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Nachum's avatar

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.

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Michael Sedley's avatar

Thanks for sharing - that is an amazing video

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EKB's avatar

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.

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Nachum's avatar

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."

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Nachum's avatar

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. :-)

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David Ilan's avatar

Actually it is for sale, if you are wealthy. The rest of us can’t afford the prices….

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Charlie Hall's avatar

This actually started under Ottoman rule!

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Solomon J. Behala's avatar

"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.

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Nachum's avatar

To an Arab. :-)

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David Zalkin's avatar

Not any more - now to a Ukrainian.

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Nachum's avatar

Interesting!

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

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

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Charles Hall's avatar

Mohsen was an Assad stooge who promoted the Greater Syria ambitions of his puppetmaster. Mohsen would have had Eretz Yisrael ruled by the Assad family. I assume that you think that that would have been a bad idea. I am thankful that the younger Assad is now enjoying retirement in Moscow. And nobody should ever use Mohsen or Assad as a credible source!

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

You overlooked where he pointed out the falsity of the Phallustinians

I'm not promoting the dude 👀

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Nachum's avatar

They tended to all be stooges of one power or another.

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Charles Hall's avatar

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-842754

'Congressman Ritchie Torres criticized the anti-Israel activists as a "pro-Hamas mob targeting Jews" and said that it was not a surprise that the protest descended into violence.

'"Violence is not a bug but a feature of the so-called 'Free Palestine' movement, which has no desire to free Palestinians from Hamas," Torres said on X Tuesday night.'

Torres is my Congress Member. :)

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Charles Hall's avatar

Better article:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/clashes-break-out-at-anti-israel-protest-in-brooklyn-jewish-neighborhood/

Most of the Orthodox Jews in that neighborhood are anti-Zionist Charedim.

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Nachum's avatar

To be fair, I think a lot of them are more of the "Israel's cool, I like it" school than "anti-Zionist."

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Patrick M. Ohana's avatar

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.

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Charles Hall's avatar

I read Fromkin's book decades ago. I highly recommend it.

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Ari's avatar

I'm not sure how, but this Palistinian protest in New York is the Charedims fault.

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David Fass's avatar

There have been land sale protests in Teaneck for a year already.

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Nachum's avatar

The riot at the shul in LA was ostensibly over a real estate event.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Mayor Bass told her police to stand down

Which they did 👀🤔🙄

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James Nicholson's avatar

As was the protest in the Bukharian neighborhood in Queens. NYPD handled it much better than the LAPD handled the Pico issue.

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Nachum's avatar

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.)

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Charles Hall's avatar

NYC is better at handling potentially raucous protests than any other large city in the US. It helps that NYPD has over 30,000 officers. Contrary to the claims of the nutty far left, most US cities are underpoliced.

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Nachum's avatar

One of the world's largest armed forces, in fact.

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Charles Hall's avatar

Mexico City, with about 10% more people, has 3x as many police officers as New York City. It is a major reason the city is safe today -- safer than most large US cities. Its recent mayor is now the President of Mexico. She isn't religious but her ancestry is 100% Jewish. Pretty good for a place that just over 200 years ago was burning Jews and Protestants at the stake.

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Nachum's avatar

I guess that's why there's so much migration south and not north.

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