Posted on 07/18/2014 8:35:00 AM PDT by Star Traveler
The Israel Defense Forces are currently operating on the ground in several areas throughout the Gaza Strip, from north to south, a senior IDF office said on Friday morning.
After entering the strip at a number of points along the border on Thursday night, infantry and armored forces made their way to predetermined points in agricultural areas of the strip.
By morning they were on the outskirts of populated areas.
The immediate objective of the operation was for the forces to establish themselves in commanding positions, from which they could operate against tunnels running from the strip into Israel.
Before the ground incursion began, a senior officer in the GOC southern command said it would most likely be limited to a depth of three to four kilometers from the Israeli border, and would focus on locating and destroying tunnels. Such an operation, he said, could take between a week and two weeks.
On Thursday, the IDF received the cabinet's approval to expand the mobilization of up to 18,000 reserve soldiers, and the military commenced drafting thousands of reservists overnight. If the military does call up the full number approved, the total number of troop mobilized due to Operation Protective Edge will number over 70,000 troops.
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You know what you are talking about regard to Israel. i read in a book that Jews living in The Pale. When there were relations with a non-Jew via rape or illicit sex, the Jews would raise the Jewish woman’s baby as their own. There was no rejection of the mother and baby. There was lots of rape in the pogroms. Many Ashkenazi Jews have fair features (blond hair, red hair, freckles etc) running through their families. Where do you think this comes from? I see this on my fathers and mothers sides.
I don’t know a simple answer.
If you believe in the divine origin of the Torah, then you believe that all mankind descended from Adam, and then from Noah after the flood, so it is not surprising to find various features among the Jews (or among any other people, for that matter).
There have been periods in which significant numbers of rapes of Jewish women occurred, such as the pogroms of the Chmielnicki uprising in 1648 and the pogroms of the 1880s, 1905 and -06 and in 1919.
It also is true that there have been marriages between Jews and non-Jews since the beginning of the Jewish people. In many of those cases, the non-Jewish partner converted to Judaism.
Conversion has been a major factor among the Jews at various times at well. At one point during the Roman empire, it is estimated that fully 10% of the population of the empire was Jewish. Many of those people were converts and many more were the children of converts. Doubtless, they brought many of their own ethnic features into the Jewish gene pool.
“There have been periods in which significant numbers of rapes of Jewish women occurred, such as the pogroms of the Chmielnicki uprising in 1648 and the pogroms of the 1880s, 1905 and -06 and in 1919.”
My opinion this is how Askenazi Jews got most of their fairer features, Slavic features when there are some. Rape during pogroms. Love affairs too happen when you have two peoples living in proximity. Tasting the forbidden fruit between young Slavs and Jews. With most of this being Slavic male and Jewish woman. Slavs being dominant the penalty for having an affair with their young females was much greater. Impregnating one forget about it!
There were lots of red-headed Jews historically.
According to Wikipedia, “Red hair is also fairly common amongst the Ashkenazi Jewish populations, possibly because of the influx of European DNA over a period of centuries. In European culture, prior to the 20th century, red hair was often seen as a stereotypically Jewish trait: during the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish. In Italy, red hair was associated with Italian Jews, and Judas was traditionally depicted as red-haired in Italian and Spanish art. Writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair. The stereotype that red hair is Jewish remains in parts of Eastern Europe and Russia.” (Footnotes omitted.)
I believe that there are DNA studies demonstrating that somewhat some migratory Jewish males took wives from local populations and converted them to Judaism rather than the males converting to Christianity. I’d guess that the DNA from rapes is quite small compared to Jewish males taking wives from outsiders.
Besides, we know that there were fair Jews in the Bible. Judaism has never been about DNA only.
Two of my cousins had red hair and it was not straight red hair. Freckles too
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