Nadene Goldfoot
Born on September 8, 1941, I beat him by being born September 5, 1934, so this 83 year old seems to reflect an actual cracked pot that is impossible to mend. CNN tells about the kibbutz he visited for a few months.
Israel CNN---A small collective community in northern Israel,
modeled after the communist ideals of the Soviet Union, may hold
clues to the development of U.S. Presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders' political beliefs. It was the kibbutz he was on.
We're both Jewish, but I have dual citizenship with Israel, having lived there over 5 years (1980-1985) studying for a year in Haifa which led to teaching English in Safed (Tzfat) to a Jr. High. I went over with my husband, another teacher, and we started a Yiddish in English Theater starring us! We played all over Israel, which is really a teeny state. In between gigs and teaching, I learned to shoot an M1 rifle standing, sitting and lying down so I could ride around with some youngsters in the IDF on their days off in Haifa on patrol. They really wanted my female German Shepherd with us, who wouldn't let me go without her, of course, who was so glad to get to ride in a car again.
Sanders says he became interested in politics at an early age due to his family background. In the 1940s, many of his relatives in German-occupied Poland were murdered in the Holocaust. So he's now doing everything he can say to turn the USA against Israel and not help them in their time of need. I should think his ancestors are in shock!! I just heard him on TV and was in shock, though I know his feelings, but this was too much.
Sanders supports Palestinian rights and has criticized Israel on several occasions. In 2020, he called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee a platform for bigotry and said he would not attend its conference. He condemned Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, saying, "It would dramatically undermine the prospects for an Israeli–Palestinian peace agreement, and severely, perhaps irreparably, damage the United States' ability to broker that peace." During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, he criticized Hamas for its attacks on civilians and criticized Israel for its bombing of Gaza. He first called for a pause in fighting, saying that he "doesn't know if a ceasefire is possible with an organization like Hamas", but later called for a humanitarian ceasefire and urged Biden to withhold military aid to Israel. So you can imagine that he's hysterical now that Trump is doing a 180 and helping Israel .
Has Sanders done any serious investigations as to why there is a war going on between Hamas in Gaza when Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians in the name of Peace? Or why Hamas started shooting 5 minutes after receiving such a peace offering? I would say that his decisions about Israel show he has not. He was only 22 when he was volunteering at the kibbutz.
With people like Sanders, it is my waste of time to try to change his frozen mind, but he, being an important personality in our government during Biden's service, can cause more anti-Semitism than anyone can. Hamas must love him ! With his catholic wife today, his spiritual guide seems to be Pope Francis more than anything Judaism offers him as he's paying attention to the Pope's issues that he brings up, which are perfectly good issues, if you ask me, but he's ignoring important facts about the Jewish people of Israel, only 6 million of us, who are being attacked on 7 fronts! The poor Palestinians he favors are being backed by Iran whose goal is to wipe out all Jews and take over Israel for another Muslim country since they only have 49 or 50 already. If you really don't care to find something, you won't see it even if it bites you on the tuches. How can he still think this way after October 7th?
In 1963, in cooperation with the Labor Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, Sanders and his first wife volunteered at Sha'ar HaAmakim, a kibbutz in northern Israel. His motivation for the trip was as much socialistic and very little was Zionistic since he's against Israel now, speaking against her and not wanting to allow her any weaponry to be used against Hamas. He's what I call a real meshugana!
Bernie didn't seem to have a good experience on the kibbutz he chose. I wrote a book about mine, called "Letters From Israel." Israeli newspaper Haaretz dug up a 1990 interview with Sanders. In the article, Sanders claimed he spent several months in 1963 volunteering at Shaar Ha’amakim.The kibbutz was a cornerstone of Israeli society in the decades before and after the nation was founded in 1948. They were a way for Jewish immigrants from all over the world to work together, growing crops and building a sense of community. Shaar Ha’amakim is a kibbutz near Haifa, a 90-minute drive from Jerusalem near the northern border with Lebanon. The small community, population around 800, is nestled amongst green hills and is located just minutes from modern retail stores and restaurants. It was founded by Jewish immigrants in 1935 on land purchased from Arab landowners.
Landowners saw that Jews had arrived and were buying land and paying ridiculously high prices for it, as it was holy to them. That's what the Arabs did; sold their land and went to such places as Paris or Beirut with their money as they couldn't afford to pay the taxes to the Ottoman Empire. Bernie probably didn't know the history of how this came about. Here's the exact history: The area was acquired by the Jewish community as part of the Sursock Purchase. In 1925 a Zionist organization purchased 50 feddans in Hartieh from the Sursock family of Beirut. At the time, there were 60 families living there. In the 1931 census, the Arab Zubeidat was counted under the Shefa-'Amr suburbs.
From 1931, and lasting several years, the Jewish Agency struggled to evict the Arab El Zubeidat, who were tenant farmers at Hartiya. According to Avneri, Hartiya land was to become Sha'ar HaAmakim. According to the Department of Statistics, however, Sha'ar HaAmakim had previously been part of Sheikh Bureik. Sheikh Bureik, locally called Sheikh Abreik or Sheikh Ibreik in recent times, was a Palestinian Arab village located 10 miles southeast of Haifa.
Kibbutz Sha'ar HaAmakim was founded in 1935 by immigrants from Romania and Yugoslavia. One of its founders was Aharon Cohen, later to be convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Its name was derived from the nearby confluence of the Jezreel and Zevulun valleys. By the 1945 statistics it had a population of 360, all Jews. 1935 was when Jews were feeling the effects of Hitler, and were prohibited from living a normal life anymore; thrown out of jobs, etc, in Germany. Then German troops marched into Poland in 1939, and the Holocaust was in full swing till 1945. The British held the mandate over Palestine and wouldn't let hardly any Jews in while they allowed Arabs entrance.
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Jewish refugees, including Holocaust survivors, arrived in Palestine by ship, and some of them, along with existing Jewish residents, participated in armed resistance against British authorities and Arab populations, as part of the broader Zionist movement's struggle for a Jewish state that was legal with League of Nations and later, the United Nations (UN).
The senate did something wonderful on Thursday. The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected a pair of resolutions by Senator Bernie Sanders aimed at blocking the transfer of weapons to Israel, with the minority of Democrats voting in favor of it. since the last time such an initiative was advanced several months ago.
Sanders’s motions were virtually guaranteed to fail given the Republican majority in the Senate and the still small minority of Democrats willing to vote against Israel. However, such votes are often framed as a litmus test on how much the Democratic Party is shifting in its support for Israel, and in particular, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Bernie's desire to end it all for Israel has its effect on many of these Democrats who are now also listening to the squad, which is also trying to grow larger and is made up of very Palestinian oriented leaders.Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Cohen *****Aharon Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOoK9e2HW78 Bernie's speech to Senate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Bureik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha%27ar_HaAmak
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-volunteer-israel/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
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