People Of The Book Of Laws Against The Lawless

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

Like it or not, the reason Judaism exists is that Moses gave us 613 laws he compiled from G-d over 40 years of embarking on an Exodus that we promised to follow having to do with our relationship with others to be fair and honest as we would expect others to treat us.  The first 10 laws were just the beginning.  We had a lot to learn  from experiences we gathered while on this Exodus.  After all, this took place in about from 1311 BCE to 1271 BCE;  3,415 years ago.                            

                                                       The land of Goshen

We went home, Moses passing away on the Exodus and Joshua taking over the leading to Canaan, where our ancestors had been living.   Jacob's family of 12 sons had grown into 12 tribes that had gone to Egypt during a drought when nothing grew.  The Pharaoh was pleased with Joseph and had made him his Viceroy (a royal official who ruled a province or country as the representative of a king or monarch).  Joseph and his family upon arriving were then given land to live upon in the north;  Goshen, a part of Egypt, as grazing land for their sheep.  Evidently, Joseph lived at the time of the Hyksos domination of Egypt between the 18th to 16th centuries BCE.  

Our ancestors, the Israelites, were not an aggressive people.  They were imbued with legalities of how to behave, but they had learned how to protect themselves when being attacked.  They had learned on their own without Moses or Joshua about how to continue to live in a country as slaves who had to work without any rest for 400 years before Moses ever appeared on the scene and brought about their freedom.  They had learned to use their minds and had learned skills as slaves.

Every country they have turned to when looking for permanent homes have turned against them in some violent manner out of jealousy, envy, finding them non-compliant in wanting to follow their own religious laws and sticking to their own.  To them, it must have been a slap in the face as saying that their ways were not as good as the Israelite ways.  

Law.  Many Jews have turned to law as a profession.  According to the American Bar Association, there are approximately 1.3 million lawyers in the United States, and while an exact number of Jewish lawyers isn't readily available, historical data suggests a disproportionately high percentage of lawyers in the US are Jewish, with estimates placing them at around 20% of the legal profession in the late 1960s, which was significantly higher than the overall Jewish population at the time.  The Jews make up only 0.5% (2%)  of the USA's total population today. The largest group are the Reformed.  

According to the Israeli Bar Association, there are nearly 90,000 registered lawyers in Israel, with the vast majority being Jewish, as the Jewish population constitutes the overwhelming majority of Israel's citizens (80%); however, an exact percentage of Jewish lawyers is not readily available due to the sensitive nature of tracking religious demographics within the legal profession. 

Our Golden Rule Standard is: The Jewish Golden Rule is "love your neighbor as yourself" and appears in the Torah in Leviticus 19:18: The Golden Rule is also known as Lev HaTorah. It's a principle that's also found in many other major religions. The Golden Rule is a commandment that focuses on social cohesion among Israelites. It's also a rule of reciprocal altruism that includes the idea of not taking vengeance or holding grudges against others. The Golden Rule has been debated for many reasons, including the meaning of "neighbor" and "as yourself". Some say that the Golden Rule is more about action than just saying you love your neighbor. For example, Hillel is said to have told a gentile that the Golden Rule is "Whatever is hateful and distasteful to you, do not do to your fellow man."

We all were brought up with this attitude and meaning.  That's why Golda Meir had said her famous words:  "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children."  

This is happening because of our weakness in their eyes; so they hide our people they kidnapped as hostages in tunnels, 50 feet under the ground (Portland sewer depth) , and have hidden their weaponry in their own schools, mosques, hospitals, homes where we wouldn't want to shoot.  Daniel Rubinstein wrote that Israel discovered 100 kilometres (62 mi) of tunnels during the 2014 Gaza War, one-third of which intruded upon Israeli territory; Ynet's Alex Fishman reported the same figure in 2017. Haaretz reporter Yaniv Kubovich reported in June 2021 that Hamas had constructed "hundreds of kilometers of tunnels the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip" after some of them were damaged during Operation Guardian of the Walls.

 We developed artillery to pin-point our targets and do use them on these places in order to stop their shelling of us for that's where their shelling comes from!  

This is even a situation in 2024.  Even after a first time ever world-wide Holocaust that purposely murdered 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis, anti-Semitism is almost to the point of 1939 just before this Holocaust.  The remnants of hatred had never totally disappeared but kept popping up.                                            

Maccabi supporters wave yellow flags next to Israeli flags during the UEFA Europa League, League phase - Matchday 4, football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Johan-Cruijff stadium, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024. 

Robin van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images.   

 We saw the Netherlands react horribly with inducement from leaders of trying to capture Jews to kill them. Amsterdam authorities said Friday morning that five injured Israeli soccer fans have since been released from the hospital, and 20 to 30 other people were lightly injured. That's possibly 35 Israelis that were injured.   In total, 63 individuals were arrested and 10 remain in custody, police said. Other reports were that  attackers were driven to the outskirts of Amsterdam and let go.   Luckily, they were stopped before they were successful, but Israel had to send planes to retrieve them and bring them back home.

Israel is not an aggressive country taking over land masses like Russia or Nazi Germany .  Israel had even given Gaza to the Palestinians in the name of PEACE!  Israel owned Gaza through the attack of their neighbors, specifically Egypt,  in June 1967.  The Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip was briefly subsumed by Israel during the 1956 Suez Crisis and ended entirely during the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, after which the territory became occupied by Israel with the establishment of the Israeli Military Governorate.  Israel occupied Gaza in the 1967 war and stayed until 2005, during that time building Jewish settlements.

Israel withdrew its troops and settlers in 2005, though it retained control over its airspace, shared border and shoreline. The UN still considers the territory to be 

occupied by Israel.  Israel had moved out completely, even leaving their businesses for

 the Palestinians.  It's a good will act they will not want to repeat ever again.  

Resource: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44124396

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

Republic#:~:text=The%20Egyptian%20occupation%20of%20the,of%20the%20Israeli

%20Military%20Governorate.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/israel-soccer-fans-attacked-amsterdam-intl-hnk

/index.html