Showing posts with label 2 state solution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2 state solution. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2025

A BLIND-FOLDED WORLD GOVERNMENT

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       


I am still reeling over the attack on Israelis and visitors in homes along the border of Gaza such as Kibbutz Re'im during their "Nova Festival", an idea brought from Europe,  when I think of the horror in how they were butchered, burnt, decapitated and disfigured in their death throes. There they were dancing, happy to be alive, celebrating a Jewish holiday of peace, Sukkot, a harvest festival, and they were suddenly out of the blue attacked while in a secure and safe outdoor field with no hint whatsoever that the people these kibbutzim had worked hard to make friends with, who had come almost every day to work in their homes and fields and other jobs would turn violently against them as an army and go crazy.  

The Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, occurred during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The assaults were a large-scale, coordinated operation that struck numerous Israeli communities in a short timeframe, making it difficult to pinpoint a single "first" kibbutz attacked.Multiple kibbutzim in the Gaza envelope were among the earliest targets of the coordinated raids, including:
The Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah follows Sukkot and celebrates the completion and immediate restart of the annual Torah reading cycle. In the Diaspora (outside of Israel), this is a two-day event called Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, with Shemini Atzeret being the first day. In Israel and some other communities, these two holidays are combined into a single celebration, and though Re'im was not an orthodox community, the young people did like to dance.  
  • Kibbutz Be'eri: Infiltrated by terrorists around 6:00 a.m., who shot at homes and killed and kidnapped residents.
  • Kibbutz Kfar Aza: Breached by terrorists around 6:29 a.m., who arrived on paragliders, motorcycles, and cars.
  • Kibbutz Re'im: Attacked by gunmen around the same time as the massacre at the nearby Nova Music Festival, which began around 6:22 a.m.. 
           Evyatar David is 24 years old, born December 24,2000  
  • TEL AVIV — When Hamas released a video of Evyatar David, he looked so frail and emaciated that his father did not recognize his voice, the Israeli hostage’s brother said Monday. David, now 24, was partying at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when militants kidnapped him and 250 others nationwide during their sweeping terrorist attack in which 1,200 were killed.

The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups on October 7, 2023, during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which follows Sukkot. The attacks, which were the first large-scale invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, initiated the ongoing Gaza war.

Technological vulnerabilities: Hamas exploited Israel's heavy reliance on technology for border security, a strategy they internally referred to as the "blinding plan". Using drones, they were able to neutralize key surveillance and communications infrastructure along the border, including cameras and remote-controlled weapons systems. This effectively blinded Israeli forces and prevented them from responding in a timely manner. I wonder if my German Shepherd idea wouldn't have worked better!  HOPE THEY LOOK TO THIS AS AN ASSESSORY TO OTHER MEANS. They're great at alerting people.    

How can such people be on this earth on October 7, 2023?  They were so wild and violent!  What kind were they that the genie had let out of the bottle? Such mad bloodthirsty people !!!

Estimates suggest that approximately 3,000 to 6,000 individuals from Gaza, including militants from Hamas and other groups, along with some civilians, participated in the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.  This attack was found to have been planned for during the past 3 years by Hamas leadership !  

  • Approximately 1,200 people were killed in Israel during the incursion.  
  • Total IDF casualties: In late August and early September 2025, reports indicated that 900 to 904 IDF soldiers had been killed.
  • Killed on October 7: 329 soldiers were killed during the initial Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Hamas managed to take 251 people as hostages into the GazaStrip.  The captives included civilians, soldiers-both male and female, children including wee babies, and elderly people who were not only Israelis but visitors from other countries as well.

Today is the 709th day since this war started with the attackbeing the impetus .  That's almost 2 years short of 21 days.

As of late August and early September 2025, 148 of the original hostages taken on October 7, 2023, have been returned alive. This includes individuals who were released by Hamas during truce agreements and those rescued by the Israel Defense Forces.  That leaves 103 hostages.  Word is that barely 20 are still alive at this hour.  Israelis want their children returned, both dead and alive ones.  

Israel, given the green light, flew the  1115 miles (1795 kilometers) to Qatar where the Hamas heads hang out in luxury hotels using email with their underlings,   and tried to do away with the HeadHamas leadership, but according to Hamas, missed a few ofthem.  I bet they won't sleep well from now on as most had justmoved to another room to say their prayers. 

Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk is seen onstage at the Fiserv Forum during preparations for the Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.   

On Wednesday, September 11, perhaps in commemoration of 9/11 and the Twin Towers in New York, the evangelical CharlieKirk was assassinated, who was a staunch friend and defenderof Israel.  Because President Trump was a friend to him, he has become a martyr to many people;  never intending to be such.  He was only 30 years old and father of 2 small babies. Just this year  Kirk said that "No non-Jewish person my age has a longer or clearer record of support for Israel, sympathy with the Jewish people, or opposition to antisemitism than I do". In July 2025, Kirk warned his followers against hatred of Jews, calling it "evil" and "demonic". Some Jewish public figures have defended Kirk against accusations of antisemitism, citing his pro-Israel stance. It makes no difference of who he angered;  assassination of speakers and believers is wrong.  He hadn't killed thousands and thousands of people, not even one person. He believed in debate;  airing both sides of an issue.  

Today, the UN tells us that they have voted for the 2 state solution allowing Palestine to be recognized as another of the 50 some Muslim majority states in the world. There were 12 abstentions. 

 September 12, 2025: Resolution on the Two-State Solution

On September 12, 2025, the UN General Assembly voted to endorse the "New York Declaration" to advance the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. 
  • Result: 142 in favor, 10 against, 12 abstentions.  those 10 against such a resolution that rewards the Palestinians for their cruelty in killing Jews :
  • Argentina, Hungary, United States, Tonga, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea,  and Paraguay

Our world has become a blind-folded one who are on theopposing side of righteous beliefs.  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Evyatar_David#:~:text=Evyatar%20David%20(Hebrew:%20%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A8%20%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93,know%20what%20they%20are%20eating.

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

 

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Checking On These Countries Judging Israel So Badly-What's the Deal?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

    Most of the world seems to be against any move Israel has made. Regardless of what has taken place,   The ABRAHAM ACCORDS have brought the Middle East community together in a good start, but the Palestinians have been even more belligerent.  

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., and others called for urgent action to end Israel's siege of Gaza. 

  • Australia has 25,700,000 population of which 813,392 are Muslims, making up 3.2% of their population.  
  • Belgium has 11,570,762 population of which 879,377 are Muslims, making up 7.6% of their population.
  • Canada has 36,328,480 population of which 1,775,715 are Muslims, making up 4.9% of their population.  
  • France has 67,000,000 population of which 6,700,000 are Muslims, making up 10% of their population.  
  • Israel has 8,424,904 population of which 1,516,482 are Muslims, making up 18% of their population.  
  • Italy has 62,246,674 population of which 2,987,840 are Muslims, making up 4.8% of their population. 
  • Japan has 126,000,000 population of which 230,000 are Muslims, making up 0.02 of their population.  
  • Norway has 5,328,212 population of which 175,507 are Muslims, making up 3.2% of their population.
  • Spain has 46,659,302 population of which 1,180,000 are Muslims, making up 2.6% of their population.  
  • Switzerland has 8,492,956 population of which 440,000 are Muslims, making up 5.9% of their population.  
  • United Kingdom has 66,040,229 population of which 3,998,875 are Muslims, making up 6.0% of their population.  
  • None of these countries have the high % of Muslims, which happens to be the religion of Hamas terrorism today.  They should be having less problems. France, Belgium, Switzerland and the UK should be having the most problems not counting Israel.
  •   Israel has the  highest;   18% population they have been dealing with made up of a high % of Hamas terrorists who rule Gaza.  
  • Surveys indicate varying levels of support for both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) among Israeli Arabs (who are predominantly Muslim). 
    Regarding support for Hamas among Israeli Arabs:
    • Some sources suggest a relatively low level of support, with one analysis citing 21% favorable views.
    • However, a recent survey report indicated a rise in Hamas support among Israeli Arabs, jumping from 8% to 28% in a few months.
    • Another poll published in June 2024 showed that only 14.7% of Arab Israelis believe Hamas should be in charge of governing the Gaza Strip after the war. 
  • They demanded that Israel restore large-scale access for the U.N. and international humanitarian aid groups, open border crossings into Gaza, and cease the use of lethal force against civilians seeking food.
  • In a separate event, Britain, France and 23 other nations condemned Israel over what they called the "inhumane killing" of Palestinians, including hundreds near food distribution sites, and the "drip feeding of aid" to Palestinians in Gaza. 
  • French Jews unprotected with these killed while grocery-shopping on a Friday In the past few years, there's been a notable increase in French Jews immigrating to Israel, often referred to as "Aliyah". While the exact number fluctuates, it's been reported that thousands of French Jews have moved to Israel since 2015, with a significant surge following events like the November 2015 Paris attacks and the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. In 2015, over 7,800 French citizens immigrated to Israel, and while numbers decreased in subsequent years, there's been a renewed spike in interest and applications for Aliyah.   
It is important to note that France's stance and these actions have been met with criticism by some, including Israeli officials and some US lawmakers, who argue that recognizing a Palestinian state, particularly at this time, could reward Hamas and hinder peace negotiations.  Exactly!  That's what it's doing, no ifs, ands, or buts.  

Following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and Israel's subsequent declaration of war on HamasEgypt and Jordan began coordinating a response to avert an escalation of the conflict.Attempts to reach a ceasefire were raised at the United Nations Security Council in October; Israel requested the resignation of United Nations secretary-general António Guterres after he referred to Israel's retaliation as unjustified collective punishment. After Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu rejected a ceasefire, equating a halt in fighting to a surrender to Hamas and terrorism.United States secretary of state Antony Blinken presented "humanitarian pauses" to countries in the region but stated a ceasefire would allow Hamas to initiate a second attack on Israel. An agreement was nearly reached, but forfeited after Israel's invasion of Gaza.

In a press conference in November, Netanyahu stated a ceasefire would necessitate a return of Israeli hostages taken during the attack. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt intensified efforts to reach a ceasefire; at the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary SummitIran and Saudi Arabia urged for a ceasefire. The Washington Post reported on 18 November that the U.S. was nearing an agreement to release hostages and halt fighting, drafted during discussions in Doha, Qatar. Qatar happens to be the center where Qaradawi, speader of hatred andanti-Semitism was happily allowed to live.  On 22 November, Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages for prisoners and held a four-day ceasefire. President Biden was critical to restoring negotiations, according to The Wall Street Journal. Israel and Hamas extended the ceasefire for an additional two days and released additional hostages and detainees, but Israel resumed its offensive after Qatari mediators could not resolve differences in terms. 

None of you have ever been in Israel's shoes.  None of you have ever offered aid to Israel, though Israel has offered aid of all sorts to others.  France, look how you handled the Dreyfuss case.  England, you made promises; then broke them. Belgium has neighborhoods that even their police refuse to enter.  Does Hamas rule there, too?   

Edit on Japan, 8/14/25;  7:15am

Reference:

Islam by country: 

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

Friday, February 14, 2025

Who Ever Thought A Two-State Solution Was The Answer For Arabs and Israelis?

 Nadene Goldfoot:                                          

                                                           Richard D. Goldberg

Richard Goldberg was co-host of Jewish Insider‘s Limited Liability Podcast. A Senior Advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Rich previously served on the White House National Security Council and led the Trump administration’s efforts to counter Iranian weapons of mass destruction. A Chicago native, Goldberg previously served as chief of staff to former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and as a senior adviser to former United States Sen. Mark Kirk. As a devoted Cubs fan and former Navy intelligence officer, Rich enjoys his whiskey neat.

      Jonathan Conricus,   Conricus, only 46 years old, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),  knows what he is talking about.  (Hebrewיהונתן קונריקוס; born 1979) In 1997, when he was 18 years old, he was drafted into the IDF, and served in the Givati Brigade. From 1997–2000 he served as an infantry soldier in an elite unit in southern Lebanon. From 2000 to 2005 he served as a company commander in Gaza.    

Jonathan Conricus is a Swedish-Israeli spokesperson and media commentator. He was the international spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces from 2017 to 2021. Conricus is a senior fellow at the think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, based in Washington, DC, in the United States.   The men are FDD people with Cliff May.  The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a non-profit neoconservative think tank.  

I saw this Cliff May presentation on YouTube this morning and wanted to share it with you along with my extra comments.                  

A two-state solution was first offered to Palestinian leaders as early as 1937. The Peel Commission Plan: In 1936, in response to the Arab Revolt against the British mandatory government and repeated Arab violence against Jews, the British government appointed a commission of inquiry headed by Lord Peel to assess the cause of the Arab riots and the performance of the Mandate government. In July 1937, the Peel Commission recommended for the first time a partition of the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state alongside an international zone, stretching from Jerusalem to Jaffa, that would remain under British mandatory authority.

(The Commission also recommended an exchange of land and population between the two states. The Peel partition plan was rejected by the Arabs, and was widely debated amongst the Jewish leadership (but accepted by them). In 1938, the British declared the plan unimplementable.)

#israel offered two-state solutions again in 1947, 1967, 1978, 2000, 2001, and 2008. Mostly,as I remember, the Labor Politicians were in, offering the sun, moon and stars, more than others could believe. After Labor, Likud came in, more on the defensive side of land following its historic meaning. In 1968, the Israeli Labor Party formed from three earlier left-leaning parties, but was defeated in the 1977 election by Menachem Begin's centre-to-right Revisionist Zionist Likud bloc (then composed of Herut, the Liberals and the smaller La'am Party).Knowing the party in favor shows the mindset of the government/people and their attitude toward a 2 state solution.   

    Prime Minister Netanyahu with friends in Israel                     

Palestinian leaders declined each and every such offer. They have proposed no alternatives. Their grievance, it should by now be clear, is not the absence of a nation-state called #palestine but rather the existence of a nation-state called Israel: the resurrected homeland of the Jewish people, a tiny island in an ocean of Arab and Muslim states.

Yet within the #foreignpolicy establishment in the U.S. and Europe, there has for generations been an unshakeable belief that there must be a two-state solution. President #trump has shaken that belief, changed the debate, and widened what’s known as the Overton Window, the range of policy proposals considered acceptable.


Does anyone think that the Egyptians knowing the Muslim Brotherhood organization was in favor of the 2 state solution? I think not; they didn't allow it in their own country of Egypt.It evidently was a big problem. (The group spread to other Muslim countries but still has one of its largest organizations in Egypt, despite a succession of government crackdowns from 1948 up until the present. It remained a fringe group in the politics of the Arab World until the 1967 Six-Day War, when Islamism managed to replace popular secular Arab nationalism after a resounding Arab defeat by Israel. The movement was also supported by Saudi Arabia, with which it shared mutual enemies like communism.)


Resource:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPh4MUIByxQ

https://www.fdd.org/team/clifford-d-may/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPh4MUIByxQ 

All Eyes On GazaEpisode 254 with Jonathan Conricus and Richard Goldberg;  To discuss, host Cliff May is joined by his FDD colleagues Jonathan Conricus and Rich Goldberg.

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

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

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

https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/The-Peel-Commission-Plan-1937.aspx#:~:text=The%20Commission%20also%20recommended%20an,British%20declared%20the%20plan%20unimplementable.

https://www.fdd.org/

https://jewishinsider.com/authors/richard-goldberg/

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

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Who Republicans and Democrats Are: What Colors Our Rosy Glasses?

Nadene Goldfoot                                                      

Republicans originally were the party of Abraham Lincoln (b: February 12, 1809- d: April 15, 1865 age 56) , our 16th president serving  from 1861 to his death.  My maternal grandfather  was a Republican.  Lincoln led the country into the well known Civil War between the NORTH and the SOUTH.  He brought about the freeing of the Black people who had been captured and brought here against their will and  from slavery.                                   

Onward entered the stage known as Donald Trump (b: June 14, 1946-78 years) of "You're Fired ! ", a TV program of his..  He was our 45th president from 2017 to 2021.  He has now stated that he blames American Jews for not voting for him.  He had been a Democrat, but switched to Republicans in running for President.                              

Democrats are thought of as the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd president   (b: January 30, 1882-d: April 12, 1945 age 63) who was elected to 4 terms, to die during the 4th during World War II in 1945. He was president for so long that we all thought of him as our father of the nation.  We children cried and cried when he died.  After all, we were in the great 2nd WAR.  

 My father was a Democrat.  He was Jewish, and the Jewish people felt he had a lot to do with their being in the United States at a time when their European family members were being slaughtered.  I asked my father what the differences were between the 2 parties and he said, "The Democrats are for little businesses like me, and the Republicans are for big businesses.  

When it comes down to it, Roosevelt really hadn't had much to do with saving their lives, only they didn't realize it.  He got the credit.  Jews' immigration into the USA was greatly restricted in 1924.  Jewish immigration slowed down in 1924 due to the Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, which severely restricted immigration and limited the number of immigrants from certain countries:                     

  Harry Truman also our 33rd president (b:May 8, 1884-d: December 26, 1972) served from April 12, 1945 -January 20, 1953; took over when Roosevelt died and served again from 1949 to 1953. Truman's second inauguration was the first ever televised nationally. He had a haberdashery shop, and was a politician.  He got along very well with his partner, who was Jewish.  That probably was the cause of his being for a state of Israel.  Those around him were against it, but he prevailed, and voted for an Israel in the UN, setting the precedent.  Most Jews became Democrats.  

The Republicans and Democrats have switched their positions somehow from their original slate.  Democrats became the great understanding people who were more tolerant than Republicans.  They are on the LEFT.  Republicans are on the RIGHT.                                                                                                     



 It came down to Barack Hussein Obama II, our 44th president, (August 4, 1961 age 63) serving from 2009-2017)  when the Democrats took Israel off their (to aid and assist list) and I was alarmed and alerted. During Hillary Clinton's run: Hillary was President Bill Clinton's wife, born October 26, 1947) and is an American politician and diplomat in her own right. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.  “Those who litigate the particulars of a two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians by fighting for controversial language in the Democratic platform are severely misguided,” said former California Rep. Henry Waxman, once a senior Jewish lawmaker on Capitol Hill. “Make no mistake: Inserting unnecessarily contentious changes to the platform would serve only to hurt our nominee in November and undermine the prospect of a two-state solution during the next administration.”  At the time, the idea of a 2 state solution sounded so American, like a Canada and USA arrangement, and they had no knowledge of either's past history or outlook on peace and what that meant.  Biden is still of that mind.  

Still, members of both sides of the debate came out

 of Saturday feeling they scored at least a bit of a 

victory. “The new language breaks with the party’s

practice of framing its aim of establishing a 

Palestinian state solely in terms of Israel’s interests,”

 said a statement from Jeremy Ben-Ami, president 

and founder of J Street, which advocates for Israel

 but sometimes breaks with the positions of the

 Israeli government. 


Obama was the first African-American president in U.S. history, who also had a father from Africa. He just said recently,  when asked about the current violence in the Middle East. In an excerpt released yesterday of an interview that will run in the coming days, Obama emphasized shared responsibility for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that goes back decades — and cautioned listeners against ignoring the complexities of the roots of the bloodshed.  Yes, Obama said Hamas’s attack was “horrific.” But, he continued, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and “what’s happening to Palestinians” is also “unbearable.”  Thus, he blames Israel for Hamas's creation and hatred.  He has no desire to really know Israel's truth of being constantly the defender of a land officially pronounced as Israel as he's had the time since then to do so.  There were times when he showed his distain when the Israelis were at the White House and had to use the back entrance.  I remember that and always will.                                                

Now the last known president is Joe Biden.  Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942 age 82) is an American politician who has been the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009, so he's been under the Obama influence since being his Vice President of 2 terms since 2009. The Senate approved the national security supplemental on Tuesday night, by a vote of 79-18.The legislation combined the four bills that were approved by the House over the weekend. After months of pushing the Biden administration to do more to pressure Israel to change its conduct in its war in Gaza, Democrats in Congress ultimately approved $26 billion in aid for Israel, including approximately $9 billion in global humanitarian aid (how much would go to Gaza, to be determined).Being in politics all his life, he was caught in a "debate" of sorts with Donald Trump and had stumbled in it noticeably, causing his statement of not running again, which he had wanted to do. That's where Kamala Harris, his present Vice President, is running for President.  It's between Harris and Trump, and like a close horse race.  At the moment, Trump is ahead.  He has already had an assassin try to fix the race and fail.                    

Resource:

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

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-voted-for-israel-aid/

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/immigration-to-the-united-states-1933-41#:~:text=1924%20Immigration%20Act&text=The%20quotas%2C%20inspired%20in%20part,southern%20and%20eastern%20European%20Jews.

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

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/05/obamas-warning-to-biden-israel-00125437

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