Thursday, February 20, 2025

Muslim Brotherhood and PLO's Hamas: What You should Know About

Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

                                 Muslim Brotherhood on the offense 
    Bank of the Nile River in Cairo today, Egypt where Pharaohs go back 6,000 years 

We of the West first heard of the Muslim Brotherhood as some Islamic organization in Egypt that was outlawed, and being a Muslim group, had no idea why.  Here's why. But first, one needs to know this:  

After Islam entered Egypt under the leadership of the noble companion Amr ibn Al-As in the year 640 CE/AD, Egypt soon became Umm Al-Dunya .  Islam lit the candles of institution and learning, which was matched by none, so they think.   It was the  beacon of Muslim scholarship and achievement.                        

      Camel Caravans 

 Mohammed (570-632) who developed Islam, had been in touch with Jewish "preachers" who would be outside the tents in Medina telling the story of our Jewish beginnings and how we believed.  Mohammed lived in Medina (Yathrib) in Arabia, where he encountered a significant Jewish population, after migrating there from Mecca; this is where he interacted with Jewish tribes like the Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza, establishing a pact with them known as the Constitution of Medina.   

According to the Bible, the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 yearsThis is based on a passage in Exodus 12:40. Explanation  The Bible's Book of Exodus attempts to ground the exodus in history. The Septuagint (LXX) [70] --A Greek translation of "Bible" records a variation of the verse, stating that the Israelites lived in Egypt and Canaan for 430 years.    70 Jewish scholars were held to translate the bible for them.    

 At any rate, he thought it would be nice if his people also were also a people of the book; but he changed morality quite different  to fit his ideas.  

Mohammed thought he could convince Jews to become Muslims, and they refused.

These bad experiences with the Jews of Medina changed Muhammad’s view of Jews. He had hoped that they would all become Muslims, or that they’d at least assimilate enough that it wouldn’t matter. When he came to Medina, the Muslims had been facing Jerusalem to pray, to emphasize their Abrahamic origin. But after the Bani Qaynuqa siege, there was a revelation that now they should face Mecca, which Abraham had also established. That became the qibla, the prayer direction, from them on. Muhammad hadn’t declared all Jews to be evil, far from it. But he had realized that they did not view his new faith as either the same as theirs or better. They began to stand out among his enemies as the ones that would never give in, and they could work to undermine him. He began to see the Jews as a fifth column, an enemy in their midst.                           

The same thing happened with Judaism and its leadership with Moses  during the Exodus (1579 BCE ) that they knew nothing about, evidently.  This also reminds me of the studious rabbis of Worms in Germany, where Jews arrived in the 10th century after 70 CE when  Rome occupied and burned down Jerusalem along with their Temple of Solomon, a structure of religious life in Judaea/Judea.                

  Worms, being in the Rhineland of Germany, housed many Jewish communities after arriving there, and rabbis would gather together and hold classes, seminars, debates, and come to understand the 613 law of Moses much better in a more unified way.                                                                         

Many religious and political leaders were either born or worked from Egypt, including the likes of Imaam Ash-Shafi, Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, At-Tahawi, Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi and, more recently, Shaykh Rashid Rida and Shaykh Hasan Al-Banna, founder of the al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn movement.

Hassan Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Muhammed al-Banna ( 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptian schoolteacher and Imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, a political party, and  in 1928, one of the largest and most influential global Islamist movements, and for his putative martyrdom at the hands of the Egyptian government.  Al-Banna's teachings spread far beyond Egypt, influencing various Islamist movements from charitable organizations to political parties.  

His religious/belief system was the basis of his party, like how Israel started being a Jewish state.  However,  At age 12 Hassan al-Banna joined the Society for Moral Behaviour, thus demonstrating at an early age the deep concern for religious affairs that characterized his entire life.                                          

January 1, 1922;  Distinguished visitors  eating near the tomb of King Tut

Egypt's independence movement in the early 20s: The 1920s were colored by a wave of anti-colonial resistance and nationalist sentiment that sought to confront British rule and shake the imperial yoke.  You see, the history of Egypt under the British lasted from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, until 1956 after the Suez Crisis, when the last British forces withdrew in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954.  

                          January 1, 1900

The Brits had also been awarded the 30 year mandate to rule over Palestine in which during that time, they promised the Jewish contingent who met many times with them to make much of Palestine a Jewish holding to be the Jewish Homeland.  They must have hated themselves for that as they then discovered oil in Arabia and so also made promised to the Saudis, making the Prince Feisal II  the king of Iraq and the king of Syria at another point in time. 

                                     Feisal I of Iraq

Feisal Ibn Hussein (1885-1933) was king of Iraq from 1921.  He was the oldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca, appointed by a Jewish ambassador of Britain ironically.  He led the Arabs against Turkey (Ottoman Empire who had held Middle East for 400 years) or (This Islamic-run superpower ruled large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa for more than 600 years.. ) 

 Faisal II ; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.

"The British signed the Treaty of Darin in 1915 with Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman, also known as Ibn Saud, which made the lands of the House of Saud a British protectorate. The treaty also acknowledged the rights of Abdulaziz's sons to rule. In 1932, Abdulaziz unified the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Kingdom of Nejd into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was proclaimed king (malik) of Hejaz in 1926, and raised Nejd to a kingdom in 1927."

In 1923 he enrolled at the Dār al-ʿUlūm, a teacher-training school in Cairo, which maintained a traditional religious and social outlook.

 In 1927 he was assigned to teach Arabic in a primary school in the city of Ismailia (al-Ismāʿīliyyah), near the Suez Canal, which was a focal point for the foreign economic and military occupation of Egypt. There he witnessed scenes that acutely distressed him and many other Muslims. 

In March 1928, with six workers from a British camp labour force, he created the Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), which aimed at a rejuvenation of Islam.

Al-Banna considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran and Sunnah as the only acceptable constitution. He called for Islamization of the state, the economy, and society. His idea for all was complete immersion in Islam, interpreted in his way, no doubt.  

 He declared that establishing a just society required development of institutions and progressive taxation, and elaborated an Islamic fiscal theory where zakat would be reserved for social expenditure in order to reduce inequality. 

Al-Banna's ideology involved criticism of Western materialismBritish imperialism, and the traditionalism of the Egyptian ulema. He appealed to Egyptian and pan-Arab patriotism but rejected Arab nationalism and regarded all Muslims as members of a single nation-community.

So, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Islamist religious, political, and social movement, becoming terrorists, with adherents estimated to number between 2 and 2.5 million.

              Former Egypt President Mohamed Morsi, (8 August 1951 – 17 June 2019) 

was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who was the fifth president of Egypt, from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. An Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.

Within months of the coup against Morsi, Egypt's President, the Egyptian military took several measures to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood—banning it in September 2013 and declaring it a terrorist organization in December. These efforts corresponded to a view of the Brotherhood’s power as being concentrated in an elite cadre that made strategic decisions and passed them on to the wider organization through top-down communication. The military-backed regime assumed that if this pyramidal setup was debilitated, the strains on the Brotherhood would lead to its disintegration.                                                  

At the same time, Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1929.  He organized another group called the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization.   He attended Cairo University, evidently the hotbed of change, like in the USA.  He founded FATAH in 1959 as a political movement,   formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement.  It also  is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).  


Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah. Another year and he'll be 90 years old.  From Fatah has sprung a smaller group more fanatic and that is HAMAS.  The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist political organization with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007. 
                                                                        

It is now 2025 and Donald Trump is President of the USA, stating that they must beremoved and that a nice piece of real estate in either Jordan or Egypt would be a good place for them, which is being denied by those presidents in charge.  Trumpseems to have taken  control of the Middle East and this is like music to Israel's earswho have been fighting against Hamas ever since its birth.  No other president hasoffered so much help to Israel in its dealings with people who deny their presence. In fact, the countries involved had a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, Africa after the 1967 War when Israel won  against the mighty band of nations' attacks and even gained land in the defense of theirs, and they decided they would never make peace with Israel, stating this withtheir 3 NO, No, Nos.  Trump was there when the Abraham Accords came about.  I'm afraid that the Arabs thought this would be the ticket to having a  Palestine Statebut that's not going to happen.  After Oct 7th, all the world can see what Hamasallows and is capable of.  They are worse than murderers.  They have standardsto live by that are worse than the animal kingdom.  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Banna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood_in_Egypt#:~:text=In%20Egypt%2C%20the%20Muslim%20Brotherhood,between%202%20and%202.5%20million.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Newest Israeli News

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

                                                                           

Israel began to bring military caravans and heavy machinery into Gaza today, as part of the ceasefire and hostage release deal. 

Two views of 6 men to be released Saturday:  

Top row from left-Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov, Eliyu Cohen. Bottom left possibly Tal Shoham;  -2nd man-Avera Mengistu,  Hisham al-Sayed

     The Six hostages are expected to be released on Saturday. 

Top row, from left: Omer Shem-Tov, Tal Shoham, Eliya Cohen. Bottom row, from left: Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed, Omer Wenkert. (Courtesy)

Roster includes two men who wandered into Gaza a decade ago, a father kidnapped while visiting his in-laws on Kibbutz Be’eri, and three young men abducted from the Nova rave.  The six include Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held by Hamas since entering the Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Avraham "AveraMengistu (Hebrewאברה מנגיסטו‎, born 1986) is an Ethiopian-born Israeli man who crossed into Gaza on September 7, 2014. He was interrogated by Hamas, and has been missing since then his family has stated that he is mentally unstable and had been admitted to a mental hospital in the past. He had been treated with medication, which he stopped taking a few weeks prior to his crossing.In March 2013, Mengistu was exempted from mandatory military service in the Israel Defense Forces after a medical committee found him unfit for service. According to a childhood friend, in the year before his disappearance, his condition further worsened, and he began to hurt himself and talk illogically.

Hisham al-Sayed (Hebrewהישאם א-סיידArabicهشام السيد, born February 15, 1988) is a Bedouin Arab Israeli civilian who has been held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since 2015. Hamas has claimed Al-Sayed is an Israeli soldier but Human Rights Watch has confirmed he is a civilian exempted from military service.  Hisham al-Sayed was born in 1988 in al-Sayyid to Manal al-Sayed and Sha’ban al-Sayed. He was diagnosed with a mental health condition, loss of hearing, tinnitus, and vertigo. In 2005 he was sent to study in Cyprus, and in 2010 studied in London. In 2010 he was diagnosed with "acute psychotic disorder" and in 2013 with schizophrenia.

Al-Sayed suffered from auditory hallucinations, and took orders from a voice in his head. He entered the West Bank on at least 15 occasions, and was detained by Palestinian Preventative Security at least 3 of those times.  On August 18, 2008, he volunteered for military service, but was discharged less than 3 months later on November 6, after being identified as "incompatible for service."

The bodies of 4 other hostages are expected to be released tomorrow-Thursday.  On 7 October 2023, as part of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the Nir Oz attack, the Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas abducted the Israeli-Argentinian/Peruvian Bibas family from the Nir Oz kibbutz: 9-month-old Kfir, 4-year-old Ariel, 32-year-old mother Shiri, and her 34-year-old husband Yarden.

Family of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas ‘in turmoil’ over Hamas announcement, has not received Israeli confirmation; only 3 living hostages were to go free this week, but Hamas will instead release all 6 of phase 1’s remaining living hostages.  While all other child hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during a one-week ceasefire in November 2023, the Bibas family never emerged from Gaza, and on one of the final days of the brief pause in fighting, Hamas said in a statement that the toddler had been killed in an Israeli airstrike along with his mom and brother. (sounds to me like not taking care of such precious cargo as 2 babes and their mother- but the thought of blaming Israel) !  
Mourners gather next to the grave of 23-year-old hostage
Hamzah AlZayadni
during his funeral in the Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel, on Friday.
 
(Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)  He was identified after recovery earlier this month.  
The army said the identification was made by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Israel’s police and the family has been notified. The army said its forces recovered the bodies of Hamzah and his father from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area and returned them to Israel.

His father, Yosef AlZayadni, had been identified earlier this week. The father and son were thought to still be alive before this week’s announcement. They were kidnapped together from Kibbutz Holit, when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.   Israel says about a third of the remaining 100 hostages have died, but believes as many as half could be dead. Their fates could ramp up pressure on Israel to move forward with a deal.

 The identities of the dead have not yet been released.  The military said in January 2025, it found evidence in the tunnel that raised “serious concerns” for the life of Hamzah AlZayadni, 23, suggesting he may have died in captivity. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesperson, said the circumstances behind Yosef AlZayadni’s death were being investigated.

A returning resident walks near a damaged site amid destroyed buildings, as Israeli troops withdrew from most of south Lebanon, in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila [Emilie Madi/Reuters]
                             
An Israeli drone used in strikes probably looked like this

Israel killed a Hezbollah terrorist in a drone strike in Lebanon today. This is the first strike since IDF forces withdrew from Lebanon yesterday, and since ceasefire deal.  The incident marks the first death since Israeli troops withdrew from most of the border area on Tuesday.

The air force struck 3 tanks belonging to the old Syrian regime in southern Syria. The attack was intended to prevent the tanks from falling into the hands of the new Syrian regime or terrorist organizations operating in the area.                         

   Mohamed bin Zayed His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi.  He was elected on Saturday 14th May 2022 by the decision of their highnesses, the members of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates.   

               The UAE president told Secretary of State Rubio that his country was against the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, which is what President Trump has said needs to happen in order to rebuild the Strip.                                                  

           Blindfolded Palestinian detainees inside the camp in May 2024 reads the caption but it is hard to tell what they have on their faces from this picture;  more likely masks from COVID.  A thorough investigation is needed, because Hamas has turned around facts to become the victims when word gets out of what they did to Israelis, and likewise, Israelis have been tortured psychologically by what has been done to their loved ones, family and friends alike by Hamas;  unbelievable tortures, beheadings, etc.  One cannot believe these nasty reports and one doesn't want to believe Israelis would do these things.  Religiously, we hold ourselves to the highest of moral standards in any case.  Our population is made up of people from all walks of life and country; from the religious to Russian Jews allowed no religion in Russia; but all should have gone through a morality of Israel course, letting all know where we stand.  

Military prosecutors filed an indictment against five reserve soldiers for severely abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Israel Defense Forces’ Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel last summer.  Accusations of the worst have been made.  In response to allegations made by the whistleblowers, the Israeli military stated that they treat detainees "appropriately and carefully," and that "incidents of unlawful handcuffing are not known to the authorities." Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the military advocate-general, stated that military police investigations have been opened into allegations of misconduct at Sde Teiman


Resource:

israelAM

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

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-to-release-6-living-hostages-on-saturday-after-returning-4-bodies-thursday/

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hamas-says-8-remaining-26-hostages-are-dead-according-source-rcna189389

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-01-11/body-of-israeli-hostage-identified-after-recovery-in-gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/19/israeli-drone-attack-kills-1-in-southern-lebanon-despite-ceasefire-deal

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