Michael Lumish
My father's side, from the Ukraine, sought legal access into the US during the 1920s, following the pogroms, and were denied.
My father's side, from the Ukraine, sought legal access into the US during the 1920s, following the pogroms, and were denied.
My grandfather, Beryl, and his wife, Sarah, along with my father, Harry -- who was a baby -- went to Argentina where Beryl died. Shortly thereafter the paperwork came through from the US and Sarah and Harry made their way through Ellis Island.
They had nothing, but they did it legally.
She actually scrubbed floors at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn, where my father was housed, for a period of time until they got on their feet.
He spent one year studying accounting at St. John's College before he got drafted and sent off to the central Pacific during World War II.
Kwajalein, the Marshall Islands, and Anaweitok.
He was a 135 pound corporal with a rifle slung over his shoulder who slept in a foxhole and endured sniper fire.
When the war ended he returned to Brooklyn, met my mom, finished his education, became an accountant and raised a family.
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ReplyDeleteI'm bothered that they walked through or past 2 countries which are politically stable, economically self sufficient, speak English and very free and open from a human rights perspective: Belize and Costa Rica. And, it's not that hard to get legal residency there either.
ReplyDeleteMy father was: also Jewish, also served in the USA Army,
ReplyDeletealso lived in Brooklyn, and was also an accountant.
I was also born in the same year as Michael Lumish.
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Notice this unfair double-standard:
Europeans tolerate numerous Muslim “no-go zones”,
filled with Muslim immigrants.
But Europeans would NEVER tolerate even
ONE “no-go zone”, if it were created by Jews.
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BDS is a bust in the Middle East, but it’s alive in America
by Jonathan S. Tobin, 2018/11/26
www.jns.org/opinion/bds-is-a-bust-in-the-middle-east-but-its-alive-in-america/
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Czech president disavows two-state solution,
calls for one state of Israel, by JNS, 2018/11/26
www.jns.org/czech-president-disavows-two-state-solution-calls-for-one-state-of-israel/
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“Since the Left lost control of Israel, it has been hell-bent on destroying it.”
SOURCE: Israel’s Leftist Losers
by Daniel Greenfield, 2015 March 19
www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/israels-leftist-losers/
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“And while [Jeremy] Ben Ami [leader of the J Street organization] is trying to assert his group's Zionist bona fides, a number of speakers at the conference questioned the very idea of a Jewish state, and actually received loud applause.”
SOURCE: article titled: The Fork in J Street by James Kirchick, an assistant editor of The New Republic, 2009 October 31, www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-fork-j-street
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“Leaders of NIF [New Israel Fund] and J-Street strenuously claim to be pro-Israel, yet they never say anything nice about Israel or defend it from its more strident critics.”
SOURCE: Bedouin-Arab Town Was Strongest Netanyahu Supporter in Elections by Elder of Ziyon, 2015 March 20
www.algemeiner.com/2015/03/20/news-flash-bedouin-arab-town-was-strongest-netanyahu-supporter-in-elections/
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“J Street announced another controversial policy stance in March, when it backed the PA’s [Palestinian Authority’s] refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish state.”
SOURCE: ADL Supports J Street Joining US Conference of Presidents
by IsraPundit, 2014 April 30,
http://5tjt.com/adl-supports-j-street-joining-us-conference-of-presidents/
“The Jewish people are optimists, addicted
ReplyDeleteto a passionate belief that they cannot possibly
have enemies bent on their destruction.”
SOURCE: The Secret Jews
(chapter 2, page 53) by Joachim Prinz,
year 1973, Random House, New York,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857
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In any attempt at defining their specific psyche or “mystique,” we must include that most puzzling and yet most revealing contradiction in the Jewish mentality:
the apparent inability of the Jews to understand or predict their own catastrophes. The Jews, whose history consists of one tragedy after another, have yet to be prepared for any one of them.
Clemenceau, who as a young man witnessed the most notorious of anti-Jewish trials, the affair of Alfred Dreyfus, is supposed to have remarked that “only the defendant did not understand” the Jewish implications of the trial.
It can be safely said that the only ones who were oblivious to the possibility of their own destruction in 15th-century Spain were the Jews.
So they surrendered, died or lost their fortunes, and those who survived were finally expelled from the land of their birth.
This sort of blindness has been true throughout Jewish history. Jews have always been the last to know what everyone else could have predicted. It is as if they simply do not believe it possible.
As far as they were concerned, it “happened overnight.” They packed up and left. But nothing really happened “overnight.”
SOURCE: The Secret Jews
(chapter 2, page 51) by Joachim Prinz,
year 1973, Random House, New York,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857
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MICROBIOGRAPHY: Dr. Joachim Prinz was born in year 1902. He was a Reform Rabbi in Berlin and one of the first Jewish leaders in Germany to speak out against Nazism. He was expelled from Germany in year 1937 and came to the USA, and served as Rabbi of a large congregation in New Jersey. He was President of the American Jewish Congress from 1958 to 1966 and wrote many books.
I can't stand illegal immigration either. What I can't understand is how people buy into rhetoric surrounding this issue. It is a no brainer. We ARE a compassionate and generous nation. Illegal immigration shows a lack of compassion for the US and its citizens and an astounding disrespect for law in a nation built on law. The barbarians are not at the gate, they are in this country making the "arguments", i.e., casual sloganeering, against the survival of this country as anything but a piece of geography between Mexico and Canada.
ReplyDeleteLet us ignore the astonishing ignorance of people who don't know how to read a map or the Torah. Let us concentrate on family history. Before 1920, immigrants simply had to show up at the border. The anti-immigrants forced two changes in the laws, the 1921 and 1924 immigration laws. Those laws were intended to restrict immigration, but they didn't really take effect until 1929 since they were predicated on the demographics of 1890 and 1910 and those statistics weren't clear. The other thing is that the restrictions didns't apply to the Western Hemisphere which meant that Argentinians weren't restricted from immigration at all. The question then is what papers were your parents waiting for. Also, you don't mention your mother's family, so presumably they came before 1920, so they just walked in. Apparently, you want to shut the door behind you. There may or may not be a God, but there may be and there may be a judgment day. If there is, when you are asked, "What did you do with the widows, orphans, poor and strangers that I sent your way?" Saying, "Don't worry, I ignored them, protected my border and sent them back to miserable conditions," probably isn't the answer that God is looking for.
ReplyDeleteThese people are pawns. Quit pretending that that God is sending them or their financial backers have compassion towards them, despite claims of morality. They are mere tools of people that have a larger agenda, one that does not work and can only be imposed. Yet they blame and denigrate others that want to protect and enhance what makes the "refugees" want to come.
DeleteI'm on your side, joseph. As a younger person lectured me on Thanksgiving and I quote "Every single person on earth must be allowed in if they want to come here." Shuttle them all into California and figure out a way to keep them there. It's a win win. Build the 'wall' between California and Nevada-Arizona. Or microchip them all to track them until they have legitimate residency. In any case simply stuff them all into California, up to the carrying capacity of the state to support them. 10 million? 40 million? Look at Japan, roughly the size of California and only 20% of the land area is usable. They have a population of more than 130 million. California could easily handle more than 700 million on that scale. Simply raise taxes to pay for it and carry on.
DeleteJoseph,
DeleteI see you've done what I expected, i.e., show up with another of your virtual signaling posts full of the usual hifalutin blather you enjoy.
But I will concentrate on just one point.
"Apparently, you want to shut the door behind you."
Again, you've put words into people's mouths, and discredited yourself. There is nothing in Mike's text to suggest this. Nor anything I have seen in any of the comments - except yours. In what bizarro world is accepting a million legal immigrants to these shores a case of 'shutting the door behind you'? It's not, and you know it. It seems it's all pretend all the time now, and with the same folks who like to play pretend about "Palestine."
“We were fooling ourselves if we thought
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And if the left wing of the Democratic Party
achieves dominance, you can be sure it will increase.”
SOURCE: The One Easy Answer: Blame the Jews
by Jeremy Rosen, 2018/11/27
www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/27/the-one-easy-answer-blame-the-jews/
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ReplyDeleteThe simplest way to end illegal immigration is to reinstate the immigration laws that existed prior to the Chinese Exclusion Act. Now you probably don't want the level of immigration that would result from doing that, and it is perfectly legitimate to do so. However, that desire should be expressed openly rather than hiding behind simple appeals to "The Law."
ReplyDeleteWhat's needed is a discussion of how much demand there is to immigrate to America, how much of that demand should America grant, and how should we enforce the limit that we do set.
The simplest way to end illegal immigration is to enforce immigration laws. "The Law" was put in place by the two political parties in congress. That's "The Law. Helping people in other lands is nice. But first enforce the laws. Love immigrants, hate illegal immigration.
DeleteAside from measures taken stateside, why is there no discussion of what could be done to reduce demand for immigration? An example would be Central American enterprise zones which would provide the protection of the rule-of-law and economic opportunity, the two deficits in peoples' lives that induce them to want to come here, but closer to home and Spanish-speaking. May or may not work, but if it does it would curtail the flow of immigrants without raising any humanitarian objections, even if you consider such objections unfounded.
ReplyDeleteThis is two part problem. One part is the push, the interest people have in coming here for whatever reason. That you can ameliorate by making where they live better. But the other piece is the pull. We have an entire class an entire generation of people in this country now, who demand that all those people flock here because of some misguided sociopolitical belief that anything less is immoral and evil. That you can't fix with policies and trade and development. To those people I say "fine, drag them in drag them all in. Make Malibu Macau! Do it.
ReplyDeleteDo you support this: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/citizen-detained-florida-sheriff-ice-lawsuit.html ?
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