Here's video of Churchill's visit, in which he met with just about every famous person in the Middle East. If you ever wanted to see R' Kook being helped down the stairs by T. E. Lawrence, or R' Yaakov Meir talking to the Emir Abdullah, or R' Sonnenfeld shaking hands with Winston Churchill, well, here you are:
By the way, the main street leading to and from Mount Scopus is called "Churchill Boulevard," and this movie shows Churchill *on* Mount Scopus, but it's generally agreed that the Boulevard was named not for him but for "Mad" Jack Churchill (no relation), one of the most colorful figures of the Twentieth Century, who performed a great act of heroism on that spot as he attempted to save Jewish lives. Winston has a more modest street named for him elsewhere.
Not sure what the Jews in Boro Park have to do with a land sale in Israel, but OK. I guess antisemites gonna antisemite.
Interesting if the land sale is from a palestinian to a Jew or to the State of israel, or is it simply the ongoing dispute about who owns a particular piece of land in Jerusalem. Palestinians know that it is a death sentence to sell land to Jews and the Palestinian Authority as well as Jordan have laws that specifically forbid land sales to Jews (but they are not apartheids...hmmm).
And someone needs to tell these protesting antisemitic mavens that the Jews are home after 2000 years and it's our property recouped now and they are right, Jerusalem is not for sale to anyone. It's ours.
Our old (Jewish) plumber (unbeknownst to us) actually handed over Arabs who'd sold land to Jews to the PA to be executed. He eventually confessed to one of those guerilla filmmakers, was arrested, and died while awaiting trial. Somewhere along the way he managed to have an affair with a prominent (male) Irish politician. Dude ticked all the boxes.
His Arab partner, to whom he'd turned over the business when he retired, is a much more sensible guy, writing off all of his former partner's "peace" activism as "shtuyot."
I did my internship (Israeli lawyers have to do internships) at a firm that, among other things, was the middleman who Arabs who wanted to sell their land but didn't want to get killed over it. They would send me to the land office, which has paper maps that are something like 150 years old, to track down ownership chains. The maps were in Turkish, which back then was written in Arabic letters, and since I only needed to read the names, my college Arabic came in pretty handy. :-)
Excellent piece that taught me additional information with nuance 👍
"The 'Palestinian' people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.
In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a 'Palestinian people', since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."
Zuheir Mohsen, PLO executive representative, to Dutch newspaper Trouw, 1977
So Jews were buying their ancestral land from the current occupiers. That is the more poignant irony. Israel is not for sale and will retake all its land from every side, even the sky.
Not really a Bukharan neighborhood, but Kew Gardens Hills, where my parents live. (There are indeed a lot of Bukharans there, but many others as well.)
Here's video of Churchill's visit, in which he met with just about every famous person in the Middle East. If you ever wanted to see R' Kook being helped down the stairs by T. E. Lawrence, or R' Yaakov Meir talking to the Emir Abdullah, or R' Sonnenfeld shaking hands with Winston Churchill, well, here you are:
https://jfc.org.il/en/news_journal/37250-2/108063-2/
Colorized, slow-motion, (partially- there are a lot of other famous people here) captioned version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnekjkES46s
By the way, the main street leading to and from Mount Scopus is called "Churchill Boulevard," and this movie shows Churchill *on* Mount Scopus, but it's generally agreed that the Boulevard was named not for him but for "Mad" Jack Churchill (no relation), one of the most colorful figures of the Twentieth Century, who performed a great act of heroism on that spot as he attempted to save Jewish lives. Winston has a more modest street named for him elsewhere.
Thanks for sharing - that is an amazing video
Not sure what the Jews in Boro Park have to do with a land sale in Israel, but OK. I guess antisemites gonna antisemite.
Interesting if the land sale is from a palestinian to a Jew or to the State of israel, or is it simply the ongoing dispute about who owns a particular piece of land in Jerusalem. Palestinians know that it is a death sentence to sell land to Jews and the Palestinian Authority as well as Jordan have laws that specifically forbid land sales to Jews (but they are not apartheids...hmmm).
And someone needs to tell these protesting antisemitic mavens that the Jews are home after 2000 years and it's our property recouped now and they are right, Jerusalem is not for sale to anyone. It's ours.
Our old (Jewish) plumber (unbeknownst to us) actually handed over Arabs who'd sold land to Jews to the PA to be executed. He eventually confessed to one of those guerilla filmmakers, was arrested, and died while awaiting trial. Somewhere along the way he managed to have an affair with a prominent (male) Irish politician. Dude ticked all the boxes.
His Arab partner, to whom he'd turned over the business when he retired, is a much more sensible guy, writing off all of his former partner's "peace" activism as "shtuyot."
I did my internship (Israeli lawyers have to do internships) at a firm that, among other things, was the middleman who Arabs who wanted to sell their land but didn't want to get killed over it. They would send me to the land office, which has paper maps that are something like 150 years old, to track down ownership chains. The maps were in Turkish, which back then was written in Arabic letters, and since I only needed to read the names, my college Arabic came in pretty handy. :-)
Actually it is for sale, if you are wealthy. The rest of us can’t afford the prices….
"Palestine Is Not For Sale!
Because it was already sold, and you'll never guess by who"
Of course, by the rabbinate every seven years.
To an Arab. :-)
Not any more - now to a Ukrainian.
Interesting!
Excellent piece that taught me additional information with nuance 👍
"The 'Palestinian' people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.
In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a 'Palestinian people', since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."
Zuheir Mohsen, PLO executive representative, to Dutch newspaper Trouw, 1977
You overlooked where he pointed out the falsity of the Phallustinians
I'm not promoting the dude 👀
They tended to all be stooges of one power or another.
So Jews were buying their ancestral land from the current occupiers. That is the more poignant irony. Israel is not for sale and will retake all its land from every side, even the sky.
I'm not sure how, but this Palistinian protest in New York is the Charedims fault.
There have been land sale protests in Teaneck for a year already.
The riot at the shul in LA was ostensibly over a real estate event.
Mayor Bass told her police to stand down
Which they did 👀🤔🙄
As was the protest in the Bukharian neighborhood in Queens. NYPD handled it much better than the LAPD handled the Pico issue.
Not really a Bukharan neighborhood, but Kew Gardens Hills, where my parents live. (There are indeed a lot of Bukharans there, but many others as well.)
One of the world's largest armed forces, in fact.
I guess that's why there's so much migration south and not north.
To be fair, I think a lot of them are more of the "Israel's cool, I like it" school than "anti-Zionist."