This photo is fascinating! And I’ll tell you why. It’s an example of what happens when you replace colorblind-ness with colorization. Look carefully for a moment, please! This is a photo from WWI, the Paris Peace Conference, to resolve the Middle East part. All the men, except for one, are Colonizers (grabbers of lands not their own). What’s missing in this photo – of those who are about to decide our human future – is a Jewish man. Nowhere to be seen, though we were just as affected by this world war in Judea-Samaria (what foreigners want to call “Palestine”)! Also, did you notice? Did you see it? … I’ll give you a moment. … One of these Colonizers brought his slave along, to show off in the photo. Hint, not white enough! Which Colonizer do you think this “servant” belongs to?
Photo: The Arabian Commission to the Peace Conference and its advisors. In front, Emir Feisal with, from left to right, Mohanned Rustum Bey Haidar of Baalbek, Brigadier General Nuri Pasha Said, Captain Pisani, T.E. Lawrence and Capt. Hassan Bey Kadri. … And, who? … Before you European Colonizers get all superior and ish(!), the first time a white man got punished for slavery in European history was this same 20th century CE (just a bit later than this photograph!).
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Attention! Present arms! … Israeli style, of course, haTikva in Abu Dhabi UAE! Order arms!
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Folks, stop thanking Donald “The Grifter” Trump for the Abraham Accords! All he did is what he’s always done his whole adult life – stood on the achievements of others and put his name onto it. Everything DJT does is for his benefit only! If Donald J Trump’s kakistocracy Administration had promised him that, if he signs this Executive Order to deport all USA Jews to Auschwitz – and – his political base would *love* him for it, we know – based on DJT himself(!) – that he would have done it, without a second thought! He is that indifferent about the Jewish people, Jerusalem or Auschwitz, it’s all the same too him! DJT’s only love is the glorification of him from from those wrapped in his cult of personality and are ready to be grifted by him!
The United States has been a hindrance to Middle East peace for numerous decades, rather than a participant towards this! The world does not want to be “nation-building” into miniature versions of the United States! Even before the 45th kakistocracy of the U.S., Israel had been working peace and ally-ship with Arab neighbors. The UAE and others have long refocused their attention upon Iran. Have you not been watching the news over the decades? Obviously, not.
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Spoken like a true European Colonizer! “My country” equals “the world.” “My religion” is “to do good” for white folks – who are the citizens of “My country”! Historical context is *vitally* important with these quotes, lest you miss the *systemic* sins of Colonizer cultures – both European Christian and Arab Muslim – upon which these quotes are made. For, if the systemic institutions remain, these quotes apply *only* to white citizens.
My country is my indigenous Jewish people, which demands freedom from the Colonizers, so that we may be *nationally* fully self-sovereign on our ancestral land again!
Thomas Paine talked about “free thought” but his thoughts were contained in European racism and Chattel slavery, the erasure of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Rights, and … his thoughts helped inspired the white Christian landowners/slaveowner’s of the stolen continent they named “America” to engage in an insurrection against their ruling British government to avoid having to pay taxes (the American Revolution!). The Landowners/Slaveowners/Lawyers of the “American” Colonies traded Roylaty elitism for Them, wealthy male European -selves. The writers of the U.S. Constitution only had white males in mind when they wrote it! The Civil War was over keeping the Chattel slavery economy intact in perpetuity. Since that wasn’t feasible any longer, prison-slavery was institutionalized to keep non-whites at work for white citizens, with the rest forced into the European created “Ghetto”s (invented in Europe for their “Jew” problem).
If blacks and Jews had not forced this white Christian United States society to enact some kind of Civil Rights legislation for non-whites in the 1960’s, this United States would not have seemed so “democratic” and “colorblind” (a form of white supremacy equivalency racism) over the last 60 years of United States history. Now, white Christians want their Nadir Era country back, based on the teachings of their Founding Fathers of the United States.
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There are Jews who chant religiously everyday TaNaKh passages from a Siddur, faithfully. There are Jews who meditate religiously everyday, in an effort to be fully present and aware, faithfully. There are Jews who study Daf Yomi (Oral Torah, Gemara), in an effort to bring the Divine (the best of us!) into lived reality, faithfully. There are Jews, like me, who study history obsessively (demonstrable, actual, factual) and share it everyday for the sake of ידע אנושי (human knowledge), the precursor to honest and genuine human understanding, faithfully!
All of these Jewish approaches are valuable! All are equally necessary, and encouraged from every Jew. What all types of Jews seek in this world, especially those who employ multiple approaches, is our survival as an Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria, full stop (on this!). And that humankind learns to live in peace with this – Indigenous thinking – and allowing minority voices! Something to contemplate this Shabbat (aka, “weekend” for non-Jews).
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Up to the 1880’s well over half of the Jews residing in the Land of Israel/Palestine were Sephardi and/or came from Muslim countries. Eurocentric Jewish and Zionist historiographies, however, have often overlooked or marginalized these Jews and their activities.
This four-part series will shed light on the multi-faceted relationships of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the Holy Land and their presence in the Land. Although the focus of the series will be on those Jews who lived in 19th and early 20th century Palestine, these were never disconnected from Diaspora Sephardi and Arabic-speaking communities and/or their communities of origin. Eretz Israel was always an integral part of the Middle East.
After defining the geographic areas, political terms, and social concepts relevant for the study of MENA Jews and Eretz Israel, we will examine traditional links between Jews in the Diaspora with the Holy Land, and developments in the 19th century Mediterranean Basin that impacted them. Additional political, economic, and social aspects of MENA Jewish communities will be examined in the context of migration and Aliyah (immigration to the Land of Israel). Finally, the demographic characteristics of the olim (immigrants) themselves, their travel routes, and strategies for coping en route will be presented.
– בית אבי חי Beit Avi Chai
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