Nadene Goldfoot
We are now entering into a period before Rosh Hashanah (Mon. Sept 22-Wed. Sept 24, 2025 called "DAYS OF REFLECTION." The "days of reflection" before Rosh Hashanah are well- known as the Days of Awe (Yamim Nora'im) or the Days of Repentance, encompassing the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This period is a time for introspection, self-examination, and repentance, culminating in the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Vigler has a video of the British Journalist, Melanie Phillipsof Britain called, "WHAT THE WEST DON'T SEE """The Shocking Truth About How the West View the Palestinians. It's on youtube.
Phillips has authored several books, including Londonistan, The World Turned Upside Down, and Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity, according to Amazon UK. Her work often explores themes of moral relativism, the influence of Islam, and the state of British society. She is a vocal critic of what she perceives as left-wing ideologies and their impact on British culture and values.
She helps me reflect our past year, like the fact that Israel was recently blamed for bombing a Palestinian Hospital when it turned out to be a Hamas rocket veering off course, hitting theirown hospital.
How many times have Hamas terrorists hit ourhospital, causing the staff to move to the basement to do surgery. It's worth noting that hospitals in Ashkelon, a city close to Sderot and the Gaza border, have also been hit by rockets in the past, with damage to sections of the hospital requiring rebuilding. I'm thinking of Barzilai. In addition, Ashkelon was hit many times during this period by Grad rockets. On 26 February 2008, a Grad rocket hit the hospital grounds of the Barzilai Medical Center, approximately 200 meters away from the neonatal intensive-care unit.
The primary hospital in Ashkelon, Israel is the Barzilai Medical Center. It is a 600-bed district general hospital that has been serving the community since 1961. The hospital also plays a crucial role as a frontline facility, providing medical care to civilians and soldiers injured during conflicts in the region, particularly those near the Gaza border. I didn't see any outsiders other than Israelis write about these atrocities.
Melanie told how in England, the people have no concept of our Jewishistory and view Jews and IDF as something like the IRA of Ireland,who, by the way, are most anti-Semitic nowdays. They view Palestinians
as the indigent people while it is the Jews who are. In fact, Vigler
mentioned that "Palestinians", though is a term used by the Romans after
135 CE when Bar Kokhba had held Jerusalem for 3 years, holding
back the Romans, angering them so much that they renamed Judah as
Palestine for Israel's worst enemy of those days, Palestine actually in
Hebrew means INVADER. Of course, the Philistines were invaders ofthe land back then. In 135 CE, Bar Kokhba was killed by Roman troops in the fortified town of Betar. The Judean rebels who remained after his death were all killed or enslaved within the next year, and their defeat was followed by a harsh crackdown on the Judean populace by the Roman emperor Hadrian.
Reflect? Mohammad was born in 570 CE and died in 632 CE. Jews had been living in tribal units in Arabia ever since 70 CE and later since they had to escape from the Romans and had scattered where possible since many were kidnapped as slave material. Mohammad, who couldn't read nor write, like his own people were also illiterate , did admire the stories he heard told outside some Jews' tents and that admiration turned to making his own people become "PEOPLE OF A BOOK" as well. So he started dictating his version of "a book." His book fitted his position, but he really couldn't do the editing unless someone read it all back to him. Later on, many Jewish writers living in Arab countries wrote in Arabic. My reflection lands on how the Palestinians have changed to the point of having a single goal of annihilation of the Jews from Israel and that the West remains unaware or non-caring about it.
The reflection causes me to think inward as to what I can do to help better, and in my position, this is what I am doing; exerting myself to keep on reminding people of why we are here and what service we do and are doing. The Palestinians have made up their own history, lying about it, and have become evil.
Those joining the Abraham Accords are doing a good job of reflection and do want a peaceful society and friendship with Jews. May it continue and grow and may the Hebron population become successful in joining them.
Remember, "The most famous quote associated with the moon landing is "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," spoken by Neil Armstrong as he took his first step on the Moon. While often remembered as "That's one small step for a man," Armstrong maintained he did say "a," though the audio recording is unclear. It's changing attitudes so one small step from Hebron to me is a big deal, especially after reading that the sheik has suffered since his decision to go public.Neil Armstrong's moonwalk took place in 1969. Specifically, he became the first person to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission. Changing over from a hateful terrorist to being peaceful is as hard as that first step.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah
https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2022/08/assads-chutzpa-leading-him-to-turn.html
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