Summer 1966, Kfar Silver, Ashkelon, Israel - I don’t know why, but I was in a bunker. With a bunch of kids. Underground. I was scared. Sort of. It’s so long ago. I had a crush on an young Israeli boy who once grabbed me from my bunk to go see a cow giving birth before we made out in the haystack. I loved Israel, and I wanted to go back. For good. To live. As they say, to make Aliyah. But alas, I was too young. My parents, who organized this summer at the Kfar, didn’t want to lose me to another country so far away, so they prevented my return until I was old enough to decide for myself…and 50+ years later, I’ve never returned.
Israel’s always been one of those ‘WTF-is-going-on places’ in my life. The storybooks I read about ancestors and others returning to their homeland . . . I mean those who survived the expulsion from Spain around the time of the Inquisition, the pogroms, the wars, the persecution, the holocaust that some of you people reading this will claim never existed. This Land of Milk & Honey was for them, for us. But something never really felt right to me about it all.
Not even Masada, Was I duped all these years? When I read Alice Hoffman’s The Dovekeepers, I rediscovered the part of me that felt so much awe for those zealots on the mountain top. I climbed that mountain at 4 AM and spent the day there in the hot desert decades before they put in a ramp or whatever they have now that brings people to the top with ease. After completing the Dovekeepers and watching a made-for-TV movie about it, I looked through my 1966 copy of Yigael Yadin’s Masada book and shook my head in wonder. WTF really happened there, in the Land of Milk & Honey?
In my very impressionable mind, something about Israel was not right, and something else was amazingly-utopically-right. For some of those early settlers and perhaps even those coming to Israel now, Israel holds the promise of “This Land Is Mine” from Exodus. The kibbutz living style seemed similar to what I imagined tribal communities might experience - farming together, raising families together, singing together, praying together or perhaps not praying in the religious sense of the word but celebrating and dancing, and sharing the sacred in everyday life together. Intentional Communities popping up all over, irrigating the desert, reclaiming holy lands, and floating in the deep blue dead sea.
But what about those Beduoin people didn’t want us to photograph them because it might take their soul away and who embroidered beautiful long dresses that we bought for a bargain? Was this their homeland too? In the Masada tour and books I read, I don’t remember mentions of Palestinians when the Jews were being driven out by the Romans. Where were they then? Who lived there first? Whose ‘homeland’ was it way back when????? And like shouldn’t we be giving America back to the Natives? I always wondered how far back we go to make things right? I’m still confused.
The summer I spent in Israel as a teen included meetings with Arabs (I don’t think we called them Palestinians then) and Israeli youth discussing how to co-exist. No one talked about what happened to the Palestinians who lived there before the Balfour Declaration in 1917, when the British declared their support for a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine. Why did the British get to decide where the Jewish people would go? As far as I knew, Jews and Arabs lived peacefully in that area during that time. Israel, Canaan, has been under the rule of so many different civilizations. Christians, Jews, Muslims claimed Israel by whatever name, as their holy land going back hundreds or thousands of years. And who lived in Israel before Jesus?
In the 10th century BCE, the Israelite kingdoms of Judah and Israel emerged. The Hebrew Bible states that these were preceded by a single kingdom ruled by Saul, David and Solomon, who is said to have built the First Temple…
~ Google Search (if you believe anything they say is true . . . )
But then that Balfour Declaration came in November 1917.
The statement came in the form of a letter from Britain’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a figurehead of the British Jewish community.
It was made during World War I (1914-1918) and was included in the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
The so-called mandate system, set up by the Allied powers, was a thinly veiled form of colonialism and occupation.
I don’t trust history. Who wrote history? For what purpose? What’s the truth? From whose vantage point?
Oh Israel. I once hoped and prayed that my parents would send me back so I too could till the soil, rain dance for Mayim, plant in the desert, fall in love with a sabre (an Israeli native…hard on the outside but soft on the inside, like a cactus). But Oh Israel, who did genetic experiments on her citizens in the name c-0-v-9-d. One holocaust was not enough?
Below are some articles about the current situation in Israel that I find interesting, perhaps provacative. I’m sure by tonight there will tons more info on people who are connecting this incident to a larger over-arching event. And the graphic images of war will fill the screens.
I don’t understand all of this. Can’t we all just get along? When do these catastrophes of being a human living on planet Earth stop????? This latest war is not just about Israel v. Hamas. What do you think is going on here? In Israel? In Ukraine? What is going on in all the war-torn places, and that includes everywhere. Just go to San Francisco - maybe the model of the whole convidian 1984 orwellian chemtrailian pesticedian fluroridian childhood vaccine scheduleian, mind controlian, CBDCian, etc. . . When does we stop these wars against humanity and all other beings residing on Mother Earth and get back to the real land of milk and honey — wherever we may be, on this magnificent Gaia?
Jon Rappoport’s stack today has a great quote from a US Military Man:
Major General Smedley Butler wrote, 90 years ago, WAR IS A RACKET
Ben Garrison has his view about Obiden’s support for Iran’s support for Hamas
Efrat Fenigson has the audacity to wonder why the best military in the world (who can detect a cat walking on that fence between Palestinians in Gaza and the Jewish settlements did not know this was coming…or did they?
David Icke on Israel: https://davidicke.com/2023/10/08/david-icke-whats-really-happening-in-israel/
Very thought provoking post. You ask many relevant questions.
Although I can’t answer all of them, there is one that I’d love to chime-in about, and that’s in regards to The Balfour Declaration and the influence of the British Monarchy…
The British Monarchy have almost always, it seems, been the driver of world affairs. They are responsible for the International Water jurisdiction throughout the world. They are contracted, hired help so to speak, for many nations as they are in the business of providing government service work for the international high seas, and navigable inland waterways for many Nations. The contract we have with them came in the form of a Constitution from 1789 (the 2nd Constitution) called “the Constitution of the United States of America”.
Our first Constitution, though, was from 1787 and our first subcontractor was the American Federal Republic, not the British. Americans managed the International Land Jurisdiction by way of a contract with The People, called “the Constitution for the united States of America” and this is the one that is the supreme law of the Land. Notice the lower case “u”, used as an adjective to describe “States of America”, which is the collection of the, now 50, States of States (business organizations of each State of the Union are member States).
But I digress. Please allow me to get back to what this has to do with the British Monarchy…
So, the British Monarchy starts out with limited jurisdiction, and limited enumerated powers. But then what they do is, the “flood the land” with their swampy waters as some kind of a land overlay. For us, it happened, in part, because of “the Naval Agency and Distribution Act of 1864”, which named the Governor of each of our States, as the “Ship’s Agent”, a “Commanding Officer” for the British Monarchy. The State “Secretary of State” is the one who collects salvage on behalf of the Monarchy. They are the job titles who are responsible for issuing “Birth Certificates”, and “voter registrations”.
I’m confident that with a little digging, we can find out that Palestine & Israel have a similar situation going on. These Birth Certificates make everyone a subject. The British are in the business of merchant, and the Papacy is in the business of Corporations (in the global Air jurisdiction.) They have an unholy alliance used to treat people as dead entities, while entire Nations/States are basically categorized as “Ships” controlled by the Monarchy.
The British Monarchy is responsible for us having a “standing army”, which we were never supposed to have. We were supposed to have a well regulated (organized by the people) Militia.
There’s no doubt war is big business for the Monarchy. U.S. Presidents have been the “Executives”, ordering the henchmen Military for the Monarchy, and the Papacy (Pope), to go out and pillage resources for over 150 years. Our unwitting, loyal and patriotic soldiers have been being used as cheap mercenaries doing all the work described by Smedley Butler. The higher ups get decorated and funded, the ones who figure out what’s really going on, end up homeless outside the Veterans Administration building addicted.
Keep asking amazing questions. Studying Jurisdictions can be a huge eye opener.