@MichalSabra It is only the communist retards in Greece (and in Spain, where I live) that are haters. The rest of the people, which are the majority, are with the jewish people.
Gomez was a pioneering Sephardi Jewish businesswoman who became the first woman known to independently manufacture chocolate in the American colonies and early United States.
𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒄𝒂 𝑮𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒛: 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂'𝒔 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒓
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Rebecca Gomez was a pioneering Sephardi Jewish businesswoman who became the first woman known to independently manufacture chocolate in the American colonies and early United States.
Operating in Lower Manhattan during the late 18th century, Gomez successfully navigated an industry dominated by men, leaving a definitive mark on both early American commerce and the Revolutionary war effort.
Born into the prominent Sephardi Jewish diaspora, Rebecca married into the Gomez family, one of the earliest, most affluent & influential Jewish families settled in New York. The family was deeply embedded in the civic & religious fabric of the city, famously serving as major financial pillars and leaders of Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel (the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue).
The Gomez clan had a multi-generational appetite for the chocolate trade, with records showing family members trading cacao as early as 1701. Following the death of her husband, Mordecai Gomez, Rebecca took over the reins of the family's enterprise.
While a dozen other colonial women worked as retail merchants selling prepared drinking chocolate, Gomez uniquely established herself as a commercial manufacturer, directly overseeing the grueling production process of roasting, shelling, and stone-grinding cacao beans into chocolate
By the 1780s, she established her storefront and production hub, the Chocolate Manufactory, located at No. 57 Nassau Street (at the corner of Ann Street) in Lower Manhattan.
Gomez was an exceptionally savvy marketer. In print advertisements featured in regional newspapers like the New York Gazette & Weekly Mercury and the Royal Gazette, she specifically targeted quality-conscious consumers. She famously guaranteed her wholesale & retail goods as "warranted free from any sediments and pure," a highly sophisticated product distinction for an era when drinking chocolate was frequently gritty, oily, or filler-heavy.
During the American Revolution, chocolate was not a confectionary candy bar, but a vital, nutrient-dense breakfast beverage & military ration. Gomez’s business intersected directly with the war effort.
Historical ledgers reveal that one of her recurring customers was Robert Townsend, a chief operative in George Washington’s covert Culper Spy Ring. Gomez supplied the chocolate that fueled these undercover intelligence operations, anchoring her role in the sub-surface logistics of the American victory.
Gomez's impact extended far past the kitchen & military supply lines into the literal foundations of American finance. Following the war, she worked closely with the prominent New York merchants who founded the Tontine Coffee House.
Gomez sold a portion of her valuable Lower Manhattan land holdings to these civic organisers. This specific plot of land was used to construct the Tontine Coffee House building, which served as the original trading floor and direct forerunner to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
For over two centuries, the foundational labour of colonial businesswomen like Gomez remained buried in financial archives. Her story was formally recovered by historians and co-curators Anna K. Danziger Halperin and Tessa Bangs at the New York Historical Society.
While reviewing Townsend's 1793 revolutionary account ledgers, Halperin noted that the surname "Gomez" stood out as highly unusual for the period. By cross-referencing these documents with the early property deeds of the Tontine Coffee House, the researchers pieced together her dual identity as a crucial military supplier and an economic force in the birth of Wall Street.
Her legacy was prominently featured in the museum's major exhibition, "Revolutionary Women,"finally centering her real expertise and economic labour in the history of the early United States.
@youness85ou@XTweetHola De vieze moslimpedo had die kinderen het liefst aan zijn eigen worstje gerijgd. Jouw beurt komt vanzelf kakkerlak. Sommige vaders zijn op zoek naar jou!
@LiquidFaerie People should repost, and you repost their reposts. It worked for Cheryl at the time. I am not looking for fame on X, my life is complicated enough as it is, but I do defend my fellow Jews, and you are a warrior worth defending XX
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒂’𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒔: 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝑺𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 🧵
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In the chaos of Syria’s brutal civil war, a group of ordinary civilians emerged as extraordinary symbols of hope. Known as the White Helmets, or officially the Syrian Civil Defence, they were volunteer rescue workers who risked everything to save lives amid relentless bombardment.
Founded by James Le Mesurier who was a former British Army officer & security consultant who helped establish the volunteer rescue organization in 2014, securing training and international funding for their life-saving work in war-torn Syria. More about him later.
Syrians from all walks of life – bakers, teachers, engineers, and tailors – the organisation grew to thousands of volunteers operating in opposition-held areas where government services had collapsed.
Wearing their distinctive white protective helmets, they rushed into the aftermath of airstrikes and shelling. Their work included pulling survivors from beneath rubble, providing emergency first aid, extinguishing fires, clearing unexploded ordnance & delivering essential services to communities cut off from aid. By their own accounts, they saved more than 128,000 lives while losing hundreds of their own volunteers, many in so-called double-tap attacks where aircraft returned to strike rescuers at the scene.
Neutral and unarmed, the White Helmets operated without regard for political or religious affiliations, becoming a rare beacon of humanity in one of the 21st century’s deadliest conflicts. Their bravery earned international acclaim, including multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations & an Oscar-winning documentary. Yet in the eyes of the Syrian regime and its allies, they were branded as terrorists for working in rebel-held territory.
𝑨 𝑹𝙖𝒄𝙚 𝘼𝒈𝙖𝒊𝙣𝒔𝙩 𝙏𝒊𝙢𝒆 𝒊𝙣 𝙎𝒐𝙪𝒕𝙝𝒆𝙧𝒏 𝑺𝙮𝒓𝙞𝒂
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By mid-2018, their courage had placed them in mortal peril. Syrian government forces, supported by Russian airpower, launched a major offensive to reclaim Daraa and Quneitra provinces in the southwest of the country. Opposition enclaves crumbled rapidly, and the White Helmets found themselves trapped near the border with the Israeli Golan Heights. With pro-regime troops advancing and Islamic State fighters infiltrating pockets of the region, capture or death seemed inevitable.
International alarm bells rang loudly. The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and other nations appealed urgently for action. Israel, uniquely positioned with forces along the Golan Heights boundary, agreed to facilitate a high-stakes humanitarian evacuation.
What followed was a meticulously planned, top-secret overnight operation that unfolded on the night of 21-22 July 2018.
Under the cover of darkness, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) personnel crossed into Syrian territory to reach extraction points. The mission had originally aimed to save around 800 White Helmets and family members, but only 422 individuals – including approximately 98 volunteers and the rest their relatives, many women and children – reached the rendezvous amid the fast-moving frontline.
Israeli troops guided the evacuees onto vehicles and drove them across the Golan Heights boundary into Israel. There, they received immediate humanitarian support: food, water, and medical treatment from IDF personnel. From Israel, the group was transferred onward to Jordan, where United Nations officials took charge at a secure holding facility.
The operation demanded split-second timing and flawless coordination across borders and time zones.
Advancing Syrian troops & militant groups loomed nearby, yet the convoy moved swiftly and without reported casualties.
Israeli officials described it as a purely humanitarian effort, conducted at the request of allies and in line with Israel’s values of saving lives in crisis.
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@FBI_Response@FBIDirectorKash How come this cunt Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (
@FranceskAlbs
) / X still has a blue tick? Somebody is giving financial assistance.
@FBIDirectorKash@FBI_Response How come this cunt Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) / X still has a blue tick? Somebody is giving financial assistance.