Tornado Alley (PROG)

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F6, Hanna Braun's words are most refreshing and add, clarify and remind of many things. I've just now decided it feels right to begin this post by repeating bits originally emphasized, (some emphasis repeated, with a couple of words also included which were not) .. lol, thanks for the posts and for that, until i find a bit seen before and wanted particularly for here (am sure that bit is here somewhere) .. so, to some of Hanna Braun's words ..

"This is an account of a personal Journey to try and help to explain how so many of us fell for the Zionist myth and how difficult it was -and still is- to see the truth beyond it." [...]

"By that time it had become clear that the Land of Israel that we had sung about and idealised endlessly was meant exclusively for Jews." [...]

"My homeland is the Land of Canaan", My sea of Galilee" and more. Few of us ever questioned the fact that we were Palestinians living in Palestine and that there was some contradiction in asserting that this was, apparently simultaneously, the Land of Israel." [...]

"David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine) asserted and later reiterated that had there been a choice of saving one million Jewish children by sending them to the UK prior to the war or only half that number by sending them to Palestine, he would always have opted for the latter." [...]

"By the end of the "Independence" War the terrible Palestinian Nakba had occurred and over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had become refugees, never to be allowed to return to their homes." [...]

However, during the early 50’s I became aware firstly of the shabby treatment of non European immigrants, many of them Arab Jews, upon arrival in the new state. Even more appalling was the way in which the remaining Arab citizens were treated. They became the target of institutional racism, regarded as non-equal to Jewish Israelis just by not being Jews. [...]

"This expansion and the enforced separation, i.e. apartheid, can only be achieved by brute force, and indeed the Israeli army/police have brutalised Palestinians in a shocking manner which would not be tolerated had any other state acted in this way."

The next one is an impulsive extra, one drift from my intention as outlined above ..

"It has become acceptable to shoot young children, to humiliate people at the endless checkpoints surrounding all Palestinian towns and villages. The demolition of whole rows of houses as "collective punishment" or as "collateral damage" is widespread. [...]

.. ok, back to the originally highlighted bits ..

"Israel still cynically claims to be the "victim"; while it is the second largest arms manufacturer in the world and has the fifth biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons worldwide." [...] By imprisoning the "other" they imprison themselves, most glaringly with the monstrous "Security Wall" now growing apace. [...] This is not about security; it is naked apartheid. [...]

DARN, ROTFLMAO! SHUCKS .. the words i was looking for either i missed just now, or were not in that article, must be in another one about here. Anyway, the crux of them was the point that the idea that European Jews, in coming to Israel, were returning to their homeland was a myth .. the Khazars were mentioned ..

From Wikepedia

The Khazars (Turkish: Hazar Kaganligi) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established Khazaria or Khazar Empire between 7th and 10th centuries. They were one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with a capital in Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the Northern Caucasus (Circassia, Dagestan), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and Northeastern Turkey. A successor state of the Western Turks, Khazaria was a polyethnic state with a population of Turkic, Iranian, Finno-Ugric, Slavic, and Palaeo-Caucasian peoples. Khazaria was the first feudal state to be established in Eastern Europe. During the 9th and 10th centuries, Khazaria was one of the major arteries of commerce between Northern Europe and the Middle East, as well as a connection to the Silk Road. The name "Khazar" is found in numerous languages and seems to be tied to a Turkic verb form meaning "wandering".

Khazaria had an ongoing entente with Byzantium, serving as its partner in wars against the Arabian Caliphate. After fighting the Arabs to a standstill in the North Caucasus, Khazars became increasingly interested in replacing their Tengri shamanism with a state religion that would give them equal religious standing with their Abrahamic neighbors. During the 8th century, Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to Judaism.

Between 965 and 969, Khazar sovereignty was broken by Sviatoslav I of Kiev. They became a subject people of Kievan Rus'. Gradually displaced by the Rus, the Kipchaks, and later the conquering Mongol Golden Horde, the Khazars largely disappeared as a culturally distinct people. .. continued ..

Much more with Wiks usual swarm of links inside the link above.