Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Operaion Midnight Hammer Versus Threats Of Missiles From Fordow?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

Iran Missile Launch Tests started yesterday at 7:30am supposedly concern over US and Israel strike on Iran.  I guess I would do the same if I were in their position;  say such a thing knowing it would scare Trump.  It should be that Trump's air force destroyed all the missiles already.  

On June 22, 2025, the U.S. Air Force executed "Operation Midnight Hammer," a major, covert strike against three Iranian nuclear/missile-related sites (Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan). The mission involved over 125 total U.S. aircraft, including 7 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers that dropped 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.
Key details of the operation include:
  • Targeted Sites: The strike targeted nuclear infrastructure at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
  • Aircraft Involved: The operation utilized more than 125 aircraft, which included 7 B-2 stealth bombers, along with F-35/F-22 fighters, refueling tankers, and surveillance planes.
  • Munitions Used: A total of 75 precision-guided weapons were dropped, including 14 GBU-57 "bunker buster" bombs, marking the first combat use of this weapon.
  • Mission Profile: The 7 B-2 bombers flew 18-hour missions from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, to Iran.
  • Results: The operation caused severe damage to the targeted facilities.
Resource:
https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-february-9-2026
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Monday, February 9, 2026

Area C, Why It Must Be Jewish Land in Judea and Samaria, Part II

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                


It may be a race against time.  Jews are not about to lose the chance to live in their Ancestral Land.  As of February 2026, the Israeli security cabinet has approved significant measures to tighten control over Area C in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), including the legalization of several illegal outposts, massive settlement expansion, and new land registration processes that bypass previous restrictions

These actions are designed to normalize life for Israeli settlers and strengthen Israel's grip on  the territory.     

and our calendars go from BCE to CE/AD.

Area C was set apart when the whole area was divided

 in A,B, and C.  A 

was for Arabs, B for a mix, and C for the Jews.  The 

Arabs have been

moving into C land as squatters.  They are breaking the

 rules.  

Now, these new rules will cover some of this without 

causing a war.  

  • Impact on Palestinians: These moves threaten to displace Palestinians, however,  accelerate the demolition of illegal Palestinian structures (which Regavim reported increased by 80% in 2022), and restrict Palestinian development in the 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli control.  This admits that Arabs have been living in 40% of Judea and Samaria today and have been infringing on land for Jews only.  
  • "The division of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) into Areas A, B, and C was established by the Oslo II Accord, officially known as the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in September 1995. This agreement, which followed the initial 1993 Oslo I Accord, divided the territory into three administrative zones.
    • Area A (approx. 18%): Full Palestinian Authority (PA) civil and security control.
    • Area B (approx. 22%): Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli-Palestinian security control.
    • Area C (approx. 60%+): Full Israeli civil and security control.
    •  British Promise of a Jewish Homeland, get only 10% of that original promise.  
    • "The British promise of a Jewish homeland was made by Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on November 2, 1917, in a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. Known as the Balfour Declaration, this public pledge supported a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine."of the leader of what was later called Saudi Arabia.  Seemingly, the left hand didn't know what the right hand had promised.  
    • attitude towards Jews spread. They were 2nd class, looked down upon...  Even in Arab countries, this prevailed at different times.  
    These divisions of ABC were intended as a five-year interim measure to facilitate a transition to Palestinian self-governance.each other.   
  • Israel will be 78 years old on May 14, 2026.  They have had their calm years and their bad years.  I remember when Iran was fighting against Iraq.  That was quiet time for me as I was in Israel from 1980-end of 85.  "The Iran-Iraq War lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Beginning with Iraq's invasion of western Iran on September 22, 1980, the eight-year conflict was characterized by trench warfare, chemical weapon usage, and significant civilian casualties, ending in a stalemate after both nations accepted a UN-brokered ceasefire."  

  • The war lasted so long that each was fighting with teen-aged soldiers asthe older ones had been killed.

  • Today Israelis  have had to fight and defend themselves on 7 fronts with the 8th just added by Netanyahu being anti-Semitism, which is more like 1939 in Europe in many parts.  The problem seems to stem from returning back to our ancient home because of the anti-Semitism of our adopted countries.  

  • Why?

  • It's a long story, but most interesting.  Check out the year 324 with the Roman Emperor Constantine.  

  • The Jews are a people with the bee in one's bonnet that there was only ONE G-D in the universe; ONE UNSEEN G-d, A FORCE, if you will.  They lived on a planet full of polytheism;  the belief in many gods doing all the jobs, and they even had relations with humans when they wanted or needed to.  They produced Semi-g-ds.  The Jews and their monotheism never wavered.  G-d wouldn't let them.  For this, they did not win the popularity contest. Oy vey!  While others were living on hunting and farming, our Jews were debating each other about religion, developing crafts they could take with them on the run like reading, math, writing, buying, trading, kept out of most all craft circles;  etc.  .  But this is for another day.   

  • Resource:     

  • https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/#:~:text=The%201995%20Oslo%20II%20Accord,in%20areas%20A%20or%20B.                             

  • https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/11/what-is-the-palestinian-authority-and-how-is-it-viewed-by-palestinianshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh


  

Interest In Buying Judea and Samaria Land ?

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Nadene Goldfoot                                          

This is Eretz Yisrael with Judea and Samaria in brown.  The names come from Jewish history.  Judea was one of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the Israel under Kings Saul, David and Solomon, and Jeroboam (933-912 BCE) who was not Solomon's son but the superintendent of labor who rebelled for the pittance they were earning, and divided the country.  Solomon's son, Rehoboam took the remaining state of Judah, Benjamin and Simeon and became their king under Judah's name, being it was the largest and included Jerusalem, the capital and most important.  Samaria or Shomron was the name of  the Capital of the Northern  kingdom of Israel, founded in about 880 BCE by King Omri, king of Israel (887-876 BCE) on a hill bought from Shemer as documented in I Kings 16:24.   

King Omri of Israel purchased the hill from Shemer for two talents of silver (approx. 150 pounds or 68 kg) to establish his new capital city, Samaria (1 Kings 16:24). Omri built the city on this hill around 880–870 BC, naming it Shomron (Samaria) in honor of Shemer.

 The site, 7 miles NW of Shechem-now Nablus, was on an isolated elevation dominating a wide countryside.  It city was on 25 acres.  It had withstood the siege of the Syrians but fell in 721 BCE to Sargon II of Assyria who resettled it with Cutheans who intermarried with the former population left behind.  Cutheans (or Cuthites) were a group of people from Cutha (or Cuthah), an ancient Babylonian city, who were forcibly resettled into Samaria by the Assyrian king in the 8th century BCE to replace the exiled Ten Tribes of Israel. They were largely identified with the Samaritans in Jewish tradition, often acting as opponents to the returning Jews during the Second Temple period.
They became the ancestors of the Samaritans..  

 Until now, Jews were prohibited from purchasing land directly and had to do so through locally registered companies. Under the new framework, most barriers to land purchases are removed, with transactions requiring only basic professional registration rather than approval from the Civil Administration.   The cabinet canceled a law banning land sales to foreigners and abolished the requirement for special transaction permits. 

Jewish buyers will now also be able to look up owners in land-owning registries and approach them directly with purchase offers. The government summarized the measures as allowing Jews to “purchase land in Judea and Samaria just as they purchase in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.”

[Sounds fair. If an Arab wants to sell his property and a Jew wants to buy it, and they both agree to make the transaction, what could be wrong with that? Unless, of course, you believe that Jews should be discriminated against and be prohibited to buy real estate??]

Also, planning and construction authority for the Jewish settlement in the city, including at the Cave of the Patriarchs, will be transferred from the Hebron municipality, which is under the Palestinian Authority, to Israeli authorities. Similar steps were approved for Rachel’s Tomb, located within Bethlehem’s municipal boundaries, including the establishment of a dedicated Israeli municipal administration for the site and an adjacent yeshiva.

The measures also authorize Israeli enforcement bodies to act against illegal Palestinian construction even in Area A, a move that until now had been largely restricted to Area B. The policy would allow demolitions and land expropriation in cases involving damage to archaeological or heritage sites.                          


Well, knock me down with a feather!!!  In a rare joint statement, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan condemned what they described as “illegal Israeli decisions and steps aimed at imposing illegitimate Israeli sovereignty, entrenching settlements and creating a new legal and administrative reality in the West Bank.” The EU also criticized the move. [So much for fairness and free economies.]

So much for buying your own land back, land that holds the indigenous Jews' ancestors' bones and memories.  The problem is these Arabs cannot admit that Jewish history started in Canaan which became their Israel.  It's known how most Arabs refuse to accept the fact that Jews were here first and have the Bible for proof.  It is unfortunate that Jews lost the land to many empires and countries, like England who held a 30 year mandate-like a lease, sort of, life with them for 30 years of their police/soldiers under their rule. We had family living under this that had returned.                                      


Where fools rush in, Angels fear to tread.  It's not a GOLD RUSH.  We had a lot of Angels buying land from Arabs who couldn't pay the taxes to the Ottoman Empire owners and were all too happy to find buyers who were Jews willing to pay their high prices.  

                             Baron Edmond de Rothschild

Key individuals and organizations facilitating Jewish land purchases from Arabs before and after 1920 included Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin, the Jewish National Fund, and philanthropists like Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934). The early Jewish Pioneers appealed to him in the early 1880s to save the land for the Jews.  He helped to protect their new settlements and visited the land in 1887, 1893, 1899, 1914 and 1925.  He bought 125,000 acres in Palestine and its to be credited with the settlement of Galilee and Samaria.  He and his wife,  Adelaide Rothchild are buried in Israel.  

Land was often purchased from absentee landlords through entities like the Palestine Land Development Company.land-purchasing company of the world zionist organization.

Established in 1908 by Arthur Ruppin, a German Jew, as part of the World Zionist Organization, the Palestine Land Development Company (PLDC) used Jewish National Fund and private monies to purchase and populate tracts of land with Jewish immigrants. It acquired extensive holdings in northern Palestine (Galilee), particularly in the 1920s and 1930s.

The PLDC bought nearly 90 percent of its land from large landowners, rather than individual peasants. Many of the transactions created controversy, such as the PLDC's purchase of 240,000 dunums (144,000 acres, 60,000 ha) of fertile land in the Jezreel valley between 1921 and 1925, its purchase of 30,000 dunums (18,000 acres, 7,500 ha) at Wadi Hawarith in 1929, and its assumption of the Lake Huleh concession in 1934. 

Oh yes, the Arabs were only too happy to sell their holdings and get out of the there.  They went on to Damascus and Paris, places like that.  Our angels found out what they bought;  land of mosquitoes and swamps, and had a lot to do to turn it into what it has become today.  

 People born and ancestrally native to a land are typically referred to as Indigenous peoples, original inhabitants, or natives of that region. They share deep, generational, and cultural connections to their ancestral land, often predating colonization or written history.