Lebanese Tiring Of Hezbollah Terrorists But Hague Wants Netanyahu Arrested Anyway

 Nadene Goldfoot                                              

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sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks to then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) at the opening of the 25th Parliament session in Jerusalem on October 28, 2024. 

Debbie Hill/AFP via Getty Images

Just at the time when the Lebanese civilians are sick and tired of having Hezbollah in their midst, they are realizing that they are not only incapable of bringing them peace and a better government, that they have brought them just the opposite, and that the Israelis are not bad after all.  In fact, they are hoping that the Israelis wipe the Hezbollah terrorists out!  

The court said there is probable cause that Deif is responsible for war crimes and 

crimes against humanity, including taking hostages,

 rape, and extermination, but he's already been assassinated by the IDF in July.  

So what has the ICC (International Criminal Court of the UN)- the Hague,  come up with at this tender time?  They have put out an arrest warrant of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel and  former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant. They surprise us by including  Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif for war crimes and crimes against humanity as well.

 This is the first time a State Head has had this happen to themselves.  Now, it is not that surprising that the ICC would do something like this.  The UN is full with over 49 countries of Muslim majority  population that have been wanting to eliminate Israel, the only Jewish country in the world with the original one having been created by King Saul back in about 1030 BCE which is over 3,000 years ago.  The UN has continually found fault with only Israel, never the people trying to eliminate them.  It's highly prejudiced !  

The International Criminal Court alleges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza offensive. Photo: (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Arrest warrants issued for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister over alleged war crimes threaten to deepen the global isolation of a country already under pressure around the world for its handling of the war in the Gaza Strip. Almost all of Europe are abiding with this ruling, lacking the spine to speak out against the UN leadership.  The USA are not going along with it, but Canada seems to be doing so.  The British government clarified its position on the arrest warrants issued by the world's top criminal court for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant by suggesting that it would arrest the leaders if they travelled to Britain.

Israel has tried to argue that the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction over Israelis at all, but the state of Palestine has been a signatory since 2015 — so crimes committed by anyone in occupied Palestinian territory like Gaza are, in fact, the ICC’s purview.

Palestine?  What is a signatory?  A signatory is someone who signs a contract, therefore creating a legal obligation. There could be several signatories for a specific contract. Over time, this word has often been used for a person or country who signs a peace treaty. If the treaty is broken, the signatory will be blamed.  As of June 2024, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 146 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members.  And then, the October 7, 2024 attack by Palestinians on over 200 Israelis living alongside Gaza on a National holiday of Sukkot !  They were horribly killed, as if by monsters, little babies to oldsters, beheaded and painful burnings, in ways we can't even imagine.  What an introduction to their becoming a peaceful state Israel was to live next to !  I blame all that made these Monsters a state along with the monsters themselves.  

As far as we know, there has never been, nor is now, a state of Palestine.  As I've said a thousand times, it was the Romans who named a part of Israel as Palestine after 70 CE, the name of Israel's worst enemies then, the Philistines.  Rome took down Jerusalem by burning the city and it's Solomon's Temple at that time as well as their Roman occupation that had been going on.  

124 countries can arrest the Prime Minister of Israel with Gallant since they voted for this; so many of Europe doing so.  Netanyahu has called the ICC's arrest warrant an "antisemitic decision" and said, "Israel utterly rejects the false and absurd charges of the ICC, a biased and discriminatory political body."  The British government clarified its position on the arrest warrants issued by the world's top criminal court for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by suggesting that it would arrest the leaders if they travelled to Britain. 

 Britain has let us down since the end of WWI when they stated in a letter (Balfour Doctrine)  in the 1920s their support for a Jewish National Home with land regained from Ottoman Empire's holdings, raising our hopes, only to cut the land down to 10% of the original promised size by giving away 80% of it to the Prince of Arabia who needed land and people to rule.  The Jews had 600,000 looking at their native land they had lost to the Romans, wanting that particular land for the past 2,000 years.  

President Joe Biden has expressed support for Israel and called the warrants 

"disgraceful." The U.S. is a strong ally of Israel and neither country is a member of 

the ICC.  It's amazing how many countries are chicken and just follow their leader.

Resource:

TV 7

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/icc-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-gallant-deepen-israels-isolation-27d2a86a

https://www.vox.com/israel/387191/icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu

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

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-says-canada-would-abide-by-icc-arrest-warrant-for-israel-pm-netanyahu-1.7118846

First Year Anniversary of Gazan War and It's Casualties

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                       

As of today, 800 IDF soldiers have died since the start of the war in Gaza.  The last to die was Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Roi Sasson, who was killed in an ambush while inside a building in northern Gaza. The battalion commander was also seriously wounded in the incident.  He was 21 years old, as most of the deceased had been from 19 to 21, I notice, and from Mevasseret Zion.  He was killed on Tuesday in northern Gaza during a clash with terrorists,  "He finished his compulsory service and they gave him four months of reserve duty, which he didn't survive," Osnat, his mother said.  The number of wounded soldiers stands at 5,381, with 786 seriously wounded.

                         Syrian Missiles to shoot at Israel

We've been at this war for a year, now.   26,000 rockets have been fired at Israel.  Israel's military reported that  17,000 terror operatives were killed in Gaza, at least 800 in Lebanon; 4,700 tunnel shafts found in Strip; and 11,000 Hezbollah positions were hit.  

This Israel--Hamas war started On 7 October 2023, when Palestinian militants attacked Israel, killing 1,143 people (mostly civilians) at the music festival at the end of Sukkot and beginning the Israel–Hamas war.  Israel responded by bombing the Gaza Strip and launching an invasion that has killed more than 43,000 (?) Gazans as of November 2024.  Now, the number  of Gazans reported to have been killed is probably highly incorrect, as it is reported by the enemy, and they have been exaggerating every time.  Israel is noted to have an army that goes more than any other army goes to protect the civilians.  

      Rockets shot from Gaza into Israel 

Jews hadn't lived in Gaza until 1967, when they won the June war after being attacked by all their neighbors at once in an instigated and planned  war led by Egypt and others.  In total, between 1967 and 2005, Israel established 21 settlements in Gaza, comprising 20% of the total territory. Before that time, from 1959 till 1967, Egypt was in control of Gaza.  Historically part of the Palestine region, the area was controlled since the 16th century by the Ottoman Empire; in 1906, the Ottomans and the British Empire set the region's international border with Egypt. 

    Not an easy thing to leave Gaza for some Jews, but Israel was insistent it would happen.

With the implementation of the plan for Peace with the Palestinians, IDF installations and forces were removed and over 9000 Israeli citizens living in 25 settlements were evicted. By 22 September 2005, Israel's withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip to the 1967 Green Line, and the eviction of the four settlements in Samaria, was completed.   Jews had left everything; even their businesses for the Palestinians.  To have left the land only to see that it was used as a platform to shoot guns of all sorts at them, rockets, missiles, mortars, etc, was the biggest horror.  They will not repeat this mistake again.  That's why a cease fire must be worded very carefully if Jews are to move back home after losing theirs on October 7th along with so many lives.  

Resource:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-20/ty-article/idf-names-israeli-soldier-killed-in-gaza-marking-800-army-fatalities-since-start-of-war/00000193-4933-d26b-a1ff-4f3ff6980000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict#:~:text=On%207%20October%202023%2C%20Palestinian,Gazans%20as%20of%20November%202024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict#:~:text=On%207%20October%202023%2C%20Palestinian,Gazans%20as%20of%20November%202024.

What The "West Bank"" Means to Jews and Arabs

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

The WEST BANK is a new political name after 1947  for JUDEA and SAMARIA, states created about 3,000 years ago by Joshua and Moses's 600,000 Israelites,  freed from Egypt's bondage of 400 years.  Judea was one of 12 states created by the tribe of Judah, and Samaria was simply the hill of land  surrounding  their capital (Samaria)  of the Northern  kingdom of ISRAEL, the compilation of the 12 states of Jacob's sons. It was Joshua who delegated land sites to each tribe, decided by what he knew each tribe was capable of holding and using the land.  Canaan was land that Abraham had lived upon.  It was their original home before the draught that forced them into Egypt.  Now they were returning, better late than never.  

 In Hebrew, Samaria was called Shomron.  It was founded in 880 BCE by Omri, king of Israel.  In 1947, the terminology was noted by the United Nations in the Partition Plan for Palestine with the statement: "the boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River...

Judaism was born through Moses' s laws from G-d during the Exodus.  The Israelites spent their lives studying  and practicing it wherever they lived.  Jerusalem was built by David and his son, Solomon.  Jews have considered this land THEIRS, even after they were exiled.  They prayed 3 times a day for the time to return.  Judaism went forward, spawning Christianity and then later, Islam.  Now their two "children" have decided that they are Judaism's replacement theories or religions, but the Jews are faithful to the parent.  

Israel (Yellow) with Shechem, the northern land made up of 10 of the tribes,  that was conquered by Nebuchadnezzzar II who  inherited the Assyrian Empire and after he conquered Judah in 597 BCE and again in 586 BCE,  exiled the people to Babylon;   and Judah, the southern land with the power source of Jerusalem, was left with 3 tribes; Judah being the largest with Simeon and Benjamin.  

The hilly land was even bought from its owner, Shemer (I Kings 16:24) originally. Heb. shemer, guard). Shemer was the owner of a hill in central Israel that Omri king of Israel,  bought, fortified, and named Samaria after its former owner (1Kgs.16.24; 1Chr.6.46). This man’s name is Shamar in KJV of Chronicles. 

The site, 7 miles NW of Shechem, today's Nablus,  was on a hilltop giving them a view of the wide countryside.  The city was composed of 25 acres.  Omri was king  of Israel from 887 to 876 BCE and was founder of a dynasty.  When young, he was a general against the Philistine city of Gibbethon.  He had subdued Moab.  The Assyrians called the kingdom of Israel by his name for the rest of its existence.  Note that this was recorded and known by all as a purchased land owned by the king for his kingdom.  

Some of the Jews never left the land, but the last king of Israel was Hoshea (730-721 BCE. From then till 70 CE, other Jewish obeying rulers for other lands were sitting on the throne.  The Romans burned down the Temple and Jerusalem.  Bar Kokhba tried to take Jerusalem back in 132 but lost the battle after 3 years.  

Britain held a 30 year mandate to be responsible for Palestine-named by Romans for Philistines,  enemies of Israel that started on April 24, 1920.   

No one took care of the land, and it died, turning into swamps for mosquitoes and flies and such.  Only when Jewish escapees from pogroms attempted a return to their native land did the land actually flourish.  They bought land from Arabs who couldn't afford to pay the taxes to the Turks of the Ottoman Empire and wanted to leave for better cities such as Paris.  So the land had a short respite, lying fallow, waiting for the Jews' return.  

Arabs follow Mohammad (570-632).  He thought he was the Arab prophet and so had revelations caused by the angel Gabriel of which later was dictated into the book, the Koran.  It should be known that Mohammad would go on the Meccan trade caravans and often met Jews and Christians and would discuss life.  He could not read or write.  Many Jewish tribes lived in Arabia near Mecca and Medina.  

To Arabs, it was land they wandered through on camels.  They did have one occasion when Mohammad, who knew many of the Jewish tales told outside their tents to groups of listeners, knew about the Temple.  

In Islamic tradition, the Prophet Muhammad's flight to Jerusalem and through the heavens on his winged horse, Buraq, is known as the Isra  Isra:  was the night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem  on his flying horse, Buraq.  The Buraq: was a supernatural creature with the head of a human and the body of a horse. The name "Buraq" may come from the Arabic word bariq, which means "shine" or "brilliance". Mi'raj: The ascent through the seven heavens.  This is the Arab claim of Jerusalem belonging to the Muslims.  

In 1947, the United Nations proposed partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem under international control. However, fighting between Jewish and Arab militias broke out in Jerusalem immediately after the plan was adopted. The conflict led to the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948 and the first Arab-Israeli War.                                  

Prince Abdullah of Arabia needed land and the British gave him Jordan. The period started during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when Jordan occupied and subsequently annexed the portion of Mandatory Palestine that became known as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.  The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on 24 April 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on 31 July 1988.  The territory remained under Jordanian control until it was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War and eventually Jordan renounced its claim to the territory in 1988.

During the December 1948 Jericho Conference, hundreds of Palestinian notables in the West Bank gathered, accepted Jordanian rule and recognized Abdullah as ruler.

The Judea and Samaria Area is administered by the Israel Defense Forces Central Command, and military law is applied. Administrative decisions are subject to the Command's chief. The incumbent chief of Central Command is Aluf Nitzan Alon.

The future status of the region is a key factor in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.  Judea/Samaria (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip are considered occupied Palestinian territories by the United Nations, the United States, the International Court of Justice, the European Union, and by non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B'Tselem. The Supreme Court of Israel has considered the section of Judea/Samaria which excludes East Jerusalem to be Israeli-occupied territories.

On 13 May 2012, a bill to extend Israeli law to the Israeli settlements in the Judea and Samaria Area initiated by Knesset member Miri Regev (Likud) first approved by the majority of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation was rejected in a second round of votes after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his ministers to vote against the bill.

We have 6 major Jewish populated towns in Judea and Samaria.  ARIEL, BELTAR ELLIT, MA'ALE ADUMIM, MODI'IN ILLIT, EFRAT, and HAR BRACHA.  

In 1967, the Six-Day War saw Israeli forces capture the Jordanian-annexed West Bank, marking the beginning of the ongoing Israeli occupation of the territory. Following its capture, the right-wing Israelis began to refer to the territories by their Hebrew-language names and argued for their integration into Israel on historical, religious, nationalist, and security grounds

                                                                

                           Areas A, B, and C:  The West Bank was divided into Areas A, B, and C through the Oslo Accords, with Area A under full Palestinian control, Area B under shared Palestinian and Israeli control, and Area C under full Israeli control, essentially splitting the territory into zones based on administrative and security jurisdiction; Area C comprises the largest portion of the West Bank, encompassing around 60% of the land. Arabs have been encroaching on the C land, building without permits,, etc. squatting. 

Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel, won a 2006 West Bank parliamentary election over the Western-backed Fatah faction, led by Mahmoud Abbas, which had been administering the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Hamas victory brought sanctions and boycotts by the U.S., the EU and Israel of the new, Hamas-led joint Palestinian leadership.

In 2007, Abbas dissolved the Hamas-led administration in the West Bank and created an emergency cabinet that favored Fatah. The power struggle between the two Palestinian factions led to a split between the West Bank and Gaza, with Western powers supporting the Fatah-administered West Bank diplomatically and economically, while blockading the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Ever since then, Israel has had their hands full fighting off terrorists, and trying to protect Judea and Samaria along with Israel proper.  Everyone has been so quick to want to take Judea and Samaria away from the Jewish country and turn it into an Arab country named Palestine.  May I remind the world;  there is but one Jewish state in the world;  ISRAEL, while there are at least 49 Muslim majority states in the world that does not need another in the UN!  There are 57 Muslim countries in the world, according to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) member list. Among these, 49 countries have a Muslim-majority population.

Some of those who do not support the creation of an independent Palestinian state do support Israel's annexation of the West Bank, including members of the current far-right Israeli government led by Netanyahu.

Resource:

Tanakh, Stone Edition

New Jewish Encyclopedia

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

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

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/muslim-countries-in-the-world-2024/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-israel-annex-west-bank-after-trump-takes-office/

Jews Relating History of Ukraine to Russia

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

Russia is still at it, trying to claim part of Ukraine as their own land.  Ukraine had an interesting birth.  A part of Scythia in antiquity, Ukraine was largely settled by Greuthungi, Getae, Goths, and Huns in the Migration Period, while southern parts of Ukraine were previously colonized by Greeks and then Romans. In the Early Middle Ages it was also a site of early Slavic expansion.

Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and its history is marked by periods of Russian rule and periods of relative independence: 

Jews immigrated to the Ukraine in waves from Khazaria, the Calliphate, and Byzantium between the 9th and 12th centuries.  

 In 14th and 15th centuries, majority of Ukrainian territories became part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia, while Galicia and Zakarpattia came under Polish and Hungarian rule.

Jews came from Central Europe to Ukraine in the 14th to 15th centuries, and from Poland in the 15th to 17th centuries.  Several massacres of Jews took place there during the Chmielnicki and Haidamak uprisings of the 17th to 18th centuries.  

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth   Kingdom of Poland 

• In 1708, Russia gains control of eastern Ukraine after the Battle of Poltava, which crushed the Swedish army led by King Charles XII.

  
•  By 1764–1781, Catherine the Great incorporates much of central Ukraine into the Russian Empire, abolishing the Cossack Hetmanate. Then, in 1795, after the fall of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the western part of present-day Ukraine is split between Russia and Austria-Hungary. 

  

       Notice, Ukraine is orange (6)
• In 1922 The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (U.S.S.R.) is established.The Soviet Empire was made up of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
• The Soviet Union had eight leaders; first being Lenin,  during its existence from 1922 to 1991. Unlike countries in which a president or prime minister is the designated head of state, the leaders of the USSR mostly assumed power by becoming the head of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, in addition to any other roles they may have taken on along the way.
• The Soviet government in the 1920's promoted Jewish settlement in the Ukraine with funds of the American Joint Distribution Committee, in the regions of Kalinindorf, Zlatopol, and Stalindodrf:  and by 1930, there were 90,000 Jewish agriculturists there.  
• Jewish economy and culture suffered under Soviet rule.  About half of Soviet Russia's 3 million Jews lived there before World War II, but under Nazi rule the Jewish people who had not fled to Russia were wiped out by the Germans and Ukrainians in 1941 to 1942.   
•  Ukrainians were especially hard on Jews during WWII by aiding and abetting with the Nazis.                                                

  

  First General Assembly in Odessa of the "Zionist Land Workers in Syria & the Holy Land," 1890 (National Photo Collection of Israel); still from video of Volodymir Zelensky and administration officials in Kyiv, released on Facebook Feb. 25, 2022.

  
• Zelenskyy has positioned himself as an anti-establishment and anti-corruption figure. As president, he has been a proponent of e-government and of unity between the Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking parts of the country's population. His communication style makes extensive use of social media, particularly Instagram. His party won a landslide victory in the snap legislative election held shortly after his inauguration as president. 
• Volodymyr Zelensky has gone from a TV personality playing their president to the actual President of Ukraine! That TV president was just what they needed!  
• As for being Jewish, Grandfather Semyon's father and three brothers were killed in the Holocaust. In March 2022, Zelenskyy said that his great-grandparents had been killed after German troops burned their home to the ground during a massacre. His grandmother survived World War II after leaving Kryvyi Rih in an evacuation of Jews to Almaty, Kazakhstan, and returned to Ukraine after the war. Zelensky's father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor and computer scientist and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology; his mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a retired engineer. His grandfather, Semyon Zelenskyy [uk], served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during World War II; 
•  As much of the world expresses sorrow and solidarity with the Ukrainian people—and admiration for its president, Volodymyr Zelensky today—the ironies of history abound. To students of Jewish history, it is a source of near incredulity that the same recurrent site of mass violence against Jews—from the Khmielnitsky massacres of the mid-seventeenth century to the brutal killing fields during and after World War I to the bloodlands soiled by Nazi murderers in Operation Barbarossa in 1941—is home to a fledgling democracy and an unlikely and inspiring Jewish president. And yet, Ukraine, like history itself, is multidimensiona.
• How Russia often mis-interprets situations.  During the World War, Jews were often accused of sympathizing with Germany and often persecuted. Pogroms were unleashed throughout the Russian Civil War, perpetrated by virtually every competing faction, from Polish and Ukrainian nationalists to the Red and White Armies. 
•  31,071 civilian Jews were killed during documented pogroms throughout the former Russian Empire; the number of Jewish orphans exceeded 300,000. A majority of pogroms in Ukraine during 1918–1920 were perpetrated by the Ukrainian nationalists, miscellaneous bands and anti-Communist forces.
• Jewish mothers would mar their sons somehow to keep them out of the army which started taking the boys as children.  They were put on the front lines and died first.  This was reason enough to seek out immigrating to America!  By 1924 America's door shut down to Jews.  
• It was also home at one time to the world’s largest population of Jews and the place of extraordinary Jewish cultural vitality from Poltava in the east to Lviv in the west, not to mention the jewel of Odessa in the south.
• By 1970 the Jewish population was officially put at 777,126 and at 484,129 in 1989. 

  
• Here we are in 2024 with Biden giving the green light to Ukraine to shoot longer-range missiles into Russia in response to their attacks.  This could lead to a world war.  Biden will be stepping down by January and Trump will start serving his 4 years as President.   Biden, a Democrat that lost, has seen how more militant the USA is by the Republican win.  Biden’s shift in policy added an uncertain, new factor to the conflict on the eve of the 1,000-day milestone since Russia began its full-scale invasion in 2022.  The USA is a NATO country.  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine#:~:text=In%20consequence%2C%20by%20the%20Treaty,for%20over%20a%20hundred%20years.

https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/ironies-history-ukraine-crisis-through-lens-jewish-history

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-biden-decision-us-missiles-atacms-warnings-from-moscow/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia#:~:text=During%20the%20World%20War%2C%20Jews,the%20Red%20and%20White%20Armies.