Elijah and Israel’s Black Panther Party

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I am ‘The Messenger’. On this day, November 15, 2023, I bring you the good news! Judea-Christianity ceases to exist. The days of The Great Lie – are over! I am the New Elijah, and the New Malachi, a name that means “Messenger”. The book of Malachi was written by Ezra – who employs the alleged words of God, and His words are the last in the Torah.- that call for the Second Coming of Elijah – who comes when John the Baptist was born. This is the Hinge-pin, the Alpha and the Omega.

John Malachi

Judgment and Covenant Renewal

[a]“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty.

“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”

In John 1:19-28, John the Baptist is asked if he is Elijah, and he denies that he is Elijah (or the Prophet or the Christ). Yet in Matthew 11:14, Jesus says that John the Baptist is the “Elijah who is to come,” referring to the promise of Elijah to come before the day of the Lord in Malachi 4:5-6. The Gospel of Luke makes the same point about John as Elijah, as the angel who predicts John’s birth in Luke 1:17 says that John will go before the Messiah “in the spirit and power of Elijah.” The Gospel of Mark also affirms John is Elijah, as Jesus talks about a Elijah who has come and restored all things but also suffered in Mark 9:11-13 – words that point to John’s work in Mark 1:2-6 and John’s death in Mark 6:17-29.

The Black Panthers (Hebrew: הפנתרים השחורים, translit. HaPanterim HaShkhorim) were an Israeli protest movement of second-generation Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Middle Eastern countries. It was one of the first organizations in Israel with the mission of working for social justice for Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, drawing inspiration and borrowing the name from the African-American organization Black Panther Party. It is also sometimes referred to as the Israeli Black Panthers to distinguish them from the original American group.

History[edit]

The movement was founded early in 1971 by young people in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem, in reaction to discrimination against Mizrahi Jews, which existed since the establishment of the state.[1] The movement’s founders protested “ignorance from the establishment for the hard social problems”, and wanted to fight for a different future. All of the initial ten members were children of Moroccan immigrants,[2] around ages 18–20, and most had dropped out of elementary school and spent some time in juvenile delinquent institutions. They were influenced by the Community Work Division of the Jerusalem municipality, who introduced them to the mass media as an outlet for expressing their demands for change. Other forces of influence were anti-Zionist high-school and university students.[3]

The Black Panthers felt that discrimination against Mizrahi Jews could be seen in the different attitude of the Ashkenazi establishment towards the immigrants from the Soviet Union. While most other Mizrahi organizations in Israel were religious, such as Shas, the Black Panthers were secular in orientation.[4][5]

After the 1947–1949 Palestine war, Musrara went from being a wealthy Arab neighborhood to a neglected area with a dangerous no-man’s land full of mines, on the border of Israel and Jordan‘s West Bank. Jewish immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa were not given adequate housing by the Israeli government and many settled in Musrara.[6] After the 1967 Six-Day War, Musrara went from being a dangerous neighborhood on the border, to being the center of a united Jerusalem. The government began planning to rebuild the neighborhood with high-rise apartment complexes for Soviet immigrants, meaning that the North African Jewish residents would be displaced.[7] Charlie BittonSa’adia Marziano, Roni Orovitz, Reuven Abergel, Meir Levi[8] and Kochavi Shemesh[2] were prominent members of the Party in its early days. They succeeded to make people believe that their movement would improve the lives of the disenfranchised and received media attention.[8]

Protest activities[edit]

In the beginning of 1971, the establishment of the movement was publicized, and it was distributed that the leaders of the movement had criminal records. The authorities became worried that the events of the Wadi Salid riots would be repeated.[9] Shimshon Vigodar made a leaflet before the first organized demonstration and along with three other members of Matzpen, hung them around Musrara. While distributing the leaflet, they were arrested by the police. Vigodar pointed out the difference in treatment towards the newly formed Black Panthers and Matzpen: “When we were in Matzpen, there was no scenario in which we would be thrown in jail for no reason before a protest. I don’t remember in the history of Matzpen that we were ever arrested for incitement.”[10]

At the beginning of March 1971, the Israel Police denied the Black Panthers a permit for a demonstration, due to some of them having criminal records, and some members of the Party were arrested to prevent the demonstration. The authorities promised the Panthers that funds would be allocated towards Jerusalem neighborhoods.[11] The Panthers ignored this decision and proceeded with the demonstration without a permit, gathering in front of Jerusalem’s City Hall on March 2, 1971, to protest the distress of poverty, the gap between poor and rich in Israel, and the ethnic tensions within Jewish Israeli society. They passed out a leaflet calling for actions to stop class and ethnic discrimination within Jewish Israeli society and for the release of the arrested organizers.[12] The protest gained more attention in part due to the fact that it was illegal. About 200 to 300 people attended, primarily Israeli and foreign students and some intellectuals, rather than young people from Musrara.[13] The movement successfully built a base of supporters, both in the public and in the media.

On 18 May 1971, “The Night of the Panthers”, the Israeli Black Panthers organized between 5,000 and 7,000 people to gather in a mass demonstration against racial discrimination. The protest started in Davidka Square in Jerusalem and when they started heading to Zion Square, seven hours of clashes between police and demonstrators began.[2][14] The demonstrators also demanded to change the name of the square to Kikar Yehadut HaMizrah (Eastern Jewry Square). This demonstration was also held without police permission. Historian Oz Frankel describes “A police water cannon sprayed rioters with jets of water dyed green, only increasing the panic on the street. More than 100 people were arrested, many just onlookers, with several instances of police brutality recorded. Arrests continued into the following day. Close to midnight, demonstrators threw three Molotov cocktails.” Prime Minister Golda Meir dismissed the protestors, calling for unity among Jews. Oz continues, “The government then pressured the Panthers to join the establishment‐approved Alliance of Moroccan Immigrants. The Panthers relented, temporarily, so that their jailed comrades would be released.”[14]

Prior to the demonstration, representatives of the Panthers had met with Golda Meir on 13 April, who characterized them as “not nice people”.[15][16] She saw the leaders of the movement as lawbreakers and refused to recognize them as a social movement. The violent protest of 18 May brought the government to discuss seriously the Panthers’ claims and a public committee was established to find a solution.

According to the conclusions of that committee, discrimination did exist at many levels in society. Following this, the budgets of the offices dealing with social issues were enlarged significantly. However, the 1973 Yom Kippur War soon changed the government’s list of priorities, and most of these resources were turned, again, towards security needs.

Following “The Night of the Panthers” and the Panthers’ newfound publicity, the group had hoped to build a nationwide, grassroots movement, but was unable to due to internal conflicts and limited organizational ability. They did organize several demonstrations during March through August 1971. The group had an active periphery of supporters made up of younger boys from Musrara, and some committed helpers, including intellectuals and anti-Zionist student groups. They in many ways maintained their structure as a neighborhood group prior to becoming the Black Panthers, with Marciano as leader of the group. The Panthers made connections with a large network of people in the establishment and outside of it, such as members of KnessetHistadrut, and the Jewish Agency. The large-scale response to the Black Panthers, especially from the State, declined after several months, as the Panthers were unable to mobilize large parts of the population.[3]

Move to electoral politics[edit]

The Panthers eventually moved into electoral politics, but without success, at least in part because of internal disputes and struggles. In the 1973 Knesset elections the party won 13,332 votes (0.9%), just short of the 1% threshold. For the 1977 elections Charlie Biton ran on the Hadash list. He was re-elected three times, before leaving Hadash to establish the Black Panthers as an independent Knesset faction in 1990. Some of the movement’s leaders integrated into either the main Israeli parties, specific ethnic parties such as Tami or Shas, and through them promoted the Mizrahi Jews’ agenda. Reuven Abergel has since been active in the struggle for social justice and peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories as a member of various groups and movements. He currently serves on the board of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow.

The young Black Panther activists raised public consciousness to the “Oriental question”, which subsequently played a role in Israeli political debate in the 1970s and 1980s, contributing to Likud success in that period. Although inequalities remain, many Mizrahi Jews have over the years entered the mainstream of Israeli political, military, cultural and economic life, including Moroccan-born Amir Peretz and David Levy, Iraqi-born Shlomo HillelBenjamin Ben-Eliezer and Yitzhak Mordechai and Iranian-born Shaul Mofaz and Moshe Katzav.

Israeli government infiltration[edit]

In 2007, the Israel State Archives released documents revealing that Ya’akov Elbaz, one of the Black Panthers who had met with Golda Meir, was a police informant. He was older than the Party members at about forty and was known for being involved in organized crime. The police recruited him to work undercover in the Black Panthers. The police paid him and ignored his pimp activities. “The police were worried that the Panthers would use violence like the U.S. Black Panthers, so they wanted to be informed on their activities,” said detective Avraham Turgiman.[17]

Elbaz joined the Party shortly after the first demonstration and had a prominent presence because he supplied large sums of money and strongly advocated for violence.[7] He became one of the leaders of the movement, and at one point was elected as the President of the organization. Kochavi Shemesh, another member of the Party, said that Elbaz was one of the leaders who promoted violent struggle, provided Molotov cocktails, and was a provocateur on behalf of the police.[17] Charlie Bitton said that he now knows that Elbaz “was planted by the police in the organization to try to make it look more radical.”

The State Archives include internal newsletters and conversations revealing daily activities, likely information provided by Elbaz. It is likely that the police had a number of informants in the Party besides Elbaz. This introduced distrust to the Party, contributing to tension and discord.[7]

The name “Black Panther”[edit]

The Israeli Black Panthers adopted the name of the United States Black Panther Party along with groups in the United Kingdom, West Indies, West Africa, and South Asia. The groups were united by migrant identities and adopted grassroots strategies and interethnic solidarity in order to resist racist social structures. The name was suggested in Israel by one of the founders of the party, Sa’adia Marziano.[7]

There are two theories on how the group came to the name.[17] One is that Marziano or Abergel met with Angela Davis prior to choosing the name. Davis, who was involved with the Black Panther Party of the US, may have been involved in helping the Israeli Party develop its ideology. The other theory is that a social worker in the neighborhood told them that they sounded like the Black Panthers from the U.S.[8]

Marziano was an organizer against police profiling and in 1970, at a meeting with a group of organizers, he allegedly suggested that they form a Black Panther Party in Israel. He wanted the group to have organization and militancy similar to the original Black Panthers. They also chose the name because they thought it would give them media attention, which proved to be true.[7]

The group in part adopted the name in order to give it recognition among Ashkenazi Jews inside and outside of Israel, many of whom had American backgrounds and would be familiar with African American history. They thought the name would be provoking, and keep the group from being forgotten like Eastern organizations before them. While the group knew little about the original Black Panthers, they identified with the name broadly, and it inspired them to express protest politics. The group did have knowledge of African American history.[7] They renamed their neighborhood of Musrara, Harlem/Musrara.[18] They identified with African Americans and viewed themselves as being subjected to discrimination and racism, as well. They believed that ethnic and class discrimination divided Israeli society into two, and did not believe assimilation was an option.[7]

Commemoration[edit]

Black Panthers Way in Jerusalem
“They’re Not Nice” Alley in Jerusalem

During the late 1990s and early 2000s a movement called the Russian Panthers (as a reference to the Black Panthers)[19] was formed after attacks against Russian-speaking immigrants.[20][21][22]

A group of activists named two routes through Jerusalem’s Musrara neighborhood “Black Panthers Way” and “They’re Not Nice Alley” in 2011, the latter taken from the comments made about the Panthers by Golda Meir.[23]

Eugene Black Panthers and Ferry Bridge Village

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press

The Eugene Black Panther Party membership was about 20 members with 15 underground members. Howard Anderson was the Captain and Ray Eaglin, the General.

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Being an investigative reporter, a historian, and a seer, is about the most thrilling thing you can be. Yesterday I was going to post….All Roads Lead To Marilyn….and suggest those four streets on the Waterfront be named after her….Marilyn Road. Marilyn Street. Marilyn Way. Marilyn Lane. Why? Because this White Woman has done more for the Black Man, and the Indian Man, than is believable!

Above is a pic of Marilyn with her half-sister, Shanah. M went to live with her in Paris after graduating from High School. She found herself surround by radical blacks. After Shanah disappeared, her mother saw Eldridge Cleaver on the Pat Robertson show, and sent him a letter asking if he knew where Shanah was. He did. There was a reunion. I met S in Eugene. I doubt she knew there was a chapter of the Black Panthers in Eugene. The founders came from Compton that is next to Watts when M and S went to hear Jazz. S was married to Les McCann’s drummer, Ron Jeffries. J.J. Johnson made dinner for M when she was fifteen. The LA Story – is fiction.

For some reason I wanted to hold a contest to rename the Waterfront streets after Lena and her sisters who came up from the South to make ships for the war. I then found the truth in a thesis written by a graduate of the U.of O.

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The Ferry Bridge Village was located in Alton Baker Park where the Black Culture Festival was held. I am sure they did not know. You could see this Hobo Camp from EWEB and the Waterfront Park. Many of the black residents came up from the Bay Area where they worked making Liberty Ships. When the war ended, the cities the Government made for them – were abruptly closed. I founded The Marin Shipmates around this travesty!

I’m waiting to hear the decision of the Judge who stopped the investigation of Donald Trump who stole Top Secret documents. Imagine if the Black Panther stole Top Secret documents – and rushed the Capitol as an angry mob bent on overthrowing the U.S. Government. We would be watching public executions by firing squad.

Shanah lived with Carlos Moore who wrote a book about Fela that became a his musical. I want to write a musical titled…..Compton on the McKenzie. It’s about Black Panther relocating from Compton to Eugene Oregon. This musical play – writes itself!

John Presco

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Black Panthers | MNCH Exhibits (uoregon.edu)

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Black Panther Party Photo Eugene Oregon 1969 Archival Print – Etsy Australia

Oregana photos: Black Panthers emerge & U of O … | UO Office of the President | Oregon Digital

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The Marin Shipmates

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press

Yesterday I am sitting on the bus bench looking at these two good ol boys come out of a black Japanese-built beater – with a Confederate flag on top. They had big guts and grey hair. They were letting it all hang out after Franklin Graham gave our President ABSOLUTION in the White House Rose Garden. They then went inside a phone store. I debated about crossing the street and yanking that flag from atop the car. These seniors were about my age. Were they looking to go down in a blaze of glory? I then thought about going over and talking to them, inform them I am about to form a branch of the Black Panther Party called…

MARIN SHIPMATES

I bought MARINSHIPMATES.COM  before I went to see my doctor. The night before, I watched a old movie about MARINSHIP. It was about the Government BUYING land in Marin County, and city named MARIN CITY to build Liberty Ships – and oil tankers. Then I see King Faidal and his bodyguards coming aboard the flag ship

THE TAMALPIAS

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End Time Elijah Of Oregon

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press

Elijah’s Cup and Chair

Posted on June 19, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press

President Biden is coming to Oregon on Friday. Today, members of NATO are discussing the possibility of nuclear war with Russia. We are a member of NATO.

Herbert Armstrong was Oregon’s homegrown prophet. I took over his church ‘The Radio Church of God” and titled my church ‘The New Radio Church of God’ that would tend to the homeless. There is a good chance Christine Drazan will be elected because she is a Christian, and, she blames Democrats for all Oregon’s ills – that Jesus promises to FIX upon his return. I know some churches help the homeless and people suffering from addictions. Couldn’t Trump and his Christian allies have done more to help the poor and disenfranchised. Mohammed bin Salman gave Kirshner two billion dollars. A billion dollars would have gone a long way to FIX Oregon’s homeless problem? How about CRIME? Didn’t Trump want to shoot AFTA demonstrators in the leg? Was that in Portland?

On October 15, 2019, I declared I was The End Time Elijah. That was three years ago. THINGS have become – even more impossible! No one – dreamed we would be hearing a Russian leader threaten every American – and our allies – with Nuclear Holocaust! Did any Christian dream a powerful leader of the Islamic World would back a Russian leader – a month after he first made these threats? Is there anything in the Bible that – warns all of us about these events? How much money did the Christian churches collect in their tithing basket this year? Did any preacher shout out a warning? Perhaps the money collected can go to helping the homeless get off the street. Maybe God is saying He only needs one good prophet – who does not charge a dime?

It appears The End of this Democracy – is at hand! The Election Deniers are forgiving everyone who declares they are one with them. They are publicly declared innocent of all things! This RIGHT TO JUDGE is owned by declaring Democrats thieves and lairs – who stole the Presidency.This is a lie – and God knows it!

Republican Deniers vow to take revenge. Why shouldn’t President Biden announce in the Rose City – there will be no elections until Christian-Republicans come to their senses? Millions of Christians have promised not to play fair, or obey secular rules. What do they want – but the return of Jesus? Would they settle for the THIRD coming of Elijah?

Here is Trump bragging about arms sales to Mohammed. Did Trump believe he was an ally of Putin. The Christian-recognized rightful President of the United States says the price tag is

“Peanuts for you!”

King Trump should have asked for a kick-back to get the homeless of America’s streets. Instead, The Divinely Chosen President watches Putin bomb the streets of Ukraine into rubble – without bidding his business partners to show mercy, and, sit down for Peace Conferences. Did Mohammed want to SEE what American Intelligence – had on him?

John ‘End Time Elijah’

https://www.lettertolaodicea.net/end-time-elijah#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20and%20the%20belief%20in%20an,God%2C%20been%20explained%20as%20referring%20to%20Church%20doctrines.

http://www.herbert-armstrong.org/Miscellaneous/Mysterious%20End-time%20ELIJAH.pdf

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News

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