You Can Bet Your Boots: Answer to Who Started This War?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

 During breakfast and my deep conversation with my distant cousin, Merry Ann, I came up with the for sure answer to everyone's question of "Who started the War, Anyway?  "  Our advanced technology started it.  

Current Maximum Range: Iran's longest-range operational ballistic missiles (such as the Ghadr-110, Sejjil, or Khorramshahr) have ranges of roughly 2,000 to 3,000 kilometers (about 1,200 to 1,860 miles), which can reach parts of the Middle East, the Gulf, and parts of southeastern Europe, but not the United States.  Well, not yet, as far as AI knows.

   

This was the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  riding on a missile aimed at hitting Israel.  

It was our technical advancement that brought about the war;  having these intercontinental missiles that can be shot from Iran to USA in a straight shot;  that's what has brought it about.  An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is required to travel from Iran to the USA (a distance of roughly 10,000+ km). While Iranian officials have discussed long-term ambitions or ambitions to push past previous range limits, U.S. and international intelligence note that Iran has not fielded an operational ICBM, though components from its space launch program could potentially be adapted for such technology in the future.  

Showing off Shahab intercontinental missile in Iran 

We discussed what causes man to kill another, and decided it was to hold onto what they had worked and died for and not wanting to share-though some groups did just that and grew larger.

Have we ignored the fact of long ago Iran calling the USA the  Big Satan and Israel the Little Satan?  Their goal, coming from their extreme line of Islam, was to destroy these Satans, and they haven't changed.   Ayatollah Khomeini: The term was popularized by Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a speech on November 5, 1979, shortly after the start of the Iran hostage crisis.  Theological Meaning: In Islamic theology, Satan (Shaytan) is a deceptive tempter who misleads people through false promises, materialism, and arrogance. Khomeini used this framework to portray U.S. culture, secularism, and political influence as a corrupting force against Islamic values.  They showed us all how they would achieve this by their October 7th 2023 act of killing Israelis (Jews).                           

Iran’s actions against the United States and Israel span over four decades of state rhetoric, direct and proxy military engagements, and covert operations.   Official Rhetoric and Slogans: Iranian leaders and military officials have repeatedly used destructive language regarding Israel’s existence, such as calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or eliminated from the "global political map" (a phrase historically traced back to statements by Ayatollah Khomeini and later echoed by officials like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—IRGC—commanders). Ballistic missiles tested by Iran have also occasionally featured anti-Israel slogans painted in Farsi and Hebrew.

The situation in the Strait of Hormuz: The broader military clashes trace back to the outbreak of the war on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched an air campaign against Iran. In response, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) largely blocked shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz—a vital global energy chokepoint—by issuing warnings, boarding merchant vessels, laying sea mines, and using drones and missile launchers.

Oil and LNG Choke Point: Roughly 20% of the world's daily petroleum and liquid fuels—about 20 million barrels per day—and nearly 20% of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) pass through the narrow channel. 
Limited Alternatives: Only a fraction of this volume can be rerouted through alternative pipelines (such as those in Saudi Arabia or the UAE), leaving a massive daily deficit if the strait closes. Countries like Iraq, Kuwait, and Iran have virtually no way to bypass it for their primary oil exports. 
Market Shocks: Even partial disruptions or slowdowns cause immediate spikes in global oil and natural gas prices, driving up inflation and transportation costs worldwide.

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A Different Makeup of Israel's Possible New Government: Eisenkot

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

Street art of Yair Golan in honor of his heroism during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.  Right now he's one of the men making up our Democratic Party of election on Eisenkot's team.  The writing is the cursive writing form of Hebrew.   

President Isaac Herzog has given Gadi Eisenkot the mandate to form the next government, after 67 MKs recommended him vs. only 46 for Netanyahu.

Joint List supporters celebrate exit poll results at the party headquarters in Nasserah, Israel, on Tuesday.Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu via Getty

Remember, Israel is a type of Democracy, modeled after England's, and 20% of Israel is made up of an Arab population.

Eisenkot managed to get to his number because all of the Arab MKs endorsed him. Netanyahu called for a unity government, but Eisenkot responded that any cooperation would require the prime minister to sever ties with extremist elements of his political bloc, which would include Ben Gvir and probably also Smotrich.                                                          

Bennett on left, Liberman above, Golan Below

Eisenkot met individually with the leaders of the parties in his potential coalition, including Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Liberman and Yair Golan. Eisenkot has shown willingness to form a minority government reliant on the Arab vote to pass laws in the Knesset. Liberman has said that he rejects the minority government idea and instead, is willing to sit with the Ultra-Orthodox parties despite his past refusal to ever do so. Bennett has yet to release any statements regarding his position after meeting with Eisenkot. 

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said that investigators had uncovered no evidence of foreign interference capable of changing the results of last month's parliamentary election: "I am not aware of any evidentiary basis that comes even close to affecting the election results or substantiating a claim of influence that could have changed the outcome. If additional new information that has not yet been presented to us emerges, it will be examined and

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2026/10/election-day-is-here-in-israel.html

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

 handled in accordance with the law." 

The Worst American Anti- Semite Of All

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                         

People of today will be very surprised to find out that Henry Ford did more to cause anti-Semitism than even General Patton.  "Henry Ford was a prominent American industrialist whose promotion of severe antisemitism significantly amplified hate speech and conspiracy theories in the United States and abroad."  What is sickening are the Jews who worked making Fords, or mechanics working only on Fords who were Jews during any years, because they had a good job. Dearborn is an inner-ring suburb of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan. 

Key Facts About Dearborn

Population: Approximately 110,000 residents (ranking as the seventh-largest city in Michigan).  Automotive Roots: Known globally as the hometown of Henry Ford and the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company

                                                   

The Dearborn Independent and "The International Jew"

The Newspaper: In 1918, Ford purchased a local weekly paper, The Dearborn Independent, which grew to reach a circulation of nearly 900,000 readers by 1926. Ford Motor Company dealerships were heavily pressured to distribute and sell subscriptions to the public.  Antisemitic Content: Beginning in May 1920, the paper published a multi-year series of articles titled "The International Jew: The World's Problem".
 The articles heavily relied on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—a notorious 20th-century Russian forgery—falsely claiming a global Jewish conspiracy controlled banking, media, politics, and cultural shifts like jazz, movies, and modern social mores. Book Publication: The articles were later compiled and distributed into four bound volumes translated into multiple languages, including German.  Talk about  a brain-washing.  
Ford was a conspiracy theorist who drew on a long tradition of false allegations against Jews. Ford claimed that Jewish internationalism posed a threat to traditional American values, which he deeply believed were at risk in the modern world. Part of his racist and antisemitic legacy includes the funding of square-dancing in American schools because he hated jazz and associated its creation with Jewish people In 1920, Ford wrote, "If fans wish to know the trouble with American baseball they have it in three words—too much Jew.
In 1918, Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. In early 1920, Ford procured a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamously antisemitic fabricated text. He instructed the editors at the Independent to adapt the material in the Protocols to appeal to American audiences.^] Later in 1920, Ford's paper began publishing a series of articles in the paper, claiming a vast Jewish conspiracy was affecting America. The series ran in 91 issues. Every Ford dealership nationwide was required to carry the paper and distribute it to its customers. Ford later bound the articles into four volumes entitled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, which was translated into multiple languages and distributed widely across the US and Europe, selling more than 500,000 copies The International Jew blamed nearly all the troubles it saw in American society on Jews. The Independent ran under Ford's ownership until its closure in 1927. With around 700,000 readers of his newspaper, Ford emerged as a "spokesman for right-wing extremism and religious prejudice.
In Germany, Ford's The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem was published by Theodor Fritsch, founder of several antisemitic parties and a member of the Reichstag, influencing German antisemitic discourse. In a letter written in 1924, Heinrich Himmler described Ford as "one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters". Ford is the only American mentioned favorably in Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf, which appeared five years after Ford's antisemitic pamphlets were published in book form.
Impact and Influence on Adolf Hitler
Admiration by the Nazis: Ford's writings deeply influenced the early Nazi party. Adolf Hitler praised Ford in Mein Kampf (1925), kept a portrait of Ford in his office, and translated The International Jew into German during the 1920s. Hitler viewed Ford as a leader of a fascist movement in the United States.
Nazi Honors: In July 1938, on Ford's 75th birthday, Hitler awarded him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest decoration the Nazi regime could bestow on a foreign national.
Lawsuit, Apology, and Legacy
The Sapiro Lawsuit: In 1927, lawyer Aaron Sapiro filed a high-profile libel lawsuit against Ford over the antisemitic articles.  Closure and Apology: Facing intense pressure, a public backlash, and potential financial ruin, Ford shut down The Dearborn Independent in December 1927 and issued a signed retraction and apology, though he largely distanced himself from personal accountability for the publication's contents.
Cultural & Demographic Identity: Dearborn  is widely recognized as a major center of Arab American culture, featuring a large Lebanese and Iraqi population, vibrant commercial thoroughfares like Warren Avenue, the Arab American National Museum, and the Islamic Center of America.
Geography & Layout: The city is divided roughly into East Dearborn (known for its dense Arab-American community and culinary spots) and West Dearborn (featuring residential neighborhoods and commercial areas)
 Despite his intense public campaign of hate, Ford also employed Jewish individuals (such as his chief architect Albert Kahn), and maintain complex personal relationships with local figures like Detroit's Rabbi Leo Franklin.  it was money that blinded them;  that and the needs of their family.  
 Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ford expressed verbal sympathy for Jewish refugees seeking entry into the U.S. within quotas, even as his earlier published propaganda continued to be reprinted and weaponized by white supremacist and nationalist groups. 
 He opposed his country's entry into World War II, and served for a time on the board of the America First Committee. After his son Edsel died in 1943, Ford resumed control of the company, but was too frail to make decisions and quickly came under the control of several of his subordinates. He turned over the company to his grandson Henry Ford II in 1945. Upon his death in 1947, he left most of his wealth to the Ford Foundation and control of the company to his family.
What kind of 2-facedness has he shown?  It's again, my opinion, but that's how he used  to snow his parents, I feel, back-tracking, saying he didn't mean it.  I don't know why, but this guy used Jews as the scapegoat of all problems he encountered while getting to tell the world it was he, Henry Ford, who discovered this.  
Resource;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

An Unbelievable Anti-Semite: Gen. George S. Patton

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

Former prisoners of Wöbbelin, called "lower than animals" by Patton.  Jews of a subcamp of Neuengamme, are taken to a hospital for medical attention. Germany, May 4, 1945., probably after Eisenhower stepped in to find how they had been treated.  American forces began liberating concentration camp prisoners, including thousands of Jewish survivors, in April 1945.  

April 4, 1945: U.S. forces liberated the Ohrdruf subcamp of Buchenwald. 
April 11, 1945: The U.S. 3rd Army (Sixth Armored Division) entered Buchenwald, finding over 21,000 surviving prisoners.
April 13, 1945: U.S. troops intercepted and liberated a Nazi train carrying roughly 2,500 Jewish prisoners who had been evacuated from Bergen-Belsen. 
April 23, 1945: The U.S. 90th Infantry Division liberated the Flossenbürg concentration camp. 
April 29, 1945: U.S. forces (including the 42nd Rainbow Division, 45th Infantry Division, and 20th Armored Division) liberated the Dachau concentration camp.
Early May 1945: American forces also liberated camps such as Dora-Mittelbau and Mauthausen                     

Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse seen from inside the camp. The train track, in operation from May to October 1944, led toward the gas chambers^..   Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II): The largest Nazi complex, where over 1 million people—mostly Jews—were murdered using Zyklon B poison gas in industrial gas chambers and provisional farmhouses.  

Treblinka: An extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of victims were murdered using stationary gas chambers powered by engine exhaust.
Bełżec: A death camp utilizing stationary gas chambers with carbon monoxide from diesel engines. 
Sobibór: An extermination camp equipped with gas chambers using carbon monoxide
Chełmno (Kulmhof): The first Nazi killing center, which used mobile gas vans starting in December 1941. 
Majdanek: A combined concentration and extermination camp near Lublin, Poland, using both Zyklon B and carbon monoxide. 
Other Camps: Poison gas (primarily Zyklon B) was also used irregularly or in smaller capacities at concentration camps such as Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof, Ravensbrück, and Neuengamme.

At the end of World War II (late 1944 and into 1945), surviving Jewish prisoners were found and killed by the SS and Nazi guards primarily during death marches and evacuations from concentration camps and ghettos as the German Reich collapsed.  

Death Marches from Poland and the Reich: As Soviet forces advanced from the east and Allied forces closed in from the west, the SS evacuated remaining prisoners from camps like Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. Tens of thousands of Jewish and other prisoners were forced to march on foot in brutal winter conditions or crammed into open freight cars. Those who collapsed, could not keep pace, or tried to escape were shot on the spot by guards. 
Concentration and Transit Camps: In camps such as Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Mauthausen, and Jasenovac, thousands of starving and sick Jewish prisoners died from extreme neglect, disease (such as typhus), exhaustion, or late-stage executions by camp staff right up until Allied liberation.
And that Allied liberation;  something the Jews had been waiting for with their remaining breaths, were led by a Nazi-loving monster, America's Gen George Patton !  No one could have been worse.  He kept the Nazi order and maintained their feelings towards Jews!!!                                      

Born:  11 November 1885 in San Gabriel, California, U.S.

Died:  21 December 1945 (aged 60) Heideberg, Germany 

I was aghast at finding on you tube, information about Gen. George S. Patton. Now I find it's true.  He was a true anti-Semite.  

General George S. Patton held extreme antisemitic views that heavily influenced his administration of post-World War II displaced persons (DP) camps in the American occupation zone of Germany.  To think that Jews in the worst of conditions were transferred to another camp and then treated with the same hatred as the Nazis showed is unforgivable.  

Treatment of Jewish Survivors:  Unbelievable

Dehumanizing Views: Following World War II, Patton was tasked with overseeing DP camps. In his private diaries and letters, he wrote virulently antisemitic remarks, describing Jewish Holocaust survivors as "lower than animals" and claiming they had "no sense of human relationships". 
Displaced Persons (DP) camps were temporary facilities established after World War II in Germany, Austria, and Italy by Allied forces and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).

Remember the ship, The Exodus?  A group of former Exodus 1947 passengers stand behind the barbed wire enclosure at the Poppendorf displaced persons camp in Germany.  The Exodus 1947 was an illegal immigrant ship carrying 4500 Jewish displaced persons from Europe to Palestine during the final year of the British Mandate. It became the symbol of the struggle for the right of unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine and the need for a Jewish national home. In November 1946 the Mosad le-Aliya Bet (the Agency for Illegal Immigration) acquired an American ship, the President Warfield, an old Chesapeake Bay pleasure steamer. During World War II, the vessel had been converted into a troop ship for the British navy. After taking part in the Allied landing at Normandy, the ship was taken out of service and anchored in the ships' graveyard in Baltimore. Immediately after the Mosad purchased the vessel, its interior was reconfigured in order to maximize the number of passengers it could hold. By the end of January 1947 the initial conversion was comp... 
Overview of DP Camps
Population: They housed roughly 850,000 to 1 million uprooted individuals at their peak, including Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp prisoners, former prisoners of war, forced laborers, and refugees fleeing Soviet rule in Eastern Europe. 
Management & Relief: Early conditions were harsh and overcrowded, as documented in the 1945 Harrison Report, leading to gradual improvements under Allied military oversight, UNRRA, and later the International Refugee Organization (IRO) alongside Jewish relief groups like the Joint Distribution Committee.  
Harsh Camp Conditions: Patton maintained strict, prison-like conditions for Jewish displaced persons, keeping them under armed guard and delaying improvements to food, sanitation, and medical care. 
Resistance to Orders: When Earl G. Harrison—dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an envoy for President Harry S. Truman—inspected the camps and reported that Jewish survivors were being treated similarly to how the Nazis treated them (short of extermination),   Patton angrily rejected the findings.
De-Nazification and Conflict with Superiors
Employment of Former Nazis: Patton disobeyed Allied de-nazification directives by continuing to employ former Nazi party members and officials in administrative and supervisory roles over Jewish survivors. 
Conspiracy Beliefs: Patton recorded in his diary and expressed the belief that de-nazification efforts and pressure to help Jewish DPs were part of a "Semitic revenge virus" or a political plot. 
Removal from Command: President Truman strongly criticized Patton's administration, leading General Dwight D. Eisenhower to remove Patton from his post as military governor and commander of the Third/Fifteenth Army due to his insubordination and public controversies regarding his views on Jewish survivors


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Patton angrily rejected the findings