Nadene Goldfoot
The obstacle to peace in the Middle East are the Palestinians who have refused to make any peace with the Jewish State of Israel.
I'm tired of having this not acknowledged. For 75 years, since May 14, 1948, when Israel was finally created after waiting since the year 70, Israel finally had become a state and within 5 minutes, were defending themselves against these Palestinians. There were very few Palestinians living in the Ottoman Empire area of ancient Judea/Samaria. Judea was one of the 12 tribes left alone by the Assyrian Empire in 721 BCE after forcefully taking the 10 other northern tribes. Judea with some of Simeon and Benjamin were left, and Judea had in its center, Jerusalem. In 1881, Jews came to live from Eastern Europe who had had it with the pogroms against them and knew that they were told to live in the land of Israel originally. That was home. They came on the 1st Aliyah of which about 5 more would later follow. There were Jews still living there from ancient days, but not enough of them to create a country again.
Year | Immigrants |
1919 | 1,806 |
1920 | 8,223 |
1921 | 8,294 |
1922 | 8,685 |
1923 | 8,175 |
1924 | 13,892 |
1925 | 34,386 |
1926 | 13,855 |
World War I of 1914 to 1918 gave the Jews the impetus to regain their land. Meetings with Great Britain took place.
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The Balfour Doctrine was sympathetic and a Jewish Homeland was promised by Lord Balfour and the Brits. The Brits then changed, giving 80% of this Promised Land to the Arabs of Jordan. Brits then allowed Arabs to enter the land of Palestine but not the Jews--and the Germans wanted to kill Jews, not Arabs. Go figure the British reasoning.
1930s and Germany had created Hitler who in 1933 was powerful, using everything he had against the Jews. Germany entered Poland in 1939 and went after the Jews living there. The Holocaust murdered 6 million Jews, no war, just taking people and shooting them like a pigeon party, or gassing them in large groups. Being alive when born in 1934 was because I was born in the USA, the only safe place on this planet at the time. My European cousins are no more.
In 1967, after fighting major wars against one of the tiniest states in the world, Israel, Israel experienced their own victory after victory in defense since :
1. The War of Independence : 29 November 1947-1949
2. The Sinai War: 29 October - 5 November 1956
3. The Six Day War: 5 June 1967-11 June 1967
4. The War of Attrition: 1968-7th, 8th August 1970
5. The Yom Kippur War: 6 October 1973-25 October 1973
After losing the war in 1967, the Palestinians and other Arabs met in Khartoum, Africa and decided on the plan of No, No and No. There is to be no Peace with Israel. They plan to take all the land.
Since 1973, there has been other attacks, big and little, constant and erratic. Israelis have had to fight for the 4th generation of people with no peace in sight except for the Abraham Accords that show hope, but it does not include either the Palestinians nor the Iranians, who are backing all the attacks against Israel today.
All citizens, men and women, are enrolled in the IDF (Israel Defense Force). Children have grown up knowing their fate. Now we have a generation of experts helping other countries. Yet, though the USA is helped the most as well as Israelis needing their help, Biden keeps going against all Israel stands for as a politician. Out of one side of his mouth, he says he's such a great friend, but in so many important ways a friend helps, he goes the other way.
The date for that auspicious occasion of dividing Judea and Samaria, as agreed upon by then-US president Bill Clinton, then-Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat, was to be no later than five years from the establishment of the PA in May 1994; that is to say, in 1999.
Judea and Samaria are divided into 3 sections; A, B, and C where Jews may live. The Palestinians have been illegally building in the C area and have not been stopped by Israel which is against the law. Israel is also building in the C area now.
Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) – A, B and C – were meant as a short-term fix until a real Israeli-Palestinian peace accord could be crafted. More than 20 years later, both sides have broadly infringed on these parameters. Israel regularly penetrates Area A for security reasons, while the PA (with EU support) is building illegally and dangerously in key parts of Area C that are critical to Israel. Israel should halt this encroachment with determination.
Area A is the space in which the PA has political and military jurisdiction over its residents, all of whom are Arab. This includes all the major towns and their immediate environs, with the partial exception of Jewish Hebron, which came under exclusive Israeli control in the 1997 Hebron protocol between Israel and the PLO. This area comprises approximately 18 percent of Judea and Samaria’s land mass. Israeli citizens have the right to enter and pass through Area A unmolested, provided they are not involved in illicit activity, in which case the PA can only temporarily apprehend them until they are transferred to the Israeli authorities. Joint Israeli-PA patrols were intended to handle such cases.
Area B signified less built-up areas, many of which shared space with settlements created in the massive settlement drive in the 1980s launched by the Likud government. In Area B, which comprises approximately 22% of Judea and Samaria, Israel and the PA share jurisdiction. Israel enjoys exclusive jurisdiction over the Jewish inhabitants and exclusive authority over security for both its Arab and Jewish inhabitants.
Most of Judea and Samaria (60% of the area) is designated Area C, over which Israel has exclusive jurisdiction both administratively and in security matters. Area C’s distinguishing characteristic is that it is sparsely populated by Arab inhabitants and in which much Jewish settlement has taken place. Most of this area lies east of the populated mountain spine from Jenin in the north to Hebron in the south. The eastern slopes descending into and including the Jordan Valley are characterized by harsh climate and low to no rainfall.
Hebron is mentioned again. It is the most important city of ancient Judah because Abraham bought it so he could bury his wife, Sarah. He had to buy a whole plot of land with the Cave of Machpelah on it. Joshua in the Exodus assigned it to Calab and it became a Levitical city and a city of refuge. David reigned there for 7 1/2 years before moving to Jerusalem. Jews continued to live here through the Byzantine Period and even under Arab rule. Jews numbered 1,500 in 1890 in this city alone and had a yeshivot and religious schools. The great Lithuanian yeshivah of Slobodka was transferred there in 1925.
In the terrible year of 1929, the Arabs massacred 700 of the many Jews of the town and the survivors fled. 30 Jewish families returned in 1931. There were Arab riots in 1936, possibly affected by the German attacks on Jews in Germany , and it became devoid of Jews.
By 1967 the population of Hebron was 38,310. After the Six Day War in 1967, a number of Jews settled in Hebron and established the Kiryat Arba quarter east of the city. The population was 3,700 in 1988.
Why are Jews living in Judea and Samaria now making the headlines by attacking Palestinians? They are a new breed of Jews; fighters trained by Israel but more religious. They see Israel going along, being led by the USA, and Europe, being pushed into the idea of, of course there's to be a state of Palestine bordering Israel even though there's never been a state of Palestine nor a country of Palestine or an Empire of Palestine.
These Palestinian Arabs, who have attacked their grandparents, parents and themselves will be rewarded with their own country that will by their own wishes will swallow up Israel. They have seen anti-Semitism and know that this is what determines their fate and they're not about to allow it to happen. Judea and Samaria was once Jewish land; the history of Judaism which is the oldest of the three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Gush Etzion (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1943–1947, and destroyed by the Arab Legion before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, in the Kfar Etzion massacre. The area was left outside of Israel with the 1949 armistice lines. These settlements were rebuilt after the 1967 Six-Day War, along with new communities that have expanded the area of the Etzion Bloc. As of 2011, Gush Etzion consisted of 22 settlements with a population of 70,000.
The Har Hevron Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית הר חברון, Mo'atza Azorit Har Hevron) is an Israeli regional council in the southern Judean Hills area of Mount Hebron, in the southern West Bank, administering Israeli settlements. The headquarters are located adjacent to Otniel. The council was established in 1983. The chairman of the council is Yochay Damri.
While Kiryat Arba is physically located within the territory of the Har Hevron Regional Council, it is an independent town.
The council provides various municipal services to Adora, Avigayil, Beit Hagai, Beit Yatir, Carmel, Eshkolot, Livne, Ma'ale Hever, Ma'on, Mitzpe Asa'el, Negohot, Otniel, Sansana, Shim'a, Susya, Telem and Teneh Omarim.
Three of the settlements - Eshkolot, Sansana, and Beit Yatir - are in the so-called Seam Zone, on the Israeli side of the Israeli West Bank barrier, but still inside the West Bank.[
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli and US governments dispute this.
These Jews have experienced almost 100 years of Palestinians attacking their families living in Judea and Samaria in the most gruesome of manners; and are left numb, frozen in the knowledge of these murders.
Israel has tried to bring about peace since the very beginning with high hopes and plans. All has failed.
Resource:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgzGtvsRHnCxtlpvgxRwpsqVhBhhV from The Israel Guys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bik%27at_HaYarden_Regional_Council
https://emetonline.org/resource/fact-sheet-on-settlements/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Bank_Access_Restrictions_June_2020.pdf
https://besacenter.org/abcs-judea-samaria-towards-breakdown/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement
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