1920, when it was settled that Britain would have Palestine, that the French would have Syria and that there would be no Arab state that included Syria, the Arabs of Palestine had lobbied for their inclusion in the Syrian Arab state.
Fascism and its Impact in Palestine
The history of the Arab Palestinian community under the mandate cannot be understood from Lesch's article, because she left out an essential part of the story, one that is invariably omitted in anti-Zionist narratives of the history of Palestine. No history of mandatory Palestine and the Arab Palestinian community could be complete without understanding the career of the Grand Mufti, Hajj Amin El Husseini, who was, as far as all the evidence can show,, a convinced actual Nazi, as opposed to the figurative Nazis created by name callers. In large part it was Husseini who was responsible for spreading the myth of Zionist dispossession, as well as false rumors that the Jews were planning to violate the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, a perennial favorite in Middle East incitement.
From the beginning of Zionist settlement, Husseini had been active in kindling anti-Zionist sentiment and fomenting riots against the Jews. Violent pogroms instigated by Husseini and his followers broke out in 1920, 1921 and 1936 - 39. (see Arab Riots and Massacres of 1929 Hebron Massacre Kiryat Haroshet Massacre-1938 The Arab Revolt in Palestine ) Non-Zionist Jewish communities in Hebron and Jerusalem, people who had been living there for hundreds of years were attacked. In the mosques, Imam's lectured "and you shall kill the Jews wherever you find them." Armed mobs and later gangs ("oozlebarts") screaming itbach al yahud (slaughter the Jews), Nashrab Dam Al Yahud (we will drink the blood of the Jews) and Filastin Arduna Wa Al Yahud Kibabuna (Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs) descended on defenseless civilians. People were cut in half with a sword thrust. Pregnant women were stabbed in the belly and left to die. Children were murdered. These horrors are euphemized by Lesch as follows:"
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"When the Palestinians mounted violent protests in 1920, 1921, 1929, 1936-39, and the late 1940s, the yishuv sought to curb them by force, rather than seek a political accommodation with the indigenous people.
There was nobody available for negotiations. The Husseini family terrorized moderate Palestinians. It developed that there was nothing to negotiate. The Arabs of Palestine, represented by the Husseini clan's Higher Arab Committee, rejected any attempt at compromise. As Lesch noted, even the minuscule state proposed by the Peel Commission was rejected by the Arabs of Palestine.
The situation was complicated by the fact that the British allowed the intervention of the Saudi monarchy in British policy in Palestine, in effect inviting the King of Saud to block any compromise whatever. Saud rejected partition and demanded that the British curtail Jewish immigration. Saud said that if the British failed to follow Arab wishes in Palestine, the Arabs would turn against them and side with their enemies. He said that Arabs did not understand the "strange attitude of your British Government, and the still more strange hypnotic influence which the Jews, a race accursed by God according to His Holy Book, and destined to final destruction and eternal damnation hereafter, appear to wield over them and the English people generally." 9
By 1936 Husseini was apparently being funded by Fascist Italy. Coopting a revolt that had sprung up for largely local reasons (see Arab Revolt ) , he terrorized Arabs and Jews alike. About 1,500 people were killed in these "protests," and the majority of the Arabs were killed by Husseini and his gangs. It was Husseini, and not the Jews, who decimated the Palestinian leadership, killing off large parts of 11 different rival clans. It is not true that the British decapitated the Arab leadership by jailing the Arab higher committee, as Lesch claims. Rather, in September or October of 1937, after Husseini was involved in killing the British commissioner for the Galilee, he fled along with key members of the Arab higher committee to Beirut and thence to Iraq. In Iraq, the Mufti began fomenting a pro-Axis coup against the British. These plans came to fruition in the Spring of 1941. 10
The coup was crushed however, and the Mufti fled again. This time he fled to his spiritual home, Nazi Germany. There, he became a friend and confidante of Adolf Eichmann, organized SS Units and enthusiastically supported the German annihilation of Europeans Jews."
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" Palestinian Grand Mufti Haj Amin El Husseini (Hussayni) with Nazi Troops
Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini
featured on the cover of Vienna Illustrated (Wiener Illustrierte) magazine, reviewing Nazi troops.
After the war, Husseini escaped from France where he was awaiting transport to Germany for trial by the Nuremberg tribunal. He advertised that his solution for the Jews of Palestine was the same as the solution adopted in Europe - annihilation. If all this could be attributed to Zionism and its impact, then certainly the Holocaust must have been due to Judaism and its impact.
It is with this man and his party that Anne Lesch insists the Zionists should have negotiated and sought an accommodation, but instead were inexplicably, according to Lesch, against any compromise. However, the Zionists did try to reach an accommodation with the Arabs of Palestine. Herbert Samuel, first governor of Palestine, a Zionist as well as a Jew, ensured the election of Husseini as Grand Mufti in the hopes that he would seek accommodation. The Zionists courted the Nashashibi family as well. They agreed to compromise after compromise in the Peel plan. Zionists, including Arthur Ruppin, Yehuda Magnes and others formed Brit Shalom to work for a bi-national state, but support for the bi-national state state melted away in the Jewish community because there were no Arab partners to be found who would support this idea. The binational state was the product of Zionism and its impact, not of any Arab proposals. The compromise plans to partition and repartition Palestine was again due to Zionism and its impact, and not to any compromise offer by the Arabs. One can say, as Lesch does, that Zionism was uncompromising, only by completely ignoring the entire history of Zionism and its impact under the mandate.
Lesch's claim that "The implementation of those [Zionist] approaches led to the formation of independent Israel" rests on shaky grounds. The first Zionist Congress called for a "national home" guaranteed by international law. While many believed that this home must be a state, that was not part of the official Zionist program, and certainly the Zionists accepted the British Mandate as a "national home." Bowing to Arab pressure, the British stopped Jewish immigration to Palestine. This precipitated a crisis. It was only in 1942 that David Ben-Gurion pushed through the Biltmore Program declaration, which made an independent Jewish state an official goal of the Zionist movement. The declaration was not accepted by many in the Zionist movement, and in particular by Chaim Weizmann. Even then, there would have been no Jewish state had the Arab states and the leaders of the Palestinians been willing to compromise. The US asked the British to admit 100,000 Jewish Displaced Persons to Palestine after World War II. However, the Arabs once again refused to compromise, and the British were forced to reject this idea. Had the British acceded to the American request, it is unlikely that the United States would have supported the idea of partitioning Palestine in 1947. Likewise, the USSR declared its support initially for a binational state. However, as Andrei Gromyko noted, since the Arabs (not the Zionists, as Lesch implies) rejected the binational state, the USSR had no choice but to support partition of Palestine."
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"The Zionist plan was to build an internationally guaranteed national home for the Jews in Palestine, accepting whatever the international community would permit, including the British Mandate. It is correct to say that the Zionists initially largely ignored the existence of Arabs in Palestine and were less than urgently concerned about their fate. It is also correct to say that some Zionists, responding to Arab opposition, believed that the only solution lay in expelling the Arabs of Palestine. However, that is not the same as insisting that the Zionists were intent on dispossessing the Arabs from the first, or that that was the policy of the Zionist movement. The independent Jewish state came about owing to the vicissitudes of history and the stubborn refusal of the Arabs of Palestine to compromise at any point. The creation of Israel as an independent state was to a great extent the result of Arab opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. If you believe that the flight of the refugees was due to Zionism and its impact, then you must equally agree that the expulsion of Germans from the Sudetensland after World War II was due to Czech nationalism and its impact. In fact, the National socialist version of Anne Lesch could claim that if only the Czechs had been willing to compromise with Hitler, there would not have been a second world war.
Lesch concluded, "The land and people of Palestine were transformed during the thirty years of British rule." Indeed, the land and the people were transformed. Palestine, which had been the most neglected, disease ridden and forsaken corner of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, had become one of the most desirable places to live in the Middle East. From being a country of net emigration of Arabs before World War I, Palestine had become had become a country of net immigration for both Christian and Muslim Arabs. All of this could not have been possible if social and economic changes in Palestine had reflected the workings of a diabolical Zionist plot to displace and dispossess the Arabs. In 1948, more Arabs lived in Palestine than had ever lived there before, and they were richer and healthier than they had ever been in all history. That was the result of Zionism and its impact.
Tragically, the Mufti spread the myth of dispossession and the counsel of genocide against the Jews. The first was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most of the Arabs of Palestine, convinced of the nefarious intent of the Zionists, saw no choice except to flee or fight. The Jews of Palestine, faced with a Palestinian leadership that wanted to repeat the European Holocaust in Palestine, saw no choice other than to defend themselves by whatever means possible. This was not due to Zionism and its impact The tragedy is perpetuated by those who continue to propagate the myth of dispossession and to insist on no compromise with Zionism. It is the result of anti-Zionism and its impact.
The causes of Rural Arab Landlessness
The causes of landlessness among rural Arabs in Palestine were examined in detail by Kenneth Stein.11 They had little or nothing to do with Zionist settlement. Archaic land laws and the ill-begotten Tanzimat reform favored large and prosperous classes, who had been gradually buying up the land of smallholders. The devastation wrought by the Turks during World War I contributed to the indebtedness of smallholders, who were being forced to sell to rich magnates. They were also pressed by importation of inexpensive foreign agricultural produce. The extent of landlessness was also deliberately exaggerated by Hope Simpson, by erroneous interpretation of data. 12"
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"Notes
1. The Lesch article has been reposted in many locations on the Web (EG . ummah.com/waragainstislam/impact.htm). A search will reveal over 700 Web pages with the title or text "Zionism and its Impact," many of them being extensions or re-uses of the phrase, which has become a standard anti-Zionist jibe.
2. See population figures at The Population of Palestine before 1948.
3. Figures are from League of Nation Report - (http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/c61b138f4dbb08a0052565d00058ee1b?OpenDocument Geneva, April 1945. THE MANDATES SYSTEM Origin -- Principles -- Application Series of League of Nations Publications VI.A. MANDATES1945. VI.A. 1)
4. Michael Har-Segor and Maurice Stroun, Israel/Palestine:L'Histoire au dela des Mythes, Editions Metropolis, Paris, 1996. Translated into Hebrew as Yisrael/Falastin, Hametziut Sheme'ever Lamitosim - Masah, The Jewish-Arab Peace Center, Givat Haviva, 1977 , page 225 of the Hebrew edition.
5. All references to Simpson are from the "Hope Simpson" Report: PALESTINE. Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development. By SIR JOHN HOPE SIMPSON, C.I.E.
6. From > Fred M. Gottheil, The Smoking Gun, Arab immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931, The Middle East Quarterly, Volume X, No. 1, Winter 2003. We needn't agree with the thesis that this prosperity induced illegal Arab immigration, though Simpson had noted such immigration even in 1930. It is interesting however, that the same people who ridicule Joan Peters' theories about massive Arab immigration, accept Lesch's thesis without question, even though Lesch did not even bother to provide sources for the statistics or quotes she gives.
7. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee problem, 1947-1949. Cambridge, The Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp 8-9."
8. From the report of the Palestine Mandatory to the League of Nations, 1930, prepared by the British Government: It is worth quoting at length
"On the 1st September, 1922, the Palestine Order in Council was issued, setting up a Government in Palestine under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act. Part 3 of the Order in Council directed the establishment of a Legislative Council to be composed of the High Commissioner as President, with 10 other official members, and 12 elected non-official members. The procedure for the selection of the non-official members was laid down in the Legislative Council Order in Council, 1922, and in February and March, 1923, an attempt was made to hold elections in accordance with that procedure.
"The attempt failed owing to the refusal of the Arab population as a whole to co-operate (a detailed report of these elections is contained in the papers relating to the elections for the Palestine Legislative Council, 1923, published as Command Paper 1889).
"The High Commissioner thereupon suspended the establishment of the proposed Legislative Council, and continued to act in consultation with an Advisory Council as before.
"Two further opportunities were given to representative Arab leaders in Palestine to co-operate with the Administration in the government of the country, first, by the reconstitution of a nominated Advisory Council, but with membership conforming to that proposed for the Legislative Council, and, secondly, by a proposal for the formation of an Arab Agency. It was intended that this Agency should have functions analogous to those entrusted to the Jewish Agency by Article 4 of the Palestine Mandate.
"Neither of these opportunities was accepted and, accordingly, in December, 1923, an Advisory Council was set up consisting only of official members. This position still continues; the only change being that the Advisory Council has been enlarged by the addition of more official members as the Administration developed.
9. The remarks are from the notes of a conversation or tirade delivered by ibn Saud to a British visitor, and reported to the Foreign Office. Report of Conversation of Col H.R.P. Dickson, with HRH Abd al Aziz ib Sa'ud, king of Saudi Arabia October 28, 1937 as published in Kedourie, Elie, Islam in the Modern World, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, N.Y. 1980. pp 70-74. Saud made it clear that his concerns about Palestine were not limited to the welfare of the Palestinian Arabs, but in fact stemmed from entirely different causes. He told Dixon:
'Our hatred for the Jews dates from God's condemnation of them for their persecution and rejection of Isa (Jesus Christ), and their subsequent rejection later of His chosen Prophet. It is beyond our understanding how your Government, representing the first Christian power in the world today, can wish to assist and reward these very same Jews who maltreated your Isa (Jesus)."
10. The accusation that the Mufti was a Nazi even before arriving in Germany is well founded. The coup was put down by decisive British action, but the Mufti had managed to get the help of the Luftwaffe as well as the Italians. The record of the Mufti's involvement with the Axis prior to 1941 is not as clear as we would like it to be, but it is reasonably well documented. For example, Count Ciano, the Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy, claimed in 1940 to have been funding the Mufti for many years, and complained that it was to no effect, according to Hirszowicz, Lukasz, The Third Reich and the Arab East London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, page 86. Moreover, in a captured OKW (Wehrmacht Central Command) document, Abwehr (military intelligence) director Admiral Canaris stated that " Only through the funds made available by Germany to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was it possible to carry out the revolt in Palestine." See full document and other sources. See also the notes here The history of the Mufti is detailed here:Grand Mufti Hajj Amin El Husseini . Some more materials about the Mufti are available online at this source: The Grand Mufti and in French , under the title: La Bibliothèque Proche Orientale http://aval31.free.fr/
11. Stein, Kenneth W., The Land Question In Palestine, 1917-1939, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1984; Stein, Kenneth W., Palestine's Rural Economy, 1917 - 1939, Studies in Zionism, Vol. 8, no. 1 (1987); pp. 25 - 49; The Land Question in Palestine .
12. Stein, Kenneth W., The Land Question In Palestine, 1917-1939, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1984 p. 109.
From the website www.newswithviews.com an article is titled
"PALESTINIAN ATROCITIES, ISRAELI RETALIATIONS AND THE LAW OF WAR"
By Prof. Louis Rene Beres
March 6, 2002
NewsWithViews.com
the article says
"The cycle is familiar. Palestinian terrorists intentionally attack Israeli women and children. Israel, having absolutely no choice, retaliates against PLO infrastructures, aiming exclusively and conscientiously at military targets. But sometimes Israeli fire unavoidably kills and injures Palestinian noncombatants, creating the false impression of lawlessness on both sides. This delusionary view can be compared to an interpretation of current U.S. attacks against al-Qaida fighters which blames this country for harms done to Afghan civilians.
It is important to better understand the profound moral and legal differences between Palestinian terrorism, which is always deliberately barbarous and indiscriminate, and Israeli retaliations, which are always consciously designed to AVOID civilian casualties. From the standpoint of international law, two points must be made. First, the criminal intent of Palestinian terror represents an incontestable violation of humanitarian rules of armed conflict. It is essential, therefore, to distinguish between such terror and Israeli responses to terror, which are never intended to harm innocent parties. When television news reports create parallel images between Palestinian attacks upon Jews leaving the synagogue with nail-studded bombs and Israeli reprisals against PLO targets with infantry and air-launched missiles, they obscure an essential truth: The Palestinian resort to violence is grotesque and gratuitous, seeking only to inflict maximum pain and suffering upon the innocent, while the Israeli use of force is designed only for survival and self-protection. Does anyone really believe that Israel would use armed force against any Arab targets if the Palestinians ceased their campaign of mayhem and murder?
There is a second point. Ordinary people watching the evening news now routinely see pictures of Israeli reprisals against "refugee camps." What they are not told is that these camps are the constructed sources and seedbeds of anti-Israel terrorism, and that the deliberate PLO/PA use of these camps for such criminal purpose is an example of "perfidy" in international law. In the case of calculated Palestinian placement of Arab civilians in harm's way, it is a crime that assigns full legal responsibility for Palestinian losses with the PLO and Palestinian Authority."
the article continues
"The PLO/PA practice of intentionally placing its terrorist forces and assets in the midst of civilian populations is unequivocally a war crime. Although it is certainly true that the Law of War is designed to protect all noncombatants from armed attack, this authoritative body of rules also makes it perfectly clear that responsibility for civilian harms must ultimately rest with the side that engages in perfidy. When IDF infantry from the Golani and Paratrooper brigades, in coordination with armored units, head into the Jenin and Balata camps to root out would-be Palestinian suicide bombers, full responsibility for resultant civilian casualties rests with Yassir Arafat.
Deception can be an essential and acceptable virtue in warfare, but there is a meaningful distinction between deception or ruse and perfidy. The Hague Regulations in the Laws of War allow "ruses" but disallow treachery or perfidy. The prohibition of perfidy is reaffirmed in Protocol I of 1977, and it is widely and authoritatively understood that these rules are binding on the basis of general and customary international law.
What, exactly, are the differences between permissible ruses and perfidy? The former include such practices as the use of camouflage, decoys, and mock operations. False signals, too, are allowed; as an example, the jamming of communications.
Perfidy, on the other hand, includes such treacherous practices as improper use of the white flag; feigned surrender or pretending to have civilian status. It especially constitutes perfidy to shield military targets from attack by placing or moving them into densely populated areas or to purposely move civilians near military targets. Indeed, it is generally agreed that such treachery represents the most serious violation of the Law of War, what is known as a "Grave Breach." The legal effect of such perfidy - the practice now engaged in by the PLO/PA - is this: Exemption (in this case, for Israel) from the normally operative rules on targets. Indeed, even if the PLO/PA had not intentionally engaged in treachery, any Palestinian link between protected persons and military activities would place all legal responsibility for Arab civiian harms squarely upon Yassir Arafat.
None of this is meant to suggest that terrorism represents a permissible use of force under international law. By its very nature, the PLO/PA plan of violence is overwhelmingly illegal. At the same time, the rules of war are as binding upon Palestinian terrorists as they are upon Israeli or American uniformed military forces. This is the result of a binding jurisprudential expansion of the laws of war at the common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and at the two protocols to these Conventions of 1977.
The recent harms to Arab civilians in PA Area A caused by Israeli reprisals are tragic and deeply regrettable, but the legal responsibility for this tragedy lies entirely with those whose perfidious conduct brought about such harms. Moreover, Israel has the indisputable right of self- defense against terrorist attacks originating from this territory, both the post-attack right codified at Article 51 of the UN Charter and the customary pre-attack legal right called "anticipatory self-defense." Israel has the right and the obligation under national and international law to protect its citizens from criminal acts of terrorism. Should Prime Minister Sharon ever decide to capitulate to perfidy and restrict essential retaliations accordingly, the State of Israel would surrender this basic right and undermine this basic obligation. The net effect of such capitulation would be to make victors of the terrorists, an effect that would assuredly increase rather than diminish the overall number of civilian victims, in both Israel and in the Palestinian territories."
& lastly says
""Just wars," we learn from the seventeenth-century legal philosopher Hugo Grotius (a major source for Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence). "arise from our love of the innocent." Recognizing this, Israel - confronted by Palestinian terrorists who now seek to soften Israel for much larger forms of civilian destruction - must continue to use all applicable military force within the boundaries of humanitarian international law. Although perfidious provocations by the PLO/PA might elicit Israeli actions that bring harms to noncombatant Palestinian populations, it is these provocations, not Israel's response, that would be in serious violation of international law.
International law is not a suicide pact. Faced with a murderous terrorist adversary that persistently follows an announced strategy of unrestrained barbarism, Jerusalem cannot permit egregious Palestinian manipulations of civilian populations to preclude needed uses of Israeli military force. Rather, Israel must now make the entire international community aware that perfidy is a crime under international law, and that it is the Arab practicioners of perfidy, not those who are strategically disadvantaged by such a practice, that must be identified and punished as war criminals.
In the final analysis, Israel has no alternative to maintaining lawful self-defense operations against the Palestinian terrorist forces. Such operations need not be injurious to noncombatant populations so long as the PLO/PA do not seek to hide behind these populations as human shields. Bound by the laws of war of international law, these terrorists, whenever they choose to commit perfidy, are the responsible party for all resultant harms done to Palestinian civilians." As we have stated before on the comments to this blog, there is NO "Cycle of Violence" all the Violence is the fault of the
so-called "Palestinians" and other Arab Terrorists, It's always their fault, Everything is their fault , Israel is just legally defending itself , like any other Nation Would
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For those who hate Israel's Security Barrier/Wall , a Very Famous Christian Website has the following to say about Walls
it says
"Walls are for the protection and preservation of the people behind them as well as for keeping people out.
Everyone has walls. We have them around our homes. They are made of wood, brick, masonry, and plastic. They designate property lines and offer protection and privacy to those behind them. Furthemore, we lock our doors at night because we recognize that there are bad people out there. That is why we want the safety that walls and locked doors provide.
Walls are not immoral
Walls are not moral or immoral. A wall is a construction of stones, or wood, or metal that encompasses an area. It is not the stones, or the wood, or the metal that has a moral nature. The issue of morality deals with people and motives, not the objects themselves. So, when people shift to the moral focus to the object (i.e. walls, guns, locks, etc), they are making a logical mistake."
the article continues
"Walls and the Bible
Walls are very biblical. There were walls around the tabernacle in the wilderness and Jerusalem (1 Kings 3:1) After the Jerusalem walls were destroyed in 586 B.C., they were rebuilt by Nehemiah (Neh. 6:1). David said, "build up the walls of Jerusalem" to indicate God's blessing of prosperity for the city (Ps 51:18)... in Ezekiel, the word [hb. choma] refers to a wall around the new Temple which Ezekiel envisions (Ezek. 40:5; 42:20)."1
So, yes walls are biblical. If building them was wrong, then why are they used so much in scripture as a means of protection and safety?
Conclusion
Walls themselves are physical constructions, and so they don't have morality built into them. Morality deals with the intention of the people who build them - or want them torn down. If the motivation for building a wall is to protect people from invasion and harm, then the wall is good. If the motivation is to keep out people whom we just don't like due to their race, ethnic origin, etc., then the motivation is wrong. Therefore, when different groups speak about the morality of a wall, they need to clarify what the motives are so they don't speak past each other. Furthermore, walls are biblical. People built them for protection and safety and so, the motives behind building them was morally good."
And Countless Pro-Israel people have pointed out that Israel's Wall is NOT "Racist" or
"Apartheid" or a "Berlin Wall" or whatever negative term Anti-Israel bigots want to call it, . Israel built it's Wall/Security barrier in response to never-ending relentless Arab Suicide/Homicide Bombers & Palestinian Terrorist Attacks against Israeli Civilians, The "Palestinians" Brought that wall upon themselves, it's their fault, If the "Palestinians" had not committed so many Terrorist Attacks, then Israel would Never have built the Security Barrier/Wall , they have themselves to blame, it's their fault, and the sad thing is, that now in 2019 if Israel never built that Security Barrier/Wall, if the Wall was never built there would Still be Endless Palestinian Suicide/Homicide Bombings in Israel, even in 2019, The Arab & "Palestinian" Terrorists would have never stopped, they would have never stopped, so Israel built the Security Barrier/Wall which Thankfully Stopped the Arab Suicide/Homicide Bombings , God Bless That Wall !!! If "Palestinians" don't like the Wall, Too Damn Bad, it's their Fault , Everything is their fault
From the New York Post website, www.nypost.com an article about a man who was called
"The World's Dumbest Terrorist"
the article says
"Taliban commander turns himself in to collect $100 reward for himself"
By Andy Soltis
April 19, 2012 | 4:00am
the article says
"MUJAHIDUMMY: This wanted poster for low-level Taliban terrorist Mohammad Ashan was returned to Afghan security by the idiot himself.
Don’t laugh, he could have bought five prize goats with that money.
The world’s dumbest terrorist, Mohammad Ashan, turned himself in to Afghan police and demanded a $100 reward — for capturing himself.
Ashan, a Taliban commander in Paktika province, was suspected of plotting at least two improvised-explosive-device attacks on US and Afghan troops. So Afghan security forces circulated a flier with his picture and offering the reward. They plastered it all over the neighboring area of southeastern Afghanistan.
But no one ever considered that Ashan would show up at a police checkpoint in Sar Howza district last week to collect.
He showed incredulous security forces the wanted poster with his name, an image of his fingerprint and other identifying data.
The Afghan security officers had to call US forces in to verify who the man demanding the reward was — because they didn’t believe anyone could be that stupid.
“We asked him, ‘Is this you?’ ” said US Army Spc. Matthew Baker.
“Yes, yes, that’s me! Can I get my award now?” he replied, according to The Washington Post.
He was arrested, without collecting the money.
The BBC described Ashan as a mid- to low-level Taliban commander who is not believed to have commanded a significant number of insurgents.
For obvious reasons.
“This guy is the Taliban equivalent of the ‘Home Alone’ burglars,” a US official said.
NATO, under US command, has been conducting more operations in Paktika because it is a region with major infiltration routes to the capital, Kabul, from insurgent safe havens in Pakistan.
US and other forces in the NATO contingent have tried wanted posters before, but apparently never with such success.
The region where Ashan operated is known for tight-lipped villagers who are afraid to risk arrest by NATO troops or retaliation by Taliban fighters if they pass on information.
So why did Ashan turn himself in?
“Clearly, the man is an imbecile,” an American official said." Well Harry & Marv from the "Home Alone" movies, even Harry & Marv wouldn't be as stupid and brain dead as the Taliban commander mentioned in this article
From the website www.forbes.com an article is titled
"Al Qaeda's Dumbest Terrorists"
by Daniel Freedman
Contributor
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This article is more than 2 years old.
the article says
"One of the least publicized things about al Qaeda is that for every cunning terrorist mastermind, there are other members who would merit coverage on a show similar to “America’s dumbest criminals.”
I present some of my favorite, “dumbest terrorists”:
Jose Padilla and Binyam Mohammed. These two planned to detonate a dirty bomb in a U.S. city – by stealing uranium from a passing truck and then enriching it by swinging it around in a bucket.
Salman al-Taezi and Walid Ashibi. These Yemenis were part of a cell that plotted to attack embassies in Yemen, including the Cuban embassy – “because of Guantanamo Bay” other cell members later explained to investigators. While the two were preparing a missile, Ashibi trudged across a carpeted room and unwittingly ignited it with the static energy he had created – causing it to fire into Taezi and kill him. Ashibi himself collapsed and died moments later.
Abu Jaffar al Hada. In 1999, the brother-in-law of 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar decided to fish on Lake Duranta in Afghanistan using electricity. He was electrocuted after one of the al Qaeda members onshore misinterpreted his signal and switched the current on.
A certain Yemeni explosives trainer. Toward the end of a class at the Banshiri training camp (in Afghanistan) with new Chinese Uigher recruits, this trainer told them “and don’t do this” while putting two ends of an explosive wire together – killing himself along with almost everyone else in the class.
Abu Jandal. Bin Laden’s personal bodyguard tried to impress U.S interrogators with his knowledge of history – by reciting the plot of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart movie.
Abdullah Hassan al Asiri. This terrorist pioneered the underwear bomb in 2009 while attempting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, but prematurely detonated it and only killed himself."
the article continues
"Salman al-Adani and Taha al-Ahdal. The two were selected to be suicide bombers for a January 3, 2000, attack on the U.S. navy vessel, USS The Sullivans. But they forgot to plan for the changing tide, and their boat got stuck in the sand. They abandoned it and went home to sleep, not bothering even to tell the other plotters. The boat was found the next morning by local fishermen, who claimed ownership, and on arriving at the scene the plot leader had to buy it back.
Iyman Farris. In 2003 this naturalized U.S. citizen plotted to use a blowtorch to cut the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Al Qaeda's history teacher?
Highlighting the incompetence of al Qaeda members not only provides merriment at the expense of those who have caused so much pain, but also serves an important tactical purpose.
One of the most effective recruiting tools used by terrorist groups is the offer to otherwise unremarkable individuals the chance of international fame. The mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, for example, hatched the plot partly out of a desire to attain the same global notoriety as his nephew Ramzi Yousef – the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Governments therefore unwittingly help terrorist groups recruit when they talk up the brilliance and dangerousness of terrorists, as others, with similar mindsets and backgrounds, figure they too can achieve such infamy. It is appropriate to applaud our investigators when a terrorist is stopped, but there is no benefit in pretending that fools are masterminds.
After Padilla was arrested – much to the bewilderment of the FBI Agents who uncovered the plot and arrested him – Attorney General John Ashcroft declared at a press conference that they had “disrupted an unfolding terrorist plot” that could have caused “mass death and injury.” Padilla, who later made it onto the cover of Time magazine, certainly had the intent – and therefore belongs in prison – but is a brain surgery away from the capability.
If the government had instead ridiculed Padilla and mocked al Qaeda for sending an idiot, it’s highly unlikely that his example would have inspired anyone to join al Qaeda. If anything, potential recruits might have had second thoughts. Death or life in prison, along with international ridicule, is hardly appealing – even to fools."
From the website juchre.org an article is titled
"Psalm 102 — The Holocaust Psalm?"
May, 2001
Psalm 102 — The Holocaust Psalm? the article says
"David Dolan is an American journalist who has lived and worked in Jerusalem since 1980. In his most recent book, Israel in Crisis: What Lies Ahead? he tells the reader that he gets many questions dealing with modern Israel's rebirth as a sign that the prophesied end of the age is upon us. The one portion of Scripture that he quotes to verify this belief to those that ask this question is Psalm 102. After a time of personal study he has come to believe that this particular Psalm predicted the Holocaust and the subsequent restoration of Jerusalem and that the generation that witnessed these events will also be the generation that sees the Lord coming back to reign in his Holy City.
The following is a brief study of Psalm 102 using some of his ideas and comments as presented in his book. Dolan is not dogmatic in any of his viewpoints. His style is non-confrontational. He simply shares his findings and presents them as best he can. The reader can take them or leave them. I'll do the same here. They are being shared with you now as simply something for you to reflect upon in your studies. I hope you find them at least interesting, if not useful.
Psalm 102:1-3
"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth."
Surely the last line of this passage reminds us of the horrors of the Holocaust and the death camps where prisoners were thrown into the crematoria?
While the phrase "like smoke" appears in the KJV, and most of the modern translations as well, the original Hebrew, as Dolan argues, reads "in smoke." Young's Literal Translation of the Bible would seem to confirm this:
"For consumed in smoke have been my days,
And my bones as a fire-brand have burned."
The Hebrew word for smoke is "ashan" (Strong's 6227). Its root word means simply "to smoke either literally or figuratively." Metaphorically in the Bible it is used to describe God's anger.
Aside from any knowledge of the Hebrew language the reader may have, the context itself would seem to indicate that "in smoke" is the preferred translation if taking a literal viewpoint, which is the primary usage of the word. Its figurative usage is secondary. Note that the author of Psalm 102 says that his "bones are burned" and thus the smoke he refers to is directly related to this. In other words, his burning bones are the source of the smoke and so his days are literally consumed "in" smoke, not "like" smoke.
The next interesting portion of Psalm 102 that lends credibility to Dolan's claim that this portion of Scripture is describing the Holocaust occurs in verses 4 and 5:
Psalm 102:4-5
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
This, as Dolan explains, reminds us of the starvation that the prisoners of the death camps went through. My mind immediately recalls the pictures I've seen of emaciated bodies huddled near a barbed-wire fence in a death camp somewhere. According to Dolan, starvation was the main cause of death at the German Buchenwald camp.
Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, was established in 1937 as an area to hold political detainees and criminals. It later developed into a camp for "asocial elements." But it wasn't until the war broke out that a major influx of Jewish prisoners arrived to the camp."
the article continues
"Buchenwald, like Dachau and other concentration camps on German soil, was never an annihilation camp for the Jews. In this it differed from the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex built in Poland, one of the sites where millions were systematically exterminated. Though many Jews died at Buchenwald, particularly in 1945 after being forced to march from other camps farther east, its primary purpose was the imprisonment and torture of anyone opposed to the regime. [1]
In verse 4, the phrase "so that I forget to eat my bread" threw me off in that it didn't seem to go along with a forced starvation scenario, until I looked at the Hebrew definitions. The Hebrew word that has been translated "forget" is shakach or shakeach, which according to Strong's definitions means "to mislay, that is, to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention."
But from Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions we get a broader picture of what this word tries to convey:
1) to forget, ignore, wither
1a1) to forget
1a2) to cease to care
1b) to be forgotten
1c) to cause to forget
1d) to make or cause to forget
1e) to be forgotten"
& continues
"The underlying Hebrew meaning of "forget" is more than a simple memory lapse.
Continuing our study into Psalm 102:
Psalm 102:8-9
"Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,"
First, let's look at verse 8 and a few other translations to get a better understanding of what is being described:
"All day long my enemies insult me. Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse." (God's Word Translation)
"All the day my enemies taunt me, those who deride me use my name for a curse." (RSV)
"My enemies have reproached me all day long; Those who deride me have used my name as a curse." (NASB)
The literal Hebrew reads: "my enemies...have sworn by me."
What the KJV, as well as the original Hebrew, is describing by the phrase "sworn against me" is a Hebrew expression meaning "my very own name has been used as a curse against me." [2] What the RSV and NASB, as well as some other modern translations, have done is recognize this expression. The word "name" does not appear in the original and so it appears in italics in the RSV and NASB. But before anyone takes objection to this, the KJV does the very same thing throughout its translation. It simply makes for a more readable text.
Now as to the interpretation as possibly alluding to the events during the holocaust. According to Dolan the yellow star that the Jews were required to wear was literally using the Jewish name as a curse.
Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe and North Africa were forced to wear a yellow star on their clothing. It was patterned after an ancient six-sided symbol connected to Israel's exalted King David. The Jewish prophets foretold that the Messiah would come from Judah, David's family tribe. The yellow stars had the name 'Jude' printed on them. This is the modern name of the ancient Hebrews — Jews — derived from the tribe of Judah. [3]
Actually "Jude" is the German word for "Jew." [4]
Verse 9 is very interesting and creates a disturbing image in terms of the Holocaust interpretation:
"For I have eaten ashes like bread,
and mingled my drink with weeping,"
Dolan reminds his readers of Spielberg's portrayal of the Holocaust and how it captured the aspect of what this verse may be portraying:
The ashen remains of cremated bodies billowed out of towering camp chimneys, only to rain back down onto the camps when the winds were contrary. Thus, inmates were sometimes forced to breathe in, and even taste, the sooty remains of their fellow Jews. [5]
Verses 1 through 12 of Psalm 102 are filled with depression, but the mood suddenly changes at verse 13 as we see the restoration of Zion:"
& lastly says
"Psalm 102:13-14
"Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof."
This is an interesting portion of Scripture when viewed in terms of a law that exists in Jerusalem. Dolan explains that most buildings in Jerusalem must be faced by off-white Jerusalem stones to give the modern city "an ancient, timeless, and quite intriguing look." He further explains the effect this has: "When the skies are blue and the sun bright, as on most days, the city glows with brilliant light. When the sun rises in the east, the buildings normally display a pinkish tint. When it is setting in the west, all of Jerusalem reflects its golden hues." [6]
Psalm 102:15-18
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
The above passage is David Dolan's proof text to show that the generation that saw the Holocaust would be the same generation that saw the restoration of Zion. Note the last sentence where the Hebrew word "acharon" has been translated "to come." Dolan takes the position that this should be translated as "last" to stay true to the original Hebrew which reads "last generation" (l'dor acharon). According to Strong's dictionary "acharon" means "hinder; generally late or last; western" and can be translated as either "last" or "come." Acharon is translated as "last" 20 times in the KJV and eight times as "to come." There is actually a variation of acharon that means "coming" or "another" but it is spelled as acheret.
All of the translations that I have render the verse as meaning "a generation that is to come" or "a later generation." None of the them give the meaning of a "last generation" although the word "acharon" can mean that. It would have been a daring move indeed for any translator to render the word as such I imagine. Dolan says that they "wimped" out on giving the literal Hebrew translation of verse 18 stating "the implications of the actual Hebrew phrase are enormous." [7]
In other words, Dolan believes that the generation of Jews that saw and/or experienced the Holocaust would be *the* last generation before the end of this age — the final generation of history as we know it. It would be this Holocaust generation that would live to see the restoration of Zion and the coming of the Lord to reign in that city.
All we are waiting on now is the coming of the Lord!"
From the website discoverthebook.org an article is titled
"Is the Holocaust in Psalm 102?"
the article says
"This evening have you ever connected the happenings in the world, in our newspapers, history books, and on the evening news – with God’s Word the BIBLE?
To begin with open to Isaiah 11:11 as God describes the 2nd Return of His People. The 1st was after the Babylonian Exile in 586 BC, this is the 2ndReturn after the Roman Destruction of Israel in AD 70-130 and this 2nd Return has happened in OUR GENERATION! People alive here tonight have witnessed this happen!
As I read see if your heart thrills as your mind sees the modern day “Miracle of Israel” that has occurred in the re-gathering of almost ½ of all Jews from 100 nations around the world back to Judea and Samaria of the Bible!
And they have returned since 1948 under the “banner” of a flag containing the blue of the Messianic longings of the prayer shawl and the Star of David (symbolizing the Messianic line of Jesus through David) boldly centered as the only sign of their flag!
Where exactly did God say they would come back to in this 2nd Return? Ezekiel helps us by naming the places that the bones (the destroyed bits of the nation Israel) would come and be clothed with flesh (a nation again) awaiting the breath of God (revival) to come in the Tribulation Hour of Jacob’s Trouble.
Note Jeremiah 32:33-44 and Zechariah 10:6-12.
When? Perhaps after the greatest Holocaust the Jewish Peoples have ever known? Look at Psalm 102.
When the nation was first founded, God promised through Abraham, “I will make of thee a great nation . . . And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2,3). The continued existence of the Jews after centuries of dispersal and persecution unique in human history is a mute but eloquent testimony to fulfilled prophesy. The restoration of Israel as a nation among nations in our own generation is merely the most recent in a long line of fulfilled prophecies dealing with the Jewish people.
Through the Holy Scriptures (almost all written by Jews) and through Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham has indeed become a blessing to all families of the earth. Some from every nation have found salvation and blessing through faith in Him.
What happens to ISRAEL has been ordained[1] by God, and we need to be careful to understand from the past dealings of God with the Jews and to realize that in the future He is still at work! First we must see that God has Chosen the Jews as His People[2], and God has Chosen the Land of Canaan (not Palestine) as His Land and God has Chosen the Destiny of the Nation of Israel as His Destined Plan for His Destined People. The Jews, the Land of Israel, and the Nation Israel are a Chosen People of Destiny.
Modern Israel only occupies about one-sixth of 1 percent of the land area which the Arabs possess.
The Arab Nations have the oil, the wealth, and the worldwide influence which such seemingly inexhaustible resources command.
Israel’s postage-stamp piece of land is scarcely discernible on a world map, and it lacks all the essentials to make it the center of worldwide concern.
Yet, In defiance of all reason, however, it is the focus of world attention, precisely as prophesied.
Next, within Israel consider that city, the entire world has heard of-Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a small city with neither commercial nor strategic location. When the Old Testament prophets wrote of the future they did so with precision. Their astonishing accuracy singled out Jerusalem as the world focus. They didn”t say Damascus, Cairo, London, or Paris would become the center of action in the last days, but Jerusalem."
the article continues
"Yet the eyes of the world are upon it as upon no other city. Jerusalem is indeed a “burdensome stone” (Zech 12:1-3) around the necks of all nations of the world, the most vexing and volatile problem the United Nations faces today. There is no ordinary explanation for this! What the Hebrew prophets declared thousands of years ago and what seemed utterly fantastic in their time is being fulfilled in our day. This is only part of the evidence, as we shall see, that the prophesied “last days” are upon us and that our generation will likely see the remainder of Bible prophecy fulfilled.
There are so many more specific prophetic passages to be fulfilled in the last days, which based on the prophecies, which have already come true, we must conclude that these too will literally unfold in the not-too-distant future. Thus God has declared that the most appalling time of utter destruction both for Jews and for the entire population of the world lies yet ahead. To speak in Biblical terms God says watch out, “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7) spells danger and misery for the entire planet.
Listen to this incredible summary of all specifics God has revealed about His Chosen People of Destiny, the Jews. Just listen and soak these in, we will actually look at them one-by-one in the Scriptures as we go tonight! I’m going fast with these, but remember what I teach today is usually online by Monday night at the Discover the Book Ministries website.
God picked His chosen people of destiny–the Jews, descendents of Abraham, called Israel. God picked one man in Ur of the Chaldees and asked him to walk hundreds of miles through the desert to a land filled with powerful kingdom states. And there in a series of revelations, the Almighty God of the Universe solemnly swore to this man a nation would descend from him that would be the Chosen People of Destiny. Those People are the Jewish People, the Israelites, and God”s People.
God presented a land to His chosen people of destiny, the Jews, with clearly defined boundaries to Abraham.He renewed that promise to Abraham’s son Isaac, to his grandson Jacob, and to their descendants after them forever
God proceeded to bring His chosen people of destiny to the Promised Land. It is a historical fact that God brought these “chosen people” into the “Promised Land,” an amazing story of miracles in itself."
& continues
"God declared Israel His Nation would be Scattered: God promised the children of Israel great blessing in the land of promise if they would remain faithful to Him. He also predicted great suffering, persecution and worldwide dispersion when they forsook Him. These prophecies came to pass. Some of these warnings were as follows:
“The LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; . . . And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life” (Deuteronomy 28:64,66).
“And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them” (Jeremiah 24:9).
But with all this, they would not be like so many other nations of antiquity (indeed like all other nations who were driven from their homeland). “Though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee” (Jeremiah 30:11).
“My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations” (Hosea 9:17).
God declared Israel, His Nation, would Survive: We have already noted what is probably the most important of these end-time prophecies, namely, the re-establishment of Israel as a nation in its ancient homeland. It is almost impossible that a nation could survive as a distinct nationality, regain its homeland and be recognized as a viable nation once more after being completely destroyed as an organized entity by an invading army (as Israel was by the Romans, in A.D. 70). Its people were either slaughtered or scattered from one end of the world to the other; its land occupied and ruled by aliens for over 1900 years. Israel’s survival is amazing, but even more so is the fact its survival was predicted many centuries earlier.
When Israel, including Judah, first went into captivity, in 588 B.C., the period known as “the times of the Gentiles” began. Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome were successive world empires and their domain included the land of Israel. After Rome destroyed the city and the temple in A.D. 70 (as predicted by Christ Himself in Luke 19:41-44), the people of Israel were scattered “among all people, from the one end of the earth unto the other” (Deuteronomy 28:64).
God declared Israel, His Nation, would be Regathered: Even more impossible than the fact that a people could retain its identity without a homeland for two thousand years is the fact that they should then return and establish their ancient nation once again. Yet this is exactly what the Bible had predicted."
& continues
"“Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land” (Ezekiel 37:21).
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set His hand again the second time [note, the second time — the first was when He brought them back from the Babylonian captivity] to recover the remnant of His people, which shall be left, . . . and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth (Isaiah 11:11, 12).
The “wandering Jews” were without a national home for “many days” (Hosea 3:4, 5) and it seemed impossible that such prophecies as these could ever be fulfilled.
Even many Bible-believing Christians thought for centuries that God was through with Israel and that all the Old Testament promises to Israel should be spiritualized and applied to the church. But now, with the return of the Jews and the re-establishment of their nation, it is evident in a unique way that God’s Word means exactly what it says.
God declared Israel, His Nation, would have a Future agenda in God’s plan: In this context, we come to a remarkable prophecy made by Jesus Christ: “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24).
Since the word “fulfilled” is the same word in the Greek as “finished,” this prophecy clearly means that the times of Gentile world-rule will be ended when Jerusalem is no longer under Gentile control. But this can only be accomplished when Christ returns to banish the Gentile nations from Jerusalem and to establish His own world-kingdom capital there. Thus, the restoration of Jerusalem to the chosen people is necessarily accompanied by the coming of their Messiah to reign there. This is also clearly indicated in Zechariah 12-14 as well as other Scriptures.
God is at work today in the saga of the Jews: The Jews began to return to Palestine in small numbers in the early part of the twentieth century, and then in much larger numbers after World War I and the Balfour Declaration. Jerusalem was still under British rule, however. After World War II, the Israeli nation declared its independence in 1948 and was soon recognized by most of the nations and by the United Nations. The new city of Jerusalem indeed did go back to the Jews at this time. However, the old city, including the all-important temple site on Mount Moriah, remained in the hands of the Jordanian Arabs.
In the “six-day war” of 1967, Israel finally recaptured the old city of Jerusalem, and the Israelis insist they will never let it go again."
& continues
"Could god be waiting for something to happen? Yet, the Lord has not come! The times of the Gentiles are still in full sway, even though Jerusalem has apparently gone back to the Jews. However, there is one exception. This exception makes all the difference and indicates with what fine lines the Holy Spirit inscripturates His Word. Jerusalem is not, in God’s judgment, a collection of houses and streets, like other cities. It is a temple where God dwells, where His people approach Him through sacrifice, and where He meets with them.
God has focused on one acre of land: As Solomon built the temple, God said: “I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there” (2 Chronicles 6:6). But long before this, God had first spoken through Moses: “There shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD” (Deuteronomy 12:11).
Where is ground zero: This place was not just any place in Jerusalem; it was an exact spot, chosen by God. It was on Mount Moriah (2 Chronicles 3:1), the spot which God told David to purchase from Ornan the Jebusite and to set up the altar there (1 Chronicles 21:18). This was the same spot where Abraham had, almost a thousand years before, prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:2). It is only a short distance from Calvary itself.
This spot, to the Jews and to God, is Jerusalem! And, amazingly, this one spot is the only spot in Jerusalem still controlled by Gentiles. It is on Mount Moriah that the Arabs have built their famous Dome-of-the-Rock, the second most holy place in the Muslim world. The Jews, for political or other reasons, have not yet dared to expel the Arabs from this site, raze it, and proceed to rebuild their temple, as they surely desire to do.
It is apparently by this exceedingly slender thread, therefore, that the “times of the Gentiles” are still suspended. As the Lord Jesus said, “One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18).
We have only scratched the surface. There are scores of other Biblical prophecies that either have already been fulfilled or are presently in process of fulfillment. There is no other book like the Bible.
“For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of men: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21)."
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"God pronounced a curse upon his unfaithful but chosen people of destiny as they wandered the world without their promised land.God warned that wherever they wandered the Jews would be “an astonishment, a proverb, a byword…a curse and a reproach” (Deut. 38:37). Amazingly, this has been true of the Jews all down through history, as even the present generation knows full well. Furthermore, the prophets declared that these scattered peoples would not only be slandered, denigrated, and discriminated against, but they would be persecuted and killed as no other peoples on the face of the earth. History stands as eloquent witness to the fact that this is precisely what has happened to the Jews century after century wherever they were found. God warned his chosen people of destiny not to forget him in the promised land When the Jewish people entered the Promised Land, God warned them that if they practiced the idolatry and immorality of the land’s previous inhabitants, whom He had destroyed for their evil, He would cast them out as well. That this happened is, again, an indisputable fact of history. God described how he would scatter his unfaithful but chosen people of destiny from the promised land God declared that His people would be scattered “among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other”. And so it happened. “The wandering Jew” is found everywhere.
God preserved his chosen people of destiny from annihilation.God declared that in spite of such persecution and the periodic wholesale slaughter of Jews, He would not let His chosen people be destroyed, but would preserve them as an identifiable ethnic, national group. The Jews had every reason to intermarry, to change their names and hide their identity by any possible means in order to escape persecution.
God promised to regather his chosen people of destiny back to the promised land as a source of fear for the whole world.The Bible declares that God determined to keep His chosen people separated to Himself because He would bring them back into their land in the last days prior to the Messiah’s second coming. That prophecy and promise, so long awaited, was fulfilled in the rebirth of Israel in her Promised Land. It happened at last in 1948, nearly 1900 years after the final Diaspora at the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by the Roman armies of Titus. This restoration of a nation after 25 centuries is utterly astonishing, a phenomenon without parallel in the history of any other peoples and inexplicable by any natural means, much less by chance. God declared that in the last days before the Messiah’s second coming, Jerusalem would become “a cup of trembling…a burdensome stone for all people”. At the time Zechariah uttered this prophecy 2500 years ago, Jerusalem lay in ruins and was surrounded by wilderness. And so it remained century after century. Zechariah’s prophecy seemed to be utter madness even after Israel’s rebirth in 1948. Yet today, exactly as foretold, a world of nearly 6 billion people has its eyes upon Jerusalem, fearful that the next world war, if it breaks out, will be fought over that tiny city. What an incredible fulfillment of prophecy!"
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"What Does God Say Specifically?
This may be one of the most important studies we have ever undertaken, so feel free to trace these points and verses in your Bible as we go along!
God identified His chosen people of destiny as the Jews, the descendents of Abraham, and He named them Israel. God picked one man in Ur of the Chaldees and asked him to walk hundreds of miles through the desert to a land filled with powerful kingdom states (Genesis 11-12). And there in a series of revelations, the Almighty God of the Universe solemnly swore to this man a nation would descend from him that would be the Chosen People of Destiny (Genesis 15). Those People are the Jewish People, the Israelites, God’s People (Deuteronomy 7:6-7).
When the nation was first founded, God promised through Abraham, “I will make of thee a great nation . . . And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2,3).
There is more[3]. This climactic word is the earliest missionary mandate. The promise of God to Abraham was specifically given in order that he and his seed might be, through the gracious provisions of God, the avenue of carrying the same good news to every one of the 70 families on the earth listed in chapter 10.
Not only did Israel become a great nation under David and Solomon, but it is destined for even greater days in the future. The nations that have befriended the Jews (notably the United States and, to a lesser degree, England, France and others) have indeed been blessed. Those that have persecuted the Jews (Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Rome, Spain, Nazi Germany and others — Russia’s time is coming!) have eventually gone down to defeat and humiliation.
God promised to give a land to His chosen people of destiny the Jews with clearly defined boundariesto Abraham. (Genesis 12:1; 13:15; 15:7, 18-21). He renewed that promise to Abraham’s son Isaac (Genesis 26:3-5), to his grandson Jacob (Genesis 28:13), and to their descendants after them forever (Leviticus 25:46; Joshua 14:9; etc.).
Genesis 12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”
Genesis 13:15 “All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.”
Genesis 15:7 He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
Genesis 15:18-21 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Genesis 26:3-5 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws.
Genesis 28:13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.”
Leviticus 25:46 You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Joshua 14:9 So on that day Moses swore to me, “The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.”
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"God promised to bring His chosen people of destiny to the Promised Land. It is a historical fact that God brought these “chosen people” into the “Promised Land,” an amazing story of miracles in itself.
Exodus 6:7-8 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.
Deuteronomy 7:6-9 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. 7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
God promised to judge his chosen people of destiny if they forgot him in the promised land.When the Jewish people entered the Promised Land, God warned them that if they practiced the idolatry and immorality of the land’s previous inhabitants, whom He had destroyed for their evil (Deuteronomy 9:4), He would cast them out as well (Deuteronomy 28:63; 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chronicles 7:20; etc.). That this happened is, again, an indisputable fact of history.
Deuteronomy 9:4 After the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you.
“The LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; . . . And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life” (Deuteronomy 28:64,66).
1 Kings 9:7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
2 Chronicles 7:20 Then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples."
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"So far the story is hardly remarkable. Other peoples have believed that a certain geographic area was their “Promised Land” and after entering it have later been driven out by enemies. The next six prophecies, however, and their fulfillment, are absolutely unique to the Jews. The occurrence of these events precisely as prophesied could not possibly have happened by chance.
God promised to scatter His unfaithful but chosen people of destiny from the Promised Land.God declared that His people would be scattered “among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other” (Deuteronomy 28:64;Nehemiah 1:8; Amos 9:9, Zechariah 7:14). And so it happened. “The wandering Jew” is found everywhere. The precision with which prophecies fit the Jews alone becomes increasingly remarkable as fulfillment follows fulfillment, until the case for God’s existence through His dealings with his chosen people is irrefutable.
Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Nehemiah 1:8 Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,”
Amos 9:9 For I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.
Zechariah 7:14 I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.
God promised a curse upon His unfaithful but chosen people of destiny as they wandered the world without their Promised Land.God warned that wherever they wandered the Jews would be “an astonishment, a proverb, a byword…a curse and a reproach” (Deuteronomy 28:37; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Jeremiah 29:18; 44:8). Amazingly, this has been true of the Jews all down through history, as even the present generation knows full well. The maligning, the slurs and jokes, the naked hatred known as anti-Semitism, not only among Muslims but even among those who call themselves Christians, is a unique and persistent fact of history peculiar to the Jewish people. Even today, in spite of the haunting memory of Hitler’s holocaust which once shocked and shamed the world, and in defiance of logic and conscience, anti-Semitism is still alive and is once again increasing world-wide."
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"Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the LORD will drive you.
2 Chronicles 7:20 Then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
Jeremiah 29:18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth and an object of cursing and horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.
Jeremiah 44:8 Why provoke me to anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations on earth.
God promised to chasten His unfaithful but chosen people of destiny. Furthermore, the prophets declared that these scattered peoples would not only be slandered, denigrated, and discriminated against, but they would be persecuted and killed as no other peoples on the face of the earth. (II Chronicles 7:20-22) History stands as eloquent witness to the fact that this is precisely what has happened to the Jews century after century wherever they were found. The historical record of no other ethnic or national group of people contains anything that even approaches the nightmare of terror, humiliation, and destruction which the Jews have endured down through history at the hands of the peoples among whom they have found themselves.
2 Chronicles 7:20-22 Then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 21 And though this temple is now so imposing, all who pass by will be appalled and say, “Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?” 22 People will answer, “Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.”
“And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them” (Jeremiah 24:9).
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations (Hosea 9:17)."
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"God promised to preserve His chosen people of destiny from annihilation.God declared that in spite of such persecution and the periodic wholesale slaughter of Jews, He would not let His chosen people be destroyed, but would preserve them as an identifiable ethnic, national group (Jeremiah 30:11; 31:35-37). The Jews had every reason to intermarry, to change their names and hide their identity by any possible means in order to escape persecution. Why preserve their bloodline when they had no land of their own, when most of them didn’t take the Bible literally, and when racial identification imposed only the cruelest disadvantages? Shamefully, many who claimed to be Christians and thus followers of Christ, who was Himself a Jew, were in the forefront of Jewish persecution and slaughter. After the emperor, Constantine, supposedly became a Christian, it was those who called themselves Christians who were far more cruel to the Jews than pagans had ever been. The Roman Catholic popes were the first to develop anti-Semitism to a science. Hitler, who remained a Catholic to the end, would claim that he was only following the example of both Catholics and Lutherans in finishing what the Church had begun. Anti-Semitism was a part of his Catholicism from which Martin Luther was never freed. Absorption by those among whom they found themselves would have seemed inevitable, so that little trace of the Jews as a distinct people should have remained today. After all, these despised exiles have been scattered to every corner of the world for 2500 years since the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. Could “tradition” be that strong without real faith in God? Against all odds, the Jews remained an identifiable people after all those centuries. That fact is an astonishing phenomenon without parallel in history and absolutely unique to the Jews.
God[4] declared Israel, His Nation, would Survive: We have already noted what is probably the most important of these end-time prophecies, namely, the re-establishment of Israel as a nation in its ancient homeland. It is almost impossible that a nation could survive as a distinct nationality, regain its homeland and be recognized as a viable nation once more after being completely destroyed as an organized entity by an invading army (as Israel was by the Romans, in A.D. 70). Its people were either slaughtered or scattered from one end of the world to the other; its land occupied and ruled by aliens for over 1900 years. Israel’s survival is amazing, but even more so is the fact its survival was predicted many centuries earlier. When Israel, including Judah, first went into captivity, in 588 B.C., the period known as “the times of the Gentiles” began. Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome were successive world empires and their domain included the land of Israel."
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"After Rome destroyed the city and the temple in A.D. 70 (as predicted by Christ Himself in Luke 19:41-44 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”), the people of Israel were scattered “among all people, from the one end of the earth unto the other” (Deuteronomy 28:64).
Jeremiah 30:11 “I am with you and will save you,” declares the LORD. “Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”
Jeremiah 31:35-37 This is what the LORD says, “he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name” 36 “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the LORD, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.” 37 This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
God promised to re-gather His chosen people of destiny back to the Promised Land.The Bible declares that God determined to keep His chosen people separated to Himself (Exodus 33:16; Leviticus 20:26) because He would bring them back into their land in the last days (Jeremiah 30:10, 31:8-12; Ezekiel 36:24, 35-38) prior to the Messiah’s second coming. That prophecy and promise, so long awaited, was fulfilled in the rebirth of Israel in her Promised Land. It happened at last in 1948, nearly 1900 years after the final Diaspora at the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by the Roman armies of Titus. This restoration of a nation after 25 centuries is utterly astonishing, a phenomenon without parallel in the history of any other peoples and inexplicable by any natural means, much less by chance. God declared Israel His Nation would be Regathered: Even more impossible than the fact that a people could retain its identity without a homeland for two thousand years is the fact that they should then return and establish their ancient nation once again. Yet this is exactly what the Bible had predicted."
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"Exodus 33:16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
Leviticus 20:26 You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
Isaiah 11:11, 12 “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set His hand again the second time [note, the second time — the first was when He brought them back from the Babylonian captivity] to recover the remnant of His people, which shall be left, . . . and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth”
Jeremiah 30:10 ”‘So do not fear, O Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel, declares the LORD. “I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.”
Jeremiah 31:8-12 See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return. 9 They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd. 11 For the LORD will ransom Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they. 12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
Ezekiel 36:24, 35-38 For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 35 They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.” 36 Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it. 37 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Once again I will yield to the plea of the house of Israel and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep, 38 as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
“Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land” (Ezekiel 37:21).
The “wandering Jews” were without a national home for “many days” (Hosea 3:4, 5) and it seemed impossible that such prophecies as these could ever be fulfilled. Even many Bible-believing Christians thought for centuries that God was through with Israel and that all the Old Testament promises to Israel should be spiritualized and applied to the church. But now, with the return of the Jews and the re-establishment of their nation, it is evident in a unique way that God’s Word means exactly what it says."
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"God promised to make His chosen people of destiny a source of fear for the whole world when they get back to the Promised Land in unbelief.God declared that in the last days before the Messiah’s second coming,Jerusalem would become “a cup of trembling…a burdensome stone for all people” (Zechariah 12:2,3). At the time Zechariah uttered this prophecy 2500 years ago, Jerusalem lay in ruins and was surrounded by wilderness. And so it remained century after century. Zechariah’s prophecy seemed to be utter madness even after Israel’s rebirth in 1948. Yet today, exactly as foretold, a world of nearly 6 billion people has its eyes upon Jerusalem, fearful that the next world war, if it breaks out, will be fought over that tiny city. What an incredible fulfillment of prophecy!
Zechariah 12:2-3 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will makeJerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
God is at work today in the saga of the Jews: The Jews began to return to Palestine in small numbers in the early part of the twentieth century, and then in much larger numbers after World War I and the Balfour Declaration. Jerusalem was still under British rule, however. After World War II, the Israeli nation declared its independence in 1948 and was soon recognized by most of the nations and by the United Nations. The new city of Jerusalem indeed did go back to the Jews at this time. However, the old city, including the all-important temple site on Mount Moriah, remained in the hands of the Jordanian Arabs. In the “six-day war” of 1967, Israel finally recaptured the old city of Jerusalem, and the Israelis insist they will never let it go again. As of Christmas 2000 they have retained possession of all of Jerusalem for thirty-three long years, and there is no indication at all that the Arabs are going to recapture it.
Could God be waiting for something to happen? Yet, the Lord has not come! The times of the Gentiles are still in full sway, even thoughJerusalem has apparently gone back to the Jews. However, there is one exception. This exception makes all the difference and indicates with what fine lines the Holy Spirit inscripturates His Word.Jerusalem is not, in God’s judgment, a collection of houses and streets, like other cities. It is a temple where God dwells, where His people approach Him through sacrifice, and where He meets with them."
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"God has focused on 40 acres of land: As Solomon built the temple (1200×800 foot Temple Mount), God said: “I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there” (2 Chronicles 6:6). But long before this, God had first spoken through Moses: “There shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD” (Deuteronomy 12:11).
Where is ground zero: This place was not just any place in Jerusalem; it was an exact spot, chosen by God.
It was on Mount Moriah (2 Chronicles 3:1) Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
This is the spot which God told David to purchase from Ornan the Jebusite and to set up the altar there (1 Chronicles 21:18) Therefore, the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
This was the same spot where Abraham had, almost a thousand years before, prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:2) Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
These 40 acres are only a short distance from Calvary itself. This spot, to the Jews and to God, is Jerusalem! And, amazingly, this one spot is the only spot in Jerusalem still controlled by Gentiles. It is on Mount Moriah that the Arabs have built their famous Dome-of-the-Rock, the second most holy place in the Muslim world. The Jews, for political or other reasons, have not yet dared to expel the Arabs from this site, raze it, and proceed to rebuild their temple, as they surely desire to do. It is apparently by this exceedingly slender thread, therefore, that the “times of the Gentiles” are still suspended.
As the Lord Jesus said, “One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18).
God declared Israel, His Nation, would have a Future agenda in God’s plan:In this context, we come to a remarkable prophecy made by Jesus Christ:
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled (Luke 21:24).
Since the word “fulfilled” is the same word in the Greek as “finished,” this prophecy clearly means that the times of Gentile world-rule will be ended when Jerusalem is no longer under Gentile control. But this can only be accomplished when Christ returns to banish the Gentile nations from Jerusalem and to establish His own world-kingdom capital there. Thus, the restoration of Jerusalem to the chosen people is necessarily accompanied by the coming of their Messiah to reign there.
This is also clearly indicated in Zechariah 12-14 as well as other Scriptures."
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"This evening have you ever connected the happenings in the world, in our newspapers, history books, and on the evening news – with God’s Word the BIBLE?
To begin with open to Isaiah 11:11 as God describes the 2ndReturn of His People. The 1st was after the Babylonian Exile in 586 BC, this is the 2nd Return after the Roman Destruction of Israel in AD 70-130 and this 2nd Return has happened in OUR GENERATION! People alive here tonight have witnessed this happen!
As I read see if your heart thrills as your mind sees the modern day “Miracle of Israel” that has occurred in the re-gathering of almost ½ of all Jews from 100 nations around the world back to Judea andSamaria of the Bible!
And they have returned since 1948 under the “banner” of a flag containing the blue of the Messianic longings of the prayer shawl and the Star of David (symbolizing the Messianic line of Jesus through David) boldly centered as the only sign of their flag!
Where exactly did God say they would come back to in this 2ndReturn? Ezekiel helps us by naming the places that the bones (the destroyed bits of the nation Israel) would come and be clothed with flesh (a nation again) awaiting the breath of God (revival) to come in the Tribulation Hour of Jacob’s Trouble.
Note Jeremiah 32:33-44 and Zechariah 10:6-12.
When? Perhaps after the greatest Holocaust the Jewish Peoples have ever known? Look at Psalm 102.
When the nation was first founded, God promised through Abraham, “I will make of thee a great nation . . . And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2,3). The continued existence of the Jews after centuries of dispersal and persecution unique in human history is a mute but eloquent testimony to fulfilled prophesy. The restoration of Israel as a nation among nations in our own generation is merely the most recent in a long line of fulfilled prophecies dealing with the Jewish people.
Through the Holy Scriptures (almost all written by Jews) and through Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham has indeed become a blessing to all families of the earth. Some from every nation have found salvation and blessing through faith in Him.
What happens to ISRAEL has been ordained[1] by God, and we need to be careful to understand from the past dealings of God with the Jews and to realize that in the future He is still at work! First we must see that God has Chosen the Jews as His People[2], and God has Chosen the Land of Canaan (not Palestine) as His Land and God has Chosen the Destiny of the Nation of Israel as His Destined Plan for His Destined People. The Jews, the Land of Israel, and the Nation Israel are a Chosen People of Destiny.
Modern Israel only occupies about one-sixth of 1 percent of the land area which the Arabs possess.
The Arab Nations have the oil, the wealth, and the worldwide influence which such seemingly inexhaustible resources command.
Israel’s postage-stamp piece of land is scarcely discernible on a world map, and it lacks all the essentials to make it the center of worldwide concern.
Yet, In defiance of all reason, however, it is the focus of world attention, precisely as prophesied.
Next, within Israel consider that city, the entire world has heard of-Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a small city with neither commercial nor strategic location. When the Old Testament prophets wrote of the future they did so with precision. Their astonishing accuracy singled out Jerusalem as the world focus. They didn”t say Damascus, Cairo, London, or Pariswould become the center of action in the last days, but Jerusalem."
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"[1] What were God’s Objectives in choosing Israel? He called Israel to proclaim His existence as God, and to proclaim Him as Jehovah the God of Revelation. He then would demonstrate through Israel the blessing to be derived from belonging to God. They were to become the writers and preservers of God’s revelation, and become God’s nation-priest to the nations of the world, and finally to bring into the world – the world’s Redeemer."
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Who’s Speaking Half-truths or Lies about Israel?
Media Bias: Young Conservatives
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"The list is endless, but let’s start with the UN. The UN Human Rights Council had resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined, link. Detect a UN bias against Israel?
In the past, the US and EU have threatened the Netanyahu government if it fails to make progress toward a two-state solution. But this ‘solution’ is not sought by 66% of Palestinians or by the Palestinian leadership, who want a single Palestinian state, link. So why does the UN pursue this line?
EU policy now requires special labeling for Israeli products made in settlements in the ‘occupied’ West Bank – but international lawyers maintain that the term ‘occupied’ is not legally correct, link. The PA President Mahmoud Abbas has described all of Israel as ‘occupation’, link – again, legally incorrect.
Pope Francis has described PA President Mahmoud Abbas as “an angel of peace”, link, but the PA makes no attempt to educate its people towards peace and coexistence with Israel and repeatedly rejects Israel’s right to exist, link.
The World Council of Churches is a key promoter of the Kairos Palestine document, which denies the Jewish historical connection to the land of Israel, link. This is not so much a lie, more historical ignorance! Haven’t they read the Torah? Last but not least, the media (CNN, CBC, Guardian, New York Times …) have all been accused of reporting bias against Israel, link.
The UK media stand accused of reporting bias in favour of Hamas – their statements are inflammatory e.g. “Israel bombs civilian targets with links to Hamas”, link. The UK media have even seriously misquoted the wording in the 1917 Balfour Declaration for a Jewish homeland, link.As the Bible says:
Truth is fallen in the streets … and they will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths (Isa 59.14, 2 Tim 4.4)"
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"What are the Most Fundamental Lies?
Here’s a few examples:
Jews have little historical connection with Israel
There is a historical Palestinian people
Jews are occupying Palestinian land
Jews caused the Palestinian refugee problem
Jerusalem is not the Jewish capital
The Jewish temple is a myth
The two-state solution is the only way forward
Palestinians are denied water
Jerusalem is historically holy to Islam
Israel is a racist state
Why are these statements inflammatory, or just plain wrong? Take the Jewish capital for instance. The UN and the EU prefer a two-state solution such that Jerusalem is the capital of both Israel and Palestine. But since a Palestinian State never existed in the past, does not exist now, and most likely never will exist, then this position is academic. More fundamentally, in international law it is a sovereign state’s right to determine its own capital, and Israel proclaimed Jerusalem to be her capital shortly after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. In any case, no other country in the world has been asked to divide its capital, so why should Israel?
Let’s now refute some of these lies.
LIE 1: Jews have little Historical Connection with Israel
Some claim that the Jews who came to Israel had no historical connection with the land – which was populated solely by indigenous Palestinians, link. Examples: “Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history” [Article 20, Palestinian National Charter, 1968, link]. “There is no tangible evidence of any Jewish traces/remains in the old city of Jerusalem and its immediate vicinity” [Palestinian Ministry of Information, December 10, 1997], link. “The extended kingdoms of David and Solomon, on which the Zionists base their territorial demands, endured for only about 73 years” [Illene Beatty, ‘Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan’]. “The Israelis claim that 2000 years ago they had a Temple [on the Temple Mount]. I challenge the claim that this is so” [Mahmoud Abbas, August, 2000]. Just a glance at history clearly shows that these are lies about Israel.
THE TRUTH: Is there historical evidence? Brief answer HERE"
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"One of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Qumran Caves (located in the ancient Kingdom of Judah). The scrolls have traditionally been identified with the Essenes, an ancient Jewish sect. Most of the texts are written in Hebrew.
Image: Israel Antiquities Authority 1993, Wikimedia Commons
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Palestinian leaders have adopted the tack of “stealing the enemy’s heritage, history, and values”, link. But archaeology and historical documentation shows that Jews have lived continuously in the land of Israel for over 3,000 years, link, link, link. For example, the descendants of Abraham formed the nation Israel around 1300 BC, in 1004 BC King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel, and in 960 BC his son Solomon built the first Jewish temple, link. That’s long before Islamic warriors spread across the Middle East and forced conversion upon its citizens.
The Jews Purchased the Temple area: King David actually purchased the land (Mount Moriah) on which the first temple was built. The area belongs to the Jews. David purchased it from a Jebusite called Ornan:
Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people … So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. (1 Chron 21.22,25)
Archaeological discoveries: Written stone tablets refer to the “House of David” and so verify the existence of King David, link. And City of David excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount have uncovered a seal (bulla) with the name of King Hezekiah (727-698 BC), link. Then there’s evidence from the Dead Sea scrolls. One of the scrolls, the Temple Scroll, claims to provide God’s instructions regarding the construction and operation of the Jewish Temple, link, link.
More evidence: Islam often denies Jewish links to the city of Jerusalem. But in 2019 a bulla (seal impression) and a 2,600-year-old stamp dating back to the First Temple and bearing Hebrew names were recently uncovered as part of the archaeological excavations in the City of David, link."
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"Post temple period: In 70 AD, when the Jewish civilization was already over 1000 years old, the Romans forced most of the Jews of Judea and Samaria (now the West Bank) into exile and destroyed the Second Temple. However, some Jews remained in the land and archaeologists have discovered 34 synagogues in the Golan Heights dating from the late Roman period through the Byzantine era up until the Arab conquest of the Holy Land around 638 AD, link. By the end of the 19th Century, the majority population of Jerusalem was again Jewish, link. In contrast, the Arabs arrived through multiple invasions, beginning only in the 7th Century AD, and the concept of a ‘Palestinian people’ only emerged after WWI.
WHAT DOES THE TORAH SAY?
Some 3,500 years ago, God promised by covenant that He would give all the land of Canaan (modern Israel) to Abraham and his descendants. This was unconditional and ‘forever’ (Gen 17.7,8). The covenant was established through Isaac and not through Ishmael and so the Jews are the true descendants of Abraham in the covenant sense and they keep this covenant through circumcision (Gen 17.10,19-21).
WHAT DOES THE QURAN SAY?
Quran 17:104: “And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: Dwell securely in the Promised Land.”
Quran 5:20-21: “Moses said to his people … O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you.”
This couldn’t be clearer. So why do today’s Muslim leaders refuse to acknowledge this promise to Israel?
LIE 2: A Palestinian People
The West, the media, the church and the Arab nations repeatedly refer to a ‘Palestinian People’:
“It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence” [Mahmoud Abbas]
“There are real injustices taking place in the Palestinian territories, and the suffering of the Palestinian people can no longer be ignored” [Christ at the Checkpoint Manifesto, link].
“Palestinians have never been strangers either to Jerusalem or to the entire homeland … we are the native people of this land” [Archbishop Sebastia Theodosios, Orthodox Christian archbishop in Jerusalem, link]
“The Palestinians must have their own sovereign, independent, and democratic state” [Sabeel, link]
“We, the Palestinians, are the Arab Jebusites” [Ibraham Abdullah Sar-sur, Arab Knesset member]
“The Palestinian people fight with weapons, with jihad, with Intifada and suicide actions” [ANN television, October 2000]
“J.K Rowling has publicly criticized the Israeli government for its ‘brutal’ and ‘unjust’ treatment of the Palestinian people” [The Telegraph, link]
THE TRUTH: What’s the underlying fallacy here? Brief answer HERE"
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HERE’S MORE TRUTH ….
Demographics: Whilst acknowledging the suffering of many, the issue here is the term ‘Palestinian People’. By the early 20th century the land of Israel was a mix of many peoples representing some 50 languages [1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]. The land was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries [Prof. Bernard Lewis]. This strong ethnic mix meant there was no distinctive Palestinian people, and the early Zionist pioneers saw the Arab population as small, apolitical, and without a nationalist element, link.
The term ‘Palestine’ seems to have come to prominence after the 1922 League of Nations Palestine Mandate, which aimed to establish in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people, link. The point here is that the Mandate didn’t recognize the existence of a ‘Palestinian people’ but instead referred to the local Arab population as existing non-Jewish communities.
Effect of Zionism: It was only after WWI that we find an emergence of Palestinian nationalism and an identifiable ‘Palestinian People’. Some see this as a response to the threat posed by Zionism, when waves of Jewish immigrants arrived in Palestine between 1919 and 1939, link. Prior to Zionism, there was no need for the Arabs of Palestine to focus on Palestinian identity. They were citizens of the Ottoman Empire and identified themselves as Arabs, not Palestinians, link. The designation “Palestinian” was more actively embraced around 1964, with the forming of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). This fact has even been admitted by the PLO: “The Palestinian people does not exist … there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people” [Zahir Muhsein, PLO, March, 1977].
So there never has been a ‘Palestinian people’ or a ‘Palestinian Arab nation’ having ancient attachments to the Holy Land, link, link. “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not” [Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946]. “It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them … they did not exist” [Golda Meir, Prime Minister, 1969].
LIE 3: Occupation of Palestinian Land
Almost without exception, the international community claims that Israel occupies Palestinian land. Examples:
There is a widely circulated map depicting a dramatic loss of Palestinian land from 1946 to 2010, link. MSNBC (an American cable and satellite TV network) have used it on air
The UN General Assembly frequently refers to Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, link
Barack Obama has said “Palestinians deserve an end to the occupation”, link
The UK Government refers to “The Occupied Palestinian Territories” in its foreign travel advice, link
Amnesty International state: “The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory (the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip) is in its fifth decade”
“The Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is a sin against God” [Kairos Document, link]
The World Council of Churches states: “Christians who promote ‘Christian Zionism’ distort the interpretation of the Word of God and the historic connection of Palestinians—Christians and Muslims—to the Holy Land’, link
“The Oslo accord was a preface for the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority will be a preface for the Palestinian state, which in turn will be a preface for the liberation of the entire Palestinian land” [Abdul Aziz Shaheen, PA Minister, January, 1998]
The Guardian newspaper has claimed: “There can be no negotiations without a clear Israeli commitment to fully withdraw from the Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem”
Mahatma Gandhi said: “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French”
THE TRUTH: What’s the incorrect assumption? Brief answer HERE"
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The 1922 League of Nations sub-division for Jewish Palestine. Map: Eli E. Hertz, enlarge
The map showing a ‘dramatic loss of Palestinian land’ is a lie, link. What never existed cannot be lost. There never was an Arab country called ‘Palestine’. Before the creation of the PLO in 1964 (16 years after the birth of Israel) no Arab political entity was called by that name, link, link. Some are honest enough to admit this: “There is no such country as Palestine” [Arab leader A.B. Abdul Hadi, 1937], “The Palestinian people does not exist” [Zahir Muhsein, PLO, March, 1977].
In international law, a territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state is declared terra nullius, and sovereignty over such territory can be legally acquired through occupation. The State of Israel follows this legality, stating: “Occupied territories are territories captured in war from an established and recognized sovereign. As the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not under the legitimate and recognized sovereignty of any state prior to the Six Day War, they should not be considered occupied territories … Israel’s presence in the (disputed) territories is not illegal”, link.
So since the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not previously under any recognized sovereignty, then under international law Israel can legally acquire these lands through occupation. On the other hand, Israel is not occupying ‘Palestinian land‘ since you cannot ‘occupy’ what never existed. All of western Palestine, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, including Gaza and all of Jerusalem remains legally open to Jewish settlement under the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine, see 1922 map. International lawyers maintain that this right of settlement is protected by Article 80 of the UN Charter which recognizes the Trust (British Mandate) handed to it by the League of Nations, link, link. Specifically, “Under international law, neither Jordan nor the Palestinian Arab people of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have a substantial claim to the sovereign possession of the ‘occupied’ territories. The West Bank should be considered ‘unallocated territory'” [Prof. Eugene Rostow]. Conclusion: Israel’s presence in the disputed territories is legal, and there is no legality to the term ‘occupied territories’.
Given this legal stance, the Palestinian demand for Israel to return to the pre-1967 borders under the 1967 UN Resolution 242 is irrelevant. In any case, these borders were temporary: “The armistice agreements of 1949 expressly preserved the territorial claims of all parties and did not purport to establish definitive boundaries between them” [Prof. Judge Schwebel, former President of the International Court of Justice]. “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial” [Lord Caradon, British Ambassador who drafted the approved resolution]. In the 1967 war, Israel simply took back land that was mandated for a Jewish homeland under the (still legally standing) British Mandate for Palestine."
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"LIE 4: Water Apartheid in Palestine
International media, the UN, the church, and the Palestinian Water Authority all accuse Israel of depriving ‘Occupied Territories’ of water.
“Palestinians say they are prevented from using their own water resources by a belligerent military power. This, Palestinians say, is crippling to their agricultural economy” [BBC News, Sept 2010]
“2.1 million Palestinians suffer an artificial water scarcity deliberately created and sustained by Israel’s military occupation” [The Ecologist, March 2014]
“Both the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian farmers are denied the right to construct wells to meet the growing demand for water, even when that water originates almost entirely in the West Bank” [UNCTAD – Agriculture, 2015, link]
“The total water needed to put all irrigable land in West Bank and Gaza under irrigation totals 490 MCM per year i.e. an additional 381 MCM relative to the current water supply” [Glover and Hunter (2010), link]
“The Palestinian people are denied their internationally recognized human right to sufficient safe, accessible, and affordable water” [Ecumenical Water Network, 2014, link]
“Palestine suffers from the unfair distribution of water sources, which remain under almost full Israeli control” [Palestinian Water Authority, March 2015]
In the West Bank, daily per capita consumption (domestic, urban and industrial) is around 73 litres, and 242 litres in Israeli towns [CJPME Factsheet, 2010, link]
“Palestinians are not allowed to drill their own water wells”, [thepeoplesvoice.org, October 2014]
THE TRUTH: Yes there’s a problem. But who’s causing it? Brief answer HERE
HERE’S MORE TRUTH ….
Legal Agreement: Israel and the Palestinian Authority set up a Joint Water Committee (JWC) in 1995. Under the Second Oslo Accords 1995, “Israel recognized the water rights of the Palestinians in the West Bank, and a clear allocation of quantities of water to each party was determined, maintaining existing quantities of usage”, link. In 1995 both sides agreed on the future needs of the Palestinians in the West Bank, which could total 200 million cubic meters (MCM) per year, link. The JWC also discusses and authorizes requests for water drilling. Israel continues to honour Oslo II and has responded to the needs of the Palestinians: “Israel is in full compliance with the terms for water use and supply as outlined in the Oslo II. In fact, Israel provides 30% more water to the Palestinians than required, with the total amount of water available to them exceeding agreed-upon terms. Despite Palestinian claims, there is almost no difference in the amount of water Israelis and Palestinians use. As of 2012, per capita water use is 150 MCM for Israelis and 140 MCM for Palestinians.” [TIP, March 2012, link]. And despite rocket attacks targeting them, Israeli water authority personnel continue to repair and maintain the water supply to Gaza, link."
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"Palestinian Responsibility: The total water available to the Palestinians in 2007 was 200 MCM per year, link. So why is there still a water shortage? One reason is that the Israeli Water Authority supplies water but does not carry out the internal Palestinian distribution of the water (water management); that task is up to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But water losses in their networks are very high – about 33%, link. Also, unlike Israel, the Palestinians are very reluctant to treat wastewater and use the treated effluent in agriculture, link, link. When it comes to wells, JWC permits have been granted for drilling into the Eastern Mountain Aquifer, but as of 2014 the Palestinians had drilled at just one-third of these sites, despite the offer of international finance, link. More at NGO Monitor.
Water Politics: “Water shortages in the Palestinian Authority are the result of Palestinian policies that deliberately waste water and destroy the regional water ecology. The Palestinians refuse to develop their own significant underground water resources, build a seawater desalination plant, fix massive leakage from their municipal water pipes, build sewage treatment plants, irrigate land with treated sewage effluents or modern water-saving devices, or bill their own citizens for consumer water usage, leading to enormous waste. At the same time, they drill illegally into Israel’s water resources, and send their sewage flowing into the valleys and streams of central Israel. In short, the Palestinian Authority is using water as a weapon against the State of Israel. It is not interested in practical solutions to solve the Palestinian people’s water shortages, but rather perpetuation of the shortages and the besmirching of Israel” [Prof. Haim Gvirtzman, Feb 2014, link]
LIE 5: The Palestinian Refugee Problem
Today some 5 million registered Palestinian refugees live in towns, cities or camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, link. How did this come about – and why does it continue?
Arabic Leadership: The leadership argues: “No Zionism – no Palestinian refugee problem”. This summarizes the Palestinian argument for what caused the refugee problem. They claim that Palestinians were innocently minding their own business, when suddenly the Zionists attacked them and evicted them from their homes by force as part of a preconceived plan of ethnic cleansing, link. They maintain that “the Palestinian refugees are the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine, the majority of whom were dispossessed, were forced to run away or were expelled when the State of Israel was created in 1948”, link. They claim that dispossession and expulsion increased when Israel launched the 1967 war on her Arab neighbours [Al-Awda].
Western Churches: These claims are echoed by many western churches e.g. “Most Palestinians rejected this arrangement (the declared state of Israel) and the majority of the population – some 750,000 Palestinians – fled or were expelled”, link, “In 1948-49 Israel drove some 750,000 Palestinians from their towns and villages”, link.
THE TRUTH: Is this really how the problem arose? Brief answer HERE"
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Jewish quarter refugees evacuating the Old City through the Zion Gate, May 1948, Wikimedia
Arab nations argue: “No Zionism – no Palestinian refugee problem” whilst Zionist’s reply “No war – no Palestinian refugee problem”. Let’s look at the historical facts.
1947: The UN Partition Plan recommended the establishment of two States in Palestine – a Jewish State and an Arab State. The Jews accepted the decision but the Arabs rejected it.
1948-49: The Jews proclaimed an independent State of Israel (the right to self-determination is guaranteed in international law) and immediately the Arab nations invaded Israel. Many Palestinians evacuated their homes under direction from Arab armies, hoping to return soon after the inevitable Arab victory, link. In many towns the leaders of the Arab communities had already left, link. So at this time over 700,000 Arabs fled to neighbouring Arab countries and became refugees, whilst over 850,000 Jews were forced to leave Muslim countries after their property was confiscated. All the Jewish inhabitants of East Jerusalem were expelled by occupying Jordanian forces – see photo (before 1948 Jews lived in the old city and the eastern sector, link). Israel offered to repatriate 100,000 Arab refugees in April 1949 but this was rejected.
1952: The UN offered $200m for the refugees but this was also rejected by Arab governments.
Out of tens of millions of refugees in those years, the only ones who remained as refugees are the ‘Palestinians’, and that is as a result of a conscious decision of the Arab countries to perpetuate their situation. These refugees exist as an ever-present source of outrage the Arab nations use as leverage in negotiations with “the West”, link. So Palestinians remain refugees by Arab choice, since no Arab state apart from Jordan grants Palestinians citizenship, link. Clearly, the refugee problem stemmed directly from the sudden Arab declaration of war on the emergent Jewish state and today is perpetuated by Arab countries themselves! It is widely acknowledged that to implement the “right of return”, link of huge numbers of refugees would eliminate the Jewish right to self-determination, as in a Jewish State, link. “An expectation that Israel has to deal with Arab refugees that were created by the war in 1948 that the Arabs started against Israel was preposterous” [Netanyahu, 2015]."
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"LIE 6: Jerusalem is not the Jewish Capital
Asked about the fate of Jerusalem, 92% of Palestinians said it should be the capital of Palestine, [Stanley Greenberg poll of 1,010 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and Gaza Strip]. “Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel; Tel Aviv is” [Guardian, April 2012], link. “Jerusalem today is an occupied city” [World Council of Churches]. “Israel maintains that Jerusalem is its capital city, a claim not recognized by the UK and the international community” [UK Foreign Office 2012, link]. “As far as the US government is concerned, Jerusalem is not a part of Israel” [US Supreme Court, June 2015, link].
THE TRUTH: Can Israel legally claim Jerusalem as her capital? Brief answer HERE
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Israel proclaimed Jerusalem to be her capital shortly after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948: “Whereas with establishment of the State of Israel, Jerusalem once more becomes the capital” [Knesset, 1950 ]. This proclamation was based upon historical connections, Bible prophecy and the true legal position defined by the 1920 San Remo Resolution, the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine and Article 80 of the UN Charter. “According to international law, Israel has a well-founded claim to sovereignty over Jerusalem, including its Old City” [Dr Jacques Gautier, author ‘Sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem’, see Who Owns Jerusalem?]. Aside from a sovereign state’s right to determine its own capital, link, international convention maintains that a capital city is usually where a state’s central political institutions reside. While Tel Aviv is widely regarded as Israel’s economic and cultural center, the organs of political power, including the Knesset, Prime Minister’s Office, Foreign Ministry and most other government ministries are located in Jerusalem, Israel’s declared capital city, link. The definitive word on Israel’s claim to Jerusalem rests with the Bible – the God of Israel has put His name there:
I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there (2 Chron 6.6)"
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"LIE 7: The Jewish Temple is a Myth
A model of Herod’s Temple based on findings of Biblical Archaeology.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Arab nations contest the concept of historic Jewish Temples. Examples: “No Jewish Temple ever existed on the Temple Mount” [Yasser Arafat, 2000 Camp David Summit]. The historic existence of a Jewish Temple “is a myth and nothing more” [Arab Member of Knesset Jamal Zahalka (Balad), 2014]. “The Zionist movement has invented that this was the site of Solomon’s Temple. But this is all a lie” [Sheik Raed Salah, a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel]. Today, the Hamas government in Gaza describes the biblical Temples in Jerusalem as “the biggest lie in history”, link. The World Heritage Committee of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has adopted a resolution which refers to the area below and to the west of the Temple Mount as the “Buraq plaza” [July 2015], link. The resolution, proposed by three Arab countries, Qatar, Algeria and Lebanon, refers to the Temple Mount itself as a “Muslim holy site” with no reference to its importance to Jews, link. Muslim leaders wanting to deny Jewish claims to the site refer to the Western Wall as “the al-Buraq wall” and claim that the Western Wall is part of al-Aqsa Mosque, link.
THE TRUTH: What support is there for the Jewish temples? Brief answer HERE
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Rabbinical sources: The Tanach (the Hebrew Bible) repeatedly testifies that Jews built the Temple in Jerusalem and worshiped there, link. Here, a temple is often called a bayit (“house”). In all, there are five temples: the First Temple (Solomon’s Temple), the two rival northern temples established by Jeroboam, the Second Temple dedicated in 516 BCE, and the temple described in Ezekiel’s vision (Ezekiel 40–48).
History & Location: The existence of the Second Temple is supported by the Jewish historian Josephus who refers to the magnificence of the temple in Jesus’ time, link. Solomon’s Temple was built there 969-930 BC and the Temple was rebuilt 520-516 BC. But where? Rabbinical sources claim that both the First and Second Temples were built on the same foundations, at the same location somewhere on the Temple Mount. “Historical records of the destruction committed by the Romans, just by themselves, are ‘pretty overwhelming’ in supporting the existence of the Second Temple in the immediate vicinity of the Dome of the Rock” [Kent Bramlett, Professor of Archaeology, La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif.]. The traditional location of the Temples lies in the immediate vicinity of the present-day Dome of the Rock, link, and the Western Wall is the western retaining wall of King Herod’s expanded Temple Mount, link. Historical accounts say that the Dome of the Rock was built by the Moslems to overlay the location of the original Jewish Temple, link. Similar claims are made for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, link. The Gihon Spring just north of the ancient City of David (Zion) and on the southeastern ridge of Jerusalem is another possible location, link. "
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"LIE 8: Arab East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem is widely referred to as ‘Arab’ East Jerusalem. Examples: “When Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, the residents of the city were Jordanian citizens holding Jordanian passports. Israel imposed Israeli law on the city and unilaterally annexed the territory of East Jerusalem” [Palestine-Israel Journal, 2007]. “In Arab East Jerusalem … three-quarters of the population lives below Israel’s poverty line” [The New York Times, October 2015]. “Abbas temporarily walked away from the negotiations in March after Israel announced more housing for Jews in traditionally Arab east Jerusalem” [The Huffington Post, June 2010]. “The eastern portion [of Jerusalem], from which Jews were driven at gunpoint in 1948, is regularly referred to as ‘Arab East Jerusalem'” [FresnoZionism, Dec 2010].
THE TRUTH: Is it legally correct to refer to ‘Arab’ East Jerusalem? Brief answer HERE
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Historically there was no such entity as ‘Arab East Jerusalem’ or even ‘East Jerusalem’. All of Jerusalem was mandated to be part of the Jewish homeland under the 1922 Palestine Mandate. Jerusalem was never divided until the Arab (Jordanian) invasion of 1948-49, as explained in the video. In 1949 UN Security Council Resolution 62 called for the implementation of armistice (ceasefire) agreements and as a result Israel’s borders were re-established along the so-called “Green Line”. Importantly, the 1949 armistice borders were not recognized by Arab states, which continued to refuse to recognize Israel, and were regarded as temporary by drafters of UN Resolution 242, link.
The Green Line divided Jerusalem, putting the Old City just inside Jordanian held territory – see map. So at the end of the war Jerusalem was divided between Jordan and Israel. Note that it was only through war that Jordan gained control of Judea and Samaria (the ‘West Bank’) and the Old City of Jerusalem (which later became part of ‘East Jerusalem’). This was the situation until June 1967, when Israel took back these territories. After June 1967 Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem resulting in what is now referred to as East Jerusalem – the blue line on the map or the green area here. Since Israel legally declared a ‘Jewish’ state in 1948, the boundaries were set to strengthen Israeli sovereignty over the city by creating a Jewish majority, link, link. In 1988 King Hussain of Jordan formally renounced any claim to the lands (West Bank and East Jerusalem) that he had lost in the 1967 war, link. So at no time was East Jerusalem under legal ownership by an Arab entity.
Living under Israeli rule is preferable to living under the Palestinian Authority [East Jerusalem Palestinian politician Ramadan Dabbash, October 2017]"
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"Archaeology: If the Jewish Temple never existed, then why does archaeological evidence suggest otherwise? Every year Jews would arrive at Solomon’s Temple to celebrate Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles), and for this they needed fresh flowing water. Archaeologists have discovered an ancient water aqueduct running from the Hebron mountains, through Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem, and into the Temple Mount area, link, link. This was done at least 1500 years before any mosque was built! Archaeologists have recently discovered a small model building with an architectural design that matches the Biblical descriptions of the Temple of Solomon, link."
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"LIE 9: Jerusalem is Holy to Islam
Muslims consider Jerusalem to be the third-holiest city in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. It is claimed that the actual site of Mohammed’s ascension to heaven was the exposed piece of bedrock at the top of the elongated ridge called Mount Moriah, link. So Caliph Abd-al-Malik’s Dome of the Rock was built over the bedrock outcrop to commemorate the location of this important event, link. This background leads to claims like: “Jerusalem is just like the holy city of Mecca” [Crown Prince ‘Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]. “We won’t give up on Palestine, all of Palestine, and Jerusalem will remain the place to which all jihad warriors will direct their prayers” [Hasan Nasrallah, leader of Hizbullah]. Yasser Arafat constantly repeated that there can be no peace without Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine and total Muslim sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
THE TRUTH: Do these claims fit the facts? Brief answer HERE
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Islamic claims on Jerusalem are inconsistent with the facts: Jerusalem and Zion do not appear at all in the Qur’an, link. Moreover, it is a historical fact that Mohammed never set foot in the city, link, link, and Islamic sources from the first 50 years or so after Mohammad’s death make clear that Jerusalem had absolutely no holy status for Muslims, link. Also, Islamic claims that the “Furthest Mosque” (Sura 17:1) refers to what is today called the Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem have no foundation, link.
So why is Jerusalem even claimed to be the third-holiest city in Islam? And why is this claim relatively recent, not preceding the 1930s, link? Muslims see Mecca as the navel of the world (just as Jews see Jerusalem, link) and so turn their back on the Dome of the Rock when praying, link. In contrast, the Jews have a solid claim to Jerusalem. The name of the city appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem) 154 times. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over 3,000 years ago and throughout that time Jews remained steadfast to it. They pray in its direction and mention its name constantly in prayers."
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"They pray in its direction and mention its name constantly in prayers.
LIE 10: The Two-state Solution is the Only Way
The 1947 UN Partition Plan (not implemented), Enlarge, Wikimedia
The western world favours the two-state solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They say:
“The two-State solution: a key prerequisite for achieving peace and stability in the Middle East” [Theme of UN international meeting, July 2015]
“The Zionist dream embraces the concept of Israel as a Jewish democracy … That dream can only be upheld by two states living side by side in security” [John Kerry, UN HQ, November 2015]
“A two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic” [Barack Obama, October 2015, link]
“Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land” [Obama, March 2013, link]
“The international community does not believe that Israel is serious about a two-state solution” [Obama, June 2015]
“I believe with a passion: the only solution that works is a solution that delivers security to Israel and dignity to the Palestinian people. A state for the Jewish people. A state for the Palestinian people” [Tony Blair, March 2010]
The Vatican “hopes for a solution to the Palestinian question and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians according to the two-state solution” [Antoine Camilleri, Holy See’s deputy foreign minister, May 2015].
In reality, the international community may be looking at three states: a Jewish state, a PA state on the West Bank and a Hamas terrorist state controlling 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza!
THE TRUTH: Is this what everybody wants? Brief answer HERE
HERE’S MORE TRUTH ….
To satisfy these calls, Netanyahu has called on the Palestinian leadership to return to negotiations unconditionally: “I remain committed to the idea that the only way we can achieve a lasting peace is through the concept of two states for two peoples” [Netanyahu, May 31, 2015]. But according to a recent poll, only 34% of Palestinians accept two states for two peoples as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [Stanley Greenberg face-to-face survey of 1,010 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and Gaza Strip]. Sixty-six percent said the Palestinians’ real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state, link. This reflects the PA leadership position: “We will never accept a Palestinian state without Jerusalem as its capital” [Mahmoud Abbas, May, 2011]. What’s new? The Arab leadership rejected a two-state solution as far back as 1947 (see UN Partition Plan). Clearly, the western world is not reading from the same page as the Palestinians!
So although Netanyahu appears open to the idea of two-states, such a solution is impossible given that the Palestinian Authority maintains that Israel is not a Jewish State and that Jerusalem is the capital of the future Palestinian State! Moreover, Hamas has said it “never gave Abbas or anyone else a mandate to agree to the two-state solution” [The Jerusalem Post, Nov 2015] and such a solution is incompatible with the Hamas Charter and the broad Islamic goal of the elimination of Israel: “Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be ‘eliminated'” [President of Iran, September 2012 ]. Most importantly, a two-state solution is condemned by the God of Israel:
I will gather all nations and put them on trial … because they divided up my land (Joel 3.2)"
& continues
"LIE 11: Israel is the Aggressor
“Israel is killing civilians by the hundreds, Palestinian civilians. We are the victims. Israel is the aggressor” [Fawzy Barhoum, July 2014]. “We want your protection. We want the protection of the world. We can no longer bear all these sanctions, all these attacks perpetrated by the settlers and the Israeli army” [President Mahmoud Abbas, UN Human Rights Council, Oct 2015]. “Israel is the aggressor; it is an imperial nation that is, and has for generations been, stealing land” [warisacrime.org, 2013]. “An occupying state has no legal right to wage a full-scale military war against an occupied population” [Noura Erakat, Georgetown International Law professor, 2015].
THE TRUTH: Who shows the most aggression; Israel or her neighbours? Brief answer HERE
HERE’S MORE TRUTH ….
Egyptian Spitfire shot down in raid on Tel Aviv, May 1948, Wikimedia Commons
International law distinguishes between defensive wars and wars of aggression. UN Charter Article 51 states that there is an inherent right of collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, link. The fact is that all of Israel’s major conflicts with her Arab neighbors have been in self-defense, link. Consider the following. 1948: Immediately after the Jewish State was born in May 1948, five Arab armies (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq) invaded Israel. Jewish communities in the West Bank that had existed prior to the Arab invasion were demolished, as was the Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It’s population of about 2,000 Jews was besieged and forced to leave en masse, and 55 synagogues and Talmudic Academies were destroyed. 1967: “Israel has continued too long … the battle has come in which we shall destroy Israel” [President of Egypt, 1967]. The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon (and later Iraq) attacked Israel. Their goal was “to wipe Israel off the map”. 1973: Yom Kipper War – Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel.
The threats continue: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it” [Hamas Charter, 1988]. “Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be ‘eliminated’ [President of Iran, 2012]. After Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, terrorists fired more than 11,000 rockets into Israel, link. In 2014, following incessant rocket fire from Gaza at Israel, the IDF initiated Operation Protective Edge – a clear defensive action in response to rocket attacks. During the conflict some 4,700 missiles, rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel’s cities and towns, link. Future wars to eliminate Israel are imminent, link."
& continues
"LIE 12: Israel is an Apartheid or Racist State
Many claim it is: “It needs to be pointed out that they [Israel] are a racist state and an apartheid state … the UK should stop supporting Israel, both politically and from a trade perspective” [Tanya Williams, Twickenham’s Green Party candidate, April 2015]. “Campaign for an economic and cultural boycott of the ‘racist apartheid’ state of Israel” [Scottish Green Party, October 2015]. Asked whether Israel is a racist country, 47% of US Democrats agreed “it is”, [July 2015, link]. “The racist Theodor Herzl wrote ‘Der Judenstaat’ (‘The Jewish State’) … Ben-Gurion, Chaim Arlosoroff, Moshe Sharett and other racists established the Jewish Agency, and the racist UN decided to establish a Jewish state” [Haaretz, November 2015, link]. “Israel is a ‘Zionist occupier’ and a ‘racist state'” [Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, 2012]
THE TRUTH: Are racist accusations justified? Brief answer HERE
HERE’S MORE TRUTH ….
All these statements exhibit a naive understanding of Israeli anti-discrimination law and of the internationally recognized right of self-determination of a people. The two issues are related:
No Discrimination: Apartheid can be defined as: ‘An official policy of racial segregation’ or ‘A political system where people are clearly divided based on race, gender or class’. But Israeli law makes it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, nationality, or country of origin, link, link. Despite tight immigration control to maintain a Jewish demographic majority (see later), Israel provides economic, educational and professional opportunities for non-Jewish citizens, link. Also, Israeli citizens of all ethnic groups and religious beliefs, including Arab-Israelis, can actively participate in the election process, and all votes cast are equal in weight, link. Arabs are granted full civil rights under Israeli law, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or sex, link. So Israel is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab women may vote. In fact, Israel is the only Middle Eastern country to rate as “free”, according to a report by Freedom House.
Self-Determination: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states:
“All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development” [Part 1, Article 1, link]
This is exactly what Israel did in 1948. On May 14, 1948 David Ben-Gurion proclaimed “the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel”, link. The same right was accorded to Arabs under the UN (two-state) Partition Plan of 1947, link; the Jews exercised their right to form a Jewish state in 1948, but the Arabs chose not to form their own Palestinian state. Israel was following the internationally recognized ‘Palestine Mandate’ for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people, link. In order to establish a Jewish state, Israel encouraged essentially Jewish only immigration (aliyah) through the 1950 Law of Return. This Law is seen as racist by opponents of Israel since it essentially discriminates against Arabs and especially those Palestinian refugees who wish to return to their former homes in Israel, link. But in order to maintain a Jewish state, demographics suggest a Jewish majority of at least 70%, link. Today, Israel’s population is about 75% Jews and 25% non-Jews, link. To open up Israel to mass immigration of non-Jews would lead to the annihilation of the Jewish state under the political aspirations of the Arab/Palestinian leadership. The return of refugees is seen as ‘no longer practical’, link, but even when Palestinian refugees could be clearly identified this political and demographic problem was recognized:"
& lastly says
"“If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist” (Neue Zuercher Zeitung, September 1, 1960)
Similarly, granting rights of citizenship to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank could also upset the demographic balance, link. On the other hand, Israel’s Declaration of Independence, link, clearly states that minorities in Israel (non-Jews) will be protected by ensuring “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants” – as discussed above. Such equality is not found in a racist state!
So in the light of both Israeli anti-discrimination law and Israel’s right to self-determination as a Jewish State (and to maintain it), the accusation of ‘racist’ to Israel is unjustified. In fact, the accusation of ‘racist’ by the Arab world is hypocritical since these nations openly advocate a single Palestinian State (and annihilation of the Jewish state) which would be essentially restricted to Muslims, link. Finally, if the Arab/Palestinian leadership would recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist, then Israel could live by the biblical injunction:
When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall do him no wrong … (he) … shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself. (Lev 19.33,34)
From my childhood, I have believed Jews and Arabs can live together, and I believe now they should live together. All the rights to this country, to the land of Israel – especially Judea and Samaria – are Jewish … but everyone who lives in the country should have all the rights of the country. [Ariel Sharon, TIME, April 1989]"
From the website factsaboutisrael.uk Click on the Links in the Article to see the
Pro-Israel TRUTH
From the website www.desiringgod.org an article is titled
"If We Love Jesus, We Will Love the Jews"
Twelve Biblical Reasons Not to Be Anti-Semitic
November 5, 2018
Article by John Piper
Founder & Teacher, desiringGod.org the article says:
"The standard dictionary definition of anti-Semitism is “hostility to, or prejudice against, Jews.” There is a long history of such mistreatment of Jews (some horrific) by professing Christians. The aim of this article is to show that those Christians were acting contrary to the Bible — the very Scripture they claimed to believe. The cumulative effect of these twelve observations is to show that the Christian Scriptures do not support anti-Semitism, but forbid it.
1. God freely and graciously chose the Jewish people from all the peoples of the world to be recipients of a covenant with him that would bestow unique blessings on Israel, and would be the means through which all the families of the earth would be blessed.
The Lord said to Abram . . . “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1–3)
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. (Romans 9:4)
2. Jesus, who the Scriptures teach is the incarnation of the eternal, divine Son of God, was Jewish. This incarnation was the means of God’s fulfilling his covenant with Abraham — Jesus is the offspring through which all the families of the earth are blessed.
It is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah. (Hebrews 7:14)
To [the Israelites] belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 9:5)
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. (Galatians 3:16)
3. All of the twelve apostles chosen by the Lord Jesus were Jews.
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matthew 10:5–6)
4. The fact that the Jewish people rejected (and, as a whole, still reject) Jesus as their Messiah, and were instrumental, along with Pilate and other Gentiles, in his crucifixion, was not a warrant for their persecution. Jesus himself, as he died, set the example for his followers by praying that the Jews and Gentiles responsible for his death would be forgiven, which many of them were when the apostles offered them gospel grace, not retribution.
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)
Peter . . . lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea, . . . this Jesus . . . you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up. . . .” Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart. . . . Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.” . . . So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.” (Acts 2:14, 23–24, 37–38, 41) "
The article continues
"5. Paul spelled out the short-term sorrowful, and long-term hopeful, implications of the Jewish rejection of the gospel, explaining that Jewish enmity toward Jesus as the Messiah was for the sake of the salvation of Gentiles, which in turn would be for the sake of the salvation of Jews. In other words, God’s design in the temporary disobedience of both Gentile and Jew was finally for the good of both.
As regards the gospel, they [the Jews] are enemies for your [the Gentiles’] sake. But as regards election, they [the Jews] are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For just as you [Gentiles] were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their [the Jews] disobedience, so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you [Gentiles] they also may now receive mercy. For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. (Romans 11:28–32)
6. God has chosen to save Jews and Gentiles in a way that severs the root of pride in both. He especially warns Gentiles not to boast over Jews just because some of them did not believe while Gentiles did believe.
If some of the [Jewish] branches were broken off, and you, although a wild [Gentile] olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the [Jewish] branches. (Romans 11:17–18)
7. To support Paul’s rejection of Gentile boasting over Jews (with the kind of derision and persecution that may go with it), he reminded Gentiles that to this very day Gentile salvation depends on God’s faithfulness to his covenant to the Jewish forefather Abraham.
If you are [arrogant], remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. (Romans 11:18)
[Jesus said,] “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” (John 4:22)
8. Another argument from Paul that the Gentiles must not boast over Jews is that God not only can, but will, someday draw Israel as a whole to Jesus as the Messiah so that all Israel will be saved.
If you [Gentiles] were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree [the Abrahamic covenant], how much more will these [Jews], the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree. Lest you [Gentiles] be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved. (Romans 11:24–26) "
& continues
"9. The almost exclusive priority that Jesus gave to Jews in his ministry (Matthew 10:6; 15:24) was changed so as to include all the nations in the offer of salvation (Matthew 21:43; 28:19–20), but it was not entirely abandoned, as we can see from the fact that the apostles, even on their Gentile mission, considered it fitting that God’s first covenant people receive the gospel first.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16; see also Acts 3:26; 18:5–6)
10. Paul set the example for how Christians should relate to Jews until the final day of salvation for all God’s elect from Israel and the Gentiles: he did everything he could to bring Jews to salvation, even being willing to suffer on their behalf rather than bringing suffering on them.
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them [the Jews] is that they may be saved. (Romans 10:1)
I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. (Romans 11:13–14)
I am speaking the truth in Christ — I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit — that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my [Jewish] kinsmen according to the flesh. (Romans 9:1–3)
11. Paul also set the example for us (Philippians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 4:16–17) when he was persecuted by Jews, in that he did not respond in kind. To our knowledge, Paul and the other apostles of Jesus, who spread the gospel after Jesus’s resurrection, never lifted a finger of hostility against Jewish people.
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. (2 Corinthians 11:24)
When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things. (1 Corinthians 4:12–13)
12. Jesus taught his followers to treat their neighbors the way they would like to be treated, and to respond to mistreatment from their enemies with mercy; and his apostles continued that teaching after him."
& lastly says
"“Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. . . . Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.” (Luke 6:27–29, 35–36; see also Matthew 5:44–48)
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. . . . Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. (Romans 13:8, 10)
If when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. (1 Peter 2:20–23)
Therefore, the entire scope of Scripture, the Spirit of Jesus, the example of the apostles, the explicit commands of love, and the future destiny of the nations, including Israel, show that hostility toward Jews, in thought and act, is forbidden by Scripture.
Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. One day Israel will see this with joy. In the meantime, the Christian followers of the Messiah are called to commend Jesus as the only Savior from sin for all the peoples of the world. We do this by speaking and showing the word of God, with the good news of Jesus at the center: “These things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31)."
From the website biblehub.com Another Good Bible verse,
Isaiah 46:13 ►
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Verse (Click for Chapter)
New International Version
I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.
New Living Translation
For I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now! I am ready to save Jerusalem and show my glory to Israel.
English Standard Version
I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.”
Berean Study Bible
I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.
New American Standard Bible
"I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off; And My salvation will not delay. And I will grant salvation in Zion, And My glory for Israel.
New King James Version
I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in Zion, For Israel My glory.
King James Bible
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Christian Standard Bible
I am bringing my justice near; it is not far away, and my salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, my splendor in Israel.
Contemporary English Version
I will soon come to save you. I am not far away and will waste no time; I take pride in Israel and will save Jerusalem.
Good News Translation
I am bringing the day of victory near--it is not far away at all. My triumph will not be delayed. I will save Jerusalem and bring honor to Israel there."
Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am bringing My justice near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, My splendor in Israel."
International Standard Version
My righteousness is brought near and it's not far off, and my salvation won't delay. I'll grant salvation in Zion, and to Israel, my glory."
NET Bible
I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, it does not wait. I will save Zion; I will adorn Israel with my splendor."
New Heart English Bible
I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
I'll bring my righteousness near; it isn't far away. My salvation will not be delayed. I'll provide salvation for Zion and bring my glory to Israel.
JPS Tanakh 1917
I bring near My righteousness, it shall not be far off, And My salvation shall not tarry; And I will place salvation in Zion For Israel My glory.
New American Standard 1977
“I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off; And My salvation will not delay. And I will grant salvation in Zion, And My glory for Israel.
& continues
"Jubilee Bible 2000
I cause my righteousness to come near; it shall not go away; and my salvation shall not be stayed: and I will place salvation in Zion; and my glory in Israel.
King James 2000 Bible
I bring near my righteousness: it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
American King James Version
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
American Standard Version
I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Brenton Septuagint Translation
I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.
Darby Bible Translation
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay; and I will give salvation in Zion, [and] unto Israel my glory.
English Revised Version
I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory,
Webster's Bible Translation
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
World English Bible
I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Young's Literal Translation
I have brought near My righteousness, It is not far off, And My salvation -- it doth not tarry, And I have given in Zion salvation, To Israel My glory!
From the website israelnationalnews.com an article is titled
"Let's End the Rachel Corrie Circus: The Big Lies"
the article says:
The truth about Corrie, point by point, as an appeal is launched.
Lee Kaplan, 20/05/14 11:48
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Lee Kaplan the article says
"The writer heads Stop the ISM. He is an investigative journalist and contributor to Front Page Magazine, senior intelligence analyst and communications director for the Northeast Intelligence Network, and also heads Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA). He appears frequently in the US media.
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On May 21st, Israel’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal of the lower court in Haifa that heard the wrongful death lawsuit by the parents of Rachel Corrie. Three of Israel’s highest judges, at taxpayer expense, will take their time to listen to an Arab lawyer named Hussein Abu Hussein who is a professional flack for the terrorist movements out to destroy Israel. The purpose is to accuse the IDF of murder and a cover up in a nonsensical trial over a little foolish American girl who was playing revolutionary in a combat zone and got herself killed in the process.
Rachel’s parents could have stepped up after their daughter’s death and urged other parents to not encourage their children to go to the Holy Land to act as human shields for terrorists like Rachel did. Instead, they chose to make a sinecure traveling the world and mythologizing their "useful idiot" child as a “human rights activist” who died protecting a Palestinian home with her body.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Even after being kidnapped by Hamas operatives in Gaza, on their release they began the same lying campaign.
Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi propagandist who created the Big Lie. The Big Lie held that if one repeated a story over and over people would come to believe it as true.
This is the case with Rachel Corrie. Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel’s parents, became spokespeople for a foundation put together by assorted anti-Semites and radical Arabs in the US to build a Big Lie around Rachel.
A play was developed glorifying this stupid foolish girl who was on a thrill ride as an anarchist in Gaza trying to interfere with the IDF.
Joseph Carr, an ISM activist who was present that day when Rachel was, actually said that Rachel’s death was well worth the “price of the revolution”.
the article continues
"These are just some of the Big Lies about Rachel Corrie:
1) Rachel Corrie was protecting an Arab doctor’s house from demolition;
Video tape of the incident when Rachel was killed clearly shows she was not protecting a house. She plunked herself down in front of a D9 caterpillar tractor that was clearing the entrance to a weapons smuggling tunnel and the driver did not see her. The video can be seen at StoptheISM.com on the home page. There was no “doctor”; the ISM found a pharmacist named Sami Masry to claim Rachel was protecting his home. For this, Masry got himself a new home paid for by the Rachel Corrie Foundation in the US, to perpetuate the Big Lie.
2) Rachel Corrie was a pacifist concerned with “human rights.”
Rachel Corrie was a self-avowed anarchist (this according to her boyfriend). She hated not only Israel but the US. She wrote her mother calling the terrorists who blew up Israelis “martyrs” and considered them noble.
Rachel took her anarchism seriously. Two weeks before she died, she was in one of those weapons smuggling tunnels helping to bring out the dead body of a Hamas terrorist the IDF had killed in an earlier operation. In another instance, shortly before her death she walked out into a hot combat zone with Fellow ISM activist Joseph Carr under orders of a Hamas supervisor to retrieve another dead body of a terrorist.
According to a phone interview I made with Carr before the last lawsuit in the possession of government lawyers, Rachel did this because she knew Arab snipers would shoot any IDF soldiers who came out from cover to arrest them. The fact that Rachel was trying to draw fire upon IDF soldiers made her an enemy combatant.
3) Rachel Corrie was acting on her own to aid the Palestinians.
The ISM on its website openly boasts they are Palestinian-led and has Arab plainclothes supervisors at all demonstrations against the IDF this per one of their leaders, Adam Shapiro). As such, Rachel was following orders that day in Rafah to interfere with IDF soldiers. That makes her a part of the terrorist network."
& continues
"4) Rachel was the victim of a negligent IDF.
Rachel Corrie’s ISM group leader, a non-Arab, admitted to the press the day she was killed that she was in a spot where she shouldn’t have been. Bored about waiting for directions, she left the group and plunked herself in front of the active bulldozer that was clearing a weapons smuggling tunnel.
Rachel knew that driver would not emerge to move her because Arab snipers would shoot him if he did. This was a deliberate act to harm IDF soldiers and she no doubt got this idea from the earlier episode removing dead bodies in combat zones. There were no homes being demolished that day in Rafah as the video showed.
The IDF Captain, in charge of the detail that included the D9 and two vehicles, in an interview immediately after her death said the ISM activists would stand in front of his vehicles and point to their own chests and yell at the soldiers “Shoot me! Shoot me!” The IDF showed remarkable restraint that day.
For those who ask why the army didn’t send soldiers out of their vehicles to arrest the ISM activists, the fact that Arab snipers were using the ISM activists to draw them into sight for just such a reason shows why they didn’t do this. And it also points out how Corrie and her ISM buddies were part of a combat scenario against the IDF.
5) The tractor backed up over Rachel after she was run over.
This was another canard started by Joseph Carr, Carr, who has been deported by Israel before but sneaked back into the country under false identities, was identifying himself as Joseph Smith that day, started the Big Lie that she was backed over by the bulldozer’s driver even after she was struck. This lie appears frequently on blogs on the Internet.
In a radio interview Carr claimed he was running alongside the bulldozer telling them to stop before hitting her when he was nowhere near the scene of the accident. Carr even created fake photos of the incident and preceding moments that he tricked Reuters into posting worldwide. Reuters later had to post a retraction. These photos can be seen also at StoptheISM.com.
Carr was drawing a salary at that time from Christian Peacemaker Teams, an ISM affiliate. Carr expressed in an interview that Corrie’s death was a price well paid as it would advance “the revolution,” a true anarchist program.
These are just a few of the salient details about the Rachel Corrie canard that mainstream media doesn’t tell you.
Do you have a son in the IDF who risks his life for Israel? Is there any reason he or she should be put at risk for such reasons?"
the article lastly says
"One thing is certain. Regardless of the court’s finding, the ISM, the Corries, and the Arabs will insist Rachel Corrie was “murdered” and the IDF was irresponsible. If the Supreme Court finds the IDF guilty then count on the Arabs and the Corries going to the Hague and demanding Israel be indicted for war crimes. And, likewise, if the Supreme Court finds the IDF innocent (as they should) the Rachel Corrie circus will go to the Hague and insist the two earlier trials were a whitewash. All of this is facilitating the use of courts by Arab terrorist groups to once again whittle down the Jewish state and de-legitimize the IDF"
Still it's Good that Rachel Corrie was killed, she deserved it, the world is better off without her, she was such an ugly Toxic Cunt and Rotten Bitch from Hell, the day of her death March 16,2003 was a Great Day for Israel !!!! A Very Great Day !!! Many people even joked about making Pancakes out of her , there is a Special Place in Hell for Losers like Rachel Corrie who support the Murder of Innocent Israeli Civilians
From the website aish.com an article is titled
"Christopher Columbus, Secret Jew"
Feb 11, 2017 | by B. Gordon
the article says:
What is the evidence that Columbus was a Jew?
On February 15, 1493, Christopher Columbus sent out a letter to the European world revealing for the first time his discovery of America. His finding was the first step into a new world, which would become the symbol of religious tolerance and freedom. The real identity of Christopher Columbus sheds new light on the poignancy of this historical period, especially for the Jews.
To gain a better understanding of Columbus’s legacy, it's important to note the historical background of his life. Columbus lived during the time of the inquisition during which Anusim, Jews who practiced their faith in secret, were under constant threat of arrest and tortuous death. Tens of thousands of secret Jews were tortured during the Spanish Inquisition, many dying a martyr’s death.
Columbus' identity has been shrouded in mystery and debated for some time. The Italians claimed that Columbus was born in Lugano, Italy to Domenico Colombo, a tower sentinel. The Spaniards claim that he was born on Spanish soil to a father with a different name and trade. Recently, as reported by Charles Garcia of CNN, Spanish scholars Jose Erugo, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez have concluded that Columbus was, in fact, a secret Jew whose voyage to the Indies had another altogether different objective than he claimed.
The content of Columbus' personal letters and diary entries prove most revealing. One telling difference between Columbus' personal writings and those of his contemporaries was the language it was written in, namely one unrecognizable to most native Spaniards. Linguistics professor Estelle Irizarry, after analyzing the language of hundreds of similar letters concluded that it was written in Castilan Spanish or Ladino, a Jewish version of the Spanish language, analogous to what the Yiddish language is to German."
the article continues
"Another revelation is in the mysterious monogram found on his the letters, written right to left. To quote Semitic linguist Maurice David, who discovered the meaning of the symbols, “On all of these... intimate letters the attentive reader can plainly see at the left top corner a little monogram which is... in fact, nothing more…. than an old Hebrew greeting….frequently used among religious Jews all over the world even to this day”. The symbol he was referring to were the Hebrew letters bet and heh, which we know to stand for b'ezrat Hashem, or with God's help. Not surprisingly, Columbus' letter to the King and Queen was the only one of his 13 letters studied that did not contain this symbol.
Three of the wishes in Columbus' will and testament also lend a number of telling clues to his identity. One request in his will was that one-tenth of his income be given as charity to provide dowry for poor girls, a commonly practiced Jewish custom that stretches far back. He also requested to have money given to a certain Jew who lived near the Jewish quarter of Lisbon.
Another particularly telltale note in his will seemed to be somewhat of a hidden signature, a triangular form of dots and letters that resembled inscriptions found on gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Spain. Columbus even instructed his children to maintain this mysterious symbol for perpetuity. The hidden signature, when translated, was actually a prayer in lieu of the standard Hebrew kaddish, which was forbidden in Spain. This ploy allowed Columbus to covertly instruct his children to recite the kaddish prayer for him.
Simon Wiesenthal suggests that the motive behind Columbus' voyage was to find a safe haven for the Jews.
People assume that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella financed Columbus' journey. But according to Charles Garcia of CNN, two conversos, Louis De Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez, along with the prominent Rabbi Isaac Abarbanel, took money out of their own pockets to pay for the voyage. This historical fact should raise yet another question: Why did these Jews take interest in Columbus' voyage?
Simon Wiesenthal suggests in his book, Sails of Hope, that the motive behind Columbus' voyage was to find a safe haven for the Jews. Similarly, others conclude that Columbus set sail to Asia for the purpose to obtaining enough gold to finance a crusade in an effort to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple. According to Dr. Gerhard Falk, author of a Man’s Ascent to Reason, he brought a Hebrew interpreter with him, with the hope of locating the ten lost tribes. ( Hence, the popular lyric reads: “In 1492, Colombus sailed the ocean blue. His interpreter was lou, he was a Jew and that is true.")
The day of Columbus' travels are also of noteworthy significance. It is said that he had originally planned on sailing on Tisha b'Av, but postponed his travels because the day is considered inauspicious for such ventures. Instead he began his journey on August 3rd, the 11th of Av, two days after the Jews were given the choice to convert or leave Spain. For our discerning readers, is this a fact of mere coincidence or of remarkable significance?
On the surface it seems that an ordinary sailor set forth to find a different path to the Indies, and by a remarkable stroke of luck, landed in a land known for its benevolence and religious tolerance. However, upon exploring the true identity of Christopher Columbus, we come to know a man, who, in his quest to free the Jewish people from their oppression, was brought to America by the hand of Divine Providence." Was Christopher Columbus really Jewish, only God Knows
From the website commentarymagazine.com an article is titled
"Rachel Corrie Was No Peace Activist"
AUGUST 28, 2012 BY JONATHAN S. TOBIN
the article says
"The verdict handed down today by a Haifa court in the lawsuit filed by the parents of Rachel Corrie will be denounced by Israel-bashers everywhere, and taken as confirmation of their dim view of the country’s justice system. For them, Corrie, a 23-year-old member of the International Solidarity Movement who was killed in 2003, is a martyr to the cause of peace and freedom for the Palestinians. They continue to believe Corrie was deliberately run over by an Israeli bulldozer knocking down the homes of innocent Arabs. But, as the court rightly pointed out, the truth is that though her death was regrettable, it was an accident caused by her own rash behavior.
The structures that she was attempting to protect by lying down in front of a bulldozer were fronts for tunnels along the border between Egypt and Gaza through which munitions and explosives intended to kill innocent Israelis were being smuggled. Even more to the point, the idea that Corrie was in Gaza to promote peace is a myth. The purpose of the International Solidarity Movement’s activities in Gaza was to shield Hamas and Fatah terrorists and to prevent the Israel Defense Forces from carrying out measures intended to stop the flow of arms and terrorist activity. If Corrie’s parents, who have pursued efforts to hold the state of Israel responsible for her death, should sue anyone it is the group that led the foolish American to Gaza and deliberately placed her in harm’s way.
Over the past decade, pro-Palestinian groups and activists have done their best to burnish Corrie’s legend as an American idealist whose death shone a spotlight on Israeli evil. Her diary was adapted by actor Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner into a play–“My Name is Rachel Corrie”–which earned raves in London and a slightly less enthusiastic reception in New York. The play was the centerpiece of a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world that Israel was committing barbarous acts in Gaza against helpless people."
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