TRUE MEANING OF GIVING OF LIFE THROUGH SWADDLING CLOTHES

TRUE MEANING OF GIVING OF LIFE THROUGH SWADDLING CLOTHES:

Have you ever wondered about Swaddling Clothes:

Everyone knows that Jesus was born in a manger, and the 2nd Chapter of Luke is written that Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.  In fact, even hospitals today use a cloth called 'swaddling cloth' .  Unfortunately it is a misnomer that will be over 2000 years old, because swaddling clothes as NOTHING to do with a child being born.

In the Middle East, a man traveling long distances were often met with many hardships and trials on their journeys.  In the event of a death in travel , the body could not continue to be transported for many days.  For that reason, travelers wrapped a thin, gauze like cloth around their waist many times.  If someone died on the journey, the others would use this cloth, referred to as 'swaddling clothes' to wrap the corpse in before burying them.

When Jesus was born, there was no room in the Inn, and so Mary and Joseph used a nearby stable for Jesus birth.  With no other cloth to use, Jesus was wrapped in Joseph's 'swaddling clothes'  -  the cloth normally reserved for a person's death.  

The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords came into this world, in a lowly manager and was wrapped with burial clothes  -  In truth, He was born to die.  To die for the sins of all mankind.  

When you celebrate Christ's birth this Christmas Season,   Keep in mind that even in birth,  He was preparing for death  -  His ultimate reason for coming to earth.

To save us from our sins...

Would you be willing to take JESUS, as a STRANGER, into your HEART today and let Him become a part of your heart and life.  Would you trust JESUS?  Take a chance - embrace LOVE, embrace where REAL LOVE started in the beginning through JESUS CHRIST...


JESUS - WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES (CLOTHES OF DEATH) 
JESUS - DESTINED TO DIE ON THE CROSS BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS WORLD

1 PETER 1:20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

JESUS - RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD 

JESUS - IS ALIVE TODAY - SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD / ABBA FATHER

JESUS BORN TO DIE

Remember if you have money - and you bless others - you are giving out of your heart and what you have... but the person that JESUS recognized as giving the most was the WIDOW WOMAN that gave all she had to God...

This is so rewarding to give out of your own needs... 

God is so good.

Give a true GIFT at Christmas

Give something that is of great value for you

Give your heart to JESUS

TRUE STORIES of GIVING 
for you at this Christmas 

I have written the History of Rescue Mission Ministry and how it started as a Christian outreach to the Homeless and poor on the streets.  Today their are 100's of Rescue Missions through out the world, including one in Israel (which I am proud.)

This is also a story of man whose name was Michael.  
A tribute to him as my friend.
Michael was a homeless man that lived on the streets of Albuquerque New Mexico.  A brother in our Lord whom I will never forget.  Michael, a man that grew up never having a real home or never really belonging in life.  Tossed from foster home after foster home... Never truly belonging to anyone.  So the streets became his family and his home.  He did not know a real home that truly embraced him as a person.  But the streets embraced him.

Please click on this video and see the actual faces of Homeless in America... ordinary people, but people who have names and people that Jesus invites to His wedding...

People of my own heart.

Come into my world and who I love the most and where I belong in serving JESUS from my life.

Then let me introduce you to Michael.

A homeless man and his name is Michael...

He belongs to my heart and I shall NEVER FORGET Michael....

GIVE TO THE LEAST OF THESE



My hub, Mark, and I have been called of God into Rescue Mission Ministry.  Today Mark is the Chaplain at Peoria Rescue Mission.

Mark had formerly been the Executive Director at Albuquerque Rescue Mission in New Mexico.  Mark and I have been in this work for our Lord for 31 years of our 35 years in marriage.

We would not want to do anything else in life...  for this is where God has called us to do in our life.

The original Albuquerque Rescue Mission

(still used today)

Albuquerque Rescue Mission video
This video shows the Albuquerque Rescue Mission
Mark and I served over 600 people a day

Albuquerque Rescue Mission Building Expansion

During the time Mark and I were at Albuquerque Rescue Mission we expanded their building project to its current sight.  This project was 1.7 million dollars to purchase the building, and rebuilt to city code. Mark shared at that time that his goal was that by the time God called us out from Albuquerque to place us somewhere else that God would give us the funds to have everything paid in full so that we left with the Rescue Mission being totally debt free, with no outstanding loans and everything paid.  This happened because of GOD - God is FAITHFUL...  At the close of 2004 the total debt for this expansion was completely paid off in full and now the Rescue Mission was completely debt free.

The Lord chose for us to leave Albuquerque in January 2005 - so we set out sail once again to follow where God wanted to place us.

In Albuquerque we served over 600 meals daily to the homeless.  There is about 3,500 homeless a day in Albuquerque New Mexico (From 2004 records)

Rescue Mission Ministry started originally in 1826 in Scotland, then it began in ministry in the nation of Australia when the UK had Australia as a prison.  This ministry then went over to New York City America and began its work in 1872 at Bowery Street Rescue Mission in downtown NYC today it is New York Rescue Mission.

The Founders in America were Jerry and Maria McAuley.




Jerry had been a criminal and was part of the original Gangs of New York City.  Maria had been a prostitute and operated a brothel house of prostitution in NYC.  Maria came to know Jesus as her Lord.  Jerry followed.  They then married and made things right before God.  Jerry and Maria saw the great need for the prostitutes because these girls / broken women would attend various local churches but they often were shunned, mocked, and even asked to leave - so the girls would cry and plead with Jerry and Maria that they wanted a 'church' to go to so that they too heard the GOOD NEWS of what JESUS can do...  So Jerry and Maria heard and saw this great need so every Sunday morning Jerry and Maria with other volunteers brought 'CHURCH' to them inside these brothel houses ... and they had CHURCH in these brothel houses of prostitution on Sunday mornings...

The girls / women would repent and embrace JESUS into their lives but they said 'where can we got for shelter outside these brothel houses, as we have no where else to go'... So once again Jerry and Maria saw this great need and they went out and purchased an old warehouse building in NYC and set it up to provide food, shelter, clothing, and the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST.  So the women then would come there to live and to be built up in Christ.  This Rescue Mission was originally named McAuley Rescue Mission but today it is named New York Rescue Mission.  A well known Rescue Mission is Pacific Gardens of Chicago Illinois that includes their program of "Unshaclked Chains"

See Pacific Gardens Rescue Mission link at:        http://www.pgm.org/

See Pacific Garden Rescue Mission video

Rescue Mission Ministry began because of the great needs that were seen of homeless / poor / street people to provide food to them daily, temporary shelter, and the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST.

Today there are 100's of Rescue Missions throughout the world, including in India, Canada, and Israel, and many other nations.


Michael, a man in his 30's homeless and living on the streets of Albuquerque New Mexico.

Never belonging to family... Never knowing security of a home.

But Michael became my friend and my brother and I loved Michael and I, Jane, will never FORGET my friend Michael.  He had a name... His name was Michael.  He had a heart and wanted to be loved.  He belonged to my heart for he, Michael, became part of my family within my own heart and my own life.

Let me introduce you to a friend, named Michael.

One time while Mark and I were in Albuquerque, there was a homeless / street man living on the streets that only wore the torn clothing he had on.  He had nothing else.  It was winter and cold.  He was a very large man and actually slept on the streets.  One day when I saw him, I ask this man his name.  His name was Michael.  He had been a foster child and went from foster home to foster home and never felt he had a place that he truly BELONGED so in his 30's he ended up on the streets...

That day I got to know Michael, I went out to the large man's store... purchased two jogging outfits (Pants and Tops (2 sets), one in black, one in navy size 10X),  Got him white tennis shoes in Size 12; Purchased him a new winter coat, hat, gloves, new underwear.

I placed these gifts in a large fancy gift bag with even ribbons..

I then searched for Michael and when I found him I gave him the new bag of new clothes.  Michael started to cry and said 'I do not remember receiving a gift like this.'  The next day I saw Michael in our food line for receiving his dinner, he had on his new shoes, sock, coat, gloves, hat, and one of the new jogging outfits and he was carrying the other items in his bag.   I came up to Michael and said 'boy you look good in your new duds'... He again started crying and said 'Jane, they fit me perfectly, how did you know my size'... I did not know his size - but God knew his size and God spoke to my heart on what to purchase for him.

Sadly, Michael being homeless, would often sleep in a homeless area near the river in the woods...  Some gang kids were initiating a gang member with a baseball bat and was looking for someone to beat to death.  This gang found Michael sleeping in his sleeping bag and with this baseball bat they beat Michael to death..  My husband did Michael's funeral for we had become his 'family' and HE belonged within our hearts for our love for him

I will never forget Michael for he was my brother in the Lord.  The only difference was he lived on the streets as this had become his home in life...  I will always remember Michael and I miss his hugs that he would always give to me when I would see him on the streets...

This is only one story of what I did for someone on the streets of many stories within my own life...



For the people on the streets are someone's child...  They came from somewhere and they belong to the heart of GOD...


JESUS was moved with compassion for people who were broken.

Remember to bless someone that has less than yourself at Christmas as the benefits of doing this are great unto God.

Lending to the Poor then God can lend to you too.NO ONE WANTS TO BE HOMELESS - NO ONE... 

Except for the GRACE OF GOD - there go I... None of us are exempt from possibly going homeless someday... especially if we lose our employment and we lose our home because of not being able to pay the mortgage payment any longer...

The person that says that the 'homeless' get what they deserve, or that they want to be homeless - has been a person that has never been without... Maybe that person someday will be homeless and then see what they say... It can happen to anyone.

My husband and I have worked with the homeless on the streets for 31 years. I can tell you from experience... that yes, there are some (a minority) who are homeless because they want to be because of drugs and alcohol abuse and not wanting RULES... But the people we have helped these years most of them do not want to be there...

A young man came to our doors at the Rescue Mission. He was a run away at the age of 17 years old. He ran away from home because his father never had time for him and he felt his father did not want him because of his father's demands of his working career. So he ran away to search for love..

When he came through our doors we helped him. He came from a good family. We convinced this young man to go back home and we contacted his mother. The next day his mother arrives at the front door of the Rescue Mission to pick up her son. His mother arrived in a personal Chauffeur driven Limo and they had driven all night to come and pick up her son. You see this young man that came through our doors at the Rescue Mission, His father was the top CEO Executive of Master Card from California headquarters. His father's career demands gave no room to get to know his own son... His mother shared with us that things were going to change in their home... so their son felt that he belonged...

We have even helped people who had doctorate degrees but ended up losing everything in their lives so they gave up inside.

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We helped restore one man who had a masters degree and worked at Sandia Labs for his career. But his beloved wife was killed as she ran across a street and got hit by a passing car and he saw the whole thing happen before his eyes. He then took to drinking to numb the pictures of his wife being killed and he gave up. His drinking increased to the point that he lost his career. Since he no longer was making money - he no longer could pay for his rent and ended up on the streets.

He came to our doors at the Rescue Mission with not even shoes on his feet = for you see he had sold his shoes off his own feet or a few bucks to get another drink...

We helped him to become restored. He got help from drinking, became sober, once again Mark and I went and purchased him out of our own income new clothes, shoes, and everything he needed to help restore him.

Note: My husband Mark has 3 college degrees, his MA is in Communications.  Mark never sought this education for his own satisfaction but the Lord chose for him to get this education.

 Mark and I have always given 20% of our gross income to the Lord.  10% goes to tithe for our local church, and 10% is our "Sowing seed for the Harvest" checking account.  This account is only to bless missionaries, and others.
We also took in a young man, who legally immigrated from Egypt. He was only 19 years old when he left Egypt and he left all his family. When he came to America he only understood and knew the Arabic language. I met this young man on facebook. He was a complete stranger. We became acquainted over Skype by talking back and forth. Through prayer Mark and I decided to include him in our lives and make him family.

He now has been living with us permanently. We have helped him in the English language (and he speaks English better than myself as I use too much slang). I helped him to gain employment and now we are going toward him attending Community College. We know that God placed him in our lives as he now has become our true son. God has blessed him in purchasing in 'cash' a brand new car - the first thing he has ever owned in his life. He also paid off his sister's education in Egypt.

Our tax accountant, Dean, who did our taxes for us in Albuquerque. He came to know Jesus as his Lord simply by doing our taxes. Why? He would be doing our taxes and then see that we were giving more to people then taking in but yet we paid off our house mortgage and we owned everything and we had no debt at all on Mark's salary. He started asking questions 'why'... and our answer was simple 'You cannot out give God'... as there will always be enough in our house as we serve a great God. We had Dean over for dinner one night (imagine that - a tax collector in your home for dinner)... and as we shared of GOD's constant faithfulness in our lives and His constant generosity in providing our needs - Dean received JESUS that night into his life.  We are still friends today and talk on the phone.

This giving started at the very beginning of our marriage. At our wedding - we gave everyone a gift.

When we first were married, we got our year taxes back and was able to purchase a little old Toy\ota beat up car to drive (as we had been walking everywhere. There is nothing worse to have to walk in pouring down rain to the laundry mat - I hate this.) But we finally was able to purchase an old car. The car ran good but it was very beat up. The passenger side floor was rotted out so we put a piece of plywood across it and a piece of old carpet. It was great. We finally had a car.

One week after purchasing this small car, Mark came home from the Rescue Mission and said 'Jane, I met this couple. Avery just got out of Pontiac Prison and he and his wife had nothing. His wife, Patty, had severe Polio and when it was winter she often would fall. Mark asked me if it would be okay if we gave this couple our car so that they were blessed and could prosper in their lives. We did just that with no hesitation. But we gave this gift to them with them NEVER KNOWING who gave them the car. We transferred the car license into their names. Transferred the license plates into their names. And transferred the insurance that we purchased or 6 months into their names. We then wrote a letter as if the letter was actually sent to them from Jesus. And we shared HIS LOVE for them. In the letter we wrote 'I even want to bless you with this car for you parked out in front and here are the keys'... But remember this came from a heart that loves you greatly. Signed 'JESUS'...

Mark and I of course had to go back to walking... but we rejoiced knowing that God blessed someone through our hands of what we had to give to them.

A couple of weeks later I saw them driving this car down Main Street with smiles on their faces... This gave back all I needed in knowing that they were provided for because of JESUS.

Mark and I make a purpose to not only give 10% of our gross income before taxes as this is our first fruits before God, but we also maintain a budget to give out another 10% to help people. 

Pastor Jack church

Pastor Jack Church Congregation

Such as this summer, 2012, when Pastor Jack came to visit us from Uganda Africa... he came to visit without notice (He came by surprise, but what are you going to do and say to a Pastor that has come from Uganda to visit - sorry but I am too busy and I am not prepared - as this is NOT what the Lord would want from any of us.)  Mark and I were so excited to have him in our home.   It was a great honor to have him share our home with us.
He had not had a new suit for years, and the computer he once had had been broken for 3 years and he had no money at all to purchase these things. So from our OFFERING ACCOUNT set aside to bless others - we went to Kohl's and fitted Pastor Jack to a new suit and then went and purchased him a new computer and two new cameras. We also blessed him with some things to take back home to his wife and 3 children to bless them too... God is so GOOD. This is the kind of GIVING that Mark and I enjoy doing (not for ourselves but for OTHERS to enjoy).

Mark and I do not ever exchange Christmas gifts because we honestly do not have the money... But we always purchase Christmas gifts for our beloved son and elderly mother (never missing those we love... also I bake 13 bread loafs of various breads such as pumpkin bread, etc., and 26 dozen cookies every year and give to 13 neighbors in our neighborhood and I call it 'Loving my neighbor Cookies'... This year I am giving everyone a small Christmas ornament and including a small letter about JESUS and his great love for them. This makes a GREAT CHRISTMAS for my heart and puts a big smile on my face... 

This is Christ mas to Mark and me....  sharing Christ with strangers and with those in our lives, including even at WalMart.  Yes, I said WalMart - as I know the cashiers by name and I even know the main Manager by name at our local WalMart - for people find respect when you know their names.  They all know that I love them as I hug them every time I see them and I thank them for being a wonderful cashier for me.  If you see someone praying for someone in the middle of a WalMart aisle of food ask them 'Are you Jane'... Chances are it will be me...  (One time I saw the eyes of a young man and they looked so very sad in a WalMart aisle.  I asked this young man if I could pray for him.  He started to cry.  He had just got out of the doctors office and was told that he had cancer.  He was only 17 years old and his life has not even started yet.  Yes, he was a stranger.  Yes, I stopped everything, placed my hand on him and prayed for him - out loud (can you believe this - in a middle of a huge Grocery Store) It was WONDERFUL and this young man was so thankful that I cared enough to talk to him.  (I challenge any of you - Take the chance - Step out to a STRANGER and be a blessing to them today.)

My greatest happiness has been to know Jesus as my Lord and reading HIS WORD DAILY for HIS WORD is Manna / Bread of Heaven, my family... For we are family. My husband, our son from Egypt, and me and our two dogs... I have all that I need in life. If the world collapsed and everything was taken that we have in this life - It would be okay for I have everything.
But the majority of people do not want to be there, homeless on the streets. TRUST ME.

Except for the GRACE OF GOD - there go I...

None of us are exempt from possibly going homeless someday... especially if we lose our employment and we lose our home because of not being able to pay the mortgage payment any longer...

The person that says that the 'homeless' get what they deserve, or that they want to be homeless - has been a person that has never been without... Maybe that person someday will be homeless and then see what they say... It can happen to anyone.

At this CHRISTMAS SEASON, think about even STRANGERS... and help a STRANGER in life as the Good Samaritan as God will bless you even more... perhaps someone needs a bill paid off (such as the Stranger with the Good Samaritan and his hospital bill)... Perhaps someone would be blessed to be able to go out to eat and have something special. Perhaps someone would be able to purchase some food and put in their cupboards. You will NEVER be able to out give GOD... for GOD will always bless you back. Trust me... I know from experience...

When JESUS (Emmanuel - God with us) was born - His family was STRANGERS in a city.  They could not even find a room of comfort to sleep in for the night for Mary to give birth to JESUS.  So all they had was a dirty 'barn' with animals in it.  Think of even the smell from the animals.  God's Word says that JESUS was wrapped in SWADDLING CLOTHES... Do you know that SWADDLING CLOTHES are pieces of linen that was used to wrap when people died.  So JESUS was wrapped in clothes of death.       

MEANING OF SWADDLING CLOTHES:

Have you ever wondered about Swaddling Clothes:

Everyone knows that Jesus was born in a manger, and the 2nd Chapter of Luke is written that Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.  In fact, even hospitals today use a cloth called 'swaddling cloth' .  Unfortunately it is a misnomer that will be over 2000 years old, because swaddling clothes as NOTHING to do with a child being born.

Lazarus in swaddling clothes buried

In the Middle East, a man traveling long distances were often met with many hardships and trials on their journeys.  In the event of a death in travel , the body could not continue to be transported for many days.  For that reason, travelers wrapped a thin, gauze like cloth around their waist many times.  If someone died on the journey, the others would use this cloth, referred to as 'swaddling clothes' to wrap the corpse in before burying them.
When Jesus was born, there was no room in the Inn, and so Mary and Joseph used a nearby stable for Jesus birth.  With no other cloth to use, Jesus was wrapped in Joseph's 'swaddling clothes'  -  the cloth normally reserved for a person's death.  

The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords came into this world, in a lowly manager and was wrapped with burial clothes  -  In truth, He was born to die.  To die for the sins of all mankind.  

When you celebrate Christ's birth this Christmas Season,   Keep in mind that even in birth,  He was preparing for death  -  His ultimate reason for coming to earth.

To save us from our sins...

Would you be willing to take JESUS, as a STRANGER, into your HEART today and let Him become a part of your heart and life.  Would you trust JESUS?  Take a chance - embrace LOVE, embrace where REAL LOVE started in the beginning through JESUS CHRIST...  

I heard the Bells on Christmas Day by Casting Crowns

Remember if you have money - and you bless others - you are giving out of your heart and what you have... but the person that JESUS recognized as giving the most was the WIDOW WOMAN that gave all she had to God...

This is so rewarding to give out of your own needs... 

God is so good.

Give a true GIFT at Christmas

Give something that is of great value for you

Give your heart to JESUS

Prayer of Salvation to embrace Jesus

CHRISTMAS - A time of year where people want to GIVE. If you want to give to the homeless that you see on the streets - here are a few suggestions for you (As Mark and I have worked with the Homeless in Rescue Mission Ministries for 31 years)... (press 'see more' to continue reading) NEVER GIVE the homeless person cash / money as this is NOT HELPING THEM AT ALL but only adding to what is making them homeless in the first place and CASH will on only continue helping them with ...

CHRISTMAS - A time of year where people want to GIVE. If you want to give to the homeless that you see on the streets - here are a few suggestions for you (As Mark and I have worked with the Homeless in Rescue Mission Ministries for 31 years)... (press 'see more' to continue reading) NEVER GIVE the homeless person cash / money as this is NOT HELPING THEM AT ALL but only adding to what is making them homeless in the first place and CASH will on only continue helping them with their drug and/or alcohol addictions. NEVER CASH / MONEY. But things that can help them would be:

1. Wrap up some hats and gloves to give out
2. Wrap up some cookies, sandwiches, or fruit, and water to give out and put in a little Christmas bag and give out
3. Purchase gift certificates at McDonalds and give out
4. Wrap up some socks or a special piece of new clothing to give out
5. Wrap up some stuffed toys and if you see someone that looks haggered and stranded and they have a child / children - give out the gifts to the child.

Even give a gift of just being a listening ear to someone that is hurting, or praying for someone - Even a stranger. Even at WalMart. If you ever visit WalMart and you see a woman praying for someone in the aisle - join in and ask the person praying if her name is 'Jane'... as this is often what you will see me doing. One time, I saw a young man going down the aisle. He had such a sad look in his eyes (as our eyes are the windows of our soul)... This young man was a stranger but I asked him if I could pray for him. This young man started crying. He shared that he had just got back from the doctors office and was told he had cancer and this young man was only 17 years old - just starting life. So I grabbed a hold of him and allowed him to sob into my heart as I held him and I prayed over him. And yes I prayed out loud with my hands up to Jesus. I am not ashamed to bring the GOOD NEWS OF MY LORD to where ever the Lord takes me and share GOD's love to STRANGERS....

This was a gift to this young man, a stranger.... this gift cost me nothing but time.

After you give these small gifts to the person you may want to ask the person what their name is - as names are important and their identity and this gives them back respect, and also ask if you can pray for them.

When you you give out these little gifts, you may want to include a special typed up small letter in sharing about the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST and His great love for them. You may also want to include some address of Homeless Shelters and/or places where they can go get some help on these letters and give along with the small gifts to them.

But please NEVER GIVE OUT MONEY / CASH as it is almost 100% certain that the person will take this money / cash and purchase drugs or Jack Daniels and if you give this to them - you have contributed to them being on the streets and have not helped them at all...

ALWAYS USE CAUTION - there are some people who are homeless that have many mental problems and/or even possibilities of actually being possessed - so always use caution - as some people may become violent if you try to even touch them or speak to them because of being paranoid and thinking you want to bring harm to them...

Remember they are strangers and you do not know them so always use caution.

For me personally, after 31 years in helping the poor / homeless / street people, I still use caution if I feel unsafe with a person... When my hub,. Mark, had been the Executive Director at Albuquerque Rescue Mission - we fed over 600 strangers meals a day. There was a alley that ran alongside - between our two Rescue Mission Buildings. We had to have barbed wire surrounding our Rescue Mission to protect those living at the Rescue Mission for protection from gang activities. But many times at 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning - by myself I would take my flashlight, my mace, and then walk up and down this alley to check on the people that were sleeping in the alley to be sure that they were doing okay. NEVER one time did I have feel harm in any way - because I knew the Lord had called me to do this... But I always used CAUTION as they all were strangers that I did not know that had mental or drug and alcohol addictions... But NEVER ONE TIME was I ever harmed for I knew the Lord was with me...

I even saw a person that was outside of our Rescue Mission door that had just been stabbed laying in his pool of blood from a drug deal that went wrong. When I saw the person I went and lifted his head on my lap as he was dying and we were waiting for the police... as I did not want this man, no matter what, to feel alone as he was dying... 

I knew the Lord was with me. I never felt afraid for my heart was with these people - Sheep without a Shepherd, some of them Prodigal sons and daughters and they belonged to someone's heart...

WHAT GIFT THAT HAS COST YOU SOMETHING,

WILL YOU BE WILLING TO GIVE THIS CHRISTMAS 

TO A STRANGER
OR EVEN TO JESUS

A gift of your time, a gift of your friendship, a gift of something of value of yours and give it to someone that would bless them, and a gift of your life and heart to JESUS...
A real GIFT costs something of value

I see Love - Passion of Christ

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EVEN THE VERY NAME OF PALESTINE IS BASED UPON A JEW HATE LIE AGAINST ISRAEL

EVEN THE VERY NAME OF PALESTINE IS BASED ON A JEW HATE LIE AGAINST ISRAEL

The Invention of Palestine as a Psychological Weapon for Conquering Eretz Yisrael

A Myth and Lie Called 'The Palestinian People' LMAO.mp4

Jane personal note:  What I am reading of history against ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE is the 'Father of Lies' and his name is Lucifer / Satan / Serpent and his constant lies against ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE...  It is obvious from history that HITLER was a man possessed of Satan.  Filled with the ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT.  This same possession throughout history is what I refer to as the HITLER MINDSET - which is a direct possession of the ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT which is Satan.  Think about through history of how people believe and trust mere men that are possessed with this Anti-Christ spirit of Satan to always be turning against the JEWISH PEOPLE and the nation of ISRAEL.

The modern day LIES AND PROPAGANDA against the Jewish People and the nation of Israel can be found all over this world today... The same mindset of Hitler as he too convinced others to follow his words against the JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL...  The same mindset of ISLAM.  The same mindset of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.  The same mindset of the ARAB WORLD who hate the JEWISH PEOPLE and the nation of ISRAEL.  This enemy is not of flesh and blood, but the real enemy of the JEWISH PEOPLE AND OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL is Satan himself (prince of the air) using people as vessels through their thoughts of the HATE AND LIES that Satan as the prince of the air places in their thoughts...

If you are a Christian that has tapped into these LIES from the Father of Lies through the prince of this air, Satan, The ANTI-CHRIST spirit then you are just as guilty for not understanding the truth that operates behind 'the prince of the air'...  As the gets closer to the end God's Word says that 'even the elect will fall away from Him'...  for many will get caught up with the lies from the Father of Lies and Deception which is the Anti-Christ spirit...  Do not get caught up with these lies... Do not fall away from the truth of God and God's Word...

A Myth Called "The Palestinian People"

Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called "Palestine" after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world's stage more than 600 years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea. 

Today, the modern enemies of a resurrected Jewish Nation have dusted off Hadrian's curse and are attempting to pull off a monumental theft: the Arab world have reincarnated "Palestine" to steal Israel's heritage and the Land of the Jewish People.

Hadrian's Curse will expose the BIG lie of the "Palestinian cause" in a full-length 120-minute documentary. The film will document that there never was a "Palestinian" people, The world has become so accustomed to the "truth" of the "Palestinian" perversion of history and work backwards, exposing recent claims and acts whose absurdity and villainy shock uninformed observers.

When Arafat declared: "Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it", it turns out that Arafat's nation already stretches over an area larger than all of Europe.

His is the twisted story of one of the biggest, most remarkable fraud in history. It is such a successful fabrication that many otherwise informed people have been duped and mislead. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon used Israel's enemies, the Arabs, to try to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot, without an army, tanks or jets. The Jewish People eventually bested Hadrian. They returned to their land and reestablished sovereignty over it.

They rebuilt Jerusalem as their capital, and resettled desolate Judea. They did all this only to now confront the reincarnated curse of Hadrian in the guise of Arabs renaming themselves "Palestinians" and claiming all the ancient Land as their own.

As explained in the film, many Israelis and lovers of Zion have accepted this misnaming and misidentification. Hadrian's ancient curse now threatens Israel's very existence. Israel's success and endurance and the world's hope for peace in the 21st century, demands that the deceit and danger of a Palestinian state must be exposed and avoided. It is our fervent hope that Hadrian's Curse will expose the historical truth.


Part I –– The Secret All the Arabs Know


At the Annapolis Conference, George Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples.

One of those peoples has a clear identity –– the Jewish People. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of that second people: Already in 1977, one of the central spokesman of that "second people", a member of P.L.O. leadership, Zahir Muhsein, the leader of the al-Sa'iqa Organization, revealed the truth in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
Are you in shock? If the Palestinian People does not exist, what does exist? Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael and who have disguised themselves as "Palestinians" for fraudulent purposes. "Only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel," in Muhsein's words. A fraud so successful that even George Bush can be found seeking a state for that fraud!

Do you think Zahir Muhsein is alone? This transparent fraud about the so-called existence of Palestine is revealed to us by all the Arabs' leaders:

In 1974, the late Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad, declared: "It would be fitting for us to mention to the responsible Israeli authorities that we view Palestine not just as an inseparable part of the Arab nation, but as a part of Southern Syria." In 1987, he reiterated himself at a conference in Amman, "A country named 'Palestine' has never existed." Jordanian King Hussein responded, "The appearance of the national Palestinian persona serves as a response to Israel's claim that Palestine is Jewish."

Yet the prize goes to Arafat who in 1970, with candid simplicity, told the reporter Arianna Palazzi:

"The question of borders doesn't interest us... From the Arab standpoint, we mustn't talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it..... The P.L.O. is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call "Jordan" is nothing more than Palestine."
Such revelations are an eye-opener for anyone who has not understood until today the masked-ball being run by the Arabs: The true meaning of Arafat's words, that "Palestine is Jordan," is that for the Arabic people, living under the "Pan-Arab" umbrella, in addition to over twenty Arabic countries, there is already a country called Jordan that was established by the British for the Arabs on 77% of the Land of Israel, promised to the Jewish People by the League of Nations in 1922. Anywhere else on earth, would an additional country be established for a people that already has twenty-one countries?

All the same, there is nothing like the testimony of the founder of the P.L.O. himself, Ahmed Shukari. Already in 1956 he proclaimed from the podium of the U.N., as the Arab League's ambassador there, that

"such a creature as Palestine does not exist at all. This land is nothing but the southern portion of Greater Syria..."
And if Ahmed Shukari says that Palestine does not exist at all, the logical inference is that "Palestinians" do not exist at all either. That same Shukari was born of a Turkish mother in Lebanon, was himself a Jordanian lawyer, served as the ambassador of Syria to the U.N., the ambassador of the Arab League to the U.N., and the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.N. In 1964, after this talented actor who changed loyalties like a chameleon was fired by the Saudis, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser hired him to found the "Palestine Liberation Organization", the P.L.O., an organization dedicated to the liberation of a country that in his own words did not exist at all.

All the prominent spokesman of that poor, homeless "people" say openly: The Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael are precisely the same Arabs who live in Syria, Jordan or Lebanon. They are not a separate country, but a fragment of the enormous Arab nation divided amongst many Arab countries. In their identity they are Arabs and the invention of Palestine is just a transparent bluff: "a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity". Can any testimony be better than that of the Arabs themselves, exposing the lies and deception involved in Palestine's creation?

Yet the most compelling argument for the idea that the "Palestinian People" is a fraudulent invention, and that the Arabs are all one people, was expounded by none other than Mr. Husseini, head of the Supreme Arab Committee, to the U.N. special committee that was deliberating on Eretz Yisrael in 1947:

"An additional consideration of great importance for the Arab world is racial uniformity. The Arabs lived in a broad expanse stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. They spoke one language, and shared a common history, tradition and aspirations. Their unity was the solid foundation for peace in one of the most central and sensitive regions in the world. For that reason, it does not make sense that the United Nations should facilitate the establishment of a foreign entity within that well-rooted unity."
Indeed, Mr. Husseini is correct. His declaration before the investigative committee of the United Nations exposes the simple fact that there is no "Palestinian" language and no unique "Palestinian" culture. The Palestinians are Arabs, and they cannot be set apart from the Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

Remove from the argument the lies and untruths and you reveal that the conflict is taking place between the Arabic, Muslim empire of twenty-one states and the Jewish People, claiming their right to their one and only historic homeland, consisting of less than one fifth of one percent of the lands under Arab control.

This is the twisted story of the biggest, most unprecedented fraud in history. It involves such a successful bluff that many people have no doubt about its veracity. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon by which means Israel's enemies, the Arabs, are trying to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot, without an army, tanks or jets. 

Part II –– The Arabs' Ultimate Goal
Following the Six Day War, the Arab countries, defeated by a small county determined to survive, understood that Israel would be impossible to beat militarily. They understood that the Israeli Samson would be possible to beat only by way of the cunning of the Philistine Delilah. And that's what happened.... No longer would there be cries firing up the masses to genocide, but rather, sophistication... A melody carefully aimed at the delicate western ear. The Arabs discovered that from a propaganda standpoint, it was easier to convince world public opinion of the rights of the poor, small, deprived "Palestinian People" to its own state, than to justify the demand of the enormous Arab empire for an addition of territory from a tiny country fighting for its life.

The Palestinian People is a fabrication invented with aforethought as a psychological weapon of Arab countries defeated in battle, a "Trojan Horse" for conquering Eretz Yisrael, as Feisel Husseini said after the Oslo Accords.

So was born the worldwide propaganda campaign that turned matters on their head. The Israeli "David" against the Arab "Goliath" was transformed, by way of sophisticated propaganda, into the Israeli "Goliath" oppressing the Palestinian "David". The object of this propaganda is to blot out and forget the name and identity of the ancient, Biblical Eretz Yisrael, and to transform it into the land of "the Palestinian People" fabricated by Arab propaganda.

By such means did their false propaganda gain such a strong foothold in the media and the bastions of liberalism that no one has paid any attention to the simple truths spoken openly by Zahir Muhsein, Assad, Shukari, King Hussein or Arafat.

By means of brainwashing, fabrications, lies, falsification, and taking advantage of the world's ignorance and the international media's superficiality, a process has been taking place in broad daylight, for several dozen years already, of counterfeiting and blotting out history. And just as Goebbels and Hitler, the arch propagandists of the 20th century said derisively, the bigger the lie, the more people will believe in it.

Fulfilling the demands of the Palestinian lie, will put an end to the identity of Eretz Yisrael. Following the loss of the Land's identity, will come the loss of our right to the land. For, if there are "Palestinians", that implies that there is also a land called Palestine, and if there is a Palestine... then there is no Eretz Yisrael.

The most terrible part is that large sectors of Israel, itself, have already fallen into the Arab propaganda trap. It is they who are opening the door to the Trojan horse that will destroy the identity of Eretz Yisrael. This is a war that is not being waged by means of weapons and armies, or over physical territory. It is being waged on the battlefields of awareness of the Land's identity. The Roman name "Philistia" was a fiction invented by the Roman emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135 C.E., a fiction of Hadrian then, and a fiction of the Arabs today, to the same degree.

It is a fabrication that represents no people, not then and not today. It is a sophisticated fiction invented for one purpose and one purpose alone: to wipe out a land's identity. If the land is called Palestine, then the Jewish people are occupiers. If the land is called Eretz Yisrael, then the Arabs are occupiers.

This is the essence of the Arab propaganda war, which is intended to steal the identity of Eretz Yisrael and to transform it into Palestine, and by such means to turn the Jewish people into occupiers of Eretz Yisrael. That's the whole story.

Now it's already clear. The Palestinian identity is tactical, artificial and temporary. It is just a tool in the pan-Arab struggle against Israel. The amazing thing is that it's all out in the open. Section 12 of the Palestinian charter summarizes the idea of this temporary identity, by stating that:

"The Palestinian people believes in Arab unification. It believes that in order to fulfill its task towards achieving this goal, it must, at this stage of its national struggle, preserve all the components of its Palestinian personality, and it must increase awareness of its existence, and reject all plans liable to weaken it or make it disappear."

Is there another people in the world that writes in its charter of self-definition the expression "at this stage"? And what will be in the next stage? Obviously, after conquering Israel, the territory will be divided up between Arab countries, and those Arab countries themselves will throw Palestine into the wastebasket of history.

As Arafat said, the Palestinian people are a fiction. The same is true regarding the Jordanian people, and all the other Arabic speaking peoples in the Middle East. These are not peoples with separate identities, but part of the great Arab nation. Only that has a true identity. By their self-definition, they cannot be divided up into a number of peoples with individual identities. Rather, they constitute one nation consisting of many states, as Arafat himself said to Arianna Palazzi in an incautious moment.

For the sophisticated Saudis, with their Saudi Peace Plan, it is clear that its purpose is not to actualize the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, for no such people exists. They conceal the truth that the great Arab nation has already actualized its right to self-determination by establishing a large number of countries, one of which extends over about 78% of the area of mandatory Eretz Yisrael.

For the Arabs, exploding with laughter over the foolishness of the West, it is clear that if an additional Arab state arises in the western portion of Eretz Yisrael, that will not serve the right of self-determination, but the demand of imperial conquest of all Eretz Yisrael by the Arab nation. Is George Bush dragging Israel to its destruction?

The Palestinian fabrication is exposed precisely when we listen to authentic Arab voices. The prominent Arab historian, Dr. Philip Hitti, who expressed himself at the Anglo-American commission of inquiry in the State Department building in 1947, said as follows:

"Sir, Palestine never existed throughout history. Absolutely not!"
Moreover, Professor Juhan Hazam, in his testimony before that same commission, added:

"Before 1917, when Balfour made his declaration, there had never been a Palestinian question, and there was no Palestine as a political or geographic unit."
Also a local Arab leader, Abd al-Mahdi, testified before the Peele Commission in 1937 as follows:

"There is no such land. Palestine is a term invented by the Zionists. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our land was for hundreds of years a part of Syria."
Indeed, this is a picture of the real situation in 1918 and at the start of the British conquest of Eretz Yisrael...

Were there any trace of truth to the claim regarding the historicity of a Palestinian People, we should certainly have expected to find mention of it in the history books and encyclopedias, as well as in archaeological research.

Part III –– Will Israel finish Hadrian's Work?

Thus, the way to Palestinian Hell was paved with the good intentions of Christian Zionists like Lord Balfour, the British foreign secretary. In the Balfour declaration, and by the decree of the Mandate, they decided, based on historic rights, to grant Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish people. Yet they called it Hadrian's Roman name, Palestine, which had originally had the precise intention of blotting it off the map.

From that moment on, the way was prepared for the birth of the Palestinian fiction.

The name Palestine, by which the British accidentally called the land, bore the seeds of destruction of the Palestinian bluff, as if the entire Land was the stolen property of the Palestinian people, an ancient, rooted people, thousands of years old. This was such an incredible but successful fabrication that large portions of Israeli society fell into its snare. In the report presented in 1938 to the League of Nations, the British made it very clear:


"The name 'Palestine' is not a country but a geographic region.'"
No one could have imagined in 1917, at the time of the Balfour declaration during WWI, that anyone would use the name Palestine to create a monstrous, hostile, false identity, for propaganda purposes, and would engrave on their flag the destruction of Israel.

The reporter and writer Joan Peters, in her book From Time Immemorial, writes,

"The one and only identity never adopted [by the inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael] before 1967 was that of 'Palestinian Arab'."


The Palestinian lie was not hatched by any land or any people, but by a map, a map drawn by two European colonial ministers, an Englishman, Herman Sykes, and a Frenchman, George Picot, and on the map was written... "Palestine". It was clear to the British that Palestine as a sovereign political unit had never existed. No nation had ever borne its name. No people had ever prayed for its welfare. It was a name that hadn't existed at all for 1300 years, ironically, precisely when Muslim empires were dominant. "Palestine" was a Roman political fabrication that had faded and disappeared together with the empire that had created it.

The Land regained independence only when the name Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel], the name in the hearts of the first Zionists, was restored to it. Had not this identity been preserved by the Jewish People, and had it not been preserved in the hearts of the Christian Bible-loving nations who made up the League of Nations, the national rebirth of the Jewish People might never have taken place.

This is the substance of the war being waged on millions of television screens throughout the world. It is being waged over the identity of Eretz Yisrael. It is being waged by means of all the media, and it seems as though the Arabs have the upper hand, while Israel leaves an impression of impotence, of not yet having even identified the battlefield on which its fate will be sealed.


While Israel prepares jets and tanks for a military struggle, Israel's enemies are preparing their weapons for the final battle, for sticking the last dagger into the back of a State of Israel that does not understand and is not even ready for this battle. Unless Israel prepares for this battle, comes to an understanding of its complexity and frees itself from the false terminologies and constant brainwashing, Israel will be defeated and its land will be irrevocably taken from it.

Will Israel, which valiantly vanquished all the Arab armies when they attacked it also know how to face this propaganda attack that is threatening to destroy it?

It would seem as though the battle is already decided. The Arab propaganda has already penetrated the nervous system and destroyed the immune system that defended the Jewish People for 2000 years, with even the Israeli Prime Minister and Foreign Minister saying that "Israel's interest is to establish a Palestinian state"...

In other words, what they want is for the Bible to be rewritten and for King David's land of the Bible to become the land of Goliath the Philistine.

Could anything be more insane? Is there another nation on earth that behaves this way?

Is it possible that Israel will be beaten without a single shot being fired, simply handing over their land to a wretched fabrication, a coarse, primitive, charlatan canard, a deception that conceals the destruction that the Arabs are preparing for Israel? Could Israel's leaders be too blind to see the danger looming of the Land's Jewish identity being lost? Will precisely the vision of the prophets, fulfilled with the establishment of the State of Israel, bring with it the destruction of the identity of the Jewish People's land, and lead to its exchange for the false identity of Hadrian's Palestine? When lies are repeated many times, they become true. Such a lie is the fabrication regarding the existence of a historic Palestinian identity. That false identity, which began with Hadrian's curse and that was revived by Lord Balfour, has become a first rate propaganda tool. It became that the moment the Arabs understood the potential of destroying the identity of Eretz Yisrael, and with it the identity of the People of Israel, whose name bears the stamp of ownership of the Land.

The struggle against Israel was the glue that bound the Arab world, otherwise sunken in endless internal quarrels. The Arabs' aim in fabricating Palestine was not to build a nation but to annihilate a nation. Yet to conceal that plan, they invented the plan of "phases". The first phase is the invention of a "Palestinian People". The second phase is the liquidation of Israel, weakened and wearied after Oslo.

By such means did the Arabs conceal their genocidal intent with a "new tool", in the words of Zahir Muhsein, for conquering Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot.

All of these lies and falsehoods, this whole "costume ball" is being marketed by the media, which is turning out to be an obsessive collaborator with the biggest lie on earth. Precisely this Hadrian understood. That's why he chose the name Palestine. Precisely this is understood as well by Hadrian's heirs –– the Arab propagandists who through their use of this false name sever the historic tie between the People and the Land of Israel. Without doing that, it would be impossible to use the word "conquest" –– could a people be considered the conqueror of its own land? The question Israel faces is this: Will the Jews forego the name and the identity of their Biblical land? Will the Christian world agree to concede on the identity of the cradle of western civilization, the holy land, Eretz Yisrael?

It's the twist of fate that for all this to happen, the Jews had to vanquish Hadrian completely, return to their land, establish sovereignty, resurrect the Hebrew language, establish a mighty army, industry, the best agriculture on earth, hi-tech, culture, song, dance, reestablish a nation, rebuild Jerusalem as their capital and settle every town and village that Hadrian destroyed. Could we have possibly come full circle? Will Hadrian's curse, which didn't succeed for 1800 year, precisely when Israel was in exile from their land, succeed just now, with Israel's return? Will it be precisely the Israeli government that will resurrect Hadrian's curse, previously lost in the depths of forgetfulness?

Today, 1800 years later, an Israeli Prime Minister is calling for fulfilling what Hadrian failed to do –– the erasure of Eretz Yisrael and the establishment of Palestine.

The Emperor Hadrian is smiling from the grave.

Tsafrir Ronen is a former member of the secular kibbutz, Ein Charod. He is a media personality, serves in the elite army unit, Sayeret Matkal, and was one of the founders of the Nahalal Forum on Behalf of the Entire Eretz Yisrael. He is currently preparing Hadrian's Curse, a full-length documentary film on the Arab/Palestine myth. Send comments to Zvi Katzover, mayor of Kiryat Arba, at Rivka@kiryat4.org.il.

This article was published in three sections one per week in The Jewish Press (www.jewishpress.com) from May 14, 2008 through May 28, 2008. This version is from the author's website and is archived for May 26, 2008 at   http://tzafrirronenen.blogspot.com/2008/05/ hadrians-curse-by-tsafrir-ronen.html

Thanks are due Ruth Doron and Israel Zwick for alerting us to this article

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The Great Palestinian Lie



Is the name Palestine an accurate name for Israel?

No, it is not. Israel is often called Palestine which is a derogatory term used by her enemies in the past. There was never a Palestine and there is no such thing as Palestinian people until the conflict of our modern time. Israel is referred this by the Arabs because the Arabs want to insinuate they stole the land from them.

The Bible never uses the name of “Palestine”, but calls it the land “Judah” or “Israel”. Mt. 2:20-21: “Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child’s life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.”

To understand this name we must look at some historical background. In Joel 3:4: “Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?

The Philistines were not Middle Eastern or Arab. The Philistines are believed to be an Aegean people (from the Adriatic sea near Greece.) who, in the 12th Century BC, settled along the Mediterranean coast of what is called the Gaza Strip.

The Moslem/ Arabs in that area started calling themselves “Palestinians” nearly 40 years ago. “Palestinian” refers to people who live in Palestine: Arabs (“Arabic speaking peoples”), Bedouins, Druze, Christians, and Jews. No people or nation ever ruled as a sovereign national entity on this land there is no Palestinian language or culture in past history. Palestine, as a country does not presently exist. No Arab nation has their historical roots on the land and no one have claim to this territory other than the Jews. The Jewish rule of this land extended over a period of over 2000 years. Israel became a nation in the land in 1312 BC. God gave them the land in a covenant (Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20) and they lived there.

The Romans before they conquered Jerusalem had called Israel Judea. In 70 A.D. (almost 2000 years ago), the Roman army conquered ancient Israel and destroyed the second Jewish Temple (build under Herod), much of its Jewish population were either killed, captured as slaves, or fled. But in the centuries that followed many Jewish people continued to maintain ties to their homeland. In subsequent centuries, the Jews had returned to their land in small numbers always having a presence in the land. The Roman government issued a coin with the phrase “Judea Capta,” which means “Judea has been captured.”

After the second Jewish revolt under Bar Cochba (A.D. 132-135) it is said the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed the land of Israel and Judea as Palastina ('Palestine') after the ancient enemies of the Jews - the Philistines. Because of his hatred of the Jews, it was meant to be an insult to dishonor them and remove their history. Hadrian built Aelia Capitolina, in the area of the destroyed Temple and dedicated it to Jupiter-Zeus demonstrating the supremacy of the Roman deities in Judea. He then forbid the Jews from entering.

The land kept this name until 1948 when the British Government gave up its mandate to partition Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. The majority of the land was given to the Arabs. However, the Arabs refused this offer as they wanted ALL of the land and attacked Israel. Today Palestine is used like it was from its inception-as an anti Jewish term.

The name Palestine was adopted by the Moslem residents of the Holy Land and used for their advantage. “Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel... “ (Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council, Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977).