Waleed Almousa, a Palestinian-American who is fluent in Arabic, had a question.
"I was looking at Loewenstein's great pictures of the Tel Aviv fest and noticed this banner–
"and was wondering if '100 Shaloms' is a Hebrew expression or idiom of
some sort.
"In Arabic, a common greeting is 'ya meet hala' which
literally translates to 'o' one hundred hellos.' Just curious."
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Waleed is right. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, apparently used plenty of Arabic words when he recreated the language in the early years of the last century. Ben-Yehuda's memoir is fascinating; he was at first stunned when he arrived in Palestine from Europe to discover people were already living there.
Oh yeah, back in the shtetl, one alway greeted one's neighbour with a hearty "100 Shaloms". I remember it well, ah, memories!
Phil, you forgot the star of David decked out Keffiyahes – and I wouldn't be surprised if there really wasn't a Hebrew idiom like what is shown. Many Arabic folklores, stories and songs revolve around numbers (i.e. A Thousand and One Nights)
Tel Aviv grew due to the Jaffa riots. Dozens of Jews were slaughtered by Arabs in Jaffa causing them teventually o move to Tel Aviv.
There is no such common Hebrew expression. It has probably been stolen, although it could be coincidence also. As for example, "a thousand kisses" would be completely idiomatic in Hebrew as it is French (or any language whose grammar teachers still recall the poetry of Catulus ;-)
Most if not all of the "Hebrew" curses are really well-known Arabic curses. So, they not only took the land, claimed the traditional foods as their own – and even called the famous Palestinian cross stitch embroidery "traditional Israeli embroidery" – they also took the curses and called them their own.
Facts Cause Zionist Food Allergies I noticed that Meyer Levin's Zionist novel entitled The Harvest tries on p. 574 to conflate the Palestinian celebration of the Feast of Nebi Musa with the Three Jewish Pilgrimage Festivals (Shlosha Regalim, שלושה רגלים). Palestinians, who are the descendants of the Judaic populations of the Greco-Roman populations of Judea remembered the extra-Talmudic festivals while ethnic Ashkenazim and other Jewish populations from outside of Palestine as the descendants of converts had no awareness of these festivals whatsoever. (See Jewish, Christians, and Palestinian Holidays.) In Sacred Landscapes Meron Benvenisti discusses the usurpation and Judaization of traditional festivals and Holy Places sacred to Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
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Palestinian colloquial Arabic contains many calques (loan translations) from Palestinian Judaic Aramaic and Mishnaic Hebrew. The great Semitic language experts of the nineteenth and early 20th century consulted Palestinian dialects in order to elucidate difficult passages of the Talmud. In some sense, the colloquial Palestinian Arabic dialects are creoles descended from Hebrew-Aramaic-Arabic pidgins that developed in the Holy Land after the seventh century and provide further proof that Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic populations of the Greco-Roman Kingdom of Judea while Israeli Zionists are simply racist, murderous, genocidal invaders, interlopers, thieves and usurpers.
Priceless.
While we're on the subject of the Star of David, the hexagram was used far and wide in the East and the Middle East before it showed up on Israel's flag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram
I remember when a Palestinian expedition of Palestinian embroidery came to the US, it disappeared before it could be displayed. It probably is now Hebrew embroidery….
Yeah. The Arabs were kind of in a pissy mood because they had realized the western allies had royally screwed them. Below compliments your little snipet. Thanks. In Palestine mass Jewish immigration commenced in accordance with the British policy of establishing a Jewish national home. Palestinians perceived the arrival of 10,000 Jewish immigrants between December 1920 and April 1921 as a harbinger of the future. A riot that started in Jaffa between radical leftist and centrist Zionist groups quickly involved the Palestinians, who also attacked the immigration hostel, a symbolic target of their hostility. Forty-eight Palestinians and forty-seven Jews were killed and 219 people wounded. From Jaffa, Palestinian rioting spread to rural areas, fueled by wild rumors of Jews killing Arabs. Several Palestinians were killed by British soldiers in an effort to defend Jewish settlements."
Here is a little bit about a book by an israeli author by the name of Alon Tal. The name of the book is "pollution in a promised land." it tells the story of how Israel’s rapid economic development has come at a high environmental price; it traces the roots of Israel’s current water crisis to bad planning and short sightedness in the early years of the State; one chapter relates the staggering success, or disastrous stupidity (depending on your perspective) of the JNF’s forestry policies. (The JNF planted over 200 million trees in Israel making it the only country in the world with a net positive tree balance over the last century; the only problem was that the fir trees that were mostly planted while perfect for Northern Europe, were inappropriate to the local environment and have caused great damage to local ecosystems.) Tal recounts the haphazardness of Israel’s urban growth, the lack of coherent transport policies and the adoption of car-based suburban development models which, today, people see are wrong for the United States, and all the more wrong for Israel, a country the size of New Jersey.
Israeli's try but can't do Arab food either.
Same as the swastika.
So what's new? Jewish take over of goy scientific findings and the celebration of same as Jewish are not new. Jews use Science the same way they use everything, for political Jewish purposes. The reason the USA advanced in air systems is solely because they contracted with German Nazis. Hard fact. The USSR followed suit, ripping off the ME-262 and the V bombs over England. Modern medicine also owes a debt to the NAZI doctors. Not very pretty, is it?
Like to add another factoid to the list of this thread. I remember when one the claims supporting Ashkenazi supperiority in managing the lands of Palestine were their ability to make the desert bloom. Besides ignoring that the native Palestinians had a vibrant agricultural before it is true that the Israilis increased land productivity. What has been left out of this story is that they did so by importing powerful pumping facilities that were able to tap the deep water aquifer along the coastal plain. Today those aquifers are suffering salination that is the result of over pumping. The native Palestinians maintained agriculture on those coastal plains for thousands of years using shallow water wells. The Israelis degraded that natural resource within 40 years. Today, Israel is dependent on the high land aquifers from the west bank. That is one resource that the Israelis cannot afford to relinquish. Not if they want to keep their green lawn, swimming pool standard of life they imported from the west.
No, Phil. The "100" in "100 Shaloms" refers to the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv's founding. There is no saying or phrase in Hebrew that I know that refers to 100 hellos or anything of that sort.