Good-Bye New York City: Not A Welcome Place For Jews

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

Nakba with New York's Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City, a position he has held since January 1, 2026, is showing it's true colors. Prior to his mayoral election, he represented the 36th District in the New York State Assembly.  Other New York mayors are not happy with it.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has repeatedly made clear that he is strongly pro-Palestine and critical of the Israeli government, took to social media on Friday to recognize Nakba Remembrance Day, thus doubling down on his beliefs.  Origin of the Commemoration: The day has been marked since 1949 and was officially inaugurated by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1998.

In a May 15 post on X, the mayor described Nakba Day as “an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.”

The post included a video interview with a Palestinian New Yorker named Inea, who described her experience as a 9-year-old of having to flee her home during the historical event. 

I'm going to show how the Nakba is full of lies.  Mamdani is celebrating an occurrence the Palestinians caused to themselves.  Please keep reading:  

                             Chaim Weizmann and Emir Faisal, almost buddies at the conference.  They wanted the same thing.  

During the Paris Peace Conference (which spanned from 1919 to 1920), Weizmann did, however, negotiate and collaborate closely with an Arab leader, Emir Faisal of the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz. Weizmann and Faisal famously signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was designed to foster an alliance. Under this treaty, Faisal supported Jewish settlement in Palestine in exchange for Zionist support for the establishment of an independent Arab state in much of the former Ottoman Empire.

What Palestinians are  truly remembering is this:  The UN Partition Plan (1947): In November 1947, the United Nations passed a resolution to divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. The Arab leadership rejected the plan, and tensions quickly escalated into conflict.  The world had been in conflict with World War I.  The Ottoman Empire, which contained Palestine belatedly, was on the side of the Axis headed by Germany.  The League of Nations, the mother of the United Nations,                                

    1920 San Remo Conference:  The post-WWI San Remo Conference allocates former Ottoman territories to Britain and France and recognizes Jewish self-determination in Palestine by adopting the language of the Balfour Declaration, decisions the League of Nations confirms two years later.

                                                           

At the end of World War I, the League of Nations was in charge of managing international cooperation and maintaining global peace. It was established in 1920 through the Treaty of Versailles, while the United Nations was not founded until 1945, at the end of World War II. These 51 founding members were: The "Big Five" (Permanent Security Council): Republic of China, France, Soviet Union (USSR), United Kingdom, and United States.  Other Founding Members: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belarus), Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippine Commonwealth (Philippines), Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukraine), Union of South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugosla.  

David Ben-Gurion, then the chairman of the Jewish Agency, announced the birth of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. He proclaimed the independence of the new Jewish state at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, while Golda Meir was among the 25 people who signed the historic Israeli Declaration of Independence.  Israel was created after 30 years of waiting patiently and legally to be among other nations. With such developments as the League of Nations and United Nations, there was to be no more of a Roman creation that would attack any  group like it did to Judah in 70 CE again.  They were to have checks and balances.  

Israel was officially admitted as a member state of the United Nations on May 11, 1949, though it was able to announce its birth when the UK pulled out, ending the 30 year mandate, on  May 14, 1948.  The 1948 War: As the British Mandate expired and Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, neighboring Arab armies intervened, leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The UN General Assembly approved Israel's application for membership via Resolution 273, with 37 countries voting in favor and 12 against. This historic vote made Israel the 59th member of the organization.

In 1945, there was no mass forced displacement (or "moving") of Palestinians. The mass displacement of Palestinians occurred during the 1947–1948 war, known as the Nakba. 

Newly born Israel found itself immersed in a 1947-1948 war. The Arab-Israeli  War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel  on May 14, 1948. A few look familiar today:  Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.  

                   Avraham Stern "Yair", (1907-1942 died at 35)

 In 1945, the primary Jewish groups in Mandatory Palestine were operating as underground militias fighting British rule or as settlement and land organizations of which my cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, fighting  with the Stern Group, led by Avraham Stern or Yair, who died in 1942,  was one. He was killed by the British police while being arrested;  something happening many times lately in the USA against the Blacks.  The displacement was driven by intense fighting. The Stern Group, officially known as Lehi (an acronym for Lohamei Herut Yisrael or "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel"), was a group of young men digusted with the man-handling of the British against the Jews and  during the 1947–1948 period, they transitioned from an underground anti-British resistance movement into an active combatant faction during the Arab-Israeli War.  The British, of course, called them a "gang, the Stern Gang."  So it was the "Stern Gang" who won against 5 Arab nations?  There was no IDF in those days;  the ink was still wet on the papers they signed for their birth!  Perhaps the Arabs just scattered, themselves, afraid of the Jews? 

Case Closed 

Resource

https://www.amny.com/news/nyc-jewish-community-reacts-to-mamdani-nakba-day/

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

ILTV Remembers Syria's Devious President Was Terrorist

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani spoke to supporters at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus hours after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad

ILTV agrees with my past statements that the present Syrian President, Jolani, real name is Ahmed al-Sharaa (sometimes spelled Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa).  He previously used the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani.  Jolani is not to be forgotten that his whole life has been spent being a terrorist, and a leader at that of terrorism.  Trump seems to have forgotten this little fact in his dealings with him.  Of course, Trump likes people who can force others to do his bidding.  

Doesn't Trump know that Jolani's journey as a jihadist began in Iraq, linked to al-Qaeda through the Islamic State (IS) group's precursor - al-Qaeda in Iraq and, later, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel on Saturday of “exporting crises” to other countries as a way to divert attention from the “horrifying massacres” it is committing in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Addressing the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital, Sharaa claimed that Israel was attempting to justify its actions against several Middle Eastern countries under the false pretext of “security concerns”.

“Israel… tries to run away from the horrifying massacres committed in Gaza, and it does so by attempting to export crises,” Sharaa said in conversation with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour.

Now we see Amanpour diving into aping what a terrorist says

about Israel as the gospel truth like Nicholas Kristof has done.

After the 2003 US-led invasion, he joined other foreign fighters in Iraq and, in 2005, was imprisoned at Camp Bucca, where he enhanced his jihadist affiliations and later on was introduced to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the quiet scholar who would later go on to lead IS.

In 2011, Baghdadi sent Jolani to Syria with funding to establish al-Nusra Front, a covert faction tied to ISI. By 2012, Nusra had become a prominent Syrian fighting force, hiding its IS and al-Qaeda ties.

Lately, The Syrian government has been continuously demanding a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Syria. Damascus condemns these Israeli ground incursions, military operations, and detentions in areas such as Quneitra as blatant violations of Syrian sovereignty. 

Syrian officials are actively pursuing a security agreement that would secure the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1974 ceasefire lines, while pausing broader negotiations over the Golan Heights. The Syrian government continues to press the international community and the United Nations to pressure Israel into halting its military footprint in the region. 

Diplomatic Stance: While Damascus has chosen a diplomatic route to avoid further escalation after years of civil conflict, al-Sharaa states that negotiations are incredibly difficult. He has strongly rejected any recognition of Israeli control over the Golan Heights.

The 1974 Baseline: Syria's core demand is that Israel must strictly adhere to the 1974 disengagement agreements and withdraw from any areas its forces have penetrated.

Current Status: Syrian officials maintain they are seeking a security agreement to guarantee a withdrawal, but note progress is severely hampered by Israel's insistence on maintaining a presence and creating a wide buffer zone on Syrian soil.

This admiration for the strong horse, Jolani aka Sharaa,  is a middle-east social way of life that is normal for Trump lately.  It's going to backfire and lose him a lot of votes.  We don't all go for the strongest but the one most admirable and moral.  

ILTV (Israel News) coverage of Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) and the Syrian transition government highlights his shifting demands regarding Israel. Their programming analyzes his calls for an Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territories, alongside his parallel push for U.S.-backed negotiations and Syria's evolving role in the region.

The Withdrawal Demand: ILTV has covered Jolani's demands for the IDF to pull back from the strategic buffer zones and heights seized in southern Syria, presenting this as a complex geopolitical hurdle.

U.S. Mediation & Peace Deals: Broadcasts explore the diplomatic efforts, reportedly mediated by the U.S. and UAE, evaluating whether these negotiations could transition into a non-aggression pact or normalization.

Geopolitical Leverage: Commentary examines the pressure on the transitional Syrian leadership to secure Israeli concessions, the high-ground leverage in the Golan Heights, and the risks of domestic backlash.  All this procedure is wasted time spent expecting a terrorist with ultimate goals pertaining only to him to be valued.  They go through wasted  motions probably hoping to get cheesecake at the end of such meetings.  

Resource: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q0w1g8zqvo

https://www.facebook.com/TheJerusalemPost/posts/israel-syria-talks-advance-but-key-security-questions-lingerisrael-navigated-dec/1324158153071489/

Denver Marathon With Keliq Washington

 Nadene Goldfoot

Kali finished with 6 medals, of which 3 was awarded to him just this  year!   In getting ready to leave, Portland weather was cool, windy and rainy.  "Sounds like Denver is gonna be hot! Glad the weather will cool down when I get back'. he related. 

 Kali wears elastic socks because he had recently sprained his ankle badly enough to check it out for broken bones at the hospital, so it's on the mend.  Just what he needed as a marathon runner!!!  Still, he was able to join a running club and be sponsored by them in the race.  Being a nursing student at the nearby college kept him being very careful about helping the healing progress.

                                                    

                                                  

                                           

He ran the 26.2 miles and stumbled once in the middle of it but was able to right himself and not fall.  It must have been a scary moment. 
                                                                      

Kali's Denver family was not only there but his sister also ran. 
                                                                                         

There he is, still able to stand after all that way of 26.2 miles of running.

"Marathons are booming — can the world’s top races keep up?

Fueled by the rise of run clubs, social media influencers and a growing interest in wellness, demand for marathons has surged in recent years."

                                                  

                                                   

                 Keep on going, Kali, I can see you, I think.  

Participants in the 2026 Eugene Marathon are off and running along Agate Street in Eugene April 26, 2026.Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard, Keliq's first marathon this year in Oregon where he medaled.  

That running boom has pushed demand for entry into the world’s premier races to unprecedented levels.

At the center of the frenzy is the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a circuit of seven of the sport’s most coveted races: London, New York, Berlin, Chicago, Tokyo, Boston and, most recently, Sydney. For many runners, completing all six of the original races has become the sport’s ultimate achievement, a feat that comes with a giant doughnut-shaped “six-star” medal and bragging rights for completing the equivalent of the “Amazing Race” for marathoners.

                 Keliq in a practice run before Denver,

Time Limit: There is a 6-hour time limit for the marathon (an average pace of 13:44 per mile).

Altitude: It is one of the highest urban races in the country, run at exactly 5,280 feet. That affects breathing.  Portland is at sea level.  The change will be dramatic !  

More than 22,000 people have completed the medal, according to Abbott, and hundreds of thousands more are chasing it.  The increasing popularity of the series is clear, attracting celebrities like musician Harry Styles, who ran the series’ Tokyo and Berlin marathons this year, along with hundreds of thousands of others.

Demand for entry into the races has become so high that it has fueled an industry around access. Beyond the handful of guaranteed entries for ultrafast runners or charity fundraisers, one of the only ways to secure a spot is through marathon tour companies that sell bibs bundled with travel packages for thousands of dollars. Other hopefuls can try their chances in ultracompetitive lotteries put on by six of the seven marathons, but chances are slim. The New York City Marathon admitted just 3% of lottery applicants last year — lower odds than getting into an Ivy League college.

Denver's turnout in 2018.  More than 19,000 athletes were anticipated to participate in the Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon weekend in Denver (held May 19–20, 2018). This total figure includes runners across multiple race events, as the weekend featured a full marathon, half marathon, 10-miler, and relays.

An estimated 28,000 runners participated in the 2026 Denver Colfax Marathon, the region's largest running event held on the weekend of May 15-17. The milestone 20th anniversary of the race weekend featured multiple distance categories, including a 5K, half marathon, urban 10-miler, full marathon of 26.2 miles, and the marathon relay.

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-runner-denver-upcoming-marathon.html

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2026/05/marathon-run-in-denver-sunday-may-17.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/track-field/marathon-interest-boom-races-abbott-majors-world-rcna233298

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2026/04/multitudes-of-important-events-today.html

                                                                             

Supporter Of Israel Like Elizabeth Taylor

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             
                       

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was 2 years older than myself (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) died at 79,  was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.

Where are supporters of Israel like Elizabeth Taylor was?  Taylor was raised as a Christian Scientist and converted to Judaism (Reform Branch) in 1959. Although two of her husbands – Mike Todd and Eddie Fisher – were Jewish, Taylor stated that she did not convert because of them, and had wanted to do so "for a long time", and that there was "comfort and dignity and hope for me in this ancient religion that [has] survived for four thousand years.  I feel as if I have been a Jew all my life." Walker believed that Taylor was influenced in her decision by her godfather, Victor Cazalet, and her mother, who were active supporters of Zionism during her childhood.

Following her conversion, Taylor became an active supporter of Jewish and Zionist causes. In 1959, she purchased $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, which led to her films being banned by Arab countries throughout the Middle East and Africa. She was also barred from entering Egypt to film Cleopatra in 1962, but the ban was lifted two years later after the Egyptian officials deemed that the film brought positive publicity for the country. In addition to purchasing bonds, Taylor helped to raise money for organizations such as the Jewish National Fund, and sat on the board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Taylor also advocated for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel, cancelled a visit to the USSR because of its condemnation of Israel due to the Six-Day War, and signed a letter protesting the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975. In 1976, she offered herself as a replacement hostage after more than 100 Israeli civilians were taken hostage in the Entebbe skyjacking. She had a small role in the television film made about the incident, Victory at Entebbe (1976), and narrated Genocide (1981), an Academy Award-winning documentary about the Holocaust.

Taylor's health increasingly declined during the last two decades of her life and she rarely attended public events after 1996. Taylor had serious bouts of pneumonia in 1990 and 2000, two hip replacement surgeries in the mid-1990s, a surgery for a benign brain tumor in 1997, and successful treatment for skin cancer in 2002. She used a wheelchair due to her back problems and was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She died of the illness aged 79 on March 23, 2011, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, six weeks after being hospitalized. Her funeral took place the following day at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The service was a private Jewish ceremony presided by Rabbi Jerome Cutler. At Taylor's request, the ceremony began 15 minutes behind schedule, as, according to her representative, "She even wanted to be late for her own funeral." She was entombed in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum.

Richard Burton as Mark Antony with Taylor as Cleopatra in Cleopatra (1963)  During her prime in the 1950s and 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor was widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world, often cited as a "miracle of construction" due to her rare violet eyes, thick lashes, and high-contrast features. She was frequently voted the most beautiful woman in lists and polls.

Resource:

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