How American Jews on JBS See Israel and I Am Plotzing!

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

A young lady, Laura Adkins,  is missing from this picture.  It's not today's panel that I watched talking about Israel today but it's close.  

As usual, I love to watch the panel discussions on JBS led by Rabbi Golub.  Today I feel so lucky not living in New York City on the West Side where modern Orthodox young ladies are using the term "occupation" without realizing the implications of it and how that affects Israel.                                 

When young in Portland, Oregon at age 15, I was elected "Queen Esther" during the Purim Ball, and that was the best thing that ever happened to me.  It kept me in my later years, realizing that I was Jewish.  I had started my interest in teaching by teaching Sunday School at my Conservative Neveh Zedek Synagogue from that age, maybe even  younger.  Finally one day at age 46, I actually moved, made aliyah and moved to Israel, starting in a 10 month retraining program for teachers, having taught for 23 years already.    Having been a teacher forever, it was a natural and I took a position in Safed teaching in the junior high to 7th, 8th and 9th graders.  

A winter picture:  My apartment- lived on the bottom floor, my German shepherd that I wrote about in my first book, and my new Fiat from Italy.  We picked it out from a catalog, and they called us when it was in the port.  Life was so different, one can't imagine.  

The point is, I've lived in Israel.  I even voted once.  I have dual citizenship.  I've studied on my own, reading books suggested by Rabbi Rose in Portland preparing us to defend Israel when up against opponents, haters of Israel.  I even saw him walk off the stage once in desperation when up against a man who was like a dense brick wall-unthinking, a robot responding with his lies.  Wow!  When in this position, one needs to really remember their references.   I do it by writing in my blogs where I can take time finding the right references for rebuttal.  I've been a strong defender of Israel and enjoy Golub and Dershowitz and Eric Yaffe on the panel who looks a little like young Einstein with his hair-do.  

I'm thankful that I haven't socialized much, being older than most people alive today, anyway.  I haven't been indoctrinated by any group think.   I can see why people like Abraham and Moses went out on the desert alone to think.  I have come to my own conclusions; not affected by the instructor but by my own research, the best available.  I feel good about coming to my own conclusions and finding that people like Rabbi Golub and Dershowitz agree with me about most things, but I don't agree with the 2 state solution.  I'd give them both an A+ for their Jewish history knowledge.   

 Haj Amin al-Husseini, Sherif of Jerusalem, who created attacks on Jewish citizens, went to Germany and chatted with Hitler and his other thugs about how to get rid of the Jews of Palestine.  

The Palestinians have been honest,  the public have been mentally lazy.   Palestinians don't want peace with Israel.  They've let us know that they want to wipe us off the map.  That's their goal.  They worked on it with Arafat.  If the Palestinians were anything like the Canadians, it would have happened in 1968.  They've been a dangerous people, hateful, attacking, for almost 75 years now.  I'm just amazed at the world population not getting it.  Even these Jewish females on the West side are siding with the popular view going on, not even being disgusted with the 4 women of the Democrat Squad who would like to end Israel.  Is it because its a sister thing?  They're females of the same age?     

     Israel has women in IDF

The environment that Jews of Israel are living in is So different than New York society.  I dare say that in Israel, their social group is the IDF that they work with while in the service.  

Gaza after surrender to British forces, 1918.  Ottoman Empire held Palestine and lost WWI.  They lost the land they held.  The war ended in 1918.  "After the First World War, the League of Nations granted quasi-colonial authority over former Ottoman territories to Great Britain and France, with Gaza becoming part of the British Mandate of Palestine." They held the mandate for 30 years.  

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.

I note that Gaza was given to the Arab Palestinians out of the goodness of Jewish hearts in September 2005 who, at the strong nudging of the Israeli government, packed up and left their businesses for the Palestinians to live and prosper like they had done.  The only catch was that they themselves had to find a new life, a new business, and new place to live, but they did it; willingly and unwillingly.  It was hard to do.  And the payback for the country has been daily shooting into Israel from Gaza by those ingrates who first thing destroyed the vacant businesses, then shot rockets, missiles and mortars into Israel.  They even dug tunnels to use to kidnap Israelis and to bring in unlawful weapons to use against Israel.  Now, everyone knows that its mentally sick to keep repeating something that has failed.  The daily attacks were so bad that Israel went into Gaza a few times to stop them.  Palestinian Arabs recently shot  a barrage that lasted for days and people still thump for a 2 state solution.  That's because they are safe far away while the Israelis are hunkered down in shelters for days.  

Say, once Jews were offered land in Africa.  Why doesn't someone offer the Palestinians land in Africa?  How about Russia?  It's large enough.  The only historic connection that the Palestinians have is the mosque that Mohammad landed on with his flying horse.  That legend is their only connection, that and the living on the land since 1881 when Jews returned after a 2,000 year wait.  They were escaping Russia's pogroms and ensuing death.  The Arabs had arrived from all over the continent and beyond hoping to get jobs with the Jews.  They had been hired.  Now they want to take the land over and kick out the Jews.  

Why is it that the world keeps harping to have a 2 state solution?  Gaza seems to be a sample of their state as well as being an example of their state of mind.  Do you think Israelis are so stupid as to allow another Gaza connected to Israel so that they can dodge 2 sets of ammunition being shot at them?  

In reading about the many plans that Israel had in order to bring a better life to the Palestinians and how they were turned down, turned off, should make people blush. Israel was full of idealism, wanting improvements, had great plans.   

Occupation !  Israel isn't occupying land like the Romans occupied Jerusalem when Jews had to deal with it.  Since 1967's Six Day War, Israel won back land that had been occupied illegally by Jordan.  The Ottoman Empire had held our original land of Israel that the Romans had renamed as Palestine.  This is why we have Jews living in Judea and Samaria.  It is our old original land, land of our history that has been abused by all the "occupiers".  I'll tell you;  our land didn't like those other occupiers.  They didn't take care of it but let it turn into bogs with mosquitoes, weeds, and camel dung.  The Jews that have returned have made into a Garden of Eden again.  Just come visit and see.                                          

High school senior picture in 1959.  Bernie Sanders said that in 1963 he lived and volunteered at Shaar Ha'amakim, an Israeli kibbutz near the city of Haifa, according to Israeli newspaper ..He was about 22 at the time. and not enjoying the experience.  

Future first lady? Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders, married in 1988,  as he was about to give the speech officially announcing his candidacy for the White House .

Sanders, oh Sanders.  How you have come to the point of not loving or defending Israel like I do is beyond me.  You have the distinction of being the most meshuggana Jew in USA if you ask me.  You who lived on a kibbutz for a while.  An occupier.  Ha!  Were you an eastern board Jew who was asked to milk cows or were you not appreciated for your great intellect like you are in Vermont?  You ran into people who were your peer group and you didn't like it, did you?  You have only offered negativism towards Israel, something they certainly don't need.  You've joined the Palestinians disapproval squad.  

Life evidently is meant to be upside down these days.  We have Trump who has been the president who has done a lot for Israel.  Here's a new story I just heard about him.  He was talking to Abbas, head Palestinian on the phone.  Abbas thought he had Trump in the palm of his hand, too.  He was complaining about those terrible Jews to Trump.                           

Trump said, "How much did you give Israel?"  "What? asked Mahmoud Abbas.  "Give them what?"  Trump replied, "How much did you pay them for Security?"  "What?" said the bewildered Abbas.  

"You are still alive.  You had to have security.  All sorts of people would love to see you dead.  Thank your lucky stars that only in Israel can you survive.  On your own, you wouldn't last a minute."  

Abbas has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 11 November 2004, PNA president since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009.

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas#:~:text=He%20has%20been%20the%20chairman,was%20elected%20chairman%20in%202009.

https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx#:~:text=By%2022%20September%202005%2C%20Israel's,settlements%20in%20Samaria%2C%20was%20completed.

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

https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-invites-palestinian-leader-mahmoud-abbas-to-white-house-10797662

JBS TV L'chaim programming  :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwKUQwhjz3Q

https://heavy.com/news/2015/08/jane-sanders-bernie-sanders-president-wife-age-burlington-socialist/

HOW DEMOCRATIC USA LEADERSHIP VIEWS ISRAEL FOR UPCOMING ELECTION

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                          

We know Trump's position with Israel as he has been acting under the guidance of his son in law, Jared Kushner,  for the past 4 years who is Jewish and is a friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu.  Now is the time to see how Joe Biden feels about Israel and what his past 4 years have shown us.  This is Biden's 3rd try at the presidency.  

“I’m going to reverse Trump’s administration steps [that] I think significantly undercut the prospects of peace and restore diplomatic relationships with the Palestinian Authority and assistance to support the Israeli Palestinian security cooperation and economic, humanitarian aid for Palestinian people.”

"Biden has known Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for years and has a warmer relationship with him than Obama had. One cause of tension was Netanyahu’s decision to address a joint session of Congress to oppose the Iran deal. Like most Democrats, Biden did not attend the speech. 

The Democrats all walked out when Netanyahu made that speech.  He had flown here purposely to address the USA and warn them of what Mossad and others had found out about Iran and their goal of using the uranium for purposes of attacking Israel and the USA.  They were able to continue their work without the people knowing about it who were keeping tabs on Iran, the inspectors,  being honest.

Update: David Albright, who heads Institute for Science and International Security, said the president Obama’s language “is a bit over the top.” He took particular exception to the latter part of the president’s statement — that the inspections “help the world verify every day that Iran is not building a bomb.”

“That’s not true,” he said. “We do not have inspections that are good enough to determine if they have a secret centrifuge plant.” He said the ability to determine whether Iran can make a bomb, such as learning how much raw material Iran has used or how many centrifuge rotors have been made, is yet to be negotiated. The current inspections, he said, only help determine whether Iran is not breaking out to make a bomb at these particular declared sites.

(A report by Albright was quoted in a June 15, 2008 article in the Washington Post. He stated in a leaked copy of a draft report (to be released in full the week of June 15, 2008) that a nuclear weapons smuggling ring—which sold bomb-related parts to Libya, North Korea, and Iran—possessed plans to an advanced nuclear device, compact enough to fit on a ballistic missile used by Iran and a dozen other developing countries. It was unknown if these plans had been shared with any regime; and the plans had recently been destroyed.)

The Netanyahu government also embarrassed Biden by announcing 1,600 new homes for Jews in East Jerusalem in the middle of the then-vice president’s 2010 trip to Israel, which Biden condemned as “precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now.”
                                                        

Biden knows how to be friendly with people.  Nevertheless, Uzi Arad, one of Netanyahu’s advisors, said that when the prime minister came to meet with the president in 2010, Biden threw his arm around Arad and said with a smile, “Just remember that I am your best fucking friend here.”  This meant that the other Democrats weren't.  

In 2012, Biden said Netanyahu has been his friend for more than 30 years. “Bibi, I don’t agree with a damn thing you say, but I love you,” Biden said at the time.

This could be Biden's Freudian slip.  Biden does not see the dangers that Netanyahu does about Israel.  He didn't even listen to Netanyahu's explanation at the UN but walked out with all his fellow Democrats.  This is what his term as president could be like; reacting like Obama did and Hillary would have being she was in step with Obama as well.  Democrats seem to be of one mind.

“I do not support annexation,” he said. “Israel needs to stop the threats of annexation and stop settlement activity because it will choke off any hope of peace.”

Biden said annexation would not get a “green light” or recognition from his administration.

Biden is for the 2-state solution  thinking it will bring peace.  
                       Towns and cities established in areas A,B,C 
                  Those spoken of to be ceded are on the east and in white.
                  Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron are Arab 
               towns.  
                                  

He said Israel should stop settlement activity, but “we also shouldn’t let the Palestinians off the hook” for issues like incitement and support for terrorism.

Biden assigned blame for the stalled peace process to Palestinian and Israeli leadership which are unwilling to take political risks through direct talks.

                                                        
Israelis build town and cities, not settlements.  We do not use that term.  It has political connotations of being temporary to it which he is using.  These towns and cities are a few miles from Jerusalem in our ancient land of Judea and Samaria.  I'm afraid Biden has no idea of what Israelis need in the line of homes and where they are needed.   

To say that Israel has not taken political risks is ludicrous. How about flying to the US to speak to Congress about danger from Iran, the speech Biden didn't sit through at all?  It's risky just to live in Israel, let alone be a political risk.  Israel is made up of people of the left and the right.  Whatever he says is a political risk.  Luckily, the majority go along with his thinking.  

I'm seeing this with the many Jews who belong to J Street who are also Democrats, and do not speak for Israel's position but their own Democratic viewpoint which is predisposed to fit the majority US position of  Democrats. They all say they care for Israel but speak from their own position by not backing Israel's position.  Take this position of the announcement of 1600 new homes for Jews.  

"Israel has authorised the construction of 1,600 flats in disputed East Jerusalem and will approve 2,700 more in the next few days, officials have said, detailing a plan that could complicate diplomatic efforts to dissuade Palestinians from declaring statehood at the UN.

The announcement drew immediate criticism from the Palestinians, and from Israel's leading anti-settlement group, which accused the government of seizing on mass protests over housing costs to give economic justification to building in the city. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office knew the construction plans were moving ahead, said an interior ministry spokesman Roi Lachmanovich. An earlier approval for the 1,600-flat project embarrassed Netanyahu and caused a diplomatic rift with the US because it coincided with a visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the US vice-president."

 In August 2013, I wrote about Israel building in East Jerusalem after 10 months of waiting for Abbas to come to the table which he didn't.  "In order to appease the Arabs, Netanyahu went for 10 months without building a thing, and since the result was nothing, has decided not to ever do that again, which of course angers the Arabs who want to maintain that nothingness on the part of the Jews."  The Arabs complain when Israel builds anyplace.  

Israel is such a teeny country, and has had to build apartments/flats for their people, not individual homes like the USA.  It's more like a section of New York in this housing.  I had no choice.  I lived in an apartment building both in Haifa and Safed.  When children grow up and marry and have children, they need their own apartment.  Netanyahu is trying to appease the citizens by giving them the housing they clamor for which Europe and the USA  seem to ignore.  The land may be arguementable in the UN, but not to the Jews who live on it.  Where there has been land available, it is cruel not to have been able to use it. 

 Israel made Jerusalem a whole city, undivided after it had been divided by barbed wire in Jordan's hands from 1948 to 1967.  Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it. In 1980 the Israeli parliament passed a law declaring the “complete and united” city of Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel onMay 7, 2018. Remember, Israel did not start the 1967 war.  They were attacked 
by Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, with Russia being an instigator.  

The United Nations regards East Jerusalem as occupied, and the city’s status as disputed until resolved by negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
This, for the city of David, established by King David, a Jewish king for a Jewish country established over 3,000 years ago.  

A Biden Administration would:

“Ensure that support for the U.S.-Israel alliance remains bipartisan, reversing Trump’s exploitation of U.S. support for Israel as a political football, which harms both countries’ interests.”

 I take umbrage to this remark in that supporting Israel helps both countries physically and in their shared interests, like security and health.  In defense of Trump, the US Democrat and Republican presidents had sworn each year to take the steps Trump did of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, but they would back out each time.  Trump said he would do it and did it. Either he saw the window of opportunity when preceding presidents didn't or he took a political risk, and I think it was the latter, something others wouldn't do.  

Reference:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/views-on-israel-of-u-s-presidential-candidates-2020-joe-biden
https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/08/abbas-really-pushing-envelope-over.html
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-diplomacy-jerusalem-explai/why-is-the-u-s-moving-its-embassy-to-jerusalem-idUSKBN1I811N#:~:text=Israel%20captured%20East%20Jerusalem%20from,be%20the%20capital%20of%20Israel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/02/06/president-obamas-claim-of-unprecedented-inspections-in-iran/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Albright
https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/david-albright/  very interesting

What's Your Criteria For Voting For A President? Choices Between Biden and Trump

Nadene Goldfoot                                                     

 One Hundred Twenty Years ago, Jews in Europe were at a crisis; to be a Jew or not after their history of 3,000 some years since the days of Moses, and kings of Saul, David and Solomon, with their own country of Israel and then Judah.  The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans and all the strife they had to endure since that time left some very strong-minded people; but now were they going to endure more pain through their choice;   by going to Palestine which was under the Ottoman Empire of Turks or would they choose the Christian America with streets paved with gold.  My grandparents chose the USA, but others chose Palestine and became the Jewish Palestinians until May 14, 1948 when Israel was born again and accepted by the League of Nations and the new United Nations and became the Israelis. I've made aliyah and have dual citizenship as of 1980, teaching English there for 4 years.   
                                                                  

Joe Biden

President Donald Trump

Those that chose America are making up their minds today with voting for a president that is again upon us, and this time the choice is between Democrat Joe Biden and the present Republican President Donald Trump.  Here are some facts one should be aware of if one of your criteria is the welfare of Israel who will be 72 on May 14th.  Do today's Jews care about it?  We don't make that much of a difference as it is, since we are only 2% of the American population.  However, our decision may sway others, and when it comes down to it, every vote counts; at least we hope it does.  

The Democrats held the presidential office since January 20, 2009 with Barack Hussein Obama II, USA's 44th president.  He made decisions that were not of the benefit for Israel, mostly concerning Jerusalem.  Joe Biden was his vice President.  Hillary Clinton was his Secretary of State.  He selected them because they were congenial to his ideas.  

Until 1948, Jews were a majority of the population of Israel's main city, the city of David, as it was called.  The year of the census was 1863, and the British Consulate there stated in his report that Jews were the majority .  This was before the Brits arrived, or when Lord Balfour wrote his letter stating that England would help the Jews to have a Jewish state.  It was before such men as Theodor Herzl.  It was even before the 1st Aliyah from Russia of Jews in 1880 leaving their cold land of many pogroms against Jews.  It was a time when the Ottoman Empire and it's Turks ruled the land.  Jews had been told by the Romans in 70 CE that they had to leave and were not to return, but there were Jews who had never left in the first place.  There has always been Jews living in Eretz Yisrael through the many conquerors.  
                                                    

This brings us to Resolution UNSC 2334 which rules that even the Western Wall is in "occupied Palestinian territories." United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 was adopted on 23 December 2016. It concerns the Israeli settlements in "Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem". The resolution passed in a 14–0 vote by members of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC).

"The draft was originally presented by Egypt on the basis of a document prepared by British legal and diplomatic figures working together with the Palestinians, with Britain regarded as the key player in formulating the resolution and pressing for a vote.It was adopted."  Britain managed to screw Israel in giving up 80% of land deemed to be the Jewish Homeland for King Abdullah when he came to them.  The land became Jordan. Britain had the 30 year mandate and they benefitted themselves and made sure they backed people with oil on their property.  Israel had no oil on their teeny piece.  

"Four members with United Nations Security Council veto power, China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom, voted for the resolution, but the United States abstained".  This abstention was like voting for the

 resolution.  The effect was the

same.   Israeli newspaper Haaretz stated it "may have serious ramifications for Israel in general and specifically for the settlement enterprise" in the medium-to-long term.

The resolution states that Israel's settlement activity constitutes a "flagrant violation" of international law and has "no legal validity". It demands that Israel stop such activity and fulfill its obligations as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

High pressures were exerted to avoid the vote. On 22 December, United States President-elect Donald Trump called on Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to withdraw the proposal, and Egypt withdrew the nomination after what its ambassador called an "intense pressure". Then on 23 December, the draft was taken up and proposed again by Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela. Israel unsuccessfully pressured New Zealand to withdraw its support, with Netanyahu telling Foreign Minister Murray McCully that support for the proposal would be considered by Israel as a "declaration of war". Britain encouraged New Zealand to keep pushing for a vote. Following a telephone conversation between Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin, the Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin requested that the vote be postponed until after Christmas. His proposal failed to gain any support.
                                                    

 This was the wall around King Herod's palace, and is the remnant left standing in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount where Jews go to pray, for they cannot use any other spot there.  The Temple Mount is under the auspices of the state of Jordan's religious people.  King Solomon's 1st Temple used to be on the Temple Mount but was destroyed by the Babylonians under their king Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE, and then was rebuilt again in 538 BCE by the freed Jews from Persia under the rule of Kings Cyrus and his son King Darius.  Unfortunately, for religious and political reasons, the Palestinians refuse to accept the fact that we have over a 3,000 year history in the land, and that Jerusalem was a Jewish capital of ancient Israel.

Did the USA's government accept our Jewish history?  William Henry Seward, Secretary of State of the USA from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and was a US Senator 

during the American Civil War in the 1860s under President Lincoln and he surely did.  He visited the holy land and of course visited Jerusalem.  He found and stated that that there was a Jewish majority living in Jerusalem, and remained so until 1948 when Israel was declared a state and accepted by the United Nations (UN).  What happened with that declaration was that our  waiting for the return to our Israel  actually happened after praying 3 times a  day  since 70 CE and promising not to forget Jerusalem or else lose the use of the right hand . Patience finally paid off.  But, the British held the mandate over Palestine for 30 years, and in 1948 they pulled out which was the end of their term, leaving the Jews without any way to defend themselves.  Their own British General Glubb then led the Jordanian Arab Legion to expel all Jews from Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter.  It was a divided city between the Jews and Muslims and others with real divisions to keep them apart .  "Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ, KPM, known as Glubb Pasha, was a British soldier, scholar and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. During the First World War, he served in France. The Brits were definitely showing favoritism towards the Arabs and were helping them to enter the land while they were keeping Jews out, and this at the time of the Nazi strength against the Jews; with Jews suffering and needing to get to a safe location, like their own endowed country, the promised Jewish Homeland, promised through Lord Balfour's letter in which they would help the Jews to have their Jewish Homeland.  

Writer Mark Twain wrote "The Innocents Abroad" about an excursion he took to the Holy Land, Egypt, The Crimea, Greece, etc from Brooklyn on February 1, 1867.  It was a savory accounting of all he saw which he describes as only he could do it.  On page 203 he said that Palestine is only from 40 to 60 miles wide.  The State of Missouri could be split into 3 Palestines, and there would then be enough material left for part of another- possibly a whole one." 

Like Ireland, who have a Catholic population and a Protestant population and who have fought against each other, the same happened with the Jews and the Muslims.  The Muslim Palestinians and their Muslim neighbors such as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, etc, make decisions according to their religious needs as well as political ones.  In the USA, religion and politics are to stay apart.  Americans are not really used to think along such a vein.  
                                                       

IDF at the Wall in 67-a first for them

The Six Day War in 1967 turned the Muslims around and really shook them up.  After fighting against the fledgling state of Israel in 1948, 1956, and 1967, they felt the furor of losing these battles 3 times in a row, and this was a loss to all the Muslim states who had ganged up on teeny Israel who had to fight alone.  So they met in Africa's Khartoum city, and decided on the 3 nos, that they would never recognize Israel and would never make peace with her.   1967's War's result was allowing Jews into Jerusalem for the 1st time since May 1948, and the Jews were so happy with joy!  The Jews had been kept out of their beloved Jerusalem for 19 years!   They made a bee-line for their own Jewish Quarter and said prayers at the Western Wall (kotel)  

In 2016, Barack Obama had been the US president for the past 7 years already.  He didn't veto the UNSC 2334.  This, I remind you, rules that Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem's Old City which includes the Western Wall and the Temple Mount  and states that they are "illegally occupied by Israel because they are now deemed Palestinian territories.  He had this chance to vote against this lying rule and didn't do it.  This very day was his last day in office, for Donald Trump won the position after Obama's 2 terms of 8 years, and he left this very bitter taste in my mouth of using such a day to go against Israel.  It was as if he waited until the last day to stick it to Israel, and he had no love for Netanyahu for Netanyahu could out talk Obama, and did so on live TV one time in explaining Israel's situation.  I don't believe he had much love for Israel's history, either, since half of his family either had been Muslims or still were.  It was on his father's side of which he had had very little contact-probably until he became President.  His father was an African who had met his mother while at a university as a student.  

By voting the way he did, he was giving UNSC 2334 his approval, and that the Palestinian Arabs demanded nothing less than all of Jerusalem's Old City to have an ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Jews who were living in Judea and Samaria which others call THE WEST BANK. 

Their Palestinian Arab ruler, Abbas, demanded that ALL JEWS were to be expelled from any part of their future Palestinian State.  Israel doesn't have such thoughts.  Arabs live where they want in Israel and make up 20% of the population, which has actually grown beyond that by this  year of 2020; more like 24%.  This is the only Jewish state in the world while there are at least 48 Muslim majority states already in the world.  The % is important to keep and let it remain what it was created to be; a haven for Jews after 3,000 years of persecution.  Our history explains in the bible, THE OLD TESTAMENT, how we were to live in this land of Canaan, and now I can see why.  Being Jews can live according to our Mosaic Law, creativity abounds from there with the findings of such being shared with the world, things in the world of medical help for the world as one example.  Wonderful things have been coming out of Israel in its short period of 72 years.  Jews of the world make up only 0.02 % of the population, yet we have contributed so many  good things, and all the while under the stigma of being such low life!  You can see that this fact indeed makes me angry.  We're always the scape goat!  

On July 29, 2013  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that no Israeli settlers or border forces could stay in a future Palestinian state and that Palestinians deem illegal all Jewish settlement building within the land occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.   This was his vision he laid down even before peace talks had started up again in Washington after a 3 year lapse.  

December 27, 2016:  Netanyahu accused Obama of initiating UNSC 2334 and demanding that it be passed.  

Obama with his Vice President, Joe Biden

Vice President Joe Biden was accused of convincing Ukraine to vote in favor of the UN Resolution 2334.  This resolution  condemned Israel for building housing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, places of the Jewish origins which are found in the Bible.  Biden had been in Ukraine for political reasons and his son was also found to be there for his occupation; two Bidens that had influence over Ukraine.  

Biden persuaded the Ukrainian diplomats to vote YES on the measure .  They would have at least abstained if he hadn't used his pressure.  This was reported by Israel's Environmental Protection Minister, Ze'ev Elkin who let the Jerusalem Post Newspaper know about it.  

It was also cited by a member of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's office.  He had told the news reporter that Biden had indeed called but wasn't able to confirm whether or not their discussion was about the Friday UN vote.  PM Netanyahu of Israel also put some pressure on the US to veto this hateful measure, but as we know, Obama abstained with the result in the U.N. Security Council approving the resolution with 14 votes to 0.  CNN reported about it on the following Monday.  

Netanyahu's statement about the voting was that Israel had no doubt that the Obama Administration initiated the measure, stood behind it, coordinated it on the wording and had demanded that it be passed.  Mossad is usually right on in its findings.  I have no doubt that they did a lot of research on this.  

2016 was a year of the worst antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents.  The Simon Wiesenthal Center made up a list of the worst 10 for that year.  

  Obama's last day in office spent giving a vote that was of negative consequences against Israel.It reversed decades-long US policy of  vetoing such diplomatic moves against the Jewish State.  
                                                   

      US ambassador Susan Rice made a similar negative vote before in 2011.  She said, "This draft resolution risks hardening the position of both sides and could encourage the parties to stay out of negotiations.  In this same year, Obama told the UN General Assembly that peace would not come through statements and resolutions at the UN.  The resolution identifies Jerusalem's holiest sites, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall as OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY.  

It also urges UN members to tell the difference apart in their important dealings between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.  It is effectively endorsing BDS.  The resolution 2334 is destructive and irresponsible and seeks to isolate and delegitimize Israel.  This time the USA was guilty of actions that were completely unacceptable and reckless.  These are not my words, but those of US Congressman Alcee L. Hastings, a Democrat from Florida, and are the thoughts of more than one Democrat and Republican.  I'm glad to see that not all Democrats went along with Obama's tirade against Israel.  

Such a year as 2016!!  It was a year rife with global Islamist terrorism and horrific human rights  violations.  For instance, the UN General Assembly passed 20 resolutions against Israel and only 4 against all the other countries combined.  It's like they had a fatwah against Israel.
                                                         

Rachel is in the middle with one child,
Benjamin, but Joseph was her 1st.  Her sister Leah is on the left.
Rachel is from Jewish history.  

UNESCO, which is an Arab-backed group, introduced a resolution that erased any historic link between the Jewish people and Judaism's holiest sites; the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.  If that wasn't enough, they rebranded RACHEL'S TOMB and the TOMB OF THE PATRIARCHS as exclusively Muslim sites.  The resolution also "deeply regrets" Israel's refusal to remove these sites from its national heritage list.  Can you imagine the chutzpa of the Palestinians?  

Rachel was the 2nd wife of Jacob and his deepest love.  She was one of the 4 matriarchs of the Jewish people.  She was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin and died near Bethlehem.  In Jewish stories, one will see her weeping for her children who were driven into captivity.  So now the Muslims are taking a Jewish heroine as one of theirs, and erasing her Jewish history. All this is happening for the purpose of trying to drive the Jews into the sea so they can have all the land.  

"In response, the government of Israel retaliated with a series of diplomatic actions against some members of the Security Council and accused the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama of having secretly orchestrated the passage of the resolution. Palestine's representatives stated this was an opportunity to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state to live side by side with the state of Israel on the 1967 line." If this means going back to the 1967 line before the Six Day War, it would be ignoring all that happened as the result of a war started by the Arabs, as all these wars have been.  Israel has had to fight in Defense, 
always; not as a means of gaining land.  This is where Obama and Netanyahu got into it on live TV. 

On April 20, 2020, the J Street organization, a Jewish group who created themselves to counter AIPAC, another Jewish group, announced that it endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential bid.  I ask, and the newspaper also asks, how Jews can do this  after Biden convinced Ukraine to vote for this terrible UNSC 2334?  Do voters ever check out people running and ask themselves, is he or she going to be good for the Jews?  Do they ever check their past records?  
                                                    

As I saw it, Hillary Clinton was a copy-cat of Obama.  We had  2 choices then in the 2017 campaign; Hillary or Trump.  Obama was in for 8 years, and I saw where he was going.  I was livid on that last day of his office with his vote.  It had covered so much and did so much harm.  That wasn't their first go-to-it scuffle during those 8 long years, either.  It was the frosting on the cake, though, and had really curdled my feelings toward Obama.  Trump has done well by Israel by going for the Embassy to be located in Jerusalem instead of Tel Aviv.  It's meaning was deeper than locating an office.  It made a statement to all about how Trump felt about Israel.  

After 3,000 years of patiently waiting for our own country again and at a time when the necessity of it couldn't be more apparent, we have it, Israel founded on May 14, 1948.  Are the Jews of today in the USA going to just sit back and yawn when one hears the name of Israel?  Or do they have the courage our ancestors had to care for Israel and when they can, stand up for it?  

All this evidence, and J Street votes for Biden.  I ask again what Arutz Sheva asks of the American Jews, "How is it possible that Jews who care about the Western Wall support Biden?  I ask, "How is it possible that Jews who care about Israel support Biden?  How can they forget about the existence of Israel? " 

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Update:  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/is_a_vote_for_joe_biden_in_the_interest_of-american_jews.htm
  ArutzSheva Newspaper, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2334
Professor Kontorovich, international lawyer, advocate of Israel's rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/views-on-israel-of-u-s-presidential-candidates-2020-joe-biden