{"id":3275,"date":"2024-09-11T03:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T03:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2024-09-18T00:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:23:52","slug":"more-native-jewish-teachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/2024\/09\/11\/more-native-jewish-teachings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Native Jewish Teachings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Jews love our native Jewish stories, and our stories about our ancestral origin stories! Read and get an education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/abraham-kook-3340330617.jpg?resize=1024%2C715\" alt=\"Abraham Isaac Kook, First Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine for the native Jewish people upon the land of Israel.\" class=\"wp-image-3277\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/abraham-kook-3340330617.jpg?resize=1024%2C715 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/abraham-kook-3340330617.jpg?resize=300%2C209 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/abraham-kook-3340330617.jpg?resize=768%2C536 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/abraham-kook-3340330617.jpg?resize=1536%2C1072 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/abraham-kook-3340330617.jpg?w=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talmud Chagiga 12 teaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Gemara poses a question: And was light created on the first day? But isn\u2019t it written: \u201cAnd God set them in the firmament of the heaven\u201d (Bereshit 1:17), and it is also written: \u201cAnd there was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day\u201d (Bereshit 1:19), indicating that light was created on the fourth day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gemara answers: This should be understood in accordance with Rabbi Elazar, as Rabbi Elazar said: The light that the Holy One, Blessed be He, created on the first day was not that of the sun but a different kind of light, through which man could observe from one end of the world to the other. But when the Holy One, Blessed be He, looked upon the generation of the Flood and the generation of the Dispersion and saw that their ways were corrupt and that they might misuse this light for evil, He arose and concealed it from them, as it is stated: \u201cAnd from the wicked their light is withheld\u201d (Iyov 38:15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for whom did He conceal it? For the righteous people in the future, as it is stated: \u201cAnd God saw the light, that it was good\u201d (Genesis 1:4), and \u201cgood\u201d is referring to none other than the righteous, as it is stated: \u201cSay of the righteous that it shall be good for them, for they shall eat the fruit of their actions\u201d (Yeshayahu 3:10).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directly above Chagiga 12 also teaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Gemara poses a question: Now that it is derived from the phrase \u201cfrom one end of the heavens to the other,\u201d why do I need the phrase \u201csince the day that God created man upon the land\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gemara answers that this phrase teaches us something else, according to Rabbi Elazar. As Rabbi Elazar said: The height of Adam the first man reached from the ground to the skies, as it is stated: \u201cSince the day that God created man upon the land, and from one end of the heavens\u201d (D\u2019varim 4:32). When he sinned, the Holy One, Blessed be He, placed His hand upon him and diminished him, as it is stated: \u201cYou fashioned me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me\u201d (Tehilim 139:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: The size of Adam the first man was from one end of the world to the other, as it is stated: \u201cSince the day that God created man upon the land, and from one end of the heavens to the other,\u201d which indicates that he spanned the entire length of the world. Once he sinned, the Holy One, Blessed be He, placed His hand upon him and diminished him, as it states: \u201cAnd laid Your hand upon me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gemara asks: If so, the two parts of the verse contradict each other, since one indicates that his height reached the heavens while the other says it reached the end of the earth. The Gemara answers: Both this and that are one, the same, measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1726022748318.jpg?resize=803%2C960\" alt=\"A self portrait of Rembrandt, whom according to Rav Kook was a non-Jew tzadik, because he was able to tap into the Or Haganuz.\" class=\"wp-image-3279\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1726022748318.jpg?w=803 803w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1726022748318.jpg?resize=251%2C300 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1726022748318.jpg?resize=768%2C918 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A self portrait of Rembrandt, whom according to Rav Kook was a non-Jew tzadik, because he was able to tap into the Or Haganuz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rabbi Ysoscher Katz shared,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSharing an insight from Rav Kook Z\u201dL, whose yartzeit is tonight and tomorrow, in which he describes Rembrandt as a tzadik and saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This piece is a powerful example of the spiritual creativity and theological audacity of Rav Kook \u05d6\u05e6\u05d5\u05e7\u201d\u05dc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rabbis (Chagiga 12) tell us: \u201cRabbi Elazar said: The light that the Holy One, Blessed be He, created on the first day was not that of the sun but a different kind of light, a luminosity through which man could see from one end of the world to the other. But, the Rabbis continue, when the Holy One, Blessed be He, looked upon the generation of the Flood and at the people who built the Tower of Babel and saw that their ways were corrupt and that they might misuse this light for evil, He concealed it from them, as it is stated: \u201cAnd from the wicked their light is withheld\u201d (Job 38:15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when and for whom will that luminous light be revealed agin, they ask. The answer:\u00a0 for the righteous people in the future, in the world to come, as it is stated: \u201cAnd God saw the light, that it was good\u201d (Genesis 1:4), and \u201cgood\u201d is referring to none other than the righteous, as it is stated: \u201cSay of the righteous that it shall be good for them, for they shall eat the fruit of their actions\u201d (Isaiah 3:10).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Rav Kook comes along and makes the audacious claim that he encountered a tzadik who was able to tap into that hidden supernal light during our time, before we have reached that special time when the light was destined to be revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who in Rav Kook\u2019s eyes was that \u201ctzadik\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None other than the Dutch, non-Jewish painter, Rembrandt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his book Arpelei Tohar p. 9 he writes: \u201cWhen I lived in London, I would visit the National Gallery, and the paintings that I loved the most were those of Rembrandt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my opinion, Rembrandt was a saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first saw Rembrandt\u2019s paintings, they reminded me of the rabbinic statement about the creation of light. When G-d created the light, it was so strong and luminous that it was possible to see from one end of the world to the other. And G-d feared that the wicked would make use of it. What did He do? He secreted it for the righteous in the world to come. But from time to time, there are great men whom G-d blesses with a vision of the hidden light. I believe Rembrandt was one of them, and the light of his paintings is that light which G-d created on day one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The audaciousness is threefold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) He is comfortable ascribing to Rembrandt the \u201ctzadik\u201d moniker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) Rembrandt, according to him, is not a stam tzadik, his tzidkut is so potent that he is able to tap into a light God hid for another time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3) He believed that if one looked closely, they could identify divine luminosity in works of art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240905_213535129.png?resize=1024%2C846\" alt=\"The ethical Decalogue in Shemot, the scroll of Exodus, that was inserted into the origin story to supercede the still present cultic Decalogue.\" class=\"wp-image-3282\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240905_213535129.png?resize=1024%2C846 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240905_213535129.png?resize=300%2C248 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240905_213535129.png?resize=768%2C634 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240905_213535129.png?resize=1536%2C1269 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240905_213535129.png?w=1924 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are three versions of the Ten Proclamations (or Decalogue, \u201cten words\u201d) in our Jewish ha\u2019Torah, \u201cthe Teaching\u201d of our ancestors. One is our native \u201ccultic decalogue\u201d, and two are differing versions of a later written \u201cethical decalogue\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who can read our Canaanite Hebrew language (without modern theology blinders) knows that the ethical decalogue \u2013 what Christianity calls the \u201cTen Commandments\u201d \u2013 is actually a redacted text that is compiled from our Ketuvim, \u201cWisdom\u201d scrolls.(1) Hence, why the people of Israel did not react to its utterance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cethical decalogue\u201d is an addition to our Horeb\/Sinai origin story, inserted by scribes into the scrolls of D\u2019varim (Deuteronomy) and Shemot (Exodus) as additional words uttered by Y-HWH. So, what were the Ten Proclamations that Y-HWH actually uttered to Moshe (Moses) upon the mountain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Torah Shemot 34:10-26 teaches us that Moshe ascended the mountain of Horeb\/Sinai, taking two stone tablets with him. Y-HWH passed before him, and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will form a covenant, in the presence of all your people,\u2026 Keep carefully what I am instructing you today!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Y-HWH made his Ten Proclamations, Moshe wrote Y-HWH\u2019s commands one by one on each of the tablets, one tablet of the covenant for Y-HWH and a duplicate tablet for the Jewish people. Y-HWH said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 \u2013 You will not prostrate yourself before another god, because Y-HWH, whose name is \u201cJealous One,\u201d is a jealous land-God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 \u2013 You will not make formed images of gods for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 \u2013 The Festival of Unleavened Bread you will keep; seven days you will eat unleavened bread\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 \u2013 All that opens the womb is mine [first born, like first fruit],\u2026 a firstborn donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; if you do not redeem it, you shall decapitate it; every firstborn of your sons you will redeem, and they will not appear before me empty handed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 \u2013 Six days you may work, and on the seventh day you will rest; in plowing and in harvest you will rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 \u2013 You will make for yourself a Festival of Weeks, the first of the wheat harvest, and the festival of the ingathering, at the turn of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7 \u2013 Three times during the year all your males will appear directly before the Lord [the ruling land-God], Y-HWH, the God of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8 \u2013 You will not slaughter [or sprinkle] the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, and the offering of the Pesach feast shall not remain overnight until the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 \u2013 The choicest of the first of your soil you will bring to the house of Y-HWH your God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 \u2013 You will not cook a kid in its mother\u2019s milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, how did the inserted \u201cethical decalogue\u201d take prominence over the \u201ccultic decalogue\u201d? After the creation of the \u201cethical decalogue\u201d, it became so popular during the BCE 2nd Temple period that it was included with the daily chanting of the Shema.(2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) \u2013 Babylonian Talmud Makkot 23b\u201324a, 3rd century CE, \u201cRav Hamnuna said: What is the verse that alludes to this? It is written: \u201cMoses commanded to us the Torah, an inheritance of the community of Jacob\u201d (D\u2019varim 33:4). The word Torah, in terms of its numerical value [gimatriyya], is 611, the number of mitzvot that were received and taught by Moses our teacher. In addition, there are two mitzvot: \u201cI am the Lord your God\u201d and: \u201cYou shall have no other gods\u201d (Shemot 20:2,3), the first two of the Ten Proclamations, that we heard from the mouth of the Almighty, for a total of 613.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2) Mishnah Tamid 5:1, \u201cAfter the priests completed laying the parts of the daily offering on the ramp, they went to the Chamber of Hewn Stone to recite Shema. The appointed priest who oversaw the lotteries in the Temple said to the priests: Recite a single blessing of the blessings that accompany Shema. And the members of the priestly watch recited a blessing, and then they recited the Ten Proclamations, Shema (see D\u2019varim 6:4\u20139), VeHaya im Shamoa (see D\u2019varim 11:13\u201321), and VaYomer (see Bamidbar 15:37\u201341), the standard formula of Shema. Additionally, they blessed with the people three blessings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220244736.png?resize=984%2C1024\" alt=\"Ysoscher Katz reflecting on Koholet, picture Robert Kreminzer.\" class=\"wp-image-3285\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220244736.png?resize=984%2C1024 984w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220244736.png?resize=288%2C300 288w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220244736.png?resize=768%2C800 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220244736.png?resize=1475%2C1536 1475w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220244736.png?w=1924 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ysoscher Katz shared, \u201cKohelet (11:9) got it right: enjoy the pure joys of youth because one day they will be gone\u2014forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something other-worldly about the yeshiva bochur life, especially on a day like today when you woke up with a knot in your stomach because \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 it was rosh chodesh E L U L!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At that age, the Jewish calendar made constant demands on your emotions-and it felt really good. You felt alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time Rosh Chodesh Elul came around the calendar demanded that you transition from the frivolity of bein ha\u2019zmanim into the gravitas of Elul. And, you listened to her. As the day progressed, you slowly turned away from the bein haZmain distractions, moving further and further inward, kickstarting almost two months (Elul and Tishrei) of pure internality; two months of material obliviousness and spiritual bliss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that\u2019s all in the past, the Jewish calendar a mere blip on my consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oy: \u05d6\u05db\u05e8\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05de\u05e7\u05d3\u05dd, they are gone-forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">True, as an adult \u05dc\u05d3\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d4\u05f3 \u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9 has deeper intellectual resonance. \u05d0\u05dd \u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05d4 \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9 \u05de\u05d7\u05e0\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d9\u05e8\u05d0 \u05dc\u05d1\u05d9, \u05d0\u05dd \u05ea\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9 \u05de\u05dc\u05d7\u05de\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d6\u05d0\u05ea \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d1\u05d5\u05d8\u05d7 is very real now, in a way that it couldn\u2019t have been as a teenager. \u201cWar\u201d (internal and external), conflict and confusion is intrinsic to adulthood\u2013and this year, tragically, more so than ever before in my lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then again, as a teenager, that entire psalm, which ruminates on the soul\u2019s insatiable craving for contact with the ineffable, carried a real punch in the gut. Today it only speaks to the brain with zero impact on the kishkes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately that\u2019s what\u2019s missing as an adult: those powerful spiritual gut-churning fisticuffs. They were transformative and uplifting. Age, sadly, eliminates those highs and the withdrawal is painful. You constantly crave those spiritual fixes; \u05d0\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d0\u05dc\u05d9 \u05dc\u05de\u05d4 \u05e2\u05d6\u05d1\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9, \u05e8\u05d7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05de\u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e9\u05d0\u05d2\u05ea\u05d9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chodesh ELUL tov!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240917_135219052.png?resize=1024%2C996\" alt=\"The Arab Conquistador's Colonial Palestinian flag!\" class=\"wp-image-3399\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240917_135219052.png?resize=1024%2C996 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240917_135219052.png?resize=300%2C292 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240917_135219052.png?resize=768%2C747 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240917_135219052.png?resize=1536%2C1494 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240917_135219052.png?w=1924 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The watermelon \ud83c\udf49, a fruit native to Africa \u2199\ufe0f, is a plant that grows well upon the Israeli diaspora. Its fruit is enjoyed immensely by native Israelis \u2013 Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and formerly-Indigenous \u201cArab\u201dized\/\u201dIslam\u201dized citizens of Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 \u2013 for the benefits that the watermelon contributes to the health and well-being of Israeli society! It doesn\u2019t matter that the watermelon \ud83c\udf49 is a historically recent introduction to our Jewish \ud83d\udd4e\u2721\ufe0f people\u2019s land. We embrace the watermelon \ud83c\udf49 \u201cas if\u201d it were a native born fruit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the watermelon, Arab Islam \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 is a foreign introduction to our native Israeli people\u2019s land. Arabs \u262a\ufe0f and their conquesting Islam \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 are native to the Arabian land down South \u2b07\ufe0f. (Much like, European Christianity \u271d\ufe0f, which is native to the Aegean land up North \u2b06\ufe0f.) We Jews \ud83d\udd4e\u2721\ufe0f are indigenous to Southwest Asia, the land that lies in-between these three lands. But, unlike our SWANA native embracement of the watermelon \ud83c\udf49, we Israelis \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 have tried embracing the Arabs \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 and their successfully Arabized upon our SWANA peoples\u2019 lands, but their fruit is toxic to the health and well-being and survival of Israeli society!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like a vining weed \ud83c\udf3f trying to lay claim to our Canaan land of Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1, that is growing upon us to starve us out and replace us, Arabs \u262a\ufe0f (Islam, a religion of \u201csubmission\u201d to absolutism) and Europeans \u271d\ufe0f (Christianity, a religion of idol worship) lie profusely to all about the history of our SWANA peoples\u2019 lands and about their own violent and racist Colonialism upon our Southwest Asia peoples\u2019 lands! They even lie about us Jews \ud83d\udd4e\u2721\ufe0f (Judaism, Judah-people-ism, a native Canaan originating ethno-religion) in order to justify their right to settler Colonialism upon all natives peoples\u2019 lands \u2013 worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The watermelon \ud83c\udf49 is the right symbol for the Arab Palestinian \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 political land-squatters upon our 1948 forcibly decolonized Judean land of Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1, for neither are native to our Canaan land. But, the watermelon \ud83c\udf49 is unfairly tainted by the violent and racist supremacy fruit of the Arab Palestinians \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8, the Middle East religious Conquistadors! Sadly, the watermelon \ud83c\udf49 \u2013 which arrived upon the Jewish land of Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 centuries before the Arab Palestinians \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 \u2013 has been turned into a \u201cPalestinian solidarity\u201d resistance symbol towards native Jewish decolonization of Israel and our reestablished self-sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even, worse, is \u201chow\u201d this false equivalency association between the good fruit watermelon \ud83c\udf49 and the bad fruit Arab Palestinian political land-squatting \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 to deny our peaceful and secure decolonization actually came to be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunate, for the watermelon \ud83c\udf49, its colors happen to resemble the pan-Arab nation flag \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 that was designed by the British and Arabs \u2013 before their conquest of Southwest Asia\u2019s Israeli and Kurdish peoples\u2019 lands during World War 1. After 1967, when Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 liberated the Jordan and Egypt occupied parts of our 1948 decolonized land, the watermelon \ud83c\udf49 became a replacement symbol of Arab Palestinian \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 solidarity and anti-Indigenous resistance in the Arab Palestinian occupied territories of Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1, in the places where displays of the Palestinian flag are often restricted or banned by Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The watermelon \ud83c\udf49 is indigenous to Sudan. Just like Arab Muslim Conquistadors upon our northern Southwest Asia region are indigenous to their southern Arabia \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8, now known as Saudi Arabia \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6. How do we know this easily verifiable historical fact about the watermelon \ud83c\udf49? It is through our native Jewish people\u2019s Canaanite Hebrew writings \u2013 the writings of our Jewish ancestors living upon our Canaan land of Southwest Asia \u2013 that historians have tracked the watermelon\u2019s migration into the Middle East, as early as 200 CE (A.D.). This predates the invention of both Christianity \u271d\ufe0f and Islam \u262a\ufe0f!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This \u201cimmigrated\u201d watermelon \ud83c\udf49 was used by Jews \ud83d\udd4e\u2721\ufe0f in Judea and Samaria \u2013 what only foreigners call \u201cPalestine\u201d \u2013 as a religious tithe to Y-HWH, along with our traditional native figs \ud83e\udd57, grapes \ud83c\udf47, and pomegranates \ud83e\udd57. And, since we are on this subject, let\u2019s not forget our native olive groves \ud83e\uded2! For Jews \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1, the Canaan indigenous people of the land of Israel, the olive branches \ud83e\uded2 represent the yearning for peace. Sustaining our native Israeli environment is core to Judaism, Judea-people-ism \ud83d\udd4e\u2721\ufe0f!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am Yisrael Chai \ud83c\udf49 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 \ud83c\udf49 !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"867\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?resize=867%2C1024\" alt=\"Only the native SWANA Jewish people of the land of Israel speak Canaanite Hebrew!\" class=\"wp-image-3292\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?resize=867%2C1024 867w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?resize=254%2C300 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?resize=768%2C907 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?resize=1301%2C1536 1301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?resize=1734%2C2048 1734w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_152213758.png?w=1923 1923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evidence of a Colonizer \u2026. Colonizers impose their language, religion, and governments onto the peoples they colonize!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The modus operandi of the Conquistadors of other peoples\u2019 lands \u2026.<br>Conquest | Genocide | Land Theft | Ethnic and Cultural Assimilation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">56 nations speak Colonial English<br>32 nations speak Colonial French<br>26 nations speak Colonial Arabic<br>23 nations speak Colonial Spanish<br>14 nations spoke Colonial Russian until the collapse of the Soviet Union<br>9 nations speak Colonial Portuguese<br>7 nations speak Colonial Dutch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only one nation upon this entire planet Earth has Canaanite Hebrew as its official language \u2013 the land of Israel! Colonial Arabic is a co-official language in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">123 nations around this planet Earth are Colonial Christianity in majority.<br>53 nations around this planet Earth are Colonial Islam in majority. 5 nations around this planet Earth are Colonial Marxism in majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only one nation upon this entire planet Earth is native Judaism \u2013 Judah-people-ism, the people of Israel\u2019s ethno-religion \u2013 in majority, and this nation is the land of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220912620.png?resize=1024%2C544\" alt=\"Jewish and non-Jewish relations in the Arab conquered worlds.\" class=\"wp-image-3288\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220912620.png?resize=1024%2C544 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220912620.png?resize=300%2C159 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220912620.png?resize=768%2C408 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220912620.png?resize=1536%2C816 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_220912620.png?w=1924 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jewish and non-Jewish relations in the Arab conquered worlds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is for Avi Shlaim and all the people confused by his false assertions that Jews left Iraq because of Zionist conspiracies. Fact \u2013 there was antisemitism in Iraq way before Israel was established. Zionism did not cause antisemitism and the expulsion of my family and the whole ancient Babylonian community from Iraq \u2014 deep seated antisemitism did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anti-Zionism was antisemitism then as it is now. We cannot change history. We cannot argue with the writing on the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes there were Iraqis who genuinely coexisted with Jews \u2014 the scary thing is \u2014 they were not enough to stop the 1941 Farhud massacre. They were not enough to stop the Iraqi governments taking away of Jewish civil rights. They were not enough to stop the mass expulsion of over 120,000 Jews between 1950-52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me remind you today there are only 3 Jews left in Iraq. Once upon a time Baghdad was a third Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can\u2019t open your heart to Jews \u2014 open your history books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1924\" height=\"2221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?fit=887%2C1024\" alt=\"Joe Biden blames Benjamin Netanyahu, not Arab Palestinian Islamic HAMAS, for not reaching a deal in Gaza.\" class=\"wp-image-3290\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?w=1924 1924w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?resize=260%2C300 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?resize=887%2C1024 887w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?resize=768%2C887 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?resize=1331%2C1536 1331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_221430927.png?resize=1774%2C2048 1774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat happened to the days when the U.S. was a superpower, standing firm against terror and holding our enemies accountable?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American citizen, Hersch Goldberg-Polin, was a \u201cJew\u201d, this is why\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our responsive SWANA peoples\u2019 question to the United States: When did the United States get into the game of negotiating with terrorists for the release of U.S. citizens? Seriously!!! When?!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States of Colonial America is trying desperately to force itself politically, economically, and militarily upon Southwest Asia and, especially, our native Israeli and Kurdish peoples\u2019 governments and lands. The reason for this \u2013 our best guess \u2013 is that USA still thinks it\u2019s in \u201cCold War\u201d with the USSR\u2019s KGB terrorists upon Southwest Asia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Middle East demonstrably rejects the mini-USA political establishment (just look at both Iraq and Afghanistan for prime examples!) as much as the Middle East rejects a \u201ctwo state solution\u201d between native SWANA\/SWE peoples and the Arab Islamic Conquistadors seeking a Caliphate rule upon all of our Native peoples\u2019 lands!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?! Why is this so difficult to understand, citizens of the United States of America? As much as you support SWANA Indigenous freedom fighters (when it suits your foreign policy goals), you have been JUST AS MUCH of the problem for us \u2013 here, upon the European and Arab conquered land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States of Colonial America has been just as much the PROBLEM in our Israeli and Kurdish peoples\u2019 efforts to peacefully and securely decolonize amongst the post-WW1 European established Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to this video teacher, please\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C_dcazZxMgJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C_dcazZxMgJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Elizabeth Savetsky (@lizzysavetsky)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note, between Kamala Harris and convicted criminal Donald J Trump, we outsiders say: Please, vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in 2024, citizens of the United States!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C592\" alt=\"Israeli protesters demanding that Israel capitulate to Palestinian HAMAS for a hostage deal!\" class=\"wp-image-3294\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?w=2560 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C173 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C592 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C444 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C888 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240903_131955172-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1184 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These \u201cleftist\u201d useful idiots, an extreme minority in Israel, are being used by Palestinian HAMAS terrorists to sow division within Israeli society!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as the worldwide news media focuses on them and Israel, HAMAS is implementing further brutal terror tactics upon their Israeli hostages \u2013 AND THE WORLD DOESN\u2019T GIVE A DAMN!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is the obsession over what the Arab Palestinian HAMAS terrorists are still doing to native Israelis \u2013 to Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Arab citizens of Israel?!!! And to the Gazans that they have embedded themselves among?!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jin, Jiyan, Azad\u00ee (woman, life, freedom) revolution for SWANA Indigenous peoples\u2019 equality! Colonial \u201cPalestine\u201d \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (an immigrant to Southwest Asia Israeli and Kurdish peoples\u2019 native lands, like the watermelon \ud83c\udf49) is an occupier upon Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands, no different than Colonial \u201cAmerica\u201d \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 and Europe upon Michilimackinac native peoples\u2019 lands! Easily verifiable historical facts really do matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"986\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_190736678.png?resize=986%2C1024\" alt=\"Palestine is not a country, not a people, just a Roman word for Israel that was reestablished by the British-Arab militarized occupiers in 1918 CE!\" class=\"wp-image-3296\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_190736678.png?resize=986%2C1024 986w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_190736678.png?resize=289%2C300 289w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_190736678.png?resize=768%2C798 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_190736678.png?resize=1479%2C1536 1479w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_190736678.png?w=1924 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we want the antisemitic racism to end, then we need to be very historically accurate in our online statements \u2013 whether less than 250 characters or more than a paragraph. Every ahistorical claim that we make as Jews\/Israelis, to defend Jews\/Israel, only feeds the worldwide narrative of \u201chasbara\u201d \u2013 that we natives are somehow the liars, not the European and Arab Conquistadors of Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we post \u201canything\u201d about Israel in support of Israel and call it \u201cthe truth\u201d, even if it\u2019s misleading or historically wrong, then the European and Arab Conquistadors who are occupying our Southwest Asia\u2019s native lands of Israel and Kurdistan win the war for social justice. No accountability for their history and actions, for their victimization of Indigenous peoples, because they point to our posts and righteously say \u201cliars\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easily verifiable historical facts: Arab Palestinians are Colonial occupiers, political land-squatters, and terrorists upon SWANA native peoples\u2019 lands! They are the reason for the racism, violence, and bloodshed. The United Nations has been and still is UNRWA funding this European established Arab settler Colonialism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four colours of the pre-WW1 invented Arab flag represents the four Caliphate periods. The red dynastic color is the present Arab Hashemite royal family of Arabia that joined the British and French in re-colonizing Southwest Asia during WW1. The Arab Conquistadors were rewarded by the British and French with their post-WW1 European established Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq \u2013 upon native Israeli and Kurdish peoples\u2019 lands!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will never reach those already indoctrinated into Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred, full stop! But, our words are informing those not yet indoctrinated (many in your generation and younger). If we misinform (aka, lie) like the Christians, Muslims, and Marxists, then we validate their false equivalency about Jews\/Israel being no different than them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never Again Is Now-Gen Z and Beyond and easily verifiable historical facts really do matter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"918\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_153834733.jpg?resize=1024%2C918\" alt=\"Conversation between Never Again Is Now-Gen Z and Beyond and Jewish Indigenous Rights Advocacy - JIRA.\" class=\"wp-image-3298\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_153834733.jpg?resize=1024%2C918 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_153834733.jpg?resize=300%2C269 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_153834733.jpg?resize=768%2C689 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_153834733.jpg?resize=1536%2C1378 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240902_153834733.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young have difficulty with listening and historical comprehension. So, instead of appreciating our correction, Gen Z are quick to emotionally react (defensively disagree and argue their point to \u201cexhaustion\u201d) and, then, (suddenly) delete your presence from their page, if they did not convince you on their points. Why even have the conversation at all, Gen Zers?!!! Now, your post is only spreading ahistorical disinformation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an admin for JIRA recently said, \u201cIn the Gen Z\u2019s mind all things are somehow equivalents, and both sides have legitimate views. Therefore, whatever can be used to justify your view is the truth.\u201d Even if it\u2019s disinformation? A lie, that will now be used against you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPalestinian\u201d identity was recreated by the British, French, and Arab militarized occupation force upon the lands of Israel and Kurdistan in 1918. \u201cPalestinians\u201d were Jews and all others living in the land. Palestinian Jews became known as Israelis in 1948, and Palestinian Arabs (both Christian and Muslim) continued to be known as Colonial Jordanians, Colonial Syrians, and \u201cPalestinian Arabs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1964 in Moscow, the USSR\u2019s KGB invented the PLO to create the disinformation lie that post-WW1 Palestinian Arab settlers have some kind of land rights to native Israeli and Kurdish peoples\u2019 lands. This PLO charter was signed in Jerusalem, and the KGB recruited Egyptian Brotherhood terrorist Yasser Arafat to lead this Colonial Arab resistance movement \u2013 in response to our 1948 Indigenous forced decolonization of part of our land and rejection of the USSR as an ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like Donald J Trump, Yasser Arafat was a useful idiot for the exploiting, used for his handler\u2019s foreign policy objectives upon the lands of Israel and Kurdistan. Mahmoud Abbas was also recruited, handpicked, and groomed by the KGB for PLO leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A puppet has no personal self-autonomy. Only with the handler pulling the strings, does the puppet have a voice and actions. Both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas were specifically recruited by the KGB for their assigned roles. Islamic Iran is in a bromance relationship with Russia\u2019s dictator Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin\u2019s first career was being a KGB agent for the USSR. Connect the dots, folks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, Yahya Sinwar and Palestinian HAMAS, Hezbollah, the Houthis (etc) are swords being swung by the puppet master Islamic Iran. Islamic Iran is trying desperately \u2013 with continued UNRWA financial support \u2013 to chop more necks, arms, and legs off of Israelis \u2013 and they don\u2019t give a damn how many Gazans they kill to achieve this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What got our tsabar\u00edm (sabarim) comment deleted from a Jewish Gen-Z page was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We told [you] where the ahistorical parts are in both your posted words and the text. We are baffled about why you cannot see the inaccuracies (which antisemites will point out to call Jews \u201cliars\u201d). BUT, it\u2019s your page and WE SUPPORT your page! We hope you\u2019ll allow us to continue commenting with easily verifiable historical facts to add to your conversation with this Jew-hating world. Toda achi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Note, deleting our comment and polite discussion wasn\u2019t enough, JIRA is also now blocked from further participation on his page. Wow!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is why we Gen Xers MUST continue doing the talking to the young ones, so that in OUR generation we see peace and security upon the lands of Israel and Kurdistan! Easily verifiable historical facts really do matter, folks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We, here, at Jewish Indigenous Rights Advocacy \u2013 JIRA put easily verifiable historical facts \u2013 the \u201cfull history\u201d \u2013 into one short or long post many times a day. What is behind the online resistance to just saying it accurately, as we native Israelis and Kurds try to teach every single day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_223410479.png?resize=1024%2C850\" alt=\"Stop the Lies telling Jewish useful idiots to stop blaming Bibi Netanyahu for Islamic HAMAS actions!\" class=\"wp-image-3300\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_223410479.png?resize=1024%2C850 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_223410479.png?resize=300%2C249 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_223410479.png?resize=768%2C638 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_223410479.png?resize=1536%2C1276 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Polish_20240910_223410479.png?w=1924 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is the obsessive news reports over Qatar housing UNRWA-funded wealthy Palestinian HAMAS leaders in their southern Arab nation?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is the obsessive news reports over Egypt and Jordan refusing to open their nations to displaced Gazan Palestinians, while Israel removes the UNRWA-funded Palestinian HAMAS terrorist army that is occupying Gaza and holding native Israeli hostages in their terror tunnels?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is the obsessive news reports over the racist libels against Israel, blaming Israel for Palestinian HAMAS\u2019s genocide against Israel and Gazans?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is the obsessive news reports over the recent violent ethnic cleansing of an entire Kurdish village, so that Arab Palestinians can claim their homes and call their village a \u201cPalestinian\u201d village?!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All eyes on Gaza?! No!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All eyes are on Israel, as we struggle to rid Israel and Kurdistan of this racistly violent UNRWA-funded post-1948 Palestinian Arab settler occupation, political land-squatting, and terrorisms from our lands!!! Anti-Indigenous Arab settler racism to prevent Israel and Kurdistan our peaceful and secure decolonizations amongst the post-WW1 European established Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A ceasefire without a complete surrender by Palestinian HAMAS and the arrest of Yahya Sinwar is a win for the terrorists, full stop! The United Nations of Arab-European Colonial nations would just love this, wouldn\u2019t they?!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">META Description : We Jews love our native Jewish stories, and our stories about our ancestral origin stories! Read and get an education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more blogs available on this site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/\">click here now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to the book directly below. Touch the cover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Indigenous Judaism for the 21st Century CE: This is my story as a Jew within this human world of planet Earth.\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&amp;linkCode=kpd&amp;ref_=k4w_oembed_CWERJ6G1lkdSEv&amp;asin=B0CHL1KL2V&amp;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read this book and you won\u2019t disparage the Jewish people nor Israel ever again! This book exposes the Colonial lie of false equivalency between Jews (Indigenous Judeans of the land of Israel) and Christians and Muslims (world colonizing European and Arab religions), that have been assimilating Indigenous lands worldwide for 1,600 years in the names of Jewish ancestors. Zionism is the Jewish people\u2019s \u201cland back\u201d movement. Israel\u2019s successful full decolonization is every Indigenous People\u2019s\/Nation\u2019s hope!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Jews love our native Jewish stories, and our stories about our ancestral origin stories! Read and get an education. Talmud Chagiga 12 teaches: \u201cThe Gemara poses a question: And was light created on the first day? 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