Saturday, May 14, 2011

Happy 63rd, Israel!


Actually, Israel has been for millinia. It was occupied by surrounding Arabs for two thousand years, but was freed once again in 1948. This should be on trivia. The word Palestine comes from the ancient Phillistines of which, there are no decendants as they were wiped off the face of the earth. The Brits labeled those Arabs who occupied Israel "Palestinians" and the land, "Palestine." But that's just a political term, and not based in any kind of historicity.

Israel is Israel and always will be.

Some weeks back I shared my experience with Freeda Roos Van Hessen, the holocaust survivor and Dutch Jewish lady.

A friend of mine was sharing some stuff about another survivor who's son is in a famous rock band, who himself came to this country from Israel...one Gene Simmons. I forget his actual name.

Shalom

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