REVEALED: TWO-FACEDNESS OF OUR LEADERSHIP

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

Marjorie Taylor Greene is an American politician, and U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district. She has previously expressed support for the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory in Facebook videos, but has since distanced herself from these views.  How can a person view QAnon, the most anti-Semitic group espousing deadly goals for Jews, suddenly distance themselves?  What?  Did she discover she's losing followers?    She has again changed her tune.  She now says she has Trump's full support after talking to him on the phone.  How can I believe this now?  Has the phone call been verified?  

She said she would never apologize amid multiple controversies.  It comes amid accusations that she previously indicated support for the execution of House speaker Nancy Pelosi on social media in 2018, and was seen in a video in 2019 describing people with Down’s syndrome as “stupid”, among other controversial remarks and conspiracies.

                                                              

Christian nationalists and QAnon followers tend to be anti-Semitic.  Donald Trump's name has been connected to these two groups.  QAnon” is a baseless internet conspiracy theory whose followers believe that a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democrats, Hollywood celebrities and billionaires runs the world while engaging in pedophilia, human trafficking and the harvesting of a supposedly life-extending chemical from the blood of abused children. QAnon followers believe that Donald Trump is waging a secret battle against this cabal and its “deep state” collaborators to expose the malefactors and send them all to Guantánamo Bay.

Those claims have led to widespread criticism from congressional Democrats, some of whom have called for her to be expelled from the Republican caucus and Congress. 

I can't help thinking of the Squad, the group of 4 women  in the Democratic party and in both the House and Senate.  No one spoke up saying that they were against them being against Israel;   Israel-the country that is a friend of the USA.  I'm glad, however, that someone spoke out against Greene who cared nothing for the Down syndrome people.  

                      Top 10 Republican candidates in 2017   

    Top 20  Democratic candidates in "debates"   Biden in top row.  

Our past president, Donald Trump, has been supportive of Marjorie even when it was known that she was with QAnon.  How could he be the most supportive president we have had of Israel; the country, and the Jews therein and yet be supportive of all the groups showing their anti-Semitic sides like QAnon and all the veritable rest of them?  Then, there is the fact that Trump had been a Democrat who ran on the Republican ticket because he knew he couldn't run against Hillary Clinton who was the shoe-in of the Democratic ticket, show he ran on the Republican ticket.  He was not familiar with what they stood for, evidently, and they were not happy about him winning.  

Neo-Nazis, QAnon and Camp Auschwitz:  Hate Symbols and Signs on Display at the Capitol Riots.  You couldn't miss it.  

I'm afraid that these two are examples of people having no backbone, no standards in life.  They go with the flow, whatever will bring them the closest to their own personal goals, and with both these people, it has been votes. Votes are all they care about.   

Marjorie is a case and a half.  Greene was one of the 139 representatives who challenged the results of the 2020 US presidential election in Congress on January 7, 2021, the day after the storming of the U.S. Capitol. She has voiced support for conspiracy theories including Pizzagate, QAnon, false flag shootings as a means for Congress to legislate for gun control, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and the "Clinton Kill List". Her Facebook account has expressed support for executing prominent Democratic politicians. In January 2021, she filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden the day after his inauguration, alleging abuse of power, and Donald supports her.     

  Al Gore

Did anyone show her and Donald Trump that Al Gore's run for president was also very close, ending with his loss?  

The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, won the disputed election, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gore, the incumbent vice president. It is the fourth of five American presidential elections, and the first in 112 years, in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. It is considered one of the closest elections in US history.

Al didn't scream and cry about it like Donald has.  He didn't do anything to get even like Donald did in enticing the physical attack on the Senate.  Yet both the Republicans and Democrats have had 17 years to check, doublecheck or replace voting methods to be as accurate as our landing on the moon.  This was the 2000 election we're talking about.  George Walker Bush had a good run as it was, our president from 2001 to 2009-two terms.  

Erin Burnett, Out Front from CNN tells us that President Donald Trump praised a QAnon supporter who is on the verge of becoming a Republican member of Congress, tweeting that Marjorie Taylor Greene is "a real winner" after her primary victory. CNN's Manu Raju reports some Republicans who criticized her extreme and racist remarks are now supporting her.  She's now a heavy favorite to win a seat in Congress.  

It's believed that Q, the leader of QAnon, is a high-level government person.  They are very very racist.  He's supposed to be Militarily  knowledgeable.  He's connected to aliens from outer-space.  There is no end to what gullible people will swallow.  

Trump has said that Margorie is a Republican Star.  She certainly is getting a lot of negative attention with her stand of being supportive of QAnon , which she now backs away from?  Really?  

Our Oregon Republican Party says the Capitol riot was a false flag meant to discredit Donald Trump.  I heard his words and saw him speak on TV as many of Americans did.  He said these words.  It's verified, on tape.  It was no false flag.  It was shocking, though to see his two-facedness, his narcistic tendency to think only of his pain in losing and lack of feeling for our own USA government that he had been representative of.  Their Resolution suggests that the attack was ‘designed to discredit’ Trump and supporters, and condemns Republicans who voted to impeach.    

By going along with the off-beat,  bouncing off the wall, anti-Semitic group like QAnon only for votes, Donald and Margorie have harmed themselves.  It even hurts his support for Israel, for how can we believe that he truly felt that he had more than votes in mind?  One would hope he truly believed in the validity of what he had spoken up for, like Truman had done.  I had gone along with Trump feeling that he was going to do something good for Israel, and found at least 6 outstanding facts.  Support of a group like QAnon shows me another face, a very disappointing one.  

Resource:

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/26/christian-nationalists-qanon-followers-tend-be-anti-semitic-that-was-visible-capitol-attack/

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/08/12/qanon-house-republicans-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-raju-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/26/oregon-republican-false-flag-capitol/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUs4dS30c0&feature=push-sd&attr_tag=a_3p6qh7u6ygTOku%3A6

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-phone-latest-b1795186.html--by Gino Spocchia 

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/neo-nazis-qanon-and-camp-auschwitz-a-guide-to-the-hate-symbols-at-the-capitol-riot-1.9434983

What Went On Way Before the Days of Abraham? A Look At Our Earth

Nadene Goldfoot                                            

4,543 billion years ago, earth was created, so scientists figure.  The Bible never declares an age for the Earth, but evidence derived from the text fits most comfortably with a date far older than a few thousand years. RTB (Reasons to Believe-a Christian with science group) holds the position that the six days of creation represent long time periods and that the creation accounts reconcile well with the scientific date for Earth’s formation 4.6 billion years ago.  

Almost no rabbis believe that God completed the creation of the world close to 6,000 years ago, though our Jewish calendar says that this year of 2021 is 5,721.   This age is reflected in the chronology developed in a midrash, Seder Olam, but a literalist reading of the Book of Genesis is rare in Judaism. This age is attributed to the tanna Jose ben Halafta, and covers history from the creation of the universe to the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Nachmanides from the 1200s calculated an age of earth which is similar to modern scientific estimates.

Most modern rabbis believe that the world is older than 6,000 years. They believe such a view is needed to accept scientific theories, such as the theory of evolution. Rabbis who have this view base their conclusions on verses in the Talmud or in the midrash. For example:

• The Midrash says: God created many worlds but was not satisfied, and left the world he was satisfied with.
• Nachmanides (Moses ben Nahman) (1194–1270) writes: In the first day God created the energy (כח) "matter" (חומר) of all things, and then he was finished with the main creation. After that God created all other things from that energy.
• Some midrashim state that the "first week" of Creation lasted for extremely long periods of time.

Homo erectus were the first of the hominins to emigrate from Africa, and, from 1.8 to 1.3 million years ago, this species spread through Africa, Asia, and Europe. One population of H. erectus, also sometimes classified as a separate species Homo ergaster, remained in Africa and evolved into Homo sapiens.

I will figure that about 5,781 years ago was when Adam and Eve were on the planet, Homo sapiens that had the ability to speak, something Neanderthals may not have been able to do when they were alive.  That would take us back to the year 3,760 BCE.   This also happens to be the 5,781 year on the Jewish Calendar.  Abraham was born in the 2nd millennium BCE which was most likely the year of 1948 BCE.  

"Six million years ago as many as 18 different hominid species lived in East Africa. Now only one is left. How did it evolve and survive?  What drove the first migration of our forebears from Africa some 50,000 years ago and what that tells us about our continued evolution as a species of problem solvers.

The Neanderthals had a good run on this planet, Earth for 300,000 years before they were replaced by a better model about 50,000 years ago by the  Homo Sapiens, us.  Neanderthals went extinct about 42,000 years ago, but left their mark by intermixing with the Homo Sapiens to some extent in that most of us carry genes from them.  I myself have about 2.9% of genes from Neanderthals.  23% Me is one DNA company that tests for that.

Both Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens could make fire, flaked stone tools, and clothing from animal skins. We know they lived side by side for more than 10,000 years. What became of them? Did they mate with Homo sapiens? Genome sequencing indicates they may live on in some of us, discovered through DNA testing.  One website said that Neanderthals never wore jewelry.  Others say they did.  

“We think the Neanderthals had very low population numbers when modern humans arrived,” says Higham, perhaps in part because Europe was in the throes of an Ice Age at the time, so they were struggling against harsh conditions that couldn’t support large numbers of individuals. Modern humans, Higham observes, had been living in Africa, which was much more benign. “Modern humans also seemed to have more modern technology,” he says, “which wouldn’t have been a huge advantage, but over the long duration might have given them an edge.”

Manot Cave is a cave in Western Galilee, Israel, discovered in 2008. It is notable for the discovery of a skull that belongs to a modern human, called Manot 1, which is estimated to be 54,700 years old. The partial skull was discovered at the beginning of the cave's exploration in 2008.

                                                           

The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012. The cave was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic (500,000 to around 40,000 years ago). In the course of this period, deposits of sand, silt and clay of up to 25 m (82 ft) accumulated in the cave. Excavations suggest that it features one of the longest sequences of human occupation in the Levant.

                                                         

from New York Times

In a Cave in Israel, Scientists Find a Jawbone Fossil From the Oldest Modern Human Out of Africa.   Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of a fossilized human jawbone in a collapsed cave in Israel that they said is between 177,000 and 194,000 years old.Jan 25, 2018.  Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the fossil estimated as 177,000 to 194,000 years old, and said the teeth bore telltale traits of Homo sapiens not present in close human relatives alive at the time including Neanderthals.

The Cave of Elijah is a grotto that appears in the Hebrew Bible, where the prophet Elijah took shelter during a journey into the wilderness (1 Kings 19:8).

The exact location of the cave is unknown. There is a "Cave of Elijah" on Mount Carmel approximately 40 m above sea level in Haifa. For centuries it has been a pilgrimage destination for Jewish, Christian and Muslim people. Another cave associated with Elijah is located nearby, under the altar of the main church of the Stella Maris Monastery, also on Mount Carmel.

It all makes us realize the work involved in making our model-what we are today and how we have evolved, no easy thing.  It includes information we could not understand or comprehend until this day.  Our brains had to evolve.  Life is precious.  Do not waste it.  Appreciate what our ancestors did and thought to bring us to such a time.  We have the capability to make life even better.  We've gone to the moon and are exploring more in outer space.  There's not much we can't do except to make peace with each other and follow rules of law that help our civilization to work in harmony.  We're getting there while taking 2 steps forward and 1 step backwards.  The industrial age lasted from 1760 to 1840,  a total of 80 years.  Making peace is taking from the time Homo sapiens walked the earth till now, and we still haven't achieved peace on earth and good will towards all.  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

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

https://reasons.org/explore/publications/rtb-101/Biblical-evidence-old-earth?kw=how%20old%20is%20the%20earth&mt=e&loc=9032849&n=g&d=c&adp=&cid=9970814571&adgid=100954190775&tid=kwd-311303312295&gclid=CjwKCAiAgc-ABhA7

https://humanjourney.us/discovering-our-distant-ancestors-section/?gclid=CjwKCAiAgc-ABhA7EiwAjev-j7GxVwEme3h8-tQxUzu2UrUe3KrDcaz8VeIAwenvIVm7Dj14iKGzhRoCfygQAvD_BwE

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-humans/oldest-human-remains-outside-africa-found-in-israeli-cave-idUSKBN1FE2SY

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

 

An Iranian Ayatollah Who Wants Peace With Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

                                                    

  Big news today was the announcement of Ayatollah (who has lost this title) Abdol Hamid Masoumi Tehrani of Iran  has no hatred toward Jews or Israel and wants to make peace.  "It's time for the Iranian regime to cease inventing enemies that do not exist, the former Ayatollah said.  He has been stripped of his title of Ayatollah for punishment.  Ayatollah is an honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.

                                                    

"Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani (Persian: عبدالحمید معصومی تهرانی‎) is an Iranian cleric based in Tehran, Iran. Masoumi-Tehrani was born in Tehran to a distinguished cleric family and attained the rank of Marja al-Taqlid or a "source of emulation" in 1988. Masoumi-Tehrani is an accomplished calligrapher and spends much of his time engaged in this profession as he believes that money should not be made through religion. He strongly advocates human rights for all regardless of religious ideology or belief and has created in calligraphy form the Torah, Psalms and Quran to foster unity amongst religions.

                                                

              Ruhollah Khomeini was known in the West as "The Ayatollah"  Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini ( Persian: سید روح‌الله موسوی خمینی‎ [ɾuːholˈlɒːhe xomejˈniː]); 17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian politician, revolutionary, and cleric. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of the 2,500-year-old Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his reign was taken up by the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.

An unwritten rule of addressing for Shia clerics has been developed after the 1980s as a result of Iranian Revolution, despite the fact no official institutional way of conferring titles is available. Since 1979, the number of individuals who call themselves an Ayatollah, instead of being recipient of that title, has raised dramatically. The title that was previously customary for addressing a Marja', was gradually applied to an established Mujtahid. With recent bureaucratization of Shia seminaries under the current regime, four levels of studies were introduced and those clerics who end the fourth level, also known as Dars-e-Kharej (lit. 'beyond the text') and pass the final exam, were called Ayatollahs. Moojan Momen wrote in 2015 that every cleric who finished his training calls himself an Ayatollah and this trend has led to emergence of "thousands of Ayatollahs".

                                              

Masoumi-Tehrani has been pressured by authorities, detained, and imprisoned on various occasions, starting when he was 23. He claims to have been questioned even by agents of reformist president Mohammad Khatami regarding his project to publish calligraphy of the Torah, and that beginning in 2004 he received threats connected to his similar project for the Psalms.

In April 2014, as a mark of solidarity with the Baháʼí community of Iran, the largest religious minority in the country, he gifted the Baháʼís of the world a calligraphy work from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh, the prophet founder of the Baháʼí Faith, which states: "Consort with all religions with amity and concord, that they may inhale from you the sweet fragrance of God. Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance overpower you. All things proceed from God and unto Him they return. He is the source of all things and in Him all things are ended."  The Ayatollah's call for religious tolerance and co-existence has received worldwide support from religious leaders.

In November 2015, Masoumi-Tehrani gave 15 recently arrested Baháʼís in Iran another calligraphy work he produced. It featured a quotation from The Hidden Words, one of the Baháʼí Faith's sacred texts: "O Son Of Man! Ponder and reflect. Is it thy wish to die upon thy bed, or to shed thy life-blood on the dust, a martyr in My path, and so become the manifestation of My command and the revealer of My light in the highest paradise? Judge thou aright, O servant!"  He said he wished to raise awareness among Iranians about the dignity of people regardless of religion.                                  

Baha'i's religious group has found refuge in Israel and have the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa.  Their headquarters are in Haifa, Israel.  "There are 750 Baha’i volunteers from 70 countries in Haifa and Acre. All of them come for limited stints and none stay permanently. Thus, there is no resident Baha’i community in Israel. “Baha’u’llah asked that there be no community in the Holy Land,” Sabet said. “We do not know why, but we honor it.” If an Israeli coworker expresses interest in the Baha’i faith, “we tell them there is no community. It is up to the individual to decide what to do.”

Resource:

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1611607984-iranian-ayatollah-calls-for-end-to-hostilities-with-israel?fbclid=IwAR005e6JAabUMAB5mVprO3Q21hcV_T0yzDFVJcdV5jsrzCZVKhaY9v6-edY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdol-Hamid_Masoumi-Tehrani

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/from-their-haifa-headquarters-bahais-seek-to-unite-humanity-508037#:~:text=Thus%2C%20there%20is%20no%20resident,to%20decide%20what%20to%20do.%E2%80%9D

Judaea Samaria's Areas A,B,C and the Fight Over 70 Jewish Communities in Danger

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                     

                      Hebron was called Kiriath-Arba, a city in Judah in Abraham's time.  Now we have a Jewish community called Kiryat Arba, named for that period.  It has been taken over by the Palestinians today and is only 18 miles south of Jerusalem.  They're in the hands of the PA (Palestinian Authority).  The Hittites controlled this city before Joshua had arrived with Moses and 601,730 Jews, a people from Syria with a few living in Eretz Yisrael in Hebron.  Remember, it was the Canaanites who lived in Eretz Yisrael in small city-state communities, fighting each other.  Canaanites themselves were a mixture of Horites, Hittites and Hebrews divided into 11 peoples who were almost entirely obliterated by the  Israelites, Philistines and Arameans.  Those around during kings David and Solomon's day were absorbed.         

                                                                                   

Map highlighting Area C where the access is closed and restricted to Palestinians. Darker areas are Israeli settlements and military posts within Area C.

                                                          

Notice this is how Al Jazeera defines C.  C Is to be the Jewish living area., not Palestinian. 

When you do look at the map, the eastern side (C) is a thin area compared to B which is for both.   

Judea-Samaria is divided into areas A,B, and C.  C is the area that Jews have been given the right to populate.  Can you imagine?  The world government is allowing them a teeny strip of land to live on that was once a piece of their own small empire from the times of King David and Solomon?  This is because of the Palestinians who want all 3 sections as their new state-the state of Palestine.  The problem has been the constant attack on Israel with rockets, missiles and mortars that have been coming from Gaza, where the Hamas terrorists rule.  

Right now there are 70 small communities that have developed in area C under the name of the Yesha neighborhoods who feel unprotected by Israel as Israel hasn't thrown their umbrella of protection over them as yet.  25,000 Jews are afraid that in keeping the Palestinians at bay, Israel might act on their demands to order their evacuation and demolition as they did once to the Jews that had been living in Gaza.  And that turned out badly, didn't it?  Gaza is now a place where all the bombing comes from;  from Palestinians more interested in destruction of Israel rather than in making peace with them.

                                

Many of them are not even connected to standard water and electricity infrastructures because of their status.  

                                             

       Areas A,B,C with olive trees 

Community Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi has put forth a proposal whereby government ministers would agree to legalize 46 of the 70 communities, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has stated his intention to advance the plan.  The holdup, however, is Netanyahu's other PM, Ganz, who will not go along with it.  He's using his power to be noticed.  "Concurrently, Gantz is seeking to approve clusters of illegal Arab construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria. Netanyahu has not given a clear sign that he will oppose the initiative, which settler leaders say is “a national betrayal.”

The Palestinians do have area A.  Area B was to be used jointly by the Israelis and Palestinians.  The Palestinians have managed to get away with building in area C-and the government hasn't been there to stop them.  If it was like a Gentleman's Agreement, the Palestinians have no idea of being so.  They like being squatters better, and the Jews are pacifists in protecting their rights, trying to hold up their being the "good guys."   However, Yesha leaders have taken to have protests and now a hunger strike.  

Why is Ganz against Israel defending these Jewish communities?  Foreign elements invest massive financial support to leftist organizations abroad to isolate and boycott Israel. They also channel funds to leftist groups in Israel and “Palestinians” to use the court system to stymie the settlement movement.

In 1973, there were 23 municipalities and 31 rural councils in Judaea and Samaria.  Liaison officers of the Israel Ministry of the Interior approved their budgets, arrange to lend them funds at low interest, and audited their finances and administration.  Elections were held in Judaea and Samaria in 1972 in accordance with Jordanian law.  

Israel was waiting for a peace settlement which would determine the political future of the areas  with the objectives of keeping security for Israelis and Arabs alike;  letting the people live normal lives without losing contact with Arabs in other countries;  making rapid economic development possible, and to encourage co-existence and cooperation between the Arabs and Israelis.  

                                              

The Oslo II Accord was first signed in Taba (in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt) by Israel and the PLO on 24 September 1995 and then four days later on 28 September 1995 by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and witnessed by US President Bill Clinton as well as by representatives of Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Norway, and the European Union in Washington, D.C.

The agreement is built on the foundations of the initial Oslo I Accord, formally called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, which had been formally signed on 13 September 1993 by Israel and the PLO, with Prime Minister Rabin and Chairman Arafat in Washington, D.C. shaking hands, and officially witnessed by the United States and Russia.

                                                     

   Community considered "illegal" is Beitar Ilit  an ultra-Orthodox Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Jerusalem, in the Judaean Mountains of the West Bank.   Beitar Illit is one of Israel's largest and most rapidly growing settlements, and in 2019 had a population of 59,270.

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government and United States governments dispute this.  I ask, "How old must a city be to be called a city and not a settlement?"  This is a city.  Stop calling it a settlement!  

The Oslo II Accords decided that Area A is exclusively administered by the Palestinian National Authority; Area B is administered by both the Palestinian Authority and Israel; and Area C, which contains the Israeli settlements, is administered by Israel. Areas A and B were chosen in such a way as to just contain Palestinians, by drawing lines around Palestinian population centers at the time the Agreement was signed; all areas surrounding Areas A and B were defined as Area C.

                                              

     Mod'in Ilit is another city in  area  C.  It is a Haredi Israeli settlement (Haredi Judaism consists of groups within Orthodox Judaism characterized by a strict adherence to halakha and traditions, as opposed to modern values and practices.)and city in the West Bank, situated midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Modi'in Illit was granted city status by the Israeli government in 2008. It is located six kilometres (3.7 miles) northeast of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut and is often referred to as Kiryat Sefer (lit. "Book Town"), the name of its first neighborhood, established in 1994. It was built on the land of five Palestinian villages: Ni'lin, Kharbata, Saffa, Bil'in and Dir Qadis. Modi'in Illit encompasses the neighborhoods of Kiryat Sefer and Achuzat Brachfeld (Brachfeld Estates). In 2019 it had a total population of 76,374, making it the largest Jewish settlement in the area. Of course they also have the largest population of children as well.   

The international community considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law, but the Israeli and American government dispute this.

Notice those who have pioneered in Judaea and Samaria are orthodox Jews, cognizant of their religious history and the religious history of Judaea and Samaria, especially and having the need for a supportive community. Besides that fact, such places as Jerusalem and Safed are already full-up with a dense population as it is.  Israel proper is very very small!  

                                                             

Part of Area C was intended to be handed to Palestinians by the end of 1999. Israel promised to redeploy its troops from Areas A and B before the elections. After the inauguration of an elected Palestinian parliament, the Israeli Civil Administration would be dissolved and the Israeli military government be withdrawn. The Council would get some powers and responsibilities.

Within 18 months from the date of inauguration, Israel would further redeploy military forces from Area C in three phases, however, without transfer of any sovereignty to the Palestinians.

The relatively new phenomenon of building Palestinian settlements began in 2006, attempting to trace after the Israeli settlement experience beyond the 1967 Green Line, and in a media-driven counter-offensive. The most notable Palestinian settlement in the West Bank, defined by Israel as "illegal", was built in January 2013 on E1 Area East of Jerusalem. The settlement which was named "Bab al-Shams" consisted of about 20 tents, constructed by the Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee. A few days after the evacuation, another "Palestinian settlement" was erected in the village of Beit Iksa near the planned Wall barrier, which they claim would confiscate Palestinian land. It was named "Bab al-Karama".

Responsibility for religious sites in the Judaea-Samaria and Gaza Strip was to be transferred to the Palestinian side, gradually in the case of Area C. The Palestinian side agreed to ensure free access to a specific list of Jewish religious sites   but due to the uncertain security situation the Israel Defense Forces limits visits by Jews to rare occasions.  In Area C, Nabi Musa was to be under the auspices of the Palestinian side and access to al-Maghtas on the Jordan River was promised for particular religious events.

Was it good news?  To this very day, Israel is still being shelled by the Gazans.  Peace?  That's not #1 in the Palestinian plan, or else they would have started being peaceful at least since 1995, wouldn't they?  For the past 25 years, now going on 26, they have not been peaceful, and Hamas and the PA are both "THE PALESTINIANS."                                                          

 They have joint plans.   Here are the Hamas and Fatah of the PA leadership.  They haven't agreed; breaking apart many times, vying for leadership of the 2 groups, incorrigible with each other as they are with the Israelis.                                

             Minister of Settlement Affairs Tzachi Hanegbi., photo from Yonaton Sindel.  

Community Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi has put forth a proposal whereby government ministers would agree to legalize 46 of the 70 communities, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has stated his intention to advance the plan.  Tzachi Hanegbi is an Israeli politician and national security expert. A member of Likud, Hanegbi is currently Minister of Settlement Affairs and also previously served as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Minister of Regional Cooperation.

A month ago, Netanyahu had promised to make the 70 small communities legal and official?  What has stopped him besides Ganz? 

                                                

Susie Dym is a London-born, English-speaking Israeli. By profession, she's a patent attorney in Israel's private and defense industries. She also has over 20 years of experience in public affairs including introducing the Israeli parliament to the novel concept of achievement orientation by masterminding the Mattot Arim reports. She still serves as spokesperson for Mattot Arim, an Israeli NGO working toward peace-for-peace since 1992, and is well connected to Israeli public figures in government and media...

" It was the "election of the new U.S. president whose religion is two-statism. Like Obama before him, Biden has some type of overpowering, almost mystical feeling that having a Palestinian state – allied with Iran, with full state powers, a golf shot away from Ben-Gurion airport, G-d forbid – is a wonderful idea."  So explained a  hi-tech patent attorney and mother of 6, Susie Dym,  who lives in one of the small communities.  She has lived there since the Yom Kippur War of 1973 one month before it happened at age 11 with her family.  

Since then, she has served as the volunteer spokesperson for Mattot Arim, an Israeli NGO which has promoted “peace for peace” since the early conception of the Oslo Accords. "Tiny Israel doesn’t have much territory, so you don’t need to be a mathematician to understand that if you subscribe to “land for peace” – surrendering chunks of Eretz Yisrael for the fantasy of peace with the so-called Palestinians – within a short time we Israelis will run out of land-gifts and will find ourselves without peace, swimming around in the salty Mediterranean".

She continued.  "On Election Day, you vote for the best there is, and the rest of the time you do your best to make the best there is into something much better, much safer for the Jewish people". This is why Netanyahu has had Judea-Samaria Jewish community support.  

Professor Kontorovich, my "go-to in matters of International law, explains why Israel rule is legal in Judaea Samaria.  https://jcpa.org/why-israeli-rule-in-the-west-bank-is-legal-under-international-law/  He gets into it quickly by saying, "Israel was created, like most countries, after a successful war where no one came to its aid. In international law, there is a clear rule regarding the establishment of new countries: the country’s borders are determined in accordance with the borders of the previous political entity in that area. So what was here before? The British Mandate. And what were the borders of the British Mandate? From the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.  

Resource: 

https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/felafel-on-rye/fighting-for-70-yesha-communities/2021/01/21/ with picture.  

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/facts-about-jewish-settlements-in-the-west-bank

facts about Israel;  Oct. 1973, Information ministry for foreign affairs, Jerusalem

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

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/susie-dym/