{"id":1402,"date":"2021-08-08T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aniyostsef.com\/kahal\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:15:29","slug":"the-levant-the-landowner-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aniyostsef.com\/kahal\/2021\/08\/08\/the-levant-the-landowner-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Levant, The Landowner, The People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The First Peoples of this continent – that white Christian colonizers named “America” – believed that no one owns the land. But, this did not stop them, the indigenous, from fighting for the right to live freely and peacefully within their ancestral places. To oppose the white Christian colonizer, and their revisionist history! The same is true for Hawaiians, and for the Kurds. So it is, this is also true for the Jews, and our desire to live freely and peacefully in *just a portion* of our Levant ancestral places! Un-persecuted by the conquests and revisionist histories of the Christian and Islamic colonizers\/conquesters of the land. Jews, too, believe that humans don’t actually own the land.<\/p>\n

Our ancestral literatures, the Torah, teaches us that only YHWH god owns the Levant land (think Israel, West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan\/ancient-Moab of today) – \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d7:\u05d6-\u05d9. All other portions of the continent, other lessor gods under El\/Elohim owned in their proportions, like YHWH god owns his portion – \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05dc\u05d1:\u05d7-\u05d8, \u05ea\u05d4\u05d9\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd \u05db\u05d8:\u05d0. (This is actually what Torah teaches!) To each nation, a national god-King, aka Landowner. Between the two peoples, Jews and Edomites\/Idumeans, that YHWH god subjected to his national rule for having been established in the land – \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05db\u05d2:\u05d7, Jews are specifically chosen to live under the covenant of YHWH god laws – \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05db\u05d8:\u05d8-\u05d9\u05d3. And, in return for commitment to YHWH god, Jews will always have a presence in the land of Judea (historic Palestine) – \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05d9\u05d6\u200e.<\/p>\n

Our ancestral literatures, our Torah, also teaches us that the sanctity of human and all other animal species life is universal – \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05d0:\u05db,\u05db\u05d0,\u05db\u05d3,\u05dc! We all have the same breath – \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d9\u05d1:\u05db\u05d2. We all, regardless of species, breathe and have life because of Elohim god’s breath (“soul”) within us. Further, Torah teaches that, among humans, both male and female were created *together*, at the same time – \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05d0:\u05db\u05d6-\u05db\u05d7, and from these many humans spawed the nations of the land – \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05d3:\u05d8\u05d6. (This is actually what Torah teaches!) Now, because Jews specifically are covenanted to following YHWH god’s laws, being the Levant indigenous, Torah demands that there will be one law for both Jews and gentiles within Israel – \u05e9\u05de\u05d5\u05ea \u05d9\u05d1:\u05de\u05d8. … Modern day Israel is a continuation of this “democratic” ideal, within her Jewish borders – albeit, still with a few social flaws.<\/p>\n

For Jews to realize the Messianic Age of peace upon the land – \u05d9\u05e9\u05e2\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 \u05d1:\u05d3,\u05d9\u05d0:\u05d5-\u05d8, the persecution of the refugee nation \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc (the only nation in the world comprised of mostly refugees – the present nation-State of Israel) must end. No more conquests by Christians and Muslims! Acceptance of the right of Israel to exist on a sliver of her former national land-self.<\/p>\n

Education, especially historical education – verifiable and demonstrable – frees the mind from near two thousand years of hate tropes and irrational conspiracy theories. Within me and through all fathers before me, I am a Levantine Jew through and through. Oddly though, through admixturing, I look Scandinavian-ish. This is because my Levantine Dad (the Levant “First Peoples”) married my Sardinian Mom (the European “First Peoples”), and surprise(!) – four different versions of the world of humans came out of her womb (I kid you not)!<\/p>\n

If you look at the skin surface, you’ve missed the human being before you! Learn from him\/her first. … Yes, the land only belongs to the ancestral gods of the land, but it is right for the indigenous to fight for freedom and safety upon the land! And for both the indigenous and the emigrant to share the land in peace. Humans *must* find peace for the sanctity of life – or the gods that be will kick us off the earth and into extinction – yes, as a failed primate species experiment upon this planet!<\/p>\n

An indigenous and Jewish photographer wants to tell her people’s story before it’s too late<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n