Those Israelis Murdered in Less than Two Months on Rampage

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

As many as 19 Israelis and foreign workers have been murdered in Israel in less than 2 months with 3 of them just yesterday during Israel's Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration of Israel Independence Day.  Israel is 74 years old and this is  how we remember each year, it seems like, attacks continuing from those who oppose our existence. This attack was done by  one  who fired a rifle while the other attacked people with an axe or a knife, police said.                                              

Israeli police and medics at the scene of the attack in Elad on Thursday. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty

The latest was the use of knives in the attack on 3 people in the city of Elad.                                        

 El'ad, also spelled Elad, is a city in the Central District of Israel. It was built in the 1990s for a Haredi and to a lesser extent Religious Zionist Jewish population. Located about 25 kilometres (15.5343 miles) east of Tel Aviv on Route 444 between Rosh HaAyin and Shoham, it had a population of 48,763 in 2019.  It's just a little less than Aloha in Oregon with 54,347 population.  

The distance between Tel Aviv and the border of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is 48 kilometers or 29.8258 miles.  It's like driving from Portland, Oregon to Multnomah Falls or the town of McMinnville.  We can drive 21 miles in 31 minutes from Portland.  30 miles away would take  about 40 minutes.  I'd say that Judea and Samaria are very close to Tel Aviv and Elad is within Israel's border  but even closer !  They needed a heck of a lot more protection from these blood-thirsty attacks.                                               

"Three people have been killed and at least four more injured in the central Israeli town of Elad, in the latest in a spate of street attacks that have sent tensions soaring in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent weeks.

Suspects in the Elad ax terrorist attack, 20-year-old Tzabahi Abu Shakir (Left) and 19 year-old Assad al-Rafai (Right).

(photo credit: ISRAEL POLICE)

Israeli forces have launched a hunt for two Palestinian suspects, backed by a large deployment of security personnel, helicopters, drones and roadblocks. Police said the suspects were 19 and 20 years old and came from the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Jenin is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank(Samaria). It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007 the city had a population of approximately 40,000 people, whilst the Jenin refugee camp had a population of 10,000.  

Medics described a horrific scene in Elad, an ultra-Orthodox town near Tel Aviv. Israeli media identified those killed as Yonatan Havakuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftah, three fathers in their 30s and 40s who together are survived by 16 children. Funerals will be held on Friday.  

     Israeli Security and rescue personnel work at the scene following an incident in Elad, in  central Israel, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Prior to Elad, Palestinians and members of Israel's Arab minority had killed 15 people, including three police officers and a security guard, in attacks in Israel and the West Bank that have mostly targeted civilians.

Israel has responded with arrest raids in Palestinian towns and villages which have often sparked clashes and brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year to at least 40.

These are ultra orthodox Jews of New York-people not looking for a fight...

Ultra orthodox Jews are not into killing, attacking others, etc.  They spend a lot of time studying the Torah (Old Testament) and praying.  To attack one of them is to attack the mildest of Jews, in my opinion, the people more likely to invite you to dinner, not to harm you.  People who attack them are nothing but bullies, killers for sure.  

Police said the incident appeared to be a terror attack.  Do you think???

When I lived in Israel from 1980 to the end of 1985, the streets were always full of soldiers on their days off, milling around, shopping, etc like the rest of us, I figured, but always carrying their rifle.  They were ready for whatever might attack us.  What has happened to this?  Isn't it still happening?  It never bothered me to see armed soldiers, but was a big comfort.  

Mahmoud Abbas of the PA said he disapproved of the attack.  However, the PA does all kinds of things to instigate such attacks, even paying murderers when they are imprisoned for these very acts!  It's sickening how readers outside the community can be hi-jinked into thinking that they are caring people.  

 

Resource:

Israel AM

Wikipedia

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/middleeast/israel-terror-attack-elad-intl/index.html

https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Tel-Aviv/West-Bank-Palestine#:~:text=The%20distance%20between%20Tel%20Aviv%20and%20West%20Bank%20is%2048%20km.

Facts About Israel Not Understood

Nadene Goldfoot

The Palestine The League of Nations spoke of when they voted
for a Jewish National Homeland and gave England the mandate to fulfill this decision. 

                                             

Israel is 1/800 the size of the Arab world.

Israel is 9 miles wide at its narrowest point and 290
miles long.

Israel's territory is about 8,019 square miles.
                                

Israel is smaller than New Jersey, which is 8,729 square miles. New Jersey here is shown with more sq.mi, and Israel is shown with more.  Let's say they are almost the same size.    
                                                     

NJ is New Jersey on the east coast.  It's so small in comparison to the other
49 states.  

              
Israel can fit into the state of California 19 times.
                                                                       

The Jewish history goes back to Abraham, who both Jews and Arabs consider as the father of Judaism.  Jews have kept a continuous presence for over 3,000 years in the land of Israel 
according to archeological and historical evidence and Biblical text.  Consider the mosaic floor depicting King David playing his lyre, found in the ancient synagogue of Gaza.  This is now seen in the Israel Museum.  This is evidence of the truth in the Torah.  
                                                                     

Note that King David's name is in top right corner in Hebrew.  
David is clean shaven so must be young, with mustache. 
On his head is a crown.  Note his lyre is played with a tool,
not the fingers like a harp.  

"It is manifestly right that the scattered Jews should have a national center and national home and be reunited, and where else but in Palestine, with which for 3,000 year they have been intimately and profoundly associated?"  So sayeth Winston Churchill in 1920.

 Yet England turned around when oil was discovered there and helped Arabs enter Palestine but not the Jews who they had sworn to help to create a JEWISH HOMELAND.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had more to offer than the Jews.
He got land  called Trans-Jordan.

Resource:

StandWithUs:  www.standwithus.com 

Looking Back At My Aliyah To Israel and Now

The culture of Lebanon  reflects their warlike behavior.
This is a sculpture in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon of missiles aimed at Israel.
Syria has the real missiles aimed at Israel.  I remember
Major Hadad of the Christian Lebanon Militia  who helped guard Israel's border from terrorists.
Look at what has happened to it today.  Hezbollah terrorists have taken over Lebanon. Palestinian Gazans are acting out dangerously in every manner.  

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Syrian scud missiles aimed at Israel 

Syria had missiles lined up facing Israel since the 80's, probably bought from
Russia.
Israel and Russia have had several chats about this of  late.  

                                                                         

The Golan Heights are so close to Safed, where I had lived.
Missiles from Syria are only 3 miles away from Golan Heights.
It's only 31.3 miles from Safed to Golan Heights. 
North Korea's ICBM missile range is anywhere from 4,000 to 8,100 miles.

It was 38 years ago in 1980 that I made aliyah to Israel.  That same year, my friend, Jack, was born in Damascus, Syria.  The distance between us was only 222.7 miles via highway M5.  Coming from Portland, Oregon, that's like comparing Portland's  driving distance  to  Mt. Vernon, Washington, which is 234.51 miles or 203.78 in nautical miles.

I tried very hard to get him into Israel when he became a refugee from the Syrian Civil War in 2012 which caused him to seek sanctuary in Egypt. That's when I met him on facebook, of all places.

 His desire to live in Israel was  because he was led to believe that his birth mother was a Jewish woman who was a friend of his Muslim father.  She had lived in the segregated Jewish Quarter on "Jew Street.'  Since he had been little, he had insisted on attending
his local Christian school, which he did until time to transfer to high school. He wanted to live a Jewish life, and not the life Damascus had to offer.

  When that seemed impossible to get him into Israel, I tried very hard to get him into the USA as a refugee, which he was.  This turned out to be impossible.  It was at a time that Obama was in office.  I did everything I could think of, contacting immigration lawyers, going to the local immigration center, speaking with those that decided who was eligible, contacting my local senator, and contacting the Jewish community.  Nothing helped.  He was a single young man.

The map above shows the distance from Portland, Oregon to Mt. Vernon, Washington which is 234.51 miles. 
Right now Turkey, Iran and Russia are situated in Syria  taking it over.
Their plan of course is to be able to attack Israel next.  It was bad enough with just
Assad in power with thousands of missiles pointed towards Israel.  Russia has been there for many years because Jack learned a little Russian from them being there.

Syrian refugees living in Egypt have been exiled and had  to seek other places to live.  Egypt's 

population was overly crowded for their own resources anyway.  There was no future

for refugees in Egypt.  Even Jack  as an educated man had problems.  Syrians going to Egypt had no problems with the language as the United States is confronted with.  They all spoke Arabic, just had different accents.  

                                                                           

Listening to Madeline Albright on CNN this morning, I hear even her not understanding

how taking in refugees at this time in history is quite different from taking in refugees at 

other periods, which, by the way, was always almost impossible for Jews because of the 

inhumane anti-Semitism that has existed since Roman days.  I don't remember anyone ever raising the riot-act because Jews were being mistreated when they couldn't enter any country when refugees from the Holocaust.  She herself lost many of her family members in the Holocaust and can't see the differences between them and today's refugees who could have been the axis  powers, terrorists themselves instead of those whose lives were being taken.  There wasn't that problem in the 2nd World War.  

                                                                     

        

This time, most single male refugees in particular could be members of terrorist groups or 

drug pushers;anoather of our problems where  people have entered who would bring harm to Americans.  Never before in history have 

refugees needed to be screened for their honesty in just wanting to have a chance to live.  

There's no way that my friend Jack can prove his honesty since all his records have been 

destroyed in the destruction happening in Syria.  He needs his college transcripts, diploma,

job qualifications, birth certificate, things we all would need.  How can he prove his innocence

in not being involved with terrorism?  How can the USA vet such people from this country?  I only hope that one day he'll get the chance to try.  

We've had bad experiences with refugees of late, and they come from either Mexico or have 

been extremist Muslims.  We're wary of more than one type of refugee.  What we've had a lot of are English speakers.  It seems that everyone voicing an opinion on TV has an accent showing they weren't born in this country.  Immigration has not come to a standstill.   

                                                                           

It was in 70 CE that the Romans, who had taken Jerusalem, burned down the Temple and the city

and took many Jews prisoner, marching them to Rome as slaves along with all the Temple booty. 

Jews were no longer allowed in Judah, which had been the southern end of Israel,  but many managed to hide out there, anyway.  This happened 1948 years ago.  It was in  May 1948 CE that Israel was reborn again, amazingly.

 Celebrating this remarkable date is what's causing the Palestinian rioters in Gaza to demonstrate with their madness.  They don't just demonstrate like teachers in the states wanting raises, they are violent!      The picture below tells of their reason to demonstrate. They still, after 70 years, have not accepted the fact that Israel exists and is there to stay.  Of course they're being fed a different history from the true facts, like the fact that there was never a country of Palestine; or that it's only the name of land named by the Romans and held by the Ottoman Empire who lost it, or that it was the land that Israel and Judah sat on for 3,000 years since Joshua.                     

                                                                     

The Jews with Moses numbered 650,000 at his last census on the Exodus from Egypt to Canaan.

The Jewish population  in May 1948 CE at the time of Israel's creation was 600,000.  For 2,000 years, Jews have had to wait to regain their homeland. For 2,000 years, they have been the scapegoats of every country they've lived in; some more, others less.  Whatever the foreign religion has been or whatever style political power it has been, they've all used the Jews as scapegoats to their problems.

All the while, through all their disasters, they've maintained their own religious beliefs of Judaism.

                                                                   

       

That was the joy I found in living in Israel.  Here is a picture of the Safed's Old City Inn.  Safed is one of the oldest cities in Israel, on top of a mountain at about the same height as Jerusalem.   It was unique to have my neighbors practicing the same religion as our family, or the stores really prepared for Passover.  Restaurants were kosher.  For an American from the West, it was unbelievable.  This city is so picturesque, and even has an artist's quarter with tons of galleries.  

I lived in a government  building where Jews and Muslims lived.  Once I had a horrible problem of a broken pipe in the building causing a river of water to enter my basement apartment and immediately an Israeli woman who spoke only Hebrew and Arabic and an Arab woman came to my aid.  All three of us were fighting the onslaught of water.  They could speak to each other but I couldn't say much at all.  What an experience that was!  We all faced the danger of being surrounded by crazed enemies  and wild situations together. 

                                                                           

In 2012, I met my Syrian friend, Jack on Facebook,  and from that and skyping and chatting a lot and taking notes, I became very interested in the plight he had found himself in.  My book that I finally wrote is full of Syrian facts from those days  that I had dug out from newspapers, books and articles including what they were doing with chemicals found that were used to kill people. It may be amateurishly written, but is loaded with some very interesting details through the eyes of his family reacting to what I had discovered.  

I had left Israel after watching  Israeli TV for 5 years where I saw TV streaming in from Syria and Lebanon.  I saw Syrian soldiers doing a horrible thing where they were biting animals!  I guess they were trying to scare anyone watching as to how ferocious they were, and indeed, they were behaving in such a primitive manner that I about  threw up.   From that experience to meeting Jack, who couldn't kill a fly, who was exemplary of the most humane person I've met, was quite a stretch.  I guess every country contains all kinds, but it's really hard to find people we do admire, like who I had met.  

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References: https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-backed-forces-could-be-3-miles-from-israel-under-syria-deal-report/

https://www.wired.com/story/north-koreas-missile-test-puts-entire-us-in-range/

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Messages From A Syrian Jew Trapped In Egypt by Nadene Goldfoot