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We bless as an act of giving thanks, for this is the Jewish Indigenous way \u2013 both in times of joy and sadness, in times of peace and war! May the Arab \u201cPalestinian\u201d post-WW1 settler Colonialists lay down their weapons, and turn over all hostages. May the Arabs in Gaza let go of their racism towards Jews and Kurds, turn over their Hamas fighters, and allow Israel and Kurdistan to peacefully decolonize amongst them. May this happen now in our lifetime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanksgiving \u2013 All Indigenous Peoples engage in daily bracha (blessings, as an act of thanks)! It is NOT a once a year tradition. It is a daily act of giving thanks for our survival as a people, despite the historically violent and racist Arab-European settler Colonialisms upon our ancestral lands. From Jews to Arawak Taino to Cherokee, we chant with our first daily breaths!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Da busica bomatum li guari Yaya (I give thanks to you, The Creator, YaYa)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modeh anee lefanecha melech chai vekayam, she-he-chezarta bee nishmatee b\u2019chemla, raba emunatecha. (I offer thanks to You, living and eternal King Y-HWH, for You have mercifully restored my soul within me; Your faithfulness is great.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph AmaHura RiverWind wrote, Sep 23, 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo Give Thanks: An Indigenous Tradition
Being thankful is a state of mind, spirit, and soul. It is also an integral pillar of traditional native culture. Welcoming each day with prayers of giving thanks was a common practice that was sometimes misunderstood. Many newcomers to our land thought we were singing to the sun when it was to The One who made the sun rise once again. In some tribes, being thankful began with the town singer, who would \u201csing the sun up\u201d with songs of gratitude and thankfulness to The Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Granted, beauty is in the ears of the listener because when you are wrapped up warmly in your blanket and the first thing that jolts you into consciousness is the sound of a loud drum and the booming voice of the town singer, thankfulness is the last thing you are experiencing. We know this from personal experience and looking back it is easy to see there was so much to be thankful for when those old songs began to permeate the -20 degree atmosphere of the camp at Standing Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month carries its controversies and ironies when we examine the focus on Native Americans and how indigenous communities have coped or survived since the times of first contact with Europeans of that time. Human beings are capable of doing many evils to one another. Sometimes representing causes or institutions they know little about. During this month that highlights the beauty and diversity of native culture, we also face the remembrance of how these same cultures were almost wiped out. Who do we blame and why do we blame now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our survival as native people is a victory in itself! With this victory, we can choose to carry the weight and offenses of our ancestors or we can choose to remember the things that happened and let the anger go that comes with these ancestral wrongs. Coming to a place of healing and inner repair is an ongoing process and one that we have walked and are still walking. For example, I thought that my hatred towards the Spanish had been dealt with and conquered like a conquistador until The Creator reminded me that some hurts have many layers like an onion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a descendant of the tribe of first contact who survived the native Holocaust I, and many of my Taino people who share the same bloodlines, know the pain our people carry. I have gone through those moments of ancestral trauma being dealt with internally and it hurts but it is freeing and for that deep healing I am very thankful. These personal experiences with The Creator happened only through the supernatural love and teachings of Chief CornerStone. Only then was I able to face these ancestral hurts and positively deal with them. Find that way that begins the journey for you and start with being thankful, even for the things that hurt deep to the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month I challenge you to warrior up and let go of ancestral wrongs that have cursed the thoughts of many of our generations. This doesn\u2019t mean that we forget, never! lest we repeat the same vicious circles all over again. But we can move onto a medicine path of healing and wholeness rather than bitterness and anger. Being thankful is like the warm winter blanket that wraps up that healing and wholeness into your inner being. Keep the old tradition alive and be thankful. From the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun let this be your new norm. This is the good and ancient way of our ancestors now walk in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Da busica bomatum li guari Yaya (I give great thanks to you, The Creator, YaYa)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Indigenous Peoples worldwide are giving thanks for every opportunity to share our Indigenous people\u2019s ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, Daniel Levy, there is no such thing as reverse racism! Comparing MENA Jews to \u201cThe Proud Boys\u201d is like comparing \u201cThe Black Panthers\u201d to the \u201cKu Klux Klan\u201d! Don\u2019t be a supportive house Jew for Joy Reid\u2019s antisemitic racism towards Jews Indigenous to the Middle East!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Itamar ben Gvir\u2019s father was an Iraqi Jew, and Itamar\u2019s mother was a Kurdish Jew who joined the Irgun freedom fighters for the liberation of Jewish Israel from British-Arab post-WW1 militarized occupation. It was these Arab \u201cPalestinian\u201d Colonialists that engaged in a Nazi inspired massacre of Jews in their newly established Colonial Iraq. They raped and murdered Jews, much like today\u2019s Arab Palestinian Hamas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Arab \u201cPalestinian\u201d occupied Kurds that smuggled these Jewish parents into Israel to save them from the violently racist Arab Farhud! Ben Gvir has a right to hate Arab Palestinian racism, occupation, and terrorism upon our 1948 forcibly decolonized Indigenous Judean refugee nation for literal Jewish people survival from Arab-European Nazis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy Reid, the \u201cwhite\u201d \u201cblack\u201d racial dynamics of the USA is literally in the opposite in the Levant and Southwest Asia. Perhaps you should study who is actually the oppressed Indigenous populations (Jews, Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, etc!) and who is actually the racist supremacist occupiers of SWANA Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands. The only \u201cApartheid\u201d in Israel is the Jordanian Apartheid against Jews on the Jewish Temple Mount, which is fully supported by the UN as punishment for Jewish 1948 decolonization!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When will we see a Jonathan Greenblatt or a Hen Mazzig on The ReidOut with Joy Reid ?!!! If that\u2019s just too much for you, how about an interview with Israeli Arab Yoseph Haddad versus, say, Arab propagandist Mehdi Hasan? How about pro-Israel Arab Palestinian activist, Bassem Eid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/2023\/11\/10\/the-middle-easts-white-people-are-arab\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TheReidOut, MSNBC, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis \u2013 CAMERA, Congressional Black Caucus, ADL \u2013 Anti-Defamation League (Florida Region), ADL \u2013 Anti-Defamation League (Austin), I am giving thanks for every opportunity to share our Jewish indigenous ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Misinformation is a great subject to talk about this weekend! Let\u2019s start with the misinformation that Jews are not the Indigenous population of the land of Israel. Only Arab-European Colonizers call the land of Israel \u201cPalestine\u201d. Our neighboring SWANA Indigenous nation, the Kurds, has always called the Jewish land of Israel \u201cthe land of Israel\u201d. What else is misinformation being pushed by the Arab-European Colonial world about Indigenous Jews and post-WW1 Arab \u201cPalestinian\u201d settler Colonialists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only reason that Jews are not included as a UN recognized Indigenous people is because Jews Indigenous to Judea-Samaria and Southwest Asia forcibly decolonized against the plans of the British-Arab militarized \u201cMandate\u201d occupiers. So, since MENA Jews took land matters into our own hands and the surrounding Arab nations\u2019 armies failed to conquer newly re-sovereigned Israel during their 10 month five armies siege \u2013 the Arab created nakba \u2013 the UN declared tiny Indigenous Israel (that is 3 times smaller the the Navajo Nation reservation in Colonial USA) to be a (false) equivalent \u201cEuropean\u201d nation. An antisemitic punishment by the United Arab-European Colonial Nations for Allah-Christ-Marx dominionism upon all Indigenous Peoples\u2019 lands worldwide. If the UN recognized our SWANA Indigenous status, that would be the end to Arab-European impunity for their racist crimes against all Indigenous humanity. Can\u2019t be having that! Other IPs would decolonize! May the Kurdish people be the next SWANA Indigenous nation to forcibly decolonize a portion of their ancestral land in our lifetime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am giving thanks for every opportunity to share our Jewish indigenous ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dig<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am just a human being. Just one human out of 8 plus billion human beings on this planet. I have no delusions of social grandeur, of importance! I just happen to be born a member of an extreme social minority within an extreme Indigenous social minority \u2013 that just wants to be heard by the social minorities that think they are at the bottom of Colonial Arab-European society, who are the minorities beneath these actual social majorities. We just want to be heard and our words considered, too \u2013 especially, when our words are deeply uncomfortable and forcing a change to social understanding, whether minority or majority!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s way too easy to be the loved minority that echos the worldview of the majority above him or her. They get all the likes, shares, and invitations. Sometimes sporadic, but definitely there! We true minorities in this world, just struggling to survive intact, get this fully and we see (with understanding) that we are not as equally welcomed in the majority\u2019s world. We make society uncomfortable, simply because we exist and dare to speak out every single generation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watch the struggle online everyday. The minority trying to break a post beyond \u201cthe choir\u201d and into the majority \u2013 where they \u2013 the social majority \u2013 are sharing our posts. I want to say that \u201cthis is why we minorities hate the majority\u201d. BUT, we DON\u2019T hate the majority, even though we are erased, silenced, abused, victimized, genocided upon, etc(!) on too often a historical basis! Instead, we survive and continue to express our Indigenous voices into this world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?! Because, we only want peace and sustainable relationships with each other, all life on this planet Earth, and with the land herself! Whether it is Jews, Kurds, M\u0101ori, Kanaka o\u2019 Hawai\u2019i, Pueblo, Cherokee, Cree, S\u00e1mi, etc, etc, etc(!), we want the entire world to lay down their weapons, and allow all Indigenous Peoples worldwide to decolonize amongst the Arab-European Colonial nations. To peacefully decolonize, without fear of further racist and violent terrorisms\/manipulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did I start this post? Just to tell any and all who actually read and listen that I understand why I am not socially shared across this social media world. Because, what I want is peace WITH sacrifice, peace WITH a removal of majority impunity, peace WITH even the least socially amongst us having a real and HEARD seat at the human society table \u2013 with an actual effing voice!!! I know, I want too much in this life, because of my Indigenous upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a Jew \u2013 whether you know me Indigenously as Yosef ben David ibn Yehuda or Colonially as Joseph Tsefanyahu Farkasdi \u2013 I am a descendant of Judea-Samaria, the Land of Israel. I am the minority voice that pisses off both \u201cLeft\u201d and \u201cRight\u201d in this Arab-European Colonial (Allah-Christ-Marx dominionism) world order! I was not the first, and I will NOT be the last. This my blood, itself, tells me!!! So, I may be at times saddened by the lack of shares in what I online share, but I don\u2019t sweat this. Those who speak better than me will keep the Indigenous tradition onward!!!\u201d \u2013 Yosef ibn Yehuda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am giving thanks for every opportunity to share our Jewish indigenous ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

META Description : We Jews Indigenous to the land of Israel are giving thanks for every opportunity to share our Indigenous people\u2019s ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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