Alexander Wallace

[Jean-Claude JOSSART @JCLJOSSART]

Les pionniers juifs, dès la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, ont acheté des terres légalement, souvent marécageuses, désertiques et abandonnées, qu’ils ont réussi à faire revivre.

Des écrivains comme Mark Twain, visitant la région en 1867, décrivent une terre vide, désertique, misérable, où l’on ne croise presque personne. Mark Twain visite la région lors de son voyage en Orient qu'il raconte dans "Le Voyage des Innocents". Il décrit un territoire en grande partie sous-peuplé, rural, pauvre et négligé sous l'administration ottomane, marqué par des villes en déclin, comme Jérusalem ou Nazareth, et des campagnes particulièrement clairsemées.

La région, à l'époque, fait partie intégrante de l'Empire ottoman et est généralement désignée sous le nom de Sud de la Syrie dans l'administration ottomane.

Ce sont les Juifs, dans leur propre patrie historique, qui l’ont rendue féconde. Ils ont asséché, planté, construit, cultivé. Ils ont créé des emplois, attiré de la vie, de l’espoir, et… de la main-d’œuvre. Les registres britanniques l’attestent : l’immigration arabe vers la Palestine a explosé en parallèle de l’essor sioniste. Des familles sont venues d’Égypte, de Syrie, du Liban, de Transjordanie , attirées par les perspectives de travail et la prospérité naissante.

Ce n’est donc pas l’arrivée des juifs qui a chassé les Arabes, mais l’arrivée des Juifs qui a fait venir les Arabes. Le mensonge selon lequel la terre d’Israël appartenait aux Palestiniens, et que les Juifs auraient volée est devenu le socle de toute la propagande antisémite moderne et que l'Europe a eu la faiblesse d'accréditer.

Merci à @PNerval pour son partage particulièrement intéressant.

[Franddy Aguasvivas @TheAguasvivas]

@Orums54

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@KaneofPiedmont Disney had a gold mine on their hands with Mara and Luke's love story and the rest of the Star Wars Legends lore, but they threw it all away because they naïvely assumed they could write better.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@VoidBornL In my own headcannon, 8 badges is the required minimum to be admitted to challenging the Elite Four, but there are many Pokémon gyms, just like there are many dojos in martial arts.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@dariodangelo91 If anything, it is a "defeat" of the Democrats because they are not going to learn from their party's past mistakes and they are going to be emboldened to return to their wicked ways. Their party needs an overhaul. So do the Republicans but mostly the Democrats.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@Fair_and_Biased America for the last 250 years has been pretty consistent in swinging the pendulum of Right wing and Left wing politics back and forth in elections. Methinks it is due to Americans being varied in ideas and customs, rather than homogeous like some other countries are.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@BarnabyHistory Another fun fact: Truman did not like to cuss, but he did once to force his soldiers out of a dangerous position so they would not be shelled by German mortors in WW1 when they initially did not listen to him. Truman's cussing he got from railroad workers.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@Sarahsa09309757 Used to like Mark Felton's videos. Then I discovered he lied on one of them that a German tank museum tried to politely correct him on, but Felton refused and he was sued for it. Now I do not trust any of his books and videos.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@StevenWillcox2 @Adriana19Flower Agreed. Christians can be sexy too.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@Oshachutes Funny enough, I never used the "Sinnoh 6". I never liked Inferape design wise and I felt that there are better electric types besides Luxray. Only Lucario and Staraptor I truely enjoyed having on my team.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@IAmTheNBT Never did understand why "Blacks" are capitalized but "whites" are lower cased. Intentional or accidental?

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

Nah. Tolkien was no racist.

Therefore, his hero wouldn’t have been, either.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@robertbegg_art Charizard is overrated. Too many weaknesses and x4 weakness to ground. Venasaur and Blastoise are better

[Handre @Handre]

Friedrich Engels, the trust-fund kid who spent forty years bankrolling the man who called capitalism exploitation. Ironic.

Engels inherited co-ownership of Ermen & Engels, a Manchester cotton mill, in 1864. He worked there as a partner, managed workers, collected profits, and wired money to Marx in London for decades. Marx, meanwhile, wrote about the immiseration of the proletariat from rented rooms his friend's textile workers paid for. Marx fathered a child with his unpaid housekeeper, Helene Demuth, denied paternity, and let Engels take the blame publicly for years. Engels obliged. The man was a doormat with a trust fund.

Marx himself produced almost nothing marketable. "Das Kapital" Volume One appeared in 1867; he never finished Volumes Two and Three. Engels assembled them from Marx's notes after his death in 1883. The great theorist of historical inevitability couldn't finish his own book.

Two men, one the son of a factory owner and the other a chronic debtor who borrowed from his own mother, invented a theory that claimed capital accumulation is theft. Engels accumulated capital. Marx stole from everyone around him, privately and personally, before proposing to do it systematically at gunpoint through the state.

Every currency debased, every factory nationalized, every famine engineered under regimes waving their banner traces back to two comfortable Europeans who never once went hungry because prices rose, stood in a breadline, or dug a mass grave for dissidents.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@thenodeproject Charles the Weak. He was not strong enough to stay with his wife Diana.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@Fair_and_Biased They are just butt-hurt their simping for Anakin is being contested by the better masculine example that is Aragorn. Do not lose sleep over people like this, Mrs. Chea. God Bless.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@proudserbgirl Catholics are taught and trained (mostly indirectly) to think all other Christians are heretics because they are not part of the Holy See of Rome, which is tragic as it is the one thing that keeps many Christians from willing to cooperate with the Catholic Church. Really sad.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@Mikmag1776 The Bishops of Rome-the Popes-have proven to be stubbornly proud of their power. It was their jealously of the other Patriarchs that have caused the schisms within Christendom. And it was the Popes who caused dissention that led Martin Luther to begin the Protestant Reformation.

[Anthony Cabassa @anthonycabassa]

Actually, California already had its first Latino Governor, in 1875.

José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco was Californias 12th Governor, and the first Latino ever to be Governor of CA.

He was also a Republican.

[Alexander Wallace @ArnorScholar]

@anthonycabassa The truth of history echoes for eternity, as long as there are men and women of good standing to maintain its records.