Ten Tribes Studies (6 July, 2014, 8 Tammuz, 5774)
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Contents:
1. Question from Someone of Overwhelmingly German Ancestry
2. The Great Irish Famine and Apportioning the Blame.
Addition to article.
3. Max Rambow:Â Snopes is not always credible.
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1. Question from Someone of Overwhelmingly German Ancestry
New comment on your video
Germans are not Israelites!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC9jSewQ75E
duckymagic57
How about those of us who are a mix of some British with a ton of German?
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Brit-Am Reply:
We have our teachings. These are based on our understanding of the sources.
First of all concerning people of German descent in the USA we have an understanding that these were mostly of different stock from the majority of Germans who remained in Germany.
There may naturally be exceptions in both directions.
Among those who support us are many from countries with what we consider to have a majority of non-Israelite inhabitants.
We have (or have had) supporters from Jamaica, India, Brazil, etc as well as inhabitants of the USA etc whose forefathers came mainly from Germany, Hungary, Russia, etc. Quite a few of they who are veteran followers of our postings have some Amerindian Ancestry.
The message goes out. Many accept it as it is. others make their own individual emendations to it.
Not only that BUT the Bible also accepts foreigners who identify with Israel into the Israelite ranks.
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2. The Great Irish Famine and Apportioning the Blame.
Addition to article.
Hunger
The Great Irish Famine by Yair Davidiy
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/16/hunger.html
Eastern Ireland appears to have not been more severely affected than Ulster was.
The British, on the whole, did what they could according to the lights of the time.
Some degree of criminal irresponsibility, foolishness, and malice existed alongside genuine intentions to do what was possible.Â
An Irish government would not necessary have done any better.
Out of the few sources we looked at the most helpful was probably:
Ireland's Great Famine 1845-1849
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/distribution.html
Extracts:
Quote:
Ireland's Great Famine 1845-1849
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/distribution.html
Extracts:
 The farmers in the east depended upon cereal crops, while those in Ulster grew flax. Only in the small farms of west of Ireland, and in parts of Munster, was the potato in a monopolistic position. It is estimated that at the eve of the famine 30% of Irish people were largely or wholly dependant on potatoes for their food. Thus, when the Blight struck it was these people who had nothing to fall back on. In Connaught some have estimated that as many as 25% of the population died.
Those who lived nearer to large cities had more access to imported goods. Although food was exported as usual from Leinster in 1844 and 1845, there was a net import of almost a million tons of grain by 1847. However, these imports naturally reached those nearer to the cities and these are in the east and south. Dublin, Belfast and Derry escaped with almost no effects at all, while Cork and Wexford were relatively better off than their rural environs. It was the inland and especially the western areas that could benefit least from the food of the cities. Given the fact that potatoes are notoriously hard to transport in any case, it would be difficult to get potatoes to Connaught even in a non-famine situation.
More people were killed by malnutrition-related diseases (such as dysentry and scurvy) as well as cholera that swept through the famine-ravaged countryside, than by actual starvation. While already prevalent in the west, many of these diseases spreads most effectively in damp conditions where people live closely together. Dysentry is not caused by hunger, and its incidence was not significantly higher during the famine as before. However, recovery from Dysentry depends upon good nutrition and in many cases this was unavailable. The Cholera epidemic was coincidental to the famine, but was responsible for a large number of deaths. It was the closely packed west that suffered most from these effects.
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Note in the otherwise well-written and balanced account above we find the surprisingly inappropriate comment:
# Given the fact that potatoes are notoriously hard to transport in any case, it would be difficult to get potatoes to Connaught even in a non-famine situation.#
Why should potatoes have been sent to Connaught if grain had have been available? Three times as much grain was brought into Ireland as was sent out but some was still sent out. That which was brought in along with food supplies in general were inequitably distributed. This brings up another point. The blight attacked a particular type of potato. This type had been introduced relatively recently. It had advantages and was easier to raise. The Irish preferred it. Part of the reason why Ulster and other areas were less severely stricken was because they grew another breed of potato. In England they did not understand why after the first visitation of the blight another breed of potato had not been introduced in the stricken regions. This in effect reflects a failure BOTH of Irish society as it then existed and of British rulership.
Finally, concerning the Jews we find:
The Annals of Inisfallen record for the year 1079 CE, records that: "Five Jews came from over sea with gifts to Toirdelbach [king of Munster], and they were sent back again over sea".
If Jews in substantial numbers had have been present in Ireland at the time of the Famine they would probably have been accused of causing the problem.
They may also have done something to help solve it.
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3. Max Rambow:Â Snopes is not always credible.
re
Brit-Am Now no. 2283. Ten Tribes Studies
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now7/2283.html
#1. Warning:
Use Water on Burns NOT anything else!
Snopes is not always credible.
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Brit-Am Reply and Comment.
Max Rambow is a veteran follower of our postings and a supporter of Brit-Am.
He also has his own mailing list and sends out information and links on a wide variety of issues.
His postings includes humorous entries and photos of interest.
We have often found his postings to be of value and on occasion have re-posted them to our own list.
Recently Max re-posted correspondence claiming that egg-white had value in treating the effect of burns.
We too posted this because we thought it of possibly importance.
We then learnt that the Snopes website had deal with this issue and came out against it.Â
[The Snopes website specializes in discussing Urban legends, what gave rise to them, how much truth there may be in them, etc.]
We therefore posted a reference to the Snopes article.
The list from which Max Rambow took his information apparently continues to maintain its position and defend the value of egg white.
They may be right.
They might not.
We are not a party to the issue.