Making a Country of Terrorists: A Palestine

 Nadene Goldfoot                                      

     European Parliament  calls for recognition of State of Palestine

Hamas is a terrorist organization.  Hamas is officially designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States government under U.S. law. 

They are terrorists wanting their own state to work terrorism from.  I know that European countries think that statehood would be the answer to causing them to stop being terrorists, but they haven't stopped since the 1920's when instigated by Husseini, Sherif of Jerusalem.  

It's their custom now, going on for about the 4th generation.  They don't know why they hate Jews and want to kill them, they just do. Whatever bad happens, even weather, is blamed on Israel just like the Syrians have said about Jews.  

 They need all the help that comes with becoming a state;  all the rights and freedoms so they can do their terrorism.  

USA have officially said that Hamas is a terrorist organization. 

The U.S. Department of State first designated Hamas as an FTO on October 8, 1997, pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This designation carries several legal consequences: 

• It is unlawful for any person in the U.S. or subject to U.S. jurisdiction to knowingly provide "material support or resources" to Hamas.
• Members and representatives of Hamas are inadmissible to, and in certain circumstances removable from, the United States.
• U.S. financial institutions are generally required to block all transactions involving assets of the organization. 

Additionally, the U.S. has targeted Hamas with other measures, including designating it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organization since October 2001, which further empowers the government to freeze assets and impose sanctions on individuals and entities associated with the group. 

10 Other countries join us in recognizing Hamas as terrorists:

A number of countries and international bodies officially recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization, either in its entirety or its military wing. 

However, the UK, Canada, Australia now recognize aPalestine, that is Hamas territory. (I met many Jews living in Israel fromthese countries.  We banded together naturally since we all spoke English.

 That's because the land was 

given to the PA and a following vote went to Hamas as their

government.  What is this Palestine that the countries are

recognizing?  It'll be run by Hamas!  

Countries and entities that designate Hamas as a terrorist organization-since September 2025 include:

• United States (since 1997)
• European Union (since 2003 for the entire organization) Out of the EU, On September 22, 2025, France, along with other EU members like Luxembourg and Malta, officially recognized Palestine. These individual recognitions happened around the same time as a European Parliament resolution in early September called for member states to work towards a two-state solution, which includes recognition. Would any of them want terrorists next door to them?  
• United Kingdom (entire organization proscribed since 2021)
• Canada (since 2001)
• Japan
• Australia (entire organization proscribed since 2022)
• Israel
• New Zealand
• Paraguay
• North Macedonia
• Albania

The whole world will soon be for a Palestinian State for Terrorists,

Yes, that is who Hamas is and who will be taking over Palestine

being they are the ones calling for it.  Note:  There never has 

been a Palestine state.  It's the Romans who named it-getting

even with the Jewish General Bar Kokhba who re-took it in 132 

and held it till 135 CE, embarrassing the strongest army in the 

world, Rome!  

Hamas's charter since 1988 has been to destroy Israel.  

The founding charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in 1988 was an Islamist document that defined all of historic Palestine as an Islamic waqf (religious endowment) that could not be given up. Key tenets included: 

• The goal to annihilate Israel and replace it with an Islamic Palestinian state across all of historic Palestine.
• Explicitly antisemitic language, including a quote attributed to the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it".
• A belief that there is "no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad" (holy struggle).
• Assertions that Jews were behind many world revolutions and controlled global media and finance. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene was just on THE VIEW and voiced her opinion that they all could like Jews in the US, but still not agree with Israel since she's against all wars and expects Israelis not to fight, as I have translated her meaning. There was a  lot of clapping  from the audience; which seems to be most American's feelings, expect there is a tremendous amount of anti-Semitism attached to countries of this opinion.  It's a carry-over none want to admit to.  Marjorie went on saying how terrible Israel was starving the poor people, etc, not accepting the fact that Hamas has caused all this.  They are clever and determined to throw mud on Israel since they were once admired (by a short time-but it was happening, especially after the 1967 Six Day War).  So they have managed to do that.  People should know that what they are accused of could not be true, as it just doesn't happen in our culture, mores, religion to be like that, do do these things, but to them, it is nothing to use their own people to be victorious.  

Well, world, Israel is not about to allow another Holocaust to happen.

Lesson #1:  Don't believe all the hatred thrown about Israel.  We haven't needed blood in our matzos!  You've all believed, or rather your ancestors believed all the ugly things Jews were accused of.  

Jews created Israel since Judaism was about wiped out!  At the time, Jews had to sneak into Palestine when the Ottoman Empire had it and had voted with the Axis in the war, so lost it to  Britain, as it turned out who had a 30 year mandate over it.  

Jews are creative and have shared valuable things and ideas with the world.  They even sent help to earthquake hit counties.  Some are appreciative.  Marjorie likes Peace.  Doesn't she realize that that is what Israel wants the most out of life?  Peace?  All our 613 laws lend themselves to PEACE between people. Take the Golden Rule;  Don't do to others that which you don't want done to you !    

Do you realize that THE RETURN has occurred?  JEWS from around the world have returned to the land of Israel, and this time are determined to keep it.  Look how the world treats JEWS IN THEIR COUNTRIES!  ANTI-SEMITISM !!!

Update:1:55pm- Trump is the first president I can remember coming to the aid of Israel. Israel has been constantly attacked by terrorists, and has to fight many times.  This is the first time she feels her right to exist is on the line since her birth May 14, 1948.  77 years of existence has to be defended, Marjorie. Thank you, USA.     

  

Israel With Trump's Vision of Peace in Middle East

 Nadene Goldfoot

                                             

Kiryat Gat (Hebrew: קריית גת, lit. 'City of Gat') It lies 56 km (35 miles) south of Tel Aviv, 43 km (27 mi) north of Beersheba, and 68 km (42 mi) west southwest of Jerusalem. In 2023 it had a population of 69,762. The city hosts one of the most advanced semiconductor fabrication plants in the world, Intel's Fab 28 plant producing 7 nm process chips. Portlanders might be interested that this comes close to cities in Oregon of Medford that has a population of about 85,000, while Albany has around 56,000. The population of other cities like Corvallis and Eugene are significantly higher.                         

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the U.S.-led command center in Kiryat Gat, which is responsible for monitoring the ongoing ceasefire, facilitating humanitarian aid and laying groundwork for a future stabilization force in Gaza. 

He reiterated that no state will allow the involvement of Hamas in managing Gaza’s future security. 

Rubio said that an international security force created to stabilize Gaza will only include troops from countries that Israel is comfortable with. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for sanctions and an arms embargo to be imposed on Israel, accusing it of violating the ceasefire in Gaza. [which is why Israel isn't "comfortable" with Turkish troops joining the international force.]

All but one of the hostages were among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 other people were killed.

Israel is awaiting the return of the bodies of 2 more hostages this weekend.  All the living hostages have been returned. 

Hamas has been severely degraded and the IDF still controls around half of Gaza, which serves as a security buffer along the Israeli border.

Hamas terrorists still seem to be in firm control of their part of Gaza, which includes the overwhelming majority of the Strip's population, and Hamas isn't disarming, as they are meant to do per the ceasefire agreement.

 The fact that they lost thousands of fighters and caused the deaths of thousands of civilians and the destruction of most of Gaza doesn't trouble them.

 Remember, they are a Jihadist organization whose mission is to destroy Israel at all costs. 

          Sinwar holding toddler 

Sinwar and the Hamas leadership knew very well the death and destruction that would occur as a result of their barbaric Oct. 7 attack -- the IDF captured the files and documents that prove that -- and yet they felt that it was well worth it if it could fulfill their Jihad.

 The late Egyptian President Ansar Sadat reportedly said, before the Yom Kippur War of 1973, that he was willing to sacrifice one million lives to destroy Israel. 

  

Hamas was more than willing to sacrifice 30 or 40 thousand. 

The Arab countries  won. Israel removed their biggest threat, Iran, and they are now closer than ever to the U.S. and will undoubtedly getting lots of great gifts in exchange for their support of Trump's peace deal, in addition to their growing influence in Washington.  

    Turkey and Qatar: Each finds Israel as their enemy having Qatar supporting Qaradawi for ages and Turkey with grandeur ideas of the Ottoman Empire as one of their rulers.  

For the time being, it doesn't look like Hamas is exiting the plot of our story, and it seems to still have the support of Turkey and Qatar. 

Even some Jewish groups have swallowed the line told against Israel without any checking.  

The tens of millions of university students and liberal revolutionaries demonstrating their support for Hamas  have been growing and nurturing for decades.  

The Muslim countries in the Middle East include Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. A map showing the Middle East will display these nations, often alongside non-Muslim majority countries like Israel. Trump has helped leading the Arab States to join the Abraham Accords, of which The countries that belong to the Abraham Accords are Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco. Sudan also signed the general declaration, but its full bilateral agreement has been delayed due to political instability. 

• Israel: The primary country normalizing relations with Arab nations.
• United Arab Emirates (UAE): Signed the agreement in 2020.
• Bahrain: Signed the agreement in 2020.
• Morocco: Joined the Accords in December 2020.
• Sudan: Signed the general declaration in January 2021, but has not yet completed its bilateral agreement.

As of late 2025, five Muslim-majority nations have formal peace treaties or normalization agreements with Israel. The first two agreements were comprehensive peace treaties, while the three most recent ones are normalization agreements signed under the Abraham Accords.                           

 

• Egypt (1979): The Egypt-Israel peace treaty was a landmark agreement following the Camp David Accords. In exchange for peace, Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. While the peace has been described as "cold," full diplomatic relations were established and have held.                               
  
  
  
• Jordan (1994): The treaty between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan officially ended the state of war that had existed since 1948. The agreement settled border and water disputes, established diplomatic relations, and included cooperation on trade and tourism. 

At the end of the day, Israel is still surrounded by countries and populations who would rather it not exist, and the moment they can make that a reality, they will.

 Hezbollah is still around in the north and Hamas is looking like it'll be sticking around in the south. Israel killed at least a dozen senior Hamas military and political officials during the first year of the Gaza war.  Its most daring operations killed Haniyeh in Tehran and Mohammed Deif, the chief Hamas military commander, in Gaza, both in July 2024. In January, Mossad chief David Barnea vowed that Israel was “committed to settling accounts” with everyone involved—“directly or indirectly,” including “planners and envoys”—in the Hamas invasion of Gaza. “It’ll take time, as it took time after the Munich massacre, but we will put our hands on them wherever they are,” he said, referring to the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.

Iran might be defanged for the moment, but they'll bide their time and wait for a more "favorable" U.S. administration, and then pick up where they left off. 

 Israel is still at war with its neighbors that produce terrorists  and much of the world. Maybe Trump can pull off his vision of peace in the Middle East? We can hope and pray. But what happens when he isn't president anymore? Is peace only PIE IN THE SKY?? More prayer...]

Resource:

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Latest Terrorist Attacks in Israel

Nadene Goldfoot

Israel has warned the Gazans that it will not stand by and allow Israelis to be shot from Gaza without reprisal.  On Tuesday a civilian, a Bedouin Israeli,  was shot and killed near the Gaza border fence by sniper fire.

The IAF retaliated by hitting a base west of Khan Younis.  As Prime Minister Netanyahu stated, "This is an extremely serious incident and we will not stand idly by.  Our policy up until now has been to thwart and retaliate with force.  That's what they are doing.

The Defense Minister in Israel said, "If there is no peace in Israel, there will be no peace in Gaza.

"The Palestinian Authority continues to instigate against the State of Israel and its citizens and is not encouraging a culture of peace, so Israel feels that they are forced to deal with terror attacks."  mentioned Ya'alon.   It's an intolerable situation for Israel who has had to deal with attacks in southern Israel since 2001.  The people in Gaza, the Hamas terrorists,  have not accepted any thoughts of peace and it's high time they did.

Such action from Gaza encourages other acts of violence in Israel.  On Sunday a bus driver near Tel Aviv was alerted by a passenger that a large black knapsack was sitting in the bus unattended.  The passenger opened it to find  a bomb in it whereupon the driver had the passengers disembark from the bus.  A sapper attempted to defuse the bomb then but it blew up.  A policeman was slightly injured in the blast.  This was a terrorist act.

Another 41 year old police officer on the security force was stabbed literally in the back by a long knife wielding Palestinian as a terrorist attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Adam.  The attacker fled to a nearby Palestinian neighborhood.  This happened the day after the bus attack.

And so, the state of Israel on this 24th of December must always be aware, at least in this era, of attacks on its population that can come at any time so long as the Arabs are withholding any measure of peace for all men  and no good will towards any Israeli.

Resource:  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4469142,00.html
UPdate 12/25/13 http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-severely-wounded-by-sniper-fire-from-gaza/
UPdate 12/25/13http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4469142,00.html
UPdate 12/25/13http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/24/israeli-worker-shot-and-killed-by-gaza-sniper-update/

Two Palestinian States? Oy!

Nadene Goldfoot
It looks like Khaled Mashaal of Hamas and Mahmoud Abba of Fatah, both Palestinian terrorist leaders, fight each other as much as they both do with Israel.  They've had an on and off love affair with each other, but right now it must be divorce time as Jordan and Qatar's leaders are pushing  for Mashaal to be chair over a future PLO  while Abbas still has his sights set on this role of being their next president or prime minister.  Abbas is the present PA chairman.

They can't come to any agreements, but the governments of the world  expect Netanyahu to pull out miracles and get both in agreement with him.  It's almost hilarious.

Hamas is in Gaza on the west side of Israel and Judea-Samaria is in what they call the West Bank, which is on the eastern side of Israel but west of the Jordan River.  Hamas has their charter which is almost the same as the Muslim Brotherhood in which they both have the goal of destroying Israel.  The Palestinians still are sniping at Israeli citizens when they can, which was today when a Palestinian from Judea stabbed a 17 year old Jewish teenager for nationalistic reasons at Tapuah Junction, he said.  .

Ten years ago Mashaal and other Hamas leaders were expelled from Jordan and lost their citizenship there for acts unbecoming a citizen, so King Abdullah certainly doesn't want them back, but instead has been restoring relations by allowing visits.  This is because of the Hamas promise of refraining from meddling in the King's internal affairs.

Now the King of Jordan has been living peacefully since 1972's war with Israel in which Arabs lost.    He's saying that he thinks Hamas is ready to soften their position and live peacefully next to Israel!  They're becoming a little more realistic.  Yahya Moussa al-Ebadsh of Hamas  had a come-back with a statement on their website saying that their relationship with Israel would not change.  "The only relationship with this enemy is the resistance,"  he vowed.

Religion should be used as a prescription for getting along peacefully with one's neighbors, but Hamas is using their religion as a dictum for war and death.  How can John Kerry ever deal with people in this state of belief?  I think it would take the highly evolved  James T. Kirk and  Spock from the USS Enterprise to deal with such characters.  They do not compute in my mind at all.

Resource:  http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=301391&rz=n_20Jan13 by Khaled Abu Toameh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(film)
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=301402&rz=n_20Jan13

Making Peace? Fatah's Abbas Lacks Clout

The PLO, once ruled by Arafat, was a terrorist party called Fatah. It started in the early 60's and took over in 1968. Fatah means: conquest by mean of jihad. Jihad means: Islamic holy war.

Abbas took over as its leader when Arafat died. He lost the last election to Hamas in 2007 , an extreme terrorist organization who chased him to Judea and Samaria on the Eastern part of Israel.

The PLO Executive Committee is the governing body of this party. They are made up of 18 un-elected influential political men. They called a meeting to approve direct negotiations with Israel. Only nine members showed up. They needed twelve according to their constitution to approve of Abbas's participation.

The problem is that Abbas's term as President of the Palestinian Authority ended in January 2009. There have been no elections since Hamas won the 2007 election.

Abbas cannot negotiate for Hamas, who has sworn no recognition of Israel as its charter says they will drive Israel into the sea; meaning to destroy and end Israel. Fatah is now the main faction of the PLO. Therefore, Abbas has no control at all of the Gaza Strip. He has little control of Judea and Samaria shown by the attacks on Israelis recently who were driving there. Fatah has not recognized Israel. Israel cannot begin negotiations without this recognition.

Netanyahu is trying to make peace with a man who has no authority to make legitimate terms. How could he possibly have support from his own people? He can't even keep the Arabs in Judea and Samaria from attacking Israelis. He's done nothing about the text books the children use that show that all of Israel is Palestine or stop the instigative remarks found in these textbooks about hatred for Jews.

Here Israel is going through the motions of negotiating in good faith hoping to come to an agreement of peace. Netanyahu may be hoping that this will cause Abbas to actually win the support of the Arabs that he now lacks. Our hope is that the main body of Arabs in both sectors might enjoya peaceful condition.

I think they will also have to edit their charter. Many of the articles are simply about liberation and Jews.

Article (4) The Palestinian struggle is part and parcel of the world-wide struggle against Zionism, colonialism and international imperialism.
Article (5) Liberating Palestine is a national obligation which necessities the materialistic and human support of the Arab Nation.
Article (6) UN projects, accords and reso, or those of any individual cowhich undermine the Palestinian people's right in their homeland are illegal and rejected.
Article (7) The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method.
Article (8) The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international imperialism.
Article (9) Liberating Palestine and protecting its holy places is an Arab, religious and human obligation.
Article (10) Palestinian National Liberation Movement, "FATEH", is an independent national revolutionary movement representing the revolutionary vanguard of the Palestinian people.

Reference: mgbard@aol.com Mitchell Bard-Do the Palestinian authority Leaders have a mandate to pursue peace?

http://middleeastfacts.com/middle-east/the-fatah-constitution.php

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/Fatah.html

What Palestinians Really Aim For

According to the new PLO ambassador to Lebanon, Abdullah Abdullah, as quoted from September 9, 2010 Al-Hayat Al-Jadida from Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, the Palestinians do not have peace as a goal.
This is just a stage in their struggle against Israel.

Israel will experience what South Africa experienced. It will become isolated. They are threatening its legitimacy and are presenting it as a rebellious racist state. They are heaping war crimes on Israel. This is shown because many senior positioned Israelis are afraid to travel to Europe for fear of being put on trial for war crimes. One must remember that this man has just spoken about the Fatah, who were called PLO and were under Arafat who live in the Judea/Samaria or West Bank and are involved with peace talks with Netanyahu.

I discovered that Abdullah Abdullah has just recently taken on this position. Unless there are two Abdullah Abdullahs, he is a doctor from Afghanistan that is also a politician. He is known for having challenged the President of Afghanistan, H. Karzai, in recent elections and lost.

There is an embassy of Palestine in Lebanon. They have two Palestinian representatives. There was the Palestinian Ambassador Sharif Meshaal and the PLO (Fatah in Judea/Samaria) Abbas Zaki. They just had a farewell party for them both on October 23, 2009, so Abdullah Abdullah must have taken over for the PLO's.

He's working on the "dignity" of the PLO. Evidently Lebanon has a draft law and there are Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He wants them to "contribute to the Lebanese economic cycle, progress and development. I guess he figures that's okay by them not working but living on aid from the UN. He said this on March 14th in a document when commenting on the Lebanon draft law. He is concerned with their rights.

Reference: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/a/abdullah_abdullah/index.html
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=3188 (PMW bulletin)

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/Lebanon/5EA28A3D4BEECED4C225775F0028A5EF?OpenDocument
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=194395

Accept Us As a Jewish State

by Nadene Goldfoot

Why was Israel created in 1948? It was created as a Jewish state, something we haven't had since 70 A.D. We've been the perpetual "Wandering Jew" without a home, living in other's countries only to be kicked out as we became comfortable, wrongly thinking it was also our country.

There is no other Jewish state. After the Holocaust where 6 million of us were slaughtered, we finally agreed that we sure could have used a state of our own where there wasn't any anti-semitism.

Getting the Arab countries to agree with us has turned out to be impossible. Here they were, on Hitler's side of WWII, agreeing that we should all be killed, and now we expect them to not try to kill us all just because we hold the deed to our old piece of land again.

They continue to not recognise Israel as a Jewish state. This would interfere with their claim in a peace process of the right of their refugees to return to the area. Remember that when Israel was declared a state in 1948, the surrounding Arab states attacked in force to drive us into the sea. While their men were attacking, they told the few Arabs living there to flee and when they won they could return and have the homes of the Jews.

The fact is that they have not been living there for 62 years. They were few in number. The British even stooped so low as to cook the books, making the Arab numbers even bigger than they actually were. The adults have most likely died by now and the refugees are the children and have multiplied greatly. They haven't been working but have remained in Palestinian refugee camps, supported by the UN as the biggest needy group of all people ever. If they were given permission to enter Israel, and I'm not saying returning as they most likely never lived there, they would flood the teeny country and it would no longer have a Jewish majority. We'd be right back to square one only worse as these people hate us and want us dead. Israel is already made up of 20% Arab now with Arabs in the Knessset.

For this reason, Netanyahu has to be given the word that Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state. After all, there are already 48 states with 50% or more majority of Muslims. Can't we have one Jewish state in this world? We are only about 1% of the population in the United States. We are a noticable but wee group of people, most likely shrinking daily as it is in the U.S.

I'll throw a big party in my neighborhood if Abbas agrees to recognition, but even at that, he doesn't control the extremely hateful terrorist group, Hamas, who vow to never recognize Israel. They get their notoriety from their hatefulness and continuing attacks on Israel. In fact, Hamas still has control of some of Abbas's people, shown by the recent slaughter of four people traveling in the Judea/Samaria area in a car last week.

The 2nd round of talks will take place Tuesday in Egypt with Hillary Clinton present. "Just as we are asked to recognise the Palestinian national state...we also demand and expect the Palestinians to recognise a Jewish state," Netanyahu said at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting. Don't hold your breath, but I won't be far from my TV set Tuesday. Will they or won't they? If they can't do this, why bother discussing the other sticky core issues about the conflict? This would certainly mean that they are not truly serious about any intention for Fatah at least to put an end to the conflict.

Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100912/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestinianspeace/print

Book: From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters-The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine.

Who Recognizes Israel?

by Nadene Goldfoot

Is it so shocking that Israel's Netanyahu is asking for recognition of Israel in order to have peace? Recognition means acceptance of the state in the neighborhood. It means that it will be respected and not shot at. It means it's a legitimate neighbor and all want peace. It would be in a state such as USA is with its neighbors of Canada and Mexico today. Israelis are tired of putting up with rocket firing morning, noon and night. You can't sign a peace treaty with people who are intending to do you in anyway. Palestinians have to say, "Okay! You're a legitimate state accepted by the U.N. in May of 1948. We concede to that. We'll quit trying to drive you all into the sea. "

Palestinians don't want to recognize Israel because they want the West Bank and East Jerusalem to have no building at all by Israelis there. They want it for themselves. Since Jerusalem is the capitol of Israel, Israel feels it is their city. Jerusalem is THE city as far as Judaism goes. It's in our history, our religion, and our soul. We don't mind having Arabs living in East Jerusalem. We have a million Arabs living in Israel. However, the state of Palestine wants their country to be free of all Jews. They want us out. We have fears that they will try to take over all of Jerusalem, also. After all we've been through, we're not about to let that happen. We remember how our cemeteries were desecrated by the Jordanians. People used them as latrines. King David and his son King Solomon would roll over in their graves if they thought we'd let Jerusalem be given away. Most of our give aways that were in the name of peace have just resulted in being used as landing places for our neighbors to attack us.

The West Bank in history was Judea and Samaria. It's also most important in Jewish history. Again, we don't mind and wouldn't kick out the Arabs living there, but we don't like the idea of uprooting all the Jewish people that live there, either.

The Palestinians are always demanding that we give up land. We had a sufficient chunk of land promised to us in the first place, but had to settle for only a small part of it at the formation of Israel and that was okay with us. Something was better than nothing. Ever since then the Arabs have been chipping away pieces of it. We gained land after the 1967 battle of many Arab countries attacking us. Maybe it was a miracle that we won the war, but we won, and gained back Jerusalem from Jordan. Now, we're not about to let it go just because they're demanding.

They're calling out that building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal by the international community. Well, the international community is not supportive of Israel in any way shape or form, anyway. I feel they're still harboring anti-semitic feelings and have always been against the Jewish people. They certainly haven't condemned Palestinians for attacking Israel civilians with rockets, have they.

The whole affair is so one sided that it makes me dizzy. No wonder a Rabbi in Israel blew up cursing the Palestinian terrorists who are so against Israel. I would have said, may you all lose all your teeth except one, and in that one tooth get a giant toothache. I think that's the curse my grandmother used to use on people she was exasperated with.