by Gerald A.Honigman
Various months of the year have been set aside to honor those other marvelous creatures G_d placed on Planet Earth, which humans have come to domesticate, but also too often use and horribly abuse.
This essay will focus on the plight of donkeys, and later I will relate this to a particular story involving a special Judaean teacher (“rabbi”) whom almost two billion people believe is, at the very least, the Messiah, and more likely G_d as well.
Each year, on President Harry S. Truman, my own, and my best friend Ari’s son’s birthday on May 8th, those marvelous little members of the horse family are honored on “Donkey Day.”
Below you’ll find one of my own earlier articles celebrating these smallest equines, the thousands of donkeys, burros, asses, or whatever other name they’re known by in what’s now, unfortunately, Arab Fatah/PLO/PA Muslim controlled Bethlehem.
I take extra pleasure in noting that despite this sad fact, my book is in use (as it is in many other universities) in Bethlehem University. Not far from there, it’s also being used at Tel Aviv University, and also lin Hizbullahland, at the American University of Beirut ( http://q4j-middle-east.com ). Hopefully, the Lebanese, with Israel’s great help and cost in life and gold to itself, will finally be able to take back their own country from these fellow genocidal automaton proxies of the mad mullahs of Iran.
Returning to Bethlehem, this ancient important Judaean town, where King David and Yehoshua/Jesus were both born (Yehoshua a thousand years later), and other adjacent areas were also forcibly removed from Israel via severe arm twisting by President Clinton in his infamous 1993 Oslo Peace (of the grave) Plan, where the more Israel conceded to Yasir Arafat’s PLO for “peace,” the more dead and maimed Jews it got in return….many more thousands.
Clinton and his Mideast Point Man, Denis Ross, forced Israel to give up millennial ancestral lands where Judaean Judges like Gideon, Deborah, Eli, and Samuel ruled and kings were born and anointed; Hebrew Prophets preached; Hebrew Patriarchs and Matriarchs are buried; and the 1st and 2nd Jewish Temples were built.
The Judaean Hasmonean family of the “Maccabees” (the ‘Hammers’) from Modi’n in Judaea led the fight for independence against Greco-Syrian pagan oppressors; and the giant fortress of Masada stands high in the Judaean Wilderness to this very day overlooking the Dead Sea where Judaean warriors held out for years against the Roman war machine; etc. and so forth.
Judaean—not Arabian, and certainly not “Palestinian.”
I was blessed with an unexpected chance to confront Denis Ross in person, and his good pal, Thomas Friedman, duplicitous, anti—Israel columnist unextraordinaire for the NYTimes—the self proclaimed font of all Mideast knowledge—on Yom Kippur 2024. I left them both squirming…See the account here:
Bashert encounters of the 2024 High Holiday season…
https://share.google/8QZZqiWKnuBD1uxXh
What “Palestinian” history was made here?
None……there weren’t any of such Arab renamed folks who migrated from elsewhere and colonized and settled on historically Jewish lands from the 7th century C.E. massive Arab jihadi invasions of Judaea and all over the rest of MENA, the Indian subcontinent, sub-Saharan Africa, Indonesia, and beyond the mid-20th century C.E.
Here’s my tribute to the Donkeys (and all the other marvelous creatures) of the world, but highlighting their especially horrendous plight in Arab-controlled lands in particular…
Moving on, there’s an interesting connection of Yehoshua/Jesus to our donkey friends…
At the dawn of the Common Era, Rome took advantage of Judaean infighting to acquire Judaea, and it ruled the Jews with an oppressive iron fist. Scroll down in the next link to read contemporary Roman historian accounts of this here:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/335373
After already suffering years of oppression, during one year when the age-old Hebrew Holiday holding the promise of freedom from oppression, Passover, had arrived, Yehoshua instructed his disciples to bring him a white donkey so he could ride into Roman-occupied Jerusalem atop of.
Thousands of his Judaean countrymen had already been slaughtered, crucified, imprisoned, and so-forth resisting the Roman occupation….
The Hebrew Prophet, Zechariah 9:9 prophesied that the (HUMAN) Meshiach/Messiah would enter into Jerusalem atop a white donkey.
Keep in mind that both Roman and Judaean (Jew) knew the implication of this brazen move by Yehoshua, and he was a dead man (or whatever other being some folks thought him to be) walking from that moment on.
Rome would not tolerate any challenge to its rule…and placed, as one version of the story (Gospel) goes, a crown of thorns atop his head to show how the Roman Eagle would “take care” of any Jewish king who was not its stooge.
Two major revolts broke out afterwards in 66-73 C.E. and 132-135 C.E., with several others as well—one allying tens of thousands of Judaean warriors who survived in the Galilee and other outlying areas iwith Persian armies to fight the hated Byzantine successors to Rome in occupied Iudaea/Judaea. This occurred right before the massive Arab jihadi invasions coming out of a desiccated Arabian Peninsula.
Open the following link to see an Iudaea Capta coin issued after the first major revolt: http://q4j-middle-east.com
Finally, so not to reinvent the wheel. please carefully read this next analysis with an open mind, comparing the charismatic Judaean teacher from Nazareth through historical eyes, as best as possible, since besides Christian theological sources themselves, we simply don’t have much corroborating information from elsewhere:
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