How Fatah and Hamas-Led Palestinians Will Never Co-Exist, Remain Burdens on UNRWA

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

A picture of Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon shows the overcrowding in the camp and the difficulty of achieving social distancing [Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)]  As of 5 October, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) the total number of Covid-19 cases among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was 1,282 with 478 active cases and 31 deaths. Based on these numbers, the General Director of the Rafic Hariri Government Hospital, Dr Firas Al-Abiad, tweeted that the Covid-19 mortality rate among Palestinians in Lebanon is 2.4 per cent, "more than double Lebanon's 1 per cent rate."

At the very least, it is estimated that 36,000 Palestinian refugees will need intensive care out of a total population of 224,901, which includes camp residents and Palestinian refugees from Syria, a statistic taken from the Committee's document. Given that the mortality risk is higher for those aged 70 and over, around 10,825 Palestinians are already vulnerable.

"The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday appealed for $1.6 billion to support its lifesaving work this year amid acute regional crises and chronic funding shortfalls. "  "UNRWA provides services and programmes, including education, health and food assistance, to more than five million Palestinians across the Middle East."

Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس,  born 15 November 1935),  is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 11 November 2004, PNA president since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005-now for the past 17 years.  Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009.

  Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh (born 29 January 1962) is a senior political leader of Hamas and formerly one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Haniyeh became prime minister after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006- now for the past 16 years.Hamas was originally the strong-arm of Fatah, and got so powerful that they broke away to rule themselves.   He's become an Iranian puppet. (Jason Greenblatt).  (updated 10/12/22)

The 2022 budget proposal includes additional emergency funding to address humanitarian needs arising from crises in:

 1. Gaza-ruled by Ismail Haniyeh, 

 2. West Bank (Judea-Samaria)-ruled by Mahmoud Abbas 

These two men have never agreed with each other and fight for single power.  They haven't changed yet.  

3. Syria--by President Bashar al-Assad-Bashar Hafez al-Assad who is a Syrian politician and the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000- for the past 22 years. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

COAR(an international association that acts as a global voice for the repository community.---COAR is an international association with 157 members and partners from around the world representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.)  says that Syria is already a failed state.  "On 17 June, the U.S. Department of the Treasury officially enacted the sanctions contained in the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, thus beginning an inauspicious new phase of the long Syria conflict. The sanctions targeted 39 Syrian individuals, including President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, Asma, in addition to members of the extended Al-Assad family, senior military leaders, and business executives. Many of the sanctioned individuals were already designated under existing U.S. sanctions."

 and 

4. Lebanon--by President Michel Aoun. Michel Naim Aoun is a Lebanese politician and former military general who has served as the President of Lebanon since 31 October 2016-for the past 6 years, the new kid on the block. Lebanon and Israel through the USA just came to an agreement about a gas discovery in the sea.               

 Shu'fat camp is located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev, illegal under international law, is located to the camp’s north. The camp was established by UNRWA in 1965 in order to provide improved housing for the roughly 500 refugee families living in Mu'askar camp in the Old City of Jerusalem.  This refugee camp is 57 years old, and looks like a town or city to me; but its people are mostly surviving on UNRWA.  Shu'fat camp was annexed by Israel after the 1967 hostilities ( considered illegal by UNRWA and rest of world) even though Israel won the 1967 war -a huge attack against them by all the Arab countries)  when Israel unilaterally established new municipal boundaries for Jerusalem. Camp residents still hold Jerusalem IDs and, unlike West Bank ID holders, are allowed to reside in Jerusalem. 

Because the Israeli Ministry of the Interior has a policy of revoking Jerusalem IDs from Palestinians who do not have their ‘centre of life’ in Jerusalem, the camp has become a popular place of residence for Palestinians (non-refugees) with Jerusalem IDs who might not otherwise be able to afford the high living costs of Jerusalem.

The Palestinians of Gaza, Judea-Samaria and Israel have been without a country ever since they entered Palestine in the 1880's to work for the Jewish returnees to their homeland and were in the act of building up their home.  The Palestinian Arabs were looking for jobs in building.  At the time, anyone living in Palestine (named by Romans in 135 CE) were called Palestinians.                        

Many of these Arab Palestinians came from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and many from farther places than that, all documented and verified in the book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, by Joan Peters. 

War of Independence 1947-1949

Since the Arab attack on Jews at the announcement of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, all the Arabs attacked the Jewish Israelis, telling the Arab Palestinians what to do--to leave, and let them win the battle.  Well, they were wrong.  The Jews won, keeping their new state, and the Palestinian Arabs were led to live in refugee camps---now seemingly forever.  

Since 1948, they have been fed and clothed by UNRWA- 74 years, the same age as Israel.   What skills have they learned to support themselves?  Make bombs, dig tunnels, What mindset have they given to their families?  Sacrifice their children in the name of a future nationalism of their Palestine; hatred for Jews. That's what living in a refugee camp has done for most all of their people.  

The number of Palestinian workers in Israel and Israeli settlements was an estimated 130,000 in 2019, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)—but is likely to be higher due to the number who cross into Israel without permits.[1] Most Palestinians work in Israel’s construction sector, where it is estimated that they make up 65-70 percent of the workforce.

The Israeli minister for construction and housing was quoted in the Israeli media explaining that the construction sector must continue as normal “to ensure that construction in Israel for the benefit of home buyers will not be affected, even in the current exceptional circumstances.”  So in Israel, Palestinians are keeping the skills their ancestors came with, and using them. Still, Palestinian murderers keep on attacking Israelis at any given moment; the IDF being their most favored target.  Are they among these with employment?  Or are they coming in from other sources?              

Soda Stream had jobs for Palestinians in Judea-Samaria.  The company left the West Bank-(Judea-Samaria) because the CO said the boycott (BDS)  against them was anti-Semitic and pointless.They even had Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson as the official global ambassador for SodaStream International, the Israeli-made manufacturer and distributor of home beverage carbonation systems.

It's time, way past time for the Palestinian Arab refugees to be freed from just being on the dole of UNRA, treated as a child, and allowed to learn to be honest bread-winners and be able to support their own families by the sweat of their own brows. Such skills must be something that will help their population they live in, not killing or harming others.  They need to learn that Jews are their cousins and not their enemy.  They have so much to learn other than what they have picked up in UNRWA camps which have become political prisons spreading hate.  

  A Jewish Yementite family walking through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Joint Distribution Committee near Aden.  

  Operation Magic Carpet;  Jews from Yemen in an airplane on their way to Israel. © Beit Hatfusot

Israel took in the very same numbers of Jewish refugees that came streaming out of Arab countries in 1948, the birth of their re-born nation.  They managed.  It's time Lebanon and Syria and the other took back their own people by making them citizens and not of refugee status anymore.   In being realistic, I realize that this is a bad time;  these countries are barely able to hang on as a country themselves and are about to fold.  

"In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that 2014 a year of solidarity with the Palestinian people and called on people around the world to recognize their “inalienable rights”.

Perhaps 2016 should become the Jewish year of solidarity with the Jewish refugees from Arab countries and there should be greater recognition, understanding and education of the inalienable rights of these people to rights and redress" but Israel took them all in, ready for them or not.  

There are Palestinians in Israel who are citizens.  In other Arab countries, they are refugees on the dole with UNRWA, a source of finance and control.  

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh#:~:text=Ismail%20Abdel%20Salam%20Ahmed%20Haniyeh,Palestinian%20legislative%20elections%20of%202006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas#:~:text=Mahmoud%20Abbas%20(Arabic%3A%20%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AD%D9%92%D9%85%D9%8F%D9%88%D8%AF%20%D8%B9%D9%8E%D8%A8%D9%8E%D9%91%D8%A7%D8%B3,and%20the%20Palestinian%20National%20Authority.

https://www.maccabeetaskforce.org/education/videos/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwy5maBhDdARIsAMxrkw1cCdZSL_Ih0rQ2Ti_ylmQFGtukCT_W_K79CB7m7G9Uom9ML63D-MgaAi5QEALw_wcB

https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/west-bank/shufat-camp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/sodastream-leaves-west-bank-as-ceo-says-boycott-antisemitic-and-pointless

https://merip.org/2020/05/palestinian-workers-in-israel-caught-between-indispensable-and-disposable/

https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/jewish_refugees_from_arab_countries/

JBS interview of Jason Greenblatt on "Conversations on Abraham Accord"

Shocking To USA: University of California Law School Turning Against Israel and Pro-Israel Jewish Speakers

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

    University of California sinking to the level of anti-Semitics like a sinking ship at sea.                 

The University of California's Berkeley Law School's position against Jews is  a disgraceful step taken submerging themselves into anti-Semitism, like Germany did in the 1930s.  They seem to be under the control of Palestinians and their anti-Semitism of Israel. 

                                         

"The latest attack on Jews in American higher education was just launched by the UC Berkeley Law School’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). SJP convinced nine Law School organizations to adopt a by-law refusing to invite or sponsor any speaker who supports “Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel and the occupation of Palestine.”              

While Israel fights for preserving their right to exist on all fronts, the Palestinians are attacking them any which way they can;  by rockets, mortars and missiles daily on the border,  to stop people from doing business with them-harming their economy or trying to,  BDS attacks of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions;   to now hitting the  educational systems where it hurts, the Jewish professors who find employment throughout the world, so it's just not only UC that are crumbling to the threats of the Palestinians.  

"Zionism is of course the movement to support the self-determination of the Jewish people in its homeland, the state of Israel. Zionism is a primary tenet of Judaism, and it is supported by the overwhelming majority of Jews worldwide, including those in the United States."                  

In my street level apartment in Safed, 1981, waiting for my lift to arrive from the States.  I'm sitting on a Sachnut bed in my living room;  bars on window came with apartment-to prevent terrorists from entrance.                           

     The League of Nations plan for Israel-original plans                                                                                                                          

             Israel, 10% of the original plan but accepted by Israel, concluding that something was better than nothing.  The first Arab-Israel war resulted in Israel expanding its size by 37% beyond the designated 1947 UN partition lines.  Like all wars, Israel was attacked, then had to defend itself.  

I'm a Zionist.  My generation is one who was a teenager when Israel was re-born on May 14, 1948, and I've since then studied this event thoroughly.  Now I'm even a holder of dual citizenship, having lived in Haifa and Safed for over 5 years before returning to the US due to my son's serious health problems.  After studying our Jewish history thoroughly, I concluded that Israel was a must, and that it is through the good graces of Harry S. Truman that she was accepted into the League of Nations and the United Nations, but then the support has been slipping again into the old hands of anti-Semitic feelings.

Israel, the tiniest state in the Middle East, with Jordan being easier to spot-color brown. She may be the tiniest, but she attracts the most attention to the world.  World news abounds with attacks on her from UN today.  Others just trail along with this negativism.   

What makes me madder is that this contagion of being against Israel's right to exist has even soaked into the brains of some Jews who would rather listen to loshen hora than seek out the truth of accusations, which is what lawyers are supposed to do if they are defenders.   No matter who one is, they should be seekers of the truth and not carriers of the virus of hatred and jealousy.  

What makes me even madder than being madder than mad is that Judaism is a religion made up of 613 laws, and our people have turned to the profession of law many times.  We're almost a nation of lawyers.  No one is harder on Israel than its own people, making sure that they are doing the "fit and proper" thing in law.  And then comes along the world who thinks they know better.  

Good grief!  We've had in 2009, Col. Richard Kemp of the British army  speak up for our behaviors in war, yet there's this business of being against Zionists and Zionism that permeates the news.  Yes, it's odd that a country can redeem itself and come to life again after 2,000 years, but it happened.  It's possible.  It was do-able.  It happened. It has alarmed those who thought they were the greatest, and rid of the Jewish country.   

Our ancestors were good people, not bad like others have depicted.  Anti-Semitism started long ago, in that new vehicle called writing, traveling faster than oral anti-Semitism that was going on.    Israel was almost burned to death  with Jerusalem hit the hardest in the year 70 but appeared again in 1948, taking a fighting chance once again to survive, and survive it has done. Baruch haShem.  

Reference:

Flame: via salsalaabs.org

https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/the-anti-israel-movement-on-us-campuses-2020-2021

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2022/01/colonel-richard-kemp-of-british-army.html

Saving Joseph

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

Saving Joseph's life was an important step for one of the 12 brothers of Jacob.  Joseph was Jacob's favorite son, and he had disappeared. 

Reuben was the first son of Leah with Jacob, the son of Isaac. Reuben and his five brothers (Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun) made up half of the original tribes of Israel. As a boy, Reuben resents that his mother is overpowered by his aunt Rachel. He is the one who brings the mandrakes, plant used to make a woman more fertile, which Leah uses to negotiate with Rachel. Reuben loses the birthright when he lies with Bilah, the concubine of his father, Rachel’s maid. He does it out of pure carnal desire, without much involvement with it. At the end of Jacob’s life, he describes the son as his strength, the principle of his vigor, the most excellent in highness and the most excellent in power and impetuous as water, but when he slept with his concubine he became defiled and lost his rights.  After Rachel's early death at only 36 years old in childbirth,  Jacob established his primary residence in the tent of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant.  Reuben considered this an affront to his mother, Leah, his 1st wife, who had the title of 1st wife.  So Reuben moved Jacob's bed to Leah's tent. That's all that had happened. 

It turned out to be Reuben that saved Joseph, 1st born son of Jacob saving his baby brother, the 11th. In picture above, Joseph is in the many colored striped robe sitting next to Abraham.  Reuben could be the red-headed bearded son sitting on the ground, or the dark-haired and bearded son behind him. Joseph was the 11th son born to Jacob.  His mother, Rachel was afraid she'd neve get pregnant again.  

Joseph turned out to be a most important historical figure.  He is compared to Jesus by many Christians. He's used as a psychological example of what not to do to children-favor them in front of siblings, and politically, he may have been part of the Hyksos of Egypt, being 2nd to the pharaoh.  Not only that, but opera has created Joseph and his coat of many colors/ Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?=ZCbt5RsQAPU  

Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he had been born to him when he was old. He made a long robe with full sleeves for him. But Joseph said to [his brothers], “Don't be afraid; I can't put myself in the place of God. However, they felt jealousy, and lots of it.  Jacob had even made Joseph this special robe of many colors and the others had none like it.  Joseph was born with an old father, imagine how Benjamin felt, born many years after Joseph!  It was too much for Rachel, as she died giving him birth.  Who took care of Benjamin?  Most likely it was Bilhah, Rachel's handmaiden. She would have raised Benjamin, and then Dan and Naphtali, her own boys.  

The father, Jacob,  was the twin brother of Esau, both sons of Isaac and Rebekah.  He had tricked his twin out of his birthright for being 1st born son for a mess of pottage, an early form of stew.  His mother helped him receive the most important item from his father,  the BLESSING.  That made Esau so angry that Jacob left home for fear of his life.  Esau hadn't shown his mother or his brother that he had what it took to be a leader.  He didn't even follow his parents' rules very well and was always away from the compound, hunting and hunting alone.  Jacob hated to see him being given the tribe's leadership role.  They may have been twins, but they were so very different.  There was jealousy going on between the twins for sure.                         

When Jacob arrived at Haran, he married his uncle Laban's two daughters, Leah, the oldest, and then Rachel, the one he had fallen in love with who was the youngest of Laban's 2 daughters.  

Later, by them and their two handmaids, Bilhah and Zilpah,, he had 12 sons and a daughter, Dinah.  At one point he struggled with a heavenly emissary and overcame him, earning the new name of ISRAEL.  It's possible that the emissary he overcame was Esau's guardian angel, report a few references.  Jacob's name has been discovered in Akkadian and Egyptian sources.    

Below, Jews come from Judah and a few of Levi and some of Simeon and Benjamin who were all living with the tribe of Judah by 721 BCE.      DNA shows many of today  to be of J1 (Y haplogroup-Cohens.  Levites were known to be living with all 12 tribes as the received no lands from Moses's allotment plan, meant to live among the tribes and be the teachers of the religion. (2nd most common DNA was E; as in E-L117).                

Jacob's first son was  Reuben by Leah,  who opposed his 11 brothers' plot against Joseph.  Reuben also later volunteered as surety for Joseph's young brother, Benjamin.  Joseph and Benjamin were the sons of Rachel, who died in childbirth with Benjamin.  

                      Sons of Jacob

Reuben was in trouble with his father, Jacob, though.  Reuben had been having sexual relations with Jacob's concubine, Bilhah and so for punishment, transferred Reuben's 1st son rights and privileges to Jacob's 11th son, Joseph, who was Rachel's 1st-born son. When Rachel gave birth and said, "G-d had taken away my disgrace," so she called his name Joseph, saying, May Hashem add on for me another son."  Having sons gave a woman status.  Even though Jacob had fallen for her deeply, she felt she had no status until Joseph was born, and special he would turn out to be.  Reuben did marry. According to the Book of Jasher, Chapter 45, Reuben's wife was Eliuram the daughter of Ewi the Canaanite (of Timnah).Timna is the name of a Wadi north of Elath and one of Solomon's copper mines.    My encyclopedia refers to the Book of Jashar, an ancient work mentioned in Josh. 10-13, II Sam. 1:18, and I Kings 8:53 (Septuagint version-Greek translation of Bible).  The collection was made at the time of Solomon, lost in ancient times.  A medieval compilation of biblical legends based on Midrashim to the Tanakh was probably composed in 11th century Spain.  

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Joseph was the most ambitious of all of his brothers, and they realized this and was jealous of him and his good looks.  They sold him to traveling Ishmaelites on their way to Egypt.  His fate was that he was then sold as a slave and bought by Potiphar, chief of Pharaoh's household, but was imprisoned on a false accusation brought to court by Potiphar's wife!  That's because he wouldn't dally with her.   "Potiphar's wife tried unsuccessfully to seduce him and after false accusations were levelled at Joseph he was imprisoned."                                   

Joseph had a gift in interpreting people's dream (a bit of a psychologist in him) He had gained a reputation in Egypt  for being able to interpret dreams which reached the king who released him from prison and was so impressed that Joseph was appointed VICEROY OF EGYPT- a step just under the king, like a vice king. 

                     Joseph, 2nd only to the Pharaoh of Egypt

Later on, Jacob and his brothers were brought to him in Egypt  and he received grazing land in Goshen, which was the beginning  of the Israelite settlement in Egypt.  Jacob died at age 110, and his body was later brought by the Israelites to Eretz Yisrael for re-burial.  This history of Joseph has been dated during the Hyksos domination of Egypt of (18th to 16th centuries BCE), inferring that Joseph's story was part of the Hyksos' history.  

    The same pyramid art I have found to represent the Hebrews or the Hyksos, entrance into Egypt.  

The Hyksos -meaning (RULERS OF THE FOREIGN LANDS) were a Semitic people who overran Egypt after the destruction of their Middle Kingdom.  Hyksos remains have interestingly also been discovered in Israel.  They had ruled Egypt (1720-1580 BCE).  This is when the Hebrews had entered Egypt and were favorably treated.  When the Hyksos were expelled, this started the period of the Israelite slavery;  in total a period of 400 years of entering and leaving.  

Jacob's children with Leah were  (1) Reuben  (2) Simeon, (3) Levi, (4) Judah, (5) Issachar, (6) Zebulun,  and a daughter, Dinah by Leah.  Joseph was born to Rachel, his beautiful love and so became Jacob's favorite right away.                                             

       Zilpah-Leah's handmaid, gave Jacob sons (7) Gad  and (8) Asher. (When Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah, her maidservant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.  Zilpah bore Jacob a son, and Leah declared, "Good luck has come!  So she called his name, Gad).  It's Leah who earns the status of having another son, not Zilpah.  

[ When the Israelites took possession of the Land of Canaan, Asher's fertile territory extended from Western Galilee to the South of Carmel].                                     

                                      Zilpah

Early rabbinical commentary, Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer and other Rabbinic sources (Midrash Rabbah, and elsewhere) state that Bilhah and Zilpah were also Laban's daughters, through his concubines, which would make them half-sisters to Rachel and Leah.  Besides that, Apocryphal testament said that Bilhah and 

Zilpahs father was Rotheus, a slave redeemed by Lathan and he was married to Euna, 

mother of the two women. 

  Bilhah, handmaid of Rachel, had given Bilhad to Jacob when she herself had thought that she was barren, and Bilhad had (5) Dan  was given land South of Jaffa, forced into hills by Amorites with only some remaining on coast.  They migrated north, taking Phoenician land around Laish.  Part of Dan was site of a Temple;   (6) Naphtali and he was given land in the northern part of Canaan including the East coast of the Sea of Galilee and the mountains of Galilee. (Even a DNA test would be rather confusing since Reuben dallied with Bilhah and his sons, Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi could be close matches to his own half brothers-Dan and Naphtali. being the father could have been Reuben or rightfully Jacob, Reuben's own father).  Here, the mother's DNA would show the differences-one being Leah and the other-Bilhah.

Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel are termed the “Matriarchs.” In contrast to these women, Bilhah,  Zilpah, Tamar, and Aseneth/Asenath are the “Secondary Matriarchs.” They are “foreign wives.” Bilhah and Zilpah are Arameans and the mothers of the eponymous (of a person) giving their name to something."the eponymous hero of the novel" ancestors of the tribes of Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.  Arameans were also Semitic tribes who entered the land at the same time as Abraham did and roamed between the Persian Gulf and the Amanus Mountains.  Aram and Israel had a common ancestry.  Israelite patriarchs were of Aramaic origin, had marriages with  tribes with Aram. 

                Haran is at the very top-above Paddan-Aram

Then Bilhah and Zilpah were native girls nearby the tents of Jacob, and Jacob died in Egypt at age 147, but he had married Leah and Rachel in Haran which was a trading town of NW Mesopotamia and center of a moon cult.  Terah, father of Abraham, could have come from Haran.  The name, Haran is also the name of Abraham's brother who was the father of Lot, Abraham's nephew.  Haran lived and died at Ur of the Chaldees where Abraham and Terah had left for Canaan.

                                                       

Two Y haplogroups, E1b1b and J (male lines), that are carried by both ancient and modern Egyptians. The subclade E-M78 of E1b1b is suggested to have originated in Northeast Africa in the area of Egypt and Libya, and is more predominant in Egypt. 

The ancient Egyptian individuals in their own dataset possessed highly similar mtDNA haplogroup profiles (the women's lines of DNA), and cluster together, supporting genetic continuity across the 1,300-year transect. Modern Egyptians shared this mtDNA haplogroup profile, but also carried 8% more African component. 

Later on during the Exodus when they were in the wilderness, the heads of the tribe of (1)Reuben;  Dathan, Abiram, and On, unsuccessfully claimed the right to serve as priests (Cohenim-descendants of Aaron-brother of Moses).  It was Dathan and Abiram who together with 250 princes of the congregation, joined Korah of the tribe of Levi,  in his rebellion.  They attacked Moses for assuming the leadership which they claimed for themselves, and attaacked Aaron, too,  evidently as the descendants of Jacob's eldest son.  Dathan and Abiram perished with the other rebels, being swallowed up by the earth in an earthquake. (Num 16).

When the Israelites settled in Canaan, the tribe of Reuben requested and received territory in MOAB (Transjordania) which was fertile land but it presented political problems.  They eventually lost it all to the Moabites themselves or the Ammonites.  So the original natives of Jordan were a mixture of Moabites, Ammoites and Israelites. Then prince Abdullah was granted the land and he brought in his Arabian followers from Arabia.   

Reuben was one of the  10 tribes exiled to Assyria by Tiglath-Pileser in 721 BCE, one of the Lost 10 Tribes of Israel.  It had been the land of Moab.   This was said to happen possibly because of its isolated situation, Reuben played little part in the history of the Israelite tribes after the settlement in Canaan.  Reuben is on the other side of the Dead Sea from Judah in dark red.  He had saved Joseph's life as his brothers were ready to kill him, and he thought of selling him, instead to save him.  

Update: 10/11/22 In the novels The Red Tent by Anita Diamant and Rachel and Leah by Orson Scott Card, Bilhah and Zilpah are half-sisters of Leah and Rachel by different mothers, following the Talmudic tradition.

• In Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction novel The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic society depicted cites the relationship between Bilhah, Rachel and Jacob as the basis for role of handmaids as surrogates to high-ranking men and their infertile wives.

Resource:

Tanakh, Stone Edition, (Genesis 30:9)

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://recordtvnetwork.r7.com/en/blog/personagens/reuben-2/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_history_of_Egypt#:~:text=The%20ancient%20Egyptian%20individuals%20in,carried%208%25%20more%20African%20component.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilhah#:~:text=However%2C%20Reuben%2C%20Leah's%20eldest%2C,and%20removed%20or%20overturned%20Bilhah's.