It does not matter whether or not a person goes to church, to a mosque, or to a temple. The most important thing is belief in the One Creator, God. Anyone can worship God at home or anywhere. And on any religion he wants, whether on Judaism, Christianity or Islam. It does not matter that he takes from these religions what he believes to be correct, and it is not necessary for him to convert from one religion to another, because his relationship with the Creator, God, is the most important, whether it is open or secret, not revealed to people.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS
Written on December 23, 2017 by Mindy Haas
CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA
Christmas in early America was a mixed bag. Many with Puritan beliefs banned Christmas because of its pagan origins and the raucous nature of the celebrations. Other immigrants arriving from Europe continued with the customs of their homelands. The Dutch brought Sinter Klaas with them to New York in the 1600’s. The Germans brought their tree traditions in the 1700’s. Each celebrated their own way within their own communities.
It wasn’t until the early 1800’s that the American Christmas began to take shape. Washington Irving wrote a series of stories of a wealthy English landowner who invites his workers to have dinner with him. Irving liked the idea of people of all backgrounds and social status coming together for a festive holiday. So, he told a tale that reminisced about old Christmas traditions that had been lost but were restored by this wealthy landowner. Through Irving’s story, the idea began to take hold in the hearts of the American public.
In 1822, Clement Clark Moore wrote An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas for his daughters. It’s now famously known as The Night Before Christmas. In it, the modern idea of Santa Claus as a jolly man flying through the sky on a sleigh took hold. Later, in 1881, the artist Thomas Nast was hired to draw a depiction of Santa for a Coke-a-Cola advertisement. He created a rotund Santa with a wife named Mrs. Claus, surrounded by worker elves. After this, the image of Santa as a cheerful, fat, white-bearded man in a red suit became embedded in American culture.
A NATIONAL HOLIDAY
After the civil war, the country was looking for ways to look past difference and become united as a country. In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant declared it a federal holiday. And while Christmas traditions have adapted with time, I think Washington Irving’s desire for unity in celebration lives on. It’s become a time of year where we wish others well, donate to our favorite charities, and give presents with a joyful spirit.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS
So, where ever you may be, and whatever traditions you follow, we wish you the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of holidays!

Hope you nice time always with your family

Extremist organizations in Israel
In Israel, 63 extremist organizations have followed all means to threaten the lives of Palestinians, their property, and their sanctuaries. Some of them adopted Nazi ideas that called for confronting the Arab population and treating them with the harshest forms of oppression, racial discrimination and terrorism.
Most of them were founded or supported by famous rabbis. Some of them receive financial support and energy from Israeli far-right parties.
Some of them, especially graduates of religious schools, believe in the imminence of salvation in the advent of the Messiah, and that the Messiah will only come by destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque and building the Temple. The Jewish terrorist organization Tamarod, which includes young men between the ages of 16 and 25, burned down a house of Palestinian family, killing three of its members. And burned The Church of the Bread and Fish on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias).
Among the most prominent of these organizations are:
The Temple Institute: Its founder, Ariel, was famous for his fatwas that justified the destruction and extermination of Arab property and the liquidation of their presence in Palestine.
The Kach movement: Its extremist followers, Goodman, carried out an attack on Al-Aqsa in 1982.
Kahana Hay movement: linked to the Hebron massacre.
Young Israel: ignited a bloody clash with the Arab population of Islamic sites. The rabbi's son was accused of shooting at a crowd of Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Movement to return the crown to what it was: fanatical youth, to seize homes in Jerusalem. And carried out bloody clashes with the Arab population of Jerusalem.
Josh Amunim: The Faith Gathering. It calls for the imposition of sovereignty for all Palestinian lands, especially Jerusalem.
Hashmonim group: most of its members who completed military service in the Israeli army. This group attempted to blow up the Dome of the Rock in July of 1982.
Tsumit Movement: its surplus is Raphael Eitan when he was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army. He was one of the most extremist Jews in using violence against Arabs.
Elad Association: an active arm of settlement and Judaization policies in Jerusalem. It has huge budgets. It works to seize Palestinian real estate in Jerusalem and settle it with settlers, and to control archaeological sites.
Emtierzo Organization: Founded in 2006 in the Hebrew Universities. It calls for the killing of Arab students or their expulsion from Hebrew universities, and the expulsion of Arab teachers and even left-wing Jews
Atira Alyoshna Association: It was active in removing Palestinian tenants from real estate and settling Jewish families instead. The Israel Lands Administration authorized it to administer endowments so that it became an official settlement instrument.
Children of the Hills: most of them are young people who did not succeed in an educational framework. They carry out attacks against Palestinians
Homesh Movement First: They demand the return of the Homesh settlement, evacuated since 2005. They storm the settlement under the protection of the Israeli army and attack the Palestinians and their property.
The Jewish Secret Organization; It carried out several operations against the Palestinians, and also participated in the assassination of mayors.
A secret organization within the army: it tried to bomb Al-Aqsa from the air to drive it out of existence.
Revenge Unit and the Fist and Barricade Organization: Security Forces from the Israeli Army, and Senior Political Figures Working Behind the Scenes. Two terrorist groups against the Arab population.
Return to the Mountain: Founded in 2012, it works to activate the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

To Todd, with respect
Mitochondrial Eve Cradle of modern human life found in Botswana…maybe
This region of the African nation is the answer that the journal Nature revealed Monday in a study that traced the origins of the deepest maternal lineage known to humans.
The project, conducted by a dozen scientists from three continents, claims that the mother of all modern humans living today — from New Zealand to New York — originated in this region of Africa 200,000 years ago.
The team combined genetic ancestry tracing with climate modeling to paint a picture of how our ancient mothers must have lived. This northern portion of Botswana — known as the Makgadikgadi basin — now contains arid salt flats, but the study says it was once a lush wetland, filled with enough animals and edible vegetation to sustain our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
For nearly a decade, scientists believed our human species — Homo sapiens — came from in Africa because the oldest fossils bearing our resemblance date back 200,000 years. But those specimens — known as the Omo remains — were discovered in Ethiopia, thousands of miles north of the newly proposed homeland in Botswana.
What the study did
Mitochondrial DNA is also special because you only inherit it from your mother, unlike nuclear DNA which is a mixture from both parents. Mitochondrial DNA can also serve as an ancestry stopwatch because it mutates 10 times faster than nuclear DNA, about once every 8,000 years.
So, Chan, Hayes and their colleagues collected 198 new DNA samples from southern Africans and compared them with about 1,000 previously collected genetic profiles from the region.
What the study found
Their results show that mitochondrial Eve — which statistically speaking is not one woman, but a group of closely related women — emerged approximately 200,000 years ago in the Makgadikgadi basin.
Based on their genetic data, the first families stayed in this region for 70,000 years.
“Then suddenly around 130,000 years ago, we see divergence happening, or splitting up the lineages,” Hayes said. One group moved northeast, based on genetic analysis. A second branch of the original L0 families didn’t move south until 110,000 years ago.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/cradle-of-modern-human-life-found-in-botswana-maybe

Steven Gimbel, Ph.D., Gettysburg College wrote:
Mitochondrial Eve: The Mother of All Human Beings

Allan Wilson, the scientist who introduced Mitochondrial Eve, believed that she lived in east Africa about 2,50,000 years ago. For about 2,38,000 of these 2,50,000 years, all human ancestors lived the Stone Age life in small groups. They hunted, sought shelter against the same kind of elements, feared the same kinds of predators, had the same sorts of needs, and the same sorts of resources.
In the past 12,000, humans had a drastic change in the way of life. Agriculture, metallurgy, antibiotics, Hegelian epistemology, and reality television were all born in the past 12,000 years. Is it because humans suddenly got smarter?
Brain Evolution
Evolution works very slowly in complex matters, like the brain. Skin, hair, and eye color, or the height of people can change in evolutionary terms in 12,000 years, but the brain is too complex to change in such a short period.

The development of life happened so quickly not because we got smarter, but because we were put in a different environment. So, humans did not suddenly get smarter, they just found new opportunities. As 12,000 years is too short for brain changes, naturally, parts of the human mind and behavior are inherited from the Stone Age ancestors.
The Stone Age ancestors were not stupid, primitive cavemen. They were as clever, as ingenious, and as resourceful as today’s humans. Yet, they had a different environment and historical context that required different survival methods. Some of today’s psychological aspects are inherited from the 2,38,000 years before development.

The Jews claimed to be God's chosen people
According to the Israel Democracy Institute, about two-thirds of Israeli Jews believe that Jews are the "chosen people".
The Torah mentioned Israel in the sense of the Children of Israel a lot, but it also mentions that the foreign believer is treated as the believer from the Children of Israel. Today, however, there is confusion between the Israelis during the era of Moses, and the Jews as adherents of a religion.
The feeling of superiority over all creatures is a chronic disease of the Jewish nation, as their distorted Torah mentioned: “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth’’.
They built on that their contempt for other nations, then they went to great lengths in their claim that they have the right to control the world as long as they are the children of God and His beloved.
The invalidity of this claim:
The Jews acknowledge the punishment of God, if they are the children of God, then He does not punish them. And since He tortures them, they are not his children or his loved ones.
God said in the Quran:
‘Those who disbelieved of the Children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of (Prophets) David and Jesus, the son of Mary, because they disobeyed and transgressed.’
‘They did not forbid one another from the wrongdoing they were committing. Evil is what they were doing.’
‘Say: 'O you who are Jews, if you claim that of all people, you alone are the guided by Allah [God], then long for death if you are truthful! But, because of what their hands forwarded they will never long for it. Allah knows the harm doers.’

2022 BECOMES THE DEADLIEST YEAR FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN THE WEST BANK IN OVER 15 YEARS
The number of children killed by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank has doubled this year to 34, following the shooting of two teenage boys in consecutive days, Save the Children said today.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/2022-becomes-the-deadliest-year-for-palestinian-children-in-west

In April 2021, Human Rights Watch concluded in a 213-page report that Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians. Human Rights Watch reached this determination based on a finding of an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), as well as grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the OPT, including East Jerusalem.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/12/israel-submission-un-committee-rights-child

Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed 25 Palestinians under 18 since the start of the year, a rights group says.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/10/palestinian-child-shot-by-israeli-army-in-jenin-dies-from-wounds

Officials tell Haaretz newspaper that Israel was behind August 7 attack near Jabalia refugee camp, contradicting earlier claims.
Israeli defence officials have confirmed that an Israeli raid on a Gaza cemetery killed five Palestinian children during its assault in early August, according to a new report, contradicting previous statements senior military officials made to local media.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/16/israel-behind-gaza-strike-that-killed-children-report

Three days of Israeli bombardment in Gaza killed at least 44 Palestinians, including 16 children.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/the-names-and-faces-of-the-15-children-killed-in-gaza

Amnesty International released a report making a 280-page case that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians constitutes apartheid.

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Happy New 2023 to you too

Israel and Palestine
Israelis began immigrating to Palestine when it was under Ottoman rule (1516-1917). The first Israeli settlement was established in 1882. A year later the term Zionism appeared.
In 1909, the city of Tel Aviv was established for Israelis only. With the end of World War I, in which the Ottomans were defeated, the Sykes-Picot agreement was secretly concluded between Britain and France to divide the Arab lands that were under Ottoman rule between them. In 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, which pledged to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine. Palestine became under the British Mandate from 1948 to 1920: Jewish immigration to Palestine doubled, Britain allowed the establishment of Israeli military forces and prevented Palestinians from acquiring weapons. In 1923, 3% of the area of Palestine became owned by the Israelis, and they constituted 12% of the population. The percentage of the Jewish population increased in 1939 to 30%, controlling 5.7% of the area of Palestine. In 1947, the United Nations recommended dividing Palestine by 56.5% of the lands for the State of Israel, and 43% for the Palestinian State, and Jerusalem would remain under international supervision, in preparation for the British withdrawal. Israeli forces began attacking villages north of Tel Aviv, and committed a massacre in a village near Haifa. And invaded a large part of the lands allocated to the Palestinian state. On May 15, 1948, the end of the British Mandate and the establishment of the State of Israel were officially announced, with the recognition of US President Harry Truman.
After the 1948 war, the Israeli forces acquired lands belonging to the Palestinian state.
After the 1967 war, Israel occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. And built settlements in the occupied territories. In 1977 it encouraged settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Oslo agreement in 1993
It stipulated the establishment of Palestinian self-government. Israel did not withdraw from the West Bank. Negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority collapsed. The visit of the Israeli Minister of Defense to Al-Aqsa Mosque led to the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000. The Israeli army launched a military operation in the occupied West Bank, and the separation wall was built to prevent Palestinian militants from entering Israel. The separation wall crossed the borders of the cease-fire line agreed upon in 1967, and annexed new Palestinian lands to Israel.
In 2003, the United Nations, Russia, America and the European Union put forward a road map that was accepted by the Palestinian Authority and Israel, calling for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and for freezing settlement construction in the West Bank. By 2005, Israel withdrew its forces from the Gaza Strip, retaining control over the air strip, its ports and border crossings. The Israeli blockade on Gaza intensified. And 7 new Israeli settlements were established, one in the vicinity of East Jerusalem and six in the West Bank.
The deal of the century
On January 29, 2020, US President Trump announced his plan to draw clear borders between Israel and Palestine, with Jerusalem as an undivided capital that belongs entirely to Israel.
The future borders of Palestine will be scattered parts linked by bridges and tunnels, with only parts of East Jerusalem as its capital. With the permission to build Israeli settlements within the Palestinian borders.
The Palestinian Authority rejected the deal of the century and is still demanding the cease-fire borders agreed upon in 1967, although Israel did not abide by those borders, nor did it abide by the limits of the Oslo Accords thereafter.

In 1974, a UN resolution on the "Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine" called for "two States, Israel and Palestine … side by side within secure and recognized borders" together with "a just resolution of the refugee question in conformity with UN resolution 194". The borders of the state of Palestine would be "based on the pre-1967 borders". The latest resolution, in November 2013, was passed 165 to 6, with 6 abstentions; with Israel and the United States voting against.
There have been many diplomatic efforts to realize a two-state solution, starting from the 1991 Madrid Conference. There followed the 1993 Oslo Accords and the failed 2000 Camp David Summit followed by the Taba negotiations in early 2001. In 2002, the Arab League proposed the Arab Peace Initiative. The latest initiative, which also failed, was the 2013–14 peace talks.
On 29 November 2012, the UN General Assembly voted by 138 to 9, with 46 abstentions to recognize Palestine as a "non-member observer state". On the following day, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced the building of 3,000 new homes on land to the east of East Jerusalem, in an area referred to as "E-1". The move was immediately criticized by several countries, including the United States, with Israeli ambassadors being personally called for meetings with government representatives in the UK, France and Germany, among others. Israel's decision to build the homes was described by the Obama administration as "counterproductive", while Australia said that the building plans "threaten the viability of a two-state solution".

Muslims don’t try to destroy Israel. Iran and all Arab countries say; the two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict envisions is the best.
It was reported in 2009 that although polls had consistently shown Israeli and Palestinian majorities in favor of a negotiated two-state settlement.
This solution also enjoys majority support in Israeli polls, but Israel refuses it.
The UN voted 105 to 4 to recognize the Palestinians' right to self- determination, and to grant the PLO observer status within the UN itself. Only Israel and the US, along with US-dependent Bolivia and the Dominican Republic, voted against the resolution. It was a major defeat for US policy.

No one said; Israel Should Be 'Wiped Off Map. This is Israeli propaganda.
Israel attacked Lebanon, attacked Syria repeatedly, and threatened Iran
With Iran and world powers close to reaching a nuclear deal, Israeli security officials called on the army to prepare for possible military action against Iran. In an interview with the Hebrew newspaper "Israel Hayom", the former head of the Political and Military Affairs Office in the Ministry of Defense, Amos Gilad, and the former National Security Adviser, retired Major General Yaakov Amidror, said: "The efforts made to prevent the nuclear agreement at this stage will not yield any result."
The Iranian president responded to the Israeli threats to his country by offering advice to Tel Aviv. He said: We advise Israel not to launch any aggression because it may no longer exist and we cannot be prevented from nuclear technology

why does the US say 'Merry Christmas'?

It's unclear why the greeting changes, but many theories say it might be due to the popularising of 'Happy' in the UK by the royals. This could be because of the association of the word merry, which means the same as happy, with being intoxicated or unruly.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

While there is no single interpretation of Islam, renowned Islamic authorities across the world have repeatedly affirmed that terrorism cannot be justified by the teachings of their religion, which aims to promote justice and peace. Muslim leaders and scholars often speak out against terrorism and seek to counter misinterpreted or twisted teachings based on a theology of violence and death that fringe groups use to justify their violent actions. Most Muslims feel as threatened as anyone else by these violent extremists who say they act in the name of Islam. Muslims have been the target of terrorist attacks too, and are in no way protected because of their religion. To date, worldwide, Muslims suffer the highest death toll due to jihadist terror groups. Some of the victims of the Paris attacks were Muslims.
A survey conducted by the Center for Research and Globalization found that the terrorists acts perpetrated by Muslim extremists constitute only 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012. In 2013, 152 terrorist attacks occurred in Europe with only 1 attack being religiously motivated while 84 were motivated by ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs. The massive media coverage of Muslims extremists’ acts contributes to feeding the myth that all terrorist acts are perpetrated by Muslims. Far-right movements are also a form of extremism present in Europe, which poses a similar threat to society and peaceful coexistence.

https://www.enar-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015_02.06__q_a_muslims_final.pdf
Politicians were able to find political movements that adopted deviant religious concepts that led to rivalries and suicide killings because they strayed from true religious concepts.
Alqaeda, ISIS and all other Jihadist organizations are belong to one political movement – Wahabbism (not sect) they use the face of Islam. Their actions of are in contradiction to Islamic teaching.
The Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey etc. assisted the Jihadist to begin war in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen.
Hillary Clinton: We created Al-Qaeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw

America's Allies Are Funding ISIS

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said; "Today 2029
French citizens or residents are implicated in jihad networks." He said too" 609 people who are French nationals or have French resident's status are currently among fighters, including 283 women and 18 minors. Almost 170 have been killed while in Syria or Iraq and 300 have returned to France from those countries". "Almost 800 would today like to go to these wars zones, according to intelligence services," Valls said, adding that 1,000 people are being monitored closely.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN0WM0UU

God said; ‘And when Moses, said to his nation: 'Why do you harm me, when you know that I am the Messenger of Allah – God – sent to you? 'But when they swerved away Allah caused their hearts to swerve. Allah never guides impious people. And when (Prophet) Jesus, the son of Mary said: 'Children of Israel, I am sent to you by Allah to confirm the Torah that was before me, and to give news of a Messenger (Prophet Muhammad) who will come after me whose name shall be Ahmad. 'Yet when he came to them with clear proofs, they said: 'This is clear sorcery.'
‘Believers, be the helpers of Allah. When (Prophet) Jesus, the son of Mary said to the disciples: 'Who will be my helpers unto Allah? 'The disciples replied: 'We will be the helpers of Allah. 'A party of the Children of Israel believed, and a party disbelieved. So, We supported those who believed against their enemy, and they overcame.’

The Quran say in Sura 36;
‘Has the human not seen how We created him from a drop (of sperm)? Yet he is a clear opponent. (77) And he has struck for Us a parable, and forgotten his own creation. He asks: 'Who will quicken the bones after they have decayed? ' (78) Say: (O Muhammad) 'He will quicken them who originated them the first time; He has knowledge of every creation; (79)’

This is your own opinion, you did not support it with a source, and I respect it. However, you have to search for true Islam. Note what neutral studies mention like this one;
While there is no single interpretation of Islam, renowned Islamic authorities across the world have repeatedly affirmed that terrorism cannot be justified by the teachings of their religion, which aims to promote justice and peace. Muslim leaders and scholars often speak out against terrorism and seek to counter misinterpreted or twisted teachings based on a theology of violence and death that fringe groups use to justify their violent actions. Most Muslims feel as threatened as anyone else by these violent extremists who say they act in the name of Islam. Muslims have been the target of terrorist attacks too, and are in no way protected because of their religion. To date, worldwide, Muslims suffer the highest death toll due to jihadist terror groups. Some of the victims of the Paris attacks were Muslims.
Q: If all Muslims are not terrorists, are all terrorists Muslims?
A survey conducted by the Center for Research and Globalization found that the terrorists acts perpetrated by Muslim extremists constitute only 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012. In 2013, 152 terrorist attacks occurred in Europe with only 1 attack being religiously motivated while 84 were motivated by ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs. The massive media coverage of Muslims extremists’ acts contributes to feeding the myth that all terrorist acts are perpetrated by Muslims. Far-right movements are also a form of extremism present in Europe, which poses a similar threat to society and peaceful coexistence.

https://www.enar-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015_02.06__q_a_muslims_final.pdf