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April 16, 2020 | 8,050 Comments »

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  5. YES, Land can only be subject to 99 year lease (later 49 year lease
    except for Governmental or Church ownership predating by humdreds of years. Israel was afraid to offend the goyim, having such a small Jewish Pop, unable to resist any major entity.
    Whether Socialist or not the governments were until Begin, Socialistic in nature, and highly thought of Labour associations world wide and got support from them

    Many lived in tents for years before enough housing became available due to the archaic Turkish Laws and lack of material. This refers to the Jews of Arab countries who poured in , in their hundreds of thousands.,

    Egyptians had all their valuable property stolen from them and allowed only to leave with no more than 5 Egyptian Pounds value wrapped in a sheet, carried on the back. All arrived in Israel abysmally poor. I had a friend of the Sassoon family who related the conditions under which they were allowed to escape from Egypt.
    Presumably it was the same with other Arab states.

    Jews built Israel from the ground up. And thirsted for outside investment and gave special terms and rebates to industries coming to build facilities in the Land

    All old well known history, and still doing it today.

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  6. THE NAMES, CRIMES< Sentences with dates, NEED to be released of ALL the exchanged Terrorists, with their home villages and present release areas. WITH PICTURES>

    A neccessity for Israel;s security.

  9. @Reader You said Israel is not and never was socialist, citing high rents. I googled: Is land in Israel publicly owned?

    I got

    AI Overview

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    Yes, the majority of land in Israel is considered publicly owned, with the Israeli government controlling around 93% of the land through the Israel Land Administration, meaning most land can only be leased, not privately owned outright; this is primarily due to the “Basic Law: Israel Lands” which establishes national ownership of land.
    Key points about land ownership in Israel:
    State control:
    The Israeli government, through the Israel Land Administration, manages most of the land in the country.
    Leasing system:
    Individuals can only lease land from the government for long terms, usually 49 or 98 years, rather than outright purchasing it.
    Jewish National Fund (JNF):
    A significant portion of state-owned land is managed by the JNF, which has a mandate to lease land only to Jews.
    Private ownership exists:
    While most land is publicly owned, a small percentage is privately owned, mainly in urban areas.

    though rents are high. Rents are low in Cuba but most people own their owns.

    Since you appear to be a Trotskyist, I don’t know if you consider Cuba socialist so I don’t really know what your criteria are,
    . Only Marxists define socialism as the transition to communism, i.e., the classless stateless society, but at least when I went to school, the conventional definition of socialism was democratic socialism like the Scandinavian countries.

  12. @Reader What is socialism and are there any contemporary or historical examples of it? It’s necessary to define our terms here.

  13. TANNA-

    I think the first small part of your post is wrong but the rest is good.

    This is “Modern Times” and your short opinion is not viable in these days, although they would have in Biblical days.

    The award to the Jewish People was IRREVOCABLY voted on by the 51 Nations and unanimously passed into LAW, by the Senate, House…. and TWO US Presidents …….Harding and Coolidge, and totally approved of by Woodrow Wilson.
    It was also, as you must well know, placed deep in the UN Founding Charter, who assumed all League of Nations permanent obligations in it’s Art 80. They ignore their own Laws now as do the US, but one day they both will gcknowledge them.

    I’m sorry to disagree with you in this small matter which has HUGE implications.

    Some day undoubtedly, this Art.80 and it’s history will be used to proove our possession of our Land.

  14. Below is what I have been advocating for, a long time. It’s about time to bring the Bible into the discussion, because without it – Israel does not have a leg to stand on. If the nations gave the land to them – the nations can take it away. —-” Congresswoman and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, is a reflection of that affinity for the Jewish state. During her Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Stefanik vowed to fight the “anti-Semitic rot” within the UN and defended Israel’s “biblical right” to the West Bank. She added, “I fully support the President’s commitment to defunding” the Hamas-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Stefanik, you’ll recall, became a YouTube sensation in December 2023 when she destroyed Harvard President Claudine Gay for her willingness to tolerate the Jew hatred on her campus. “If you look at the anti-Semitic rot within the United Nations,” Stefanik said yesterday, “there are more resolutions targeting Israel than any other country, any other crisis combined. We need to be a voice of moral clarity on the U.N. Security Council and at the United Nations at large for the world to hear the importance of standing with Israel. And I intend to do that.”

  19. Marco Rubio confirmed as Sec of State by 99-0 vote. This offers a real insight to the support of Rubio within the halls of Washington establishment

  20. Great News: Ramaswampy is out!

    The White House states that Vivek Ramaswamy will not serve alongside Elon Musk in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

    Now do Musk!

  24. @Sebastien
    I rescued your comment, but it was over 400 words. You can break it up into 2 posts to avoid this issue, just FYI.

  33. Why is everyone talking about Biden confronting a man called ‘CornPop’?

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/16/corn-pop-joe-biden-story-what-happened-is-it-real-swimming-pool-confrontation

    WAS CORNPOP A GOOD DUDE?

    https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/delawareonline/name/william-morris-obituary?id=7903326

    William Morris Obituary
    William L. Morris (CornPop)
    AGE: 73 • Published by The News Journal on Dec. 9, 2016.

    ..Joseph B

    February 28, 2023

    Cornpop was a good dude. His memory influences many

    Don Reynolds

    July 10, 2020

    RIP Mr Morris…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gIh0e9zvD-M

  34. Test
    I am editing this comment currently, so it is working for me. I also edited a comment I made to Adam yesterday.

    So I think it might just be you.

    You might try restarting your computer, and clear cookies, cache and history to see if that resolves the matter.

  35. Peloni: For the last two days, I have noticed that there is no option to edit underneath the comments. Is it just me?

  37. Possibly China agents who have illegally crossed the border.

    The LA fires look exactly like what one would expect of a planned mega-crisis, to destabilize the country.

  40. @Edgar G.

    Thanks for your very informative comment about the Royal Family but there is such a thing as diplomatic protocol, or whatever the term is where if one country states its right and intent to annex a large country which happens to be a part of someone else’s commonwealth, that other country should at least make some noise in response, unless that other country whose commonwealth it is in agreement with the annexation idea.

  41. The response of the Republican Party to this means they can never be trusted ever again. It clearly is a change in climate. Little rain. A sizzling sun beating down. Multiply the firefighter numbers … They still would be helpless in the face of Global Warming.

  42. Michael and others

    Your claim that the California fires were planned is a conspiracy theory in that it leaves out the earth heating up rapidly as a result of the addition of greenhouse gases to earth atmosphere. Large corporations have done this dreadful thing

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline
    (This article which covers many aspects of the tragedy is at least a beginning)

    Many people are telling lies about this tragedy.

    The key issue which reactionary and deeply politicised fools are deliberately ignoring is that water in the water system has until now been totally devoted to normal needs. But we are moving into a world which is not normal and is totally different from anything humans have ever experienced – a planet which is heating fast, due to the warming effect on the earth’s atmosphere of greenhouse gases, and caused by the burning of fossil fuels, which is the reality attested to by 99.99 per cent of scientists working in climate science.

    It thus in a deeper sense has become a matter of how people perceive our world, do we see the world scientifically or do we subjectively impose our lies onto reality

  44. READER-

    To answer another post you made, The British Royal Family is like a mass automaton. They never get original ideas. They are Royal merely in name, and have no power, especially Charlie, who is slightly mentally “challenged” They are like actors, have set “duties” to perform-like trained seals-set answers for most questions, set speeches and smiles for all eventualities just changing names and localities to suit.

    Charlie likely doesn’t even know that the UK once had Colonies in Nth America, unless told by a “keeper”.,,,disguised as an “aide”.

    The whole family is off it’s beam. They suffer from a hereditary disease called Porphyria.

    It is this which caused George 3rd’s series of mental problems, and eventual having his dissolute son rule for many years as the infamous Prince Regent.

    Beau Brummel the arbiter of fashion was at his height then. He and the Regent were like brothers, but eventually fell out. I particularly liked Brummel’s query to an acquaintance “who’s your fat friend”…?? Always caustically brilliant.

    It resulted in his downfall and banishment to a poverty laden death in Paris..

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  46. @Edgar G.

    Thanks for the correction.

    I should have said :

    Wouldn’t it be interesting if the US and UK decided to become one country?

  47. READER-

    Sorry to disagree with you especially after such a nice Birthday Greeting…..but…..The US and the UK were NEVER one country.

    In the interests of accuracy, and historical fact, The British only had a certain number of individual Colonies scattered IN Nth. America long before the US became a reality. Only along the East coast.

    Nothing was known about the inland areas….except by Louis Lamour-of course….!!

    Sorry.

  48. SEB-

    I owe you an apology….I think I said Longitude when I meant Latitude.
    Whilst writing I was thinking of something else so sorry.

  49. Canada, as far as I know, belongs to the British Commonwealth.

    It sure beats some lousy Sudetenland, though!

    I find it really strange that the British Royal Family pays no attention to this rather unusual discussion (I don’t mean Israpundit).

    Maybe they find it beneath themselves to do so.

    Wouldn’t it be interesting if the US and UK decided to become one country again?

    Of course, some details will need to be worked out like taxation with representation only and such, and what to do with the Royal Family… do NOT consult the French on this issue!

  50. The US House passes bill imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court following arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.

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