Jewish Bubba: August 2025

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Houthi Cabinet, Prime Minister Wiped Out After Attacking Others

Nadene Goldfoot

Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-led government in Sanaa, was killed in an Israeli air strike on 28 August 2025.(Livemint)

After being hit by many intercontinenatal ballistic missiles coming from Houthi terrorists in Yemen, Israel has retaliated by taking out their Prime Minister and other ministers, their connection to Iran who has been supplying them with orders and arms.

Aug 30 (Reuters) - The prime minister of Yemen's Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council said on Saturday, in the first such attack to kill senior officials. Sources confirmed to Reuters that the energy, foreign and information ministers were among those killed.

Mahdi al-Mashat, is a Yemeni politician and military officer who serves as the chairman of the Supreme Political Council, the executive body of the Houthi movement.

A number of others were wounded in Thursday's strike, Mahdi al-Mashat added, without providing details. The Houthis are an arm of Iran.

Mashat's statement did not make clear whether the Houthi defence minister was among the casualties.

Former Deputy, Al-Allamah Muhammed Miftah assumes the duty of Prime Minister of Yemen following the now Martyring of Al-Rahawi.

Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahawi was appointed as prime minister a year ago, but the de- facto leader of the government was his deputy, Mohammed Miftah, who was assigned on Saturday to carry out the prime minister's duties.

Rahawi was seen largely as a figurehead who was not part of the inner circle of the Houthi leadership.

Yemen has been split between a Houthi administration in Sanaa and a Saudi-backed government in Aden.

The Houthis released footage showing the Eternity C sinking after it was hit by rocket-propelled grenades

Since Israel's war in Gaza against the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in October 7, 2023, the Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked vessels in the Red Sea in what they describe as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians. Yes, the Houthi rebels from Yemen continue to attack vessels in the Red Sea with drones and missiles, claiming their actions are in protest of Israel's war in Gaza. Recent attacks in July 2025 included the sinking of two Greek-owned cargo ships, the Magic Seas and the Eternity Sea, with several crew members killed and others taken hostage or rescued. These attacks are a resurgence of Houthi maritime operations and have significantly impacted global shipping, diverting trade to longer routes around the Cape of Good Hope.

Yemen's Houthi rebels have once again targeted maritime traffic in the Red Sea, sinking the Liberian-flagged cargo vessel Eternity C. The attack resulted in at least three crew fatalities, with only six out of the 25 crew members rescued so far. The Houthis have been carrying out assaults on shipping in the Red Sea, framing their campaign as support for the Palestinians amid the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict.

New ballistic missile, which they said took about 11 minutes to travel that distance from Yemen to Israel, a new type of hypersonic missile, and the incident led to a strong response from Israel, including airstrikes on Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.

They have also frequently fired missiles towards Israel, most of which have been intercepted. Israel has responded with strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, including the vital Hodeidah port.

During the last year, Israel carried out a series of assassinations targeting senior leaders and commanders of Hamas and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, significantly weakening both groups..

On Thursday, Israeli security sources had said the targets had been various locations where a large number of senior Houthi officials had gathered to watch a televised speech recorded by leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
Khaled Mashal born 28 May 1956) age 69, is a Palestinian politician who served as the second chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017, when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. He has also covered duties as the acting leader of Hamas twice, from July 2024 until August 2024 and since October 2024, after both leaders were assassinated by Israel. He has been living in Qatar. You can believe that he is best friends with the head of Qatar. The head of state and government in Qatar is the Emir, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He has reigned as the Emir since June 25, 2013, succeeding his father, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

"Our stance remains as it is and will remain until the aggression ends and the siege is lifted, no matter how great the challenges," Mashat said in a televised speech, adding that the group "shall take revenge."

Who's next to step up to the plate and become a martyr?

Resource

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nI8g_Zc9jA

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/prime-minister-yemens-houthi-run-government-killed-israeli-strike-2025-08-30/

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/ahmed-al-rahawi-killed-inside-the-life-and-legacy-of-the-yemen-houthi-pm-101756566245639.html

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2025/08/second-hit-of-intercontinental-cluster.html

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Presenting Convoluted Thinking of Hamas: The Green Prince

Nadene Goldfoot

If anyone knows how Hamas thinks, it's "The Green Prince", Mosab Hassan Yousef, age 47. Born to a Hamas leader, he realized at an early age how wrong everyone was thinking. What was happening to Yousef was more like what had happened to Abram of Ur of the Chaldees, father of both Arabs and Jews. Abram saw that sacrificing people was wrong eventually when he began to sacrifice his own son, Isaac. He saw that much of what came from Babylon was wrong and so decided to take his family and go away, far away to Egypt, where they would be alone and develop under his own new philosophy of how to live in this world.

Yousef explains that the values Hamas is following is a death culture, the opposite of Judaism. Hamas values bringing honor to the family no matter how they achieve that honor, even if it involves killing your own sister. It comes down to life now is unimportant; what happens when we die is the only thing that counts in this culture. Western culture has yet to understand this difference.

The formula for how Hamas has developed its thinking "can be complex, convoluted thinking refers to the unnecessary complication of a simple matter, making it needlessly complicated and hard to navigate."

"Mosab Hassan Yousef (born 5 May 1978) is an American author and ex-Palestinian militant who defected to Israel in 1997, thereafter working as an Israeli spy for the Shin Bet until he moved to the United States in 2007. His father is Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of the Palestinian Islamist organisation Hamas. In March 2010, Yousef published his autobiography, titled Son of Hamas."

A New York Times bestselling author, he is known for his outspoken criticisms of Hamas, the pro-Palestinian movement and Islam's treatment of non-Muslims. He's been given the title of "The Green Prince." I just heard him in an interview on ILTV.

"In 1999, Yousef converted from Islam to Christianity, being formally baptised in 2004, but did not disclose this fact to the public until 2008 due to fears that his family members in Ramallah would become targets for religious persecution by Islamist groups. Though he is against Hamas, he does not want to be responsible for anyone's death, Hamas or not."

"Yousef said he saw the light after a stint in an Israeli jail during the mid-1990s. At Megiddo Prison, he witnessed Hamas inmates leading a brutal year-long campaign to weed out supposed Israeli collaborators. "During that time, Hamas tortured and killed hundreds of prisoners," he said, recalling vivid memories of needles being inserted under fingernails and bodies charred with burning plastics. Many, if not all, had nothing to do with Israeli intelligence. "I will never forget their screams," he continued. "I started asking myself a question. What if Hamas succeeded in destroying Israel and building a state. Will they destroy our people in this way?"

"Beginning with his release from prison in 1997, Yousef was considered the Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership, earning himself the nickname "The Green Prince" – using the color of the Islamist group's flag, and "prince" because of his pedigree as the son of one of the movement's founders. He has written about his experience, and one has been made into a movie. Former Shin Bet Deputy Chief Gideon Ezra said "there are hundreds of collaborators like him. He is not unusual. He just decided to write a book about it", though many other Israeli officials have also praised his work,"

L'Chaim! To Life!

I'm praising him. Anyone that can be as logical and come to the same conclusions that I and other Jews have is thinking logically. Thank goodness there are others out there that not been scarred by Hamas illogical thinking. Their brain washing from birth onwards is a strong line of defense for their opposing beliefs of ours. I had begun to think it was impossible to break through.

Hamas does not have a single official flag but is often represented by a green flag featuring the Shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith, in white Arabic script. A different, more detailed emblem is used to represent the group's political wing.

Emblem of Hamas' political wing

The intelligence he supplied to Israel led to the exposure of many Hamas cells, as well as the prevention of dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts on Jews. He has said that he did not inform for money, but rather that his motivations were ideological and religious, and that he only wanted to save lives.

"Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim who became a Christian Zionist, has argued that Yousef presents different versions of his beliefs depending on whether he interacts with Anglophone or Arabic media." I wondered how he could live in his Muslim neighborhood and survive. Walid Shoebat is a Palestinian American speaker, author and a critic of Islam. He was born in the West Bank to an American mother, and converted to Christianity from Islam. Shoebat has claimed to be an ex-PLO terrorist in a CNN television interview. He is a self-proclaimed expert on the dangers of Islam and is also a strong supporter of the State of Israel. Shoebat has also claimed that he firebombed the Israeli bank Bank Leumi; however, after thoroughly investigating this claim, reporters and officials have found no evidence of any attack on the bank in 1979.

"The idea of destroying Israel never left our minds," Shoebat said. "We didn't have any of the critical thinking you enjoy here in the West. . . . We had the idea that Israel must be wiped out, and we must establish a state."

Shoebat is also a writer. He wrote several books, one-Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat it (2007).

Resource:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-convoluted-reasoning

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

https://www.cairchicago.org/blog/blog/2007/12/shoebat-draws-crowds-debate

Friday, August 29, 2025

Turkey, Former Ottoman Empire's Hatred For Israel Activated and Running

Nadene Goldfoot

In this handout photo released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry press service, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, sits with Syria’s interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, aka Julani during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP)

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa (born 29 October 1982), also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a Syrian politician and former rebel commander terrorist newly serving as the president of Syria since his takeover of Assad recently this year in 2025.

When you see an airfield closed to nobody but to Israel, you know that country, Turkey, has a MAD-ON. That's the situation today.

"ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey announced Friday it was closing its airspace to Israeli government planes and any cargo of arms for the Israeli military while closing its ports to maritime trade between third countries and Israel.

The announcement by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan came on top of a ban on direct trade between Turkey and Israel announced in May of 2024.

“We have completely cut off our trade with Israel. We have closed our ports to Israeli ships,” Fidan told a special parliamentary debate on Gaza in Ankara. “We do not allow container ships carrying weapons and ammunition to Israel to enter our ports, nor do we allow aircraft to enter our airspace.”

Ankara has been a harsh critic of Israeli attacks on Gaza, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly referring to Israel’s actions as genocide and likening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler."

What he is doing is leading the charge against Israel, his nemisis; taking the lead away from Iran, his competitor in the Muslim World, with his desire to be the big shot.

Ottoman Empire soldiers in 1910 Palestine
Read Meyer Levin's "The Settlers " about Jews returning to their ancient land that was held by the Ottoman Empire. Not only a great read, but a great story line. Historic Novel.

The Ottoman Empire started from 1299. Its hold on Palestine was from 1517 to 1917 when they lost WWI as the axis member. The Ottoman Empire began around 1299 CE when Osman I, a leader of Turkic tribes in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), founded a small principality, or beylik. This small state grew to become a vast empire, with its power consolidating especially after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and continuing to be a major global power for centuries.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Turkey has experienced increasing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan's rule. He dreams of being the head of the Empire again.

And by the way, Israel has not only been fighting for its life on 7 fronts, but also convaluted stories making them look like monsters after a history of trying to be following G-d's directions of fair play with of mankind, the leading land of Christian values as well as Muslim ones, downright lies and lying pictures not even photoshopped but labeled wrongly, besides side-stepping such a snake in the grass as Erdogan. If you are a religious person, you might also be a historian as well of the Middle East, especially Israel's history, and know the pitfalls they keep falling into. You also have faith they'll be helped, like I have.

The current situation is the culmination of decades of fluctuating and often tense relations. While Turkey was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel in 1949, the relationship has repeatedly deteriorated under Erdoğan's leadership. Past flashpoints include:

The 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, in which Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish-backed flotilla headed for Gaza, resulting in the deaths of several Turkish citizens and leading to a collapse of bilateral relations.
Continued Turkish support for Hamas, which Israel considers a terrorist organization. Turkey hosts Hamas leaders and has been a major source of financial and political support for the group.
Israeli condemnations: Israeli officials have accused Turkey of hosting and supporting Hamas. In response to Erdoğan's rhetoric in late 2023, Israel recalled its diplomatic representatives from Turkey for a reassessment of relations.

Erdoğan's accusations: President Erdoğan has repeatedly labeled Israel a "terror state" and accused it of committing genocide in Gaza. In July 2024, he even suggested Turkey might intervene militarily, comparing it to Turkish military operations in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Diplomatic relations severed: On November 13, 2024, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Turkey had severed all diplomatic ties with Israel, citing Israel's reluctance to end the war in Gaza. That was just after October 2023 when Israel was hit by Hamas killer surprise invasion on a Jewish holiday.
Trade and airspace cut off: On August 29, 2025, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced that Turkey was completely severing all commercial and economic ties with Israel. This includes closing its airspace to Israeli government and military flights and banning Israeli-linked ships from its ports.

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Turkey_relations#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20of%20positive,Secretary%22%20on%2030%20November%201980.

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2025/08/juggling-iranian-hezbollah-units-near.html

https://apnews.com/article/turkey-israel-airspace-fidan-5a56f63218fda2a06a447c217c355ee3

Building Housing Units In Samaria Today

Nadene Goldfoot

How the Palestinian Arabs see Judea and Samaria

Israel won the Six Day War in 1967 and by doing so, received Judea and Samaria in the process. Yes, it is historically accurate that Israel gained control of the West Bank (which it refers to by the biblical names Judea and Samaria) during the Six-Day War in 1967. That is the Jewish homeland that they were led to by Mosesand Joshua. Their Jewish history tells all about it in the Bible, from Genesis onward. Some call this the "Old Testament; weJews call it the Torah, and Tanakh.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s inner circle debated new steps to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria.

Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל יוֹאֵל סְמוֹטְרִיץ׳; born 27 February 1980) is a 45 year old Israeli politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Finance since 2022. The leader of the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, he previously served as a Knesset member for the Jewish Home and Yamina, leaving in 2023 after resigning under the Norwegian Law, allowing him to remain a minister in the government while his seat in the Knesset could be taken by another candidate from his party.

Smotrich lives in the Israeli-Judea Samaria, living in the town of Kedumim, which is illegal under international-UN law. Israel disputes this. His residence was also built illegally outside the town proper. Kedumim (Hebrew: קְדוּמִים, romanized: Kdumim), is an Israeli town in the northern Samaria. Founded on Hanukkah 1975;50 years ago, by members of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, it later became a local council. In 2023 it had a population of 4,539.

Beit El is located next door to the end of Ilit, above Ramallah

Smotrich was born in Haspin, a religious Israeli settlement in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and grew up in the Beit El settlement, deemed illegal under international law, but not to Israel law. Beit El or Beth El (Hebrew: בֵּית אֵל) is an Israeli settlement and local council located in the Binyamin Region of the West Bank. The Orthodox Jewish town was settled in 1977–78 by the ultranationalist group Gush Emunim. It is located in the hills north of Jerusalem (Samaria), east of the Palestinian city of al-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, a Palestinian town. In September 1997, Beit El was awarded local council status. The head of the local council is Shai Alon. In 2023 its population was 6,040.

Finance Minister Smotrich advanced the controversial E1 settlement plan, authorizing 3,401 housing units in Ma’ale Adumim, declaring it “the final nail in the coffin of the Palestinian state idea.” That must be because it's a city, not a town or village, and it is populated by Jews of Israel.

Construction in E1 is controversial.When the Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved the construction plans in for the 3400-home settlement August 2025, he clarified that the move is designed to "bury the idea of Palestinian state". Specifically, the plan aims at preventing any possible expansion of East Jerusalem by creating a physical link between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem, and that it would effectively complete a crescent of Israeli settlements around East Jerusalem dividing it from the rest of the West Bank and its Palestinian population centers, and create a continuous Jewish population between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim. It would also nearly bisect Judea-Samaria (the West Bank), jeopardizing the prospects of a contiguous Palestinian state.

Palestinians describe the E1 plan as an effort to Judaize Jerusalem.

That is such a statement! Jerusalem is Jewish! It was built by David who was king of Israel in 1010 BCE. It became the capital of united Israel. He had taken over the Jebusites and dealt leniently with them.

Ma'ale Adumim (Hebrew: מַעֲלֵה אֲדֻמִּים; is an urban Israeli city organized as a city council in Judea-Samaria ( the West Bank), seven kilometers (4.3 miles) east of Jerusalem. Ma'ale Adumim achieved city status in 1991. In 2015, its population was 36,680. It is located along Highway 1, which connects it to Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. The international community considers Israeli villages, towns, cities in Judea-Samaria illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

Judea and Samaria's land was divided into areas A,B, and C during the Oslo Accords. "Yes, the Oslo II Accord of 1995 divided the occupied West Bank into three administrative areas: Area A, under full Palestinian Authority (PA) control for civilian and security matters; Area B, under PA civilian control but with shared Israeli military control; and Area C, remaining under full Israeli civil and military administration. These divisions were intended as part of an interim period before final status negotiations on issues like borders, settlements, and Palestinian statehood were to take place." That was 30 years ago. During this time, the Arabs havenot followed the rules and reports of them building in thewrong sections are many.

The primary leaders who met during the Oslo II Accord in 1995 were Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, with U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian representatives also present to witness the signing in Taba, Egypt. The leaders from the original 1993 Oslo Accord, which laid the groundwork for the 1995 agreement, were Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Bill Clinton.

Ron Dermer, though born in Miami, Florida, is Israel's (Hebrew: רון דרמר‎; born April 16, 1971)54 year old politician and diplomat serving as the Minister of Strategic Affairs since 2022 and as head of the negotiations for hostages' release since February 2025. He served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021.He was only 42 then as a new ambassador.

Strategic Affairs Minister, Ron Dermer, supported sovereignty, saying “there will be sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” while Foreign Minister Sa’ar and others warned unilateral annexation could trigger major European backlash.

The UK has summoned Israel’s ambassador to protest the plan, and 21 countries have issued a joint statement condemning the move.

Considering that about all of the UN members are going to accept "Palestine" as a state in the next vote in October due to the false accusations that are using photos to prove their case, that Israel is starving children, it's no wonder that the UK and 21 countries all condemn this move. It's timing is not good!

I might add that when King Solomon died, his son, Jeroboam took the throne and the northern states divided themselves from Judah over a dispute about taxes to pay for the Temple and the labor of workers lack of pay. 10 northern tribes were attacked by Assyria. What was left was Judea/Samaria with Samaria being the outer land of Jerusalem.

Area spoken of as the Jewish National Home by Britain and the Jewish spokesmen in 1920. This became the Jewish Expectation but Britain saw more in it for themselves by giving the land to Abdullah, Prince of Arabia instead; Jews got 10% of the promised land only. Judea and Samaria were part of the 10%. Israel got the southern desert area more than anything.

While Britain's 1917 Balfour Declaration promised to establish a "national home for the Jewish people in Palestine," Judea and Samaria were not designated part of a Jewish state due to the area's overwhelming Arab population. This reality shaped the numerous and ultimately unsuccessful partition proposals put forward by the British and the United Nations. What most people don't realize is that Britain did keep Jewsout while letting Arabs in the land. They were not so innocent intheir deception. The Peel Commission of 1937 (well into Germany's attacks on Jews already) tells us "

Context: Escalating Arab-Jewish violence in the 1930s prompted the British to establish a Royal Commission, led by Lord Peel, to investigate the causes and propose a solution.
Proposal: The commission recommended partitioning Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. Judea and Samaria were allocated to the Arab state, along with most of the Negev and the Gaza Strip. A small, internationally controlled zone was proposed for Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and a corridor to the coast.
Following the 1948 war, the territory of Judea and Samaria was not included within the newly formed State of Israel. Instead, it was captured and annexed by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This arrangement held until the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel captured the territory from Jordan.
Since when has international or UN law been fair in dealing with Israel?