tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21419400099768310162024-03-13T11:54:16.943-07:00Jewish Facts From PortlandFacts about what's happening to Jews around the world as well as in Portland with my opinions.Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-72561180494402678202023-11-20T09:41:00.000-08:002023-11-20T09:41:25.668-08:00Casualies in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon<div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 180%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUaF_KuPs8rYhPdvwOiqtMuJ6HBSGhS0iqVHXjPw0YD5FcMXgIg-ev4pCZ2WBy2zdWF5oXJaBQipltETHUVaaKM9iD0GCBpfkcrMQ5NKxo5IKmxPpSDT14rF8xiKBN71gmv13znF8Bnk1TdqhUM7IjJCFG3ljOyoMTPVAsVrumlKuc34U-gaFIxv0iUzk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="298" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUaF_KuPs8rYhPdvwOiqtMuJ6HBSGhS0iqVHXjPw0YD5FcMXgIg-ev4pCZ2WBy2zdWF5oXJaBQipltETHUVaaKM9iD0GCBpfkcrMQ5NKxo5IKmxPpSDT14rF8xiKBN71gmv13znF8Bnk1TdqhUM7IjJCFG3ljOyoMTPVAsVrumlKuc34U-gaFIxv0iUzk=w640-h362" width="640" /></a></div>BarZilai Medical Center 2023 </span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Nadene Goldfoot)</span><br /><br /></span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 180%;">Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon Underground</span></strong></div><div align="left">Lea Malul at Barzilai on Sunday, December 28th reported to Tamar Boussi, president of Portland Ashkelon Sister City Association, and she explained their situation--they have had around 10-12 casualities nearly everyday and are swamped. The article below explains some of their preparation.</div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ip19n3PVWHvRgfMS8LxQmqP_AZNAD95BTQBG0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Fear of Rockets Sends Israeli Hospital Underground</strong></span></a> by Aron Heller </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Wary of a missile strike from nearby Gaza, Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital has moved its most essential departments into an underground bomb shelter. In February a rocket from Gaza landed adjacent to the hospital's helicopter pad and in May a rocket crashed into a busy shopping mall in the city, injuring 14 people. On Saturday, Barzilai relocated the most vulnerable departments and placed its least mobile patients - such as those in the geriatric, infant and maternity wards - underground. On Sunday, two rockets fell in Ashkelon itself and another 22 in the surrounding district, as warning sirens sent doctors, patients and guests rushing for cover several times. In Barzilai's underground children's ward, sick Gazans lay alongside sick Israelis. Dr. Ron Lobel, the hospital's deputy director, said that his facility had close ties with Gaza's Shifa hospital, and accepted many of its patients who need treatment the Gazan hospital cannot provide. (AP)</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Reference: from Tamar Boussi, Portland, OR</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 100%;"></span></strong> </div><div align="center"> </div>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-21731631291874432992023-10-31T11:41:00.000-07:002023-10-31T11:41:15.829-07:00Jews in Arab Lands: Then and Now<div align="left"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLtuZTmxVoox1FRyE_8dzaJvp3UfqBmq7sA8VY_TnO37TtqYZsJ65EJ3tg0TDSFRJGNZ1ux_Qm4ilRuEl80Y-00AxYskEpR3e94B0kMst8AIVZq--Yup3DYy0HJ-uuWlC2qKxDHa9DTOfYObR3vw00Asq3mVJlAJjgYeajFu4-UGYeLyeoCE7vWOmSKDc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLtuZTmxVoox1FRyE_8dzaJvp3UfqBmq7sA8VY_TnO37TtqYZsJ65EJ3tg0TDSFRJGNZ1ux_Qm4ilRuEl80Y-00AxYskEpR3e94B0kMst8AIVZq--Yup3DYy0HJ-uuWlC2qKxDHa9DTOfYObR3vw00Asq3mVJlAJjgYeajFu4-UGYeLyeoCE7vWOmSKDc=w267-h400" width="267" /></a></div></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Ofrah Hazah, singer from Yemen</span><br /></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;">At one time there were 100,000 Jews living in <strong>Iran</strong>. Persia, as it was called, was the home of Queen Esther or Hadassah, who was married to King Ahashuaros. It was she who saved her people by telling her husband of the plot of Haman to kill all the Jews. She had to expose herself to her husband who did not know that she was Jewish in order to do this. The brave woman readied herself on a diet of seeds and nuts for three days in order to approach him on this delicate subject, no doubt to fit into that special dress. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_moBTBGzFJmo/TLifwLSSAgI/AAAAAAAAAVE/h3ZFwQ3JP0M/s1600/Blog+pictures0001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528344192609288706" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_moBTBGzFJmo/TLifwLSSAgI/AAAAAAAAAVE/h3ZFwQ3JP0M/w384-h400/Blog+pictures0001.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 192px;" width="384" /></a></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;"> My favorite singer in Israel from Yemen, Ofrah Hazah</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;">Today there are about 11,000 Jews left in Iran. In my own family, a cousin's husband escaped from Iran on a camel in order to leave the country.<br /><br /><strong>Algeria</strong> had 140,000 Jews and now less than 100 remain.<br /><br /><strong>Egypt </strong>had 75,000. I taught in the same school as an Egyptian Jewish gal in Israel. She was teaching English. Today there are less than 100.<br /><br /><strong>Iraq</strong> had 150,000 Jews, much to my surprise, although Ur is in Iraq. This is the ancient city where Abraham was born and had left. By 2009 there were about 35 Jews remaining there.<br /><br /><strong>Lebanon</strong> had 20,000 Jews. Now it has less than 100.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Libya</strong> had 38,000 but now has none.<br /><br /><strong>Morocco</strong> had a whopping 265,000 Jews. The heads of our English Department in Safed were from Morocco. Michelle loved Paris and had clothes from her mother from there. Many Moroccans lived in Safed. Today there are about 5,500 Jews there.<br /><br /><strong>Syria</strong> had 30,000 Jews. Today they have less than 100.<br /><br /><strong>Tunisia</strong> had 105,000 Jews. Today they have about 1,500.<br /><br /><strong>Yemen</strong> was the home of 55,000. Today there are about 200 left. I believe this had been the home of my favorite Israeli female singer, Ofrah Hazah. She became very famous in Israel, and fell upon sad times by dying from drug overdose. I was heartbroken. She was such a wonderful and young singer.<br /><br />Israel declared itself a state in May 1948 with the blessing of the U.N. Immediately war broke out causing 800,000 Jews to be forced to leave Arab countries where they had been living for two millennia. They moved to their new country of Israel, ready or not, as their native country had turned against them.<br /><br />Living in Israel was not easy for them. These Jews had to compete with Ashkenazi Jews, many of which were more educated. The army duty was a place where all were treated the same and became a place of integration. Many of the towns these Jews came from were quite primitive, so they had cultural changes. Now we see that this new melting pot is doing quite well.<br /><br />Resource: Stand With Us's Pocket Facts of Israel<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-63723213779560794362023-10-16T11:44:00.028-07:002023-10-16T13:05:11.666-07:00The Jewish and Arab DNA History Over the Past 4,000 Years<p> Nadene Goldfoot </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZxtgX5AmgNTglg7imyBh6n22qe1YTt44RLmQwrYAVFRciZeo6TzOTCDxaUrxrEiDIF3cX0V-w1YqYCOzukizRjIhz8IjrPuFsVm3y_p8eO0J5qODaoEYpROxbX6wpgy3EZk2mhRBxQW75bMxp3kZ_TEJjYNRphpR6TH7RBVDnv3lfCJ2avdwFynmHdWc/s750/12-tribes-map.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZxtgX5AmgNTglg7imyBh6n22qe1YTt44RLmQwrYAVFRciZeo6TzOTCDxaUrxrEiDIF3cX0V-w1YqYCOzukizRjIhz8IjrPuFsVm3y_p8eO0J5qODaoEYpROxbX6wpgy3EZk2mhRBxQW75bMxp3kZ_TEJjYNRphpR6TH7RBVDnv3lfCJ2avdwFynmHdWc/w382-h640/12-tribes-map.gif" width="382" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span><span style="font-size: large;">Judea, from which today's Jews come from, was made up of people from the tribe of Judah and Simeon who were full brothers sharing the parents, Leah and Jacob. Also, some of the population were from the tribe of Benjamin whose parents were Rachel, Leah's sister and Jacob.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI74hwIRaZddBnJNqUhID9F5eUOtXUxXH2fVo9BIzUv15URPZt51C95DkGuvpoHx8HMoO-fa_DQEJcnWLjxlGDSaFftiOYQTfArEGI_XInEh-ZgIiCGhKKehxXbWvVRHeHYFkjdP18Bz3hk9c6oBd42AinIme2c4762iL4UEZIeZu7XfazMLvjV0hZmuw/s799/12_Tribes_of_Israel_Map.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="525" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI74hwIRaZddBnJNqUhID9F5eUOtXUxXH2fVo9BIzUv15URPZt51C95DkGuvpoHx8HMoO-fa_DQEJcnWLjxlGDSaFftiOYQTfArEGI_XInEh-ZgIiCGhKKehxXbWvVRHeHYFkjdP18Bz3hk9c6oBd42AinIme2c4762iL4UEZIeZu7XfazMLvjV0hZmuw/w420-h640/12_Tribes_of_Israel_Map.svg.png" width="420" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Jews of today are finding that people have within their genes, a haplotype, like a tag that tells who you came from originally, like the name of the company that produced you. We are told that the 12 tribes were fathered by Jacob, son of Isaac, who was son of Abraham. However, the mothers of the 12 tribes were: two sisters-Leah and Rachel and their two handmaids who had 2 sons each; Zilpah and Bilhah. Leah had six and Rachel had two who turned out to be most important; Joseph, the favorite son, and Benjamin, born when Rachel died in childbirth.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Their haplogroups would be expected to all be the same as Abraham since a haplotype is passed in each generation by the male to his sons. All the sons of Jacob should be the same-which reflect Abraham's haplotype. However, we have a group of Jewish haplogroups common to us instead of one single type. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzlpIggfYMYmMxBHU-6HmUsAiWxNcHFdTyYPIqJbZC2MppjBL_QzsIpF3MDB7gDW7N7A60SnpTj22stPvNMPk-BCfBqdxAMzm8C81XFXH7kTBYaeb0lmJAmESn9meAYS3B91AW_cBn3iYCNJbt9hheN-xqEmSmNFZ2m4PP1mUsclOA0WwPxGwtYgeGz4/s884/1_kings_period-of-kings.jpg%20%20Israel%20and%20Judah.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="793" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzlpIggfYMYmMxBHU-6HmUsAiWxNcHFdTyYPIqJbZC2MppjBL_QzsIpF3MDB7gDW7N7A60SnpTj22stPvNMPk-BCfBqdxAMzm8C81XFXH7kTBYaeb0lmJAmESn9meAYS3B91AW_cBn3iYCNJbt9hheN-xqEmSmNFZ2m4PP1mUsclOA0WwPxGwtYgeGz4/w574-h640/1_kings_period-of-kings.jpg%20%20Israel%20and%20Judah.jpg" width="574" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The problem is that not every generation produced sons, or sons that continued their line with sons. A daughter most likely became the progenitor of the family and her husband's haplogroup became the tag showing his origins, not the daughter's. That tells us who the available men were to the women. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ATG3IXFmIcqEvgbeXPK8VMG52v57MtsUDByQGbadxEKOexWLSooFC263_I9t4uwzTEnF9uHEg7_7eh3NjbXDzWgRCLC_6s8eBSi-kxAvCaTCzZydh22F6p2ffHinEYupqLD2KJ44uQs0FIW-x8ez9ZNsBJSMD4OeeZNwPND1n7NHGEGyIWUEGhEH5yg/s300/download.jpg%20%2010%20lost%20tribes%20of%20Israel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ATG3IXFmIcqEvgbeXPK8VMG52v57MtsUDByQGbadxEKOexWLSooFC263_I9t4uwzTEnF9uHEg7_7eh3NjbXDzWgRCLC_6s8eBSi-kxAvCaTCzZydh22F6p2ffHinEYupqLD2KJ44uQs0FIW-x8ez9ZNsBJSMD4OeeZNwPND1n7NHGEGyIWUEGhEH5yg/w320-h179/download.jpg%20%2010%20lost%20tribes%20of%20Israel.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Jacob and Rachel in the center with Joseph; Leah on the left with the 6 boys; she will have Dinah, the only girl; On the left are Zilpah and Bilhah and</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We assume that J1 was the Cohen gene. Every tribe had someone from the tribe of Levi (also brother of Leah and Jacob) who were direct descendants of Aaron, brother of Moses, who became the priests or Cohens. I have even found that many Arabs also carry the J1 gene, different with the tag endings showing it was an Arab line and not a Jewish line, like this one: J1c3d. As you get into genetics, SNPs become important. "</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;">When same tribes cluster under same SNP, it draws clear distinction to their tribe YDNA signature and the all others who get same SNP are linked to same tribe Genetically. " There are several common SNPs that Arabs have that differentiate them from the Jewish Cohens. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(J1) haplogroup had expanded to the rest of the world all over history but distinctively during two main periods. It had expanded out of Fertile Crescent about </span><a shape="rect" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; display: inline; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; outline: 0px;"></a><a style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; display: inline; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; outline: 0px;">7000-9000</a><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> years ago during the Neolithic times (last part of the stone age). The other period was during Arab migration with the expansion of Islamic empire on 6th century AC. (source Nadia Al-Zahery et al research).</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> They were not to inherit land for their tribe like the other siblings, but the tribe was broken up and the men served among their siblings teaching them. It was an honor of service. It's also the most common identification for Jews today.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Other male haplogroups are E, which is quite large, G, I, Q (which my father is) J2, and R. A popular female line is K. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Judea was that part of ancient Israel's southern end and was the area left untouched when the Assyrians attacked the Northern tribes and took away most of the population there in 721 BCE. "<span face=""Ensign:Serif", McKay, "McKay ldsLat", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino-Roman, serif" style="background-color: white;">Assyria, named for the god Ashur (highest in the pantheon of Assyrian gods), was located in the Mesopotamian plain. It was bordered on the west by the Syrian desert, on the south by Babylonia, and on the north and east by the Persian and Urarthian hills (see J. D. Douglas, ed., </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Ensign:Serif", McKay, "McKay ldsLat", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino Italic", Palatino-Italic, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Illustrated Bible Dictionary,</em><span face=""Ensign:Serif", McKay, "McKay ldsLat", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino-Roman, serif"><span style="background-color: white;"> s.v.</span><b style="background-color: #fcff01;"> “Assyria,” 1:137). This area today is primarily the nation of Iraq.</b><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Then in 597 BCE and again in 586 BCE the Babylonians had attacked when they destroyed Solomon's Temple, and took most of their population to Babylon, allowing them with the choice of returning 50 years later in 538 BCE or staying in Babylon. Some did return and rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In 70 CE, Jerusalem was burned down and the 2nd Temple destroyed by the Romans. We were left with threats of not to return by the Romans. Other empires took the land. Jews divided in fleeing for their lives and in getting out of Jerusalem. So many had died from starvation, slaughtered, taken as slaves to Rome, and those who could still walk went in 3 directions: to Spain and became the Sephardim; neighboring communities and became the Mizrachim, or to Germany via Rome becoming the Ashkenazim. That was 1,953 years ago. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our DNA tests manage to go back about 1,000 years to gain more information about our origins. Then some tools can go back further, which FTDNA has in their program. Mostly, we will be told of people who are at the most 5th (or further) cousins. I have read that we Jews are all at least 20th cousins, and that's going back quite a ways. Gedmatch.com has tools that can connect people with the smallest amount of measurable DNA, 3cMs where FTDNA uses 6 cMs for their smallest amount. I have a Goldberg who shares DNA with my brother who is a 3rd to 5th cousin. We share 5 segments on 4 chromosomes amounting to 53 cMs. He's not a Q but an E. Most other Goldbergs who share with my brother are 4th cousins. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We were almost wiped out by the Holocaust and were left with 6 million living now in Israel, 6 million in USA and 2 million elsewhere in the world. so we make up only 0.2% of today's world population. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In retrospect, for a people such as the Palestinians sharing a wee bit of their DNA with some of us from the past , the J1 haplogroup, we are as different as can be in morality and how we view life. For many years the genealogists said that there was no connection with Palestinians compared with other Middle Eastern countries. Tools are now more efficient and evidently SNPs have been found. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Resource:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/arabian-ydna-j1-project/about/results">https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/arabian-ydna-j1-project/about/results</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Tanakh, (Bible) The Stone Edition</span></p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-41051148185594672522021-12-27T16:28:00.005-08:002021-12-29T22:06:07.445-08:00Looking Back At Jewish Portland: Old South Portland<p> Nadene Goldfoot</p><p>Nathan Abraham Goldfoot, b: 1871 Lithuania </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy7-pRlE6RGnPF8F0-OsKxq00dCuszVdven0zAS02oIa61BzPkWvu85dnpi5KGV9tOLDxFphKPWVmMS_vxoTk7vZcrnbEIaTWI43G98j8kWwYyJ4haPehMROw-LKjDahFk5J4kSYKYgQ2DfTysw-hEhoakM9tTU8tM_ZM2jMPq8OAn-MupD2SIaUok=s1477" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1477" data-original-width="980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy7-pRlE6RGnPF8F0-OsKxq00dCuszVdven0zAS02oIa61BzPkWvu85dnpi5KGV9tOLDxFphKPWVmMS_vxoTk7vZcrnbEIaTWI43G98j8kWwYyJ4haPehMROw-LKjDahFk5J4kSYKYgQ2DfTysw-hEhoakM9tTU8tM_ZM2jMPq8OAn-MupD2SIaUok=s320" width="212" /></a></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA168IncNePkiTXCYOrT50ldtalT9nRMYAm0XEr54NPycFM2H-A7MYfQy8CM49bWE0d8SKvXG7kfvUU_B-mT4ZHFWccGIKFVYwghQooNi_c5dBFcXbyGPWfb4WPeK8-vSqm-e-UczkaKatt_6yMyMZKIBtSHMRkEP2PFM7q5BSdv8lVGEJtYrbu_Vs=s833" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="633" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA168IncNePkiTXCYOrT50ldtalT9nRMYAm0XEr54NPycFM2H-A7MYfQy8CM49bWE0d8SKvXG7kfvUU_B-mT4ZHFWccGIKFVYwghQooNi_c5dBFcXbyGPWfb4WPeK8-vSqm-e-UczkaKatt_6yMyMZKIBtSHMRkEP2PFM7q5BSdv8lVGEJtYrbu_Vs=s320" width="243" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Son, Morris "Meshke" Goldfoot </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> born <b style="background-color: #ffe599;">July 1, 1908, </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Nathan Goldfoot boxed at the Neighborhood House</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> went pro as "Billy Meshke"<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dad did well for himself. Since his father died when he was 4, he and his brother sold newspapers like a lot of the other little Jewish boys out on the city streets. Everyone spoke Yiddish; no English. He had to drop out of high school to work and support his family so missed his last year.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He had been in a lot of sports and was on the baseball team, which he loved. He missed that a lot. He was also in track. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> He got a job at the neighborhood kosher butcher shop next to the Lincoln Theater on 3rd and Lincoln and worked, learning the business under a strict owner, even unable to attend my birth. Later, he opened up his own Lincoln Wholesale Meats and I worked in it after school as his bookkeeper. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd5JrqI6R5SAfj_nQaq2l69tdv6D5pB_HaGhWdTOp9t5oIEe_jMSbgZEVfO764WotbMEsFKSIBdtTXwiRHzOvPaa5wTTNaMr8vcxE82QtHRo3f3kt3Z89q53teS0TMmUmGL57tffMgB3qJyrHbB9qo-g3TcUMFX67SO5wJvS1CMifk8F37gQ6I_Le2=s763" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="763" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd5JrqI6R5SAfj_nQaq2l69tdv6D5pB_HaGhWdTOp9t5oIEe_jMSbgZEVfO764WotbMEsFKSIBdtTXwiRHzOvPaa5wTTNaMr8vcxE82QtHRo3f3kt3Z89q53teS0TMmUmGL57tffMgB3qJyrHbB9qo-g3TcUMFX67SO5wJvS1CMifk8F37gQ6I_Le2=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then he expanded, opening up Silver Falls Meat Packing Co in Columbia Blvd and owned giant cattle trucks. He bought cattle at auctions in eastern Oregon, and brought them to Portland, turning them into steaks, etc. I tried my hand at collecting from the retail stores who were in arrears. Ugh. I'm a better teacher. I attended Portland State at that point. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">While a newby in the meat business, Dad took in a German Jewish refugee at the nudging of his Uncle Max "Turshinsky"/Turn of La Grande who had a furniture store. The refugee, who got out of Germany in 1939. was Werner Oster who then married Dad's sister, Anne. We all never went hungry for meat. Charlie married Helen Hochfeld who's granddfather was a well-known Rabbi in Portland, Rabbi Chaim David Hochfeld from Ukraine. Helen's father, William Hochfeld, had opened up a department store in Grand Coulee, Washington, so Charlie worked for him. </span><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My paternal grandfather,<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> <b>Nathan</b></span> Abraham Goldfus-anglicized to Goldfoot during his stay in England, was (born in 1871), was an immigrant from Telsiai, Lithuania and his wife, Zlata or Essie Jermulowske (born in 1886) , was an immigrant from Lazdjai, Suwalki, Lithuania. Nathan had immigrated from Lithuania to England, then to Dublin, Ireland, and took a ship to Winnepeg, Canada in 1893. In June of 1893 he was on the Londonderry and 22 years old, listed as a farm laborer, and was headed to land in Quebec. Nine other passengers were on the ship with him. Then he got to Portland, according to his death certificate, in 1899. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsZUM146bA7OikxQlaKqm14jaMI0pPHvY9aITtGQEkm0CryffPXtRp2y7RZ_L2fS3TCb31r7InkdBIjOPEQFon-PcJunQEwFvB-A-krX3Q2MXv7CFv037gNGYSj8ch6dMvpLlW_tpX4RDkgYLTEYuzkwMxRApmo3pUWcExp_EOrO9nFuebMIaN8IaA=s1214" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="830" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsZUM146bA7OikxQlaKqm14jaMI0pPHvY9aITtGQEkm0CryffPXtRp2y7RZ_L2fS3TCb31r7InkdBIjOPEQFon-PcJunQEwFvB-A-krX3Q2MXv7CFv037gNGYSj8ch6dMvpLlW_tpX4RDkgYLTEYuzkwMxRApmo3pUWcExp_EOrO9nFuebMIaN8IaA=w274-h400" width="274" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Here, Charlie/Haskel, is sitting, my dad, Meshke/Morris, is standing.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Nathan was 37 when his 1st son, Charlie, was born in 1906. My dad was born in 1908. Nathan arrived in Portland in 1899, and I found him on the 1910 census as he died in 1912. They lived at 265 Arthur. They had met in Council, Idaho and married in Boise. After about a year, they moved to South Portland, Oregon. My grandmother, Bubba in Yiddish, attended the Mead Street Shul. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's a place I wound up as a teacher teaching the Jewish Chabad school's K and 1st grades. The roof was leaking during the rain and at times I actually used an umbrella in the classroom. That caused the school to move out a ways near a lake. I attended Neveh Zedek Synagogue, a Conservative one, with Rabbi Kleinman. Nathan and Zlata Goldfoot had 4 children; Charles, Moshe-Morris, Elsie and Ann. My father, Morris-Maurice, was born July 1, 1908. Charles was born September 22, 1906. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4hN6SDH9H5w/YcoNgaDirBI/AAAAAAAAvSM/N7Q1hpbVoAAEhObTnLuXuTroHcxL_Cp7QCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="384" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4hN6SDH9H5w/YcoNgaDirBI/AAAAAAAAvSM/N7Q1hpbVoAAEhObTnLuXuTroHcxL_Cp7QCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h384/image.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Many Jews became peddlers all over the US when they immigrated</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Nathan died before Ann was born in 1912. He had been a peddler with one horse and wagon, supplied to him by a group, and one day the horse was startled and frightened, so ran through the streets of SE Portland as Nathan would pick up boxes from the port to be delivered in SE Portland and deliver them to businesses. Nathan was thrown out of the wagon, a wagon without any identification on it, hit his head, and was taken to Providence-St. Vincent's Hospital in NE Portland. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v8Jvzi8q0Fw/YcotO5XxouI/AAAAAAAAvSk/q8q_uNMuN2gRw3j5ueOwDhmPiHhwvP6GACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="509" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v8Jvzi8q0Fw/YcotO5XxouI/AAAAAAAAvSk/q8q_uNMuN2gRw3j5ueOwDhmPiHhwvP6GACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h509/image.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> He never woke up, but died there, and my Bubba, at home on a Friday, waiting for him to come home, pregnant, didn't hear a thing about it. Finally, several days later, someone came to her door and told her that her husband was dead. She cursed that man for not coming immediately to tell her. He died several years later.</span> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Bubba had to pluck chickens for a living. She lost control with 3 little children and pregnant with another girl. She had a girl 1 and 2 boys, age 4, 6 when she became a widow. Sometimes she had to chase them under the bed with a broom. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My grandfather, coming from Russia, didn't trust banks, so he hid his money in the barn where he kept his horse. After his death, Bubbie looked for it but could find nothing. She was destitute but had a brother nearby who wanted to adopt my father. She said no, and kept them altogether. </span> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qn5P7swvz0M/YcoKSWt6t0I/AAAAAAAAvR8/tR8AewLhucs5GE2DIjzXa1kloRNapuKCQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="600" height="514" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qn5P7swvz0M/YcoKSWt6t0I/AAAAAAAAvR8/tR8AewLhucs5GE2DIjzXa1kloRNapuKCQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h514/image.png" width="640" /></a></p><span face=""lucida grande", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17.3333px;">Here is a mid-century reproduction photograph of the original Failing Public School in Portland Oregon. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Bubba's children, Charlie, Morris, Elsie and Ann attended Failing School that was in their neighborhood from 1911 on. </span> <span face=""lucida grande", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17.3333px;">The school was built in 1882 and named for former <b>Portland Mayor Josiah Failing</b>. Photograph by Mentzer the Photographer – 203 N E Russell St in Portland Oregon. The photo has a description stating the school name and dates of operation as well as its destruction date of 1922. The Failing I see today and have seen all my life is still standing. </span><p></p><p><span face=""lucida grande", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17.3333px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-17LLEigQq3A/YcoLalqnJjI/AAAAAAAAvSE/B4Mp6wKsBukUwt0xbH8SQdE04QcPQwG3gCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="396" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-17LLEigQq3A/YcoLalqnJjI/AAAAAAAAvSE/B4Mp6wKsBukUwt0xbH8SQdE04QcPQwG3gCNcBGAsYHQ/w507-h640/image.png" width="507" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The school was closed down and the building abandoned. Located at 049 Southwest Porter Street near the west end of the Ross Island Bridge, it was a central location for the fast-growing community college. Despite the poor name for an education building, Failing provided PCC with 22 classrooms at a single location and a place for its new headquarters, which had been in an old portable building behind Benson High School. It's been recycled into a city college building. If you cross the Ross island bridge from SE to SW and turn right and go around and then forward, you will see the school on the right. </span></span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTrcRVos_TqoU1bRFOyrPdIMa3pnQ45UI4H6oCPIN1ZVwB1W1kybqazNbW2U3rR8i6Vfeja0SEFYAAm48G9Quh7m6H8hHc2p02__SDDfhfjxujR4UN2b6NpPpMBat6dofinAByAgiwdBQevWpM35VmfC7N_BV9fKuP_Urf6DbGx2vOcAhRtSYBYR85=s480" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="418" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTrcRVos_TqoU1bRFOyrPdIMa3pnQ45UI4H6oCPIN1ZVwB1W1kybqazNbW2U3rR8i6Vfeja0SEFYAAm48G9Quh7m6H8hHc2p02__SDDfhfjxujR4UN2b6NpPpMBat6dofinAByAgiwdBQevWpM35VmfC7N_BV9fKuP_Urf6DbGx2vOcAhRtSYBYR85=s320" width="279" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: medium;"> Judge Gus Solomon, my father's peer</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Gould "Gus" Jerome Solomon was born in Portland, Oregon in South Portland, too. He was born <b style="background-color: #ffe599;">August 29, 1906</b>. He should have attended school with Charlie Goldfoot. Gus's parents were <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Jacob</b> (born 1872 in Hoosh, Romania, and <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Rose Solomon</b>, (born 1872 in Ukraine, a Russian state). They married in Portland not long after arriving in Portland. His mother died in childbirth and his father died young. He was raised by relatives. When they arrived in Portland, it was during the severe depression of 1893 to 1897. He as a peddler, opened a small 2nd-hand store, first with Max Barrell who was also from Hoosh, and later with Morris Augustin. By 1910, Portland was doing better and was the Pacific Northwest's leading financial, commercial, port and rail center and it ranked 28th in urban population and 55th in manufacturing value. The Jews who had come here were in trade and commerce. South Portland's tailor, shoemakers, and storekeepers largely served workers' families. 60% of its Jewish heads in South Portland in 1910 were either proprietors or clerks, while another 18% were on the fringe of proprietorship as expressmen or peddlers (my Zaida-grandpop that I never got to meet). Many just eked out a living. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In 1900 the Solomons lived on First Street in South Portland. Jacob was a clothing merchant at age 29. They both said they were from Poland to the census taker. Eugene had been born in 1895 in Portland. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">By 1920 they were living in the NE section of Portland on NE Knott and 14th. Gus was 13 and his siblings were Eugene J, 23, Sam 21, Claire 19 and Delphine 17. They were going up in society; out of the cozy ghetto. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rose was born as <b>Rifka Rochel Rosencrantz</b> in 1872 near Kiev, under the Czar. Helen Hochfeld's grandfather was also from Ukraine. For Russian Jews, there were no civil rights, but there were ruinous restrictions on trading, and periodic expulsions from towns and villages. Pogroms savaged them early in the 1880's. They suffered from being evicted from cities, new discriminatory laws that popped up, and heightened violence that worsened conditions in the 1890's. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Between 1880 and 1920, millions of people from Europe, the Ottoman empire, and Asia created the greatest immigration era in the US history. In these years, 1/3 of eastern European Jewry left for the fabled USA. which in 1880 had only a quarter-million Jews, about 1/6 from eastern Europe. By 1900, some 600,000 more eastern European Jews had arrived; 45% of them women and girls. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The city contained the urban Far West's 2nd highest % of foreign-born people in 1890 and 1900, most of them clustered in the same neighborhoods. In 1910, Portland's population was 207,000 with some 5,000 Jews, almost 1/2 from eastern Europe, and they belonged to Portland's synagogues. in 1920, at least 11,000 religiously affiliated Jews lived in the city with 258,288 people which some 6,000 of them were living in or near South Portland. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rose's brothers, <b>Abraham</b> and <b>Jacob</b> <b>Rosencrantz</b>, brought the 22 year old Rose to Portland in 1894. Other siblings followed later. Similar networks of relatives and friends encouraged Atlantic crossings and helped newcomers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Rosencrantz brothers</b> became leading figures in Jewish South Portland, respected for their learning in Talmud. (Oh dear, my father was thrown out of Hebrew school because at age 4, he was already on the streets of Portland selling newspapers, already making change for people. He told me that people came to him more than to his older brother, Charlie, who was 6. He wouldn't listen to the teacher, and probably was noisy and disruptive.) He never got another chance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Abraham Isaak Rosencrantz </b>(b:July 4,1875--d: July 17, 1936) became a well-known cantor in small congregations---Shaarie Torah and Neveh Zedek Talmud Torah---and an interim rabbi. <b>Jacob</b>, called John, became a synagogue sexton. Jacob was born in 1864, died in 1938, buried in Rose city Lodge's Neveh Zedek Cemetery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Jacob became a prospering merchant, though he only had a Hebrew school education in the old country. At least he was literate in one language. This school prepared him in about 2 years to be bar-mitzvahed. He was ambitious so attended a night school for 2 years where he learned to write a crude English, math and read from newspapers, and then he moved to key West, Florida which had a large Romanian community and lived in Tampa for 4 or 5 years. He became a salesman, possibly attended the World's Fair in Chicago selling merchandise there in 1893, which is when he moved to Portland, where he knew of other Romanian Jews. I wonder if he knew Beedie and her husband, Max Etlinger who had a son, Joel and a daughter, Joannie? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In Romania, Jews were barred from town and city peddling, their era of legal persecution of Jews, called a "cold pogrom," by historians when the government "defined Jews as enemies of the nation, removed them from the state school system, and encouraged occasional violence." Jews were disqualified from citizenship periodically and expelled from villages, deported, and worn down by poverty. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8CAxOq1lVWs/YcoZp8RpGqI/AAAAAAAAvSU/RRCAZ9CDknobeERv3mjARpSaU5zsjBoDQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="459" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8CAxOq1lVWs/YcoZp8RpGqI/AAAAAAAAvSU/RRCAZ9CDknobeERv3mjARpSaU5zsjBoDQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="180" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> So Jacob immigrated at age 14 early in 1886, one of 5,518 other Romanians. They made up only 4% of the east European Jewish tide arriving between 1880 and 1920. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Leon Feldstein's family came from Rumania in 1907. Other Rumanians would pop in and his mother would play the piano and guitar for people to dance. They would have a Mameliga party which consisted of a huge tub of mameliga, a corn meal-hardened corn meal mush. Everyone was poor. Gravy was added to the mameliga, a few pieces of meat and lots of onion and garlic. </span><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WyC_Iezp7_M/YcoFJDBm4OI/AAAAAAAAvRs/IT0g3JrycvgT_2a1IzxE2vqqh1PYPZm4QCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="285" height="398" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WyC_Iezp7_M/YcoFJDBm4OI/AAAAAAAAvRs/IT0g3JrycvgT_2a1IzxE2vqqh1PYPZm4QCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h398/image.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">South Portland was 14 blocks long that ran from the Willamette River westward 6 to 10 blocks to end in a large garbage dump that could have been "The Gulch", near the Ross Island Bridge, which was in front of the Goldfoot duplex that was also near the Neighborhood House. It's said that it was a classic 1st settlement neighborhood. European Jews and Italian Catholic immigrants lived here and got along well. I remember a kosher Deli and and Italian Deli right across the street from each other. my father would send me over to them from our SE home on a Sunday morning to buy some kippered salmon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Blackman family lived near Molly and young Irv Rotenberg on First Avenue next to Mosler's Bakery where my two aunts, Elsie and Ann worked. Mosler's bagels could compete easily with the best out of New York. People of today don't know a real bagel. I still remember Elsie coming home early with Mom and I waiting for her with her bag of warm bagels, and we ate them without any cream cheese or anything. Just ate those delicious bagels. And the aroma....the best! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">People here chose to live close to each other and it was a wonderful way to live, like we think about the old country and its shtetl-life of Fiddler On the Roof. In this small area, anything that anybody needed for good living was available within walking distance. There was the library within a few blocks. There were 6 synagogues. You could take your pick of the one you'd rather be dead that caught in; and they were within a few blocks. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There were grocery stores such as Korsun's, Louis Leveton's drugstore, Sig Sichel's Cigar shop on 3rd Ave., the laundry, the hospital, the community center. The Solomon Apartments, built by Jacob Solomon was at First and Caruthers. Dave Schneiderman had a pool hall, often crowded with older boys and its foot patrolman, Mr. Nichols. <b>Calistro and Halperin</b> had a delicatessen between Caruthers and Sheridan that catered to both the Italian and Jewish trade, since its owners came from each ethnic group. Simon Director, Isaac Friedman and Joseph Nudelman had competition for my father's market with kosher meat markets within a few blocks of each other along First Avenue. They had it all in this South Portland ghetto. It was sweet living and really everybody helped each other. Along First Avenue, a little north at first and Grant, was Robison's dry goods store, a mini-department store used by South Portlanders. It was Mrs. Robison's sons, Charles and Edward, who donated funding to help establish the Robison Home, the Jewish community's modern care facility for the elderly. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Resource:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Gus J. Solomon, Liberal Politics, Jews and the Federal Courts by Harry H. Stein-Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2006</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Jews of Oregon 1850-1950 by Steven Lowenstein, 1987</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Downtown Jews-a walking tour through Portland's early business district by Polina Olsen , 2009</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-50349741107314976422021-12-22T08:14:00.028-08:002021-12-29T22:25:53.368-08:00The Tribe of Levi That Moses Was From<p> Nadene Goldfoot </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo58rkCmSCuHUQmIwbXEdAbK1K_kuxeUk75zBtp1rvhLxGp7bV_yiGzEwx9kRtkWn3Bbh7mdfU29bbTZQLdVwCy7uiiV-N4-uAEaRHQ4TgDIEw8OMHbqm5RtHqa2cgeUUbqSIcXmZ3ZYLtchvMeuP830mmOc2gUC8P8ErGMM2J88Ud6__NALDqrwdC=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo58rkCmSCuHUQmIwbXEdAbK1K_kuxeUk75zBtp1rvhLxGp7bV_yiGzEwx9kRtkWn3Bbh7mdfU29bbTZQLdVwCy7uiiV-N4-uAEaRHQ4TgDIEw8OMHbqm5RtHqa2cgeUUbqSIcXmZ3ZYLtchvMeuP830mmOc2gUC8P8ErGMM2J88Ud6__NALDqrwdC=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Jacob had 12 sons who were the origins of the famous 12 Tribes of of Jacob. Levi was Jacob's 3rd son with Leah, his first wife. The Levites were the tribe that Moses and his brother, Aaron, were from.</span></div></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K8wv2IQp-oo/YcNLeErCY1I/AAAAAAAAvIo/G9hGVaxMc1o29YobX944Dd08cj4rLvU3ACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="214" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K8wv2IQp-oo/YcNLeErCY1I/AAAAAAAAvIo/G9hGVaxMc1o29YobX944Dd08cj4rLvU3ACNcBGAsYHQ/w584-h640/image.png" width="584" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Aaron was made high priest by Moses, and all his sons were to follow in his footsteps. His DNA has been found to be called J1 or the Cohen gene. Supposedly, all the Levites should have carried the same Y haplogroup of Jacob, and Jacob would have been carrying the same as his father, etc. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RHyNqr_xVHE/YcNLx85CNsI/AAAAAAAAvIw/_9S0-qHLLFkGCDLuEZNoeJR-iCJaOa03QCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="248" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RHyNqr_xVHE/YcNLx85CNsI/AAAAAAAAvIw/_9S0-qHLLFkGCDLuEZNoeJR-iCJaOa03QCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="293" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Scientists have found that this is true of the Cohens who lived under special conditions like not marrying a divorced woman, other conditions, but is not proving to be true for the group designated as the Levites. </span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinqtJT_uaCqzko9QLWB47egNeU9n7o4m7wcRqn1KUmm4PCu4OlbQ7uCd4qkLchkUQGxPbJv_2yp5AI0roh-8ErEIH9RgdH-6jA2OZelBMbuGhrbivrusYeQQk7C1pcuUITHV_FCqWmq-5GmHe_E423ds_gq5Sn1DMfWTOIU4ofR_QkwJQd4jE0xPRk=s565" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="483" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinqtJT_uaCqzko9QLWB47egNeU9n7o4m7wcRqn1KUmm4PCu4OlbQ7uCd4qkLchkUQGxPbJv_2yp5AI0roh-8ErEIH9RgdH-6jA2OZelBMbuGhrbivrusYeQQk7C1pcuUITHV_FCqWmq-5GmHe_E423ds_gq5Sn1DMfWTOIU4ofR_QkwJQd4jE0xPRk=s320" width="274" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Daniel Eskow, Levite, Russian Jewish, painting by me</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Levites: In very ancient times, all the male descendants of the tribe of Levi were consecrated by Moses to serve in the the Temple and to instruct the people. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4vZys0DdY-k/YcNKHc61V8I/AAAAAAAAvIA/RPwY5ZAqRjM9TbmlgwMuFfJapuzCfw9VQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="640" height="233" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4vZys0DdY-k/YcNKHc61V8I/AAAAAAAAvIA/RPwY5ZAqRjM9TbmlgwMuFfJapuzCfw9VQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> In those days, the 1st-born of each family served as priest, but because of the loyalty of the Levites during the incident of the Golden Calf, they replaced the first born of everyone. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EeHnpa0f_Es/YcNKWJXUIxI/AAAAAAAAvIE/OJJGfGo2D5ctUjiiI7-X8g1kJSnFCJOagCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EeHnpa0f_Es/YcNKWJXUIxI/AAAAAAAAvIE/OJJGfGo2D5ctUjiiI7-X8g1kJSnFCJOagCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="302" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Each family of Levites was assigned specific duties connected with the transport and assembly of the parts of the future Temple in the wilderness. The family of Aaron was singled out for service as priests within the Temple-to-be (as a temporary site, referred to as the Tabernacle.) </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijZwebX1DbdFITXDp_Bsyqs8KJVlf8du2jBSyX79pVPMVH_AAE9xoANmICAz4Z_lUpoDs1sSMtkyxyaXQ2QU3doTqnMG5MRzDxP8PtaLI-piAC3dzPdIZRYEc7xlHllGpXvwCyohXz0O8z1zM5CaRjfGGAFkIu_3Yx2EkHOpsN7T9X-N0v-hPf3Hm3=s400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijZwebX1DbdFITXDp_Bsyqs8KJVlf8du2jBSyX79pVPMVH_AAE9xoANmICAz4Z_lUpoDs1sSMtkyxyaXQ2QU3doTqnMG5MRzDxP8PtaLI-piAC3dzPdIZRYEc7xlHllGpXvwCyohXz0O8z1zM5CaRjfGGAFkIu_3Yx2EkHOpsN7T9X-N0v-hPf3Hm3=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Bon Voyage party before moving to Israel to teach</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After the conquest of Canaan, the Levites were enjoined to teach the Torah to the people, being therefore excluded from any territorial inheritance but receiving 48 towns with their environs throughout the country, as well as a tithe of the agricultural produce. This arrangement worked somewhat differently to practice. Daniel, above, finally became a high school history teacher, and he was amazing at it in Oregon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Lll0FGri0LQ/YcNKi91ahZI/AAAAAAAAvIM/9X_fD5-gbn4wUaiftjMidIznqhfDI7kuwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="257" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Lll0FGri0LQ/YcNKi91ahZI/AAAAAAAAvIM/9X_fD5-gbn4wUaiftjMidIznqhfDI7kuwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="315" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rUtxN2Np4Wk/YcM78FVTS5I/AAAAAAAAvHw/pdsWdNQAvT0bvIwQTub2Tx-qvLzH0K0MwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="216" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rUtxN2Np4Wk/YcM78FVTS5I/AAAAAAAAvHw/pdsWdNQAvT0bvIwQTub2Tx-qvLzH0K0MwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="222" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Certain towns assigned to the Levites were only captured a long time after the conquest, or not at all, and there is no evidence to show how effective was the collection of tithes. Consequently, some of the Levites served at High Places, especially in the Northern Kingdom after Jeroboam had instituted independent worship. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iLGqC_dT9Oo/YcNMSgFgwqI/AAAAAAAAvI4/KJX8XBJkdws5Pg9BfLvtpje-brSwgcJhACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="304" height="350" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iLGqC_dT9Oo/YcNMSgFgwqI/AAAAAAAAvI4/KJX8XBJkdws5Pg9BfLvtpje-brSwgcJhACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h350/image.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">According to Chronicles at the very end of the Tanakh, when the Temple service was organized, traditionally by David, the Levites were divided into groups, each engaging in different work (singers, instramentalists, gatekeepers, assistants to the priests during the sacrifice, etc. Like the priests, every group was divided into 24 sections, each serving for a week at a time. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ytZUEiEZLAI/YcNKo1FMyDI/AAAAAAAAvIU/Vl0uev07oww1dbwN6wzxN83drBe6GXcqwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" height="284" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ytZUEiEZLAI/YcNKo1FMyDI/AAAAAAAAvIU/Vl0uev07oww1dbwN6wzxN83drBe6GXcqwCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h284/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Out of the tribe of Levi, with the Cohens being the direct line of Aaron, the Levites outnumbered the Cohens.They had become a 2nd-class priesthood. They got to read from the Torah <b>after </b>the Cohens. Temple-sacrifice privileges--at the very core of Jewish sacred ritual--were limited to the sons of the high priest Zadok (Cohens), whereas Levites became responsible for more mundane tasks such as day to day upkeep of the Temple, guarding the door, and transporting the Ark of the Covenant. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCaXmJVIV3OmpWtYiGXsoO0rvBHERg2RAY8ndtjTuVMYcappm97uyLmKEhNBey87n9g1UDbtK79KSOahFA9Hx0Sg3xr6ZKlZ6DOy--uzqMa3B09_QuTJERxg6GNJW3eKSoy-0_E1bmaGVT4WMPlweprMDzFrPSln6Ib376RjdE-C5_cXL-U2GfyjcH=s413" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="277" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCaXmJVIV3OmpWtYiGXsoO0rvBHERg2RAY8ndtjTuVMYcappm97uyLmKEhNBey87n9g1UDbtK79KSOahFA9Hx0Sg3xr6ZKlZ6DOy--uzqMa3B09_QuTJERxg6GNJW3eKSoy-0_E1bmaGVT4WMPlweprMDzFrPSln6Ib376RjdE-C5_cXL-U2GfyjcH=s320" width="215" /></a></div> Danny in Israel, teaching. Under Israeli pressure now in my painting. He's wearing the Israeli style prayer shawl. <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 2nd Temple times, the Priests outnumbered the Levites, and apparently shared their tithes. </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">In halakhah, </i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">or the law, the Levite is regarded as 2nd to the Priest, and has the privilege of having the Priest's hands before the latter blesses the people. They had less influence and prestige than the Cohanim. The Levite position was therefore ambiguous: of high status but impoverished, "priestly" but not high priests. Dan never felt impoverished in the status of a Levite but very proud to be one and took it seriously. Sadly, he died without being DNA tested. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XqUmp_0xBRk/YcNK-7b_wHI/AAAAAAAAvIg/kmMQc23dyPYbnU6_PN1Q9Rl9N_4lDHE_gCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="160" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XqUmp_0xBRk/YcNK-7b_wHI/AAAAAAAAvIg/kmMQc23dyPYbnU6_PN1Q9Rl9N_4lDHE_gCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, their responsibilities grew to include composition and performance of liturgical music, as well as teaching, administration and interpretation of Jewish law and ritual. These functions became especially important during the Hellenistic period and, long before the destruction of the 2nd Temple, helped steer Jewish worship away from the Temple and into the homes and new synagogues.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVHC5FhajgRXb06ShHKVrvPO-uetXJoH-mEJekdWeNHe5ryGgutq_aKd40j_GX_C3r7jx7e9OEfkyX7-Ax4d-P89ep9I8V3QHWdUFsAHwJfKeAc6jzurh89Vm5nhUSGXkk3JwHJ2CaTc8fTEXKCf12xJMa4UW1sz9VbJmpAyQba-GkprhxZQYB_V4j=s259" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVHC5FhajgRXb06ShHKVrvPO-uetXJoH-mEJekdWeNHe5ryGgutq_aKd40j_GX_C3r7jx7e9OEfkyX7-Ax4d-P89ep9I8V3QHWdUFsAHwJfKeAc6jzurh89Vm5nhUSGXkk3JwHJ2CaTc8fTEXKCf12xJMa4UW1sz9VbJmpAyQba-GkprhxZQYB_V4j=w200-h150" width="200" /></a></div></span><p></p><h2 class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q JYVBee" dir="ltr" id="h.5xs8aud4b5ls" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #37474f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="-1"><div class="CjVfdc" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" jscontroller="Ae65rd" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; pointer-events: all; position: relative;"> About R1a-Y2619 Ashkenazi Levites</div></h2><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: inherit;">According to a<a class="XqQF9c" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F13680527%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFVHfI0iU6sTFcRMIwRooaV9A-hHw" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a></span><span class="aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #475c66; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F13680527%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFVHfI0iU6sTFcRMIwRooaV9A-hHw" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2003 study</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: inherit;">, about <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">52% </span>of Ashkenazi men with a tradition of Levite descent belong to the<a class="XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/site/levitedna/origins/background-of-the-r1a-haplogroup" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; text-decoration-line: none;"> </a></span><span class="aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #475c66; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/site/levitedna/origins/background-of-the-r1a-haplogroup" style="background-color: #fcff01; box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; text-decoration-line: none;">R1a haplogroup</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: inherit;">. That haplogroup is less common among Ashkenazim without a tradition of Levite descent (and</span><span style="text-decoration-line: inherit;"> R1a-Y2619 men without a tradition of Levite descent are often able to determine from genealogical records or tombstones that their direct male line is in fact Levite</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: inherit;">). The haplog</span><span style="text-decoration-line: inherit;">roup </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: inherit;">is found only r</span><span style="text-decoration-line: inherit;">arely</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: inherit;"> among Sephardim (both Levites and non-Levites). </span></span></p><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Men belonging to this R1a cluster of Ashkenazi men have become known as R1a1a Ashkenazi Levites or, more recently, as R1a-Y2619 Ashkenazi Levites (Y2619 is a<a class="XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/site/levitedna/y-dna-basics" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; text-decoration-line: none;"> </a></span><span class="aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #475c66; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/site/levitedna/y-dna-basics" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; text-decoration-line: none;">single-nucleotide polymorphism ("SNP")</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> t</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">hat is shared by all R1a1a Ashkenazi Levites.) It is possible that the origin of this haplogroup comes from Khazaria. </span></span></p><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many Levites have been found to carry the <b style="background-color: #fcff01;">R-M17</b> haplogroup line, and it is now thought to have originated from Khazaria. The Khazar Empire stood to the east of the area of the Ashkenazi Jews, between the Dnieper and Volga rivers, and reached south into the modern nation of Georgia. Khazaria was established by Central Asian Turkic speaking people whose empire converted to Judaism when confronted that they were trading with Christians, Jews and Muslims, and so the Bulan or king actually chose Judaism and all followed. The people were no doubt Slavic and carriers of R-M17. We can't be sure, but it's a good possibility.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnQDxf9Qe8zCv-FHlSDnO0fr10ZU9TH3yzRfkbW8C1p9G13hoQ-isX3tpE4DZakXqWxNkjhOBOG4h4r_wE9HpYjVwRRvxiFffXLNMA8aEwZJZlWf9MNL9JXXceyfGOc8sOoEZQZt8EfdtEI5__Xo9qFCZwTifZnUVA57HlTLvy6AkLa_-7u01FAJLA=s259" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnQDxf9Qe8zCv-FHlSDnO0fr10ZU9TH3yzRfkbW8C1p9G13hoQ-isX3tpE4DZakXqWxNkjhOBOG4h4r_wE9HpYjVwRRvxiFffXLNMA8aEwZJZlWf9MNL9JXXceyfGOc8sOoEZQZt8EfdtEI5__Xo9qFCZwTifZnUVA57HlTLvy6AkLa_-7u01FAJLA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large; text-decoration-line: inherit;">Today, the tribe of Levi, made up of the Cohanim and Levites, is the only tribe left out of the 12 Tribes of Jacob, though one would have thought that it wound be the tribe of Judah! Why is that? Similar to the modern-day Cohanim, non-Cohen Levites are estimated to account for some 4% of the contemporary Ashkenazi community and somewhat less of the Sephardi population. They are found in synagogues all over the world. Remember, they were scattered among all the tribes, and didn't have their own plot of land. In more observant congregations, Levites continue to discharge their historical religious functions. While they no longer have occasion to enforce rectitude at sword point as they once did, in some congregations, they still wash the hands of the Cohanim before the contemporary "priests" deliver their blessings. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" class="placeholder" id="892567ceb90c" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/transparent.gif" style="background-color: #d8d8d8; background-image: url('https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/i/materialiconsextended/insert_photo/v6/grey600-24dp/1x/baseline_insert_photo_grey600_24dp.png'); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; opacity: 0.6;" /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0pV2BD4g9pjiai0tjTmjbUlxtNE_iV0QFdRN5QfAo0O-423YsiUjyfFqsw0sX-fOFoN06ySUxhpw10iDrQQflpoCcPSxr2T5dD9NEf25sKv4kArsR1ctEjcAfC0h_mwtZafKN1aOeQYnWSlp-sI7H-29dwyOzIIa0l8k1_DF2569exPP_r-cAWXhv=s275" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0pV2BD4g9pjiai0tjTmjbUlxtNE_iV0QFdRN5QfAo0O-423YsiUjyfFqsw0sX-fOFoN06ySUxhpw10iDrQQflpoCcPSxr2T5dD9NEf25sKv4kArsR1ctEjcAfC0h_mwtZafKN1aOeQYnWSlp-sI7H-29dwyOzIIa0l8k1_DF2569exPP_r-cAWXhv" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In my experience, I have 3 DNA matches of the Y haplogroup E-L117, father and son, with son being very musical, a pianist, and another being a musician, playing the clarinet in his band. Could they also be Levites? Or could this just be coincidence? I wonder about the Cantors of Judaism? How many of them are Levites? </span></p><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One would think that the general public of Jews, who are called the Israelites, would be the group who suffered the most in the Holocaust, being the remainder of the tribe of Judah, not counting the Cohens and Levites. Jews remaining are only 0.02% of the world population. Jews make up 2% of the USA population. </span></p><p class="CDt4Ke zfr3Q" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6667; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We're a very small group that should be protected, yet we still suffered from anti-Semitism. We're a group made smaller on our own as well by marrying outside out faith and assimilating., as well. We also have a 3rd danger of our own people turning against us in their desire to be liked by their own peer group; self-hating Jews. Sometimes I think they're out biggest danger. </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Resource:</p><p><span style="color: red;"><b>Updated</b></span> with title: 12/29/2021, 10pm Pacific Time</p><p>https://sites.google.com/site/levitedna/home </p><p>Book: Jacob's Legacy : A Genetic View of Jewish History</p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-2545897966167260342021-01-01T17:08:00.003-08:002021-01-01T20:11:31.775-08:00Rabbi Lipman's Opinion of A Promised Land's Overview of Israel by Barack Obama<p>Rabbi Dov Lipman </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZ6mWLINGw/X-_EmOqOAqI/AAAAAAAAl-w/1RPRhVSBHi4zFB_oVE5RVHXBSwb25I9gACLcBGAsYHQ/s160/download.jpg%2BRabbi%2BDov%2BLipman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="120" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZ6mWLINGw/X-_EmOqOAqI/AAAAAAAAl-w/1RPRhVSBHi4zFB_oVE5RVHXBSwb25I9gACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/download.jpg%2BRabbi%2BDov%2BLipman.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> <em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px;">American-born Rabbi Dov Lipman made aliyah in 2004 and served as a member of the Knesset in 2013-15.</em> </p><p>An article that agrees with my feelings and facts that Obama has been besmirching Israel . Obama wrote in his book of around 700 pages, <b>A Promised Land</b>, about Israel. Here's what a rabbi thought of it. I have felt that Obama was not a backer of Israel, and saw this on his last day in office when he did not back Israel in the UN vote. That was quite blatant. Nadene Goldfoot</p><div class="byline" id="byline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">By Rabbi Dov Lipman</div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I have never criticized former President Barack Obama publicly — neither during my time in the Knesset nor anywhere else — despite my having disagreed with many of his policies. I am of the strong opinion that Israelis should not engage in or interfere with American politics, and I regularly offer a blanket thank you to all American presidents, including Obama, for their economic and military support for Israel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">However, his memoir, “<b>A Promised Land</b>,” </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">is filled with historical inaccuracies</span><span style="background-color: white;"> that I feel the need to address. His telling of Israel’s story (at the beginning of Chapter 25) not only exhibits a flawed understanding of the region — which clearly impacted his policies as president — but misleads readers in a way that will <b>forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Obama relates, for example, </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">how the British were “occupying Palestine” when they issued the Balfour Declaration calling for a Jewish state. But labeling Great Britain as an “occupier” casts doubt on its legitimacy to determine anything about the future of the Holy Land, <b>and that wasn’t the situation.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">While it is true that England had no legal rights in Palestine when the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, that changed just five years later. </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">The League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations, gave the British legal rights over Palestine in its 1922 “Mandate for Palestine,” which specifically mentions “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The League also said that</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> “recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The former president’s <b>noted omission</b> of the <b>internationally agreed-upon mandate for the British to establish a home for the Jews in Palestine</b></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> misinforms the reader, who will conclude that the movement for a Jewish state in Palestine had no legitimacy or international consent.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">“Over the next 20 years, Zionist leaders mobilized a surge of Jewish migration to Palestine,” Obama writes, </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">creating the image that once the British illegally began the process of forming a Jewish state in Palestine, Jews suddenly started flocking there.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The truth is that Jews, who maintained a continual presence throughout the 2,000 years that most were exiled from the land, <b>had already been moving to Palestine in large numbers way before then;</b> considerably <b>more than 100,000 immigrants arrived in the late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.</b> </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">Then, in the 1920s, high numbers fleeing anti-Semitism in Europe could only find safe haven in Palestine due to the United States having instituted quotas in 1924 on the number of Jews who could enter America. The number of immigrants rose even more in the 1930s when Adolf Hitler came to power.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Historical context is important, and once Obama chose to write about the history, he should have provided the full context and portrayed the Jews as they were: </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">a persecuted and desperate people searching for safety,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">not, as he implies, strong conquerors flooding into Palestine.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">His </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">claim that the new immigrants “organized highly trained armed forces to defend their settlements” is also misleading</span><span style="background-color: white;">. A more accurate way to describe it would have been: </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">“Because the Arabs in the region mercilessly attacked the Jewish areas, the Jewish refugees had no choice but to take up arms to defend themselves.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Acknowledging that the Arabs were attacking Jews before there was even a State of Israel is important historical context for understanding the Israeli-Arab conflict.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">“A Promised Land” recounts, as well, how the United Nations passed a partition plan for Palestine in November 1947, by dividing the country into a Jewish and Arab state, which the </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“Zionist leaders,</span><span style="background-color: white;">” as he calls them, accepted, but to which the “Arab Palestinians, as well as surrounding Arab nations that were just emerging from colonial rule, strenuously objected.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17.6px;">Obama’s use of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #fff2cc; font-size: 17.6px;">“Zionist leaders”</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"> instead of </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: 17.6px;">“Jewish leaders”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"> plays right into the current international climate, in which</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: 17.6px;"> it is politically correct to be “anti-Zionist,” while unacceptable to be anti-Jewish.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> (In reality, Zionism is the movement for Jews to live in their biblical and historic homeland, so being against that actually is anti-Semitism, but that’s for another discussion.)</span></b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The description of</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> “Arab nations that were just emerging from colonial rule”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> is</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> a clear attempt to justify the Arab refusal of the UN Partition Plan.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Those poor “Arab nations” that have been <b>suffering</b> due to outsiders colonizing their “nations” simply could not accept another “colonial” entity, the Jews, entering the region.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">But the truth is that with the exception of Egypt, which was not colonized, <b>none </b>of the neighboring countries that rejected the partition plan had been established states before World War I.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Yes, the post-war mandates of the <b>League of Nations</b> gave control in the region to the British and the French for a few decades, </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">but this was in place of the Ottoman Empire that had controlled the region for centuries</span><span style="background-color: white;">. Thus,</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> the image of countries emerging from long-standing colonial rule as a subtle attempt to justify their objection to the Partition Plan is simply <b>false.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Obama tells the story of the establishment of the State of Israel in two sentences, which are nothing short of outright revisionist history: “As Britain withdrew, the two sides quickly fell into war. And with Jewish militias claiming victory in 1948, the state of Israel was officially born.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Wow. I don’t even know where to begin.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">The two sides didn’t “fall into war”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> when Britain withdrew; the two sides had been fighting for decades, with the Arabs — who rejected more than half-a-century of efforts to establish a Jewish state in the region — attacking the Jews, and the Jews defending themselves. When the British then left the area in May 1948, the Jews made a very difficult decision to declare their independence based on the UN Partition Plan, which gave the right for a Jewish state alongside an Arab state.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">There were no “Jewish militias claiming victory.”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> There was a unified Jewish army that formed the Israel Defense Forces, which knew that the surrounding Arab countries would begin an all-out assault to destroy Israel the moment its Jewish leadership declared an independent fledgling Jewish state. And that is exactly what the Arab armies did. The new State of Israel fought off that assault for months, emerging in 1949 both weak and fragile.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Obama’s perspective on formation of the State of Israel </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">no doubt affected foreign policy regarding the Jewish state.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> If one sees Israel as a colonial force occupying the land as a result of its armed militias, then it will be treated as an outsider that wronged others to establish itself as a state.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The most disingenuous sentence of Obama’s history of Israel is in his description of what happened during the 30 years following Israel’s establishment: </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“For the next three decades, Israel would engage in a succession of conflicts with its Arab neighbors </span><span style="background-color: white;">…”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">What? I had to read that sentence many times because I could not believe that a president of the United States could write such misleading, deceptive and damaging words<b> about his country’s close ally.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;">Israel did not <b>“engage”</b> in any conflict with the surrounding Arab countries. </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">The Arab armies and their terrorists attacked Israel again and again, and Israelis fought to defend themselves.( my comment: 1947-9, 56, 67, 73, etc, etc.always defensive) </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">• • •</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>straightforward history of Middle East wars involving Israel yields this basic truth. Facts are facts, and the former president’s misrepresentation of Israel as a country that sought conflict instead of peace — one that willingly engaged in wars with the Arabs —</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> does an injustice to peace-seeking Israel and riles up anti-Israel sentiment.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Obama’s description of the 1967 Six-Day Way continues this revisionism: “A greatly outnumbered Israeli military routed the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. In the process, Israel seized control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Here </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">he fails to address what led up to the war, when all those Arab armies gathered along Israel’s borders and declared their intention to wipe it off the map.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;">He doesn’t describe Israel’s pleading with Jordan not to enter the war, nor that Jordan altogether had no legal rights to the West Bank, which it occupied in 1948 and annexed against international law in 1950.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;">Most significantly,</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"> Obama </span><b style="font-size: 17.6px;">fails to mention</b><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"> Israel’s willingness, immediately after the war, to withdraw from all the areas that it won in its defensive battle in exchange for peace; and by extension, </span><b style="font-size: 17.6px;">he also fails to tell of the Arab League’s “Three No’s” </b><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">in response to that offer: </span><span style="font-size: large;">no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">This omission <b>serves once again to portray Israel as the aggressive occupier that seeks conflict and not peace.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">The former president continues with another <b>outright falsehood</b>, which helps give insight into his policies regarding Israeli settlements in the West Bank.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The “rise of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)” was a “result” of the Six-Day War, he writes. That makes it seem like the Palestinian liberation movement, including its violent and murderous attacks against Israelis, </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">was only a result of Israel’s taking control over the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">It </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">strengthens the message that if only Israel would vacate these areas, there would be peace between Israel and the Palestinians.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> This is what </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">spurs leaders around the world to suggest that<b> Israeli settlements </b>in these areas are the obstacle to peace in the region.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">But there is one flaw with this story and logic. <b>It’s not true.</b> </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">The PLO was established in 1964, three years before Israel was in control of any of those “occupied” areas and three years before there were any settlements.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">What exactly was this Palestinian organization liberating at that time?</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> Is there any conclusion other than the liberation of the Jewish state in its entirety? What other option could there be?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is why the <b>“Free Palestine”</b> movement chants, </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">They are against the existence of Israel anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. They see such a state as a colonial enterprise with armed militias grabbing the land of others, just as Obama leads readers to believe when describing the formation of the state.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The </span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">false description </b><span style="background-color: white;">of the PLO rising after 1967 </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">serves the narrative that the “occupation” and the settlements are the cause of the conflict, and this, no doubt, had a direct impact on Obama’s “not one brick” policy, including freezing settlement construction, in an effort to bring about peace between Israel and the Palestinians.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Obama describes the <b>failed Camp David accords of 2000</b>, in which former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians more than 90 percent of what they were asking for. “Arafat demanded more concessions, however, and talks collapsed in recrimination,” he writes. </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">But the talks didn’t simply “collapse.” Sixty-six days later, Arafat unleashed the Second Intifada, in which 1,137 Israeli civilians were murdered and 8,341 were maimed by Yasser Arafat-funded terrorists who blew themselves up in Israeli buses and cafes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Don’t trust my word on this.<b> Mamduh Nofal, former military commander of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,</b> revealed that following Camp David, </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">“Arafat told us, ‘Now we are going to fight so we must be ready’.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">In addition, Hamas leader<b> Mahmoud al-Zahar </b>said in September 2010 that in the summer of 2000, as soon as Arafat understood that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">all</em> of his demands would not be met,</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> he instructed Hamas, Fatah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to begin attacking Israel. </span><span style="background-color: white;">And <b>Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef</b>,</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> has verified that the Second Intifada was pre-planned by Arafat.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Not only does </span><b style="background-color: #01ffff;">Obama fail to accurately connect</b><span style="background-color: white;"> the </span><b style="background-color: white;">Second Intifada </b><span style="background-color: white;">to Arafat’s not receiving everything the Palestinians asked for at Camp David — demands that would have prevented Israel from being able to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism —</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"><b> but he seems to place the blame for the intifada on Israel.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">He describes the September 2000 visit of Israel’s opposition leader and subsequent prime minister, <b>Ariel Sharon,</b> to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> “provocative” and a “stunt” that “enraged Arabs near and far.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">But Obama </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">neglects to mention that Sharon only visited there after Israel’s Interior Ministry received assurances from the security chief of the Palestinian Authority that no uproar would arise as a result of the visit. In fact, Jibril Rajoub, head of Preventive Security in the West Bank, confirmed that Sharon could visit the sensitive area as long as he did not enter a mosque or pray publicly, rules to which Sharon adhered.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Even more incredibly, Obama describes the Temple Mount as “one of Islam’s holiest sites,” </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">making no mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism. (This is where the 1st Temple of King Solomon stood, and the 2nd Temple was a rebuilt 1st on the same spot.) </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">• • •</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">An innocent reader who is unfamiliar with the region and its history reads this and concludes that it was simply wrong for a Jewish leader to walk onto a Muslim religious site. On the other hand, if he or she knew that it is the holiest site for Jews, then they would more likely wonder why there was anything wrong with Sharon’s having gone there — </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">except Obama omits that part, leading anyone to conclude that Sharon was in the wrong.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">That omission, together with the exclusion of Arafat’s plans for the intifada right after negotiations at Camp David failed, would lead one to conclude that Israel was responsible for the five years of bloodshed during the Second Intifada.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Obama’s history lesson continues with the tension between Israel and Gaza. Remarkably, he makes zero mention of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"><span style="font-size: large;">when Israel pulled out all of its troops from the strip while forcing 9,000 Jewish citizens to leave their homes.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Anyone reading the president’s description of the wars between Israel and Hamas </span><span style="font-size: large;">would never know that Israel no longer “occupies” Gaza, and that the Palestinians have been free to build a wondrous “Israeli-free” Palestinian state there for the last 15 years. That omission is glaring.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Finally, Obama’s</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> misleading words describing Israel’s response to Hamas rocket fire on its civilian population only serves to inflame and incite anti-Israel sentiment worldwide. That response, he writes, included “Israeli Apache helicopters leveling entire neighborhoods” in Gaza — Apache helicopters that he identifies as coming from the United States, </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">a subtle or not-too-subtle questioning of whether the United States should be providing Israel with military aid if it is used in this manner.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">More importantly, what does he mean by</span><b style="background-color: white;"> “leveling entire neighborhoods,”</b><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> other than to imply that Israel indiscriminately bombs Gazan neighborhoods, willfully murdering innocent people? And what human being wouldn’t be riled up to condemn Israel for such inhumane activity?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The problem is that it’s false.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel</span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"> targets terrorist leaders</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">the rockets</span><span style="background-color: white;"> that they fire into Israeli cities. Tragically, </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Hamas leaders use innocent Palestinians as human shields</span><span style="background-color: white;"> by hiding behind them in civilian neighborhoods, and by launching rockets into Israel from there and from hospitals and mosques.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel does its best not to kill innocent people</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;">, even airdropping leaflets announcing an imminent airstrike, and calls off missions to destroy rocket launchers or kill terrorist leaders when there are too many civilians in the area. Israel most certainly does not launch retaliatory attacks that aimlessly “level” entire neighborhoods.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">I have no problem with criticism of Israel. We can debate the issues in intellectually honest discussions, and in the end, we may have to agree to disagree about Israel’s policies. </span><span style="font-size: large;">But no one should accept a book that is filled with historical inaccuracies that invariably lead innocent and unknowing readers to reach false conclusions. Such a devastating book has real-life ramifications and consequences.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It is terribly disappointing. I surely would have expected truth, accuracy and fairness from Barack Obama, America’s 44th president. But the falsehoods and inaccuracies in this memoir only feed the theory that Obama was, in fact, anti-Israel. Now, through “A Promised Land,” he seeks to convince others to join him.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">American-born Rabbi Dov Lipman made aliyah in 2004 and served as a member of the Knesset in 2013-15.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">In July 2004, the Lipman family </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah" 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; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Aliyah">immigrated to Israel</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">,</span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"> and moved to </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet_Shemesh" 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; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bet Shemesh">Bet Shemesh</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"> where Lipman taught in post-high school yeshivot and seminaries Yesodei HaTorah, Machon Maayan, Tiferet and Reishit Yerushalayim. He had to renounce his dual citizenship as he could not serve on the Knesset otherwise. </span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Resource:</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: PT Serif, serif;"><i>https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/on-israel-obamas-promised-land-is-seriously-fact-flawed-telling-a-dangerously-misleading,20065</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: PT Serif, serif;"><i>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Lipman</i></span></span></p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-20792962831519082052021-01-01T11:12:00.010-08:002021-01-01T11:37:20.112-08:00Arson on New Year's Eve At Congregation Beth Israel Temple<p> Nadene Goldfoot </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6z_RAvV6lmk/X-9wgQJGW1I/AAAAAAAAl-k/lzvCoMy1LdADLoeSdnZKiNwDBnzDX_k9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s259/download%2B%252812%2529.jpg%2BTemple%2BBeth%2BIsrael.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="479" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6z_RAvV6lmk/X-9wgQJGW1I/AAAAAAAAl-k/lzvCoMy1LdADLoeSdnZKiNwDBnzDX_k9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h479/download%2B%252812%2529.jpg%2BTemple%2BBeth%2BIsrael.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Last night on New Year's Eve </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">or the night before, </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">around 9:10 pm, a fire started in Congregation Beth Israel Temple in their educational building on the grounds. This was in NW Portland, Oregon. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Portland Police and the Fire Dept. are investigating it which might be an anti-Semitic act. This was at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">1900 block of Northwest Flanders Street.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">"<span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.45px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; color: #222222;">After the flames were extinguished, fire investigators </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.45px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222;">determined the fire appeared to be intentionally set</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.45px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Police say they have no information at this point that the blaze is related to anti-Semitic activity and are seeking help from the public in their investigation."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">KPTV has it happening on the night before, the 30th of December. According to Fox 12, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Police say there is no information that this fire may be the result of bias-related activity, but they add it is concerning that a fire was intentionally set near a place of worship."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Yes, it's very concerning to the Jewish Community as well. Synagogues are favorite targets of anti-Semites. It has happened many times in the USA. Unless wiring in the building was the problem, what other reason is there? </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">If anyone has information about this case, they're asked to contact PPB Detectives or PF&R Fire Investigators.</span></p><p>Resource:</p><p>https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Authorities-investigating-suspicious-fire-at-15839916.php</p><p>https://www.kptv.com/news/police-fire-investigators-looking-into-fire-at-jewish-center-building-in-portland/article_edf6df9a-4bc7-11eb-84d1-430937fdcbda.html</p><p><br /></p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-90818858054114048512020-12-16T12:44:00.001-08:002020-12-16T17:42:26.421-08:00During Syria's Civil War Days in 2011-2014 and Israel's Hospitals<p> Nadene Goldfoot </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FpDTZcaPBpA/X9pqcAdxORI/AAAAAAAAlkk/wC941M5KnhAZY-OmsXJR9-lN3JzSIC6VwCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/surgeons-binocular-lenses-operate-patient-600w-1334708669.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="600" height="448" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FpDTZcaPBpA/X9pqcAdxORI/AAAAAAAAlkk/wC941M5KnhAZY-OmsXJR9-lN3JzSIC6VwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h448/surgeons-binocular-lenses-operate-patient-600w-1334708669.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Neighbors but enemies, that was the situation between Syria and Israel in 2014 and it remains so. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then, the Syrian public had been fed the line that Israel wanted to kill all Syrians, wanted to murder them all! Truth was that terrorists came from Syria to kill Jews of Israel. After 3 years of a bloody war on the border with the Syrians, Israel saw Syria in a Civil War with other factions. Israel wound up providing medical aid to Syrians at the border. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Syrian civil war was an ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combination, starting on March 15, 2011. </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: large;">Over the course of the war, a number of peace initiatives have been launched, including the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_peace_talks_on_Syria_(2017)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Geneva peace talks on Syria (2017)">March 2017 Geneva peace talks on Syria</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: large;"> led by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United Nations">United Nations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, but fighting has continued.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's even more of a threat to Israel with Hezbollah terrorists.</span></span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QX6RZt00uaA/X9prlreTloI/AAAAAAAAlk4/H8AafuIre4kax0IQiN0-WR63ZXKza83ogCLcBGAsYHQ/s822/245192.webp%2BNetanyahu%252C%2Binjured%2BSyrian.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="822" height="418" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QX6RZt00uaA/X9prlreTloI/AAAAAAAAlk4/H8AafuIre4kax0IQiN0-WR63ZXKza83ogCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h418/245192.webp%2BNetanyahu%252C%2Binjured%2BSyrian.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Netanyahu visiting injured Syrian treated by IDF</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Some Israeli NGOs also provided humanitarian aid across the border to refugee camps in Jordan, as some 600,000 Syrians had fled to Jordan and the Jordanian kingdom's financial and social welfare systems now were under enormous strain, as they had been overwhelmed by the previous wave of Iraqi refugees. Turkey and Bulgaria had also become refuge centers for Syrians, and a few had gone to Egypt as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> In 2013, Israel had opened a new neurosurgical department at the hospital near the border which was the only one in northern Israel at that time. Syrian wounded, mostly combatants and also civilians began arriving at Israel's Western Galilee Hospital, and the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, and Rambam Hospital in Haifa and the smaller regional Poriya Hospital near Tiberias. The most serious patients went to the one nearest the border. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-44spAyDpkPQ/X9pqzWl6tfI/AAAAAAAAlks/-rs9SkwFU3Y26HJtaGSlVUixqywJwZ11wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/IMG-VOF-70557.jpg%2Benemy%2Binjured%2Btaken%2Bto%2BIsrael%2Bhospitals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-44spAyDpkPQ/X9pqzWl6tfI/AAAAAAAAlks/-rs9SkwFU3Y26HJtaGSlVUixqywJwZ11wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG-VOF-70557.jpg%2Benemy%2Binjured%2Btaken%2Bto%2BIsrael%2Bhospitals.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The new neurosurgical department after a few months found that 20% of the patients in the neurosurgical department were Syrians. By June 2014, the hospital had treated 250 Syrian war wounded, most with horrendous trauma with head injuries showing there had been attempted execution-style shootings and attempted machete beheadings. One patient arrived with his whole lower jaw missing and was illiterate so couldn't write. 17 hours of surgery by doctors rebuilt his jar from part of a leg bone. Injured Syrian women and children were also being treated.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Syria had 120,000 dead and more homeless suffering from disease and injuries and no treatment. In the beginning of the conflict, the Syrian government made it illegal for Syrian doctors to give medical care to anyone who supported the opposition. Many doctors became targets. Almost half of Syria's doctors, about 15,000 had fled the country. About 60% of their hospitals were destroyed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The city of Aleppo, Syria had 1,171 doctors. The opposition took this city. 292 doctors were left by last September 2013. Just outside Damascus in Aghota, only 30 doctors out of 1,000 remained. All other medical personnel escaped as well. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Refugees didn't make a bee-line for Israel but got to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey and Egypt. Then word was out that they could find aid in Israel. They coordinated with the IDF and how they did it remains a secret. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It was early in 2013 and the first 7 wounded Syrian fighters arrived at the Golan Heights border with Syria. Medical ethics in the army is clear; the IDF doctors gave them help. Then all the IDF wound up helping Syrians who had been taught to hate Israelis, and here they were, receiving medical aid from them! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They had taken almost 1,000 Syrians into Israeli hospitals with some 450 treated at the IDF field hospital-like in MASH, The IDF were even protecting their patients from Katyusha rockets fired into northern Israel from Lebanon by Hezbollah. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">At the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, a Syrian mother watched as a medical clown performed for her wounded daughter who was receiving treatment there. What she must have wondered; the female clown looked really clownish! <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCnrpWQlnk&vl=en</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"In this world, we hope that someday there will be peace, but now we are "enemies." said Dr. Salman Zakar of the IDF field hospital. "For them, it is being told that we, the enemy, are Satan and then seeing how suddenly it is not true. They see professional, ethical people who are doing everything they can for them."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In June 2016, from the territory of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Golan Heights">Golan Heights</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli-occupied territories">occupied by Israel</a> since 1967 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Golan Heights Law">annexed</a> in 1981, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israeli military</a> began <i>Operation Good Neighbor</i>, a multi-faceted humanitarian relief operation to prevent starvation o</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">f Syrians who live along the border and provide basic or advanced medical treatment.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The aid consisted of medical care, water, electricity, education or food and was given to Syrians near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Line_(ceasefire_line)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Purple Line (ceasefire line)">ceasefire line between Israel and Syria</a>, often escorted across by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israeli soldiers</a>. Over 200,000 Syrians received such aid, and more than 4,000 of them were treated in Israeli hospitals from 2013 to September 2018. Many of the treated victims were civilians, often children. Allegations have been made that some were rebel fighters from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Free Syrian Army">Free Syrian Army</a>. This theory is supported by the claim that Israel had a strategic interest in aiding the rebels; they fought against both <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIL" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="ISIL">ISIL</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Iran">Iranian</a>-allied forces.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">All Israeli doctors follow the Hippocratic oath. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">The Hippocratic </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">Oath</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"> is one of the oldest binding documents in history. Written in antiquity, its principles are held sacred by </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">doctors</b><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white;"> to this day:</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> treat the sick to the best of one's ability,</b> preserve patient privacy, teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqLuc4UiNMk/X9pxFokLhII/AAAAAAAAllE/EcX_RQeTGSMgLARyWIffERbDNPOdkPjbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s242/th.jpg%2Bdoctors%2Bat%2Bfence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="242" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqLuc4UiNMk/X9pxFokLhII/AAAAAAAAllE/EcX_RQeTGSMgLARyWIffERbDNPOdkPjbwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/th.jpg%2Bdoctors%2Bat%2Bfence.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">At the border of Israel and Syria, people will see the IDF doctor</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It's sad for the doctors when they do their best and must let the patients return to the battlefield as they request. They most likely will not get any follow up care and might again be wounded. "What we are seeing here is an indiscriminate lack of respect for human life." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Syria's total population now is estimated at 18,000,000 with 16,000,000 being Muslims. That's 87% Muslims. They had a population in 2011 of 22,505,000 and 90% Muslims and were the 17th largest Muslim country. Israel now has 8,424,904 population with 1,516,482 Muslims in their population. Muslims make up 18% of Israel's population. There are no known Jews left in Syria. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Resource:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Jerusalem Report, June 16, 2014</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/the-region/treating-the-enemy-354474</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_role_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War</span></p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-32028088973405479592020-11-08T14:15:00.008-08:002020-11-08T16:34:21.095-08:00What AIPAC and J Street Stand For Concerning Israel <p>Nadene Goldfoot </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-971RrpJZypM/X6heOLjiwCI/AAAAAAAAk6M/mgDsMQ9CzC84Mv7TNyezgJXdkDbwdPFwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/22horowitzWeb-articleLarge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="600" height="404" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-971RrpJZypM/X6heOLjiwCI/AAAAAAAAk6M/mgDsMQ9CzC84Mv7TNyezgJXdkDbwdPFwwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h404/22horowitzWeb-articleLarge.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We all know that anti-Semitism is very strong everywhere right now and AIPAC has been receiving the attacks. "</span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">Progressive groups are demanding that Democratic presidential candidates, who in past cycles might have rushed at the chance to address such a large and engaged crowd, stay away. At least six, including <b>Senator Kamala Harris, </b>who </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="http://www.policyconference.org/article/transcripts/2017/harris.asp" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">addressed the conference in 2017</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">, have said they would comply. (New York Times). </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Od5hZABTxBo/X6hraX1trAI/AAAAAAAAk6w/x1Sh5vQWWJEnSHTvWIdTtxls3C8AuUP1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s722/kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-aipac-722x537.jpg%2B2017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="722" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Od5hZABTxBo/X6hraX1trAI/AAAAAAAAk6w/x1Sh5vQWWJEnSHTvWIdTtxls3C8AuUP1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-aipac-722x537.jpg%2B2017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">It was a shock to read this,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> "<span style="font-family: "Droid Serif", "Libre Baskerville", Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">In her very first foreign policy vote in January 2017, for instance,</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Droid Serif", "Libre Baskerville", Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> Harris sided with President Trump in criticizing the outgoing President Obama’s refusal to veto an otherwise-unanimous, very modest, and largely symbolic UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements.</span><span style="font-family: "Droid Serif", "Libre Baskerville", Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> Among other things, that resolution reiterated previous Security Council calls for Israel to stop expanding its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, which violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and a landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice." This has been my point of contention with Obama. He voted against Israel on his last day in office in this UN decision. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: start;">Harris highlighted the co-sponsorship in a 2017 </span><a href="https://youtu.be/McK8bPR8pzU" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">speech</a><span style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: start;"> at AIPAC’s policy policy conference, saying it would help “combat anti-Israel bias at the United Nations and reaffirm that the United States seeks a just, secure and sustainable two-state solution.”</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white;">While considering him a close friend, Biden has not shied away from criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has joked </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">about not agreeing with “a damn thing” the premier says.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Harris on the other hand has yet to publicly spar with Netanyahu, who several democratic candidates went as far as to call him a “</span></span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gives-restrained-response-after-sanders-calls-him-a-racist/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">racist</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: start;">.” Harris's husband is Jewish. (</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Douglas Emhoff is an American lawyer and the husband of U.S. Senator and vice president-elect of the United States Kamala Harris. He is set to become the first Second Gentleman of the United States.)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: left;">Asked about the prime minister’s plans earlier this year </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: left;">to annex large parts of the West Bank,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: left;"> Harris </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZ6dHDxIno&feature=emb_title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: left;"> Pod Saves America last year that she is “</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: left;">completely opposed” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: left;">to the move and would “express that opposition.” However, she avoided calling out Netanyahu by name.</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><b style="color: #202122;">American Israel Public Affairs Committee</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">(</span><b style="color: #202122;">AIPAC</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap" style="color: #202122; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" 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="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></span>/</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" 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="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">AY-pak</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">) founded in 1963, is a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_group" 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="Advocacy group">lobbying group</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">that advocates <b>pro-</b></span><b><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; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israel</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b>policies</b> to the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" 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="United States Congress">Congress</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States#Executive_branch" 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="Federal government of the United States">Executive Branch</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">of the United States. The current president of AIPAC is Betsy Berns Korn. </span></span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;"> Aipac was never the big spender its antagonists claim. Its total lobbying expenditures in 2018 came to </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000046963&year=2018" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">$3.5 million</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">, which doesn’t even put it in the top 50. (Realtors spent </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2018&indexType=s" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">$72.8 million</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">.) Instead, Aipac depends on grassroots organizing in every state. It is built on people power.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">One of several </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_lobby_in_the_United_States" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel lobby in the United States">pro-Israel lobbying organizations</a><span style="background-color: white;"> in the United States, AIPAC states that it has over </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">100,000 members</span><span style="background-color: white;">, 17 regional offices, and "a vast pool of donors." Representative </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Sherman" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Brad Sherman">Brad Sherman</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">D</a><span style="background-color: white;">-</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="California">California</a><span style="background-color: white;">) has called AIPAC "the single most important organization in promoting the U.S.-Israel alliance." In addition, the organization has been called one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States. The group does not raise funds for political candidates itself, but its members raise money for candidates through </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Political action committee">political action committees</a><span style="background-color: white;"> unaffiliated with AIPAC and by other means. </span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;">AIPAC is not a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" 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="Political action committee">political action committee</a> and does not donate to political candidates.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Its critics have stated it acts as an agent of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_government" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israeli government">Israeli government</a> with a "stranglehold" on the <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> with its power and influence. AIPAC has been accused of being strongly allied with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Likud">Likud</a> party of Israel, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> in the U.S., but an AIPAC spokesman has called this a "malicious mischaracterization." </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> described the perceived differences between AIPAC and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="J Street">J Street</a>:</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> "While both groups call themselves bipartisan, AIPAC has won support from an overwhelming majority of Republican Jews, while </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">J Street is presenting itself as an alternative for Democrats who have grown uncomfortable with both Netanyahu's policies and the conservatives' flocking to AIPAC.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"</span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">"J Street</b><span style="background-color: white;"> is a nonprofit <b>liberal</b> advocacy group based in the United States whose stated aim is to </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">promote <b>American</b> <b>leadership</b> to end the Arab–Israeli and Israeli–Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically</span><span style="background-color: white;">. J Street was incorporated on November 29, 2007. It is believed that George Soros was behind its beginnings and helped financially." Being that they are a very liberal group, I doubt very much if they were backers of Trump, who ran on the Republican ticket. Trump has been the president during 3 Muslim states making peace with Israel by moving their embassies to Jerusalem and a Christian state in Africa; a first since Israel's birth on May 14, 1948.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">J Street does support political parties financially. "</span></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #171717; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.32px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Contributed 40 percent of all pro-Israel money to US congressional campaigns</span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #171717; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.32px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Raised over $3 million in political giving in 2016</span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #171717; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.32px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Endorsed 110+ Congressional candidates, including </span><b>more than half of the Democratic caucus</b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #171717; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.32px;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #171717; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZ9i3hqe9Ys/X6hhIEIt4kI/AAAAAAAAk6Y/5O4lWvVnnTwDTA663MM0t4NRRDR2HEgvQCLcBGAsYHQ/s920/1202579133.jpg.0.webp%2BJared%2BKushner-peace%2Bplan.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZ9i3hqe9Ys/X6hhIEIt4kI/AAAAAAAAk6Y/5O4lWvVnnTwDTA663MM0t4NRRDR2HEgvQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1202579133.jpg.0.webp%2BJared%2BKushner-peace%2Bplan.webp" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #171717; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.32px;">Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law-has worked on the plan for the past 3 years.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Asked what J Street thinks about Trump's peace plan, they said, "</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; font-family: "Conv_Gotham Narrow Light"; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">We need to be clear: This is a “two state solution” in name only, just as it is a “peace plan” in name only." I take it they did not approve. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">J Street's goals say that "the contours of a workable negotiated outcome that would be broadly supported by both peoples are well known. Various initiatives by the parties and others have spelled out the principles and even many of the the details of such a resolution, including President Clinton’s parameters in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert’s proposal in 2008, the offer by Arab states and the Palestinians in 2013 to adjust and negotiate based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, and the official US principles put forward by Secretary of State Kerry under President Obama in 2016."</span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">J Street believes that Israel’s capital is in Jerusalem and will be internationally recognized as such in the context of an agreed conflict-ending resolution, through which the majority-Jewish areas of Jerusalem are recognized as the capital of Israel and </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #171717; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><b>Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem become the capital of the future Palestinian state."</b></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">"J Street believes the next US administration should reinstate an independent US diplomatic mission to the Palestinians in East Jerusalem that is physically and institutionally separate from the US Embassy.</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #171717; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><b> While the next administration is likely to keep the US Embassy in Jerusalem, it could offset much of the harm caused by the Trump administration’s move by declaring that it is the intention of the United States, upon the achievement of a negotiated resolution to the conflict, to open an embassy in East Jerusalem to the Palestinian state."</b></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The U.S. diplomatic presence in Jerusalem, first established in 1844, was designated a Consulate General in 1928. In March 2019, the U.S. Consulate General was merged into U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. As part of U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, (</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">the Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU) operates out of our historic Agron Road property to promote our overarching strategic objective of achieving a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> It happens to be in the heart of Jerusalem. </span></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">AIPAC has maintained high leve</span><span style="background-color: white;">ls of participation from Democratic and Republican lawmakers. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">AIPAC describes itself as a bipartisan organization,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and the bills for which it lobbies in Congress are always jointly sponsored by both a Democrat and Republican.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">AIPAC's supporters claim its bipartisan nature can be seen at its yearly policy conference, which in 2016 included both major parties' nominees—Democrat</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_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; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and Republican</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">—as well as high-ranking Democrats, including former</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_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; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States Senate">senator</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">(both of whom ran for president in the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries">2020 Democratic presidential primary</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">),</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and high-ranking Republicans, including</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan" 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: verdana; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">."</span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KvFY7a_3t8w/X6hl7_e5VQI/AAAAAAAAk6k/tcexrA0kJRkACXC8JdPner13A78UWS1GACLcBGAsYHQ/s346/Jeremy_Ben-Ami_2019.jpg%2BFOUNDER%2BOF%2BJ%2BSTREET.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="272" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KvFY7a_3t8w/X6hl7_e5VQI/AAAAAAAAk6k/tcexrA0kJRkACXC8JdPner13A78UWS1GACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Jeremy_Ben-Ami_2019.jpg%2BFOUNDER%2BOF%2BJ%2BSTREET.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Jeremy Ben -Ami, one of founders of J Street, became President </span><p></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worked under Bill Clinton as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Policy_Council" 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; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Domestic Policy Council">Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy</a></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">"J Street was created to serve as the </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #171717; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">political home and voice for pro-Israel, <b>pro-peace Americans</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">. The views of the majority of American Jews were previously underrepresented and ignored in our politics. We’re changing that, and in the process transforming our national conversation about what it means to be pro-Israel. We advocate and engage on every level – in Washington, in political campaigns, in our communities and on campuses." </span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #171717; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">If they are advocating Israel's viewpoints on campuses, they're not doing so well, as campuses are the hotbeds of anti-Israelis. BDS is doing well on campuses. </span></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">J Street endorsed the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action">nuclear disarmament deal with Iran</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, which Obama supported and Netanyahu and AIPAC opposed.</span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">The feelings between Israel and J Street have not been like Israel and AIPAC. </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">According to Nathan Guttman, "J Street and its supporters have never made a secret of their opposition to Netanyahu and his policies."</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">But on October 22, 2009, then–opposition leader of the Knesset,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipi_Livni" 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; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tzipi Livni">Tzipi Livni</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">, sent a letter congratulating J Street on its inaugural event. She said she would not be able to attend but that</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadima" 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; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kadima">Kadima</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">would be "well represented" by</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Sheetrit" 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; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Meir Sheetrit">Meir Sheetrit</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Molla" 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; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Shlomo Molla">Shlomo Molla</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">, and</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Ramon" 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; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haim Ramon">Haim Ramon</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space: nowrap;">" Kadima is closer to J Street's ideal than </span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space: nowrap;">other Israeli parties. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; white-space: nowrap;">It's left of others. </span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Israeli Embassy stated that <b>Ambassador </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oren" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Michael Oren"><b>Michael Oren</b></a><span style="background-color: white;"> would not attend J Street's first national conference </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">because J Street supports positions that may "impair" Israel's interest.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Oren continued his criticism after the conference, telling </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Judaism" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Conservative Judaism">Conservative</a><span style="background-color: white;"> rabbis meeting in Philadelphia that</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> J Street "is a unique problem in that it not only opposes one policy of one Israeli government, it opposes all policies of all Israeli governments.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> It's significantly out of the mainstream."</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Rosenthal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hannah Rosenthal">Hannah Rosenthal</a><span style="background-color: white;">, head of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_to_Monitor_and_Combat_Anti-Semitism" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism">Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism</a><span style="background-color: white;"> in the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Obama Administration">Obama Administration</a><span style="background-color: white;">, criticized Oren, saying his comments were "most unfortunate."</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">After several American Jewish groups criticized Rosenthal, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States Department of State">U.S. State Department</a><span style="background-color: white;"> said that "Rosenthal has the complete support of the department."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street#cite_note-44" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">In April 2010, <b>Oren</b> had a meeting with J Street Executive Director <b>Jeremy Ben-Ami </b>to discuss the issues.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> After leaving his role as Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and campaigning for an MK position in the Knesset, <b>Oren</b> described his view as follows: </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"We have to understand that people who aren't anti-Israel have criticisms of specific Israeli policies. We have to show greater flexibility on the peace issue. Israel is willing to go a serious distance on peace</span><span style="background-color: white;">."</span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Resource:</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://jerusalemspirit.com/?utm_source=gs&utm_campaign=us100&gclid=Cj0KCQiAy579BRCPARIsAB6QoIZrVKUwYReVlm2qNYpYdH_cIeL3HjVY98fgBq_fBez2AMGIpPt1_RoaAuwcEALw_wcB</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://jstreet.org/policy/jerusalem/#.X6hayWhKiUl</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://il.usembassy.gov/palestinian-affairs-unit/</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/opinion/aipac-2019.html</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street#:~:text=Political%20vision,-J%20Street's%20stated&text=J%20Street%20%22recognizes%20and%20supports,sovereign%20state%20of%20their%20own%22.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://fpif.org/more-aipac-than-j-street-kamala-harris-runs-to-the-right-on-foreign-policy/</span></span></p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-41549947212690879742020-10-29T11:23:00.038-07:002020-11-09T08:19:41.378-08:00Learning Arabic at Lincoln High School<p> Nadene Goldfoot </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_WETo6zbAY/X6lkmaZyHZI/AAAAAAAAk7A/xDVGshG8nn45LLFjxgymKmSNBTjGMtQRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s299/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg%2BArabs%2Bin%2BIsrael%252C%2Bplaying%2Bsheshbesh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_WETo6zbAY/X6lkmaZyHZI/AAAAAAAAk7A/xDVGshG8nn45LLFjxgymKmSNBTjGMtQRwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg%2BArabs%2Bin%2BIsrael%252C%2Bplaying%2Bsheshbesh.jpg" width="640" /></a> <span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">Arabs in Israel playing my favorite game, Sheshbesh (Backgammon) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">Israel has about 1.4 million Arab citizens who have all the rights as Jews do in this very tiny state. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BpoVm_jf9VA/X6lqhB8BklI/AAAAAAAAk7s/NkWWPFCc4Kofo_839POYW5visb6pOIHCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s687/borders.gif%2Bdistance%2Band%2Bpre-1967%2Barmistice%2Blines.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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BpoVm_jf9VA/X6lqhB8BklI/AAAAAAAAk7s/NkWWPFCc4Kofo_839POYW5visb6pOIHCwCLcBGAsYHQ/w357-h640/borders.gif%2Bdistance%2Band%2Bpre-1967%2Barmistice%2Blines.gif" width="357" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> Israel is bordered by Judea and Samaria, heavily populated with Muslim Arabs of Fatah, former PLO terrorists, as well as Gaza's Muslim Hamas terrorists. Both Hamas and Fatah have joined up for one purpose, to drive Israel into the sea, or in other words, to destroy Israel and make it a Muslim state. This was confirmed at their meeting in Africa in Khartoom in 1967 after the Six Day War of 67. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The fight from the Muslims is coming in all way; rockets and missiles raining down from Gaza into southern Israel as well as the "Palestinians" getting into the UN through UNESCO and attempting to use this group to destroy the Jewishness in Israel. To this day, Hamas continues to rain rockets on Israel. </span><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>(I wrote this several years ago way before COVID 19 when I heard about it but didn't publish.) </i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">It had been using some Arab high-schoolers from Israel before COVID 19 to go into American high schools and spread their hateful propaganda against Israel. </span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-42h_aMscc38/X6lrY8gRhBI/AAAAAAAAk70/JpHBqGDEQfw6WHrYi_dXEqE2ffkBhOSrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/jpeg.jpg%2BDAM%252C%2Bhip-hop%2Bgoup%2Bof%2BPalestinians.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-42h_aMscc38/X6lrY8gRhBI/AAAAAAAAk70/JpHBqGDEQfw6WHrYi_dXEqE2ffkBhOSrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/jpeg.jpg%2BDAM%252C%2Bhip-hop%2Bgoup%2Bof%2BPalestinians.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Lincoln High has experienced such a program through the </span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Qatar Foundation International</b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">, who has sponsored DAM, a three brother rap group's visit to the high school. It was at first found to be presenting to only the Arabic language class, then was found to spread to other classes as well as in a student assembly given on November 4th and again that evening at a concert sponsored by Portland State University's Middle East Studies Center. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> They also included a film apart from their rapping depicting Israel as an Apartheid, fascist state. </span> Marcia Weiss, a Lincoln parent and JFGP board member as well as Becky Davidson, a Wilson High School student, co-president of the Jewish Student Union at Wilson, </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">agreed that anyone not understanding the issues in Israel would be swayed by DAM's opinions.</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Even the teachers and principal at Lincoln seem to not understand. </span><em style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I personally feel that Cain would do a better job of understanding Israel's situation than he did with Libya. </em><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The group used rap to show their dislike of being treated like someone different in Israel like having to show ID at certain places. <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">They neglected to admit that everyone, Jew and Arab must do this and they were not alone.</span> This is due to the terrorism that has occurred and must happen in order to protect all citizens. I myself had to show the contents of my purse and bags when I went into any store from 1980-1985. They hate to speak in Arabic on buses and get angry if people look at them for it. Otherwise, they do blend into society, not being different in other ways. </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ubQnmOxQ6N0/X6lp6OAyWOI/AAAAAAAAk7g/ujl-0AHb36YrrFbwtZ18PKHpjmmeYrO5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s259/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ubQnmOxQ6N0/X6lp6OAyWOI/AAAAAAAAk7g/ujl-0AHb36YrrFbwtZ18PKHpjmmeYrO5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">They neglect to mention that signs all over in Israel are in 3 languages; Hebrew, Arabic and English. They shouldn't feel oppressed but may from the influence of their parents, and of course, Hamas. Their lyrics are crossing a line to hate. What they present is an extreme and mendacious portrait in which Israelis are Nazis. They think that Jews murdered by terrorists is what they deserve. Their differences, though small, are being played on by Hamas, I'm sure, whose goals are well known in wanting to destroy Israel and who rain missiles on southern Israel constantly. The only reason they haven't hit the rest of Israel is because they haven't procured the missiles that can reach that far-yet. </span></p><p><span><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The school principal and the superintendent of schools so far see nothing wrong in bringing this group to the school while much of the Jewish community including their children are upset by it. Lincoln High, formerly heavily populated by Jewish students as it is the school within the borders of the old Jewish neighborhood of South Portland, now have Jewish students afraid. The non-knowledgable teaching community feel they are just giving students the opportunity to hear another perspective on a controversial issue, the Israel-Palestinian conflict to young students completely uneducated in the points. </span></span></p>Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-24928395946860052522020-08-31T11:26:00.000-07:002020-08-31T21:36:13.720-07:00Portland, City of Roses; Now City of Riots-95 Days, Looting, Fires, Broken Windows<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By August 29, one man was shot and killed in downtown Portland as dueling demonstrations; one a pro-Trump car caravan, and another-a counter-protest mounted by various opposing groups--unfolded late Saturday. Portland police said the man was shot around 8:45pm near SW 3rd Avenue and Alder St. The agency didn't say whether the incident was related to the demonstrations or not. </div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Here's the Portland Police Report on what's been happening to our City of Roses, Portland, Oregon.</span><span style="font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">###PPB###<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-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">Individuals within a protest gathering set an arson fire at the offices of the Portland Police Association (PPA) building Saturday morning, prompting a riot declaration.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">On Friday, August 28, 2020 at about 11:45p.m., a march began from <b>Peninsula Park</b> in the street. Many in the gathering were wearing protective gear, including helmets, goggles or gas masks, <b>all black clothing</b>, and/<b>or carrying shields</b>. Marchers arrived at about 12:10a.m. to the PPA building, in the 1800 block of North Lombard Street. They blocked traffic both directions. Someone cut the power line to the building almost immediately.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /> <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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Portland gained national attention this week when the head of Homeland Security toured the vandalized <b>Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, the federal courthouse </b>in downtown Portland.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Acting secretary of Homeland Security </span><b style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Chad Wolf</b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"> said "the City of Portland "has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob." Note the graffiti on the wall. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span>The <b>PPA office</b> has been the site of numerous violent protests over the past few months, and protesters have lit the building on fire several times. It is located in a residential neighborhood and there is concern that any building fire could spread to occupied homes, especially during the current stretch of dry weather.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">About 10 minutes later, individuals wheeled multiple dumpsters into the road and lit at least one on fire. The fire was in the road and not threatening any structures. In the interest of deescalating the situation, Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers remained out of sight. However, arsonists put some debris, including a large mattress, against the front door of the building, appeared to spray accelerant on it, and lit it on fire. The flames appeared to engulf the front door area of the building and nearly reach the roofline. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">Due to the extreme life safety concerns, the Incident Commander declared the incident a riot.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;"> A warning was broadcast by loudspeaker that the incident was declared a riot and </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">all persons were to disperse immediately to the north</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">. Failure to comply with the order may subject them </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">to citation or arrest </span><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">to the use of tear gas, crowd control agents, and/or impact munitions</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /> <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;">Portland Police Union President call for end of all this</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">Officers responded and moved the rioters away from the building so the fire could be extinguished. As officers approached, </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">rioters threw objects at them, including rocks.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">Multiple officers suffered minor injuries after being struck by rocks</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">. During the response, officers used crowd control munitions. However, no CS (tear) gas was deployed.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">There was fire damage to the front of the PPA building (photos). </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">Officers also recovered a bottle that contained flammable fluid</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;"> (photo). An arson investigator responded and gathered evidence of the crime.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;" /> <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="background-color: white; font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif;">Officers made multiple arrests. Information about the arrests will be released at a later time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "questrial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">A Goodman family member <i>(remember Doug Goodman of a parking lot in downtown Portland?-good friend of Sam Arnstein, both in AZA)</i> wrote to city mayor Ted Wheeler about what's happening:</span></span><br />
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have attached an article from a recent </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/08/18/insurer-moves-employees-from-downtown-portland.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e6d9d;">Business Journal relating to Standard </a></span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/08/18/insurer-moves-employees-from-downtown-portland.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e6d9d;">Insurance, </a></span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/08/18/insurer-moves-employees-from-downtown-portland.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e6d9d;">the largest private business in downtown Portland, moving their </a></span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/08/18/insurer-moves-employees-from-downtown-portland.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e6d9d;">employees to their Hillsboro campus for safety reasons.</a> </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A larger number of </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">businesses are moving out</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of or locating outside of the Central City. These </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">companies include, Daimler Chrysler </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(subleasing 100k SF), AirB&B, Banana</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Republic, Microsoft (80k SF, plus permanently </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">closing their retail store),</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saucebox, etc.. Google, who leased 90k SF</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in the Macy's building has stopped construction</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of their improvements. The list goes on and on.</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> If you know a retail or office broker, give them</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a call and ask them how many clients they</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> have are </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">trying to leave. The number is like</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> nothing I have seen in 42 years of doing</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> business</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in downtown.</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their departure has absolutely </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nothing to do with Black Lives Matter movement</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(which has been a positive), but does have </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">most everything to do with the </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> lawlessness </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you are endorsing downtown. You are doing </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an excellent (job) of </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">enabling people who</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> don't know or care about George Floyd</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to ransack our city</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> at the expense </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the people you are trying to help.</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Think how many jobs have</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> been lost by</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> people of color in our </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">city, not through protest, </span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but from vandalism. I would make the case</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> that your actions have hurt those</span></em><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> you have intended to </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">help.</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I would</span></em></span><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> encourage each of you to walk around</span></em><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">downtown Portland in the </span></em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;">morning.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;"> Name the time and I will give you a tour.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> You aren't sweeping the</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> streets, needles </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">are all over the place, garbage cans </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">are broken and left open,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> glass from</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> car windows that have been broken </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">out is all over the streets, parks are </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">strewn with litter (their fountains </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">turned off) weeds are taller than</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the plants </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the planter boxes,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> graffiti is on sculptures, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;">etc.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;"> You are willfully neglecting </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">your</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> duties</span></em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> as elected officials to keep our city safe and clean.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">Joe Biden have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">been accusing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;"> one another </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">over violence that has erupted </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">at protests </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">in Portland, Oregon. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">A man linked to a </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">right-wing group </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;"> was killed on Saturday, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">as elsewhere in the city a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">pro-Trump </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">rally clashed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;"> with Black Lives Matter </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">protesters. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">Mr Trump called participants </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;"> rally "great patriots" and blamed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;"> the city's Democratic </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;"> mayor for the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">unrest.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">But Mr Biden accused the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;"> president of encouraging the violence.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53962363</i></div>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>https://www.kptv.com/news/walking-tour-what-portland-looks-like-now-after-protests/article_5f4881d8-c894-11ea-84d1-9ba7f0652166.html</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/08/21/major-downtown-property-owner-urges-city-council-to-address-the-lawlessness-you-are-endorsing-downtown/</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=261151</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/1-person-shot-killed-near-downtown-portland-protests-saturday.html</i></span></div>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-89573731197620943612020-04-05T01:48:00.001-07:002020-04-05T16:52:48.319-07:00We Are People OF Our History: Take a Look At Passover<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;">Eating matzos during 8 days of Passover; no regular bread<br />this is unleavened; flour and water only.<br /><br />Here we see Jewish children under 6 at a special dinner called a Seder<br />designed as a teaching lesson about the Exodus. At the table is a textbook called a Haggadah that tells the story. The food you see plays a part that reminds us of certain events and facts. We will recite these facts. Our youngest child is to ask 4 questions about it: Why is this night different? Why do we eat bitter herbs on this night? Why do we dip the herbs twice when we never do this? Why, tonight, do we all recline when we sat up straight?<br />We learn that there are 4 types of children: an intelligent one, a wicked one, a simple one and one still too young to ask questions.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A child's personality and makeup are cre</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ated by the time they are 6 years old.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It only takes that long to develop inherited and learned personality traits, and we are set for life. Luckily, some bad traits can be redefined with the help of a good psychologist, but so much of us affects the genes we inherit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to be good or bad traits. Whether we were fortunate enough to have wonderful, intelligent parents or the type that were child-beaters, sometimes our genes outweigh and save us under even the harshest of horrible conditions of our environment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So it is with nations and the people within. The world's population since cave man has been under attack at different periods of time. I often feel so lucky to have been born in 1934 after WWI and all preceding it into a modern world to wonderful parents. My original inbred shyness has been remodeled to become an outgoing teacher with her classes. Was it my paternal grandmother who was shy? Was it my mother? How is it that my Jewish ancestors have suffered so much in this world? Has it always been so? Why do the Arabs hate Israelis so much? Why do some nations continually attack others? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the beginning of the birth of Judaism, Jews have found themselves in hot water. Christians can read about the Jews' history and have been doing so since the history of Jesus in about 37 CE; that is for the past 2,000 years at least. The Greek Syrians and then the Romans occupied Jerusalem in c 312 BCE and took over the Temple until the Romans burned Jerusalem down in 70 CE. We first read about it in our story of Chanukah with the eternal light returning to the Temple that lasted for 8 days and nights instead of one night. With that final blow, Jews were massacred while most others escaped to all parts of the world. We were then in what was called the Diaspora, and found we were not accepted, for our</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> religion was so different. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Old Testament in Deuteronomy 14:2 states: <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"For you are a holy people to the Lord your G-d, and the Lord has chosen you to be his own treasure out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth." </span> In other words, originally, G-d chose the Jews as his favorite. Because of this, the rest of the Christians must have felt a lot of jealousy. In fact, some Protestant groups insist that they have replaced us and we are no longer special. Well, as Tevia said in "Fiddler on the Roof," "Ha Shem, why couldn't you have picked someone else?" What is the "Old Testament?" "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Old Testament</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (abbreviated </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">OT</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">) is the first part of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_biblical_canons" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christian biblical canons">Christian biblical canon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, which is based primarily upon the twenty-four books of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (</span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222;"><b>or Tanakh</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">), a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israelites">Israelites</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Authorship of the Bible">Word of God</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. " We believe that the 1st 5 books in it were written by Moses himself. Moses gave the Jews (the Israelites) 613 laws to follow in order to be molded into very special and moral people in order that they would be the light of the nations; the example of good behavior. Moses saved these people from 400 years of living in Egypt of which most was spent in slavery-servitude to the Egyptians. All who were these slaves followed Moses to freedom of which we celebrate with the upcoming holiday Wednesday night of Passover. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hillel, a 1st century BCE also called, "The Elder"; a scholar,<br />founded a school "House of Hillel"<br />Born in Babylonia, settled in Eretz Yisrael (Judah) , was a laborer working<br />with his hands while studying with well-known teachers-Shemaiah and Avialyon, just before the time of Jesus. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Second most famous Jewish words comes from the original teachings of Torah and is called the Golden Rule written by Hillel who said simply, "Don't do to others what you don't want to happen to you." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The ancient Hebrews, as Israelites came to be called because they spoke Hebrew, were the 1st to base their life as a nation under Kings Saul, David and Solomon on the idea of One G-d, the G-d of all nations and all peoples. In a very real sense, the ancient Hebrews were also "chosen" to bring this message to the world. The most famous lesson was the Ten Commandments. Just think, laws are made to fix things and make them better. We have the law of wearing seat belts when driving, and this was to keep people from being killed in an accident. The Ten Commandments are found in Deut. 4:13;10:4, etc proclaimed by G-d on Mt. sinai and transmitted through Moses to Israel. This is considered the fountainhead of all the other laws. They are given in Exod. 20:2-14 The 1st 5 describe man's duties to G-d, and the last 5 his responsibilities to his fellow-man.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i><b> An example</b></i>: 1. Belief in G-d; 2, Prohibition of idolatry; 3. Prohibition of vain oaths, 4. The Sabbath, 5.Honor your father and your mother, so that your days will be lengthened upon the land that Hashem, your G-d, gives you. 6: "You shall not kill; 7. you shall not commit adultery; Prohibition against kidnapping-meaning stealing... you shall not steal; 9. you shall not bear false witness against your fellow, 10. you shall not covet your fellow's house, You shall not covet your fellow's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your fellow. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So, in our beginning, we were a people who were strong and free with Abraham as our founding father reaching back as far as 1948 BCE or in the 2nd millennium BCE who through his son Isaac and then his son Jacob, wound up during a famine and migrated to Egypt which was our only choice available at the time. From there our story began. Since then we have felt the slings, arrows, stones and bullets, rockets, and missiles real and of hatred from so many; Crusaders, Spanish Inquisition, on and on to the Holocaust, and now the Arabs in the Middle East. For over 3,000 years we have believed in one G-d and the need of our moral compass given to us by Moses to be a compassionate and good people, only to find we are not acceptable in this world. If Moses were to return to earth today, he would recognize much of the Torah, the Hebrew language, and many of the traditional teachings of our people. Empires have come and gone since his time here, but ours continues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">That makes our history unique. Since we have so often been ruled by those who sought to destroy us and they are gone and we remain makes it striking: like the Hellenizers of Ptolemaic rule and then the Seleucids, the surrounding kingdoms of Israel, Philistines and Phoenicians. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">During our history we have changed the life and thought of humanity, bringing to the world ideals of equality, decency, and morality which, however imperfectly carried out, are the driving forces of today's civilization."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We see the world as good, believing that G-d has a plan for the universe, a plan in which each of us plays a part. No individual is hopelessly evil. Every person can choose to do good, and in that way help perfect the quality of life on earth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>And it shall come to pass in the end of days,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>That the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the top of the mountains,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>And He shall judge between the nations,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>And their spears into pruning hooks;</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>Nation shall not lift up sword against nations,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>Neither shall they learn war anymore, </i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Resource:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My People --Abba Eban's History of the Jews, adapted by David Bamberger</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Passover Haggadah with a new translation by Chaim Raphael</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia</span></span></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-3336271257270130812020-03-31T11:23:00.000-07:002020-04-01T10:12:12.551-07:00The World of Moses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to the Jewish timeline, Moses was born in 1391 BCE and died at the age of 120 in 1271 BCE. That was 3,411 years ago in Egypt. He was born to the slaves Jochebed and Amram of the tribe of Levi in Egypt. Israelites had wandered into the Egyptian land many years ago and at this period in time, the Egyptians had become worried about their increased growth and had solved the way to stem it. They had decreed the slaughter of all new-born males of Israelites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jochebed hid her baby Moses among the reeds of the Nile River where he was found by the Pharaoh's daughter who raised him in her own household as a prince. When he grew up and learned of his ancestry, he took a great interest in them and wound up killing an Egyptian overlord who was beating a Hebrew slave and knew that he himself had to flee or be killed for it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He fled Eastward to Midian, which was a Beduin tribe related to the Hebrews where he survived by becoming a shepherd of sheep for the local priest, <b>Jethro</b>, and even married his daughter, <b>Zipporah</b> who gave him two sons, <b>Gersham</b> and <b>Eliezer</b>. The Midianites would travel in caravans of incense from Gilead to Egypt and later to other countries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The strange thing is that later on in the desert period, the princes of Midian cooperated with Moab against Israel, and even later on conducted a plundering expedition against the Valley of Jezreel, repulsed by the Hebrew,<b>Gideon</b> during the period of the judges. They lived near the <b>Moabites</b> and <b>Edomites</b>. From the 2nd Temple times of 539 BCE, the Land of Midian was thought to be located in <b>NW Arabia</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The miracle of Judaism lies in remembering and celebrating this event which was the foundation of Judaism, for Moses became the lawgiver for Judaism, though he never knew the name, Judaism, for that was the name of the last of the 12 tribes of Jacob, grandson of Abraham, the tribe of Judah. They are the ones who carried on the laws of Moses for about the past <b>3,293 years. </b> To be able to want to do this shows us how powerful an event this had been. That's why we read about it every year since then and remember it in our holiday of Passover where we reenact it at our table of special foods with the unleavened bread called matzos that we eat for 8 days in replacement of leavened (with yeast) bread. We suffer in this way like our ancestors who were led by Moses to freedom of slavery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, of that time was not remembered by his name. Pharaoh means the "Great House", referring to their royal palace. People have been guessing since then which pharaoh it was who decreed killing babies to control populations. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thutmose IV's rule is significant because he established peaceful relations with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mitanni">Mitanni</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> and married a Mitannian princess to seal this new alliance. Thutmose IV's role in initiating contact with Egypt's former rival, Mitanni, is documented by </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letter" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Amarna letter">Amarna letter</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">EA 29</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> composed decades later by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tushratta" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tushratta">Tushratta</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">, a Mittanian king who ruled during the reign of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Akhenaten">Akhenaten</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">, Thutmose IV's grandson. Tushratta states to Akhenaten that:"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pharaoh Menkheperure <span style="background-color: yellow;">Thut<b>mose</b> IV 1400-1390 BCE</span><br />Probably he was the pharaoh that Moses and Aaron, his brother, had to deal with. Moses is said to have been born in 1391 BCE, the year before his ended.<br /><br />" Little is known about his brief ten-year rule. He suppressed a minor uprising in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nubia">Nubia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in his 8th year (attested in his Konosso stela) around 1393 BC and was referred to in a </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stela" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stela">stela</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> as the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">Conqueror of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Syria" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ancient Syria">Syria</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> but little else has been pieced together about his military exploits. Betsy Bryan, who penned a biography of Thutmose IV, says that Thutmose IV's Konosso stela appears to refer to a minor desert patrol action on the part of the king's forces to protect certain gold-mine routes in Egypt's Eastern Desert from occasional attacks by the Nubians."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first dynasty of pharaohs goes back far more than Moses does. Moses was quite recent in Egyptian history. They started having kings in 3,150 BCE or <b style="background-color: yellow;">5,170 years ago.</b> The pharaoh we are interested in was not of the old kingdom or the middle kingdom but of the New Kingdom who reigned from 1400 BCE to 1390 BCE and that was Thutmose IV.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> He was the son of Amenhotep II and ruled at the height of Egypt's power. This was a period of the rulers of the 18th dynasty. <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;">Or, it could have been the next king who was Amenhotep III, who ruled from 1390 BCE to 1350 BCE and was the grandfather of Tutankhamun. He was the son of Thutmos IV. Remember, Moses was born in 1391 BCE, the year before Amehotep III's rule. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Notice that the intelligence of the Egyptians at this time could only fathom how to draw profiles but not a full face or even a three-quarter face, yet they could draw the front view of the body. I remember going through that period as a young child in trying to draw the back of the head showing the hair. I think this is a sign of their mental development. We teachers of primary grades could understand a child's intelligence by a drawing test called "DRAW A MAN TEST." i gave points for each part of the drawing. Naturally, a stick figure was pretty low in age development. Yet their ability to use clay and such in creating statues was remarkable for even us today. It could be they just preferred this artistic style. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Torah, First 5 books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus,<br />Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy; in Hebrew<br />called: Bereishis, Shemos, Veyikra, Bamidbar and Devarim;<br />read every Saturday (Shabbat) morning in a synagogue<br />out loud to congregation in Hebrew, starting with the Cohens,<br />then the Levites, then the Israelites. A man will know if he is<br />a Cohen or a Levite, information passed on through the centuries.<br /> </span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Compare this with the information given to Moses in laws through G-d. Not only that, but the whole story of Moses is amazing. How about the 10 plagues brought onto the Egyptians as a result of Pharaoh's refusal to permit the Israelites to leave the country after being there for 400 years? They were:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. water of the Nile turning to blood; 2. frogs all over the place, 3. lice attacking man and beast; 4. flies (tsetse) or wild beasts; 5. murrain affecting the cattle (mad cow disease?)(anthrax)(any infectious disease) 6. boils; 7. heavy hail; 8. locusts devouring crops; 9. 3 days of darkness; 10. death of 1st-born of man and beast. Part of our Seder tells about this every year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since Moses, we have the return of Jews to Palestine causing the birth of modern Israel on May 14, 1948. In Israel, orthodox Jewry reign. There are very few Conservative and Reformed Jews living there. The opposite is true of the USA. In 2016 it was found that Conservative and Reform outweigh Orthodox Jews 5 times over. I must add that after living in Haifa and then Safed for over 5 years, one cannot help but become orthodox in their beliefs. You are living and breathing in the air that does things to you. Seeing and living in the paths of ancient people of the bible causes one to have goosebumps. I myself changed from just teaching to become a writer and producer and actress in my own plays. I wouldn't have done that in the states. In Israel in 1980 you were a pioneer, and called upon all your resources in helping to achieve anything. Moses called upon G-d. Or was it that actually G-d called upon Moses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The laws Moses gave us that shaped Judaism are upheld the most in Israel where it all began. There are 613 laws total we are to follow, most of which are done normally anyway today. We can certainly appreciate our ancient laws of food and sanitation, like washing our hands, etc, in these modern days of the Corona pandemic. In fact, that was where we were in trouble many times living in other countries when a plague hit. They would die and Jews may have lived through it, thought to have brought it about. The Arabs are trashing us with this ancient accusation right now from Gaza. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will miss our family seder during Passover this year due to the Pandemic virus, and hope that all stay safe during this time. We will attempt to do what we can in order to remember this time and look forward to doing a bang up job of it next year to help our children to remember. Samayach Pesach, everyone!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resource: The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/15/unlike-u-s-few-jews-in-israel-identify-as-reform-or-conservative/">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/15/unlike-u-s-few-jews-in-israel-identify-as-reform-or-conservative/</a><br />
Honest Reporting: <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato" , "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We are already seeing antisemites trying to </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit;">blame Jews and Israel for the coronavirus</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato" , "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, journalists </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit;">accusing Israel</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato" , "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> of being isolationist or even </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit;">racist</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato" , "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> by limiting entry into the country, and of course there’s media bias related to non-virus issues, like Israel’s democracy, borders and security. (4/1/2020)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato" , "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moses-Hebrew-prophet">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moses-Hebrew-prophet</a></span></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-74354026027666558962019-11-10T14:21:00.001-08:002019-11-10T14:21:24.488-08:00The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: An Epic Miracle For Our Times-from Rabbi Sharon Shalom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">That title was quite a mouthful and the word “falashas” was a misnomer, for it is a pejorative term for Jews applied to the them by their hostile Christian and Muslim neighbors. The correct name is the <b>Beta Yisrael</b>. Indeed “falasha” means pigs in the Amharic language of Ethiopia.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Despite its long winded name, our committee, under the auspices of World Ort, did much good work in helping to move the beginning stages of rescuing our black Jewish brothers and sisters from persecution. The Jewish villages were mostly in the area of <b>Gondar</b>, in what geographically is known as the <b>Mountains of the Moon</b> in central Ethiopia.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">This was a time when the overwhelming world Jewish population had little or no knowledge of their fellow Jews in Ethiopia. Their coreligionists who had languished in isolation for some 2,700 years and who in that long expanse of time never forgot their yearning to return to Jerusalem and to the ancestral and Biblical Jewish homeland of Israel.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-43994597329369673312018-11-30T09:03:00.004-08:002021-09-08T08:32:36.782-07:00Our Male haplogroups and when they were developed, Oldest to Youngest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The study of<u> Population Genetics </u>which can tell us so much about our DNA history is amazing. Here is a chart below showing that the scientists have a method for naming the male haplogroup (Y haplogroup) carried only by males. They started with the oldest found as A, and then went through the alphabet; A through Q and R, which pertains to my family. The great fact is that males carry both the male line and the female line, so they are the people to be tested for haplogroups. Women only carry the female haplogroup. So if you want to know the haplogroup of your parents, get a brother to test for it or if you're a male, you get the test for both. Where haplogroups are known to start somewhere, it's usually from another older branch on the tree which is now different enough from the others to have it's own letter of the alphabet. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup)<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><span>A's </span></b>time line came 270,000 years ago</span>. It is found in men of Central Africa. Homo Sapiens started in Africa according to population genetics and have been leaving and going into Asia and then elsewhere since then.<br />
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<span><b>Q</b></span> happens to come from my paternal grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/foot b: 1871 through testing of his grandson, David Goldfoot with FTDNA. His haplogroup, tested now at the level of 111 alleles, is labeled as QBZ67. The Q tree he sits on started with Q-M242. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Q's started about 24,500 years ago</span>. We're almost newbees. (https://www.familytreedna.com/my/y-dna-haplotree). It started in Mongolia, Siberia and parts of Turkey.<br />
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<span><b>R</b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> haplogroup happens to be my mother's father's line (Robinson) tested by my mother's brother's son, a Robinson. At 67 alleles it was labeled as R1b1a2a1a1b4. Now it's been upgraded to be called R-L21. Another upgrade of the Big Y test makes it read as R-A1487. The R's are right alongside the Q's on the chart showing their development at about the same period. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">My son's Henwood line from testing 37 alleles was first called R1b1a2 or now as R-M269. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">R's started 27,000 years ago.</span> Western or Central Asia is where it all began and is covers a very large group. Also, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It is the most frequently occurring paternal lineage in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Western Europe">Western Europe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, as well as some parts of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Russia">Russia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (e.g. the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirs" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bashkirs">Bashkir</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> minority) and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Central Africa">Central Africa</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (e.g. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Chad">Chad</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">). </span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The clade is also present at lower frequencies throughout </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Western Asia">Western Asia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, as well as parts of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="North Africa">North Africa</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="South Asia">South Asia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. R1b also reaches high frequencies in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Americas">Americas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Australasia">Australasia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, due largely to immigration from Western Europe. There is an ongoing debate regarding the origins of R1b subclades found at significant levels among some </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous peoples of the Americas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, such as speakers of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algic_languages" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Algic languages">Algic languages</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in central Canada[reference needed].</span></span><br />
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<span><b>J1 </b></span>and J2 are found in the Cohens who are a major large group of Jews today and come from Aaron, brother of Moses. It started in Western Asia. They are found towards the middle of this chart who showed up in our history with Aaron, who was a little older than Moses (1391-1271 BCE). (see below), which is a little more than 3,000 years ago. It's been found that most Cohens, people with this title as a surname, or actual Cohens serving in this capacity in the synagogue which is divided into the Cohens, Levites and Israelites, are J1 or J2. I just found out that a Hochfeld has been a Cohen in the synagogue all his life, and just recently had been tested. Sure enough, he was a <b style="background-color: yellow;">J1, also labeled as J-M267. </b> Fathers have been telling their sons that they are Cohens and what the duties are that are expected of them. Evidently it's worked through this oral tradition, handed down from Aaron well over 3,000 years ago. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">J's actually started 48,000 years ago.</span> Aaron was a newbee on the J tree.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Torah has been proven true through the haplogroup</b>, for Arabs also bear the J1 haplogroup as well, with a slightly different tag ending on this scientific label showing its unique history. An Arab friend of mine also smitten by DNA testing is J1c3d, I believe it was, same as many Jewish J1s. J-<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>M267 is the major haplogroup of the Arabs</b></span>.( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J_(Y-DNA))Beduins of Kuwait carry the highest amount. Then are the Arab Beduins that carry a very high % of J.<br />
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I show all the Jewish haplogroups, both male and female at https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-haplogroup-we-be.html</span><br />
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<tr><th class="navbox-title" colspan="100%" style="background-color: #ccccff; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0.25em 1em; text-align: center;">Phylogenetic tree of human <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup">Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vanOven2014_1-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-vanOven2014-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ISOGG2015_2-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-ISOGG2015-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 2]</a></sup></th></tr>
<tr><th class="navbox-title hlist" colspan="100%" style="background-color: #ccccff; border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0.25em 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world</span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" width="15"></td><td colspan="35" style="font-size: 13.3px;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Y-chromosomal Adam">Y-chromosomal Adam</a>"</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_A00" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A00">A00</a></small></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_A-L1085" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A-L1085">A0-T</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-A0-T_3-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-A0-T-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 3]</a></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3" width="1"></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_A0" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A0">A0</a></small></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_A-P305" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A-P305">A1</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-A1_4-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-A1-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 4]</a></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="4" width="1"></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_A1a_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A1a (Y-DNA)">A1a</a></small></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_A1b_(Y-DNA)&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A1b (Y-DNA) (page does not exist)">A1b</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="5"></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_A1b1_(Y-DNA)&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup A1b1 (Y-DNA) (page does not exist)">A1b1</a></small></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_BT" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup BT">BT</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="7"></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_B_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup B (Y-DNA)">B</a></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_CT" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup CT">CT</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="8"></td><td colspan="6" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_DE" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup DE">DE</a></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_CF" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup CF">CF</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="7" width="9"></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_D-M174" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup D-M174">D</a></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_E_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup E (Y-DNA)">E</a></td><td colspan="4;" width="2"></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_C-M130" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup C-M130">C</a></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_F-M89_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup F-M89 (Y-DNA)">F</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="15" width="4"></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_F1_(Y-DNA)&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup F1 (Y-DNA) (page does not exist)">F1</a></small></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_F2_(Y-DNA)&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup F2 (Y-DNA) (page does not exist)">F2</a></small></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_F3_(Y-DNA)&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup F3 (Y-DNA) (page does not exist)">F3</a></small></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_GHIJK" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup GHIJK">GHIJK</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="20"></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="2"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_G_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup G (Y-DNA)">G</a></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_HIJK" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup HIJK">HIJK</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="21"></td><td colspan="4;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_IJK" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup IJK">IJK</a></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_H_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup H (Y-DNA)">H</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="14"></td><td colspan="5;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_IJ" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup IJ">IJ</a></td><td colspan="3;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;" width="1"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K (Y-DNA)">K</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="9"></td><td colspan="5;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I-M170" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup I-M170">I</a> </td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup J (Y-DNA)">J</a> </td><td colspan="1;" width="1"></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_LT_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup LT (Y-DNA)">LT</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LT_5-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-LT-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 5]</a></sup></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K-M526" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K-M526">K2</a></small> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K2_6-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-K2-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 6]</a></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="16"></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_L_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup L (Y-DNA)">L</a> </td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="1"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_T-M184" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup T-M184">T</a> </td><td colspan="0;" width="0"></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K2a_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K2a (Y-DNA)">K2a</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K2a_7-0" style="font-size: 9.52px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-K2a-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 7]</a></sup></small></td><td colspan="5;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K2b_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K2b (Y-DNA)">K2b</a></small> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K2b_8-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-K2b-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 8]</a></sup> </td><td colspan="8;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_K-P261&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K-P261 (page does not exist)">K2c</a></small></td><td colspan="1" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_K-P402&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K-P402 (page does not exist)">K2d</a></small></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_K-M147&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K-M147 (page does not exist)">K2e</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K2e_9-0" style="font-size: 9.52px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-K2e-9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 9]</a></sup></small> </td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="19"></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><small style="font-size: 10.115px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K-M2313" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K-M2313">K-M2313</a></small></small> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K-M2313_10-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-K-M2313-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 10]</a></sup></td><td colspan="0;" width="1"></td><td colspan="3;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="3"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K2b1_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup K2b1 (Y-DNA)">K2b1</a></small> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K2b1_11-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-K2b1-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 11]</a></sup></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_P_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup P (Y-DNA)">P</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-P_12-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-P-12" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 12]</a></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="19"></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;" width="1"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_NO" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup NO">NO</a></small> </td><td colspan="1;" width="21"></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_S-B254" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup S-B254">S</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-S_13-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-S-13" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 13]</a></sup></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_M-P256" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup M-P256">M</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-M_14-0" style="font-size: 9.52px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y-chromosome_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_world#cite_note-M-14" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[χ 14]</a></sup></small> </td><td colspan="1;" width="2"></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: center;" width="2"><small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_P1_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup P1 (Y-DNA)">P1</a></small> </td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="1"> <small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_P2&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup P2 (page does not exist)">P2</a></small></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="18"></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N_(Y-DNA)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup N (Y-DNA)">N</a></td><td colspan="0;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_O-M175" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup O-M175">O</a></td><td colspan="2;" width="2"></td><td colspan="1;" width="1"></td><td colspan="1;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17);" width="1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q-M242" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup Q-M242">Q</a></td><td colspan="2;" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: right;" width="1"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R-M207" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haplogroup R-M207">R</a></td></tr>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-2764503089835137352018-11-17T22:05:00.002-08:002018-11-21T06:46:44.780-08:00Democrats in Minnesota Voted In a BDS Advocate<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;">Newly elected House Rep in Minnesota,<br /><br /> A community nutrition educator at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" 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-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">, working in that capacity from 2006 to 2009 in the Greater </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul" 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-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Minneapolis–Saint Paul">Minneapolis–Saint Paul</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"> area. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Dziedzic" 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-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kari Dziedzic">Kari Dziedzic</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">'s reelection campaign for the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_State_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-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Minnesota State Senate">Minnesota State Senate</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Department_of_Education" 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-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Minnesota Department of Education">Minnesota Department of Education</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Minnesota, that northern state full of Scandinavian descendants, just voted in "Ilhan <span style="color: #3e3d3d;"><span style="background-color: white;">Omar, a Muslim Somali-American elected last week to replace outgoing Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) in the Minnesota House. She was born in 1981, married and mother of 3 children, who spoke nicely of Jews when running and wasn't broadcasting her feelings about Israel and BDS, </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">but has turned against Israel immediately after winning the election. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3e3d3d;"><span style="background-color: white;">Omar was against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement during her campaign, </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b> "</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #3e3d3d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow;">After winning election, she now says she "supports the BDS movement."</span><span style="background-color: white;"> That's what we call being 2-faced! </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3e3d3d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">Now we know that she supports boycotting, divestment from and sanctions against Israel. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d3d;"> "</span><span style="color: #333333;">Somalia, a Sunni dominant nation and a member of Arab League." In 2017, the president of Somalia refused to meet with Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Is</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "q_serif" , "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , "meiryo" , serif; font-size: 16px;">rael, on his trip to visit in Kenya. "</span><span style="color: #484848;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px;">Hamas</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 18px;">’ Izzat Al-Rishq also thanked the Somali president’s position which he said “reflects the authenticity of the</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">brotherly Republic of Somalia in standing with Palestine and rejecting any normalisation with an entity which occupies land and holy places.”</span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px;"> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #484848;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 18px;">To those of us who read history, this is nothing but propaganda from Hamas which is made up of lies. The Hamas terrorists, also Sunni Muslims, have never held land before Israel was created in 1948 no matter what name they were under then, as the PLO or whatever, The land is the land of the Bible, land ruled by King Saul, David and Solomon and others, going back to before David's rule of 1010 BCE. That's going back over 3,000 years that this land has been known to be Jewish land and any holy places held by Muslims has been treated with respect by Israel who can't say the same about their holy places when in the hands of the Muslims. The Muslim Palestinians have sworn since 1967 at the Khartum Conference in Sudan, Africa to the 3 NO's,</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold;">no </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">peace with Israel, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold;">no</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> recognition of Israel, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold;">no</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> negotiations with it...")</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 18px;">and No has been their answer to any meeting ever held in trying to reach a peace agreement with Israel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #484848;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Omar was born in on October 4, 1981,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and was raised in </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baydhabo" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Baydhabo">Baydhabo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Somalia">Somalia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> She</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was the youngest of seven siblings. Ilhan's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalis" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Somalis">Somali</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, and worked as a teacher trainer.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Her mother was a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benadiri_people" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Benadiri people">Benadiri</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, and died when Omar was a child.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> She was thereafter raised by her father and grandfather.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Ilhan's grandfather, Abukar, was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport, with her uncles and aunts also working as civil servants and educators.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> After the start of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Somali Civil War">civil war</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in 1991, she and her family fled the country and spent four years in a refugee camp in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By 1995, her family immigrated to the USA and settled in Arlington, Virginia when Ilhan was 14. To be elected into the Minnesota's House at age 31 is probably pretty normal for women today, but Ilhan has been Americanized for the past 23 years, coming here at age 14, a teenager. She doesn't seem to see the wrong in saying one thing and then going against what she ran on with a 180 degree turn-about because she has executed such an action brazenly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #484848;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 18px;">She, like other Americans, had been beating the drum for the 2-state solution to the problems involving Israel and the Palestinians who are divided into 2 camps, the old PLO terrorist group now referred to as the PA (Palestine Authority) who live in Judea-Samaria wrongly called THE WEST BANK as Jordan named it when they held the land from 1948 to 1967, and the Hamas terrorists who have taken over Gaza since their 1st election urged by former president Obama. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #3e3d3d;"> </span><span style="color: #3e3d3d;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">she told a group of Jewish voters in the state that she opposed the economic boycott of Israel, calling it "counteractive" and "not helpful in getting that two-state solution."</span> <span style="background-color: yellow;">I</span></span></b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="color: #3e3d3d;">n an interview published Sunday by </span><a href="http://muslimgirl.com/50283/ilhan-omar-why-advocating-for-palestine-is-not-anti-semitic/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #ed4a18; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">MuslimGirl</a><span style="color: #3e3d3d;">, Omar said she "supports the BDS movement."</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #484848;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 18px;">A little reading would have opened up the eyes of some Minnesotans about her stand towards Israel. <b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"</b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Omar has been critical of the </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;">i government, referring to it as "the apartheid Israeli regime,"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> asserting that Israel has "hypnotized the world" to overlook the aerial bombardment of civilians, which she characterized as "evil doings,</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar#cite_note-Kampeas-26" 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: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;">]</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">recommending that the </b></span><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" 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: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> divest from </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: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel">Israel</a></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"> bonds</b><span style="background-color: white;">, and </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">criticizing a law intended to prohibit the </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions" 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: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions</b></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"> movement</b><span style="background-color: white;">. Accused of </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Antisemitism">antisemitism</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> by a few right-wing critics, she has <b>responded that her criticism of some of the Israeli government's actions in no way implies hatred of </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Judaism"><b>Jewish people</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>:</b> “These accusations are without merit,” she said. “They are rooted in bigotry toward a belief about what </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Islam">Muslims</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> are stereotyped to believe.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh no, she says all sorts of anti-Semitic statements and then calls people bigots of what Arabs believes. Well,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel does have about 20% of Arab citizens as well, and many are Muslims. They've had problems, a lot of problems with them, and hopefully they're all learning to live together in peace today. It's been worse. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just can't buy this. Israel is the one and only Jewish state in a world made up of 48 majority Muslim states. Israel was created by the League of Nations and the United Nations as a Homeland for the Jewish People. The government is a Jewish government and we've had a running problem with Muslims ever since 1947 when the UN voted to have a Jewish state. We've had wars with the neighboring Muslims states, and since then the wars are called by other names such as Inifadas, etc. Right now Jews have been living in bomb shelters while almost 500 rockets, and mortars were short into southern Israel and that since the Gazans were busy burning Israelis fields and forests with flying fire kites. For 70 years and more, Israel has been fending off the no's and the rockets, mortars and even missiles from their Muslim Palestinians which has even involved some of the Christian Arabs as well, no doubt. It's been anti-Semitism forever, with the age old problem of Arabs wanting the Jewish land</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> when they saw the Jews wanted it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At an August candidates forum held in a synagogue during the last week of the 2018 primary campaign, she said</span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 0); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions">boycott of Israel</a><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is not helpful in working toward a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 0); color: #0b0080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Two-state solution">two-state solution</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">, and that "it is going to be important for us to recognize Israel's place in the Middle East and the Jewish people's rightful place within that region."</span><span style="background-color: white;"> That was only said to gain votes and it worked. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anti-Semites try to show the Arabs as the natives of the land of Palestine. The truth is that the Jews were the natives, being there back over 3,000 years, and then being run off by the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans but not completely. They've always had a Jewish presence on the land. It's the Jews who have returned to their land, finding what has been described by Mark Twain had seen in "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD," and what Meyer Levin wrote about in his THE SETTLERS." It's what Joan Peters famously wrote about in her book, From Time Immemorial. How many of our young new political leaders who voice dissent against Israel have read any of these books? I even wonder how many of Jewish Democrats have read any of them, for that matter? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This all brings to mind a racial problem the USA once had in its early youth before it had developed any real ethical behavior. It lied through their teeth to the native Americans in making treaties with them. The natives, we called simply, " THE Indians", said the whites spoke with a forked tongue. Of course, it is snakes who have forked tongues, and you can't trust a snake. The whites didn't look upon Indians as equals such as Europeans, but as a primitive culture perhaps thousands of years behind their great culture. <br /><br />Spiritually, some Indians exhibited a far advanced sense of spirituality over the whites while they were still in the hunting and gathering stage of development. They had a strong sense of telling the truth and being dependable. Again, like in religious confrontations of Muslims and Jews, power was the rule, and the whites coming in force, had the power over the less developed weaponized native Americans. Israel had been in the same position with the Assyrians, the Babylonians and then the Romans. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">By the way, President Trump, after seeing the past 70 years of his 71 one years putting in lost efforts in trying to bring about a 2-state solution on people living in the Middle East by outsiders, has already decided that the 2 parties have to decide on such a conclusion if that is to end their conflict, and they can't come to such a conclusion. Why is this 31 year old who hasn't probably read any of our history other than her own Muslim propaganda beating the issue to death with forcing BDS on Israel, which is just another bullet in the enemy's arsonal? Why is anyone? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">What's that rule about insanity? "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(34 , 49 , 63 , 0.7); font-family: "noto serif" , serif; font-size: 22px;">The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Well then, Trump is one leader who is not the insane one. Supposedly, Albert Einstein said this. Or how about this one: "</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(34 , 49 , 63 , 0.7); font-family: "noto serif" , serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(34 , 49 , 63 , 0.7); font-family: "noto serif" , serif; font-size: 22px;"> That was the advice of Jessie Potter, the featured speaker at Friday’s opening of the seventh annual Woman to Woman conference.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(34 , 49 , 63 , 0.7); font-family: "noto serif" , serif; font-size: 22px;">A 2-state solution is laughable at this point in time. Continual pushing for it after 70 years is insane. Already, the Palestinians are divided in land and in thought with 2 different leaders who disagree with each other, both fighting over power. The land itself is so small that it has actually been divvied up many times already. Originally, 80% of the Jewish Homeland was given away to Jordan by England who had held the mandate for Palestine for 30 years. The 20% left-over for the Jews has been cut into 3 pieces now; Judea-Samaria (original Jewish Israel) called West Bank, and Gaza and Israel. What is today's Israel is a speck of land on ex-President Bush's Texas ranch. It's pathetic. It's up to the 2 people involved; the Jews of Israel and the Palestinians who are the squatters on the land who need to decide how to live. Other couch potatoes from distant lands could get busy and read some history, then need to either share something positive and helpful or just take care of their own problems. The last thing is to join a group who don't know what they are talking about and beat the drums with them. This shows that too many politicians are just followers and not leaders. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(34 , 49 , 63 , 0.7); font-family: "noto serif" , serif; font-size: 22px;">And a former Somalian wants to make sure it's divided into 2 state solution made up of Muslims who have been brain-washed to hate Jews for generations. I can't think of anything less friendly. Evidently it's the in thing today to be an immigrant of color and young female but not have a good political background on your adopted new government's friends. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(34 , 49 , 63 , 0.7);"> "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Omar received the largest percentage of the vote of any female candidate for U.S. House in state history,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> as well as the largest percentage of the vote for a non-incumbent candidate for U.S. House (excluding those running against only non-major-party candidates) in state history." What's happened to all those sharp Scandinavian descendants living in Minnesota? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #484848; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 18px;">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171205-somali-president-refusing-to-meet-israels-netanyahu/</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #484848; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 18px;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d3d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #484848; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 18px;">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #484848; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 18px;">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ulysses-grant-launched-illegal-war-plains-indians-180960787/</span></span><br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-9554815473726266242018-09-26T14:28:00.052-07:002021-12-22T06:29:06.139-08:00What haplogroup Do Pashtuns Be? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pashtuns have the oral history of being Beni Israel, sons of Israel. <b style="background-color: white;">Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, accounting for about 42 percent of the population,</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Male Y haplogroups of Pashtuns</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>C3-M217</b></span>, <span style="font-size: medium;">Afghanistan's ethnic group, found in East Asia 2.04% in Pashtuns, In ***** 3 people carried this in the sample, 1 found in FTDNA's testing, Originated in southern Asia, found with highest diversity in India. <br /></span>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">E, </b><span style="font-size: medium;">In *****1 person carried this in the sample. Originated in Africa some 50,000 years ago, common ancestry with D. Found in Middle East. <br /></span>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">F,</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> In ***** 1 person carried this in the sample first in Africa some 45,000 years ago, 2nd wave of expansion out of Africa, ancestor of the Y chromosome haplogroups, oldest one. <br /></span>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">*G2b-M377,</span></b> <span style="font-size: medium;">part of G2 is found in some Pashtuns who are Iranic and on a much lower scale among all major Jewish groups, Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians. Up to the time of WW2, it was most common in Eastern Europe. Distribution of G2b is sparse, unique. The extreme rarity of G2b in northern Pakistan might mean it originated outside the country, brought there a historic period from further wet. Pakistan was part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire conquered by Alexander the Great, then part of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom. <b>These 2 Pakistani G2b haplotypes are divergent from the Ashkenazi Jewish clade, do not indicate a recent common origin.</b> Turkish G2b is closer but not the same. With Jews in Israel from many places, G2b was 3.7% of population in one study. Afghanistan study of 5 Pashtuns in Wrdak region, 60% of sample, maybe due to local founder effect. Possible it started about 1,000 CE in NE West Asia from G2 (P287), highest frequency in Pashtuns, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, SW Syria. In ***** 12 people carried this in the sample. 4 found in FTDNA's testing May have originated along the eastern edge of the Middle East or in India or Pakistan 30000 years ago . G2 branch of this lineage containing the P15 mutation is found most often in the Caucasus, Balkans, Italy and Middle East. 7% of Ashkenazi Jews have this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>H-M69</b></span>, <span style="font-size: medium;">found in India' Pashtuns 20.41%, In ***** 4 people carried this in the sample. 6 found in FTDNA's testing, arose 20,000 to 30,000 years ago and almost entirely restricted to India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan where it probably originated. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">J1, </b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b>In ***** 3 people carried this in the sample. 3 found in FTDNA's study, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago in Fertile Crescent includes Jews, Arab, Armenians, Kurds, highest in Iran and Iraq, carried by traders to central Asia, India and Pakistan. While the majority of J is not Jewish, the majority of Jewish men are J's. The Cohen Modal Haplotype is found in haplogroup J1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>J2-M172</b></span>, <span style="font-size: medium;">Afghanistan's ethnic group, In ***** 7 people carried this in the sample. Found in Central Asia, Mediterranean and south into India. 11 found in FTDNA's testing. connected to the spread of agriculture during Neolithic Period from Anatolia, found in central Asia, Mediterranean, south into India. Many Jews carry this, also. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>*L-M20,</b></span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Afghanistan's ethnic group, also in India at 20.41%, In ***** 8 people carried Lin the sample. 6 found in FTDNA's testing<br />
L1a, 2 found in FTDNA's testing<br />
L1b, 1 found in FTDNA's testing</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> L1c, Known Pashtuns,</span></b> <span style="font-size: medium;">6 found in FTDNA's testing; L is common in India, likely originated here 30,000 years ago. <br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>P,</b></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"> In ***** 1 person carried this in the sample, originated in Eurasia 35,000 to 45,000 years ago, in Europe, all indigenous people of the Americas.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Q,</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> 1.3% finding 2 people. In ***** 1 person carried this in the sample.in southern Afghanistan. <br />
Q is found in 5% of the male Jewish Ashkenazi population. 13 found in FTDNA's testing. , originated 15,000 to 20,000 years ago migrated through northern Eurasia into Americas, lately found in Ur, Iraq where Abraham lived. My Jewish father's line is Q, and at 111 allele testing is QBZ67</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">*R1a1a-M17,</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Afghanistan's ethnic group, found in Eurasia, 51.02% in Pashtuns, in *****97 people carried this in the sample. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> (<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif;">Overall, only haplogroups R1a1a*-M198 (62.1%), L3*-M357 (7.4%) and G2c-M377 (5.3%) display frequencies >5% and collectively comprise nearly three-fourths of the Afghanistan paternal gene pool in one study</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif;"> ). 18 found in FTDNA's study, 8 from India, Bangladesh, 9 known Pashtuns, Believed to have originated in NW Asia between 30,000 to 35,000 years ago. This is the line that so many Jewish Levites carry as their Y haplogroup that I've been writing about (12/22/2021). </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">R-M512 ,</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> 9 Pashtuns of Afghanistan, Pakistan</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>R1b1b2,</b></span> <span style="font-size: medium;">In *****, 1 person was found in the sample. 3 from Pakistan in FTDNA's study</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">R2a-M124, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">found in India's Pashtuns 20.41%, In ***** 5 people carried this in the sample, 5 from FTDNA's testing , Much rarer than R1, found only in Indian, Iranian and central Asian populations.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Undecided</span></b> <span style="font-size: medium;">31 people as yet not classified in a group on FTDNA's testing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Genotyping revealed 32 haplogroups present in Afghanistan's ethnic groups among our samples. Haplogroups R1a1a-M17, C3-M217, J2-M172, and L-M20 were the most frequent when Afghan ethnic groups were pooled, together comprising >66% of the chromosomes. </span><br /></span>
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Resource:<b> https://www.familytreedna.com/public/dna_afghan_pak/default.aspx?section=yresults</b></span></div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_G-M377</span></div>
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<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034288</span></span></div>
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<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/03/rare-look-at-y-chromosomes-of.html</span></span></div>
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<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267787589_The_origin_of_the_Pashtuns_Pathans *****</span></span></div>
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<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/dna-afghan-pak/about/background</span></span></div>
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<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book: Abraham's Children, race, identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entine</span></span></div>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-19683658805482793742018-07-27T12:20:00.000-07:002018-07-27T13:22:05.914-07:00The Land of Edom AKA Idumea, Enemies of Jews and Why<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the southeast section of Israel was a country called Mount Seir, otherwise known as EDOM or IDUMEA. It was in the mountains and easily fortified. The land was most fertile. EDOM was south of the Dead Sea and bordered on the Red Sea at Elath and Ezion Geber.<br />
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The Edomites were Semitic people, traditionally the descendants of Esau who was the oldest twin of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob. Evidently they were not identical twins. When they grew up, they became enemies even though they were twins. Though born minutes apart, Esau was born first and claimed the right of the first born inheritance. Jacob managed to get it instead, by trickery, angering Esau, of course. What Jacob had done was to approach Esau when he was very hungry after a hunt and had bought Esau's birthright from him in exchange for a mess of pottage. Their mother, Rebekah also showed her favoritism by helping Jacob to trick Isaac when he was blind and dying into thinking that he had given his birthright to Esau. It was Jacob who later struggled with an angel and by overcoming him, was given the new name of <b>ISRAEL.</b> This was the way this story explains by such symbolism the relationship between the 2 nations which became hostile to each other. The Talmud speaks of Esau with villainy and violence which indeed, Jacob's tricking Esau had brought out. Anger and retribution knows no end as we see today.<br />
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These mountain Edomites lived by hunting. They were stronger than the <b>Horite</b> people, who were there before the Edomites took the land over, and so organized themselves along tribal lines with a chieftain they called the Allooph. This arrangement later consolidated like other people into a monarchy. (An Israeli general is called an Aluf in Hebrew.)<br />
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By the 8th century BCE, the Edomites were <b style="background-color: yellow;">vassals of Assyria </b>who would attack northern Israel in 722-721 BCE and take the best of the men and women as captives. This is the time Israel lost 10 of their 12 tribes.<br />
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At the time of the destruction of the 1st Temple in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian, they also plundered and looted along with the Babylonians all the gold and silver from the Temple. They probably aided and abetted them in their thievery and destruction.<br />
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They got their upcoming by being driven from their home on the mountain by the <b>Nabateans,</b> forcing them to occupy southern Judah during or after the period of the Exile of Judeans in Babylon. Taken there in 586 BCE, many Judeans were able to return in 538 BCE, making their kidnapping last for 48 years.<br />
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The Edomites were then conquered by <b>John Hyrcanus</b> (135-104 BCE) son and successor of Simon the Hasmonean who had become the ruler and who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they were part of the Jewish people. John became a high priest. It was John's sons defeated the Samaritans and gained control of Bet Shean and part of the Valley of Jezreel. Only his last years of rule had become tranquil.<br />
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<b>HEROD</b> was one of the Edomite descendants and had died in 48 CE. During <b>Titus' siege of Jerusalem </b>(79-81 CE), they marched in to reinforce the extreme elements by killing all they suspected of having peace tendencies. <b>Titus, the Roman emperor was the son of Vespasian, the Roman Emperor 69-79 CE. </b>. He had taken over command of the Roman army in Judea from his father in 70 CE when they destroyed the 2nd Temple. This happened after a 5 month siege. The destruction of the Temple was deliberate an done in hoping to eliminate the Jews' national religion and center of the religion.<br />
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His mistress was Bernice, who was also his niece and a Jewish princess. Thereafter, they stopped figuring in Jewish history. <b>The name EDOM in our Talmud is a synonym for <span style="background-color: yellow;">an oppressive government</span>, especially Rome which was the worst.</b> This was replaced by the Middle Ages and was applied to Christian Europe.<br />
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Resource: The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
Tankakh (Old Testament)<br />
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-19347012962923697862018-02-02T10:35:00.001-08:002018-02-02T12:55:53.414-08:00Poland's Deplorable Part in the Holocaust<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Poland just passed a "<b>Polish Holocaust Law</b>" in their attempt to cover up the historic truth of their deplorable behavior during the Holocaust from the late 30's to probably past 1945 when the war was over. </span><b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bill would outlaw blaming the Polish state or nation for crimes of the Holocaust committed in Poland." </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Do they plan on outlawing history books? How about the movie, The Pianist? </span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">In this adaptation of the autobiography "<b>The Pianist:</b> The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945," Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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Each country in Eastern Europe, particularly those in Catherine the Great's "Pale of Settlement," where she caused the Jews to be confined so as they couldn't live in "Russia proper,"to live, suffered in the hands of that country's government. In my reading, I believe Ukraine was one of the worst. Poland wasn't much better.<br />
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From what I see, the citizens of Poland who were not Jews aided and abetted the Nazis in not only their hatred of Jews but their own survival, which is understandable. They did it too well, though. They were doing so much of the vileness going on in the killing of Jews. They made it easier for these Nazis. Any who were not have been remembered in Israel as The Righteous Gentiles. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> "Those recognized by Israel as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Righteous Among the Nations">Righteous Among the Nations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> are honored in a section of Yad Vashem known as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Righteous_Among_the_Nations" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations">Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Jews were under strict laws and the Russian Gentiles would take out their cruelty on them with occasional Pogroms, one of which broke the legs of my teen-aged grandmother. Americans might remember such things in "Fiddler on the Roof." Though many Jews did immigrate from Poland during the late 1800's and early 1900's, many remained and were caught in the Holocaust. Luckily for me, my grandmother and her sisters and brothers were one of the immigrants. Her town of Lazdijai in Suwalki had once been part of Lithuania, but in the fighting before the Holocaust era, it had fallen into Poland's hands as it was close to their border. She and her family had previously gone through famines and that was topped with a great amount of anti-Semitism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before Poland passed this law, they had promised to meet with Israeli officials with a discussion, but broke that promise, so Israel is considering the recall of their ambassador. </span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 18px;">The bill would outlaw blaming the Polish state or nation for crimes of the Holocaust committed in Poland." Do they think they can whitewash history that is filled with all sorts of documentation of their citizen's acts? I hold one of the books that tells all about it. It's The Holocaust" a history of the Jews of Europe during the 2nd World War by Martin Gilbert. </span><br />
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Poland at the end of WWI was established as independent from Russia or anyone else and the economic position of Jews there deteriorated as a Polish middle-class pushed them out of trade, handicrafts and industry through anti-Semitism. In 1938, the eve of the Holocaust, 300,000 Jewish men were unemployed and were emigrating on a large scale. 395,223 Jews left Poland from 1921 to 1937. By 1939, Poland had over 3 million Jews.<br />
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Nazi occupation took over and immediately set up ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz, Bialystok and other places but were a prelude to being turned into Concentration Camps and gas chambers. Jews were brought to Poland from other parts of Europe for the gas chambers of death or the killing fields.<br />
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No one can forget the horrors that happened in Warsaw, Poland. In the beginning in 1941, Jews were rounded up in a ghetto, and Jews suffered from starvation during a cold winter. Children were freezing literally to death. They stood in the streets with bare feet, knees and in torn clothing suffering. A witness to this was Mr. Ringelblum who wrote that 70 children were found frozen to death on the steps of ruined houses.(p. 232).<br />
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For the Nazis had put the word out that they wanted to "eliminate a source of moral and physical pestilence (the Jews of Europe). They were out do a "total cleansing," so in 1942 on July 21, the Germans seized 60 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto including 3 Jewish Council members while other Jews were shot outright in the streets or even in their homes. The next day, the Polish railwayman, Franciszek Zabecki remembered about the train service from Warsaw to Treblinka with Jews they called "settlers." The Poles swallowed the lie of them being "settlers." They were of course going to their deaths.(p. 388).<br />
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Eight Jews who managed to leave the ghetto without permission on November 17th were given the death sentence. They were caught in their search for food in the Aryan part of Warsaw. Another witness, Kaplan, told how it was the Jewish police who were ordered to tie their hands and cover their eyes. Two of those caught refused the eye covers. The execution squad were Polish policemen who "wept bitterly" after shooting these 8. SS officers attended the shooting. So did Jakub Lejkin, a Jewish policeman who had dragged them from their cells. We evidently had a few Jews involved who were totally crazy to have complied in such a dastardly act; not much of a Jew at all.<br />
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At the same time, Jews of Vilna, Lithuania were being deported by the thousands and tens of thousands and were being killed; children and women. The Warsaw Ghetto incident was so shocking that those outside of it had sent word to Vilna to be warned. It was too late.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Site of mass grave in Poland,<br />Anti-Jewish violence here after liberation!<br />It was Jews who was buried after mass killings in fields!</span></td></tr>
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"40 miles NE of Warsaw in the gravel pits, the Germans set up a labour camp near the tiny rural station of Treblinka." Those Jews of my era have all heard of Treblinka. By 1942, it was a death camp. So was Auschwitz. The Nazis were in a rush to kill Jews and Treblinka along with other death camps were the centers to wipe ot many hundreds of Jewish communities. Chelmno was one of the smaller death camps in which 360,000 Jews were killed within a year. A 5th camp was set up called Birkenau near Auschwitz where Polish prisoners suffered cruel torments.<br />
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Poland itself was home to the following 4 main Concentration Camps:<br />
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<li class="_AXc" style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland. The most famous and largest of all Nazi camps because of its size and the large number of lives lost within the walls of this death camp.</li>
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Jews had lived in Poland since the 9th century, in the 800's. We don't know for sure if they had immigrated there from Germany or Bohemia or from the kingdom of Kiev and the Byzantine Empire, but they were apparently also coming in from Khazaria as well. They were traders who in the Dark Ages had helped to open up the area to civilization. They received their first charter in 905. Jews, in order to live, were of a different religion, so they needed a charter. The land suffered from Tartar invasions in 1240's that utterly devastated Poland. To restore their economy, Polish kings had encouraged merchants from Germany to settle, and they were followed by the Jews. This brought in Jews who settled to White Russia and Little Poland and to Lithuania in 1388/89.<br />
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In a very Catholic country, Jews were prospering in economics, especially in Warsaw and Lodz and held key positions in foreign trade, timber, grain and metal trades. By the end of the 19th century, Polish anti- Semites supported their clergy, and then the press launched a campaign against Jews. The great majority of political groups joined them and by 1881 there was a large pogrom in Warsaw.<br />
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What happened? At this point, Zionism took hold of the Jews who were praying 3 times a day anyway for the return to Zion (Jerusalem). This was something they had been doing since 70 CE when their capital had been burned down by the Romans and their ancestors were taken as slaves or if luckier, had to flee from Roman soldiers. This was also a period of vast immigration of Polish Jews to the USA. WWI's end in 1917 had caused talks with Jewish leaders and European leaders through the League of Nations in the creation of a Jewish Homeland out of the Ottoman Empire's 400 year old hold on "Palestine, a name given to land by the Romans in 132 in their anger at a Jewish uprising by General (Aluf) Bar Kokhba in which Bar Kokhba reheld Jerusalem for 3 years, giving the Romans a fight they hadn't had for some time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">City where so many Jews met a horrible death<br />From July 22 until September 12, 1942, German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, carried out mass <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005372" style="background-color: white; color: #4f6d91; font-family: "Mercury SSm A", "Mercury SSm B", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">deportations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: "mercury ssm a" , "mercury ssm b" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "georgia" , serif;"> from the Warsaw ghetto to the </span><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005193" style="background-color: white; color: #4f6d91; font-family: "Mercury SSm A", "Mercury SSm B", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Treblinka</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: "mercury ssm a" , "mercury ssm b" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "georgia" , serif;"> killing center. During this period, the Germans deported about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka; they killed approximately 35,000 Jews inside the ghetto during the operation after so many had starved to death.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In response to this outrageous Polish Law, Israel is taking steps. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">61 Knesset members from the coalition and opposition, outlined new legislation that would make denying the Holocaust or diminishing the role of Nazi collaborators a criminal offense under Israeli law." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: white;">“The Polish attempts to rewrite history and to shut Holocaust survivors’ mouths is audacious, shocking and despicable. </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">We will not allow the collaborators to hide behind the Nazis and deny their historic responsibility,”</b><span style="background-color: white;"> the </span></span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Jerusalem Post</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> quoted Knesset member Itzik Shmuly of the Zionist Union, one of the co-sponsors of the new law, as saying."</span><br />
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Even after the Holocaust, Poles kept on killing Jews. No Nazi was there prodding them on. The climax of pot-war killings came on July 4, 1946. Three days earlier, an 8 year old Polish boy fromKielce, disappeared from him home but 2 days later he returned, claiming that he had been kept in a cellar by 2 Jews who wanted to kill him. The truth was that he had stayed in a friend's home in a nearby village. The friend told him what excuse to give. to his parents. 42 Jews were killed in one day as a result of that lie. Almost all the Jews who were in one building were shot, stoned to death or killed with axes and blunt instruments. In Kielce itself, Jews were murdered in their homes or dragged into streets and killed by the mob. 2 were little children. 4 were teenagers on their way to Palestine. 3 were officers in the Polish army. 7 were unnamed, unable to be identified, one was known to be a survivor of Birkenau because of his tattoo on his arm; B2969.<br />
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After this final pogrom, half of the Jews who had survived left Poland for Palestine, Western Europe, Britain, USA, Latin America and Australia. I'm just amazed that there were Polish Jews who had survived the Holocaust. Imagine doing that, living through such a horror only to come home and be slaughtered in another Pogrom of your ancestors.<br />
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Resource: The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia : Poland<br />
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/05/ukraines-massacre-of-jews-worse-than.html<br />
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2017/04/escaping-romans-but-coming-to-pale-of.html on Poland<br />
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/161567c5f4870fa1<br />
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lawmaker-proposes-israeli-legislation-to-counter-polish-holocaust-bill/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=e9820e7b59-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-e9820e7b59-55452413<br />
THE HOLOCAUST, by Martin Gilbert, copyright 1985, 959 pages.<br />
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/righteous-gentiles-and-holocaust-rescuers/<br />
https://worldisraelnews.com/israeli-lawmakers-blast-polands-holocaust-denial-law/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notification&utm_campaign=PushCrew_notification_1517571229&pushcrew_powered=1<br />
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005069<br />
Movies about Warsaw alone: The Pianist, https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=wqZ0WpaBHInHjwSeuZPACw&q=movie+about+Warsaw+ghetto&oq=movie+about+Warsaw+ghetto&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30k1.7270.19030.0.21768.30.21.2.6.6.0.194.2815.0j20.20.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.28.2898.0..35i39k1j0i131k1j0i131i67k1j0i67k1j0i20i264k1j0i10k1j0i20i263i264k1j0i20i263k1.0.7HDW0X9t-4Q<br />
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jews-in-poland/ picture</div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-11567741885698596312016-10-20T15:42:00.000-07:002016-10-20T15:49:50.175-07:00Governors Committing to Israel and Against BDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nadene Goldfoot <br />
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Portland, Oregon has been fighting against the BDS movement against Israel. This stands for <b>Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions</b> against Israel. <span style="background-color: white; color: #242c2e; font-family: "regular"; font-size: 17px;">The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.</span><br />
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The truth of the matter is that Israel is not oppressing the Palestinians. In fact, they have done the very opposite, only to be viciously attacked by them since 1948 when Israel announced their statehood, as complying with the League of Nations in 1920 as well as the United Nations in 1947. <br />
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This group of Arabs, whose grandparents used to call themselves Syrian Arabs, have been used as pawns by the leaders of other newly-formed and old Middle East Nations surrounding Israel. They've been led by the terrorist, Arafat of Egypt, and now Abbas who has taken over since his death. If anyone is oppressed it is these Arabs by Abbas, not by Israel, for he governs them, and does it very poorly.<br />
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Major wars broke out 5 minutes after Israel announced their independence from the mandate of Great Britain, whose 30 years of time was up. Without even uniforms or an army, Israelis defended themselves as it was life and death for them with the Arabs chanting to drive them into the sea. Following wars occurred in 1956 and then the big one in 1973. <br />
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Countries who couldn't whip Israel and drive her into the sea have come up with this act to cripple Israel financially, which would even hurt her ability to pay her debts back to the USA besides harming herself.<br />
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Israel has been a country that has been most creative in developing businesses in order to support themselves. Their biggest expense has been on defensive weapons bought from the USA. Their own people, men and women, serve in the army called the IDF (Israel Defense Force). The USA has not had to fight for them. Now half of our states, by ignoring a request to join the movement AGAINST this crippling force field are in truth denying them the right to support themselves and not be a burden on anyone, The money for defense, on the other hand, must all be spent in the USA in order to support their economy. <br />
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Anyone who has studied Israel's past and present history knows that this tiny country of only 6 million Jews and 1.7 million Arabs have not oppressed the Palestinian Arabs, but themselves have suffered and lost lives because of their histrionics used in the attempt to destroy Israel. <br />
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Oregon's governor is the 27th to sign on and be against BDS. She's also running again on her Democratic ticket. <br />
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This means that 28 states have signed on to be against BDS as of this writing. The District of Columbia where Washington DC sit has signed and is against BDS. There are 22 more that could sign and join them against this most unfair act. They are:<br />
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Alabama<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Bentley" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert J. Bentley">Robert Bentley</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 17">January 17</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Alaska<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Walker_(politician)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Bill Walker (politician)">Bill Walker</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_(politician)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="December 1">December 1</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2014">2014</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2018</td></tr>
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California<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Jerry Brown">Jerry Brown</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 3">January 3</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits</td></tr>
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Colorado<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hickenlooper" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="John Hickenlooper">John Hickenlooper</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 11">January 11</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Delaware<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Markell" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Jack Markell">Jack Markell</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_20" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 20">January 20</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2009">2009</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2017 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Hawaii<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ige" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="David Ige">David Ige</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="December 1">December 1</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2014">2014</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2018</td></tr>
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Idaho<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Otter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Butch Otter">Butch Otter</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 1">January 1</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2007">2007</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (retiring)</td></tr>
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Louisiana<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bel_Edwards" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="John Bel Edwards">John Bel Edwards</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 11">January 11</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2016">2016</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2020</td></tr>
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Michigan<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Rick Snyder">Rick Snyder</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 1">January 1</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Mississippi<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bryant" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Phil Bryant">Phil Bryant</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 10">January 10</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2012">2012</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2020 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Montana<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bullock" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Steve Bullock">Steve Bullock</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 7">January 7</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2013">2013</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2017</td></tr>
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New Mexico<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susana_Martinez" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Susana Martinez">Susana Martinez</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 1">January 1</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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North Dakota<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dalrymple" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Jack Dalrymple">Jack Dalrymple</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="December 7">December 7</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2010">2010</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2017 (retiring)</td></tr>
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Rhode Island<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Raimondo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Gina Raimondo">Gina Raimondo</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 6">January 6</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2015">2015</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019</td></tr>
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South Carolina<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Nikki Haley">Nikki Haley</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_12" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 12">January 12</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits</td></tr>
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South Dakota<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Daugaard" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Dennis Daugaard">Dennis Daugaard</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 8">January 8</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Tennessee<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haslam" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Bill Haslam">Bill Haslam</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 15">January 15</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Vermont<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Shumlin">Peter Shumlin</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 6">January 6</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2017 (retiring)</td></tr>
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Virginia<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Terry McAuliffe">Terry McAuliffe</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 11">January 11</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2014">2014</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2018 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Washington<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Inslee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Jay Inslee">Jay Inslee</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 16">January 16</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2013">2013</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2017</td></tr>
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West Virginia<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Ray_Tomblin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Earl Ray Tomblin">Earl Ray Tomblin</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(204, 238, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="November 15">November 15</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2010">2010</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2017 (term limits)</td></tr>
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Wyoming<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mead" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Mead">Matt Mead</a></span></span></td><td style="background: rgb(255, 208, 208); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="January 3">January 3</a> <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="2011">2011</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2019 (term limits)</td></tr>
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10 Republicans and 12 Democrats have not signed as yet. Let's hope it's just an oversight. I'll be watching and praying that this letter gets into the mail, quickly. <br />
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Resource: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/157df3b13202f5ca</div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-87732352135955787572016-05-28T14:00:00.002-07:002016-05-28T14:06:05.315-07:00Incomprehensible Moves Against Israel Including BDS Movement<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;">Holding inaccurate facts that Israel is Apartheid. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Any idea seems to go to Boycott, Divest and hold</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Sanctions against Israel. Racist? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Israelis are made up from a multiple of nations, and include Blacks, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sephardics, Ashkenazis, Mizrachis,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> lost tribes, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> with Muslims in Knesset. It's a little melting pot </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">made up of 8,000 sq. miles.</span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haneen_Zoabi" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Haneen Zoabi"><span style="font-size: small;">Haneen Zoabi</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Haneen Zouabi"><img alt="Haneen Zouabi" data-file-height="2085" data-file-width="1506" height="104" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG/75px-Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG/113px-Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG/150px-Haneen_Zoubi_cropped.JPG 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="75" /></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balad_(political_party)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Balad (political party)">Balad</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_List" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Joint List">Joint List</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2009" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Israeli legislative election, 2009">18</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2013" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Israeli legislative election, 2013">19</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2015" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Israeli legislative election, 2015">20</a></td><td align="left" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sunni Muslim.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-age20090516_3-0" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset#cite_note-age20090516-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup> First Arab woman elected to the Knesset on an Arab party's list.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The BDS movement against Israel, started by Palestinians, <i>as explained next, </i> by a few United States groups is incomprehensible. Israel is their only ally and only democratic state in the Middle East. That these groups think only they know what Israel's leaders should be acting on to best serve their population is ludicrous. So far, Israel has managed to protect their people and advance enough to help other nations, especially the United States, in their defense against jihadic terrorists that attack to kill . </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"The campaign is organised and coordinated by the <b>Palestinian BDS National Committee. </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> The campaign was started on <b>9 July 2005 </b>by over 170 Palestinian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organizations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in support of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_cause" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Palestinian cause">Palestinian cause</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Boycott">boycott</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divestment" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Divestment">divestment</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="International sanctions">international sanctions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> against Israel. Citing a body of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_UN_resolutions_concerning_Israel_and_Palestine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="List of the UN resolutions concerning Israel and Palestine">UN resolutions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and specifically echoing the anti-apartheid campaigns against white </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_rule" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Minority rule">minority rule</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid_in_South_Africa" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Apartheid in South Africa">apartheid era South Africa</a>, <b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">the BDS campaign called for "various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="International law">international law</a>, <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"" and they should have said THEIR law, as international law says otherwise. </span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the end of WWI, Israel has been treated as rotten as mankind can get.</span> " <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.84px;">The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.84px;">Balfour Declaration</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.84px;"> was a letter dated <b>2 November 1917</b> from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.84px;">Balfour</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.84px;"> to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland." In it they promised that they would be for and would help create the Jewish Homeland, something much needed after 2,000 years of persecution and at best, inhospitable acts by Christian nations. <b> Chaim Weizmann</b>, chemist, had helped England by his creation of a better ammunition of which without it, they may have lost the war to the Axis of the German group. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into both the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Treaty of Sèvres">Sèvres peace treaty</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> with the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">, and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine_(legal_instrument)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument)">Mandate for Palestine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">. The original document is kept at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="British Library">British Library</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">. The shocking fact is that the Jewish National Home was to be created within the first 10 years. Jews had to wait out the 30 mandatory years, instead. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Allenby and Emir Feisal<br />Damascus, October 3, 1918<br />Feisal became king of Iraq<br />until 1933 at death.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yasser Arafat, leader of PLO. It was the Arab League who created the Palestine<br />Liberation Organization in Cairo in 1964 as a weapon against Israel.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The <b>PLO Covenant against Israel</b>, Article 20, says the Balfour Declaration and everything based upon them are deemed null and void. The claim of historical or religious ties between Jews and Palestine does not tally with historical realities, nor with the constituents of statehood in their true sense. Judaism, in its character as a religion, is not a nationality with an independent existence. Likewise, the Jews are not one people with an independent identity. They are rather citizens of the states to which they belong" </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Very black and white in their lopsided thinking, is how I see them. The Palestinians, backed by all the Arab nations, have never been willing to make peace. Now, we do have peace with Jordan and Egypt. All 3 countries face an even worse enemy, <b>ISIS</b>, and need to stand together against this evil force. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">The British issued their <b>WHITE PAPER in 1939.</b> It </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>rejected</b> the idea of the creation of a Jewish state and the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission" 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; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Peel Commission">idea of partitioning</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(mandate)" 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; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Palestine (mandate)">Palestine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">. It also limited Jewish immigration to 75,000 for 5 years, and ruled that further immigration was to be determined by the Arab majority (section II). Restrictions were put on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs (section III). Further,</span><b> it promised that only with Palestinian support would Britain allow a Jewish state.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">This greatly upset Zionists because of the increasing persecution of Jews in Europe at the onset of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="World War II">World War II</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">, particularly in Germany. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">(See</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_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; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Persecution of Jews">Persecution of Jews</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">)</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" 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: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><br />
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The policy was accepted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Amin al-Husseini">Amin al-Husseini</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Higher_Committee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Arab Higher Committee">Arab Higher Committee</a>. He was the worst enemy Israel has had. He's the one who started all the riots in Jerusalem, called the Sherif of Jerusalem. He was the antagonist against Emir Feisal, who was for Jews re-entering their own land. Zionist groups in Palestine immediately rejected the White Paper</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">So what happened? The English mandated personnel kept out Jews from entering Palestine during the uprising of the Nazis in Germany and at a time Jews needed a Jewish Homeland like never before, were turned away, the beginnings of WWII. Those who managed to enter had to do it secretly like thieves in the night, a land that their forefathers had for over 3,000 years, filled with the bones of their forefathers. "</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>Exodus 1947</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> was a ship that carried </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Jewish">Jewish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> emigrants from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="France">France</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> to </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="British Mandate of Palestine">British Mandatory Palestine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> on July 11, 1947. Most of the emigrants were </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_survivors" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Holocaust survivors">Holocaust survivors</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> who had no legal immigration certificates for Palestine. Following wide media coverage, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom">British</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> seized the ship and deported all its passengers back to Europe." Their future ended with their murder there. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">After the 30 years of waiting through the British mandate, Jews finally announced their state's birth of May 14, 1948, and were met with shooting, the war of Independence that lasted from November 29, 1947, started by the Arabs who refused to accept the UN partition resolution, to 1949. This started with Israel's population of 650,000, and the armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and a Saudi-Arabian contingent invaded their 5 minute old country. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Let's not forget the follow-up wars that showed there was no kindness or peace in the hearts of Israel's neighbors: </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">The Sinai War</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> from 29 October to 5 November 1956; The </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Six-Day War</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> from 5 to 11 June 1967; The </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">War of Attrition</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;"> from 1968 to 7-8 August 1970, The War of 1973 </span>Yom Kip<span style="background-color: yellow;">pur War</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">, attacking on the day the population was in synagogues, praying to G-d for forgiveness of their sins against HIM, the attacks of the PLO which brought on the <b>1982 war</b> in Lebanon of which I was involved in; the following Intifadas, riots, and Hamas sniping at southern Israel for years. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">During Israel's total of 67 years of existence now, they have never known real peace, and to everyone's consternation, have managed to be most successful in developing their land and offering their creations to the world. Yet, we now see a slipping back into history that is more like the horrid 1930s in Germany, a despising of Jews again, with the development of BDS.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Now, which sounds like a page out of the bible, a description of the END OF DAYS, in the</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">South</span></b>: Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza have re-armed weapons caches and have rebuilt terror tunnels. Hamas hires more than 1,000 diggers and has diverted cement and lumber coming in for civilian reconstruction to fortify their attack tunnels. This is what we thought they would do with the materials and why they had to stop fleets of ships for inspections who are part of the BDS intelligencia. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">East: </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iran, country who has threatened all of Israel and its people, who is getting ready for the one and only needed atomic bomb on Israel with their testing of long-range missiles that will carry nuclear warheads. They have flown over US naval vessels in the Persian Gulf. They awarded medals of conquest to naval commanders who illegally detained 10 US soldiers. They are supporting terrorism for the end result of destabilizing the whole region of the Middle East, and most likely will use their $100 billion in sanctions relief for the nuclear deal to this end. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tell me what other country on this planet faces the dangers that Israel faces daily on its borders. Then Israel has to cope with BDS from their allies; SOME ALLIES! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the propositions that BDS people hold against Israel is the <b>Rachel Corrie</b> incident on March 16, 2003 of a young American from Washington who went over to Israel with the purpose of interfering with the army bull-dozing terrorist homes as a punishment in Gaza. She was from the <b>International Solidarity Movement</b>., a pro-Palestinian group from the get-go. She was a willing pawn, used in the attacks against Israel. She had decided in her heart that Israel was bad and the Arabs were good, shown by her actions. <b>"</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>According to the Israeli authorities the demolitions were carried out to eliminate weapons smuggling tunnels."</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> It was a horrible accident and not the soldier's fault that an American stood in front of him while he was doing his job. None of the Palestinians were as foolish to do such a thing as stand in front of a bulldozer in use. It's like standing in front of a train. It's suicide, and that's what happened. Israel had reason to be doing the razing of homes as an act against terrorists. She was not even an Israeli-yet her group from which she came thought they had all the answers. Such naivety! You know that the Arab nations would just shoot to kill anyone breaking their laws both of terrorizing them and interfering with their punishment. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">All this is said to be the future for Israel, and some people can't abide the Jews they have replaced in G-d's world and have instead, put Jews in a 2nd class distinction along with many Muslim's view of Jews. So they have taken up arms against Israel by the BDS movement. I must say that this is very nice of them not to use live ammunition out of rifles or missiles, but they are fighting against Israel for reasons that are completely misconstrued. If they had any heart and love as they profess to be the only ones with such souls, they would have the minds to understand what's been going on and against Israel. All their energy is coming from pre-conceived ideas and false information and the inability to add 2 + 2. In an international meeting of Presbyterians, they vote to use BDS, and this is taken up as the lead move by the rest of the world, including Portland State U, who are hell bent on doing this, an act that could be calling on a suit in the courts. However, the Methodists were much wiser and are not joining in. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">This outrageous movement against Jews, as Israel is a Jewish refuge is dangerous to both the USA and Israel. This is an economic warfare against the only Jewish state in the world as well as being an economic deficit to the American businesses being withheld from their buyers. It harms both. Europe is in the act by forming new labeling guidelines for some Israeli products. Of course the aim is to pressure Israel into "unilateral concessions" outside any boundary on any peace negotiation. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">The actors want to punish Israel by delegitimizing and isolating her which makes Israel more vulnerable to her every-day security challenges. They help to create a false belief and give impetus to the idea that Palestinian authority leaders can get what they want while avoiding direct talks with Israel. This makes peace almost impossible to achieve. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.84px;">Resource: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.84px;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.84px;">AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee, letter from Washington, DC., Brian Shankman, Director</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.84px;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.84px;">http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/08/olympia-washington-activist-in-gaza.html</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.84px;">http://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/players/feisal.html</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset</span></div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-86730954762355600702016-05-14T15:16:00.000-07:002016-05-14T15:21:44.060-07:00RASHI's Troyes, France, and His Family's 1st Run-In With Crusaders <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RASHI, the acronym and the name Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaki (ben Isaac) was called, was born in Troyes, France in 1040-976 years ago. How had Jews come to France from Jerusalem when the Temple fell in 70 from Rome's takeover? They probably followed the Roman-made highway to another Roman center along Via Agrippa to Troyes. RASHI also died here in 1105. No doubt, Jews had been trading with Troyes before the fall of the Temple in the year, 70, so some Jews were familiar with it. <br />
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It was here that RASHI made his livelihood with his vineyard. He had studied in the Rhineland next door, mainly in Worms. "<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; text-align: justify;">He was a fantastic scholar and studied with the greatest student of </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/RabbenuGershom.html" style="background-color: #ffffcc; text-align: justify;">Rabbenu Gershom </a><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; text-align: justify;">of Mainz." </span> When he returned to Troyes, he established his own school, which achieved a wide reputation. He was a writer of commentary on the Bible, mainly the Torah (Pentateuch) , and the Babylonian Talmud. He survived massacres of Jews from the First Crusaders of Europe. <br />
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"<b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Troyes</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">(</span><small style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">French pronunciation: </small><span class="IPA" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_French" 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: none !important;" title="Help:IPA for French">[tʁwa]</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">) is a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes_of_France" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Communes of France">commune</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">and the capital of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Departments of France">department</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aube" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Aube">Aube</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">in north-central France. It is located on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Seine">Seine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">river about 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Paris. This area is known as the Champagne region of Northern France. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> <b>Troyes</b> has been in existence since the Roman era, as</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Augustobona Tricassium</b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Agrippa" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Via Agrippa">Via Agrippa</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "asap" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.6px;">Before Julius Caesar’s conquest, Troyes was already a town of the Gauls; under the Roman emperor </span><a class="md-crosslink" href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Augustus-Roman-emperor" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2393bd; font-family: Asap, sans-serif; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/43047/Augustus" property="about" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Augustus</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "asap" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.6px;"> it became the capital of the Gallic tribe known as the Tricasses (hence its name)." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "asap" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px;">Sacked by the Normans in 889, it soon came under the authority of the counts of Champagne, who founded a number of churches and almshouses there and established the great fairs which gained an international reputation and brought Troyes exceptional prosperity"</span><br />
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In 1285, when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_IV_of_France" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Philip IV of France">Philip the Fair</a> united Champagne to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_lands_of_France" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Crown lands of France">royal domain</a>, the town kept a number of its traditional privileges. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Fearless" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John the Fearless">John the Fearless</a>, Duke of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Burgundy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Duchy of Burgundy">Burgundy</a> and ally of the English, aimed in 1417 at making Troyes the capital of France, and he came to an understanding with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabeau_of_Bavaria" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Isabeau of Bavaria">Isabeau of Bavaria</a>, wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI_of_France" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles VI of France">Charles VI of France</a>, that a court, council, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Parlement">parlement</a>with comptroller's offices should be established at Troyes. It was at Troyes, then in the hands of the Burgundians, that on 21 May 1420, the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Troyes" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Treaty of Troyes">Treaty of Troyes</a> was signed by which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry V of England">Henry V of England</a> was betrothed to Catherine, daughter of Charles VI, and by terms of which he was to succeed Charles, to the detriment of the Dauphin. The high-water mark of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantagenet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Plantagenet">Plantagenet</a> hegemony in France was reversed when the Dauphin, afterwards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VII_of_France" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles VII of France">Charles VII</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Joan of Arc">Joan of Arc</a> recovered the town of Troyes in 1429."</div>
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I notice that Wikipedia has not mentioned RASHI at all under Troyes, even though they list famous people born there, and he is the most famous and earliest of Jewish commentators of the Bible. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2nd Crusaders of 1147 who almost killed RASHI's Grandson, a Tosaphist.<br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">The Second Battle of Dorylaeum took place on October 25, 1147. Conrad III stopped in Dorylaeum with his <b>20,000 Germanic troops</b>, to rest, but was badly defeated by the Seljuk Turks led by Mesud I. Unable to continue the Crusade, Conrad journeyed to Louis VII of France's army only to have the Crusade fail completely</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tosaphists</span></b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> were French and German scholars of the 12 to 14th century who criticized and modified with explanatory notes on the Talmud. "</span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">The most famous of these Tosafists was Rashi's grandson, <b>Rabbenu Tam (Jacob Ben Meir Tam-our perfect Master (1100-1171) </b>, who frequently disagreed with his grandfather. He was the brother of Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) and lived at Ramerupt until his home was destroyed by Crusaders in 1147 and he himself narrowly escaped death. "</span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">On May 8, 1147, on the second day of the Feast of Weeks, French crusaders broke into his home, robbed him of everything except his books, dragged him into a field, insulted him on account of his religion, and decided to kill him. They inflicted five wounds upon his head, in order, as they said, to take revenge upon the most prominent man in Israel for the five blows which the Jews had dealt to Jesus. At that moment a prince of high rank happened to pass, and Jacob called upon him for protection, promising him a horse worth five marks in return. The prince thereupon bade the crusaders give the rabbi into his keeping, promising that he would either persuade him to be baptized or place him in their power again on the following day (Ephraim bar Jacob, in Neubauer and Stern, "Hebr. Berichte über die Judenverfolgungen Während der Kreuzzüge," p. 64)".</span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Then he also settled in </span><b style="color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Troyes</b><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"> where in </span><b style="color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">1160, the first conference of French rabbis met</b><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"> under his leadership. He had become the outstanding rabbinical authority of his day. To this day, some orthodox Jews alternately wear 2 pairs of tephillin, one according to Rashi and the other according to Rabenu Tam. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Our family is related to RASHI as we have found out through DNA testing with an autosomal test, and we are not alone. Many others are, too. Rashi's family tree traced back to a connection to King David of Israel (1010 BCE-970 BCE). . </span></span></div>
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Resource; The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia: RASHI<br />
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troyes<br />
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/rashi.html<br />
http://www.britannica.com/place/Champagne-region-France<br />
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8436-jacob-ben-meir-tam<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David</div>
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Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-20019831485761464032016-05-09T12:51:00.000-07:002016-05-09T18:27:23.298-07:00Protestants Against Israel Now For BDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Portland, Oregon's City Hall has chosen some volunteer committee to decide on a big issue, and that is whether or not to back BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions ) against Israel. They have chosen to do so. The Oregonian newspaper published an opinion article on Sunday written by Alice Rothchild, who is well known enough back East to have her own page in wikipedia online. She is one of those Jews who is backing the Palestinians and not her fellow brothers and sisters who live there. She said, <i>"As a Jewish American, I am proud to stand with my Christian brothers and sisters in the US and Palestine, to support boycott and divestment as peaceful tools to bring occupation to an end." </i><br />
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Peaceful for her, maybe, but not for the people who live there. She about gave me a heart attack after reading her article. I found I made several spelling errors when typing my response. I was shaking! I thought she had to be a fellow Oregonian and see now that she lives in Massachusetts. This is a tool for our volunteer city council group to prove they made the right decision which some of us have been fighting against.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatah and Hamas, unified for this picture </span></td></tr>
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There is no real state of Palestine yet, but she addresses it as if it exists already. They do have a committee, but not a country-yet, even though so many groups have recognized them. The so called Palestinians have yet to recognize Israel and agree to live in peace. <br />
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You can read her article with this website. <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/divestment_an_appropriate_respo.html" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/divestment_an_appropriate_respo.html</a><br />
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My response to the Oregonian is below. It will not be published. I could not write a short note to answer such an attack. <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhF87C6Hkcg/VzDh9093VnI/AAAAAAAAQJo/eiSf_vNVsRAhWJH01myvvDcTsHnaCeGPACLcB/s1600/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg%2B%2Brock%2Bthrowers%2Bat%2BTemple%2BMount.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhF87C6Hkcg/VzDh9093VnI/AAAAAAAAQJo/eiSf_vNVsRAhWJH01myvvDcTsHnaCeGPACLcB/s400/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg%2B%2Brock%2Bthrowers%2Bat%2BTemple%2BMount.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking advantage of negative publicity against Israel like BDS, this is what happens on<br />the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; rock throwing Palestinians hitting Jews who are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">now using knives and cars, ramming them into crowds. . </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In response to Alice Rothchild's opinion article from page
A21, Divestment is an appropriate response to Israel's treatment of
Palestinians, I think this is the worst bit of anti-Semitism written by a Jew
I've read that is not based on any sort of research, only self-hatred feelings
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">King David of Israel (1010 BCE to 970 BCE) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moses, who led us to the Promised<br />Land b: 1391 BCE-d: 1271 BCE</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">opinionated as Alice Rothchild is, I am holding dual
citizenship and make research about Israel my life work. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Let's look at some
facts. Israel was a real empire, and the first king was Saul of the 11th
Century </span>BCE<span style="font-family: "arial";"> in about 1030 </span>BCE<span style="font-family: "arial";">. Our settlement of the land had started in the
13th century </span>BCE<span style="font-family: "arial";">. Israel-Judea (Samaria was the surrounding land of Jerusalem)
was taken by the Romans in 70 CE-so had been an empire and country for 1100
years. </span><strong style="font-family: Arial;">There never ever has been a country of Palestine</strong><span style="font-family: "arial";">, so
there aren't Palestinian people that need to reclaim land to rebuild their old
state like the Jews are doing. They are a conglomeration of neighboring people
from all the other Middle East states who came there looking for jobs Most
came after Russian Jews returned in the late 1800's when the Ottoman Empire
(Turks) held the land. Jews have been homeless for over 2,000 years, and have
suffered from a lot of anti-</span>Semitism<span style="font-family: "arial";">. Not the Arabs called Palestinians today; they were Syrians and also others who came from every other Middle Eastern
country since created after WW</span><em style="font-family: Arial;">I by the allies.</em></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emir Feisal</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><em>Emir Feisal</em> was the Arab leader of the day, and
he accepted the return of the Jews, hoping his people would learn something from
them. He was a leader, educated and intelligent who was from Saudi Arabia
originally. He was of royal blood looking for land to rule, and got it from the
British who held the WWI mandate. Another Arab, <em>Haj Amin al-Husseini,
the "Sharif of Jerusalem, the Grand Mufti</em>, was against the idea and was
able to turn his very excitable and ill -educated followers against the Jewish
return. He was a big fish in a little pond and didn't want to lose his
status. His attitude led to the Khartoum Conference where all the Arab leaders
met after 1967's failing attack on Israel and declared their THREE NO's. They
said NO peace, NO negotiations, NO recognition, and then insisted on rights of
the Palestinians people in their own country which was a down right lie.
They've been saying NO to every offer since. They didn't want the return of
these people, evidently, and they weren't about to have Jews moving into the
Middle East since they were looked upon as Dhimmis (2nd class citizens in their
countries.). <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;">Wailing Wall in Herod's day (73 BCE-4 BCE)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOxAx7JxZhQ/VzDkWod2L5I/AAAAAAAAQKI/MhDDXs39ARUfyD-C4aeLyPJvC3pK7FnBwCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg%2B%2BWestern%2BWall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOxAx7JxZhQ/VzDkWod2L5I/AAAAAAAAQKI/MhDDXs39ARUfyD-C4aeLyPJvC3pK7FnBwCLcB/s320/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg%2B%2BWestern%2BWall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Western Wall "Wailing wall" in Jerusalem<br /> 1967 was the first time that Jews could pray there since 1948 <br />It had been </span><span style="font-size: small;">under Jordanian rule until Jordan and<br />other Arabs lost the war.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Israel held off building for over a year with no results
except NO. It didn't help. The so called West Bank, which we call Judea and
Samaria, are the foundations of ancient Israel and include Jerusalem, of
course. Jews have been praying 3 times a day for a return to Jerusalem in every
synagogue around the world for the past 2,000 years, and now it's been
happening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">At a time when we could use the love Christians offer to
everyone else, we're not getting it from the Protestants; only reprimands.
Israel happens to be a country making their own decisions on how to handle
people who keep attacking them, which the Palestinians have been doing. Our
American Senators respect this little country and have done their own research
as well, so feel it is beneficial to American interests as well as to Israel's
to help them out financially. They help everyone else. For the Protestants to
feel they can force issues they see or hear about upon Israel without knowing
why Israel takes certain positions is ludicrous. How would they like it
if China decided not to do certain things that would jeopardize our economy
unless we go along with China's wishes? Hm??? Who knows what is best for the
USA? Others? The same goes for Israel, who will be 68 years old on May
14th. Israel has been attacked in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, and all because of
these Palestinian non-existent rights other than all the rights Israel has given
them. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LzeNUjMGY4w/VzDoE53wqzI/AAAAAAAAQKg/7QPloHs1ijsFDAQgVDmszlZYPtcInSgmwCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2B%2BIDF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LzeNUjMGY4w/VzDoE53wqzI/AAAAAAAAQKg/7QPloHs1ijsFDAQgVDmszlZYPtcInSgmwCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2B%2BIDF.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">All of Israel's high school students go into the army upon graduation unless<br />they are doing studies in the Yeshivote, but that may soon be abolished. They<br />will then need to serve every year for a month until age 50. They live in a<br />very dangerous neighborhood. Even now, ISIS is trying to get in. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Gaza Palestinians have been raining missiles, mortars
and rockets on their southern cities for years. It's like being asked to have
Nazis as neighbors of the Jews. Palestinians speak Arabic. Israelis speak
Hebrew. Arabs are Muslims, a contrary religion to Judaism. Jews are Jewish.
There's some similarities, but even education is of different levels between the
two. What we're trying to do is mix oil with vinegar and they're not
mixing.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qabE8gLLSqY/VzDp4pjHmPI/AAAAAAAAQK0/z0YALD5z2P02lTLeCXLH5zgksW9A5ylPQCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2B%2BDruze%2BIDF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qabE8gLLSqY/VzDp4pjHmPI/AAAAAAAAQK0/z0YALD5z2P02lTLeCXLH5zgksW9A5ylPQCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2B%2BDruze%2BIDF.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Druse Arab Israeli soldier</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-55QMkybSlvQ/VzDpifeSsFI/AAAAAAAAQKs/Mgok7HisTvAGyfd_n0gI0-Sf48h4-xrgACLcB/s1600/download%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2BChristian%2BIsraeli%2BIDF%2BArab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-55QMkybSlvQ/VzDpifeSsFI/AAAAAAAAQKs/Mgok7HisTvAGyfd_n0gI0-Sf48h4-xrgACLcB/s1600/download%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2BChristian%2BIsraeli%2BIDF%2BArab.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christian Arab Israeli soldier</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5XjnqeRznUw/VzDpHi4m7bI/AAAAAAAAQKo/Xi76R5VAgqQJzhVh-viGowTQUu-y26RZgCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg%252C%2Bethiopian%2Bjew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5XjnqeRznUw/VzDpHi4m7bI/AAAAAAAAQKo/Xi76R5VAgqQJzhVh-viGowTQUu-y26RZgCLcB/s1600/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg%252C%2Bethiopian%2Bjew.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Israeli soldier from <br />Ethiopia</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Everything Israel, a country of 6 million Jews and 1.7
million Arabs, has been doing is for their own protection and the need to stay
alive. Arabs are doing everything they can to destroy Israel. Since 1948,
people like the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, said in
Cairo, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">"<strong><em>This will be a war of extermination and a momentous
massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and Crusades."
Every leader of Arabs and Iran have followed suit saying equally nasty things
aloud to their people. Now we even have the Protestants and Alice.
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: "arial";">BDS with their B for Boycotting, D for
Divestment, S for Sanctions is not right at all. It's trying to do an
arm-twisting of Israel into complying with their own wishes which amounts to
destroying Israel. I have news for these glorious city leaders. It's not
working. Facts are showing that it's not working. What they are doing is
trying to interfere with Israel's ability to pay back loans to the USA as well.
What I feel is that Alice and her buddies in Portland's City Hall are control
freaks as well as followers of other anti-Semitic groups who have no background
as to the current or past events pertaining to Israel and have no business
mixing in in this manner. </span></em></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: "arial";">Update: 5/9/16 3:55pm </span></em></strong><a alt="http://www.jewishjournal.com/election2016/article/in_letter_to_jewish_leaders_clinton_reaffirms_commitment_to_combat_bds_effo" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RmJ6HVyBtCieE1uwbDwOjetxC9fhQ6RBiGUZzAO40gS330E9rZPDHhzqnrHCyYIX2oLM8UsH9YE0dD7y3X3Cnf3BxKns14jg7Lk-2VEHl5-PgjMeDyAKVEX4Oj6alUo8GD8PZ9r_ESz_aqITKZ9_2SFEHX8CRI_0C8Em9_BU-CtEYQpIdSOAY4aQ3w7ss-t4mUtl0NE8zlISXF40RSartd1GKTQi0Gs_1nmOdezHtc5URJ7K0TAoi9hH91SD1TXT-hWPw35rNIc0wdrYH-6aCCK_CewY9Yi6CO9BWZ3l422kQb2XeBxiPA==&c=KYbW9LI7i7VqXTR3vSwrz6lT6DxOxpMcNCexzYFl98OBx0rOwQA1sw==&ch=ezEV_GZmzkASGqMF4MVU3aiIQqXRrK_2MDI0pCKdcIT2JVN8_mZMIg==" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: #154ea2; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">Clinton: 'The BDS campaign is</a><br />
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<a alt="http://www.jewishjournal.com/election2016/article/in_letter_to_jewish_leaders_clinton_reaffirms_commitment_to_combat_bds_effo" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RmJ6HVyBtCieE1uwbDwOjetxC9fhQ6RBiGUZzAO40gS330E9rZPDHhzqnrHCyYIX2oLM8UsH9YE0dD7y3X3Cnf3BxKns14jg7Lk-2VEHl5-PgjMeDyAKVEX4Oj6alUo8GD8PZ9r_ESz_aqITKZ9_2SFEHX8CRI_0C8Em9_BU-CtEYQpIdSOAY4aQ3w7ss-t4mUtl0NE8zlISXF40RSartd1GKTQi0Gs_1nmOdezHtc5URJ7K0TAoi9hH91SD1TXT-hWPw35rNIc0wdrYH-6aCCK_CewY9Yi6CO9BWZ3l422kQb2XeBxiPA==&c=KYbW9LI7i7VqXTR3vSwrz6lT6DxOxpMcNCexzYFl98OBx0rOwQA1sw==&ch=ezEV_GZmzkASGqMF4MVU3aiIQqXRrK_2MDI0pCKdcIT2JVN8_mZMIg==" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: #154ea2; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">counterproductive to the pursuit
of peace'</a></div>
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<b>by Jacob Kornbluh,</b> <em>Jewish
Insider</em></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial";">Resource: </span></strong> <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/divestment_an_appropriate_respo.html" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/divestment_an_appropriate_respo.html</a> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From 37 to 100 CE, the land of Judah had been occupied by the Romans. Romans are about to attack Jerusalem in the picture above. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left;"> "When the Romans entered, they slaughtered many Jews from 66 to 70 CE by putting most on the cross."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the siege of Jerusalem began in the year 70, the Passover </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">sacrifice was beginning to which naturally many thousands of pilgrims had arrived from all parts of the country. The number of the besieged was then very great. Among them were many from beyond the Euphrates and other foreign lands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />1,100,000 men perished during the siege. 97,000 were taken captive and of these, only 40,000 were saved-all being citizens of Jerusalem. The rest were sold as slaves. Some were sent into the mines of Egypt. Others were distributed among the provinces for the circuses. The 40,000 found homes nearby and others headed in the direction of Rome, to continue onto France and Germany eventually. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the year of 71, Titus marched thousands of Judeans he took as slaves to Rome. The Arch of Titus commemorates the event. He became the Roman emperor from 79 to 81 CE. As the son of Vespasian, he had taken over command of the Roman army in Judea from his father in the year 70, when the Romans burned down the beloved 2nd Temple of the Jews. Then he destroyed Jerusalem after a 5 month long siege. Jewish tradition is calling Titus "wicked." His mistress was Bernice, a Judean princess. Perhaps because of her, he didn't accede to the demand of the people of Antioch to abolish Jewish privileges there. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Titus, son of Vespasian, took command of the army from his father in the year 70.<br />"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battering_ram" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Battering ram">Battering rams</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> made little progress, but the fighting itself eventually set the walls on fire; a Roman soldier threw a burning stick onto one of the Temple's walls. Destroying the Temple was not among Titus' goals, possibly due in large part to the massive expansions done by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Herod the Great">Herod the Great</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> mere decades earlier. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Titus had wanted to seize it and transform it into a temple dedicated to the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor" 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; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Roman Emperor">Roman Emperor</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology" 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; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Roman mythology">Roman pantheon</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> The fire spread quickly and was soon out of control. The Temple was captured and destroyed on <b>9/10th of </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B%27Av" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Tisha B'Av"><b>Tisha B'Av</b></a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><b style="background-color: white;">,</b><span style="background-color: yellow;">at the end of August,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and the flames spread into the residential sections of the city.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Josephus described the scene:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Everywhere was slaughter and flight. Most of the victims were peaceful citizens, weak and unarmed, butchered wherever they were caught. Round the Altar the heaps of corpses grew higher and higher, while down the Sanctuary steps poured a river of blood and the bodies of those killed at the top slithered to the bottom.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Details easier to see in black and white. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The seven-branched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Menorah (Temple)">menorah</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Trumpet">trumpets</a> are clearly depicted. It became a symbol of the Jewish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Diaspora">diaspora</a>. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">In a later era, Pope <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_IV" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul IV">Paul IV</a> made it the place of a yearly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_oath" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Loyalty oath">oath of submission</a>.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Until the modern <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="State of Israel">State of Israel</a> was founded in 1948, many Jews refused to walk under it due to a rabbinical prohibition. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The menorah depicted on the Arch served as the model for the menorah used on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Israel" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Emblem of Israel">emblem of the state of Israel</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Arch of Titus in Rome was erected by the Senate in honor of Vespasian and Titus. The present one we can see in Rome dates from the reign of Dimitian who reigned from 81 to 96 CE. The original structure did not survive till then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It shows the goddess of victory crowning Titus. The march of Jewish captives bearing the Temple vessels, the shewbread table, 7-branched candlesticks and the trumpet; the Jordan River and the sacrificial procession is seen in the Arch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">By the year 72, <b>Vespasian</b>, Roman emperor from 69 to 79, took 12,,000 Jews as slaves from Judah to Rome </span><span style="font-size: small;">to build the Colosseum under himself. Nero had sent him in 67 to subdue the Judean rebellion and by 68, he had conquered the Galilee, Transjordan and the Judean coast before suspending operations after receiving the news of Nero's death. Then in 69 he was emperor! The campaign was ended by his son. </span></div>
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Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_triumph<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Titus<br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)<br />
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2014/03/lydda-israel-what-really-happened-there.html</div>
Nadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-77000800807684979992015-12-26T12:31:00.000-08:002015-12-26T12:31:03.561-08:00BEFORE GEORGE WASHINGTON; New Amsterdam's Refusal of Jewish Refugees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nadene Goldfoot </span><br />
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The Pilgrims' boat, the Mayflower, took a turn in the Atlantic Ocean in 1620 and these people from England via living in Holland for years wound up in the New World on a Rock called Plymouth Rock, what would later be part of Massachusetts. They wanted a new start in the world but weren't about to let the Jews have the same opportunity. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Beginning in the sixteenth century, <span style="font-size: large;">the Netherlands</span> became home to numerous Portugese merchants, as the region, and particularly the city of Amsterdam, became a center of world trade and shipping. Among these merchants were many <b>Marranos (called Anusim today)</b>, who had been forced out of </span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Spain.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Spain</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> by the </span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Inquisition.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Inquisition</a><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"> in 1492. They kept their Jewish identities a secret, but, by the end of the century, had formed a community in </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">Amsterdam, a city that did not recognize religions other than Protestantism</b><span style="background-color: white;">. The community was discovered, and its leaders arrested, in 1603. </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">As a result, some of the newly-acknowledged Jews moved to the towns of Alkmaar, Rotterdam, and Haarlem, which extended them protective charters. The majority, however, remained in <b>Amsterdam</b>, and even founded a second community there in 1608.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Founded in 1602, the 1621 charter of the <b>West India Company</b> in Amsterdam''s </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">intended purpose was to eliminate competition, particularly Spanish or Portuguese, between the various trading posts established by the merchants. The company became instrumental in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_colonization_of_the_Americas" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dutch colonization of the Americas">Dutch colonization of the Americas</a>.<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The New Netherland area, which included </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New Amsterdam">New Amsterdam</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, covered parts of present-day </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New York">New York</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">,</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Delaware">Delaware</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In September 1654</b></span> the boat, the Dutch <b>St. Catrina</b>, with 23 Jews in it landed among these northern colonies of <b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">New Amsterdam</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">: </span><span lang="nl" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" xml:lang="nl"><i>Nieuw-Amsterdam</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">) which was a 17th-century </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dutch Empire">Dutch settlement</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> established at the southern tip of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Island" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Manhattan Island">Manhattan Island</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, which served as the seat of the colonial government in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New Netherland">New Netherland</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span>and at first were turned away because they were Jews. Jews were hated by these English settlers. The Jews were made up of 4 couples; 2 widows and 13 children: (10 adults and<br />
13 children) . They had come from <b>Recife, Brazil. <span style="background-color: white;">"</span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">These </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Brazil.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Brazilian Jews</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> were the descendants of perhaps 5,000 Jews who had been living in </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_16538.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Recife</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">, most of them secretly, since the mid-1500s. The Dutch captured portions of </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Brazil.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Brazil</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> from the Portuguese in <b>1624</b>, and some neo-Christians openly returned to the practice of their Jewish faith. When Portugal recaptured </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Brazil.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Brazil</a><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"> in 1654, these Jews feared the introduction of the Inquisition and fled. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">They were probably on their way back to Amsterdam after a stop in Jamaica when their ship was attacked by a Spanish privateer who stripped them of their valuables.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> A return to Europe was now out of the question. The refugees then made a deal with the <b>ship's captain, Jacques de la Mothe</b>,</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> to take them to New Amsterdam, which they thought would be a hospitable destination."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"From 1630 onward, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> came to control almost half of Brazil's area at the time, with their <b>capital in Recife</b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dutch West India Company">Dutch West India Company</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">(WIC) set up their headquarters in Recife. The governor, </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maurice,_Prince_of_Nassau-Siegen" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen">Johan Maurits</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, invited artists and scientists to the colony to help promote Brazil and increase immigration. The Portuguese won a significant victory at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Guararapes" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Second Battle of Guararapes">Second Battle of Guararapes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in 1649. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">On 26 January 1654, the Dutch surrendered and signed the capitulation,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> but only as a provisory pact. By May 1654, the Dutch demanded that the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> was to be given New Holland back. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">On 6 August 1661, New Holland was formally ceded to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" 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; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Portugal">Portugal</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> through the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_The_Hague_(1661)" 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; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Treaty of The Hague (1661)">Treaty of The Hague</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">."</span></span><br />
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The Portuguese had conquered Dutch Brazil in 1654, and this group had to emigrate because of this. Not only were they told to leave, but they themselves feared the Spanish Catholic Inquisition from 1492, for it had never stopped seeking out Jews to punish on their racks or to burn them at the stake. These people had originally docked in Jamaica and Cuba, but the Spanish didn't allow them to stay there. Their ship went on to New Amsterdam, which was later named New York. .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">b: 1612 in The Netherlands, governor from 1647-1664 of<br />New Amersterdam, a Dutch Colony-<br />working for the West India Company since about 1635. </span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Peter Stuyvesant</span></b> was the appointed director-general in 1646 of the <b>West India Company</b>. He was also the Colonial governor at that time and tried to have them expelled, also, and went so far as to write a letter to the directors of the Dutch West India Company dated September 22, 1654:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here, but learning that they (with their customary usury and deceitful trading with the Christians) were very repugnant to the inferior magistrates, as also to the people having the most affection for you; the Deaconry also fearing that owing to their present indigence they might become a charge in the coming winter, we have, for the benefit of this weak and newly developing place and the land in general, deemed it useful to require them in a friendly way <span style="background-color: yellow;">to depart</span>, praying also most seriously in this connection, for ourselves as also for the general community of your worships, that the deceitful race---such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ---<span style="background-color: yellow;">be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony</span> to the detraction of your worships and the dissatisfaction of your worships' most affectionate subjects." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Evidently these 23 did not have passports! There were already 3 in New Amsterdam with passports that they couldn't get rid of. These 23 were from Dutch Brazil, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Their anti-Semitism was dripping from this letter. To think that they themselves came from Holland, a far more broad-minded country than England ever was, and reacted like this was most disappointing to the 23 Jews after sailing for so long. England had expulsed Jews who were living there way back in 1290 and only allowed Jews to immigrate back in 1655, a year AFTER these Jews tried to land in the New World's New Amsterdam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Much to Peter Stuyvesant's surprise, among the directors of the Dutch West India Company were several influential Jews, who interceded on the refugees' behalf. Company officials scolded Stuyvesant and ordered him in a letter dated April 26, 1655, to let the Jews remain in New Amsterdam, "provided that the poor among them shall not become a burden to the company or to the community, but be supported by their own nation." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Isn't it amazing? They were refugees and were not to get any help at all from the people of New Amsterdam. What if they all were without funds and were starving? Among those 4 men had to have been enough money to keep 23 people alive until they could get on their feet and exist like the rest of the colony were. They were traders. Evidently they had a rough go of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> He had referred to Jews as a "repugnant race" and "usurers", and was concerned that "Jewish settlers should not be granted the same liberties enjoyed by Jews in Holland, lest members of other persecuted minority groups, such as Roman Catholics, be attracted to the colony."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 11.2px;">Sometimes it turns out that how you treat others comes back to you in kind. "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">In 1664, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Charles_II_of_England" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="King Charles II of England">King Charles II of England</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> ceded to his brother,<b> the Duke of York</b>, later </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="James II of England"><b>King James II</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, a large tract of land that included </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New Netherland"><b>New Netherland</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">. Four English ships bearing 450 men, commanded by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nicolls" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Richard Nicolls">Richard Nicolls</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, seized the Dutch colony. On 30 August 1664, George Cartwright sent the governor a letter demanding surrender. He promised "life, estate, and liberty to all who would submit to the king's authority." Stuyvesant signed a treaty at his Bouwerij house on 9 September 1664. Nicolls was declared governor, and the city was renamed </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New York City">New York</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">. Stuyvesant obtained civil rights and freedom of religion in the Articles of Capitulation. The Dutch settlers mainly belonged to the Dutch Reformed church, a Calvinist denomination, holding to the Three Forms of Unity (Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of Dordt). The English were Anglicans, holding to the 39 Articles, a Protestant confession, with Bishops.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">No other people have ever had to live through 1654 years of persecution and hatred and death for a false accusation of killing another's God. That's where all this anti-Semitism comes from. For people who brought justice to the world in the 10 commandments, they find they are excluded from such by others. </span><br />
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Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Colonial_America<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam<br />
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Brazil<br />
http://nychistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/return-to-establishment-of-shearith.html<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company<br />
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