tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349253092024-03-14T06:13:37.614-07:00Israel Facts by an IsraeliEssays about Israel with up-to-date news with my opinion. Written by an Israeli.Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.comBlogger849125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-24611694890405021192021-09-08T02:45:00.002-07:002021-09-08T02:45:51.815-07:00How Big Is Israel? <div align="center"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyNiuEynd84wep9ruTLIY_RDznXCH23cdKHGbcpzNhaF49tjBrNahBMje4o06CbgEQqzDRJgllSzqMLorQP64BLhwa18FfS_XBB1PGL4YsDoxOv7E1-GDYAaL7g-A2dMc8fPI/s687/borders.gif+distance+and+pre-1967+armistice+lines.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="383" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyNiuEynd84wep9ruTLIY_RDznXCH23cdKHGbcpzNhaF49tjBrNahBMje4o06CbgEQqzDRJgllSzqMLorQP64BLhwa18FfS_XBB1PGL4YsDoxOv7E1-GDYAaL7g-A2dMc8fPI/w356-h640/borders.gif+distance+and+pre-1967+armistice+lines.gif" width="356" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nadene Goldfoot</div><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 180%;">How Big Is Israel?</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 180%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The population of the <strong>world</strong> as of 2007 is 6 billion, 602 million, 224 thousand, 175 as of 2007.</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Israel</strong> is very small. The population is 6 million, 426 thousand, 679. It is 10, 733 square miles, or 22,0072 sq km. or <strong>smaller than New Jersey</strong>. Of that, 76.4% are Jewish, 16% Muslim, and the rest Christians. This means that there are about 5,313,800 Jews in Israel as of 2006. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Lebanon</strong> is smaller with a population of 3 million, 925 thousand, 502. It's size is 10,400 sq. km of which 170 is water. It is<strong> 0.7 the size of </strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Connecticut</strong>, or just a <strong>little smaller than Israel</strong> by some 300 sq. km. It is unique in that it is made up of 59.7% Muslims, 39% Christians and no Jews. It does have 17 religious sects. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>The West Bank</strong> "Samaria and Judea"'s population is 2 million, 535 thousand, 927. It is 5 thousand 860 sq. km of which 220 sq. km is water. That's half of the size of Israel. It's a little <strong>smaller than Delaware</strong>. 75% of the people are Sunni Muslims, 17% Jewish and 8% Christians. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Gaza's</strong> population is 1 million, 482 thousand, 405. It's size is 360 sq. km, and has 0 water. It is <strong>more than 2 Washington D.C.'s.</strong> It has 99.3% Sunni Muslims and 0.7% Christians. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Jordan's</strong> population is 6 million, 053 thousand, 193. It's size is 92 thousand 300 sq. km of which 329 sq. km. is water. It is a <strong>little smaller than Indiana</strong>. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Syria's</strong> population is 19 million, 314 thousand, 747. The size is 185,180 sq km of which 1,130 sq. km is water. It is <strong>larger than North Dakota</strong>. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Iraq</strong> has 27 million, 499 thousand, 638. The size is 437,072 square km. of which 4,910 sq km is water. It is as big as<strong> 2 Idahos</strong>.</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Saudi Arabia's</strong> population is 27 million, 601 thousand, 038. The size is 2 million, 149 thousand, 690 sq km with 0 water. It is more than 1/5 the size of the U.S.A. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Iran's </strong>population is 65 million, 397 thousand, 521. The size is 1,649 sq km of which 12,000 sq km is water.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It is <strong>larger than Alaska</strong>.</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Egypt's</strong> population is 80 million, 335 thousand, 036. The size is 1 million ,001 thousand,450 sq. km of which water is 6,000 km. It is as big as <strong>3 New Mexicos.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All of the countries other than Israel and the U.S.A. are made up of Muslims and a few Christians except Lebanon, which has many Christians. Jews are not allowed to live there, but are allowed as tourists in Egypt now. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In comparison, the <strong>USA </strong>has 301 million, 139 thousand, 947 people. The size is 9 million, 826 thousand, 630 sq. km. of which 664 thousand, 707 sq.km is water. It is <strong>half the size of Russia.</strong> Jews make up 1.7% of the population or about 5,275,000. Christians are 78.5%, 0.07% are Buddists and 0.06% are Muslims. Of the Christians, 51.3% are Protestants, 23.9% are Catholics, 1.7% are Mormons. </span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Cities similar in size to Israel</strong> are: </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam with a population of 6,424,519.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hong Kong, China has 6,097,000.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Essen, Germany has 6,559,000.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>Cities larger than Israel</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mexico City, Mexico has 18, 131,000.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Tokyo, Japan has 28,025,000.</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Reference: CIA World Fact Book. 2007</span></strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-74997648366090904002020-06-27T11:02:00.001-07:002022-06-02T07:37:00.610-07:00Time Travel back to 70 CE (AD) Jerusalem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;">"73–63 BCE: The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"> extends its influence into the region in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Mithridatic_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Third Mithridatic War">Third Mithridatic War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;">. During the war, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Armenians">Armenian</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"> King </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigranes_the_Great" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tigranes the Great">Tigranes the Great</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"> takes control of Syria and </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;">prepares to invade </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Judea"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Judea</span></a><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 0); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"> but has to retreat."</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pompey">Pompey</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(63_BC)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)">sacked Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and installed Hasmonean prince </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrcanus_II" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hyrcanus II"><b>Hyrcanus II</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnarch" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ethnarch">Ethnarch</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kohen Gadol">High Priest</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> but not as king. Some years later </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> appointed </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipater_the_Idumaean" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Antipater the Idumaean"><b>Antipater </b>the Idumaean</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, also known as </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b>Antipas</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b>,</b> as the first </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurator_(Ancient_Rome)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Procurator (Ancient Rome)">Roman Procurator</a><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">Antipater's son </b></span><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Herod the Great">Herod</a><span style="color: #202122;"> was designated "</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodian_Dynasty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Herodian Dynasty">King of the Jews</a><span style="color: #202122;">" by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roman Senate">Roman Senate</a><span style="color: #202122;"> in 40 BCE</span></b><span style="color: #202122;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"> </b><span style="background-color: white;">but he did not gain military control until 37 BCE. During his reign the last representatives of the Hasmoneans were eliminated, and the huge port of </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Caesarea Maritima">Caesarea Maritima</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> was built</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leading up to Jerusalem and the 2nd Temple's destruction, Antipater</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ruled Judea from the year 63 to 43 BCE. He was the son of the ruler, Antipas of Idumea, (Edom-also called Mt. Seir) of the 1st century BCE. The land of Edom lay South of the Dead Sea and bordered on the Red Sesa of Elath and Ezion Geber. They were of Semitic origin, traditionally descendants of </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Esau</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, twin of Jacob, sons of Isaac, son of Abraham, and were hunters. He grew rich from trade with Arabia. He helped the Romans. He was the father of Herod. Esau had become his twin's enemy, and they were not identical twins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Herod the Great had a campaign to take the throne of Judea. He took siege of Jerusalem in 37 BCE. Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) helped him by providing him with the necessary Roman forces that were successful. Herod captured the city and got rid of <b>Antigonus II Mattathias</b> which brought an end to the <b>Hasmonean </b>rule of many years since 166 BCE. Judah hadn't had a proper king since <b>Zedekiah</b> who ruled from 597 to 586 BCE who had been appointed king by <b>Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king </b> to succeed the exiled <b>Jehoiachin </b>when he was 21. His mistake was in conspiring with the Egyptians which brought in the Babylonians who captured Jerusalem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Jews were living in Rome in the year 66 and had been there since 139 BCE. The Great Revolt began in the year 66 CE, during the twelfth year of the reign of</span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122;"> Emperor </span><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080;" title="Nero">Nero</a><span style="background-color: white;">( reign from 54 to 68-</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">the last ruler of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius, thus becoming his heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero became emperor with the consent of the Praetorian Guard</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "segoe ui" , "neue haas grotesk pro" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><b style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">)</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">, originating in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Roman_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="History of the Jews in the Roman Empire">Roman and Jewish religious tensions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The crisis escalated due to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tax resistance">anti-taxation protests</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> and attacks upon Roman citizens by the Jews.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The Roman governor, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gessius_Florus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gessius Florus">Gessius Florus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">, responded by plundering the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple#Herod's_Temple" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">in Jerusalem</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">, claiming the money was for the Emperor, and the next day launching a raid on the city, arresting numerous senior Jewish figures. This prompted a wider, large-scale rebellion and the Roman military garrison of Judaea was quickly overrun by the rebels, </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">while the <b>pro-Roman king </b></span><span style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa_II" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 0); color: #0b0080; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Herod Agrippa II">Herod Agrippa II</a><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">(28-93-last king of the house of Herod, son of Agrippa I. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> It was in 166 to 164 BCE that the Hasmoneans fought many battles, inventing guerilla tactics against the Syrians and by 164, Judah retook Jerusalem and rededicated the Temple. This was followed by many raids to rescue the Jewish populations of Ammon, Idumea, Gilead and the Galilee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Herod became king of Judea, son of Antipater the <b>Idumean</b> by his <b>Nabatean</b> wife, Cypros. He was appointed governor of Galilee by his father and liked to execute those breaking his laws. The Sanhedrin called him on this. He was spared punishment by intervention of Hyrcanus and Sextus Caesar, governor of Syria. The Roman Senate made him king of Judea. He married the Hasmonean Jewish princess, <b>Marianne,</b> granddaughter of the high priest, a Cohen, <b>Hyrcanus II</b>. He murdered all those rivals to his power including his own brother in law. One good thing he did was to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem on a magnificent scale and built 2 cities, Sebaste and Caesarea. Herod had turned against the Nabateans and defeated them. As a result of palace intrigues, he put to death his wife, Mariamne, their 2 sons, Alexander and Aristobulus, and even his firstborn, Antipater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Immediately following the deposition of King </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Archelaus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Herod Archelaus">Herod <b>Archelaus</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in 6 CE who had ruled from 4 BCE to 6 CE, son of Herod and Malthace the Samaritan, Judea was turned into a Roman province, during which time the Roman procurator was given authority to punish by execution. The general population also began to be </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_taxes" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="List of Roman taxes">taxed by Rome</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The province of Judea was the scene of unrest at its founding in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_6" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="AD 6">6 CE</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> during the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Census of Quirinius">Census of Quirinius</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Crucifixion of Jesus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> circa 30–33 CE, and several wars, known as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish–Roman wars">Jewish–Roman wars</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, were fought during its existence. Archelaus's rule was marked by such severity that he was removed from office by Emperor Augustus and he was exiled to Gaul where he died in 16 CE. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> He had been arrested and was crucified by order of the <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Roman procurator,</b></span> <b>Pontius Pilate, Judea's 5th Roman governor, serving from 26 to 36 </b>." </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> He appears to have belonged to the well-attested Italian </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontia_gens" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pontia gens">Pontii</a><span style="color: #202122;"> family of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samnites" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Samnites">Samnite</a><span style="color: #202122;"> origin</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, but nothing is known for certain about his life before he became governor of Judaea, nor of the circumstances that led to his appointment to the governorship. <i>(</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><i>The Samnites were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium in south-central Italy. They became involved in several wars with the Roman Republic until the 1st century BC. An Oscan-speaking people, the Samnites probably originated as an offshoot of the Sabines.)</i></span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">" A procurator was a governor of Judea and was under the Roman emperor of which 14 served between years 6 to 66. They were subordinate to the Syrian legate who exercised his authority over the procurator if he was charged with abusing his office; as if he was charged with being unduly extortionate in his treatment of the population or in the event of rebellion. These procurators had the status of members of the equates class in administrative status. They governed in place of the legate of Syria. They really were independent governors armed with full administrative authority. They enjoyed the "right of the sword," so had full powers to inflict punishment that included the death penalty. This was enforced on people who were not Roman citizens. If a Roman, they had the right to transfer their trial before the Emperor of Rome. They lived in Caesarea, the administrative capital of Roman Judea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What Jesus had been preaching was closely akin to that of the Pharisaic preachers. The <b>Pharisees </b>were a Jewish religious and political party during the 2nd Temple period who opposed the <b>Sadducees</b>.They were two groups who interpreted their Mosaic laws in slightly different ways. I see their differences being a matter of teaching-style much more than content, for our laws from Moses were pretty concrete. Many striking parallels exist between the sayings of Jesus and those of the rabbis. They both had made use of parables. Jesus put greater stress on the imminent end of the age and expected their present social order to disappear swiftly. It didn't take but about 300 years afterwards for Christianity to view Jews as competitors of their new faith and outlawed the practice of Judaism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Tiberias</b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> became the 2nd emperor from the year 14 to 37</b></span> <b style="background-color: yellow;">and was the stepson of the 1st, Augustus. </b><b style="background-color: yellow;">Titus would become the 10th emperor from 79 to 81.</b> It was Tiberius who expelled the Jews from Rome in 19 because of a fraud perpetrated on a Roman matron sympathetic to Judaism. 4,000 young Jews were sent to Sardinia to fight the brigands. Palestine was hardly administered under his rule when the crucifixion of Jesus happened. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"> Titus started the siege 3 days before the holiday of Passover on April 14, 70 CE. It lasted for 4 months, ending in August with the burning and destruction of the 2nd Temple. That day is now remembered as Tisha B'Av. People were starved to death. <b style="background-color: yellow;">Titus </b>was the son of the<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b> 9 th E</b></span><b style="background-color: yellow;">mperor</b><span style="background-color: yellow;"> <b>Vespasian (69-79)</b></span><b>.</b> Titus took over the command of the Roman army in Judea from his father in 70 CE when he destroyed Jerusalem after a 5 month siege. The Romans deliberately destroyed the Temple with the object of eliminating the national religious center of the Jews. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"> </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">3rd Emperor Caligula</b> reigned from 37 to 41. He was the grandnephew of Tiberius. He gave Agrippa, grandson of Herod, the tetrarchy of NE Judea and the title of king. <b style="background-color: cyan;">He insisted on being worshipped as a divinity </b>and this caused a big problem among the Jews and was used as an excuse for anti-Jewish disturbances in Alexandria on the occasion of Agrippa's visit in 38. Philo headed the Jewish delegation sent to intercede with Caligula, and has recorded a graphic impression of his court. Caligula was assassinated which prevented serious consequences in the Jewish world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">4th Emperor Claudius</b> reigned from 41 to 54 and was the uncle of Caligula. He became emperor due to the help of his friend, Herod Agripia I, whom he approved as king, adding Judea to his Kingdom and uniting under him the whole area ruled by Herod. Claudius issued edicts at once reaffirming Jewish religious autonomy in Alexandria. When Agrippa I died in 44, Claudius put Judea under a procurator, but in 49 gave Agrippa's son, Agrippa II, regions of Judea to rule. In 49 and 50 he expelled a number of Jews from Rome because of a Jewish-Christian conflict. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">5th Emperor Nero</b> reigned from 54 to 65 or 68 and was the stepson of Claudius. His reign coincided with a period of turmoil in Judea culminating in the outbreak of the war against Rome. HIs wife, Poppaea, was sympathetic to Judaism. Nero is not unfavorably represented in talmudical legend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6th Emperor Galba reigned from 68 to 69.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7th Emperor Otho reigned from January to April of 69.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8th Emperor Aulus Vitellius reigned from July to December of 69. </span><br />
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RESOURCE <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipater_the_Idumaean">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipater_the_Idumaean</a><br />
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titus">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titus</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate</a><br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War</a><br />
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-Roman-emperors-2043294">https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-Roman-emperors-2043294</a><br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-68649594135440329212020-06-02T11:07:00.000-07:002020-06-02T13:04:57.589-07:00THE RETURN: Our Special Israel: What Makes It As Unique As It Is<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is the only </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jewish country </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the world out of the 195 countries here. It is the 99th in population and size. Today the population is 8,655,535 and the land is only 21,640 km sq. Jews from every corner of the world have already arrived and have been living here, maybe from all 193 at least! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Their 2 national holidays are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It's borders will never be closed to Jews. Jews happen to make up on 0.01% of the world population! We have only about 6 million in Israel, 6 million in the USA and 2 million scattered throughout the world-mostly in Europe and S. Africa. So let's look at Israel and see who lives here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I made aliyah in 1980, I took a cab from the airport to Haifa, where I would attend 10 months of classes at an absorption center in Hebrew and prepare to teach English to children who read from right to left. All new immigrants do this, either for a term of 3 months for the general public to 10 months like me, professionally a teacher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In this city one would see the Bahai golden domed Shrine and gardens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bahai is a religion</b> that started in Iran in the 1800s. It was an offshoot of Islam that became its own separate religion as it taught the unity of all religions and the need for world peace. It's people were persecuted and declared an illegal religion in Iran. The people were exiled. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Haifa reminded me of Portland in that it's a port city, but on the sea. I walked every day for an hour with my German shepherd and everyone wanted her. I had to get used to not having a car, but bought one later on that came over directly from Italy. It was a red Fiat. Such a life caused me to lose a lot of weight, which I needed to do. Oh, life in Israel was very healthy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They felt that since they are full citizens, they should accept the responsibilities of other Jewish citizens as well and they serve willingly in the IDF. We see many bravery in these soldiers who have fought in Israel's many wars with people who will not accept a different religion; Judaism in their midst. I met a lady who was a Druse who was here as a speaker for Israel and she was wonderful! She impressed me so much as a gung-ho Israeli and I'm sure she did a wonderful job as a speaker for Israel. She and her people are the ones who know just how amazing Israel is compared to all the other countries in the Middle East as far as freedom of religion goes. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Jerusalem, which sits on a mountain top, you see the Dome of a Mosque and the cross of a Christian church. Somewhere down there is the Western Wall where Jews pray. This city dates back 3,000 years to King David. The city had been walled, built about 45 years after Columbus discovered America. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are <b>Christian</b>s living in Israel. They are a small minority and are very diverse, most being Eastern Orthodox that belong to churches of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that split with Roman Catholicism in the Middle Ages of the 1100s and 1200s. This group is joined with other Catholics, Protestants, Copts (from Egypt) and others. Most are Arabs. Lots of tourists come each year that are Christians and join them in Jerusalem, visiting shrine in Bethlehem and the tomb in the Church of the HOly Sepulcher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Arabs</b> are the largest minority in Israel. Most are Muslims who also enjoy freedom of religion as well as having control of their holy places, though Jordan does control the Temple Mount, especially the rules about anyone's prayers there. And that's a long story dating back to Moshe Dayan. Arabs are not required to serve in the IDF. Israel does not expect them to fight their brothers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unlike Islam, Israel's law of marriage is that a man can only have one wife at a time. Child marriages are illegal. Women have equal rights. It's like the USA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>It's a Jewish country</b>, making up about 80% of the population, but these Jews are from every corner of the world. There are a few who are either secular or orthodox and from the West and most likely speak English and are from England, USA, Australia, etc. Some are descendants of a small segment remaining whose ancestors were from Jerusalem and never left, being children of the Halutzim. There are Holocaust survivors' descendants and descendants of Arab oppression of the Middle East. Getting into religion, there are Orthodox Jewish sects that are strong Zionists and those who believe that a Jewish state can only be created by Divine intervention and refuse to recognize the government which is Iran's stand, and possibly still all of Israel's neighbors. There are 2 off-beat Jewish groups, the <b>Karaites</b> and the <b>Samaritans </b>who separated from the main body of Judaism over a thousand years ago but still practice their own way of Judaism.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kurds </b>spoke an Aramaic dialect up to modern times. It's similar<br />to the language of the Babylonian Talmud and of the Nestorian<br />Christians in Kurdistan. in the late 1800s the Jewish community<br />was estimated to number 12,000 to 18,000 scattered in many villages and townlets and were merchants, peddlers, and craftsmen. In the 1900s the numbers increased so those living in Persia numbered from 12,000 to 14,000. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Kurds </b>live in Israel. Kurdistan was a high mountain region between Turkey, Iran and Iraq and in the times of Ezra some of these Jews wandered into land of Kurdistan. After 1948, many of the Kurdish Jews from all over emigrated to Israel and settled in or near Jerusalem </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joining with Israel in these days of returning finally are the <b>Ethiopian Jews.</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They came first when I was living in Safed and saw them move in right across the street from my apartment. They spent time in the hospital first, getting ready to join our community. They called themselves the <b>Beta Yisrael</b> (House of Israel). They became Jews, according to their own tradition, by descending from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. A group of them put on an art show in our community center. Pretty soon these shy, slender and beautiful people with their fine features were acting just like the Sabras (born in Israel), pushing their way into lines in the supermarket. They knew the laws of the Torah literally, but had no knowledge of the Talmud and traditions that followed it as they were isolated from the rest of the world. All this time, they have believed they were the only Jews left in the world. Operation Solomon and Operation Moses brought over Ethiopians. Others have still been coming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Russian Jews</b> entered Israel with me in 1980. My Hebrew teacher had been writing to one who became very famous in Israel, but then he was in prison in Russia. He was there for trying to learn Hebrew. So now, teacher Sarah was sending letters that were helping him. We English speakers in our Hebrew classes were joined by about 40 Russians who were also preparing to teach English ! We were all studying Hebrew so we could exist easily in Israel. They learned much faster than I did! Russians were used to studying languages and I was not. They could not return to Russia and I could return to the USA with dual citizenship, so Israel helped them out financially. All these years, churches and synagogues were closed in Russia, a land unfriendly to religion. Communism is a political system that negates religion. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the doors opened for the Jews. By 1968 there were 4379 immigrants from the Soviet Union in Israel. In 1969-following the Six Day War of 67, there were more than 6,000 Russians per month! By the end of 1993, the number exceeded 470,000. Most were highly trained professionals looking for freedom--and good job! Before, most immigrants were impoverished, war refugees, poor and illiterate. This was a switch! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People of full or partial ethnic Russian ancestry number around 300,000 of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Demographics of Israel">Israeli population</a> from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_Post-Soviet_aliyah" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1990s Post-Soviet aliyah">immigrants from the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states</a>, and the number of Russian passport holders living in Israel is in the hundreds of thousands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know a Masai Jew who is the rabbi of his people as well as a lawyer in Israel. He carries the Cohen gene, discovered in a DNA test. He was serving in the IDF before he moved permanently to Israel with his family! That's dedication for a cause. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These immigrants had to have the shock of a lifetime for there were no jobs for all these people. Whether they were doctors or opera singers, they had to accept jobs as street sweepers and garbage collectors. Soon things improved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Probably all the men had to serve in the IDF. I know my husband, a former air forceman in the USA, was turned down for having a rare medical problem, but another friend with a bad heart had to serve in the IDF. This is a country where women are also expected to serve, too, for lack of enough men. My husband and I did 3 days of training with M1 rifles for the Guard, and did that every month after we had moved to Tzfat (Safed). Also, everyone gave blood at least once. If you want blood, you have to have given blood. You never know when you'll need it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here in Jerusalem is where our morals stemmed from. It's where the Knesset resides. It's why there is freedom and acceptance of man's various religions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This menorah with image from Jewish history stands outside the Knesset (Parliament) building in Jerusalem. It's an ancient Jewish symbol, older than the star of David.</span><br />
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Resource:<br />
<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/#:~:text=There%20are%20195%20countries%20in,and%20the%20State%20of%20Palestine.">https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/#:~:text=There%20are%20195%20countries%20in,and%20the%20State%20of%20Palestine.</a><br />
A Young Person's HIstory of Israel by David Bamberger<br />
Letters From Israel by Nadene Goldfoot--telling of my 5 plus years in Israel as a teacher at jr high<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Israel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Israel</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-51883383016832751492020-05-23T19:52:00.001-07:002020-06-02T12:47:37.863-07:00Annexation By USA and Israel- Necessary Moves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The USA has used annexation many times for good reasons. Texas is as good an example as any. <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Texas</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> was </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">annexed by the United States</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in 1845 and became the 28th state. Until 1836, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Texas</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the United States</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> who lived in Mexican </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Texas</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> declared independence. ... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">annexation</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> of </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Texas</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). And who had been the ruler in Mexico at one time? Wasn't he a Frenchman? Good Grief! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Yes, later </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In 1862, French Emperor </span><span class="tei-persName" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">Napoleon III</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> maneuvered to establish a French client state in </span><span class="tei-placeName" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">Mexico</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, and eventually installed </span><span class="tei-persName" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><b>Maximilian </b>of Habsburg</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, Archduke of Austria, as <b>Emperor of Mexico</b>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">United States territory can include </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied_territory" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Occupied territory">occupied territory</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, which is a geographic area that claims </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Sovereignty">sovereignty</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, but is being </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_(law)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Force (law)">forcibly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subjugate" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #663366; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="wiktionary:subjugate">subjugated</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to the authority of the United States of America.<b> United States territory can also include </b></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputed_territory" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Disputed territory"><b>disputed territory</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>,</b> which is a geographic area claimed by the United States of America and one (or more) rival governments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">In the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="United States">United States</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, all local governments are considered "creatures of the state" according to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forrest_Dillon#Dillon's_Rule" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="John Forrest Dillon">Dillon's Rule</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, which resulted from the work of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forrest_Dillon" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="John Forrest Dillon">John Forrest Dillon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> on the law of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Municipal corporation">municipal corporations</a><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">. Dillon's Rule implies, among other things, </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">that the boundaries of any </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Jurisdiction"><b style="background-color: yellow;">jurisdiction</b></a><span style="color: #202122;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"> falling under state government can be modified by state government action.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">For this reason, examples of municipal annexation are distinct from </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Annexation">annexations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> involving </span><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Sovereign state">sovereign states</a><span style="color: #202122;">.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Under the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907">Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, United States territory can include areas occupied by and controlled by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="United States Armed Forces">United States Armed Forces</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. When de facto military control is maintained and exercised, occupation (and thus possession) extends to that territory. Military personnel in control of the territory have a responsibility to provide for the basic needs of individuals under their control (which includes food, clothing, shelter, medical attention, law maintenance, and social order). To prevent systematic abuse of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_government" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Puppet government">puppet governments</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> by the occupation forces,<b> they must enforce laws that were in place in the </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>territory prior to the occupation.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Europe went through many wars. My grandmother's home town in Lithuania was Lazdijai, sitting on the border with Poland. After her birth in 1884, it was taken over by Poland. Was that an annexation or just a take-over? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jews were promised a Jewish Homeland by the League of Nations and the United Nations, yet they witnessed the loss of 80% of their promised land being given to a Saudi Prince Abdullah who was a prince without a country to rule, and could be an excellent trader with England. Israel was left with 20% and then witnessed Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem being given to the Palestinian Arabs at the last minute. The Jewish Homeland was cut apart again in the oddest of shapes ever! Some cities only a few miles from Jerusalem are not in the right zone to be a part of the 8,000 sq miles Jews were left with. It's a crazy situation but the state has just celebrated their 73rd birthday. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Yet is this move to annex so very different from Israel's position? Judea and Samaria were divided into sectors A, B, and C with Israel law over B and C, and A was left for the Arabs. Arabs have been creeping into the large area C and building illegally. Evidently A has been left which may become the Arab Palestine-an area they claim will be devoid of all Jews. This position has rule of B and C to come from the IDF, not a municipal force. That's one of the problems. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The process of annexation need not be subversive. Israel probably should have annexed territory that had been part of their ancient history going back 3,000 years and more, when they had the right to do so at the end of the Six Day War when they were attacked by many countries and came out of it as the winner, surprising all! <i>(A problem existing is that the UN, with influence like Jack Falk, refuse to accept Israel's existence in the first place, so never accept an annexation by Israel such as the </i><b><span style="background-color: yellow;">Golan Heights</span>,</b><i> as much needed for defense and which benefited the population very much.) </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now they have the green light to go ahead with the USA government in agreement of such a move. Israel has annexed earlier such places as the without much ado. Today, after 53 years, those with jealous hearts are up in arms about it like the UN, EU, etc. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those living in these places would rather be Israeli citizens. Will Israel take the step? Netanyahu has been promising that he would. If he does, he will show himself to be a very brave person to buck all the negativity floating around. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's got himself in a quandary being he is sitting as one of two Prime Ministers these days, so it isn't dependent on him alone but the whole Knesset situation. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> In 1980–81 Israel </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positions_on_Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Positions on Jerusalem">annexed East Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Golan Heights Law">the Golan Heights</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">As a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitics" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Geopolitics">geopolitical</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> region, the Golan Heights is the area captured from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Syria">Syria</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and occupied by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israel</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> during the 1967 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, territory which has been </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Golan Heights Law">administered as part of Israel since 1981</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. This region includes the western two-thirds of the geological Golan Heights and the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">Arabs in the Golan had been constantly shelling Israel from above, and the attack in 1967 by the Arab nations turned out that Israel won, and in doing so Israel actually gained territory back that had been given away by the British in their 80% of the Jewish Homeland package to Abdullah. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> Neither Israel's annexation nor Palestine's claim over East Jerusalem has been internationally recognized.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is no surprise as the UN has been attacking only Israel unjustly and ignoring all other matters and countries, no matter what they have been doing. <i>(I don't mean to sound like a rotten kid, but this has actually been the situation. Just read what the USA Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has witnessed.)</i></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">East Jerusalem,<br />not like Portland with trees in all neighborhoods</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />East Jerusalem is the sector of Jerusalem that was occupied by Jordan during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, as opposed to the western sector of the city, West Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jerusalem is now a unified city, no longer divided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> City Council was established in 1863 during the rule of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>. From 1948 to 1967 two municipalities operated in the city: an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israeli</a> municipality provided services to the western neighborhoods of the city and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jordan">Jordanian</a> municipality to its eastern parts.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">By 1840, the Jewish community constituted the largest single religious group in the city.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">From the 1880s onward, the Jews constituted the majority within the city.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">However, it was only in 1937, under the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mandatory Palestine">British Mandate</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, that the first Jewish mayor was appointed. Since 1948 every mayor has been Jewish.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moshe Lion has been the present mayor since 2018. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Golan Heights was annexed with the Golan Heights Law. <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">On March 25, 2019, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="United States">United States</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> finally </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_recognition_of_the_Golan_Heights_as_part_of_Israel" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="United States recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel">recognized</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> while the UN reaffirmed that the "..status of Golan has not changed".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">While the Israeli public at large, and especially the law's critics, viewed it as an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Annexation">annexation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, the law avoids the use of the word. Prime Minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> responded to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnon_Rubinstein" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Amnon Rubinstein">Amnon Rubinstein</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">'s criticism by saying, "You use the word 'annexation.' I do not use it," and noting that similar wording was used in a 1967 law authorizing the government to apply Israeli law to any part of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Land of Israel">Land of Israel</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Update</span>:</b> </span><a href="https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/eu-conference-looks-to-boost-opposition-to-israel-s-annexation-of-palestinian-land-1.1027913">https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/eu-conference-looks-to-boost-opposition-to-israel-s-annexation-of-palestinian-land-1.1027913</a><br />
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The eu is on the wrong side of the issue again--still.</div>
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the land belongs to the israeli's period. and the best thing for the palestinians is to let israel have it and tend it and care for it as they have never done anyway and benefit by israel's right claim and right use of that land. </div>
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Shame shame again on the eu for standing directly in the way of real peace-real solutions!</div>
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Andre'</div>
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Resource:<br />
<a href="https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/01/judea-samaria-areas-b-c-who-lives-there.html">https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/01/judea-samaria-areas-b-c-who-lives-there.html</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_annexation_in_the_United_States">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_annexation_in_the_United_States</a><br />
<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-early-republic/age-of-jackson/a/annexing-texas">https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-early-republic/age-of-jackson/a/annexing-texas</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_territorial_acquisitions">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_territorial_acquisitions</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-34477854404406308872020-05-23T07:54:00.001-07:002020-05-24T09:21:33.686-07:00Oh Jericho! Israel's Jordan Valley Importance to Annexation Now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Jordan Valley is the name of the Jordan rift from its sources near Dan to the southern end of the Dead Sea. It is also called in Hebew, <i>Kikkar ha-Yarden</i>. In a more restricted sense, the name is applied to a plain of the River Jordan, south of the Sea of Galilee to Naharayim, bounded on the West by the Lower Galilean hills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Its area is about 20 square miles and its climate is tropical. The Jordan Valley is the cultivated area and is irrigated. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A tourist, a grower from an American nursery, visited "</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Jordan Valley</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> during his trip and saw how they </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">grow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Bananas, Lemons, Pink Grapefruit, Avocados and Mangoes. All of these </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">crops</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> are watered by using drip tape to conserve water due to the scarcity of water in that area." </span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f;">He toured some farms and saw how they grow Cauliflower, Winter Wheat, Onions, Carrots, Olives, Broccoli, and of course Strawberries. </span>It is a rural district with local self-government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Rutenberg power station called Tel Or, now in disuse, is at Naharayim in the Jordan Valley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many Israelis are for this area being annexed by Israel. It's the country-side,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the farming land, the eastern Oregon area of potatoes and onions for </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;">The </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/agreements-with-the-palestinians-table-of-contents" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Noto Sans", serif; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);">1995 <span class="glossaryTerm" data-pt-title="Capital of Norway, site of secret talks in 1993 between Israel and the PLO that led to mutual recognition and the signing of the Declaration of Principles. Refers generally to the multi-stage agreement between Israel and the Palestinians." style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(59, 151, 211); box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">Oslo</span> II Accords</a><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"> divided the </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-west-bank-2" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Noto Sans", serif; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);"><span class="glossaryTerm" data-pt-title="Territory west of the Jordan River that Israel captured from Jordan in its defensive 1967 war. Often referred to by its Biblical name, Judea and Samaria, this land is home to a Palestinian population of over one million, as well as about 140,000 Jewish residents. Under the terms of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, Palestinian autonomy has been extended from the Gaza Strip and Jericho to other areas of the West Bank." style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(59, 151, 211); box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">West Bank</span></a><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"> (Judea and Samaria) into areas A, B and C. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;">Roughly 90% of the Jordan Valley, constituting approximately 30% of Judea-Samaria, is in Area C and under Israel’s control. The city of </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jericho" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Noto Sans", serif; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);">Jericho</a><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"> and its surrounding villages are part of Area A, which is controlled by the </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestinian-authority" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Noto Sans", serif; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);"><span class="glossaryTerm" data-pt-title="The Palestinian autonomous government in the West Bank and Gaza areas from which the Israeli Defense Forces have redeployed since the 1994 Gaza-Jericho agreement and the 1995 Interim Agreement (“Oslo II”)." style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(59, 151, 211); box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">Palestinian Authority</span></a><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;">; Israeli citizens are not allowed to enter or build in this area</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif; font-size: 16px;">..</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Jericho </b><span style="background-color: white;">is 825 feet below sea level</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">and goes back 5,000 years to the Neolithic Period. This city was destroyed by Joshua, the Jewish leader in the Exodus. (Josh.6). It was then revived during the reign of King Ahab of Israel in 870 BCE. The city was destroyed by the Romans in 68 CE. Balsam groves are found in Jericho. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It's surrounded by orange groves and banana plantations. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Jericho had 3,000 population in 1946, a place where Arab refugees in 1948 came to and numbered 61,000 in 1961. Most of the refugees fled over the Jordan River before Israel troops arrived during the Six- Day War. Some 8,500 lived in Jericho and another 2,000 lived in its vicinity at the time of the 1967 census. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It looks like Israel will lose Jericho to the Palestinians or maybe even Jordan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><b>Yigal Allon (1918-1980)</b>, Labor Minister after the 6 Day War, Deputy Prime Minister in 1968, wanted to annex the Jordan Valley feeling it was vital for security as a buffer zone.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "noto sans" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">He wanted a strip about 10-15 km wide along the Jordan Valley. An Allon Road was paved and the first Jewish communities were built along the Road 90 and the Allon Road. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resource:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/05/22/poll-israelis-favor-sovereignty-in-jordan-valley-judea-and-samaria/">https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/05/22/poll-israelis-favor-sovereignty-in-jordan-valley-judea-and-samaria/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-settlements-in-the-jordan-valley">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-settlements-in-the-jordan-valley</a><br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
<a href="https://www.lassencanyonnursery.com/agriculture-in-israel-and-jordan-valley/">https://www.lassencanyonnursery.com/agriculture-in-israel-and-jordan-valley/</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-14606638621900260412020-05-22T14:50:00.001-07:002020-05-31T11:34:44.624-07:00Annexation of Judea--Samaria Land<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Judea's Jewish <b>KFAR ADUMIM,</b> east of Jerusalem</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">about 15 kilometers (9 miles) to the northeast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Population: 4,513<br /><br />Kfar Adumim is a mixed religious-secular Israeli settlement in the Judah. It is located in the Judean Desert, on the southern bank of Wadi Qelt, about 2 miles northeast of the town Ma'ale Adumim. It is at 367 meters above sea level</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The international community considers Israeli towns in the Judea-Samaria <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law_and_Israeli_settlements" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="International law and Israeli settlements">illegal under international law</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, but the Israeli government disputes this. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Kfar Adumim was established in September 1979.<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Its first settlers were 10 families that had seceded previously from the group which founded </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27ale_Adumim" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ma'ale Adumim">Ma'ale Adumim</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and had been living in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishor_Adumim" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mishor Adumim">Mishor Adumim</a>.<br />Oslo agreement was in 1995. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Ma'ale Adumim 4.3 miles from Jerusalem was first a Nahal village established by the IDF. Nahal is a corps combining military training with farm work. Its members become farmers when their service ends. They were first military points like any other unit of the IDF. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three days before the last Israeli elections on April 6, Netanyahu made a speech about <b>Judea and Samaria</b></span>. "<span style="background-color: rgba(0 , 106 , 114 , 0.1); color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">I will not uproot a single settlement, and I will ensure that we’ll control all the area West of the Jordan river. Will we move to the next stage? The answer is yes, we will move to the next stage—to the gradual extension of Israeli sovereignty in the areas of Judea and Samaria. I also do not distinguish between the settlement blocs and the lone settlements, every settlement like that is for me Israeli."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> Netanyahu is a member of <b>Likud</b>, and they have stood with him on this ever since December 31, 2017. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">They have a good majority in parliament. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Samaria is the top half, the northern part<br />Judea is the bottom half, the southern part</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Judea and Samaria</b> are divided into areas A,B, and C. This annexation that is on the table only is applying to the section where Jews live. A bi-national state is not what Israel wants to be nor was designed to be. This has been the fear of many. Area A since the Oslo decisions is not designated for the Jewish Israelis. "</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> Some right-wing politicians have also </span><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190301-israels-new-right-annex-area-c-give-80000-palestinians-citizenship/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006a72; cursor: pointer; font-family: pt-serif, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 250ms ease-in-out 0ms;">called</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> for annexing all Area C lands—which represent most open land areas in the Judea- Samaria and are sparsely populated by Palestinians. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Israel's highway connecting Judea-Samaria to Israel<br />in Area C. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">update: </span>Area C</b> is home to <u>300,000</u> Palestinians in 532 residential areas. It is also home to 389,250 Israelis, in 135 cities, towns and villages</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> as well as 100 outposts unrecognized by the Israeli government. Area C forms a contiguous territory, administered via the Judea and Samaria Area administration.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> "Area C is the largest of the 3 areas, about 72to 74% of land, but the Jewish communities constitute a tiny fraction of area C. Arabs, just like Jews in area C, must obtain permits in order to build residences. "Arabs have been found building without permits, however. Here is an example of what is happening.</span><br />
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<span class="C-1" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"The illegal “building intifada” being waged by the Palestinian Authority on state lands in Area C of Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank), has become the latest battleground for the radical Left in conjunction with foreign-funded Israeli so called human rights NGO’s such as B’tselem and Bimkom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-1" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This unlawful land theft is being carried out with the full support of the EU, foreign aid organizations and the UN."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Area A</b> , about 18% of land, is home designed for the Arabs only; no Jews. "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Israeli citizens have the right to enter and pass through Area A unmolested, provided that they are not involved in illicit activity, in which case the PA can only temporarily apprehend them until they are transferred to the Israeli authorities. Joint Israeli-PA patrols were intended to handle these cases.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Area B </b>is home "of </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">less built-up areas, many of which shared their space with settlements created in the massive settlement drive in the 1980s launched by the Likud government. <span class="C-43" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: 0px;">Area B comprises approximately 22% of Judea and Samaria.</span></span><br />
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<span class="C-43" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In Area B, Israel and the PA share jurisdiction."</span></span></div>
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<span class="C-43" style="box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Areas A and B were chosen in such a way as to just contain Palestinians, by drawing lines around Palestinian population centers at the time the Oslo Agreement was signed;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">This plan has many problems. Some will not be offered naturalization as a citizen and some will and both might live close to each other. Oslo wasn't considering annexations. Since Palestinians now living in A or B have been under the PA's Abbas, they are of the same mind pretty much as those in Gaza. </span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Israel " would exclude areas populated by Palestinians. This differs from the </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222;"><b>Golan Heights Law</b></span><span style="color: #222222;">, which covered the</span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></b></span><a href="https://wikitravel.org/en/File:Golan_92.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: pt-serif, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 250ms ease-in-out 0ms;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">whole geographic area</span></b></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"><b> </b>of the Golan, including villages populated by Golan Druze (who held Syrian nationality)." Israel is considering the 450,000 Jews living in Area C who want to be called Israelis and be under their protection. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">The Jewish Voice writers tell us that the USA is backing Israel if they annex any of Judea-Samaria as promised. However,...there are always ifs-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, the spokesperson did say that recognition would only be granted if Israel keeps its part of the deal, by holding talks with the Palestinians in accordance with measures set out by the deal of the century.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The annexation would be in the context of an offer to the Palestinians to achieve statehood based upon specific terms, conditions, territorial dimensions, and generous economic support,” the spokesperson said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe that Israel has been trying to do this ever since 1948.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">Israel's long-time international law expert and advocate on the subject of Judea-Samaria has been <b>Professor Eugene Kontorovich </b>who does live in Israel now. </span><span style="color: #222222;"> Another international lawyer in Israel is </span><span style="color: #222222;">:</span><span style="color: #4d4d4d;"><b>Professor Yuval Shan</b><b>y</b> is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also currently serves as Vice President for Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, and as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. Prof. Shany received his LL.B. cum laude from the Hebrew University, LL.M. from New York University and Ph.D. in international law from the University of London.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In early February of 2020,</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">K</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">ushner on Thursday said it will likely take “</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/kushner-says-it-will-take-months-to-prepare-west-bank-maps-ahead-of-annexation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a couple of months” to complete work on detailed West Bank maps</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> before Israel will be able to annex settlements and the Jordan Valley.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Update 5/31/2020</b>:</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"> Response from Fatah is threatening. </span></span></span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Posted text:</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">“A statement from the Fatah Movement Jenin branch...</span><br />
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O heroic Palestinian people, our battle with this greedy and hateful occupier is growing and heating up. The hated Israeli occupation has crossed all the red lines and gone too far in its evil way and its <strong>Zionist expansion ideology, </strong>out of hostility towards humanity and the international conventions...<br />Therefore, in light of <strong>the blatant and insolent arrogance of the Zionist occupation, which has publicly targeted the Palestinian struggle (our prisoners and Martyrs) </strong>[parentheses in source], and targeted the land of our Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem by announcing its determination to annex parts of our Palestinian state’s land... <strong>a strong and moving Palestinian response has arrived from the Palestinian people’s leadership and His Honor [PA] President of the State of Palestine leader Mahmoud Abbas, who in a resounding voice declared the release from all the agreements with the occupation state and the American administration...<br />We hold the Israeli occupation and the current American administration fully responsible for the explosion in the situation in the Palestinian territories, and say to them that the Palestinian people will defend its land and its right with self-sacrifice... We will not allow any occupying power to expropriate our historical Palestinian right, and we will all mobilize to fight with the sword of justice against the dark forces of occupation, until the occupation is defeated and independence is achieved...<br />Our people will continue on the path of struggle, not out of love for death, but rather in order to create a life for our children and the coming Palestinian generations, so that they will live with dignity in the lap of their independent Palestinian state...<br />As Palestinian poet Abd Al-Rahim Mahmoud said:<br />‘I shall carry my soul in my palm and toss it into the abyss of destruction<br />And then either a life that will gladden friends, or a death that will enrage the enemies’ </strong>(see note below –Ed.).”</div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: right;">[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 20, 2020]</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">Resource: </span><a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/israels-new-plan-annex-west-bank-what-happens-next">https://www.lawfareblog.com/israels-new-plan-annex-west-bank-what-happens-next</a><br />
<a href="http://www.jewishwikipedia.info/west_bank_areas_a_b_c.html">http://www.jewishwikipedia.info/west_bank_areas_a_b_c.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/illegal-arab-building-defies-supreme-court-ruling">https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/illegal-arab-building-defies-supreme-court-ruling</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lXwBxtojzY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lXwBxtojzY</a><br />
<a href="http://thejewishvoice.com/2020/04/us-gives-israel-blessing-to-annex-parts-of-judea-samaria/">http://thejewishvoice.com/2020/04/us-gives-israel-blessing-to-annex-parts-of-judea-samaria/</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_C_(West_Bank)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_C_(West_Bank)</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Adumim">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Adumim</a><br />
<span style="color: red;">Updated</span>: <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-peace-plan-rolls-out-netanyahu-says-he-will-annex-jordan-valley-settlements/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-peace-plan-rolls-out-netanyahu-says-he-will-annex-jordan-valley-settlements/</a> from 1/28/2020 on Trump's plan<br />
<a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/05/22/poll-israelis-favor-sovereignty-in-jordan-valley-judea-and-samaria/">https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/05/22/poll-israelis-favor-sovereignty-in-jordan-valley-judea-and-samaria/</a><br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-23298047470406339702020-05-22T11:57:00.003-07:002020-05-22T11:57:48.959-07:00Israeli Leadership Leading up to and During Six Day War <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">President was Zalman Shazar b: 1889-d: 1974<br />He was president from April 23,1963 to March 26, 1968<br />Belarus, Russia born, died in Jerusalem.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> He visited Palestine in 1911 but returned to Russia to serve in the army. In 1924, after his release, he <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Aliyah">immigrated</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;"> to the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_Palestine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mandate Palestine">British Mandate of Palestine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;">, settling in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;">, and became a member of the secretariat of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histadrut" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Histadrut">Histadrut</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Levi Eshkol of Mapai was Israel's 3rd Prime Minister and was serving during the <b>Six Day War</b> that is so important in our history. He served from December 22, 1964, came came into the position when David Ben Gurion resigned. He remained until February 26, 1969 when he died of a heart attack in Jerusalem. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Levi immigrated to Palestine in 1914 and remained, and worked in farming. He became a founder in the Labor Party that has been to the left of politics. He was also a founder of Histadrut and Haganah. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe Dayan b: 1915 in Degania, Palestine -d: 1981<br />Haganah member, founder of the Palmah, lost eye in 1941 when<br />soldier in British army serving in Lebanon.<br /><br />Just before the Six Day War, he joined the government as minister of defense.<br /> A Sabra (born in Israel), soldier and statesman who led Israel to dramatic victories over its Arab neighbours and became a symbol of security to his countrymen. </span></td></tr>
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A deceptive calm had been going on for the past 10 years. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The UN Emergency Force remained in its position between Egypt and Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Frontier with Egypt was so quiet. Other spots had problems occasionally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was an illusory calm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Arabs had not lost their hostility and hatred for Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Egypt was the chief instigator and were showing it in their speeches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Gamal Abdul Nasser b: 1918-d: 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 2nd President of Egypt </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> He was head of the Arab coalition against Israel which decreed the closing of the Straits of Tiran to Israel shipping. During the Six Day War he started, he</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lost his air force and much of his army and well as the entire Sinai peninsua, he was rapidly defeated. Russians supported him and he rearmed his forces rapidly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"WE BELIEVE THAT THE EVIL WHICH WAS PLACED IN THE HEART OF THE ARAB WORLD SHOULD BE ERADICATED."</b>Letter to King Hussein, from Naser, March 13, 1961</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<b>THE PROSPECTS ARE FOR WAR WITH ISRAEL. IT IS WE WHO WILL DICTATE THE TIME. IT IS WE WH WILL DICTATE THE PLACE." </b>Speech from Cairo, February 24, 1964.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<b>THE ARAB NATIONAL AIM IS THE ELIMINATION OF ISRAEL."</b>Nasser's published statement with President Aref of Iraq on May 25, 1965.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Johnson was president from 1963 to 1969.<br />He was a Democrat from Texas<br />b: August 27, 1908-d: January 22, 1973</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During his period Eshkol</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> annulled military rule over Arabs. President Lyndon Baines Johnson invited him to the White House, a first for Israel and the USA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"The special relationship he developed with President </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a><span style="background-color: white;"> would prove pivotal in securing US political and military support for Israel during the "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_period_(Six-Day_War)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Waiting period (Six-Day War)">Waiting period</a><span style="background-color: white;">" preceding the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a><span style="background-color: white;"> of </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">June 5, 1967</b><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">The </span><b style="font-family: sans-serif;">waiting period</b><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">: </span><span dir="rtl" lang="he" style="font-family: sans-serif;">תקופת ההמתנה</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">,</span><i style="font-family: sans-serif;">Tkufat HaHamtana</i><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">) was a 3-week interval in the history of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israel</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">, May 15 – June 5, 1967, between the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> crossing of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> into the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> and the outbreak of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oren" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Michael Oren">Michael Oren</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, Eshkol's intransigence (refusal to change his mind) in the face of military pressure to launch an Israeli attack is considered to have been instrumental in increasing Israel's strategic advantage as well as obtaining international legitimacy, yet at the time he was perceived as hesitant, an image cemented following a stuttered radio speech on 28 May.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Egyptian President</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Nasser</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'s ever more overt provocations, created diplomatic support for Israel. Eshkol eventually established a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Unity_Government" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="National Unity Government">National Unity Government</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">together with</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'s</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herut" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Herut">Herut</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">party, conceding the Defense portfolio to</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Moshe Dayan">Moshe Dayan</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, Israel waited for 3 weeks, from May 15 for international action of UN to stop the escalation and remove the threat that had amassed in its borders. The was Syria, Egypt and the Soviet Union who had spread false reports of concentrations of Israeli forces on the Syrian frontier. They ignored the on the spot reports by the UN that no such concentrations existed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These false reports were used by Egypt as a pretext for concentrating the bulk of its army in Sinai; 90,000 men and 900 tanks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Egypt then demanded that the UN Emergency Force withdraw and stop serving as a barrier between Egypt and Israel. The UN left the scene. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to all navigation to Israel and called for war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Egypt led the Arab States in forming a war pact against Israel. The armies of Jordan, Iraq and Syria began to concentrate their forces along the frontiers with Israel. The Jordanian Army was put under the command of an Egyptian officer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arab leaders said publicly their intention was to destroy Israel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"THE ARAB PEOPLE WANTS TO FIGHT. WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE RIGHT DAY WHEN WE WOULD BE FULLY PREPARED...RECENTLY, WE HAVE FELT STRONG ENOUGH TO TRIUMPH WITH GOD'S HELP, IF WE ENTER INTO BATTLE WITH ISRAEL. ON THAT BASIS, WE HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE THE ACTUAL MEASURES. TAKING THIS STEP MAKES IT IMPERATIVE THAT WE BE READY TO EMBARK ON A TOTAL WAR WITH ISRAEL</span><span style="background-color: white;">. " Nasser speech, May 26, 1967.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The miracle happened. Israel destroyed the armies that had massed along its frontiers and menaced its vital centers. Cease-fire lines were established along the Suez Canal, the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. The Straits of Tiran were once again open to navigation. Jerusalem was then re-united as it had been a divided city. This enabled Jews for the first time to enter Jerusalem and pray at the Kotel (Wall). Israelis had been kept out ever since 1948-19 years! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, it was that after trying to eradicate Israel since </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1947-49,</b> and <b>1956,</b> and the <b>1967</b> and losing all three major wars, the Arabs did not take this well. They met in Khartoum, Africa and came up with their 3 no's saying that they would never ever make peace with Israel. </span></div>
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Resource:<br />
facts about Israel published 1973, by Ministery for foreign affairs, Jerusalem<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Israel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Israel</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Shazar">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Shazar</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Israel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Israel</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_period_(Six-Day_War)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_period_(Six-Day_War)</a><br />
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moshe-Dayan">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moshe-Dayan</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-15583942520640947122020-05-21T13:25:00.004-07:002020-05-21T17:54:41.198-07:00Who Lives in Judea and Samaria Today? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Israel won the Six Day War in 1967, a war started by the aggression of surrounding Arab nations. Chances of winning were nil so it was a miracle that they did. Since then <b style="background-color: yellow;">53 years have gone by. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Today there are in Judea and Samaria almost 200 cities, towns and a few villages that are populated by Jews; Jew who do care about their history, as this is the most historic area in Jewish history. There are <b style="background-color: yellow;">cities</b> with the population of over 73,000 to <b style="background-color: yellow;">villages</b> of 150 population in Judea and Samaria. These are lumped together by foreigners who call them all "settlements". People don't realize the closeness that is going on in teeny Israel. For instance, a "settlement" may exist only a few miles away from Jerusalem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Update: 5/21/20</span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Area A: </span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-size: 20px;">Area A is the space in which the PA has political and military jurisdiction over its residents – all of whom are Arab.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7;">This includes all of the major towns and their immediate environs – with the partial exception of </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">Jewish Hebron</b><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7;">, which came under exclusive Israeli control in the 1997 Hebron protocol between Israel and the PLO. This area comprises approximately 18 percent of Judea and Samaria’s land mass.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Area B: </span></span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">In Area B, Israel and the PA share jurisdiction.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Judea and Samaria's Area C</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_C_(West_Bank)" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Area C (West Bank)">Area C</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;">, controlled by Israel </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_Accord" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="West Bank Areas in the Oslo II Accord">under Oslo Accords</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;">, in blue and red</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">MOST OF geographic Judea and Samaria (60% of the area) is designated Area C, over which Israel has exclusive jurisdiction both administratively and in security matters.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's interesting the the some towns Arabs are living in have history as Jewish towns. "</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">One-quarter of the 584 Arab localities in Israel and beyond the Green Line have ancient Biblical names. For example, Sakhnin was a Jewish town during the Talmudic era, and Beit Lehem is the Hebrew name for the biblical city of Bethlehem." Homes have been found to still bear very old Hebrew inscriptions on them. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: "khula" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Most Arabs are as new in Israel as many of the Jews were for as researcher/journalist Joan Peters explained, came in following Jewish immigrants from surrounding areas to obtain jobs in building. They were allowed to enter the country by the British who prevented Jewish immigration at the same time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The name </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Judea</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, when used in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Judea and Samaria</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, refers to all of the region south of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gush_Etzion" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Gush Etzion">Gush Etzion</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Hevron_Regional_Council" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Har Hevron Regional Council">Har Hebron</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. The region of Samaria, on the other hand, refers to the area north of Jerusalem. East Jerusalem has been incorporated into the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_District" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Jerusalem District">Jerusalem District</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and is under Israeli civilian rule, and is thus excluded from the administrative structure of the Judea and Samaria Area. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jerusalem is now a united city, no longer divided.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Yellow area is Israel includes all of Jerusalem</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Red Stripes-Area C most likely</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/227750">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/227750</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">West Bank is not just land along the Jordan River but the whole mountain range of Judea and Samaria. It is simply the appetizer if taken over for the dinner of the USA if attacked by enemies. Comment by Mark Langfan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Almost 450,000 Jews live in Judea and Samaria today. That's close to Portland, Oregon's population in 1990. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are about 2.5--2.7 million Arabs living there as well,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">about the same population as Toronto, Canada was in 2016. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The state of Israel now has a little over 6 million Jews and over 2 million Arabs, all who can vote. Total as of today is</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">8,655,535. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Israel's land size is 8,550 sq. miles</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Judea-Samaria's land size is 2,270 miles. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Total size: 10,820 sq. miles</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Total size of Portland, Oregon is 145 sq. miles</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Total size of Toronto, Canada is 243.3 sq miles</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel was once compared to New Jersey's 7,439 sq miles, but Massachusetts might be as close with a listed 7,838 sq. miles. Are they including the Dead Sea in Israel's measurements? </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "work sans"; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: inherit;">"As we have made consistently clear, we are prepared to recognize Israeli actions to extend Israeli sovereignty and the application of Israeli law to areas of the West Bank that the vision foresees as being part of the State of Israel," US State Department spokesperson says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Resource:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_settlements">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_settlements</a></span><br />
<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/19/israel-west-bank-annexation-reshaping-middle-east/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/19/israel-west-bank-annexation-reshaping-middle-east/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52680096">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52680096</a><br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israels-netanyahu-armed-with-a-new-mandate-sets-his-sights-on-west-bank-annexation/2020/05/12/1b363612-938c-11ea-87a3-22d324235636_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israels-netanyahu-armed-with-a-new-mandate-sets-his-sights-on-west-bank-annexation/2020/05/12/1b363612-938c-11ea-87a3-22d324235636_story.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-condemns-israeli-plans-for-annexation-in-west-bank/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-condemns-israeli-plans-for-annexation-in-west-bank/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opinion/contributors/annexing-west-bank-israel-palestinians.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opinion/contributors/annexing-west-bank-israel-palestinians.html</a><br />
<a href="https://apnews.com/48a4df69f8735ef54fdf356cd004ce1f">https://apnews.com/48a4df69f8735ef54fdf356cd004ce1f</a><br />
<a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3085463/china-voices-concern-over-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3085463/china-voices-concern-over-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/28/report-us-prepared-to-recognize-israeli-annexation-of-judea-and-samaria/"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/28/report-us-prepared-to-recognize-israeli-annexation-of-judea-and-samaria/</span></a><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-zionist-advocate/occupied-territories-hebrew-origins-of-palestinian-arab-towns-in-judea-samaria-478675">https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-zionist-advocate/occupied-territories-hebrew-origins-of-palestinian-arab-towns-in-judea-samaria-478675</a></span><br />
<a href="https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-true-legal-facts-on-green-line-near.html"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-true-legal-facts-on-green-line-near.html</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/magazine/knowing-your-abc-448963">https://www.jpost.com/magazine/knowing-your-abc-448963</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/arabs-outnumber-jews-israel-occupied-territories-official-180326181707023.html">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/arabs-outnumber-jews-israel-occupied-territories-official-180326181707023.html</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2010/12/israel-judeasamaria-west-bank-and-gaza.html">https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2010/12/israel-judeasamaria-west-bank-and-gaza.html</a> in 2010</span></div>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-59230035530325634732020-05-20T11:56:00.000-07:002020-05-21T11:20:19.487-07:00Judea-Samaria's History Held in Jeopardy Today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
1205-1050 BCE<br />
from the Book of Joshua <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Judah had a population of 76,500<br /> Dan had 64,400<br /><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"> Issachar had 64,309 (Mt Tabor to Jordan)<br /> Zebulun had 60,500 (Valley of Jezreel)</span><br /> Asher had 53,400</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Manasseh had 52,700<br />Benjamin had 45,600<br />Naphtali had 45,400<br />Reuben had 43,730<br /> Gad had 40,500<br /> Ephraim had 32,500 (hill country)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of the Exodus with Moses in 1271 BCE, Joshua helped the 600,000+ population of 12 tribes to settle in the land they had walked and rode for 40 years to settle in; Canaan. This was land they had left during a terrible famine for Egypt. They were given explicit directions and instructions from G-d about this according to our Torah of who would settle where. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">The tribe of Judah</b>, the largest and the one we Jews are from, was given the southern portion of land. Each tribe had their name for their section. All 12 tribes together created Israel. <b style="background-color: yellow;">Hebron</b> is in Judah, 18 miles south of Jerusalem.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Abraham had bought the land holding the Cave of Machpelah so he could have a place to bury his wife/niece, Sarah. Today a mosque stands on the site and the Arabs have taken over the city. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It looks like Jerusalem was actually in Benjamin which was the northern tip of Judah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When King Solomon died in 920 BCE, a Civil War ensued between the North and the South, and the Temple, which was in Judah, was the most important to the people of Judah. We were soon to see that the tribe of Judah was the final tribe left after Assyrians had their way with Israel. Israel lasted for 351 years before leaving Judah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then the Babylonians took Judeans away forcefully to Babylonia where they lived in 597 BCE and again in <b style="background-color: yellow;">586 BCE, large numbers were deported.</b> This was 323 years later from the death of Solomon. Judeans had lived in their own land of Judah for <b style="background-color: yellow;">685</b> years. This is as if Americans from 1776 could continue on their land until the year 2461. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Luckily, most returned when King Darius allowed them with the admonishment of telling them to rebuild their temple, and they did! Not all returned, however after this interlude of time. There's always those who couldn't or wouldn't return and settled into the ways of Babylonians gladly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They had only been gone either 48 to 59 years, about 2 generations from the kidnapping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Romans came along and occupied Judah in 63 BCE , then they burned Jerusalem and the Temple down in 70 CE, killing and taking people as slaves for markets to be slaughtered in their circuses with lions, or fodder for the army, etc. The Romans took the land and gold from the Temple and changed the name to Judea. Jews had lived in Judah up till this for the past <span style="background-color: yellow;">1,341 years. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Jews almost got it back permanently but it lasted only for 4 years when General Bar Kokhba fought for Jerusalem's return in 132-135, with Romans winning. They then renamed it as Palaestina after the worst enemy Israel and Judah had had, the Philistines. Romans had been rebuilding Jerusalem as a Roman Colony and they had prohibited the act of circumcision on Jews. This was 62 years after the burning of Jerusalem. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Judea. The Roman Stamp. Again, not all Jews were dragged away or even escaped. Some remained in hiding in their land that was full of hiding places. They stayed until this very day. True children of Judah. Oh, but the geneticists would love to test them! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must remember that Abram-Abraham, born in the 2nd millennium BCE or about 1948 BCE, had entered Canaan from the East around the Euphrates River area. He had come with his father, Terah, in a group of people. His birthplace had been the city of Ur of the Chaldees and when they came they put up their tents in a land already populated by Canaanites and Philistines. Ur is actually an ancient Babylonian city. The city was highly civilized in Abram's time and showed archaeologists evidence of an extensive flood at an earlier date. So these people were really roughing it in their trek to come across the land of Canaan and put up tents. One wonders what forced them out of Ur? Abram visited Egypt and then returned to live in Hebron. Abraham's Y haplogroup (male line) is J1) since Moses and his brother Aaron through Aaron carry this Cohen haplogroup. It's also shared with many Arabs, proving our history of being cousins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jews who came again in a needed time of return to Eretz came from Eastern Europe and Russia via the Sea and they built <b>Tel Aviv</b> in 1909. <b>Tel Aviv,</b> the Hill of Spring, was the title of the Hebrew translation of Herzl's novel, <i>Altneuland</i>. They were able to live in places according to the rules of the <b>Ottoman Empire</b> in the 1880s and onward. That's why they didn't get to settle back into Judea and Samaria easily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Judea and Samaria. What is Samaria? Where is Samaria? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel after Solomon's death when they had lost the use of Jerusalem as their capital. It was founded in about 880 BCE by the then king Omri on a hill bought from Shemer as told in detail in Kings 16:24. The site was 7 miles NW of Shechem (today's Nablus) and was on an isolated elevation dominating a wide countryside. The city was on 25 acres. It fell in 721 BCE to Sargon II of Assyria who resettled it with Cutheans who intermingled with the remnants of the former Israelite population. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Cuthites</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> were a people living in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaria" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Samaria">Samaria</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> around 500 BCE, and were to blame for the postponing of the 2nd temple, in the reign of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. They did this after the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_people" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish people">Jewish people</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> returned from </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_exile" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Babylonian exile">Babylonian exile</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, and first agreed to help them, but after the Jews refused, they lied to king Cyrus who postponed the building process."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The name, Samaria, also includes the entire northern region of the central highlands of Palestine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We come to the end of World War I when the Allies promise Jews a Jewish Homeland out of the area known as Palestine/first known as Palestinian Syria. Palestine was only a piece of land, not a country belonging to anyone except at that moment, the Ottoman Empire who also just owned it for collecting taxes. It was part of their empire, named by the Romans in their anger. Their intention was to minimize the Jewish association with the area. The Allies won over the Axis which included the Ottoman Empire and gave a 30 year mandate to Britain to keep order. Within a short time, this was sliced apart with a huge chunk given away by Britain to a prince of Saudi Arabia who created Trans-Jordan, that became Jordan. Britain happens to be the Muslim country's greatest trader. Whether it's that or oil, Britain was not about to be their enemy. They had fought against the German invaders of gaining the Middle East even though the Ottoman Empire was on Germany's side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jordan's land given them by Britain was annexed by them in 1950.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">This annexation was considered illegal and was recognized only by Britain, Iraq and Pakistan.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel was in a war started by its Muslim neighbors in 1967 which Israel won, so they occupied Judea and Samaria, called the West Bank as it was on the West side of the Jordan River, a border-line. Jordan called it the "West Bank" in order to minimize the Jewish memories of ownership. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Israel's piece is the pale yellow color which includes parts<br />of Jerusalem. How terrible to cut a city in parts east and west.<br />Today it is a whole city as it should be. Arabs were not moved.<br />Notice that Israel got the Negev Desert. Boy! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oslo Accords">Oslo Accords</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, signed between the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">and Israel, created</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_Accord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="West Bank Areas in the Oslo II Accord">administrative districts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">with varying levels of Palestinian autonomy within each area.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_C_(West_Bank)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Area C (West Bank)">Area C</a><span style="color: #202122;">,</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in which Israel maintained complete civil and security control, accounts for over 60% of the territory of the West Bank.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Abbas of the PA has said that their Palestine will have absolutely no Jews in it. Judea and Samaria has Jews now living there. They will be kicked out. There are 3 areas making up the land according to the Oslo agreements; A, B, and C. This would all be discounted. As a state, they would be receiving weapons. Gaza does, but illegally so. So the world is expecting Israel to be attacked not only from Gaza but right next door-even from Jerusalem's east, to be attacked. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jerusalem, center of 3 religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam<br />with Jordan given rights on Temple Mount<br />Who suffers? Jewish worshippers who aren't allowed near Muslim sites-<br />not even allowed to be seen moving lips.<br />Perhaps they can during Coronavirus days wearing masks? </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The West Bank, including </span><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>,</b><span style="background-color: white;"> has a land area of 5,640 km</span><sup style="background-color: white; line-height: 1;">2</sup><span style="background-color: white;"> plus a water area of 220 km</span><sup style="background-color: white; line-height: 1;">2</sup><span style="background-color: white;">, consisting of the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> As of July 2017 it has an estimated population of 2,747,943 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a><span style="background-color: white;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and approximately 391,000 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli settlement">Israeli settlers</a><span style="background-color: white;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and approximately another 201,200 Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, illegal under </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="International law">international law</a><span style="background-color: white;">, though Israel disputes this.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;">" </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Professor Kontorovich</b> defends Israel's interpretation as he is an inter-</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice</a><span style="background-color: white;"> advisory ruling (2004) concluded that events that came after the 1967 occupation of the West Bank by Israel, including the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Law" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem Law">Jerusalem Law</a><span style="background-color: white;">, Israel's peace treaty with Jordan and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oslo Accords">Oslo Accords</a><span style="background-color: white;">, did not change the status of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli-occupied territories">occupied territory</a><span style="background-color: white;"> with Israel as the occupying power.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;">" </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Logic makes this impossible, but one finds such courts always siding </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b><span style="color: red;">UPdate-5/21/20 From Kontorovich: "</span></b><span style="color: #202122;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "titillium web" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Today, the prevalent approach is that even though the land did not belong to Jordan, it was “Jordanian enough,” and therefore the laws of occupation and the Geneva Convention apply to it. "</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "titillium web" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">"This is nonsense, because even if we assumed this was correct, the Geneva Convention no longer applies when there is a peace treaty, and there has been a peace treaty with Jordan since 1994. It has to be either one or the other: Either it belonged to Israel all the time and Israel liberated its own territory in 1967, and you can’t occupy your own territory. Alternatively, it was “Jordanian enough” in 1967 for the laws of occupation to apply. In that case, the peace treaty with Jordan nullified the Geneva Convention. The Oslo Accords even took it a step further and granted local self-government." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: white;">which they won, the </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">annexation</b><span style="background-color: white;"> of Judea-Samaria. Jordan is in an uproar. Iran</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"On 16 September 2019, in an interview with Israeli Army Radio, Netanyahu said "I intend to extend sovereignty on all the settlements and the (settlement) blocs," including "sites that have security importance or are important to Israel’s heritage," including the settlements in Hebron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The application of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_law_in_the_West_Bank_settlements" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli law in the West Bank settlements">Israeli law in the West Bank settlements</a> has been described by commentators as <b>"creeping annexation."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Update 5/20/20: </span><span style="color: #202122;">To annex or not, that is the $64 question with so many American Jews against it. Wouldn't it be fair to say that only Netanyahu's government has the obligation to decide such a decision? We can put forth our opinion, but in the end, it is their right to decide. I remember that Truman wanted to recognize Israel and all his men advised against it, but he did it anyway. It was the best decision for the Jews of Palestine, even the ones living in the United States, and not bad at all for the USA. Israel's big brother has benefited. This annexation of Judea and Samaria is looked upon by the Israeli government as them being 53 years in arrears for the act. It should have been done at the end of 1967's War. They've given the Arabs every chance to be peaceful people, but it hasn't happened. It hasn't yet. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Update: 5/20/20: </b></span><span style="color: #202122;">"During the 1967 </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israel</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> captured </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, a part of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="West Bank">West Bank</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jordan">Jordan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. It has remained occupied until the present day. On June 27, 1967, Israel unilaterally extended its law and jurisdiction to East Jerusalem and some of the surrounding area, incorporating about 70 square kilometers of territory into the Jerusalem Municipality. Although at the time Israel informed the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United Nations">United Nations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> that its measures constituted administrative and municipal integration rather than annexation, later rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court indicated that East Jerusalem had become part of Israel.</span><b style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122;"> In 1980, Israel passed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Law" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem Law">Jerusalem Law</a> as part of its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Laws_of_Israel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Basic Laws of Israel">Basic Law</a>, which declared Jerusalem the "complete and united" capital of Israel.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> In other words, Israel purported to annex East Jerusalem.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The annexation was declared null and void by UNSC Resolutions 252, 267, 271, 298, 465, 476</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and 478.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jewish neighborhoods have since been built in East Jerusalem, and Israeli Jews have since also settled in Arab neighborhoods there, though some Jews may have returned from their 1948 expulsion after the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem_(1948)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Battle for Jerusalem (1948)">Battle for Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Only Costa Rica recognized Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, and those countries who maintained embassies in Israel did not move them to Jerusalem.</span><b><span style="background-color: white;"> The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a><span style="background-color: white;"> has passed the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Embassy_Act" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem Embassy Act">Jerusalem Embassy Act</a><span style="background-color: white;">, which recognizes Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel and requires the relocation of </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">the U.S. embassy there, but the bill has been waived</span><span style="background-color: white;"> by presidents</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bill Clinton">Clinton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George W. Bush">Bush</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"> on national security grounds</span></b><span style="background-color: white;">. President Trump has begun the controversial process of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_recognition_of_Jerusalem_as_capital_of_Israel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel">moving the United States embassy to Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white;">, <b>but has not recognized the annexation of East Jerusalem."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gaza is ruled over by Arabs for their Arabs. They swore to not have peace at the Khartoum Conference after 1967's loss in the war. Israel had first cleared all their own Jewish citizens out of Gaza in order to give them more room, which was very hard on their citizens for sure! They had to leave businesses that the Gazans destroyed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Being nice only got Israel snipers and bombers, people fighting with fire in kites, Tunneling to kidnap Jews better, every sort of hateful act. And the world continues to harp on having a Palestinian State on Judah's remains, a sliver of land that the Jews finally held in their hands of the pie they were promised. 80% of their land had first gone to Jordan! They were left with 20% now being harped up as sliced to make Palestine-leaving what? 10% of the original piece? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://jcpa.org/why-israeli-rule-in-the-west-bank-is-legal-under-international-law/">https://jcpa.org/why-israeli-rule-in-the-west-bank-is-legal-under-international-law/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank</a></span><br />
The New Standard jewish Encyclopedia<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/palestinian-leader-mahmoud-abbas-ends-security-agreement-with-israel-and-us">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/palestinian-leader-mahmoud-abbas-ends-security-agreement-with-israel-and-us</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Israeli_annexation_of_the_West_Bank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Israeli_annexation_of_the_West_Bank</a><br />
<a href="https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-true-legal-facts-on-green-line-near.html">https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-true-legal-facts-on-green-line-near.html</a><br />
Tanakh, Stone Edition<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation</a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Update: 5/21/20:</span></b> <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHNVzMTxVwhKzcJSWkwWkXzbrR">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHNVzMTxVwhKzcJSWkwWkXzbrR</a>-Victor Sharpe Essay</span><br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-72118908283875690772020-05-19T20:28:00.000-07:002020-05-24T05:41:38.312-07:00How Did Israel Survive After It's Birth in 1948 When War Was Already Happening? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Palestinian irregulars of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_War_Army" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Holy War Army">Holy War Army</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">, approaching </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qastal,_Palestine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Al Qastal, Palestine">al-Qastal</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> village near Jerusalem to take it back from Palmach.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the night of April 7-8, under the command of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini, Palestinian irregulars counterattacked the Haganah occupiers of Castel. The Palestinians are seen here moving to the counterattack.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The real question should be how did it manage to survive before its birth when in the womb, so to speak? A Civil War was happening between the Arab and Jewish communities in Eretz YIsrael that started after November 29, 1947. This war was started by the Arabs. They refused to accept the UN partition resolution. The proposed Arab state never came into being, the Arab areas being taken over by Jordan and Egypt, and the recommended economic union was not implemented. These changes were incorporated in the Rhodes Agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria when the military phase of Israel's War of Independence was ended. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the beginning of April 1948, units of Arab irregulars entered the country from Syria, Lebanon and Egypt to reinforce local Arabs in their attacks of Jewish communities and to block the main roads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then on May 14, 1948, the very day the Jews announced statehood, Eretz Yisrael was invaded by the regular armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and the Saudi Arabian contingent in about 5 minutes after the radio announcement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day, Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, proclaimed in Cairo:<b><span style="background-color: yellow;"> "</span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-style: italic;">This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and Crusades."</span><span style="background-color: white;"><i> </i>They had been known as the League of Arab States<i>. </i></span></b></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"></sup><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The Arab League was formed in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cairo">Cairo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> on 22 March 1945 initially with six members: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Egypt" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kingdom of Egypt">Egypt</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iraq_(1932%E2%80%931958)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kingdom of Iraq (1932–1958)">Iraq</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Emirate of Transjordan">Transjordan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> (renamed </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jordan">Jordan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in 1949), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Syria">Syria</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Yemen">Yemen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> joined as a member on 5 May 1945. Currently, the League has </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Arab_League" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Member states of the Arab League">22 members</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, but </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Syria">Syria</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">'s participation has been suspended since November 2011. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122;">Their major trading partner was THE UNITED KINGDOM.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Egyptian army attacked and got as far as 30 km south of Tel Aviv. Arab forces besieged Jerusalem. The Iraqi army got 15 km from the Mediterranean and threatened to cut Israel in two. The Syrian army advanced west into the Upper Galilee and was set to amputate Israel's finger in the north. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel only had 650,000 population and really had no army to speak of at all. They depended on the <b>Haganah </b>to defend all these people and they were so poorly equipped to do so. Yet they managed to drive back these invading forces. It was a matter of do or die. The fighters penetrated into the Sinai peninsula to drive out the Egyptian invaders. Today Israel has a Jewish population of over 6 million, the very number they lost in the Holocaust from 1939-1945. The need for the return to Eretz Yisrael was great as the climate was continually bad for them in the other parts of the world as it had been before WWII. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"While the Jewish population was ordered to hold their ground everywhere at all costs,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> the Arab population was disrupted by general conditions of insecurity. Up to 100,000 Arabs from the urban upper and middle classes in Haifa, Jaffa and Jerusalem, or Jewish-dominated areas, evacuated abroad or to Arab centres to the east."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">6,000 Jews were killed in this War of Independence; more than in all the subsequent wars combined. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A truce was called and negotiations for an armistice began. During 1949, separate armistice agreements were signed between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. In each agreement it was laid down that the purpose was to create the transition from the truce to permanent peace. Nobody foresaw that instead of leading to peace, the Egyptian agreement would dissolve in 7 years in another war, and the after 18 years, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon would also start another war with Israel. </span></span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Establishment of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="State of Israel">State of Israel</a> beyond the borders proposed by the Partition Plan</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Establishment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Palestine_Government" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="All-Palestine Government">All-Palestine Government</a> in the Gaza Strip under Egyptian patronage</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jordanian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">rule of West Bank</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Syrian foothold North and South of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sea of Galilee">Sea of Galilee</a></span></li>
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Israel has had to fight in 12 major wars:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1947-1949 The Israeli War of Independence</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1956 The Suez Campaign</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1967 The Six Day War</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1973 The Yom Kippur War</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1982 Operation Peace for Galilee</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1985-2000 South Lebanon Conflict</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1987-1993 1st Intifada</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2000-2005 2nd Intifada</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2006 Lebanon War</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2008-2009 Gaza War</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Operation Pillar of Defense 2012</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Operation Protective Edge 2014 </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">No nation should be forced to go to war time and time again, not in these centuries when people had created THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS to stop wars followed by the better plan of the United Nations. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">No nation should have to explain year after year that it has the right to live, and to defend itself over and over again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> No nation should be judged at the United Nations by Middle Eastern countries hatefully minded to Israel, and picked upon continually while other actual warlike nations are given the green light and their actions against others are ignored, never to be brought up for discussion. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe Dayan 1915-1981<br />Haganah member as a teen, a founder of Palmah<br />lost his eye fighting in Lebanon when in British army.<br />In Independence fought Syrian army, was minister of<br />Defense of Israel just before 6 day war. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Throughout all of this, Israel continues to progress and grow in a way that only benefits the world. This happens in their scientific achievements in so many ways, now in medical ways, finding ways to fight the coronavirus for one. She shares so much with the world while her hospital near Gaza has had to go underground from attacks of rockets, missiles and mortars. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel is a miracle. It's the most ancient of all countries and is here despite the unacceptance it has found for 3,000 years. Israel has a purpose in mind, a job to do, to be a light for people, something to live up to in expectations of itself. It notes when others have lent a helping hand when it was pushed down and trodded upon, which is not forgotten. It's a light for them to show where their goal must be. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Movie: Cast A Giant Shadow with Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Frank Sinatra</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Facts about Israel from Information, Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem</span></span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-15392410125822088082020-05-19T11:22:00.001-07:002020-05-19T17:44:18.460-07:00When Greece and Rome Vied For Jerusalem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The House of David</span> ruled Israel with<b> Solomon</b> dying in 920 BCE and his son, <b style="background-color: yellow;">Rehoboam</b> (933-917) taking over. At the same time, Rehoboam's ruling on taxes followed Solomon's wishes that were not the peoples, and so a split happened and <b><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Jeroboam</span><span style="background-color: white;">, an Ephraimite, superintendent of forced labor, </span></b>(933-912) took over the Northern 10 tribes. They had had a <b>Civil War</b> and remained divided in Israel and Judah. Israel lost their land and people when the kingdom of Assyria had attacked them and took away the best they had, including their people in 721 BCE. This was followed by the the Babylonians who had taken the Assyrians in 597-586 BCE who took the Jews to Babylonia. Many Babylonian Jews had been freed by King Darius in 538 BCE to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple! It had been destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar. Not all Jews returned. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back when </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Greece</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> had become the new powerhouse and took over Judah, the Jewish kings had lost control. </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Antiochus </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was the name of 13 Greek kings of the </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">House of Seleucus</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> who ruled Syria in the </span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hellenistic Period </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and it was </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Antiochus III</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> who reigned from 223 to 187 BCE and was the most involved with Judah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Antiochus</b> III transferred 2,000 Jewish families from Babylon to <b>Lydia </b>and <b>Phrygia.</b> These were Jews who had not returned to Jerusalem when others by when King Darius had freed them to return and rebuild the first Temple. Then he captured Jerusalem in 198 BCE. Antiochus treated the Jews with some understanding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then along came <b>Antiochus IV Epiphanes </b>who reigned from 175 to 163 BCE. He was turned back by Rome on his 2nd expedition against Egypt in 168 BCE and so he occupied Jerusalem, plundered the Temple treasure, and tried to hellenize Judea by force in order to convert it into a reliable frontier province. This brought about an uprising which Antiochus suppressed with great cruelty. Thousands of Jews were killed and many were sold into slavery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Antiochus brought in foreign people into Jerusalem and fortified the ACRA (Fortress) a stronghold of the Hellenizers to dominate the city. He started a fierce religious persecution of the Jews by forbidding circumcision and observing the Sabbath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He desecrated the Temple altar and set up pagan altars in the provincial towns, and then compelled the Jews to participate in pagan ceremonies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His excesses caused the <b>Hashmonean</b> uprising. A priest in Jerusalem by the name of <b>Mattathias</b> had a son named <b style="background-color: yellow;">Judah</b>. They were called the <b>Maccabees.</b> They led this revolt. They were very brave to do so as Antiochus had large forces of trained soldiers, weapons galore and even war elephants. All <b style="background-color: yellow;">Judah Maccabee</b> had was a small band of followers who were devoted to the Law of G-d through Moses. Judah knew the land of Israel when the Greeks didn't. The land had twisted hills and valleys, mountains and caves, forests and desert. There were places where he and his men could hide. They fought gorrilla-style; hide and reappear suddenly, striking the enemy when least expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, when <b style="background-color: yellow;">Judah Maccabee</b> captured Jerusalem in 165 BCE, he failed to take the Acra. The fortress continued in Greek occupation until 142 BCE when it was occupied by <b>Simon the Hasmonean</b>,(brother of Judas) and the Greek garrison and Hellenizers who had escaped there were expelled. That was enough to give them the miracle of victory over the Greeks. For the first time in history, a people fought a war to gain freedom of religion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jews were living in Rome by 139 BCE in a Jewish community. Judah and Rome had close relations, possibly in trading, and then of course, Jewish slaves were brought to Rome and reinforced the Jewish communities already started. Catacombs show that Jews there came from 12 different communities during this classical period. Future Popes felt that Jewish "insolence" and influence should be suppressed, but allowed them to worship. Rome treated Jews better than other places did when they were expelling them. In Rome, they were treated with a "modicum of humanity."</span><i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b> The Pope during the days of the Borgias was different from Popes later. They were more like kings. This one even had 2 powerful children. </b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>(Christians and Jews wonder today what would have happened if Judaism had been erased at this point in time as the Romans tried to do. There would have been no Jesus to be followed as he was a Jew tweaking Judaism, not crushing it as the Romans tried to do. It would take the Roman Emperors later in their conversion to try again to stamp out Judaism by re-addressing the concept Jesus had brought to them.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We remember this occasion today with a holiday we've celebrated ever since; Chanukah. We have a game we play with a dreidel, a top we spin with letters on it that tells us how we win the pot. It started with this as a cover-up to fool the Greek soldiers when coming across a few Jews. They said they were playing this gambling game, but they were really studying the Torah (the 1st 5 books of Moses-now the 1st 5 in the Old Testament) , something forbidden. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For 100 years, the descendents of Mattathias ruled an independent Jewish state. This family had produced great, even outstanding soldiers, but alas, they didn't turn out to be such kings. The century of their rulers were almost wrecking the country of Judah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It came to the point where 2 Maccabean princes were in competition to rule. they realized that their arguments might start a civil war, and that had happened long ago when King Solomon had died and their Israel had divided into North and South-North being Israel and South being Judah. They fought each other. Jerusalem stayed with Judah, and it was the land that cared the most for the religion, having Jerusalem so close to influence them. These two princes looked for someone to choose between them like a wise prophet. In the end they chose a Roman general who was handy, being in the area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Roman general was indeed a general only, and not so wise. He ignored both men, had no such good intentions, and made Eretz Yisrael part of the Roman Empire. The 2 princes had been terribly naive! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Roman army, led by the future Emperor </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Titus</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, with <b>Tiberius Julius Alexander</b> as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been controlled by Judean rebel factions since 66 CE, following the Jerusalem riots of 66, when the Judean provisional government was formed in Jerusalem.</span> "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Independence from foreign nations had only lasted for a century. It would be more than 2,000 years before the descendants of Jacob would again be masters of their homeland. That wasn't the end of their trying, though, before much time went by. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rome had become the new powerhouse, ruling Eretz Yisrael and the rest of the Middle East, and would include Britain, most of Europe, and all of North Africa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Governors of their lands were hardened soldiers with their own goals was making money. They would steal as much as they could before being transferred to other posts. One even took gold from the Temple treasury for his own personal use. When the Jews found out and protested, thousands were massacred. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The country was in rebellion again. Tiny Judea (Roman change in name from Judah) challenged this mightiest world's empire. It was another David and Goliath story. Of course the Romans weren't ruffled and knew this would be an easy victory. They were fooled, though, as it turned out to be a 4 year struggle for them that made them as angry as a million bees. Finally after 4 long years they reached the gates of Jerusalem and surrounded the city. The Jews kept them at bay for 5 long-enduring months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the 9th day of the month of Av ( July-August) on the Jewish calendar in 70 CE, the Roman battering rams smashed through the walls of Jerusalem. Soon the great 2nd Temple of Solomon was in flames. It hadn't been easy on the Jews, either. They were all starving to death during this period as they were cut off from food supplies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few had escaped before the serious closure was complete, but most all were caught inside. We remember this defeat to this day every year by a fast on this date. "<b style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Tisha B'Av</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">: </span><span class="script-hebrew" dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב</span><span class="IPA" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Hebrew" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none !important;" title="Help:IPA/Hebrew">ˈ</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><abbr style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; color: #202122; cursor: help;" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> "the ninth of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Av" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Av">Av</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">") is an annual </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%27anit" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ta'anit">fast day</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Judaism">Judaism</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, on which a number of disasters in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_history" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish history">Jewish history</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> occurred, primarily the destruction of both </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Solomon's Temple">Solomon's Temple</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Babylonian_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Neo-Babylonian Empire">Neo-Babylonian Empire</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">.</span> Jews were then taken as slaves for the various bloodthirsty uses Romans had such as the circuses with the lions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Resource: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> A Young Person's History of Israel 2nd edition, by David Bamberger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ancient.eu/lydia/">https://www.ancient.eu/lydia/</a><br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-54373098377785998782020-05-17T11:58:00.001-07:002020-05-19T13:58:04.620-07:00Why Britain Kicked Out All Jews in 1290<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jewish people had first entered England at the time of the<b> Norman Conquest</b> of 1066 when <b>William the Conqueror</b> had actually invited them to live in his country. First, a handful of financiers followed William to his country. They settled in London, York, Bristol, Canterbury, etc. They found work at trading, lending money to the baronage, and mostly advanced funds for current needs on the security of the revenue to the Crown. From that first time, Jews had been under the protection of the crown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">William had established a complicated feudal system where lords were created and their lands belonged to the king. The lords had financial obligation to the king, and Jews were able to help with this higher mathematics, being more skilled in reading and writing and math due to their religion causing them to survive economically as merchants because they were not allowed to own land. Merchants and Jews were thus under a special status involving the king's protection. They were needed men. <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Every successive king formally reviewed a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_charter" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, granting Jews the right to remain in England. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1144</b> was the first year they were accused of Ritual Murder in Norwich of a child named William. This Blood Libel would be copied many times against Jews. The Crusade Period had already seen the 1st two Crusades and Jews were not molested then, but it was starting. The 3rd Crusade from 1189-1190 saw riot all over the country causing much bloodshed mostly in London and York where the Jews' business bonds were burned. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A system of registration of Jewish debts was set up in 1194. This brought about a taxation system against the Jews of merciless taxation during the reigns of <b>John</b> from 1199-1216 and <b>Henry III</b> from 1216-1277. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Henry III</b> required all Jews to wear an identification badge showing they were Jews. "</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #282828;"><b>As early as 1217, King Henry III of England ordered Jews to wear "on the front of their upper garment the two tablets of the Ten Commandments made of white linen or parchment.</b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another favorite mode of clothing in Germany and<br />Austria,<br />for all were given this order from their Catholic Pope<br />pointed hats like an upside-down funnel.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By<b> 1212</b>, The archbishops of Canterbury, England received their Catholic papal letters saying that Jews had to wear identifiable clothing. It was the papacy who insisted on this need to ID all Jews so they could impose restrictions and segregation on Jews. Another factor was that the Church wanted evidence of how the English Church implemented their papal legislation. 1215's law insisted that Jews and Saracens be distinguished from Christians by the wearing of special clothing. 1221's edict ordered the enforcement of distinctive Jewish dress in Canterbury, as it was a protection against miscegenation between Jews and Christian women. 1229's letter talked about a complaint from William of Blois, bishop of Worcester, that Jews of Canterbury had continued to defy the state of the Lateran Council about wearing badges, and continued to have Christian servants in their households. That was forbidden since 1215. They were so afraid that Jews might prey on the naivety of young women to pervert them away from the Christian faith. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Jews of Europe were legally compelled to wear badges or distinguishing garments (e.g., pointed hats) at least as far back as the 13th century. This practice continued throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but was largely phased out during the 17th and 18th centuries. With the coming of the French Revolution and the emancipation of western European Jews throughout the 19th century, the wearing of Jewish badges was abolished in Western Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Jews did not enjoy any of the guarantees of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> of 1215.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">In 1239 Henry III introduced different policies, possibly trying to imitate those of Louis of France: Jewish leaders across England were imprisoned and forced to pay fines equivalent to a third of their goods, and any outstanding loans were to be released.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Further huge demands for cash followed – £40,000 was demanded in 1244, for example, of which around two-thirds was collected within five years – destroying the ability of the Jewish community to lend money commercially.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The financial pressure Henry placed on the Jews caused them to force repayment of loans, fuelling anti-Jewish resentment.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> A particular grievance among smaller landowners such as knights was the sale of Jewish bonds, which were bought and used by richer barons and members of Henry's royal circle as a means to acquire lands of lesser landholders, through payment defaults.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Henry worked at converting Jews to Catholicism. "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Henry had built the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domus_Conversorum" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Domus Conversorum">Domus Conversorum</a></i><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"> in London in 1232 to help convert Jews to Christianity, and efforts intensified after </span><b style="background-color: white;">1239</b><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">As many as 10 percent of the Jews in England had been converted by the late 1250s</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in large part due to their deteriorating economic conditions. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202122;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1255</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> was the year Jews were accused of another <b>Ritual Murder</b> case of</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b> Little Saint HUGH OF LINCOLN. </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The event is considered particularly significant, as the first such accusation <b>endorsed</b> by the Crown.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Henry intervened to order the execution of </span><b style="background-color: white;">Copin</b><span style="background-color: white;">, who had confessed to the murder in return for his life, and removed (meaning moved them )</span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> 91 Jews to the Tower of London. 18 were executed, and their property expropriated by the Crown</b><span style="background-color: white;">. At the time, the Jews were mortgaged to Richard of Cornwall, who intervened to release the Jews that were not executed, probably also with the backing of Dominican or Franciscan friars.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">The rules in those days forbid Christians to loan money with interest involved, but Jews had no such religious rules forbidding them, and the English kings took advantage of this. That became all the Jews were allowed to do. Then the </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">kings took advantage of the Jews by taxing them more</b><span style="background-color: white;"> because of this. Kings </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">could appropriate Jewish assets in the form of taxation. "They levied h</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eavy taxes on Jews at will, without having to summon </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_England" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They needed to be under their protection because of slander, for in the beginning of Christianity, this new religion had been finally taken over by the converted Roman Emperors who decided that they were in competition with Judaism and put Judaism down as the bad religion in comparison to their newly adopted religion, Christianity. From that time on there were all sorts of rules that were harmful against Jews, making them less than citizens. Jews were being discriminated against. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A hundred and ninety-one years went by, and by 1290, there were about 3,000 Jewish people living in England. The entire Jewish population was expelled on <b>July 18, 1290</b> from the country on the orders of <b>Edward I</b>. They had to be out by their <b>All Saints Day on November 1, 1290</b>. It shouldn't have been too big a surprise to Jews as the almost 200 years of existence there was fraught with increasing anti-Semitism each year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Medieval England was especially hard on Jews. " <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">An image of the Jew as a diabolical figure who hated Christ started to become widespread, and myths such as the tale of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wandering Jew">Wandering Jew</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Blood libel">allegations of ritual murders</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> originated and spread throughout England as well as in Scotland and Wales." An image of Shylock by Shakespeare was created by a man who had never seen a Jew and knew nothing about them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">49 levies were imposed on Jews for a total of 200,000 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_(currency)#England_and_Scotland" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mark (currency)">marks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, a vast sum of money.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Henry III imposed greater segregation and reinforced the wearing of badges in the <b>1253</b> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Jewry" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Statute of Jewry">Statute of Jewry</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. "</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Henry passed the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Jewry" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Statute of Jewry">Statute of Jewry</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in <b>1253</b>, which attempted to stop the construction of synagogues and enforce the wearing of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_badge" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish badge">Jewish badges</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, in line with existing Church pronouncements; it remains unclear to what extent the King actually implemented the statute.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> By <b>1258</b>, Henry's Jewish policies were regarded as confused and were increasingly unpopular amongst the barons.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Taken together, Henry's policies up to <b>1258 </b>of excessive Jewish taxation, anti-Jewish legislation and propaganda caused a very important and negative change.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">England showed more anti-Semitism than Europe did. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #202122;"> He endorsed the myth of Jewish child murderers. This became a very popular charge against Jews saying that they needed the child's blood to use in making matzos.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Again, this is a charge so far from truth that it's pathetic. Jews NEVER eat blood from an animal, let alone a human. It's against the dietary laws from Moses, one of the 613 laws that are followed, and this is an important one. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barons%27_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Second Barons' War">Second Barons' War</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in the <b>1260s </b>brought a series of pogroms aimed at destroying the evidence of these debts and Jewish communities in major towns, including London, where 500 Jews died, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Worcester">Worcester</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and many other towns. The Jews were experiencing competition from Italian bankers at this time, making their services not needed. Their rights were then restricted from <b>1269</b> onward. England probably never had more than 5,000 Jews in all at a time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b>1275 </b>was the year that the king came up with another anti-Semitic act with the Statute of the Jewry that said Jews could not charge interest in loans. Thus they had 15 years to leave for they weren't allowed any other profession. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b>1287 </b>was the year King Edward expelled Jews. "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All their property was seized by the crown and all outstanding debts payable to Jews were transferr</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">ed to the King's name.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> By the time he returned to England in <b>1289</b>, King Edward was deeply in debt.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The next summer he summoned his knights to impose a steep tax. To make the tax more palatable, Edward, in exchange, essentially offered to expel all Jews.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The heavy tax was passed, and three days later, on 18 July,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> the Edict of Expulsion was issued." Jews faced expulsion because of anti-Semitism's public pressure. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One story told of a captain taking a ship full of Jews to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Thames">Thames</a>, en route to France, while the tide was low, and convincing them to go out for a walk with him. He then lost them and made it back to his ship quickly before the tide came back in, leaving them all to drown. King Edward was said to be incensed and had the captain executed for the crime. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Many Jews emigrated, to Scotland, France and the Netherlands, and as far as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="History of the Jews in Poland">Poland</a>,</b><span style="background-color: white;"> which, at that time, protected them (see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Kalisz" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Statute of Kalisz">Statute of Kalisz</a><span style="background-color: white;">). I note that Jews had to be invited by the ruler before they could enter, and were invited because of their math skills for all rulers needed financial help and probably couldn't add 2 + 2. Then, when they felt they were on their feet, got rid of the Jews. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In <b>1475 </b>was another Blood Libel against Simon the Jew in Trent. No proof in these cases of Blood Libel was ever produced, but confessions would be extracted from Jews by torture, and "miracles" in connection with the dead body were taken as proof that death was due to Ritual Murder. Christians were becoming less gullible, however, and many fought the bood-murder charge and declared its absurdity. Pope Gregory X defended Jews in his bull in 1272-<b><i>Sicut Judaeis,</i></b> and other popes did likewise. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Spanish Inquisition of 1492</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> by the Catholic Church forced not only all Jews from Spain, but all other countries copied them as they heard of the religious proclamation. There wasn't a country where the Jews could hang their hat for more than a tiny bit of time and then they were off to the races again to stay alive. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">It is thought that America's Abraham Lincoln's ancestors were from Lincoln, England and had been Jews. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oliver Cromwell, </span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an English general and statesman who led the Parliament of England's armies against King Charles I during the English Civil War and ruled the British Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658., </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was the man who invited them to return in </span><b style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1657</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Wonder why? He had only a partial success at that. In 1664 they had a Marrano (Spanish Jews secretly who pretended to by Christians) group come to live in England. In 1753, someone introduced THE JEW BILL, but it caused little harm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Jewish population of Great Britain including northern Ireland in 1990 was about 330,000. I met many English Jews in Israel from 1980-1985. They were not allowed dual citizenship like I was from the USA. </span><br />
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Resource:<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion</a><br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/29779960?seq=1">https://www.jstor.org/stable/29779960?seq=1</a> 2 papal letters on the wearing of the Jewish badge<br />
<a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-yellow-star-1779682">https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-yellow-star-1779682</a><br />
<a href="http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1901">http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1901</a><br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-66475634891966193672020-05-16T09:00:00.001-07:002020-05-19T14:07:35.758-07:00How Britain Became Anti-Semitic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Britain was chosen to rule over Palestine for 30 years with the mandate. It would end in May 1948, having started May 1918. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Britain had expulsed Jews from their own land in 1290 and hadn't let them back in till 1655!</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> During that whole time the only Jews allowed in England were physicians, and at that only a few for desperate titled gentlemen. </span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1949 after Israel's War of Independence November 29, 1947<br />to Armistice signed in 1949. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Look at these facts: Jews were an unwanted people constantly thought of as scapegoats. There existed some Jews who had not wandered all over the face of this earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They remained in Palestine.The time had come when other Jews decided to join them because of being tired of attacks. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">The League of Nations Council was originally designed to have nine members: the five great powers (</span><a data-topic="1214331" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/britain-ireland-france-and-low-countries/british-and-irish-political-geography/britain" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Britain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">, </span><a data-topic="1214785" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/britain-ireland-france-and-low-countries/french-political-geography/france" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">France</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Italy,</span><span style="color: #575757;"> </span></span><a data-topic="1226414" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/asia/japanese-political-geography/japan" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Japan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">, and the </span><a class="interlinked" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-geography/united-states" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">United States</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;"> with permanent seats, as well as four temporary rotating members (the first four were </span><a data-topic="1212836" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/britain-ireland-france-and-low-countries/benelux-political-geography/belgium" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Belgium</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">, </span><a data-topic="1209135" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/latin-america-and-caribbean/south-american-political-geography/brazil" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Brazil</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">, </span><a data-topic="1208410" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/spain-portugal-italy-greece-and-balkans/greek-political-geography/greece" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Greece</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">, and </span><a data-topic="1210487" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/spain-portugal-italy-greece-and-balkans/spanish-and-portuguese-political-geography/spain" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Spain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">). However, despite an ardent cross-country campaign by US President Wilson, which eventually contributed to his debilitating stroke, the isolationist Senate failed to ratify the treaty and the </span><a class="interlinked" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-geography/united-states" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">United States</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;"> never officially joined the League. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;"><b>Thus, the Council consisted of eight members until 1922, when two additional small states were added. </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: "noto serif jp" , serif; text-align: left;">In 1926 the Council was further increased to fifteen members, including </span><a data-topic="1211417" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/germany-scandinavia-and-central-europe/german-political-geography/germany" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; font-family: "noto serif jp", serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Germany</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">League of Nations January 16, 1920-April 20, 1946<br />42 founding members, about 34 pictured here<br />The territories were governed by mandatory powers, such as the United Kingdom in the case of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandate of Palestine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">, </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_of_the_League_of_Nations" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-size: medium;" title="Covenant of the League of Nations">Covenant of the League of Nations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: small;"> was signed on 28 June 1919 as Part I of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-size: medium;" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: small;">, and it became effective together with the rest of the Treaty on 10 January 1920. The first meeting of the Council of the League took place on 16 January 1920, and the first meeting of Assembly of the League took place on 15 November 1920.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The League of Nations</b>, the world's first try of a United Nations, a world organization of getting the consensus of the world to unite against wars thinking wise heads could prevent them, <b style="background-color: yellow;">had decided to choose policemen to oversee Palestine after the First World War. </b> Enough wars, they they thought. Britain was selected to police or rule over the country, a country once ruled for 400 years by the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish ruled empire. The Ottoman Empire had sided with the Axis during WWI, the German-led side of the war and they had lost. This meant that the Ottoman Empire lost their land to the Allies of the world. Now it was in their hands; a western people handling Middle-eastern people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The only way people knew anything about Jews was through Shakespeare's rendition with Shylock. "<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Shylock</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is a character in William </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Shakespeare</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">'s play The Merchant of Venice (c. 1600). A Venetian Jewish moneylender, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Shylock</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is the play's principal antagonist. His defeat and conversion to Christianity form the climax of the story." </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;">Shylock After the Trial</i><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;"> by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilbert_(painter)" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="John Gilbert (painter)">John Gilbert</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;"> (late 19th century)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's made out to be a very bad person in the play. Being a money-lender is another story. Christianity had taken a position of not allowing Jews to make a living in any other way other than the despicable underhanded advocation of being a money-lender, something beneath Christian society. Jews couldn't own land, couldn't farm, so had this as a profession along with peddling. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world's 1st Israel was settled by <b>601,730 </b>Jewish slaves of Egypt led by Moses to the Promised Land which was actually Canaan, the land their forefather, Jacob and his band of 70 had left during a famine. This happened over 3,000 years ago. It took them 40 years to reach it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Obstacles like lions and persuasive women tantalizing the men to stop, and hostile people they encountered, made the trip dangerous. Feeding this many was also a problem so they were given Manna to eat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1948, Israel was born again in the same land, now called Palestine, named by the Romans for the Jews' enemy, the Philistines, with a population of <b>650,000</b> Jews. They also had a great need to possess their own homeland after 3,000 years of wandering. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you see why we love our Torah? How did this happen that Israel had broken apart when King Solomon died into 2 parts; Israel of the north and Judah of the south, only to come together again and go through a tough rebirth on May 14, 1948? The only problem was the the map didn't give the Jews their original Judea and Samaria! This was called the West Bank by Jordan. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Twentieth Century was a turn-around for Jews. In 1897, Theodor Herzl, Hungarian newspaper reporter, organized in Basle, Switzerland, the 1st Zionist Congress and founded the World Zionist Organization. (Zion is another name for Jerusalem and for the entire land.) Zionism came about as an answer to severe events of continued oppression and outbreaks of persecution (pogroms) in Eastern Europe within severe Jewish poverty. The goal was the return of Jews to the Land and the revival in it of Jewish national iffe; socially, culturally, economically and politically. As we say during Purim (Passover): Enough already! Jews started returning. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">King Hussein of the Hejaz, wrote:<span style="font-size: large;"> "We saw the Jews....streaming to Palestine from Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, America....The cause of causes could not escape those who had the gift of deeper insight; they knew that the country was for its original sons, for all their differences, a sacred and beloved homeland." </span> (Al qibla, Mecca, #183, 23 March 1918. George Antonius, ARAB AWAKENING, p. 269.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> World War I-1914-1918 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> A War between the Allies and the Axis</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><b style="background-color: lime; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The British succeeded in capturing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Beersheba">Beersheba</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Jaffa">Jaffa</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a></b><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: lime;"> from October to December 1917.</b> His forces occupied the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Valley_(Middle_East)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Jordan Valley (Middle East)">Jordan Valley</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yildirim_Army_Group" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Yildirim Army Group">Yildirim Army Group</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">'s </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Army_(Ottoman_Empire)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Eighth Army (Ottoman Empire)">Eighth Army</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(1918)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Battle of Megiddo (1918)">Battle of Megiddo</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">, forcing the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Army_(Ottoman_Empire)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire)">Fourth</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Army_(Ottoman_Empire)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Seventh Army (Ottoman Empire)">Seventh <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Army</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122;"> to retreat towards Damascus. Subsequently, the EEF Pursuit by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Mounted_Corps" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Desert Mounted Corps">Desert Mounted Corps</a><span style="color: #202122;"> captured </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Damascus">Damascus</a><span style="color: #202122;"> and advanced into northern </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Syria">Syria</a><span style="color: #202122;">.<br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">This is why the Brits were given the 30 year mandate to rule. </span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">On November 2, 1917, the British Balfour Declaration promised to support the establishment of a Jewish national home in </span><a href="https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/egypt-and-palestine-campaign" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-family: aleoregular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Ottoman-controlled Palestine</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in this letter to Lord Rothschild<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">His majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.</span></b><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif;"><b>"</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 18px;"> France, Italy and USA officially agreed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">This was in order to win Jewish support for Britain's </span><a href="https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/first-world-war" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-family: aleoregular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration-line: none;">First World War</a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> effort which was </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">already baled out by the Jewish chemist, Chaim Weizmann, who created a special ammunition more powerful than others had for England which won the war for the allies. </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The British had also made a promise to the Arabs that a united Arab country, covering most of the Arab Middle East, would result if the Ottoman Turks were defeated. The Brits broke their promises to both the Jews and the Arabs. </span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Britain was at war. Balfour's Declaration gave Jews reason to support them as they were supporting the Jews. Britain also needed Arab support because Arabs made up more than half the population of the Ottoman Empire. Britain put themselves in a jackpot by making two opposite promises to these two people. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Declaration was approved by the British cabinet and was given to Lord Walter Rothschild to convey it to the Zionist Federation. It was approved by other Allied governments and incorporated in the Mandate in 1922. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The 30 year mandate had a hook in it. The Brits were to help the Jews to create their Jewish Homeland in those 30 years. That was the promise of the League of Nations. This hadn't been easy to come by. It took many meetings of the Jewish leaders like Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow and others after WWI had started to make contact with the allies to gain such a position. They had seen a window with possibilities of opening for them after going for 2,000 years without a country for their people. Yes, they were a people; not just a religion. They had their own culture, language, family ties and their own religion. They would have been a proselytizing religion had they not been prevented from doing so by the Roman Christian emperors. They had once been an empire as well. They were the only ancient Middle Eastern people who still existed. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1929 massacres In 1929, Husseini and his associates fomented a violent jihad as they called upon Muslims to “defend” their holy places from the Jews. As a result, pogroms were carried out across Palestine. Arab villagers sympathetic to Jews were often targets of murderous attacks by their Arab brethren as well. British forces were sharply criticized for not policing the territory adequately, for sympathizing with the Arabs, and for standing by and allowing havoc to be wreaked upon Jewish communities in Palestine.</span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Right after the war in 1921 the Arabs rioted against the Jews mostly in Jerusalem and Safed. The 1st British High Commissioner for Palestine was Sir Herbert Samuel, an English reformed Jew. He had kept pretty good law and order, but he left in 1925. Then the British favoritism for the Arabs was more apparent. By 1929, Arabs were led by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and rioted in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed with longer and brutal killings by attacking the unarmed in these cities. 133 Jews were massacred. Over 200 were wounded. Jewish property was destroyed. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Brits did nothing to punish rioters or prevent more riots. Violence was the worst in 1936 when Germany was undergoing attacks on Jews. The Jews in Hebron, a holy city to Jews where Abraham buried his wife, Sarah and one of the cities of cited as a city of refuge as well as once being King David's capital, were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">driven out or killed. After 1,000 years, Hebron had no Jews living there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Brits then did a terrible thing. In 1939, Great Britain issued </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">their<b> "White Paper",</b></span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">stating that England intended to set up an independent state in Palestine in 10 years with a permanent Arab majority. They were there to be setting up the Jewish Homeland! This was truly a double-cross. In 1939 Germany was invading Poland! Jews had been suffering greatly in the last 3 years in Germany. My own uncle got out of Germany in May 1939 and may have been the last Jew to do so as the doors closed on them after that. The Germans had them all as captives, and the doors of Auschwitz were already open-my uncle had been in there! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The White Paper went on to announce that Jewish immigration would be cut back to 15,000 per year for 5 years; Then NO MORE Jewish immigrants in Palestine by 1944. Starting then, land sales to Jews would be restricted or forbidden. This policy guided British policy behavior in the coming years. It was the same old anti-Semitism Jews had been enduring for the past 2,000 years! The Brits had completely turned around 180 degrees in their original responsibility from the world's nations in developing the Jewish Homeland. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "aleoregular" , sans-serif;">The Brit responsible for the White Paper was Neville Chamberlain, who was scared off by the riots from 36 to 39, and he was the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Appeasement">appeasement</a>. He is well-known for trusting the Germans not to invade Europe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1880: saw 25,000 Jews immigrate to Palestine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;">The first </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353535;">aliya<b> </b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"> between 1882 and 1903, brought 20,000 to 30,000 Russians fleeing Czarist Russia’s pogroms. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;">Between 1903 and 1914, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">during the second </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353535; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">aliya</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, 35,000-40,000 more Russians, most of them socialists, established themselves in Palestine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"> The newcomers were very active in the building of Tel-Aviv and also founded </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353535;">kibbutzim</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"> (collective villages). </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #353535;">On the eve of WWI 1914, the </span><span style="color: red;">80,000</span><span style="color: #353535;"> Jews of Palestine constituted only a tenth of the country’s total population.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"> Moreover, Jewish immigration to Palestine constituted only 3 percent of the transoceanic Jewish migration during that period. By way of comparison, of the 2,367,000 Jews who left Europe then, 2,022,000 established themselves in the US.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f70f32;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f70f32; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why? Palestine was made of deserts, swamps, flies, mosquitoes, malaria and weeds and Turkish police.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f70f32; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> USA was paved with gold and democracy and freedom. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1914-1918: With WWI and the subsequent famine, Palestine’s total population dropped. Its Jewish community now numbered only</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f70f32; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 60,000.</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the end of 1931, 174,600 Jews were living in Palestine, 17 percent of the population. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By 1948 when Israel was pronounced a state among other nations, the Arab states expelled their Jewish subjects in anger. Entire Jewish communities were without a country so came home to the new Israel, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">including 121,000 out of 130,000 of the Jews in Iraq,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">44,000 of out 45,000 of the Jews of Yemen,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">30,500 out of 35,000 of the Jews of Libya, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">165,000 Jews came from Morocco, Tunisia, Poland and others from 1955-1957.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between 1961-1964, 215,056 Jews came mostly from Eastern Europe and North Africa. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since the miracle of 1967's War, Israel had a new wave of immigration from North and South America, Western Europe and the Soviet Union. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Almost 700,000 immigrants had arrived in Israel, almost half the total, came as destitute refugees from Moslem countries. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The number matches that of the Palestinian Arabs who became refugees in 1948.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>WWII and 6,000,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1956: 1,872,400 Population grew in Israel </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1968 2,841,100</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1972: 3,164,000 when 200,000 immigrants had arrived. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2020: 9,152,000 population with 20+% Arabs. </span><br />
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Resource:<br />
A Young Person's History of Israel 2nd edition by David Bamberger<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations</a><br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia-White Paper<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Allenby,_1st_Viscount_Allenby">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Allenby,_1st_Viscount_Allenby</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain</a><br />
facts about israel, division of information, ministry for foreign affairs, Jerusalem<br />
<a href="https://www.cjpme.org/fs_181">https://www.cjpme.org/fs_181</a> immigration years, numbers from Canada research<br />
<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-britain-s-true-motivation-behind-the-balfour-declaration-1.5462518">https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-britain-s-true-motivation-behind-the-balfour-declaration-1.5462518</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-65428875685499320462020-05-14T11:17:00.000-07:002020-05-14T15:00:01.779-07:00America and Russia: Motivation for the Return of Jews to Palestine <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> After 2,000 years of exile, what drove us Jews to Palestine? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why America? Why did this country induce a return of Jews after 2,000 years to return to their origins, the land of Canaan now called Palestine? Let me explain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before 1776, America's birthday, all nations were ruled by kings and queens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was the point of the little band of Pilgrims who rode the ship, Mayflower in 1620, over uncharted seas to land by accident in North America's soon to become Massachusetts. They had come from England via Holland escaping England's politics that were against their religion. From this brave and intelligent band, we see the spread of Democracy a century later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jews benefited greatly, having been the scapegoat of the world since the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE and even before by the Roman rulers. Nowhere in the world were Jews ever given the same rights as other people. In the United States they were given equal rights and that spread to most countries of Western and Central Europe as well. When something great happens, it's hard to contain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But in Russia....Oh no. Being so far north, they were slow to catch on to modernity. Czars hated the ideals of democracy. The Jews had their largest population stuck in Russia! They were treated with "dreadful cruelty."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nicholas I, Czar of Russia</b>, who reigned from 1825 to 1855, had Jewish boys between 8 and 12 taken from their homes and put in the Russian army for 30 years or more if they could live through such an experience. They were stationed far from their own homes and often starved and beaten. treated as low-life. Those who survived were often forced to convert to Christianity. Mothers would wound their own sons if they had the stomach for it to keep their sons at home. They were getting desperate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1855, <b>Alexander II </b>came to the throne and with him, progress. He gave more freedom to all Russian people. He even helped the Jews by ending the drafting of Jewish children. He allowed Jews into public high schools and universities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alas, in 1881 there were Russian revolutionaries abounding who set off a bomb under Alexander II's coach. He was killed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> His son, <b>Alexander III</b>, took revenge. He canceled most rights his father had granted. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Then he turned his anger on the Jews even though the killers were not Jews! </span> It didn't matter to him. He passed laws forcing Jews out of their homes and schools and made it almost impossible for Jews to find work and make a living. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If that wasn't bad enough, he then caused riots against the Jews. <b style="background-color: yellow;"> His own government gave permission to the Christians to attack, loot and destroy Jewish communities! </b>These riots were called <b>pogroms,</b> from the Russian word for <b>"devastation."</b> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;">Home at last</i><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;"> by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Maimon" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Moshe Maimon">Moshe Maimon</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;">. The house's occupants return when it is safe, to find the house thoroughly looted. A </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;"> is saying </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kaddish">Kaddish</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; text-align: left;"> for a member of the household who was killed.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A leading Czarist official stated their program for Jews thusly:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Drive a third out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Convert a third to Christianity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Starve a third. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Few converted as we are a stiff-necked people as the bible states and that's why we were chosen..a people who would stick to the program that we were given by Moses. The whole scene that our people went through in getting out of Egypt would cause even people of today to follow what Moses taught. It was earth shattering including earthquakes. Surely our people must have experienced something like PTSD to have undergone 40 such years that they underwent--including that special manna that could have been spiked with some ultra strong vitamins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Russian experience caused millions to flee Russia. More than 2.25 million Jews, every 5 Jews in the world, got out between 1881 and 1924 when the door closed on those seeking asylum in the USA. 1881 saw the first Aliyah to Palestine, a group of Jews followed by 4 more Aliyote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jews were from Eastern Europe who chose the USA. The USA changed from a distant outpost of Judaism to a major center, like Babylonia did. During World War I there were more Jewish soldiers in the USA army than there had been Jews in the whole country during the Civil War! Some Eastern European Jews opted for Western Europe or or even South Africa as had happened to our family. One brother chose to go to the USA while others went to South Africa. There were still others whose only goal was to live in Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We always had Jews that hadn't left and had managed to remain in Eretz Yisrael no matter who was ruling. They were there to pray and to study the Torah and other writings such as the Talmud. By doing this, they felt they were speeding up the coming of the Messiah. These were holy religious Jewish people. They lived in what we would call poverty as they had a meager existence in which Jewish children in the USA would save their pennies and donate to them. This was our main group for charity purposes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The new Jewish immigrants were made of tougher cloth and had a different vision. they wanted to farm the soil of the Holy Land and make it once again a land of milk and honey. Most of Europe had not allowed any Jews to own land or to become farmers, and anti- Semitism charged that Jews were unable to do real labor. Young Jewish pioneers were called the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Halutzim</i>, and they were determined to prove that Jews could work as well as anyone! After all, didn't we build storage cities in Egypt for the Pharoahs? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1882 the first Aliyah had arrived from Russia. The book, THE SETTLERS-by Meyer Levin, tells about this experience beautifully. They were made up of handful of young adults, about a dozen men and one woman, who came from a Russian-Jewish organization called <b>BILU</b>. The name was taken from the initials of words spoken by the prophet Isaiah, <b><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">B</span>et <span style="background-color: yellow;">Y</span>aakov <span style="background-color: yellow;">l</span>'ch<span style="background-color: yellow;">u</span> v'naylcha.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (House of Jacob, come let us go up.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These young halutzim were our real heroes. They came from comfortable homes and had good educations, but they gave up all of this in order to rebuild the Jewish Homeland. They had their ideals, but that was all, no money or knowledge about how to farm in rocks and swamps they found in Eretz Yisrael; nor how to fight mosquitoes. Some stayed, some dropped out and sought out towns, others returned to Russia or America, but they had started something that did not end. It was the impetus for the return back to our origins. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1907 HaShomer (the Watchmen) , our men who guarded their settlements<br />and kept everyone safe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To make Israel what it is today took much courage. We mustn't forget what our forefathers had gone through, nor our present people for what they endure to keep our Israel safe from harm and to keep our religion alive and meaningful. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today even women must join IDF and help to guard the<br />state. Our new HaShomers. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resource:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Young Person's History of Israel 2nd edition, by David Bamberger 1985, 1994</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire</a><br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia</div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-22925194126270185012020-05-13T20:57:00.000-07:002020-05-13T20:57:55.203-07:00A World - Shaking Birthday on May 14, 1948<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Our holy city of Jerusalem,<br />maybe on her 1st birthday</span></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"If only </b><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">the British had treated Arabs and Jews equally, and forced the Arabs to obey the law, the two groups might have learned to live together peacefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>If only</b> the British had permitted Jews to enter Palestine in reasonable numbers, the English and the Zionists could have joined with the Arabs to build a great land."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>If</b> <b>only</b> the Arabs had decided to talk to UNSCOP, they might have made some telling points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The refugees from Europe needed homes in Palestine because they weren't allowed into Western countries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">The United States, though urging immigration into Eretz Yisrael, kept its own doors locked to the refugees. </b> During the first 8 months of 1946, America admitted only 4,767 refugees----barely the number on the ship, <b>Exodus 1947. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> On that ship, the British sailors boarded and took control. They wore uniforms and white helmets. The British troops guarded a group of refugee children in Haifa when they were alongside the Exodus. The ship's passengers were later sent back to Germany. When the British seized the Haganah's leaky old ships, they would search for "illegal" refugees and send them back to detention camps in Cyprus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After World War II, Jewish survivors of Hitler's program against the Jews had nowhere to go. There were 300,000 homeless DISPLACED PERSONS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The democracies of the West wouldn't accept them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Britain refused to let them into Palestine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was fighting between the Yishuv of Palestine and the British. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Irgun, a Jewish group of fighters, used violent tactics including blowing up British headquarters in Jerusalem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> My own 3rd cousin was the chief of Intelligence for the Stern Group-the toughest of them all that the Brits referred to as "The Stern Gang."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Haganah, a very mild following the law group, confronted the British with boatloads of refugees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Britain finally turned the problem of Palestine over to the UN. The UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), shocked by British cruelty to the refugees on the ship, <i>EXODUS 1947, </i>recommended that Palestine be divided into Arab and Jewish states. The UN accepted this recommendation on November 29, 1947.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">None of these "its" happened. As a result, battle lines had been drawn.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>THE PARTITION PLAN: </b>The UNSCOP report recommended that Palestine be divided into 2 states: one Arab, one Jewish. This is after the League of Nations and the United Nations had voted that Palestine become a Jewish State and that Britain was given a 30 year mandate to help keep order and to help the Jews to have their Jewish State. Britain had failed to comply. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Zionists were disappointed because of the need to control their holy city, Jerusalem. They felt such a decision was neither fair and indefensible. However, they went ahead and accepted the UNSCOP recommendation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Arabs rejected the report entirely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was up to the UNITED NATIONS to decide what to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">President Truman pledged American support of the UNSCOP Partition Plan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An Arab victory seemed certain. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Russia surprised the world by announcing that it, too, would vote in favor of dividing Palestine and creating a Jewish state. This was a first for Russia and the USA to vote together on any issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The voting began on November 29, 1947. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nations cast their vote one by one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most European States, many Latin American countries and members of the British Commonwealth joined the USA and Russia in voting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All Arab states opposed it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Great Britain did not vote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The end result was: 33 for of dividing Palestine into one Jewish and one Arab state. 13 against. 10 did not vote. They had the needed 2/3 majority for approval. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The UN had said the Jews could have a state in Palestine. It was up to the Jewish leaders, the Yishuv, to make that state a reality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">British soldiers watched Arabs riot toward the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. They did nothing to stop the attack. Some even shot the locks off the doors of Jewish shops to help Arabs loot and destroy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In reply to that, the Irgun broke into an Arab movie theater, setting it on fire. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their intention was to fight hard for their state and not let the Arabs stop them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arab forces attacked from every side, destroying and killing Jews. No Jew was safe. Arabs were controlling the roads connecting to towns. By the end of March 1948, the country was cut apart. Towns in the Negev couldn't communicate with the rest of the country. Villages in the north were isolated. Parts of Jerusalem were cut off from each other. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chaim Weizmann 1874-1952<br />Israel's 1st President, had been a chemist.<br />Without his knowledge of organic chemistry, Britain may have<br />lost WWI. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Weizmann and King Feisal, of Iraq in 1921 and king of Syria; and oldest son of Hussein, sherif of mecca in 1922 working<br />together after WWI to get a home for Jews<br />at League of Nations</span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chaim Weizmann, the chosen president for the Jews, was old, sick and half-blind, but he made a long journey from London for an audience with President Truman who wouldn't even talk to the Yishuv. The White House said there would be no meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, and maybe this was a miracle; Truman had had a business partner who was Jewish, Eddie Jacobson. They had remained close friends. Eddy admired Chaim Weizmann. Weizmann was secretly admitted to the White House. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was not Weizmann's first merry go round. 42 years earlier he had met with Balfour and talked him into a life-long Zionist. When Weizmann left the president, he had received a solemn promise that the USA would support the idea of a Jewish state. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jewish men and women coming to join Haganah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">David Ben-Gurion (Gruen) b: 1886- d: 1973</span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ben-Gurion at age 67 and the Haganah thought that a Jewish state might not survive. General Yigael Yadin of Haganah thought not, too because food and supplies couldn't be driven past Arab positions on the road to Jerusalem. The Jewish Quarter was about to starve to death. <b style="background-color: yellow;">The British were handing over key locations to the Arabs! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">The Final Vote</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">On May 12, 1948, two days before the last British soldiers were to leave Palestine, General Yadin met with Ben-Gurion and his team. Many key positions were now in Jewish control. Morale was high. But.....</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Armies of 5 Arab states had massed to attack as soon as the English left. The little Zionist army didn't have enough equipment. They had bought some weapons in Europe but the British wouldn't allow them into Palestine for the Jews. Could they even survive until the weapons could make it to them?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Everyone was telling the Jews not to go ahead as the danger was too high. 4 leaders voted for delay. 6 said NOW! The future was decided by 1 vote. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">On Friday, May 14, 1948, the street outside the Tel Aviv Museum was filled up with a crowd of people. At 4:00 pm, Ben Gurion read Israel's Proclamation of Independence. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">A state was being launched in the land of its birthplace of the Jewish people. It would guarantee equality to all its citizens, and freedom of religion and culture to all. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;"> </b><b style="background-color: yellow;"> "We extend our hand in peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all." </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">That night the Jews of Tel Aviv celebrated both a Shabbat and their independence from Britain and their birth. No Jew in Jerusalem had been able to hear the radio broadcast, however. Arabs had cut off all electricity and were preparing to attack. I can imagine at least one or more rabbis wanting to thank those Arabs for helping them to keep Shabbat as the holiday that should take precedence. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Israel finding herself in her War of Independence<br />29 November 1947-with Arabs responding with violence to UN resolution on Palestine and lasted until the signing of the Armistice Agreements in 1949. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Such was Israel's 1st birthday, and now we celebrate her 72nd. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reference:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A young person's History of Israel 2nd edition by David Bamberger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine</a></span><br />
Facts about Israel; Division of Information, ministry for foreign affairs, Jerusalem. </div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-47923526295192313582020-05-13T12:36:00.000-07:002020-05-16T20:14:34.539-07:00Israel Facing Illegal Kangaroo Court-Terrorists Suing Israel in War and Review of Standards of Terrorists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At times, Fatah terrorists have joined with Hamas Terrorists<br />Against Israel, but the two groups fight<br />about who is the leader</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I'm sure I'm living in Alice in Wonderland's planet. This is surely an upside down world we are living in today. I see that Hamas has the chutzpa to be taking Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for something during the constant war between the two; War Crimes. Terrorists who terrorize are suing the most legalistic and moral state in the world! Israel!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The sad thing is that people such as the court and others are going along with it. Logic is not king anymore. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dr. Ghazi Hamad born 1964<br />former chairman of the border crossings authority in Gaza</span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The plaintiff is the spokesman for the PA Executive Committee made up of 45 members. They have taken their grievance to the ICC. </span><b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Dr. Ghazi Hamad</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> is their spokesman, the deputy foreign minister of the terrorist group, Hamas, who have been actively warring against Israel since being given Gaza by Israel. The committee also includes 2 other terrorist organizations; the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Faou Bom Bensouda, born 1961<br />ICC's chief prosecutor since June 2012<br />Gambian lawyer and minister of justice in Gambia,<br />a small state born in 1965. </span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The prosecutor for the ICC is a woman, Fatau Bensouda of Gambia, Africa. She secretly colluded with the PA against </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Israel according to a Jordanian newspaper. A previous investigation of silly charges of systemic human rights abuses by the British military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq showed up her conduct of bias. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">No wonder that the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">PA's negotiator, Saeb Erekat, thinks the ICC investigation will prove to be successful in Hamas's favor. Gambia's standards of moral conduct in war must be a lot different!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The US State Department revoked her visa in early April 2019. She had been investigating whether US servicemen or US officials engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan Poland, Romania and Lithuania. The UN officials criticized the US for doing this. Was she picking on the US all of a sudden? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Like the US, Bensouda's beef with Israel is expansive. The ICC is ready to begin an investigation of ALLEGED war crimes by Israeli soldiers against Arab civilian citizens of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Bensouda said on April 30th that she would go ahead with the investigation if the pre-trial judges of ICC tell her that she is on solid ground to start the inquiry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">"Legal affairs journalist Yonah Jeremy Bob </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/analysis-did-israels-cooperation-with-the-icc-fail-is-the-game-over-611724" style="background-color: white; color: #da5724; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">writes</a><span style="background-color: white;"> that Israel's IDF conducted at least 500 probes and more than 30 full inquiries into actions taken by Israeli soldiers during the 2014 Gaza conflict. In 2015, a commission of military figures from several democratic states that </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/war-crimes-611794" style="background-color: white; color: #da5724; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reviewed the military operations</a><span style="background-color: white;"> by Israel in the 2014 Gaza war established that "the IDF not only met its obligations under the <b>Law of Armed Conflict </b>but </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">often exceeded these</span><span style="background-color: white;"> on the battlefield</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> at significant tactical cost.</span><span style="background-color: white;">""</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">According to the court's own rules, they are breaking the rules if they go ahead. "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">According to the ICC's charter, the Court cannot investigate the conduct of non-signatory states of the 1998 Rome Statute that established the Court. Israel, like the U.S., is not a signatory of the statute." They really have a warped sense of moral law if you ask me. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hamas, </b>started in 1987, has been the major player in the terrorist war against Israel. They have perpetuated 40% of suicide bombings and dominates Gaza. They use rocket and mortar attacks and are closely tied to Syria, Iran and Lebanon. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Western Europe, Hezbollah and others fund them. Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department. They have built a lot of tunnels with that money. One use of them is to pop up and attack or kidnap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The PFLP</b> (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, started in 1967, have been major players in the 1970s and 1980s. This and related groups are small and considered miner players today. They have been in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Gaza, Syria and Lebanon. They follow Marxist/Leninist, revolutionary nationalism through armed insurrection and refuse to recognize Israel. They broke off from PLO in 1974, but have rejoined again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The PLO </b>started in 1964 and is the representative of the Palestinian people. They are the political party in the PA. They are accused by the international community of extensive corruption and theft of international aid during its governance of the PA. They were guilty of plane hijackings, hostage taking, bombings, assassinations, targeted Israeli civilians and Jews globally, and conducted operations against Lebanese, Jordanians and Americans. They tried to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan and was crushed by Hussein's army in September of 1970. Arafat was their well-known leader. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Update: 5/16/20 <a href="https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/mike-pompeo-icc-case-against-israel-is-illegitimate-prosecution-628203?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Holy+Jewish+site+of+Esther+and+Mordechai+set+ablaze+in+Iran&utm_campaign=May+16+night">https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/mike-pompeo-icc-case-against-israel-is-illegitimate-prosecution-628203?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Holy+Jewish+site+of+Esther+and+Mordechai+set+ablaze+in+Iran&utm_campaign=May+16+night</a></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Resource: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou_Bensouda">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou_Bensouda</a><br />
<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHNMZTbRRDvQKzJLGwppzVCnfq">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHNMZTbRRDvQKzJLGwppzVCnfq</a><br />
magazine: Israel 101 by StandWithUs<br />
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-official-says-israel-will-be-to-blame-if-gaza-sees-virus-outbreak/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-official-says-israel-will-be-to-blame-if-gaza-sees-virus-outbreak/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16001/international-kangaroo-court">https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16001/international-kangaroo-court</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-51686006966728809432020-05-07T14:16:00.000-07:002020-05-07T18:21:22.111-07:00The Fight Against Growing Propaganda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">British held the mandate for 30 years, up May 14, 1948<br />The promise of the Jewish Homeland for Jews<br />Came after WWI's where Germany and Ottoman Empire lost<br />A fact many Jews haven't even learned about in school or synagogue</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Propaganda against Israel is as insidious as it is obvious. For those people with the inclination to believe anything bad about Israel, it's an easy thing to believe just about anything that they hear about today. I see this in Syria, for example where Israel is used as the cause of bad weather; anything that comes along to upset a person's day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's the liberal Christian groups who are the ones attacking Israel the most out of all the Christian denominations. They have world-wide campaigns working against Israel. They are quick to attack Israel's legitimacy. The group of Christians who back President Trump are supportive of Israel. They are ones who study the Old Testament. John Hagee is a Televangelist preacher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who as written the book, In Defense of Israel, copyright 1979. He feels that the mandate for supporting the Jewish State is the Bible. They have a group, Christians United for Israel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The campaign of <span style="background-color: yellow;">Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)</span> has been going on for a long time, <b>aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish State. </b> Some college campuses have had student senate resolutions calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and divestment from companies doing business in Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The BDS movement has also moved into high school social studies curriculum. One such way has been the <b>"Palestine Teaching Trunk."</b> It may have already come to a high school in any of our 50 states. This was developed by a retired lawyer teacher under the auspices of the Seattle-based Palestine Solidarity Committee. The group supports a boycott of all Israeli goods and reject Israel's rights to exist as a Jewish State. I remember that Saudi Arabia also had a teaching packet before this, but certainly not as elaborate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This convenient packet-the teaching trunk- comes with teaching plans, DVDs, maps of "disappearing Palestine," and an "occupation" game and selective readings, including articles by pro-BDS Israeli historians Simha Flapan and Ilan Pappe. The materials are intended to present "different perspective," which is one considers Hamas, the Electronic Intifada, former USA president Jimmy CArter and anti-Zionist Israelis to represent a diversity of viewpoints.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2nd largest University in Oregon<br />Portland State U with over 29,000 students<br />This is where I graduated as an educator in 1958<br />after having two children. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Professor Michael Weingrad of Portland State University reviewed the materials in the PTT, and reports to us:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The history is so distorted and selective, the amount of sheer pro-Palestinian agitprop so striking...the class lessons designed to forge students' emotional connections with the Palestinian narrative so manipulative and one-sided, that it is difficult to imagine a student exposed to this curriculum drawing any other conclusion than that Israel is a vile, criminal regime..."</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This means that those educators who okay programs in their schools did not understand what this program was designed to do: that it was propaganda against the state of Israel. It was a political and religious piece of ammunition against the only Jewish state in the world. The PTT was being used in at least a few high schools in the state of Washington and probably also in other states. Hopefully it was under the radar of the pro-Israel communities, but one can't be sure today. What is troubling is that it won praise from the curriculum editor of RETHINKING SCHOOLS, a well-known national organization of curriculum developers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "Trunk" was introduced in the fall of 2013 at the annual Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice, which draw hundreds of high school instructors from Washington, Oregon and California, the WESTERN STATES. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I want to emphasize this. Yesterday, during our coronavirus month of May 2020, I watched a Family Feud program where the 2 family groups were to name a western state. One named Georgia. Another named Virginia. The audience's #1 choice that they had named was TEXAS! Evidently none of the people knew where the west was! I wondered about their high school classes! Evidently they all failed in geography. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By mid-October of 2014, the curriculum was showcased at the year's NWTSJ conference in Portland, Oregon and also at a statewide in-service training sponsored by the Washington State Council for the Social Studies. So it had plenty of advertising. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Was anything being done to stop the pro-BDS propaganda from seeping into many other classrooms? Was Israel's studies being presented to counter such propaganda? We're fighting against religious anti-Semitism from both certain Christian groups and Muslims, as well as the political ones of just plain old hatred, of being used to use Jews as their scapegoats for the world's ills. We've got to be educated as defenders in a courtroom of the rights of Israel to exist; something that was taken for granted by most in 1945. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "trunk" is evidently still in use. They even have WEBSITE. Here is what they say: It's a 2 week unit. </span><span style="background-color: #d7e8de; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s how some educators have described the Trunk:</span><span style="background-color: #d7e8de; color: #363636; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"> </span><em style="background-color: #d7e8de; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">“comprehensive”, “develops critical thinking”, “makes it possible for students to hear silenced Palestinian voices, along with Israeli voices”, “exposure to both sides of the conflict”, “very useful to Social Studies teachers”, “diverse, well-chosen, nuanced materials”.</em><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is how they sell it. </em><br />
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal;">Rob Jacobs from the Israel advocacy organization <b>StandWithUs Northwest</b> not only sees a problem with the contents of the trunk, but, according to </span><a href="http://jewishsound.org/what-do-students-learn-when-a-curriculum-is-based-on-politics/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jewish Sound</a><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;">, also questions “</span><b style="background-color: yellow;">why the same people who put ads highly critical of Israel on the sides of Metro buses and local billboards should be offering its teaching materials in our schools.”</b></span></span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></em>
<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing that angers me is the part about "to hear silenced Palestinian voices." What I heard in Israel in my over 5 years of living there (1980-1985) was never a silenced voice from the Palestinians. Everyone spoke out about whatever was on their minds. If anyone is silenced, it's the Arabs themselves by their own leadership. If they live in Gaza, they are under Hamas rule, and their aim is to destroy Israel. Those that are brainwashed would go along with whatever their leaders say. The over 20% of the population are Arabs, and they know they would rather live in Israel than any other neighboring Arab state. As I see it, this in itself is propaganda against Israel.</em><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Your child is sitting in his High School classroom, the instructor explains that this week they will be focusing on the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Soon your child will be told that most Jews are not indigenous to the Middle East, that Zionism is a movement of ethnic cleansing and that anti-Semitism has nothing to do with Jews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Far fetched? Linda Bevis, Ed Mast and their cohorts at the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.stopbds.com/" style="color: #4a8ded; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BDS supporting</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Seattle Palestine Information Project are trying to peddle just that to Puget Sound schools with an anti-Israel curriculum they call the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.palestineinformation.org/trunk_contents" style="color: #4a8ded; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Palestine Teaching Trunk</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">(PTT).</span><br />
<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></em><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-style: italic;"><br />Linda Bevis (1949-2015) </b>was <i>the creator of the Palestinian Trunk. She was an educator who says that she had first used the Holocaust Teaching Trunk and thought there should be one for the Palestinians. She has a</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434a54; font-family: "asap" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434a54; font-family: "asap" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">JD and a Master’s in Education from the University of Washington</span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #434a54; font-family: "asap" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #434a54; font-family: "asap" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> "</span><span style="color: #434a54; font-family: "asap" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">For Bevis, bringing a more nuanced view of Palestine is personal. Her family moved to Lebanon when she was four for her father’s position at AUB, and she calls Beirut the “first home I remember.” Even as a child, the injustices visited upon the Palestinians, particularly those living in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps Bevis passed on her way to the airport, were striking to her."</span><span style="background-color: white;"> I can see that living in Lebanon gave her a one-sided approach to understanding her surroundings and that is what she is projecting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Bevis was co-founder of the <b>Palestine Information Project </b>and the <b>Seattle Palestine Solidarity Committee,</b> sister organizations that </span><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8220/pub_detail.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">produce propaganda</a> declaring that “the racism and colonialism of the Zionist movement, with its quest for an ethnic supremacist state, remain the fundamental causes of the current conflict.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">As recently </span><a href="http://eagnews.org/harvard-cafeterias-end-purchases-from-israeli-soda-company/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a><span style="background-color: white;">, the Palestine Solidarity Committee also </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">advocates for the boycott of Israeli made products and of companies doing business with Israel.</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434a54; font-family: "asap" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #434a54;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the killing of between 460 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiite fighters, by a militia close to the Kataeb Party, a predominantly Christian Lebanese right-wing party, in the Sabra neighborhood and the adjacent Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon." This might be Major Hadad of the Christian Lebanese who went in at his insistence in 1982, instead of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel. There is lots of information about this attack as this had caused Israel to have their military there under much attacking by the PLO. The PLO had been attacking Israel constantly and Israel had had enough. Sharon agreed to let Hadad go in as they also had had enough of the PLO. The result turned out to be more of a massacre. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"> Hadad had been Israel's friend in that he and his group were patrolling the border between Israel and Lebanon and did not go along with the PLO. When Hadad needed to, he would come to Israel for his R and R time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">It was a terrible event, but had 2 sides to understand, and chances are that this wasn't brought up in the packet which was checked out by Weingrad. Did it ever explore the fact that if the PLO terrorists, for that's what they were, hadn't been attacking Israel beyond all comprehension that it wouldn't have happened in the first place? I know that Hadad was not liked by all Lebanese. He has his own history. He was a friend of Israel, however. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">Israel fights back to defend their population. She's a country who was promised land that had shriveled down to having 20% of what was promised and then having to have a large section of that go to Palestinians who were enemies only intent on destroying them no matter what. Gaza and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and what % is left of the 20%? Israel waited for almost 2,000 years to regain land only to see it being given away, even after they had received it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"Israel's own </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_commission" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kahan commission">Kahan commission</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> found that only "indirect" responsibility befitted Israel's involvement.""</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_Commission" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kahan Commission">Kahan Commission</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> concluded Israeli Defense minister </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ariel Sharon">Ariel Sharon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> bears personal responsibility "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge" and "not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed". Sharon's negligence in protecting the civilian population of Beirut, which had come under Israeli control, amounted to a non-fulfillment of a duty with which the Defense Minister was charged, and it was recommended that Sharon be dismissed as Defense Minister."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122;">Israel has to be ahead of all the technical changes in ammunition against her. She also has to be aware of all the propaganda that is coming out in the world against her that is just as deadly as the missiles, rockets and mortars that have bombarded her these past 72 years. None of it will disway her in returning to her homeland, for as Golda Meir said, "we have nowhere else to go."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122;">Israel is not perfect, but she sure is trying to be perfect and needs to be with all eyes her all the time, ready to tear her apart. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reference:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Jerusalem Report October 20, 2014.page 11, The Palestine teaching trunk viewpoint by Robert Horenstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Messages From a Syrian Jew Trapped in Egypt, by Nadene Goldfoot-telling how Syrians viewed Jews</span><br />
<a href="https://palestinett.org/">https://palestinett.org/</a><br />
<a href="https://imeu.org/article/seattle-educator-creates-palestine-teaching-trunk-for-high-school-classroom">https://imeu.org/article/seattle-educator-creates-palestine-teaching-trunk-for-high-school-classroom</a><br />
<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/with-sharon-gone-israel-reveals-the-truth-about-the-lebanon-war-1.5451086">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/with-sharon-gone-israel-reveals-the-truth-about-the-lebanon-war-1.5451086</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre</a><br />
<a href="https://danetteclark.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/virulently-anti-israel-palestine-teaching-trunk-being-used-in-washington-state-schools/">https://danetteclark.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/virulently-anti-israel-palestine-teaching-trunk-being-used-in-washington-state-schools/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Iraqis and Syrians</b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> threatened nuclear bombing against Israel in 1981. Major Yadlin and 7 other Israeli pilots bombed <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Osirak,</b></span> an <span style="background-color: yellow;">Iraqi nuclear reactor</span> built for them by the French. I was living in Safed, Israel at that time teaching English to junior high students there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Major Yadlin of the IDF went on to become chief of military intelligence in 2007. He was in charge of collecting intelligence on the North Korean-built <span style="background-color: yellow;">Syrian nuclear</span> reactor in <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Deir ez Zor</b>. This reactor was on the outskirts of Baghdad and seemed impossible to bomb. At that time, it was too far from Israel to fly to and bomb. But they dared, and it happened on June 7, 1981.</span> The 8 bombers felt they had just prevented another 2nd Holocaust. In 2004, Yadlin thought they had failed to detect a <b>Libyan nuclear project.</b> That's when his men discovered in 2006 a huge cement structure in <b style="background-color: yellow;">Deir ez Zor</b> hiding a<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b> North</b></span> <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Korean plutonium reactor. </b></span> He shared this knowledge with the PM Ehud Olmert and an American intelligence chief, and both pooh-poohed his worries. They had been following Aluf (General) Meir <b>Dagon</b>, head of Mossad and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was an Israel Defense Forces Major General</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who said that there was no Syrian reactor. By March 2007, intelligence changed their position. Dagon demanded immediate reaction before the reactor could be started up and before the Syrians found out that Israel knew of their secret. Yadlin helped with Operation Orchard</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> which was designed to also help Syria's President Assad save face: no core, no war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It went this way: on September 5, 2007, 4 bombers, escorted by 4 other planes, These 8 planes dropped 17 tons of explosives on the plutonium plant and flattened it. Previously, the world had failed to prevent an Arab dictatorship from going nuclear. The USA failed to act. Israel was forced to take the initiative and do the job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between 2006 and 2010 Yadlin was the main man in Israeli operations against the Iranian nuclear project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was the <b>Begin Doctrine</b> by Menachem Begin, Prime Minister in June 1981, saying that Israel will not allow any enemy nation to acquire a nuclear weapon, and Yadlin was following it. Begin said after bombing in Osirak in Operation Opera,<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"We chose this moment: now, not later, because later may be too late, perhaps forever. And if we stood by idly, two, three years, at the most four years, and Saddam Hussein would have produced his three, four, five bombs. ... Then, this country and this people would have been lost, after the Holocaust. Another Holocaust would have happened in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again! Tell so your friends, tell anyone you meet, we shall defend our people with all the means at our disposal. <span style="font-size: large;">We shall not allow any enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction turned against us."</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The biggest and constant threats of destruction of Israel have been coming from Iran, which is further away from Israel than Iraq or Syria. They are taking their time building such a bomb by doing it safely, whereas the others were in a hurry. They built a reactor in<b> Bushehr,</b> another one in <b>Arak</b>, one at a military </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">complex in Parchin,</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a uranium enriching facility in </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nataz</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and an underground bunker in </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fordow</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. That's 5 different sites! They are trying to do most of their work with international legitimacy. Back in 2006 when Yadlin was the IDF's intelligence man, the Iranians had already started to enrich uranium in Natanz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By November 2007, all 16 American spy agencies called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) said that there was no good evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon. The NIE didn't want George W. Bush from acting against Iran and starting a 3rd World War. Yet, 4 different Israeli teams in Mossad and in their military intelligence said Iran was advancing towards military nuclear capabilities and the Americans grossly underestimated the state of the Iranian program. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Israel saw how much Iran wanted to be leader in the Middle East where Saudi Arabia held that title at the time. It had much to do with being leader in Islamic thinking as much as anything else. Today, even the Middle Eastern Arab nations are expecting Israel to protect them from Iran who threatens them all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for other nations, France and Britain seem to understand Iran's motivation. China, Russia and India had been partially collaborating with Iran. Many countries in Europe were continuing to trade with Iran. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel itself was tied up politically and not quite focused on Iran as it should have been. In the meantime, Iran's centrifuges have been multiplying and their uranium has been piling up. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">PM Netanyahu at UN explaining how close Iran Was to Nuclear Capability<br />The Democrats walked out when he spoke to the Senate about it.<br />This is the famous red-line speech done in 2012. He asked for international action. The critical benchmark was 2013-14. The destiny of Israel was<br />in Obama's hands. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister in April and his feelings were that Iran would be another Nazi Germany of the 21st Century. To him, the West of the 2000s were more like the West of the 1930s as far as Jews were concerned. He was determined not to let Jews be led again to some sort of nuclear Auschwitz. He knew his life's mission was to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Netanyahu's speech may have had an impact on those who listened in the UN. There was international pressure afterwards. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">President Rouhani of Iran<br />Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician serving as the current and seventh President of Iran since <b>3 August 2013</b>. He was also a lawyer, academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric</span>.<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That brought about Iranian political change of 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Several of our heads had left for a luncheon that was more important to them. Now Iran has passed the point of stopping them. Israel will be forced to choose between being hit by the bomb or bombing the plant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What they did not understand is the mindset of the Syrians and how their religion sees things differently. They are deadly serious but very impressive. To the Israelis, they were also a more distant problem with the Palestinians taking up all their attention. Americans had their hands full with al-Qaeda and Afghanistan and Iraq. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Dimona</b> is Israel's nuclear reactor. That one reactor has been keeping Israel protected from all the Muslim nations that surround her. There's always that possibility that Israel will get fed up and use it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resource: MY PROMISED LAND by Ari Shavit</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begin_Doctrine">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begin_Doctrine</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-28813426358280030212020-03-24T08:44:00.000-07:002020-03-27T21:41:45.444-07:00Listen to Who? Ari Shavit of My Promised Land, a Leftist published in 2013 or Dan Kurzman of Genesis 1948 published in 1970<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Never before have I ever encountered such tripe about Israel when I started reading Ari Shavit's Chapter 5 in "My Promised Land" titled Lydda, 1948, and then getting into Safed's entrance into his book, a city I lived in from 1981 to the end of 1985. It caused me to go back and use the reference material hopefully found in Dan Kurzman's </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Genesis 1948"-</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_United_States" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="People of the United States">American</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Journalist">journalist</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and writer of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" title="Military history">military history</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">books, who </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In the early 1950s, worked in Europe and in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israel</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> for American newspapers and news agencies and was then </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondent" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Correspondent">correspondent</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadcasting_Company" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="National Broadcasting Company">NBC News</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to see how he described events in Israel's beginnings in 1948. Oh yes, Kurzman had tons to say about Lydda. I certainly hoped that Shavit didn't find his information in Kurzman's book. I have to confess that I've only read over and over about my 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot in Kurzman's book. It's so thick that I did not dare start reading it as a text book about the beginnings of Israel. I had enough other information for that in more concise readings such as "</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facts About Israel </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from Jerusalem's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. We forget that the mind of the writer can color facts and writers use that knowledge to sway readers one way or the other towards a subject. It takes talent to write journalistically about history without leading the reader to the left or right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>As Wikipedia put it, "Ari Shavit</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span class="script-hebrew" dir="rtl">ארי שביט</span>; born November 26, 1957) is an Israeli reporter and writer. Shavit was a Senior Correspondent at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Left-wing politics">left-of-center</a> Israeli newspaper <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a></i> before he resigned when a pattern of sexual misconduct came to public attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A self-described left-wing journalist and anti-</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli-occupied territories">occupation</a><span style="background-color: white;"> peacenik, Shavit is the author of the 2013 </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times</i> Best Seller</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i style="background-color: white;"><b>My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel</b></i><span style="background-color: white;">, " </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">the book that puts me into distress. I could tell at my distress point that Ari had turned against Israel, finding Israel as if he just stumbled into it as if in a time machine, not understanding what was going on at all but finding Israel completely in the wrong. How he must have hated his ancestors who he wrote about, British Jewish Zionists, who came to Palestine early on in 1897, for landing there, and how they must have turned over in their graves knowing what misconceptions he was pouring into his writing for Israel. Of course the reason I am upset by what little so far I have read is knowing the truth about Israel after living there over 5 years as well as knowing the people and our religion and what it teaches us and has shaped us to live by. I just know that the writer, Ari, has had none of these guidelines to write such as he has. Age definitely has a lot to do with it as he's only 3 years younger than my daughter. As an Israeli, people put trust in his writings. That's the deplorable part of his writing. He seems to not have pride in his people. </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> If anything, it would match other material I already have such as my overused softback of </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">FROM</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">TIME IMMEMORIAL</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> by Joan Peters in 1984, an American reporter who went to original sources originally on the side of the Arabs but who did a 180 after gathering this real information, </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Battleground, Fact and Fantasy in 1973 </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Samuel Katz-</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">author of more than twenty books and one hundred articles on Middle East security issues, terrorism, and police and military special operations. The founder of Special Operations Report, he has appeared as an expert on networks ranging from BBC World News to Fox News to Al Jazeera</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">; </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Myths and Facts-A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> by Mitchell G. Bard and Joel Himelfarb in 1984, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The tragedy is that this former soldier who served in the elite paratrooper brigade of the IDF had lived in fear of the demise of Israel during his whole childhood. He had developed no hope for Israel in his home which so many Israelis did have through our ancient religion. Where is his faith? </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lydda</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is in my Jewish Encyclopedia.. In Hebrew, it is Lod, a town in Israel that goes back to Egyptian documents and is even mentioned in Chron. 8:12 saying it was built by the tribe of Benjamin! This is where Israel's airport was built outside of Tel Aviv. Most of its Arab inhabitant left when the town was captured by the Israeli army in 1948. This is what Ari and Dan both write about and I think will show a big difference in their telling because of their different perspectives of the capturing. Of course, since 1948, large numbers of immigrants have settled there. In 1990 the population was 41,300 and that included 8,400 non-Jews. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kurzman writes about the war against the Jews living in Palestine that took place before the British pulled out. The Brits had been there for 30 years holding the mandate over the population before the Jews declared the land as Israel on May 14, 1948. This Arab-Israeli war lasted from November 1947 to March 1949. Jews had been waiting for over 2,000 years being dispersed in the world. It's been over 7 decades since then, and fighting is still going on. Even the corona virus has become ammunition for the Arabs to blame the Jews today. The way they have been telling it, Jews cause everything from bad weather to crops failing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shavit had a good beginning, too, of valuable information. Then I became stunned in chapter 5 and Lydda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My opinion is that everyone not Jewish is prejudice of Jews with a few exceptions, and has been since even before Christianity started, but of course, became even more so afterwards what with the Roman Empire converting. England was even more so, showing it by expulsing Jews from their land for 400 years from 1290 to 1655. They're the ones decided by the League of Nations to hold the 30 year mandate on Palestine and to help them form their Jewish National Home that they all decided Jews should have. The United Nations replaced the League of Nations, and after waiting for so long and almost being totally wiped out, and losing 80% of promised land, Israel came into being but was attacked 5 minutes after the pronouncement. In 1952, the English attitude towards Jews was that they certainly didn't want any marrying into their families. That's probably why they didn't mind leaving them without defense tools when they pulled out-completely unlike the promise they had taken to help them create their Jewish homeland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This prejudice of a people who differed from others by not being Christians and resisting pressure to convert had brought on through the ages, expulsions, pogroms, forced conversions, murder of Jews, mob attacks, crusade murderings, slavery, Poland's 1848 massacre of 100,000 Jews, and then the Holocaust of WWII killing 6 million. Prejudice against Jews has existed for the past 3,000 years like colds, and all the different viruses that visit us seasonally and have been forever since biblical days. Prejudice is a disease. Why haven't we given in as a people? We were told that we were selected because we were stiff-necked, and we promised not to. Stiff-necked people try their best to keep their promise. We keep it because we see the truth in it. We don't want to lose this special vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So just what happened in 1948 when every Arab was against us for returning home after a lapse of our large community? We had Jews living there continuously, but not as a nation; not after the Ottoman Empire had held it for 400 years letting it go to rot, swamp and mosquitoes. They had made the mistake of siding with the Germans in WWI and losing it to the Allies. The Jews saw their chance and held hundreds of meetings with the Allies before the war ended and as the Russians had been holding pogrom after pogrom against them, and the French were picking on them again blaming a Jewish Captain in their army for things he had not done and putting him on Devil's Israel, worse prison in the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was the Dreyfus Affair, that turned out to be the writing on the wall of things to come to Jews. Just what do you think was building up in some of our Jewish men? For Jewish men 3,000 years ago were valiant and muscular soldiers, Samsons in the making, fighters for King David. They had become biblical commentators and mathematicians, traders and rabbis, with no nation to fight for that was theirs, and they've had to quickly leave gas chambers and starvation to pick up a rifle and defend their new country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lydda</b>: At the time Jordan was called Transjordan. The capital was Amman, like today. <b>Glubb Pasha</b>, an Englishman -<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was a British soldier, scholar and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general.</span>, was with the Arab Legion and had lost many men and many were wounded and they had no replacements. So Glubb told their Prime Minister Tawfiq Pasha that they couldn't keep fighting because Transjordan had little to gain as they controlled all the land they wanted (they took 80% of the Jewish land with England's blessing). If the war started up again they might lose land. This was thought out during a truce that started on June 11, 1948. His greatest worry, however, was about Lydda and Ramle which were only 15 miles from Tel Aviv and almost surrounded by Jewish colonies, but had been awarded to the Arabs under the UN partition plan. Glubb warned the King and PM that they could not be defended. Both the king and Tawfiq had neglected to send military governors to these 2 places like they did for Hebron, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Nablus. The Arabs had decided against anymore fighting, and no more money for soldiers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As it was, the Jews had accepted the original partition plan and the Arabs had tried to scuttle it by force. Israel felt justified in seeking to improve the original borders. At first, Israeli defenders had miraculously held out against the regular armies of the Arab world. They lost Mishmar Hayarden, Yad Mordechai, Nitzanim, <b>the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem</b> and some <b>outposts around Jerusalem</b>. The Israelis had fought to the breaking point. The fighting units were worn out with 100 dead in every battalion. On the Jenin front they were under continuous artillery fire and attacks from the air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hafez Abu Kuwaik, mukhtar of northern Lydda, age 51, grabbed a WWII rifle and joined the town's 300 full-time defenders who were poorly trained, and thought the Arab Legion would come to defend themselves before the Israeli forces would come. </span><br />
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Yitzhak Sadeh (1890 – 1952), commander of the Palmas, one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel. </h1>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; text-align: justify;">Born in </span><span class="glossaryTerm" data-pt-title="City in eastern Poland that was the center of Jewish learning in Poland. In 1939, the Jewish population was 40,000, 33 percent of the city total. In the spring of 1941 the ghetto was created. On March 17, 1942, deportations began to Belzec, and then to Majdanek, walking distance from the center of town. Only a few Jews live there today." style="background-color: #fff4db; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(59 , 151 , 211); box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; text-align: justify;">Lublin</span><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; text-align: justify;">, Poland, Sadeh began his military career in the Russian army during the First World War. He was decorated for bravery and rose to be a battalion commander. He emigrated to Erez </span><span class="glossaryTerm" data-pt-title="The State of the Jewish people, founded in 1948. Also; a name given to the Jewish patriarch Jacob according to Genesis 32.38. In Jewish biblical times, this name refers to the northern tribes, but also to the entire nation. Historically, Jews have continued to regard themselves as the true continuation of the ancient Israelite national-religious community. In modern times, it also refers to the political state of Israel." style="background-color: #fff4db; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(59 , 151 , 211); box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; text-align: justify;">Israel</span><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; text-align: justify;"> in 1920, upon hearing of the death of </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-trumpeldor-1880-1920" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);">Joseph Trumpeldor</a><span style="background-color: #fff4db; color: #3a3a3a; text-align: justify;">, whom he had met three years earlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yitzhak Sadeh's 8th Armored Brigade had taken a number of Arab villages and Lydda Airport that was bogged down in a struggle near Beit Nahada with Glubb's armored cars. This pincer operation had Lydda and Ramle practically surrounded. (I taught in Safed's jr high with a Ned Sadeh. I wonder if he was related? Sadeh meant "field." ) Ned had to report to duty even though he was an American. My husband, a former USA Airforce Air</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">man, had such a bad lung condition that Israel left him alone as a teacher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> In 1977, following the election of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> as Prime Minister, Dayan was expelled from the Labor Party because he joined the Likud-led government as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_Peace_Treaty" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty">peace treaty between Egypt and Israel</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1948 is when Moshe Dayan lost his eye, serving under Sadeh. With his column going into Beit Shemen welcomed by the village population, they stormed through Lydda while shooting, leaving Arabs killed. The driver of the jeep turned the wrong way and they continued, storming into Ramle as their brakes failed. They entered through a hail of bullets and grenades. Realizing they were in the wrong city, they raced back to Lydda while suffering more casualties. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sadeh was angry that they had left on their own and attacked Lydda.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">Moshe Dayan</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">: </span><span class="script-hebrew" dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">משה דיין</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> front in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_General_Staff_(Israel)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Chief of General Staff (Israel)">chief of staff</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (1953–58) during the 1956 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, but mainly as Defense Minister during the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in 1967, he became to the world a fighting symbol of the new state of Israel.</span></span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shavit calls Israel's soldiers "the training group boys" and has them marching on Lydda on July 11, 1948. About Dayan, he writes that "after Dayan's storm of fire breaks Lydda's spirit of resistance",.... poetic but really doesn't describe the action. ...".They lead the long procession of Lydda's inhabitants, their hands in the air, to the Great Mosque and confined them there, thousands of men, young and old. They hear the shrieking, the howling, the weeping. They see the horror in the eyes of women and children." There were no 'thousands', and he doesn't mention Dayan's missing eye that hasn't been to a first aid station as yet. I imagine the mosque was a normal-size mosque and not such a great one at that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Jews went through hell in fighting for their promised land. They had few guns, and it took a miracle to come out the winner. I don't appreciate a one-sided story painting the Jews as the bad guys when it doesn't fit the facts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1,339,763 non-Jews in Palestine in 1946 </b>according to reference McCarthy. </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">According to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> statistics studied by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_McCarthy_(American_historian)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Justin McCarthy (American historian)">Justin McCarthy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> the population of Palestine in the early 19th century was 350,000, in 1860 it was 411,000 and in 1900 about 600,000 of which 94% were </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arabs">Arabs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. In 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000 Muslim Arabs, 81,000 </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Arabs" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christian Arabs">Christian Arabs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, and 59,000 Jews.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> McCarthy estimates the non-Jewish population of Palestine at 452,789 in 1882, 737,389 in 1914, 725,507 in 1922, 880,746 in 1931 and 1,339,763 in 1946.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In 1920, the British Government's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> stated that there were hardly 700,000 people living in Palestine:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jewish immigrants went to Palestine and in the 1920s most came from Eastern Europe, land of Pogroms and being forced to live in the Pale of Settlement. In the 1930s any Jews who could escaped to Palestine from Nazi Germany. By 1948, the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Israel) numbered 850,000 Jews. Defense organizations like the Haganah and Irgun formed.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, journalist, also wrote about Israel in his famous "LETTER TO THE WORLD" in a right-sided essay about the world's anti-Semitism towards Jews and why Israel was so important. He was the Stern Group's Chief of Intelligence and had moved to Israel at age 18 from South Africa. He had lots of pride for his people and knew of the injustice they had suffered throughout history. Stanley lived in Jerusalem and I was privileged to be able to meet him at the King David Hotel and get to know him. He was a man my mother's age. Dan Kurzman wrote about him in Genesis 1948. </span></span></span><a href="https://israelseen.com/2014/05/09/1969-stanley-goldfoots-open-letter-to-the-world-from-jerusalem-4/">https://israelseen.com/2014/05/09/1969-stanley-goldfoots-open-letter-to-the-world-from-jerusalem-4/</a><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was it; Israel started off with 850,000 Jews who needed a country of their own badly. They were the remnant of well over 6 million Jews. They were surrounded by millions of hostile Arabs. The odds have always been against the Jews. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Update 3/26/2020:</span><span style="color: #222222;"> I've continued reading the book and feel that the author had been listening more to our Arab population than he had the old Jewish Israeli ones in chpt 5. I've heard such exaggerations from an Arab population at Reed College in Portland during a gathering about Israel. The book becomes a better</span><span style="color: #222222;"> read as I have continued reading. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">Update 3/27/2020</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">: page 166, Ari is telling us that the children in Israel don't want to hear their holocaust parents tell their sad stories-they just want to enjoy life and believe in what their schooling tells them, like that they are strong now, the very best and will not be taken by lambs to the slaughter, and what they will grow up to be and will overcome the Germans and the Arabs and the barren desert. Then his Freudian slip enters his writing. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b> "We will overcome our weakness and deformed genes and shameful history."</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> You could knock me over with a shotgun; all the disbeliefs that I have for our history and our people. Weakness? What is that-a belief in one G-d only? We have IQs at least 10 points higher than the rest of humanity and have produced more nobel winners with our stiff-necked thinking. Deformed genes? I am so proud to have genes that go back to a Rabbi Samson Wertheimer who was born in 1658 who was a direct descendant of RASHI who was a descendant of King David, genes that made up those nobel winners and people like Albert Einstein who had the highest recorded IQ of 180 who developed the theory of relativity, genes that we share with the Davidic dynasty of kings David and king Solomon, and overcome our shameful history? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Our history makes up the Old Testament, the bible of both Jews and Christians, which lays down the laws for humanity to follow in order to be humane. Moses gave us such laws from G-d that people are still in awe of them almost 4,000 years later. We have so much as a nation to be proud of and yet I see someone who is a self-hating Jew who is apologizing for who he is. Sad, yes, sad indeed. Ari, you are not seeing us and our ancestors with the eyes I hoped all Jews would see with but eyes of an anti-Semite. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> It is because of anti-Semitism that we have been treated so badly by humanity, and this has stemmed from what I call "jealousy." Jealousy because we could write and read and do sums and kings and queens needed our help occasionally causing us to be invited into their country, jealousy because we were the "chosen" people of the bible. All this turning against us caused us to grow into who we are today, surprisingly. It's as if the cook decided to stir up a cake and threw everything into the batter, over-cooked it, made a mess of it and yet it turned out to be delicious. We're the cake and G-d was the cook who knew what he was doing. </span></span></span><br />
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Resource:<br />
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2111379/samuel-katz">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2111379/samuel-katz</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kurzman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kurzman</a><br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
<a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yitzhak-sadeh">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yitzhak-sadeh</a><br />
Read this one: example of being fair and rightous, whether left or right; <a href="https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2016/05/israels-military-versus-netanyahu-and.html">https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2016/05/israels-military-versus-netanyahu-and.html</a><br />
Update: 3/24/2020 Found: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/21/lydda-1948">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/21/lydda-1948</a><br />
Benny Morris, young Israeli historian on Lydda, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-26-oe-morris26-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-26-oe-morris26-story.html</a><br />
Messages From A Syrian Jew Trapped In Egypt, by Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-39661138767366563092020-03-23T12:56:00.001-07:002020-03-23T14:38:09.605-07:00How Israel is Dealing With the Corona Virus of 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm in Oregon during this pandemic crisis of the corona virus. Israel is handling this virus much better than some other countries. The report below of</span><span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> How Israel is</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dealing With the Problem,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> was written by a former American now living in Tel Aviv. It was sent to my son on March 21, 2020. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jerusalem Report today said: </span><br />
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1,238 Israelis infected with coronavirus</h1>
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As of Monday morning, 24 people are considered in serious condition - an increase of four people from press time on Sunday.</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel has had about 600 reported cases just a few days ago that I read about. They also reported that they would have a serum available in about 3 weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday, </span><span class="dateline" style="border: 0px; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(March 22, 2020<span style="border: 0px; color: #959594; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> / </span>Israel Hayom)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #575756; font-family: "utopia w01" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #575756; font-family: "utopia w01" , serif; font-size: 20px;">Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that the number of Israelis diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus has risen to 945, a total of 20 of whom are in serious condition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #575756; font-family: "utopia w01" , serif; font-size: 20px;">According to the ministry, the majority of cases (863) are mild, 24 are moderate, and 37 people have recovered. Over the weekend, 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even of Jerusalem became the country’s first recorded COVID-19 fatality.</span> </span><br />
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The Intelligence Directorate’s Special Operations branch, for example, is working on adapting ventilators and manufacturing thousands of protective masks each day. Other teams are working on developing smartphone applications for the general public. The Defense Ministry is working with Israel’s envoys abroad to locate and procure vital medical equipment.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel's population as of January 2020 was 9,152,100 . This includes:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Jews: 74.24%----- 6,697,000</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Arabs: 20.95%------- 1,890,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Others: 4.81%------- 431,000</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #008cb9; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">How Israel is Dealing With the Problem</span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I have been living in Tel Aviv, Israel since February, so I’ve been reading the Israeli news and I’m interested in seeing how they are dealing with the coronavirus situation. That’s also why I am using the country as an example more often than I would if I were living in the US.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white;">Israel was the first country to force travelers to quarantine when entering the country. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(I lived in Israel from 1980 to Thanksgiving of 1985 and was present when Ethiopians were brought to Safed, where I lived on Rehov David Eleazar, across the street from the Jr. High where I taught. They were quarantined at our Safed Hospital as they arrived with many problems, coming from Africa. When they were free of all the problems found in their blood workup, they moved into the apartment across the street.)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Jews have been returning from all parts of the world since its birth May 14, 1948. </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Israel especially can't handle this virus because the hospital bed occupancy rate is already at 94%, which is the highest in the developed world.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white;">If you have to quarantine people, it starts to pose a problem when your occupancy rate is so high.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white;">So, Israel is taking a multipronged approach to reduce the spread of COVID-19:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(I might add that Israel is a teeny tiny country. Most all people live in high rise apartments. You're very lucky if you live in a house. This population is very dense. </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Israel stretches 424 </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">km</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (263 </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">mi</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">) from north to south, and its width ranges from 114 </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">km</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (71 </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">mi</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">) to, at its narrowest point, </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">15 km</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (9.3 </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">mi</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">). It has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 26,352 </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">km</b><sup style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">2</sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (10,175 sq </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">mi</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">).</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-weight: bold;">1)</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> Taking ever more stringent measures by the day to get people to reduce contact, including doing a 'soft' lockdown. Not as strict as Italy, but you can theoretically get fined for leaving your home without an 'approved' reason.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">2)</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> Using anti-terror tracking tools and technology to track every person and send a text to people who came into contact with a coronavirus patient, telling them to quarantine for 2 weeks.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">3)</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> Rapidly expanding testing to better identify who has it.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">4)</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> Using their intelligence services and other military agencies to help out, including bringing in </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s%3D67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8%26i%3D1609A3691A39A14505&source=gmail&ust=1585074380069000&usg=AFQjCNE3re-mjVH5LUhlWpH7k4YRa0fqig" href="https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s=67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8&i=1609A3691A39A14505" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #045fb4; font-weight: normal;">test kits</span></a></b><span style="background-color: white;">, and </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s%3D67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8%26i%3D1609A3691A39A14506&source=gmail&ust=1585074380069000&usg=AFQjCNEWvTxJh-hux_Frjvx9udoW18gNLw" href="https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s=67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8&i=1609A3691A39A14506" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #045fb4; font-weight: normal;">creating ventilators & protective gear.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">5) </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s%3D67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8%26i%3D1609A3691A39A14507&source=gmail&ust=1585074380069000&usg=AFQjCNH7t9pCTSF039nZJDUasAM_eMP35w" href="https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s=67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8&i=1609A3691A39A14507" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #045fb4; font-weight: normal;">Converting hotels into hospitals.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">6)</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> Approving </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s%3D67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8%26i%3D1609A3691A39A14508&source=gmail&ust=1585074380069000&usg=AFQjCNFFMkwWbXF4W8-nG6-YlL9AtGHvgQ" href="https://selfhacked.emlnk1.com/lt.php?s=67b8068d0326e7aa1b3d7310600eb3c8&i=1609A3691A39A14508" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #045fb4; font-weight: normal;">experimental treatments</span></a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> to use in serious cases.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white;">Many of these measures are also being taken by other developed countries, but the approach has varied widely between countries and also between states within the US. You will start to see more countries take the same measures as the virus spreads.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;">On March 18, Israel delivered hundreds of kits for detecting the coronavirus into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, together with equipment for medical protection. This is the same Gaza Strip from which Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have been firing thousands of rockets at Israel for the past few years, and launching party-balloons carrying hidden bombs as recently as last week. In February alone, more than 40 rockets were launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Update: 2:34pm PDT,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/883-Israelis-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-15-in-serious-condition-621779" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font-family: Khula, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Israel </a><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: Khula, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">is currently purchasing thousands of respiratory machines, and they are supposed to arrive in the country by mid-May. On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is using every means it has to secure medical equipment to help patients during the pandemic.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #212121; font-family: Khula, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">3/23/2020 Jerusalem Post: not longer using respirators on those over 60-not enough. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856">https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Resource: </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHMPqxPkWlsDZjTQnJjWMNpqjt">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHMPqxPkWlsDZjTQnJjWMNpqjt</a>, from Joe at Selfhacked by my son, Steve.<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel</a><br />
<a href="https://www.jns.org/number-of-coronavirus-cases-in-israel-climbs-to-945-country-records-first-covid-19-death/">https://www.jns.org/number-of-coronavirus-cases-in-israel-climbs-to-945-country-records-first-covid-19-death/</a><br />
<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHMPmVgwRkWMrXfzMLfBjkFgKj">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHMPmVgwRkWMrXfzMLfBjkFgKj</a><br />
Letters From Israel, by Nadene Goldfoot, about living in Israel and teaching from 1980-November 1985. </div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-61961229063252761172019-07-31T09:29:00.000-07:002019-07-31T09:29:51.520-07:00Another Myth About Jerusalem Becomes Archaeological Fact<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There were 9 European led-Crusades against Jerusalem<br />over almost 200 years who tried to take the Holy<br />Land from the Muslims who held it. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The Romans may have destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE by burning it down along with the 2nd Temple of Solomon, but they didn't hold it for very long. 920 years ago in the year of 1099 (11th century), the Christian Crusaders had their own attack on the city held by Muslims; a siege. Their Crusade started in 1096. It turned into a 5 week battle for Jerusalem between Crusader armies and the Fatimid Caliphate that controlled the region in 1099 CE. The battle came to a head in July 15th of 1099 with <b>Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, France</b>, one of the leaders of the 1st Crusade, attacking the city from the south, while another Christian force built a tower to breach the city walls from the north. The siege succeeded but the tower was burnt down. After the northern force conquered the city, <span style="background-color: yellow;">Crusaders spent a week slaughtering Muslim and Jewish residents of the city. </span> Their Crusades were most always bloody, killing those in their way. For example, one episode was a Crusaders on horseback breaking into a rabbi's home and slaughtering the wife and children of the rabbi with his sword. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raymond of Aguilers wrote a contemporary account of the battle, described a moat built by the Muslims to stop attackers to the south end. He had promised golden dinars to all Crusaders who would help fill the ditch so he could build a strong siege tower against the wall. Archaeologists of the past could not find the moat, chalking up the writing to a myth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This batch of archaeologists led by Gibson, realized they had uncovered the moat! He had noticed that dirt layers were not sloping away from the city wall, but towards it, like a ditch that had been filled in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mount Zion Archaeological Project, an effort of joint international archaeologists led by Professor Shimon Gibson and Professor James Tabor of the U. of North Caroline in Charlotte along with Rafi Lewis of Israel's Ashkelon Academic College. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crusader-King Baldwin III of Jerusalem<br />Baldwin III was King of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163. He was the eldest son of Melisende and Fulk of Jerusalem<br /><br />During his reign Jerusalem became more closely allied with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">, and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Crusade" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Second Crusade">Second Crusade</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"> tried and failed to conquer Damascus. Baldwin captured the important Egyptian fortress of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkelon" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ashkelon">Ascalon</a>(today's Ashkelon)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">, but also had to deal with the increasing power of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_ad-Din_Zangi" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nur ad-Din Zangi">Nur ad-Din</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"> in Syria. He died childless and was succeeded by his brother </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalric_I_of_Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Amalric I of Jerusalem">Amalric</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">They all wanted a piece of the pie (Jerusalem). </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: center;">Baldwin III was born in 1130, during the reign of his maternal grandfather <b style="background-color: yellow;">Baldwin II, one of the </b></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First Crusade"><b>original crusaders</b></a><b>. </b></span><span style="background-color: white;">This made him the third generation to rule Jerusalem. Baldwin's mother Princess Melisende was heiress to her father, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II_of_Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Baldwin II of Jerusalem">Baldwin II</a><span style="background-color: white;"> King of Jerusalem. Baldwin III's father was Fulk of Anjou, the former Count of Anjou. King Baldwin II died at the age of 60 when his grandson was a year old, which led to a power struggle between Melisende and Fulk. Melisende asserted her right to rule as successor to her father, and Melisende and Fulk reconciled and conceived a second child, Baldwin III's brother Amalric. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Baldwin III was 13 years old when his father Fulk died in a hunting accident in 1143, and Baldwin III was crowned as co-ruler alongside his mother, echoing Melisende's own crowning alongside her father as his heir.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Yet Baldwin showed little interest in the intricacies of governance.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[</sup></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The were excavating a site that was part of the Jerusalem Walls National Park where they had found a 1st century Jewish mansion and a rare gold coin stamped with the face of Nero, the Roman Emperor. Finding the moat is another example of history coming true with scientific proof. Myths can hold facts. These archaeologists worked on this site for over 5 years, mapping and dating the layers and artifacts they have turned up. They have uncovered a 13 foot-deep, 56 foot-wide moat. A black layer was on top of the moat and believe to be evidence of the 1153 Civil War between Crusader<b> King Baldwin III</b> of Jerusalem and his mother, Queen Melisende. Many scholars who believed the moat story to be a fable will now have to eat crow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resource: The Jewish Press, Friday, July 19, 2019. www.jewishpress.com</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_III_of_Jerusalem">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_III_of_Jerusalem</a><br />
<a href="https://historylists.org/events/9-crusades-into-the-holy-land.html">https://historylists.org/events/9-crusades-into-the-holy-land.html</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_of_Aguilers">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_of_Aguilers</a></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-36090588584929671252019-07-29T14:34:00.000-07:002019-07-29T14:34:04.908-07:00Sanders Has No Respect for Israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">If he becomes president, Sanders said, he’d consider</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> using the billions in aid the U.S. sends to Israel each year as leverage to force Netanyahu to change his actions,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> adding that Palestinians </span></span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">the </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sanders-us-policy-should-not-be-pro-israel" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Examiner</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> reported." These words jump out at me and give me heart pains. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">This man, who lived in Israel for a short while, just has no understanding of his people's history or what they have deserved for the past 2,000 years. Is he just reading books by Chomsky or what is it with him? Incidentally, President Trump was born June 14, 1946. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Let's talk about who deserves dignity and respect. All people do until they break laws and attack people, and that's exactly what the Palestinians have been doing to Israel since their declaration of statehood in 1948. Within minutes they were being attacked, and the English had left the Jews without arms. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Israel has been attacked because of them and by them in The War of Independence, The Sinai War, The Six-Day War, The War of Attrition, The Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon War, etc, etc. with Iran now looming over their heads as well as Hamas and ISIS. Oh what a crazy neighborhood we have moved back into. It wasn't like we had left it when Jacob and his entourage of 70 of family members left in a famine and found refuge in Egypt. Well, this now-crazy neighborhood was home where they had been told was theirs to live in; Jews who found the rest of the world unwilling to put up with people who believed in one G-d only, but who did not proselytize their beliefs and force them on other people, either. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The total amount of money from the USA since 1948 is 134,764.080 (in millions).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">$94,792.790 was for military purposes. Resettling refugees who were Jewish people living in Arab countries and were expelled in 1948 and other European Jews was came out of donations most likely from Jews abroad , like American Jews. Israel has paid back their loans. Lately we have had Russians and Ethiopians as immigrants, and I lived there as this took place, right in Safed.<br />President Truman was one of the first to recognize Israel in 48. The League of Nations had voted for the creation of the Jewish Homeland in in the 20s, and the United Nations had also accepted Israel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ^ Military aid: 1959-1973 (Loans); 1974-1984 (Loans & Grants); 1984-Present (Grants)<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />* Economic aid is combination of grants and loans. Israel stopped receiving economic aid of any sort in 2007<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">°</strong> Refugee resettlement aid is earmarked for the Jewish Agency/United Israel Appeal to help transport and resettle immigrants in Israel. It was primarily used to help Soviet immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s. Today it is used for Ethiopian immigrants.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />** This is funding allocated to American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA)<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />† Includes Food for Peace (loans & grants); Export-Import Bank aid; Housing Loans; Cooperative Development aid; missile defense; and, others.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /># Includes $1.92 billion in regular military assistance and $1.2 billion for implementation of the Wye Agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Loan guarantees are not considered foreign aid </span><span style="background-color: #fff4db;">so the $7.9 billion in guarantees have been excluded from this table (see </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/loan-guarantees-for-israel" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);">Loan Guarantees for Israel [table]</a><span style="background-color: #fff4db;">). This table also excludes funding for certain other projects the CRS does not consider foreign aid, such as the $180 million for the research and development of the </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/arrow-missile-program" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #fff4db; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b97d3; cursor: pointer; display: inline; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px);">Arrow missile</a><span style="background-color: #fff4db;">.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many Jews are still coming from Russia today because of<br />Putin.s way of life. Somebody's been doing their homework<br />and are patriotic about Israel already. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel has given to the world, not just to the USA. It has made advancements in the medical field, fighting cancer and other important killers; it goes to countries and teaches about protecting themselves from terrorists, and are leaders in so many fields. It is such a blessing to the world that this remnant of a once large empire has taken the lead in so many discoveries. Wherever earthquakes have happened, Israel is there to give aid. To slam this country is to slam our religion, for their moral compass is Judaism. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking to J Street, the group trying to rub out AIPAC<br />J Street prefers to tell Israel what to do from their Democratic USA couches while AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) the only organization for years speaking for Israel continues, thank goodness! J Street says their "stated aim is to promote American leadership to end the Arab–Israeli and Israeli–Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically." They are speaking for very liberal Democrats and their opinions, not that from Israel. They say they are Israel advocates, yet I have not seen proof. They are detractors, speaking for others, not Israel. George Soros is said to have been one of<br />the founders. I wonder if Sanders has ever heard or read anything<br />by <b>Professor Eugene Kontorovich</b>, the intellectual architect of US state laws<br />regarding boycotts of Israel? Other Israeli positions? He </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">One of the worst enemies we have are such people as this who have no use for their religion nor their own people and have cultivated friendships with its enemies. When a well-known person advertises dislike for Israel, whether they are right or wrong, brings on that same attitude of anti-Semitism by the sheep of the land, those that follow without thought or care. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Resource: </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-u-s-foreign-aid-to-israel-1949-present">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-u-s-foreign-aid-to-israel-1949-present</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Professor Kontorovich. lecturer in defense of Israel. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; white-space: pre-line;">Prof. Kontorovich also plays a leading role in many Israel-related policy matters, and is regarded as the “intellectual architect” of U.S. state laws regarding boycotts of Israel. In his work at Forum Kohelet, he regularly advises senior Israeli, U.S. and European officials on a variety of diplomatic issues. </span></span><a href="https://en.kohelet.org.il/author/prof-eugene-kontorovich">https://en.kohelet.org.il/author/prof-eugene-kontorovich</a><br />
<a href="https://sls.gmu.edu/faculty-news/2019/03/28/professor-eugene-kontorovich-on-israeli-sovereignty-over-golan/">https://sls.gmu.edu/faculty-news/2019/03/28/professor-eugene-kontorovich-on-israeli-sovereignty-over-golan/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8w7ZEVt0U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8w7ZEVt0U</a> Kontorovich on Settlements, to understand settlements in Israel. </div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-50635766182765986152019-07-25T13:16:00.002-07:002019-07-26T08:59:06.455-07:00THE BIG LIE ABOUT ISRAEL OF RACISM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look at all these races. There exists a few of each one living as<br />citizens of Israel. Pashtuns have now been realized to be from the Lost<br />Tribes of Israel and are being considered next, no doubt, adding to such<br />a pluralistic society. Russians, Arabs, Americans, English, and yes, I personally know of one Jewish gal with some native American Indian genes as well living in Israel. Ashkenazi Jews are from Eastern Europe and Sephardic Jews from Spanish speaking countries. The Boat people have entered Israel from the Orient, needing refuge and got that and jobs. </span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The biggest lie that Israel's enemies have spread is saying that Israel is racist. The fact that it is to remain as a Jewish state with the predominance of a Jewish population is its right after being hunted down and almost wiped out as a people, sustaining their religion and a remnant of their people for the past 3,000 plus years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East since its declaration of being a state again on May 14, 1948, and they take Democracy quite seriously. They have pondered this and hoped for it for over 3,000 years. It's their religion! Much of this is Judaism at it's best. Civil liberties prevail. There is equality among citizens of all ethnic and religious backgrounds unlike any other place in the Middle East.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 1972 census showed that she had 3.2 million population consisting of <b>2.7 million Jews</b> which meant that 85.1% was Jewish. There were about 359,000 Muslims that made up 11.2% (about the same as Blacks in the USA). All or nearly all were Arabs. There were most of 80,00 of them saying they were Christians which was 2.4% and most of them also Arab, and about 39,000 Druzes and others making up 1.3%. The Druze people are an Arab group that broke away from Islam in the 10th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today Israel's population is at 8,487 (2018). Whoops, it grew this year of 2019 to 8,592,755, according to the UN. Finally we had 6 million Jews, the number we lost after WWII. When Israel was established again in 1948, they had 600,00 Jews, the number Moses entered Canaan with on their 40 year trek from Egypt to Canaan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> According to Wikipedia, the present population is larger. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> "<span style="color: #222222;">The </span><b style="color: #222222;">demographics of Israel</b><span style="color: #222222;"> are monitored by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Central_Bureau_of_Statistics" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel Central Bureau of Statistics">Israel Central Bureau of Statistics</a><span style="color: #222222;">. The </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="State of Israel">State of Israel</a><span style="color: #222222;"> has a population of approximately 9,021,000 inhabitants as of May 2019. Some <b>74.24% are </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli Jews"><b>Jews</b></a><span style="color: #222222;"><b> </b>of all backgrounds (</span><span style="color: #222222;">about <b>6,697,000 individuals)</b></span><span style="color: #222222;">, 20.95% are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arab citizens of Israel">Arab</a><span style="color: #222222;"> of any religion other than </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Judaism">Jewish</a><span style="color: #222222;"> (about 1,890,000 individuals), while the remaining 4.81% (about 434,000 individuals) are defined as "others", including persons of Jewish ancestry deemed non-Jewish by religious law and persons of non-Jewish ancestry who are family members of Jewish immigrants (neither of which are registered at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Interior_(Israel)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ministry of Interior (Israel)">Ministry of Interior</a><span style="color: #222222;"> as Jews), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity">Christian</a><span style="color: #222222;"> non-Arabs, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawali" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mawali">Muslim non-Arabs</a><span style="color: #222222;"> and all other residents who have neither an ethnic nor religious classification.<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;">"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By 1949 at the end of the Israeli War of Independence, there were only some <b>160,000 Arabs</b> in Israel. The increase is due mostly to more births and partly to the readmission of thousands of Arabs who fled when the Arab states attacked Israel telling them to leave and that they could later return to claim Jewish homes and property because of their winning . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel's 1948 basic constitutional document, the PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE, provides complete equality of social and political rights for all citizens regardless of creed, race or sex, and guarantees freedom of religion and conscience, as well as of language, education and culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It specifically invited Arab people living in Israel to help build the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all institutions. There is no institutionalized discrimination against Arabs or other minorities. All groups freely exercise all citizen's</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> rights, including the right to vote and to run for public office. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Compare this with what happened in Lebanon, the little state north of Israel which was made up of Christian and Muslim Arabs which has killed off or chased out most Christians. Christians were always a minority there but the President had to be chosen from them according to their rules. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Compare this with other Arab states and look for Jews. They are not allowed to even visit Saudi Arabia, and since all the states had attacked Israel since its inception, are enemies because of religion and have carried on a religious persecution since then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Saudi Arabia 100% Muslim </b> <b> Iran.......98% Muslim</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Somalia........100% " Tunisia...98% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maldives.......100% " Comoros 98% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mauritania......99.99% Muslim N Cyprus 98% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turkey...........99% " Pakistan.97% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Algeria......... 99% " Iraq........97% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Morocco........99% " Tajikistan 97% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Afghanistan...99% " Libya.......97% "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Yemen......... 99% " </b> Etc..........96% to 50%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> But No Jews......or Christians. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Jews had to leave their Middle East homeland when Israel was created in 1948. They were kicked out. Jews had been living pretty much as 2nd class Jews there anyway with some stiff laws, such as not being able to have a building higher than the Muslims. They had to endure fewer pogrom and had no rights at all in eastern Europe, faring better in the Middle East. This is another reason why our fore-fathers thought we stood a better chance of a RETURN to the Middle East on our ancient homeland. Now, of course, the Palestinians want not only our ancient beginnings of Judea and Samaria but all of Israel as well. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>In Israel, Arabs and other minorities freely exercise all citizen rights including the right to vote and run for public office. Anyone who lived in what is now Israel in 1948 and has lived there since is an Israeli citizen. That was 71 years ago, so few today would be natural born citizens. But I digress. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Persons of any nationality or creed but excluding known criminals and similar undesirables, people showing hatred against Israel such as Norman Finkelstein, may come to Israel to live, and may become citizens after a specified waiting period of of 3 years in most cases. Finding he was denied entrance, Finkelstein has recanted his position. He challenged Joan Peters book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, while I praise it and her. He even called Alan Dershowitz's book, A CASE FOR ISRAEL, a fraudulent book. He has been a man with his head in the sand, refusing to believe the facts these people had found, and he himself only criticized Israel with false facts, a PhD who hadn't really done the job of finding the truth, well at all. This is a good lesson: follow the wrong and hateful people and you do not get to the truth. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Shavua Tov From The Temple Mount!</strong><span> </span>More than 100 Jewish pilgrims ascended the Temple Mount this morning. Today is the fast of<span> </span><em style="font-style: italic;">Shiv'ah Asar b’Tammuz</em>, (the seventeenth of<span> </span><em style="font-style: italic;">Tammuz</em>) , beginning the three week mourning period over the destruction of both the first and second Holy Temple. Click<span> </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sablemadmimi.com/c/93574?id%3D3040284.18608.1.c905e9b3d873eca0dda6717ca5b86e9c&source=gmail&ust=1564242418328000&usg=AFQjCNFAJdhZaYdw36Pr5L2slPobnQR2Wg" href="https://sablemadmimi.com/c/93574?id=3040284.18608.1.c905e9b3d873eca0dda6717ca5b86e9c" style="color: midnightblue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></strong><span> </span>to see photos. </span><span style="color: red;">(Update-7/26/19) It doesn't say they were saying prayers orally to be seen or heard. Read Josephus's description of the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and you would easily mourn for 3 weeks; it was horrendous!! from Temple Mt. Info. </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwDqTXmwlfNvQxfXLpJrjXBWgjv" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwDqTXmwlfNvQxfXLpJrjXBWgjv</a> Glad to see this attempt. To keep the peace in 67, Moshe Dayan made this deal with Jordan, giving them the reigns over the Temple Mount. A Saudi Arabian came to see it and Palestinians attacked him. Now see if you can understand this surprise. Middle Easterners do not think in a block on all subjects. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel was created as THE HOMELAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE with good reason. We haven't had a homeland since 70 CE when the Romans destroyed our homeland and took it as theirs after burning down Jerusalem and our Temple. Israel has created an expedited procedure for Jewish return called THE LAW OF RETURN. Any Jewish immigrant from any country is to be admitted and made a citizen if he or she wishes without waiting. My husband and I were not aware of this in 1980 when we made aliyah, so waited 5 years to fill out citizenship papers such as in the USA. No matter. We were such Greenhorns then back in 1980. We felt like an Israeli the moment we stepped onto the tarmac at the airport. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hebrew is the official language along with Arabic. On the floor of the Knesset (legislature) Arab members speak Arabic. All Knesset proceedings are conducted with simultaneous translation from Hebrew into Arabic or vice versa. Citizens may use Arabic in any court of law or government office. Children in schools study both languages. Arab children can be seen helping Jewish children and vice versa in the after hours. They are said to be similar languages but with very different alphabet scripts. As a rule, an Arab's pronunciation of Hebrew is far far better than mine with my American accent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is no problem in Arabs maintaining their own culture and tradition. Arab children attend schools where classes are in Arabic and their history and culture are freely taught if they wish. They also attend public schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1976, there were 24 daily newspapers of which 4 were in Arabic. Numerous Arabic books and some 20 Arabic magazines were published. The radio and TV featured daily programs in Arabic. Living in Safed from 1980 to 1985, we saw Egyptian and Syrian and Lebanese TV programming as well as Israeli. Included were programming from England and Australia and wow! English humor may be suttle, but they were a lot racier than the USA was at that time. Today with more than 22 papers, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Reuters">Reuters</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> correspondent Tova Cohen described Israeli society in 2012 as "news-obsessed."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Israel has a high newspaper readership rate, due to a combination of high literacy rate and a cultural interest in politics and current affairs. Average weekday readership of newspapers in Israel is around 21 papers per 100 people, although many Israelis end up reading more than one paper." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Surprisingly, Israel had no censorship except in matters directly involving military security. There were many Arab-Jewish cultural centers,usually under private auspices. Both people have cultural creativeness in drama, literature and paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unlike the rest of the world, but like the Middle Eastern tradition, Israel treats religious groups as entities with official standing. Delegated to these communities are matters of marriage and divorce. Each group has their own system of courts to deal with this so there are Rabbinical, Muslim, Druze, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, etc. The Muslim community as great autonomy including the power to administer religious endowments. In 1973, about 200 of the Muslim clergy were being paid by the State of Israel, like the clergy of other faiths. Services were held in some 90 mosques, and Muslim Friday prayers are broadcast on the national radio. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps this is why criminal Muslims in prison have been allowed to receive compensation for killing Jews for so long. This should be ended, or having autonomy for Jordan's religious people on the Temple Mount. It's a very giving and understanding law that Israel has for minorities but on the other hand its against their own best interests and security in my opinion. However, they are a Democracy and have not forgotten how they had been treated, not wishing to imply such feelings on others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today in the USA, women rule over men by bringing them up by their suspenders. Men have to change their ways of being sexualized men and watch out or they're being reprimanded harshly like never before. The sexes in the Middle East have always prevented such problems by their code of dress, particularly the hair coverings, something not affecting other countries, I note. Nowhere else is hair considered as having a sexual draw or stimulant, but the Middle East. Many women of both groups cover their hair. One can just about see what party they belong to by their identifiable head coverings. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath and is the official day of rest in Israel like it is Sunday in the USA, a Christian practice. Friday is the day for Muslims. Muslims and Christians in Israel have the option of closing their businesses on either day of Friday or Sunday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arabs in Public service and public office has been rising. It's increasing as more are finishing high school. In 1973 about 5,000 Arabs were civil service employees with about 70,000 Arab and Druzes serving as magistrates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are 120 members of the Knesset and 4 were Arabs and one Druze in 1973. Abdul Aziz Zuabi was the Deputy Minister of Health and Seif Aldin Alzuabi was Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, both Arabs. Jaber Muadi, Deputy Minister of Communications, is a Druze. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Police include Bedouin Arabs, Druzes and other minority group members. They perform ordinary police duties besides working with the Army in guarding the borders against infiltrators. As of 1973, there were 1,287 Arabs and Druzes in a total force of 13,882 persons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Armed forces of Israel, the IDF (Israel Defence Force) has offered exemption from the draft to certain ethnic and religious groups. The Druzes and Circassians (Muslim sect) have decided to be just like any Jewish Israeli and do not accept the exemption. Most other Arabs, both Muslims and Christians, do stay out of the IDF. Individuals can volunteer for service and some do so each year. There are advantages in doing so in obtaining jobs after their service time. It's something important to put on their resumes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I might add that everyone in Israel is duty-bound to go into the armed forces, even women of Israel. Religious studies have kept out many Jews, however, but this is changing. Even they must do their share. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">71 years and we still have Arabs that have been stirred up by their leaders to want to follow the resistance to Israel's acceptance. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #2f3031;">Palestinians refer to the events surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel as the </span><a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/glossary-terms/nakba" style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 115, 175, 0), rgba(0, 115, 175, 0)) 100% 87% / 100% 1px no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0073af; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; transition: color 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.55, 0.085, 0, 0.99) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Nakba</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2f3031;">, or catastrophe." They are the ones burning fields with their kites, including the burning of forests down that it took 71 years of planting and caring to become forests in such a hot climate. They only hurt themselves in the process of such hatred. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2f3031;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Israel sits among at least 22 of the known 48 Muslim majority states of the world. They have not accepted any Palestinian Muslims into their countries for many reasons, among them wanting to drive out the Jews of Israel and take over the land. Being Jews were native-born originally in a much larger land of Israel, and have not succeeded in being accepted in any other country without a lot of anti-Semitism, and with the fear of another Hitler-type arising, such as is happening in Iran, they need and prefer to hold onto Israel. Their neighbors are just now starting to be accepting, and we hope, this will continue and even improve. Israel does have much to offer the Middle East. iran's ambitions and hatred of Israel is bringing many over to be more accepting of Israel, at least for now. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resource: JEWISH DIGEST, January 1976-Israel: A pluralistic Democracy from American Jewish Committee Background Memorandum p. 22-24 of 22-26. </span><br />
<a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-status-of-arabs-in-israel"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-status-of-arabs-in-israel</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/glossary-terms/founding-of-the-state-of-israel-may-14-1948#.WKeWS_krLIU"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.adl.org/resources/glossary-terms/founding-of-the-state-of-israel-may-14-1948#.WKeWS_krLIU</span></a><br />
<a href="https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/israel-statistics-and-facts/"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/israel-statistics-and-facts/</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/israel-population/">https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/israel-population/</a> ****</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Israel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Israel</a></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Palestine The League of Nations spoke of when they voted<br />for a Jewish National Homeland and gave England the mandate to fulfill this decision. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Israel is 1/800 the size of the Arab world.<br /><br />Israel is 9 miles wide at its narrowest point and 290<br />miles long.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel's territory is about 8,019 square miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel is smaller than New Jersey, which is 8,729 square miles. New Jersey here is shown with more sq.mi, and Israel is shown with more. Let's say they are almost the same size. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel can fit into the state of California 19 times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Jewish history goes back to Abraham, who both Jews and Arabs consider as the father of Judaism. Jews have kept a continuous presence for over 3,000 years in the land of Israel </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">according to archeological and historical evidence and Biblical text. Consider the mosaic floor depicting King David playing his lyre, found in the ancient synagogue of Gaza. This is now seen in the Israel Museum. This is evidence of the truth in the Torah. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note that King David's name is in top right corner in Hebrew. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">David is clean </span>shaven<span style="font-size: small;"> so must be young, with mustache. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">On his head is a crown. Note his lyre is played with a tool,</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">not the fingers like a harp. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It is manifestly right that the scattered Jews should have a national center and national home and be reunited, and where else but in Palestine, with which for 3,000 year they have been intimately and profoundly associated?" So sayeth Winston Churchill in 1920.<br /><br /> Yet England turned around when oil was discovered there and helped Arabs enter Palestine but not the Jews who they had sworn to help to create a JEWISH HOMELAND.<br />Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had more to offer than the Jews.<br />He got land called Trans-Jordan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">StandWithUs: www.standwithus.com </span></div>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34925309.post-71458917164014059252016-05-29T09:43:00.000-07:002016-05-29T10:06:41.304-07:00Israel's Military Versus Netanyahu and Knesset Situation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fareed Zakaria's GPS Sunday morning program opened with a discussion about the Israeli soldier who is in hot water for shooting a Palestinian. Fareed said this has caused Israel's Defense Minister to be fired and that there is a feud between the Generals (Alufeem) and Netanyahu. He was replaced with Avigdor Lieberman causing the lawmakers to be against the appointment. Moshe Yaalon had resigned, accepted as a good defense minister who had in a year calmed a big uprising. .Moshe is one who sides with the military.<br />
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The decision by Netanyahu comes from dealing with the politics of the moments, the centrists, which brought about choosing a hawk like Lieberman. The question is, will he continue to uphold their strong moral values? <br />
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What happened was that a 19 year old IDF <b>Sgt Elor Azria</b>, French Moroccan, shot a wounded Palestinian attacker while he was lying down on the ground in <b>Hebron</b> (18 miles south of Jerusalem) on March 24th of this year. The soldier has been charged with violating the rules of engagement without justification. The terrorist showed no immediate threat for anyone. He had shot and killed <b>Abdul Sharif, 21.</b> He was charged with inappropriate military conduct.<br />
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This is where Abraham buried his wife, Sarah. He bought a plot of ground which included a cave which is where he buried her. Today a mosque stands over the site. Hebron was one of the Levitical cities as well as a city of refuge under the Israelites. The screw-up in finally allowing Jews their Jewish Homeland-20% of the promised land, made sure that Israel would not get their ancient homeland. Religious reasons? Political reasons? <br />
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This was just before Passover. He was allowed to have one night with his family Friday at the start of Passover. <br />
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<b>Hebron</b> is in Judah, what Westerners call the West Bank, and is a city with important history to Jews. It now has become a Palestinian city and has had 7 months of Palestinian violence against Israelis.<br />
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People on the right thought this was unfair to arrest a soldier who shot a terrorist, and thought this was like executing military personnel unfairly. A video caught the scene. Minutes earlier, Abdul and another terrorist were stabbing and wounding a soldier. They were shot by a soldier. Evidently, while down, the soldier shot Abdul again in the head without good reason as he was down.<br />
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The lawyers for the soldier said that he may have thought the terrorist was wearing explosives. The facts came out that had he already been checked for a suicide belt, but no one in the video shows actions exhibiting any caution towards him. The far right want the soldier released.<br />
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However, who is angry with the soldier? The Top military brass of Israel. They have strongly condemned his actions. This happened during a wave of violence beginning in October which killed 201 Palestinians and 28 Israelis. Most all of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks. The sentence came on Monday which said it had located and destroyed a tunnel that went from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, first discovered since the Gaza war in 2014. The military has a strong code of Jewish ethics and keeps to it. The tunnel was built by Hamas terrorists. 32 tunnels had been discovered including 14 that extended into Israel. <br />
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This gets to my point today. There are 2 levels of operation for nations in the world; political and religious venues. What is each platform? Have they always been in sinc with each other? Israel was created as a much needed Jewish state after 2,000 years of it's population being beaten up for being Jewish by the world's religions and politics. It's important to keep to the values. Being a democratic state in the midst of none, they must allow the whole gamut of political parties, but the Knesset must stand behind the values of Judaism, which is highly moralistic. They always have maintained their high moral values, especially when involved in the past wars with the terrorists of Gaza. I can understand a young soldier in the heat of battle being scared enough to keep shooting, something so easy to do with his finger, but it was wrong to shoot a man when down when he could be taken alive.<br />
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Resource: http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/israel-soldier-who-shot-wounded-palestinian-charged-with-manslaughter<br />
Newsweek<br />
The Guardian </div>
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