All About the Intifadas (Terrorism)

Nadene Goldfoot                Definition of an Intifada

1. The Palestinian uprising (terrorism) against Israeli occupation of  Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.

                                                 

First Intifada 1987-1992

The PLO initiated the intifada ("shaking off") after false rumors of Israeli atrocities circulated through Palestinian territories like they are right now by American Islamists on their Deen website.  Palestinians claim this was a nonviolent uprising, but it quickly turned violent with 27 Israelis killed and more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and 1,700 Israeli soldiers injured.  Almost half (1,000) of the Palestinian casualties were caused by other Palestinians in the "Intrafada," or internal fighting among Palestinian factions.  

                                                                             

Second "Al Aqsa" Intifada 2000-2006

A campaign of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks began September 29, 2000 and within five years had left over 1,068 Israelis dead and over 7,000 injured.  69% of them were civilians.  About 3,000 Palestinians were also killed in this conflict.  In this culture of Arabs, suicide bombers are honored and become idols.    Even though on July 11 to 25th of 2000, the Camp David negotiations to resolve the Final Status issues were held with President Bill Clinton as mediator, this intifada happened.  PM Ehud Barak of Israel had offered 95% of a contiguous Judea-Samaria for their Palestine and 100% of Gaza and okayed a capital for them in eastern Jerusalem. with the removal of Jewish communities from those areas and $30 billion to help resettle Palestinian refugees.  Palestinians did not respond to the offer. This ended Oslo process.  Intifada was planned since the end of the Camp David negotiations.  This was admitted by Imhad Falouji, Palestinian Minister of Communication.  Offers have been made since 1948 that are never accepted.   PLO officials later claimed that Barak's offer would have given them only disconnected enclaves.    Israeli and US officials disputed this claim.  Dennis Ross, negotiator asserted that proposal was contiguous and far-reaching. 

They held off because their charters will not allow peace or acceptance of the Jews in the area.  They want all of Israel and no Jews.  Yasser Arafat was PLO leader, but died in Paris on November 11, 2004-American Armistice Day.  Abbas became Chairman and later President of PA.

Israel left Gaza completely on August 15, 2005 after 38 years by removing the 8,500 Jews who lived there.  The 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs  then voted in Hamas terrorists as their government and used Gaza as a staging ground to attack Israel with rockets.  Israel realized that this was one of their mistakes.  

May 7, 2006; Israel foils Palestinian plot to kill Palestinian president.  It was a Hamas plot to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.  This was reported in the Sunday Times of London.  

Summer of 2006, Hezbollah, the Iranian-Syrian-sponsored Islamist terrorist group from Lebanon attacked Israel in a surprise move.  They had long-range missiles that could deliver non-conventional weapons.  Their goal: to destroy Israel.  

                    

Third Intifada June 2014-? 

Threatened to start by John Kerry at result of a meeting about peace that would not come together as he wished when the Arabs walked away and created Palestine without a peace agreement on June 2nd.  Developed with kidnapping and murder by Hamas of 3 Jewish teens on June 12th,  then the coincidental kidnapping and murder of Arab teen,  which caused violent riots of the Arabs including the destruction of the modern rail system in Jerusalem that Arabs loved to ride on.   This and large increase of rockets launched into Israel  must be an intifada.  On the 5th day, 700 +rockets fell into Israel, reaching Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. To be exact,  "Day #5 status: 748 rockets shot at Israel so far, 143 intercepted by Iron Dome (Klipat Barzel), about 5 people lightly wounded and 1 serious yesterday at the petrol station. Today one rocket hit and utterly destroyed the house of a 86 years old woman, who was asleep and came out unhurt from the rubble. Miracles? #IsraelUnderFire."  Israel is planning on having to go into Gaza to put an end to this.  Rockets are now long range hitting all of Israel, coming in from Iran through Sinai, then through tunnels.  Egypt caught 20 some in Sinai.  

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Resource:  Israel 101 produced by StandWithUs page 13.  

Albert Benamou posting.  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081000713.html

http://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2014/07/recent-attacks-on-israel.html

 http://www.thedeenshow.com/page/about  American Islamist website; false propaganda

http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/2970

http://www.rabincenter.org.il/Web/En/Museum/Room7/Default.aspx

Killing Jews in the Crusades Over Jerusalem

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                  

The European Middle Ages are marked by the many crusades of Christian rulers to win Palestine from the Moslems.  Mohammad had died in 632 and by 638 the city of Jerusalem  had fallen to the Caliph Omar who set up a place of prayer in the Jew's 2nd Temple esplanade.  this was rebuilt in 691 as the Dome of the Rock by the Umayyad caliph Abd-el Malik.  Under Arab rule, the Jews were allowed to return; but the city began to decay after the transfer of the center of Abbasid rule to Baghdad in 750.  The Fatimids in the 11th century built the 2nd main mosque, the El-Aksat, on the Temple site.  In 1099, Jerusalem was stormed by the Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon. He made it a capital, which it had been  for the Jews, but for the Christians it was the capital of the Latin Kingdom.

The first Crusade caused by the stimulation of religious passion resulted in the deaths of many Jews.
                                                                     

1096-1099:  The 1st Crusade led to attacks on Jews in northern France and especially in the Rhineland where massacres happened in the cities of Mainz, Worms, Speyer, Cologne, and others.  Similar attacks took place in Prague and later in Salonica where the reports of the Crusade started a messianic ferment.

1099:  Jerusalem was captured.  Jews and Karaites were massacred because of it.  A Crusading Kingdom was established which led to toleration being extended to the Jews.
                                                                         

1147-1149:  The 2nd Crusade.  This was organized to succor the Crusading Kingdom and similar outbreaks happened in France and the Rhineland as the result of the agitation of Rudolf, a monk.  At the outset of this Crusade, the Pope urged that the debts of Crusaders to the Jews should be remitted.
                                                                           

1187 found the Ayyubid sultan,  Saladin,  retaking the city for Islam again and it remained in Moslem hands till the middle of the 13th century.  

1189-1192:  The 3rd Crusade: Jews had lived in York since 1170.   This one had wide support in England where it led to attacks by the Crusaders on the Jews in many places, especially York in 1190.  "July 1189 when King Henry II, a protector of the Jews, died. Richard I was crowned his heir and he refused to grant Jewish representative admission to Westminster Abbey, when they came to offer him gifts. Riots were started and mobs threw stones at the Jews and burned the straw roofs of their houses. Many Jews were murdered, some allowed themselves to be baptized. Twenty-four hours later, Richard I found out about the riots and ordered that the Jews be protected.  As soon as Richard I left to join the Crusade in 1190, riots began again throughout England. In March 1190, a mix of Crusaders, barons indebted to the Jews, those envious of Jewish wealth and clergymen conspired to kill the Jews of York. They burned several houses and approximately 150 Jews fled to the royal castle in York. Led by Richard Malebys, a noble indebted to the Jews, the mob besieged the castle. The Jews had little rations and many killed themselves. On March 16, the citadel was captured and those Jews left alive were murdered. The mob then stole the records of debts to Jews from a nearby cathedral and burned them."

 Another story that surfaced was that on the Sabbath before Passover on March 16, 1190, the York Jews, headed by Rabbi Yom-Tov of Joigny, were surrounded by armed men  in the Castle Keep by a bloodthirsty mob and killed one another rather than surrender.

 Later crusades involved the Jews only incidently.  A small community was re-established later and continued until another expulsion was ordered in 1290.   Few Jews live there today.
                                                                         

1320:  The 4th Crusade or The Shepherds' Crusade, resulted in wide attacks on the Jews in southern France and northern Spain.  The crusades were said to have begun the age of unmitigated suffering for medieval Jewry.  They helped to displace the Jewish merchants from their former favored position and thus stimulated the economic decline of the Jews.  The good side of it all was that there was a demand for credit on the part of the participants and this stimulated Jewish financial operations in some countries of Europe.

In the Mameluke Period of the 14th to 15th centuries, many new buildings were erected and the water supply was improved.  Under Ottoman rule of the last 400 years it decayed, till in the 18th to 19th centuries, the city reached its nadir.  Its population sank below 10,000 and part of its area lay in ruins.  The Jewish community, destroyed by the Crusaders and almost non-existent in the 13th century, was reinforced by pious immigrants from many lands, especially after 1492 when Spain expulsed them.

Resource:  The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/England.html#2