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RE: Your libelous Statement by the AFT Guild, Local 1931 regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories (09/05/2021)
Israel was re-constituted by the UN and agreed to by the nations in 1947. The land given back to them was far smaller than promised under the Post WW1 Allied Powers and Balfour agreements (which included all the West Bank and Jordan: The name of this British League of Nations Mandate, was called Trans Jordan, and won by the West from the Ottoman Turks. The Jews voted to accept it, as an opportunity to live peacefully in a land they have had claim to for 4,000 years, even with the loss of 80% of the best lands taken from them to create an Arab Palestine, a name not in use by them until the 60’s by Arafat.
The misnomered name of the West Bank, was, Judea (JewDea) and Samaria, ancient lands of Israel and were part of the 20% of the original ancient homeland promised to Israel and nothing but desert. In fact, East Jerusalem, did not even have Arabs living there at the turn of the last century. The “so called” territories of Judea and Samaria, part of Israel, were taken by force by Jordan, who then proceeded to push out “Palestinian” Arabs from Jordan into the “so called” territories. In a subsequent war, Israel won back their land. To drive the point home, Judea and Samaria were not “territories” but part of Israel as stolen by Jordan during a war.
Gaza, another Arab fallacy, was never “so called” Palestinian, but part of the Egyptian Sinai and lost to Israel during the 6 day war. Israel allowed “so called” Palestinians to live there after expelling their own fellow Jews from Gaza. The thank you from the “so called” Palestinians was sent by rocket.
Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948 and the neighboring countries attacked the next day. The resulting war resulted in refugees on both sides: West Bank Arabs who left following the unexpected Jewish victory over the much larger Arab armies, and the Jews living throughout the Middle east who faced immediate persecution and chose to leave for Israel. The Arabs that left the West bank described their choice as a “Nakba” (disaster) as they moved into Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. They expected to return on the heels of the “victorious” Arab Armies, a bit of an oxymoron, if I may.
Unlike Arabs stealing Jewish land and wealth as well as forcibly expelling Jews, the Israelis did not do same. There were a few isolated incidents, but they were rare and not government policy as with the Arab states.
The 1949 armistice attempted to draw a “green line” re-establishing a “West Bank” future state location for the “so called” Palestinians, while disregarding land taken already from Israel in order to create Jordan. Many of the “so called” Palestinians on the “so called” West Bank, were actually thrown out of Jordan due to their creating unrest and into the “so called” West Bank.
Jewish refugees were accepted into Israel, Palestinian refugees were not accepted into the neighboring Arab countries as citizens or having rights. Other than for the “so called” West Bank, their fellow Arabs put them into concentration camps.
In the leadup to the 1967 war, the stated goal of the Arab leaders was not the re-introduction of the Palestinians into the West Bank but the extermination of all Israel, which the PLO, Hezbollah, Hamas as well as countries such as Iran continue to profess.
The unanticipated disastrous defeats of the combined Arab armies by Israel in 1967 and 1973 caused the re-possession of East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria by Israel and subsequent partitioning of lands with walls, fences and control points to contain riots, rock throwing, sniper fire and bombings
The moral of the story is, that you can’t start war after war, causing shifting boundaries and then pick and chose among the wars you lose as to which boundaries you prefer.
The American Federal of Teachers local representing community college teachers and staff in San Diego County has approved a resolution condemning Israel and questioning the Jewish state’s right to exist..... Why is Israel always singled out of the entire world to condemn? What other countries have you questioned their right to exist? This is nothing but a hate resolution against Jews and Isreal.
I fear for the Jews who go to this college.
Let us not forget the important connection between unions and democracy.
Union Strong! I started teaching in 1973, Park Slope , Brooklyn. I went ino labor with my first child in P.S. 107.
then started teaching in Tucson 2005. I was at my desk at Cholla High School in Tucson when my daudaughter went into labor with her first child.
I retired but missed the classrclassroom and my students. So I started teaching again here in Rincon High School. Its 48 years since i stepped into my first classroom at age 21.
this year I turn 70. Im hoping to hit the 50 year milestone of teaching.
I have many stories about teaching. My first year a 2nd grade student brought his mother’s gun for show and tell. The other students told me and he brought it up to my desk and put it in my desk drawer. Its a show and tell i’ll never forget.
I still love teaching and learning. I was truly happy to follow my dreams thanks to a free education at Brooklyn College (1973). I was the first in my family to attend and graduate. Thank you CUNY. I also received my MS.ed from Brooklyn College. I think they made a good investment.
Why do you, and local districts, like district 31, ignore all teachers and PARENTS that are begging, screaming, and petitioning for REMOTE?
As a group, or individuals, we know both, classroom sizes, and how remote worked last year. There are kids that did great with remote, there were teachers that felt more confident in their students when remote.
Teachers. staff, ALL adults working in a school, are not required to be fully vaccinated before Sept 27th, and many have said they will get the first shot, show the card, but that's it.
Yet schools are opening on the 13th. How is it fair to force anyone, teachers, students, or elementary (too young for vaccine) kids into schools?
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"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
-Aristotle
If restaurants can require customers to wear masks or leave, can a teacher require to be assigned only students who will wear masks?
