Countries Saying Israel Practiced Genocide Also Learning From Her On How to Survive and Protect and Use Material

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

Many accused Israel of genocide.  Such chutzpah they have.  Israel is the country that others are trying to wipe out! Her people, the Jews, did suffer from genocide in the hands of Nazis who killed 6 million of them.  That's:

   6,000,000 people: men, women, children 

Israel doesn't just fight.  She has an agenda to work on.  Over 100 senior military representatives from nearly 20 countries came to Israel in a 5 day program hosted by the IDF, to learn from the IDF's recent experience during 2 years of war. The IDF recently hosted this five-day international seminar in November 2025, where over 100 military officials from 19 countries (not 20+) learned from Israel's combat experiences and tactics. The program involved lectures, a live war games exercise, and visits to military bases. 

             Topics covered included 

1. Advances in the military use of data and AI, 

2. The co-ordination of drones and artillery to protect advancing troops, and 

3. How to increase the chances of injured soldiers surviving their wounds.                                    

The countries represented included the United States, Canada, Germany, Finland, France, India, Greece, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Estonia, Japan, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia. [Wait, didn't most of them say that the IDF was carrying out "genocide"?]                      

I get news from Israel:  i24NEWS is a 24-hour news television channel created by journalists and reporters from Israel. It broadcasts in languages such as French, English, Hebrew, and Arabic. 

 I want to know if their main TV stations are running information telling the audience that Israel had done all they could to inform the enemy of the shelling following the warning.  They do more than any other country has ever done.  

Was the audience told that the Palestinians put their own people in harm's way by hiding behind them in schools, Temples, hospitals, homes, UN facilities, tunnels, etc, making it hard on Israel to fight back from people who were shooting at them without hitting civilian barricades.   This war is unlike previous wars in that the enemy gets rewarded when they are killed and in their own heaven which is also supplied with 72 virgins awaiting them.                

They look forward to dying in battle.  Jews do not.  Israel has done all they can and more to keep our Israelis alive.  We have learned:  to save a life is to save a world.  Jews even take the wounded enemy into their hospitals.  My junior high boys who were learning English were asked to help translate Arabic to Hebrew.  Of course they were shocked at what they saw.  They told me about it.  

Our home-grown reporters have showed me that they are unaware of reasons why Israel is shooting at Palestinians.  I hope they find the truth one of these days.  

Why It Was Easy For Hamas To Take Over Gaza

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

                                   Rabin, Clinton, Arafat

By 1964, the primary Palestinian groups were earlier nationalist movements and emerging militant organizations that predated the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in May of that year. 

• Arab Higher Committee: This was a prominent, older Arab nationalist group that had been active since the British Mandate era and the 1948 War. Led by Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, it was largely sidelined after the establishment of the PLO.                                     
  
  
  
• Fatah (Palestinian National Liberation Movement): Founded as a political movement in 1959 by members of the Palestinian diaspora, including Yasser Arafat from Egypt, Salah Khalaf, and Khalil al-Wazir. Fatah operated clandestinely before 1964 and publicly emerged in January 1965 when it claimed responsibility for attacks in Israel. Fatah members attended the first Palestinian National Congress in a personal capacity.
• Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM): Founded in 1953 by George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, the ANM was a secular, pan-Arab movement with branches in several Arab countries. Its commando group, "Heroes of Return" (Abtal al-Audah), was established in 1966 in collaboration with the PLO's army. The ANM was a precursor to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was formed in 1967.
• Palestine Popular Liberation Organization: This far-left group was founded in 1964.
• Ba'ath Party: Members of the al-Ba'ath Party also attended the first Palestinian National Congress in a personal capacity. 
It is important to note that many of the major factions prominent in later years, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), were established after 1964. 
• Origins: The PLO was formed in 1964 as a secular, nationalist umbrella organization for various Palestinian groups, with Fatah being its dominant faction. 
• Hamas, an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, was founded much later in 1987 (at the start of the First Intifada) as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, making it an Islamist organization.
• Arafat was the PLO leader, so Israel had been fighting those terrorists since 1964, before the 1967 War.  
• Opposition to Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, opposed attempts at reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, stressing that Hamas needed to accept the Quartet Principles (renunciation of violence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements) to be considered a legitimate political actor. This stance made it difficult for a unity government to function or gain international support, thereby entrenching the existing split.
  
  
  
• Lack of Credible Peace Process: The administration's failure to make significant progress on a peace settlement, despite President Obama's initial declaration regarding the 1967 borders, led to widespread frustration and a sense among Palestinians that the U.S. was a biased mediator favoring Israel. "The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states."
• After all the dickering that went on, the Jewish Homeland was eaten up by Jordan's Abdullah who received 80%, leaving 20 % for the Jews, and now they are to lose at least 10% more of it to Palestinians who never ever had land in Palestine.  These people came from surrounding countries, like Syria.  
• This disillusionment with the U.S.-led peace process and the internationally-backed Fatah leadership may have indirectly sustained or increased underlying support for alternative, more resistant factions like Hamas.  

Seated at the table for these important talks were noteworthy leaders, including PLO head Yassir Arafat, former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Norwegian deputy foreign minister Jan Egeland. The Norwegians effectively served as mediators between the two sides.

Now they say that:  Although the Oslo Accords were noteworthy in that the PLO agreed to formally recognize the state of Israel and that Israel, in turn, allowed the Palestinians some form of limited self-governance in Gaza and the West Bank (the so-called Occupied Territories), they were originally seen only as a stepping-stone toward the ratification of a formal peace treaty between the two sides that would end decades of conflict. However, the Oslo Accords have yet to result in any lasting peace—and their overall impact remains up for debate. Why? Because they keep on attacking Israel, like the town of Sderot; attacked almost daily.

• Late 2001 onwards: The city of Sderot has been a target of continuous, though often less lethal, Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip since this time, with rocket fire intensifying significantly after the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005. The first Israeli fatalities from rocket fire occurred in the Sderot area in June 2004. 

Hamas

The Oslo Accords were caused by a convergence of factors, including the Israeli government and PLO facing pressure to end the First Intifada, which eroded Israel's international standing, like today. The Intifada began on 9 December 1987 in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli truck driver collided with parked civilian vehicles, killing four Palestinian workers, three of whom were from the refugee camp. Palestinians charged that the collision was a deliberate response for the killing of an Israeli in Gaza days earlier.

The accords were brokered through secret, back-channel negotiations in Norway and began with the premise of gradual self-governance for Palestinians, based on the mutual recognition of Israel and the PLO. 

The Oslo Accords were made up of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). They also involved other parties as mediators and witnesses, most notably Norway, which hosted the initial secret negotiations, and the United States, which hosted the signing ceremony for the first accord and played a role in its implementation. 

• Main parties: The primary signatories and participants were the Israeli government, represented by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO, represented by Chairman Yasser Arafat.
• Mediators: Secret negotiations took place in Oslo, Norway, and were facilitated by Norwegian officials like Jan Egeland and Johan Jørgen Holst.
• Witnesses and supporters: The signing of the accords was witnessed by leaders from other countries, including the United States and Russia, as well as representatives from Egypt, Jordan, and the European Union. The U.S. played a significant role in bringing the parties together and helping to implement the agreement. 

• 1994: Under the Oslo Accords, Israel began a phased transfer of governmental authority in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho to the newly created Palestinian Authority (PA), led by Yasser Arafat.
• Since 2001, Palestinian militants have launched tens of thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as part of the continuing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
• August-September 2005: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented a full, unilateral disengagement from Gaza, which involved evacuating all Israeli settlers and soldiers and demolishing all 21 Israeli settlements in the territory. The last soldier left the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2005
• Following the 2005 withdrawal, control of the territory was transferred to the Palestinian Authority. However, Israel maintained control of Gaza's borders, airspace, and shoreline for self protection-security, leading many international bodies and legal experts to still consider the territory under Israeli occupation according to international law. 

2006 Election: Tensions escalated after Hamas, an Islamist movement designated a terrorist organization by the US and EU, won a decisive victory in the Palestinian legislative elections, ending decades of Fatah leadership.  The 2006 elections were the second elections to the PLC. The first elections took place in 1996, but the subsequent elections had been postponed for many years due to disagreements between Fatah and Hamas. They vied for being leader with power.  Hamas was considered a terrorist organization by countries like the United States. Along with this, Yasser Arafat's cabinet called off the 2003 election because it claimed that the "Israeli military occupation of West Bank cities made a free ballot impossible"

• In 2007, the militant group,  Hamas,  forcibly seized control of the Gaza Strip from the Fatah-led PA after a violent conflict, and the territory has remained under Hamas's governance since then. This led to Israel and Egypt imposing a significant blockade on the area. The Bush administration, which had pushed for the elections in an effort to promote democracy, chose to ignore the results and isolate Hamas after it won a majority of the seats. 
• The 2007 conflict between Fatah and Hamas, known as the Battle of Gaza, was a brief but brutal civil war from June 10 to 15, 2007, resulting in Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and a de facto division of the Palestinian territories. 

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the_Gaza_

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Israeli Archaeologists Hardest To Convince Of Their Heritage of David And Solomon

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

On March 30, 1934, 12 men of an expedition on camels camped in the Arava Desert.  This country was ruled by the British then. Rabbi Nelson Glueck was their leader, who was also an archaeologist from Cincinnati, Ohio,, later renowned as a man of both science and religion.  By the 1960's he was on the cover of Time Magazine.  They had been riding for 11 days, surveying the wastes between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.  His guide was a local Bedouin chief, Sheikh Audeh ibn Jad, and Jad reflected the tribe of Gad to Glueck.  Glueck wrote his book, "Rivers in the Desert."They had slept on the group covered by their robes, ate unleavened bread and felt like the Israelites fleeing Egypt.                                          

They were surrounded by piles of black slag left over from getting copper out of ancient mines of the past.  The workers could get copper from ore in furnaces.  It was the largest copper mine Gluck had ever seen, though his expertise was on ancient pottery. They picked up sherds that were 3,000 years old.  

    Copper Mines in Timna Valley:   According to archaeologists from the Tel Aviv University, copper mines in Timna Valley that were thought to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the 13th century BCE actually originated three centuries later, during the time of King Solomon in 10th century BCE.  The Timna Valley, often associated with the legend of King Solomon's mines, is located in Israel. The valley is in the southern part of the country, in the Negev Desert region near the city of Eilat. 

       Workers during Solomon's days in the Copper mine

This area was where Solomon, King David's son, lived;  who was renowned for his wealth and wisdom.  Solomon's kingdom stretched from Syria in the north to the Red Sea in the south, uniting the fractious Israelite tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin for a short while till they divided after Solomon's death into the North and South, losing the 10 northern tribes to Assyria and later to Babylonia, leaving Judah and parts of Benjamin and Simeon combined to make a larger Judah.  Judah had the capital, Jerusalem, very important.  The expedition was sleeping on King Solomon's Mines.  

H. Rider Haggard in 1885 wrote the novel, King Solomon's Mines that was a sensation, but was set in Africa;  wrong location.  They re-wrote a 1919 story into a 2004 TV series with Patrick Swayze and Sharon Stone.                                                                                      

In the Bible, King Solomon is said to have been rich in precious metals, and to have used vast quantities of copper for 

                                                     

his Temple such as the 'molten sea," a giant basin resting on the backs of 12 metal oxen.    Beneath the  font are twelve oxen, representative of the twelve tribes of Israel. In Solomon's Temple, a large bronze basin (called the Molten Sea) was also supported by twelve bronze oxen.                       

The term, "King Solomon's Mines" is only found by a novelist who used it;  not in the Bible.  

Glueck imagined that captives from the wars of Israel and Edom were sent to these mines to work.  He also imagined a prison camp  when he saw the remains of a wall where laborers were held. He named it "Slaves' Hill.   Glueck said hat proving or disproving the Bible was a fool's errand.  As a matter of fact, however, it may be categorically stated that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference."  In other words, archaeology didn't have to prove the Bible's account of history, but it did prove it  or at least never disproved it, and then he proudly stated that he had discovered Solomon's copper mines. 

In the 60's-70's, it was fashionable for Jewish archaeologists to disbelieve the bible about David and his son, Solomon.  In 2009, 30 year old Israeli archaeologist, Erez Ben-Yosef went to the ancient Copper Mines of Timna, a place north, way north of Eilat in Timna Valley in he Arava Desert that had the Jordan River as an eastern boundary.  His interest was paleomagnetism, the investigation of changes in the earth's magnetic field over time, and specifically the mysterious "spike" of the 10th century BCE, when magnetism leapt higher than at any time in history, still not understood why. In the 10th century BCE in Israel, the Earth's magnetic field experienced an extreme spike in intensity, reaching the highest levels ever recorded, a phenomenon known as the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly (LIAA). This magnetic anomaly is a subject of significant modern scientific research in archaeomagnetism. The ancient people of Israel did not understand magnetism in a scientific sense, but researchers today use the magnetic signatures locked in ancient burnt materials (such as mudbricks and pottery) from the region to study this historical geomagnetic event and to date archaeological sites and biblical events with high precision.  

He traveled with his colleagues from the U. of California, in San Diego, and they explored, digging and bringing up organic material like charcoal, a few seeds totaling 11 interesting things.  They were carbon-14 dated.  The results turns out that Timna is illuminating the time of the Hebrew Bible of the 10th century BCE that included Solomon. So he left his mark in many ways.  

Archaeology proving the Bible just needed more time to appear.  One said in the article that they may have lived in tents which have disappeared, leaving no trace.  They had been looking for remnants of homes and couldn't find any.  

Recent Israeli archaeological findings that support the biblical narrative include an ancient clay seal from Jerusalem bearing the name "Yadiah, son of Asayahu" who is mentioned in the Bible as a senior official during King Josiah's reign 637 BCE-608 BCE), Egyptian pottery at Megiddo corroborating the biblical account of a battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh Necho, and recent discoveries in the City of David such as an inscribed seal mentioning "Nathan-Melech, Servant of the King" and administrative seal impressions from the time of Kings Hezekiah (720 BCE-692 BCE)  or Ahaz (735 BCE-720 BCE) . These dates were all from Kings of Judah after the division of Solomon's death..  

Resource: The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2014/05/finding-fortress-of-zion-or-citadel-by.html

Smithsonian Magazine December 2021, most of magazine;      QUEST FOR COPPER, P. 44-to end.    

F-35 Jets For Israel's Security Dashed With The Jewish Solution

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

Trump is selling America's F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia on the condition that there is a two-state solution with Judea and Samaria meaning this land will become a country of Palestinians who hate with unimaginable hatred we just saw on October 7, 2023 and now a small example yesterday in Judea.  

What bothers me more than Palestinian hatred that has ruined their own lives is that the whole wide world goes along with Saudi Arabia in demanding a two state solution!  This includes Trump even considering such a deal!  He is putting Israel in harm's way with such a sale that means, "Hello, Palestine !"  Now you are practically on top of Israel and can do everything your 18 year olds dream of doing!  All their men 18 and older are Hamas terrorists, for Pete's sakes.  Don't give me promises!  I've wanted to see these Palestinians change and they haven't.  

There are expectations, call them rules, you know of becoming a state.  They haven't followed one!    

The man murdered in the terror attack yesterday was Aharon Cohen, 71, from Kiryat Arba. Either Imran al-Atrash and Walid Sabarneh, both 18,  Palestinians in Judah, saw Cohen's license plate on his car and saw that he also was from Judah and rammed into his car.  If that wasn't enough, he got out of his car and opened Cohen's and stabbed him to death.  Perhaps the other boy was to do something with the explosives they had.  

The father of one of the 2 Palestinian terrorists who murdered Cohen and wounded 3 others and who were killed, praised his son for dying as a martyr and said that he had looked forward to such an event his whole life. In fact, that's their religious belief!  

This is not the first time I've heard parents saying such horrid things.  I cannot fathom their thinking, but these parents no doubt were also Hamas terrorists as well.  It's a culture of hatred and killing.  Hamas has been the pawns of our neighbors who could not accept Jews returning to their own spot of the land they once lived upon.  I say this because of the terrorism having been going on and on since our return started in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire had ownership of the land in that period.  The land had become "Judenrein" as the Nazis would have said, after 70 CE. when the Romans attacked, took and bled Jerusalem.  

So, Donald Trump, you will go down in history all right, raising Israel's hopes and then dashing them against the rocks, killing them for your own greed.  

Terror Attack Against Jews On The Freeway of Judah

 Nadene Goldfoot                                              

Terror attacks on Jews in Israel are not stopping.  One happened yesterday when Aharon Cohen, age 71, from Kiryat Arba, was attacked and killed  at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judah.  He was  a resident of the Judea-Samaria (West Bank) settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, local authorities announce.   

Judah's Gush Etzion Junction (Hebrew: צומת גוש עציון, romanized: Tzomet HaGush Etzion), also known simply as Gush Junction, is a 120-dunam (0.12 km²; 0.046 sq mi) business, commercial and tourism center in the southern West Bank, which serves as the entry point to the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements. It is administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council.  Long known as a "congenial meeting spot for Israelis and Palestinians," in the fall of 2015 the junction was the site of about ten Palestinian attacks against Israelis

 

 Beitar Illit, the largest city in Gush Etzion, was founded in 1985, 40 years ago

Gush Etzion  (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1943–1947, and destroyed by the Arab Legion on May 13, 1948 in the 1948 Palestine war, in the Kfar Etzion massacre. The area was left outside of Israel with the 1949 armistice lines. These settlements were rebuilt after the 1967 Six-Day War, along with new communities that have expanded the area of the Etzion Bloc. As of 2011, Gush Etzion consisted of 22 settlements with a population of 70,000.  They find themselves out of the area left for Jews.  It had always been discussed with the government to one day have a trade off of land and they would be included.  

Judah's Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Founded in 1968, in 2023 it had a population of 7,572, slightly bigger than Gush Etzion. Hebron is mentioned.  It is a very important city in Jewish history, and Jewish people have tried to get as close to it as they can.  In the Bible it is also called Kiriath Arba, a city in the land of Judah.  It is only 18 miles south of Jerusalem.  It was Abraham, father of both Jews and Muslims, who bought a plot of land that held the Cave of Machpelah in order to bury his niece who also was his wife, Sarah.  Today, a mosque stads on the site.  Today, both must deal with this problem as Jews pray here.  

Hebron as it looked in 1839, a painting by David Roberts

The man murdered in the terror attack yesterday was Aharon Cohen, 71, from Kiryat Arba. The father of one of the 2 Palestinian terrorists who murdered Cohen and wounded 3 others and who were killed, praised his son for dying as a martyr and said that he had looked forward to such an event his whole life. Abraham and Sarah lived in about 1948 BCE.  

Border Police sappers inspect a car belonging to two Palestinian terrorists following an attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, November 18, 2025. (Israel Police)

The attack was carried out by two Palestinian assailants who accelerated their vehicle into people at the junction, before one got out and stabbed several victims, according to preliminary findings by the Israel Defense Forces.  They were later identified by Palestinian officials as Imran al-Atrash and Walid Sabarneh, both 18.  In the aftermath of the attack, several explosive devices were discovered in the vehicle and disarmed.  Both terrorists were shot dead by security forces at the scene, the IDF and first responders said.

I note that Aharon Cohen had remained in Judah the whole time; lived in Judah and was killed in Judah.  Judah was our last stand through the ages of our Israel, made up of the 12 lands of the 12 sons of Jacob.  We Jews come from the land of Judah.  

Resource:  

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.thetorah.com/article/kiryat-arba-is-hebron-but-is-it