Let me make something very clear to you all, both the *indigenous mind* and the *colonized mind* (radical honesty!):
Zionists are *not* “Europeans.” We are *Jews* – my Sephardi self included! And, we indigenous Jews have always been Zionists, without any doubt and without question! The Jews who fought the British occupier and anti-Jewish Arabs off our Judean-Samarian land – enough of our Indigenous People’s ancestral land to reestablish modern self-sovereignty – were a mixture of (mostly) Mizrahi-Sephardi Jews and (significantly!) Ashkenazi Jews, working together. … Let’s compare this, shall we?!
Who resisted the Jewish desire to reestablish our sovereignty on our ancestral land? In order to save ourselves as a People from assimilation, oppression, and attempted genocides? But, of course! Arabs/Muslims and Europeans/Christians, aka Colonizers! Who believe, because their colonizing religion tells them to believe this, that they have the inherent *supremacist* right to rule over our land, even though it’s not *their* indigenous land.
Who sees a problem in this?! Who understands that, if Christianity and Islam were truly allies of the Jewish people and professors of our ethno-religious beliefs, then they would *not* be attempting to rule our ancestral land for us – as if they’ve replaced us?! – For honesty sake, our nation is six times smaller than the USA State of New York! – *And* we’re still here!!! Many Jews were forced out (through slavery, occupation, oppression, etc. – my family, too!). But, we never left our land, and we long for continued sovereignty upon our land! Hello?
Torah law mandates that we allow all non-Jews to come and be “religious” with us, even live with us under the same law for Jew and non-Jew. But, *nowhere* does Torah teach that we should *voluntarily* give up our land to religious Colonizers and be a People subjugated to non-Jewish rule! Show me where our indigenous people ever taught this about ourselves, and I’ll be what I call colonized anti-Zionist Jews, a Yehudicano! – Yes, “American” Jews, we see you!
If you *really* want to be an ally of the Jewish people, then have *just as much interest* in each Indigenous People’s/Nation’s efforts to reestablish real self-sovereignty upon their ancestral lands (as you have for the Jewish people!), even though your religion is not based upon theirs(!). Is any non-Jew hearing us?
All Indigenous Peoples in this world have their versions of Jewish history, just without – yet – the hoped for return of self-sovereignty upon the land (which we Jews fought the British to make happen!). They, too, are just as important as the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria! I’ll say it again: Every surviving Indigenous People in this world is just as important as the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria!
How about the Kurds, who are over two times the number of Jews within this world, who have *no* sovereignty over their ancestral land? How about the Wampanoag people who *regret* helping the Pilgrims through their first winter? How about the Amazonian tribes watching their land being *deliberately* deforested? How about the Sami Raindeer people of Europe who want their ancestral land *actually* protected from industrial activities?
Being a real ally of *all* Indigenous Peoples in this world, *this* is being a real ally of the Jewish people! For, we Jews have always been one of them – and usually occupied!
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Perhaps you’ve not read yet. “One person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.” Jews fought the British for independence on our ancestral land, and won!
It is a history denying mistake to equate “Palestinian and Jewish terrorism, concluding that there is no difference between what the Zionists did before 1948 to achieve an independent state and what the Palestinians are doing now for independence. [For] there are critical differences, which [Bruce] Hoffman makes clear in his carefully researched and balanced treatment of the Jewish underground [read ‘Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947’].
Both the Irgun and the Lehi focused their attention on British military and governmental targets. Civilians were killed, but they were not generally targeted. The Jewish underground also often called in warnings before attacking targets, although Hoffman chronicles a mixed record in this regard. Palestinian terrorism, on the other hand, has been often indiscriminate and frequently directed specifically at civilians.
Looking at the 30-year period between the end of World War I and the end of the British Mandate, Hoffman introduces the reader to the Jewish, Arab and British personalities who fought a complex battle for political dominance and national independence. Having made contradictory promises to Jews and Arabs to secure their support during World War I, the British were left to clean up the mess they created as overseers of the Mandate for Palestine….
Begin’s Irgun targeted British military and political institutions in Palestine and elsewhere, with the objective of proving that British rule over Palestine was unsustainable. Shamir’s Lehi also claimed to focus on British targets, but its attacks killed many Jews and Palestinians.
Both the Irgun and the Lehi proved stridently resilient, even as the British increased troop strength to more than 100,000 in 1946-1947 to take on the approximately 5,000 underground fighters. By 1947, Britain was exhausted both at home and in Palestine and yielded the Mandate to the United Nations, which voted for partition.”
– Daniel Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East policy studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/assessing-role-of-terrorism-by-jewish-underground-in-founding-of-israel/2015/03/13/9ac811fe-b938-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html
How terrorism helped found Israel
“In Hoffman’s words, ‘Notwithstanding the repeated denials of governments — terrorism can, in the right conditions and with the appropriate strategy and tactics, succeed in attaining at least some of its practitioners’ fundamental aims.’ ” He meant freedom fighting, of course, for ancestral land and way of life, which is what Jews did to regain self-sovereignty upon our ancestral land.
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“Upload, the master race idea
Genetically disposed to rule the world
Download a future full of isolated
Full of isolated, boys and girls
Upload the 2 party system
The lesser of 2 dangers, illusion of choice
Download their form of fascism
Nothing really ever changes
You never had a voice
Listen to me one time
If you look, you’re sure gonna find
Throughout mankind’s history
A colonized mind
The one in power makes law
Under which the colonized fall
Without God, it’s just the blind leading the blind” – Prince!
What is common among all Indigenous Peoples is attachment to a specific land, harvest festivals, and taxation through agriculture for the survival of the indigenous people. Doesn’t matter if it’s the Jewish people in Judea-Samaria or Kānaka upon a Pacific island. All Indigenous Peoples share similar rituals, and *all* have felt the same pains of Colonization!
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I have to ask the following question quite a lot on Jewish web pages:
“Why do Christians come to Jewish web pages to proselytize, rather than to learn? Did we seek to be proselytized by a colonizing religion? Did we seek to have non-Jews tell *us* Jews what *our* BCE and CE ancestral writings are saying – to us and to the world?!
How kind of you to enlighten us on *our* ancestors understanding of ANE and early CE Levantine religious beliefs. Please, what else are we getting wrong about our Indigenous history and your all’s northern history, may I ask?”
I happen to know the *reason* for this phenomenon. Care to learn about it? … It starts at the beginning of Christianity in the Aegean north. (I know, “Booo!”)
For the survival of any indigenous people, to include the Jewish people’s survival, we must understand the Colonizer’s mind, whether it be European Christian or Arab Muslim. We must know them – history and religion – like we know our own, if there is ever to be peaceful self-sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples within this world!
You don’t even know the origins of your own religion, but you presume to understand ours better than we – as you were taught to do.
The very first Christian Bible was created in the first half of the 2nd century. It contained seven letters written by Paul, the Jewish heretic, and a pre-Book of Luke. Marcion of Sinope with his Bible spread the teachings that YHWH god is a tribal deity, and that Jesus had revealed in his coming a totally new and superior god. He further taught early Christians that the “Old Testament” does *not* prophesize of the coming of Jesus, and that a Jewish messiah is still in the future for Jews.
This very popular early Christianity greatly bothered other early Christians who wanted to include the “Old Testament” into the Christian bible to ground this new Christianity in Jewish texts. To do so, they had to create the Acts of the Apostles, which teaches that Jesus was foreseen in Jewish literatures, that Jews rejected Jesus and, thus, the “Old Testament” and its promised blessings to Jews now belonged *only* to Christians.
By the 4th century CE, this denigrating rhetoric had metastisized into devoutly open gentile Roman Christian anti-Jewish racism. Origen of Alexandria had set the stage for the division of humans by races, whites (“good nations”) are born white because of the Christian god, colored folk (“bad nations”) are born as individuals into these nations because they sinned against the Christian god before birth.
St. Augustine encouraged the Roman enslavement of “the ungodly race of carnal Jews.” St. John Chrysostom taught that, because Jews rejected the Christian God in human flesh, we therefore deserved to be killed: “grew fit for slaughter,” because “Jews worship the devil… their religion a disease….” St. Jerome connected all Jews with Judas Iscariot and the immoral use of money: “Judas is cursed, that in Judas the Jews may be accursed… their prayers turn into sins.”
For 1,600 years, now, we the Jewish people have been demonized with the same culturally systemic anti-Jewish racists tropes, generation upon generation – leading to repetitious historical genocides and ethnic cleansing of our Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria. Even worse, we are not *listened* to by Christians, rather told what to believe about *our* literatures!
Peace comes through radical honesty and *accountability* by *all* within an unbalanced world of Colonizer and the victimized Colonized. The latter – the *colonized* Indigenous Peoples – are who the Colonizer/Colonized minds are daily taught to believe have been *blessed* by their colonization(!). The only way to survive colonization, as an Indigenous People, is to be devoutly *insular* or devoutly *educated* in the history of supremacist colonization within this human world.
There is no equivalency here, between Colonizer and colonized, just *straight* honesty about which is what in this world – for the sake of obtaining “*social justice*” and “*peace*” among humankind upon this planet Earth!
Note: Marcion of Sinope was pro-Judaism. All Christians that rejected his teachings were anti-Judaism. Just saying!
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