A Jewish Homeland
by David Ben-Ariel
Did God condemn the Jews to wander until Messiah comes but blessed every other tribe of Israel with a national inheritance?
Does that make sense? Is God fair? Is Israel so much holier than Judah? Or could it be, as Herbert W. Armstrong taught in The United States and Britain in Prophecy, that Israel's punishment was to last for 2,520 years (Lev. 26:21)?
After that time, around A.D. 1800, because of Abraham's obedience, God decreed that He would bestow His blessings. Did that 2,520 years of punishment apply only to the Northern Kingdom of Israel? Does God have a double standard? Once God removed the Kingdom of Judah wasn't it His responsibility to restore it at the appointed time?
Did the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic and NW European peoples take these prophecies into their own hands? Were the English-speaking nations of White Israelites able to create their countries with no divine mandate, signs and miracles, or prophetic leadership?
For those who have eyes to see, the biblical countries came into being by divine mandate since only God determines the rise and fall of nations. Many of our founding fathers were inspired of God, in spite of themselves, to accomplish our Manifest Destiny. God's overall plan is greater than any single man.
God stirred up Theodore Herzl to inspire the Jewish people with the biblical idea of having a Jewish State again. He wrote and spoke about it extensively, planting the seed of holy imagination in Judah's mind.
Later, during the British Mandate, the British began to "look favorably" upon the establishment of an independent Jewish Homeland, watering that holy seed. The Balfour Declaration was part of a divine mandate to restore Judah to "Palestine" (a satanic word the Romans used in an evil attempt to erase our father Israel's name off the map -- Ps. 83:4).
God utilized political Zionism for His purposes, just as He utilized America's rebellion against the English throne. On the surface, neither were so special or righteous, but both were instrumental in fulfilling prophecy.
As for the treatment of the former inhabitants of the lands that God decreed for His people, whether Arabs or Indians, I'm sure the Canaanites would offer scathing condemnation but others would see God's purpose being worked out, however imperfectly to limited human vision. God addresses any injustices in His own way and time (2 Sam. 21:1-14), but dismisses those charges that exaggerate or exploit them to deny our basic biblical right to the lands He has chosen for us (Acts 17:26).
As the Greeks are representative of all Gentiles, so the Jews are representative of all Israel. It is to Israel, specifically to the Jews, that God has committed the oracles of God (Rom. 3:2). The oracles of God includes the DIVINE COVENANTS AND PROMISES (Rom. 9:4-5). The Jews hold, in trust, the biblical land deed/covenant to the Holy Land for all Twelve Tribes of Israel.
GOD MADE A LAND-COVENANT WITH ISRAEL (Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 15:18; 17:8; 26:3; 28:13; 35:12). Not once did God promise the Holy Land to the "Palestinians" so Bible-believers must reject their illegitimate claims. Those who attempt to justify permanent foreign occupation of our God-given land or terrible treatment of our people because of our sins are condemning themselves before God (Isa. 47:6; Jer. 50:7; Zech. 1:15).
There are many Scriptures that speak of a REPRESENTATIVE AMOUNT OF JEWS living in Israel before the return of the King Messiah, Yeshua. Shamefully, God's ministers, and consequently the Church of God, have often been blind to what God is doing in Israel today. We've failed to see the wonders that God has wrought, the types that foretell of greater things to come.
We've been ignorant of the biblical principle of duality and have nit-picked the prophecies demanding all or nothing. With that limited vision we would've argued with Peter on Pentecost/Shavuot about Joel's prophecy being fulfilled. However, it certainly was -- in part (Acts 2:16-21).
Consider the following:
God promised to "save Zion, and build the cities of Judah" (Ps. 69:35). (He doesn't refer to them as "Palestinian" cities). God has faithfully done that by rewarding Jewish efforts (Annuit Coeptus) and respecting their blood, sweat and tears (Isa. 61:4; Ps. 102:13-14). God has used the Jews to make the desert blossom as the rose and protected them during this conversion process, just as Moses requested (Deut. 33:7).
I praise God for having blessed me, from Toledo to Jerusalem, to have lived in eight kibbutzim (collective-farms) throughout Israel that have helped to fulfill these pioneer prophecies, including during Operation Desert Storm.
God clearly prophesied through Zechariah chapters 12-14 that the Jews would again be living in their ancient capital of Jerusalem, with their own rulers, and that the "United Nations" would oppose them and ultimately be defeated.
Zechariah also shows the long-awaited recognition of Yeshua by the Jews as God's Son and Judah's Firstborn and the heartfelt repentance of the political (House of David) and religious (House of Levi) establishment. In fact, Yeshua said that the Jews in Jerusalem wouldn't see Him again until they had this necessary change of heart (Matt. 23:39).
Zechariah also reveals that the Jews would again be a formidable military power in the Middle East with God working in and through and for them. Many Israelis know that God has been their true General and performed many miracles on their behalf. I've heard Gershon Salomon, chairman of the Temple Mount Faithful, recount his miraculous experience of divine protection on the Golan Heights many times.
It's important to note that God has inspired the holy prophets to write about real flesh and blood Jews living in Israel -- not Jewish imposters.
Why? Because those suffering from the sickness of anti-Semitism are out to spread doubt and confusion about Israel's Jewish identity. They publish slanderous hate literature about Khazars attempting to poison minds against the Jews by promoting quack racial theories and Nazi propaganda.
It's nothing less than Satan's desperate efforts to deny that God has the power to fulfill prophecy. Bible-believers reject their bitter lies knowing God's Word is true.
Zechariah also agrees with the New Testament prophecies that reveal Jerusalem as a thriving Jewish city that will suffer under a harsh Gentile occupation just before the Messiah arrives in time (Rev. 11:2; Zech. 14:2).
Yeshua will liberate Jerusalem and secure it as His headquarters. Jerusalem, the site of David's Throne, will be the seat of God's government.
Yeshua, like the prophet Daniel, foresaw that Jewish believers would be living and working in a state of Jews (it's not yet a Jewish state). They'll witness the historic restoration of animal sacrifices and their abrupt cessation by an evil European force, quickly followed by the "abomination of desolation" that triggers World War III (Matt. 24:15-16; Dan. 12:11).
Meanwhile, the Church of God (or select individuals if the Church continues to shirk its responsibility) must ANNOUNCE TO THE CITIES OF JUDAH (the prophecy doesn't refer to them as "Palestinian" cities or "Israeli-occupied") that Messiah's about to appear!
We're to boldly offer Judah the hope and comfort that a TRUE PEACE is coming and to get ready for it (Isa. 40:1-3). We're to help prepare Israel for the shock of a GLORIFIED YESHUA REVEALED AT LAST (vs. 5) and lead them to expect an audience with a DIVINE KING whose ROYAL RADIANCE will illuminate every nation.
We must identify Yeshua as the "Son of Man" from Heaven that Daniel previewed (Dan. 7:13-14), and stress that Zechariah gave an "eyewitness account" of this same DIVINE SAVIOR descending from Heaven to reign as LORD from Jerusalem over the whole earth (Zech. 14:3-4, 9, 16).
Remember this is no small task, and is quite controversial, since the Jews are still looking forward to a human leader to save them from all their troubles.
The Two Witnesses will be the most influential in reaching the cities of Judah from Jerusalem (Isa. 40:9; 52:7-8), effectively knowing their mindset and culture (unlike so many others), but the Church of God should still do what we can now.
These exciting Scriptures clearly prove (they're not assumptions) that with God nothing is impossible: the Jews would again be living in an independent Israel, resurrected from the dust of history just prior to Messiah's coming, with Jerusalem as their capital, complete with an effective fighting force, having been restored to their ancient cities and energetically transforming the land from barren desert to productive fields -- all with God's blessing (Ezek. 37:1-14).
These Scriptures glorify God as faithful and we should praise Him that His Word is good and true. Amen.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
The Plain Truth About Ron Weinland
CHURCH OF GOD
The Plain Truth About Ron Weinland
Ron Weinland is drunk on his delusions...
www.DavidBenAriel.org
Friday, May 02, 2008
Yad Vashem, Oskar Schindler, Miriam Weiss
Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Opens Photo Archive on the Internet
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – In honor of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, marked in Israel on Thursday, Yad Vashem, Israel’s main Holocaust memorial, has expanded its Internet presence by opening an online database containing 130,000 photos of the lives Jews before, during and after the horrors of World War II...
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I've been to Yad Vashem many times, and I've even encouraged them to build a monument called Shear-Yashuv ("the Remnant will Return") for Holocaust Survivors.
When I used to live and work at the Palm Youth Hostel outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, I used to ask our guests if they had watched Schindler's List. If they had, I was honored to take them to see where Oskar Schindler is buried so they could place a stone on his tombstone (the practice in Israel).
Here's an article I wrote about my beloved kibbutz mother, Miriam Weiss:
Miriam Weiss: Holocaust Survivor and Kibbutz Mother
On that precious list of "Righteous Gentiles" (rare individuals who assisted Jews during the Holocaust) is the great name of Jan Bulski who risked his life and family in Poland to save my "kibbutz mother" -- Miriam Weiss -- who I met and was "adopted" by at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan near Haifa in Northern Israel while a volunteer there from October 1982 to February 1983.
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – In honor of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, marked in Israel on Thursday, Yad Vashem, Israel’s main Holocaust memorial, has expanded its Internet presence by opening an online database containing 130,000 photos of the lives Jews before, during and after the horrors of World War II...
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I've been to Yad Vashem many times, and I've even encouraged them to build a monument called Shear-Yashuv ("the Remnant will Return") for Holocaust Survivors.
When I used to live and work at the Palm Youth Hostel outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, I used to ask our guests if they had watched Schindler's List. If they had, I was honored to take them to see where Oskar Schindler is buried so they could place a stone on his tombstone (the practice in Israel).
Here's an article I wrote about my beloved kibbutz mother, Miriam Weiss:
Miriam Weiss: Holocaust Survivor and Kibbutz Mother
On that precious list of "Righteous Gentiles" (rare individuals who assisted Jews during the Holocaust) is the great name of Jan Bulski who risked his life and family in Poland to save my "kibbutz mother" -- Miriam Weiss -- who I met and was "adopted" by at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan near Haifa in Northern Israel while a volunteer there from October 1982 to February 1983.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
THE SIN OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
The sin of interracial marriage
HIGHLIGHTS FROM ‘THE SIN OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE’
by Herbert W Armstrong
May 1982
[following on from his remarks against interracial marriages in sermons at Pasadena about June 1978, HWA presented this sermon in 1982]
Many members want to be part of this world, but our chance of salvation is now because judgement is upon the House of God now. The world will get its chance later and will have to give account before the judgement seat of Christ.
This subject is causing a lot of trouble.
“Today I would like to speak on what may be the very next attack” on the Church by Satan (ie preventing interracial marriages from taking place in the Church). Then again, ‘Satan is going to use interracial marriage as the next attack upon God’s Church’.
“If we want to be with God, get on his side. Or get on Satan’s side and go into the lake of fire” with regard to this question.
I will not compromise one millionth of an inch on social trends of interracial marriage.
Some say we must have racial balance in this world – we will not go the way of Satan!
‘But I say that for me and my family, we shall serve the eternal God’ (in relation to interracial marriages). [AUDIENCE CLAPS LOUDLY IN SUPPORT- how many would today?]
Today is like the days of Noah – the same things are bringing an end to this world.
HWA said that three evils brought about the end of the world of Noah’s day:
1. wrong foods (including gluttony)
2. wrong drink (including alcoholism)
3. wrong marriages (including interracial marriages)
… therefore God destroyed that world. HWA uses pure logic, deductive reasoning and wisdom – he indeed had the spirit of a sound mind.
Why do black men marry white women and visa versa, but few white men marry black women and visa versa?
This world say that the cause of racial problems is segregation, when in fact the opposite is the case.
The Supreme Court of the USA, without God’s wisdom, but has human ‘wisdom’, wants to mix the races.
That Court has take to itself the notion of good and evil, but God separated the races (Deut. 32).
Integration is the way of Satan.
“I know Satan is going to bring it up and I am going to beat him to the punch”.
Genesis 5 shows that family is important in Genesis. Races are families grown large.
Genesis 11 shows that that they wanted integration, not separation.
“after their families” = “after their races”.
Noah’s righteousness was in his ancestry and not in himself – but in his strain, for non are perfectly righteous.
Noah was white.
Noah’s family remained intact as God had decreed they should.
The Bible uses the word family instead of the word race, but means the same thing in Genesis.
The genealogy of Abram was the same as Noah.
The reason for the separation of married couples in Ezra and Nehemiah is because of race and not religion.
Similarly Abram did not want his descendants to intermarry.
Eg “family of Egypt” = race.
AC “was going so far over to Satan’s way that we had an interracial marriage here” [in late 1970s].
“God is not in favour of interracial marriage” and he refers to Ezra 10:3.
After he ends there is resounding applause.
Here is the complete sermon transcript:
THE SIN OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
HIGHLIGHTS FROM ‘THE SIN OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE’
by Herbert W Armstrong
May 1982
[following on from his remarks against interracial marriages in sermons at Pasadena about June 1978, HWA presented this sermon in 1982]
Many members want to be part of this world, but our chance of salvation is now because judgement is upon the House of God now. The world will get its chance later and will have to give account before the judgement seat of Christ.
This subject is causing a lot of trouble.
“Today I would like to speak on what may be the very next attack” on the Church by Satan (ie preventing interracial marriages from taking place in the Church). Then again, ‘Satan is going to use interracial marriage as the next attack upon God’s Church’.
“If we want to be with God, get on his side. Or get on Satan’s side and go into the lake of fire” with regard to this question.
I will not compromise one millionth of an inch on social trends of interracial marriage.
Some say we must have racial balance in this world – we will not go the way of Satan!
‘But I say that for me and my family, we shall serve the eternal God’ (in relation to interracial marriages). [AUDIENCE CLAPS LOUDLY IN SUPPORT- how many would today?]
Today is like the days of Noah – the same things are bringing an end to this world.
HWA said that three evils brought about the end of the world of Noah’s day:
1. wrong foods (including gluttony)
2. wrong drink (including alcoholism)
3. wrong marriages (including interracial marriages)
… therefore God destroyed that world. HWA uses pure logic, deductive reasoning and wisdom – he indeed had the spirit of a sound mind.
Why do black men marry white women and visa versa, but few white men marry black women and visa versa?
This world say that the cause of racial problems is segregation, when in fact the opposite is the case.
The Supreme Court of the USA, without God’s wisdom, but has human ‘wisdom’, wants to mix the races.
That Court has take to itself the notion of good and evil, but God separated the races (Deut. 32).
Integration is the way of Satan.
“I know Satan is going to bring it up and I am going to beat him to the punch”.
Genesis 5 shows that family is important in Genesis. Races are families grown large.
Genesis 11 shows that that they wanted integration, not separation.
“after their families” = “after their races”.
Noah’s righteousness was in his ancestry and not in himself – but in his strain, for non are perfectly righteous.
Noah was white.
Noah’s family remained intact as God had decreed they should.
The Bible uses the word family instead of the word race, but means the same thing in Genesis.
The genealogy of Abram was the same as Noah.
The reason for the separation of married couples in Ezra and Nehemiah is because of race and not religion.
Similarly Abram did not want his descendants to intermarry.
Eg “family of Egypt” = race.
AC “was going so far over to Satan’s way that we had an interracial marriage here” [in late 1970s].
“God is not in favour of interracial marriage” and he refers to Ezra 10:3.
After he ends there is resounding applause.
Here is the complete sermon transcript:
THE SIN OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The Curse of Jeremiah Wrights
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and others all represent the curse of reverse discrimination, the tail wagging the dog, the animals running the farm, the serious consequences for White Israelite disobedience to God (Deuteronomy 28:43).
As Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall testifies:
Everything's Upside Down
Part of the punishment to come upon our people was that: "The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail" (Deut. 28:43-44).
Today that's happening! It's going on right before our eyes! Mass voter registration, "social mobility," and "economic empowerment" are running us right out of our own neighborhoods, public office and the work place! The minorities in our midst have turned the tables and reversed the roles - with our help! How sick! Reverse discrimination is the law of the land. Quotas condemn and exclude our own people. The WASPs are being chased by the "Canaanites!"
Minorities Out of Control
The Gentile animals stalk our land, rob us of our children, and steal us blind (Lev. 26:22)! We’re afraid to leave our homes, our streets are unsafe to stroll, and our inner cities are a wasteland! Our prisons are overflowing, welfare is overtaxed, and the white man's overburdened. Everywhere we look, the terror and devastation testify we’re being CURSED FOR DISOBEDIENCE! (Deut. 28:15).
Deuteronomy 28:15, 43-47
Curses of Disobedience
15 But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you... 43 The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower... he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
May we turn from our NATIONAL SINS of idolatry and immorality that the CURSES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND MILITANT MINORITIES get stopped in their tracks (Daniel 9:11).
May we repent of transgressing the biblical boundaries our Great Creator God has set for us, that biblical law and order may be restored in our lives and in our land, this Promised Land of Manasseh, the son of Joseph.
The United States and Britain in Prophecy by Herbert W. Armstrong.
With God all things are possible!
2 Chronicles 7:14
14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Related articles about the curse of militant minorities as part of divine punishment for our NATIONAL SINS:
The Plain Truth About Race And Responsibility
The English-Speaking Nations of White Israelites
Chocolate Continent Awaits the Great Black Return!
May 1: Illegal Immigration Day Defused!Death to America: Major American Cities Targeted By Terrorists?
President Barack Obama sound good to you?
Black to Africa: Facing the Crisis in Black America
Death to the American, British & Jewish peoples?
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Yossie Harel to be buried at Sdot Yam
Yossi Harel, Commander of 'Illegal' Pre-State Aliyah, Dies at 90
Yossi Harel, who commanded four ships bringing Jews to Israel illegally, died at the age of 90 in Tel Aviv Saturdayby Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) Yossi Harel, who commanded four ships bringing Jews to Israel illegally, died at the age of 90 in Tel Aviv Saturday.
Harel assisted 24,000 Jews in reaching Israel aboard four ships, including the famed SS Exodus, between 1945 and 1948. Great Britain, which controlled the region at the time, banned Jewish immigration due to Arab pressure. The other three ships were called Knesset Yisrael (Gathering of Israel), Atzma'ut (Independence) and Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of the Exiles).
The Exodus was made famous by a film of the same name.
Born in 1919, Harel was the sixth generation in his family born in Jerusalem. At the age of 15 he joined the pre-state Hagana defense force. By the age of 28 he oversaw the clandestine immigration operations bringing Jews, many of them survivors of the Holocaust, to the Holy Land.
Later on, Harel oversaw the IDF’s Unit 131, an intelligence unit that ran a spy ring in Egypt until the so-called Lavon Affair of 1954.
Harel will be buried at the Ceasaria-area kibbutz, Sdot Yam, at 5 PM Monday.
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Sdot Yam: What a great place to live and be buried! I was blessed to serve as a volunteer at Kibbutz Sdot Yam and studied Hebrew in an ulpan there for three months. What memories.
Kol hakavod to Yossi Harel - may he rest in peace.
Sdot Yam - Getting ready for our trip
Kibbutz Sdot Yam & Bolshoi Ballet
Friday, April 25, 2008
Will the pope act foolish or wisely?
Anything looted by the Romans during the destruction of the Temple and the razing of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. (Common Era), would have become the property by default to the Roman Catholic Cult. Undoubtedly some things were melted down, but others of great importance - like the Menorah - would have been treasured and kept, just like the former Babylonians had plenty that God saw to it was returned to Jerusalem (where they belong) when the Persians came to power.
The contemptuous Babylonians who considered themselves heir of Jerusalem, with their own accursed replacement theology, made the lethal error, the deadly sin, of abusing the Temple vessels for ordinary use and to praise their idol gods and condemn themselves and curse their kingdom:
Daniel 5:22-24
22 "But you [Nebuchadnezzar's] son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. 23 And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. 24 Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written.
Will Rome, the bloody Vatican, who knows all these things, learn from history and receive instruction from the Bible or harden their hearts and be destroyed like pharaoh and Babylon?
Will the pope act like foolish Belshazzar or wisely like Cyrus?
Ezra 1
Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. 3 Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
5 Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spirits God had moved, arose to go up and build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all those who were around them encouraged them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
7 King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the temple of his gods; 8 and Cyrus king of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. 9 This is the number of them: thirty gold platters, one thousand silver platters, twenty-nine knives, 10 thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins of a similar kind, and one thousand other articles. 11 All the articles of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar took with the captives who were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.
The Vatican Must Return the Temple Treasures
www.DavidBenAriel.org
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Yeshua is the Suffering Servant
Yeshua is the Suffering Servant
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man (not a nation, a man) of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we (collective Israel, especially Judah) hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He (one man) was despised, and we (Israel/Judah) did not esteem Him.
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man (not a nation, a man) of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we (collective Israel, especially Judah) hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He (one man) was despised, and we (Israel/Judah) did not esteem Him.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Waiting for you (in Athens)
Was going nuts looking for my library card (finally found it), but I found this from my beloved Donna (British) in Germany (at my former roommates apt) and enjoyed the flashback:
22/6/90 (Daisies)
22/6/90 (Daisies)
Shalom David (written in Hebrew)
Hi David,
How ya doing? I am finally leaving Andreas' after a long, long stay! I feel bad for staying too long! I have no money so I am going to Athens tomorrow morning. I had to pay the driver 100DM! my mother sent me $120 but I can't wait any longer so I am asking Andreas to give it to you, to give me in Athens - so I can get back to Israel with it! I will try and get work there and wait for you! I will put a note up on the hostel where we stayed + also (if I have any money) telephone that man + tell him where you can contact me. I really miss you and wish you were here NOW! The weather here is TERRIBLE, always RAINING. I did want to get back to Israel by 1/7/90 to see Chris off but it looks like I can't now - so I am unhappy about that because I really wanted to see him. I AM WHITE NOW!
Take care,
Love Donna (Donna written in Hebrew)
Remember I AM WAITING FOR YOU!!
P.T.V.
P.S. Here are the maps - you will need them! Say Hi to Johnny for me + find me a nice Italien man!
Take care hitching,
love
Donna (in Hebrew) with a heart and "shalom" in Hebrew
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Fanatically negative reviews
Beyond Babylon review
A Must Read, If You Share His Premises,
By Robert Locke
The fanatically negative reviews of other reviewers should clue the potential purchaser in on one thing only: this is a religious book, and as such, is contrary to some people's deeply-held beliefs. David Ben-Ariel is a Christian Zionist, something which upsets some people (read "Moslems") no end. But if you are a Christian seeking the connections between your own religion and Zionism, or a Jew, seeking to understand why some Christians are such staunch supporters of your cousins in the Middle East, this book is one of the best explanations out there. Ben-Ariel is not shy about taking the Bible, and what it implies about contemporary political events, seriously. If you are not a religious believer, you will find his connections between Bible verses and contemporary political events simply irrelevant, but that's up to you.
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www.davidbenariel.org
A Must Read, If You Share His Premises,
By Robert Locke
The fanatically negative reviews of other reviewers should clue the potential purchaser in on one thing only: this is a religious book, and as such, is contrary to some people's deeply-held beliefs. David Ben-Ariel is a Christian Zionist, something which upsets some people (read "Moslems") no end. But if you are a Christian seeking the connections between your own religion and Zionism, or a Jew, seeking to understand why some Christians are such staunch supporters of your cousins in the Middle East, this book is one of the best explanations out there. Ben-Ariel is not shy about taking the Bible, and what it implies about contemporary political events, seriously. If you are not a religious believer, you will find his connections between Bible verses and contemporary political events simply irrelevant, but that's up to you.
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www.davidbenariel.org
Monday, March 31, 2008
Pretty in Pink: Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
USA
Pretty in Pink: Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
...cross the Potomac River to Washington, D.C. that is in full bloom with its Cherry Blossom Festival (thank you Japan for the gracious gift enjoyed by so many).
Pretty in Pink: Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
...cross the Potomac River to Washington, D.C. that is in full bloom with its Cherry Blossom Festival (thank you Japan for the gracious gift enjoyed by so many).
Yesterday my friend Roger and I were blessed to visit Arlington National Cemetery and see the John F. Kennedy memorial, Arlington House (the Robert W. Lee Memorial), Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (with the changing of the guard ceremony), and then cross the Potomac River to Washington, D.C. that is in full bloom with its Cherry Blossom Festival.
We were able to visit the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument (didn't get to go up in it because the tickets are only available in the early morning on a first come basis), the Lincoln Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall, Three Soldiers, and everything in between, with the cherry blossoms everywhere appearing as one big pink cloud or cotton candy. (I was disgusted to see they plan on polluting the park with something for MLK).
We saw lots of Asians, heard some German, a little Italian, Spanish and Russian or something, and whatever else. Considering all the foreigners, I told Roger, "It's a great day to be an American!" and was happy to be able to visit our historic sites that Americans have seen all our life in books and pictures or on television or in movies.
We took a break from our historic gauntlet and had coffee at Caribou's and then ate at Potbelly Sandwich Works just on the corner from the White House. I was very pleasantly surprised we were able to eat and have a drink for under $10.00. I thought everything would cost us an arm and a leg like New York probably does.
We went to view the White House (I understand from relatives, I'm a collateral descendant of 3 American presidents, John Adams, John Q. Adams, and James Buchanan), front and back, and saw plenty of tourists, and only one protester directly in front of the White House gate with calls to impeach Bush and to learn how at some myspace.com address.
The first time I was in Washington, D.C. was to join with pro-life people protesting Bill Clinton's inauguration where we held 4 foot posters of "Baby David" to remind folks of how gruesome abortion is and how it must end.
My Christian friend Carl and I had gotten somewhat lost and ended up very briefly in the ghetto area, rot so near the heart of our country, a black blight. Thankfully, Roger and I went through some of the nice and well kept areas en route to the sites.
This time, at least I had a chance to see some things other than the Washington Monument and the presidential motorcade (I hope my pictures turn out good), although everybody says you could spend a week alone in the Smithsonian, etc. I hope to return and have a proper tour of the White House and see much more.
May God bless America, this land that I love.
David Ben-Ariel
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Politics in the Church of God Hinders Progress
Politics in the Church of God Hinders Progress
Gerald Flurry refused to go forward with Beyond Babylon and fell backwards, treading old ground and is now going in circles, business as usual, as Europe rises and Judah and Israel have yet to be warned.
www.DavidBenAriel.org
Gerald Flurry refused to go forward with Beyond Babylon and fell backwards, treading old ground and is now going in circles, business as usual, as Europe rises and Judah and Israel have yet to be warned.
www.DavidBenAriel.org
Thursday, March 27, 2008
God and the Gays
God and the Gays - To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)
Homosexuality.... Is it a matter of choice? Are some born that way? And if so, then how could God condemn it? Or does He? Does it make a difference?
God and the Gays - All That Glitters Isn't Gold (Part 2)
The gay bar scene or high risk promiscuous sex... Is it so happy-go-lucky? Something so sweet and wonderful we'd "wish you were here?" Or is it actually something you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy?
God and the Gays - Once Gay, Always Gay? (Part 3)
Once gay always gay? How about once an adulterer always an adulterer? Better yet, once a sinner always a sinner (1 Cor. 6:11; 1 John 1:9)? WHO says so?
God and the Gays - Of Vice and Men (Part 4)
Everyone - gay or straight - has the "fire" within (1 Cor. 7:9). Some burn more than others, but it's still there. God understands proper sexual desire and simply commands that we develop His character to control and channel it. He knows our human need to love and be loved, to touch and feel, to give of ourselves totally in a reciprocal relationship.
God and the Gays - A Time to Heal (Part 5)
God calls people from all walks of life and performs a miracle in their minds: they're offered a fresh perspective, given a new outlook, and enabled to try a different approach (Philip. 2:5). Their former "records" aren't held against them and they're started out with a new attitude and identity (2 Cor. 5:17).
God and the Gays - Make Up Your Mind (Part 6)
We can make things easier or more difficult for ourselves. Either you're totally convinced God's way is right and worth living, or you're not sure and continually ride the fence and risk rupture; tormenting yourself and sending out conflicting signals and confusing signs (Matt. 6:24; 7:16).
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Issue of the Temple Mount
The common knowledge of our time is that the vast majority of Rabbis of this generation have prohibited the Jewish people from entering the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit), the holiest site in Judaism. The Temple Mount is the site of where the Beit HaMikdash (the Jewish Temple) once stood and the place where the Moslems have erected one mosque, the al-Aqsa and a site of pilgrimage, the Dome of the Rock.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
German-Jesuit Jackboot to Stomp Jerusalem!
I've been warning about German-Jesuit designs on Jerusalem for years - persistent and consistent, God knows - and current events are confirming what I've said.
"The one time The Traveller did run a political piece, it ruffled feathers with the local authorities. In 'Will Jerusalem become an international city?' by American writer David Ben-Ariel, readers were warned about a German-Vatican plot to take over Jerusalem, urged to take back the Temple Mount and dislodge 'as symbols of foreign occupation' Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock."
Exposing the German-Vatican Plot to Occupy Jerusalem
"The one time The Traveller did run a political piece, it ruffled feathers with the local authorities. In 'Will Jerusalem become an international city?' by American writer David Ben-Ariel, readers were warned about a German-Vatican plot to take over Jerusalem, urged to take back the Temple Mount and dislodge 'as symbols of foreign occupation' Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock."
Exposing the German-Vatican Plot to Occupy Jerusalem
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Counterfeit Christianity feeds Jewish stereotypes
Re: #78 as the first xtians appeared they realised the sparks of the Light of Judaism in it and VERY happy to learn that xtianity - in contrast to Judaism - was cheap and reachable for everyone since it does not demand any deep effort but only the uttering of a “credo”.
Your cheap shots and shallow stereotypes expose a woeful or willful ignorance of biblical Christianity, which unlike traditional “Christianity” is a Bible-based religion that is far more than merely uttering a “credo,” but one that faithfully keeps the biblical Sabbath, biblical festivals, biblical dietary laws in spirit and in truth, in attitude and in action, their meanings magnified and expanded by Yeshua, the King of the Jews, the King of Israel, who will soon return and teach Torah properly to all nations from Jerusalem, beginning with repentant Jews and British-Israelites who will then be called upon to serve as a light to all nations, a model nation: believe it or not.
Shame on Gentilized Christianity for misrepresenting Yeshua and the New Covenant (”New Testament”) with their baptized paganism and replacement theology, their counterfeit Christianity that follows (as the NT warns), “another Jesus,” a “different gospel” and a different “spirit.”
Israel and Judah Must Get House in Order Before King Messiah Arrives
Comment by David BenAriel — March 20, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
Counterfeit Christianity feeds Jewish stereotypes
Monday, March 17, 2008
Senator Sherrod Brown on Genocide against White South Africans
Senator Sherrod Brown on Genocide against White South Africans
From: Sherrod Brown
To: davidbenariel
Sent: 3/14/08 4:34:44 PM
Subject: Reply from Senator Sherrod Brown
Dear Mr. Ben-Ariel: Thank you for expressing your concerns about genocide in South Africa. Violations of human rights, including genocide, are unacceptable. Since my election to Congress, I have fought for foreign policies that promote and protect human rights. I have forwarded your concerns to the Department of State, and will continue to monitor this situation. Thank you again for contacting me. Sincerely, Sherrod Brown
******
GENOCIDE BEING COMMITTED AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN WHITES
A Warning for America from South Africa
How Evil was Apartheid?Fellowship with Besieged White South Africans
South Africa under Black Misrule to Revise History
Ilana Mercer on South AfricaTuesday, February 19, 2008
Life is a Trek (in haphazard order)
Life is a Trek
Cape Town, RSA
Jerusalem, the Western Wall
Tel Aviv-Sheraton Hotel
Jerusalem the Golden
Bet Shean, The Roman Theatre
Greece - Mykonos port postcard
Lucerne: City, Lake and Rigi
Roman theater in Amman, Jordan
Trek notes
Sea of Galilee
Island of Rhodes
HOTEL DES BALANCES
Kibbutz Dan during Operation Desert Storm
Kibbutz Dan just before Gulf War
Kibbutz Adamit, Israel
Drinking Beer in Munich
Sahne & Bet She'an near Kibbutz Reshafim
Mt. Gilboa, King Saul, Reshafim
Poems from Kibbutz Regavim
BS Tutu, Bethlehem, Jerusalem
Confessions of a Lesbian
Kibbutz Reshafim, Israel
Moshav Kfar Hayyim, Israel
End of Ulpan at Sdot Yam
Getting ready to move again
Kibbutz Sdot Yam & Bolshoi Ballet
Sdot Yam - Getting ready for our trip
Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Sept. '89
Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Israel
Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan, Restal Hotel, Tiberias, Israel
PRAHA
Cape Town, RSA
Jerusalem, the Western Wall
Tel Aviv-Sheraton Hotel
Jerusalem the Golden
Bet Shean, The Roman Theatre
Greece - Mykonos port postcard
Lucerne: City, Lake and Rigi
Roman theater in Amman, Jordan
Trek notes
Sea of Galilee
Island of Rhodes
HOTEL DES BALANCES
Kibbutz Dan during Operation Desert Storm
Kibbutz Dan just before Gulf War
Kibbutz Adamit, Israel
Drinking Beer in Munich
Sahne & Bet She'an near Kibbutz Reshafim
Mt. Gilboa, King Saul, Reshafim
Poems from Kibbutz Regavim
BS Tutu, Bethlehem, Jerusalem
Confessions of a Lesbian
Kibbutz Reshafim, Israel
Moshav Kfar Hayyim, Israel
End of Ulpan at Sdot Yam
Getting ready to move again
Kibbutz Sdot Yam & Bolshoi Ballet
Sdot Yam - Getting ready for our trip
Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Sept. '89
Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Israel
Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan, Restal Hotel, Tiberias, Israel
PRAHA
Kibbutz Dan just before Gulf War
Letter to Steve at his mother's
Jan. 13, 1991
Israel
We've moved from the south to Northernmost Israel - in between Syria and Lebanon. The last few days have been scary because we've been talked to about the situation, showed our bomb shelter, instructed about sealing off a room with plastic & sheets & such against chemical warfare & we're supposed to get our gas masks today. Our greatest threat here would probably be Syria if they turned against Israel. We're 1 hr. from their border. We spent last night & today "preparing" our rooms. Why can't we live in peace? Iraq against the world - God save us all from ourselves! John's on the phone to the States now - I told him to leave, better safe than sorry... Where to hide? What to do? May I live to see you around Feb. or March.
Love ya!
Shalom to Doris & Benny too!
David
(signature also written in Hebrew)
P.S.
I'm a young 31 now...
Jan. 13, 1991
Israel
We've moved from the south to Northernmost Israel - in between Syria and Lebanon. The last few days have been scary because we've been talked to about the situation, showed our bomb shelter, instructed about sealing off a room with plastic & sheets & such against chemical warfare & we're supposed to get our gas masks today. Our greatest threat here would probably be Syria if they turned against Israel. We're 1 hr. from their border. We spent last night & today "preparing" our rooms. Why can't we live in peace? Iraq against the world - God save us all from ourselves! John's on the phone to the States now - I told him to leave, better safe than sorry... Where to hide? What to do? May I live to see you around Feb. or March.
Love ya!
Shalom to Doris & Benny too!
David
(signature also written in Hebrew)
P.S.
I'm a young 31 now...
Sahne & Bet She'an near Kibbutz Reshafim
Aerogramme to Steve & Dale from Kibbutz Reshafim
April 15, '90
Reshafim,
Israel
Queens!
Shalom! (in Hebrew).
Tonight is the 7th & final Day of Unleavened Bread - matzo - so we don't work tomorrow - National Holiday... I just had to step outside because another room was playing my song - "Nothing Compares to You" - a tearjerker for me. Saturday I walked/hitched w/my roommate to Sahne - a water resort near here I'd been to once before on a Kibbutz trip... Donna & I might hitch to Jericho tomorrow, if not I'm going back to Sahne - tho' I got plenty of SUN & swimming the other day. Today Donna & I hitched to our nearest town - BET-SHEAN - where I had a Bacardi Rum & coke for approximately $5. Imports are expensive, honey! ... Did I write you last week I went to Miriam's for Passover? If not - I spent 3 days with her, visited Simcha also & Ilan & his family. Our kibbutz trip was postponed until this Thurs. then we go to Israel's southernmost tip & hot resort Eilat - where my Dutch boy is working - & to Timnah - a National Park until Sat. Maybe in mid-May, present plans are to take the ferry from Haifa to Cyprus to Rhodes to Athens, Greece & hitch/train/or bus to Frankfurt to fly to Amerika! Tho' after getting a letter today from Ann in England, London sounds fun. We'll see.
Ciao for now,
Wuv,
David (signature in Hebrew)
Mt. Gilboa, King Saul, Reshafim
Aerogramme to Steve & Dale from Kibbutz Reshafim
March 28, 1990
Kibbutz Reshafim
10905 Israel
(New Moon)
Shalom! (written in Hebrew)
I've finished my second ulpan & have received a certificate for it. I'm glad I stuck it out in spite of the strong temptations to drop out along the way for various reasons. Naturally, when an ulpan ends most people go their separate ways, which is hard on the emotions, but it's also exciting to move on to new places, people & experiences, which is what I've done. I'm presently in the Jordan Valley area not far from the Jordan River & border. We're just down the road from Biblical Bet-Shean and our "backyard" view is impressive Mt. Gilboa where Israel's first King, Saul, died after a major battle with the Philistines, also 3 of his Prince sons, including Jonathan - King David's best friend & the brother of David's wife, Princess Michal. Read about it in 2 Samuel Chapter 1 & the last chapter of 1 Samuel. I read it tonight after walking out back near the fields to look at the mountains silhouette after sunset with the new moon over them all... Last Shabbat/Sabbath/Saturday, everyone went to Masada but Maarten and I, because while I struggled to get him up to come the bus left! But we had a very peaceful, quiet day, all alone... Friday night I drank 1 whole bottle of Arak (Ouzo) myself! And remember almost everything... Sunday I hitched to Sdot Yam to visit friends & lay on the beach & Monday saw Maarten off & was so hurt all day - thinking that song by O'Connor "Nothing Compares to You" - I felt so empty & lost...He's in Eilat, farthest southern Israel. Then my going away party was ok & I left Tues, hitched 3 hours to here since Donna's here. There's some good-looking volunteers here, especially 21 yr. David from N.Y. you'd both faint over & Kibbutz members... Oh well. When will I straighten up. I'll see you in June if I survive 'till then.
Love, David
P.S.
I might visit a friend in Ireland on the coast before coming to the States.
Poems from Kibbutz Regavim
Letter and poems written on stationery from Kibbutz Regavim to Steve & Dale, enclosed with a lock of my sun bleached hair
March 20, 1990
Regavim
Dear Stella & Della, Shalom! (shalom also written in Hebrew)
I'm tired but want to keep awake to watch "Twins" tonight. My Dutch fling - Maarten - left for 2 days in Jerusalem. I miss him - unfortunately - already. (It's funny I'm thinking in Hebrew, but writing in English). Our ulpan ends this week & there's a party tomorrow - plus we receive certificates of completion. I feel sort of depressed that I may never see Maarten again after next week - 'cause we're all leaving to other Kibbutzim or countries - tho' I know the first good-looking guy who comes my will cause me to say "Maarten who?" Maarten's confused - he says he's not gay, but... I'll be moving next week. This Sabbath we go to Masada & The Dead Sea & Ein Gedi - 4 or 5 hrs. south of here. Last Friday there was a huge PURIM party here (Jewish festival recorded in the Biblical book of Esther), but I hitched to Ramat Yohanan to be with Miriam who's suffering from depression, while there I met another "son" of hers - also American - who says I'll always have a place to stay for the next yr. he's in Jerusalem. Donna moved a week & 1/2 ago to the Jordan Valley - so called occupied West Bank on Jordan's border, near Mt. Gilboa, so I think that's also where I'm going. It's Kibbutz RESHAFIM. Mom's supposed to send me some money, then I'll send Dale his camel I bought. I also asked her to help with the phone bill. Following are some poems I wrote prompted by Maarten...
Love ya,
David (signature in Hebrew)
P.S.
I dreamt of Bob last night. Plus my hair is cut short now.
Maarten
Staring into your Eyes
As you mingle with The Crowd -
Noticing me
Standing near you
You turn and smile,
Touching me
With unspoken words -
Such a gentle feeling -
Something special
Between us
Giving our Lives
Meaning...
Feb. 17, '90
There you were
Standing Silent in the Moonlight
undisturbed
You thought throughout the Night
Then you Turned
And saw me with quiet tears
You came near
And embraced all my fears
Then we kissed
And eternity slipped away
Such soft whispers
Everything I had to say
You understand
And grew stronger still -
I love you
And I always will
March '90
(wrote this sitting beside Maarten as he played his guitar)
Passion & Pain
I tell myself
I don't love you anymore
But deep down inside
I know it's a lie,
And go against
Everything I believe
When I continue
To see you
And know your deceit -
You hurt me more
Then you could know
But I play strong
And struggle not to let it show
But I know that
I've got to go -
Because I can't stand
Being in love with you
When you're in love
With another man...
Feb. 20, '90
BS Tutu, Bethlehem, Jerusalem
Aerogramme to Steve & Dale from Kibbutz Regavim
Jan. 9, 1990
Kibbutz Regavim
Israel
Dear haverim (friends),
Shalom!
I received your letter today, Dale, & one recently from a Church friend near Santa Barbara, Calif. Letters are the highlight of our day, & so therefore are greatly appreciated. I'm in Hebrew class now so I'm just starting this letter before I get busted. Tonight I work in a plastic factory from 8 p.m. - 4 a.m. We not only make toys, we manufacture all the parts for disposable razors. To be continued... It's break now. Tho' I don't celebrate Xmas because of its pagan birth (origin) & it's nowhere commanded, etc. it's around the same time as Hanukkah. So I went to Jerusalem Dec. 24th, & even tho' I hate S. Afrikan Bishop (Bullshit) Desmond Tutu, I wanted to see him on his historic - tho' wicked - visit to Israel, so I heard him give midnight mass at St. George's Anglican Church in Jerusalem. Later we all evacuated because of a bomb threat. Xmas Day I visited Bethlehem where I met 4 nice guys from a different Kibbutz & visited... (class just let out) the Church of Nativity - the traditional site of Jesus' birth & Manger Square. We discussed how tradition is so deep & how people are stuck in its muck. What's important was Jesus was born somewhere in Bethlehem because his ancestor King David was born there. I was later told I was on Israeli TV - about 7 different Kibbutz members said they saw me next to the Western ("Wailing") Wall on TV - and I didn't even notice any cameras! They recognized my blond hair (that needs cut!). I spent a quiet New Year's eve visiting Miriam at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan near Haifa. On, on the way to Jerusalem I rode a train halfway there - a first for me. Jerusalem was packed because of Hanukkah & Xmas. I also went dancing again at the UNDERGROUND...crazy as usual! I wonder if Ramon's wife had her baby yet... All the Garin came again this weekend - a wild group of pre-army 17 & 18 yr. olds who all like me... Well I'm going to Miriam's again next week for 2 or 3 days, but now I'd better go to sleep since I'll be up 'till 4 in the MORNING! Help. (Actually it's quite easy). Oh, I've also conveniently had my own room now - double bed - for the last week or so.
Write ya later.
David
Confessions of a Lesbian
Aerogramme to Stella & Della from Kibbutz Regavim
Dec. 22, '89
Kibbutz Regavim
Israel
Shalom! I should write this later - it's 2:30 in the morning, but my French roommate Stefan is carrying on in a barrage of French (which I don't like/I hate) to our next door French "neighbor" Veronique. I've just come from dancing in our pub. I also drank 3 beers there & feel somewhat sick - last Friday - my first day here, I went "off the wagon" for the eve, drank about ten beers, somewhat blacked out, threw up - damn beer, it's so bloating. There's so many good-looking guys here from all over the world (volunteers/ulpan) & from the Kibbutz, cruisin' me in their own way, it's so frustrating - what's a girl to do? Tonight a girl from England (she's in my new Hebrew class) "confessed" she's a lesbian. I'd already guessed. Tomorrow I'm supposed to travel, I mean walk, about 1/2 hr. to an Arab village next to us called Kfar Kara. We're surrounded by Arab villages & we're nestled amongst many hills & pretty valleys, versus Sdot Yam's beach, sand dunes & ocean. I'm friends with so many Arabs employed here already, who have invited me to visit them. Mohammad, Zecharia, Tarik, Mohammed, Bassam, etc. So many of them look gorgeously Italian... Tonight, Sabbath eve, begins our Festival of Hanukkah, commemorating Jerusalem's liberation & the Temple's rededication. Yesterday I hitched & took buses to Sdot Yam to pick up my suitcase. I had earlier only brought my army bag. Out of all the nice people cruisin tonight... Sunday I might leave for Jerusalem for a night for Hanukkah & to Bethlehem for Xmas even tho' it's not a holiday for me. Asshole Bishop Tutu from S. Africa is visiting there.
Later,
Wuv,
David
Getting ready to move again
Written to Steve & Dale on plain paper from Kibbutz Sdot Yam with photos enclosed
Oct. 31, '89
Sdot Yam,
Yisrael
Shalom! (written in Hebrew)
Just a quick note
to say please take this letter
of Bob's to Krogers for him, & when you see Mom - go see her! She now has her own home at... I'm so grateful to God & happy for her & Lisa -
give her any pics with "Mom" on the
back. I'm going to the next
level of Hebrew at
Kibbutz Regavim
Israel
Write me there. I'll send the zip code - "the postal code" as my
present English friends insist - when I get
it. I don't leave for there until
Dec. 15th. I might live down
South for 1 month on a farm (moshav) after
Nov. 12th. Tomorrow I go renew
my Israeli visa for 20 shekelim ($10).
Well I'm
exhausted & all
my friends just left
to crash so
I am going
to also.
We just got 3 new
guys from India.
A couple weeks ago
I hitchhiked to Jerusalem
for a day & back to
be in a controversial demonstration
for Jews to rebuild the Temple.
Did you see me on the news?
I was waving the Israeli flag...ha!
G' Nigh.
Lighla tov!
David
P.S.
One of my "colored" friends from S. Afrika left tonight to be an au-pair near Tel Aviv. We gave her - Celeste - a silly send-off, acting stupid but fun.
Kibbutz Sdot Yam & Bolshoi Ballet
Aerogramme to Steve & Dale from Kibbutz Sdot Yam
Sept. 20, '89
Israel
5:05 p.m.
I've just returned from my first dip in the Sea in about a week. Not too many people today, but a lot of wind surfers with their brilliant colors flying by on the Sea. Thank you Dale for writing. I appreciate it. So far I've only received letters from a few friends & I love letters - they make my day. I just got up from a nap I took (after our Hebrew class today) about an hour ago. Last week I was privileged to work for our kibbutz at the Roman amphitheatre near us for the BOLSHOI BALLET FROM MOSCOW! The show was spectacular & I was able to meet 2 of the dancers later & get my picture with the one - blond hair, blue eyed Sergei Baranov who asked for my address after he gave me his signature. They tour Turkey next & in Dec. to Montreal, so I gave him this address & mom's & her phone # he asked twice for! Everyone here wondered how I got to work there, only another American, Graham, and an English girl, Ann, worked also. Then I managed to get Alex (Hungarian) & I in to see 2 popular Israeli singers. I don't know if I already wrote this or not...? I got my picture with one of them & later also with their cute guitarist & drummer! We recently had a field trip to the Golan Heights where we enjoyed breakfast & a swim in the Sea of Galilee near Kibbutz Ein Gev, then we travelled to young Kibbutz past volcanic rocks & to Syria's border, looking at their city Kuneitra. Then we went to where Jews first made a settlement - Tel Chai -through Kiryat Shmona, also to the beautiful Banias springs & WATERFALL where we also swam, then to Tiberias to stroll on their lovely promenade on the Sea of Galilee, stopping in Afula for cake & ice cream for this French guy's birthday & then singing Hebrew songs back to our Kibbutz. I guess I got trashed on vodka last Fri. night. I had a black-out - Doof (from Holland) and Guy (Israeli) brought me home, put me to bed & said I was loving & sweet to all the girls - I don't remember it at all! They said I couldn't stand...oh, well. Tell Leslyie & Bill & Chris hello. I haven't forgotten anyone but I'm broke here. When I get $ I'll send out cards. I also have 3 rolls of film to develop.
Love ya all,
David
P.S.
Go see our Europe pictures!
Sdot Yam - Getting ready for our trip
Aerogramme to Steve from Kibbutz Sdot Yam
Sept. 12, '89
Israel
7:45 p.m.
Queen! Why haven't YOU written? I know you hate to but still you can anyway. Try it! I wasn't going to write you again until I heard from you. I've just come back from the Dining Room (Chadar Ochel). Tonight our pub is open but they only have beer. Last Friday I was so desperate to drink I drank 5 beers there - ha! We had class today & discussed some history of where we're going on our trip tomorrow - The Golan Heights near Jordan, Syria & Lebanon. Last week some terrorists killed 2 Israeli soldiers near there. We always have at least 2 armed soldiers with us, probably more tomorrow. We'll also stop & swim in the Sea of Galilee. Tell your mother hi please. Thankfully some Germany girl - Anyia (who hates Germany) went to town yesterday & bought about 6 bottles of vodka. She was nice & let me buy one from her tonight since for some stupid reason Israeli stores are closed on Tuesday afternoons. Alex (from Hungary) & I walked to Caesarea (1/2 hr. away) to buy vodka but they were closed. I thought of you as I walked thinking you'd think "how typical of David to be on his way - even in Israel, to buy booze"... We have 2 new Americans here now. There's this guy from London... but he really is totally straight... But he always comes around & says he really likes me as a person. I was depressed a few days ago, so at night I sat for 1/2 hr on the rocks on the beach, remembering our fun in Florida, Mom, Lisa & me in Europe, Kevin Kottke - the stars & surf were somewhat soothing to my "restless soul"...
Ciao,
Love,
David
Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Sept. '89
Aerogramme to Steve from Kibbutz Sdot Yam (volunteers are given so many aerogrammes each month, besides room & board and a small allowance).
Sept. 2, '89
Kibbutz Sdot Yam
Israel
4:30 p.m.
Steve - Shabbat Shalom!
Just after writing the date for this letter our pretty German girl - Susan from Bavaria - asked if we could study our Hebrew lessons together. I said after this letter. I've just returned from swimming in the Sea w/some friends from France - Michal & Francoise, Sher from Israel, Nubuya from Japan. I laid out for about 45 minutes afterwards. Last night I got buzzed drinking 95% alcohol (equivalent to 151 in America) mixed with Arak (like Oozo). We had a big barbecue on the Kibbutz's private beach w/everyone down there. We barbecued chicken & ate it w/pita bread under the many stars & listening to the violent surf. It was to mark summer's end & the kids new school year... So I drink & dance my brains out... I went to bed at 4... Such is life (in Hebrew "Zay Mighesh"). I now have my own cute room since my favorite S. African girls left to tour Israel & Greece. My room is pink & blue sheets, curtains, sheets hanging decoratively from the ceiling, etc. Well, write me! Mom said she talked w/you several times. Wish you were here. Honestly.
Love,
David
Wonderful Swedes in Jerusalem
Aerogramme to Steve from Sdot Yam
Aug. 8, 1989
Sdot Yam,
Israel
Queen! So hows Stella Mae? I've just finished playing hostess - offering tea to my kibbutz neighbors - 2 girls from S. Africa & one from Brazil. My roommate is Sandor (Alexander) from Hungary. He's nice but hard to understand (his English sometimes). Now someone else just moved in with us from Calif. named Graham. He brought his guitar. This kibbutz is beautiful. We're located right on the beach. We're also next to a famous Roman amphitheatre in Ceasarea I visited 9 yrs. ago & yesterday w/Alex. I'm sitting outside my room writing this in the shade because our room is an oven. It's about 5:15 p.m. This morning was my first Kibbutz job here - at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. I had to help grab 2 chickens (1 of their legs each) in both hands & carry them upside down squawking & fluttering to a metal bin we put them in. Never again! Easy, but disgusting. Then I worked outdoors spraying herbicide on rows of Avocado trees. I'm tan now, but still got too much sun today on top of swimming in the Sea twice yesterday. Before I arrived at this Kibbutz I spent a fabulous week in Jerusalem at a youth hostel where I met the most wonderful Swedes - Magnus, Soren and Jerker. I was their "tour guide" of Jerusalem & showed them all around, including places they wouldn't of seen otherwise. They had a rented car so it was grand. We walked through Hezekiah's Tunnel together, Mt. of Olives, the Wall, etc. We went to The Underground "bar" for 5 nights straight. Several times they bought me food & alcohol since they couldn't of had a "better" tour guide they said. A pretty girl from Toronto was with us also - Kristina - & another guy from Argentina - Diego. I practically cried when they left - they all gave me hugs good bye...I have the Swedes address...Plus at the hostel I hung w/several wild & crazy Jewish guys from Vancouver. I especially liked Steve... - only 21. The owner liked me so much he loaned me 15 shekelim ($8.00) to get to the Kibbutz since I was broke. Plus he said I could work him whenever I wanted. I also took free Jewish tours of the Moslem & Jewish quarters of Jerusalem w/a bunch of Jews. I'll probably only be here for 3 or 4 months, since they don't offer the next Hebrew level course I want. I need to write Mom also but sometimes it's difficult repeating myself. Tonight we open the "pub" & drink beer & dance. Also Friday. Thankfully I have my personal supply of vodka to insure my intoxication since they only serve beer... I tripped out today because some English guy today was wearing a Ft. Lauderdale, Summer's Bar T shirt! A friend gave it to him. I especially like a guy here from India... He's got olive skin, not dark, & beautiful brown eyes & the cutest grin... He'll drink w/me tonight. His roommate is Shawn from Canada. They live in the volunteer's section which they call "Mexico City" compared to us Ulpan (Hebrew students) peoples place they call "Beverly Hills". Ha! Ciao for now. It's supper.
Love,
David
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
ATHENS ACROPOLIS
Written to Steve and Dale on a postcard that shows Athens at sunset or so...
Wed., June 6, 1990
Shalom from Greece! We set sail from Haifa, Israel Sun. night, stayed for a few hrs. in Cyprus, continued on to the island of Rhodes - so beautiful, ancient and modern with alls around it, a castle - last night in Crete & 11:30 this morning in Greece! We're travelling w/two gay S. Afrikans we met on the boat... Them, Andreas, Donna, me & a Danish girl toured the Acropolis today, snapping away like busy tourists & walked all over Athens. The sunset over the mtns. was beautiful. We met a lot of nice people, especially Israeli - on the boat & drank all 3 nights Bacardi - bottles from Duty-Free. I also played the gambling machines to experience it. I only won tokens. Tonight we're all going to this gay bar - Grafittis except Andreas & the Dane hitched for Germany. So many gay parks here too. Now we're in a youth hostel - it's nice.
See ya!
Luv,
David (signature written in Hebrew).
Wed., June 6, 1990
Shalom from Greece! We set sail from Haifa, Israel Sun. night, stayed for a few hrs. in Cyprus, continued on to the island of Rhodes - so beautiful, ancient and modern with alls around it, a castle - last night in Crete & 11:30 this morning in Greece! We're travelling w/two gay S. Afrikans we met on the boat... Them, Andreas, Donna, me & a Danish girl toured the Acropolis today, snapping away like busy tourists & walked all over Athens. The sunset over the mtns. was beautiful. We met a lot of nice people, especially Israeli - on the boat & drank all 3 nights Bacardi - bottles from Duty-Free. I also played the gambling machines to experience it. I only won tokens. Tonight we're all going to this gay bar - Grafittis except Andreas & the Dane hitched for Germany. So many gay parks here too. Now we're in a youth hostel - it's nice.
See ya!
Luv,
David (signature written in Hebrew).
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Famous Israelis I've met
Our Toledo newspaper, The Blade, asked Sunday, "Have you had a brush with fame?" And wants to know about it. I sent them these few:
Ariel Sharon: Likud Parliament Member, former Defense Minister, later Prime Minister. I met Ariel Sharon before and after his speech at rally in Hebron, where thousands gathered to protest the signing of the Oslo 2 accords happening simultaneously in Washington D.C. I had traveled to the biblical City of the Patriarchs with Gershon Salomon [paratrooper who helped liberate Jerusalem's Temple Mount in 1967] and other Temple Mount Faithful friends. I handed Ariel Sharon a flyer and invited him to our Hanukkah demonstration in Jerusalem.
Ehud Olmert: [Former] Mayor of Jerusalem, present Prime Minister of Israel. I met Olmert and shook his hand, just as I was leaving the Eucalyptus restaurant's opening celebration in Jerusalem. I had been invited to the party by Moshe, the owner, whose partner I once worked for.
Teddy Kollek: Former long-time Mayor of Jerusalem. I just happened to be walking past a dinner theatre he was coming out of, so I took advantage of the opportunity to say "Shabbat Shalom" and shake his hand. When I mentioned Herbert Armstrong often spoke of him, he said, "I have fond memories of the old man." (I recall thinking he wasn't looking too young himself).
Yitzhak Rabin: I met Yitzhak Rabin in the Israeli Parliament in 1982 during Hanukkah. I was able to talk with him briefly and mention I was associated with Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. That was a tactful way of saying I'm a Christian since Rabin had met and received a gift of Steuben crystal from Herbert W. Armstrong of the Worldwide Church of God.
I was a volunteer at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan at the time, in Northern Israel near Haifa. Rabin informed me that he had lived there for over a year in the late '50s and inquired about various individuals.
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From Toledo to Jerusalem
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Ariel Sharon: From Zionist to Traitor
Don't Expel Jews From Gaza!
Paint Israel Black: Jews to Lose Jerusalem!
Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
Shimon Peres Charged with the Murder of Yitzhak Rabin?
Israel Work History (Worldwide Church of God)
The Plain Truth About Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God
Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God Mentioned in Israeli Newspaper
Miriam Weiss: Holocaust Survivor and Kibbutz Mother
Princess Diana, a Dream, and King David's Dynasty
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