Please tell the 'Palestinians'.....In under 30 seconds, @Jeopardy proves #Jewish history in the land of #Israel đźđ±. đ pic.twitter.com/lOSwAgjBJhâ Dani Klein (@YeahThatsKosher) April 13, 2016
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:30 PM
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Labels: archaeology, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Old City of Jerusalem
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:44 PM
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Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Christiane Amanpour, history lesson, Jewish history, Naftali Bennett, occupation, Palestinian denial of Jewish history
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:16 PM
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Hannah Tikotzky was born in 1908 in Grajewa, in the Bialystok region in Poland. In 1933 she immigrated to Palestine with her husband. The couple had two daughters. In the summer of 1939 Tikotzky traveled with the girls to Poland for a vacation and for them to meet their grandparents. The war, which broke out on September 1 when Germany invaded Poland, turned the vacation into escape from death.
Before the war Tikotzky took photographs of herself with her daughters on Tel Avivâs Rothschild Boulevard. The three look happy and healthy. After the war they were photographed again, this time looking thin and aggrieved.
The excursion of 1939 was supposed to be a pleasure trip, says Tikotzky's daughter, who was five at the time. Before the war broke out she had good times in Poland. "I went to summer camp in Bialystok, we learned songs," she recalls. "I still remember the Russian soldiers who came into the city and the songs they sang."
Then the war started and the family embarked on "a journey of hardships on trains in Europe, toward the Russians, in an attempt to reach Odessa and from there to go back to Israel."
The three somehow arrived at Odessa and took a ship filled with Anders' Army troops - Polish armed forces in the East who operated in the Soviet Union and were loyal to the Polish government in exile. After docking in Turkey they boarded another ship and sailed to Haifa Port. There they reunited with Hannah's worried husband, who had paid someone to arrange their return home.
In their luggage they brought numerous letters from Jews in Bialystok, Grajewa and Pruzhany to their family members in Palestine. Tikotzky published the full list of the addressees' names in the newspaper, but her daughter does not remember how many of them had been delivered.Read the whole thing.
Labels: Holocaust, Jewish history
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:27 PM
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Last Sunday's Star opinion page layout was indeed brilliant. Reading the Edward Greenspon piece clearly demonstrates the need for intervention and action when radical elements take any form of power and threaten human rights. His closing remarks indicating that totalitarianism rarely starts total and that it must be confronted before it can become whole is a message to our generation.
In order to fully comprehend the enemy, it is important to understand the pronouncements and motivation of those who are seeking to establish totalitarianism in today's world. Islamism clearly articulates the political intent to eradicate Israel off the face of the earth and ensure that Christianity is fully relegated to second class status. Witness the status of Bahaâi in Iran and Christians in Egypt, especially under the Moslem Brotherhood.
The effectiveness of the Islamist propaganda machine is best witnessed when one analyses pronouncements from the White House indicating that the most critical issue confronting the Middle East is the Palestinian Israeli situation. The 93,000 dead in Syria, the majority of whom were civilians, appears to be less important, the development of nuclear arms in Iran is less problematic. Even the rule of the Islamic radical Hamas in Gaza has been overwritten as a concern. Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia are ignored and the upheaval in Egypt is secondary to the Palestinian-Israeli problem. We can also apparently disregard the turmoil in Iraq, the presence of Al Qaeda in Yemen and Egypt and the success of the Hezbollah and Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria which will once again be poised for an attack on Israel from the north.
The "good news" is that Haroon Siddiqui (August 1 comment Canadian Jews wade in on Arab-Israeli conflict) is pleased to find a Jew of means who takes issue with the positions, pronouncements and activities of the majority of the organized Jewish community in this country. He delights in having a Jew saying âI won't buy into their agenda of paranoia and imminent destruction".
However, we in the Jewish community have a choice. We can take to heart the warnings of Edward Greenspon and learn from our recent history or ignore the warnings at our peril. When the great Zionist leader Zev Jabotinsky, trudged from city to city in Eastern Europe in the 1930's, he pleaded with the Jews to abandon and liquidate the diaspora before it liquidated them. Of course, he was accused of being paranoid and engaging in fear mongering. Today, we too can choose to ignore the daily pronouncements emanating from the Islamist world regarding the destruction of Israel, the threat of Hamas in the Gaza and the very real Hezbollah threats coming from Lebanon as Siddiqui and those he cites might have us do. We could choose to believe that concessions by Israel, that could very well jeopardize its security as the landmass in question is minuscule, would be the panacea for the world and we can then copy the proclaim "peace in our time".
We could follow the examples of others and close our eyes and pretend that every anti-Semitic incident happening on a daily basis in Europe is a figment of the Jewish paranoia. We could ignore the attacks on Jewish institutions and individuals and we could buy into the theory that the Jewish organizations exaggerate and overestimate the horrific growth of new age anti-Semitism.
However, to do so would be at our peril. As Mr. Greenspon's insight suggests, if we are to combat the new totalitarianism that confronts us we must learn from the history of only 70 years ago as well as the history of the forced Jewish abandonment of the Gaza strip to advance peace.
To prepare for our future, let us now realize once and for all that the threats of our enemy are real. Let us partner with human rights activists and parliamentarians who understand the threat of anti-Semitism and terrorism and let us not shy away from confronting radical Islamism and the threats that that ideology poses to Christians, Jews, the gay and lesbian communities, women's rights and the multitude of freedoms we now enjoy.
We didn't listen in the 1930âs. The wake-up call is ringing loudly once again.
Frank DimantCEO B'nai Brith Canada
Labels: Holocaust, Jewish history
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:58 PM
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Question of the Week:
As a believing Christian, I made a recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I was profoundly disturbed by the Jewish state and its criminal occupation of the West Bank. The international community has condemned this time and time again. How can you justify usurping land that belongs to others?
Answer:
You are entitled to your opinion on the matter. But I hope you are consistent in your beliefs. Being that you oppose a Jewish presence on the West Bank, I assume you will not be participating in any Xmas celebrations during the coming days. According to your view, there is no reason to be merry on December 25.
The Christian holidays celebrate an event that you have named a criminal act - the birth of a Jewish baby to a Jewish family in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Your views should not allow you to have any part in this cheer, for if you did you would be giving retroactive approval to a Jewish settlement on the West Bank that dates back more than two thousand years.
Perhaps you will be joined by the UN and other humanitarian organizations around the world condemning any celebrations that are connected with this controversial birth, as such events would be recognizing the rights of a Jewish family to live on what you see as occupied territory.
However I must warn you, by espousing this view and not celebrating, you will be vastly outnumbered. The international community, by celebrating Xmas, expresses support for the fact that the West Bank has always been the home of the Jewish people.
Labels: Christmas, Jewish history
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:16 AM
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UNESCO is pursuing a diabolical Arabized geography which opens the door to a JĂŒdenrein Judea, a de-Judaized âholy landâ, as the anti-Semitic semanticists call it.
But the attack on language is more than semantic. If itâs Jewish, then itâs called âJudea and Samariaâ. If itâs âWest Bankâ or âPalestineâ, those are justifications for saying that âJews stole itâ. And the Palestinian Arabs, whose members came to the holy land from the Arabian desert in the 7th century, become the descendants of the long-disappeared, so-called âindigenous Canaanitesâ of the Bible.
That's why a few days ago Irina Bokova, head of UNESCO, sent a message to the Palestinian Authority âon the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian Peopleâ,in which she proclaims the support for "the Palestinian cultural industry".
Battir, however, is not âa Palestinian villageâ with an old irrigation system, itâs the holy site of the ancient Jewish fortress of Betar, the site of the last organized resistance of the Jews to Roman rule in 135 C.E. during the historically documenteed Bar Kochba rebellion.
But in the UNESCO protocols there is no mention of Betar.
According to the UNESCO-Palestinian Authority joint venture, Eretz Yisrael is a myth, a colonialist construct, a Jewish plot.
UNESCOâs next steps are underto take place under Israelâs nose: very soon the Temple Mount, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephâs Tomb and the Shalom al Israel synagogue will be designated as âmosquesâ by the UNâs agency.
Slapping history squarely in the face, UNESCO has already adopted the Arab-islamic propaganda and declared that Rachelâs Tomb and Hevronâs Cave of the Patriarchs are âMuslim mosquesâ.Read the whole thing.
Labels: Arab denial of Jewish history, Jewish history, Palestinian denial of Jewish history, revisionist history, UNESCO
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:37 PM
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According to daily newspaper Israel HaYom, [archaeological journalist Benny] Liss screened a video clearly showing thousands of human skeletons in what appears to be a mass grave.Hmmm. By the way, because the IAA resealed the cave entrance, the official line is that 'no one can determine' whether the bodies are Jewish or Muslim.
Liss "told the amazed audience that the film had been shot in a spacious, underground cavern in the area of the Mercy Gate [Sha'ar Harachamim in Hebrew, a sealed gate in the wall of the Old City, opposite the Mount of Olives, ed.], near the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, but just outside it," the newspaper reported. Liss raised the possibility that the skeletons were the remains of 6,000 Jews, mostly women and children, killed on the Temple Mount when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple.
The massacre is described in the writings of Josephus Flavius, who defected from the Jewish to the Roman side and witnessed the destruction.
The movie shows Liss entering the cave, followed by a lighting technician and cameraman. The three first pass through a narrow passage and then enter the cave with the skeletal remains. As soon as Liss left the cave, Antiquities Authority (IAA) staff resealed the entrance to it, he said.
"The Romans stayed on the Temple Mount for a month after the destruction of the Temple until going on to conquer the upper city [today's Jewish Quarter],â says Liss. âThey had to get rid of the thousands of decomposing bodies and the most obvious place to do this would have been the natural caves on the upper slope of the mount, around Mercy Gate."
Labels: Jewish history, Second Temple, Temple Mount, Tisha b'Av
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:31 AM
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Sunday is the 19th day of the Jewish month of Shvat (Hat Tip: Gary P). In 1349, Jews in Basle, Switzerland were burned alive in a wooden house, erected specifically for that purpose. The Jewish community of Basel had flourished until 1348, when they were accused of poisoning wells during the Black Plague. This triggered a variety of persecutions: Jewish children were forcibly baptized, 600 Jews were burned at the stake, and the remainder were burned alive in the wooden house. In modern history, Basel became better known as the host of the first Zionist Congress in 1897. Ironically, on this date in 1949 -- exactly 600 years after the massacre in Basle -- the State of Israel elected its first president, Chaim Weizman.Hmmm.
Labels: Chaim Weitzmann, Jewish history
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:25 PM
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:45 AM
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Labels: Basel, Chaim Weitzmann, Jewish history
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:54 PM
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:32 PM
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