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Ronald Reagan and Belief in the Ten Tribes

26 April 2012, 4 Iyar 5772
Contents:
Introduction.
President Ronald Reagan.
Reagan and the Jews, Selected Extracts.
Did President Reagan Believe Like Brit-Am??
Interim Conclusion.

Reactions and Remarks to the Article:
Bill Rasmussen: Remembering the President.
Craig White: Reagan and the Divine Plan for Britain and America.
Yair Davidiy: Reagan and the Power of His Word!

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Introduction.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 - 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
In future ages Ronald Reagan may be considered one of the greatest World leaders of all time.
Ronald Reagan like everyone else had good and bad points, successes and failures.
His achievements however may have been unprecedented in world history.
It may have been due to Reagan that the Communist Empire collapsed (without a shot being fired) along with several other positive developments.
It was remarked to me that perhaps the success of Reagan was due to chance, that he just happened to be there at the right time when things were happending.
This is unlikely but even if so, Divine Providence chose him to be where he was, when he was.
Not for nothing.
This too says something about him.
Napoleon said, Give me generals with luck. And Reagan had it, he saw it coming, and he made certain to help it along. 

Did Reagan hold similar beliefs to those of Brit-Am concerning the Ten Tribes being in the west?
Probably.
We will return to the matter  towards the end of this article.
First let us recall who Ronald Reagan was.






President Ronald Reagan
Main Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Adapted From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reagan's father was a salesman and a storyteller, the grandson of  immigrants from County Tipperary in the central south of Ireland.
Storytellers and the transmitters of Oral Tradition have a revered place in Irish Culture.
His mother had Scots and English ancestors.

Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. His father nicknamed him "Dutch" because he looked like a Dutchman.
# His first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River in Lowell Park, near Dixon, in 1927. Reagan [claimed to have] performed 77 rescues as a lifeguard, noting that he notched a mark on a wooden log for every life he saved.#
Reagan became a radio, film and television actor.

# According to Paul Kengor, author of God and Ronald Reagan, Reagan had a particularly strong faith in the goodness of people, which stemmed from the optimistic faith of his mother, Nelle, and the Disciples of Christ faith, which he was baptized into in 1922. #

Reagan married Nancy Davis in 1952. It was his second marriage. He had two children from his first marriage and two from his second.
He switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party in 1962. He served as Governor of California, 1967-1975.

In 1981 Reagan defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter and became President.

Under President Jimmy Carter Iran had held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days (from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981). Reagan had campaigned on this issue.
The hostages were formally released into United States custody  just minutes after Reagan was sworn into office.

# During his Presidency, Reagan pursued policies that reflected his personal belief in individual freedom, brought changes domestically, both to the U.S. economy and expanded military, and contributed to the end of the Cold War. Termed the Reagan Revolution, his presidency would reinvigorate American morale and reduce the people's reliance upon government.  #

On March 30, 1981,  John Hinckley, Jr.  attempted to assassinate Reagan and severely wounded him. He recovered.

# Reagan believed that God had spared his life so that he might go on to fulfill a greater purpose. #

Reagan reduced unemployment and inflation.
He lowered taxes and government spending in most areas but increased the defence budget by ca. 40% in his first term.
On the other hand,
During his term the national debt grew. Some beneficiaries of social services suffered from his budgetary cuts.

In 1983 Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada in the Carribean to prevent a Communist takeover.

There were American peacekeeping forces in Beirut, Lebanon.  A suicide truck bomber  caused the deaths of 241 American servicemen and wounded more than 60. Reagan planned retaliation against the responsible party, the Hizbollah, but the mission was aborted and the Marines withdrew from Lebanon in 1984.

# Osama bin Laden would later cite Reagan's withdrawal of forces as a sign of American weakness. #

# In March 1983, Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative [SDI], a defense project that would have used ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. Reagan believed that this defense shield could make nuclear war impossible. #

This came to be known as "Star Wars" .

# David Gergen, former aide to President Reagan, believes that in retrospect, SDI hastened the end of the Cold War. #

Reagan negotiated with Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals.

Reagan was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America."
He described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and supported anti-communist movements worldwide as well as  ordering a massive military buildup in the arms race.
He is said to have co-ordinated his campaign against Communism with the British PM Margaret Thatcher and with the Pope of Rome. He foresaw the collapse of Communism and helped collapse it.
The Americans backed and trained the Mujaheddin of Afghanistan who were resisting a Soviet invasion.
Reagan was careful not to antagonize the Chinese over Taiwan.

His war on drugs in the USA reduced the rate of adolescent drug use.

In 1986  Libya under Gaddafi was bombed in retaliation for a terrorist attack against US forces in Germany.
Consequently Gaddafi attempted to be more placatory towards the west.

The Iran-Contra scandal broke out in 1986 revealing how money from selling arms to Iran had been used to fund anti-Communist guerillas in Nicaragua in Central America.
The involvement of Reagan in this operation was not clear.

Saudi Arabia had increased oil production, resulting in a drop of oil prices in 1985 to one-third of the previous level; oil was the main source of Soviet export revenues.
The Soviets had been overspending on armaments but were unable to keep up with the USA. All this together with mismanagement, planning failures, and malaise, virtually bankrupted the Soviet Union. The result under Gorbachev was the end of Communism.
Reagan received much of the credit and probably deserved it.
Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said of Reagan, "he warned that the Soviet Union had an insatiable drive for military power... but he also sensed it was being eaten away by systemic failures impossible to reform." She later said, "Ronald Reagan had a higher claim than any other leader to have won the Cold War for liberty and he did it without a shot being fired." Said Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada: "He enters history as a strong and dramatic player [in the Cold War]." Former President Lech Valensa of Poland acknowledged, "Reagan was one of the world leaders who made a major contribution to communism's collapse."

Reagan left office in 1989.
# He ranks highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents and is credited for generating an ideological renaissance on the American political right. #

# Reagan's ability to connect with the American people earned him the laudatory moniker "The Great Communicator". Of it, Reagan said, "I won the nickname the great communicator. But I never thought it was my style that made a difference, it was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things." His age and soft-spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image.#

# his support of Israel throughout his presidency earned him support from many Jews, and he became the first Republican ever to win the Jewish vote. #






Reagan and the Jews, Selected Extracts.

REAGAN, RONALD WILSON
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/
judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_16521.html

In 1948 he resigned from the Lakeside Country Club in Los Angeles because of its refusal to permit a Jew to take out membership. In 1967 he strongly supported Israel during the Six-Day War and was the featured speaker at a pro-Israel rally in the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

During his governorship he was instrumental in having a law passed in the California legislature in which banks and savings institutions were authorized to purchase and invest in State of Israel Bonds. During the mid-1970s Reagan had a weekly column in the Jewish Press newspaper, whose readers were mainly Orthodox Jews in New York and other parts of the U.S.A.





President Ronald Reagan and the Jews
http://www.jewishledger.com/2011/02/
president-ronald-reagan-and-the-jews/

Jewish Ledger | 2-18-11
# During the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan had left little doubt about his pro-Israel views. He denounced the PLO as a terrorist organization and described Israel as a 'strategic asset,' a 'stabilizing force,' and a military offset to Soviet influence.

United States financial aid to Israel increased steadily throughout the Reagan years, reaching an unprecedented $3 billion a year, in loans and grants, beginning in 1986. In 1988 Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared to reporters: 'This is the most friendly administration we have ever worked with.'
# During the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan spoke out frequently on the issue of Soviet Jewry, attacking the Soviet Union for its imprisonment of Jewish dissidents and its curtailment of Jewish emigration.

# in Oct. 1986, Reagan would again raise the issue of Soviet Jewry and the importance of the Jewish immigration issue to the people of the United States, telling Gorbachev that 'because Jews want to freely practice their religion,' their freedom to emigrate was imperative.
'Reagan's interest in Soviet Jewry,' as Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel would later recall, 'was immense; it was close to the first issue on the American agenda and was part of the confrontation between the two superpowers.' #





Was Ronald Reagan Good For Jews and Israel?
http://www.heimishheadlines.com/2011/02/
was-ronald-reagan-good-for-jews-and-israel/

# Reagan worked to free of Soviet Jews, and also approved the CIA-sponsored rescue of 500 Ethiopian Jews in 1985 s Operation Joshua. He also was responsible for helping to reform Israel's economy. In 1985, following a severe economic crisis in Israel, which sent inflation rates soaring as high as 445%, the U.S. approved a $1.5 billion emergency assistance package and helped formulate Israel's successful economic stabilization plan. #




Ronald Reagan and the Jews by Jason Maoz
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/
readArticle.aspx?ARTID=1268


..."The Soviet leaders," Shamir added, "told me that every time they met with Shultz, he raised the issue of Soviet Jewry, and they would ask him, 'Why do you do this?' Shultz answered that this was very important."

Elliott Abrams, who served under Shultz as an Assistant Secretary of State, told the Strobers that "The Reagan administration kept beating the Soviet Union over the issue of the Soviet Jews and kept telling them, 'You have to deal with this question. You will not be able to establish the kind of relationship you want with us unless you have dealt with this question....'"

According to Richard Schifter, another assistant secretary of state, when Gorbachev came to Washington in December 1987 for a summit with Reagan, it was just a couple of days after a huge rally for Soviet Jews had been held in the nation's capital "and the person who was the note-taker at the meeting told me that Reagan started out by saying to Gorbachev, 'You know, there was this rally on the Mall the other day.'

"And Gorbachev said, 'Yes, I heard about it. Why don't you go on and talk about arms control?' And for five minutes, Reagan kept on talking about the rally and the importance of the Jewish emigration issue to the United States, when Gorbachev wanted to talk about something else."

The Reagan administration was instrumental in gaining the release in 1986 of prominent Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky, imprisoned for nine years on trumped-up treason charges. Now a government minister in Israel, Sharansky recalled his reaction when, in 1983, confined to a tiny cell in a prison near the Siberian border, he saw on the front page of Pravda that Reagan had labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire."

As Sharansky described it, "Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's 'provocation' quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth - a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us. I never imagined that three years later I would be in the White House telling this story to the president....Reagan was right and his critics were wrong."







Did President Reagan Believe Like Brit-Am??

A delegation representing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) once met with Resident Ronald Reagan.
The delegation included J. (now deceased) who was a Reform Rabbi but strongly pro-Israel and affirmatively Jewish in sentiment.
A source personally known to Yair Davidiy who throughout his life had been very close to Rabbi J. and is otherwise reliable quoted Rabbi J. as saying that:

 President Reagan said he was descended from Irish Kings, that their capital had been named Tara, that Tara meant Torah, and that they were descended from Israelites!

About 10 to 15 years later Yair Davidiy spoke by telephone to Rabbi J.
Yair was on friendly terms with the  family of Rabbi J.
Yair spoke of the meeting and then asked if President Reagan had indeed spoken as quoted.
Rabbi J. confirmed the meeting but denied the words of the President.

Yair then decided to put the matter aside as one of those things that might have been so but could not be confirmed.

A few facts however that now become apparent are worth considering:
The source was reliable and in a position to hear the report immediately after the described meeting took place.
He had attended other meetings and reported on them.
When Yair spoke to him, Rabbi J. may have been suffering from different ailments (as became apparent later) and may have forgotten.
OR
Rabbi J. may have been lead to understand that it would be better to deny the incident.
The words were in character for President Reagan but potentially embarrassing.
The President, it appears, would on occasion say things that at the time had a positive effect but whose truth may sometimes have been allegorical rather than factual.
Reagan had trained to become and lived life as an actor.  Actors are taught to believe in the parts they act, as if they really are whom they personify.
His father had been a Professional Storyteller.

Consider for example the following anecdotes that may or may not have been so.
Their value for Reagan may have been in the truth of the message they conveyed rather than the accuracy of their narrating.




(a) The Auschwitz Filming.

Ronald Reagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Reagan never left the United States during the war, though he kept a film reel, obtained while in the service, depicting the liberation of Auschwitz, as he believed that someday doubts would arise as to whether the Holocaust had occurred. It has been alleged that he was overheard telling Israeli foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1983 that he had filmed that footage himself and helped liberate Auschwitz, [Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime 1991, pp.486-90 Schaller, M. Reckoning with Reagan, 1992, p.9 though this purported conversation was disputed by Secretary of State George Shultz. [Shultz, George. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, 1993, p. 550

[Reagan is said to have made a similar statement on at least three different occasions BUT it may all be due to a misunderstanding.]

cf. Blumenthal, Reagan, and the Big Lie by James Kahn
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/
blumenthal_reagan_and_the_big.html

Ma'ariv reports that President Reagan told Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir -- during Shamir's November visit here -- that the roots of his concern for Israel can be traced to World War II. During the war, Reagan served as a photographer in a unit assigned to film the Nazi death camps. According to Ma'ariv, Reagan told Shamir that he saved one of the death camp films for himself. He believed the day would come when people would question whether the extermination of six million Jews had actually place.

[It may be that the unit to which Reagan belonged had taken the film and in the US Reagan had access to it and shared responsibility for its filing and storage. Reagan did keep such a film in his possession. He had first-hand experience with it and could vouch for it being genuine. In the re-telling the listeners may have mistakenly understood Reagan as saying he himself had done the filming.]





(b) All Night Sleep

Ronald Reagan and the Jews by Jason Maoz
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=12682

When asked about his immunity to anti-Semitism, Reagan would credit his parents, often relating the story of how his father, a traveling salesman, was about to check in at a hotel in some remote area late one night when the desk clerk casually remarked, "I'm sure you'll enjoy it here; we don't allow any Jews." Whereupon Jack Reagan brusquely informed the clerk that he most definitely would not enjoy it there, grabbed his bag and walked out the door. He spent the night sleeping in his car.




(b) Breakfast

Ronald Reagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
For the time, Reagan was unusual in his opposition to racial discrimination, and recalled a time in Dixon when the local inn would not allow black people to stay there. Reagan brought them back to his house, where his mother invited them to stay the night and have breakfast the next morning.




The idea that descendants of Israel, i.e. the Ten Tribes, are today to be found amongst certain Western peoples is widespread in some form or other.  In some circles however it is not considered respectable. It may have been considered in the milieu to which Rabbi J. belonged that such sentiments would be damaging to the image of President Reagan.
The known support of the President for Israel is part of the American Zionist legacy. Rabbi J. and his associates could use this as part of their PR arsenal in urging the USA to continue and strengthen its support for Israel. Linking this support to some type of belief in Israelite ancestry may have been considered a possible cause of disparagement in non-religious circles.

At all events other information on this matter might exist.
cf.
"Brit-Am Now"-801
#1. Presidents Johnson and Reagan were Identification Believers!
http://britam.org/now/801Now.html
Tribesman Remnanter Report no.75
(Benjamin Paul Blegen, POB 694, Black River Falls, WI 54615, USA)
Says that both Presidents Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson were aware of the Lost Israelite Identity of their nation.






Interim Conclusion.

Whether or not President Ronald Reagan believed that at least part of the peoples in West Europe and their kinfolk Overseas are descended from Israel or not is not certain. The indications are that he may well have done so.
Future revelations and new evidence may shed more light on this matter.
Whether he believed in it or not, it is true. The Ten Tribes today are to be found mainly amongst Western Peoples. President Ronald Reagan was a great man who emerged from them and gave expression to them.
He had great powers of intuition, strong personal faith, and related well to people, with understanding and compassion. The subject would have been known to him and he was in a position to perceive the truth of it.


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Bill Rasmussen: Remembering the President

Yair, that was a very impressive article about Ronald Reagan. I leaned some things that I did not know about him. I was an ardent supporter of President Reagan during his tenure in office and I continued to be a loyalist long after he was out of office. For me, President Reagan represents all that is good about the United States. In fact, I could have seen him as one of the Framers of the Constitution when it was written had he been there.

I will always remember him vividly for three things: First, he defeated that feckless Jimmy Carter in 1979 and was able to undo much of the damage that had been done by Carter to the military, the economy and most of all the hostages held in Iran. The fact that President Reagan understood the evil that Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs represented in Iran was paramount in negotiating the release of the hostages.

Secondly, I will remember President Reagan for his decisive actions that caused the downfall of that "Evil Empire", the Soviet Union. I think it safe to say that he was perhaps the single most important factor in forcing the hand of Gorbachev to bring about an end to communism in the Soviet Union. With that, all of Eastern Europe was freed from the yoke of bondage of Marxism.
Thirdly, I will remember him for support of Israel as well as Soviet Jewry. We can't forget that when Israel bombed the Osirak reactor in 1981, Reagan privately expressed joy over it and even countered antisemites like George Bush [the father] and James Baker who were outraged by the bombing. In addition, he pushed the issue of Soviet Jewry with Gorbachev until Russian Jews were finally allowed to emigrate to Israel.

There are other things that I remember such as his much needed overhaul of the economy to stimulate and revitalize it as well as his strong anti-abortion stance and most of all, his faith in HaShem. When President Reagan passed away, I cried. Even now, upon reading this article, I am brought to remembrance how great a man he was. The Rabbis say that each generation gets the leaders it deserves. Well, G-d blessed us with a superb leader as befitting the spiritual condition of the United States at that time.





Craig White:
Reagan and the Divine Plan for Britain and America.

Reagan stated:

'God brought a special people from a land far away [British Isles] to populate America and make it great to be a light to the world' (not an exact quote)

"You can call it mysticism if you want to, but I have always believed that there was some divine plan that placed this great continent between two oceans to be sought out by those who were possessed of an abiding love of freedom and a special kind of courage."

Famous speeches:
The Shining City Upon a Hill speech;
http://originofnations.org/books,%20papers/
quotes%20etc/Reagan_The%20Shining%20City
%20Upon%20A%20Hill%20speech.htm


Time to Recapture Our Destiny;
http://originofnations.org/books,%20papers/quotes%
20etc/Reagan_time_to_recapture_our_destiny.htm


 What 4th July Means to Me
http://originofnations.org/books,%20papers/
quotes%20etc/what_july_fourth_means_to_me.htm
-Craig





Yair Davidiy: Reagan and the Power of His Word!

Reagan projected the image of some of the movie roles he had played on, of a gun-slinging cowboy who did not bluff.
And he did not.
The other side knew it as well.

The Iranians kept 52 Americans hostage for 444 days before Reagan became President. When Reagan was elected President the Iranians decided that allowing Reagan even 10 minutes in power with an excuse to do something to them was 10 minutes too many. They capitulated and released the American prisoners.

President Reagan once referred to the Soviet Union as an "Evil Empire". This remark made headlines in the Soviet Press and was never forgotten. It seems to have done more to perturb the Communists than another president taking out Cuba or North Korea would have effected!
It may have broken them!
They had no desire to be considered an Evil Empire in the eyes of someone like Reagan!


President Reagan's economic policies, known as Reaganomics, called for decreased social spending, increased military spending, widespread tax cuts and deregulation of businesses. The policies were based on the theory that lower taxes for corporations would stimulate growth for the rest of the economy. With lowers expenses large businesses such as the TitleMax title loan company could be able to hire more employees and help lower unemployment.






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