More on World War I: Ottoman Empire Expulsion of Jews From Palestine

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

                                                                      Djemal Pasha

The Ottoman–German Alliance was an alliance was ratified on August 2, 1914, shortly following the outbreak of World War I. The alliance was created as part of a joint-cooperative effort that would strengthen and modernize the failing Ottoman military, as well as provide Germany safe passage into neighboring British colonies

In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers, the Germans. Many people from the opposing Allied countries lived in Palestine, and its Turkish officials considered them a threat to military security. More Jews had immigrated to Palestine in 5 waves, starting in 1881 from Russia and a few other eastern European countries. Pogroms that occurred there were driving the Jews out of Russian areas and back to their origins.   

Two waves of expulsion occurred as part of Turkish failed defense of their fading empire.

In December 1914, the Turks expelled up to 6,000 Jews who resided in Jaffa (a city originally in the area of the tribe of Judah). They were resettled in Alexandria, Egypt.  In February 1915 in Syria, Djemal Cemal Pasha exercised absolute power in both military and civil affairs. Cemal Pasha was convinced that an uprising among local Arabs was imminent. Leading Arabs were executed, and notable families deported to Anatolia.  The Ottoman Empire then issued forcible drafts of Jews into the army, demanding Jews to take Ottoman citizenship or either getting expelled from the region before 15 May 1915. Following the devastating effect of the Lebanese famine, situation worsened.  

                                                                          

 Aharon Aharonson ((Hebrew: אהרון אהרנסון‎) (21 May 1876 – 15 May 1919) was a Jewish agronomist, botanist, and Zionist activist, who was born in Romania and lived most of his life in the Land of Israel, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Aaronsohn was the discoverer of emmer (Triticum dicoccoides), believed to be "the mother of wheat.")    described the situation,  "Meanwhile, people are literally starving. Horrified sights have seen our eyes: old women and children wandering, hunger and nightmare-madness in their dying eyes, no food falling under them and dying.  "An unnamed eyewitness stated,  "Even wealthy people in Jerusalem are becoming recipients (of alms) and even courting the remaining."

The repulse of British forces in Palestine in the spring of 1917 was followed by the loss of Jerusalem in December of the same year. The Ottoman authorities deported the entire civilian population of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation, pursuant to the order from Ahmed Jamal Djemal Pasha on 6 April 1917. Tel Aviv and Jaffa are joined together, Tel Aviv being the garden suburb of Jaffa.  Founded in 1909, Tel Aviv  became a separate town in 1921.  In this same year were Arab riots going on, forcing Jews to leave Jaffa and find refuge in Tel Aviv.  

The Muslim evacuees were allowed to return before long. 

At the same period, the Balfour Declaration was being negotiated (published on 2 November 1917) in which the British Government declared its support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.

By January 1917, British forces had crossed the Sinai Desert and were about to invade Palestine, which alarmed the Turkish authorities. The Ottoman Empire began to become skeptical of the residents in the region, mostly Jews, as the Ottomans disdained them for alleged collaboration with the British.

                                                       

Ottoman officers who successfully defended Gaza during the first battle

The First Battle of Gaza was fought on 26 March 1917, during the first attempt by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) to invade the south of Palestine in the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Fighting took place in and around the town of Gaza on the Mediterranean coast when infantry and mounted infantry from the Desert Column, a component of the Eastern Force, attacked the town. Late in the afternoon, on the verge of capturing Gaza, the Desert Column was withdrawn due to concerns about the approaching darkness and large Ottoman reinforcements. This British defeat was followed a few weeks later by the even more emphatic defeat of the Eastern Force at the Second Battle of Gaza in April 1917.

At the start of March, all the inhabitants of Gaza were expelled, a town of 35,000–40,000 people, mostly Arabs. They had 48 hours to leave "even if crawling on their knees" of the men were conscripted and the rest scattered around Palestine and Syria, first to nearby villages and then further afield as those villages were also evacuated. Death from exposure or starvation was widespread. Gaza did not recover its pre-war population until the 1940s.

Over 40,000 Jews had been forcibly deported, many would not return until after the British conquest and some died on their way, but many Arabs did. Friedman holds that this was a deliberate decision on the part of the Ottoman authorities. Sheffy regards that it is more reflective of cultural and behavioral differences: the Arabs had no central organization, and with their experience of how government decrees were enforced, just remained nearby until the storm had passed, whereas the Jews obeyed the evacuation decree as a group. In any case, when New Zealand troops entered Jaffa in November 1917, only an estimated 8,000 of the previous population of 40,000 was present.

On 28 March 1917, Djemal Pasha ordered the evacuation of the inhabitants of Jaffa. They could go wherever they liked except Jerusalem or Haifa. Farmers with crops in their fields, the workers of the winery in Rishon Lezion, and the teachers and students of the Mikveh Israel school and the Latrun estate were excluded.  

                                                             

             In 1917, Ottoman forces at the shores of the Dead Sea

 Djemal Pasha, who was in charge of the Greater Syrian Theatre of the war, was forced to provide explanations.            

   Ottoman Authority telling Jews to evacuate from Tel Aviv on April 6, 1917; A total of 1,500 Jewish evacuees are thought to have died after heading north and being forced to lead a nomadic existence.

                                                              

The procession to return the exiled Torah scrolls back to Tel Aviv and Jaffa in 1918.

 Ahmed Jamal Pasha effectively separated these groups. The Jewish evacuees returned after the British conquest of Palestine, in the summer of 1918.   

It followed one month after the expulsion of all the inhabitants of the similarly-sized Arab city of Gaza City. This coincided with the larger and systematic repression on minorities by the Ottoman Empire during the World War I.

However, as Turkish nationalism began to rise in the late 19th century, the Jewish position in the empire came into question. The Young Turks, who came to power in 1908, openly espoused the idea that all non-Turkish subjects had to be Turkified. Even though the Ottoman leaders did not target the Jews for Turkification, their skepticism of Jewish motives increased and as a result of it, they became increasingly hostile towards the Jews.                                                         

The homes and property of the Jews of Jaffa and Tel Aviv were kept in the possession of the Ottoman authorities, and they were guarded by a handful of Jewish guards. Djemal Pasha also released two Jewish doctors to join the deportees. Nonetheless, many deportees had perished during the harsh winter of 1917–1918 from hunger and contagious diseases due to negligence by the Ottoman authorities: 224 deportees are buried in Kfar Saba, 15 in Haifa, 321 in Tiberias, 104 in Safed, and 75 in Damascus.

Many Jewish deportees ended up in Zichron Yaacov, Hadera, Petah Tikva and Kfar Saba, with few chose to go to Jerusalem despite being forbidden by the Ottoman authorities. Sympathizing with the situation, local population decided to provide needed medical and financial support. But when winter 1917–1918 arrived, the situation worsened for many deportees and many died by hunger, famine, starvation and maltreatment, as several Yishuvs didn't receive them and thought they could be Ottoman spies. Deterioration of condition had prompted many Jews to flee and several of them had migrated to Egypt, or Europe and the United States.

On 3 October 1918 forces of the Arab Revolt entered Damascus accompanied by British troops, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule.  The Ottomans finally were  defeated due to key attacks by the British general Edmund Allenby.  

Ottoman casualties of World War I, the Ottoman Empire mobilized a total of 2.6 million men. It lost 325,000 men and 400,000 were injured. 202,000 men were taken prisoner, mostly by the British and the Russians, and one million deserted, leaving only 323,000 men under arms at the time of the armistice.

The financial losses are also huge with an expense of 398.5 million Ottoman Lira, the equivalent of 9.09 billion gold francs of the time: the Empire was practically bankrupt in 1918.

Resource;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire_in_World_War_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Jaffa_deportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Aaronsohn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1917-jews-expelled-from-tel-aviv-1.5244091

Dealing With the Palestinians: Who Can Do It? A Study of American Judaism and How They Differ from Israelis

Nadene Goldfoot                                               

Jews were directed to enter Canaan through the Man who freed them from 400 years of Slavery in Egypt and they followed his directions, which came to him through G-d, a god different from all the others in the world because Moses said there was but one, and this was his direction; and they obeyed.  They created an empire that lasted starting in about 1271 BCE until 70 CE, about 1,341 years of being an empire ruled by heads of families, clans, then Kings Saul, David and Solomon, and after that their descendants until an empire called Israel was reduced to their southern tribal state of Judah, when Romans overcame them and drove them out.  in 70 CE. 

 They didn't drive all out, though; but did a good job of it with their capital, Jerusalem.  Some remained and multiplied throughout the ages.  Roman soldiers actually kept Jews out of Jerusalem.  General Bar Kochba, descendant of Jewish leadership, took Jerusalem in 132  with his soldiers in a vain effort to win his country back and held it for 3 years, a feat shocking to the Romans, the best army in the world at that time.  They killed him in battle, and many of his army.  135 was the year that the land was called Palestine after the Philistines, named by the Romans who picked the most dangerous enemy of the Judeans.  

Judeans, later called Jews, kept their faith that they learned from Moses, through all the years of living in lands ruled by polytheists, people who believed in many gods, and also while in Europe, among countries that had been introduced and had accepted Christianity.  Later, around 630, some that hadn't left the Middle Eastern world, lived with Muslims without leaving their own religion.  

Jews left these places when life was bearing down on the fact that they were Jewish and it was unacceptable to the land they were in and were forced out or had to convert.  Russia is a good example of this.  Jews left for an unknown but said to be a golden land, America, land of the free, home of the brave.                 

     German roundup of Jews in Paris, 1940s.  Holocaust.  

They came and ran into another wall of anti-Semitism, but at least no pogroms.  Throughout the 1920's they were treated as a people different and unacceptable with others.  Then the 30's came and things developed in Europe into years of the Holocaust when 6 million were burned alive, groups unarmed shot to death and their bodies covered with acid, or gassed, men, women, children, in the act of destroying the whole family of Jewish people that were the only ancient people to make it to this generation.  For there were no more Amorites, Jebusites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, etc., the  biblical people that survived.     

They did live among people who were also like them in the fact that they also had felt downtrodden and sought to make a new life for themselves, and cared less than the Europeans possibly about the Jews, and the Jews were actually able to work, mainly for themselves better than in Europe and develop their businesses.  Many did well and could provide for their families. Incorporated into their Sabbath prayers was the promise of never forgetting, and returning to their land that God had wanted them to live in, as Moses had told them.  For what events and emotions these people had gone through with Moses was most likely imbedded into their systems, their DNA, and they were a stubborn people who did not forget or denounce their learned beliefs to anyone or anything.   That's what made them so special; their stubborness and faith so strong that it has remained for about the past 3,291 years.  They would have rebuilt Jerusalem and the land had the remnant been able to, but they were kept from doing so.  They were called the Wandering Jews.                     

This affected them.  They almost forgot their families and their lives in Europe, and that means they started to forget their religion as there was no stress in keeping it anymore.  Something that had started in Germany was Reform Judaism when so much of the practice was skipped over, and so much was done in English, that it got to the point that their Judaism was down to the bare skeletal remains of the religion and the people were melding into regular Americans like all the other immigrants were doing.  A few kept to their Orthodox ways and some found it favorable to combine the two ideas into Conservative Judaism, sort of Orthodox and sort of reforming parts of it.  

A new Harvard University Press book examines President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s broader record on Jewish issues.Credit...FPG/Getty Images.  My parents would be shocked!  

During the period from 1933 to 1945, the worst time of all for Jews when Germany became so anti-Semitic and Nazis were created by Hitler, Jews in the USA felt that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was their idol as he was president after doors had closed on the continued entrance of the Jewish people who sought to became Americans.  Jews around 1924 found the door locked to them.  They thought Roosevelt was their savior, and he was a Democrat.  A large percentage of Jews, including my father, became Democrats.  Facts are pointing now that he really didn't like Jews at all.  

 This period of immigration came to an end with the passage of restrictive laws in 1921 and 1924. Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to the United States never again reached the levels that it did before 1920.  "Proponents of the act sought to establish a distinct American identity by preserving its ethnic homogeneity. Reed told the Senate that earlier legislation "disregards entirely those of us who are interested in keeping American stock up to the highest standard—that is, the people who were born here." He believed that immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, most of whom were Catholics or Jews, arrived sick and starving, were less capable of contributing to the American economy, and were unable to adapt to American culture.

 Eugenics was used as justification for the act's restriction of certain races or ethnicities of people to prevent the spread of perceived feeblemindedness in American society. Samuel Gompers, himself a Jewish immigrant from Britain and the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), supported the act because he opposed the cheap labor that immigration represented even though the act would sharply reduce Jewish immigration.  Both the AFL and the Ku Klux Klan supported the act.

One can also deduce that the real reason was that they were afraid of 

Jews taking over jobs of the average American.  This showed up in

 Germany with Jews retaining their businesses in time of economic 

strife.  I love reading that Jews have received more Nobel prizes

 than their numbers would expect.  To think that they were kept out of 

country for not being smart enough.  It only shows the average 

intelligence produced by governments.  Einstein was lucky 

to be able to enter. 

Restrictions were put on Jews in the USA.  Jews could not get into medical school after a certain% were accepted, even though they passed the entrance tests with flying colors.  Jews could not get into fraternities, sororities gyms, etc, because of their religion. 

                                             

     Palestine and how bedouins lived in 1930.  
 

Palestinian Arabs have fought Jews since the 1920's along with the development of German anti-Semitism.  There were a few Arabs, mostly Bedouins, roaming in and out of the land as other conquerors had taken over the land, but it was never taken and developed into a country.  A few owned land with the Ottoman Empire but couldn't keep up with their high taxes and gladly sold out to crazy Jews who thought the barren ugly land full of weeds and marshes and mosquitoes was Holy, and these Arabs were most grateful to find suckers who paid their high prices.  That allowed them to leave for real life in Cairo, Damascus, Paris, etc. when they could not get the land to pay .  

                                             

     Tel Aviv: Founded in 1909 as a garden suburb of Jaffa.  During WWI, the Jews were exiled by order of the Turks.  It developed during riots of Arabs when Jews were forced to leave Jaffa by Arabs.  From the beginning they have showed their animosity toward the Jewish returnees they took to be intruders.  They forget that they never did a thing with this land.  

Jaffa in biblical times had marked the boundary of the Philistines, but was in the tribal area of Judah.  When Solomon was king, and again after the return from Babylonian captivity, it was an independent city.  Then it later belonged to the Phoenicans.  Then it became a Jewish port.  In 1946 the population was 101,000 of which 30% were Jews.  The Arab sections of Jaffa capitulated on May 14, 1948 and almost all Arabs left the city.  it was joined with Tel Aviv into one city.     

What happened?  The land was waiting for the Jews to return, and has developed into a world of something to be proud of.  As Jews built, mostly from their return-starting from Russia in the 1880's in the first Aliyot, Arabs came after them looking for jobs.  They came from all the surrounding Arab lands where men were out of work.  Their descendants remained, now demanding their own state to be made out of the Jews' ancient Judah and Samaria.  They do not understand the Jewish history and their own has been warped by legends and dreams of their own forefathers and the ignorance of the Europeans whose knowledge is smothered by their own religious teachings.  Golda reminds us, "“Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”  

What will happen with a 2 State Solution when the Arabs have demanded that Israel does not exist and that they will destroy them and make the land theirs?  How is it that the world has bought into such nonsense?  Some had lived on the land but not as a country, more like as squatters.  They could have had everything they dream of today had they not made war instead of peace but they made the choice, not the Jews.  They made the refusal when the Jews had accepted their disappointing fate.  Since then, Jews have seen what has developed; 72 years of war; constant attacks, a people born to hatred and fighting against them. 

Like Golda Meier explained, “We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - We have no place to go.”  We all realize that there are 48 other Muslim majority countries that Palestinians could enter, like their home they left-most likely for the majority being Syria.  Jordan already is home to many.                      

Even Israel and AIPAC strongly continue to support a negotiated 2-state solution, a Jewish state of Israel living in peace and security side by side with a demilitarized Palestinians state, but it will never remain without weapons, just as Gaza has never come to making peace with Israel.  It is a dream of sane people trying to think that insane minds will see the logic. They remain in denial of the facts of life.   If the world were sane, this would have been decided by 1948 when Israel declared their statehood.  When you take your head out of the sand, you see it's not happening;  not yet.  We have not been closer to this point anymore than we were in 1948.             

Palestinian children wearing Hamas headbands take part in a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Gaza Strip

(photo credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/REUTERS)

The Palestinians continue to teach hatred for Jews in their schools, and martyrdom for their small children who sing songs about it.  Do they even know what they are singing:  about their own death in order to win against Israel?  They don't even know of reasons to hate.  It is criminal to teach children such things.  “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”  Politicians should listen to Golda Meir' wisdom, for she was endowed with it like a prophet.  

For Israel cannot afford to become insane and go for something already proven that hasn't worked.  Isn't insanity something you keep on doing knowing it won't work?  Something has to change first before a reward can be given, and Israel has been the one to give all the time;  from giving in from the promised Jewish Homeland to losing 80% of it to become Jordan and now-now to give away Judah and Samaria after fighting the 1967 Six Day War and winning-a battle they won against ALL odds-fought against by all the Arab nations?  The world asks them to give up land they won -and won accidently through defensive fighting that was theirs to begin with?  This is sick, sick, and sicker.  

My hope in all these past 72 years, is that the remarkable peace initiative of Abraham will bring sanity to the Palestinians and that the young and intelligent youth will recognize that they are making peace and it will enter their minds that they could also and life as well as any Israeli and even better as neither would have to look forward to a life of war and death at any moment.  This peace that is growing may be the Messianic Age  that we all have been waiting for, a time of peace.  

The Palestinians will not listen to any Israeli and European, but they might listen to another, convincing Arab.  Trump and Jared worked hard with their peace deal, but really haven't convinced the Palestinians, so I'm told.  It's not in their hearts to want peace, meaning they're going to be a pain in the neck if forced into a 2 state solution and Israelis will be more nervous than they already are.  I'm waiting for the miracle of Arab leadership to show the way to peace without fighting and bloodshed where we can truly feel like a mishpukah (family member-distant cousin)  has moved in next door.  

Israel is our history, our only land of acceptance.  It is our destiny.  It is holy to us.  It is the land we promised to tend, to care for, to rear our children.  This is why it is wanted by the Jewish people.  Who but the Jews have gone through such terrors to return and deserve to live on this land?  Who has prayed for 3 thousand years daily to return but the Jews?  Who understands our undertaking?  Our vow?  It is made of our blood and our ancestors.  It calls to us.  We have returned and have reclaimed our promised land.  Join us in our rejoicing, but not as an enemy, for now we join hands only with friends.  

Resource:

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-century.html

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/comprehensive-report-reveals-endemic-hate-education-in-palestinian-schools-632057

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/books/book-tries-for-balanced-view-on-roosevelt-and-jews.html

Israel: Land Laying Wasted for 2,000 Years-Getting Developed Once Again

Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

1947 Plan of dividing the remaining land of Israel into a 2-State solution;
some for Jews and some for Arabs.  The Arabs refused to sign up for this.
They wanted all of it.  Jews took the deal; something better than nothing.  

The Jewish land of Israel is 260 miles long, 60 miles at the widest, and from 3 to 9 miles at 

the narrowest.  We're talking about a very small piece of real-estate.  

In this little space of Israel which is only 10% of the Promised Land, only 17% of it is arable.                                       

When Jews started returning to Eretz Israel in the late 1800s, they had to drain the land as so much was swampy or had become all desert.  
                                                         

Drainage of the Huleh Swamps

One way to get rid of all the mosquitoes
Drain the swamps with these thirsty trees

They planted eucalyptus trees to soak up the water.  They've
invented scientific ways of farming this impossible land for others, just waiting for the Jews' return.
Trees are continually being planted.  Never has so much been done to such undeveloped, impossible land.  
                                                         

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a garden suburb of Jaffa and named after a book.  In World War I, the people of Tel Aviv were exiled by order of the Turks, as it was still part of the Ottoman Empire.  
                                                          

Tel Aviv, a city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, is marked by stark 1930s Bauhaus buildings, thousands of which are clustered in the White City architectural area. Museums include Beit Hatfutsot, whose multimedia exhibits illustrate the history of Jewish communities worldwide. The Eretz Israel Museum covers the country’s archaeology, folklore and crafts, and features an on-site excavation of 12th-century-B.C. ruins.
The area (Metro)  population is 3,854,000
Tel Aviv itself has 429,515 

  It started to grow rapidly under the British Mandate, especially as Arab riots forced most Jews to leave Jaffa which was nearby.  By 1921 Tel Aviv became a separate town from Jaffa.  As a result of the 1936 Arab riots, a harbor was inaugurated; but had to close down in 1965.  In 1947-1948 in the War of Independence, fighting broke out between Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa which ended with the capitulation of Jaffa on the eve of the Israel's birth:  May 13, 1948.  The state of Israel was proclaimed the next day, May 14, 1948 at Tel Aviv which remained the seat of the government and the Knesset until 1949. 

In the meantime, Jaffa had been abandoned by most of the Arabs and was resettled with new immigrants.  The 2 cities were amalgamated in 1949 under the name:  Tel Aviv-Jaffa.  By 1990 the population was 317,800, but the Tel Aviv with the outskirts contained more than twice that number.  It was the major target for Scud missiles launched from Iraq during the 1991 GULF WAR. 
                                                                           

Osmanli Donemi Yafa, Filistin

Jaffa in 1890; a city of the Ottoman Empire, Palestine

Jaffa was known in Biblical days and was mentioned in the Assyrian documents. It was here that Jonah sailed from Jaffa.   It had marked the boundary of the Philistines, although in theory it was within the tribal area of the tribe of Judah; Judean territory.  During King Solomon's reign, and again after the return of the Jews during the Babylonian captivity, the trees-cedars from Lebanon were floated to the sea of Jaffa on their way to Jerusalem.
                                                                                 

From Jaffa one could see Jerusalem 

  Unloading them may have been done north of Tel Aviv.  During the Persian period (Iran), Jaffa belonged to the Phoenicians.  Judah the Maccabee, our hero in our Chanukah history, had avenged the massacre of the Jewish community there.  His brothers, Jonathan and Simon, took Jaffa in the battle and replaced the foreign population with Jews.  Then it became an important Jewish port until the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Romans.
Jaffa grew in size in the 19th Century  from the surrounding Jewish building of homes.    
                                                         

In 1946 the population had grown to 101,000 of which 30% were Jews.  Oranges were being exported from Jaffa.  

                                                      

Airport in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

BDS Founder and Lobbyist for BDS, Omar Barghouti

Nadene Goldfoot                                        

This nice-looking 52 year old Omar Barghouti, born in 1964 in Qatar, is a co- founder and lobbyist for BDS against Israel.  His comment on this is, "Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of "Palestine."  

BDS is a calculated and cynical strategy based on lies about Israel.  It's just another missile they are dropping on the whole 8,000 square miles which is only 20% of the original accepted size of the Jewish Homeland by the League of Nations and the UN by all the members.  As you see, Barghouti doesn't even recognized Israel.  He still calls the land the Roman name of Palestine. and is opposed to its existence.
                                                                         

Israeli girl enjoying Tel Aviv's beach. Barghouti is even against exporting
Israeli dance groups for culture.  No one can work for Israel and
 no one can enjoy anything from Israel.  That's BDS.

Tel Aviv-Warmer than Seaside, Oregon for sure.  Friday, June 3rd is to be 90 Degrees, 72
for a low.  Perfect for a dip in the Mediterranean Sea.  Shabbat will go up to 94
and 74 for a low.  This is in F.  Humidity is 60%.  

  Why would this Qatarian-born engineer want to follow the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas's charter of not accepting the only Jewish state in the world from being whence it came from?  He grew up in Egypt and when an adult, moved to Jaffa, which could have been in 1985, when I returned to the USA from Israel.   

Jaffa is joined with Tel Aviv.  It had been a Jewish port at the time of Jerusalem's take-over by the Romans in 70 CE.  Arab riots forced Jews to move to Tel Aviv, founded as a suburb of Jaffa.  In 1946 the population of Jaffa was 101,000 of which 30% were Jews.  The Arab sections of Jaffa capitulated on May 14, 1948 when Israel announced its birth, and almost all the Arabs then left, their places being taken by new immigrants.  Finally, Jaffa was joined with Tel Aviv into one city called Tel Aviv-Jaffa.  The port was closed in 1965.  One quarter has become an artists' colony, similar to the one in Safed.
                                                                             

Caterpillar tractor Co outlawed in BDS in Israel.  

He has the chutzpa to be studying at Tel Aviv University.  He has a master's degree in philosophy (ethics) from the university already, and is working on a PhD.  He had already received his master's in electrical engineering from Columbia University in New York,  USA.   It is notable that though there has been a petition with over 184,000 signatures to be expelled for his BDS goal, the university has refused.    His comment to the Associated Press was that "Palestinians cannot possibly observe the same boycott guidelines as asked of internationals, and that indigenous population is entitled to all services they can get from the system."

Evidently Barghouti touts that his parents were Palestinians, which is a lie.  His parents live in Jordan.  His parents were shocked when he left the United States where he lived as an adult and took his wife to live in Ramallah in 1993. It's possible his grandparents were some of the Arabs from surrounding states that entered "Palestine"  in the 1880's, coming because Russian and Romanian Jews had returned escaping the Pogroms of Russia and deciding that after 2,000 years, it was time to return to their homeland.  They had joined Jews whose ancestors had  never left the land, Sabras, and were building Tel Aviv, and the Arabs needed work, so came and worked for them.  Whereas the Bible is the history of Jews living in the Jewish homeland of Israel, showing the world that they were there, and following history has recorded the Roman occupation that caused the destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem, the Palestinians have no such record of ever having a state of Palestine.  Palestine was the name the Romans gave to Israel in 135 and they had beaten the Jewish General,  Bar Bakhba after a 3 year war over Jerusalem.  They were so angry that they named the land after the ancient  Jewish enemies, the Phillistines.
                                                                         

1920's map of the Jewish Homeland out of Palestine.  Israel was to be 120,466 sq km which is
46,512.1826 miles.  What Jews got is an  Israel of  8,000 sq. miles, 20% of the promised land.  

Ruled by a slew of different emperors, the land finally had been under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years, and the Turks lost it to the Allies by siding with the Germans in WWI.  In 1917 it was under British mandate, and it had been decided to be land of the Jewish Homeland once again.

He opposes the 2 state solution and calls Israel an apartheid state, saying, "from now on, it will be acceptable to compare Israel's apartheid system to its South African predecessor.   As a consequence, proposing practical measures to punish Israeli institutions for their role in the racist and colonial policies of their state will no longer be considered beyond the pale."   He is really stubborn, as it is proven over and over that there is no comparison between the Palestinians and the Blacks of South Africa.  Israel has been the opposite of being apartheid.  He nevertheless, holds to his lie.

Samir El-Youssef, born in 1965,  thinks that Barghouti's "true peace based on justice" is that Israel must be punished, brought down to its knees, before a Palestinian is allowed to greet an Israeli in the street.  Samir El-Youssef is a Palestinian-British writer and critic, who was born in Rashidieh, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon, Lebanon. "  Ending the Israeli "occupation" in the "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria) will not end the BDS movement actions because the majority of Palestinians are refugees who live in exile and have a right to return to live in Israel. or Palestine, as they would rename it" he said. 

Barghouti has written a book which Joel Fishman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs  read for a review and discovered that he felt that Palestinians had inalienable right to the land, while those rights of the Jews had been acquired, no matter that Jews had received international recognition.  According to Barghouti, Palestinians have more equal rights than Jews.  Historically, Barghouti is way off, as this is not true at all.  Needless to say, there never has been a state of Palestine.  The Palestinians were people living on the land after 135 CE, both Arab and Jew; people who had been under the Ottoman Empire, and Jews had never left the land.  There as always been Jews living on the land.  

How is it that so many universities full of college-aged students who should be learning to do research for papers, etc, and countries  go along with this BDS act which is completely anti-Semitic?  It's not based on any historic truth.  Even the New York Daily News in February 2013 responded to Barghouti's published opinion piece supporting his own Boycott, divestment and Sanctions movement, came out with an editorial saying that Barghouti was a skilled propagandist and that he piled falsehood upon falsehood to present Israel as relentlessly oppressing Palestinians in violation of human decency and held Israel completely responsible for the ills afflicting them.  The newspaper told that what Barghouti wanted was a secular democratic state built on an influx of ARABS who come to dominate the population and vote on an end to Israel as a Jewish nation.        

                                                                 Roberta P. Seid, PhD. Dr. Roberta P. Seid, an historian, is Education & Research Director of StandWithUs and has taught a course on Israel at the University of California, Irvine. 

Roberta Seid described his speech at UCLA as bringing hate and was an anti-Israel show.. A rabbi, perhaps not a member of J Street, , stormed out declaring, "This is anti-Semitic!"  The rabbi had wanted to challenge Barghouti's statement  about Jewish communities and was turned down.  Roberta noted that Barghouti also denied a right to self-determination of the Jewish people.  He said that Jews were not a people and denied that they had collective rights.                                                                           

What Palestinian Arabs have been teaching in their schools.  

 Barghouti stated: that" BDS is a non-violent human rights movement that seeks freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people, based on international law and universal principles of human rights.  As such, BDS has consistently and categorically rejected all forms of discrimination and racism, including anti-Semitism as well as dozens of racist laws in Israel." 

The destruction of the BDS movement is actually harming the Palestinians that they say they are helping.  On February 29, SodaStream, an Israeli company, had to shut down their factor in Judah and let go its last 75 Palestinian workers.  The BDS had a ferocious campaign against SodaStream and its spokeswoman, Scarlett Johansson.  The company, in Ramallah,  had 1,300 workers, 500 of which were Arabs  from Judea.   They had been treated well by the fair-minded Israeli firm and now are out of work.  It's isn't like there are other places to work, there.  SodaStream moved to the Negev Desert  area. 
                                                                               
 Ramallah was the city SodaStream was located in, which is 10 km (6 miles) north of Jerusalem at an average elevation of 880 meters above sea level.  Think; 6 miles from Jerusalem and this is Judah, the ancient site of Israel.  Many people can walk for 6 miles.  It's 5 minutes by car.  This close, and Jews are suffering from BDS because some Jews chose to live there.  " Ramallah was part of the West Bank territory taken by Arab forces in the first of the Arab-Israeli wars (1948–49) and subsequently annexed by Jordan. That's how it did not come into Israel in 48.  Situated on the crest of the Judaean Hills at an elevation of 2,861 feet (872 metres) above sea level, Ramallah, with its fine summer breezes, has long been a popular resort site.  According to the special census of the West Bank taken by Israel in 1967, Ramallah’s population was 12,134, only slightly more than half Christian, while that of Al-Bīrah, including a large refugee camp, was 13,037. Pop. (2005 est.) Ramallah and Al-Bīrah, 62,800."  It has more than doubled.  

Florida is among the first states to reject BDS efforts who  want punitive actions against Israel.  They realize that what is needed is bilateral negotiations between Israel and the PA  This means Abbas has to come to the table, and how many times has he sided and melded himself to Hamas terrorism who are against Israel's existence?  Dozens by now.    

If you are one to believe what you are told, no matter what, that the sky is orange and not blue and you believe this, you are one prone to believe that BDS is okay.  Why is it that only a few people have realized that the BDS movement is harmful?  Why aren't  our students thinking and analyzing facts?  What is it that the universities are teaching?  Mind control?  I've given up thinking that Barghouti is learning anything at the university in Israel.  He must be just thinking about his future vision of Israel; Palestinian take-over and teaching his ideas in class, instead.  

Our Congress has a  bill written to combat BDS Act of 2016.  I hope it passes.  Then states can stand up and be against such a weapon.  The decision will be most interesting when it reaches President Obama's desk.  Will he sign?  Our congress is divided and at least half follows in his footsteps.  This is how many of our representatives , senators a way to fight against BDS and its goal of eliminating the one and only Jewish state.  Don't be deceived by it's leader's goals of doing just this.  

Any relation?  Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti, born in 1959,  is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second Intifadas.  Israeli authorities have called Barghouti a terrorist, accusing him of directing numerous attacks, including suicide bombings, against civilian and military targets alike. Barghouti was arrested by Israel Defense Forces in 2002 in Ramallah .  He was born in Kobar, west bank of Jordan- no doubt our ancient  Judah.  He was a member of Fatah.    Wikipedia

Mustafa Barghouti, born 1954,  is a Palestinian doctor and activist in that he was a member of al Mubadara-General Secretary of Palestine National Initiative.  He graduated from Stanford.  He was a member of the PLO as well.  One source has described him as being born in Bait Rima on the West Bank, although Barghouti himself has said that he was born in Jerusalem.  Barghouti's family is from Bani Zeid, a village about 15 miles from Ramallah, neit Birzeit. He grew up in Ramallah and his father was the municipal engineer for the nearby village of Al-Bireh.   Barghouti has said that his family “has always been very political, very active,” noting that under the Mandate, his grandfather and great-uncle “were jailed by the British.” He has said that he “grew up surrounded by internationalist, progressive literature,” and has described his family’s politics as always being “shaped by opposition to social injustice, rather than by nationalism.” His father, he has noted, “used to speak to us of his Jewish comrades in Tiberias or Acre.” 

The BDS movement was launched on July 9, 2005 when a broad alliance of more than 170 Palestinian political parties, trade unions, refugee networks, NGOs and grassroots associations published an open boycott call to international civil society organizations and people of conscience. It called to “impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era,” Barghouti says. “Today, the global BDS movement is led by the largest coalition in Palestinian society, the BDS National Committee (BNC).”

Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Barghouti
AJC Global Jewish Advocacy on BDS, David Harris www.ajc.org/actnow
http://www.dafka.org/news/index.php?pid=4&id=1120
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/sodastream-lays-off-last-palestinian-workers-after-leaving-west-bank
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/31/sodastream-ceo-to-improve-your-companys-sales-get-attacked-by-bds-movement/
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2014/02/oxfams-part-in-boycotting-goods-from.html
http://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2011/01/security-barrier-in-judea-samaria.html  I mentioned a Mustafa Barghouti in this article.  Any relation?