Sunday, June 05, 2016

Hebron and Archeology, An answer to BDS justification based on false accusations of the "Occupation"


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An archeological timeline of eternity

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An archeological timeline of eternity
by David Wilder, Eretz.Org
Erev Yom Hebron 2016
Archeologists Immanuel Eisenberg and David Ben-Shlomo had just about wrapped up the excavations.  Their finds were admirable.

This wasn't Eisenberg's first Hebron dig. Back in 1999, working on the northern edge of Tel Hebron, his finds could not be described as anything less than astonishing.  They ranged from 4,500 hundred years ago, that being the early bronze age, to about 1,700 years ago, that being the Byzantine era.

On the western-most area excavated, he discovered two walls, one dated back to the days of Noah and the flood. Adjacent to this 4,500 year old find were stone stairs, in perfect condition, from the same era, most probably, leading to the 'gate of the city.'  Next to the stairs is another wall, this one being 3,700 years old, that being the middle bronze era, that being the time of Abraham and Sarah.

On the eastern most side of the excavation are Byzantine wine cisterns.

Just to the east of them is a 'four-room' house, 2,700 years old, that being the First-Templ e era, built during the days of King Hezekiah.  During this age, the kingdom utilized Hebron as a place to store food for the army, then fighting a war with Assyrian King Sinharib.  The grains were kept in clay jars. Near the bottom of the jar's handle was a small seal, identifying the jar and its contents as property of the Kingdom.

The seal itself looked something like a cross between a bird and a beetle, some with two wings, and others with four. Above the seal was inscribed the word, L'Melech, 'belonging to  the King.' Beneath the seal was another word, identifying the area where the food jar was being stored.

During these excavations, Eisenberg and his team discovered five of these such seals, all marked with the words 'L'Melech, and underneath, in ancient Hebrew, the word 'Hebron.' Eisenberg, speaking to then defense minister Moshe Arens, at the site, exclaimed, "if anyone had any doubts as to whether this is the original, Biblical Hebron, those doubts have all been erased. We have proof that Jews have lived here since the days of Abraham."

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Eisenberg and Ben Shlomo's excavations southern  side of the Tel were no less impressive. They uncovered a 2,000 year old industrial area, complete with ponds and aqueducts for water flow.  A house, or more likely, pottery factory, burned down during the wars with the Romans, containing remnants of jars was found. Inside the house, two amazing discoveries: a large iron key to the building's door,   and also a jar containing olive pits, 2,000 years old. Additionally they found both olive oil and wine presses.

Parts of the south-eastern region of the Tel had been previously excavated by Philip Hammond, from the United States, in the middle 1960s. Hammond uncovered parts of a 3,700 year old wall, whose stones were so large he described them as Cycloptic.
Eisenberg and Ben-Shlomo continued to dig out this wall, revealing a large section of it. However, a most astounding revelation was determined, that being that the wall had served Hebron for over a thousand years. That is from the time of Abraham, probably until the destruction at the hands of Sinharib, 2,700 years ago.

In other words, when Abraham entered Hebron from the south, this he saw this wall. When Calev ben Yefuheh came into Hebron, being a member of the spies Moses sent to Israel from the desert, this is the wall he viewed. And when David began the Kingdom of Israel in Hebron, some 3,000 years ago, this wall surrounded the original 'City of David.'

The dig was just about completed. A bulldozer started pushing out dirt that had been piled up during the dig. As it finished its work, the archaeologists requested that it continue digging down, where the dirt had covered the earth. Just to make sure…

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To their surprise and amazement, the bulldozer uncovered a large pit. Continued work led to another remarkable discovery. Two very large Mikvahs, that is ritual pools, in beautiful condition were found at that site. They were dated to the Second Temple period, that is, some 2,000 years old. They were astounded.

There was no doubt as to the authenticity of these artifacts or the time of their origin. And here again, solid proof of, not only a Jewish presence, but of a solid presence. Only such a population could allow for this type of industrial area and such large mikvahs.
And of course, the foremost site in Hebron is the huge monumental structure built by Herod atop the caves of Machpela, again, 2,000 years ago.

The Jewish population in Hebron, as most of the Jewish inhabitants of Judea, where expelled by the Romans following the destruction of the 2nd Temple and the defeat of the Jewish revolts. However, there are recorded accounts of Jews praying at Ma'arat HaMachpela in the middle of the 6th century.  And in 614 it is written by the Muslim historian Ibn Huldan 'that the Jews in Hebron assisted the Persians to conquer the city, thereby ending the persecution at the hands of the Byzantines.'  When exactly the Jews returned to Hebron is not entirely clear, but from this account it is clear that they had come back.

It seems that there were no Jews in Hebron was between 1100 until the middle 1200s. In 1100, following the Crusader conquest, Jews were expelled from the city.  After the Mamluk conquest in 1260, Jews again returned to Hebron.

The Avraham Avinu Synagogue was built in 1540 by Jews who had been expelled from Spain in 1492. And so the community continued until the 1929 riots and expulsion. For the first time in almost 1000 years, Hebron was emptied of its age-old Jewish community.

Until 1967.

So there we have it: 3,700-, 3,000-, 2700-, 2,000-, 1,400-, 900-, 500-  years of archeological evidence of a Jewish community in Hebron.

In other words, on June 8, 1967, that being the 29th day of Iyar in 5727, the Jewish people did not conquer and occupy a foreign city. Rather they returned home, home to Hebron, the roots of the Jewish people, the roots of humanity.
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Happy Birthday Letter to Donald Trump Shame on you Ezra Friedlander and The Friedlander Group for supporting Hillary on Oorah Telethon

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Please send Donald Trump the following:

I am a Donald Trump supporter..This having been said first let me start with telling Donald Trump that I am upset with him!

Donald would have received a personalized beautiful birthday greeting from me but unfortunately I didn't have a way of sending him  personalized birthday greetings but only a birthday present that was in $ format by credit card.   He lost out big time when he didn't allow me to send him a birthday greeting with my heartfelt wishes but rather made me feel that they were of no value to him. Birthday greetings were not accepted without a $ contribution.  

Let me explain.  I spend most of my time blogging for Israel, doing acts of kindness on behalf of  my family, my husband and kids, my elderly mother, and my community.

While my husband earns a decent living, and we have what we need in life,  it really doesn't allow me much extra spending money for a generous Donald Trump birthday present.   Of course I would have been more than happy to send him a nice birthday present had I had the funds easily available,,  but honestly I personally haven't bought my own kids nor myself wonderful birthday gifts either recently.  

The way I see it, money isn't the only birthday gift that is valuable. 

I was blogging for Trump way before others came on the bandwagon especially when Mike Huckabee was no longer in the race.  Way before most. http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/search?q=Trump  I suggest you read my posts since there are many points your campaign can use to beat Hillary Clinton. They are an anomaly since I wasn't getting paid to write them, and you can  believe me when I say that I spend many hours blogging,  My posts come from the heart and from an objective perspective. That is what makes it especially valuable, something which money can not buy. .

My heart is big and I have lots of blessings for Donald Trump.  

BTW Since success is a criteria which you value,  let me provide with with the following facts. My blog gets over 10,000 hits a month. Hits per month have doubled since last year. If it continues exponentially that means that maybe one day, my intrinsic $ value will increase and my influence will as well. 


But I want to tell my readers the following Pro Donald Trump message!

While Donald Trump might be  $ hungry and insulting this is nothing compared to the alternative. 

Tonight words can not express my great annoyance at the Ezra Friedlander who was on the Oorah Chinese auction tonight,  telling the entire Orthodox Jewish listening audience cross America to vote for Hillary or alternatively not to vote for Hillary so long as they don't vote for Donald Trump (as if that's not a vote for Hillary). His rationalization? Donald Trump insults people and 'turns off tens of millions with his racist anti Hispanic and African American bias.   (paraphrased).  

If they were so turned off, how did he beat the 17 other candidates with his landslide appeal?

Well I would have liked to have been on the air and ask the Oorah listening audience the following question.  

Whom do you prefer?  
  • Hillary's support and empowerment of Shiite evil under the Obama Administration, like a nuclear Iran inclusive of 150 billion dollars of freed assets to  Iran to be shared with the worst offenders of basic human rights since Nazi Germany and possibly surpasses this evil which wishes to destroy Israel the small Satan, America the big Satan and "Decadent Western Civilization"...
  • Hillary's support of the empowerment of Sunni evil with the rise of ISIS which rose from a contained threat in Iraq etc.  to a monstrous threat on their watch. This death cult mentality, same as the Shiite's has its source is 7th Century Islam.
VS:
  • Donald Trump who insults and puts down people and alienated tens of millions of Americans due to being racist to the Latino and African American Demographic. [perhaps justified Islamophobia? Robin].  Donald Trump "racism" can be rectified by proposing a program of vetting all immigrants fairly and objectively and welcoming all among them, including Hispanics and Muslims, who believe and abide by basic universal morality known as the 7 Noahide laws, into our country. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United STates of America..." is not a Donald Trump original.
  • Donald Trump focusing much too much on $. Case in point this very annoying fundraising pushiness which was cloaked as a birthday "greeting" solicitation?

BUT!!!!! Shame on Ezra Friedlander and the Friedlander group http://www.thefriedlandergroup.com/securing-funds.2-7-1419.sub.html for standing with Evil that Hillary HAS EMPOWERED!  He has lost any respect from my perspective. 

I truly get it. I understand that he has received much gov't funding for many worthy causes.  In my opinion it has tainted his vision. It is blood money and he is a "useful idiot".  This money has bought him to promote Hillary and by extension, grama,  defend the atrocities of the Obama Administration. Shochad Maaver Pikchim (ask your son in law for translation!)   It might bring temporary relief short term but such funding will hurt the Jewish people, not to mention humanity long term..

Again, this having been said, Donald Trump, on the other hand, should know that sometimes there are gifts much more valuable than money and he should not be so foolish to disregard them and even worse not attach value to them. 

Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
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Thursday, June 02, 2016

Abuse of Power! Administrative Detention Out of Control targeting Jewish Kids. Kudos to the Jewish Press for exposing this miscarriage of Justice!

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Shabak has lost it.  But Why? First read of the latest miscarriages of justice under the guise of Administrative Detention.  My Analysis follows these posts.

Annals of Crazy: Shabak Bans 15-Year-Old 'Jewish Extremist' from Talking to 12-Year-Old Neighbor.  A Wednesday decree issued by Shabak truly sounded like part of the mad hatter's party in Alice in Wonderland.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/annals-of-crazy-shabak-bans-15-year-old-jewish-extremist-from-talking-to-12-year-old/2016/06/01/

After 10 Months – Meir Ettinger Freed From Prison. Will Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman follow in Ya'alon's footsteps and sign new administrative detention orders against Kahane's grandson, sending him back to prison without trial?

What's going on?  Let us take a look at other examples of such abuse of power and see how and why it works.  In the article below, simply substitute the words"U.S. Attorney" with "Shabak prosecution". 

"Abuse Of Power" And The Rubashkin Case [and the Hilltop Youth Cases Robin]  https://yated.com/justice-officials-legal-luminaries-petition-government-rectify-rubashkin-travesty/

The concluding paragraph of the NACDL amicus curiae in support of the Rubashkin appeal of which Reynolds was a party, cites a 1940 speech given by Justice Robert Jackson when he was U.S. Attorney General, on the subject of the great potential for abuse of power in the Office of the U.S. Attorney.
The NACDL brief said Jackson's words are uncannily relevant to the Rubashkin prosecution.
"The most dangerous power of the prosecutor is that he will pick people that he thinks he should 'get…" Instead of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who committed it, he will pick the man and then searching the law books… or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him," Jackson noted in his speech.
"It is in this realm — in which the prosecutor singles out a person he dislikes or desires to embarrass…and then looks for an offense – that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the governing group, being attached to the wrong political views… or being personally obnoxious to, or in the way of, the prosecutor himself."
"Jacksons' words are worth repeating for they apply so well to the [Rubashkin] case," the NACDL brief stated. "When the elaborate raid on illegal immigrants at Agriprocessors did not bear fruit" [i.e. the lurid crimes that should have justified a military-style raid turned out to be nonexistent], "the prosecutors, rather than look ridiculous, searched and found another crime… And the trial judge, who was part of the planning and pre-arrest activities, imposed a sentence of over a quarter-of-a century," to show how bad the crimes were.
"All this served to justify the huge resources that the Government had employed, with its massive raid more befitting of a bust of a well-armed drug cartel."

The question is why is the government of Israel so focused on framing Jewish children and youth as Jewish Terrorists expending enormous resources to prove that they are Jewish Terrorists involved in terror activity against innocent Palestinians? 

What does Israel benefit from "admitting" even half heartedly that they too have Jewish Terrorists, and children nonetheless....

In the International arena, the Obama Administration, the EU, the UN, all being broadcast in leftist International Media,  have to somehow sell the Peace Process...  peace between two Nations with aspirations of a homeland.  The Palestinian People and the Nation of Israel.  

The Palestinian people have been in the news non stop with videos of constant terror education funded by UNRWA, indoctrination in UNRWA camps, Arab Sesame Street promoting the destruction of Israel, jihad dolls, suicide belts for dressup,  starting from a young age, which has then led to real attacks, stabbings, rock throwings, car jammings, and even suicide explosions against innocent civilians, perpetrated by children and youth, indoctrinated from a young age to hate and terrorize Jews and Israel.  

On the other hand, Israel educates its children with Judeo-Christian values that values life and believes that one has the right to defend oneself when one is attacked and that Israel is the rightful inheritors of the Land of Israel.  Israel and the Settlers of Judea and Samaria do not produce kids who are taught that it is proper to go into some random Arab's home and proudly set it on fire and burn the parents and a little toddler and then brag about it.  There is no justification religiously, morally, legally and  it's downright dangerous.  It's stupid and wrong and accomplishes nothing. Am I surprised that indeed they have come up with no real evidence other than a forced confession based on some Hebrew graffiti scribbled on the wall?  

These authentic facts prove that there is an imbalance between the two sides. One side is barbaric and criminal and the other is just and moral taking on high ground.

The Palestinian side has a given that is based on falsehood.  As Mike Huckabee put it, it's BDS without the D.  To quote Liz Berneq Esq. from ZOA at the BDS Conference in the UN "Remember, there is no such thing as the 'Occupation!'"

The Jewish/Israeli Side has truth and morality. 

So for all those in favor of a Two State Solution,  in order to keep these two sides even, worthy of an intellectual and academic discussion, one has to somehow show that they are both moral and ethical or that they are both terror States.  Both tactics are used. 

Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of Soda Stream presents a Utopian world of coexistence between Palestinians and Jew.  His company is living proof that this can be accomplished!  Cinderella...the fairy tale...and they all lived happily ever after.... Or did they? 

Am I being cynical of Peace?  

No!  I too am warmed by the concept of coexistence. But then I remember another time in history where Jews and Arabs coexisted.  That was 1929 Hebron in Beit Hadassah hospital where Jews and Arabs alike were treated fairly and equally no different than Hadassah Hospital today.  It was not long ago when terror victim reported 
‘I yelled for help and they spat at me,’ says victim of Jerusalem attack. Adele Banita gives harrowing account of terror assault in which her husband Aharon and Old City resident Nehemia Lavi were murdered, and she was badly wounded http://www.timesofisrael.com/i-yelled-for-help-and-they-spit-at-me-says-victim-of-jerusalem-attack/
and this story 
Elderly terror victims: Arabs refused to help us as we bledhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/1134128568
So what went wrong? If all Arabs wish to coexist why in the above stories did they lack basic human decency to help the terror victims.  We must conclude, as painful as it is to our good Samaritan hearts, that there is a significant number of Arabs who do not deserve Israel's benevolence, human rights, jobs and economic help, water, electricity and educational subsidies.  Their agenda is the destruction of Israel.

I believe that coexistence can and should exist but under certain parameters.  When you leave these parameters out, you open yourself vulnerable to a massacre no different than Hebron in 1929. 

What are the parameters I am referring?

 Let us return to the conquest of Joshua of the 7 Canaanite Nations.  The Canaanite nations were offered the following options.  Either they accept Israel's Sovereignty and the Seven Noahide laws or they can leave.  If they choose to stay, in spite of refusing to these conditions then we are required to fight them and wipe them out lest their immoral and disgusting practices contaminate us and they will have done to us what we should have done to them.  

There needs to be a way to separate the good guys from he bad guys.  

All Arabs are not bad.

I learned this lesson from a very wise elderly Yeminite women by the name of Miriam Yefet.  

Years ago, when I was single,  living at home in NY,  I took the summer off to volunteer in Kiryat Arba. I had joined a Bnei Akiva Garin by the name of Moreshet Avot who planned on making Aliya to Kiryat Arba. I wanted to get a feel for the place. I contacted the Social Worker at the time, Yehudit Katsover who hooked me up with Miriam Yefet.  This 80 year old spunky petite Yemenite women was grieving over her son Moshe ob"m who recently was killed while on reserve duty.  She could not be consoled. I was assigned to befriend her and see how I can help her situation. 

I personally was not interested in going into the Arab section of Hebron. However as Miriam Yefet's attendant, helping her with her bags, I received an interesting education of the Arab Shuk in Hebron.  We took the Egged bus into Hebron from Kiryat Arba and walked to the Arab Shuk.  There we were greeted warmly with the local population each of the Arabs sellers in the market outdoing themselves to accommodate Miriam Yefet.  She spoke their language and knew them personally.  She apparently helped them when they needed help. Sometimes with food, sometimes with advice.  She demanded only the finest quality of fruits and vegetables and they accommodated her as best as they could as she sat in a chair they provided as they brought her their merchandise. She argued with them and told them, this is our land and they listened to her respectfully.  She told me.  I know who is good and who hates us.  I speak their language. 

 Many Arabs are not only good but show courage that puts us to Shame.  I  bring as an example "Mosab Hassan Yousef" aka Son of Hamas.  It seemed to me that he received the largest applause with Bassam Eid as a close second at yesterdays session at the UN entitled "Ambassadors against BDS.  As Bassam Eid of Palestinian human rights told the audience at the United Nations on May 31, 2016 , most Arabs would prefer living under Israel's Sovereignty where they are physically and financially secure, have health and education benefits and a good paying job over living under a corrupt Arab Administration in misery and poverty and abuse.  

But we are naive and foolish to hide under the carpet that Jihad is pervasive in the Palestinian population centers big time. Jihad education has been indoctrinating Palestinians children and has been allowed to operate unchecked by the government of Israel.  As long as this is the situation, it is a time bomb a terror attack Chas VeShalom in spite of SodaStream's false utopia of peaceful coexistence!

Would this be tolerated in America? Allowing ones enemies to live next door to you.   Probably under Obama.  But when I grew up, we all proudly put our hands to our chests and recited "I Pledge Allegiance, To The Flag, OF the United States of America".  Remember?  "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Perhaps Soda Stream has discovered how to keep out the Jihad element from their operation.  Are they so naive to believe that all Palestinians, given equal and fair treatment,  human rights  etc. will turn away from their jihadist ways and forget the teaching of their prophet Mohammad who taught Taqiyya, deception. https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Lying_and_Deception.  Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception.

Does SodaStream ever discriminate against extreme radical Muslim Fundamentalists who follow the teachings of Islam religiously?   How does Mr. Birnbaum address the employees of Soda Stream who might be a small minority but are devout Muslims who according to Son of Hamas Mosab Hassan Yousef practice Islam, a religion of death cult.  Surely they will contaminate the atmosphere, have a negative influence and infiltrate the Utopian operation of Coexistence under the guise of human rights and equal opportunity as the Torah predicts.  

There must be a way to differentiate and  filter the Ger Toshav from the Jihadist.   







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Fwd: ZOA Campus Website Awarded "Best in Class" in International Competition


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Subject:        ZOA Campus Website Wins "Best in Class" in International Competition

We are proud and pleased to announce that ZOA has won a major award in an international Internet competition for the new ZOA Campus Website http://campus.zoa.org from the Interactive Media Awards (IMA). The Interactive Media Awards, "recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement."

Our overall score of 482 out of a possible 500 from the Interactive Media Awards Board of Judges is truly phenomenal; the site received perfect 100 point scores in the categories of Content and Feature Functionality.

Design: 93

Content: 100

Feature Functionality: 100

Usability: 95

Standards Compliance: 94

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Total: 482

The "Best in" Class award is the highest honor bestowed by the IMA. It represents "the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism." In order to win this award level, ZOA's Campus site had to successfully pass through a comprehensive judging process, achieving very high marks in each of the criteria – an achievement only a small fraction of sites in the IMA competition earn each year.

It is not easy to win a web award from the IMA: others who have won this award include major companies like McDonalds, InterContinental Hotels, the Omnicom Group (ad agency) and Alliance Group (financial services). ZOA Campus, by winning "Best in Class", was equaled only by the Nature Conservancy, an organization whose annual revenues were almost $1 billion last year alone, and one other foreign language site.

To see how much the ZOA team has achieved without the resources, large staff, and budget of far larger entities is truly inspiring. We are very proud and we look forward to sharing even more exciting news regarding ZOA's digital initiatives in the near future.

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