BDS and College Students

 It must be the well-established BDS instigators, started in the Middle East that hit the USA of boycotting, with divestment and sanctions against Israel who are, doing the instigating of Divesting from Boeing, an American business  with Israel as a customer.  These young questionable students without the guided thought of investigation and reading are being taken for sure.  We older people are very familiar with the cry against Israel of BDS.  

Samson And Other Notables: Lost in the Frey

Nadene Goldfoot                                                

Samson, from the tribe of Dan with father named Manoah, is lost to us.  His tribe was taken along with 9 other northern tribe of Jacob, as slaves by Assyria in  722-721 BCE. 

         Samson had been one of the Israelite judges as he grew older.  His mother made him a Nazirite from birth.  He didn't cut his hair, was extremely strong and had great courage, inherited from his ancestors. Going back to the 1st Dan-the namesake, he was the 5th son of Jacob and his mother was Bilhah, handmaid of Rachel.  They lived in what became the Southern part of  Jaffa, then forced to live in the hill country by the Amorites.  Part of the tribe was able to live along the coastal region.  The rest were forced to migrate north into Phoenician-held land and made a settlement there around Laish.   Then the Philistines arrived.  That's when Samson lived and showed his heroism.  The period of King Saul and David was yet to come.                                              

            King Hoshea (reigning from 732 to724 BCE)  He had conspired against PEKAH, assassinated him, and seized the throne with Assyrian help, Assyrians have related.  His kingdom was small, confined to the m5. Ephraim area.  Finally he rebelled against the Assyrians and was then put in prison by the new Assyrian ruler, Shalmaneser who then besieged and captured Samaria.  

      Before this attack, King Hoshea (730-721 BCE)  of Israel had tried to throw off the yoke  which led to Shalmaneser V's siege of Samaria, and it's capture in 721 by his successor, SARGON.  Sargon then annexed the country, deported 27,290 Israelites to Assyria and Media and replaced them with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners.  A bottleneck was being created as far as who lives and who is forgotten about.  That was the end of our Jewish Kings of Israel.  It had been created by the 1st king, Saul in the 11th century BCE (1100s- 1000s)  Example:  King David ruled from 1010 to 970 BCE).  David ruled after Saul was killed in battle.   

What happened to the tribe of Dan in the 721 siege?  

Lebanon's Connection With Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

                                                  Ancient city of Tyre of Lebanon

There has been a Lebanon ever since before Solomon(reigned 961-920 BCE)  was born. This means Solomon sat on his throne 2,985 years ago, almost three thousand years ago. He was a lover.  It is said he had 1,000 wives and also concubines as well.  

   Solomon had help building the Temple in Jerusalem from Hiram (10th century BCE)  of Tyre (King of Tyre-which was in Lebanon.  Tyre was founded in the 3rd millennium BCE on an island 1.5 miles off the shore of Phoenecia.  It had a double harbor and was the rival of Sidon.                                    

Hiram sent artisans and cedar wood to Solomon.  The two kings both contributed to the commerce between Elath and Ophir via the Red Sea.                                       

                    Jezebel and husband, King Ahab (876-853 BCE)

The Tyrian Princess Jezebel married King Ahab, causing a religious and  cultural influence of Tyre to penetrate the land of Israel and even Judah.  Tyre was denounced by Ezekiel, the prophet.  This city, Tyre, suffered many sieges and in 332 BCE was captured by Alexander the Great.                

Jezebel had been the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon.  She was very strong minded, forceful and vindictive;  and ruled over Ahab in every way.  He was putty in her palm. It was she who introduced her native religion of the cult of Baal into Israel, and how they were caught and spellbound by is beyond my imagination  just like I cannot fathom by our youth goes for their present music that I detest, either.  To me it's just dissident noise.  Baal is so non-Jewish!  The Canaanites believed in Baal, in many gods, and Baal was represented by a bull, worshipped as a god of fertility of the field and of the womb.   In times of great turbulence human sacrifices, particularly children, were made to this father of the gods!

Under the Romans, Tyre, which had been endowed with a temple by Herod, became a center of commerce with all their purple dying process and had a large Jewish population that included rabbis.  

The Jewish Palestinian Gaonate (body of intellectual leaders)  was transferred to Tyre after 1071.Benjmin Tudela, a traveling historian, in 1170 found 500 scholarly Jews still living there.  Some of these Jews owned ships while others had jobs in manufacturing glass.  Tyre was held by the Crusaders of Europe (1124-1291) and then the city declined from there on.  It's now known as a small Lebanese port with a population of 10,000 as of 1992.  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/ancient-history/baalbek-temple-and-human-sacrifice-worship-to-baal.html