Israel Facts by an Israeli

Was There Ever a State of Palestine?

2012-02-10T12:15:00.000-08:00

Daniel Stuart Eskow and wife Nadene

Danny and I at our farewell party in 1980. We were moving to Haifa, Israel and leaving Ontario, Oregon. We were both embarking on a 10 month period of intensive Hebrew Language Studies there, and then our new teaching career. Dan had been a high school teacher of history and I had taught 4th grade for many years.

View of the Palestinians -

Couldn't have said it better!

Talk about one picture being worth a THOUSAND words!

Is the world just plain stupid?

An interesting questionnaire for Palestinian Advocates

By Yashiko Sagamori

If you are so sure that " Palestine , the country, goes back through most of recorded history," I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine :

1. When was it founded and by whom?

2. What were its borders?

3. What was its capital?

4. What were its major cities?

5. What constituted the basis of its economy?

6. What was its form of government?

7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?

8.. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?

9. What was the language of the country of Palestine ?

10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine ?

11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese Yuan on that date.

12. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?

You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation.. Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?

And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?

I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here.

The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel ; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it "the Palestinian people" and installed it in Gaza , Judea, and Samaria . How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank" and Gaza , respectively?

The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less claim to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them. The so-called "Palestinians" have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel , and in my book that is not sufficient to consider them a nation" -- or anything else except what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.

In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the Middle East . Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel and accepting Israel 's ancient sovereignty over Gaza , Judea, and Samaria .

That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again was its beginning?

Can this story be presented any more clearly or simply?

When on a train ride, people used to say, "Don't stick your arm out the window or you'll find it in Jordan."

Israel's Vunerability to Rockets, Missiles and Mortars

2012-02-03T16:43:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
Wednesday night a barrage of about 9 rockets, missiles and mortars had hit southern Israel from Gaza. Thursday night Israel's IDF struck back hitting:
1. 2 weapsons storage facilities in northern Gaza
2. 3 smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza
3. a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza.

Israel pinpoints their targets and has no wish to hit civilians. Often times, though, places where terrorists hide out their supplies are within the area of populated centers, making it difficult.

A conference of the IDF Intelligence was held in Herzliya where the members were told about 200,000 rockets and missles pointed at Israel which can reach all the cities and towns. They can even reach Tel Aviv. Many have the capacity to reach 40 km, and some can also reach 100's of km as well today. No place is safe from harm as far as reach goes anymore. These are most likely positioned in Lebanon and Syria.

Resource: Arutz Sheva http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Bergen-Belsen Survivors Sing Hatikva:

2012-02-01T19:03:00.000-08:00

                           Hatikva means "HOPE".
Nadene Goldfoot
"As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,
With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion,
Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost:
To be a free people in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem."

This song was written by Naphtali Herz Imber in 1886, a poet from Bohemia living in England at the time. It is now Israel's National Anthem.

Below is the song sung by survivors just liberated from the German concentration camp, Bergen Belsen on April 20, 1945. It was a recording just recovered by the Smithsonian Center for American Folklife. It was sung at their first Sabbath service while around them lie corpses on the ground as living people were lying down and dying. While trying to sing they were sobbing.

Twenty-four days and 3 years later, Israel was re-born on May 14, 1948. The process to become a state started much earlier, like with Chaim Weizmann and his knowledge of chemistry which helped to win the WWI.    The pogroms in Russia caused leadership to arise and look for a place to hang their hat and call home once again, but it took much time to evolve. They quickly learned that the only home that would do was our original one that we were led to by G-d, that land now lying in what was being called Palestine, and it just happened to be lying fallow and up for grabs.

The trial of Dryfus was another catalyst in France. A good soldier was tried and found guilty just because he was Jewish and a useful scapegoat. These were some major events that happened since 70AD when Jews were forced to wander all over the earth settling in one place only to be forced out, which even happened in England.

Little did they realize that Nazis would try to exterminate a whole people. The state of Israel was not to become a reality until after the 2nd war. Jews went from being relocated and held in one section of Russia called the "Pale of Settlement", not allowed out without special passes, to being in the Warsaw Ghetto of Poland and slaughtered in mass and all the gas chambers in concentration camps.

We have gone to being granted the Jewish National Home in Palestine by WWI's British mandated legalists to find we must settle for a tiny section of that land only to be attacked  while it was announced and in coming years in many wars from all sides.

We have gone through a massive war in 1967 attacked by all the neighboring states and won, not only from the attack but gained back Gaza and parts of ancient Israel of Judea and Samaria as well as the eastern part of Jerusalem all held illegally by Jordan. We have seen the nations deplore our right to this land even though we left Gaza completely for the sake of making peace which didn't happen. Instead it's a handy place to kill us from.
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We are seeing certain Christian groups turn against us in a fight without bullets but are trying to harm us just as much. Anti-semitism has reared its ugly head to join the masses.

We haven't been granted much peace, even by the bombastic UN who has done little for this fledgling country, but we haven't given up hope! Am Israel Chai! The people of Israel live.

Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=syUSmEbGLs4
http://stateofisrael.com/anthem/
Victor Sharpe-sending me the website

Shelling in Israel Last Night

2012-02-01T16:53:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
Eight mortars where shot into Israel last night of which 7 of them were shot within one hour in a barage. Now the UN Chief Ban Ki-moon will visit Gaza and Sderot Thursday morning. Netanyahu was repremanded for building. Abbas got the pat on the back and "Good Job" from Ban Ki-moon. The bases were loaded against Netanyahu. Netanyahu replied in the conversation that the real problem is not the building but the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish Homeland in the first place. .

I ask, if the Palestinians can not do that and recognize our state, how does the UN have the chutzpah to expect us to stop building in land that fell into their hands from being attacked ? Why is it that the Palestinians have never made a peace pact before the issue of building in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem? How do they expect Israel to recognize a Palestine if it isn't reciprocal?

Are they being so friendly in their aspirations of peace that their overtures just happen to be military shelling into our land that they won't recognize? What do they think they are doing? Dropping love notes?

Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/un-chief-urges-israel-halt-settlements-135921410.html
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=256088&R=R1

Fogal Family's Murderers Tried and Sentenced

2012-01-30T12:08:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
On March 11, 2011, the whole Fogel family of five of Itamar, which lies in the Samarian mountains were stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists who belonged to the PLFP (terrorists of PLO) . The family consisted of Ehud and Ruth Fogel and children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months old. Two cousins were convicted of this brutal attack. The Palestinian TV aired an interview with the murderers relatives who called them "heroes."

Is it really heroic to go into a sleeping family's home and slaughter them all, including children? This is not heroic to me but an act done by cowards.

I notice the TV's values as well. This was part of a weekly show called "For You," focusing on Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel. Most of the prisoners are there for killing people. It had on the program their aunt and mother of 18 year old Hakim Awad. His cousin was Amjad Awad. The killer's mother was so proud of his act. Awad's aunt described her nephew as a "hero and a legend."

The two cousins were sentenced to 5 consecutive life sentences by an IDF court. Israel does not have a death sentence. That has only been used in special cases trying Nazi criminals for mass deaths.

One can see that terrorism is fed into by the family's values. These certainly are not the values of the Jewish people living in Itamar who had done nothing but be a part of a group living in Judea/Samaria (West Bank). The town is made of 1,032 religiously orthodox Jewish people (census as of 2009) and in area C under the full Israeli security control.
The West Bank (a name given by Jordan who had illegally occupied the area before 1967) had come into Israel's hands when Jordan and other Arab states attacked Israel and lost. These Itamar Jews did not force any Arabs out, but simply made use of barren land and established a town. Hakim Awad came from Awarta, a town 2 km away with a population of 5,623 as in 2007. Awarta, being in Samaria has a long history of being Jewish as evidenced with the findings of synagogues there. This is one reason why orthodox Jews have been so adamant about settling in Judea and Samaria. These were part of Israel and our history.

Resource: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-tv-airs-show-praising-fogel-family-murderer-1.409858
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=232138 about the killers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awarta

Last Three Weeks Dodging the Rockets and Mortars and Bombs in Southern Israel

2012-01-22T10:07:00.000-08:00

In the last 3 weeks Hamas and other terrorist groups have shot several rockets and mortars into Southern Israel. They've also tried to plant bombs intended to blow up army jeeps on patrol near the Gaza security fence.

Last week Israel's air force hit 2 terrorists who were planting bombs after a mortar attack on the Western Negev and were seen planting a bomb near the security fence.

Hamas's comment was that the men were only civilians setting traps to catch birds. With the shuk (open air market) full of food, I doubt very much if anyone is out catching birds. Out in Eastern Oregon, birds are shot at, not trapped, anyway, and the hunters use dogs to retrieve them. Yes, they were traps all right, not but to catch birds. They were to kill our young IDF soldiers.

Reference: news@israelnationalnews.com Arutz Sheva by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Hamas Will Not Yield to Peace Overtures

2012-01-09T11:30:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
The Prime Minister of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, an anti Israeli terrorist group, will never seek peace with Israel. They will not give up its arms, territory or claims on Jerusalem. They speak for all Palestinians. He said this from the capital of Tunisia "Tunisian Republic", Tunis. Tunisia is a small state next door to Libya and Algeria in north Africa. Is the UN paying attention?

Haniyeh predicted difficult days for Israel, meaning that they are going to attack more, as I see it. Israel is being pressured by the UN to sit down and talk peace with the PA. That is difficult being that Fatah and Hamas have united and speak as one today.

The ironic situation is that Hamas are the instigators, attacking Israel first with mortars, missiles and rockets, but when Israel reacts by attacking the attackers in an air strike, she is the one called on the carpet. I haven't read once where the UN ever tells Hamas to cut it out. Israel does its darnest to hit only the aggressors doing the shooting while Hamas just fires into civilian territory hoping to kill anyone, women, children, men, it doesn't matter.

Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan, has said that he would like to help out at the peace talks. He himself is planning on entering Pakistan between January 27th and 30th and may be arrested on charges of allegations that he didn't provide enough security when former Prime Minister Benzzir Bhutto was assassinated.

It's high time that the UN, with Musharraf or another rational mediator, realize who is at fault in not making peace. Israel of course wants peace. Who likes to be the country that another takes pot shots at all the time and wants to destroy her? Israel was created to bring peace to Jews who needed a refuge in this world. The refuge has become an open range game preserve for mad hunters. This is like being the target of a Russian Roulette game. Are we living in 2012 or the Middle Ages?

It's impossible to make peace with a people who only seek its destruction. The Palestinians are in need of therapy first! We can give away all of Israel except for 10 km and they'd bomb that to get rid of Jews. It's time the UN sees the situation clearly. There are 21 Arab nations and 1 Jewish one. The Arabs are stuck in a time warp of hatred. It's time to get a new slant on life and join the world in peace.

Like Golda Meir once said, "The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight." I say, when are the Palestinians going to want to see their children live to an old age in a peaceful environment instead of becoming fodder in a stupid war of hatred of Jews?

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/goldameir137228.html#ixzz1izUXTe75
Resource: Oregonian newspaper 1/9/12 page A3, Developments in the Middle East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287090/us-and-biblical-israel-barbara-lerner

Gaza Terrorists Use White Phosphorous in Attack

2012-01-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
On Friday, the IDF air force caught the Army of Islam's al Qaeda terrorists ready to fire rockets into Israel and killed their commander in the attempt to stop them which injured 5 others.

In retaliation, terrorists fired 2 mortar shells Sunday morning which contained white phosphorous. Its use is banned internationally to use near civilians, which they did. It burns anyone who comes in contact with it. This dangerous substance ignites a fire around an impact zone. This time it landed in a field, but it's not the first time they have used such mortars. They're used it 4 times before. Now Israel will go to the UN to complain.

Resource: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=251763
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4169835,00.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=VmffgIqlAYA&vq=large Israel song

Hamas Objective Reiterated Again: : Destroy Israel

2011-12-31T15:57:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
At every chance Hamas has, Ismail Haniyeh keeps saying that their goal is to eliminate Israel. They may be connecting with Fatah and will go through the hoops of liberating Gaza, West Bank (Judea and Samaria) or Jerusalem, but they will work for their long term goal as well. This was said at the 24th anniversary of Hamas's creation.

I hope that by this time our government is paying attention. It's not all hot air. He means to work at it. There is no peace in his heart that I can see. The pressure should be off Israel to come to the table by now. There is not much one can offer when the opposition just wants to murder you.

Resource: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hamas-head-we-will-lead-intifada-after-intifada-until-we-liberate-palestine_614909.html

Chanukah is Over, and the Bombing Starts Up Again

2011-12-29T12:55:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
One million Israelis are exposed to the danger of being hit by missiles, mortars and rockets in southern Israel. Wednesday a rocket was fired into the area that did not explode on impact. That doesn't happpen very often.

Thursday, when people were returning from Chanukah vacations, they were greeted by a Qassam rocket within 10 kilometers of being fired from Gaza that landed in a field without killing anyone. However, it does cause PTSD. People are alarmed by the sounds of the siren and from running to some kind of cover. Not all people have access to bomb shelters in the area. People never know what was fired or what the range might be. All have to be prepared. Hamas is held responsible for all firing emanating from Gaza.

Reference: Artuz Sheva : Afternoon naps shattered by Rocket Attack on southern Israel by Chana Ya'ar
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151216
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2011
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151166

No Peace for Southern Israel

2011-12-27T16:47:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
The fight goes on. On Thursday, the 22nd, 3 mortar shells were fired into southern Israel. Wartime comes from Gaza and southern Israel suffers. Israelis have only 12 seconds to get to a bomb shelter so they can't stray too far away. One never knows when something can happen. It has been quieter the past few days.

This time Israel's air strike got a terrorist and from 3 to 10 were injured. They aimed at a certain vehicle knowing the terrorists they were after were in it. The Gazan terrorists even fired a kassam rocket but it fell short and landed in Gaza. Israel had a 2nd strike, hitting a terrorist cell. This happened when they found out about a planned attack on the Israel-Egyptian border.

The terrorist that was killed was a world Jihadist belonging to Saraya al-Quds wing of Hamas. Another Hamas terrorist hit was one that had been firing high trajectory weapons into Israel.

Resource: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=251165
http://www.imemc.org/article/62733
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-strikes-gaza-strip-for-second-time-in-hours-idf-says-1.403962

Foreign Rulers of Palestine 70 to 1948 CE: 1878 Years

2011-12-20T23:08:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
Palestine, named by the Romans, was ruled by foreign governments but never by the people that lived in it.

Romans ruled from 70 CE to 395 and had changed the name to obliterate the Jewish identity of the land. They are the ones who changed the name from Judaea to Palaestina for the long vanished Philistines, who were an aegean people. Jerusalem's name was changed to Aelia Capitolina. A large Jewish community was in the Galilee, on the coastal plain and in Judaea. The Talmud was written in this period and there were more than 400 Jewish villages, etc. The Mishnah was finished in the 2nd century and the Jerusalem Talmud finished between the 4th and 5th centuries.

The Byzantines (Eastern Roman Empire) took over from 395 to 636. Jews became a minority and Christians a majority with languages spoken of Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. Arabs then ruled from 636 to 1072 with Arabization and Islamization happening. The majority of the population converted to Islam and spoke Arabic then. Arab tribes immigrated mainly from Egypt and Arabia which continued. The Seljuk's (Turks) from 1072 to 1099. The land had been divided by the Arabs into 2 military districts on both sides of the river Jordan. One was called Filastin (Palestine) and the other Urdun (Jordan). The Arabs built Ramla, the only town founded by them in the land. It was an administrative center.

The Christian Crusaders' ruled from 1099 to 1291 and named the land the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Their number never exceeded 30,000 and did not change the population's character. Then the Mamluks (Rulers of Syria and Egypt) ruled from 1291 to 1516 and destroyed most of the cities and villages on the coast. They were trying to deter foreign invasion. It remained empty until Jews came back. They divided the land into 3 separately administered districts or Mamlaka. They were Safad, Gaza and Damascus. They had no name for the land as a whole.

Finally, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) took over from 1516 to 1917 an the land was also divided into administered districts of Sanjaks and Vilayets. They also had no special name for the land as a whole. That had really been unimportant anyway as there hadn't been hardly any Arabs living there anyway to call it by name. There were only poor Jews who lived there near the synsagogues. They had brought insecurity and uncertainty and oppression. Marauding Beduin tribes wandered about. Villages were reduced by half between the 16th and 19th century. By the 2nd half of the 19th Centery, both Arabs and Jews grew in number. By 1914 the population was estimated at 680,000 of whom 85,000 were Jews.

The British were given the Mandate after the WWI so ruled from 1918 to 1948, when Israel then was pronounced a state. They renamed the land Palestine. The mandate extended to both sides of the river Jordan. In 1922, Britain partitioned the Mandated territory into Palestine which was west of the Jordan and Transjordan which was east of the Jordan.

Resource: Facts About Israel from Ministry for foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Mamluk+dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

Creating Arab States from the Ottoman Empire

2011-12-17T21:33:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
The Sheikhs of Araby
The British had their problems getting their stories straight when they were given the mandate of the land of Palestine in 1918. The Ottoman Empire, which was ruled by the Turks, had sided with the Axis or German side. They lost in WWI. The empire was by then bankrupt and in the hands of the allies who held mandates over the land. The Arabs didn't like being in the Ottoman Empire under Turks anyway.

Born in 1853 was a Sheikh, Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of Mecca, a city in Saudi Arabia. He held title to "King of the Arabs." This leader was the great grandfather of the present day King Hussein, and was the leader of the Great Arab Revolt. A Sheikh is an Arab chief. In his case, his family had held this title from 1201CE to 1925. He died in 1931. This was at a time when Russian Jews were making aliyah to the land and developing kibbutzeem, draining swamps, planting Eucalyptus trees, killing mosquitoes, tilling the land and fighting off raiders. They had bought land from absent Arab land owners who were having a gay old time in Paris, no doubt.

Abdullah and Faisal were his sons. There was a great battle between the Turks and the Arabs. The British made promises to the Arabs and promises to the Jews. The promises were about the same piece of land. This Hashemite family, descending from Muhammad, secured Arab rule over Transjordan, Iraq and Arabia.

Faisal was the 3rd son of the King of the Arabs. On January 3, 1919, he signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation. He knew about the Balfour Declaration as well. He was the king of Syria in 1920 and then king of Iraq from 1921 to 1933. He wanted a very large Arab state for himseslf including Iraq, Syria and the rest of the fertile Crescent.

Two weeks prior to signing the agreement, Faisal stated:

The two main branches of the Semitic family, Arabs and Jews, understand one another, and I hope that as a result of interchange of ideas at the Peace Conference, which will be guided by ideals of self-determination and nationality, each nation will make definite progress towards the realization of its aspirations. Arabs are not jealous of Zionist Jews, and intend to give them fair play and the Zionist Jews have assured the Nationalist Arabs of their intention to see that they too have fair play in their respective areas.

Everything was predicated on the Arabs gaining their independence. "The Arabs did not obtain their independence and the Faisal-Weizmann agreement survived only a few months." It wasn't up to the Jews to give them this independence; it was the British.

Though Weizmann argued in 1947 that Britain had given the Arab independence, they actually wanted more. The catch was that Sharif Hussein formally endorsed the Balfour Declaration in the Treaty of Sèvres of 10 August 1920, along with the other Allied Powers, as King of Hedjaz. The treaty was still binding. The UN did not go along with it."

Transjordan was created in 1922 and Jordan was created in 1946.
Iraq was created in 1958 and Lebanon in 1943. Syria was under the French mandate and was created in April 1946. Egypt has been Egypt forever, but also went through changes. 1954 saw a government. Iran, which was Persia in bible days, had a government in 1953. Israel was created May 1948.

If the British had played their cards a little differently, Faisal and Weizmann could have been successful in their goals to bring these two semitic cousins together, but it was not to be. Weizmann settled for the poorest portion of the original Jewish Homeland promised to the Jews and was rightfully happy that he had something that had been lost to us. Each Sheikh in this Hussein family wanted his own kingdom. If one brother was promised land, the others wanted their fair share as well. Our forefathers meant well. Little could they imagine that we'd still be fighting over the right to have Israel after 63 years of their original declaration. It's too bad that out of all those Sheikhs there isn't another like Faisal, who saw the good in the Jews coming home.

Resource: http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/sharif_hussein.html
http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_arabrevolt.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq

The Call to the Damned Peace Table

2011-12-17T14:54:00.000-08:00

Nadene Goldfoot
"Just get to the damned table!" Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said to Netanyahu threateningly. Who does he think he is, General Vespasian?

What's he threatening? Punishment, like a general would say to his private? Leon just got on the job and has no patience. Look at how long Israel has been waiting for a decent partner at the peace table. All the while Israel has to put up with mortars, rockets and missiles raining into their country that are trying to kill their citizens. What does Panetta have to put up with? Just Hillary Clinton and Obama. Isn't that quite a difference?

Leon Panetta visited Israel for the first time in October. Now he thinks he knows everything. He seems to have no idea why the Palestinians have not sat down at the table with Israel. He must have forgotten Netanyahu's speech at the UN about this very thing and the fact that he begged the Palestinians in front of the whole UN to come to the table. Ever since 1948 Israel has been asking these same people to talk of peace and stop making war, and to discuss having their own state.

They keep refusing because they don't want a piece of Israel. They want the whole tiny country. It's not in their plan to just add another 49th Muslim country to the world. They want the pleasure of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. It's not peace that they want to achieve. It's the whole piece of land. Like Golda Meier once said, "We will achieve peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us." The world is still waiting along with Israel. It's their hatred that is invented as well in order to serve the powerful Arab rulers in keeping out a Jewish state. There is no rational reason to hate Jews.

I love how Begin answered Ambassador Lewis in a similar situation as seen below.

"What kind of expression is this – "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel – and I protest at the very use of this term." Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin to US ambassador Lewis in December 1981 after President Reagan attempted to punish Israel.

So, secretary Leon Panetta, you can take on the job of telling the Palestinians to
"Just get to the damned table!" I think Israel has tried enough times already. All our rational arguments are falling on deaf ears who are not being rational in the first place. They realize all too clearly that shelling us and threatening our citizens will only bring retaliation from the air. They know this and they relish this fact. We turned the other cheek for 6 long years and it did no good. Can you come up with anything that is also just for Israel?

Now if it is Gingrich running the show in the next election, he's going to understand the whole state of affairs and won't be pressing Israel like this. He'll be pressing the Palestinians-maybe. After all, at least he realizes the facts that they are an "invented" people in the first place. Maybe he'll tell them like the past Lebanese Arab-American reporter from Washington DC , Helen Thomas, said to us Jews: "Get the hell out of Palestine! They can go home-Poland, Germany, America." That coming from an American reporter calling Israel "Palestine."

In the Palestinian's case, they can go home to Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, as well as from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Bosnia, the Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kurdistan, India, Afghanistan and Balochistan.

Resource: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/02/panetta-laments-growing-israeli-isolation-in-region/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas
Ambassador Yoram Ettinger http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2011/12/true-facts-who-palestinians-are-by.html

Rockets and Mortars Rained into Israel-The Count

2011-12-16T16:20:00.000-08:00

624 rockets and 392 mortar shells have been shot at Israel since Operation Cast Lead. The shooting was supposed to stop. Just since December 8th to the 10th, 18 rockets with the range of 25 miles and 11 mortars have hit southern Israel. Ashdod would have been hit by a 122 mm Grad rocket but was stopped by the Iron Dome. Unfortunately, it cannot get all of them. It is the Palestinian Arabs who are violating the cease fire negotiations.

With all this, our American government insists it must be Israel's fault that Abbas won't come to the table. Who better than Israel would like some peace?

http://http//www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Palestinian_ceasefire_violations_since_end_Operation_Cast_Lead.htm

2011-12-08T11:06:00.000-08:00

It's War-Not Neighborly Disagreements
Nadene Goldfoot
As much as we hate it, it's a war between Gaza terrorism and Israel. Hamas terrorists won the vote with the people when the USA pressed for a democratic way of choosing sides, and Fatah's PLO group lost out to the more powerful and persuasive terrorists. I say terrorists because that's what they are. They don't wear uniforms. It's not a state-run army, which makes it hard on Israeli soldiers to tell just who is who. They prey on women and children as much as possible. Just look at the school in Safed where they had attacked and killed students in 1974, the Ma'alot Massacre, just 6 years berfore I arrived in Israel to teach.

Instead of just dropping bombs in populated areas helter skelter-like, Israel uses their intelligence gathering to do surgical strikes by their fighter pilots on the ringleaders. This time Atzam Tzubhi Ismail Batash, age 43 and another of his group, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, were struck down in their vehicle at a public garden near Gaza City. Gaza reported that 5 bystanders were also wounded in the strike. That hasn't been confirmed as yet, but is possible. Usually terrorists try to be in populated areas because that has been a detriment to these surgical strikes many times. Each strike from the IDF has to be okayed first at their home base. They do try their best to avoid collateral damage of killing innocent citizens.

Batash was the senior operative in charge of many attacks on Israeli citizens of southern Israel. It was known that their cell was planning more.

Hamas and Fatah have both been told that anytime Israel is attacked will only bring retaliation on their people. Six years had gone by from 2001 on to Operation Cast Lead without being able to retaliate. The gloves are off now. If they want to live in peace they have to be peaceful to Israel. Their missiles are reaching farther out and can hit anyplace. Only the security that Israel offers its citizens of bomb shelters keeps the death count down in Israel. It doesn't count for the emotional trauma people live under. The fear of even going to the bathroom takes over for children and adults, as they only have 12 seconds or less to get to a safer place. It's like living under Russian roulette.

All the Palestinian Authority had to do was to accept the fact that a Jewish state was created in 1948 and to respect the decision and work out peaceful plans together with Israel. This is the real world, and it didn't happen. The Arabs could have had wonderful lives in comparison to what they have settled for. When Golda Meier conversed with a high level Sheik, he was most happy that Jews were going to live in this neglected piece of land and make something of it to the benefit of all. I guess he was just an enigma to the rest of his peers.

Resource: Arutz Sheva Newspaper

2011-12-06T16:35:00.000-08:00

Fighting to Have and to Keep Our Land of Israel

Nadene Goldfoot
Britain held the mandate after WWI on Palestine, making promises to the Jews of a National Jewish Homeland and why not? Israel and Judea had been our homeland 2,000 years ago before the Romans put an end to Jerusalem in 70 CE.   Bar Kokhba had made a last stand in 135 CE and lost. The problem was that Britain also made promises to the few Arabs that were living there as well.

Regular Arab armies invaded in May 1948 minutes after Israel was declared a state They used rifles, grenades and homemade Stens. Jewish children fought with the men. Jordan’s Arab Legion invaded with a British commanded leader with artillery, tanks, and planes, but weren’t trained very well. Jews had an undying spirit that the Arabs lacked.

Israel had from 7,000 to 10,000 dead, more than one out of every 100 Jews living in Israel then. Arab toll was higher. We paid a high price to give birth to our state.

In the 6 Day War of 1967 Israel lost about 800 dead out of a populaton of 2.5 million. Israel had learned how to protect its soldiers by then.

Today, with a population of 5.5 million Jews and 1.4 million Arabs, we are still being attacked. Gaza, an area we gave back, has become the site from which Hamas terrorists strike with mortars, rockets and missiles. Even Lebanon has allowed terrorists to strike from the their northern border as well.

Abba Eban, David Horowitz of the Jewish Agency and Jon Kimche, pro-Zionist British journalist were able to have a meeting with Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, moderate Arab nationalist in 1948. He was an Egyptian diplomat opposed to the partition of Palestine into two parts.  Azzam served as Secretary General of the Arab League from 1945 to 1952. In the Savoy Hotel in Jerusalem, the men discussed a plan of a political arrangement, security guarantees and an economic program for joint development of the Middle East. Abba Eban was excited about it wanting to make an effort to reach an agreement.

Azzam cooly explained that the Arab world was not in a compromising mood, and that the plan was rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic.

He went on to explain," Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise, and can get things by force of arms, perhaps. We shall try to defeat you. I'm not sure we can but we'll try as we drove out the Crusaders, but then we lost Spain and Persia. It's too late to talk of peaceful solutions. The conflict of interests among nations is not amenable to anything but an armed clash."

The decision was not taken with logic but with blind fatalism. This is why we have had to keep on fighting. Their attitude hasn't changed a bit. As I see it, much of the world has also adapted a very illogical outlook as well.

Reference:: Book: Genesis 1948-The 1st Arab-Israeli War by Dan Kurzman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Hassan_Azzam

2011-12-06T10:51:00.000-08:00

Israel Should Fight Rockets With Tennis Balls?

Nadene Goldfoot
Lebanon fired 4 rockets on Israel last week most likely by Hezb'allah, the Iranian proxy. Israel provoked them by firing back. The terrorists, being the bullies that they are, have screamed "NO FAIR"!

Lebanon has actually filed a UN complaint on Monday saying that the tiny Jewish state can't respond with artillery shells, saying this is in violation of UNSC Resolution 1701. They figure it's okay to fire on Israel, which is an act of war, but that Israel can never respond.

Israel's self defense is a violation of Resolution 1701 and international law? Lebanon's terrorists are trying to set a precedent in the UN that any response from Israel will be met with world condemnation. It seemed to work with Goldstone, who finally changed his judgement, so they're trying it again. " Under international law, Resolutions 1701 is at best a declarative statement of sentiment that lacks legal authority or enforcement power whatsoever . The recommendations spelled-out in the resolution can not be imposed on the parties concerned."

As for 1701, John Bolton was questioned and said that Hezb'Allah needs to be disarmed. That was laid out and hasn't been accomplished. Islamic supremacists have not met any of the conditions of 1701, so this is outrageous to attack Israel with impunity to get Israel to respond. Their objective is to make Israel one big death camp, evidently.

You know bullies.
"No, Ma, who, me? I didn't do it. Aw, I just fired one little rocket into Israel. Those meanies! They fired 6 back at us! They scared us! Boo hoo! You go get them, Ma."

Bullies never seem to tell the truth. They fired 4 and the IDF pounded the launch sites with artillery shells. The UN force called for restraint from both sides. An organization associated with al-Qaida claimed responsibility for firing the rockets. Israel holds Lebanon's government responsible for the attacks and expects them to keep the peace.

Resource: Pamela Geller pamela@atlasshrugs.com

2011-12-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

Energy Now From Israel Energy alternatives to Consider
Nadene Goldfoot
Watch the video below to learn about some new energy sources coming from Israel. A pipeline bringing natural gas to Israel and Jordan has been attacked about 8 times now in the Sinai dominated by Egypt, so Israel is developing energy from other alternatives.

They have more start-up companies than any other country, so have been working on this much needed power. They have some new concepts on wind power and even in controlling the climate. Hydro electricity from unconventional power sources from 2,500 years ago going back to a priest is one of them.

Clean energy is the goal coming from Israel. Right now $300 billion dollars a year goes to oil to power the USA. "These incredible advances in the field of alternative energy sources could help revolutionize the way Americans generate power."

Resource: http://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-powering-america/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/egypt-halts-gas-flow-to-israel-jordan-after-pipeline-blast-2-.html

2011-12-05T14:42:00.000-08:00

Muslim Brotherhood Goals
Nadene Goldfoot
Jihad is the Way by Mustafa Mashur, a former Muslim Brotherhood leader, has been translated to tell us its ideology. The Brotherhood says that Jihad should be waged against the "thieving gangs of Zion." Mashur was the official leader of the Muslim Brotherhood from 1996 until he died in 2002. I have a feeling that Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, formerly of Egypt and now from Qatar might be today's leader.

Last week the Muslim Brotherhood party that won 40% of the votes last week stands for "Freedom and Justice" party. The Salafists, another Islamist party, won 20%, so the Muslim fundamentalists have a sound majority of votes now.

The book goes on to say that "the problems of the Islamic world, such as Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, and the Philippines, are problems of Islam and the Muslims, and they can be resolved neither by negotiation nor by recognizing the enemy's right to the Islamic land he stole. Rather, the option is Jihad for Allah, and this is why Jihad is the way."

The Muslim world still does not want to accept the fact that Israel was created legally in the world in 1948 through the U.N., as well as the fact that people living there bought the land legally according to Ottoman Empire law as well from landowners. Muslims came to this conclustion in 1967 after Israel won a war against all the Arab states who banned together to wipe her out, and lost. Israel, as if by a miracle, had won against all odds against their massed force. It was something the Muslims never expected to happen.

President Obama was never nervous about the party taking over, even being they are so well organized. His administration has made recent overtures to them, such as opening up a dialogue. Previously, it was considered a shunned terrorist party by Bush.

The author advised every Muslim, "Prepare yourself and train in the art of warfare. You must learn the ways and manners and laws of war. You must learn and embrace them and adhere to them, so that your Jihad will be the one accepted by Allah. Not surprisingly, Mashur presched war against Israel. "Honorable brothers have achieved Shahada (Martyrdom) on the soil of beloved Palestine during the years of 1947 and 1948 in their Jihad against the criminal, thieving gangs of Zion."

Following in his steps is Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi with his fatwa against all Jews which is to kill us all. He lashed out in a sermon on January 9, 2009 calling on G-d to "kill them, down to the very last one."

My question is how do our leaders deal with such people who have a one tract mind and refuse to face facts? They live in denial. They would rather die and inherit their 72 virgins than live in a peaceful world in which Jews are back to their original home.

Resource
Arutz Sheva newspaper: Everything you need to know about Muslim Brotherhood by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
http://www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/al_Qaradawi_report_20041110.htm
http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/788C5421-70E3-4E4D-BFF4-9BE14E4A2E58,DB7611A... Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror from March 15, 2011

2011-12-01T16:56:00.000-08:00

A Doubting Thomas:   Prof.Thomas L. Thompson,
       Theologian on the "Old Testament" and His Doubts About Our History and Religion and           Our Archaology Finds
Nadene Goldfoot
Being involved with many problems affecting Israel, and being an Israeli citizen, I was amazed with a researcher who is writing books that are not in step with our Jewish beliefs about our land of Israel. He, in turn, cannot understand why Israelis gave him a negative review. He thinks he knows so much more about our religion and land than we do.

Evidently Professor Thomas L. Thompson is not in any agreement with our Israel's past history. He joins the Palestinians who have been busy trying to change our history as well, if not on purpose, in deed. This professor, born in Detroit, Michigan, is now living in Copenhagan, Denmark with Danish citizenship, and from there gives opposing views of our Jewish history. He is not Jewish, but a Professor of "The Old Testament "and is is a follower of the Copenhagen School of Theology. He tries to connect or view side-by-side the "Old Testament" and archaology, and to me he understands neither. He is in a group of "scholars" that think that the bible's version of history is not supported by any archaeological evidence so far unearthed. In fact, they even think that sites unearthed will undermine our Jewish history. From what I've seen, it proves otherwise. Some authors have written that recent archaeological discoveries appear to undermine Thompson's theories. On such discovery is the Tel Dan Stele, found in northern Israel at Tel Dan uncovered in 1993. He had written about it with his unusuaI interpretation   in one of his books published in 1999. This form of publicity was in Aramaic, written by either the king of Damascus, Hazael, or one of his sons had incribed the words "Israel" and "House of David" and was telling about his conquest of this people. I suggest he actually go to Israel and take a tour and learn about it. It's authentic proof of our history.

The poor professor was outraged when his book was reviewed by the Jerusalem Post by Magen Broshi, former director of the Israel Department of Antiquities, who gave it a negative review. I would imagine!   I have a feeling that this man has never talked to a Rabbi about our Torah, and has not seen the discoveries in Israel. No doubt he cannot read Hebrew as well.

He states in a list of 10 facts of his in #8 that the history of Palestine and of its peoples is very different from the Bible's narratives, whatever political claims to the contrary may be. An independent history of Judea during the Iron I and Iron II periods has little room for historicizing readings of the stories of I-II Samuel and I Kings. So what does this mean? That he is accepting the Egyptian versions? What?

I believe that our Torah (first five books of the "Bible") is a beautiful real-life history, with all the good and the bad included in it. We didn't cover up King David's exploits with women, or change the number of Solomon's wives to make us look better. That was a trick done in Egyptian history. You won't read anything bad about their people there. Anything they didn't like was erased, the hard way. I'd like to tell Thompson that our soldiers have used our Tanakh "Bible" when out on the field fighting, and by searching in it found the path needed to move to another part of the land. The geography in the bible works! We know that Moses wrote down the 1st five books. He was educated in Egypt, knew how to write and was with slaves that were not scribes, so he had to do it. Our belief is that G-d dictated it to him. Believe that or not, I really don't care. It is magnificent! It is awesome! How one man could come up with such thinking, and especially at that time, is more than awesome.  It's brilliant. He was so exact. Our version of Torah has been most carefully copied for 4,000 years by scribes. If one error was made, the whole thing was thrown out and they started over.

The only thing I see is that Christians have not translated certain words properly when they used it for material for their printed "Old Testament." If you really want to do good research, you must go to the Hebrew original versions and study with a Rabbi, like a Chabad Rabbi who is into education and may have more patience with you.

The practical thing for this man is to have a discourse with archaeologists in Israel to learn anything. I see in one source that he was prevented from being given a tenured position in any North American university because of a controversy provoked with the conservative American academia over his study : The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives. To me, that's a fantastic part, repleat with genealogy. Of course Moses wasn't alive in Abraham's day, but that was told to him and most likely also in our oral history. Has he ever read the book about the Black fellow who went to Africa to find his family and came upon a whole tribe who could repeat their oral history? It used to be quite a skill for ancient peoples. Also, look at the shards with writing on them found in Ur, where Abraham and his family originally came from. There was a story of the flood, etc. Things have been written down.

In his 10th listing comments, "already by the Persian period, Judaism is marked by multiplicity in social, religious and regional organization and the term should not be used as if identifying either a specific religion or people." I am left flabbergasted!    What, we shouldn't use Judaism for our identification even though we come from different places? Sorry, Bub, but whether we are Ashkenazi, Sephardi or Mizrachi or Berber, or through Khazar conversions, we count ourselves as Jews as we follow the precept of Moses. You have so much to learn. Even the people with Moses in Egypt on the Exodus were a multitude, a mixture, all sharing the slavery racket of the Egyptians and used by them to build . Abraham started us off by being monotheistic and we grew which also includes picking up people along the way.

Now, if you really want to learn anything, get into the DNA of our Jewish people. That can lead you to study about our paths and history. That's what I'm into right now. Get out of your chair in Denmark and do what so many of your people have done, visit Israel. We're all deep into our history because of it.

When living in Safed, Israel from 1980-1985, we had a friend, who was a recent educated tour guide, take us on a tour to practice his new skills. We went to many ruins and had the first hand lecture of the history of the places. There wasn't any place that didn't fit with the history that I was familiar with. It was an enhancement. When Israel learns something, like the recent mikvah dug out or about the Western Wall, they publicize it with alterations of time, periods etc. They're after truth, just like we all are.

Gosh, I hope Professor Thompson leaves his den and does some real research about our religion and home. Whatever does he think when he says such things as "the biblical theology of monotheism has roots in the ideology of empire." So that's what he thinks about believing in one G-d?

Resource: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/copenhagen.shtml
http://en.wikipeia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/copenhagen.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107183037.htm showing 10th Century BCE shard from King David's period with Hebrew writing, sent to my by Freddy Krupa

2011-12-01T14:39:00.000-08:00

Muslim Brotherhood Wins in Egypt

Nadene Goldfoot

I remember Obama thinking that there was nothing alarming if the Muslim Brotherhood would win in a democratic election in Egypt , and that would be so much better than Mubarak's leadership. I didn't, knowing what they stood for. Their creed is not of a nice peaceful religion like Christianity or Judaism, but of hatred for all Jews everywhere. (Read Stand With Us- list on Muslim Brotherhood). His father and step-father may have been Muslims, but he himself had to have not been appraised about the goals of this group-to destroy Israel and kill all Jews everywhere. It isn't a lot of hot steam, either. They believe it so much that there is a fatwa out on us.

80% of the Egyptians voted in the first round of their new parliamentary elections and voted them in. I might add that many Egyptians do not read or write. They had to depend on pictures in order to vote. Therefore, they are not as informed as our people who can but probably don't vet the candidates they are voting for very well. Unfortunaely, their reputation is that they have been the best organized of all the parties. The political front group is called "The Democratic Alliance for Egypt." They won at least 45% of the vote with another 20-25% for the Islamic Bloc, arm of the Salafists, who have created several parties. One is the Hizb al-Noor. The Salafists practice a puritanical form of Islam alien to Egypt. Both parties have the same Islamist ideology with hatred of Israel and the USA, and we Americans have been shelling out how many billions to them?

Simon Wiesenthal's Center brings out that the Muslim Brotherhood is an enemy of democracy and peace. They have an obsession of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. I believe it is them that even claims that a recent shark was Jewish, and I'm talking about the kind that swims in oceans with fins. The Brotherhood is not democratic at all. Look at how they treat women and their Coptic Christian minority.

The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt's Moderate party! Heaven help them and us. The Salafists, coming in 2nd with lots of power are the autocrats. "All the while, Salafists will inject Egypt’s public space with a Saudi form of rigid, outdated, and intolerant Islam." from Husain at CNN.

simon wiesenthal Center enewsletter@wiesenthal.com What the Muslim Brotherhood's Victory in Egypt Means: New SVVC Report
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/16/husain-the-rise-of-intolerant-salafists-in-egypt/
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=49315
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150167#.TtSdYGHbyjR 12/2/11

2011-12-01T14:03:00.000-08:00

PA in Denial Israel Has World-Given Right to Exist
Nadene Goldfoot
A Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to India, Adli Sadeq, was quoted as explaining that they know Israel exists, but they reject their right to exist. I say that due to the fact that they were accepted as a state through the U.N. and were declared a state in May 1948, they are the same as any other declared state in the world. If the PA can't understand this legal act, they are in denial.

It's not only Hamas but Fatah both feel this way. The Palestinians don't want to accept the fact that the Ottoman Empire was on the wrong side by going along with Germany, and the Axis lost the First World War and the Second World War. England was given the responsiblity to manage "Palestine" and agreed in the creation of the Jewish Homeland. Even one of their Sheiks thought it was a tremendous idea and was in favor of it. The land was a waste of sand and mosquito filled swamps. There was no country of Palestine; it was simply the name of the region. It was fallow, dormant, unwanted land that had once been two Jewish countries called Judea and Israel. From the time they were destroyed and people were carted off as slaves in 70 CE to 1948, not much had changed except for the re-development of the Jewish towns from the 1800's from returning Jews. Mark Twain gave a lovely accounting of his trip through the land in the 1800's as to how undeveloped and undesirable it was.

We Jews were getting tired of anti-semitism and being kicked around the world after almost 2,000 years and had always prayed to return to Jerusalem. We had our leaders working with the English right early on to let us have a Jewish Homeland, a much needed refuge, in our old stomping grounds where we were destined to be according to G-d. See, our family was led out of Ur, which is in Iraq, in order to establish a Jewish Homeland by G-d in the first place.

The PA doesn't believe we have a right to exist, doesn't respect us, and by feeling this way is avoiding making a decent life for their people. All the men do is sit around and make and shoot bombs. All they have to do is to read some history and they will find out that they have been so wrong. We Israelis/Jews know they feel this way. We're still trying to live with them. We're not occupiers. We're owners. We were here 5,000 years ago, before we wandered into Egypt because of a drought and became slaves for 400 years. We came back and are back. Get used to it and get a life. Also, by the way, I believe that India is a friend of Israel. The hate-spewing ambassador is wasting his time. Mumbai (Bombay) bombing was a good example of the PA love token.

For not recognizing us and treating us like the plague, the PA is sure dependant on Israel. They do not have electricity or many needed things without us yet they bite the hand that feeds them. Is Abbas just recognizing this fact? It's better to get along with your neighbor than kill him, for you may need him someday. The PA has set up an example of how to treat them. Only our Judaism keeps us from following suit.

Resource: PMW Bulletin pmw@palwatch.org. PA Official: " Israel never had any shred of a right to exist!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-80McB_HM&feature=youtu.be

2011-11-29T09:34:00.000-08:00

Lebanon Fired at Northern Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
The border between Lebanon and Israel has been quiet in the past few years. When I lived in Safed, Major Hadad of the Christian Militia guarded it and we were kept safe from terrorists for a while until things heated up around 1982 when they went into Sabra and Shatilla and overstepped their boundaries by executing the Palestinian terrorists. Now Hadad has died and I don't think the Christian group is active with us anymore.

In October of 2009, these same Lebanese terrorists fired a Katyusha on the Upper Galille and wounded an Israeli. The IDF answered with a half dozen rounds of fire. Terrorists seem to keep trying, but the IDF is prepared to protect Israel.

In January of 2009 three missiles were fired and exploded near Kiryat Shimona without causing damage. This is my favorite town with a department store similar to Meier &Frank. During my ulpan days of 1980, my co-student friend went to that town over a vacation period and couldn't leave as she was in the bomb shelter for the whole time and it was unsafe to leave it. We had no cell phones in those days and so we worried about what had happened to her. Many American Jews had made aliyah and lived up there, and they were very upset. They weren't used to living under such stress. The northern Galilee was being constantly attacked from Lebanon then, and we in Safed were not very far away. I think we drove to Kiryat Shimona in 1/2 hour.

August found a Lebanese army soldier opening fire on Israeli soldiers manning the northen border. That was the first border incident in a year.

Now, four or more Katyusha missiles from Lebanon were fired into northern Israel last night. They exploded near the border of Ma'alot and Kfar V'radim and caused some damage to a building. It was thought that explosions came from the Lebanese side of the border at first.

IDF forces fired back and considers this a serious incident. The Lebanese army is responsible for the prevention of firing at Israel.

Resource: Arutz sheva news@israelinationalnews.com Katyusha Missiles Fired from Lebanon at Northern Israel by Elad Benari
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=247355
http://blog.standforisrael.org/articles/four-katyusha-rockets-strike-israel?s_src=SFIEN&s_subsrc=EN11112XXEXXA added 12/1/11

2011-11-28T11:06:00.000-08:00

CAIRO'S DEMONSTRATION AGAINST JEWS
Nadene Goldfoot
Cairo's Egyptians have been demonstrating all week about their own disorganized politics, but took time to have a Muslim Brotherhood rally against Jews and Israel purposely planned on the 1947 partition plan's anniversary which called for the establishment of a Jewish state They threatened to do this over a week ago.

They went to Cairo's most prominent mosque on Friday and of course had a venomous anti-Israel protest vowing to "one day kill all Jews." About 5,000 people joined into this demonstration. Throughout the event, the Muslim Brotherhood activists chanted: "Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, judgment day has come."

The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be the leader of politics in Egypt as it is the best organized group, but the people have also showed an interest in the more Islamic parties as well. The Brotherhood's charter calls for the destruction of Israel and Jews. (See Stand With Israel and my blog article)

At a time when Sadat and then Mubarak were in charge, the Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed. The leading religious leader, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi was kicked out of the country. He found refuge in Qatar, "that tiny Persian Gulf state" next door to Saudi Arabia with the Emir who embraced him. Qaradawi has also called for the killing of all Jews as well as the destruction of Israel. He tells people that he is a moderate, and I'm afraid that many good Americans have bought into this. Qatar holds the rotating presidency this year of the Arab League.

Resource: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4153207,00.html Cairo Rally: One Day We'll Kill All Jews by Eldad Beck
Oregonian Newspaper 11/18/11 page A5; Arab League backs sanctions on Syria
http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/788C5421-788C5421-70E3-4E4D-BFF4-9BE14E4A2E58,DB7611A

2011-11-19T18:53:00.000-08:00

Arabs Against Jews in Jerusalem Million Prepare for Demonstration

Nadene Goldfoot
A million Egyptian Arabs are planning a march against Judaization of Jerusalem! Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt are behind this demonstration in Cairo to take place a week from Friday, during our Thanksgiving holiday.

They will leave from the Al-Azhar mosque, the largest in Egypt and walk to Tahir Square. Leading the march will be Ahmed a-Taib, the highest Islamic cleric in Egypt and most important in the Sunni Arab world who is the head of the Al-Azhar mosque. He's pushing everyone to join them. Earlier this year he met with Khaled Masha'al, a big-shot terrorist, to work out a plan which Hamas could use to achieve the goal of eliminating Jews from Jerusalem.

They've also set up a committee to stop the progress of Zionists to Judaize Jerusalem. Muhammad Amarra, chairman, cites Jewish presense to that of the Crusader occupation. I'd say that they're a little late by about over 3,000 years, as Kings Saul and David and Solomon made it quite clear that Jerusalem was a Jewish city. By this they may mean to destroy any Jewish article in the city.

They plan on "defending" the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount. All politicians and even the Coptic Christians are expected to endorse their platform. They intend to remove Jews from Jerusalem. They're calling on all "liberal and freedom-seeking groups" to support the Arab effort to liberate "Al-Quds" the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

What American politician was unperturbed when it was brought up that the Muslim Brotherhood could become a leading party in Egypt's Arab Spring? Remember? Here we may have the whole country of Egypt trying to wipe out Israel again.

The big problem is the mosque over the Temple Mount. Probably the Muslims have been destroying anything Jewish under it. It has even been wondered if the Ark of the Covenant wasn't under there. Here Abbas's Fatah with Hamas have accused Israel of destroying artifacts and it is they who intend to do this along with forcing out all Jews.

Jerusalem is not a word in the Koran. They know our history, they just don't intend to accept it. It interferes with their ambition of a complete take-over of Israel.

However, this Saturday in Cairo started off with a riot of their own in Tahir Square. A tent was asked to be moved by the police, and the occupants refused, so it ended with 600 wounded and one dead. Hopefully, the citizens of Egypt will have had enough demonstrations for the time being and will not attend next week.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalemhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149905
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/hamas-million-man-march-in-cairo-against-judaization-of-jerusalem/
pamela@atlasshrugs.com
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149905

2011-11-18T15:43:00.000-08:00

Palestinian Qassam Rockets That Hit Israel
Nadene Goldfoot

Since 2001 Qassam rockets, unguided missiles, have been raining down on southern Israel, usually hitting Sderot, the closest Israeli city.  They started off with a range of hitting only 1.9 miles away and built up to 6.2 miles away and now can reach a 12 mile radius. Considering the narrowness of Israel, they don't need to reach much farther.

What it started off as was a simple steel artilery rocket developed and used by the Izz ad-Dinal Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. The name was of a militant Syrian preacher who died in 1935 and was one of the reasons of the 1936 Arab Revolt against the British. This preacher had died in a guerrilla raid against the British in 1935. They have created 3 different models. Actually, all types of rockets are fired into Israel. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Al Quds rockets are called Qassams by Israel and other countries. Since 2000, the Palestinian rockets have killed 22 Israelis and one Thai.

These may be made right in Gaza, and their design uses common tools and parts. They use sugar and potassium nitrate, a common fertilizer  to make them move. The warhead is filled with TNT and urea nitrate, another fertilizer. The TNT is smuggled in through the Rafah border tunnels into the Gaza Strip.

By 2006 a more advanced Qassam was able to hit as far as Ashkelon. Israel looked at them as a more psychological than physical threat at first. IDF used the Red Color warning system in Sderot, Ashkelon and other targets. This is radar that detects rockets being launched, and used loudspeakers to tell people to take cover. They had between 15 to 45 seconds before impact. Now a system called Iron dome has been built to intercept rockets before they hit that has been in use since March 2011, but so far is kept only in the larger cities.

On July 23, 2004, a Palestinian family actually tried to physically stop the Brigades from setting up a Qassam rocket launcher outside their house and the brigade shot one member of the family, the Arab boy, and wounded 5 others.

In 2009 They were able to reach Ashdod and Beersheba with the more advanced Katusha and Grad missiles.

In October 2010 five children and 3 women were injured after a Qassam rocket exploded near a crowded residential area of Tel As-sultan in Rafah. Hamas has been condemned for storing explosive material near civilians.   In August another explosion wounded 58 and destroyed 7 houses of the Arabs in Gaza. In trying to kill Jews, they have managed to kill more of their own civilians.

Here it is 2011, almost 2012 and they are still raining down helter skelter. What makes me angry is that the media other than Israel and pro-Israeli media do not understand the damage and deaths that these cause. One website I had just read thought that because they may be home made are not something to fear and is listed under resources below.

The word "Qassam" usually means the deadly home-made variety while those from Lebanon are called "Katyushas." Katyushas are a generic class of rocket. In 2007 the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Al Quds fired 34%, Hamas fired Qassams or 22%, Fatah fired 8%, the Popular Resistance committes fired 6% and 30% came from unidentified enemy in Gaza.

In 2001 only 4 were fired at Israel. 2002: 35, 2003: 155; 2004: 281, 2005: 179, 2006: 946, 2007: 896, and they hit the jackpot in 2008 by firing 2,048 at Israel. Israel finally retaliated in 2008 with Operation Cast Lead, and then got bawled out by the world for trying to protect themselves. All this time there was no country speaking out and advising the Palestinian Arabs that they shouldn't spend their time taking all these shots at Israel if they wanted to live peacefully in this world. All during this time Israel warned the world that they would retaliate and to stop, but they didn't. The Arabs of Gaza sped up the attacks, instead, like they were daring: "Bring it on." This led to the UN's Goldstone Report blaming Israel which he changed later after the damage was done besmirching Israel's name. This same Goldstone Report is possibly very responsible for groups in the USA to continue to punish Israel by boycotting and divesting from Israel all products. They are trying to delegitimize Israel's existence. This has now become one of the largest problems Israelis and Jews are facing.

Now that Libya has been under attack and Ghadafi is dead, weapons have been smuggled into Gaza, no doubt. That's where some of the more lethal and long-range onces have been coming from.   Even the newer Qassam 3 made in Gaza can now reach out 12 miles away.

These weapons rain down in southern Israel without any aiming. They fall on civilians only. The distance has been growing that they can reach. People have 12 seconds to run for a bomb shelter.

In just this month of November, rockets have come into Israel on the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 15th of the month for a total of 11 rockets. No one ever knows where they will land. Though Israel's Iron Dome since March 27th has stopped 24 rockets from coming into several larger cities, they cannot afford an Iron Dome for everyplace. It costs $100,000 for every interception, and this does not include the cost of creating and setting up an Iron Dome.

We here who live safely in the USA cannot imagine trying to live a life where you may really feel you are Henny Penny running to tell the king that the sky is falling. We shudder thinking of an asteroid that could fall out of the sky. How would Americans feel about living through years of shelling from 12 miles away and have 12 seconds to run to a bomb shelter? One bout of that and you're done for the day, most likely. You'd be afraid to even go to the bathroom. Welcome to a world that the UN pretends doesn't exist but that Jews prayed for 2,000 years to regain. And yes, it's worth it to us. Ha Shem said, "but I didn't promise you a rose garden." He's making us work for it, I think. We've gone through so much that we're not about to give it up.

Reference: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7640357.html -disgusting report minimizing danger of Qassam to a population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2011

2011-11-16T20:36:00.000-08:00

From October-70 Rockets and Mortars Rain Into Southern Israel From Gaza
Nadene Goldfoot
Two more long range Qassam rockets were fired into Southern Israel aimed at Kibbutz Sha'ar Hanegev in the Western Negev region and destroyed a farm building near the kindergarten classroom. The kindergarten was also severely damaged. Luckily it had already closed for the day, and the children remained safe.

This was the 4th time that Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, had to write to Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary council about saying something like condemning Hamas about doing this. Israel is enduring shrapnel hits in their homes, school and playground and fire in their streets.

Such information never gets into our Oregonian, so I imagine it doesn't make the news into other papers as well, and Americans are not aware of these continual attacks. Israel answered today with their air force and that will probably get into papers. Israel has promised that they will retaliate everytime they are hit by these terrorists. The IAF hit a tunnel in the terrorist center in N. Gaza.

Reference: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=245823
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2011
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149776#.TsL8VyRutv2
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7640357.html

2011-11-14T10:12:00.000-08:00

Iran Blames Israel for Stuxnet Virus; Now Facing Duqu Virus
Nadene Goldfoot

Iran had experienced a computer virus last year called the Stuxnet. Since then in April they have experienced another attack called Stars.

They just had a mysterious blast SW of Tehran at a missile base that killed 17 in the explosion. The day after the attack they found their computers were hit with the Duqu virus.

For a country that has called Israel every detestible name under the sun and has thrown in the threats of destroying it, this is good news since their missiles with atomic death are driven by their computer system. Whoever has come up with such a non-violent way to stop attacks on Israel, the United States and any other freedom loving country, I cheer for you. Sanctions haven't helped to stop Iran in their mission to have atomic weapons, and some countries are even unwilling to do that much. What makes Iran different from Korea or Pakistan is that they have been so blatant in announcing what evil they plans of destruction they have to bring down on the heads of Israel and her friends. Their hatred for Israel is like a vendetta, a blood feud. It makes me wonder if Ahmadinejad isn't related to Haman, Chief minister of Ahasuerus, king of Persia, who wanted to order all the Jews in Persia to be killed. He didn't like Queen Esther's Uncle Mordecai, so he schemed for the annihilation of all the country's Jews. He wound up being hanged along with all his sons. Actually, Haman may have been a descendant of Agag, King of Amalek. The Amaleks were an original hateful group against Jews. We remember this historical event with the holiday of Purim.

Resource: Artutz Sheva: After Stuxnet: Iran Detects Another Computer Virus by Elad Benari
New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

2011-11-10T09:30:00.000-08:00

What Kind of Security Does Security Council Work For?
Nadene Goldfoot
Last week Israel was violently attacked in a huge barrage of 39 missiles raining into the civilian population of southern Israel which resulted in one death, 16 wounded, 14 traumatized, not to mention that one million people were forced to stay in their bomb shelters at home for the entire week. This means that 200,000 children were kept out of school and all work came to a standstill. Did the United Nations Security Council bemoan the deed? Not a word came out of this council.

Ambassador Ron Prosor, former Israeli ambassador to the UK and now to the UN, spoke yesterday to this body dealing with security of its members and said this surely should have called for a reaction, but heard nothing from them in condemning the attacks. What gives?

Isn't it about time that this group speaks up and tells the Palestinians to stop? What are they afraid of, or are they cheering on the side? Are they betting as to who will win? This isn't how the security council is supposed to react. Is this what the USA supports with money? It seems to me just about how Europe reacted to Jews' being treated by the Nazis. Remember Kristallnacht? It happened on November 9-10, 1938. There wasn't any U.N. then, and no one nation stood up to stop the attacks on Jews, which resulted in the death of 6 million Jews and millions of other minority groups.

Does the security council think that there has to be a certain number of people killed in an attack to react or even send a postcard of condolence? The only reason that Israel has a small number of people killed is that they have a small number of people to begin with that have worked very hard to protect their citizens from attack and have bomb shelters for a large number of their population. They are not a people ready to sacrifice life in order to make a point. The philosophy of Israel is for "life", not death. I'd like to see the members receive such bombardment in their countries and find out how they would feel about it. Do they not remember the attacks in their countries during WWII?

The Security Council does not endorse security, at least for Israel at all. Get out of the bar and grill, fellows, and do what you're supposed to do or hang it up and go home. I think enough money on your organization has been wasted. The "Palestinian" Arabs have been taking enough shots at Israelis. Enough is Enough!
Reference: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe/
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/11/kristallnacht-73-year-ago-holocaust.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=24163a1eaf-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN sent from Victor Sharpe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Prosor

2011-11-06T10:28:00.000-08:00

Rocks and Rockets Keep Flying
Nadene Goldfoot
Kassam rockets from Gaza attacked this weekend hitting a foreign worker who was taken to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon Two missiles had hit overnight south of this port city which is home to oil, gas and electric infrastructures.

It looks like the Islam Jihad group is responsible, but Hamas is held responsible for what goes on in Gaza. Egypt has warned Hamas that they must stop the attacks and that Egypt cannot broker a cease fire if they don't cease firing.

Also, Judea and Samaria received terrorist attacks. A man was hit in Samaria from an Arab fire bomb while he was driving his car early Sunday morning. This was from about 30 Arab rioters throwing rocks and fire bombs on motorists on Highway 60, which is the Jerusalem-Hevron Highway. They have had deadly attacks at times.

Arabs also attacked IDF on patrol in the El Aroub Sundar Judean village which is also on Highway 60. They threw rocks at them, and they responded with riot control measures.

In Judea on Saturday the IDF arrested two wanted terrorists. One terrorist was caught near Bethlehem which is south of Jerusalem and another stopped near Shechem which is north of the capital.

An Israeli worker was attacked by terrorists from Gaza while he was doing maintenance work on the security fence. There was a 2 hour gunfight in which the 2 terrorists were killed. I might add that the terrorists have made it very clear that they're out to kidnap IDF or probably any Israeli to be held for more ransom of terrorist prisoners, so that any person is in jeopardy of being either killed or kidnapped today.

Resource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149446
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149463

2011-11-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

Abraham  and Isaac and the Akedah and Eid al-Adha
Nadene Goldfoot

How many million make a billion? It would take 1,000 million to equal one billion. With about 7 billlion people on earth today, Jews number only about 13 million in the world.    Jews make up 0.02% of the world population. Most Jews live in either Israel or the United States.

Christians make up 33% of the total world population with 2.1 billion followers. It is the state religion of 16 nations: Armenia, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Denmark, El Salvador, England, Greece, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Norway, and the Vatican City, of course. The Roman Catholic Church is predominate with 1.17 billion or about half of the Christian population in the world.

There are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world. that's 1/4 of the world population.    Fewer than 15% of them are Arabs. The highest Muslim Arab populations are Egypt with 79 million, Iraq with 32 million , Saudi Arabia with 25 million, Yemen with 23 million and Syria with 20 million. Iranians are not Arabs but are Persians and they have 74 million Muslims. Muslims have about 40 countries where they are the majority of the population.

Abraham was the father of both Ishmael and Isaac. Ishmael's mother was the Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, Abraham's wife who later gave birth to Isaac. This was the beginning of the rift between Arabs and Jews, probably. Abraham is the father of Judaism, breaking away from the city of Ur in the Chaldees, which is today's Iraq, where they had been worshipping clay idols as gods. Being that Abraham's father, Terah, was an idol maker, Abraham knew that this was not a truth, and came to believe in one unseen god. In order to make a clean break in habits for his family, he took his father and the rest of his family and migrated to a place where Canaanites and Philistines lived and pitched his tent. He visited Egypt, then returned to live in Hebron. His nephew, Lot, had migrated with him but separated only to get into trouble with the Elamites, so Abraham fought with the kings of Elam, Shiar and their allies in order to rescue him. This is when G-d spoke to him telling him that his seed would inherit the land "from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates, and tested his loyalty to him with the ordering the sacrifice of Isaac. "And He said, "Please take your son, your only one, whom you love--Isaac---and go to the land of Moriah; bring him up there as an offering upon one of the mountains which I shall tell you." G-d did not say, "Slaughter him," because He did not intend for Isaac to be slaughtered, but only that he be brought up to the mountain and be prepared as an offering. The Torah does not use the word which signifies the slaying of the sacrificial victim. From the outset, there was no intention of accepting a human sacrifice, although Abraham was at first not aware of this. Mount Moriah is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Abraham was stopped by an angel of G-d who had been testing him. "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad nor do anything to him for now I know that you are a G-d-fearing man, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me". (Being that Abraham made all the provisions to carry this out, though not wanting to, I believe that human sacrifice at that time and place was not unheard of, though Abraham always had sacrificed animals. It's hard for us to realize that this event occurred about 4,000 years ago. Look how people have changed in the last 391 years from 1620 when the Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower from Holland to Plymouth Rock. They believed in witches and burned women at the stake if they were found to be one.

Muslims will be making a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia this week for their annual hajj. All Muslims are expected to do this once in their lives. 2.5 million were there in 2010. Many of the concepts they will be remembering are linked to the life of Ibrahim or Abraham. One of the holy days, Eid al-Adha, is about the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son, only in the Koran it is Ishmael that is the son to be sacrificed. The Ishmaelites lived in N Arabia between Egypt and the Assyrian border who traditionally were the Arab descendants of Ishmael, and modern Arabs still claim this descent. They are mentioned in Gen. 25:12 ff. They also had been divided into 12 tribes, just like the Jews' 12 tribes.

The story, first found in the "Old Testament or Torah and later in the 600's CE of the Koran also says that G-d intervened and spared the boy's life where the son is Isaac. ishmael and his mother Hagar had already been sent away. Jews remember this event as the Akedah found in Genesis 22. This is read as the portion of the Law on the 1st day of Rosh ha-Shanah, or the Birthday of the world, the Jewish New Year.

At Bet Alpha in the Beit She'an Valley in NE Israel, a mosaic floor was found in a 6th century CE synagogue of the binding of Isaac to the altar. It pictures two young men waiting with the ass, the ram caught in the thicket, and divine intervention in the form of a hand with Abraham laying Isaac on the Altar. This is the site of a Jewish village from the 5-6th CE where Kibbutz Bet Alpha now lies. It is north from Jerusalem and you get to it before you get to Nazareth.

Reference Oregonian newspaper 11/4/11section # Hajj by the numbers: Islam's pilgrimage
http://www.jewfaq.org/populatn.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Beit%20Alpha%20-%20An%20Ancient%20Synagogue%20with%20a%20Splendid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_She'an
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
Pentateuch and Haftorahs-Dr JH Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire

2011-11-04T10:09:00.000-07:00

Islamist Jihad Terrorists Taking Over Gaza

Nadene Goldfoot
Hamas terrrorists are being overtaken by an extreme terrorist group in Gaza called the Islamist Jihad. They seem to be responsible for the recent barrage of 39 missiles fired into Israel hitting everplace from the border to Ashkelon, which is the farthest city from Gaza and contains the area's main hospital, the Barzilai Medical Center, treating Arabs and Jews alike.

They were invited to Cairo to talk about a cease fire, which of course would give the terrorists time to re-position their new portable missile launcher and take a lunch break. It didn't happen, but Israel's Knesset has given the IDF to go in and stop these missile shooters, which seems to have brought the shooting to a half for now.

By their name, I wondered if this group isn't an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, the most organized politcal group in Egypt? The answer is that they are. Their goals are the same; the destruction of Israel. They plan to replace the tiny state with an Islamist state. They started in Beirut Lebanon and were supported by Hezbollah terrorism, then branched out to an office in Damasus, and are also found in Judea and Samaria's Arab population in Hebron and Jenin and of course have become predominant in Gaza. What is worrisome is that they have been known to recruit chemical engineers into their web of destruction.

There was a point where Hamas was trying to stop their rocket attacks, but have decided to just sit back and let them be the bulldogs in their plot to destroy Israel. They have no intention to sign any peace treaties with this goal in prominence. Like Hamas,they do not discriminate between civilians and soldiers. They aim in a general direction of a highly populated Southern Israel and the population has 12 seconds to run for a bomb shelter. Heaven help you if you are disabled in anyway. One Israeli fellow in his 50's was hit in the stomach with shrapnel and died from his wounds. Many were injured while others were so emotionally upset that they had to be hospitalized as well.

Resource: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=243793
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Palestine

2011-11-03T12:27:00.000-07:00

Can Voices of Peace from Arab Jewish Community Center in Jaffa, Israel Combat Anti-Semitism?
Finding Jewish Ancestors in Many Lands
Nadene Goldfoot
"The forces of genetic mixing are so powerful that everyone in the world has Jewish ancestors, though the amount of DNA from those ancestors in a given individual may be small. In fact, everyone on earth is by now a descendant of Abraham, Moses, and Aaron-if indeed they existed." Steve Olson in Mapping Human HIstory: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins page 114. "

Others have found that many populations in area such as northern Iraq or south ex-USSR, Caucasus, even to the edge of India, and more than half of the population of Afghanistan are...of Jewish descent. It is believed that they are parts of the 10 lost tribes.

After the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians, the majority of the 10 tribes were spread at the extremities of that empire to populate it and act as a buffer to potential invaders. We are finding them today through DNA where they settled. This includes most of Kurdistan, which also has Q1b haplogroup people (today making up 5% of the Jewish population) . Many of our ancestors were converted to Islam at the time of the creation of Islam by Mohammed in the 600's. However, many retain some practices dating back from their Jewish heritage, often without them knowing about these customs and their origin. A mission was sent from Israel in the 1960's to 1970's to identify these "lost" tribes, and they had been found.

Our house is split like brothers found themselves to be in America's Civil War between the North and the South. Long ago our 10 tribes were carried off and some became assimilated into what later became a Moslem population, whether by force or by choice.

When Jerusalem fell in 70 CE, some Jews were able to remain by hiding, and their descendants are there today, but many were taken as slaves. Some left and set up villages along the way from the Mediterranean to North Eastern Europe. then traveled through the homeland referred to as the Levant, then Anatolia and Greece and sailed to Italy, which is not that far away if you look at today's map. Rome in 70 CE had a large Jewish population already and some Romans and Greeks had even converted to Judaism. This had happened during the time of Roman rule. Romans had changed the names of Judea and Samaria and Israel to the name "Palestine" to wipe out the Jewish presence after 135 CE when Bar Kokba had a final showdown and had a rebellion against Rome.

Some Jews who were in Anatolia, a part of Turkey since 1453 CE but originally under Persian and Roman rule,   joined the cities of Byzantine Jews there. Others kept moving north in Italy, though the Southern Italian peninsula was the first home for the new communities of Jews.

In the 4th century Jews kept moving north into Northern Italy until the 10th century when they went north into the Rhineland (Germany) and set up communities which became the cultural center of the northern European Jews.

They moved NE after the 11th century and settled in Eastern Germany and Poland. This area became the largest Jewish Diaspora community in Europe before WWII which was when 6 million Jews were slaughtered. It was in 1012 CE that Jews migrated from Germany to Poland near Bialystock and Grodno.

The founding families of Lithuania are said to have come from Babylonia in early medieval times. There had been a plague in 1347 followed by a 1348 migration of Jews going from Eastern Germany to Lemberg and Temopol with Hungarian Jews from 1349 to 1360 migration to Temopol, also. The Jews of Kiev were a mixture of Byzantine, Western European and maybe even the few Khazarians who had converted to Judaism as well as other Jews living in Kiev and had moved into the Crimea in 1350. This is when the plague finally ended.

There was also a Lithuanian migration of 1445 SE of the Crimea. At the same time Byzantine Jews and the Judaic Khazars might have gone to Khakov from SE to the north of Russia. By 1495 Lithuanian Jews also migrated to Bialystock, Poland. Whenever a plague broke out, the Jews were thrown out of some German town and went into Poland. Jews were accused of creating plagues because they didn't get sick and die to the degree that others did. This was because of Jews keeping their kashrut laws which contained a lot of sanitary habits, such as bathing and washing hands before eating, weekly dips in the mikvah, and dietary cleanliness habits.

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and this was the time that Jews were forced to leave Spain and flee to Portugal, who later also expelled them. Many Spanish Jews at that time became Conversos, pretending to convert to Christianity but practicing Judaism in secret. Today there are Spaniards who through DNA testing have found they match Ashkenazi surnames. In their family's history they may remember such things as not eating pork and washing their hands before eating. Some say that everyone in Castille had Jewish ancestors from there.

It is believed that Jews arrived in Central Asia about 4,000 years ago. There was a large population of Jews in Georgia. Many think that the entire population of Georgia can point to a Jewish grandmother or grandfather, but this would have to be proved through DNA testing. Who was from Georgia? Joseph Stalin.

It's now discovered that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots. He was seen in a picture holding up his identity card in March 2008 showing his former surname was Sabourjian, which is a Jewish name meaning "cloth weaver". His family converted to Islam when he was 4 years old. They came from Aradan. He has been continually berating Jews and Israel. He calls for Israel's destruction at every opportunity and calls it a "fake regime". He has said so many degrading things about Jews, calling Zionists the most detested people in all humanity, and that the Holocaust was a myth, used by Jews just to gain sympathy. It is typical when people convert of degrading the religion they left. People think he is overcompensating to hide his past by blasting Jew and Israel.   Not too recently there were about 25,000 Jews living in Iran, down from an orginal 100,000 to 150,000. Since the Ayatollah Khomeini Islamic Revolution, Jews therre are defamed often by the Mullahs.

Evidence has turned up that Gaddafi of Libya and also even Hitler had Jewish connections. Yes, we know that Bernie Madoff is Jewish and he took advantage of everyone, Jew and nonJew alike.   This certainly tells me that it's what you learn from your mother and your wife family and community that counts, and that your genes just give you your capabilities, such as leadership skills, but not your morality. What's amazing is that anti-semitism is still so rampant and as it turns out, many of these people may have Jewish ancestors!

Today in Israel there is a Choir group called "The Voice of Peace, who just performed for Pope Benedict XVI in Jaffa made up of Jews and Muslims with Dudu Fisher singing songs in Hebrew, English and Arabic. I hope the Pope recognizes the significance of this project. Enjoy. They sing of peace.

Resource: http://www.youtube.com/embed/e7oK0nXB188?
Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry-Merging a Mosaic of Communities by Anne Hart, copyright 2003.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anatolia
http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/ahmadinejad_words.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

2011-11-01T15:10:00.000-07:00

How Arabia Came to be Home to Jews Who Came to be Hated by Muhammad
Nadene Goldfoot

1,000 years before Mohammed the Prophet was born, Jews were already experiencing an exile from their homeland, Judea and were sitting by the waters of Babylon saying "If I forget thee O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning. A Reverend Parks commented that "the religion which was developing into a universalistic ethical monotheism never lost its root in The Land. The land of Israel is intertwined far more intimately into the religious and historic memories of the people; for their connection with the country has been of much longer duration---in fact it has been continuous from the 2nd millenium BCE to to modern times. It is the emotional centre which has endured through the whole of their period of "exile" and has led to constant returns or attempted returns, culminating in our own day in the Zionist Movement."

Israel was a nation in about 1220 BCE, almost 2,000 years before the first Arab invasion began. Arabist scholar Alfred Guillaume reports that Jews probably first settled in Arabia when Samaria fell in 721 BCE. All they had to do was travel south and follow the Red Sea and they were there. It was not that far.

A self-contained Jewish military colony in Aswan and upper Egypt, found just a few years ago, was founded after Samaria fell. The Jewish settlements in Arabia were from the fugitives escaping from the old northern capital of the Hebrews. In the 1st and 2nd centuries CE...Arabia offered a near asylum to the Jews who had been the victims of the ruthless Romans.

Jewish and Christian settlements were established in places in Arabia, spreading Aramaic and Hellenistic culture. Jews and Judaised Arabs were everywhere in Najran, a southern Arabian Christian center. Jews were also in Yathrib, later renamed Medina as agriculturists and artisans. Medina is abut 280 miles north of Mecca. The Jewish tribes that settled there were the Banu Nadir and Banu Quraiza. Pagan Arabs then arrived attracted by the richness of the town. They became clients of the Jews, then later dominated them. At the time there was no stable government. It was torn apart by the feuds of the rival Arab tribes of Aus and Khazraj while the Jew tried to maintain a balance of power. The Jews were disliked as they were wealthier. With the presence of Muhammad, the Arabs attacked and eliminated the Jews.

In the last half of the 5th century, Persian Jews escaped persecution and fled to Arabia. By the 6th century, Christian writers wrote about the Jewish community that remained in the Holy Land. Tiberias in Judea was most important. In Arabia in the kingdom of Himyar on the Red Sea's east coast, it was popular to convert to Judaism for important people. The rule of this kingdom stretched over South Arabia. Then commoners and the royal family adopted Judaism with the Rabbis from Tberias begin part of the King Du Noas's enterage and serving as his envoys in negotiations with Christian cities.

When Islam was becoming popular, Jews were dominating the economic life of Arabia holding lots of the best land and made up at least half of the population of Medina. A Jewish settlement also was to the north of the Gulf of Aqaba. Jews of the Hijaz made many converts among the Arab tribesmen. These Judean refugees, Jews, had resettled to become prosperous, influential Arabian settlers. They prospered because they had superior knowledge of agriculture and irrigation, were industrious and had the energy. Jewish prosperity was a challenge to the Arabs, especially the Quraysh in Mecca and tribes in Medina. Muhammad was a member of the Quraysh tribe, and they coveted all that the Jews were accomplishing but didn't have any of the necessary skillls.

There we have the background of how Muhammed became so bitter as to write in his Koran such things as kill a Jew if you see him behind a rock. He himself even had one or two Jews...murdered and no blood money was paid to their next of kin. He was coming into his power and couldn't abide pockets of disaffected Jews around his base so they had to be eliminated. The Jews would not convert to Islam.

A tribe of Jews were suspected of treachery and were forced to put down their arms and leave their homes so that the land and goods could be taken by the Muslims. Other tribes were afraid to come to their aid, such as the Qurayza and the Aus. Muhammad said, "Two religions may not dwell together on the Arabian Peninsula." His successors, Abu Bakr and Omar I, carried out the edict. Jews were slaughtered and exterminated. The Jewish dhimmi thus evolved; the robbery of freedom and political independence and taking of property of Jews in Arab lands until 1948.

Well, Israel is not sitting on the Arabian peninsula. Israel as a country is a Jewish state with over 1 million Muslims living there along with Christians and possibly other relgious groups as well. It was a haven for Asian boat people. There are no Jews allowed to live in Saudi Arabia ever since Muhammad made his decree. It is 100% Sunni Muslims with an absolute monarchy with about 27,601,038 population. It's time for the Muslims to realize that Israel is not on the Arabian Peninsula and that was what was covered by their leader, not the land Israel is on. Israelis have gone back home to Israel.

Resource: From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters pps 140-145

2011-10-30T10:36:00.000-07:00

A Weekend of 39 Gaza Rocket and Mortar Attacks
Nadene Goldfoot

39 rockets and mortars were fired at southern Israel over the weekend. Arne Moshe, 56 of Ashkelon, died Saturday night in the rocket attack. He had been hit in the stomach with shrapnel. 16 to 20 people were wounded by shrapnel and smoke inhalation. 14 people were treated for anxiety.

President Shimon Peres says that the latest round of attacks of Gaza missiles is a "declaration of war."

Israel's IDF had found a terrorist gang preparing to launch long-range rockets at Israel. They also had fired a Grad rocket Wednesday. So Israel hit them and killed 5 terrorists.

Grad missiles were fired Saturday afternoon and hit a schoolyard in Ashdod. A 2nd missile fell in an open area while the 3rd fell near Gan Yavneh. A young girl ran from the explosion and was injured. Also a man in his 50's was injukred from the shrapnel in the 3rd strike. Both had to be hospitalized.

P.M. Netanyahu remarked that he appreciates the endurance of the Southern Israelis in the face of these attacks. Israel plans to continue striking back everytime they are attacked. There is no cease fire, even though Egypt had tried to arrange for one to start at 6am Sunday morning.

Israel has not had any air strikes without provocation. Yet the Oregonian newspaper this morning states the news as if Israel's planes had struck Saturday at Palestinian militants in Gaza who then responded; leaving out the details of Israel having been attacked first. They write as if Israel were the instigator, and that is not true. They write that such exchanges are common, though this was the worst in months.

"Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigade terror gangs took responsibility for Saturday's Grad rocket attacks against southern Israel. Footage released by Islamic Jihad Saturday night showed terrorists firing the rockets at Israel using a portable rocket launcher installed on the back of a pickup truck – a method of attack that had not been used in Gaza previously. Media analysts said that the footage indicated that Gaza terror groups had developed several advanced capabilities in recent months." from Arutz Sheva

11/2/11 Update: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-army-green-light-stop-gaza-rockets-162500893.html;_ylc=X3oDMTNsNHFjM3UxBF9TAzg0NDQxODY2BGFjdANtYWlsX2NiBGN0A2EEaW50bAN1cwRsYW5nA2VuLVVTBHBrZwMxYmNlY2Y4YS1hYzQ4LTM2ODQtODJkYS1iMmVhZWE4ZjlkOGYEc2VjA21pdF9zaGFyZQRzbGsDbWFpbAR0ZXN0Aw--;_ylv=3
Resource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149226
http://www.haaretz.com/
Oregonian Newspaper 10/30/2011 Sunday Paper page A 16
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-killed-as-a-result-of-rocket-barrage-on-southern-israel-1.392598
http://www.jpost.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-gaza-militants-exchange-fire-10-killed-224750322.html beginning of article exactly like Oregonian, only this is much longer.

2011-10-27T12:01:00.000-07:00

Bombing Persisting Again from Gaza and Commencing from Judean Mountains
Nadene Goldfoot
All has not been quiet on the Western front from Gaza or the Judean mountains. Three weeks ago 2 kassam rockets were fired from Gaza. One of them managed to land in Hof Askelon Regional Council or the Ashkelon area of Israel. Ashkelon is Portland, Oregon and Baltimore, Maryland's sister city. It houses Israel's front line hospital, the Barzilai Medical Center, treating Arabs and Jews alike in the southern Israel area of 502 square miles. It's like biting the hand that feeds you when the terrorists' bombs might land on this site.

On Wednesday evening a Grad rocket landed in Southern Israel from the Hamas terrorists in Gaza landing in the Ashdod and Bnai Aish area. Ashdod is Israel's largest port and an industrial center, one of the two main cargo ports. It is the 6th largest city in Israel. It is 20 miles south of Tel Aviv, 12 miles north of Ashkelon and 33 miles west of Jerusalem.

Also on Wednesday an IDF patrol was struck by a roadside bomb near Efrat in the Judean mountains. The army vehicle was damaged but the soldiers were okay. Efrat lies between Bethlehem and Hebron; two heavily populated Arab communities that had been Jewish cities. It is only 7.5 miles south of Jerusalem. There are over 7 thousand Jews living in Efrat.

The IDF responded with strikes in Gaza in known terrorist centers on Thursday.

As for having any meetings about peace with Abbas, George Mitchell complained about the Fatah response to his American efforts by refusing to start negotiations during the 10 month window when Israel froze building efforts. Fatah chose to respond during the 9th month by declaring that they thought a continued freeze was indispensible. Of course Israel stated that this building need was a point to be discussed in the talks and not now, which is obvious to me and others. So far, the Arabs have refused to come to the table for any peace talks. They want all building by Jews to stop and they want East Jerusalem as their capital.

Actually, Arab home construction since 1967 has outpaced Jewish building. This is when Jerusalem was unified as one city when Israel won the 1967 war. The Arab building growth has been 163.4% while the Jews grew by 113.6%. Yet when the city has any add-ons on building construction planned, the Arabs scream.

Resource: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=243330
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashdod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrat
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=20&x_article=397

2011-09-26T14:40:00.000-07:00

Arab Acts on Abbas's "Palestinian Spring"
Nadene Goldfoot

After Friday's speech at the U.N., Abbas returned to Ramalla and launched his Palestinian Spring-of non-violence which lasted for about 5 minutes. One of his people in was on highway 60 and picked up a rock and aimed it at a passing car. it went through the windshield of 25 year old Asher Palmer and hit him right in the face, which caused him to lose control of the car. He crashed and he and his 10 month old baby son, Jonatan, were killed. This occured in Jerusalem.

Why the "Palestinian Spring?" Abbas thinks that is how you cement your claims to land, and he is claiming Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Evidently he can't bring himself to discuss the matter with Netanyahu. Force is his only way.

Resource: http://yourjewishnews.com/11528.aspx

2011-09-13T12:50:00.000-07:00

Turkey's Gambit of Challenging Israel
Nadene Goldfoot

Turkey's threatening Israel with their navy has resulted in the USA telling them that they can forget receiving the US Drones they want till they lift the threat on Israel. I haven't heard support like this for some time. NATO can also step into the arena if they don't watch their threatening. Turkey is not acting like a reliable NATO partner and has not yet achieved final acceptance status. Both Canada and the USA belong to NATO besides 26 European states including Turkey (almost).

Turkey is just impressing the Arabs about who is boss. It's said that they're really a loose cannon by showing that they are the neighborhood bully. Actually, their showing off their new colors is only a worry to their Arab allies who had enough of the Ottoman Empire. Again, Israel has become the scapegoat in Turkey's bid for power.

Leaked sources tell us that 3 Turkish frigates aren't waiting for another flotilla confrontation but are already sailing for the Eastern Mediterranean Sea hoping to disarm Israeli warships. That would be an attack on Israel, who is not a part of NATO. NATO is a group that means that if one of their members are attacked, the others would come to their aid. How will they behave when one of their members is the aggressor?

August 17th was the start of a war in Northern Iraq that has not been on the scene between Turkey and the Kurds who are rebelling. Kurdish people have been repressed by Turkey in a big way and have desired their own homeland since the 20's when the Ottoman Empire broke up. Lately their group, the PKK, have been attacking Turkey. Israel had sold Turkey 10 Herons (amazing modern looking jets) when they were friendly neighbors along with technicians to care for them, but of course Turkey had to expell these Israelis in their recent tantrums and now they are faced with technical problems with them and the situation has crippled the Turkish army. These were going to be used against the Kurds.

Reference: http://www.debka.com/article/21297/
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256510-report-turkish-frigates-to-confront-israeli-ships-in-mediterranean.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/08/us-turkey-israel-gamble-idUSTRE7871WZ20110908
http://www.uasvision.com/2011/09/06/turkey-israel-political-situation-jeopardises-heron-maintenance/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/feb99/kurdprofile.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/iraq_events/html/chemical_warfare.stm

2011-09-09T16:12:00.000-07:00

Egyptian Sinai's Future of Maintaining Contracts with Israel and Jordan
Nadene Goldfoot
According to the Jewish "Tanakh" or bible, the Israelites crossed the Sinai Peninsula during the Exodus in 1313 BCE. Since then it has been in Egypt's hands, and then became part of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1948 Egypt invaded Israel from the Sinai. In 1956 Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and stopped Israeli ships from entering. Israel, Britain and Franced then invaded the Sinai and occupied the peninsula. This led to the U.N. Emergency Forces to take over the area.

In 1967 Egypt blockaded Eilat and ordered the UN forces out. This was the beginning of the Six Day War where Egypt's army was defeated by Israel who then took over the peninsula. A Peace treaty was signed in 1979 and Israel withdrew totally by 1982. Since then from Sadat to Mubarak's rule, there has been peace between Egypt and Israel, even allowing tourism to happen. Two of my friends from the Ulpan were tourists in Egypt from 1980 to 85.

Now we have the "Arab Spring" where Mubarak, dying, has been on trial where Egyptians have taken over his helm of rule. With the Muslim Brotherhood being the best organized group, I see them taking over. Their charter is strickly anti-Israel, anti- Jewish so this is not a welcome to Israel. Already their gas supplies have been sabatoged that service both Israel and Jordan. The first time was February 5th, then there was a foiled attack in March. There was an explosion at the pumping station along the pipeline at Nagah. Armed men with machine guns came in a small truck and forced the guards to leave. Then they planted explosive charges. The second attack was April 27th and the 3rd was Saturday, May 2nd. Egypt said it was done by a big terrorist operation.

40% of Israel's natural gas comes from this source which is used to create electricity. A contract was signed in December 2010 by four Israeli firms to import gas for the next 20 years. Jordan also imports enough to service 80% of their needs. In May Egypt backed down in their contract with Jordan and demanded high prices from them. Gasco is the company operating the pipeline

Both Jordan and Israel are affected economically by these terrorist attacks. Egypt needs to do a better job of guarding their money-making industry. Hopefully the time is not too distant that Israel can enjoy its own natural gas that has been discoverred. With continued peace between Jordan and Israel, Jordan can also benefit from Israel's holdings. Then neither will be dependent on Egypt's sources. Right now both states have reserves to rely upon so as not to disrupt service to their people.

Update: 9/9/11 Israel's ambassador has been forced to leave the embassy which was attacked by people with hammers. docments and the flag were thrown out of the window. He is flying back to Israel.

The source of any peace right now with Egypt seems to be in the hands of their military who are abiding by the peace treaty. There doesn't seem to be any serious collapse of the cold peace as yet, although I wouldn't travel to Egypt now as a tourist. A cousin of mine did a few years ago from South Africa. They're going to find that their tourism industry is hurting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula#History
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/07/2011740176861868.html
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-holds-gas-supply-to-israel-and-jordan-after-pipeline-explosion-1.341368
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/world/middleeast/28sinai.html
update on Egypt and Israel's embassy in Cairo 9/9/11 : http://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2011/08/israels-embassy-and-ambassador-to-egypt.html
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0811/glick083011.php3

2011-09-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

Turkey and Sour Grapes on the Table with Israel: Challenging UN Report
Nadene Goldfoot
Turkey wants an apology from Israel even though it was Turkey who was defying their law. By their being stubborn and showing how brave they were in defying the measely Israelis' rule of breaking the blockade, they lost a few of their men by their own aggressive actions. Prime Minister Erdogan claims that his botched blockade run resulted in losing 8 Turks and 1 Turkish citizen and expects Israel to pay reparations for them as well.

I think they want to play a big part in the "Arab Spring" now that Egypt has lost Mubarak and may be in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. They can't be told that they erred as shown in the UN report which revealed that Israel was in the right and their blockading ships entering was legal as they acted in self defense.

Turkey is going to the International court of Justice and will challenge the ruling. Turkey has now also expelled the Israeli ambassador and has severed military ties with Israel, though Israel's militry attache may still be there. They want an apology from Israel and Israel isn't about to give it. Such a statement is necessary between children but holds a different meaning among countries, especially ones with alterior motives such as Turkey. In doing so Israel would be bending to the will of Turkey, showing the Arabs that this can be done and that Turkey is powerful.

Turkey's prime minister is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Sufi Muslim of 57 years who became prime minister in 2003. He belongs to the Islamist AKP party which is not moderate. He finds the adjective "moderate" about him offensive. He is friends with Iran and Sudan and himself is very anti-Jewish.

Whereas Israel would like Turkey to treat them with respect, the results of this break of relations will only lead Israel into issuing a travel advisory to not travel to Turkey which will affect planes that may be stopping there on their routes. Israel will cooperate with Armenians. Armenia went through a holocaust with Turkey and they are still arguing over Mt. Ararat. They will help promote an anti-Turkish attitude in Congress. Israel will be able to contact Kurdish groups like the PKK in Europe. Turkey has been guilty of many illegal moves against minorities like them and Israel will provide some cooperation with them.

Update: Even knowing that it was illegal to bring ships into Gaza to break the flotilla, Turkey is planning on sending the Turkish navy on the next flotilla. There is none planned right now.

http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-says-challenge-gaza-blockade-123453603.html;_ylc=X3oDMTNqMHFrY21qBF9TAzIxNDMzMzQ2NzQEYWN0A21haWxfY2IEY3QDYQRpbnRsA3VzBGxhbmcDZW4tVVMEcGtnA2FjNDBiYzFlLTQwMjItMzU4Yy1iMjc4LWRiMDNiOGIzNjAwNwRzZWMDbWl0X3NoYXJlBHNsawMEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3
http://navonsblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/erdogans-dhimmi-problem.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/09/06/israel.turkey/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4119984,00.html
Update: 9/10/11http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-turkey-complicate-life-israel-avoid-war-144058002.html;_ylc=X3oDMTNnMjNocmQ4BF9TAzc2NjUxNTQEYWN0A21haWxfY2IEY3QDYQRpbnRsA3VzBGxhbmcDZW4tVVMEcGtnA2RjZTA3ZTM1LTc2ZGYtMzBlOC1hYWE2LWUwZjMyNjE2YTAzMgRzZWMDbWl0X3NoYXJlBHNsawMEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3

2011-09-06T22:18:00.000-07:00

Iran's Missile Threat To America
Nadene Goldfoot
Today it's not just Israel that could be hit in a missile attack from Iran. The U.S. troops and other U.S. allies are also at risk. Iran has ballistic missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear or chemical warheads 1,500 miles. Tehran is developing missiles that could reach the USA. Countries that underestimate a dangerous country are at risk.

Iran is in competition with Saudi Arabia and Turkey in gaining power in the Muslim world. Turkey is a neighbor of Iran and Syria. Years ago in the 80's Iran was fighting against Iraq, another neighbor, but that has been attacked and almost disarmed by the USA due to 9/11.

Lebanon is a small country that is a neighbor both of Israel, Syria and Turkey, but under domination of Syria. The Hizballah terrorists come out of Lebanon and have more than 55,000 rockets along Israel's border that can reach almost all of Israel's major population centers. They have Katyusha rockets with a range of 12 miles and longer range ones that reach out 24 miles. the Fajr-3 has a range of 28 miles and the Fajr-5/Syrian reaches 45 miles. Considering places of Israel are 9 miles wide, this is a lot. One rocket recently overshot and went into Jordan and killed an Arab there, injuring another. They have rockets with the capacity to go 130 miles and 155 miles.

Since 2005 there have been 7,000 rocket attacks against Israel. Palestinian terrorists took control of Gaza in 2007. Hamas has been in control and the Strip is used to launch thousands of attacks against Israel. Northern Gaza is used to fire rockets at Israeli towns and cities. Sderot has been attacked constantlly and now Ashkelon is in danger. Massive amounts of weapons are smuggled in by sea routes and tunnels. They also use these tunnels to infiltrate into Israel and carry out attacks. They are the goal of Israeli air attacks after Israel has been hit.

The Arab nations outnumber Israel more than 650 to 1 in land and 56 to 1 in population. Israel has been threatened many times by Iran. Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Jordan are in revolution where the Muslim Brotherhood is the most organized and dangerous group that is ready to take over. Iran's revolution failed. Their citizens are rising up against their dictator leaders who have created enemies with lies to keep their people repressed. Chances are slim for them to become democracies but face the possibility that they will be dominated by Sharia law which includes hatred and destruction of Israel and the United States. Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979. Now that peace is shaky with a new group taking over who may not honor this. 32 years of peace has been good for Egypt as well as for Israel.

Palestinians must not seek and receive statehood now without negotiating with Israel. New sanctions have to be passed on Iran. Security assistance has to be maintained with Israel in order to help with their Iron Dome missile defense system. This is not the time to give up and appear weak.

Egypt has 220 F-16s. Saudi Arabia has hundreds of the most sophisticated combat aircraft. They plan on spending $60 billion on more aircraft. Turkey has the 3rd largest air force in NATO with the US and UK leading. They plan on buying 100 of the most advanced American fighter jets, the F-35. Israel can only afford 25. What is sad to me is that the USA will most likely sell these weapons to them for the sake of the economy. This is why Israel needs support. Somebody is in the business of producing these weapons and Israel must remain strong.

Reference: AIPAC

2011-08-28T20:52:00.000-07:00

Palestinian in Stolen Taxi Injures Tel Avivians

Nadene Goldfoot

Just before 2:00 am Monday morning a Palestinian in his 20's from Nablus stole a taxi after stabbing the driver in his hand and rammed into a Border police checkpoint near a Tel Aviv nightclub, hitting 4 policemen. Then he pulled out his knife and stabbed 3 civilians who were walking by before he was arrested, injured and taken to the hospital.

He shouted the usual battlecry, "Allahu akbar "G-d is Great!" as he started stabbing the people.

The Haoman 17 nightclub was housing over 1,000 teenagers from high schools who were having an end of summer party.

A similar attack happened in May when one Israeli was killed. This sort of thing used to happen more in the past.

http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-police-7-wounded-palestinian-attack-015825582.html

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=235812

2011-08-26T10:32:00.000-07:00

Iran's Involvement in 9/11 and Their Attempt to Destroy Israel

Nadene Goldfoot

Iran was the instigator and abettor of the assassins in 9/11 in New York ten years ago. The Havlish case is a document from American lawyers working on this civil action filed by the widow of an insurance consultant that died in 9/11 in the World Trade Center. The suit is against bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda operatives received training in Iran. Their classes were in air line hijacking. There was important communication four months before 9/11 in which an important Iranian intelligence official authorized support for "al-Qaeda's future plans."

Iran was tracked being involved with al-Qaeda in 1993 when Hizbullah's Imad Mughniyah, a terrorist having multiple operations against U.S. citizens, met in Sudan with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri who has assumed the highest al-Qaeda position from bin Laden. Mughniyah has been declared the most dangerous terrorist in the world in our era by two former CIA senior officials in an affadavit. He was an Iranian agent high up in the Hizbullah hierarchy who organized the international transfers for a part of the 9/11 hijackers through Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan plus other places. By doing all this, it helped the 9/11 attack by obtaining US visas, training in Afghanistan and Iran, and entry into the US. The lawyers gathered testimonies of Iranian intelligence officials who sought asylum in the West. One said that Iran had advance knowledge of the plan to blow up aircraft in sites in NY and Washington. He was also present at the Sunni terrorist training camps inside Iran. (Yediiot Ahronot Newspaper)

(from The Eleventh Day, by Summers and Swan).

Ahmadinejad, Iran's president said that his country was "determined to eradicate Israel." They profess to be for humanity and others should also be for eradicating the Zionist regime which they call Israel. To him this would be a symbol of suppression and discrimination. This was all recently said on Lebanese television network carried by ISNA. " Iran is doing this with determination and decisiveness and will never ever withdraw from this standpoint and policy," he added. This was in an interview with the Al-Manar network.

Ahmadinijad said Friday that the creation of a Palestine state was only the first step to the destruction of Israel. Like he said in 2005, Israel was a "tumor" to be wiped off the map and urged Arabs in PA areas not to settle with a 2 state solution but to "strive" for a return of what they thought was their land. September 22nd at the UN in recognizing Palestine is not the last goal but the first step forward towards taking all of Palestine. This is what he told men at Friday prayers showing support for the PA cause. He continued with his platitudes: "the Zionist regime is a center of microbes, a cancer cell and if it exists in one iota of PA land they will mobilize again and hurt everyone." "It is not enough for them to have a weak, powerless state in a very small piece of Palestine. ...the ultimate goal is the liberation of the whole of Palestine." "I urge the Palestinians never to forget this ideal. Forgetting this ideal is equal to committing suicide. It would be giving an opportunity to an enemy which is on the verge of collapse and disappearance. " Iran is the driving force behind Hamas and Hizbullah in a war against Israel. They also have been striving to have nuclear capabilities to use in arms against Israel.

Our US Treasury Department also has found 6 al Qaeda members based inside Iran. Some are also outside Iran but funnel recruits and cash through Iran. They have an agreement between al Qaeda and the Iranian government. One person was born in Libya known only by his first name of Atiyah. He is an al Qaeda overall commander in Pakistan and the leader of al Qaeda in North and South Waziristan, Pakistan who had been appointed by Osama bin Laden to serve as the emissary in Iran. That way he could travel in and out of the country easily. He had been planning a terrorist attack set to be on the anniversary of 9/11. Some think he is more important than Ayman al Zawahiri, the new emir of al Qaeda. He's their Operations Chief. He's the apointed al Qaeda emissary to Iran and is one of the beneficiaries of a deal between Iran's government and Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, man with the money and men from the Gulf States through Iran to Atiyah. He was protected after 9/11 for several years by Iran.

Therefore, tens of thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran on Friday on their "Quds Day" rally. They showed solidarity with Palestinians by being against Israel. This was shown on their state TV. Major cities had large crowds with banners saying "Death to Israel" and "Death to America."

Iran calls the USA "Big Satan" and Israel "Little Satan." I feel the biggest evil in the world are the leaders of Iran. We know that their people have tried to revolt once but were squashed. We saw this on TV. Wasn't it Nadja who was murdered before our eyes? How is it that madmen like their President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad become so powerful?

Resource: news@israelnationalnews.com Arutz Sheva "A-Jad: PA Statte First Step to Israel's Demise by Gavriel Queenann

dailyalert@list-dailyalert.org all of today's articles about Iran

2011-08-26T09:18:00.000-07:00

Libya Procurer of Weapons For Hamas

Nadene Goldfoot

There are all kinds of ways of making money. It's said that money is the root of all evil. Libyan local warlords and foreign middlemen competed with each other to procure weapons that they stole from arsenals in Libya through their popular Black Market. They were able to get a hold of anti-aircraft guns, mortars and such and they were smuggled into Gaza through Egypt to Hamas. I wouldn't be surprised if all that money that goes to the PA from the UN winds up buying weapons this way. I doubt if these people are just do-gooders and do it for the sake of the party.

No, it doesn't look like Israel will have an embassy in this country.

Resource: Ha'Aretz

2011-08-25T12:43:00.000-07:00

Israel's Embassy and Ambassador to Egypt Threatened

Nadene Goldfoot

The Muslim Brotherhood is instigating the ousting of Israel's ambassador in Egypt. His life has been threatened. They're screaming for expelling him. They have thrown firecreackers towards the Israeli flag in trying to burn it and finally did get it taken down. Ahmad al Shahat had climbed up the 22 story building to do so. He was promptly rewarded by a provincial governor with a new home and a new job for doing so.

Yitzhak Levanon has been told to leave or be killed. He's the 10th ambassador since 1980 when Egypt signed a peace pact with Israel. He's been there since November 2009. The Egyptian military has closed the road to his home where he was also threatened with death and his flag was also destroyed there. The closed road is for his protection but I would think that this also makes him a prisoner in his home as well.

A facebook movement called the Million Man is a protest to oust him. Here facebook was created by a Jewish kid and is now being used to get rid of a Jewish ambassador. What would the Egyptian mob do without us?

8/30/11 update: The flag is flying again at the embassy after over a week of being down.
9/9/11 update: Police had to use tear gas and shoot blanks into the air in an effort to disperse thousands of protesters at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. The attackers were using hammers on the building to gain entrance and managed to throw embassy documents and the Israeli flag out the windows. About 200 demonstrators were wounded. There were at least 450 active protesters. The Israeli envoy is flying out . No Israelis were hurt.
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=237393

Re: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147102

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_ambassadors_to_Egypt

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/08/25/3089125/egyptian-man-rewarded-for-ripping-down-israeli-flag

update: 4:46pm http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/08/islamic-spring-egyptians-protest-outside-israeli-embassy-with-swastika-sign-saying-the-gas-chambers-are-ready/

update: 8/30/11 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4115433,00.html
Update9/10/11 http://news.yahoo.com/egyptians-break-israeli-embassy-cairo-004737248.html;_ylc=X3oDMTNoaXAxaW42BF9TAzg0NDQxODY2BGFjdANtYWlsX2NiBGN0A2EEaW50bAN1cwRsYW5nA2VuLVVTBHBrZwMwNTQ3NjJhMS1kZDUxLTMyYTgtYjBiMi02MTRhMTNmMGEzNGYEc2VjA21pdF9zaGFyZQRzbGsDBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

2011-08-24T21:33:00.000-07:00

More Mortars Bursting

Nadene Goldfoot

Tit for tat, and so the war goes on. This time the Military Branch of the Islamic Jihad took responsibility for a barrage of 5 rockets that were fired into southern Israel around Ofakim Wednesday evening from Gaza. When it's early morning here it's evening there. One landed south of Ashkelon and three in Be'er Sheva. Also, rockets landed in the Eshkol Regional Council.

A rocket hit a car in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council and injured a little toddler's hand in it. Rocket fire continued late Wednesday night. Two rockets landed in Sderot, which is very close to the Gaza border.

In retaliation, Israel hit storage buildings for weapons in both north and south Gaza. and they also hit tunnels used for sneaking in weapons.

Why the barrage this time? The Jihad group was angry because Israel got one of the terrorists named Ismael al-Asmar, 34 years old. This is turning into a Hatfield-McCoy situation. X shoots at Y and Yshoots back and X shoots again because Yshot back. The difference is that Israel can pinpoint their target and the terrorists terrorize by shooting rockets and missiles into a populated civilian area. If they didn't have bomb shelters to run to in a matter of seconds more would be dead and injured. As it is the hospital will be full of terrorized people. The terrorists know they can expect retaliation after they have attacked Israel. Israel is never sure when missiles will rain down and must stay close to bomb shelters.

All Israelis in the southern area were told to stay indoors. A community had to cancel a music festival. Then two more mortar shells were fired into the Israeli territory. The Iron Dome did stop a Grad rocket.

The terrorists reported that two of their men were dead and 20 were injured. They have an awful lot of Muslims compared to the Jewish population, and they don't seem to mind dying when they can go out as a marytr which earns them 72 virgins. Jews have no such reward. They just want to live.

Resource: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/barrage-of-rockets-hits-southern-israel-idf-kills-islamic-jihad-member-in-gaza-1.380503

http://www.jpost.com/

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=235309

2011-08-24T12:18:00.000-07:00

The Barzilai Medical Center of Ashkelon, Israel

Nadene Goldfoot

Ashkelon is Portland, Oregon's sister city and the Barzilai Hospital there has been close to being hit several times. It's Israel's front line hospital on the Gaza border. They take in patients that are Jewish and Muslim, terrorists and whoever manages to get there in need. That's what all the hospitals in Israel do. The hospital services 502 square miles. The residents in this area are 500,000. It has 500 beds and a level 2 trauma center. It's Israel's foremost center for trauma care and nurse training.

The hospital has been treating many patients, especially since 2006 with all the missile attacks since then. They continue to be able to deliver the best medical treatment to all injured soldiers and civilians and also provides professional expertise, compassion and care. They do need our help all the time as the world economy has almost stopped the flow of monetary assistance from around the world. World-wide propaganda against Israel hasn't helped, either.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal in the Gaza border area of southern Israel. In 2006 there were 1600 Kassam missile attacks. The hospital had 1400 patients with acute and post traumatic stress disorders and diseases then. Each year they treat 100,000 emergencies.

They have had a 150% constant occupancy each year. Their cafeteria is regularly converted into hospital bed spaces. That's not surprising. When I was in the hospital in Haifa in 1981, (I had fallen and crushed my elbow) I was out in the hallway naked with an IV dripping down my arm. It was that full. It was Haifa's army hospital. Luckily later I was moved into a large ward full of women. It was 6 weeks later when we had the Lebanon war and I couldn't even see my doctor then to talk about taking out the screws from my arm as they were going to be extremely busy.

Ashkelon is one of the oldest cities in the world. They go back 4,000 years. In 1955 the modern city was founded by South African Jews when their town of Afridar merged with Migdal, a former Arab town. Their national park has Greek and Roman ruins and the remains of ancient synagogues. There is also a Roman tomb decorated with frescoes, the ruins of a Byzantine church and a wall built by Crusaders in the city. They have a population of about 120,000.

Ashkelon is also distinguished by having the world's largest water desalination plant. Baltimore, Maryland is also another sister city with Ashkelon.

Reference: http://www.friendsofbarzilai.com/

http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?print=1&c=40986&a=125423

My personal experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSdrQKcaLAU sent by Jeff Morton

2011-08-24T09:58:00.000-07:00

Popular Resistance's Five Minute Cease Fire

Nadene Goldfoot

The Popular Resistance Committee, funded and supported by Hamas, said through Abu Ataya that they never said they'd cease firing. It was only a temporary halt. They fired two mortars into Southern Israel Wednesday from two different locations and also said that they will continue to do so.

Israel has filed a formal complaint to the U.N. They of course retaliated and killed one of the terrorists. Either Hamas cannot control their PRC branch or they really don't intend to.

Three Egyptians were part of the recent attack in the Eilat area and was reported in the Egyptian newspaper of Al Masry Al Yaoum. They were members of the extremist Islamic group. One had escaped from prison during the revolution against Mubarak and never caught. They were members of a group of 12 terrorists who were divided into 4 groups working over a long 12 kilometer area. Some wore brown uniforms that were similar to the Egyptian army uniforms. At least our California Crips and Bloods wear different colors. Here it's getting hard to tell who is who.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147148

2011-08-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

EARTHQUAKES STRIKE Israel and Virginia

Nadene Goldfoot

Sunday morning at 11:55am a 4.3 earthquake was felt in Haifa. It had stuck Israel's Central coast without injuring anyone. It was 10 miles deep and 44 miles NW of Tel Aviv and 49 miles WSW of Haifa. Gaza even felt this one.

The last major earthquake Israel had had struck in 1837 in Safed (Tzfat) killing 4,000 people there.

I had visited friends in Safed who were living in one of the homes that were dug out of the earthquake. While there from 1980-1985 I felt an earthquake when attending a class on the 12th floor of our apartment building. The building swayed back and forth. Our apartment was on the very bottom floor, and my husband had never felt it at all.

Today Washington DC was hit with a 5.9 earthquake that even Obama felt in Martha's Vineyard. The Pentagon was evacuated. This was one that was felt on the Eastern Seaboard.

Golden, Colorado also experienced an earthquake. The two in the states were not connected except by time.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146456

http://news.yahoo.com/quake-rocks-washington-area-felt-east-coast-181550612.html

Fox News TV, 4:42pm.

2011-08-23T10:32:00.000-07:00

Middle East Logic in Gaza: Why Terrorists Have Suddenly Attacked Israel Again

Nadene Goldfoot

Southern Israel has been suffering from a massive attack of missiles and rockets that have rained down on them, killing and destroying. The reason is that the Arab Hamas and Fatah leaders are planning on going to the UN on September 22nd for recognition of their nation of Palestine.

So why suddenly attack Israel? The Arab terrorists are attacking Israel for the prime purpose of getting Israel to retaliate. Then they will be able to say: "We condemn the Israeli offensive on Gaza and Egypt's land." This was actually what they did say to reporters in Cairo, Egypt. "The U.N. has to take procedures to stop the Israeli offensive on Gaza", they declared.

Abbas has already called on the U.N. to get an emergency meeting organized to discuss Israel's air strikes.

Israel had warned Gaza terrorists that when they attack Israel with their missiles and such, Israel will respond with air strikes. Israel bombs places where the missiles come from and tunnels that bring in weapons. It does not go after population centers. So in their warped thinking, the terrorists think they are able to declare Israel the culprit. And the world thinks that only Gadaffi in Libya is insane. I just hope that the U.N. is aware of the differences between offensive and defensive moves.

Resource: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=807

2011-08-22T08:54:00.000-07:00

15 Rockets Fired After Cease Fire

Nadene Goldfoot

The Popular Resistance Committee of Gazan terrorists were resisting the cease fire order from Hamas on Monday because several of their senior members were killed in the last retaliating volley from Israel. They know the outcome of their attacks: when they fire into Israel, Israel will retaliate from the air. This airstrike got the rocket launching devise. Israel does not aim for people, but sites where the firing comes from in trying to stop it. They have hit tunnels and such as well.

Israel's new Iron Dome protection capability was able to stop 4 out of 5 rockets fired, but that last one that got into Israel hit a young Israeli man, Yossi Shushan, and killed him. Another rocket was heading for Ashkelon but the Iron Dome stopped it. 4 of the 15 rockets landed in the Sderot vicinity and in the outskirts of Ashkelon. A building was hit in this new volley. The terrorists have resorted to firing a volley of many rockets like 7 in order to get some through the Iron Dome. This is stopping quite a few of them. Israel plans on procuring a few more Iron Domes by next year. They have the capability to stop rockets fired into heavier populations so as not to waste them.

Egypt did not recall their ambassador to Israel as they had threatened when several of their soldiers were killed in the shootout between the IDF and the terrorists in the first volley. It took a lot of counseling to calm things down.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/gaza-rocket-fire-persists-despite-truce-israeli-aircraft-retaliate/2011/08/22/gIQA578gVJ_story.html

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234914

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-defense-sources-gaza-terror-groups-changing-tactics-to-avoid-iron-dome-system-1.379914

2011-08-21T12:37:00.000-07:00

UPDATE: Cease Fire Brokered - 3 Days of Violence

Nadene Goldfoot

Diplomats in Jerusalem and Cairo from the USA, France and Germany worked on a cease fire between the Gazan Hamas terrorists and Israel after 3 days of an escalated total of 100 rockets fired into southern Israel. The PA were using violence to bolster their case for statehood, they said. They want to control the borders. I suppose they want a clear shot without bothering to be chased by the Israeli border patrol. Egypt brokered the agreement. They had been ready to cease all agreements with Israel as well after 3 of their soldiers were killed when they were in the line of fire. It has been soundly emphasized that Israel will only stop its airstrikes if the terrorists stop firing these missles, etc. What can happen now is that this interim time will only give the terrorists a chance to reload. That's what has happened in the past.

Early Sunday morning Israel time, which is about 12 hours ahead of Portland, OR found a missile had hit an Israeli school that was empty and that thousands of people had to spend their time in bomb shelters. The distance missiles and mortars can travel today is much farther than 5 years ago. More towns and cities are in jeopardy.

Interestingly, Iran was reported to oppose statehood for Palestine. Their comments are always that of demolishing Israel completely. I suppose they plan on doing something devastating and then the Arabs can have the whole area for themselves. This is the Middle East. It is hard to figure on the rational used by both Hamas and Fatah as well as Iran in this case. It reminds me of the old joke: An alligator met a scorpion who wanted to get on the other side of the river so asked for a piggy-back ride and the alligator agreed. In the middle of the river the scorpion bit the alligator and both went down. "Why did you do that for? Now we'll both die!" lamented the alligator. "I don't know why, hissed the scorpion. I'm just a Middle East scorpion. Go figure!"

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/21/gaza-militants-keep-up-rocket-fire-on-israel/

2011-08-20T14:16:00.000-07:00

3 Egyptian Soldiers Killed by Being in Line of Fire In Midst of Major Assault on Southern Israel

Nadene Goldfoot

Israel was attacked by terrorists in Southern Israel. Israeli soldiers and the air force have told them that when they kill Israeli citizens they will retaliate. In the act of chasing after the terrorists who had got away and were entering Egypt, the 3 Egyptian soldiers must have been in the line of fire of a shootout between the terrorists and Israelis and were accidently killed. Israel has apologized profusely.

The reply from Egypt is that their ambassador is being recalled from Israel and Israel's embassy was under mob attack. The Muslim Brotherhood, main political party with clout has replied that this was a crime. They said that what happened before the revolution will not be tolerated now after the revolution.

Israel had made peace with Sadat and Hosni Mubarak also signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Part of the peace agreement was that Egypt was to have restricted number of troops in the Sinai. Last week they moved thouslands of troops into the Sinai Peninsula against al-Qaida inspired terrorists and even arrested 22 Islamic militants.

Today Israel was hit by 2 more rockets; one in the Pitchat Shalom region and the other in Shaar Ha Negev region. Since July 1st 26 rockets have been fired from Gaza.

Saturday's attack by Hamas terrorists in Beersheba Ofakin caused injuries to a baby, a 9 year old and a young man in his 20's. A rocket had hit the roof of a home and caused shrapnel injuries. Another hit a car as well, while yet another hit a business building. Hamas announced that the end of the two year truce was here. Reports that 80 some rockets have been fired at Israel already. Haaretz reports that since Thursday there have been 50 Qassam rockets, Grad missiles and mortar shells fired into southern Israel. There has been a death and 4 wounded in one attack with 26 people treated for shock. Israel is being attacked not only by Hamas terrorists but another branch of them called the Popular Resistance Committee.

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-says-sorry-over-egyptian-troop-deaths-135638409.html

http://news.yahoo.com/two-rockets-fired-gaza-hit-israel-army-145914158.html

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234599

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/grad-rocket-directly-strikes-home-in-be-er-sheva-one-dead-four-seriously-wounded-1.379695

2011-08-19T09:44:00.000-07:00

17 Grad Missiles Fired at Be'er Sheva and Ashdod

(count now 8 dead 41 injured)

Israel is experiencing multiple attacks using Grad missiles and Kassam rockets in many places at the same time.

Israel has Iron Dome missile Interceptor which stopped several missiles fired into Be'er Sheva and Ashdod but didn't stop one of them. This one came in a 2nd round of firings and hit a synagogue in Ashdod at 8:15am. Another missile landed next to a yeshiva. 6 men were wounded from shrapnel, one in serious condition.

Minutes later a Kassam rocket was launched in the area of Ashkelon where the largest hospital is. During the night terrorists fired several Kassam rockets from Gaza which landed in the Sdot Negev area.

Our IAF jets targeted 7 terrorist compounds in retaliation such as a weapon manufacturing site and two terror activity centers, two smuggling tunnels and such.

Now we know that 8 Israelis died in the Eilat attack. This is the worst attack Israel has suffered from for a long time. The IDF managed to take the life of the top terrorist, Abu Awad Kamel a-Neirab, commander of a Brigade that was the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, an offshoot of Hamas.

Resource: Autz Sheva Synagogue Hit as Grad Missiles Fired at Be'er Sheva and Ashdod by Elad Benari

http://news.yahoo.com/rockets-airstrikes-attack-israel-061525929.html

2011-08-18T09:27:00.000-07:00

Eilat Area Receives Multiple Attacks Thursday

Nadene Goldfoot

6 / now 7 now 8 Israelis were killed and 25/updated to 33 injured around 20 kilometers north of Eilat around noon on Thursday. The area was hit in three different incidences. Eilat is Israel's southernmost city of 46,600 people. It's a popular resort for international tourism being it's on the northern tip of the Red Sea on the Gulf of Eilat. It sportss lovely beaches, great nightlife and desert landscapes. Scandinavians love to go there for a sun tan and swimming. It's also a major port for Israel.

1. An Israeli Egged Bus was driving along the Israel/Egyptian border in Southern Israel when a car passed loaded with terrorists who opened fire. This happened on Highway 12. Nine people were wounded.

2. A car driven by an Israeli with passengers was hit by an anti-tank missile in the second incident.

3. An IDF patrol vehicle was hit by either a grenade or some other kind of explosive device.

The IDF gave chase after the terrorists and fire was exchanged between the two. Now the public has been advised to stay away from Highways 10 and 12 which are now closed. Kerem Shalom and Erez Crossing are also closed between Gaza and Israel. This is so the Security and Rescue forces can get their work done.

Eilat's neighbors are the Egyptian village of Taba and the Jordanian city of Aquaba. One can even see Saudi Arabia across the Gulf. The terrorists no doubt came from Gaza and belonged to Hamas.

http://www.idf.il/1283-12807-EN/Dover.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilat

http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-fire-israeli-bus-near-egyptian-border-radio-092156440.html update

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ Artuz Sheva; 2 Children Among Hurt in Multiple terror Attacks: 6 Dead by Chana Ya'ar.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146938

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/08/18/terror-attack-on-israelegypt-border/

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-says-gunmen-came-egypt-kill-7-162252598.html

updated 12:47pm Thursday in Portland, OR, another update 8/19/11 Friday 9:29 am

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-bus-driver-recounts-long-minutes-of-terror-attack-1.379444

2011-08-16T08:58:00.000-07:00

Two Grad Missiles Land in Be'er Sheva Area

On Monday evening, two Grad missiles landed in Be'er Sheva from Gaza. This time the IDF saw the group of terrorists firing and preparing to fire more when they fired at them, killing one and wounding four others. The IDF is on patrol and will not tolerate any missiles fired into Israel. The Israeli Air Force then retaliated and struck 4 terror targets.

Resource: Arutz Sheva: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/IDF Retalitates for Grad Attack, Strikes in Gaza by Elad Benari

2011-08-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

Palestinian Refugee Camp in Syria for 63 Years

Nadene Goldfoot

What is unbelievable to me is that ever since 1948, some "Arabs that were living in Palestine" have remained in Refugee camps without ever becoming a member of another Arab country. They would rather remain as refugees. The UN seems to be complicit in this as well, not helping them to integrate into another society. It's a matter of feeding the goals of their political masters.

Syria is on a rampage killing their own citizens who were engaging in the Arab Spring. Now these refugees are caught in the tummult. Between 5,000 and 10,000 have fled, reported Christopher Guness, spoksesman for the UNRWA agency which cares for the Palestinian refugees. So many people on refugee status! What do they do all day and what does the person who cares for them do? It's more like an Indian Reservation. Our Native Americans did not fare very well at all on the Reservations. Alcoholism became rampant with them. They were hunters and could no longer practice their skills. So what are the Arabs doing all day and all night? They are most likely not working. They still continue to receive funds from the UN as the longest known refugee status people in the world. They are on their 3rd generation of people on welfare who have not been preparing to take care of themselves. Their numbers have grown considerably.

Now they are on the run and their caretaker is very worried about them as some have been reported as dead and nearly 20 are injured. Ramallah is a city in Judea/Samaria. The head honcho (Palestinian presidency) there urged Damascus, Syria to protect the lives of the refugees in al-Raml camp in Latakia. Latakia has been seeing Syrian tanks and armored vehicles around the dissident neighborhoods. Services were cut before their security forces raided, made arrests and bombed, reported the residents. Shelling had renewed on the Palestinian refugees in the districts of Al-Raml al-Filistini and al-Shaab. There was heavy machine gun firing. Latakia became besieged, stopping people from leaving. Some Palestinians had fled their refugee camp on orders from the Syrian authorities, a U.N. official said.

Syrian soldiers are up in arms about terrorists using arms and dynamite reported Ayman Kasser, Syrian soldier who was shot in the leg when gunmen attacked his unit. Others reported that the regime is finishing off armed gangs. This unrest in Syria, which is Israel's neighbor, has caused 2,000 deaths so far. The citizens want their President Assad of an Authoritarian Republic out. Syria is home to 19,405,000 Sunni Arabs.

http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-tanks-hit-latakia-third-day-assault-082716683.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/08/15/UN-Palestinians-flee-Syrian-shelling/UPI-76701313411574/?spt=hs&or=tn

2011-08-15T12:01:00.000-07:00

Palestine Authority Treasury Gets Half -Filled by USA

Nadene Goldfoot

Abbas and his Fatah people live in Judea and Samaria. There have been terrorists from this group who are now residing in Israeli jails. Unlike American jailbirds, these men receive a monthly wage from the Palestine Authority. Of course, the more violent the crime the longer the sentence. The longer the sentence, the more the salary. This must be some kind of reward system of the Arabs to act out against Israel. Hamas terrorists are included now in receiving salaries.

50% of the money in the Palestinian treasury comes from the USA and the rest is mostly from European Union member nations. As if that's not enough of a source, money is also flowing in from France, Britain, Ireland, Norway, Japan, India and the World Bank as well as from private donations into their general budget. This was from the 2010-2011 budget. The PA's budget is so vast that this money accounts for only 3.5% of its total budget. If the sentence is up to 5 years, they receive 1,400 -2,000 NIS or tops $564.59. If they serve 10-15 years they receive 6,000 shekels or $1,693.78. The ones serving l5 years and longer receive 10,000 shekels or $2,822.97. Those serving 20-30 years get 12,000 or $3,387.56. These are people who were intentional murderers of civilians and they are rewarded. These payments from the countries of the world to the PA remind me of paying the bully off so my lunch money wouldn't be wrestled from me. It also happened in Chicago in the 20's when businesses had to pay off the criminals so that their stores would be left alone. Their payments to the PA may not be so almighty altruistic: or are they?

Some victims were American citizens. Taxpayers in the USA are paying the salaries of murderers of Americans. One of the latest victims was Ben Yosef Livnat who was gunned down in Shechem. Shechem is so important to the Jewish history as it is the city where Abraham was told by G-d that he would be given the land. Jacob settled here with his family. It's in central Israel. It's on the route of the Patriarchs going from there to Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. I think this is one expense that should be eliminated immediately from our USA budget.

The Israeli jails are nothing like Turkish prisons. (True story of California lady tourist in Turkey put in Women's prison for buying a little figurine from a pestering seller on the street; Official later declared it was for buying valuable artifact) Vacation is a more adequate descripition of being in jail for them. They can mingle, have parties, study for advanced degrees, use facebook or even their 3G mobile smart phones. They don't have to watch Israeli TV, but have their own Arab TV channels to watch. Why is Israel being so kind to murderers? Probably because the world is ready to pounce on any wrongdoing on their part, for they certainly don't care how many terrorists kill Jews.

Since 1967 600,000 Arabs have been in Israel's prisons. Right now there are 8,000 political prisoners. There are 11 Arab Syrians from the Golan Heights, 25 Jordanians, and 120 Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.

The wives and children of the terrorists receive more money. If an Arab terrorist is an Israeli citizen, they receive a bonus.

Resource: Arutz Sheva news@israelnationalnews.com US Helps Pay PA Terrorists Who Murdered Americans by Gil Ronen

http://coinmill.com/ILS_USD.html#ILS=12,000

http://www.israelifrontline.com/2011/05/pa-to-pay-terrorists-in-israeli-prisons.html

http://bible.org/article/geographical-historical-spiritual-significance-shechem

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/20/the-hard-life-of-muslim-terrorists-in-israeli-prison/

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3615813,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Amir

http://www.zcommunications.org/palestinians-in-israels-prisons-by-sahar-francis

2011-08-15T09:22:00.000-07:00

Brain Washing Inside Palestinian Schools

Nadene Goldfoot

How does a state find so many willing martyrs ready to become walking bombs? They start brainwashing children at a very early age. This was displayed in a Palestinian kindergarten ceremony in a play put on by the children. It was called "The Martyr's Wedding". When they speak of the Martyr for Allah, they mean that he marries the 72 dark-eyed virgins of Paradise. In this play that delighted the audience, they acted out roadblocks, occupation soldiers, and the death of the children as martyrs. Then the audience did cry. This is called Shalada, which is promoting the Islamic value of Martydom for Allah.

They are taught and sing about a Palestine that had been their home "no, it would not make us forget (Palestine). Not at all." This happens to be a lie, as there has never been a state of Palestine. Most of them immigrated into the countryside when the Jews had returned and were building the cities once again. They are not learning the true history of the country, only the make believe stories of their leaders. Perhaps they are copying a prayer that Jews have been saying since the fall of Jerusalem in 70CE that says "May I lose my right hand if I forget Jerusalem". However, taking one's own life is the last thing that a Jew would do. For a Jew, L'Chaim is our favorite word which means "To Life!"

Reference: http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=5459 from Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Ziberdik

2011-08-12T11:09:00.000-07:00

Palestine: Partner-to-be of Lebanon's Attack on Israel

Nadene Goldfoot

Lebanon has become a terrorist stronghold supplied by Syria and obeying Iran, Ron Paul's "innocent" country. They now have 50,000 rockets ready to use against Israel which is four times more than they had in 2006. Villages near the border are now armed fortresses.

I remember when I lived in Safed and was on my way on a bus down the mountain in 1982 going to the hospital in Haifa to see about my broken arm when I saw our Israeli tanks and trucks on their way up. They were going into Lebanon as the Palestinians terrorists had been killing the Lebanese Christian militia and Israelis who were helping Israel guard the border. Sharon allowed his Christian Lebanese friend, Major Hadad and his men go in his place and they shocked us all by massacring their enemy which got Israel into a lot of trouble.

Hezbollah, the Party of Allah, took over in May 2000 which in reality was a Shiite Muslim group with the backing of Iran fighting against the Sunni Muslims, Christians and Druze of Lebanon. They went on to kill 241 US servicemen in Beirut. By July they ambushed and killed 10 Israelis on the border. Thousands of rockets were fired into Israel, killing 43 civilians. Our great UN peacekeepers took over a month to impose a cease fire. The Security Council Resolution 1701 allowed the international peacekeeping force to allow the enemy to get only 4 kilometers or 2.4 miles from Israel's border.

If Palestine were an official state it would be able to aid and abet Lebanon against Israel as they both would have the same goal. Palestinian terrorists are already being supplied by Iran with rockets and missles as it is.

Hezbolla trains Hamas militants and also works on arming Fatah and the Islamic Jihad. Iran gives them diplomatic aid and weapons as well as $100 million per year for extras.

Right now Hezbollah has missiles from Iran capable of hitting all of Israel's ports and oil rigs off shore. Between smuggling arms to Gaza by their friends, Israel's navy has to guard off-shore activities as well.

A large Muslim population lives in the Tri Border area of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, known as the TBA. The State Deppartment is investigating the possibility that Hezbollah and Hamas are fundraising there as it is known for its arms and drug traffic in this corridor.

The Sunni Muslims (Fatah and Hamas of Gaza and Judea/Samaria) and Shiite Muslims (Hezbollah of Lebanon/Iran) are enemies at heart. Look at what happened in Lebanon between the two groups. During the Iraq-Iran War that started on September 22, 1980 a half million soldiers and civilians died from then till August of 1988 when it ended. Iran is 98% Shi'a and is an Islamic State and a theocracy while Iraq was 97% Shi'a/Sunni with a state religiion and supposedly had a parliamentary democracy. It was more a Shiite versus Sunni fight. Iran may be backing these Sunnis now, but once in their pocket will overtake them. Perhaps that is why they may be testing the waters of another arms supplier.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576498423827070338.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://www.slate.com/id/1006301/

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/senior-israeli-navy-commander-hamas-hezbollah-threaten-our-ports-and-oil-rigs-1.376624

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33566.pdf

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-concerns-growing-over-hezbollah-and-h

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-hamas-hizbollah-and-fatah.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

2011-08-11T10:10:00.000-07:00

Israel Demonstrations About Housing Needs

Nadene Goldfoot with "Blintz" her German shepherd in Safed, Israel, February 1982. She lives in the bottom apartment of one of the buildings with bars on the living room window to keep out terrorists. It came with the apartment.

Israel is having internal problems of having sufficient housing for young adults to buy in Jerusalem. There are mainly apartment buildings for people to buy in the major cities in Israel, not family homes that we are used to in the USA. They have become very expensive in Jerusalem.

The Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, has given his authorization to build 1,600 aparments in Jerusalem and is planning on approving 2,700 more in the coming days. This will happen in East Jerusalem, the area the Palestinians are planning to take over as their capital. Their plans have not included talking such things over with Israel and coming to terms of peace.

Israel has exercised de jure sovereignty (by lawful title) in Jerusalem since 27 June 1967 and have stated that it will remain the undivided and eternal capital of the Jewish state. In 2010 the Knesset passed legislation giving Jerusalem the highest national status in Israel. It prioritized construction in all the city and offered grants and tax benefits to residents to make housing, infrastructure, education, employment, business, tourism and other events more affordable.

Analysts are saying that this building will probably hurt Washington in dissuading the PA that are planning to go to the United Nations to declare their statehood in September. At one time, Israel's building in land obtained due to the 67 War was thought to be the impedus speed up the Palestinians' decision to sit down and come to peace terms with Israel, but it didn't happen. Instead of allowing the land to go fallow in the past 44 years of indecision on the Arab's part, Israel is making use of it. Abu Rudaineh is asking the USA and EU to pressure Israel to stop building. Saeb Erekat, Chief PLO negotiator calls the project of building a "war crime".

Israel needs housing badly. Demonstrators creating a rally have been taking over Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv by erecting tents there like a tent city to show their need for housing. They now plan to do it in Be'ersheva. One of the draws in Tel Aviv were free musical performances by many of Israel's top musicians who came and played at the rally. A run is also being planned as a form of demonstration.

Israel was even mentioned with shock on Fox News as a place outside of the USA where demonstrators were active while in a discussion about why London was rioting and burning.

Jerusalem's Jewish history goes back to King David in 1010 BCE when he defeated the Jebusites and made Jerusalem the administrative capital. It was captured in 597 BCE when Nebuchadnezzar razed it and deported most all the Jews to Babylon in 586 BCE. It again came into the Jewish hands but was lost in 70 CE to the Roman attack. It is the most important site in Israel and has been in the prayers every day to not forget it, and "Next year in Jerusalem" has been said every year since the loss. Jerusalem is mentioned 600 times in the Tanakh (Old Testement). One cannot deny that Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish state. It took an act of G-d to bring it back into Israel's hands once again when Israel was attacked by the surrounding Arabs states in 1967 in what was called "Six Day War" and won despite the odds, something of a huge miracle. Because of the Arab action to eradicate Israel and its population, Jordan lost East Jerusalem. It is not up for grabs.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=233471

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/jerfacts.htm

arutz Sheva news@israelnationalnews.com Israel to approve 4,300 Units in Jerusalem by Gavriel Queenan and Cost of Living Protests Reach IDF by David Lev

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Jerusalem1.html

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-arms-race/israelis-run-through-tel-aviv-for-social-justice-1.378031

2011-08-05T08:53:00.000-07:00

25 Rockets Fired in July into Southern Israel

New terrorist groups are venting their anger at Abbas and their own Hamas leadership by striking Israel on their own. These are affiliated with al-Qaeda and other global jihad groups, but not necessarily Hamas or Islamic Jihad, according to reports. 4 rockets had been fired in June. They're stepping up. Since January 2011, over 340 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza hit Southern Israel. Israel's IDF holds the Hamas terrorist group solely responsible for any firing from Gaza.

While running to shelter, and people only have a few minutes to get there, 5 people were wounded and had to be taken to Ashkelon's Barzelai Hospital.

The Israeli Air Force responded with a strike on 4 smuggling tunnels and one terror base in Gaza.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=232491

2011-08-03T16:29:00.000-07:00

Sirens and Grad Rockets Again in Southern Israel

After a quiet spell, the air raid sirens sounded again Wednesday night in several towns and cities in Southern Israel. People rushed to safe areas and shelters in order to take cover. They only have a few minutes. A Beduin woman was moderately injured by shrapnel from a Grad rocket on Monday.

The Grad rocket exploded in Lachish, Kiryat Gat within Ashkelon's boundaries and damaged a road. This is a longer ranged rocket and implies an escalation of this type.

Israel's answer came hours later with the air force retaliating by bombing targets in Gaza.

Resource: http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=232359

2011-07-22T13:07:00.000-07:00

Israel: JUST A LITTLE COUNTRY

And It's Accomplishments

As sent from Nathan Fendrich

The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year.

Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or a short ladder .

Israel the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to the following: The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel .

Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.

The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.

Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel .

The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel .

Voice mail technology was developed in Israel .

Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel .

The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.

Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U.S, Russia and China ). In addition to a large variety of other aircraft, Israel 's air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the U. S.

Israels $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.

Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.

According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look (finally) to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.

Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.

Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people -- as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.

In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the U.S. ! (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).

With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world -- apart from the Silicon Valley, U.S.

Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the U.S.

Outside the United States and Canada , Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.

Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East .

The per capita income in Israel in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK .

On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups. (New businesses)

Twenty-four per cent of Israel 's workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world ,after the United States and Holland and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.

Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East .

In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews (Operation Solomon and Moses) at Risk in Ethiopia , to safety in Israel .

When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.

When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi , Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day -- and saved three victims from the rubble.

Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.

Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. (Hundreds of thousands from the former Soviet Union )

Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."

Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.

Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because, this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert!

Israel has more museums per capita than any other country

Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.

An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.

Israels Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, cancer and digestive disorders .

Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the camera helps doctors diagnose heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.

Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S. , over 70 in Japan , and less than 60 in Germany . With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.

A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the Clear Light device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.

An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California 's Mojave desert .

All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other county on earth.

2011-07-15T12:51:00.000-07:00

SOUTH SUDAN: New State Created
Nadene Goldfoot
Out of Sudan, a new state has been created: South Sudan on July 9, 2011. It is populated mostly by Christians. There has been an ongoing war in Sudan for the past 20 years involving so much killing that refugees sought refuge in Israel and were cheering in Tel Aviv when the news announced its birth.

Sudan has been warring starting in 1955 and going on to 1972. It started up again in 1983 and ended in 2005. It is said that more than religion divided this people living along the Nile River. Two million people have died in their war and four million in the south were displaced, causing many refugees to flee to Israel.

Sudan has been the 8th largest Muslim populated country in the world with 39,379,358 people of which 70% were Sunni Muslims. They lived under an authoritarian republic. The GDP was extremely low, $2,172 as of 2009. The wars have probably caused it to drop even lower. Iran's GDP is $10,624. Israel is very happy about the creation of the new state and immediately offered any assistance they could. Also, now the refugess in Israel have a safe home to return to.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4093222,00.html
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/07/israaid-sends-aid-to-newly-free-south-sudan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan

2011-07-15T07:51:00.000-07:00

Hamas Shells Southern Israel With Six Kassam Rockets
Nadene Goldfoot

On Thursday morning in Israel the siren went off just before a kassam rocket struck the Hanegev Region in southern Israel. That afternoon 3 more kassams fell in empty fields in southern Israel again. The evening also brought two more kassams. Luckily no one was injured or killed, but nerves must have been jangled a great deal after such a day.

This time the Israeli jets retaliated by hitting two terror tunnels; one in southern Gaza and one in northern Gaza. These are one of the main methods known that bring in rockets to the Hamas terrorists. Hopefully these single-minded terrorists will be slowed down a bit.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4095255,00.html

2011-07-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

Increasing Rockets Fired Into Israel
Another kassam rocket was fired into the Shaar Hanegev region of southern Israel yesterday by Hamas terrorists. It landed about a meter from a home and damaged it. Rockets falling into southern Israel has increased in the past few weeks. The air force is responding.

Resource: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4094568,00.html

2011-07-10T08:37:00.000-07:00

Egypt's 1956 War Against Israel:
What That Was All About and What It Led To
Nadene Goldfoot
From 1947 on, Arabs told their people that Zionists were villains and they refused to sign a peace treaty with Israel. From 1949 to 1956 Egypt launched about 9,000 attacks from terrorist cells in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser, who wanted Egypt to be the leader of the Arab states, seized control of Egypt.  The way to gain Arab support was to destroy Israel by cutting off its arteries to the world.

Israel obtained food and oil from East Africa and Asia through sea routes to Eilat. The paths went through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran which is between Saudi Arabia and Egypt , so Nasser cut off both routes. He planted guns on the islands in the Strait and would attack ships going to or from Israel.

Egypt closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping in 1949. On the 9th of August, 1949, the UN upheld Israel's complaint that Egypt was illegally blocking the canal. Ralph Bunche, negotiator declared: "There should be free movement for legitimate shipping and no vestiges of the wartime blockade should be allowed to remain , as they are inconsistent with both the letter and the spirit of the armistice agreements", and Egypt was ordered to open the Canal to Israeli shipping on the 1st of September 1951. Egypt's response in 1954 was "The Arab people will not be embarrassed to declare: We shall not be satisfied except by the final obliteration of Israel from the map of the Middle East."

In 1955, Nasser started importing arms from the Soviet Bloc in preparation of war against Israel. On the 31st of August, 1955 he announced no peace on Israel's border because Egypt demands vengeance, and vengeance is Israel's death.

He brazenly challenged the French and English by also taking control of the Suez Canal who had built and operated it by nationalizing the Suez Canal in July 1956. All three had their shipping routes in peril which was their lifeline. On October 25 Egypt signed an agreement with Syria and Jordan putting Nasser in command of all three armies. On the 29th of October, 1956, Israel, Britain and France attacked Egypt. The fight took 100 hours. In an amazing show of strength, Israel conquered the entire Sinai Peninsula and Sharm al-Sheikh but England and France failed to seize the Suez Canal. By defeating Egypt Israel ended their war of terror as well.

World pressure, mainly from the USA and Russia, forced Israel to return the land to Egypt without a peace treaty but they did gain the fact that a United Nations army unit was created to guard Israel's border with Egypt and to make sure that all ships could get through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran.

In 1964 the PLO was created, not to liberate the Arabs from Jordanian and Egyptian rule but to continue 40 more years of terror against Israel with the stated goal of "Pushing the Jews into the sea." First Kuwait sponsored this group, then Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran and others. The PLO, now called Fatah, declared continued war against Israel until all of "Palestine" was liberated, redeemed in "fire and blood". It is to be noted that during all this time there were no Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria or Gaza. Arafat was talking about the whole teeny state of Israel within its 1949 "green line" borders.

Ten years of peace was too much for Nasser, so to remain a leader of the Arabs, he ordered the UN Emergency Force to leave and they did, then again blockaded the Strait of Tiran. Israel's foreign Minister, Abba Eban questioned what the use of a United Nations presence was , when in effect, was an umbrella which is taken away as soon as it begins to rain?" To have left when needed was unforgivable. The UN was useless for Israel. No one challenged Nasser this time as the problem just dealt with the Strait of Tiran. Neither Britain nor France stepped up to the plate, leaving Israel alone.

This led to the Six Day War on June 5, 1967 when five (5) Arab states, including Jordan, attacked Israel.
The attack led to Judea and Samaria (West Bank) falling into Israel's control as they defeated Jordan who had illegally annexed this land 18 years earlier. This led to the PLO's revision of its Covenant to include a "Palestinian" claim of sovereignty in the "West Bank" and Gaza Strip."

When Jordan had occupied Judea and Samaria, even Arafat noted in 1948 that the Egyptians had herded the Arabs into refugee camps, kept them behind barbed wire and sent in spies to murder their leaders while executing those who tried to get away. None of these so called "Palestinians" were protesting this oppression or talking about any need for self-determination they felt they had been denied.    That's because there never has been a state of "Palestine" and no concept of a separate political, cultural or linguistic entity representing their combined group of Arabs that could be identified ever existed. They had come from the many corners of the Arab world.

Resource: Myths and Facts, a concise record of the Arab-Israeli conflict by Mitchell G. Bard and Joel Himelfarb
Big Lies: demlishing the myths of the propaganda war against Israel by David Meir-Levi
A young person's history of Israel, 2nd edition by David Bamberger
From Time Immemorial, the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Suez_War.html

2011-07-07T14:11:00.000-07:00

Gaza Strip Continues Attacks on Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
On Tuesday the IAF were able to stop a terror cell and their smuggling tunnel in Northern Gaza. They were ready to launch rockets into Israel and caught in the act. .

Then today one of our IDF tanks was fired on by what was thought to be an anti-tank missile from the Palestinians. near the security fence. It could have also been a roadside bomb. The tank had entered the Strip in southern Gaza doing their checking.

The Palestinians say that 3 bulldozers and 5 tanks had entered the strip and were about 300 meters from the security fence near the city of Khan Youris. They also reported that the tanks had been firing at nearby homes. The IDF related that the only firing they had done was in response to the rocket fire of the Palestinian terrorists.

Khan Youris is a city only 4 kilometers from the Sea yet is semi-arid and hot with temperature of 30 degrees centigrade (86 degrees F.) in the summer. It houses leaders of both Hamas and Fatah. Next door is a refugee camp started in 1948 that was populated by about 35,000 Arabs.

An IDF soldier was mildly injured, treated on the spot and then taken to the Beersheba Medical Center.

This attack on an IDF tank by a missile is a repeat of an event on March 18, 2011. Israel patrols for several reasons; to look for tunnels whereby arms are brought in and to protect it's civilian population from terrorist attacks.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4092237,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis
http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/03/18/anti-tank-missile-fired-at-idf-force-in-southern-gaza-strip/

2011-07-05T10:40:00.000-07:00

Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria: Why They Are Important and Why They Mustn't Go Back to 67 Lines

After the Six Day War of 1967, farming settlements were established along places of defense from more attacks by the Jordan River, near the "Green Line," in the the Golan Heights and near Gaza. They were manned by the IDF and were crucial for defense. This is because Egypt, Syria and Jordan were still at war with Israel for decades after 1967. Jordan was in this state of war until 1994. Also, the PLO were actively trying to create bases for terrorism in the territories that had previously been taken by Jordan. It was planned and developed by General Yigal Alon and called the Alon plan. In Hebrew these are called "nahal".

Jews had been living in Judea and Samaria long ago in biblical days. Hebron had been populated by Jews almost continuously since the days of Joshua, 3,100 years ago. In 1929 there were horrible pogroms against the Jews when hundreds were attacked and slaughtered. Jerusalem was always populated by Jews as well. In 1948 the war was centered there and about half of the population of the Jewish Quarter were massacred. After the 1967 war, a small brave group of Orthodox Jews set up a few homes in the former Jewish section of Hebron. Then a larger re-settlement of Jews returned to the reconstructed Jewish Quarter of East Jerusalem. After that Jews resettled the villages of the Kfar Etzion area "Gush Etzion" SW of Bethlehem. This had been extensively settled in the early part of the 20th century by Zionist pioneers. Mobs of Arab irregulars had massacred most of the Jews of these villages during the 1948 war.

Places around Jerusalem and east of Kfar Saba and Natania which is near Tel Aviv and the NE area of Petah Tiqvah were unoccupied. They were used as sites for building projects for low cost housing as the populations of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv were expanding. In most cases this land was Jordanian "Crown Land', meaning no person could claim private ownership. Jordan wouldn't have any peace negotiations after the war, so Israel's use of these unoccupied areas was legal because of Israel's sovereignty. This was because it was created through defensive actions against the aggressor nation, Jordan. There were a few cases where Arabs living in Judea/Samaria legally owned land and Israel wanted the land for projects, so Israel bought the land at fair market prices. (The same thing happened in South Portland, Oregon in the city's renewal project. They took over land of the Jews living there and paid them for it, but the price wasn't really fair at all. They demolished synagogues, stores and residences where people had lived for many years.) Arabs were profiting and continued to sell land to Israel until 1994 when Arafat 's Palestinian Authority was established and he said that selling land to Israel would be a capital offense. This was so severe that some families felt they had to leave the area quickly or they might be killed by him. Jerusalem grew so much that they had to accomodate areas of defense and surround Jerusalem. Before the war Jerusalem was surrounded on 3 1/2 sides by hostile Arab towns and villages with only one narrow road out. Now French HIll, Ammunition Hill, Gilo, Ma'aleh Adumim and Har Homah became hi-rise suburbs that widened the city's perimeter . Gilo had been built on privately owned land. A Christian family in Beit Jalla sold the hilltop site to the city of Jerusalem in 1974.

Under Prime Ministers Begin and Rabin, other communities were developed. Most of the time they were near ancient Jewish holy sites like Joseph's Tomb near Nablus, which was Shechem in biblical days. The land they sit on was unoccupied or un-owned, and qualified as "Crown Land" which Israel had full legal rights to build and develop. Any land owned by Arabs was purchased. The knesset spent much time trying to decide of this was hurting the cause of peace that they wanted to achieve with the Arabs. They decided it was fair and could be used in future negotiations if necessary. Peace negotiations have not yet happened and it's been 44 years in waiting.

Sometimes a few villages were built and considered illegal or rogue because they were contrary to IDF or government instuctions. When Arabs found someone had built on their land they were able to take the matter to court and were ruled in favor of the Arabs. Some of these villages have been forcibly dismantled. This is an internal problem for Israel as the Orthodox feel that all Jews should be allowed to settle anywhere in the Promised Land, especially where Abraham had lived. This means Judea and Samaria from Shechem/Nablus to Hebron. Prime Minister Sharon had considered dismantling any still standing, but became ill and it was not done.

International Law shows that all these communities, which some call settlements, are legal. This is law from the 4th Geneva Convention, which covers land conquered in an offensive war. This was written to keep actions like those of the Nazis in Eastern Europe during WWII deterred. Israel became sovereign over territories in a defensive war. The fact that Jordan remained at war until 1994 means that the conquered population was hostile. Israel never exiled any Arabs from anywhere except in 1992 when it deported about 400 terrorists to South Lebanon in trying to stop terror activities. Israel had a policy of "open bridges" across the Jordan even though Jordan was still in a state of war with Israel. Arabs came into Israel and that's how the Arab population in Judea and Samaria tripled from about 650,000 in 1967 to more than 2,000,000 in 1994. Of course they were allowed to develop towns as well. There were as many as 260 new Arab villages or expansions of existing sites. Israel's presence did nothing to harm the Arabs' well being, They created beneficial economic aids. The League of Nations said that the disposition of such territory would be a part of the peace treaty between the warring parties. Since there was no peace treaty, the territories remained in dispute. They are to be called "disputed territories", not occupied territories. Their occupation by the defensive party is legal. The Charter of the UN accepts it.

Arabs have not been hurt by Jews returning to their land. They have been hurt by their own people since 1994 when 96% of Palestinians living in Israel were then under the control of the Palestinian National Authority. That's when the economy of Judea and Samaria and Gaza had been crippled. They were then ruled by terrorists and it was not a democracy but had despotic rule. Their GDP in 2003 was 1/10th of what it had been in 1992. Because of Arafat and his terror, Israel had to stop attacks and protect its citizens. and put in roads that had been there before to be used by Israelis only. This was not the case before 94. Arafat put an end to any possible co-existence between Jews and Arabs in Judea and Samaria and instead instigated them into hatred and murder.

For anyone to suggest that Israel must go back to the 67 lines and then dicker for land is way out of line. Israel has a legal right to live in all of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Anyone who decides to attack another nation such as the Arabs did to Israel in 1967 is also out of line and will pay the price for doing so.
Judea and Samaria were originally part of Israel in biblical days. It was going to be the Jewish land from the end of WWI when it was Palestine and under English control. It was part of their package, but the Hashemite kingdom somehow cried loud enough to change the British minds, and Israel was given a crumb of the original loaf, and they accepted it. By the greed and hatred of the Arabs, it has come into Israel's hands once again.

Resource: Big Lies: by David Meir-Levi, a publication of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

2011-07-04T15:39:00.000-07:00

Another Ship from Canada Halted by Greece
Nadene Goldfoot
The ship, Tahrir from Canada was halted by Greece. They don't seem to want to comply with rules and regulations of Israel, the USA or the UN in their attempt to break the blockade of Gaza by sea. This is the 2nd ship that was part of a depleting flotilla that Greece has recently stopped. It is carrying about 50 Israel-haters.

Gaza's leaders are Hamas terrorists, voted in by the population. Their goal is to destroy Israel, so it is war. They have constantly been shelling southern Israel with missiles, rockets and mortars. While Israel has the more powerful weaponry, it has to refrain from lots of retaliation due to internatonal condemnation. After taking it for over 6 years, it finally reacted in Operation Cast Lead in trying to put an end to it. They were roundly criticized and condemned for finally protecting themselves, which shows how mentally sick the world has again become.

How people, even Jews, can side with the Gazan terrorists who want to completely obliterate the Jews of Israel who have bent over backwards to do the right thing to people who have tried to kill them, is beyond my comprehension. They have stepped over the line of reason.

The Greek Navy is a group to be proud of in carrying out their role of policing the waters from their port of these invaders. Thank you so much, Greece for helping your neighbor, Israel, in these perilous times. You show much bravery and courage and are a people who can be counted on. You are truly carrying out a good deed.

Resource: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090989,00.html

2011-07-04T08:00:00.000-07:00

Gazan Terrorists Play Russian Roulette Again With Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
A Kassam rocket landed in Israel's western Negev yesterday, fired from Gazan terrorists after a quiet of only two weeks. The problem with these Kassams is that their primitivity means they have no guidance system and land wherever they land. It's like Russian roulette. The area they are pointed at is all civilian populated. It could land in a field or on a child going to school. Though it did not damage anything this time, a missile of this type is dangerous just the same. What happened to the cease fire Gaza had promised? Evidently we can't depend on their promises.

Resource: Arutz Sheva Newspaper

2011-07-01T08:41:00.000-07:00

Palestinian Arabs and IDF Clash

Near the Jewish town of Kedumim in the Samarian hills, 200 Palestinian Arabs, both Israeli and foreign, clashed with the IDF soldiers there with some throwing stones at the soldiers.

Kedumim is a town with a population of about 3,500 people. They have agriculture, greenhouses and orchards. Their emphasis is on education. The town is 36 years old and was started by people from Gush Emunim.

Kedumim has seen a lot of problems such as suicide bombings in the past.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4089822,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedumim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQL4eCzvkPE

2011-06-29T14:45:00.000-07:00

2,000 Year Old Ossuary: Genuine Found in Israel

Nadene Goldfoot
An ossuary made of stone to hold the bones of the deceased has been discovered and tested and deemed to be genuine. The writings on it indicate it is the relative of the high priest Caiaphas who was mentioned in the New Testament as an adversary of Jesus.

It is of Miriam, daughter of Yeshua, son of Caiaphas the priest of Maaziah which is the name of a subset of the priestly caste, which would be the lineage of Cohens from Aaron. She was from Beth Imri which is either a family name of the name of a village. It could be both.

This ossuary had been plundered from a tomb in the Valley of Elah which is southwest of Jerusalem. There have been false ossuaries brought to everyone's attention that turned out to be forgeries, but this appears to be the real mccoy.

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/israeli-scholars-biblical-burial-box-genuine-150136636.html

2011-06-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

Terror Attack in Beersheba
Nadene Goldfoot
If not a terrorist, a meshugana attacked a 40 year old man with a hammer and then sprayed tear gas at a cab driver causing light to moderate injuries to them both. They had to be taken to the nearby medical center for treatment. However, the police think it more likely to have been an act of terrorism.

There isn't a man around that hasn't had IDF training, so this certainly must have come on quickly where they were unable to protect themselves or disarm the perpetrator.

I imagine this will put all civilians in a state of awareness at a higher level, now. Trust is going to wane if it hasn't already of possible terrorists.

Beersheba (Be'er Sheva) in the Negev is only 50 miles from Jerusalem. It is Israel's 7th largest city with a population of 194,300. It is an important city dating back to biblical days with Abraham and King David.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4088008,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba
http://arutzsheva/ added 4:31pm about hammer

2011-06-26T10:01:00.000-07:00

Eyes on Missiles Reaching Lebanon
Nadene Goldfoot
Lebanon has a population of 4,196,453 of which 60% are Shi'a/Sunni as of 2010. Christians are no doubt in danger. Lebanon's neighbor is Syria with a population of 19,405,000 with 90% Sunni Muslims. Syria is a collaborator with Iran with a population of 70,495,782 with 98% Shi'a Muslims, and both have the goal to destroy Israel. Right now Syria is involved with a fight with rebels to take down the regime of their President Bashar al-Assad, who supports the Hizbollah terrorists. Syria fired on protesters on Friday, killing 20 of their own people of which two were children age 12 and 13. This is the country whose TV program I watched from Israel between 1980-1985 where their soldiers bit into puppies and snakes showing how brave they were. To me it showed they were outright crazy.

Due to the fact that Syria is a little worried, they have moved hundreds of their long range Iranian missiles into Lebanon for safe-keeping. This has been going on for the past two weeks. Not only missiles, but Syrians are also entering Lebanon. Some must be the rebels escaping persecution. Others could be the missile caretakers.

In the meantime, Iran is having a military exercise on Monday trying out their various long range missiles. Some are said to be able to reach the center of Israel and the USA military bases that are within range. They continue to deny using their atomic capabilities for missiles. Sure, and the moon is made of mozzarella cheese.

Israel, a population of about 7,441,700 of which 5,795 are Jews and 1,571,000 are Arabs who can be Sunni, Christian or Druze, must watch their Lebanon/Israel border on the north. They can be attacked at any time. Gone are the days when Israel's pal was Major Saad Haddad of the Lebanese Christian Militia who helped to guard the border. When he died, Hizbollah took over the area. Now Israel must also watch what exits from Iran as well.

Resource: Arutz Sheva: More Missiles Moving Into Lebanon by Chana Ya'ar
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8598950/Alarm-for-Syrian-President-Assad-as-protesters-close-in-on-Damascus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_majority_countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
http://middleeast.about.com/od/arabisraeliconflict/p/me081026b.htm
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/iran-stage-missile-wargames-monday-162633579.html;_ylt=AoPhBd1hzMWZB3mA9atczRgLewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTM5Mm8xMGtnBHBrZwMwZjI1OTVlMS0yOGVmLTNhOTAtODQ2Yy0wYjIzODU5OTMxNTUEcG9zAzcEc2VjA01lZGlhVG9wU3RvcnkEdmVyA2JhMGZhMmYwLWEwMTEtMTFlMC1iZmZmLTgwZmM4YjY4NjA1Zg--;_ylg=X3oDMTF2Y3Y5NDF0BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAN3b3JsZHxtaWRkbGUgZWFzdARwdANzZWN0aW9ucw--;_ylv=3

2011-06-25T11:09:00.000-07:00

French Ignore Plea from UN: First in Flotilla Against Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
Six Frenchman on their ship have left this morning from Corsica to be the first in the seas to be a part of the flotilla sailing to break through the blockade of Gaza.

The UN has put out the statement not to be a part of the flotilla. Israel has every right to protect itself against ships that could be carrying weapons into Gaza to be used against Israel. There is no shortage of supplies in Gaza, so they are only getting publicity for themselves to be used against Israel.

The rest of the fleet plans to leave next week and includes two freighters they say are carrying medical supplies. They should reach the Gaza port by the 30th of June or 1st of July.

I hope they all carry cameras and plan to tour Gaza to see what a remarkable city it is without perishing from want. Maybe they'll even notice the 300 trucks that go into Gaza every day delivering supplies that Israel brings. They may even see Gaza with more produce than they have in their own home towns and will buy goods to bring back.

Israel is going to have to search every ship to make sure that they are not smuggling in weapons. Hamas is getting them somehow. Attacks on Israel have already started up again. To me, by joining this flotilla, the participants are showing a complete lack of regard for Israelis' lives. They have joined the side of Israel's enemies who wish to destroy her. Why? They do not believe Israel or even the reticent UN in the fact that there is no deprivation going on in Gaza. They care not for what their bombardments have done to Israeli citizens. They are siding with people who want to destroy Israel.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4086890,00.html
added 6/26/11http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/06/26/the-idfs-lawfully-enforced-naval-blockade-on-the-gaza-strip/

2011-06-21T19:32:00.000-07:00

Bombing of Israel from Gaza has started up again. The last rocket attack happened on April 18th. Tuesday is started in again. Kassam rockets, mortars from Gaza were shot into Western Negav of Eshkol's regional council. This is the 2nd attack in less than a week.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=226000&R=R1

2011-06-18T16:07:00.000-07:00

PLO Covenant Against Israel of 1968
Why Palestinians Refuse to Talk Peace with Netanyahu
Nadene Goldfoot
33 Articles reworked in 1968 use the word covenant showing how holy they feel these goals are.

Definition of a Palestinian: Arab nationals who were living permanently in Palestine until 1947. They will also consider Jews as Palestinians who also were living permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion. The catch is that they consider the Zionist invasion to be 1917, the year of the Balfour Declaration. They most likely don't even consider Jews born in Israel after 1917 staying. They would kick them out. So if you're 94 and older and were born in Israel, you can stay. How nice. They plan an expulsion of Jews like Spain did in 1492.

They feel there is no room for a Jewish state in their Palestine. Only the Palestinian Arabs have a legal right to self-determination, not the Jews. Their Palestinian identity goes from father to son. The Zionist occupation does not top them from using their Palestinian identity. So even though a family has been living in the Lebanon for the past 3 generations, they are not Lebanese, they are Palestinians. I can understand that. My grandmother was born in Lithuania. Though she didn't move away, Lithuania found itself in Poland and then again in Russia. She maintained that she was a Litvak through it all, even after moving to the USA. But that was my grandmother. I am not a Litvak. My grandmother's family were Litvaks. We are still all Jewish beause that is our religion, not our nationality.

They only consider one way to liberate Palestine-that is by armed struggle. They want to eliminate Israel. They expect their people to prepare themselves for war, to sacrifice their wealth and life to restore the land to themselves. It's a national duty. There is to be no peace or compromise with Israel. Their 3 mottos are:
national unity, national mobilization and liberation. They are against being absorbed by their Arab brethren.

All Arabs and their rulers must unite against Israel and do all they can to support violence to destroy Israel.
We here in the West thought they were rioting to attain a democracy. Here it is to get leaders in that are against Israel.

They're changing their image with what they say to others, like they no longer use the slogan, "Throw the Jews into the sea," as this was getting bad press. Another bit of two facedness they don't mean is saying that their goal is to have a "democratic Palestinian state" with freedom for all religions." They don't mean a word of it. It's just their propaganda. It was adopted in 1965.

The PLO murdered and destroyed the Lebanese Christians. Lebanon was a unique state with a minority of Christians who held presidency. For revenge, the Christians killed a whole group of them in 1982. They didn't treat the Lebanese citizens with dignity and respect. They even are divided now between Hamas and Fatah, both part of the PLO terrorists then, and have killed each other in the war for power.

Anything they do to destroy Israel are called "defensive" acts. They figure Jews cannot have self-determination. What happend in 1947 doesn't count at all. They don't see Jews as a people like they see themselves. Jews are only members of a religion. They're busy denying any of the Jewish history recorded in the bible.

Any turncoat Palestinians trying to be moderate and would go for peaceful resolutions to the conflict are to be murdered and/or intimidated. There can be no settlement based on compromise.

They consider Zionism as the enemy of the world. They compare Jews to Nazis. They call on the 3rd World Nations to support them against the "illigitimate" Israel.

Article 24 states that they believe in the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty, self-determination, human dignity and the right of peoples to exercise them, but just not to Jews of Israel. Saying this, they still rely on terror for everyone, and deny them to many Arabs. Again, it's a propaganda motto.

They have the PLO as the leader umbrella organization for all terrorist groups that are fighting Israel. At this time, they are still debating who will be the head leader, Fatah or Hamas. They say they will not interfere with other Arab states but have meddled in Jordan and Lebanon which has brought destruction to those states. Now they have their own internal problems of leadership. The PLO had close connections with Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Arab governments can manipulate the PLO for their own reasons.

They consider it their duty to terrorize countries that are friendly to Israel. Because of this fear, European governments have freed almost all the Arab terrorists caught in their countries. How nice it is to be able to hide in so many lovely countries and get away with terrorism! Just be a terrible bully!

Hamas says that the Day of Judgement will not come abut unil Moslems fight to kill the Jews. They quote the Koran in this: when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, "there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.. Their only solution is Jihad. To them, it's a waste of time to have any initiatives, proposals or international conferences. We shouldn't deal with these vain endeavors. To them, Palestine is an Islamic land and that's that.

By reading these "covenants" I can see why they have acting in these strange ways with Netanyahu. He has vainly tried with all his might to come to some way of achieving peace. We have given up all of Gaza, and so much more only to have all our endeavors slapped back into our face. I hope Hillary and Obama read these goals and come to the realizsation of what Israel has to deal with. It's a mind-set still stuck in the 700's. Peaee is the last thing on their minds. Their sickness is viral and has infected their whole people. During the past 63 years I can see so many nations and peoples that have just aided and abetted them. They have showed fear, have cowtowed, and have unknowingly built them into the fighting force they are.

Resource: Myths and Facts-a concise record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Mitchell G. Bard and Joel Himelfarb.

2011-06-15T16:16:00.000-07:00

West Bank Arabs Rioting Against Israelis
Nadene Goldfoot
The Middle East is in an uproar with countries trying to overpower their Kings and despots. It's been affecting the Arabs of the West Bank as well. May saw a lot of rioting going on. Israel's remembrance of it's birthday saw a lot of Arabs rioting, as well as on Jerusalem Day in June. Their disappointment in our success was displayed in their Nakba Day, and was again celebrated with rioting.

Riots started on the Friday the 10th this month. It happened at the Western Wall near the Moroccan Gate after the Muslim prayers and continued with around 200 people in a village with people armed with bats and iron chains who also burned a Jewish hut, tent and holy books in the prayer corner.

There have been quite a few flare-ups of rioting and stone throwing, and worse over the past three days in the West Bank against Israelis. Each riot involves about 50 Arabs attacking border policem or IDF. Bilin has seen 50 rioters, Dir Nizam 50, Umm Salamana 50, SE of Ramallah 40, and Qalandiya 100. The border policeman there was lightly injured. The rioters were throwing flares at the soldiers and firebombs, molotov cocktails and many many rocks.

There are two villages northwest of Ramallah in the Judea/Samaria area. One is the Jewish village of Nili. A few men were using bulldozers on their land. About 50 Arabs from Deir Qaddis didn't like that at all. They were thinking that the Jews were coming too close to their property, so they went out and stoned the soldiers that were protecting the Nilins. They didn't just throw little stones, they were heaving huge ones in what turned out to be a big riot.

One soldier was attacked in this violence so badly that the stones shattered his leg. Then the crowd all advanced towards him even closer while still throwing stones. He opened fire into the air, then as they quickly came closer, shot at them with him live rounds. Another soldier was also wounded in the spree. The soldiers then used rubber bullets and tear gas on the attackers. Several Arabs were injured.

Four more villages saw riots, another involving 100 rioters, one with 50 and two more with 30 people each involved.

Everyone is pressing Israel to sit down to talk peace with the Palestinians, but they haven't even decided who is going to head up their people, Fatah or Hamas. That's still undecided. Besides, that, their people are rumbling against Israel, showing that they haven't got peace in mind at all. Besides the people heating up, so is the temperature. It was Abbas of Fatah who refused to sit down and talk. Now it's Abbas who is going to have to show the world and Israel that he is ready to make peace after all, and the big step they must take is to finally accept a Jewish Israel in the midst of their Muslim territory.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110615/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestiniansconflictclash
http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/05/15/west-bank-riots-over-last-three-days/
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d0_1307735658
http://middleeasttopnews.com/2011/06/07/idf-preparing-for-al-quds-day-riots-along-borders-w-bank.html

2011-06-14T11:37:00.000-07:00

New Tactic for July 21, 2011 By Gazan Arabs
Nadene Goldfoot

The Palestinians are planning to go to the U.N. in September to get votes for creating Palestine without sitting down to the table with Israel to talk about peace. Obama is even against this and said the two countries must first agree on a peace plan before this happens.

This doesn't deter them. They're still planning on using force to create their state instead of having to get along with Israel by making peace. They are planning a Day of Loyalty on July 21st where they have sent out a message on facebook for all Arabs everywhere to form a human chain and to gather outside Israeli embassies first. This is to pressure the international community to accept them as a state.

Again, Israel cannot allow an immense human chain to break their way into Israel as no country would ever allow such a thing. They are trying to cause deaths and injuries on their side to gain sympathy, and therefore their absurb way of getting recognition. One wonders if all these people don't mind leaving their jobs and families to do such a dangerous stunt where they might lose their lives.

It looks like Britian might cave into this type of pressure and do so. It doesn't take much for England to be anti-Israel. England has had a long history of anti-semitism, as did much of Europe, and were not very helpful in the beginning of Israel's existence. In fact, they made promises they did not keep. Here we have Israel going through all the hoops with England getting established legally in the U.N, and yet they might throw all this out by allowing in a state that professes to have as its goal to destroy Israel. To allow a Palestine now is to be against Israel. The Arabs already have at least 47 states where the majority population is Muslim. It's not like they have to have another one in order to survive. That's exactly how Israel feels. This is our only Jewish state in the world, and the world should know how anti-semitic they have beeen in history past and present to understand how we feel.

The 47 largest Muslim dominated states in the world are as follows in order of population size from 100% to 50% Muslim: Indonesia, with 228,582,000 of which 86.1% are Sunni Muslims, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Sudan, Algeria , Afghanistan., Morocco, Iraq, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Syria, Kazakhstan, Niger,Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, tunisia, Guinea, Somalia, Azerbaijan, tajikistan, sierra Leone, Libya, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Chad, Lebanon, Kuwait, Albania, Mauritania, Oman, Kosovo, The Gambia, Bahrain, Comoros, Qatar, Djibouti, Brunei Darussatam, and Maldives.

Saudi Arabia is 100% Sunni Muslim but is not counting the whole population. All Saudi citizens are regarded as Wahhabi, but they have over 8 million foreign workers in the country that are not citizens. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy of 27,730,000 Muslim citizens. There is no data or information about their religious beliefs of the workers, but you can count on one thing; they are not Jewish. They are most likely Muslims of other sects and perhaps Christians

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=3839
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_majority_countries
added 6/15/11: http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/06/13/former-british-armed-forces-commander-speaks-about-the-idf/ British officer mentioning that IDF was only friend

2011-06-05T09:01:00.000-07:00

June 5th-6th Invasion of Israel 2011

Nadene Goldfoot
So far, 4 Syrians have been killed in their attempt to invade Israel. About 10 have been wounded. Israel IDF warned them first in Arabic and then with warning shots before taking more serious steps. Syria did not attempt to turn their people away from this. Last month they had actually goaded them, more likely. The Syrians are having their own troubles and were trying to get rid of attention on themselves.

Lebanon did, however. They tried to prevent their citizens from the invasion.

Judea and Samaria saw about 200 Palestinians marching to the Kalandia crossing into northern Jerusalem. They threw rocks at the soldiers.

In the meantime, the French had been trying to get Netanyahu and Abbas together for more peace talks, and Netanyahu politely thanked him for his help but said that it was impossible to negotiate or to attain a peace agreement with people devoted to their destruction. This is so logical. It seems to me that France could work on getting the Arabs to see the error of their ways first and come around to accepting the fact that there is indeed a Jewish state in their midst that they need to make friends with first. Let's see. How did we ever get Hitler's Germany to become peaceful? Hmmmm. I note that we weren't trying to obliterate Germany at all, just come to peace.

Resource: Arutz Sheva
Fox News, reported by Rina: about 13 Syrians now killed according to Syrian TV. 70 Syrians have been killed by Syrian government who were trying to overthrow their government. I saw the picture of the attack and of throwing rocks; very scary. It sounds so mild just writing about it, but the scene is all violence.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110605/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=223730

2011-06-03T13:25:00.000-07:00

Planned Invasions on Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
This weekend will be the scene of a mass march upon Israel from the Palestinians and their cohorts.
"The "Naksa Day" demonstrations are the latest addition to a comprehensive strategy intended to de-legitimize the State of Israel. A newly created day of protest, an-Naksa ("the setback" in Arabic) aims to commemorate the Arab defeat in the 1967 war where Israel preemptively struck against enemies following aggressive actions against Israel.

Israel is intent on maintaining a peaceful state of affairs but must preserve its territorial integrity, as well as the obligation to protect its civilians."

A flotilla will be coming supposedly the end of June or in July to breech Israel's blockade on Gaza even though the UN secretary has advised flotilla participiants not to do this. Israel knows that Hamas in Gaza have stockpiled more than 10,000 missiles already and somehow the number is growing. In April 9th Hamas shot 133 rockets at 7 Israeli cities. Egypt, under their new leadership, has opened up Gaza with an entrance to Egypt.

Now the Palestinians have planned a fly-in for July 8th. 500 people have planned to fly in to protest the security fence in Judea/Samaria. They don't want to accept the fact that this is keeping more Israelis alive than when they didn't have it.

Palestinians plan on flying in from Europe, North and South American, Asia and Africa. Most will be flying out from Germany. There are 15 other organizations including the ever-there International Solidarity Movement who also have weekly protests planned.

The Hamas linked website is telling people to take commercial flights on Saturday and Sunday for marches, rallies and most likely riots in Israel.

Their practice session was in May when Israel commemorated their 63rd birthday. Some were killed during that invasion. Israel is more prepared now.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=223450
Israel Embassy in Washington DC-Embassy Update
Debka File

2011-06-02T14:13:00.000-07:00

Israel Ready for 1967 Six Day War Remembrance

Nadene Goldfoot
On behalf of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, Hamas Palestinians and others marched into Israel on May 15th to remember regrettably their Nakba Day when Israel was deemed a state in the UN in 1948.

After that invasion, Israel is ready for them to remember the Six Day War this June when Israel won after being attacked in 6 days. That 3rd large war started on June 5th and ended on June 10th. Egypt (then called the United Arab Republic), Jordan and Syria along with Iraq had circled Israel . They had 465,000 Arab troops made up of many Palestinian guerillas of Fatah, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, 2,800 tanks and 800 aircraft ready to attack.

This all started when Israel was trying to make peace with Egypt, who were also not about to recognize Israel. At the same time, the USA and France put an embargo on Israel so that she could not receive anymore arms. At the same time, the Soviets supplied the Arabs with all their arms.

Though we may have Ha Shem on our side, the war was also won through the blood, sweat and tears of our young IDF soldiers. It wasn't fun being in a tank on the Sinai desert in June. My neighbor in Safed was one of those young men and suffered a great deal from it.

Netanyahu has given directions to Israelis to protect our borders but to use restraint as the Arabs think of this as their Naksa Day. Nothing like an invasion to remember what we had gone through 44 years ago.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=223417
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/67_War.html

2011-06-01T14:36:00.000-07:00

Not Occupied Territories
Judea and Samaria are not occupied territories. They are really disputed territories. In 1967 Jordan was illegally occupying them and had been in 1948 without any legal claim. Therefore, Israel won the War of 1967 and gained them from Jordan, one of the countries attacking Israel.

The following video explains it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ_ozDPtAgc&feature=player_embedded

2011-06-01T08:32:00.000-07:00

Illegal Flotilla Due End of June
Nadene Goldfoot
15 ships are expected to come and provote Israel by trying to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Israel has Gaza blocked because of their control by Hamas, a terrorist organization whose goal is to destroy Israel. Hamas shells Israel, demonstrating that they are not peaceful, and that they are sticking to their charter which says they are out to destroy Israel. Israel is making sure that any ships coming are not carrying weapons that would be used on Israel.

The ships are from the Turkish IHH organizsation. They are also coming from the Hamas instigated "Free Gaza Movement." The end of June is the expectation of when they will arrive.

According to International Maritime Law, Israel is within their rights. The law is that Gaza fishing boats can be 3 km from the Strip but other ships can't be within 20 km of Gaza. Israel is within the law to intercept and take control of any ship that declares their intention to sail to Gaza, even when they are not yet in an area that close to it.

The intention of this flotilla is to provoke Israel. The U.N. Secretary has said that it is illegal. The one last year was illegal also. Gaza is not hurting for anything except possibly weapons to be used against Israel, and yet they have found ways to get those. Trucks from Israel go in all the time with necessary supplies.

One thing the people could do to make life perfect would be to vote in a group that is not Hamas and would have peaceful intentions wanting to be good neighbors of Israel. Voting in a group bent on Israel's destruction is not a wise thing to do if they want Israel to lift any blockade. Israel must do this for their own self preservation. Groups that are sucked into the Gazan propaganda are only helping a side bent on destruction of Israel.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=222998&R=R1

2011-05-31T13:33:00.000-07:00

The Meaning of 1967 Lines

Nadene Goldfoot
Caroline Glick makes it very clear that going back to 1967 lines is giving into a policy that means everything else will be determined by giving into the Palestinians. Going back to the 1967 lines means abdicating Israel's Jerusalem. Jews and Christians couldn't enter before 1967. This is the heart and soul of Israel. How can anyone expect Israel to do that? Going back to 67 lines means abdicating the cities established for over 30 years in Judea and Samaria. No, this is impossible.

Netanyahu had said that he would make concessions, but these most likely were not what he had in mind. It reminds me of shuk bargaining. When you are in the open markets in Israel, the seller asks an extremely high price, knowing he will come down, and the buyer give an extremely low price. If the buyer wants it bad enough, they soon come to an agreeable price and the deal is made. This is the way of all open markets there. Abbas and Netanyahu are used to bargaining with items found in a shuk. I know that Netanyahu knows he has to make a deal, but he isn't about to give away the baby with the bathwater. A fair deal has to be made. I doubt if Obama has ever experienced such bartering. One has to have the mindset for it.

First of all, this union of Fatah and Hamas clearly now is a union of not recognizing Israel and by uniting Fatah is accepting their charter of destroying Israel. Netanyahu was trying to sit down with the Abbas to make peace but he won't even come to the table without Israel giving into the 1967 lines first. This is not acceptable. Yet it looks like most of Europe is also demanding this condition that none of them would accept for themselves.

Fatah has been very busy behind the scenes getting countries all lined up to recognize their state while they won't recognize the 63 year old Israel. They must feel that they don't need a peace pact with Israel. They're going to get their own way regardless.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0511/glick053111.php3 Caroline Glick

2011-05-31T11:17:00.000-07:00

Holland Affirms Israel is Jewish State
Nadene Goldfoot
Holland affirms Israel as a Jewish state. After declaring this on May 14, 1948, I would have thought this isn't necessary, but evidently it is. Holland is also urging the EU not to recognize a declared Palestinian statehood. They also realize the dangers in a one state situation of both Jews and Arabs and that it would then no longer be a Jewish majority state.

This is a brave stand for Holland at a time when practically all other countries are caving into appeasing the Palestinians and have signaled that they are recognizing a future Palestine. Canada is standing with Israel, also. The United States has said it would as well.

The Palestinians say they declared their state in 1988. All that remains is stating what the border is. They also declare East Jerusalem as part of their state which they intend to have as their capital. It's the old story of whatever the Jews have, they want.

Abbas has focused on Latin America for several reasons. One is that he speaks Spanish. Costa Rica recognized them in 2008. Since then Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Equador have recognized Palestine. Paraguay says it must be within the 1967 borders. Chile and Peru go along with the proviso of the borders being mutually agreed to. Columbia is waiting for a peace agreement.

France and Britain are ready to recognize a Palestine. Germany has come down hard on Israel but still says it won't recognize them without Israel's okay to the deal. Norway is going along with it, it looks like. Spain is quite positive about supporting it. Brussels is all for Jerusalem to become the future capital of Palestine, then also says it should be for the two states as well. Denmark and Ireland have upgraded their status in their eyes. This is almost saying they are all for their state.

The Palestinians have not fullfilled the Quartet's provisos in establishing their own state. Being they have goals to destroy Israel, it is shocking beyond words to me that countries would sign onto such an agreement.
Caving in and allowing a murderous state is not going to turn them into nice people. They'll just think they have the green light to do as they have wished; destroy Israel.

Oh, how easy it is for these states to okay a Palestine. After all, it's nothing of their concern. What do they care that Hamas wants to destroy Israel. It's only in their charter to do so.

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=208099
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine
http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/Recognition-of-Palestinian-State.htm
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/30/canada-backs-israels-survival/
http://kern.pundicity.com/9588/europeans-threaten-to-recognize-palestinian-state

2011-05-30T14:11:00.000-07:00

Rocket Landing in Southern Israel Once More

Nadene Goldfoot
Southern Israel has experienced six weeks without any rockets or missiles, but that stretch was just broken by a rocket from Gaza landing on Saturday in Southern Israel's Eshkol region. It landed without hitting anything, but one never knows where these things will land. The last one had hit a yellow school bus.

Along with the rocket, Israel has been told to not interfere with the Flotilla coming with who knows what for the Gazans. It could be holding anything from potato chips to more missiles.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110528/wl_afp/israelpalestinianconflictgazarocket

2011-04-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

Egyptian Gas Pipeline Attacked and Exploded

The pipeline from Egypt that supplies Israel and Jordan's gas has again been attacked this month. An armed gang in the North Sinai area in Egypt blew it up. This was south of el-Arish, 30 miles from Israel's border. It exploded and had to be shut down.

Jordan generates 80% of its electricity from this pipeline. Israel gets 40% of its natural gas from this source. Syria also imports gas from Egypt. Now Jordan will have to use diesel fuel, which is more expensive.

Bedouin tribesmen live in the area and have been known to complain about being neglected and oppressed by Egypt's government. They had tried to sabatage the pipeline in July 2010. There is opposition elsewhere because Israel is blockading the Gaza Strip for its own self protection against the group sworn to destroy Israel. Then Egyptians have claimed that Israel is getting special treatment with lower rates. The Supreme Court overturned a ban that had never been enforced.

Egypt has been supplying Israel with natual gas since 2008 in a 20 year deal. Oil has recently been discovered in Israel offshore and is being developed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13204754

2011-04-22T14:05:00.000-07:00

Dangerous East Jerusalem
Nadene Goldfoot
An Israeli army jeep was driving through East Jerusalem today and suddenly hit something, causing it to flip over. After this happened, young Arabs from Issawiya shot fireworks at it and this set it on fire. Issawiya is a Palestinian neighborhood on Mt. Scopus near the Hebrew University and a district that sees lots of clashing with the Israeli police.

I'm wondering if something was put in the road on purpose to cause the accident. I would suspect so, being these boys were ready and johnny on the spot armed with fireworks. Luckily, there were no casualties.

Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110422/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestiniansconflictjerusalem