Travel  A Trip to the Past
Kinneret colony celebrates 100th anniversary
Nadav Man
Published: 20.10.08, 13:44
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1. respect to those pioneers
will ,   lebanon   (10.20.08)
even if i am lebenese who is currenly considered in a state of war with israel , i cant but to look with respect to such families who honored their history and morales and came after thousands of years to their anncestor lands to revive their existanse. such famlies are the one who made the world familiar with the word jewish again , if not for them the word israeili wouldnt had heard except in musems . i wonder how many voices now days in current israel is so far away from those first settlers , as if they were of a far strange nation than those pioneers .
2. You are right!
Hertzel ,   Tiberias, Israel   (10.20.08)
Thanks for your positive comment, Wil. However, it is sad that new generations hardly ever look back and learn from what the past was like...and act accordigly.
3. note the lack of trees
bob ,   potomac usa   (10.20.08)
the only tree was the so-called suicide plam tree not far from the Kinneret cemetary. The date palms were eventually imported from Iraq. There is a facsinating photo of the bare Kinneret located in the archives library of Degania Bet.
4. #1, I was very touched by your post.
Jake   (10.20.08)
Respect to you and good will, sir!
5. Settlers they were, and settlers will always be
Salameh ,   Gaza, Palestine   (10.20.08)
This land is NOT yours, PERIOD.
6. zichron
humanitarians   (10.21.08)
Compared to the heretics of the soviet union where they escaped fom they were the greatest of people
7. Kinneret Colony
Count Dracula ,   Los Angeles USA   (10.21.08)
These photos remind me of the photos in the Mormon library in Salt Lake. Pioneers are a special breed. People who only want to live life within their means and develop families, communities, and security. This sprit seems to have been lost around the world. Modern citizens, for the most part it seems, only want to have part of the developments without any contribution on their part. These pioneers never asked for welfare, food stamps, free housing. No, they knew their existance depended on their own efforts and that of their community. Sadly we have long since lost these principals. Thanks for the nostalgic photos and comments.
8. the differance
sandi ,   nablus   (10.21.08)
my grand mother died in 1979 she was 103 years old .she told me about the life in her youth .poverty hard and ignorance no education .. these people in photo apear educated and rich ... one american profesor in history said that the war between jews and arabs on palastine land is between educated rich immegrants and poor uneducated palastinians .. but now evrything is changed
9. re Gaza
Matthew   (10.21.08)
Have you ever noticed that the name of Jerusalem in Hebrew is Yerushalim, while in Arabic it is Al-Quds? Now, why do you think the name the world knows the holy city by is so much closer to the Hebrew? The answer is simple: Jerusalem is a Jewish city, and has been for thousand of years. When your "prophet" was still robbing honest Arab traders Jerusalem had been the home of the Jews for more than 1,500 years.
10. 5-Nobody in Gaza has skills&spirit to do as these pioneers
Alan ,   SA   (10.21.08)
11. The land is ours because we are ours.
Boaz ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (10.21.08)
This is our homeland and birthland. People without a land are been owned by everyone but themselves. Now that we own land and political sovereignty we are subject to no one but ourselves. Those who deny us land and history assume ownership on our past, on our identity, on our flesh. See the systematic deliberate killing of our women and children under the argument this is not or land. Owning other people, ideologically or physically is the true hallmark of racism as is the systematic mass killing of civilians. Well! We are free, self ruled sovereign nation like most nations on earth. And it’s the bigots who are locked in the Gaza strip.
12. They bought the land so it doesn't belong to you
Bill ,   US   (10.21.08)
The concept of paying for ownership rights is so simple to the rest of the world except to arabs.
13. They weren’t rich sandi.
Boaz, ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (10.21.08)
Rich Jews in the land of Israel in those days were very few in numbers. My own grand parents lived in a shack and a one-room apartment. In fact Israel was a third world country until the 70’s. And sandi these people do not appear rich, they appear confidant and committed. The abusing rich class were the Arab land owners who incited a devastating hard line from which the poor and uneducated Palestinians suffered the most.
14. What makes some one an owner
Asem ,   ME   (10.27.08)
If you said that Jews lived there before Palestinains. Well Palestinans have been there for the last 1500 years. So to become a citizen of a country you need to stay there for a maximum of 10 years?
15. Treidel's
Barbara Dane ,   Nevada,USA   (09.15.09)
I am looking for my family who lived at Moshara Kinneret, their names are Ofra and Gabi Treidel. If you can help me find them I would greatly appreciate it. The last time I stayed with them was in early 1980's. Thank you
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