The People of the Book, Teachers of the Ten Commandments, Called Aggressors?

Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

                                                                         

1918:  Friends making peaceful plans: Chaim Weizmann and King Feisal

Before IDF was created, Haganah in 1946 defended Jews in Palestine.
These Jews were rescued by them.  

People have been calling Israelis aggressors.  Since its birth on May 14, 1948, Israel has had to be defensive in order to exist.  it is constantly being attacked.   Israelis haven't started any war against its neighbors or the Palestinian Arabs.  Israel does not want anyone else's land.  Israel has always wanted peace.

The Palestinian Arab and her surrounding neighbors have not accepted a Jewish presence in their Muslim neighborhood.  Their goal, stated in their political groups and at the Kartoum Conference in 1967, has been to drive the Jews out and take over the land.
                                                                         

 
Israel has had to defend themselves  against some major attacks:
1. War of Independence 1947-1949 when 7 Arab armies attacked Israel. "1948-1951: Israel’s population increases from about 650,000 to slightly over 1.3 million, the result of an influx of some 684,000 immigrants. About half of the new immigrants are Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.  Others come from long-established Jewish communities in such Arab countries as Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Morocco. Israeli authorities take over vacant Palestinian villages, urban dwellings, and farmland to house and feed the immigrants. The absorption of Palestinian land property into the Israeli economy makes it next to impossible for Israel to consider the repatriation of the Palestinians."  Arabs had left and Jews had entered.  Empty homes were used by the new immigrants.  

                                                                           

Kadesh Operation in Sinai War 1956

1956 Suez War British Troops were in the Suez Canal here 

2. War of 1956.    
In 1956, three of the Twentieth Century's most dominant forces came together in a short, violent clash in the Egyptian regions known as the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula.                                             



























                                                                                                                                               

3  War of 1967 (Six Day War)
.  when Israel wound up with the Gaza Strip, the vast Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights in their defensive moves fighting off attackers.  They also fought against the Jordanians who were attacking and thus wound up repossessing their own ancient lands of Judea and Samaria-called THE WEST BANK by Jordan.  East Jerusalem Arabs fought against the rest of Jerusalem citizens and that also returned to Israel's holdings.  This part of Jerusalem had been occupied by the Jordanians 19 years earlier when they invaded Israel in 1948.  This was the miracle:  Judah and Samaria were our original land, which was the southern part of ancient Israel.  By being attacked by the enemy who stole it from us in battle earlier, Israel got it back again fighting in a defensive battle for her life.
                                                                             

General Moshe Dayan on right in 1973 born on May 20, 1915
at Degania Alef Kibbutz in Palestine

Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav. Wikipedia  "Dayan's activities in the 1948 War of Independence began when he commanded the defense of Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley. He later commanded the battalion that attacked the city of Lydda and helped halt Egyptian forces on the southern front. In August 1948, he was appointed commander on the Jerusalem front. In 1949, he participated in armistice talks with Jordanian officials at Rhodes. Dayan's military prowess allowed him to rise to the rank of chief of operations at General Headquarters in 1952, and, in 1953, he was elected Chief of Staff of the armed forces."

4. War of 1973 (Yom Kippur War) when Egypt and Jordan, the 2 closest neighbors, begrudgingly accepted Israel's presence, much to the horror of their Arab brothers, and made peace.  It has been beneficial for all 3.  To make peace with Egypt, Israel returned all the Sinai to Egypt.  Israel has always been prepared to give autonomy to Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).  However, it is important to Israel to keep it for security reasons.
                                                                           

Trump and Kushner

      The problem now is that they are being ruled by Abbas who has not made any peace agreements with Israel.  Even today, President Trump of the USA has Jerad Kushner there trying to establish a peace agreement but Abbas still abides by the Kartoum Conference Arab rules of NO No No.
                                                                       

A new Jewish immigrant from Africa, now immersed in
Orthodox Judaism, takes time every day to pray, wearing phylactrics, which
is the custom.  On the back of his head he wears a head covering, the kippah.
He does not have his prayer shawl while on duty, called the Tallit.
That's okay.  On his head and on his arm are the tefillin. "Four passages in the Torah call upon the Israelites to keep God’s words in mind by “bind[ing] them as a sign upon [their] hands and making them totafot between [their] eyes.” Tefillin, as ordained by the rabbinic leaders of classical Judaism, are intended to fulfill that commandment."

Israel is one of the smallest countries in the world.  It is different from others.  It is the only democracy in the Middle East and is of a different religion from all the others;  similar though distinctly different.  Judaism is also the oldest religion of the 3 major ones of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
                                                                             

4 2015: Jews in France recently murdered in a grocery store while shopping
for Shabbat (Friday evening's dinner) 

No, Israelis are not by nature aggressive people.  By nature they are creative industrious people with their ancient ancestors being very religious.  They were taught that their role in life was to be priests, set apart from others, to bring the light to the world in  the form of the Torah.  This Torah teaches people to be civilized, respectful of each other, to abhor and condemn killing of each other, to consider each other's feelings and treat each other as they would want to be treated.
                                                                                 

They love learning and books and writings of people.  They are peace-loving, so much so that they even have special feelings for animals.  They have given land away in a trade for peace.  That should tell the world that they are not another Hitler out for others' land.  They have not had their own land for over 2,000 years.
                                                                       

Husseini, Palestinian Arab Grand Mufti of Jerusalem  working with Hitler against the Jews, start of WWII set the example of unreasonable and unfounded hatred for Jews.

People have been aggressors to them, slaughtering 6 million in WWII's Holocaust, the last aggression the world has viewed along with them.  Jews are among the first to speak out against other aggressive moves by countries to want to do them harm.

European Jews about to be exterminated
by a Nazi government

                                                                           

Iran is one who hasn't learned the lessons from having a WWII that killed millions and millions.  This threat over the Middle East today has even caused Saudi Arabia to make friends with Israel in the line of, THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND.
                                                                         

King Salmon of Saudi Arabia since 2015 

  My prayer is that pretending to be friends in this dire time of need for all the Middle East will become a habit and we will have peace with all the Middle Easterners.  Maybe it might even turn Abbas of the Palestinian Arabs around, and Hamas in Gaza around and stop their constant attacks.
                                                                                 

     
Resource: http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-myth-of-israel-being-aggressive.html
 https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/kippah-tallit-and-tefilin-the-clothing-of-jewish-prayer/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/jersualem-funeral-french-jewish-victims-paris-supermarket-attack

Why Netanyahu Is Not For a Palestinian State Now : My Opinion

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                      

Netanyahu won in a landslide and is not supporting a state of Palestine next door to Israel anymore.  Are you surprised?  I and others have been against this idea for several years, now.  It's time that Netanyahu gave up the ship and abandoned the idea, too.  It hasn't been working.  The Palestinian leaders are not after a peaceful Palestine and their attacks have proven this.  Their goal is to take Jerusalem and destroy Israel in the process.  It's the same goal voiced in 1948 when Israel was declared a state and hasn't changed.  Insanity is when you keep on repeating the same old thing.  To think that Palestine can be formed today and live in peace with Israel is insanity.
                                                                                 

King Feisal (1885-1933)

The leadership of Emir Feisal was the only sane one back before Israel was created but on the road to being the Jewish state in the midst of Muslims.  He was the main leader of Arabs and was for the idea;  hoping that his people would learn from the Jews.  He was a more cosmopolitan and educated man.  He wasn't thinking about a Palestine.  He just expected to be rewarded by the Brits with a state of his own.  He was Feisal Ibn Hussein (1885-1933);  King of Iraq from 1921, oldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca.  He led the Arab rising against Turkey from 1916 to 1918 and was designated King of Syria.  He had met up with Dr. Weizmann in Transjordan in 1918 and again in Paris in 1919 where they reached an agreement on mutual aid, conditional on the implementation of British promises to the Arabs.

Later, he was expulsed from Syria by the French in 1920 and the influence of the Palestinian Arab leaders such as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the Haj Amin al-Husseini, the antithesis of Feisal and his competitor, changed his attitude to the Jews as he then became more hostile.  What was a beautiful relationship became crushed.
                                                                             

Old City of Jerusalem

Israel has had a hard time facing the fact that Palestinian Arabs do not want to live peacefully next door to them.  Jerusalem has been one source of contention.  East Jerusalem has been integrated back with the rest of the city under one mayor.  This is a city closest to Israel's and Jews' hearts.
                                                                                 

Antisemitism was at an all time height when Theodore Hertzl (1860-1904) wrote his "The Jewish State in 1895.  It was published by 1896."  He believed that  the only way to avoid anti-Semitism was for Jewish people to have their own state and be able to practice their culture and religion freely once again.  He was a journalist in Budapest, Hungary, schooled in law, and was around to write about the Dreyfuss Affair in France, another example of anti-Semisitm.  

At the end of his book he wrote:  "Therefore I believe that a wondrous generation of Jews will spring into existence. The Maccabeans will rise again.

Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who wish for a State will have it.

We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes.

The world will be freed by our liberty, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness.

And whatever we attempt there to accomplish for our own welfare, will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity."

This is like a prophecy from ancient times.  It has happened.  The only wrench in the works has been the Arabs who have constantly attacked since before 1948 in the War of Independence.  It hasn't been easy.  Israel's state, born May 14, 1948 had also been actually prophecized in the Biblical days as well.  So has the return of Jews which has come true and continues.  We have religious, political  and anti-Semitic forces creating our state of Israel.  

Fighting  against Israel every minute has been the Arabs calling themselves the Palestinian Arabs, led by the PLO;   Fatah and now by Hamas and Fatah terrorists. On May 25, 1965, Nasser of Egypt and Aref of Iraq published a statement, "THE ARAB NATIONAL AIM IS THE ELIMINATION OF ISRAEL."Wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973 plus too many others to count have taken place. These were all from the aggression of the Arabs trying to take over Israel.   The latest fight is with going to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and accuse Israel of not fighting fairly.  That's again being waved in Israel's face like a flag.                                                 

Saeb Erekat

The Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas commented last week that Palestinians would work with whoever is elected but in private he hopes that Herzog and;or Livni would win.  However, Netanyahu has won decidedly so chief negotiator Saeb Erekat of Hamas has said that  they will step up their campaign for statehood and now that Netanyahu has won, and they plan on going to the Hague with their charges.  

Erekat hasn't been negotiating;  he only demands and expects Kerry and others to give in, much like what has been going on with Iran and the American negotiators who have given in to too much.  Negotiating is much like bargaining in the shuk where demands are lessened but everyone can be left in the end thinking they got a deal.  Americans have not bargained except perhaps in garage sales.    Israelis and Middle Easterners have this in their culture in the outdoor markets or shuks.  

The Palestinians were not happy with Herzog, anyway.  "Neither Livni, nor Herzog are prepared to make peace," said Omar al-Ghul, a political analyst affiliated with the PA who wrote in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds" (Jerusalem). "They are all not prepared to pay the price for peace and that's why the Palestinian leadership should be prepared for a fierce battle with the leaders of the Zionist Union, added al-Ghul.  So you see, Obama wouldn't have won much if Herzog had won, anyway, in the position of creating a Palestine with such belligerent people.  

                                                                            

Young Barack Obama and young Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama

Netanyahu is a strong leader who is highly intelligent and also is a terrific speaker.  He is experienced.  This is why the Palestinian Arabs and Obama have wanted him out. Obama, who has not hidden his dislike of Netanyahu, comes from a completely different background.  When Obama came into the presidency with CHANGE, many didn't realize he meant change in attitude towards Israel and the Middle East. 

 For 66 years, going on 67 now, there has been no peace between the PLO and Fatah and Hamas with the Jewish state .  Because of this, Netanyahu has decided on a building program that PM Begin had started.  It was meant to make the Arabs realize that without peace, there would be no more land.  Look what had happened when Shamir gave them Gaza.  This was a terrible payback for the Jews' good will towards the Palestinian Arabs.  Top Hamas official, Ismail Radwan said that "Israelis are all racing to further Judaize Jerusalem, build more settlements, continue the occupation and target our people."  They refuse to accept the fact that this is because of their own negative behaviors towards establishing a peaceful state of Palestine.  For Israel, it's like establishing something akin to the IS Caliphate, or to have Nazi Germany take over Texas, or another dangerous Gaza.  

Another fact is that Abbas has said that his Palestine will have no Jews living in it.  Right now Jews do live in Judea and Samaria.  The Arabs expect it to be "free of Jews."  They say this knowing that Israel contains 1.7 million Arabs who are full Israeli citizens.  

 Another thought is that it's a good question as to where these Jews who will be expelled can live in Israel since people live in high rise apartment houses already there.  Judea and Samaria were the original sites of Israel and Judea.  They were built because of King David and his son, King Solomon.  Jerusalem is a Jewish city built by King David.  The Arabs want to throw the Jews out of their original land.  This would happen if a Palestine is created.   This is happening at a time where anti-Semitism is running rampant in Europe.  Ukrainians and French Jews are moving to Israel in view of this dangerous hatred of them.  

There is only one state in the world, Israel, that is a Jewish state, there because of anti-Semitism in the world.  There are over 48 Muslim majority states without a Palestine already.  A  bellicose state of Palestine is not wanted as a neighbor.  When these Arabs can become felicitous, then they can talk about it.  

Resource:  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4638161,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl