WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS! WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JUDEAN-SAMARIAN TOWNS AND CITIES---AND ISRAEL'S MARSHALL PLAN KEPT IN DARK BY OTHER NATIONS

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Yasser Arafat, also spelled Yāsir ʿArafāt, byname of Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Qudwah al-Ḥusaynī, also called Abū ʿAmmār, (born August 24?, 1929, Cairo?, Egypt [see Researcher’s Note]—died November 11, 2004, Paris, France), president (1996–2004) of the Palestinian Authority (PA), chairman (1969–2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah, the largest of the constituent PLO groups. In 1993 he led the PLO to a peace agreement with the Israeli government. Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994.

                                                             

                                      Suha Arafat being kissed by Hillary Clinton
     Hillary Clinton was a shoe-in with most Jews until she kissed Suha Arafat.  ''Some of you may or may have not been to the Middle East,'' Mrs. Clinton said, ''but a kiss is a handshake.''  Everyone knew that Arafat was a terrorist and killed many Jews.  If one had any feelings about life and who was a friend of Israel, should they kiss the wife of one's enemy?  Suha had never claimed to feel friendly towards Jews.  

Fatah was a terror group, the first against Jews of Israel. In exchange for signing the DoP, the PLO was to refrain from all incitement and all violence, dismantle terrorist groups and eliminate the clauses in its Charter that called for the destruction of Israel.  The issues about Jerusalem, refugees, final borders, towns and cities and security, were to be negotiated 5 years later once Israel was assured that its former enemy had sincerely renounced violence and the goal of destroying the Jewish State.  Gaza is led by terrorists Hamas, and to this day is still shelling Israel.  

Karnei Shomron of Samaria on June 4, 2020

Karnei Shomron is an Israeli city organized as a local council established in 1977 in Judaea-Samaria, east of Kfar Saba. Karnei Shomron is located 48 kilometres northeast of Tel Aviv and 85 kilometres north of Jerusalem. In 2019 it had a population of 8,135. Any community anywhere larger than a 2,500 population is termed as a city.  

Where Europe, home of extreme anti-Semitism for ages, called newly developed villages and towns that have blossomed into important cities within yards from Jerusalem as (SETTLEMENTS--a term also used for newly arrived pioneers in American Western history bringing to mind the forts protecting white pioneers against attacking Indians) Jews recognize as the usual terms of villages, towns and cities by other secular people. The Jews aware of their history and religion remember the original names-Judea and Samaria.  It's a matter of historic value and respect. 

 It was the Jordanians who gave these important places the name-West Bank, and it was the Jordanians who demanded the land from the British who held the mandate over the land in the 1920s, and the Brits, who had promised this Jewish Homeland to the Jews who caved in and gladly gave it to them. Then the Jordanians annexed Judaea and Samaria illegally in 1950.   It was also the Brits who had kept Jews out of Great Britain from 1290 to 1655 (365 years) by a decree, so one can see their emotional animosity toward Jews.   

Palestine was in such a poor condition when newly arrived Russian Jews managed to get there-a feat one would disregard today to undertake-they were desperate to get out of Russia and the constant pogroms Jewish communities would be victim of.  Their ancient communities were no more, and the weeds and mosquitoes had taken over the land.  They started from scratch in building homes for themselves.  These homes developed into communities and their impact has been the opposite of what Arab propaganda claims.

From 1967 to 1992, the population and economy of Judea and Samaria-their original land of where the tribe of Judah was allocated to them by Joshua and Samaria-the land surrounding Jerusalem now referred to as the West Bank, had grown substantially.  This caused the standard of living of the Palestinians, as well as the average per capita income, to increase almost exponentially.  It was partly due to the Israeli "Marshall Plan,"which expanded the infra-structure, modernized roads and the supplies of water, electricity and sewage, and made 20th century medical care available.  telephone and radio technology ws upgraded to 20th century levels.  Economic progress was also due in part to the integration of the Palestinian workforce into the Israeli economy by the employment of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a wide variety of Israeli business and agricultural endeavors.

Tourism grew throughout Judea and Samaria which was a further boost to the area's economy.  The population of Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip more than tripled from 1967 to 1994, with an Arab population of about 950,000 in 1967 growing to more than 3,000,000 by 1994. The fact that Muslims still practiced having multiple wives and no birth control helped increase their numbers quickly.  

Seven universities, some sponsored in part by Jewish donors as well as the Israeli government, came into being where only 3 teacher-training institutions had existed before.  

The Jews didn't displace Palestinians. There has always been some Jews living in Palestine after 70 CE's destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.   The Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria stimulated substantial growth and improvement.  It has been noted that when an Israeli town of any of the first 4 types was erected, (and they usually had Palestinians working on the building process earning a living by doing so) areas around it that were uninhabited became wanted pieces of land for Palestinian shops selling agricultural goods and cottage industry wares to the Israelis.  The value of that land had increased because of all this.  Later, what happened was that Palestinian houses followed the shops.  

It was between June 1967 and December 1972 tht Israel established 14 villages-small towns in Golan Heights, and 6 in Judaea and Samaria, 7 in the Gaza Strip and North Sinai and  5 in East and South sinai.  There are 3 different types of these.  Nahal villages were established by the Israel Defence Forces.  These villages were military points, like those held by any other uit of the Israel Defence Forces. Other villages intrinsically civilian were established in areas which Israel hoped might be assigned to its jurisdiction by peace treaties.  Communities established in areas where the political future was not expressly covered by Israel's position, but hopefully even if became populated by Arab would be able to have an integrated society.  No Israelis, even those willing to relinquish large parts of the administrated areas, would accept any arrangement that banned Jews from living in places which are of religious and historical significance which certainly describes Judea and Samaria.  The total number of Israelis who had settled in the administered areas since 1967 by 1973 included Nahal military settlements was 4,200.  A report shows a 19.05% increase of Jews living in Judea and Samaria in the last 5 years, or an actual growth of 74,132 people.  

During the decades after 1967, there were no road-blocks or lock-downs or curfews except on rare occasions when the Israeli military or central intelligence agencies learned of the presence of terrorists in a specific village or town.   Arabs from Judea-Samaria and Gaza Strip shopped in Tel Aviv, and Jews shopped in east Jerusalem and Ramallah-a city of Arabs.  

 As an ancient town, Ramallah has buildings incorporating masonry from the time of Herod the Great (reigned 37–4 BCE), but no complete structure antedates the Crusades of the 11th century CE.  Ramallah is located 10 km (6.21 mi) north of Jerusalem at an average elevation of 880 meters above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority (PA).

                                               

                 July 17, 1990 was Suha and Arafat's wedding day.
 From 1983 to 1993, Arafat based himself in Tunisia, and began to shift his approach from open conflict with the Israelis to negotiation. In 1988, he acknowledged Israel's right to exist and sought a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In 1994 he returned to Palestine, settling in Gaza City and promoting self-governance for the Palestinian territories.  He lost that city to Hamas terror, a break-away group of Fatah, his terror group.  

 Since 1994, when 96% of Palestinians living in Israel came under the autonomous and independent control of the Palestinian National Authority (Fatah), that the economies of Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip have been crippled and the lives of the Palestinians wrecked by the Authority's despotic and terrorist rule.  Hamas terrorists are a division of the PA and were made up of those who wanted even more terrorist acts done to the Jews.  It happened that Judea and Samaria's GDP in 2003 was about 1/10th of what it was in 1992  Only because of Arafat's terror war was Israel forced to implement the now infamous and wildly exaggerated harsh measures to stop terror attacks and protect civilian lives. 

The so-called "apartheid roads" did not exist prior to Arafat's 1994 ascent to power, nor are they apartheid.  During the decades from 1967 on, Israelis and Arabs used the same roads, many of which ran as main streets through the towns and villages of Judea-Samaria, bringing in millions of tourist dollars to impoverished small-town Arab merchants.  Only after Arafat began his terror war, and Israelis driving through Arab towns found themselves in mortal danger, did Israel build the "Israelis only" (not "Jews only") roads.  Rather than take punitive measures against Arab offenders who murdered or injured Israeli motorists (Jewish, Christian an Moslem), did the government decide instead to create this by-pass system so that Israelis could reach Judea-Samaria and Gaza Strip destinations without exposing themselves to terrorist attacks.                                   

Until Arafat began his terror war, the growth of the Israeli population in Judea-Samaria and Gaza, and the expansion of Israeli villages and towns in those territories, was highly beneficial economically for Judean, Samarian and Gazan Arab populations, and did not entail significant loss of Arab privately owned land.  Israel's government

                    Hillary only had good things to say about Arafat

offered legal recourse to the rare cases of unfair expropriation, and was accompanied by a far, far greater growth of Arab population and villages in Judea-Samaria and Gaza.  

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Resource: Update; Earlier this month, Israel announced plans to advance 5,000 residential units in pre-existing settlements; it did not announce plans to advance 5,000 settlements.

 https://www.camera.org/article/voa-corrects-israel-not-advancing-5000-settlements/?fbclid=IwAR2mtrJyP7QmcZAgCcVZZzHBmi4QIDBX7WB7T5Q2IC7HbIxyt1i8W3K25DM

As Times of Israel reported Oct. 12: 

Publication of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, BIG LIES: demolishing the myths of the propaganda war against Israel

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ramallah

ISRAEL 101-Product of StandWithUs, from 2010

https://www.jpost.com/international/as-first-lady-hillary-was-a-prized-jewish-keynoter-until-she-kissed-suha-arafat-398658

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

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

Hillary's Anti-Israel Choices

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                          

Before Hillary  married Bill on October 11, 1975, she was a part of the left who were for the Palestinian cause and were condemning Israel.  Hillary told friends that she was "sympathetic" to the PLO and admired Yasser Arafat.  When he spoke to the UN General Assembly in November 1974 wearing his revolutionary uniform and his holster on his hip, Hillary  told Bill that Arafat was a freedom fighter who was trying to free his people from their Israeli oppressors.  So that's what she really thinks about Israel.
                                                                           

Yasser Arafat, leader of PLO Terrorists ( August 29, 1929-November 11, 2004)

Christopher Anderson tells in his book on page 50, American Evita, about their trip to Arkansas in 1973 that is very telling.  Bill took her to visit a friend and Hillary noticed a menorah on their front door.  As soon as she saw it she refused to get out of the car to meet him.  He was a political friend of Bill's , but apologetic about the menorah, telling Bill that his father was half Jewish who wanted him to remember his roots.  I cringe at hearing that and feel for his father.   Bill explained to his friend that Hillary was really tight with the people in the PLO in New York and that they were friends of hers, and she just didn't feel right about the menorah.  Feel right.  He meant she didn't like or didn't  want to befriend any  Jews.

Which reminds me.  Hillary's aide has been  Huma Abedin.  "Huma Abedin has 3 members of her family working for the Muslim Brotherhood in important positions.  She has been an aide to Hillary Clinton and works in the State Department with her.  She had married Anthony Weiner and both were family friends of the Clintons.  This is another connection to the Muslim Brotherhood outlook on dealing with Israel.  Is there any question as to why Israel has been treated so rotten by both Obama and Hillary now? "   Hillary didn't have to deal with Weiner, though she knew him as a Jewish "friend."  He must be extremely leftist more than anything.   Hillary has commented that Huma is just like a daughter to her.  
                                                                       

Hillary's book has just come out, "Hard Choices."  In it she tells of her disappointment with Israel over the Palestinians living in Jericho she had seen with Bill in 1981.  She felt that Israel was not allowing them to have any dignity or self determination.  This comes after the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Israel was attacked by the Palestinian's brothers, the states surrounding Israel who wanted to drive Israelis into the sea and destroy their state.  They attacked purposely on Yom Kippur, the Jews' holiest day of the year when they were fasting and praying and asking G-d for forgiveness of any sins they may have committed.  Israel at that time had been coming under attack by Palestinians who were PLO terrorists led by Yasser Arafat. This comment shows me how little Hillary knew or understood about what was happening.  She certainly wasn't thinking about the Jews' lives, but only about the Palestinians and how they felt.

As I started researching, because this lady might be running for president, I wondered whatever caused her to be so harsh against Israel.  What other things have happened to point this up, or was this a one and only occasion of harshness.

In the same book on page 317, she wrote that East Jerusalem had been captured along with the West bank in 1967.  Wrong again, Hillary.  She is not accurate in her history account.  It shows her bias.  Israel never captured Jerusalem..  Jordan did in 1948 when it had been decided by the League of Nations and the UN that Jerusalem was to go to the Jews.  Israel defended itself in 1967 and in doing so and winning this ugly battle, gained land that was theirs to start with, East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.  It should be a lesson to those who attack others.

 Jerusalem is precious to Jews.   This is because of our long history with Jerusalem.  Our population there shows it.  The population from 1844 to 1948 shows that Jews were the majority.  When Jordan grabbed it illegally in 1948 , they kicked out the Jews.  The only reason the Palestinians want East Jerusalem for their capital of Palestine is because they don't want Israel to have it.  They have no religious connection to this city, but Jews do, big time.

 Incidentally, the name, West Bank was given to Judea and Samaria by Jordan, who took this land in 1948 after it had been said to go to Israel.  In 1947-48 Israel was fighting the whole neighborhood in the War of Independence.  November 29, 1947 was when Arabs responded with violence to the UN resolution on Palestine, and the war lasted until the signing of the Armistice Agreements in 1949.  Israel refers to the area by their ancient names.  Samaria was the capital of Judea, and it also includes the surrounding land.

She chides Israel because their loss of lives has been less than Palestinians in attacks.  With her logic, the USA is at fault because a lot of al Qaeda terrorists have died than were killed in 9/11.  She doesn't know anything about the 2 different people she is comparing.  Life is of utmost importance to Jews and Jews protect life by  through the teachings of their Judaism, their training, and their skills.  L'chaim, to life, is our toast.  Preserving life is of utmost importance.  Israel doesn't even have the death penalty.  Only on such an occasion as mass murdering such as Eichmann did can someone be put to death.  The Palestinians are known to hide behind their women and children, keep their ammo in schools and mosques, and use the number of their deaths proudly as a weapon against Jews, so they don't mind the numbers.   Palestinian mothers sacrifice their children to the cause without a blink of the eye.  They are dealing with a different mind-set that has developed out of their desire to do Jews in.  They gladly die in a war because their reward is 72 virgins.  I guess they figure any man would die to get something like that.  That's how we lost the Twin Towers.

Hillary referred to Israel as practicing apartheid towards Palestinians on page 312.  She inferred that the Palestinians would soon have a bigger population than the Jews because of her thought that they had a higher birth rate and that they would be relegated to 2nd class citizenship and would not be able to vote.  John Kerry shares her thoughts.  Who thought it up first probably is Hillary since he has since backed off of this.  This is a slap in the face to Israel.  The most democratic state in the middle east, Israel, even tops the USA in allowing all people full citizenship and has Palestinians in every facet of the land, except for one thing.  They have not expected them to serve in the IDF unless they wanted to for obvious reasons.  Today, there are such groups.  Israel is the only pluralistic society in the Middle East.  Saudi Arabia doesn't allow Jews to tread on their land.  Qatar, Hillary's favorite Middle East state, sponsors Qaradawi, a famous Muslim religious leader who wants to kill Jews with his bare hands.

Apartheid accusations hurt Israel in other fields.  In the peace talks, blame was said to be equal but more criticism was aimed at Israel.   Coming down on Israel over house building on land that was theirs legally, after waiting for 66 years for peace, only feeds into the Palestinians goals of yanking the chain against Israel in the first place.  Israel had followed everyone's wishes and had stopped building for 10 months with the promise of a continued peace talk, and it led to nothing, only delay in building.   Then again, the USA demanded that terrorists be let out of prison because the Palestinians so desired it, and if they had  been in the USA they would have been given the death penalty.  In the end, Hamas and Fatah are now a united government, thanks to USA meddling.
                                                                     

In November 1999, she appeared with Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, who made a slanderous allegation about Israel. She ranted and raved that Israel had used poison gas on the Palestinian people.   She was lying of course and Hillary's reaction was just silence about it, no comment that it couldn't be true, gave her a hug and kiss when she finished as if to say, good job.  Later, there was clamour from the media about it which put her on the spot and she retorted that all people should "refrain from inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations"  including Israel, who hadn't been guilty of dong it or accusing anyone.  Oh but that Israel-they'd better watch it, she was needling.  Years later, Hillary commented in defense of not denouncing such lies as "the translator screwed up."

Another favorite Middle East state is Dubai.  It's a Jew-hating terrorist supporting nation.  Bill and Hillary are making "mega dollars" from them  Dubai is a leader in boycotting Israel. It is the business side of terrorism.   The Clinton Foundation has established Dubai Study departments in universities in the USA and London.  They are working hard at granting legitimacy to this rich state.  The very poor Clintons made $10 million a year from the Yucaipa, a Dubai firm.  Ron Berkle, the owner, was a major fund-raiser for both Bill and Hillary.

Saudi Arabia is not left out.    The Saudi Royal Family donated $10,000,000 to the Clinton Library.  Saudi Arabia is the word's biggest exporter of terrorism.  Remember who flew into the Twin Towers?  Bill is the one with connections here with Prince Turki bin Feisal who sent to college with him.  While a governor, he got the Prince to donate to a Middle Eastern studies program at the U of Arkansas.  The first $3.5 million came in 1992 and another $20 million came after his first inauguration.

Oh yes, Hillary has been known to voice a support for Israel in her Senate years.  Why after such a history?  She needed the Jewish vote found in New York.

 The real Hillary showed up as soon as she left the Senate to be the Secretary of State.  She ignored a deal with Israel and called for the end of the construction of new homes in existing neighborhoods.  She demanded the "settlement" freeze in 2009 and was backed up by Obama.   By doing this she was telling Israeli parents that their married children couldn't live in their own neighborhoods. By her demanding a building freeze, she broke a US/Israel agreement made during the Bush administration.  Elliot Abrams negotiated this agreement and commented that her denial of it is not true.

 Talk about the power of Big Brother!!!   I believe that Israel had every right to finally build on their own land they had won in 1967.  The building was telling the Palestinians to forget about that land as a state if they didn't hurry up and sign a peace pact like Jordan and Egypt had done.  By acting like the world's leader, the USA undid this nudge to get real and become peaceful or they would lose all.  The USA shouldn't have included Jerusalem as something of less value to Israel.  They constantly berated the Jewish state with deference to the Palestinians, which gave them power.  A written offer from the PA never came to the Israelis as she promised. Netanyahu wanted offers on paper as any oral deal wasn't worth anything.   What Hillary had done in this case was to make commitments when talking to Netanyahu, but later wiggled out by claiming that she had not been speaking for Obama, who did not give  his approval to her promises.

She made complaints about Jews and Judaism in Israel in 2011 when speaking at the liberal Brookings Institute.  She saw that females weren't singing in the IDF along with males and noticed women didn't sit with men on buses.  This had to do with Israel's accommodations made to the Orthodox communities, which is Israeli business, not Hillary's business.  Did she talk about the bombing from Gaza onto the civilians of southern Israel?  No.  She was concerned about religious stuff.  She even compared the Orthodox to Iran.  On hearing about the bus with women and men separated, she yelled that it was just like Rosa Parks, whereas these Orthodox Jews did have their reasons other than discrimination.  It's a lot different.   What galls me most is that we handle things so differently.  In Iran women would have been beaten or executed for singing with them.  In Israel they sang but those that felt it wasn't right just walked out until it was over.  She looks for things in Judaism to find fault with.  Why?    Does she think Jews don't speak up or can't handle their own affairs and that they need her?

Clinton's statements were part of an attempt by the Obama administration and Hillary's State Department to de-legitimize the Israeli  democracy.  They have been trying to destroy why Americans supported Israel, in that it was the only democracy in the Middle East.

Hillary is talking a lot about becoming a grandmother, more likely to make a connection with the public and to gander future votes.  Chelsey married the  Jewish Mark Mezvinsky who doesn't seem to be all that together in his new role of husband and soon to be father.  Bill is not happy with Chelsea's  choice at all.  Mark's mother is a politician and had been in the Pennsylvania congressional seat and then lost it.  She ran again in 1994, and of course is a Democrat.  I wonder how cozy the two mothers will become.  I vision problems ahead.

In 2008 Barack Obama ran as a friend of Israel.  If you're aware of facts, you will see he has not been.  Sorry Democrats.  If Hillary runs for President she will campaign that she is a friend of Israel.  In fact, she was the architect of the policy of the most anti-Israel president since the rebirth of Israel in 1948.  She has held anti-Semitic views during  her life.  She only cooled it when she spent 9 years running for and holding the office of US Senator from New York.  Frankly, I think her hard choices about Israel came to her quite easily.



Resource:  http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2014/06/hillary-who-should-you-talk-to-about.html
http://wedding.theknot.com/special-wedding-features/brides-decide/articles/hillary-and-bill-clinton-wedding-story.aspx
Book:  American Evita by Christopher Anderson
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/11/muslim-brotherhood-connections-in-white.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/marjorie-margolies-clinton-contributions_n_3599800.html
http://www.showbizspy.com/article/261616/bill-clinton-hates-chelsea-clintons-husband-marc-mezvinsky.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arafat.html
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/06/hillary-clinton-truth-about-her-anti.html
Hillary Clinton Goes Anti-Israel in "Hard Choices" by Jeff Dunetz http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/hillary-clinton-goes-anti-israel-hard-choices
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/hillary-clinton-truth-about-her-anti.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=98d7c83b49-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-98d7c83b49-228002373&goal=0_597b72c01c-98d7c83b49-228002373&m=1