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“My sympathy with the deep and intense longing, finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine. The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty”
–President Calvin Coolidge
“It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one day be restored to their historic national home and there enter on a new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity” President Warren Harding
Not long after the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln met a Canadian Christian Zionist, Henry Wentworth Monk, who expressed hope that Jews who were suffering oppression in Russia and Turkey be emancipated “by restoring them to their national home.” Lincoln said this was “a noble dream and one shared by many Americans.”
–Abraham Lincoln
“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.”
-Portion of a Letter from President John Adams to Thomas Jefferson
How did Israel get so small?
You start a nation by taking nothing and planting millions of trees, bring water in and so much money thrown at it from so many people wanting Israel to thrive and then come all the workers from all over and then the workers decide they need most of the land, how did the original British mandate for Palestine end up so small when the entire idea and mandate given to create a Jewish homeland?
How do you take such a big land mass to then dwindle it down to almost nothing and now they want it all.
Truman
,The question of Palestine as a Jewish homeland goes back to the solemn promise that had been made to them [the Jews] by the British in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 - a promise which had stirred the hopes and the dreams of these oppressed people. This promise, I felt, should be kept, just as all promises made by responsible, civilized governments should be kept."
A scary omen?
Oil
President Roosevelt tried to persuade Saud to acquiesce to a plan for Jewish emigration to Palestine, but Saud was adamant in his opposition. One week before his death, in a letter dated April 5, 1945, Roosevelt promised King Saud that he, as president of the United States, would take no hostile action against the Arabs and that the United States would not change its basic policy toward the Palestine issue without prior consultations with both Arabs and Jews.
The president decides that the king of Saud and his oil was more important that the Jewish homeland and a week later he dies and it falls to Truman who saw things different.
"Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood."
I always like reading about how the film gets to be made here is link with more details. It is loosely based on a true story and the man in the film who is the father is playing the role of himself.
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