Posts Tagged ‘ zionism ’

Sweeping the Streets

May 7, 2008

I have this ‘thing’ about the collection of wind-blown garbage that collects in the streets of the otherwise beautiful community I live in. What especially bothers me is the filth and apparent lack of care around the community’s principle bus stop – the ‘trampiada’ where most of the inhabitants wait for their buses or a free ride from other residents. Whenever I wait there for my bus to travel to work, if I see...

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Why I Am a Zionist

May 7, 2008
Why I Am a Zionist

The following is a powerful “I believe …” statement by a man I only know by name, but respect and to a great extent, agree with. My Yom HaAtzmaut contribution to “Second Thoughts” this 60th Independence Day, 2008. Today, too many friends and foes define Israel, and Zionism, by the Arab world’s hostility. Doing so misses Israel’s everyday miracles, the millions who live and learn, laugh and play, in the Middle East’s only functional...

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The U.S. Congress in 1922 – Jewish Rights to the Land

March 22, 2008

A moment of history from the annuals of the U.S. Congress in 1922 On June 30, 1922, a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States unanimously endorsed the “Mandate for Palestine,” confirming the irrevocable right of Jews to settle in the area of Palestine�anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea: “Favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. “Resolved by the Senate and...

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