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Palestine is sacred for Jews.

Hi Mockba,
:-) Funny.
Welcome aboard Libnah. Yes Palestine is sacred to the Jews And the
Christians AND to the Muslims. May Allah Bless us every one.

The only problem is that it belongs to the Palestinians. This isn't a moral
problem for the Palestinians. They already live here and they've already
taken the trouble of naming the place after themselves. If you believe
everything you read they were stumbling around here long before Little
David allegedly slew Goliath. Before Emile Zola saved Dreyfus and
inspired Theodore Hertzel to find…" A land with out a people for a people
with out a land." Before Paul Newman played in Exodus and even before
Barry Manilow played in Vegas... Okay try to forget about Barry Manilow.
He has nothing to do with any of this and it's not his fault.

I live not five minutes walk from an old Philistine port in the ancient city
of Atlit. Just a tad north up the coast another 2 minutes walk is a real live
Crusader Castle. With a moat and turrets and an out door amphitheater.

In Atlit the land was not bought out by the JNF because the land has long
been privately owned by Muslim and Jewish families long before the
Americans had their independence from the British. We are sort of an
Island in that respect. These families share a tradition of solidarity that
goes back before the Turks and the British Mandate. Just across the coast
Highway is the old Aharonson farm two members of that family were
hanged (Not hung) in 1914 after they were caught spying on the Turks for
the evil British. That was like about the last exciting thing to happen here
for a while.

We (Jews) fled Nazi Europe as if leaping from the window of a burning
house. We landed on the Palestinian people who for the most part were/
are pretty helpful, downright descent and generous people. This is where
it all goes crazy. We flooded in and in many cases (even a few cases is
too many) we stole the land outright. Not just farm land or a couple of
Dunams of dessert but entire villages. Many of the Arabs living here were
tribal and "nomadic" In the case of the Beduin they held regular migratory
stations that they returned to each year. In the 20's-40's The British dug
them permanant wells, built prefab homes around those (wells) and told
them to stay where they were.
Sort of like a reservation or a concentration camp only they (The Beduin)
were free to leave ...which they did, and when they came back, they ran
into fences, orchards, rows of cotton.

I had a tribe that camped regularly in the field outside my house to graze
their livestock. My son would top off all our glasses with ice water for the
men and all our big cooking pots were filled with a garden hose for the
animals. These families have since been settled in caravan homes but the
men show up a couple of times a year and share coffee with my son (Joey)
and I. We talk politics a lot and laugh like total idiots.



Edited by Daniel Dworsky

Jews were in the land for 3000 years, before Arabs!