A Liberation strategy that worked

[Ahneeahm]

A living, working, fully functioning and rapidly growing paradigm of Re-Afrikanization exists today in Northeast Africa.

African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

The pioneers of this movement left America in 1967 with the intention on building a new nation founded upon godly principles and African/Edenic cultural expressions, a return to our pre-European social customs, traditions and values. With no significant amount of money, no pre-arranged agreements with the state of Israel, no guarentee that we would even be allowed to settle peacefully in the land of our ancestors and no guns, knives, rocket launchers or otherwise 'persuasive means of defending ours position, our spiritual leader Ben Ammi led 350 African-Americans on a moden-day exodus out of America on their way to the Promised Land.

Remember, this was at a time of cataclysmic social upheaval in America, we were living in apartheid conditions, treated as subhuman and subjected to both physical, spiritual and psychological attacks. The land of our enemies was destroying us, and our minds were buried deep in the graves of confusion, despair, emptiness and anger. The souls of our people were crying out for redemption, but the minds of our people knew not what that meant. It seemed like there was no way out. And it was during this same historical season that it was declared that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's objective was to 'Prevent the Rise of a Black Messiah,' i.e; a savior, deliverer or God-chosen liberator.

Our spiritual leader Ben Ammi Ben Israel (simply called "Brother Ben" at the time) reasoned that in this quest for true freedom, we must have able to invoke the spirit of God into our struggle, on our side, if we are to ever win. Looking at history from a spiritual perspective, you can plainly see that we werent snatched away from Eden and dragged into the hells of North America to be blessed. The fact of the matter is that God wasnt on our side and it seems as if their has always been an 'invisible hand' at our throats in this land, causing for us to perpetually fail in any attempt to free ourselves. Prophetically, our people had been driven under the dominion of the ungodly, and there we would remain until we corrected that which got us into this predicament.

This is why Huey Newton, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Elijah Muhammad and Noble Drew Ali havent been able to correct our condition, there is a spiritual component missing in this struggle for liberation, and either they dont have it or they dont know how to use it right, because the problems persist.

Isaiah 51
18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

19These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? 20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

A truly perplexing social condition, it defies practical logic and reasoning to assume that the former of all things, we who built the pyramids, crafted Solomon's temple and circumnavigated the oceans would find ourselves in such a predicament. There has got to be something else involved in this, something that is not quite visible to the carnal eye, because just 500 years ago the Europeans thought the world was flat. They werent that intelligent, they werent that strong, they werent that powerful.

Africa had ships, and weapons, and armies, silver and gold to trade and all the natural minerals and resources you could ask for. But the one thing that we can all agree on is the fact that when this nation of fierce countenance came down from the lands of the north, minds bent on destruction and souls thirsting for evil, we simply didnt have God.


Jeremiah 50

6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.


DEUTERONOMY
48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

36The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

So if the Almighty God played a role getting us into this situation, to be extricated from this hell on earth would require His approval, it has to be in His best interests. But the only way to find out if this is true or not is to do it, then come back later and asses the end result. So Ben Ammi guided us into this proverbial championship fight, not fighting to the strength of the opponent (politics, economics, military strength or empty religous ideology) but with all of our attention being turned on the laws, instructions, guidelines and prophecies of God.

We concluded that if the Bible truly is the Word of God then the application of that knowledge should be able to produce a certain effect. But the time for guesswork and hoping and praying was over, the "theology of waiting" had put our people in a hole. Men of God are men of action, so 40 years ago we left, seeking to fulfill the will of God in the land of God, in order that we may once again become the Sons and Daughters of God, as opposed to 'Negros' or 'coons' or Uncle Toms.

HOSEA 10:11Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

EZEKIEL 37
11Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

And in the 40 years of us being in the land we have developed our own educational institutions, our own economic system, our own food service industry, our own healthcare program and our own agri-businesses. We have not compromised our backed down from anyone or anybody, yet never had to resort to violence in all our dealings with the State. We've broken the bonds of this captivity, and are now raising children in Holiness, in a peaceful environment, self-governing and self-defining our own objectives.

Once again, it doesnt seem that significant if you look at it with the carnal eye. Secular historians will jot this down as a group of blacks from america who live in Israel and are doing okay, but those who understand our history will see something different. For the last 400+ plus years, everything involving our people has been going downhill, no positive upward movement at all, across the board. Everywhere you go on the planet today our people are losing, so much to the point where the concept of 'winning' has been transformed to just 'losing less than you were before.' From the stability of the family structure, to our position in the economic arena, the failures of our healthcare system, the conditions of our neighborhoods, everything is deteriorating and degenerative.

But here in this small village in the Negev Desert, everything is regenerative. Regenerative institutions being created by regenerative minds for a regenerative people, who are re-generating a form of spirituality that can not only preach good tidings unto the meek; but bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and open the prisons of those that are bound. With the carnal eye, you'll miss it, shrug it off as some radical sect, but from a spiritual prophetic and truly Afro-centric perspective, you've got to accept it as a living testimony that God Lives.

7Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; (that wont be the testimony any more)
8But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land

Selah

[Dr. G]

With all due respect, rather than being a liberation strategy that worked I see this as a classic example of brainwashed thinking! These peoples alligence to their masters religion is so strong that they have relocated to stolen proprety to be oppressed thousands of miles away!

I am sick and tired of hustlers and pimps pretending to be revolutionaries.
The modus operandi of the Hebrew Isrealites, at least from what I have seen in Chicago, is little more than glorified pimping. They find sisters on welfare and sweet talk them into getting into so-called polygomous relationships, and moving into a "communal house" that is financed by several sisters combining their welfare checks while the brothers sit around pontificating and philosophysing. For years they had an airline ticket scam going (10 million according to the govt proscuters) where they were able to realistically duplicate airling tickets. I know this for a fact because I flew with these tickets on at least two ocassions. When their "leader" Asiel Ben Isreal finally got caught he was convicted and sentenced to 15 yrs I believe ( I went to the trial). Miraculously (or maby not) he was out in less than two years. The word I got from some very highly placed sources was that he cut a deal with the Feds to spy and cooperate for them in return for his "freedom" . Having been to the trial and knowing what kind of time he got this was somewhat believable. What made it absolutly beliveable was his behavior regarding the Lenard Clark beating case.
Lenard Clark was a 12 yr.old boy who along with two of his friends made the mistake of riding their bikes through a hostile white neighborhood. They were accosted and beaten with baseball bats by a white mob led by a 20 yr. old named Caruso. Caruso's dad was hooked up with the Italian mob in Chicago, to a point where one of the white witnesses was murdered in his home and the other one "disappeared" until after the trial.
Caruso's dad, mob connected or not, tried to do everything he could to help his son. One of the things he did was buy negroes for sale. One of thoes negroes was none other than...you guessed it, Asiel Ben Isreal who ran propaganda interference for the Caruso's by publicly stating things like "why can't we all get along" "We must learn to forgive and be our brothers keeper" , "we should focus on love instead of hate" "We should not hold gruges" etc. Maurice Perkins of the Inner city Youth foundation also ran propaganda interference, while Wallace Gator Bradley attempted to use his influence with the Disiples street gang to protect Caruso while he was in jail and Rev. B. Herbert Martin let the Caruso's come to his church (and young Caruso FUCK HIS DAUGHTER) in an effort to show how they really weren't racist!!! ( There were protests on the part of the Black community in front of Martins church and the Hebrew-Isrealite resturant Soul Vegetarian East - please dont' ever eat there).
This is the worst form of uncletomism I have ever personally witnessed in my life. In a normal society they (Ben Isreal, Martin, Perkins and Bradley) would be hung from light poles as an examlpe to what happens to trators who side with racist monsters against Black children. Clark was beaten so badly the he received permanent brain damage and will never be mentally older than 12, no matter how cronologically old he gets! However since this was done in Black amerikkka these tratiors walk around the community safe and unmolested.

If the blind infantile followers of Ben Isreal were to hold him accountable I might feel differently but since they support him, they are just as bad in my book. I just thought you shoud know some history on this so called "revolutionary example that worked" !!!

[Ahneeahm]

A group of black men and women have left the confines of America in the 60s under the leadership of Ben Ammi and since then none of them have been killed in a drive-by. None of them have died of lung cancer, none of them have arterial scleroris or any serious life-threatening illnesss. None of the children live in fear of being raped, stabbed, shot, molested, beat up at school or taught to be inferior. Not one soul lives in the Village of Peace wondering if his children are going to starve. There are no incidences of homelessness or extreme poverty. Sisters arent afraid to go to the store at night by themselves, gang violence is non-existence.

And this testimony comes from the midst of former African-Americans. Ben Ammi was born in 1939, under the apartheid-like conditions of being black in America. He wasnt highly educated, he didnt have any pre-arranged agreements with foreign decision-makers, he had no far-reaching political influence or economic power, yet he managed to fulfill the dreams of so many of the black leaders that came before him.


Where is the Black man's government? Where is his king and his kingdom?
Where is his president, his country, his men of big affair? I could not
find them, and then I declared, I will help to make them."
Marcus Garvey

"We need some African power, some great center of the race where our physical, pecuniary and intellectual strength may be collected -Edward Wilmont Blyden

We are going to keep watch over the lands of our country so that they truly profit her children.We are going to restore ancient laws and make new ones which will be just and noble"
Patrice Lumumba,

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
Martin Luther King




So now here we are, as a people, in the Promised Land, self-governing, self-defining and self-expanding. We have our own just and noble laws, we grow and eat our own food,, we own and operate our own institutions, and people come to us in search of guidance and support now. Our 'men of big affairs' move to and fro about this planet as impact people, decision makers. We have effectively and observably moved from the tail to the head, in the 40some years since Ben Ammi has had the vision.

You can think of men as trees, with various different sizes, functions, and relationships to the environment. They say you are supposed to judge a tree by the fruit that it bears and every seed must yield according to its kind. That statement leaves no room for debate, because a good tree will yield good fruit and a bad tree will simply yield bad fruit. It simply means that if you plant oranges you cant get tomatoes, if you plant the wrong stuff, the results will bear testimony of that. No way one man can oversee the development of the largest succesful re-establishing of African-Americans outside of America in history, just by a fluke. This cannot be an accident or a glitch of some sorts, it is the yield of a seed, the end result of applied Truth.

In the 60s we were given the seeds of economic empowerment, we were handed the seeds of educational involvement, we were given the seeds of political enrollment, and we planted those seeds. Yet despite all of our greatest leaders greatest efforts, the results remain the same: suffering. No justice, no peace, no equality, no ffreedom. There was one man offering a different solution for our people and he guaranteed success if his seed(idea) was planted. So now we look all around in 2009 and assess the end results, to determine who was bringing the truth and who was telling a lie.

Economically, the government still prints the money and controls every level of finance in America, while their decision-making continues to disproportionately affect the black population.

Educationally we have more black lawyers and doctors and teachers than ever but remain the most incarcerated, health-afflicted and uneducated group in America.

And in the political arena the opponent still has total dominance and control over every single law, statute and ordinance that is passed in this land,he doesnt need to ask us permission to do anything..but we've still got to petition and write to him if we want something pushed.

So we can see clearly now that those seeds that we were given havent yielded the true substance of freedom. And what of that one guy talking about leaving America, purging ourselves from this ungodly western mentality and lifestyle while seeking to restore our true African/Edenic moral, cultural and spiritual standards? Oh, well he is responsible for more African souls being returned to the continent than anyone else on the history of the planet. In 40 years he has developed a civilization that has completely eradicated lung cancer, homeless and starvation. In 40 years he has developed a platform of social development that exists outside of the context of crime, disease, poverty and death.

It is easy to misunderstand what kind of movement this is if you dont know about the work we're doing in Africa. If you havent heard of the Ghanaian Mayor Courage Quashigah and his being named Africa's Best Health Minister due to the influence of the African Hebrew Development Agency, i can see why you would have doubts. If you werent aware of the fact that Soul Vegetarian Restaurant is the largest Vegan Food Chain on the planet with locations in Africa, Israel, Europe, Australia and all over America, I would give you a pass. If no one has ever taught you that all disease is preventable and has gave you the Dimona Model as an example, it makes sense that you would think we're crazy.

But once you understand what it is that we have actually accomplished, once you understand the actual reality of this nation at Jerusalem, once you begin to place everything within its proper historical context and not see things from a slanted perspective, your viewpoints and opinions about the African Hebrew Israelites should change.

As far as all the things we had to do in our early days in order to make this vision a reality, I'd like to use the words of Malcolm X to explain them

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Anyone who truly understands the nature of a nationalistic struggle will have to understand that there are certain components that will have to come into play in order to bring about the proper conclusion. I always think its funny to hear people fuss about some airline ticket scheme that freed hundreds of African-Americans from the clutches of this social system when these very same critics will pump their fists and shout at the idea of picking up guns and overthrowing the government.

Nasik Asiel was brought under arrest through what is called the RICO conspiracy act, which was one of the tools used by the system to discredit and incarcerate any of the strong black brothers and sisters move in a direction towards liberation in that time. When the truth about the charges were made known unto certain key individuals, the case fell apart and our great Prince ws set free.

You say you got a word from some very 'high placed' sources that the Prince somehow bought his way out of that situtation...well if you are familiar with African-American history at all you would be a little bit more skeptical about trusting the perspective of those who sit as sources in all those 'high places' of authority.

And then you talk about multiple families living together in one house as if thats not common in inner-city African-American life. Where are you from? Being broke and black in Chicago, during the 1970s, while trying to figure out a way to get you and your family from one end of the earth to another....I hope you dont think thats easy! There was no pimping or anything goin on, its just that these brothers and sisters were all dedicated towards fulfilling a nationalistic objective. Sacrifices MUST be made sometime, nothing is going to fall out of the sky and allow you to make three wishes...thats mythical.

Pre-determined definitions and perspectives have clouded your mind and disoriented your thinking to the point where it has been made difficult to understand reality. This struggle has been just as any other struggle, it simply falls into a different context. We are a prophetically spiritual and nationalistic movement, with all of our focus and attention being geared towards the redemption of ourselves, our people and our land. Redemption is simply 'to free from what distresses or ails,' period. This is not a religion or some old restuarant company. It is much much larger than that.

Before he died, Martin Luther King knew that the next stage of the struggle for our people (we've got some difficult days ahead) was going to take place in the Promised Land(Israel). And he had an understanding of the fact that he wouldnt necessareily be the one leading us through it (i might not get there with ya) but said it dont matter. He said he had a vision wherein he hs seeen the promised land and assured us that at some point we would make it their. There is only one Promised Land that a Baptist Preacher with a Ph.D in religous studies could be talking about, and it aint Washington DC.

Dr. King's words certainly havent fallen to the ground, and our community in Israel does in fact verify the accuracy of his statements. We have gotten to the Promised Land, we hve become deeply rooted in the Promised Land and we are continuing the struggle now as 'winners' as opposed to just 'fighters.' Anybody can fight the devil, but only the very elect of God can beat him, and be called a winner.

He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

I just thought you shoud know some history on this so called "revolutionary example that worked" !!!