Alexander Dolitsky: Israel has been homeland of Jewish people for over 3,500 years

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By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY

What happened on Oct 7, 2023 was not just a massive attack on innocent people inside Israel, it was the equivalent to about 36,000 Americans being massacred and burned in their homes in one day and about 9,000 of our fellow Americans being taken hostage. 

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protests in our country are shocking. But it also has been predictable: The same protests have been occurring in Europe for years, as Muslims have increased their presence in European countries as “refugees” from Muslim countries only to become violent within short times and reluctant to assimilate with the host country. European politicians have stood by, watched, and let it continue to happen. 

Certainly, rather than learning from the European mistakes, the United States has followed suit and welcomed, indiscriminately, radicalized Muslims to this country, too.

It’s no surprise in today’s political environment that university presidents will defend the rights of Muslims while ignoring those very same rights for Jews and others deemed in the “majority.” Even when hate speech is expressed directly at Jews, “woke” authorities simply turn their heads.

Elite university presidents are afraid to do anything that might subject them to criticism for not being “woke” enough. This is the American society that the progressive and far-left activists have been pushing on Americans for years with their identity politics: Draw lines between people, make them feel persecuted and sorry for themselves, and get them to hate each other. 

But a real irony is that most Jews in the U.S. have been strong far-left activists for many years; I wonder how long it will take my Juneau Synagogue friends to begin rethinking their blind allegiance to far-left politics and activism.

The other irony is that the people most blind to antisemitism and far-left ideology are the so-called “educated elite.” It’s the working-class people whose common sense screams at them that this is messed up. However, the power in our society resides with the oligarchs and the “educated elite.” The “educated elite”—products of those same universities (e.g., Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cornell) that started “Wokism.”

Politics of the pro-Palestinian activists prioritizing their radical beliefs and values; and it clouds their judgment for human rights and justice. Pro-Palestinian activists also misinterpret and misuse the concepts of apartheid, genocide and occupation in reference to Israel’s governing and political standing.

The apartheid and oppression in South Africa (1948 to 1994) was the racial segregation under the all-white government, which dictated that non-white South Africans (most of the population) were required to live in separate areas from whites and use separate public facilities. 

Today in Israel, Jews make up the majority at 73% (about 7.145 million individuals). The Arab community, spanning various religions, accounts for 21% or nearly 2 million individuals. They are citizens of Israel with equal rights, political participation, and representation.

Genocide is an internationally recognized crime with the intent to exterminate a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Between 1950 and 2023, the Palestinian population in Israel, Gaza and neighboring territories grown from 944,807 people to 5,371,230—an increase of the population by 468.5% in 73 years.

Occupation. The Jewish presence in the Israel-Gaza region is, archaeologically and historically, well documented; it is clearly described in every high school and college world history textbooks. The Land of Israel has changed hands many times over the centuries. But it has been the homeland of the Jewish people for nearly 3,500 years.

Indeed, pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic rhetoric is a classic example of the confusion that far-leftist politicians, media, and educators has created in our youth. In fact, it is not surprising that many of our youth now proclaiming support for the Palestinians in Gaza, even that the Palestinian Hamas terrorists committed atrocious crimes against Israel.

Many rational and peace-seeking Americans are outraged by the Gaza (via Hamas) atrocious attack on Israel on Oct. 7 of last year, killing, mutilating, and kidnapping nearly 1,500 individuals in Israel. It is inconceivable how anyone can find moral equivalence between the two sides in the present conflict between Israel and Gaza/Hamas. What Hamas terrorists did was savage, primitive, and far beyond any justification.

World-wide antisemitism, triggered by Israel/Hamas-Gaza war, is a direct result of the far-left ideology that is prevalent today in the West. Progressive and far-left activists attempting to create an ignorant, self-important generation of youth with a corrupt moral compass. Pro-Palestinian activism stems from the far-left ideology of white privilege doctrine, critical race theory, systemic racism and transgenderism.

Clearly, school administrators and teachers’ unions are turning the public schools into the “Blue Cities” with the far-left, “woke” ideology. 

Alexander B. Dolitsky was born and raised in Kiev in the former Soviet Union. He received an M.A. in history from Kiev Pedagogical Institute, Ukraine, in 1976; an M.A. in anthropology and archaeology from Brown University in 1983; and was enroled in the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College from 1983 to 1985, where he was also a lecturer in the Russian Center. In the U.S.S.R., he was a social studies teacher for three years, and an archaeologist for five years for the Ukranian Academy of Sciences. In 1978, he settled in the United States. Dolitsky visited Alaska for the first time in 1981, while conducting field research for graduate school at Brown. He lived first in Sitka in 1985 and then settled in Juneau in 1986. From 1985 to 1987, he was a U.S. Forest Service archaeologist and social scientist. He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Alaska Southeast from 1985 to 1999; Social Studies Instructor at the Alyeska Central School, Alaska Department of Education from 1988 to 2006; and has been the Director of the Alaska-Siberia Research Center (see www.aksrc.homestead.com) from 1990 to present. He has conducted about 30 field studies in various areas of the former Soviet Union (including Siberia), Central Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and the United States (including Alaska). Dolitsky has been a lecturer on the World Discoverer, Spirit of Oceanus, and Clipper Odyssey vessels in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. He was the Project Manager for the WWII Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease Memorial, which was erected in Fairbanks in 2006. He has published extensively in the fields of anthropology, history, archaeology, and ethnography. His more recent publications include Fairy Tales and Myths of the Bering Strait Chukchi, Ancient Tales of Kamchatka; Tales and Legends of the Yupik Eskimos of Siberia; Old Russia in Modern America: Russian Old Believers in Alaska; Allies in Wartime: The Alaska-Siberia Airway During WWII; Spirit of the Siberian Tiger: Folktales of the Russian Far East; Living Wisdom of the Far North: Tales and Legends from Chukotka and Alaska; Pipeline to Russia; The Alaska-Siberia Air Route in WWII; and Old Russia in Modern America: Living Traditions of the Russian Old Believers; Ancient Tales of Chukotka, and Ancient Tales of Kamchatka.

31 COMMENTS

    • Claims that Israel is stealing muslim land are false.
      Claims the land does not belong to Jews are lies.
      Israel is not invading, colonizing, or any other of the dozens of words used to support palestine.
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      That’s why the column is here. To make that point abundantly clear. Even to the densest among us. Frankly, I am surprised I had to explain it.

  1. What happened on Oct 7, 2023 was not just a massive attack on innocent people inside Israel, it was the equivalent to about 36,000 Americans being massacred and burned in their homes in one day and about 9,000 of our fellow Americans being taken hostage.

    41,000 Palestinians have been killed, and over 93,000 have been injured.
    The Israeli army has killed 2,100 Palestinian infants and toddlers under the age of two
    At Least 3,100 Children Killed by Israel in Gaza Were Under 5 Years Old
    about 17,000 children it has killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of its genocide on 7 October 2023.

    Please translate that equivalent into U.S. citizens

    • You don’t have to travel that far back in history to find out about Yassar I’m Fat’s Black September movement (1971). In its early days, they attempted a coup against King Hussein of Jordan. Naturally, he smote them and, Arab on Arab deaths didn’t garner the headlines for long. Hussein drove them out and, where did they land? Many of them in Israel where, they again couldn’t get along well with others. While most of us would have gotten an “N” (Needs More Improvement), for their efforts, The PLO began receiving financial aid from the U.N. and the U.S. The 1972 Munich Olympics massacre was another recent memory that most people know well, followed by one of Yassar’s first ventures into the car bomb at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut (1983). The “Palestinians” who march to Arafat’s drum beat are of the same mindset that Mr. Dolitsky accurately portrayed to this day. Nothing short of Israel’s total and complete death will be enough for them. Unfortunately, it seems as if their children’s deaths have more of an impact on western enablers than they do on the parents.

    • Maybe if they hadn’t picked a fight, there wouldn’t be a fight. Israel has always been perfectly happy to coexist with it’s neighbors, including Gaza, and the West Bank. They never fired the first shot or dropped the first bomb.

  2. The formation of narratives are critical for elites to maintain control over societies and rely on creating terms that ignorant populations will accept and become irrationally supportive of.

    The creation of the term of a “Palestinian Nation” or distinct people is a modern fabrication. The Turks ruled a vast territory, including the provinces named the Viyaelet of Beirut and the Sanjak of Jerusalem.

    In 1918 the British seized these provinces from the Ottoman Empire, they reorganized their conquests and named what are now Israel and Gaza “Palestine” and lands east of the Jordan River “Trans Jordan”.

    The resident Arabs who had been Turkish subjects, and now under Imperialist British control were scattered clan based people, who had been badly abused by the Turks, they had no king or national identity.

    The Hashemite Kingdom (modern Jordan – newly termed Trans Jordan) was made up in 1921. There is no centuries old Royal Jordanian family. When Israel was reborn, the local Arab clans should have become Jordanian subjects or Lebanese citizens. But Jordan and Lebanon did not want them.

    My point being that creating the myth that there is a historical Palestine, much less a homogenous Palestinian people, was simply made up in the early 1920s to create a crisis fault line to perpetuate profitable conflict.

    Yasser Arafat died a billionaire. There is massive money to graft for the elites in creating conflict no matter the cost to the poor common souls being exploited.

    There is no excuse for the degradation of education with our University elites. They are both stupid (a genetic inability to gain knowledge) and ignorant of historical facts.

    The irrational, tantrum driven behavior conducted on University campuses is the product of a failed society and educational system.

    Israel has a right to exist. Israel should be a blessing to its’ legitimate Arab neighbors. The fatal factor is their current Prime Minister who is incompetent and in servitude to the fanatical American neocon controlled government in their lust to start a war with Iran.

    The Israeli Army and society has also degraded to the point it is incapable of defeating a handful of Hamas terrorists in a tiny territory.

    The terror attack by Hamas on October 7th was not a surprise to the Israeli government. It was allowed to happen to create a crisis and extend the term of Netanyahu.

    Israel is making a very bad decision to rely on the US to dictate starting a war with Iran while assuming we are able to have their back. They might end up as what is happening to the Ukraine.

    • Brian Simpson,

      You are correct in saying this:

      “The terror attack by Hamas on October 7th was not a surprise to the Israeli government. It was allowed to happen to create a crisis and extend the term of Netanyahu. ”

      The post-10/7 Gaza and Lebanon wars are also keeping Netanyahu from going to prison on corruption charges, which the US media isn’t reporting, along with many facts about Israel and the Palestinians, while US media readily spread (without fact checking) false, hasbara lies about what happened on 10/7, which they never corrected — so most Americans still believe the false stories happened, that they’ve allowed to incite their anger to the degree they justify everything Israel does in their current, expansionist wars.

      Ben Swann has made a video which proves Israel not only knew the attack was coming, but helped it happen. The included transcript is also fully footnoted.

      How Did October 7th Happen? | “Reckoning: Israel and Gaza” (Ep. 1)

      ‘https://truthinmedia.com/episode/how-did-october-7th-happen

      I wrote and posted this shortly after the event, and updating it until it had 29 points. This was before I saw Ben Swann’s video, which adds additional points.

      False Flag: Israel Let Hamas Attack Happen On Purpose To Get the War Mandate… – 29 POINTS — Problem > Reaction > Solution

      ‘https://tobefree.press/2023/10/19/false-flag-israel-let-hamas-attack-happen-on-purpose

      Using 10/7 as the mandate, their overall main goal is to expel all Palestinians out of Gaza into other countries, to take as much of the West Bank as possible, and to expand their northern border into Lebanon with full US support (bombs, money, etc.).

      Israel and US warmongers also used 9/11 to justify are reverse-Christian wars that regime changed Israel’s neighbors. Most evangelicals still aren’t interested to know what really happened and who did it; don’t care that the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) proved that Building 7 did NOT collapse due to fires, as the official story claimed, and Fox News and all the others reported without ever correcting.

      Regarding Iran, Iran is one of the seven countries General Wesley Clark was told right after 9/11 the US would regime change. Most have since been regime changed or greatly weakened, some covertly, like Syria and Libya.

      Netanyahu has been trying to convince the US into regime changing Iran for decades, lying over and over about their nuclear capability.

      Netanyahu’s 7 Nuclear Deceptions — 1992: *IRAN* nuclear “within three to five years” • 1995: “three to five years” • 1996: “time is running out” • 2009: “probably one or two years away” / “has the capability now” • 2012: “within a year” || 2002: *IRAQ* now operating “centrifuges the size of washing machines”

      ‘https://tobefree.press/2015/03/04/netanyahus-nuclear-deceptions

      Dan Fagan has even said on his radio show recently that Iran has nukes, which is not true:

      CIA Says No Evidence Iran Has Decided To Build a Nuclear Weapon (Oct. 2024)

      ‘https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/cia-says-no-evidence-iran-has-decided-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon

      Many evangelicals today are led by FOX News instead of the HOLY Spirit.

      Jesus said His children must be peacemakers to be called the children of God (Mt. 5:9).

      False Christianity is the main problem today. We must actually abide in Christ to be “in Christ,” right with God and one another. Then we’ll walk in love and the world will know (Jesus’ prayer in John 17 fulfilled)!

  3. Brian Simpson, Yasser Arafat died a homosexual pedophile billionaire. As well as Jimmy Carters best friend forever. May they share the same seat in the hottest level of hell. Forever.

  4. Nosmo King, the Muslims bring this on themselves. They insist on it, they love it, they cannot exist without it. And GOD’s chosen people are giving them their hearts desire.

  5. Many peoples can make the this is my Homeland argument. I have enclosed the Sioux Black Hills claim.

    The Black Hills
    The Sioux claim the Black Hills of South Dakota, which were granted to the Sioux in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. However, in 1877, Congress passed an act reclaiming the Black Hills. The Sioux have sought compensation for the Black Hills, and in 1980, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. However, the Sioux have not collected the funds awarded to them and continue to seek the return of the land.

    The Kurds in Turkey have the same claim to independent statehood.

    I always appreciate and respect Alexander’s posts.
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    • Is there a people anywhere on the planet who was not displaced from their ancestral lands at some point in the past? Is there any group that has never had to suffer under rule from an invader?
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      Invading, occupying, and controlling land is human history.
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      What was done to the Sioux and other American natives by the Europeans is tragic, but it is no less tragic than what those tribes did to each other.

  6. Thanks, Alexander, for this enlightening piece. US universities, and particularly the law schools, have designed an agenda that encompasses “transformationalism.” I believe the LGBTQ, DEI, and wokism have been tailored as individual pursuits to fit this new, transformative era as platforms in which to radicalize younger people. We are seeing the fruits of this transformation before our very eyes. Younger women have entered the political arena like never before. Women have become empowered through the courts and especially in the prosecutor’s offices. The goal of transformation among academic elites is to put women in charge everywhere, and castrate the power of males, particularly the white males.
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    Question for you: I was raised being taught that the Jews were the class with the brains, money, and power in this country. Why then, are so many American Jews turning out as self-loathing and regarding Israel as an evil perpetrator in the Middle East? What happened to their former belief of self-preservation at all costs?

    • Marla, I don’t have a short and simple answer to your question; I am puzzled. Clearly, there is a distinct ideological and life-experience difference between European Jewry who suffered Holocaust and extreme antisemitism, including my family members in Kiev, and American Jewry who were protected by the Atlantic Ocean during WWII. True, going to the Juneau Jewish Synagogue it’s like attending the headquarter of the far-left Marxist party. Perhaps it is habitual for American Jewry to support extreme far-left ideology and today’s corrupted socialist-democratic principles, namely: White Privilege, Critical Race Theory, Systemic Racism and DEI.

      I will try to write an article on this subject soon.

      • Self-loathing is an indoctrinated cultural teaching. Surely, the American Jews didn’t wake-up one morning, look in the mirror, and suddenly purport to be left-wing extremists.
        This is a cultural curse that American Jews carry around. And it has nothing to do with their religious teachings. It comes from shame. Some of the richest, most educated, most talented American Jews still carry a huge burden of shame with them. If you look deeply into it, Alexander, you will find this to be the truth. But why is it? How did this shame come to be? A good place to start may be to examine the rich Hollywood Jewish film directors and producers. They don’t put “Jews” in a direct line of shame. But they put others who have also done well in a direct line of public shame. And this plays out in their movies, which also are designed to indoctrinate.

        • Jose, you raised a very critical sociological issue: “Some of the richest, most educated, most talented American Jews still carry a huge burden of shame with them.” This issue must be thoroughly studied in the historic context, examining: a particular community, age groups, place of origin, upbringing, religious affiliation, family structure, family history, etc. A well-trained sociologist and anthropologist can write a Ph.D. dissertation on this subject.

          Indeed, many American Jews are aligned with a left ideology (e.g. socialism, DEI, collective consciousness, collective representation, neo-Marxism doctrines, etc.). However, not all-American Jews subscribe themselves to far-left ideology; keep this in mind. I will take the time and write a more comprehensive article on this subject based on my experiences and observations. My immediate response to your comments is that it is rather FEAR than SHAME to guide many American Jews behavioral strategies and ideology. I will elaborate on this point in my next column. Of course, I can be wrong in my assessments.

          • You are on to something, Alexander. I would elaborate by saying that much of the FEAR is based on the Jews perception that they are universally HATED. This would explain both fear and shame together. So in defense of themselves, they become ruthless with their talents for making money, being well educated, and using the arts to show the world they are not living in fear.

            • Thomas, interesting observation: “So in defense of themselves, they become ruthless with their talents for making money, being well educated, and using the arts to show the world they are not living in fear.”

              Most of my nuclear and extended family have extensive education in music. My brother and his two sons in Moscow are world-known musicians, and my mother and other cousins from Kiev were talented musicians as well. My great-great uncle Mendel Menahem Dolitsky is a well-known Hebrew writer. One of the major streets in Tel Aviv is named after him. I am not bragging; I am trying to recollect and understand the motives in Jewish families worldwide, poor or rich, for arts, education and music, including my own family.

              It is always helpful to know unbiased and honest “outsider’s’” opinions. I need to think about it. Regarding the concept of FEARE—it could be a useful emotion that has largely to do with self-preservation, ability to compromise, to adapt to a new environment, and to develop a successful defensive behavior. I will try to explain this concept, based on my observation and experience, in relation to American Jewry and European Jewry in my next column.

              I am certainly discouraged by many American Jews far-left affiliation and for their silence in relation to the October 7th Israel/Hamas/Palestinian war. This type of FEAR I call cowardice.

              • Outstanding dialogue between author and commenters. Critical discourse like this actually helps other readers understand this mystery of Jewish leftism in America…… during the height of another Middle East standoff between Israel and Muslim nations.

      • Denis Prager researched the issue and concluded the political disparity is because most Americans with a Jewish background were very conservative up until the early 1900s when there was a massive influx of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who had been exposed to communism and socialism from the time Marx first opened his mouth and started spouting off about the virtues of “The Collective”. Those immigrants settled in larger cities where they could interact with other people who shared a common belief system. Then they kept to living inside their urbanized “fish bowls”, mostly talking to other people with similar experiences. This led to the erroneous beliefs in Socialisms and Communism being reinforced within these groups through peer-to-peer communications. T

        Then there was the Soviet plan to plant operatives in the media and in the education systems in the USA. It took awhile, but over time they managed to infest these once great institutions of American greatness and consume it from the inside out. I’m glad our kids are out of High School. Two are pretty solid conservatives, but unfortunately the third was heavily influenced by a advanced academics professor who wormed his beliefs into her mind. She and her husband are pretty solidly on the left side of the political spectrum now (pride protests and marches, etc.). I hope those grandkids rebel.

  7. Alexander writes articles that challenge the critical parts of free thinking. Great contribution here at MRAK.
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  8. Professor – once again you are conflating the Jewish religion with Zionism. The Jewish faith has been in existence for thousands of years – Jewish Zionists have been in existence for less than 200 years and Israeli Zionists only since 1948. Many Jews throughout the world – maybe even the majority – are not Zionists!

  9. Alexander,

    I’d like to address your statement that Israel has been homeland of Jewish people for over 3,500 years from a biblical and true history perspective.

    First, I’d like to say that I’ve been a very serious Christian since 1974, when I read the New Testament for myself as a senior in high school in my quest to find the true Source of love, that would enable me to be able to love others. Being infant baptized, confirmed and taught for 12 years in Lutheran schools didn’t do it for me. I had to be filled with the Source of love myself, the HOLY Spirit. Then I was able to love others, even my enemies, when I walk according to the Spirit, not according to the flesh (Rom. 8:1-17).

    Jesus’ second greatest commandment commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, including the Palestinians. Consider who Jesus said is our neighbor His ‘good Samaritan’ illustration.

    Before writing this, I read all of your related articles and looked through all of the comments to see more of your perspective and what has been said in response, since this is one of the touchiest subjects and one of the most deeply believed.

    We’ve also mostly heard only ONE SIDE of the story all of our lives through secular and religious education, and the media.

    God’s LAND COVENANT with the Hebrews was/is CONDITIONAL UPON THEIR OBEDIENCE. One dozen scriptures say:

    Conditional Salvation & Conditional Occupation of Israel Verses – Ted Pike

    ‘http://tobefree.press/2023/11/29/conditional

    These conditional verses aren’t taught. We’ve been lied to by omission. Few evangelicals know what the Bible really says…. But most think they know Genesis 12:3, which does NOT say “I will bless those who bless *Israel*,” how many evangelicals, pastors, the media (ie. Sean Hannity) and Israel tourism quotes it. The verse actually says: “I will bless those who bless *you* [Abraham],” whose descendants would include Jesus Christ our Savior.

    This version of largely Talmudic and even secular “Israel” didn’t happen from obedience in 1948 and since, but through illegal and immoral terrorism and globalist bankster, Rothschild money. The Nakba mass massacre and expulsion of Palestinians created the refugee problem and Gaza. Many evangelicals don’t even want to learn the true history. They want to get blessed for blessing “Israel;” though Jesus says we’ll be blessed for being peacemakers, not warmongers (Mt. 5:9).

    Also, the MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS are probably NOT even Semites or Hebrews, but Turks, according to DNA tests. Multiple articles here:

    DNA Study: Ashkenazi ‘Jews’ Not Semitic, but Turkish Origin

    ‘http://tobefree.press/2019/10/01/dna-study

    I’ve seen you discuss this with a commenter under another of your articles. Netanyahu is mostly Ashkenazi himself (Father’s name is Mileikowsky). Ben Gurion’s name was changed from Gruen.

    MANY PALESTINIANS ARE HEBREWS, true ethnic Jews, and are Semites. When the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem in AD 70, many stayed in the region and were converted to Islam a few hundred years later.

    Many Palestinians are descendants of Judaics who converted to Islam after the Muslims invaded

    ‘http://tobefree.press/2023/12/11/palestinians-are-descendants-of-judaics

    So what we have right now are many in Israel who call themselves ‘Jews’ (but are really not) slaughtering many true Jews with American weapons and money and FULL support of American “Christians,” who follow Netanyahu and FOX News instead of the HOLY Spirit.

    This is the video that woke me up 15 years ago, starting my deep dive into what’s really going on:

    (video) “Zionism and Christianity: Unholy Alliance” – real-history, full-length film by Ted Pike — God’s covenants require OBEDIENCE • “They [pastors] were supposed to be WATCHMEN on the wall, yet they failed to utter even a hint of warning”

    ‘https://onecanhappen.com/2017/05/08/video-zionism-and-christianity-unholy-alliance

    I do believe God still has a plan for the true Jews based on Romans 11 especially (which also says why many are still rebellious at this time). I do not believe the false, replacement theory. God still has a deep place in His heart for His people, the true Judaics.

    We MUST walk in LOVE, never in hate, and not let the deceptions in these last days steer us.

    God bless!

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