Nadene Goldfoot
A plane approaches New York's World Trade Center moments before it struck the tower at left, as seen from downtown Brooklyn, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In an unprecedented show of terrorist horror, the 110 story towers collapsed in a shower of rubble and dust after 2 hijacked airliners carrying scores of passengers slammed into them. (AP Photo/ William Kratzke)
President George Walker Bush had just started trying to solve the Israel-Palestine peace process, taking office January 20, 2001, which would bring about a state of Palestine, which was receiving a lot of his attention. His Roadmap Towards Peace " contained the principles of the plan, originally drafted by U.S. Foreign Service Officer Donald Blome, (Donald Blome, a career Foreign Service officer, assumed the position of American Consul General in Jerusalem July 27, 2015. Prior to that, he worked as Director of the State Department’s Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs from 2013-2015.) were first outlined by U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech on 24 June 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace." This call for a Palestinian State came after being hit on September 11, 2001.
After such an attack in New York by Saudi Arabian terrorists of al Qaeda, the Roadmap was almost like a mea culpa. His father had put a lot of pressure on Israel, and now the Arabs felt they had to be heard since Clinton was looked upon as weaker with this tiny country, and so did Bush. They wanted Israel wiped out!
The Bill Clinton's 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. 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. Arafat didn't get his way, but neither did Israel. There were countries who took the USA's response to 9/11 as weak.
His father, President George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993) was one to get tough with Israel. President George H.W. Bush insisted on a delay in loan guarantees to Israel until after a multilateral peace summit in Madrid, Spain, in October 1991. His son's attitude towards Israel may be affected by his father's attitude.
Before Bush's term, Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989. In his speech, Mr. Reagan said specifically that the United States would ''not support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.'' The President added that in the American view ''self-government by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan offered the best chance for a durable, just and lasting peace.''
Being Israel was established for Jewish people, I will mention that Former Episcopalian, Bush left his family's Episcopal church to join his wife's United Methodist church, if this has anything to do with George Walker Bush's own ideas. It does show that he wants to live in peace with his wife. Do people see Judaism and Islam as similar as Methodists and Episcopalians?
Jimmy Carter, our 39th President (1977-1981) , was all for a 2-state solution, but he wrote terrible things in his book/books about Israel.
President Ford, our 38th President (1974-1977), said, that first they have to recognize Israel before any talks can be made." r 3, 1975)(November 3, 1975)
Beginning with the Nixon Administration starting in 1969-1974), presidents with their good intentions have unknowingly sponsored and participated in a plan by Israel's enemies to eliminate the nation of Israel by forcing her into indefensible borders. When Obama asked to go back to before 1967, did he realize what he was saying? Look at the distances. 1967 was a war Israel had to fight defensively against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. And why? Because they are Jews, not Moslems.
Israel insists on peace with secure borders. Israel has only known armistice lines and cease fire lines. She wants borders that are defensible, and not constitute a temptation to a potential aggressor as did the pre-1967 lines.
Jordan was given 80% of the Jewish Homeland, promised to the Jews,first mentioned in the Balfour Declaration by the British who held the 30 year mandate.
Israel was created in the first place as a haven for the remaining Jews in the world. The Holocaust wiped out 6 million after the planning of the state; with the war ending in 1945 and the state being created and accepted May 14, 1948. Jews make up less than 1% of the world population, and only ask for a teeny part of the promised homeland made in 1920s by the League of Nations. Is it so much to ask for their religious historic places to be a part of their homeland? This cold-shoulder attitude, coming with some people's "Replacement Theory in their own religion, shows why they don't mind cutting the Jewish Homeland into pieces already and leaving very little for all the Jews of the world who have been returning to Israel after 2,000 years. They came here because it was here that they originally came from. The land is part of their being, a direction from G-d to live in this place. Are they the only ones left on earth that reads "The Old Testament?" Of course not.
"Since 9/11, our War on Terror, our country has been faced with more than challenges;; catastrophes, political disruptions.
We've had a trillion dollar hit on the U.S. economy due to 9/11/2001 terror events and the war on terror.
,We had a $300 billion and growing war in Iraq and Afghanistan. with a decrease of soldiers just now happening. "The War in Afghanistan stems from the United States invasion of Afghanistan on the 7 October 2001, when the United States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from power in order to deny Al-Qaeda a safe base of operations in Afghanistan. The War in Iraq started on March 20, 2003, all during George Bush's first term. The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. U.S. keeps 13,000 troops as October 2019 in Afghanistan.Result: Withdrawal completed in December 20, 2020...
National Terror Alerts have been costly and we've had many of them.
Concern of a Weapon of mass destruction attack on the USA-mainly from Iran, but North Korea is not out of the picture, either.
US government and embassies worldwide have had strained relationships over the war on terror; before Trump.
World leaders relationship with USA have been strained over Iraq and war on terror before Trump.
Bush's agenda included controlling 2 houses of Congress in his 2 terms, but Republicans were losing confidence and beginning to distant themselves from him for fear he could hurt them in their re-election efforts. There's that putting re-election first and not the country again.
People wanted to hear Bush talk about education, faith-based initiatives, anything but they heard more of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, Iraq and the War On Terror.
No one understood the size and complexity of the Middle East terror war.
Secretary of State Rice admitted there have been many errors in Iraq, and she was the one who walked out of Netanyahu's speech at the UN in preference for a luncheon date.
Washington DC was becoming like a fortress; US cities were tightening their security, security cameras were placed throughout the country.
The land of Israel was a mess ever since the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and their 2nd Temple in 70 CE. It has been waiting for the Return of the Jews to blossom once again, and that is because it is so dear to the Jews. No one else lived there as a nation. It became a land of weeds and swamps and mosquitoes.
The USA has also had a surge of extra problems since 9/11.
Anthrax was discovered in the Senate Mall and federal buildings, cost of $3 billion. October 2, 2001
Nuclear, chemical or biological attacks on US, a warning from Osama bin Laden, Nov. 11, 2001
Flight #587 crashed of American Airlines on Nov. 12, 2001; 255 dead.
Tornadoes in Missouri to Maryland, 6 deaths, April 28, 2002
Colorado forest fire, 138,000 acres, 132 homes wiped out, June 8, 2002
Arizona forest fire, 550,000 acres, June 18-19, 2002.
Hurricanes Isidore and Lili, Oct. 1, 2002; Hurricane Lili was the second costliest, deadliest, and strongest hurricane of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, only surpassed by Hurricane Isidore, which affected the same areas around a week before Lili.
President Obama, our 44th president, took a very different stand from President Trump, who had his own peace plan. Mr. Obama reaffirmed the crucial elements of the Camp David agreement from and Resolution 242 by calling for a complete freeze on the building of settlements, constructed illegally (not according to Israel and International Law) by Israel on Palestinian territory. (Israel Territory by conclusion of 1967 War where Israel fought a defensive war). Later, in 2011, the president made clear that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines, (undefensive lines-not permanent lines). ”
Each presidency usually comes with its own set of problems; political and those out of our hands. Now we're faced with COVID 19 Pandemic and its cost, of which I cannot fathom, causing more homeless people for those that live through it.
During this horrid period, Israel is getting peace with 2 Arab countries so far, which is a miracle in itself, initiated, I'm afraid, by the danger Israel and they face from Iran, a non-Arab country, though highly competitive.
William Koenig has noticed and listed all the act of Mother Nature and other problems that presidents have to deal with that have happened after decisions against Israel have taken place. We always have floods and such, but we never have considered them connected to what has happened to Israel, and he is astonishingly right. Much has taken place. He reminds us in his book that G-d will deal with the nations that come against Jerusalem "and all the nations of the world will gather against it," (Zachariah 12:3); and ....for the Lord will have comforted His people. He will have redeemed Jerusalem (Isaiah 52:7-9). " And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." (Zachariah 12:9) After all, the word, the name "Israel" is biblical; it's not like New York City or Paris or Moscow. Israel is ancient history and it is modern history-same place-in our working world. Updated 12/6/2020.
Perhaps this will be the impetus to bring peace between the Palestinians and Israel so that Israel can live in peace for the first time in its 72 years.
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Facts About Israel-Division of Information, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
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Tanakh, Stone Edition (Old Testament)
The New Standard Jewish Enccyclopedia
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