In Case You Missed it, Week 5: The Original, Better Earth Day

Breaking News: Please Pray for the Jews in Texas under attack by Islamic Extremists. 

Update: Everyone is safe. 

Gut Shabbos,

Jews will celebrate Tu B'Shebat, the "birthday of the Trees" and the time of spring in the land of Israel, the central Jewish locale. In celebration, nature has decided to fight for the Jewish People. This also seems a great time to drop this for our Americans in the audience.

The beat of life sings to a Jewish drum in the holy land and Diaspora. Abroad in areas where Winter is coming, this helps us see the future as growth, not death. 

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A clearly fake 'Rabbi' gets too much press in Indonesia. Clearly some idiot has ignored all of Jewish history and its survival against libels. Or perhaps he got his education in Kuwait. The author needs to take a visit to Australia. Meanwhile in France, attempts to pretend Jews don't exist unless their evil colonialists in the place Jews come from fail.

More close to home, Anti-Jewish Arab Nationalism blown up in a nutshell.

Articles from across the spectrum of Jewish thought: This one before I even said it (and the same with Sarsour too).

 https://lidblog.com/a-flag-is-born/, https://lidblog.com/israeli-and-palestinian-nationalism/

https://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2020/03/allowing-anti-zionists-in-knesset-is.html?

http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/movement-suffused-with-antisemites-denies-it-antisemitic/

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0111-links-pt2-its-time-for-un-to.html

 https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/martin-luther-king-and-israel-then-and-now/

https://twitter.com/palwatch/status/1477980482822356997/photo/1 

https://www.quora.com/Do-Zionists-think-anti-Zionist-Jews-are-antisemitic/answer/Elke-Weiss

 http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/woman-who-follows-the-science-dismisses-genetics-archaeology-tying-jews-to-levant/

https://www.israellycool.com/2022/01/17/former-michigan-state-legislator-shanelle-jackson-to-challenge-antisemitic-rashida-tlaib/

https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/16/negev-riots-challenge-and-opportunity/ (Especially hard-hitting)

http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/human-rights-group-insists-drone-infiltrating-from-lebanon-just-looking-for-work/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/ (And spoiler to Ken Livingstone, it doesn't take a genius to know that Nazis letting Jews pay ransom to escape before the Shoah didn't translate to them liking Jews).

https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/16/israeli-american-air-forces-complete-joint-drill-to-improve-cooperation-readiness/

Correction to the Haters: Despite the common misconception (I have even seen in mainstream news, notably AP), Israel does have laws for letting Arabs to regain land they lost during wars https://www.camera.org/article/times-of-israel-clarifies-on-land-compensation-laws-for-arabs-jews/ 

"MYTH: Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim ownership of land they vacated in 1948, but denies Palestinians the right to reclaim the properties they fled from in the same war.

FACT: Property left behind by Arabs who fled during the fighting in 1948 (ie, absentee property) was turned over to Israel’s Custodian of Absentee Property, which transferred title to state or related bodies for public purposes, such as housing the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries who found refuge in Israel. The Custodian held the value of the property in trust for the registered Arab owner (with adjustments for inflation and interest). These actions were completely within international norms, and the office itself and its functions were inherited from the similar British Mandate office.

Those registered Arab owners who are citizens or residents of Israel (including Palestinians resident in East Jerusalem) are eligible to file for compensation from the Custodian, but they were pressured not to make claims, lest that legitimize Israel’s existence and sovereignty. Still, over the years at least 14,692 claims have been filed, claims have been settled with respect to more than 200,000 dunums of land, more than 10,000,000 NIS (New Israeli Shekels) has been paid in compensation, and more than 54,000 dunums of replacement land in Israel has been given in compensation. Israel has followed this generous policy despite the fact that not a single penny of compensation has ever been paid to any of the more than 500,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries, who were forced by the Arab governments after 1948 to abandon their homes, businesses and savings.

West Bank Palestinians are not eligible to file with Israel for property they lost after 1948, but neither are Israeli Jews eligible to file for property they lost in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) after 1948. This has been the position of the Israeli government and was confirmed in the so-called Valero decision by Israel’s Supreme Court.

Israeli Jews are eligible to file for compensation (or return in rare cases) for land that was lost in East Jerusalem after 1948. Ownership of much of the land taken by the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property was transferred to the Jordanian government, which used it, for example, to construct government buildings in East Jerusalem, and to create the Dheisheh Refugee Camp – which is built entirely on Jewish-owned land. In addition, Palestinian refugee camps at Qalandia and Anata were built in part on Jewish land that had been taken by the Jordanian Custodian. (See Arab Building in Jerusalem: 1967—1997, Israel Kimhi, p48-49; for Dheisheh, see also, from the leaked Palestine papers, NSU Draft Memo Re: Rights of Jews Within the OPT Acquired pre-1967.)

None of the land used for refugee camps or government buildings in East Jerusalem can be returned to the original Jewish owners, but they can file for compensation. The land in Sheikh Jarrah was an exception because it was leased to the Jordanian government rather than taken by eminent domain, and was therefore still on the books of the Jordanian Custodian as Jewish land and could be returned to the successors of the original Jewish owners."

'Fun Facts': https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/interim-agreement-on-the-west-bank-and-the-gaza-strip-oslo-ii Neither Hamas nor the PA have legal rights to represent the Palestinians according to Oslo. The agreement was struck void when Palestinian Arabs elected terrorists and the PA refused to hold free and fair elections. There were more Arabs in Israel in 1953 then there were Jews in the entire Arab world, possible earlier. 

Fun Quotes: Experts voiced uncertainty as to Erekat’s purpose in his continued boasting. “I mean, all Palestinians are part of a people that goes back to the very beginnings of antiquity, no matter what documented history and archaeology claim,” explained activist Noura Erakat, also a cousin. “We Howeitat are a fine specimen of the Arab demographic, but then, all Palestinians can claim that, even the ones descended of Balkan migrant workers who came to the land a hundred years ago when the Zionists began developing the place and made it thrive economically. Anyone who tries to dismiss our indigenous status by citing such racist concepts as ‘documented history’ and ‘evidence’ is a Zionist shill.” (Preoccupied Territory).

Actually Fun Fact: Everything will be ok. Sing, read, do and have faith. I spend time planting the seeds of tomorrow for free (volunteering) because I love them, and I know they will still be there.

G-d bless you all, as he's blessed me.