Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Egypt Rules in Size In Middle East

 Nadene Goldfoot                                              

    The score is 99..6% to 0.4%. and Israel must keep it's share and not be gobbled up again.  Here are the Arab countries, from largest to smallest:  I note that size-wise, Lebanon and Oman are unusual for their neighbors.  Israel has a total area of approximately 22,072 km² (or about 20,770 km² within pre-1967 borders). This makes it roughly equivalent in size to the state of New Hampshire, USA.

  • Egypt: ~1,002,450 sq km
  • Yemen: ~527,970 sq km
  • Iraq: ~437,072 sq km
  • Oman: ~309,500 sq km
  • Syria: ~185,180 sq km
  • Jordan: ~89,342 sq km
  • United Arab Emirates (UAE): ~83,600 sq km
  • Israel--22,072 sq km
  • Kuwait: ~17,818 sq km
  • Qatar: ~11,581 sq km
  • Lebanon: ~10,452 sq km
  • Bahrain: ~765 sq km
  • Sunday, May 3, 2026

    Palestinian Bloodline and Politics: Where It Comes From

     

     Nadene Goldfoot                                                  


    DNA testing of Palestinians has started and has turned up evidence of Palestinian Arabs coming from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq;  neighbors of Israel. 


     This goes along with the research of a reporter many years ago who was  Joan Peters, who wrote the 1984 book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine. Her research claimed that many Arabs, later known as Palestinians, actually migrated to the area from neighboring countries during the19th and 20th centuries, rather than having deep, long-standing roots there.                      

    Joan Peters was Joan Friedman before she had married.  Yes, she was Jewish which gave her the impetus to dig for information like an archaeologist would do to a spot of land.  She was not an indifferent news reporter.  Yet she was a true reporter and told it like it was, the truth.   Read her book and you will see.  "In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader, was a consultant in the creation of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary on the subject for PBS."

    There never has been a country or state called Palestine.  The name comes from the Romans who named what the Jews called Eretz Yisrael,  Palestine.  The reason they did that was that  it was for the Jews' worst enemy at that time;  the Philistines.  "Following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt around 135 CE, The Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina (Latin: Palestina). This action aimed to sever the connection between the Jewish people and their historic homeland after extensive rebellions, often considered a punitive measure to diminish Jewish presence."  (Egypt used to do the same thing to their walls, where they displayed their history in pictures.  They would erase it if that present Pharaoh wasn't in agreement.)

    The Romans had fought against the Judeans (name where Jews came from) and had won in 70 CE, the culmination of THE BATTLE of the century.  Such a battle;  I'm not sure there had ever been such a horrid one.  The Romans were able to cause severe starvation first, weakening the people, then taking them as slaves or just killing them.  Those who could, escaped, of course, and there were a few.  

    Peters argued that the land was largely under-populated before Jewish immigration began, and that the influx of Arab immigration was driven by the economic development brought by early Jewish settlers.  I also found that they needed workers in building of which much was happening.    It showed a map like this one for someone else                                         


    A young Palestinian lady took a DNA test which told her she was from Jordan and Syria.  The map above is from FTDNA of another person.  The Palestinian thought there was and error;  to her it should have said, Palestine!  She and most likely all other "Palestinians" have been deluded to think so. Finally, DNA is opening people's minds to realize that Joan Peters was correct in her analysis of the Palestinian Arabs. "Based on 2019 reports, Palestinian-American illustrator Marguerite Dabaie expressed surprise and disappointment after a 23andMe DNA test indicated a mix of ancestry that differed from her family's understanding, highlighting the emotional complexity. 23andMe Example: In some examples, a Palestinian's DNA results may show high percentages of "Levantine" (often labeled by companies as Lebanon or Syria) because DNA databases cluster them by regional proximity.

    Genetic studies, including those on modern ancestry tests (e.g., 23andMe, AncestryDNA) and academic research, frequently show that Palestinians have high genetic affinity with other Levantine populations (Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians) and Middle Eastern groups

    Limitations are being broken when one reads what DNA testing has accomplished when applied to mummies in Egypt today.  It's amazing how they are using to pinpoint the name of the mummies and who their parents and relatives were in the mix of this particular one.  

    Jews living in the same cities and towns of the Arabs were also called Palestinians.  That name had stuck.  It was even on their visas. The British had accepted the name when they were awarded the 30 year mandate.  

    Then on May 14, 1948, the Jews were awarded the land and called it Israel after their ancient name they had before 721 BCE when the Assyrians had attacked and taken away several hundred of their best people.               Saul – Israel My Glory

    Saul, the first king of Israel, was from the tribe of Benjamin. He was the son of Kish, a member of this tribe, which was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, often described as small yet valiant. 

    A country with a ruler and all the trimmings of a country named Palestine is non existent.  A land mass was named Palestine by the Romans who changed the land that was Judah,  that was left from being one of the 12 states of Jacob;   Moses, then Joshua who led the people there.

    In fact, King David who came from the tribe of Judah ruled the 12 states from 1010 BCE to 970 BCE.  Before David was King Saul of the 11th century BCE.  

    These people shaped who we are.  The land bears their bodies, their history which is ours.  We are the remnant of these people who barely made it to 2026 and are not about to be snuffed out.  Our religion contains this history of our family.  Our claim of the tiny land of Israel is but a speck on a map compared to our neighbors.  Our responsibility to the world has been a great one.  Our beliefs have been good for all (David's Psalms for one) Our determination to keep our life going is as great as the sun is shining from the sky.  

    We are determined not to let  the lies and slander coming out of Gaza, etc through Iran erase what we have again accomplished.  This is a new era in the world.  There will be no more 6 million of us burned to death or killed off anymore.  We are the Jews.  

    Sunday, October 29, 2023

    Who Were Oldest Unified People in Middle East?

     Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

    First Pharaoh of Egypt was created long before others in the Middle East.  Egypt's first pharaoh of importance was Narmer who lived from 3273-2987 BCE.     A study found that the Y-chromosome haplogroup of the family was R1b. Haplogroup R1b is carried by modern Egyptians. Modern Egypt is also the only African country that is known to harbor all three R1 subtypes, including R1b-M269.  
                          Today's Middle East 
    Amorites were living in today's Saudi Arabia.  The term Amorite refers broadly to an ethnic group of nomads who likely emerged from Mesopotamia, modern-day Syria, Iraq, Jordan or perhaps Arabia, in the third millennium BCE. Their earliest mention came about 4,400 years ago in an Akkadian cuneiform tablet that describes them as the enemy of the Sumerian kingdom of Ur where Abraham and his father, Terah had lived.                    
    Amorites is one of the biblical names for the people of Canaan before the Israelite conquest.  After the mid-2nd millennium BC, Syrian Amorites came under the domination of first the Hittites and, from the 14th century BC, the Middle Assyrian Empire.
                                                      
    The Assyrian Empire, an aggressive kingdom in the 20th century BCE, expanding in the 13th and 10th centuries BCE.  Ashurbanipal II (883-59 BCE overran Syria and Phoenician cities in 876 BCE. 

    Shalmaneser III of Assyria  attacked Ben Hadad II of Damascus.At the time, Ahab of Israel was on the Damascus side in the battle at Karkar.  

    The Exodus, which is figured to had been led by Moses, has a date going way back at least 3,000 years ago.  Moses is figured to have lived from 1391-1271 BCE.  Others believe the Exodus took place from 1579-1445 BCE.  Some say we entered Canaan by 1250 BCE. Moses left his him at age 80 and went to Egypt.  The Exodus ended outside of Canaan for him at age 120. He was an old man during the Exodus.    
    1800 BC. Early Bronze Age. Traditional rabbinic dating of the patriarchs. Many clay tablets were also found in Ebla; tablets that tell of 
     a wealth of information on Syria and Canaan in the Early Bronze Age, and include the first known references to the "Canaanites", "Ugarit", and "Lebanon"..  The tablets were discovered by Italian archaeologist Paolo Matthiae and his team in 1974–75 during their excavations at the ancient city at Tell Mardikh. The tablets, which were found in situ on collapsed shelves, retained many of their contemporary clay tags to help reference them.   4,700 fragments, and many thousands of minor chips found in the palace archives of the ancient city of EblaSyria.

    Ashur-uballit I, (reigned c. 1365–30 BC), king of Assyria during Mesopotamia’s feudal age, who created the first Assyrian empire and initiated the Middle Assyrian period (14th to 12th century BC). With the help of the Hittites he destroyed the dominion of the Aryan Mitanni (a non-Semitic people from upper Iran and Syria who had subjugated Assyria), ravaged Nineveh (near present Mosul, Iraq), and sent off the image of Assyria’s deity Ishtar to the Egyptian pharaoh (early 14th century). Later, allied with the Kassite successors in Babylonia, Ashur-uballit ended Hittite and Hurrian rule. By intermarriage he then influenced the Kassite dynasty and eventually dominated all of Babylonia, thus paving the way for the Neo-Assyrian mastery during the Sargonid dynasty (12th to 7th century).

    The first king of the Babylonian Empire was Sumuabum and the only thing we really know about him was that he was an Amorite king and that he conquered the city-states of Dilbat and Kish, thus carving out a small kingdom in the middle of Mesopotamia.  Sumu-Abum (also Su-abu) was an Amorite, and the first King of the First Dynasty of Babylon (the Amorite Dynasty). He reigned between 1830 and 1817 BC (short chronology) or between 1897 and 1883 BC (middle chronology).

    Nebuchadnezzar II -King of Babylonia ( was the 2nd  Neo-Babylonian emperor, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC. Historically known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great (605-562 BCE) , he is typically regarded as the empire's greatest king. He inherited the Assyrian Empire.   Nebuchadnezzar remains famous for his military campaigns in the Levant, for his construction projects in his capital, Babylon, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and for the role he plays in Jewish history by exiling 8,000 of the Jewish aristocracy to Babylon. Ruling for 43 years, Nebuchadnezzar was the longest-reigning king of the Chaldean dynasty. By the time of his death, he was among the most powerful rulers in the world.

    "According to a later Mesopotamian tradition enshrined in the Sumerian King List, the first king was Alulim, ruler of the city of Eridu.   Alulim) was a mythological Mesopotamian ruler, regarded as the first king ever to rule. He is known from the Sumerian King List, Ballad of Early Rulers, and others....The tablet of Old Babylonian period (c. 1900-1600 BC) from Ur describing the divine appointment of Alulim by the gods notes that he was chosen among "vast and many people,"and appointed by gods for the "shepherdship of the entirety of the many people".

    The Amorite ruler Hammurabi (unknown–1750 B.C.), crowned king of Babylon around 1792 B.C., was both an avid warrior and a shrewd administrator who honored the traditions of Sumer, Akkad, and other lands he brought under his authority.

    Map of Iraq showing the cities that are mentioned in the Sumerian King List and that have been identified archaeologically. AkkadAwanAkshak and Larak have not yet been securely identified. Gutium is located in the Zagros Mountains.  I see listed: Mari, Sippar, Kish, Adab, Isin, Shuruppak, Uruk, Bad-Tibira, and  Eridu and Ur which are close to each other.          

                      Eridu: The Earliest City in 

    Mesopotamia and the World--- 

    • Eridu is among the earliest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, with a consistent occupation of some 4500 years.Eridu (called Tell Abu Shahrain or Abu Shahrein in Arabic) is one of the earliest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, and perhaps the world. Located about 14 miles (22 kilometers) south of the modern city of Nasiriyah in Iraq, and about 12.5 mi (20 km) south southwest of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, Eridu was occupied between the 5th and 2nd millennium BCE, with its heyday in the early 4th millennium.
      Archaeologists visit the site of the Mesopotamian city of Eridu (now called Tell Abu Shahrain), located about 22 kilometers south of Nasiriya in Iraq.

    Wearing their traditional cassocks and scarlet fascias, and with large golden crosses around their necks, members of the Vatican delegation to Iraq paced across the ruins of the House of Abraham in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur.
    Dating back to the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages, Sumer was the earliest civilisation known to mankind, which saw the development of the earliest form of writing and the invention of the wheel more than 5,000 years ago.

    The city of Ur was the home of Abraham, Terah-his father, and family.  Abraham lived during the 2nd millennium BCE, most likely born in 1948 BCE.  

    "In Ur, Mesannepada became king; he ruled for 80 years. Meskiagnun, the son of Mesannepada, became king; he ruled for 36 years. Elulu ruled for 25 years. Balulu ruled for 36 years. 4 kings; they ruled for 171 years. Then Ur was defeated and the kingship was taken to Awan".

    Then we had the War of Independence from November 29, 1947  to the Armistice of February 1949.   Israel and the Arab states did not reach any formal armistice agreements until February. Under separate agreements between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, and 
    Syria, these bordering nations agreed to formal armistice 
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    Israel gained some territory formerly granted to Palestinian 
    Arabs under the United Nations resolution in 1947. Egypt and 
    Jordan retained control over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively. These armistice lines held until 1967. The 
    United States did not become directly involved with the armistice negotiations, but hoped that instability in the Middle East would not interfere with the international balance of power between the Soviet Union and the United States.
    Now we have Syria and Iraq terrorists of Hezbollah shooting again at Israel by Hezbollah, an arm of Iran.  Hamas is another arm.  Hezbollah was founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.  They do shootings, rocket attacks, bombings, kidnappings, and suicide bombings.  They support Palestinian terrorist groups with cells in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.  

    Resource: 

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

    https://www.historyinthebible.com/supplementary_pages/geopolitics-bible-maps.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumu-abum#:~:text=Sumu%2DAbum%20(also%20Su%2D,1883%20BC%20(middle%20chronology).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebla_tablets#:~:text=The%20tablets%20were%20discovered%20by,tags%20to%20help%20reference%20them.