PRESIDENT MACRON OF FRANCE AND PALESTINIANS' PRESIDENT ABBAS ELECTION PROMISE

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

          Emmanual Macron, President of France:  Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017.  That's 9 years, a little over 2 terms.  

Remember a high- profile bombing near Macron's hotel in Damascus, Syria on July 7th, of this year of 2026?   Just notice the connection again with Macron and the Palestinians.

The Bombing: Two improvised explosive devices (one in a car and one in a garbage bin) detonated near the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus where Macron had spent the night, injuring 18 people.
Why He Missed It: Macron was completely unharmed because he had left the hotel 10 minutes earlier and was at the presidential palace meeting with the new Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa (who came to power after Bashar al-Assad was ousted). (Saved by an unexpected 10 minutes change in his schedule) 
The Meeting in Turkey: —Immediately after his historic stop in Syria, Macron flew directly to Ankara, Turkey, to attend a major NATO summit.  

French Army occupied Syrian coast 1920:  
The French Army on the Syrian coast, proclaiming the French Mandate  Way back in the 20's  France had the League of Nations mandate over Syria and Lebanon (then collectively known as the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon). The French mandate over Syria and Lebanon ended in 1946 with the final withdrawal of French troops.  Now the Palestinians' terrorists have taken over Syria and Lebanon.  
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS): Emerged as the dominant de facto authority following the fall of the Assad regime, and remains designated as a UN Security Council and U.S. terrorist organization due to its historical links to Al-Qaeda. 
Islamic State (ISIS): Maintains active cells in parts of Syria, launching periodic attacks and operating covertly despite territorial losses.
Hezbollah and Iran-backed Shia Militias: Historically supported the Assad regime, with ongoing presence and border-region interactions as the new government reorganizes security.
Jolani, President of Syria:   Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is the interim president of Syria. Liked by Trump who likes people who can control others, Rise to Power: He led Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied opposition forces in the offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024. He was named transitional president on January 29, 2025;   he joined insurgent groups in Iraq following the 2003 U.S. invasion, was detained at Camp Bucca, and later founded the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in Syria. He broke ties with al-Qaeda in 2016 and rebranded the group as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.. In November 2025, he met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, following the UN Security Council's lifting of terror-related sanctions against him.

The Palestinian Authority has informed France that elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council will be postponed by several months, due to "fundamental obstacles affecting their inclusiveness, freedom of participation and the integrity of the electoral process.” The elections had been scheduled for November 28 following a pledge Abbas made to French President Emmanuel Macron, which played a significant role in Macron's decision to recognize a Palestinian state. 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to French President Emmanuel Macron (and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman) to hold national legislative and presidential elections, enact major governance and political reforms, abolish prisoner ("pay-to-slay") payments to jailed militants, and assume sole governance and security in Gaza.

France: France has joined calls targeting illegal settlement goods and previously moved toward formal recognition of Palestinian statehood, while condemning the October 7 Hamas attacks and antisemitism., allowing their enemy (Palestinians) to be closer so that they can hit them better !

I note that England, who held the mandate over Palestine which included our present Israel,  is against her today, as she was then.  

Sanctions and Settlement Bans: Several nations—including the UK, France, Canada, and others—have moved to ban goods from illegal West Bank settlements and impose sanctions on extremist ministers or violent settlers. 
Divergent National Stances:
• Spain & Ireland: Spain has imposed arms embargoes, withdrawn its ambassador, and strongly pushed for Palestinian UN membership, while Ireland and Norway have faced sharp Israeli backlash for recognizing a Palestinian state. (OH?  I wonder why?)  
• I note that Ireland has also been anti-Israel for a long time.  I remember their President, Robinson.  And that was a country where Jews had gone after finding England rather repulsive, with  Chaim Herzog, who was born in Belfast and raised in Dublin (the son of Ireland's Chief Rabbi, Isaac Halevi Herzog), and later served as the President of Israel from 1983 to 1993.

Why The Two-State-Solution Is As Dead As Last Week's Caught Fish-Not Fit to Eat

 Nadene Goldfoot     

                                         

I just spent the past hour listening to Doron Spielman on JNS talking about why a two state solution is being pushed by a few people in the Israeli government and why this is a terrible idea. I happen to agree with him whole-heartedly. He understands Saudi Arabia's thinking like a psychologist might. His "lecture" thank goodness, is on youtube. He is a well-known man in Israel on his own accords.

Doron Spielman is a Major in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves, serving as an international military spokesman. He has conducted hundreds of interviews with major global news networks, including CNN, FOX News, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Sky News (of which I am suspicious of-oy vey) though today was on JNS-Jewish News Syndicate , most recently during the Swords of Iron War. For over two decades, Doron has played a pivotal role in transforming the City of David from an overlooked hilltop into one of the most significant archaeological and historical sites in the world. As Vice President of the City of David Foundation, he worked to uncover and preserve groundbreaking discoveries that illuminate the deep historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem.

This 2-state solution good for all was initiated by a program called "Abraham Shield Plan", quite different from the Abraham Accords. Initiated by Saudi Arabia itself, it seems but coming through an Israeli, General Udi Deckel and a few others, probably of the Left, it would leave us in a pickle jar of not even kosher dills!

Ehud "Udi" Dekel (Hebrew: אהוד "אודי" דקל; born c. 1957) age 68 now, is a former Israeli army brigadier general. He was head of the Planning Directorate of the Israel Defense Forces and is now deputy director of the Institute for National Security Studies. Dekel's military career began in the Israeli Air Force. He headed the Air Intelligence Group in the mid 1990s and then was chief of the External Relations Division of the IDF.He served as the IAF's representative in peace negotiations with Ehud Olmert, a centrist or on the right,  appointed Dekel to lead the Israeli negotiating team in the peace talks that followed the Annapolis Conference in early 2008. He helped formulate Israeli positions in negotiations.

The plan put Israel responsible for all the work, and the whole Middle East just is to sit by and watch, it sounds like. From their website: "Now, the historic mission of the State of Israel is to translate its tremendous military achievements into a political turning point. One that will break the Iranian stranglehold, leverage the current regional opportunity, and create a new regional order in the Middle East".

• The State of Israel will declare victory in Gaza and the defeat of Hamas' military force.
• Israel will promote a comprehensive ceasefire and commit to the withdrawal of IDF forces from Gaza in exchange for the return of all hostages, living and dead.
• Israel will reach a bilateral understanding with the U.S. on freedom of action for security operations and targeted raids in the future to prevent Hamas's resurgence and to dismantle terrorist infrastructures.
• Israel will work with its regional and international partners to establish a technocratic transitional government in Gaza, with regional backing that will provide all civilian services to the Palestinians during the transition period.
• Arab police forces will operate in Gaza to establish law and order during the transition period. (oh sure)  
• The reconstruction package for Gaza will be led and financed by the West and the moderate Arab states, led by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
• The moderate Arab states will lead a process of ‘de-Hamasification’ in Gaza - a deep de-radicalization of society and education (as they successfully implemented in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia).
• Cash in the Gaza Strip will be abolished (“ZeroCash”) and an advanced mechanism of monetary supervision will be implemented.

Spielman said that Israel cannot do what Saudis suggested; to claim victory over Gaza. That would be a lie, yet in their Abraham Shield Plan, that was step #1. I believe that Netanyhu and Trump expect that Victory over Gaza is a Must. Otherwise, they would have gained nothing but looking forward to more of the same conditions in a few weeks to a few years. Saudi Arabia must stop wanting nuclear energy, too. We know where that leads.

Spielman has taken apart Abbas's of the PA's doctoral thesis and saw that it was he who initiated getting rid of the 6 million Jews before Hitler thought of it, evidently. Abbas has had plenty of statements showing his own hatred of Jews. I thought that was terrific research! "Mahmoud Abbas's 1982 doctoral dissertation, titled "The Secret Connection between Nazism and Zionism, 1933-1945", has drawn significant controversy due to its anti-Semitic content and Holocaust denial. " He's been the PA Palestine Authority leader all this time, but Hamas does the dirty-work. They both have vied for control, like the Democrats vs Republicans.

Doron Spielman is a Major in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves, serving as an international military spokesman. He has conducted hundreds of interviews with major global news networks, including CNN, FOX News, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Sky News, most recently during the Swords of Iron War.

For over two decades, Doron has played a pivotal role in transforming the City of David from an overlooked hilltop into one of the most significant archaeological and historical sites in the world. As Vice President of the City of David Foundation, he worked to uncover and preserve groundbreaking discoveries that illuminate the deep historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem.

Doron is a Senior Fellow at the Herut Center in Jerusalem, a fellow at the Churchill Institute for National Security, and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Born and educated in the United States, he moved to Israel in 2000, where he has dedicated his life to defending, preserving, and telling the story of Israel’s past, present, and future.

Judea and Samaria and a Shunda Of a USA Hostage Deal

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

         This is a monumental announcement !  

All Likud government ministers called on Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday to apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The letter said, “Following the State of Israel’s historic achievements in the face of Iran’s axis of evil and its sympathizers, the task must be completed and the existential threat from within must be eliminated, to prevent another massacre in the heart of the country.”

The current U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza reportedly includes 

1. The release of 10 out of the remaining 20 living hostages,  2. The bodies of 18 dead hostages

3.  During a 60 day ceasefire. (2 months)

                   Possibly like this:  

 In 5 phases over 12 days in each phase hoping to free 2 live hostages at a time, and then hope the other 10 will be alive after the 2 month period for another release (?) 

  The 18 dead hostages might be released also at the same  time during the 5 phases;

   3 at a time in 5 phases, then 3 after the 2 month period.  

No statement as to how they will be released so far.  

A new American clarification, shared with both sides, states that if no final agreement to end the war is reached within 60 days, the ceasefire will still continue as long as negotiations remain serious and ongoing.  One shot by Israel's enemy has already occurred.  

 This is meant to function as a de facto guarantee that Israel will not resume fighting unilaterally.  Pressure on Israel only

 The proposal also includes:  

 increased humanitarian aid, 

phased Israeli withdrawals from parts of Gaza, 

and the release of terrorists from Israeli prisons. Many are in prisons;  captured, not shot dead...

 According to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat , sources close to the group said it was “satisfied” with the revised U.S. assurances and is expected to deliver its formal response before Friday evening.

 Qatari officials reportedly told Hamas leaders involved in the negotiations to lay down their personal weapons and those of their bodyguards.          

           Mahmoud Abbas (15 Nov 1935) almost 90 yrs.  old

Several Fatah-supporting militias are now operating in

 Gaza, in coordination with the IDF, which is also arming them.

 For more.  Fatah is the PA (Palestinian Authority).  Hamas

 over-ran Fatah and had taken over.  The head of the Fatah

 political party is Mahmoud Abbas. He is also the current

 president of the Palestinian Authority and the chairman of the

 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) according to

 Wikipedia. While Yasser Arafat was a prominent leader of

 Fatah and the PLO, he passed away in 2004. 

Tomorrow, July 4th, 2025, will be 636 days since the hostages

 were taken during the October 7th attacks. A total of 251

 people were taken hostage in the attack on Israel on October

 7, 2023. As of June 26, 2025, 22 hostages were reported to

 still remain captive in Gaza. This number includes those

 believed to be alive and those confirmed to have died, with

 their bodies still being held.  

If this is the best the USA could come up with that satisfied our 

Middle Eastern neighbors, I'd  like to see what didn't 

muster through.  This is deplorable for our live hostages, living

minute by minute under the worst conditions after almost 

2 years.  

Resource:

israelAM

 

Abdullah II and Abbas Fighting Against Israel's Enemies

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein Al-Hashemi (Arabic: عبد الله الثاني بن الحسين الهاشمي) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemites, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is considered a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.  Jordan and Israel are border neighbors, and have kept the peace between each other since  26 October 1994, the past 31 years, when Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty, normalizing relations between them and resolving territorial disputes, including water sharing. The treaty adjusted land and water disputes, and provided for broad cooperation in tourism and trade.

The two countries had not fought a war since 1967, and their leaders had been in routine communication since the 1940s. Yet the treaty was far more than just a formalization of a de facto ceasefire -- it fundamentally changed the nature of the Israeli-Jordanian relationship, enhancing security, stability, and U.S. interests in a turbulent region.

Jordan has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot. 

Jordan has imposed a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most vocal opposition group, after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, Minister of the Interior Mazin Fraya said.  Police surrounded the party’s headquarters on Wednesday and were searching it. (April 23, 2025) Al Jazeera

What is the Muslim Brotherhood that Egypt disliked?  The movement's self-stated aim is the establishment of a state ruled by sharia law under a caliphate–its most famous slogan is "Islam is the solution". They provided a lot of charity in order to be recognized and desirable.  The group spread to other Muslim countries but still has one of its largest organizations in Egypt, despite a succession of government crackdowns since 1948. 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.                                       

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on "sons of dogs" Hamas to "hand over the hostages" in a televised speech at the PA's Central Council on Wednesday.  Abbas added that the "war must end," citing that hundreds are dying every day because "[Hamas] doesn't want to hand over the American hostages. Sons of dogs - hand over the hostages and end the matter."  Mahmoud Abbas   born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen , is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) since 2005; President of his followers for the past 20 years.  Gaza is still in the hands of Hamas terrorists which the people themselves had voted for.  In March 2007, a unity government was formed incorporating members of both Hamas and Fatah, with Ismail Haniyeh as prime minister and independent politicians taking many key portfolios, but it didn't hold since they couldn't decide

 who the leader was to be. 

Abbas with Joe Biden-US President, at the Palestinian Presidential Palace, in Bethlehem, July 2022.  Bethlehem has become a Muslim stronghold.  Bethlehem, a city in the West Bank, is a Palestinian city inhabited by both Arab Christians and Arab Muslims. While historically from the New Testament days,  a Christian city, the Arab Christian population has significantly decreased, now making up a minority of the city's population. The city is also home to a mosque and a church, reflecting the presence of both Muslims and Christians. While it was historically a city of Arab Christians, this community has decreased from about 86% in 1950 to around 10% in 2022. 

There is hope that Gaza can be a peaceful land with intelligence such as these two 

men show us.  Not everyone is bloodthirsty like Hamas has been shown to be.  Thank 

you, G-d, for helping us reach this point in time and hope it continues to improve.  Peace

and hostages returned would be nice.  

Resource: 

israelAM

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/twenty-years-israeli-jordanian-peace-brief-assessment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_relations#:~:text=On%2026%20October%201994%2C%20Jordan,cooperation%20in%20tourism%20and%20trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan#:~:text=Abdullah%20II%20bin%20Al%2DHussein,of%20the%20Islamic%20prophet%20Muhammad.

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2025/04/hamas-attacks-on-israel-ongoing-since.html  on Muslim Brotherhood

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/jordan-outlaws-muslim-brotherhood-group-confiscates-assets  Muslim Brotherhood

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-851192 Abbas