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You heard it, your children informed you that it is being taught in school, you read the recent headlines in the mainstream media and the social media. In reality you really don’t know what those who are in power, the educators, the so-called social liberators are contriving. Yes, these “do gooders” are creating a stigma in the minds of White children; one that will scar them for life. This is to make them pay for past injustices done, not by them, but by the culture that shaped their minds to what they are today. This type of warped thinking, they say, must be wiped clean, culture clean. In other words, the education industry is attempting a frontal lobotomy on the nations White children. A mind control exercise similar to the CIA experiments of MK Ultra.

But over the past few years, many right-wing conservatives, as well as liberals who object to more strident progressive rhetoric, have developed the view that “cancel culture” is a form of harassment intended to silence anyone who sets a foot out of line under the nebulous tenets of “woke” politics. So the idea now represents a vast assortment of objectives and can hold wildly different connotations, depending on whom you’re talking to.

(click here to read the full article from Vox) You wouldn’t know that to listen to right-wing lawmakers and media figures who have latched onto an apocalyptic scenario in which the person or subject who’s being criticized is in danger of being censored, left jobless, or somehow erased from history — usually because of a perceived left-wing mob.

This is a fear that the right has weaponized. At the 2020 Republican National Convention, at least 11 GOP speakers — about a third of those who took the stage during the high-profile event — addressed cancel culture as a concerning political phenomenon. President Donald Trump himself declared that “The goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated and driven from society as we know it.” One delegate resolution at the RNC specifically targeted cancel culture, describing a trend toward “erasing history, encouraging lawlessness, muting citizens, and violating free exchange of ideas, thoughts, and speech.”

Have you heard of the 1619 project? This is where it all begins. It was launched in August 2019 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in colonial Virginia. In 1619, a group of “twenty and odd” captive Africans arrived in the Virginia Colony. A Dutch-operated privateer, White Lion, carried 20–30 Africans who had been captured by a joint African-Portuguese raid against the Kingdom of Ndongo in modern-day Angola, making its landing at Point Comfort in the English colony of Virginia.

Others have inferred that slavery was on its way when Columbus touched down in 1492. But the overall theme is to suggest that Slaves were property to be owned be Whites early on. Others suggested that this project must be told because of White power and the attempt of right wing elements in society to grasp the last straw of the past. And they proffered that the American Revolutionary War of 1776 was fought to preserve the institution of slavery. Their thinking was that if it was outlawed, the economic well being of the south and north would be in shatters.

If you spend any time on social media, you’ve heard of cancel culture. It’s when a group of people—sometimes famous, but often not—call out someone for past actions (or alleged actions) or comments that they find offensive. Often viewed as a weapon of the “woke left.”

“Cancel culture,” as a concept, feels inescapable. The phrase is all over the news, tossed around in casual social media conversation; it’s been linked to everything from free speech debates to Mr. Potato Head.

It sometimes seems all-encompassing, as if all forms of contemporary discourse must now lead, exhaustingly and endlessly, either to an attempt to “cancel” anyone whose opinions cause controversy or to accusations of cancel culture in action, however unwarranted.

In the rhetorical furor, a new phenomenon has emerged: the weaponization of cancel culture by the right.

Across the US, conservative politicians have launched legislation seeking to do the very thing they seem to be afraid of: Cancel supposedly left-wing businesses, organizations, and institutions; see, for example, national GOP figures threatening to punish Major League Baseball for standing against a Georgia voting restrictions law by removing MLB’s federal antitrust exemption.

Meanwhile, Fox News has stoked outrage and alarmism over cancel culture, including trying to incite Gen X to take action against the nebulous problem. Tucker Carlson, one of the network’s most prominent personalities, has emphatically embraced the anti-cancel culture discourse, claiming liberals are trying to cancel everything from Space Jam to the Fourth of July.

The idea of canceling began as a tool for marginalized communities to assert their values against public figures who retained power and authority even after committing wrongdoing — but in its current form, we see how warped and imbalanced the power dynamics of the conversation really are.

All along, debate about cancel culture has obscured its roots in a quest to attain some form of meaningful accountability for public figures who are typically answerable to no one. But after centuries of ideological debate turning over questions of free speech, censorship, and, in recent decades, “political correctness,” it was perhaps inevitable that the mainstreaming of cancel culture would obscure the original concerns that canceling was meant to address. Now it’s yet another hyperbolic phase of the larger culture war.

The core concern of cancel culture — accountability — remains as crucial a topic as ever. But increasingly, the cancel culture debate has become about how we communicate within a binary, right versus wrong framework. And a central question is not whether we can hold one another accountable, but how we can ever forgive.

As a concept, cancel culture entered the mainstream alongside hashtag-oriented social justice movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo — giant social waves that were effective in shifting longstanding narratives about victims and criminals, and in bringing about actual prosecutions in cases like those of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. It is also frequently used interchangeably with “woke” political rhetoric, an idea that is itself tied to the 2014 rise of the Black Lives Matter protests. In similar ways, both “wokeness” and “canceling” are tied to collectivized demands for more accountability from social systems that have long failed marginalized people and communities.

And what CANCEL CULTURE will lead to; read the following letter from South Africa.

(click for full article) A Letter to White Americans

A South African Woman, American Renaissance, May 21, 2021

Whites arrived in South Africa in 1652, not long after the Mayflower arrival in America. They had as much right to be there as any other new-world settlers. They built a wonderful country against daunting odds. The British were their first real antagonists. During the Anglo-Boer War, Britain built the world’s first concentration camps; more than 26,000 Afrikaans women and children died.

We survived, despite Britain’s greed for our gold, diamonds, and minerals. For 350 years, we toiled to sow the seeds of Western Civilization. Millions of Africans moved to South Africa from other parts of the continent seeking work and security from wars and conflict.

South Africa’s whites are the only substantial white population left in sub-Saharan Africa. There are only about four million of us in a country with a population of some 60 million. No one knows the real population of our country because millions of Africans have streamed across our borders since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994. Since then, there has been no border control.

Our country was handed over by the previous white government to a revolutionary gang. This happened because of enormous pressure from the West, especially from the United States. The ANC’s first president was Nelson Mandela, and the ANC’s path to power has been well documented. Whatever the world press has said about the “struggle for freedom,” the party took power through terror and the barrel of a gun. Nelson Mandela refused to renounce violence as a condition of his release, and violence continued well after he took power in 1994. It is his party, the ANC, that is destroying what was once a thriving first-world country. It was one of only six in the world that exported food; many neighboring African countries depended on us for jobs, security, and food.

Many of us knew that the dream of a non-racial democracy would end up as a black dictatorship. Many of us fought desperately to stop the takeover, but the West had a bizarre need to see black rule in this part of the world, whatever the consequences. Being right doesn’t mean you win. Giving “democracy” a chance here was a death sentence for our country. Whites voted for “negotiations,” bamboozled by the promise of power-sharing, world approbation, and acceptance into the “community of nations.” Nelson Mandela was never the icon portrayed by the world and especially by American liberals. South Africa today is his legacy.

What we see now in America follows the same pattern. The system is evil; it discriminates. There is no justice. It’s always someone else’s fault. Black Lives Matter has led to increased demands, and once these demands are met, there are always more. But you still have the wherewithal to resist.

In South Africa, conservatives were called far right, fascists, divisive, haters, intolerant. By nature, conservatives are not wild men in the streets, but you must act. The “progressive” philosophy sounds good, but it takes you into quicksand. We know. We saw it here. We lost. Don’t let your country slip through your fingers.

What follows is adopted from an article published by TLU SA — the Transvaal Agricultural Union South Africa. TLU SA is the oldest agricultural organization in South Africa, established at the end of the 19th century.

This is what you can expect if you fail to act.

Railway tracks have been stolen all over the country, and there is virtually nothing left of the six miles between Brakpan and Springs, on this line. Rails and ties have disappeared. Overhead power lines have been stolen, supporting poles are bent or broken, security fencing has been carted off in trucks and wheelbarrows. The Springs railway police, responsible for this corridor, doesn’t have a single patrol vehicle. Throughout South Africa, our once world-class railway system is being plundered piece by piece.

Most of our secondary roads have become like the rest of Africa: potholes, no shoulder, grass growing into the center of the road. There are small forests, with trees as tall as a man growing out of sidewalks and right up to roadsides. Everyone sees the decay, but the ANC doesn’t seem to care. Someone said they see nothing ugly, and they see nothing beautiful. Years ago, I heard a former Transkei official tell a visiting American that “we don’t care if the roads turn to dust, as long as we get rid of the whites.” Their roads turned to dust.

Pillage is part of the ANC way of life. President Cyril Ramaphosa pumps up fairy stories about new projects and exciting investments, but dissipation has taken over.

SPANISH CONQUEST OF NORTH AMERICA

Published NOVEMBER 9, 2014 by the NBTP

Before Spain decided to loot the New World of its riches, the lands of Central and South America belonged to the Aztecs, Incas, Myans and other indigenous peoples. But all that changed in the 16th Century as the Conquistadors moved south from Mexico and Central America to the land of the Inca (Ecuador, Peru, Chile). Spain’s conquest was led by Francisco Pizzaro whose appetite was without limits. The domination of what was to be known as Latin America began. 

It is important to note that the Spanish were well hardened having defeated the Moors – they held firm from challenges from neighboring countries. And they had weapons, so crude, that to pull the trigger of a rifle was more of shock to the holder than a sure shot. But the Spanish had the sword a killing machine all by itself waiting to take its toll on the Inca. Also on their side, the Spanish had the holy “Book.”

As the recent Ebola outbreak has taught us, diseases can permeate society faster than a bullet train. Viruses have been with us for thousands of years with catastrophic results. Only recently have we developed the technique of inoculation.  However, down through the centuries the Europeans had become immune to diseases mostly carried by farm animals. This helped them in their conquest of the Americas.Virtually immune, they were able to march through countries with dispatch while infecting native populations.

As the Native American died from the spread of European diseases carried into the New World, it became apparent that a third weapon was in the Spanish arsenal. Like a wild fire torching everything in its path, diseases were unstoppable taking their toll on the majority of those who came in contact with them; viruses became the savage beast wrecking havoc on the native populations – estimates that up to 95% of local populations were decimated. Once their job was done, the march through the barren lands once inhabited by native populations continued. The Spanish carried the Cross converting the remaining pagans to Christianity. The conquest complete, Spain became the ruler of the Americas.

This brings us to the spread of the Spanish speaking populations and their torch and burn psychology as they move north from their countries of origin. Keep in mind that the vast majority heading north are of the indigenous populations that succumbed to the Conquistadors. The invasion continues with a no holds barred mentality as wave after wave crosses the Rio Grande. America must be reminded that Mexico is still under Spanish influence, not ruled by Spain, but by the Spanish. Mexican census does not break down populations by genetics, but estimates of those with 100% Spanish blood run as high as 20%.

It is telling and more importantly brings an understanding why these migrants run north. Opportunity for the indigenous peoples are far and few in between. Education and intelligence are partially to blame for their plight. Additionally, economic growth, once a saviour for the manual laborer is no longer the panacea it once was. The age of automation is upon us making the less skilled a cheap commodity. This is the rule, not the exception.

Spanish relatives of the Conquistadors to this day are the power behind the proverbial thrown. So, why then do we in the United States cater to this brutal geopolitical entity invading the United States?  The weakness of political pandering and political correctness has penetrated the politician across the party lines. Speaking to the facts is a means necessary to understand why this invasion will continue unless the truth be told. The most recent election has put the country on notice that the welfare state is not going to be the welcome mat it once was.

From the Bell Curve, “Predicting the course of society is chancy, but certain tendencies seem strong enough to worry about:

• An increasingly isolated cognitive elite.
• A merging of the cognitive elite with the affluent.
• A deteriorating quality of life for people at the bottom end of the cognitive distribution.

Unchecked, these trends will lead the U.S. toward something resembling a caste society, with the underclass mired ever more firmly at the bottom and the cognitive elite ever more firmly anchored at the top, restructuring the rules of society so that it becomes harder and harder for them to lose. (p. 509). ”

To bring into focus we refer to the most recent Baltic schism, one has to look no further than Spain. Catalonia, a distinct and separate area of north eastern Spain is holding a referendum on declaring independence from Spain. This is just a referendum with no legal consequences. However, the people of Catalonia no longer want to be a party to the welfare state supplying the fuel that feeds the beast.

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Hamas founder’s son says Israel should kill terror group’s leaders after ceasefire

The son of Hamas founder Hassan Yousef urged Israel to target the terror group’s leaders for assassination, even after the ceasefire reached Friday.

“Assassinating Hamas leadership will not destroy Hamas, but it will teach them a lesson and hold them accountable,” Mosab Hassan Yousef told The Post in a phone interview. “Next time, before you get civilians on both sides involved in a bloodbath, you need to think 1,000 times. This is my personal suggestion.”

Mosab Yousef said top Hamas leaders like his father likely rode out the recent violence in secure underground bunkers, while using the deaths of their own people to score foreign propaganda points.

“Hundreds of children have paid the price. These type of people cannot get away with what they did. They should not feel safe for a day,” he said. “Hamas hates Israel more than they love their own children.”

Mosab Yousef, 43, said he follows regional developments closely, and attributed the latest round of violence to Hamas’ growing marginalization in recent years. The real estate dispute in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood — the ostensible trigger of the current unrest — was just a pretext, he said.

“Hamas was very disappointed by the Abraham Accords that ignored them completely,” he said of the peace deals Israel signed with several Mideast states last year. “It’s the new reality that President Donald Trump made in the region. This is a new reality and Hamas is not prepared to accept it.”

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AOC calls Israel an Apartheid State when in fact the opposite is true. She is living in the land stolen from the indigenous peoples. She is part and parcel of the colonial empire.

POSTED TWO YEARS AGO – THE JEWS DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING? Are they deaf, dumb and blind?

DEMOCRAT CONCENTRATION ON JEWS -GAS CHAMBERS ARE READY

MAY 27, 2019THENEWBOSTONTEAPARTYLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

The Democrat leadership has held nothing back, Tlaib, Pelosi, Hoyer are now channeling the Furer. Anti-Semitic attack are common place among the progressive Libtards. They do not hold back. Remember the quote from Newt Gingrich, a man of history, who knows his subject as if he lived it; “Palestinians are an invented people”, says Newt Gingrich

For the likes of us, we can’t understand why the Jewish members of Congress don’t flee the party. Why be the subject of harassment and hate from Tlaib, Omar and Cortez. But think about it, Pelosi is giving them franchise to go all out

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC Apartheid states aren’t democracies.5:04 PM · May 15, 2021

Ilhan Omar@IlhanMNWe should all be grateful that a ceasefire will prevent more civilians and children from being killed. But now what? We need accountability for every war crime committed. And we need to stop underwriting crimes against humanity while doing nothing to end the occupation. 9:25 PM · May 20, 2021 Yes, correct, the war crimes committed by Hamas. They are responsible for every killing. Bring them to justice.

Ido Daniel @IdoDaniel·May 21Replying to @IlhanMN Thank you congresswoman for calling out Hamas’ double war crime: firing rockets from within Palestinian neighborhoods to Israeli towns and cities is indeed horrific. Hamas terror regime in Gaza must end.

With the likes of the Suicide Squad taking over the Democrat Party it is inconceivable to us why those of the Jewish persuasion continue to dance to their tune. Have they learned a lesson from Germany? Apparently not! Soon it will be too late to stop them. Calling Israel murders of innocents while neglecting to mention who started the fight have splashed ink across the media sphere. Biden has jumped all in with the killers, the insighter, the Jew haters. He has now proposed giving them a quarter billion dollars to rebuild.

Have we heard this song played before? Rebuild, destroy, rebuild, destroy. Name that tune brings destruction upon destruction. Biden, a weak invalid has destroyed the legacy of Trump in less than five months. Peace was brewing until Biden licked the camel’s ass of the Ayatollah at the request of the Jew hating members of Congress. This cannot be repaired. Oh yeah, he tempered his Jew hate by burping that the Democratic party supports Israel The question then remains, why are the Jewish members of Congress still partying with those who want to kill them and their relatives. What is their problem? The right thing to do is to call them out, then renounce your affiliation with the Democrat thugs and join the Republican party who support Israel. Do you have the ballz to do that?

Yeah, you Schumer, you had the яйцо (balls in Russian slang) to threaten our Supreme Court Justices, but when it comes to threaten or take on the likes of Omar, AOC, Pressley and the rest of the Suicide Bombers, you have no ballz. And your fellow slime bags, Schiff, Nadler and Feinstein look the other way when Israel is getting slammed by your colleagues. The acidic diatribe leaching from the suicide bombers manifests their hate of Jews, don’t you realize it? Your relatives in Germany kept their mouth shut, are you going to do a repeat? What happened to your big mouth, you know the one that filled the airwaves during Trump’s impeachment trial. And you Schumer, did the Suicide Bombers shoved a big fat, whatever, down it. When it came to Amy Barrett you were all in, now you are all out. It will only get worse.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-principal-under-fire-email-support-palestinians

And what is happening on the street? Jews getting battered with bats in Los Angeles and New York. Gangs of thugs, many from the BLM movement are targeting them. These malcontents have been indoctrinated that the pseudo palestinians are living in Israel hell. Teachers slamming Jews and Israel to their students. This is the type of Jew Hate preached in pseudo palestinian schools. It has now reached our shores.

Remember, Gaza was supposed to be at peace after Israel pulled out, but Hamas filled the void threatening those who didn’t go with the flow. Now they are living in hell made by two of the Middle East terrorist organizations, Hamas and Iran. The good ordinary people living on the Mediterranean enclave have no way out now. Trump was paving a road to their freedom from terrorists, but your man Biden, has given them a bone. Yes, they will swallow it until the next volley of rockets; then what? destroy, rebuild, destroy rebuild.

Seems to us that the major supporters of Israel today are Christians. “NEVER AGAIN” is their motto.

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Police charged one suspect, Waseem Awawdeh, of Bay Ridge, with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon. Awawdeh, 23, is awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. (ANIMALS)

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Anyone with information on the other four suspects is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or go to the CrimeStoppers website.

THE SMOKING GUN, CCP COVER-UP THAT KILLED MILLIONS UNMASKED

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans on theHouse Intelligence Committee say there is “significant circumstantial evidence” that the COVID-19 outbreak stemmed from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, urging the federal government to put “more pressure on China” to allow for a “full, credible investigation” into the source of the global pandemic. 

THE GAZA SUBWAY SYSTEM LOCATED IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS

No living President has taken the LOW ROAD like Barack Hussein Obama; a full fledged member of the Black Lives Matter Tear Down America Movement. Hussein, a Suicide Bomber in his own right went all in with BLM. They want a massive invasion of our country that creates chaos, that undermines our traditional morals and values. Violence is an integral part of their tactics and strategy. As noted below, but previously discussed, the BLM is an anti semitic arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Black Lives Matter ‘stands in solidarity’ with Palestinians, vows to fight for ‘Palestinian liberation.’ The Gaza killers were liberated and the world sees first hand what they have done. Why would Israel make peace with terrorist when they are out to destroy them. They had numerous chances, but missed opportunity after opportunity. To those who believe the liberal press regarding settlements, keep in mind that the majority of those who migrated to the area prior to the founding of Israel were from other Arab countries, brought there by the Turkish Ottomans. Those are documented facts. “Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians,” the group tweeted. “We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation.

Obama, in his last Jew hating maneuver, thru Israel to the Hamas wolves. December 23, 2016, President Barack Obama has decided to go out with a bang: In a stunning diplomatic rebuke of Israel, the United States abstained on a controversial United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, allowing it to pass easily. That was five years ago, but today, Biden has a chance to replicate Obama’s action. How? By agreeing to a new JCPOA. From its very beginning IRAN did not abide by the agreement, yet the IAEA turned a blind eye toward their violations.

However, we yield to Obama when he said, “do not underestimate Joe Biden’s ‘ability to f**k things up’

As Israel fights for its existence, the Iran pumped up Hamas has continue their salvo of rockets into Israel. Soon, these murdering thugs will be out of rockets, then Israel’s ground attack will begin. But, this depends on Biden giving the OK to rollback the sanctions put in place by Trump. Secondly, will Biden affirm the Iran JCPOA, giving it life after death? If he does go all in, Israel and the Jews around the world will know what we already know, that Biden hates Jews and Israel, but loves the Islamic Jihad. Biden, like Obama, surreptitiously is a two faced member of the Suicide Squad.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA called it “the strongest non-proliferation agreement ever negotiated”. President Donald Trump derided it as “one of the worst deals ever”. Now the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—the unwieldy name given to the multinational nuclear deal signed between Iran and six world powers in 2015—is on its death-bed. Mr Trump pulled out of the accord in May 2018 and progressively tightened American sanctions. Iran responded by gradually abandoning the deal’s restrictions on nuclear activity, most recently on January 5th, after American assassinated a prominent Iranian general, Qassem Suleimani. A fortnight later—days after Britain, France and Germany invoked a dispute-resolution measure—Iran threatened to become only the second country after North Korea to abandon the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). That would sharply increase the prospect of a war. So what, exactly, is the JCPOA? Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98%, and reduce by about two-thirds the number of its gas centrifuges for 13 years. For the next 15 years, Iran will only enrich uranium up to 3.67%. Iran also agreed not to build any new heavy-water facilities for the same period of time. Uranium-enrichment activities will be limited to a single facility using first-generation centrifuges for 10 years. Other facilities will be converted to avoid proliferation risks. To monitor and verify Iran’s compliance with the agreement, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will have regular access to all Iranian nuclear facilities. The agreement provides that in return for verifiably abiding by its commitments, Iran will receive relief from the U.S., European Union, and United Nations Security Council nuclear-related sanctions.

Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Hassam Abu-Arbid was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip Monday afternoon as rockets fired from the blockaded enclave continued to be fired towards southern Israel communities.

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, an observer on the security cabinet, called for the IDF to temporarily take over Gaza for a few weeks in order to disarm Hamas, in an interview with Ynet on Wednesday.”We will have no escape one day from a temporary takeover of Gaza, which has heavy prices,” said Steinitz to Ynet. “This day did not come for all sorts of reasons. I think this day will come, if not now, then in the coming years.”

The VOICES can be heard, bouncing from one ear to the other, vibrations attenuating in between, eyes bulging, blood vessels expanding and streams of opaque fluid spurting from all orifices. What can cause such a human malady? The HOUSE OF HORRORS is in a rage; the crypt has been opened and to no one’s surprise it was bare, empty, nada inside. A real CRPTO Halloween show in May! Spooky for sure.

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Beto O’Rourke’s claim that Gov. Greg Abbott ‘killing the people of Texas’ comes back to haunt him

If you are a Republican, according to all Democrats, you are always wrong. It doesn’t matter what the facts are.

Eat your words Beto. Be a man. Level with us. Come clean. Of course you will never admit that you were dead wrong, just like all of your cohorts. Continue to maskabate for another year or two Beto. Perhaps the lack of oxygen reaching your brain will set you straight.

On the Mediterranean Sea, a paradise, most people would die to live there, but those who die there actually live to die there. Demographics from various sources put the population pre 1944 at 100,000. Subsequent to the State of Israel being declared an exodus took place. As much as 250,000 moved into Gaza. The current Gaza population is estimated at two million being the result of a high birth rate. The Gaza birth rate is 28 per thousand compared to a U.S. birth rate of 12 per thousand.

Ancient Gaza

Gaza first appears in the Tanach as a Philistine city, the site of Samson’s dramatic death. Jews finally conquered it in the Hasmonean era, and continued to live there. Notable residents include Dunash Ibn Labrat, and Nathan of Gaza, advisor to false messiah Shabtai Zvi. Gaza is within the boundaries of Shevet Yehuda in Biblical Israel (see Genesis 15, Joshua 15:47, Kings 15:47 and Judges 1:18) and therefore some have argued that there is a Halachic requirement to live in this land. The earliest settlement of the area is by Avraham and Yitzhak, both of whom lived in the Gerar area of Gaza. In the fourth century Gaza was the primary Jewish port of Israel for international trade and commerce.

Great medieval rabbis such as Rabbi Yisrael Najara, author of Kah Ribon Olam, the popular Shabbat song, and renowned Mekubal Rabbi Avraham Azoulai, were rabbanim in Gaza Jewish communities.

The periodic removal of Jews from Gaza goes back at least to the Romans in 61 CE, followed much later by the Crusaders, Napoleon, the Ottoman Turks, the British and the contemporary Egyptians. However, Jews definitely lived in Gaza throughout the centuries, with a stronger presence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jews were present in Gaza until 1929, when they were forced to leave the area due to violent riots against them by the Arabs. Following these riots, and the death of nearly 135 Jews in all, the British prohibited Jews from living in Gaza to quell tension and appease the Arabs. Some Jews returned, however, and, in 1946, kibbutz Kfar Darom was established to prevent the British from separating the Negev from the Jewish state.

The United Nations 1947 partition plan allotted the coastal strip from Yavneh to Rafiah on the Egyptian border to be an Arab state. In Israel’s war for independence, most Arab inhabitants in this region fled or were expelled, settling around Gaza City. Israeli forces conquered Gaza, and proceeded south to El-Arish, but subsequently gave control of the area to Egypt in negotiations, keeping Ashdod and Ashkelon. In 1956, Israel went to war with Egypt, conquered Gaza again, only to return it again.

With the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli forces reentered Gaza and captured it. During the war, Israel had no idea what it would do with the territory. Eshkol called it “a bone stuck in our throats.”¹

Inhabited since at least the 15th century B.C., the Gaza Strip has been dominated by many different peoples and empires throughout its history; it was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century. The Gaza Strip fell to British forces during World War I, becoming a part of the British Mandate of Palestine. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt administered the newly formed Gaza Strip; Israel captured it in the Six-Day War in 1967. Under a series of agreements known as the Oslo accords signed between 1993 and 1999, Israel transferred to the newly-created Palestinian Authority (PA) security and civilian responsibility for many Palestinian-populated areas of the Gaza Strip as well as the West Bank. In 2000, a violent intifada or uprising began, and in 2001 negotiations to determine the permanent status of the West bank and Gaza Strip stalled. Subsequent attempts to re-start negotiations have not resulted in progress toward determining final status of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel by late 2005 unilaterally withdrew all of its settlers and soldiers and dismantled its military facilities in the Gaza Strip, but it continues to control the Gaza Strip’s land and maritime borders and airspace. In early 2006, the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council election. Attempts to form a unity government between Fatah, the dominant Palestinian political faction in the West Bank, and HAMAS failed, leading to violent clashes between their respective supporters and HAMAS’s violent seizure of all military and governmental institutions in the Gaza Strip in June 2007. Since HAMAS’s takeover, Israel and Egypt have enforced tight restrictions on movement and access of goods and individuals into and out of the territory. Fatah and HAMAS have since reached a series of agreements aimed at restoring political unity between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank but have struggled to enact them; a reconciliation agreement signed in October 2017 remains unimplemented.

In July 2014, HAMAS and other Gaza-based militant groups engaged in a 51-day conflict with Israel culminating in late August with an open-ended truce. Since 2014, Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces have exchanged projectiles and air strikes respectively, sometimes lasting multiple days and resulting in multiple deaths on both sides. Egypt, Qatar, and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process have negotiated multiple ceasefires to avert a broader conflict. Since March 2018, HAMAS has coordinated weekly demonstrations along the Gaza security fence, many of which have turned violent, resulting in one Israeli soldier death and several Israeli soldier injuries as well as more than 200 Palestinian deaths and thousands of injuries.

Hamas, a designated terrorist organization by the United States, has only one objective, to eliminate Israel from the map. No matter what it takes, even the killing of their brothers and sisters, called peripheral damage, they will continue their fight until their objective is met.