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WHY PALESTINE?

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  At the conclusion of WWI, a conference was held in 1920 at San Remo that determined the precise boundaries for territories captured by the Allies. The attendees were the Principal Allied Powers, with The United States as a neutral observer. Great Britain was given the mandate for the establishment, in Palestine, of a national home for the Jewish people. “Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish People with Palestine and grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.” The Arabs received equivalent national rights in all the remaining parts of the Middle East – over 96% of the total area formerly governed by the Ottoman Turks. A year later, Winston Churchill cut off 75 percent of the territory of British Palestine area officially recognized as a Jewish national home, - which he named “Transjordan - and   gave it to the Hashemite dynasty from Arabi. Current-day Israel is only a quarter the size of the...
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WHY ISRAEL?

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  WHY ISRAEL? It is hard to understand why the territory of Israel was chosen by God as the Jewish homeland. A small narrow piece of land, not at all distinctive and with no obvious resources. The very location proves that Israel   cannot be built into an empire. If one considers the geography: the Judean hills in one direction, the Sinai desert in the other, with a narrow coastal plain open to easy attack from the sea. Situated at the juncture of powerful empires makes it a major trade route,    both   strategic and vulnerable. Israel must always be a small country.                                                                                                    ...
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HE CAME UP TRUMPS! (revised)

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    President Donald Trump’s miraculous intervention in Israel’s lone fight to rid the world of the threat of Iran’s nuclear capabilities   reminded me of a previous blog.   President Trump’s declaration of the recognition of Jerusalem , in 2017, as the Jew’s eternal capital was an unprecedented move and, unfortunately, not followed up by our other so-called Western allies. Jerusalem has always been considered the eternal capital of the Jewish people. It is mentioned more than 600 times in the Hebrew Bible and has more synagogues per capita than any city in the world. Religious Jews all over the world have always prayed three times a day, facing Jerusalem. In Israel today, everyone has complete freedom of worship. It is the only city in which some 15 different Christian communities live alongside one another. Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is home to 150,000 Jewish graves dating back to the 1400’s. During the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem, Jews were not al...
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE REVIEWED

Remember what caused the ongoing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip? On October 7, 2023,  Hamas  terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — slaughtering babies, committing sexual violence, burning whole families alive, and taking over 250 civilians hostage. Hamas murdered  more than 1,200  Israelis during the attack. The area known today as the Gaza Strip was allocated in the 1947 UN Partition Plan for a prospective Arab state. Its borders were based on the ceasefire line that ended the fighting after the 1948 War of Independence. The failure of further diplomatic efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict turned, what was intended to be a temporary armistice line, into a de-facto boundary, and the Gaza Strip into a distinct geopolitical entity. L ocked in one of the world’s most densely populated areas, along with unsettled political status, Gaza has always been a focal point of the Israeli-Arab conflict. It has also been, perhaps, the m...
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GARDEN OF EDEN

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  The view confronting you is awe-inspiring. On the top of a barren mountain ridge,   at the tip of southeastern Gush Etzion, with breathtaking views overlooking the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea, four American immigrants are building an oasis - a working organic farm and spiritual retreat center - with the hope of turning the site into a global tourist destination . For the past number of years, they have been utilizing various platforms, including radio and television, and going on speaking tours in Israel and abroad. They already have a tremendous following worldwide - sharing their love of the Land of Israel.                                                                                           ...
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HIJACKED

Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land; bears the same name; speaks the same language; and worships the same God that it did thousands of years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from the time of King David; coins from the time of Bar Kochba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script almost identical to the one spoken today. Israel is constantly being rediscovered by ongoing archeological evidence.   The vast majority of the so-called “Palestinians” were originally immigrants who streamed in from all over the Muslim world from the 1830’s to 1947. They have a non-existent history: There has never been a land known as  Palestine  governed by  Palestinians;  when was Palestine founded?;  how did it get its name, as the letter “P” doesn’t exist in Arabic; what was the Palestinian currency?; why doesn’t the Koran mention Palestine once/anywhere?   The name Pa...
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A WAKE-UP CALL

Taking into account the vast amount of funding and  military equipment that has been poured into the Gaza Strip for many decades - President Trump’s vision of Gaza becoming a Riviera in the Middle East could have become a reality. Instead, with the unanimous support of the Gazan citizens, the terrorist group Hamas, has made it quite clear that their sole purpose is to destroy Israel. Jews elsewhere they leave in the hands of their fellow terrorists       Exactly 20 years ago, over 80,000 Israeli’s were forced to abandon their thriving communities in the Gaza Strip, for the sake of peace - making Gaza Judenreim. Ever since, the Palestinians have attacked Israel in every conceivable way  - culminating in October 7 th , 2023, which, they believed, would put an end to the Jewish state. The Gazan Arabs have been offered  a Palestinian state by almost all the recent American Presidents, including Biden - who all wanted the credit for ending the I...
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