Monday, November 4, 2024

Anti-Judaism Is Born: And A War Environment Affects Israelis Through DNA

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

David, fighting the Philistines,  before he became King of Israel.  He was King Saul's armor-bearer, a fighting warrior!   He spent his life-time fighting.  His son, Solomon, would then have a more peaceful life because of David's brave spirit.  David even faced Goliath, a Philistine giant from Gath with a slingshot when he was very young !  

    Israeli Defense in 1947 of Israel in War of Independence 

It has suddenly occurred to me that my ancestors and those of all other Jews were born within a war-time.  Those born during 1947-1949 were born during a war that hasn't stopped with the Palestinian Arabs.  It was again announced in 1967 in Khartoum, Africa in a meeting of Arabs of the Middle East that they would continue fighting the Jews.  Now, Iran threatens to use even stronger weaponry than the last attack against Israel, shooting it from Iraq.  There has been little let-up for the past 77 years!  We're on our 3rd generation since the formation of Israel, born May 14, 1948.                                                         

                                                                       


Jews have been turned from passive individuals with many being intellectuals into life-long warriors.  Does this have a genetic effect on the generations?  We have been living in an environment of anti-Judaism!  For generations since the Greek invasion of  Alexander the Great, we have been stressed out with demanding changes in our religious belief to become like others.  Rashi (Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaki ben Isaac) , a rabbi born in 1040 in  Troyes, France,  was a teacher who is most well-known for his brilliant commentaries on the Bible, our oral tradition and Talmuds, Mishnah, etc.  His descendants did not fear disagreeing with his comments quite often.  He would welcome it!  It would sharpen his wit!  

MASADA, Israel - This ancient fort atop a Judean Desert butte 1,300-feet above the Dead Sea offers a glimpse into the Israeli soul.  "Masada is roughly analogous in importance to the Israelis as the Alamo is to Texas," said LTG H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau (NGB).  Our warriors are taken to Masada for a swearing in of IDF.   The legend of Masada is etched into Jewish lore: For years, the story goes, ancient Jews held out in a desert fortress against their Roman foes.  The main account of the siege comes from the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who described extended anticipation as the Romans prepared to attack, then a drawn-out resistance before the Jews atop Masada committed suicide rather than being captured.  

What do changes in environment, thoughts, problems do to a generation?  In genetics, the discovery of starvation in one generation can lead to the observation of transgenerational effects, meaning that the effects of starvation experienced by a parent can be passed on to their offspring, potentially influencing their health and development even if they are not directly exposed to starvation themselves, often through epigenetic changes in gene expression. 


In THE SCIENTIST, evidence is mounting that epigenetic marks on DNA can influence future generations in a variety of ways. But how such phenomena might affect large-scale evolutionary processes is hotly debated.                                  

However, in an experiment with worms, an early sexual attractiveness may be a useful stress response, Rechavi tells The Scientist. More mating means more mixing of different genomes, boosting the progenies’ chances of securing a beneficial allele that will help them weather the taxing environment.  

  During the course of human life, we are exposed to an environment that abounds with a potent and dynamic milieu capable of triggering chemical changes that activate or silence genes. There is constant interaction between the external and internal environments that is required for normal development and health maintenance as well as for influencing disease load and resistance. For example, exposure to pharmaceutical and toxic chemicals, diet, stress, exercise, and other environmental factors are capable of eliciting positive or negative epigenetic modifications with lasting effects on development, metabolism and health. These can impact the body so profoundly as to permanently alter the epigenetic profile of an individual. We also present a comprehensive new hypothesis of how these diverse environmental factors cause both direct and indirect epigenetic changes and how this knowledge can ultimately be used to improve personalized medicine.

My interests are genealogy and our DNA.  I discovered that my father's Y haplogroup was Q1b1 or better known now as QBZ67.  We had a leader of this male group who discovered that most all of us had published books;  or our writing.  They were kind enough to include me, a female, into the group as I had written a book by then.  Now I have two books published.  It's interesting to me that we all had the gumption to press on and get our work published, and to have a talent to write in the first place.                           

My Chabad friend told me to think lovely thoughts when I was expecting my son back in 1953.  I was studying in college, a nutrition course to be a dietician at the time.  Interestingly, I became a teacher, but my son became a nurse who was an expert in nutrition.  My daughter, entering the world in 1954, was born when I kept my father's books for his business.  She was a business major.  

A pregnant mother's thoughts and emotions can significantly affect her developing baby, as her stress levels and emotional state release hormones that can impact the baby's brain development and overall well-being, potentially leading to issues like increased anxiety or behavioral problems later in life; essentially.  When a mother experiences stress or strong emotions, the baby is exposed to those feelings through hormonal changes in the womb.  Think of the stresses a pregnant mother is under during war-time.                        

The giraffe developed a long neck in order to reach the fruit on a tree.  Our needs are to survive in a dangerous environment, so we developed great surviving skills plus the great need to survive.  

Israeli law stipulates that every citizen must have access to a shelter that can be sealed in case of an attack with unconventional weapons.  As of November 3, 2024, the population of Israel is 9,431,291The population is expected to grow to around 10.33 million by 2027. 

The Israeli bombings of retaliation follow less than a month after Iran attacked Israel’s major cities with at least 180 ballistic missiles on October 2. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said those missiles were fired as Tehran’s response to the killings of civilians in Gaza and more recently, in Lebanon, in Israeli attacks – as well as the assassinations of leaders of the IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah. The IRGC said the missiles were specifically aimed at three military bases in Tel Aviv.

Do people understand that we are at war?  When Israel is shot at, they shoot back.  Iran and its underlings hide ammunition in their homes, apartments, mosques, schools, hospitals,  everywhere they can protect soldiers with, thinking Israel wouldn't shoot at them. Tunnels have been found in all these places in Gaza, and now in Lebanon as well.   Israel has the capacity to pinpoint their targets, and does so when the occasion rises.  Hamas has the responsibility to protect their citizens, but that is not what they are doing.  They seem to want them killed in order to shame Israel.  It was brought to my attention that the USA didn't bother worrying about killing Germans or Japanese during wartime.  The idea of war is self-protection and recommencing.  Israel, because of their beliefs, does everything they can to  protect the enemy civilians, more than any other known army ever has.  This is serious business, meaning the snuffing out of Israel in the end if not successful.  They're not about to have another Holocaust.  They fight back!  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/29601/how-do-we-explain-the-criticism-of-rashi-by-his-grandsons

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cell-and-developmental-biology/articles/10.3389/fcell.2014.00049/full

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+a+pregnant+mother+thinks+about+affects+the+baby&sca_esv=d93caf3cc682a2a7&sxsrf=ADLYWIL-HnTNTXJEidAo27nZIGiWDm2jWg%3A1730743219793&source=hp&ei=swspZ-nKLcTy0PEPr7zKsA8&iflsig=AL9hb


Sunday, November 3, 2024

Bill Clinton and Israel, Proving Israel Has The War Rights, But Backs 2 State Solution Nonsense

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

Former US president Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign event supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Talk about cognitive dissonance!  That's the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.  While on the campaign trail in Michigan for Harris, Bill rightfully defended Israel's rights of war in Gaza,, the land they presented to the Palestinians free of charge in the name of peace.   Then he turned a 180 degrees against their lives by backing the 2-state solution !!!

 With the implementation of the plan, IDF installations and forces were removed and over 9000 Israeli citizens living in 25 settlements were evicted. By 22 September 2005, Israel's withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip to the 1967 Green Line, and the eviction of the four settlements in Samaria, was completed.  Since then, Israel's "peace" has been receiving daily bombardments of rockets, mortars and missiles from them.  Talk about a NEVER AGAIN SOLUTION!

      PM  Rabin of Israel with Arafat, PLO leader - terrorist                                                              

Oslo Agreement with Arafat, Clinton and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (left), American president Bill Clinton (middle), and Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat (right) at the White House on September 13, 1993.  

5th PM:  Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995 and assassinated) PM from 1974-1977 by Labor,

Among the notable outcomes of the Oslo Accords was the creation of the Palestinian National Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinian self-governance over parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and the international acknowledgement of the PLO as Israel's partner in permanent-status negotiations about any remaining issues revolving around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.  WELL, the PLO turned into something even worse, if possible, which is HAMAS Terrorism.  The Palestinians voted them into power by  2006, when Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections and assumed administrative control of Gaza Strip and West Bank.  By doing this, they stuck out their tongues at the Oslo Agreement.  Their meeting in 1967 in Khartoum, Africa verified how they felt with the Khartoum Agreement.   No peace with Israel,  No negotiation with Israel,  No recognition of Israel.   The famous No No NOs.

By the time Clinton left office, the peace process had run aground, and a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence had begun.  Oslo collapsed from 1996 to 2000.  Why?  In November 1995, Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, an Israeli who opposed the Oslo Accords on religious grounds. Rabin’s murder was followed by a string of terrorist attacks by Hamas, which undermined support for the Labor Party in Israel’s May 1996 elections. New Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed from the Likud Party, which had historically opposed Palestinian statehood and withdrawal from the occupied territories.

Have they negated this pledge?  Have they changed?  Has their relationship improved?  The answer is NO No No!  Yet blind people, colored by what they want, and not what is best for Israel, ignore this fact and are conniving in every way to bring pressure on Israel to bear with it and condescend to having killers live legally next door to them-in order to snuff them out better, I suppose!    

  PM  Ehud Barak (born 1942)  -[6 July 1999-7March 2001] in 2000 Camp David Summit when U.S. President Bill Clinton announced his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat on 5 July 2000, to come to Camp David, Maryland, in order to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process.   I note Arafat being heavier now.    The summit took place between 11 and 25 July 2000 and was an effort to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The summit ended without an agreement, largely due to irreconcilable differences between Israelis and Palestinians on the status of Jerusalem. Its failure is considered one of the main triggers of the Second Intifada.   The Second Intifada started on 28 September 2000, after Ariel Sharon, a Likud party candidate for Israeli Prime Minister, made a visit to the Temple Mount, also known as Al-Haram Al-Sharif, an area sacred to both Jews and Muslims, accompanied by over 1,000 security guards.  Arabs will not let Jews pray on the Temple Mount, where most likely our 2nd Temple lies buried or as we believe.  The  Arab guards, knowing they couldn't handle 1,,000 Jewish guards, started the 2nd intifada as retribution, evidently.     

     Upon first hearing about Bill Clinton's praise for Israel, an Israeli announcer was overjoyed and even shocked that Clinton understood!   But then he went on to praise his  2-state backing, which really doesn't make sense at all.  He had said that they all needed to start over again after all he had done earlier.    Is he suffering from Cognitive Dissonance?                                 

Arabs surrounding Clinton have decided not to vote for either Harris or Trump, which I was thinking of doing not being happy with either one, but this  actually gives the vote to Trump.  One has to consider which of the two will do the most harm in the end for both sides.  We're betwixt and between. 

Resource:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-campaign-trail-for-harris-in-michigan-bill-clinton-defends-israels-war-in-gaza/

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

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_government_in_the_Gaza_Strip#:~:text=In%202006%2C%20Hamas%20won%20the,Gaza%20Strip%20and%20West%20Bank.

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

https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/ABOUTISRAEL/MAPS/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx#:~:text=With%20the%20implementation%20of%20the,settlements%20in%20Samaria%2C%20was%20completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit#:~:text=U.S.%20President%20Bill%20Clinton%20announced,the%20Middle%20East%20peace%20process.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Why Soloman Built The Temple

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

 Solomon's royal court and house of Israel were built up with oriental magnificence, and sumptuous buildings housed the royal family and harem that consisted of 1,000 wives and concubines. To keep the peace with nations, he married their daughters.  It worked.
  
When King Solomon ruled Israel, the country was made up of the tribes of Judah   and Simeon and the northern tribes, which included Benjamin, Reuben,  Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim, and half of Manasseh.  The tribes of Israel were named after the sons and grandsons of Jacob, who was renamed Israel after wrestling with an angel of the Lord. The tribes settled in different regions of the Land of Canaan on either side of the Jordan River. Jacob had to earn the name of Israel in this manner.  
When God changed Jacob's name to Israel, it meant "let God prevail" or "one who prevails with God"The name change was a sign that Jacob had changed and was now seeking God instead of relying on deception. Deuteronomy 18: Predicts that the Lord would raise up a prophet like Moses from among the people, and that people should listen to him. The prophet would speak for God, mediating between God and the people. Deuteronomy 18:20: Warns that false prophets would speak presumptuously in God's name, saying things that God had not commanded them to say.  You can widen this and take it that Israel is not a kingdom of deception, but relies on telling the truth.  

King Solomon (961-920 BCE) of tribe of Judah , son of King David and Bathsheba (1000-960 BCE of the tribe of Judah, with David, youngest son of Jesse, born in Bethlehem) , was also king of Israel, and Solomon built the Temple.  David at age 25 had the job of armor-bearer of King Saul (1st king of Israel, son of Kish of the tribe of Benjamin.  

Therefore, Solomon was the 3rd in the line of kings, and took on the responsibility to do this.  Solomon did not have to fight off enemies like his father, David, did.  He lived a safer life, giving him the opportunity to fulfill God's promise to David, and to serve as a place of worship, prayer, and reconciliation for the people of Israel: 2 Samuel 7:  God promised David that his son would build a house for the Lord and that his kingdom would be established forever.1 Chronicles 28:  David gave his son Solomon plans for the temple, including how to divide the priests and Levites, how to use the objects in the temple, and how much gold and silver to use for each item. David also told Solomon to be strong and courageous, and that God would not fail him. 1 Chronicles 29:  David provided resources for the temple's construction, including gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and precious stones.

The Temple of Solomon was built around 990–931 BCE on the spot where God created Adam. It was destroyed 400 years later and replaced by the Second Temple. The site of the temple is considered a holy place by Jews, Muslims, and Christians.  

The Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia (605-562 BCE).  What had happened to cause them to do this was that the Judeanshad revolted in 597, so Neb. dispatched contingents which captured Jerusalem, andhad replaced young King Jehoiachin with his choice of Zedekiah, and exiled 8,,000of the head Judean aristocracy to Babylon. 

 8 years later, Zedekiah rebelled which ledto 586 BCE's takeover, and destroying the Temple.  laying waste to cities and exilingmasses of the population.  The king was taken to Riblah, where Neb. had Zedekiah killed.

All people of this day had Temples to their gods.  The Canaanites had tripartite temples discovered in digs in Lachish, Bet-Shean, etc. A tripartite temple is a temple with a tripartite plan, which means it has a long rectangular central hall with rooms on either sideThe White Temple of Uruk in ancient Sumer is an example of a tripartite temple. A close replica is the one found in Syria near a royal palace of the 9th to 8th century BCE. 

Solomon's Temple was used as a shrine for the Ark of the Covenant.  the sacred vessels, and offerings, with a court for worshippers.  It consisted of a hall, shrine, and inner sanctum called the "holy of holies" which do not exist among oriental shrines.

The Temple was rebuilt from 538 to 515 BCE and called the 2nd Temple of Solomon.  According to the Bible, Zerubbabel led the Jews of Babylon back to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple, as authorized by the Persian King Cyrus the Great in 538  BCE; he was appointed as the governor of Judah and oversaw the construction of the Second Temple.  Zerubbabel was the grandson of King  Jehoiachin (reigned from 597-BCE at age 18, during Babylonian siege of Jerusalem)  one of the 1st Jews to return to Judah from Babylon. 

Ezra tells us that he was a bodyguard of King Darius I (522-486 BCE) who had inherited the Persian throne of Cyrus from whom he had permission to rebuild Jerusalem, which conflicts with other biblical accounts. Zerubbabel is associated with the political revivals in Judah in Darius' reign; was the  last satrap of Davidic descent in Jerusalem and after his time, the high priest had influence, a consequence of Persian apprehension concerning the  renewal of the Davidic dynasty.  Some think he was recalled to Persia.   Jews feel that Cyrus was son of Queen Esther and King Ahasueros, and Darius was their grandson.   

Non-Jewish history has this:  In the lands that were conquered by his empire, Darius followed the same Achaemenid tolerance that Cyrus had shown and later Achaemenid kings would show. He supported faiths and religions that were "alien" as long as the adherents were "submissive and peaceable", sometimes giving them grants from his treasury for their purposes. He had funded the restoration of the Israelite temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus, was supportive towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests. He had also observed Egyptian religious rites related to kingship and had built the temple for the Egyptian god, Amun.                                                              

Arch of Titus records the event in Rome of the Judean captives forced to carry the Temple loot for the Romans.  

During the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans, the Temple was used as a center of military activity and was destroyed by the conquering Romans in 70 CE after brutalizing the Jewish population physically and by starving them to death, but even so, some managed to escape. A Roman Temple was later built on the site, and since the Moslem Period, a mosque has stood there in its place, the Mosque of Omar.    

                                    Dome of the Rock and foreground is the mosque

The Second Temple of Solomon is believed to be located on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque are now located. The Second Temple was a Jewish place of worship from 520 BC to 70 AD, when it was destroyed by Roman soldiers.              
  On right side is the 
the main remaining structure from the Second Temple which is the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall or the Kotel. This is a remnant of the Second Temple courtyard and is considered the holiest site in Judaism. 
The exact location of Solomon's Temple is unknown, but it's believed to have been on the same hill as the Second Temple. According to the Bible, Solomon's Temple was built on Mount Moriah, where an angel of God appeared to David. 
Resource:
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

Where Linguistics Bar Conceptual Understanding Between Islam and Judaism

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                


Has there been a confabulation between those who speak Arabic in understanding our Jewish history and how it connects to Islam?  Confabulation is a memory error where a person creates false memories without intending to deceiveIt's often associated with brain damage or certain types of dementia.    

Is this twist of facts due to memory loss or a change toward a people one wants to dominate?  Forget what you thought you knew about mainstream Arab and Muslim culture. Moriel Bareli was interviewed to explain how Jews and the West have it totally wrong when it comes to understanding Islam’s war against Israel and its perception of Jews.

I've been watching the JBS show of Caroline Glick who was interviewing a young Jewsh -Israeli fellow who had connected with Arabic speakers all over the Middle East and had  come to this revelation of them believing that everything written in our Bible has been accepted in the Koran with the difference of saying that the characters were not considered as Jewish but as Muslims.  Adam, Abraham, Moses, etc, were all Muslims.  Theyrealize that Mohammad was born in the year 570 CE, like 2,000 years after the fact, but they are told that Muslims had strayed, becoming Jews!!!  It's hard to followsuch a distortion of truth, and of course, my truth is that the children of Jacob were our Jewish ancestors, about to be called Jews since they were from the landand tribe of  of Judah.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsE5B-9uMYkThey denied that there ever was an Israel.                              


The proof is the creation of the Torah and Tanakh, or Old Testament to non-Jews.  Our

understanding is that King David ruled from 1010 BCE to 970 BCE; and that Moses was

born in about 1391 BCE and died in1271 BCE;  way before Mohammad, who created

Islam, who was born in 570 CE and died in 632 CE.  To most people except Muslims, 

Mohammad came along about 2,000 years after Moses. Yet, they have some convol-

uded story of the "Muslims" becoming Jews that had broken a commandment.  

                                                                 


   I had known that the story of the sacrifice of Isaac had been changed by Muslims

to be of sacrificing Ishmael, the son of Hagar, instead, but had never guessed that 

Arabic speakers could mix our two histories by using Muslims as a synonym for Jews

which distorts the whole history.  

   No doubt that Mohammad knew what he was doing when this change in history was

used as a brain-washing technique.  He could not read or write but had people working

for him that did his bidding.  At times, he would be angry with certain Jewish tribes 

who did not fight for him, and evidently he had put us in this bad light on purpose as

a way to get even.                                  

                                     Finding Moses in the Bull rushes in a basket

Mohammad got the whole concept wrong.  We Jews have laws to make us into better

people, fair people in dealing with others, and not a religion about where we go when 

deceased.  It teaches us behavior in all sorts of situations that is considered fair;  

correct in dealing with others.  


Solomon's dealing with the 2 mothers claiming one

child is an example.  The one who allowed the child to live was deemed the real mother.

Present-day excavations are also showing proof of our biblical story.  The Koran

should be Mohammad's conception of creating a book for his own people, in that

Jews were considered back then as "People of the Book," something to envy. So he

simply borrowed our history.  

There is a lot of misunderstanding between religions due to interpretation of 

linguistics and concepts, but in this case, it is the use of different names as synonyms.

No wonder we have been fighting each other since bible days.