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
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
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/
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/
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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
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
Monday, July 04, 2011
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
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
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
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
Friday, July 01, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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
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
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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
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
Sunday, June 26, 2011
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
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
Saturday, June 25, 2011
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/
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/
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=226000&R=R1
Saturday, June 18, 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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
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
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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
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
Sunday, June 05, 2011
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
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
Friday, June 03, 2011
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
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
Thursday, June 02, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
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
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
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
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
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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
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
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
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
Monday, May 30, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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
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
Friday, April 22, 2011
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
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
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Hezbollah Hit Man and Gang After Israelis Abroad
Nadene Goldfoot
Talul Harnia, head of a Hezbollah cell intends to kill Israelis he finds abroad in retaliation for the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh.
Mughniyeh was one of the world's most wanted men. He had been on the FBI list with a $25 million dollar bounty on his head which is the same as on Osama bin Laden. He had attacked the USA, Israeli and Jewish targets in Lebanon and abroad. He was finally found in Damascus, Syria and was killed by a car bomb way back in February of 2008. Of course Hezbollah is saying that he was killed by Israeli agents.
So now this is the excuse given by a Hezbollah terrorist group to hunt down and kill civilian Israelis. Many Israelis have taken the Passover holiday as a time for travel, just as many Americans have gone to Israel at this time.
Hezbollah is out for Israeli blood. Always be prepared, as the Boy Scout Motto says, for danger lies even outside of Eretz Yisrael.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=217482&R=R1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971885/posts
Nadene Goldfoot
Talul Harnia, head of a Hezbollah cell intends to kill Israelis he finds abroad in retaliation for the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh.
Mughniyeh was one of the world's most wanted men. He had been on the FBI list with a $25 million dollar bounty on his head which is the same as on Osama bin Laden. He had attacked the USA, Israeli and Jewish targets in Lebanon and abroad. He was finally found in Damascus, Syria and was killed by a car bomb way back in February of 2008. Of course Hezbollah is saying that he was killed by Israeli agents.
So now this is the excuse given by a Hezbollah terrorist group to hunt down and kill civilian Israelis. Many Israelis have taken the Passover holiday as a time for travel, just as many Americans have gone to Israel at this time.
Hezbollah is out for Israeli blood. Always be prepared, as the Boy Scout Motto says, for danger lies even outside of Eretz Yisrael.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=217482&R=R1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971885/posts
Monday, April 18, 2011
Itamar Slaughterers Found
Nadene Goldfoot
Two Palestinian PLO teenagers decided to slaughter a Jewish family on March 11th. Amjad Awad 19 and Hakim Awad 18 from Awarta, an Arab village admitted killing the Fogel family in Itamar. They have been arrested by the Israeli security forces. Though they are but teenagers, they are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). They start young. Six others were arrested for helping them in this act.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad verbally condemned the killings, but their people have learned to hate Jewish Israelis which these leaders have done nothing to turn about. In fact, they promote the hatred by doing such things as celebrating murderers by naming places for them. There were Palestinians who even claimed that their people wouldn't do such a thing, but who else would have, logically? They constantly blame the Israel occupation for every evil act they do.
They seem to forget that Jordan "occupied" Judea and Samaria before and they weren't as nice as Israel has been, besides the fact that they didn't keep trying to kill Jordanians in reprisal, which affects whatever has been a discomfort for them. Herb Keinon points out that countries have been occupied before and the occuppied didn't do dastardly acts such as hacking a 3 month old baby to death or sending out women suicide-bombers or firing anti-tank missiles at school buses with the goal of killing children, either.
There can be no justification for such horrendous murders. Yet the Director General of the PA Ministry of Detainees & Ex-Detainees justifies all this and demands that those Palestinians being detained by Israel be released. Detainees are people who have committed some heineous crime such as murder. Chutzpa is something they have no shortage of.
How different life would have been if the Palestinians in 1967 who were living in Judea and Samaria under Jordan would have continued their life when under Israel and would not have continued to attack Jewish families for the last 44 years. They would have had all the pleasures as any other community in Israel and in the United States, most likely. By all this hatred and unacceptance of a Jewish State being thrown at Israel, the Utopia they pictured did not come about. It was not meant to be, obviously. Between the antagonistic Gazan Palestinians of Hamas and the PLO of Fatah in Judea and Samaria, Israel has had its hands full.
Reference: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/two-teens-from-west-bank-village-arrested-over-itamar-massacre-1.356396
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=217047
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=217046
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOUPcrDIsoU
from Daily Alert
Nadene Goldfoot
Two Palestinian PLO teenagers decided to slaughter a Jewish family on March 11th. Amjad Awad 19 and Hakim Awad 18 from Awarta, an Arab village admitted killing the Fogel family in Itamar. They have been arrested by the Israeli security forces. Though they are but teenagers, they are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). They start young. Six others were arrested for helping them in this act.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad verbally condemned the killings, but their people have learned to hate Jewish Israelis which these leaders have done nothing to turn about. In fact, they promote the hatred by doing such things as celebrating murderers by naming places for them. There were Palestinians who even claimed that their people wouldn't do such a thing, but who else would have, logically? They constantly blame the Israel occupation for every evil act they do.
They seem to forget that Jordan "occupied" Judea and Samaria before and they weren't as nice as Israel has been, besides the fact that they didn't keep trying to kill Jordanians in reprisal, which affects whatever has been a discomfort for them. Herb Keinon points out that countries have been occupied before and the occuppied didn't do dastardly acts such as hacking a 3 month old baby to death or sending out women suicide-bombers or firing anti-tank missiles at school buses with the goal of killing children, either.
There can be no justification for such horrendous murders. Yet the Director General of the PA Ministry of Detainees & Ex-Detainees justifies all this and demands that those Palestinians being detained by Israel be released. Detainees are people who have committed some heineous crime such as murder. Chutzpa is something they have no shortage of.
How different life would have been if the Palestinians in 1967 who were living in Judea and Samaria under Jordan would have continued their life when under Israel and would not have continued to attack Jewish families for the last 44 years. They would have had all the pleasures as any other community in Israel and in the United States, most likely. By all this hatred and unacceptance of a Jewish State being thrown at Israel, the Utopia they pictured did not come about. It was not meant to be, obviously. Between the antagonistic Gazan Palestinians of Hamas and the PLO of Fatah in Judea and Samaria, Israel has had its hands full.
Reference: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/two-teens-from-west-bank-village-arrested-over-itamar-massacre-1.356396
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=217047
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=217046
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOUPcrDIsoU
from Daily Alert
Friday, April 15, 2011
Hamas Rockets Fly Again
Hamas has attacked Israel with over 40 rockets since they hit the yellow school bus on purpose, and Israel pounded back in return. On Sunday Egyptian and UN mediators were able to achieve an informal truce
but it only lasted a few days. Friday in Israel saw the return of the attack again.
The southern Israel cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon were targeted with no injuries incurred. People heard the warning siren and then felt the attack.
"We will not stand for fire on buses or on our children. We will not abide a situation where Israeli citizens are sleeping in shelters - anywhere," said Netanyahu.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110415/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_violence
http://www.jpost.com/
Ynet.
Hamas has attacked Israel with over 40 rockets since they hit the yellow school bus on purpose, and Israel pounded back in return. On Sunday Egyptian and UN mediators were able to achieve an informal truce
but it only lasted a few days. Friday in Israel saw the return of the attack again.
The southern Israel cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon were targeted with no injuries incurred. People heard the warning siren and then felt the attack.
"We will not stand for fire on buses or on our children. We will not abide a situation where Israeli citizens are sleeping in shelters - anywhere," said Netanyahu.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110415/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_violence
http://www.jpost.com/
Ynet.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Terrorists' Mentality
Nadene Goldfoot
The foes of Israel do not understand the relevence of Israel getting all upset over their aiming at a school bus. Omar Al-Ghoul, political advisor to the PA Prime AMinister Salam Fayyad, told their TV on April 8th that the school bus wasn't that badly damaged but Israel is using this attack of ours as an excuse for hitting back.
They cop out from understanding that a school bus holds children and that, to Israelis and to other people of the world this is not acceptable to do. You don't purposely aim at children with the intention of killing or maiming them. Children are innocents. Only a very barbaric society would think this is okay to do. Israelis are not measuring the destruction of the school bus. They are measuring the intention of a self-seeking missile upon children.
The child who was badly injured on the bus, Daniel Wipliech, has become worse to the point of being listed now as critical. There is no evidence of any brain activity reported the doctor, the Chief of Pediatric ICU Shaul Sofer. "It's a mortal injury," he said.
Hamas is demonstrating their behaviors, and Fatah was not any better by entering a home in Samaria and slaughtering the family which included 3 children while they slept. These are acts performed by cowards, not from brave men. This is not the kind of morality that make up good neighbors.
Reference: http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4890
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4055801,00.html
Nadene Goldfoot
The foes of Israel do not understand the relevence of Israel getting all upset over their aiming at a school bus. Omar Al-Ghoul, political advisor to the PA Prime AMinister Salam Fayyad, told their TV on April 8th that the school bus wasn't that badly damaged but Israel is using this attack of ours as an excuse for hitting back.
They cop out from understanding that a school bus holds children and that, to Israelis and to other people of the world this is not acceptable to do. You don't purposely aim at children with the intention of killing or maiming them. Children are innocents. Only a very barbaric society would think this is okay to do. Israelis are not measuring the destruction of the school bus. They are measuring the intention of a self-seeking missile upon children.
The child who was badly injured on the bus, Daniel Wipliech, has become worse to the point of being listed now as critical. There is no evidence of any brain activity reported the doctor, the Chief of Pediatric ICU Shaul Sofer. "It's a mortal injury," he said.
Hamas is demonstrating their behaviors, and Fatah was not any better by entering a home in Samaria and slaughtering the family which included 3 children while they slept. These are acts performed by cowards, not from brave men. This is not the kind of morality that make up good neighbors.
Reference: http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4890
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4055801,00.html
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Israel's Seventh Letter to U.N.
Nadene Goldfoot
Meron Reuben, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. has written his 7th letter to Ban Ki moon, the Secretary General of the U.N. about the recent attacks on Southern Israel from Gaza.
Since April 7th, in the past 5 days, Israel has been hit with 131 different projectiles which have been:
12 Grad missiles
70 Kassam rockets
49 mortars
This of course is a violation of international law. Smuggling arms has been going on in Gaza also and must be condemned. None of these things have been adddressed by the U.N.
Right now it appears that there is a lull. The Palestinians did call for a truce, and when they have done this in the past it's when they need to re-supply themselves with more weapons, not that they're considering to be peaceful for a change.
When Israel has retaliated at any time, they zero in on a target and do their utmost to just hit that. What makes it difficult for them is that these targets usually are amid a population center, positioned there on purpose-to bring bad press for Israel. However, what the Palestinians have been doing is aiming their weaponry directly at population centers just to alarm and upset the population with the hope of hitting civilians; men, women and children.. It's not that there is an armory or soldiers to hit. The latest ill-fated deed they committed was to purposely aim a heat seeking missile at a yellow school bus. That did it! The bee hive was maddened and Israel struck back, highly angered. You don't aim for children!
The U.N. is always quick on the trigger to accuse Israel in any way, though Israel spends their time defending their nation, but the U.N. has done nothing at all to come to Israel's defense from any attack. This batch of U.N. delegates seem to have forgotten that it was Israel that was recognized as a Jewish state by them. They have forgotten that it was Winston Churchill who said that the Jews...should have a national centre and a National Home in the land of Palestine, which they have been associated with for more than 3,000 years. They seem to have forgotten it was Harry Truman who even cited Psalm 137 which describes the pain of Jewish exile with "by the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. After 63 years of existence, it's ridiculous that Israel still has to prove its right to exist. Other than recognizing Israel, just what has the U.N. done for this small country since then? Six letters ignored. Will the 7th letter finally stir the pot?
Reference: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=216211
Nadene Goldfoot
Meron Reuben, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. has written his 7th letter to Ban Ki moon, the Secretary General of the U.N. about the recent attacks on Southern Israel from Gaza.
Since April 7th, in the past 5 days, Israel has been hit with 131 different projectiles which have been:
12 Grad missiles
70 Kassam rockets
49 mortars
This of course is a violation of international law. Smuggling arms has been going on in Gaza also and must be condemned. None of these things have been adddressed by the U.N.
Right now it appears that there is a lull. The Palestinians did call for a truce, and when they have done this in the past it's when they need to re-supply themselves with more weapons, not that they're considering to be peaceful for a change.
When Israel has retaliated at any time, they zero in on a target and do their utmost to just hit that. What makes it difficult for them is that these targets usually are amid a population center, positioned there on purpose-to bring bad press for Israel. However, what the Palestinians have been doing is aiming their weaponry directly at population centers just to alarm and upset the population with the hope of hitting civilians; men, women and children.. It's not that there is an armory or soldiers to hit. The latest ill-fated deed they committed was to purposely aim a heat seeking missile at a yellow school bus. That did it! The bee hive was maddened and Israel struck back, highly angered. You don't aim for children!
The U.N. is always quick on the trigger to accuse Israel in any way, though Israel spends their time defending their nation, but the U.N. has done nothing at all to come to Israel's defense from any attack. This batch of U.N. delegates seem to have forgotten that it was Israel that was recognized as a Jewish state by them. They have forgotten that it was Winston Churchill who said that the Jews...should have a national centre and a National Home in the land of Palestine, which they have been associated with for more than 3,000 years. They seem to have forgotten it was Harry Truman who even cited Psalm 137 which describes the pain of Jewish exile with "by the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. After 63 years of existence, it's ridiculous that Israel still has to prove its right to exist. Other than recognizing Israel, just what has the U.N. done for this small country since then? Six letters ignored. Will the 7th letter finally stir the pot?
Reference: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=216211
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Palestinian's Bully Behavior
Nadene Goldfoot
They finally did it. After shooting rockets into Israel from Gaza over the past two years and getting so brazen as to hit a yellow school bus with a heat searching missile and then receiving the pummelting they deserve, the Palestinian Hamas terrorists have called "UNCLE!
The Palestinians are now asking the UN to do the same thing they've done to Libya, establish a no fly zone over Gaza!
Israel's reply is how about first ensuring that the terrorists in Gaza halt all their attacks on Israel. They'd also have to stop those ground to ground missiles that keep coming into Israel as well. Sudan is also trying to get in on the act and are saying that a missile attack happened near their Port Sudan airport killing two people and it was from Israel! They say this happened on Tuesday night. My comment is that the Palestinian terrorists are the ones lobbing missiles around the area, and Israel was retaliating with completely diffferent weaponry. I note how fast these people object to being attacked with missiles. And we've been forced to endure it for how long? Ridiculous.
Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110410/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_arabs
Nadene Goldfoot
They finally did it. After shooting rockets into Israel from Gaza over the past two years and getting so brazen as to hit a yellow school bus with a heat searching missile and then receiving the pummelting they deserve, the Palestinian Hamas terrorists have called "UNCLE!
The Palestinians are now asking the UN to do the same thing they've done to Libya, establish a no fly zone over Gaza!
Israel's reply is how about first ensuring that the terrorists in Gaza halt all their attacks on Israel. They'd also have to stop those ground to ground missiles that keep coming into Israel as well. Sudan is also trying to get in on the act and are saying that a missile attack happened near their Port Sudan airport killing two people and it was from Israel! They say this happened on Tuesday night. My comment is that the Palestinian terrorists are the ones lobbing missiles around the area, and Israel was retaliating with completely diffferent weaponry. I note how fast these people object to being attacked with missiles. And we've been forced to endure it for how long? Ridiculous.
Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110410/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_arabs
A Weekend of 120 Rockets and Mortars Raining on Southern Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
So far 120 rockets and mortar shells have been shot into Israel this weekend. Israel's IDF hit Gaza in retaliation and may have to have a ground offensive to stop the attacks. Five Israelis have been wounded just trying to get to their bomb shelters. The Iron Dome stopped 10 of the rockets.
Offers of cease fire were relayed through the day. After hitting Israel very hard, Hamas offered a cease fire which is typical. In the past one is offered and then ignored. This time Israel did not take them up on it. This weekend Izzadin Kassam, the military wing of Hamas led by Ahmed Jabari would not listen to their Prime MinisterIsrmail Haniyeh who wanted a cease fire.
This escalation went on after Gazans hit the school bus wounding a 16 year old boy in the head. It would have been worse but the bus had just let off 40 students. Hamas pounded Israel hitting Beersheba, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ofakim, Sderot and other belt communities. Usually it is Sderot that gets most of the punishment.
More than 20 Hamas terrorists were killed in the attacks and others were wounded in Israel's answer of air strikes. Earlier the air force killed 3 senior Hamas commanders in a car in Rafah. The commander had been the one leading the rocket strike on Eilat a few months ago and was a part of the 2006 kidnapping of Gilad Schalit. The IDF also hit a terrorist cell behind the firing of Grad-model Katyusha rockets into Ashkelon earlier which got a senior Hamas field commander.
Hamas now is saying that they will escalate and hit more targets deeper into Israel if Israel does not stop the aerial assaults.
Such an attack caused about 750,000 Israelis to go to their bomb shelters. Governments have thought that if the casualties in Israel are not high, being bombed really is not all that bad. It is. There may have not been a loss of life all the time, but the pressure of living under attack constantly brings about PTSD and other problems. The point is that they cannot live a normal life, homes are often taking the brunt of an attack, and it's just too much. Hospitals have had to go underground as well as manufacturing. The goal of Hamas is to destroy Israel and until that changes, they will not change. There is nobody around except Israel that is trying to make this point. We will never see the day that America would put up with one rocket or missile fired into its territory without putting a quick stop to it, yet they have been expecting Israel to do what they would not do without raising a ruckus with Hamas or Fatah. Israel has had very little help on their side against such a monsterous way to live. Hamas keeps getting their money for noncompliance and the UN keeps clucking away against Israel.
Somehow, Hamas thinks they can escalate and Israel will do nothing and now they blame Israel for the violence. They're copping a plea that Whoops,didn't mean to hit the school bus. Gee, the yellow school bus was carrying children? commented Abu Zuhri? That road is also used by IDF vehicles.
Resource: http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages?printArticle.aspx?id=215882 IDF vows to keep up air strikes as 120 rockets hit South
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?ID=215970&R=R1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110410/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel added 10:35 am
Nadene Goldfoot
So far 120 rockets and mortar shells have been shot into Israel this weekend. Israel's IDF hit Gaza in retaliation and may have to have a ground offensive to stop the attacks. Five Israelis have been wounded just trying to get to their bomb shelters. The Iron Dome stopped 10 of the rockets.
Offers of cease fire were relayed through the day. After hitting Israel very hard, Hamas offered a cease fire which is typical. In the past one is offered and then ignored. This time Israel did not take them up on it. This weekend Izzadin Kassam, the military wing of Hamas led by Ahmed Jabari would not listen to their Prime MinisterIsrmail Haniyeh who wanted a cease fire.
This escalation went on after Gazans hit the school bus wounding a 16 year old boy in the head. It would have been worse but the bus had just let off 40 students. Hamas pounded Israel hitting Beersheba, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ofakim, Sderot and other belt communities. Usually it is Sderot that gets most of the punishment.
More than 20 Hamas terrorists were killed in the attacks and others were wounded in Israel's answer of air strikes. Earlier the air force killed 3 senior Hamas commanders in a car in Rafah. The commander had been the one leading the rocket strike on Eilat a few months ago and was a part of the 2006 kidnapping of Gilad Schalit. The IDF also hit a terrorist cell behind the firing of Grad-model Katyusha rockets into Ashkelon earlier which got a senior Hamas field commander.
Hamas now is saying that they will escalate and hit more targets deeper into Israel if Israel does not stop the aerial assaults.
Such an attack caused about 750,000 Israelis to go to their bomb shelters. Governments have thought that if the casualties in Israel are not high, being bombed really is not all that bad. It is. There may have not been a loss of life all the time, but the pressure of living under attack constantly brings about PTSD and other problems. The point is that they cannot live a normal life, homes are often taking the brunt of an attack, and it's just too much. Hospitals have had to go underground as well as manufacturing. The goal of Hamas is to destroy Israel and until that changes, they will not change. There is nobody around except Israel that is trying to make this point. We will never see the day that America would put up with one rocket or missile fired into its territory without putting a quick stop to it, yet they have been expecting Israel to do what they would not do without raising a ruckus with Hamas or Fatah. Israel has had very little help on their side against such a monsterous way to live. Hamas keeps getting their money for noncompliance and the UN keeps clucking away against Israel.
Somehow, Hamas thinks they can escalate and Israel will do nothing and now they blame Israel for the violence. They're copping a plea that Whoops,didn't mean to hit the school bus. Gee, the yellow school bus was carrying children? commented Abu Zuhri? That road is also used by IDF vehicles.
Resource: http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages?printArticle.aspx?id=215882 IDF vows to keep up air strikes as 120 rockets hit South
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?ID=215970&R=R1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110410/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel added 10:35 am
Friday, April 08, 2011
Escalation between Hamas and Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
Israel has been attacked for the past two years with a low level shelling of mortars and missiles, but last month the terrorists really let loose with a barrage attack of missiles that wouldn't quit. Yesterday they hit a school bus with a new weapon, an anti tank heat seeking missile that was purposely aimed at it. The 16 year old boy on the bus is suffering from a serious head wound. That was terrible. The distance between Hamas terrorists and southern Israel is only a couple of miles. For Portlanders, think of the West side of the Ross Island bridge being able to volley a missile into Ladds Addition. That's about the same distance that the school bus was.
Israel is sick of it and returned fire, killing nine of which one was a terrorist commander, three others being his soldiers and 5 civilians who were in the line of fire. A house of theirs was also hit. The defining feature of escalation is hitting children and civilians and the hitting of a school bus hardened Israel's retaliation.
Leaked WikiLeaks tell that Hezbollah terrorists, out of Iran and Lebanon, have plans to hit Tel Aviv with a huge bombardment of 100 missiles a day. They already have 40,000 of them ready. Israel just came up in time with a defense mechanism, Iron Dome, to stop missiles, but it didn't get all of them in their first trial yesterday. It did stop a Grad missile heading for Ashkelon.
It seems to me that Hamas in in compliance with Hezbollah and was testing the waters wondering what Israel's reaction would be. They found out.
Resource: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-9-killed-in-idf-air-strikes-on-gaza-1.354827
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110408/wl_time/08599206407200
Nadene Goldfoot
Israel has been attacked for the past two years with a low level shelling of mortars and missiles, but last month the terrorists really let loose with a barrage attack of missiles that wouldn't quit. Yesterday they hit a school bus with a new weapon, an anti tank heat seeking missile that was purposely aimed at it. The 16 year old boy on the bus is suffering from a serious head wound. That was terrible. The distance between Hamas terrorists and southern Israel is only a couple of miles. For Portlanders, think of the West side of the Ross Island bridge being able to volley a missile into Ladds Addition. That's about the same distance that the school bus was.
Israel is sick of it and returned fire, killing nine of which one was a terrorist commander, three others being his soldiers and 5 civilians who were in the line of fire. A house of theirs was also hit. The defining feature of escalation is hitting children and civilians and the hitting of a school bus hardened Israel's retaliation.
Leaked WikiLeaks tell that Hezbollah terrorists, out of Iran and Lebanon, have plans to hit Tel Aviv with a huge bombardment of 100 missiles a day. They already have 40,000 of them ready. Israel just came up in time with a defense mechanism, Iron Dome, to stop missiles, but it didn't get all of them in their first trial yesterday. It did stop a Grad missile heading for Ashkelon.
It seems to me that Hamas in in compliance with Hezbollah and was testing the waters wondering what Israel's reaction would be. They found out.
Resource: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-9-killed-in-idf-air-strikes-on-gaza-1.354827
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110408/wl_time/08599206407200
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Israel-Our Home-Not the Pale of Russia
Nadene Goldfoot
Israel is a democratic state in a rough neighborhood, but it has the right to live and plan for its future. While many are sitting around saying it's doomed, Israelis are living and planning ahead. The neighborhood of Gilo is part of Jerusalem and is on state land. It is not an outpost. It is a community of 40,000 Jews. The history of Gilo goes back to the Iron Age I. It was re-established officially in 1973-which is after the 1967 attack of all the Arab nations against Israel when Israel gained back ancient land. The government has just decided to approve the need for 942 additional homes in this part of Southern Jerusalem which is across the 1967 Green line. They have also projected into the farther future by zoning 88,000 square meters for 300 more units. The 942 homes planning will not take place until years from now. Much has to be planned and passed before then. But Israelis are not frozen in their seats nor sitting still. The favorite toast is L'Chaim (to life), and they must hope for the best. By passing this request, they are thinking of how to fund it and now have the means to do so.
There was a time when Jews were locked up in Ghettos in Italy actually behind fences and gates each night and never allowed out of it. The same thing happened in Russia when they were all moved into the Pale of Russia and could not leave. They were not permitted into the rest of Russia.
Even in their own country today, the U.N. is trying to dictate to them what they can do or where they can build. Peres talking to Ms. Clinton right now about it in Washington. The problem lies in the fact that this to Israel is their own land. To the UN, it isn't. Our Obama administration is telling Israel that it is an illegal "settlement" and that building is illegal for Israelis and that these actions run counter to resuming direct talks with Abbas and have called on Israel to halt.
Personally, I don't think Abbas has a bone in his body ready to come and talk to Netanyahu about peace. He already has had a mind set to go to the UN and get Palestine recognized and has been already seeing people about this very fact.
Israelis cannot go about their life thinking they are without future plans, hopes and dreams. It's psychologically debillitating. Jews have had enough to swallow. In the Arab countries they were dminnis and couldn't build higher than their neighbors, had to pay more taxes, were on a lower level as 3rd rate citizens, etc. In Eastern Europe they couldn't own land, couldn't work in certain fields, were restricted in every way, and were in danger of pogroms. The bullies had their way. Israelis are not about to be bullied again. Building means they have turned their swords into plowshares. They want a life.
I think that many Americans, both Jew and Gentile, think this an act of rebellion, but I think Israel is trying to show that if the Arabs won't decide to make peace with Israel, then Israel is not going to fold up and leave because of it. It's going to go right on living, and if they are shelled, it's the attackers that are going to suffer the consequences. It would pay to make peace with Israel and work together. Shalom.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=215254
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilo
Nadene Goldfoot
Israel is a democratic state in a rough neighborhood, but it has the right to live and plan for its future. While many are sitting around saying it's doomed, Israelis are living and planning ahead. The neighborhood of Gilo is part of Jerusalem and is on state land. It is not an outpost. It is a community of 40,000 Jews. The history of Gilo goes back to the Iron Age I. It was re-established officially in 1973-which is after the 1967 attack of all the Arab nations against Israel when Israel gained back ancient land. The government has just decided to approve the need for 942 additional homes in this part of Southern Jerusalem which is across the 1967 Green line. They have also projected into the farther future by zoning 88,000 square meters for 300 more units. The 942 homes planning will not take place until years from now. Much has to be planned and passed before then. But Israelis are not frozen in their seats nor sitting still. The favorite toast is L'Chaim (to life), and they must hope for the best. By passing this request, they are thinking of how to fund it and now have the means to do so.
There was a time when Jews were locked up in Ghettos in Italy actually behind fences and gates each night and never allowed out of it. The same thing happened in Russia when they were all moved into the Pale of Russia and could not leave. They were not permitted into the rest of Russia.
Even in their own country today, the U.N. is trying to dictate to them what they can do or where they can build. Peres talking to Ms. Clinton right now about it in Washington. The problem lies in the fact that this to Israel is their own land. To the UN, it isn't. Our Obama administration is telling Israel that it is an illegal "settlement" and that building is illegal for Israelis and that these actions run counter to resuming direct talks with Abbas and have called on Israel to halt.
Personally, I don't think Abbas has a bone in his body ready to come and talk to Netanyahu about peace. He already has had a mind set to go to the UN and get Palestine recognized and has been already seeing people about this very fact.
Israelis cannot go about their life thinking they are without future plans, hopes and dreams. It's psychologically debillitating. Jews have had enough to swallow. In the Arab countries they were dminnis and couldn't build higher than their neighbors, had to pay more taxes, were on a lower level as 3rd rate citizens, etc. In Eastern Europe they couldn't own land, couldn't work in certain fields, were restricted in every way, and were in danger of pogroms. The bullies had their way. Israelis are not about to be bullied again. Building means they have turned their swords into plowshares. They want a life.
I think that many Americans, both Jew and Gentile, think this an act of rebellion, but I think Israel is trying to show that if the Arabs won't decide to make peace with Israel, then Israel is not going to fold up and leave because of it. It's going to go right on living, and if they are shelled, it's the attackers that are going to suffer the consequences. It would pay to make peace with Israel and work together. Shalom.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=215254
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilo
Israeli School Bus Hit: Rockets and Anti-Tank Missile Used Against Israel
Nadene Goldfoot
Israel had to endure three hours of being attacked by 45 rockets today. A rocket taking direct aim at Ashkelon, Portland's sister city, was stopped by a new defense mechanism, the Iron Dome anti-missile system by Israel which was now tried out. This all came about after a Palestinian anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus which had just let out 40 children at the nearby stop. It injured the school's bus driver and a seriously injured a 16 year old boy. A military spokesman said the bus had been struck by an advanced Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missile fired from about two miles away. Hamas, which rules Gaza, asserted responsibility for the attack. added 4/8/11
4/17/11 The boy died today. He never had regained consciousness.
Israel responded with an attack using their planes and artillary which killed 3 people. By nightime the attack was over.
This attack on Israel by Hamas was in reaction to Israel hitting their security compound in Gaza City after they had been attacked.
Resource: added 4/17/11 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110407/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_violence
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.672581/k.12D7/The_Israel_Project__Facts_For_A_Better_Future.htm
Nadene Goldfoot
Israel had to endure three hours of being attacked by 45 rockets today. A rocket taking direct aim at Ashkelon, Portland's sister city, was stopped by a new defense mechanism, the Iron Dome anti-missile system by Israel which was now tried out. This all came about after a Palestinian anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus which had just let out 40 children at the nearby stop. It injured the school's bus driver and a seriously injured a 16 year old boy. A military spokesman said the bus had been struck by an advanced Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missile fired from about two miles away. Hamas, which rules Gaza, asserted responsibility for the attack. added 4/8/11
4/17/11 The boy died today. He never had regained consciousness.
Israel responded with an attack using their planes and artillary which killed 3 people. By nightime the attack was over.
This attack on Israel by Hamas was in reaction to Israel hitting their security compound in Gaza City after they had been attacked.
Resource: added 4/17/11 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110407/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_violence
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.672581/k.12D7/The_Israel_Project__Facts_For_A_Better_Future.htm
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
No Apartheid in Israel: Dr. Denis MacEoin's Defense
It isn't often that I use the original text for my blog, and I hope Dr. MacEoin won't mind, but his words are most important, for it is the American University level that I am seeing so much of this apartheid accusation happening. Also, the Socialists of our city have been active in calling out this accusation. Now I hope some high level university people in the states speak out against the claim of Israel practicing apartheid. Nadene Goldfoot
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 2:11 AM
From Dr. Denis MacEoin
The Committee
Edinburgh University Student Association
May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an
Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic
History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence
Elwell Sutton, two of Britain's great Middle East experts in their day.
I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and
Islamic Studies at Newcastle University. Naturally, I am the author of
several books and hundreds of articles in this field.
I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern
affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the
EUSA motion and vote. I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not
and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel. That is not my
opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any
Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for
themselves.
Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those member of
EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters
concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of
extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby. Being
anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about
ordinary criticism of Israel. I'm speaking of a hatred that permits
itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel
is repeatedly referred to as a 'Nazi' state. In what sense is this
true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps?
The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nüremberg Laws? The Final Solution?
None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in
Israel, precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth,
understand what Nazism stood for. It is claimed that there has been an
Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest
historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it
deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a
Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I
can think of.
Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a
situation that closely resembled things in South Africa under the
apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend
in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim
is. That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted
on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most
obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population.
Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews
or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians;
Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they
have their world centre; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in
Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all
religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of
the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the
general population). In Iran, the Baha'is (the largest religious
minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own
universities: why aren't your members boycotting Iran?
Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid
South Africa. They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they
go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside
Jews - something no blacks could do in South Africa. Israeli hospitals
not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza
or the West Bank. On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.
In Israel, women have the same rights as men: there is no gender
apartheid. Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays
often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home. It seems
bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say
nothing about countries like Iran, where gay men are hanged or stoned
to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief. Intelligent
students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay
people, but good to condemn the only country in the Middle East that
rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?
University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think
rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid
evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more
others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no
idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak. I do not
object to well documented criticism of Israel. I do object when
supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states
that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going
through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th
centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against
terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.
Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are
free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and
call for no boycotts against Libya, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and
Iran. They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's
freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in
Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge
to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that protects
the Baha'is.... Need I go on? The imbalance is perceptible, and it
sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott.
I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli
embassy. As for some speakers. Listen to more than one side. Do not
make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties.
You have a duty to your students, and that is to protect them from
one-sided argument. They are not at university to be propagandized. And
they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by
punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which
happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish
state in the 1930s (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf
Hitler would have decided to boycott it? Of course he would, and he
would not have stopped there. Your generation has a duty to ensure that
the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you.
Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is
putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply
by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this
makes sense to me. I have given you some of the evidence. It's up to
you to find out more.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Denis MacEoin
It isn't often that I use the original text for my blog, and I hope Dr. MacEoin won't mind, but his words are most important, for it is the American University level that I am seeing so much of this apartheid accusation happening. Also, the Socialists of our city have been active in calling out this accusation. Now I hope some high level university people in the states speak out against the claim of Israel practicing apartheid. Nadene Goldfoot
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 2:11 AM
From Dr. Denis MacEoin
The Committee
Edinburgh University Student Association
May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an
Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic
History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence
Elwell Sutton, two of Britain's great Middle East experts in their day.
I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and
Islamic Studies at Newcastle University. Naturally, I am the author of
several books and hundreds of articles in this field.
I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern
affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the
EUSA motion and vote. I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not
and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel. That is not my
opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any
Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for
themselves.
Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those member of
EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters
concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of
extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby. Being
anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about
ordinary criticism of Israel. I'm speaking of a hatred that permits
itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel
is repeatedly referred to as a 'Nazi' state. In what sense is this
true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps?
The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nüremberg Laws? The Final Solution?
None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in
Israel, precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth,
understand what Nazism stood for. It is claimed that there has been an
Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest
historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it
deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a
Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I
can think of.
Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a
situation that closely resembled things in South Africa under the
apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend
in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim
is. That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted
on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most
obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population.
Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews
or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians;
Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they
have their world centre; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in
Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all
religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of
the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the
general population). In Iran, the Baha'is (the largest religious
minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own
universities: why aren't your members boycotting Iran?
Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid
South Africa. They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they
go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside
Jews - something no blacks could do in South Africa. Israeli hospitals
not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza
or the West Bank. On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.
In Israel, women have the same rights as men: there is no gender
apartheid. Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays
often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home. It seems
bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say
nothing about countries like Iran, where gay men are hanged or stoned
to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief. Intelligent
students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay
people, but good to condemn the only country in the Middle East that
rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?
University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think
rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid
evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more
others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no
idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak. I do not
object to well documented criticism of Israel. I do object when
supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states
that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going
through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th
centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against
terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.
Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are
free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and
call for no boycotts against Libya, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and
Iran. They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's
freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in
Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge
to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that protects
the Baha'is.... Need I go on? The imbalance is perceptible, and it
sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott.
I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli
embassy. As for some speakers. Listen to more than one side. Do not
make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties.
You have a duty to your students, and that is to protect them from
one-sided argument. They are not at university to be propagandized. And
they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by
punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which
happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish
state in the 1930s (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf
Hitler would have decided to boycott it? Of course he would, and he
would not have stopped there. Your generation has a duty to ensure that
the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you.
Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is
putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply
by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this
makes sense to me. I have given you some of the evidence. It's up to
you to find out more.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Denis MacEoin
Monday, April 04, 2011
Israel on the Democratic Forefront
Nadene Goldfoot
Everyone's clamoring for Democracy in the Middle East. There has been one Democratic country there since 1948 and it probably has been driving the Arab rulers crazy knowing that a democracy was so close by and instituted by Jews.
Israel practices freedom of religion even though it was created as a Jewish state. It recognizes 15 religions including Islam, the Ba-hais, Druze, Chaldaic and other Christian groups and more. They administer their own internal affairs and Israel protects all the holy sites.
In Muslim countries Christians are being persecuted but between 1948 to 1998, Christians grew from 34,000 to 130,000 in Israel.
In Israel citizens have freedom of assembly, speech, press and dissent. Only hate speech and incitement to violence are illegal. There are 9 Hebrew daily newspapers; several daily papers in Russian, Arabic, French and English. The Jerusalem Post was the one I read in English when in Israel from 1980-85. There are many radio and TV stations and easy access to the foreign press.
All minorities have the same civil rights as the majority. Israel is a pluralistic society. It's a product of the ingathering from all the corners of the earth. 80% of Israelis are Jews of different ethnicities and races. Many emigrated from the Middle East, Ethiopia, India, Russia, the USA and Europe. Having been a part of this, I was so impressed to have friends from various parts of Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa and the USA. All those people speaking English in so many accents made us realize that we were really a part of the prophesized ingathering to Israel. It had come to pass.
Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and at one time, Gaza, are not Israeli citizens. Even so, they can petition Israel's highest courts. The Court judges by the merits of a case and frequently decides in favor of the Palestinians. For example, In June of 2004 they petitioned that the security fence by rerouted around Beit Sourik and around Alfei Menashe in 2005. In April 2002, during very fierce fighting , the high court was receiving and ruling on petitions almost daily, and that made the New York times on May 5, 2003.
Palestinians are in the Knesset and have 5 political parties. Some people have said that Israel has too much democracy because it is a multiparty, not a 2 party system. There are many parties, far more than the USA has including a Communist, religious, Arab and secular parties. Israelis vote for the party instead of an individual and each party has its own list of Knesset candidates. Depending on the % they receive of the popular vote determines how many seats it wins. For example, if a party wins 5 seats, the first 5 candidates on its list become Members of the Knesset or an MK. A party needs only 2% of the vote to win a seat. It turns out to be a boisterous and often confusing political system as at one time they had 19 different parties running. The governing group has to form coalitions to function, so even the smallest parties get a voice.
Reference: Israel 101 from StandWithUs, special Edition, partners Christians United For Israel (CUFI)
Nadene Goldfoot
Everyone's clamoring for Democracy in the Middle East. There has been one Democratic country there since 1948 and it probably has been driving the Arab rulers crazy knowing that a democracy was so close by and instituted by Jews.
Israel practices freedom of religion even though it was created as a Jewish state. It recognizes 15 religions including Islam, the Ba-hais, Druze, Chaldaic and other Christian groups and more. They administer their own internal affairs and Israel protects all the holy sites.
In Muslim countries Christians are being persecuted but between 1948 to 1998, Christians grew from 34,000 to 130,000 in Israel.
In Israel citizens have freedom of assembly, speech, press and dissent. Only hate speech and incitement to violence are illegal. There are 9 Hebrew daily newspapers; several daily papers in Russian, Arabic, French and English. The Jerusalem Post was the one I read in English when in Israel from 1980-85. There are many radio and TV stations and easy access to the foreign press.
All minorities have the same civil rights as the majority. Israel is a pluralistic society. It's a product of the ingathering from all the corners of the earth. 80% of Israelis are Jews of different ethnicities and races. Many emigrated from the Middle East, Ethiopia, India, Russia, the USA and Europe. Having been a part of this, I was so impressed to have friends from various parts of Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa and the USA. All those people speaking English in so many accents made us realize that we were really a part of the prophesized ingathering to Israel. It had come to pass.
Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and at one time, Gaza, are not Israeli citizens. Even so, they can petition Israel's highest courts. The Court judges by the merits of a case and frequently decides in favor of the Palestinians. For example, In June of 2004 they petitioned that the security fence by rerouted around Beit Sourik and around Alfei Menashe in 2005. In April 2002, during very fierce fighting , the high court was receiving and ruling on petitions almost daily, and that made the New York times on May 5, 2003.
Palestinians are in the Knesset and have 5 political parties. Some people have said that Israel has too much democracy because it is a multiparty, not a 2 party system. There are many parties, far more than the USA has including a Communist, religious, Arab and secular parties. Israelis vote for the party instead of an individual and each party has its own list of Knesset candidates. Depending on the % they receive of the popular vote determines how many seats it wins. For example, if a party wins 5 seats, the first 5 candidates on its list become Members of the Knesset or an MK. A party needs only 2% of the vote to win a seat. It turns out to be a boisterous and often confusing political system as at one time they had 19 different parties running. The governing group has to form coalitions to function, so even the smallest parties get a voice.
Reference: Israel 101 from StandWithUs, special Edition, partners Christians United For Israel (CUFI)
Friday, April 01, 2011
5.9 Earthquake Felt in Israel
Northern Israel around Nahariya and Safed felt an earthquake the most that struck all of Israel Friday afternoon. It was centered on the island of Crete in the town of Iraklio, a Greek island. There was no damage. The Island is 76 miles away from Israel.
I remember being in my apartment building sometime between 1980-1985 taking part in a lesson on the highest floor of the building when an earthquake struck in Safed. The building swayed at that height, but we were okay and resumed our lesson. It was scary, though. I actually lived on the bottom level and my husband never knew it had happened.
Earthquakes happened in Safed in the late 1800's. I visited a friend who lived in a beautiful home that had been dug out of the earth that had been swallowed up in an earthquake. She must have been a home decorator because she kept the influence of the Middle East with bright pillows, and had lots of green plants inside. It was just breath-taking and so simply done. Then I had to return to my small lower-level apartment with black bars on the ground floor window in the living room. I had another friend, Dov Silverman, school principal, author of stories about Safed, who lived in an actual house. It was exciting to visit him and his house being I hadn't seen one for so long. Most all people in Israel live in high rise apartment buildings for lack of space, I imagine. If you're from New York it's not a shock, but coming from Portland, Oregon and home-style living, it took some getting used to. Out of the 5 1/2 years I lived in Israel, that was the only earthquake that I experienced. I've felt several little ones in Portland before that.
Cairo, Egypt also felt the quake.
Resource: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=214767
Northern Israel around Nahariya and Safed felt an earthquake the most that struck all of Israel Friday afternoon. It was centered on the island of Crete in the town of Iraklio, a Greek island. There was no damage. The Island is 76 miles away from Israel.
I remember being in my apartment building sometime between 1980-1985 taking part in a lesson on the highest floor of the building when an earthquake struck in Safed. The building swayed at that height, but we were okay and resumed our lesson. It was scary, though. I actually lived on the bottom level and my husband never knew it had happened.
Earthquakes happened in Safed in the late 1800's. I visited a friend who lived in a beautiful home that had been dug out of the earth that had been swallowed up in an earthquake. She must have been a home decorator because she kept the influence of the Middle East with bright pillows, and had lots of green plants inside. It was just breath-taking and so simply done. Then I had to return to my small lower-level apartment with black bars on the ground floor window in the living room. I had another friend, Dov Silverman, school principal, author of stories about Safed, who lived in an actual house. It was exciting to visit him and his house being I hadn't seen one for so long. Most all people in Israel live in high rise apartment buildings for lack of space, I imagine. If you're from New York it's not a shock, but coming from Portland, Oregon and home-style living, it took some getting used to. Out of the 5 1/2 years I lived in Israel, that was the only earthquake that I experienced. I've felt several little ones in Portland before that.
Cairo, Egypt also felt the quake.
Resource: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=214767
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