Nadene Goldfoot
Glick was born in Houston Texas, U.S., to a Jewish family. They moved to Chicago when she was a baby and she grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood. She graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. She's a very sharp lady.
I don't think Israel needs another person to do their thinking if they haven't asked for one. For instance, Biden thinks he's capable to run another 4 years as president and he's already 80 having been born November 20, 1942. At 88, let me tell him a few things about age....it's a little different by the time you're 84-if you make it that far. What an ego he has.
Here's what I found about the group: "Established almost three decades ago,(1993) during Clinton's days in office; Bush and Obama followed. The Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG) is a Jerusalem-based NGO committed to promoting the values of democracy, transparency, good governance and civic engagement in the Israeli society. Over the years, MQG has become one of Israel’s largest grassroots organizations, with more than 35,000 members and supporters from the general public. MQG has become a leading independent public watchdog organization enjoying unprecedented legal success."
Our concern lies within the judicial system. Do we need to go back to 71 men in the Sanhedrin? In reading about it, it was pretty cool for its day. It's 71 scholars functioned both as Supreme Court and as legislature. The only thing one could not expect today is that then, they all had to have genealogies with Hillel as an ancestor, making sure they came from intelligent stock. They were the brains of the Jews.
Is there something about the American system that is not following the morals of Judaism? Ha! Most countries are not doing that well. Concerns here must remember that people cannot adjust to a change overnight. I couldn't even adjust to whether or not I was to buy floor tile now or forget about it, and my son popped up and, "buy now!" Yikes. Where's the money coming from for it, how do I get it, how long will I be around, etc, etc. We all question a new idea.
Security is the #1 important value in change, we can't lose the ability to eat well, have money for own security, and keep on being very happy adjusted people. Don't rock the boat. And that has happened. Everyone is frantic. What are they going to lose with this more religious government other than kosher meat means kosher following the rules of kashuut for meat.
And Netanyhu, who I discover I share a few cMs of DNA with on his mother's side, the Segal side, who are also Cohens, by the way, should not be in a position of joining the religious for his own personal security since he feels persecuted by the opposition and that they are framing him so as to be kicked out. The worst could be happening. It's not worth it to end one's career being on the wrong end of the lollipop. It's a scene made for Netflix. Don't try to dupe your people and if you're not guilty of a thing, for heaven's sake, get your detectives and Mossad busy and find out what's going on.
Include that to find out if Biden or Democrats are controlling MQG and that's not a men's quilting group. They erred in not calling it a JMQG, get it? Jewish men's quilting group. That's because of the standards involved being Israel is to function with Jewish Standards by stating it's a Jewish country.
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Actually, our Jewish standards are not much different than non-Jewish people. It's they that were educated with ours first. The Mayflower Compact of 1620 was written by men familiar with the Old Testament. Luckily TV hadn't been invented yet as they spent their extra hours reading their bible.
As a movement for social and civic change, MQG believes in the need to adopt a grassroots approach and to involve citizens in order to provide a real platform for social and civic empowerment. In a society fractured by party, religious and ethnic differences, citizens from all walks of life and all elements of the political spectrum are attracted to MQG’s persistent pursuit of a better state for the citizens of Israel. MQG’s outstanding work and remarkable achievements in this field has resulted in MQG receiving massive media coverage and several awards, including the “Integrity Award” in Berlin from Transparency International (TI).
However, Israel's religious community, Israel's very reason for being, is not quite the same as the West's idea of a "better state." It's got to be more than just a state giving Jews a 1st class citizenship like all the other countries do. It has to have Jewish, modern Jewish qualities of life that fit in a 2023 society, so the rabbis must get together and talk about this. It has to have the qualities that make it Jewish that I'm so very proud of having that others don't usually have.
I wonder if the head rabbi of Israel has had any imput? Yitzhak Yosef (Hebrew: יצחק יוסף, born January 16, 1952) is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (known as the Rishon LeZion), the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and the author of a set of books on halakha (Jewish law) called Yalkut Yosef. He should be having the most to say. He must speak to the rabbis of Israel proper and of those in Judea and Samaria.
Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, has been working very hard on a plan. Talk about genealogy. his ancestor was Yitzhak ha-Levi Herzog 1888-1959, rabbi and scholar, born in Poland, educated in England and France, officiated at Belfast in 1915 and Dublin in 1919-1936, and chief rabbi of Irish Free State in 1925. AND, in 1936, he was elected the Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Palestine !
The word is out. After weeks of demonstrations across the country that have exposed deep divisions in Israeli society, President Isaac Herzog, who has been mediating between the sides, warned in a televised prime time address of a disaster.He said Israel had reached a "point of no return" and called on the coalition government to rethink the proposed legislation, which is strongly backed by nationalist and religious parties."It is wrong, it is harsh, it undermines our democratic foundations. And therefore it must be replaced with another, agreed upon outline immediately," Herzog said.
I don't know what's happened to Netanyahu except he was able to create a government only with the religious, and that should have been okay, but.....If there was a way to stay in power with other groups, he would be fine. It didn't happen this time, and he is my favorite Israeli; he and his whole family. What would his deceased brother be advising?
Maybe we have to be of my old age to appreciate our Jewish values. My non-Jewish friend was visiting and I told her of our custom of not doing work on Shabbat/Saturday including not answering the phone, etc., and she exclaimed that "this is what she would love to attain in her life! People are getting to be so up-tight these days. A day of rest, of peace; how lovely. A day to communicate with G-d and feel comforted. What a great idea !"
Take the army, for instance. Their standards are far higher than others. A British officer testified in court about this. These must stay. No Israeli soldier was hurt in the process of having high standards. It should be that way though all facts of life. Our ancestors weren't whistling through their teeth, they knew what they were writing.
MQG began its current campaign of delegitimization, subversion and demonization immediately after the Netanyahu government was sworn into office on Dec. 29.”
“According to MQG’s annual reports, for the past three years the State Department has been funding its programs for “democracy education” in Israeli high schools. Since MQG’s primary activity is subverting democracy in Israel by waging lawfare and sowing chaos in a bid to block democratically elected right-wing governments from fulfilling their pledges to voters, it’s clear that when MQG refers to “democracy education,” it doesn’t mean majority rule”, Glick writes. From my checking high schools today, each one follows its own ideas. There's not a general course in democracy like there would be in Oregon. Even in the States, each state has their own value system.
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However, Israel is not the USA. Israel is defined as both Jewish and democratic state. From the outset, this definition embodies an inherent tension between inclusive civic discourse that draws on liberal notions of citizenship and exclusive mechanism, mostly distinguishing between Jewish and non-Jewish citizens, based on ethno-republican notions of citizenship (Shafir and Peled, 2002; Pinson, 2007b).
However, while this dual definition of Israel was the dominant civic discourse until recently, over the past two decades, scholars have observed that an ethno-religious discourse driven by right-wing parties and interest groups, including the Jewish settlers movement in the territories, have gain prominence (Mustafa and Ghanem, 2010; Ben-Porat, 2013). These forces subscribe to the belief that the ‘Biblical Land of Israel’ is paramount, even divine, and thus supersedes the democratic principles of the state of Israel (Ben-Porat, 2013) and redraw ‘the boundaries of citizenship in Israel in such a way that meaningful citizenship is available to Jewish citizens only’ (Rouhana and Sultany, 2003: 19).
This entailed a move from a ‘Jewish democratic’ state to a ‘Jewish’ state vision which means that the Israeli public sphere is instilled with religious ethno-national values and commitments that subordinate secular, liberal and democratic values (Ben-Porat, 2013; Yemini et al., 2014). An example for the results of these processes, can be found in the recent ‘National Law’, a new foundational law legislated in July 2018, that de facto determines exactly that Israel definition as a national Jewish state should be given preference over its commitment to liberal democratic ideas and civil equality and that the commitment of the state to its Jewish citizen should be given preference over its commitment to its non-Jewish citizens.
Israel passed a controversial new “nation-state law” that’s sparking both celebration and fierce debate over the very nature of Israel itself.
The law does three big things:
- It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
- It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis — to a “special status.”
- It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”
Each of these statements would be contentious on its own, but taken together, they’re a clear, unequivocal statement of how the Jewish state’s current leaders see both the country and the diverse people who call it home.
May I remind those that need reminding that Israel was created in the first place as a Jewish Homeland; not an Arab Homeland. There are about 18 Arab homelands in the world. English is the language in the USA. Spanish is a 2nd language. Everyone is encouraged and expected to speak English.
Israel was planned to be much larger, and that was the expectation we received from Britain, but then they gave away about 80% to the prince of Jordan, Abdullah, and then again they wanted to take half of our 20% left to make an Arab state of Palestine, which from their mouths, have said that it will never include any Jews! On top of that, every possible Jew from other countries have been arriving in Israel and becoming Israelis, an immigration issue that was foretold 3,000 years ago by our prophets. ITS THE RETURN.
I'm sure, as a teacher, that Arabic will remain to be the 2nd language used. I love our signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Jew have always had such issues, that's why we had the division in Judaism. We're a people of debate and love to argue. Arabic is much like Hebrew, I'm told. We do have some similar words such as Shalom and Salaam. There are people who like to put a match to our fears and scare us, so think first, find out the facts, and don't get so riled up.
"These changes foster what Ram (2003) refers to as neo-Zionist approach and ultimately also shift citizenship education from a state-centred and rights-centred discourse to a nation-centric education (Pinson, 2013)". Students need to cover all sides of a situation, not just one. They need to learn to see what the writer's opinions are.
In an e-mail released by Israel’s Channel 14, the Soros-funded New Israel Fund admitted it was funding the anti-government protests, as JNS reports: Soros has been a bone of contention for many years. His charities are funding his own philosophy, wants, needs. He may be Jewish-born and the richest man in the world, but is not trust-worthy. He has helped everyone but the Jews.
Richard Abelson, GATEWAY PUNDIT commented,
Instead of trying to topple the democratically elected government of Israel, I would suggest we should support it. Israelis are more than capable of managing their domestic affairs without Democratic meddling. But they need our help to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, they need our help to achieve peace with their neighbors, and they need our help to defeat the terrorists threatening both our nations.
Yet they don’t get that from the Biden administration, either. Iran is racing toward a nuclear breakout while the president dithers. His administration can barely utter the words ‘Abraham Accords because it was a Trump achievement’ And President Biden is breaking U.S. law to subsidize the Palestinian Authority’s support for terrorism.” He feels he is sponsoring a Coup and Training a Palestinian Terrorist Army in Israel. Did he donate money to the PA's training? Must be. Our banks are getting a little short, themselves.
As a Goldfoot, may I remind people that we Jews are known for our Golden rule of not treating others as we would not want to be treated. Therefore, we would and should never treat Arabs worse than we'd want to be treated. You get what you give. Why is everyone worrying about this? We must follow the Jewish rules that pertain to the treatment of others. They are amazing! If Jews are pretending to be Jewish and are living in Judea and Samaria and breaking these rules, these ancient established ways of living with others, shame!
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Glick
https://mqgisrael.org/about/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-take-customary-photo-with-president-netanyahu-the-sole-survivor-from-96/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1746197919840811
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Yosef
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Israel
https://www.voanews.com/a/israel-s-president-calls-judicial-overhaul-wrong-says-to-scrap-it-/6998632.html
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