Will Netanyahu of Israel cede the West Bank (Judea Samaria) ?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                      

Israel’s Netanyahu calls occupied West Bank ‘part of our homeland’ which part of the others call it, but it shouldn't be addressed as such.  Israel was awarded  part C of Judea Samaria, the original name of the West Bank, through the Oslo II Accords, along with part of A, so it isn't OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL.    

Occupying?  People!  It was the Israelite's (Jewish people) land for 4,000 years!  They were told to live in Canaan by G-d!  Read the Bible.  Moses led them there out of Egypt!  Joshua finished the job.  They were conquerers of the Canaanites, yes, but then became the Indigenous peoples or native peoples, lasting for 4,000 years.  

Trump, USA President in his 2nd term,  says he 'will not allow' Netanyahu to  annex West Bank.  At the UN on Tuesday, Trump met the leaders of key Arab and Muslim nations, who warned him of consequences if Israel moved ahead with annexation.                 

"I think the president of the US understands very well the risks and dangers 

of annexation in the West Bank," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal

 bin Farhan told reporters afterwards.  Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin 

Farhan is a senior member of the Saudi royal family and currently serves as

 the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

He is not related to Emir Faisal bin Hussein, the son of Sharif Hussein, who met with Chaim Weizmann in Paris in 1919. The two Faisals are from different branches of the larger Al Saud family, with the former being a descendant of the current ruling family of Saudi Arabia, and the latter being the leader of the Hashemite dynasty.  The Saudis have been the religiousleader of all the Muslim majority countries.  They have never allowed any Jew to step into their country.  They have so far refuse entrance to the 

Abraham Accords.  So the threat comes from Arabia and the UAE leaving the 

Abraham Accords, sort of fair-weather friends.  

On Wednesday morning, Israel closed the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and neighbouring Jordan, preventing more than two

 million Palestinians from accessing the outside world.

As of today, Sunday, September 28, 2025, the King Hussein Bridge

 (Allenby) crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan has reopened for passenger

 traffic, though with temporary closures occurring intermittently. The recent closures and subsequent reopenings were in response to a deadly attack 

and heightened political tensions. Cargo crossing was also suspended but

 the EU has urged Israel to allow cargo traffic again. The other two 

crossings, the Jordan River (Sheikh Hussein) and Yitzhak Rabin (Wadi

 Araba) terminals, have maintained their regular operating hours. 

The closure came days after two Israeli military personnel were shot dead

 near the crossing by a Jordanian gunman who was killed at the scene.

          Netanyahu in Jordan Valley talksWill Netanyahu decide that since Israel is already fighting on 7 fronts, one 

more can't change things much and disregard threatening the work done to

create the Abraham Accords?  Does he see an open window to establish 

Israel upon their own ancient lands again, which should have happened in

1920 with the Paris Conference, and not cutting up the land piecemeal give

Arabia land that had no meaning to them except a land? 

Americans had landed on their land only 405 years ago.  The Mayflower arrived in America in November 1620, first making landfall at Cape Cod on November 9, 1620, and then moving on to establish Plymouth. The ship, carrying 102 passengers and a crew, set sail from Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620, and its 66-day journey across the Atlantic culminated in this historic arrival. The government didn't get going until 1776,  156 years after landing,  may have realized that no other country has experienced owning land for

4,000 years and then losing it to conquerers.  This land has the origin, the 

religious, and blood and sweat and creativity of his ancestors.  Must he act 

now or later?  This is Netanyahu's curse for the moment.  

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Facts Our Government May Not Admit About Israel Fighting For Peace

 Nadene Goldfoot                                    

The Arab states occupy 5,414,000 square miles.                          Israel  occupies  8,290 square miles in its pre-1967 borders where Obama wanted them to return to, and a little over 10,000 square miles if one includes all of Judea Samaria. 

 The 22 members of the Arab League as of 2021 are Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

In fact, Israel occupies less than one-six hundredth  (-1/600) of the land occupied by the 21 Arab states.  Thus, its willingness to cede more than 97% of the land it captured in a war of self-defense is truly remarkable, and all the  wars they are involved in are always in by self-defense.                          

 By the way, there are at least 48 Muslim majority states in the world without a Palestine today.  There is only one (1) Jewish state in the world, which is the mother of Christianity and Islam.  Look how these people have treated their mother! Nothing but anti-Semitism and pogroms or attacks leading to wars.

As for people, Israel's population is only 9.217 million as of 2020, and of that, 20% are Arabs of either Christian or Islam religions.  About 6 million are Jewish. 

 Iran had 76,923,300 in 2011.  

It's neighbor, Egypt, had 79, 089, 650.  

Turkey had 73,722,988.  

Iraq had only 31,234,000, and 

Syria had 22,505,000.  

Jordan could make room for the Palestinians, who they have added a lot already, making 5,568,565.  

Lebanon, a small country, like a twin of Syria, had 4,196,453.                                 

   Judea and Samaria were renamed by Jordan as West Bank.  

Hanan Al-Hroub, a Palestinian teacher who won the Global Teacher award and the 1 million dollar prize, teaches the pupils of her class at Samiha Khalil High School in Al-Bireh, Ramallah, March 22, 2016. Having grown up in a Palestinian refugee camp where she was exposed to acts of violence, Hanan Al-Hroub developed her own teaching approach to support children traumatized by violence. Photo by Corinna Kern/Flash90.                                      

The Ministry of Education’s head of public education, Ayoub Alyan, agreed that the lack of schools is a real problem in Ramallah. He blamed it on the city attracting many new residents from other areas of the West Bank controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The ministry has been unable to keep track of the rapid population growth, he said, and the lack of good data on the increase makes finding outside sources of funding to build schools more difficult.  Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank that serves as the de facto administrative capital of the State of Palestine, which really hasn't become a state as yet, wanting the whole of Israel, they say.  
                                                                      

Palestinian and Jewish women learn each others' native languages at Spoken Jerusalem-ese, a group that organizes conversation circles and field trips. Photo by Lior Urian.

Linguist and Arabic teacher Anwar Ben-Badis teaching and guiding in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood during one of his intensive courses (Courtesy Anwar Ben-Badis)  Even President Reuven Rivlin studied with Ben-Badis, as did Knesset member Benny Begin.  His students are generally Jerusalemites who, as residents of a simultaneously mixed and divided city, brush up against their Arab neighbors at the supermarket, the mall and the movie theater and want to be able to say “excuse me” in Arabic (aläafw), or “I only speak a little Arabic” (anaa ataHaddath faqaT qaliil min aläarabiyya).              

There are the Muslim  states that come into Israel's purview every day.  So Israelis not only study Hebrew in school but Arabic as well.  When I say Israelis, I mean those Jewish and Muslim students, some of which are Circassians, students I had while teaching at Safed's junior high. They were great students.

A lot of people have been fed a plate-full of lies and people have gobbled them up, which includes thinking that Israel is the cause of Middle East tensions because of its refusal to make compromises for peace.  Israel is the champion state in the world for making compromises to experience peace with its neighbors, and I'll tell you how.                                      

In 1967, immediately following the Six-Day War that Israel won, Israel offered to return almost all the land it had won in that war which was the most important war of their self-defense in exchange for peace. They hadn't experienced much peace at all.  War broke out before it became a state in 1947 which was part of their War of  Independence that didn't end till the signing of the Armistice Agreements in 1949.  Then we can say they had some peace for 7 years, but that ended in the Sinai War from 29 October until 5 November 1956.  Eleven years of peace passed by,   then the Six-Day War started on the 5 to 11 June 1967. Little peace was experienced as more firing continued with   a War of Attrition from 1968 until the cease-fire on 7-8 August 1970 continued the war. Israel deserved that peace and gave up much for it.  

The 67 war was in June.  The Arabs, fuming, went to Khartoum, Africa for a meeting, and came out with the 3 famous Nos', No peace, No recognition, No negotiations.   It's been 74 years of dealing with the Palestinians who want no peace or even a state of their own.  They're great bargainers in the shuk, but not at the peace table.  They want it all, its an all or nothing issue for them.  If they really wanted peace and their own state, they'd grab an offer, like Israel did, but no...When are the other governments  getting wise?  What's in it for them to keep up this charade? Especially Iran?  Whatever their motivation, they hide behind the Syrians whose country they now occupy,  and Palestinians are their excuse for gaining a foothold closer to Israel.  

Resource:

Book: Why the Jews?  The reason for Antisemitism, by Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin

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https://www.israel365news.com/269021/this-is-whos-teaching-our-kids-about-israel-opinion/

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