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Thank you for sharing! Just signed up. Very excited to attend this.

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Why the quotation marks on the words Israel and Israeli? Thanks!

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Good question

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Why is Israeli in quotation marks?

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Good question

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And this is why I cancelled my paid subscription to Wordloaf.

Yesterday:

468 aid trucks went into Gaza

303 air drops of hundreds of thousands of meals

47 food tricks

1200+ aids trucks went in over the last 3 days

There are still 133 hostages being held in Gaza - and Hamas has turned down 5 ceasefire proposals. And there was a ceasefire on October 6th.

No other nation provides as much aid (if any) to the people and terrorists (and Hamas is a designated terror organization) who have attacked them as Israel does.

Israel and Israelis do not need quotes around them - Israel is a nation and Israelis are its citizens which include Jews, Arabs, Christians, Bedouins, and more. Palestine is not a nation (although has been offered their own state 5 times since 1948 but keep on turning down those proposals).

It's hard to be a colonizer when your history and the archeological digs show that the Jewish people have been in this land for over 3000 years. Prior to the establishment of Islam.

If you want to help end the conflict it would be better to highlight Palestinians and Israelis who want to work together towards peace.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/04/09/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-admits-to-flaws-in-casualty-data/

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I agree with your comment, Stacy534, mostly. I think Israel is vulnerable to the description of "colonizer" because of their actions in the West Bank But what troubles me is that over a political disagreement you drop a pretty decent newsletter on food, flour and baking. The silos just get farther apart.

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thanks for this, michael. i'm all for some history behind baking grains and learning more. however when a bread blog becomes a political arena, that doesn't feel good. that's not what i come here for. "the silos just get farther apart". yes.

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Jude, I agree. I am so sick of food blogs making political statements. It is where I go to take a break. When I saw this I was so disheartened. People do not know the history and end up getting involved way beyond them. Politics need to stay in the dirty world in which they belong.

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The "West Bank" is actually Judea and Samaria, the Biblical foundation of Israel for over 3,000 years. Jordan was mandated during the Partition in 1948 to be "Palestine". So the Arabs already have a State which no one wants to talk about. Jordan controlled Jerusalem and the "West Bank" after the 1948 War of Independence. During these 19 years between 1948 and 1967 the Arabs NEVER spoke about being a people or being "Palestinians", or wanting a State. Israel begged Jordan to stay out of the 1967 War. Jordan did not, and attacked Israel. Israel won and Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria were reunited with Israel proper. **Side note- during the 1948 War the Jordanians conquered a Jewish town. The asked the 200+ Jewish soldiers to pose for a photograph and pretended to take a photo. What they did was mow them down with their guns. All were murdered. This is documented.

Israel is not the "colonizer". That is a strategy to destroy Israel. The Jews are the original settlers of the land and have been colonized by many- Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, etc. etc. through the centuries. The Arabs were nomads that came and went, never having a desire for a State previous to 1964. They are just very sadly, useful idiots used by the political forces to destroy the Jewish State of Israel. They are murdered and starved by Hamas, and before them, Arafat's Fatah and PLO. And the Arab Christians? Murdered by the Muslim Arabs. Bethlehem and Christian towns have been decimated by the Muslims. They are, however, protected in Israel as is the Gay population. Queers for Palestine are like chickens for KFC.

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Thank you Stacy534 for your comment. There is more aid and food going into Gaza than they can consume even with Hamas stealing 60%. The Gazans voted for Hamas and 85% of "Palestinians" polled would vote for them again, even after the savage raping, burning, and mutilation of Israeli citizens. These Israelis were the most pro "Palestinian" of all. They hired them, treated them like family, and drove them to Israeli hospitals for medical care that the Israeli citizen paid for. These same "Palestinians" made maps of where all the families lived, how many in a household, where they worked, and what their working hours were so the attack could be targeted.

As for "Palestinians", the name "Palestine" was given to the geographical land that the Romans conquered 2,000 years ago. They named it "Palestine" after the Philistines who were seafarers arriving to Israel in boats from islands near Crete and they disappeared thousands of years ago This was done by the Romans in order to humiliate the remaining Jews not taken as slaves to Rome. Ever see the Arch of Titus in Rome? That's where you see the capture and forced march out of Jerusalem by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Jews in Palestine were referred to as Palestinians, hence the Jewish Palestinian Post, and the Jewish Palestinian Orchestra. The "Palestinians" that came into existence when Yassar Arafat created Fatah and the Palestinian Liberation Organization with the help of the Soviets in 1964 referred to themselves as Arabs, NOT Palestinians.

The twisted history and the blaming of Israel ,when the accusations are false ,is appalling. It stems from ignorance and in some cases Jew hatred. I am sorely disappointed in this blog. I expected more.

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Don't really mind the politics. It's in every facet of our lives. It's in my design and knitting blogs. We must think about these things. Yet I don't really believe all the facts presented by others here, are they experts? Is it factual? It is kind of disappointing that you could have the time to write about bread for TPL and not here for us.

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I’m so disappointed to have missed this! Thank you for this post. I know you’ve seen significant opposition for this, but what you’re doing is important. Because of the connection you’ve indicated between bread (or the destruction thereof) and genocide, I think about this often when I bake.

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Addison - It was a great presentation, so much interesting information about bread and grain culture in Palestine. I believe you can purchase a video of it after the fact, and I highly recommend it to everyone. The concerns some people had about the description of the class—which I understand, given the provocative wording—were largely unwarranted in the class itself. Amanny is no fan of Israel (which I also understand), but she focused mainly on the richness of the traditions.

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That’s excellent news, I’ll definitely be purchasing the video!

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