Danny Danon Speaks With Dr. Phil About Hamas

Nadene Goldfoot                                           

What happens when the world’s watching and judging… your every move? So far, 25 countries are judging Israel with their thumbs down.  

Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, sits down with Dr. Phil to break down Israel’s war objectives, the moral tightrope of civilian protection, and the global firestorm of criticism. From accusations of genocide to the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, Danon doesn’t hold back. He shares what it takes to lead under pressure, why media narratives matter, and how international aid can fuel the very terror it’s meant to stop.                              

                 This is the map presented to the Jews after Britain's Letter; plans for the Jewish Homeland.  This included Judea and Samaria, original homeland of Jews from Bible days of Moses leading the Israelites back to their homeland. Palestine, coined after 135 CE, was the name given by the angry Romans because Bar Kokhba held Jerusalem for 3 years for the Israelites.  It had been referring to Judah, changed in Latin to Judaea from 70 CE's Roman attack.  

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, speaks with Dr. Phil about the war within the war–the battle against misinformation about Israel that is spreading throughout the world.

Dr. Phil as a psychologist:

In the past few days, Israelis in the Gaza envelope have experienced the deadliest attack in the country’s history and the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the Holocaust.

Rescue teams led by Zaka — the Israeli non-profit dedicated to responding to mass casualty incidents — have uncovered evidence of brutal attacks on civilians.

The unconscionable attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas gunmen on October 7 was marked by murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping. Women, the elderly, and even little babies were targeted. On the bloodiest day in the country’s 75-year history, an estimated 1300 were killed, over 3300 wounded and approximately 150 Israelis were taken hostage. Karys Rhea, a fellow with the Jewish Leadership Project stated, “. . . This is the greatest loss of Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust.”

The Hamas invaders were not soldiers; they were assassins. This was not an act of war. It was a well-thought-out, well-financed massacre of Jewish civilians. The Hamas charter calls for the ultimate annihilation of all Israeli Jews, followed by the annihilation of Jews around the world. Sound familiar?

Sadly, some people, including some right here in America, actually celebrated the slaughter and blamed those being murdered, raped and kidnapped. The reason WHY would be very difficult to explain, certainly to the mother of a reportedly beheaded innocent baby. It would be especially difficult to explain why many of America’s most respected, elite universities are not only indulging, but actually endorsing sanctioned student organizations holding celebrations for the murder of her baby, friends and neighbors and those who massacred them.

Yet that is sadly what many of our top colleges and universities are doing concerning the attack on Israel. Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, UCLA and Stanford are high-profile examples who have reacted to the October 7 attack in a manner that should raise concern, if not outrage. For years, too many of these schools have allowed pure hate-based groups to exist on campus, creating real fear among fellow students, especially Jewish students due to anti-Semitic intimidation.

These student organizations’ reaction to the Hamas attack on Israeli Jews was so appalling that it put the institution’s policies and standards on full transparent display and revealed a disturbing degree of ivy-covered “intellectual rot.”  Americans nationwide have been appalled and shocked.

The leadership of these supposedly highly sophisticated schools are so busy “virtue signaling” and coddling students who think that words are violence, but violence—horrific, inhuman violence—is social justice, that they have forgotten it is their job to teach their students to think and to test reality. Instead of training tomorrow’s leaders, these “great” learning centers are instead profoundly demagnetizing our culture’s moral compass among the college population.

A population for whom there is largely no longer a “true north,” no clarity of right and wrong. 

Senator Cory Booker commented on Tuesday that there was a time we took pride in calling out bad behavior and bad actors, calling evil – evil and hatred-hatred. Martin Luther King, Jr. said we suffer not just from the vitriol and violence of our enemies but from “the appalling silence and inaction of the good people!” This is a critical moment in time, a critical opportunity to stand up, step up and speak up against evil and not be appallingly silent.

I am no expert in geopolitics. But I don’t need to be to immediately denounce the actions of Hamas as utterly sick, twisted, disgusting and inexcusable.

Staying fully in my lane of analyzing human behavior, I will amplify some things I know for sure:

I know for sure the atrocities and ensuing celebrations committed by Hamas are inexcusable and unjustifiable. Murdering, raping and torturing civilians, is just plain sick. I don’t care how much someone feels victimized, no matter how right or “anointed” they feel; the kind of brutality we witnessed is wrong on every level. These are not the acts of honorable soldiers, freedom fighters, or militants; these are the acts of out of control, misguided monsters.

From a psychological standpoint, I can’t help but wonder what these assassins say to themselves, alone, in the middle of the night after burning or beheading a terrified and defenseless little baby boy or girl, whichever evil act they may have perpetrated.

Have they bothered to think about how many of their own children they have destined to be sacrificed in the retaliation that is certain to follow. Retaliation they have brought down on the Gazans/Palestinians (62% of Gazans supported maintaining a cease-fire? 50% believe Hamas should stop calling for the destruction of Israel and accept a permanent two-state proposal.)

I know for sure that allowing the university-sanctioned student organizations to celebrate the sadistic acts of terror without consequence confirms these “enlightened/woke” universities are failing miserably in shaping, educating, maturing the minds of those students. Even if you hold the student solely accountable for choosing their positions, evidence suggests university faculty are not challenging the students’ thinking, instead hiding behind first Amendment arguments. Ironic since the Ivy league schools have abysmal records on free speech!

We can’t control a terror group like Hamas doing such a thing as this, but we can control how we respond. It is here in the United States that the universities are failing miserably. Instead of hiding behind a weak free speech argument, it is the educator’s job to teach critical thinking that will lead to a rational response. Critical thinking is an essential mindset for combating violence, intolerance and wrong-headed conclusions, a skill set in short supply in today’s world.

Resource:

https://5townscentral.com/2025/07/23/dr-phil-with-israels-un-ambassador-on-war-truth-global-pressure/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hJ1pSR4Zx0

On radio:  https://www.radio.net/podcast/phil-in-the-blanks

Being Connected By DNA to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer or his Brother Back In 1658

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                         

Rabbi Samson Wertheimer

One of the benefits of having my DNA tested by FTDNA was to find out I was a 3rd cousin to one of the heads of the group, Halpern & Branches, and then finding out that I was in a group connecting to Rabbi Samson Wertherimer (1658-1724) who was born in Worms, Germany.  He had gone to Vienna in 1684 to join the bank of his uncle Samuel Oppenheimer and soon became court banker.  He is also known now as a financier.

Some three hundred years ago, in the city of Vienna, capital of Austria, there lived a famous rabbi, Rabbi Samson Wertheimer. (Rabbi Samson Wertheimer was born in Worms in 1658 and died in Vienna at the age of 66. Through his great friend, Samuel Oppenheimer, the great financier, Rabbi Samson was presented to the royal court and, together, they were of great assistance to 

                                                    

                                        King Leopold the First. 

 Leopold I (French: Léopold;^[a] 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was a German prince who became the first King of the Belgians following the country's independence in 1830. He reigned between July 1831 and December 1865.  

Later, after the death of Oppenheimer, Rabbi Samson took over his post, which he kept also during the reign of King Joseph.)

This rabbi was renowned not only on account of his riches and high government position, but also on account of his wisdom and fine character.  He was King Leopold’s Finance-Minister, and was entrusted with all the financial secrets of the country. He also supplied much of the war material for the army in the great war with Spain at that time.  Because of this, he was accused of cheating and almost was either hung or burned alive in fire.  (Chabad story-reference below to finish reading). 

Why was this such a benefit?  Rabbi Samson had a tree showing a connection to RASHI, famous biblical scholar, and RASHI was a descendant of King David.  Back in the ancient days, all men on the Sanhedrin had to have trees to show such a connection.  

There are other known Wertheimers.  Joseph Von W.(1800-1887) was an Austrian educator and author which is what I am except I'm from the USA.  This man was first a businessman and established the 1st kindergarten in Vienna in 1830.  He founded a society for developing handicrafts among the Jews in 1840.  He supported the struggle for equal rights by writing  comprehensive accounts of Jews in Austria.  He was the author of popular plays, too.  
                                                

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was a psychologist and taught in Germany until 1933 since the movement against Jews had become so strong that he decided to move to New York where he taught at the New School for Social Research.  He was a founder of the Gestalt theory of psychology.  He's written many books, all on amazon.com.  Too bad he passed away before the time of DNA testing.  I wonder what he would think of students of today?  "  He's buried in New Rochelle, Westchester, New York.  His father was Moses Wertheimer and mother was Elizabeth Dreyfus.  He married Miriam K. Solomon on August 30, 1908.  


My brother, now a retired psychologist,  matched with 3 Wertheimers of which 2 were men I didn't match,  and I matched 4.  All were either 4th or 5th cousins. My 1st female cousin matched 10 Wertheimers of which 5 not my brother or my matches.  My male 1st cousin matched 2  of the ones my brother and I matched.  It looks like we females match more Wertheimers than our male counterparts.  My cousins are children of my father's sisters.   No Wertheimer we matched was of Q haplotype, but were Js, Es and R.  (2 of my matches matched each other on one chromosome with a little over 5cMs.  One was a 4th cousin and the other a 5th.) That was the only 3 people on the same chromosome and segment match I had-a triangulation with them.  
                                                     

Wertheim Castle

There was the surname of Wertheim. This is an example of a surname being taken from the town they were from.  Jews had to buy their surnames, usually from a certain list of surnames up for sale for Jews.  Like Goldfoot, there are Jewish Goldfoots and Gentile Goldfoots with a completely different Y haplotype.  Ours is Q, theirs is R, one of the more common surnames found in Europe.  

 Wertheim am Main is a municipality in Germany. Wertheim (East Franconian: Wärde) is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of around 23,400. It is located on the confluence of the rivers Tauberand Main. Wertheim is best known for its landmark castle and medieval town centre.

"Maurice Wertheim was born on February 16, 1886 to Jacob Wertheim and his wife, Hannah A. Morgenthau Wertheim. Jacob Wertheim was a founder of Wertheim & Schiffer (later Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffer), one of several domestic cigar-manufacturing companies which were combined in 1902 to form the United Cigar Manufacturers Company, of which he became president. Jacob was also at one time director of the General Motors Corporation, a director of the Underwood Typewriter Company, and a director of several large real-estate concerns. He was also a founder of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies."

I see the middle name of Morgenthau, which is a Jewish name.  "Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was one of the major twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics. Morgenthau's works belong to the tradition of realism in international relations theory, and he is usually considered, along with George F. Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the three leading American realists of the post-World War II period. Morgenthau made landmark contributions to international relations theory and the study of international law. His Politics Among Nations, first published in 1948, went through five editions during his lifetime.

Morgenthau was born in an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Germany in 1904, and, after attending the Casimirianum, was educated at the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich, and pursued postdoctoral work at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.  On the other hand, there may be Morgenthaus of a Y haplogroup not common to Jews who proves to be a Gentile.  We have to remember that there are Catholic families who had been from Jewish families in the past, and now their descendants have no idea of their Jewish heritage.  That's why testing for the Y haplogroup is so important in such cases if facts are desired.  

Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheim_%26_Co.
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112291/jewish/Rabbi-Samsons-Great-Escape.htm