Showing posts with label danger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label danger. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Safety of Israel Is Thermometer of World's Bent For War

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                           
This was Israel 2007-population density
The south is a desert-the Negev.
The north is Lebanon and Syria
The east is Judea/Samaria and Jordan
The west is the tiny liveable strip -Israel
and the Mediterranean Sea
It's the last day of January 2019 and we live in a futuristic world making so much so easy.  How is that affecting the mental state of the people who live in this world?  Is it all love and kindness? 

Spoken about as the center of the world for centuries, the hub of trade routes, is the renewed state of Israel.  She is still having problems being accepted by others as "not one of them."  You'd think she came from outer space!  Her neighbors are not friendly.  They state they are enemies, and indeed, they are!
                                                                         
Syrian rockets 
To Israel's east, Iran is a huge state, long ago the empire of Persia who has not let go it's empire-building dreams.  They have shoveled  billions of dollars to the terrorist group of HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH who are in Lebanon and Syria .  In early January, Iranian forces fired 20 or more rockets at Israel from Syria which was an attack on Israel.  Syria has had rockets aimed at Israel for years, not firing them until now.  
                                                                       
Iran has already spent much time threatening Israel, calling her every dirty name they could think of.  Ahmadinejad, now retired from his up front position as president,  made the threats. He was sort of their leader, the loud mouth one.  In reality, it's the Ayatollas who pull the strings in this country.  
                                                         
David's Sling
  
Israel's Defense System

 To the north, Israel had to "deploy its U.S. made Patriot anti-missile system this year to intercept 2 Syrian drones and a Syrian fighter jet that crossed into Israel airspace."  Then Israel used its  DAVID'S SLING missile defense system 
to confront 2 ballistic missiles from Syria.  This was the first time Israel had to use DAVID'S SLING in combat.  It can shoot down medium range missiles.  
                                                     
Rockets from Gaza aiming for Israel
        
Rockets from Gaza

In Israel's south, Gaza is full of terrorists that are mostly Hamas followers since they voted in their own political party.  They have not only flown kites with fire, causing forests and fields of wheat to burn up, but never did stop firing rockets and mortars into Israel towns where civilians live.  Israel was hit with 2 different attacks this past summer of 2018 lasting 48 hours each with 200 rockets each time.  Israel's IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM shot down over 50 rockets before they struck  populated neighborhoods.   
                                                      

At the UNITED NATIONS (UN) the UN Human Rights Council is promoting the BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL and 22 law-abiding American companies because they do business with Israel.  This is their form of missiles and rockets, ammunition to destroy Israel.  It is the UN, who on May 14, 1948 voted to accept Israel as a state among world nations.  They now side with the ANTI-SEMITES.    This pretty much divides the world into 2 camps; the USA and Israel, and the rest.  It is who IRAN calls the big Satan and the little Satan, the USA and Israel.  And not too long ago it was Iran who was the USA's friend, until the Ayatollahs came along.  The UN has turned out to be a travesty for Israel, turning against her without any defense because new accepted states view her as something to get rid of.  Politics rule with mankind over and over instead of justice.  Mankind continues to be weak, as weak as they were in Sodom and Gomorrah's day.  

At any moment, attacks can strike by land, sea, air or even below ground against Israel.  How, you ask, do the people manage life? They must.  There is no other choice.  They do.  They enjoy every day and plan for their future.  With such a small state, women also are part of the IDF, unlike other countries.  People should realize that after the WWII Holocaust, Jews are not about to be slaughtered again.  They are about LIFE and LIFE for everyone.  

 In Oregon, some people are walking around fearful of the big earthquake science has predicted to happen within anytime.  They live with this knowledge and pass it onto their parents.  New York knows that terrorists can hit in many ways and have already in their fateful 9/11.  Now our Congress in the USA is being invaded by Israel-haters as well as the UN has been.   
                                                     
The original David and his sling when he took down Goliath, the Giant.

I'm waiting for Israel to invent the sling that will catch and return in kind.  Throw it back to them.  But then, we do live under the command of DON'T DO TO OTHERS WHAT YOU DON'T WANT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU. What Israel brings to the world, besides the Torah and the world's whole OLD Testament, is ways of continuing to live in the fields of medicine and other scientific findings.  For this, the neighbors have been taught to hate them?  To rub them out?   Strange people in this world.  Strangest in the UN today.  

Resource:  American Israel Public Affairs Committee update
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad



Tuesday, September 25, 2018

America Caring About Israel

Nadene Goldfoot                                                 
Army vs Navy football game in Baltimore, Maryland 2014
Americans enjoy freedom and love their football games.
This is competition and fighting that has taken the place of chess games,
outwitting the enemy players.  At the end they should shake hands.  
Americans haven't had to worry about war on their soil since 1776 at their birth of their nation, a war with the British.  They've been able to grow from 13 colonies to 50 states during this time; all free of meddling from the outside world.  Our government makes their own decisions, and the government is a product of our voting.  Except for the Civil War, a war between the North and South that was most deadly, their soil has been peaceful-for all that is except for the native Americans first living here, that is.  
                                                                           
Not Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East.  I'm proud to say I'm also an Israeli and am most confident of today's government in making the most wisest of decisions.  Established once again after 3,000 years, through the League of Nations, a product of World War I, and then again by the United Nations, a product of World War II, Israel was established as a nation on May 14, 1948 under fire from the Palestinians who had entered the land after many Jews had returned to find refuge from an intolerant world who could not abide having Jews among themselves.  War has been in their families since then, with their first War of Independence 1947-1949; The Sinai War 1956; The Six-Day War 1967, The War of Attrition 1968-1970; The Yom Kippur War of 1972; The Lebanon War of 1982 and so on with many Operations, fighting and entering Gaza to stop attacks  that keep on coming without end against Israel.  
                                                                         
Today, the most important factor in an Israeli's life is having defensible borders.  These 6 million Jews and 1.7 million Arabs who are Israelis  want to be able to sleep through the night without being attacked.  
                                                     
Honey, just ignore the radical Hamas's loaded rocket.  He's perfectly harmless.  Have a great first day of school!  Yeah, sure...
This is why schools near Gaza all have bomb shelters.  Usually people
are given about from 15 to 30 seconds to get there safely.  This
lady lives in Sderot, Israel, situated less than a mile from the border:   In 2017 it had a population of 25,138. Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza (the closest point is 840 m), and is notable for having been a major target of Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.

 Between 2001 and 2008, rocket attacks on Sderot killed 13 people, wounded dozens, caused millions of dollars in damage and profoundly disrupted daily life. Although rocket fire subsided after the Gaza War, the city has come under rocket attack on occasion since that time. Notable for its many bomb shelters, some of which are built in the form of children's play areas in school playgrounds, Sderot is infamously referred to as the "Bomb Shelter Capital of the World."                                          

See Israel on the map as a little pink-orange spot?  To Israel's EAST, Palestinian Authority leaders-the old PLO group of Arafat, continue to refuse Israel's open invitation to unconditional peace talks even as unrest simmers in the area caused by Gaza's leadership of Hamas terrorists.  This is because of the Khartoum Conference Arabs held after Israel won against the 1967 Six Day War.  It's when they met to decide on their next step which turned out to be their 3 NOs.  So it's NO to peace with Israel and they haven't changed their minds. 
                                                       

 The PA is living in Israel's original land, the land West of the Jordan River.  On the other side is Jordan, land that had also been allocated as being Israel by the British who held the mandate from the  League of Nations and UN for a 30 year period, up on May 14, 1948.
                                                 
Hezbollah Terrorists
         
Syrian missiles-ready for years-now may be used any day
  

To Israel's NORTH, just miles across the border in Syria, Hezbollah terrorists have built an arsenal of more than 150,000 rockets callously hidden behind human shields.  Almost all Jews have been rescued and taken out of Syria, but I know of one who remains.  His mother had been one living on Jew Street, a confined ghetto where Jews could not leave.  Her father was a Jeweler.  Judith Feld Carr rescued all, she thought, from prisons where they were confined and from homes without any amenities such as phones.  The USA is in the fight here today, where Russia is also fighting and different Syrian rebel groups and the Syrian army as well. Even the Iranians are here.   Assad is once again using gas to kill off his citizen enemy of rebels, so Damascus is about the only livable area in Syria today.  All the rest have been suffering from war.  
                                                    
Rouhani, today's president of Iran
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had no plans to meet with his Iranian counterpart despite “requests” to do so, although he indicated a willingness to meet with President Hassan Rouhani sometime in the future.
It's really the Ayatollas who rule over Iran, anyway.  
Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad and his constant slams
 and threats against Israel replaced with Rouhani. 

And for the first time, Israel now must also confront the threat of direct Iranian  military action right from Syria besides the threat of bombs from Iran itself.  
                                                        
This is the threat of missiles from Iran itself which will be carrying
atomic bombs if they can get away with it.
Now established in Syria, the distance is a step away.

Iranian forces in Syria recently fired some 20 rockets at Israel in a brazen attack on the Jewish State, probably bought with the money released to them from $25 billion to $50 billion by the USA during Obama's term.  Iran has reportedly established at least 5 known Iranian military bases across Syria, some just miles from Israel's closest citizens.  
                                                                             
To the SOUTH, Hamas terrorists who rule Gaza, have ramped up calls for the Jewish state's destruction, their original goal,  and are executing a dangerous new tactic to create chaos and attack Israel by orchestrating massive riots at the Gaza-Israel border.  Hamas has put thousands of Palestinians in harm's way, using them as cover for terrorists to swarm the border in an attempt to infiltrate Israeli towns.  They have, while on their side of the border fence, sailed over kites with fire that land in Israeli fields of crops, forests, etc, causing much damage this year.   
                                                     
Americans who haven't been servicemen cannot imagine what it's like to be parents and have children in the service of Israel, but we do have Americans living in Israel.  I lived there from September 1980 to November 26, 1985, through the Lebanon War when I baked cakes for soldiers heading for their posts on foot who could stop at kiosks set up in the streets with coffee and cakes.  That's where I learned how important AIPAC is, Americans who back Israel and explain things to the Senators who have to make decisions about this tiny country and what they can or cannot do about it.  I know it was hard for my mother and grown children, who had remained in the US,  to imagine the fear of knowing that terror could strike at any time; by land, sea, air or even below ground.  I barely recognized that fear myself, too busy coping with the problems I faced being a teacher and protecting jr high students.  
                                                      
Trump's daughter Ivanka and son in law Jared Kushner, grandchildren
I think he'll find working with Palestinians harder than
making real-estate deals in the USA.  

While Americans may not be able to comprehend dealing with the threats Israel still faces today, you are not powerless to help.  You can help Israel to keep its citizens safe by advocating for a strong US-Israel relationship like we have today for the 1st time in 8 years.  Obama was not the best of all our American presidents, and we have had several negative ones in the past.  What I find unforgivable is Obama not defending Israel on his last day in office by not backing them in a UN vote.  He and Netanyahu had their problems throughout his term in understanding the need for defensive borders once attained through the blood and guts of being attacked in one of their many wars.  For every one of the wars Israel has had to fight have been defensive ones.  That's why I find it so easy to defend my 2nd country being I have dual citizenship now; something the USA allows.  England doesn't.  
                                                         
Trump and Netanyahu, good friends
Donald Trump’s victory seems to be a dream come true for the Israeli prime minister. The president-elect has repeatedly vowed to unconditionally back the Jewish state in any possible way: he promised not to try to force a solution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; slammed the Iranian nuclear deal; pledged to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and removed the two-state solution from the Republican party platform.
 Removing the 2-state solution is a relief to me, as it has been a failed goal for all for the past 70 years.  Isn't insanity when you keep trying for the same goal in the same way and it remains unobtainable?  For instance, quit trying to become a doctor unless you graduate from a medical school first.  They won't let you in.  The goal also in the case between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs must promise safety for both, and both must have the need for peace.  Are you understanding the problems involved?  I hope so.  

                                                        

Trump, one of our first presidents whose background is in business and not in politics, has empathy for Israel and is standing by her, even at his dismay of finding that the majority of Jews are Democrats and not standing with him in his decisions about Israel.  He's not winning voters with his stand, though he's got mine.  His decision is from his own feelings, like Truman had felt.  I bless Truman for voting FOR Israel's creation without hesitation though his office was against the idea.  As an Israeli, myself, I am overjoyed at Trump moving the USA embassy to Jerusalem!  I understand what this means.   I am overjoyed at his, or should I say his son in law, Jared Kushner's decision not to reward the PA with the usual financial check of $221 million since they refuse to discuss peace with Jared.  Trump is not a politician but thinks outside their box of tools, as he has his own.  So far, he's doing an excellent job in my opinion.  It's time we came to such a place in our history.  He has his own compass of right and wrong shaped by his own experiences, as we all do.  We're all first individuals, not sheep, though many certainly act like it. 

Update:  9/26/18 Trump backs 2-state solution.  https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Trump-backs-two-state-solution-I-think-thats-what-works-best-568062?jnid=ayAzWQeLKm&utm_source=Jeeng 
Netanyahu's statement of "

"We living in the Middle East who are subject to this Iranian behavior" support Trump's Iran policies, Netanyahu said. Trump pulled out of a nuclear deal with Iran in May that was supported by the rest of the UN Security Council and the European Union." explains the difference of how Israel sees Iran compared to how John Kerry saw the problem when he made this fatal deal. 
Reference:  AIPAC www.aipac.org information letter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sderot
https://www.amny.com/news/elections/donald-trump-s-family-tree-melania-ivanka-tiffany-eric-and-more-relatives-1.12039888
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-has-no-plans-to-meet-lovely-iranian-president-rouhani/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/27/donald-trump/donald-trump-iran-150-billion-and-18-billion-c/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-israel-will-pay-a-price-for-jerusalem-decision-1.6408354
Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=oa1_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=S%27derot+population&source=bl&ots=E750m4yLdX&sig=fXg_QpLNQmj6bmhsF2lx5aZhivQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY0P604NbdAhVD9YMKHTpzAJ8Q6AEwB3oECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=S'derot%20population&f=false by Victor Sharpe-Politicide, new PDF version
Book:  Letters From Israel by Nadene Goldfoot

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

If Not Now, When? PEACE IN JERUSALEM

Nadene Goldfoot                                            

Palestinian rock throwers in Jerusalem in a year long acts of violence
against Israelis
Israel has wanted peace since before it's new birth of May 14, 1948, and Netanyahu is still opting for a 2 STATE SOLUTION, but the obvious is that the Palestinians would rather create havoc than settle for peace.

2017 is around the corner and so is a new staff in the White House.  This is what Israel is now facing:
a real border security problem surrounding this tiny state like the USA has never had to face.
                                                                             
Night at the Wailing Wall (Western Wall) in Jerusalem
where Jews have prayed since 1967,
being unable to pray on the Temple Mount, area of the 1st and 2nd Temple of Solomon,

kept out of east Jerusalem since Jordan annexed land from Jewish National Home in 1950,
and lost it by attacking Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. 
Israel's East Border:                                             

 Palestine Authority PA (Fatah)  leaders incite violence against Israel.  2016 brought Palestinian attacks on 35 Israeli civilians and injured hundreds more.  Yassir Arafat, Algiers Voice of Palestine on May 13, 1991:  "We will continue our revolution and our resistance and our uprising until the banner of our revolution flies over holy Jerusalem and the walls of Jerusalem and the minarets of Jerusalem and the churches of Jerusalem."    
Temple Mount, Jerusalem where Moshe Dayan in 1967
gave permission to control Muslim Mosque area to Jordan
and then Jordan forbid Jews to pray on site of Solomon's Temple. 


Abbas, PA President, said things like, "We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem."  
He vowed to continue unilateral actions at the UN and International Criminal Court instead of having direct bilateral negotiations with Israel.  This is who will be speaking with Netanyahu about a state bordering Israel.
                                                                             
Ayatollah Ali Khameini


Further East in Iran, their radical leaders teach extremism.  The nuclear agreement was signed last year in the summer of 2015, and since then they have test-fired long -range missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.
They have illegally detained USA sailors.
They have stepped up their support for terrorism in other surrounding states.
Tehran will destabilize the Middle East with more than $150 billion in sanctions relief.
Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's statement to armed forces staff  on July 31, 1991: "Israel is a malignanat tumor in the region.  It must be cut off.  It must be eradicated!"  
Update:12/14/16  Rouhani Issues Orders in Retaliation for U.S. Extension of Iran Sanctions Act
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has issued orders to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi to pursue an appropriate response in the wake of the U.S. violation of the Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA) by extending the Iran Sanctions Act. On December 1, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to renew the Iran Sanctions Act for another decade. Iran had vowed that its passage would be an absolute violation of the deal and it would take retaliatory measures based on the JCPOA. (Mehr-Iran)                                                                           
Israel's North Border:                                     
                                                                                       
Iran-backed terror gang, Hezbollah has a huge military operation throughout Lebanon including more than 150,000 rockets and missiles.  This is the group that has killed more Americans than any other terrorist group other than al-Qaida.  They have embedded most of their arsenal in civilian towns in Lebanon, and buffer them with human shields.  Hezbollah's Voice of Mountain in Arabic to Lebanon on August 26, 1991:  "We believe that peace with Israel is a sin."
                                                                         

Israel's Western Border:
The Mediterranean Sea.                                             Fleets of ships have come in with boat possibly loaded with weapons for Gaza.  They must be checked.                                                                              
Israel's aircraft carrier










Israel's South Border:                                                  

Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip keep re-arming their weapon arsenal and rebuild terror tunnels.  Hamas digs 6 miles of tunnels every month towards Israel.  They divert cement and lumber that enters their territory for civilian reconstruction to fortify their tunnels.  Hamas, Sawt al-Sha'b on January 23, 1991:  "We were delighted to see the Arab weapons pounding the strongholds of the Zionist entity in the heart of Tel Aviv!"  

These same unfriendly Palestinians and other enemies of Israel  have been unchanging over the past 25 years in their goal to attack and drive Israel away.  Their attitudes haven't changed for the past 69 years since 1948.                 
Pres. Elect Donald Trump
                                             Trump and his newly named Secretary of State, vow to recognize Israel's capital as Jerusalem, something Obama was unwilling to do.   
The American 115th Congress will be discussing increased USA-Israel cooperation for 2017 which is badly needed.  Israel's borders continue to be threatened with the situation being very dangeroous with ISIS in the area and Iran is using their new good fortune of receiving money since sanctions have been lifted  for arming Israel's enemy neighbors like Syria and Lebanon.  We need to keep the friendship between Israel and the USA.  They help each other deal with mutual enemy forces.  
Rex Tillerson, Sec. of State if Accepted
Exxon CEO, dealt with Putin


Resource: http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/jordanianocuupationjerusalem.asp
AIPAC: American Israel Public Affairs Committee: www.aipac.org 
Myths and Facts-a concise record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by PhDs Mitchell G. Bard, Joel Himelfarb