Arabs In American Politics: No Endorsement For Harris Or Trump and Why

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

                                Hezbollah of Lebanon, ready to follow Iran's wishes
 

Hamas in Gaza who have ruled this piece of land since they had their first election instigated by Obama. They are the terrorists, the arm of Fatah, through Arafat.  

The Arab American Political Action Committee announced that it will not endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump for president because of their support for the "criminal" Israeli government and because, "Both candidates have endorsed genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon." 

Just what do they think that Hamas and Hezbollah have been doing to Israel?  Making friends?  They are terror organizations that have been backed and financed by Iran, whose intentions are also theirs.  

Their line this Michigan-based group was unwilling to choose between-- “the lesser of two evils” who have both “endorsed genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon, ” is exactly what their leaders are doing to Israel, trying to destroy the country for their take-over.  It's the method I have noticed that they use; turning around what's said about them that they are truly doing and blaming Israel for doing it to them.  Do they simply forget who has started the confrontation?  

Michigan has a large Arab American population, and is home to the largest Arab American population density in the United States:  In 2020, 310,087 Michigan residents had Middle Eastern or North African ancestry, which is 3.1% of the state's population. The three core counties of Detroit have at least 205,000 Arabic speakers. This is about 13% of all Arabic speakers in the United States. Dearborn, Michigan became the first Arab-majority city in the United States in 2023, with about 55% of the city's residents identifying as having Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. The Detroit metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of people of Middle Eastern origin in the United States. Dearborn's Arab community includes Lebanese people who immigrated for auto industry jobs in the 1920s, as well as more recent immigrants from Yemen and Iraq. 

In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.  

Hezbollah  was founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Inspired by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's model of Islamic governance, Hezbollah established strong ties with Iran.

HAMAS emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. HAMAS has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it ousted the Palestinian Authority  (PA) from power.

The Palestinian Authority  is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank (original Judea and Samaria-part of the original 12 tribes of Jacob) as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.

The Oslo Accords were a pivotal milestone in Israeli-Palestinian relations, aimed at propelling the peace process forward and providing for the expansion of Palestinian self-rule throughout most of the West Bank.

                                       Yitzhak Rabin, PM

                             Abbas at UN

On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.                                     

                      Arafat of the PLO

Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace.

 Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be established and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year period. 

Then, permanent status talks on the issues of borders, refugees, and Jerusalem would be held. 

While President Bill Clinton’s administration played a limited role in bringing the Oslo Accord into being, it would invest vast amounts of time and resources in order to help Israel and the Palestinians implement the agreement. 

By the time Clinton left office, however, the peace process had run aground, and a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence had begun.

We see here how individual Arabs might be feeling about the 2 candidates, so the question is, how do we Jews plan to vote?  We only make up 2% of the US population at best.  The percentage of Arab Americans in the United States is estimated to be between 0.639% and 3.8% of the population, depending on the source: 

Reference:

Israel AM:  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgzQXJbBKcPFpPWbCqMNlsQRhmrQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycXlc4SrncM

Messages From A Syrian Jew Trapped in Egypt

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

Follow along with Vic, a Syrian Arab, who was told his birth mother was a Jew. He was born in 1980, at a time when Hezbollah was in the making in Lebanon, where he had attended college. He deals with survival in those days as well as trying to find his birth mother. A true story as told to author. Boy, did I tell the readers a lot of the history going on in those days. You'll learn a lot. If you haven't read it yet when I posted in 2014, try it today!!!

This is the true story of Vick,  who finds out his birth mother was Jewish and he's a Syrian in Damascus.  The Syrian Civil War causes him to flee to Egypt, and he finds he can use his computer to find out more information about his birth mother and Jewish people.  Read how the  Muslim Brotherhood affects both Syria and Egypt as well as how Syria's Jewish history affects Vick.   Historic Fiction.  206 pages, 5X8 " pocketbook.  

 Available at amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and publishers-Authorhouse; book and E-Book, Kindle. 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Messages+From+a+Syrian+Jew+Trapped+in+Egypt

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/messages-from-a-syrian-jew-trapped-in-egypt-nadene-goldfoot/1118740457?ean=9781491866658  

Nada

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2014/03/messages-from-syrian-jew-trapped-in.html

United Nations (UN) Against Israel Since When?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

I thought the UN was such a fantastic idea when I was young.  There would never be any more war in the world.   It never took place.  Still, more than 167 countries are found to be violating Human Rights  but only Israel is on the docket for their scathing meetings about it, it seems to me since I can remember.         

Since Human Rights Council came into being in 2006, it has been on the rag complaining about Israel, created in 1948.  Attacks actually started by Arab countries in 1947.  

• UN Human Rights Council: From its creation in June 2006 through June 2016, the UN Human Rights Council over one decade adopted 135 resolutions criticizing countries; 68 out of those 135 resolutions have been against Israel (more than 50%).  They have not stopped.  

• UN Nations General Assembly: From 2012 through 2015, the United Nations General Assembly has adopted 97 resolutions criticizing countries; 83 out of those 97 have been against Israel (86%). 
• World Health Organization: For one week every year, the UN World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), meets to formulate global health policy. Resolutions are adopted to address global health issues. There is one exception: the annual resolution entitled “Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan,” which singles out Israel for condemnation; no other country in the world is condemned by the WHO. (See new attack on Israel below.)
• ILO: The International Labour Organization (ILO) was established to improve conditions of labor, regulate work hours, fight unemployment, assure adequate living wages, and protect workers worldwide. At its annual conference, however, the ILO produces a single country-specific report castigating Israel. The ILO issued a deeply flawed, misleading and misrepresentative report on the Palestinian territories.
  Last month, at the 103rd session of the International Labour Conference, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN agency dealing with labor issues, presented their 2014 report on “The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories.” The report, however, is deeply flawed, misleading and misrepresentative of realities on the ground.

1. Israel on Friday slammed a UN probe which concluded it was deliberately seeking to destroy healthcare in the Gaza Strip and abusing Palestinian detainees, branding the findings "outrageous".  "This report shamelessly portrays Israel's operations in terror-infested health facilities in Gaza as a matter of policy against Gaza's health system, while entirely dismissing overwhelming evidence that medical facilities in Gaza have been systematically used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for terrorist activities," it said.

2. Now, "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (Oct 13) told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to withdraw the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldiers from the combat areas in the southern region of the country. Addressing the UN chief in a Hebrew message, Netanyahu said the UNIFIL soldiers were being used as human shields by the Hezbollah militants. "It is time for you to withdraw UNIFIL from Hezbollah strongholds and from the areas of combat. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has repeatedly asked for this, and has been met with repeated refusals, all aimed at providing a human shield to Hezbollah terrorists,” said Netanyahu. 

The adoption on 29 November 1947, by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan of partition of Mandatory Palestine was one of the earliest acts of the United Nations. This followed the report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. Since then, it has maintained a central role in this region, including the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People. The UN has sponsored several peace negotiations between the parties, the latest being the 2002 Road map for peace.

Within a few days of the passing of the Partition Plan (Resolution 181), full scale Jewish–Arab fighting broke out in Palestine. It also led to anti-Jewish violence in Arab countries, and to a Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. In an attempt to mediate the continuing Jewish–Arab fighting in Palestine, UN General Assembly by Resolution 186 of 14 May 1948 called for the appointment of "United Nations Mediator in Palestine".

The Arab League became part of the UN.  This was when Israel was ALWAYS in the wrong with them and held in contempt, while all others were given a pass, even though they had committed an abundancy of wrongs.  The Arab League (LAS) and the United Nations (UN) have a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed in 1989. The UN opened a Liaison Office in Cairo in 2019, the first such office to be funded through the UN's regular budget. The two organizations also regularly hold meetings and exchange staff. The LAS was founded in 1945 in Cairo to promote the interests of its member countries. The LAS and the UN share a mission to promote peace, security, and stability, they say, but as I see it, to gang up and attack Israel constant through the UN.  They promote Arab interests only.   

Admission to Israel's membership was conditional on Israel's acceptance and implementation of Resolutions 181 (the Partition Plan) and 194 (besides other things, on status of Jerusalem and the return of Palestinian refugees). On 11 May 1949, the General Assembly by the requisite two-thirds majority approved the application to admit Israel to the UN by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273. The vote in the General Assembly was 37 to 12, with 9 abstentions. Those that voted for were: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Byelorussia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Ukraine, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia. Those that voted against were 6 of the then 7 members of the Arab League (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen) as well as Afghanistan, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Iran and Pakistan. Those abstaining were: Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, El Salvador, Greece, Siam, Sweden, Turkey and United Kingdom.  Many of the countries that voted in favour or had abstained had already recognised Israel before the UN vote, at least on a de facto basis.

It is so obvious that the UN never finds favor with Israel, but only finds fault.  One could hope that the Abraham Accords would cause a little let-up in this, but it hasn't happened yet.  Israel is now fighting on 7 fronts in order to exist.  Iran's power has backed Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorism as well as Gaza's Hamas terrorists.  Iran has involved themselves now with ballistic missiles shot from there into Israel.  How much do you want to bet that these attackers will be praised in the UN and that Israel will be criticized for defending itself? 

The leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union who participated in the negotiations that led to the United Nations in 1945 were:

• Franklin D. Roosevelt: President of the United States
• Winston Churchill: Prime Minister of Britain
• Joseph Stalin: Premier of the Soviet Union 

These leaders met at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 to discuss the future of the United Nations. The conference was held in Yalta, Ukraine, a Russian resort town. The leaders and their foreign ministers and chiefs of staff agreed to call a United Nations conference in San Francisco on April 25, 1945 to prepare the charter for the organization. 

I. The United States was admitted to the United Nations (UN) on October 24, 1945, when it ratified the UN Charter: The United States signed the UN Charter on June 26, 1945, at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.  The United States Senate ratified the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89–2. The UN officially came into existence when the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and China) and a majority of the other signatories ratified the Charter. The first meetings of the UN General Assembly and Security Council took place in London in January 1946.

II. The Lebanese Republic is one of the 51 founding members of the United Nations when it signed the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945.

III. The State of Israel was admitted to the United Nations (UN) as its 59th member on 11 May 1949. Since then, it has participated in a wide range of UN operations and has endeavored to make its full contribution to UN organizations dealing with health, labor, food and agriculture, education and science.

Reference:

https://unwatch.org/un-israel-key-statistics/

https://unwatch.org/ilo-on-auto-pilot-against-israel/  

https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-slams-un-probe-findings-of-deliberately-destroying-gazas-healthcare-as-outrageous-766599?utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=messenger_push_notifications&utm_campaign=Israel%20slams

https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-vs-un-netanyahu-tells-guterres-to-withdraw-south-lebanon-peacekeepers-767053?utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=messenger_push_notifications&utm_campaign=Israel%20vs%20UN:%20Netanyahu%20tells%20Guterr

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

https://www.itmustbenow.com/feature/our-big-questions/countries-violate-human-rights/

https://research.un.org/en/unmembers/founders

https://www.google.com/search?q=1945+presidents+of+USA%2C+britain%2C+France%2C+Russia%2C+et+signing+UN&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS1030US1030&oq=1945+presidents+of+USA%2C+britain%2C+France%2C+Russia%2C+et+signing+UN&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOd

Remember When USA Gave Money to Iran?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

How could Iran afford to buy so many ballistic missiles to use against Israel?  Here's when they had lots of money.  

WashingtonCNN — 

The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane

 delivery of $400 million in cash in 2016 on the same day Iran released four

 American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US 

officials confirmed Wednesday.

President Barack Obama approved the $400 million transfer, which he had 

announced in January as part of the Iran nuclear deal. The money was flown 

into Iran on wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other 

currencies as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving claims 

at an international tribunal at The Hague over a failed arms deal under the 

time of the Shah.

7The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that in January 2016, the Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran.

The Wall Street Journal broke news that the Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran. The money was owed as part of a failed arms deal prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But the payment coincided within the release of four Americans imprisoned in Tehran, raising questions about cash for prisoners.                                                 

                                                  Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin Senator 

In 2015, Baldwin, Democrat,  voted with Democrats against a Republican effort to block Democratic former President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Republicans failed to get the 60 votes needed to block the deal, which lifted U.S. sanctions on Iran in exchange for limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities. In other words, the Democrats took off the sanctions preventing Iran from receiving money!  Iran's nuclear capabilities have just gone underground, secretly developing to the level it is at today.  

Then,  Baldwin was one of the first U.S. senators to urge the Biden administration to  refreeze the money after the Hamas attacks on Israel. She joined a bipartisan group of 13 senators in an Oct. 13 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The 2015 agreement didn’t send money to Iran, but rather freed up Iranian assets previously frozen under sanctions. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew who  told lawmakers in July 2015 that Iran would gain access to an estimated $56 billion under the deal, though other estimates from Iranian officials placed that number lower.

Donald Trump criticized the move today at his rally in Portland, Maine.

DONALD TRUMP (R), Presidential Nominee: Four hundred million in cash. It's being flown in an airplane to Iran. I wonder where that money really goes, by the way. Right? I wonder where it really goes.  Well, it went to either in their pockets, which I actually think more so, or toward terrorism, probably a combination of both.

Besides this amount, another commentator said that President Barack Obama's administration had given $150 billion to Iran, effectively, they argued, funding Hamas.  Thus, Obama managed to give Iran $150 billion + $400 million=150.4 billion US$

The Biden administration on November 14, 2023,  extended a sanctions waiver to allow Iran to access upwards of $10 billion in electricity revenue once held in escrow in Iraq. The waiver allows Baghdad to continue purchasing electricity from Iran and, in a change from past policy, for Iran to convert its revenue into euros and draw on the money for budget imports out of Iraq and Oman. So now, $150.4 billion + $10 billion =

$160.4 billion dollars.  

The extension comes just over a month after Hamas — a terrorist group armed and funded by the regime in Tehran — conducted a surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping more than 240, which would be the October 7th massacre . Other proxies financed and armed by Tehran have attacked U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria with rockets and drones.

The July waiver came just as an unacknowledged nuclear understanding between the United States and Iran, evading the congressional review requirement of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. Weeks later, the administration agreed to release another $6 billion in Iranian funds frozen in South Korea as part of a deal to secure the release of Tehran’s American hostages

According to the Associated Press, U.S. officials insist Iran can only spend the released funds on humanitarian purchases, including food, medicine, medical equipment, and agricultural goods. Yet opponents of the waiver note that money is fungible and that the waiver will allow the regime to free up funds to continue arming its anti-U.S. and anti-Israel proxies.  Is this still happening?  

Since the war, Tehran has steadily expanded its missile arsenal. It has also invested heavily in its own industries and infrastructure to lessen dependence on unreliable foreign sources. It is now able to produce its own missiles, although some key components still need to be imported. Iran has demonstrated that it can also significantly expand the range of acquired missiles, as it has done with Nodong missiles from North Korea, which it then renamed.  Iran’s missiles can already hit any part of the Middle East, including Israel. Over time, Tehran has established the capacity to create missiles to address a full range of strategic objectives. 

• Iran’s indigenous Fateh-110 family of solid-fuel missiles have achieved the precision necessary to destroy military and critical-infrastructure targets reliably, as demonstrated during its January 2020 attack against U.S. forces stationed at Ayn al Asad airbase in Iraq using Zolfaghar missiles. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Netanyahu showed all in the UN in 2018 how close Iran was to having nuclear power to use in their missiles, and the USA didn't listen because they went out to lunch.  They simply walked out just before he spoke.

Today, on October 11, 2024,  Iran has significantly advanced nuclear capabilities, possessing a large stockpile of enriched uranium, including material close to weapons-grade, which could theoretically be used to produce multiple nuclear weapons if further enriched, though the US intelligence community currently assesses that Iran is not actively pursuing the development of a nuclear device; however, experts warn that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon relatively quickly if it chooses to do so, with estimates of "breakout time" ranging from several months to a year depending on the level of enrichment required.

Resource:

https://iranprimer.usip.org/resource/irans-ballistic-missile-program

ttps://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/15/iran-receives-access-to-10-billion-thanks-to-u-s-sanctions-waiver/

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/15/iran-receives-access-to-10-billion-thanks-to-u-s-sanctions-waiver/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/us-give-iran-150-billion-barack-obama-jack-posobiec-1835083

https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/about/about-tammy

https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable-weapon-potential#:~:text=Dividing%20the%202%2C295%20SWU%20by,revised%20April%2013%2C%201995).