Letter To Hollywood About Our Country's History on Immigration

Nadene Goldfoot

Any country, especially our country, has to right to defend itself and its population, and part of that defense involves screening people entering as immigrants.  

Our country used to turn back people who were ill.  We've made progress.

Now it's only people who belong to a group who might want to kill us that need screening.

Jews were kept from entering in 1924 on as it was feared not that they would attack people in this country, but would take away jobs others needed.  There had been a big influx of eastern European Jews and this slowdown came at a time they most needed to escape the anti-Semitism that was building up then.

"The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census, down from the 3% cap set by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which used the Census of 1910. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of  Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians and Eastern European Jews."
                                                                       

My uncle was possibly the last Jew to get out of Germany in May 1939 and take a ship to the USA.  In order to do so, he had to have a sponsor who would take all economic responsibility for him.  G-d forbid that the USA would have to spend any money supporting him.  My great uncle, Max Turn of La Grande, Oregon,  took this responsibility,  and got him a job with his nephew, Morris Goldfoot.  It turned out to be a good match in Morris's new business of wholesale meats, and they became partners  and brothers in law after a few years.   During the first part of WWII, Jews couldn't get to the USA, Palestine or anywhere.  They had to have documents showing they had been baptized as Christians.  Of course Jews were not allowed.
                                                                       

During WWII, we were at war with Japan.  We stopped Japanese immigration.  At the same time, we had many recent immigrants here from Japan.  They were all rounded up and placed in internment camps.  They had to sell their homes at outrageously low prices, taking a loss.  The California Japanese were brought up to Portland and placed in the International stockyards that had held cattle for the duration of the war.  Somehow, some wound up in Eastern Oregon, far from the ocean where they were feared the most to be able to warn Japanese submarines, and were allowed to farm.
                                                                                   

Report is that ISIS buries their own soldiers alive if they desert.
They brainwash children at an early age; that we know for sure.

The Middle East has gone crazy; meshugana.  ISIS is a very Muslim movement that is intent on taking over all the Middle East countries and then work on Europe.  This is reflecting the same experience Islam went through in their beginning stages when they did and reached Spain, etc about 1,500 years ago.  You can see that ISIS is bloodthirsty and loves to cut off heads, just like they used to do.
                                                                             

Iraq and Syria have been destroyed by ISIS and are now in their hands with the USA trying to deter them without having boots on the ground.  The fact is that they have now taken over these places and have Iraq's air force jets and only need pilots which they may or may not have at this point.
                                                                           

Another beheading by ISIS

One thing they do have are lots and lots of people dedicated to giving their lives for their cause.  I suppose it's a psychological thing to belong to a cause for them, even though it is of taking lives, something we in the West are highly against.
                                                                                   

How did this young couple get into the USA?  They were ISIS This July 27, 2014, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows
it's only common sense to really screen Muslim immigrants.  She, I remember
was one of the worst. She was even a mother to a young child.  

We have laws on the books about screening immigrants, but no one has been following them.  We need something more other than the brief screening in order to assure our people that no one intent on helping the ISIS cause would be entering our country and causing any mass deaths like has already happened.

Our president has laid out a plan that would call for the stopping of entrance of people from 6 Middle Eastern countries which happen to be Muslim majority countries.  That's because ISIS's cause is of a radical Muslim philosophy.

Let me tell you something.  In 2013, when Obama was President, I tried to get a Syrian to the USA who was my friend.  He had been told that his birth mother was Jewish, not a Muslim.  His father had fallen in love with her.  He was excited about it and wanted to study Judaism.  He felt Jewish, he told me.  I did everything I could under the sun to get him here and couldn't.  Syria was on a list.  He was a young man.  I was not a relative.  He had none here.  Nobody wanted a Syrian here that would need a job-he would be taking away a job from others.  He was an engineer.  I was told that only-only if he were a famous person, like an atomic scientist, could he ever get here, and then it might take a year or so to do so. Yes, I was even conversing with my Senator.  It was impossible and now...now I just met a lovely young man working in a restaurant from Iraq, and before that met many from Iraq working in a parking garage.  Refugees have been coming in, but I still couldn't get my friend in, and he couldn't do it, either.

This is not a perfect world.  It takes time to change people's attitudes.
                                                                          

9/11 started the fear and worry about Muslim immigrants.  "The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11)^[  were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage and $3 trillion in total costs."  These killers came from Saudi Arabia, a  100% Muslim country.  

                                             

A woman received help following the first of two explosions on Boylston Street Monday. April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon and the events that followed.

What we still fear are things like what happened in Boston.  Those immigrant brothers weren't even from the Middle East proper, but were Muslims. "On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs."

 The acts of the few cause the attitudes for the whole group.  That's why the Chinese have always been so aware of their actions affecting the whole family and bringing dishonor to them.  Killings have happened by Muslims; in acts killing 1 or as many as 53.  This doesn't help us to think that they're not out to get us all.  An act of 1 dying give all Muslims in the USA a bad name.  People who are a minority, such as Jews, Blacks, Orientals, Native Americans, all recognize this fact.  Muslims must, too.

"Since 9/11, an additional 145 Americans have been killed in 50 separate acts of deadly Islamic terror or Islam-related honor killing in the United States.   Hundreds of mass murder plots have been thwarted or botched.  The real story is not "Islamophobia" but American tolerance - which rightly refuses to punish the individual based on group identity. "Evidently much of this tolerance is from Hollywood, but the rest of us know it can still happen.  That's because nothing has changed in the world to cause it to change.  " Studies show that between 5 - 25% of Muslims in America believe that violence in defense of Islam is justified. "  

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description

2015.07.16

USA

Chattanooga, TN

5

2

A 'devout Muslim' stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.

2015.12.02

USA

San Bernardino, CA

14

17

A 'very religious' Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.

2016.06.13

USA

Orlando, FL

49

53

An Islamic extremist massacres forty-nine people at a gay nightclub.

2017.01.06

USA

Fort Lauderdale, FL

5

6

A convert to Islam guns down five innocents in the baggage claim area of an airport.

I have to add this one because meshuganas can crawl out of the woodwork:

2014.09.25

USA

Moore, OK

1

1

A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.

Sharia law is a Muslim law.  We live under American laws.  A religious law should only apply to those of that religion; not to others.  
Trump is President because he answered the call to protect our country better.  He's not the first to check out our immigration system.  You can't accept a 3 month halt to 6 countries who are the worst, loaded with radicals while a better screening system is created?  You know, I can't get into Iran, or Saudi Arabia.  I'm a Jew and I'm an Israeli as well as an American.  I wouldn't dream of blowing anyone or anything up.  My password is TO LIFE!  Yet I'm not allowed.  It's not a perfect world.  Not yet.  Maybe when Saudi Arabia allows people like me to visit their country--not even to live there, as these immigrants want to do, then we might stop worrying about radical Muslims entering our  country without any malice against us in their hearts.

Resource:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/american-attacks.aspx-huge list of killings
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/20/properly-screening-immigrants-terror-plagued-count/
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-san-bernardino-shooting-terror-investigation-htmlstory.html
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/boston-marathon-explosions

This Contentious Jihad Movement

Nadene Goldfoot
Jihad is understood to be an obligation in a military sense, meaning military combat.  Middle East historian, Bernard Lewis says that "the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists (specialists in the hadith) understand it to be so.

We saw it happening with the Boston marathon terrorists acting with aid from a terrorist cell or alone.  Their way of solving things happening in the the world that they disapprove of was to commit Jihad, or  terrorism.

 Benjamin R. Barber points out that resistant movements come from fundamentalist ethnic groups who want to protect their traditions, heritage and identity.  I go along with wanting protection for these things so dear to our hearts.  Otherwise, the world would be like a rose garden full of only red roses.  Boring!  Life is spiced up with diversity, but Jihad is not the way we solve problems  in the civilized countries today.

 I see that Jihad, or terrorism happening against Israel is from people who can't tolerate the legally sanctioned state of Israel existing.  They can't tolerate seeing  Israel  become something beautiful and productive out of swamp, desert and mosquitoes, and that it was created by and for a different but similar religion; Judaism.  Jews haven't required the Arabs who are citizens to do anything other than to be peaceful and get along with the Jewish population.  There are mosques all over the place.  All religions are respected to the utmost.  Moshe Dayan handed over the reigns of the Temple, now the Mosque of Omar, to the Muslims  way back in 1967, much to the consternation of many Israelis today who have come up against  Muslims not allowing any Jew to pray even near the place.  Is anyone  more tolerant than Jews, who have suffered intolerance for 2,000 years?  I doubt it very much.

  Yet, Israel has  terrorism coming  from Gaza and the threat of it from the neighboring states.  There are only 2 countries that signed a peace pact; Jordan and Egypt, and Egypt has gone with Muslim Brotherhood now.  What is the terrorist definition?  People  are terrorists because they attack and kill civilians, even schools full of children.  A real war is something that involves soldiers against soldiers.  Egyptians, Gazans and other Muslims listening to al Jazeera TV are advised by the religious leader Qaradawi to perform Jihad;  attack and kill Jews.

The Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan 26 and Dzhokar 19,  who caused the Boston Marathon's terrorism said through the younger, Dzhoker, that they did it because of Afghanistan's interference from the USA. So they in turn felt it right to attack the USA,  the country their father fled to after having his life threatened in Dagestan, probably from the Russians.  What had he been up to there to have had to escape for his life and seek asylum in the states?  This is not how Americans are bred and taught in handling our government's foreign affairs.  We have a democracy, which they also were exposed to in their education here, having immigrated in 2002.  However, family traits and words are far more powerful, evidently than their Boston public school  education, at least for Dzhoker, who is 19 and for the past 7 months a naturalized USA citizen.  Tamerlan was already 15 and most likely already indoctrinated to Jihad as a problem solving road to follow.

One out of eight US residents are foreign-born,  according to the Census Bureau.  In some rural communities, such as eastern Oregon, most are from Mexico.  Urban communities are receiving people from all over the world.  2.75 million Muslims live in the USA of which  63% are foreign born like the Tsarnaev family of 6.   1.5 billion Muslims make up 21% of the world's population which in 2011 was 6,973,738,433.  Today it is 7.081 billion.  Chechnya and Dagestan, where the family came from,  has been a hotbed of terrorist activity against their oppressor, Russia.

Tamerlan got into trouble twice  in his own Mosque for shouting down the Iman for speaking about peaceful living in the states such as celebrating Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July.  The first time was in November.  The 2nd time was in January. Both times happened after his 6 month stay in Dagestan from January 2012 to July.  This was found out on Monday from the  "The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. 

 It's too bad that they didn't alert the family about his behavior, even though he was 26 years old.  It could have prevented the whole attack and his own death.  If they had, it might have been met with defiance, anyway from their mother.  In this case, alerting  authorities would have been better.  It's been found that Tamerlan, at least was deep into Jihad type websites feeding his growing hatred.  

The only connection these 2 terrorists have with Afghanistan is through religion.  Both Chechnya and Dagestan, where they are from, and Afghanistan are Muslim states.  Their way of rebelling is Jihad.

Our war with Afghanistan started on October 7, 2001 after 9/11 in Operation Enduring Freedom. Osama bin Laden was the culprit.  The Saudi Arabians that rammed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 really started it all.  Why did they do that?  What was their beef?  We lost over 2,000 people in that Jihad attack.  After that our goal was to dismantle Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization that caused such terror to innocent people. This terrorist group had been using Afghanistan as a base.  We were not alone.  The UK, Australia, France, Canada and the Afghan United Front were with us.

Sadly, the jihadists are just growing and multiplying.  Perhaps one of these days they'll get tired of a routine of plotting and killing and find out that there's more to life than just that.  People do have the capabilities of living together in peace yet maintaining their individuality.  It only takes the right outlook on life:  to respect it.

Update 4/24/13 6:12pm:  Tamerlan attended the Cambridge, Massachusetts Islamic Society of Boston Mosque and met an Armenian, Misha there,  who had influence over him in becoming a jihadist.  Tamerlan read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, " anti-Semitic literature of the Nazis.  This came from his former brother-in-law, Elmerza Khozhugor.  http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/24/family-says-boston-marathon-explosions-suspect-was-interested-in-%E2%80%98protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion%E2%80%99/

Resource:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
Oregonian newspaper 4/24/13, page B9, A Rush to Demonize:  The terror of not knowing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/tamerlan-tsarnaev-mosque-outbursts-described-90474.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
http://www.google.com/search?q=world+population&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8
4/25/13 added information: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/excusing-jihad-in-boston/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3c82deed29-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag

Israelis in Boston Marathon

Nadene Goldfoot
We all feel deeply for Boston who has just faced terror from a terrorist, something Israel has been facing for over 65 years.  Even in 1929, the year of America's stock crash, terror was great in the  Jewish city, Hebron,  in Palestine. In that attack, 67 Jews were killed of which 23 of them were college students.   So far 3 people, one a grad student at Boston U*,  an 8 year old boy  and a 29 year old lady have died in the Boston Marathon terror with about  140 sent to the hospital for injuries great and small.  There are those that have lost their limbs from this outrage. The  2  bombs  that exploded were finally listed as a terror attack.  These bombs were loaded wit nail-like objects without heads,  metallic fragments and pellets to be able to cause more harm and blood-letting.  They were brought into the area in a black nylon bag or backpack.

There were 16 Israelis running in the 26 mile long Boston Marathon.  23,336 people from every country participated.  It made me want to cry to see all the flags taken down and laid on the street hurriedly knowing how flags are usually treated..   In the words of Tzviki Bronstein, age 57, one of the runners, "It was packed."  75.3% of the runners had already finished when the bombs exploded at the end of the race.  This means that 17,580 people had crossed the finish line.   " It was lucky that more weren't killed." commented Tzviki.     He luckily had finished the race before the 2 bombs went off and was already almost at his hotel when they did explode. There was even an entry for 80 year-olds and older.  3 men and 12 women had entered this one.  8.3% had reached the finish line.  .   It is thought that tthe bombs were set on a timer remotely controlled and that they were possibly in a pressure cooker.  To see the 78 year old runner bowled over and crumble in a heap by the bomb's force made you realize the invisible power bombs have.  

Israel has had nearly 2,500 citizens killed in terror attacks.  Right at the moment we have Rachel Biton's 3 year old baby girl fighting for her life from stone throwing, now also listed as a terror attack.  Stones can hit that delicate spot on the head and cause death, just like a bullet.  Just because it's a primitive act from the Stone Age doesn't make it less lethal.

Israel has been hit with rockets, mortars and missiles since 2001 in southern Israel from the Gazan terrorists, Hamas and other extremists groups.    Hamas is held responsible for them all.  This is an act of war, as there is no peace treaty,  not even a recognition, only threats and charters swearing to wipe Israel out.  It is also an act of terror, hitting on civilian populations.

I moved to Israel in 1980 and soon learned not to pick up anything off the ground in Haifa in order to keep the sidewalk looking neat and clean.    It could be a bomb.  Bombs were placed in loaves of bread, or any item.  At the Tzfat junior high where I taught there were always several inspectors, children who inspected bags, purses, etc.  One has to be very careful in Israel.  It was expected that when I went shopping, my purse would first be checked out.  Once in a shopping area, a robot was called in to check out a bakery box left on the ground that either held cookies or a bomb.  I watched the whole procedure of the robot shooting it with the  result ;  crumbled cookies.

 Now, maybe 33 years later the USA is going to have to take more precautions.   Israelis had been in Boston teaching techniques of dealing with terrorism before this incident in a workshop for hospitals.  We don't even have any idea as to who this latest terrorist happens to be; someone who is an angry American citizen or al Qaeda.   Being it was North Korea's anniversary, it could be one of them.  We've already checked out a lone Saudi Arabian student who was one of the injured. It was said he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.   It was Income Tax Day also, so it could have been someone angry about taxes as well.

8:00pm: * one victim later identified as a Chinese national
Resource:  http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/sixteen-israelis-ran-in-bombed-boston-marathon/2013/04/16/?src=ataglance
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130416/boston-marathon-runners-explosion-2013-data
http://www.homelandsecurityssi.com/homeland-security-training-israel
NPR on 4/16/13 about Israel training session on terror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre