Thank you Mr.
Draiman for bringing up the 1 Million Jew’s who lived in the Middle East and
in North Africa way before the Arab invasion.
I am one of those Jews who had to leave behind a life we had built
with hard work. In the International Zone of Tangier in northern Morocco,
there were:
25,000 Jews
25 Synagogues
1 Jewish Hospital
1 Maternity Clinic
2 Jewish Retirement Homes
Over 100 of high-rise buildings
Over 2000 residences, from apartments to palatial villas
Over 1000 Businesses, Warehouses, Industries, etc. etc...
Hundreds of Farms, Millions of acres of Land
Over 30 Jewish Schools (Alliance Israelite Universelle)
As soon as the International Status was removed in 1956, Arab
Terrorism started, expropriations started, new laws enacted like
the one forcing Jewish Businesses to take a Muslim partner with
zero financial participation. The Jewish Hospital, decommissioned
since the 1960’s (all taxes paid in full and on time) 5 years ago had
the whole hospital roof destroyed so as to force the demolition of
the property.
In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s over 200,000 Jewish men women
and children were housed in Tangier in 6 Hotels and gradually were
sent to Israel via Marseilles. At the beginning emigration was
allowed, however later-on the Jewish Community had to pay
money for each person.
In Morocco, it was mostly pay and be allowed to leave. The worst
was in Iraq where night visits from the Police were a daily occurrence:
Jews lost their careers, their homes, bank accounts, to terrorize the
Jewish population, a crane was brought in front of the house of the
head of the Jewish Community of Baghdad: this influential man was
hanged at the end of the crane boom for everyone to see.
Jews were allowed to leave on certain dates so long as they left
everything behind. At the airport in Baghdad, there were scenes of
extreme desolation took place where the little money they could
carry was confiscated, wedding rings removed, even ladies earrings were
yanked out of their ear lobes, As a result, these dispossessed Jews
arrived in Israel with only the clothes on their backs, Yes, I witnessed
the whole sordid affair.
Arab-Palestine is the biggest HOAX ever perpetrated in modern times.
3000 years ago, Jerusalem was founded by King David. Jerusalem was, is
and forever will be the Capital of the State of Israel.
The Arab-Palestinians like most Arabs are fanatics, lazy, murderers,
irrational, violent, eternal beggars, who will never sign a Peace Deal and
abide by it because making peace would do the following:
1. Remove their quest to capture all of Israel
2. Drying up of continuous funds by stupid Europeans and others who are too
imbued in anti-Semitism so as to perpetrate their hate of Jews.
But, here is the problem for all these people:
Israelis have more steel in their blood, more than any Muslim.
The times where Jews were the victims is no more. Never Again!
What happened in Israel is a population substitution: Jewish families expelled
from Arab countries in various levels of terror arrived in Israel and the so-called Arab-Palestinians left.
Jews moved-on and prospered because that is what we Jews do, while
the Arabs are still lingering, generation after generation, in misery of
their own doing.
Shalom
The team went to lunch and the terrorist came in through the window under the direction of Hussam. When the police came 'Alaa, the extremeist' told them 'i ask him to remodel.' He took all our personal items, musical instruments, camera equipment, and many computers. They burnt our bibles and made huge fires with our personal items from the church.
They have been digging tunnels in this area of Damascus Gate for awhile. We witnessed them digging under the Nuseibah home at the bus station. When we caught them digging outside- under the church they threatened to kill us all. The chopped up floor as you can see- the militants may use this to access their tunnels. Over the past years we took pictures of them- while in the church they put a board over my window so i would quit watching them in the night hours. a couple years ago they beat me up and left me for dead in front of the church. I was a prisoner inside the church for 5 1/2 months.
Presently, no matter what we do the police appear to be more afraid of Hussam than we are. Even last tribulation when i got a retraining order against him - his men beat me for getting the order. Even to bring a court order when you hand it over to those in lawlessness- they are not going to respond to it.
The property is owned by ten owners in the Dajani family. Hussam won in court 3% and has violently taken over the property. We as Living Bread International Church have a 20 year lease and have paid our rent by bank wire in advance. Sorry, to say being a Christian- makes your case of little value to men in this land. As we know- when our case reaches the courts of heaven our God will fight for us and HE has never lost a battle. We wait on the Lord - what next Lord?
It seems to be a dispute over who has rights to the building.
I have a feeling we are not hearing the full story, but no matter what, this was a major attack that for some reason went below the radar of virtually every media outlet until yesterday.
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The Arab world and Leftists would have you believe Gaza is a living hell, with every commodity and necessity of life absent.
When one looks however, it is a whole different scenario.
Gaza City
Peter Hitchens in the Mail Online writes:
”It is lunchtime in the world’s biggest prison camp, and I am enjoying a rather good café latte in an elegant beachfront cafe. Later I will visit the sparkling new Gaza Mall, and then eat an excellent beef stroganoff in an elegant restaurant. “
This piece started out as a ‘sort of’ fun-cum-sarcastic piece being aware of the quantity of 5-star hotels, the nightclubs, shopping malls, restaurants and more in Gaza. However, as I searched for images and information, I came across a whole other side of Gaza which I don’t think many people know exists.
Gaza City
Roots Club is an up-market restaurant and catering company in Gaza. Critics said at its opening they expect the restaurant to bring “a new era of hospitality and dining experience”
The club is located on Cairo Street in the Gaza district of Rimal. It features three different dining venues, the informal, outdoor Green Terrace Café, the Ambassadorcatering hall and the air-conditioned Roots Restaurant. One restaurant reviewer described the atmosphere as “vaguely reminiscent of the Anglo-Indian country-clubs of the colonial era.”
A reviewer called the menu, which features twelve different meat dishes, chicken prepared thirteen different ways, and eight pasta preparations in addition to an array of salads, appetizers, desserts, and nine kinds of soup served “only in winter,” truly staggering.
Lonely Planet calls the Roots Club, “the best” restaurant in Gaza
There is now also a ‘Roots Hotel’ facebook here: Check out the photos
There is plethora of restaurants and coffee shops, too numerous to list and most with their own facebook pages.
The Mazaj – Restaurant – Coffee shop – Express (take away) has an extensive menu and is a splendid example of what one would never expect to see in Gaza.
Something which certainly surprised me were the horse riding establishments in Gaza.
Palestina Jaber, 15, from Gaza, thinks that riding horses provides her with courage and a positive attitude for studying. (Photo: Sami Abu Salem/WAFA)
The Faisal Equestrian Club (نادي الفيصل للفروسية) is an equestrian club and upscale restaurant in Gaza. According to the Australian newspaper ‘The Age’, the Club’s restaurant is
“The place to be seen for Gaza’s teenage elite.”
The Club serves non-alcoholic Bavarian beer to a wealthy, young, secular crowd, among whom
“Headscarves are frowned upon.”
Inside the Jabaliya riding club in the north of Gaza, there are neat lawns and stalls for 40 to 50 horses, many of which are privately owned. Like the villas and luxury cars, they are proof that not everyone in Gaza is poverty-stricken.
And yet, the only images brought to us by the international media are those of death and destruction by the ‘Zionists’ read ‘Jews.’
Call it a wealthy side, call it an elite side. It certainly is a privileged side and certainly not the ordinary image. The side which the media presents is no doubt in existence, but choose for propaganda reasons only to show the bad.
Luxury hotel overlooking Gaza Beach
This brings something back a friend told me after a visit to Israel a few years ago. She had been staying with a family member in Jerusalem. Late one afternoon, he told her that he had invited his foreman with his wife to dinner. She was however surprised when the foreman turned out to be an Arab, complete with hijabbed wife. Still no issue. She speaks no Hebrew, but being raised in Egypt, she speaks Arabic and so was able to converse with him.
The conversation was quite an eye opener. For lack of a name, let’s call him Malik. Malik told her how proud he was to be an Israeli, what a good life he and his family have. How his children have free education, free medical needs and the chance for further education, though not before completing their IDF service. Malik however became quite angry when he spoke about ‘do-gooders & leftists’ from the West who interfered. He told her about Gaza. He told her how parts of Gaza are deliberately left in ruins, so that when the ‘do-gooders & leftists’ come to look at the shocking condition people live in thanks to the ‘Zionist entity’, they can take home the negative images we see in the west.
What we hear about the misuse of international aid fits in here very nicely.
Admittedly this is not new, 2002, but “Paying for Terrorism” by Rachel Ehrenfeld says plenty and there is no reason to believe anything has changed since the Arafat days, who left quite a money trail behind him.
Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the international community has donated approximately $5 billion to the Palestinian Authority. The European Union alone has donated approximately €1.4 billion during that time, including grants to United Nations Relief and Work Agency. Since the start of the Palestinian Authority’s campaign of violence against Israel in September 2000, the EU has transferred at least €330 million to the Palestinian territories.
This article from 2012 “How Many Millionaires Live in the “Impoverished” Gaza Strip?” byKhaled Abu Toameh throws a good deal of light on Gaza.
The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor.
But according to an investigative report published in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, there are at least 1,700 millionaires living in the Gaza Strip. The newspaper report also refutes the claim that the Gaza Strip has been facing a humanitarian crisis because of an Israeli blockade.
And
The Palestinian millionaires, according to the report, have made their wealth thanks to the hundreds of underground tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Informed Palestinian sources revealed that every day, in addition to weapons, thousands of tons of fuel, medicine, various types of merchandise, vehicles, electrical appliances, drugs, medicine and cigarettes are smuggled into the Gaza Strip through more than 400 tunnels. A former Sudanese government official who visited the Gaza Strip lately was quoted as saying that he found basic goods that were not available in Sudan. Almost all the tunnels are controlled by the Hamas government, which has established a special commission to oversee the smuggling business, which makes the Hamas government the biggest benefactor of the smuggling industry.
Gaza City
Gaza boasts some eight universities as well as other institutes of learning all having curriculums equivalent to any international university.
The beaches in Gaza are some of the finest in that part of the world, where according toynet newswe have a definite class distinction issue. Those with money clearly having an advantage regarding luxury
A new class division has emerged with the adoption of the Israeli model of closed beaches, which have turned into status symbols
A Beit Hanoun resident told Ynet that he and his family spend the afternoon on the beach, bringing with them food, drinks, and blankets and paying only for the travel fare. However, he noted that his wife’s dream is to spend one day in the newly-introduced beach cabins.
As a way of tackling the financial state, the Strip has begun renting out beaches to private owners for up to thousands of dollars.
Parasols and chairs. Beach for the middle-class.
The Beit Hanoun resident explained that there are a variety of closed beaches, the cheapest of which charge NIS 10 ($ 2.63) upon entry and provide parasols and chairs. Others charge NIS 15 ($3.94) per person, while all other services are subject to payment.
“You would have to pray to get away with less than NIS 200 ($ 52.53) for such an evening and that’s something that few can afford,” he noted.
Finally, there are the expensive canopied beaches which offer giant TV screens and a waiter serving food and drinks.
Consequently, three groups emerged on Gaza’s beaches:
“The poor ones who sit on blankets with food from home; those who can afford renting out chairs and parasols; and the very few, the spoiled rich, who sit in roofed cabins with giant screens and a waiter serving food and drinks.”
Gaza – Festival of the kites
Then for the wealthy, we have luxurious beach side hotels catching the beautiful ocean views, far, far superior to the image the Leftists would have us see of Gaza.
The hotel has received a number of very positive reviews in Time magazine, by British journalist Alan Johnston and by Lonely Planet which describes the Al Deira as “swish, stylish and tightly run,” and “without question the best hotel in town.”
“it brimmed over with members of haute Palestine, that small clique of Gazans who earned more than negligible incomes. The men smoked apple-flavored tobacco from water pipes; the women, their heads covered, drank strong coffee and kept quiet.”
Grand Palace Hotel
Then there is the Olympic Swimming Pool in Gaza. Given that Gaza supposedly has no building materials and no funds, the obvious questions are where did they get the money and where did they get the building materials?
To cap it off what about one of the Water Parks? I might add newly refurbished, because some time ago Hamas, in its infinite wisdom, caused massive damage to it as they didn’t like the fact men and women were associating with one another. The mind boggles.!
We hear about the food shortages and yet the markets appear to have ample supply of fresh produce……
… with no shortage of food in the shops either.
The Other Side of Gaza is a writing programme that provides students with an opportunity to showcase their own personal view of Gaza.
Abdallah El-Khoudary describes the best things a good restaurant can give you, and nowhere is better for him in Gaza than the Avenue Restaurant. From the delicious scallopini and the wonderful waiters to the free internet and complimentary chocolate; the Avenue is a perfect retreat.
I’m proud to be in my country, and to rise the Palestinian flag, and to give the real image of Gaza to the people who visit it. Gaza is not just the damage and the shelters we see in the media. Gaza is a city, like any city in the world, with its own landmarks and places, it just needs its freedom.
