Nadene Goldfoot
Portland, Oregon has been fighting against the BDS movement against Israel. This stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.
The truth of the matter is that Israel is not oppressing the Palestinians. In fact, they have done the very opposite, only to be viciously attacked by them since 1948 when Israel announced their statehood, as complying with the League of Nations in 1920 as well as the United Nations in 1947.
This group of Arabs, whose grandparents used to call themselves Syrian Arabs, have been used as pawns by the leaders of other newly-formed and old Middle East Nations surrounding Israel. They've been led by the terrorist, Arafat of Egypt, and now Abbas who has taken over since his death. If anyone is oppressed it is these Arabs by Abbas, not by Israel, for he governs them, and does it very poorly.
Major wars broke out 5 minutes after Israel announced their independence from the mandate of Great Britain, whose 30 years of time was up. Without even uniforms or an army, Israelis defended themselves as it was life and death for them with the Arabs chanting to drive them into the sea. Following wars occurred in 1956 and then the big one in 1973.
Countries who couldn't whip Israel and drive her into the sea have come up with this act to cripple Israel financially, which would even hurt her ability to pay her debts back to the USA besides harming herself.
Israel has been a country that has been most creative in developing businesses in order to support themselves. Their biggest expense has been on defensive weapons bought from the USA. Their own people, men and women, serve in the army called the IDF (Israel Defense Force). The USA has not had to fight for them. Now half of our states, by ignoring a request to join the movement AGAINST this crippling force field are in truth denying them the right to support themselves and not be a burden on anyone, The money for defense, on the other hand, must all be spent in the USA in order to support their economy.
Anyone who has studied Israel's past and present history knows that this tiny country of only 6 million Jews and 1.7 million Arabs have not oppressed the Palestinian Arabs, but themselves have suffered and lost lives because of their histrionics used in the attempt to destroy Israel.
Oregon's governor is the 27th to sign on and be against BDS. She's also running again on her Democratic ticket.
This means that 28 states have signed on to be against BDS as of this writing. The District of Columbia where Washington DC sit has signed and is against BDS. There are 22 more that could sign and join them against this most unfair act. They are:
Alabama
Alaska
California
Colorado
Delaware
Hawaii
Idaho
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wyoming
10 Republicans and 12 Democrats have not signed as yet. Let's hope it's just an oversight. I'll be watching and praying that this letter gets into the mail, quickly.
Resource: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/157df3b13202f5ca
The truth of the matter is that Israel is not oppressing the Palestinians. In fact, they have done the very opposite, only to be viciously attacked by them since 1948 when Israel announced their statehood, as complying with the League of Nations in 1920 as well as the United Nations in 1947.
This group of Arabs, whose grandparents used to call themselves Syrian Arabs, have been used as pawns by the leaders of other newly-formed and old Middle East Nations surrounding Israel. They've been led by the terrorist, Arafat of Egypt, and now Abbas who has taken over since his death. If anyone is oppressed it is these Arabs by Abbas, not by Israel, for he governs them, and does it very poorly.
Major wars broke out 5 minutes after Israel announced their independence from the mandate of Great Britain, whose 30 years of time was up. Without even uniforms or an army, Israelis defended themselves as it was life and death for them with the Arabs chanting to drive them into the sea. Following wars occurred in 1956 and then the big one in 1973.
Countries who couldn't whip Israel and drive her into the sea have come up with this act to cripple Israel financially, which would even hurt her ability to pay her debts back to the USA besides harming herself.
Israel has been a country that has been most creative in developing businesses in order to support themselves. Their biggest expense has been on defensive weapons bought from the USA. Their own people, men and women, serve in the army called the IDF (Israel Defense Force). The USA has not had to fight for them. Now half of our states, by ignoring a request to join the movement AGAINST this crippling force field are in truth denying them the right to support themselves and not be a burden on anyone, The money for defense, on the other hand, must all be spent in the USA in order to support their economy.
Anyone who has studied Israel's past and present history knows that this tiny country of only 6 million Jews and 1.7 million Arabs have not oppressed the Palestinian Arabs, but themselves have suffered and lost lives because of their histrionics used in the attempt to destroy Israel.
Oregon's governor is the 27th to sign on and be against BDS. She's also running again on her Democratic ticket.
This means that 28 states have signed on to be against BDS as of this writing. The District of Columbia where Washington DC sit has signed and is against BDS. There are 22 more that could sign and join them against this most unfair act. They are:
Alabama
| Robert Bentley | Republican | January 17 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
| Bill Walker | Independent | December 1 2014 | 2018 |
| Jerry Brown | Democratic | January 3 2011 | 2019 (term limits |
| John Hickenlooper | Democratic | January 11 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
| Jack Markell | Democratic | January 20 2009 | 2017 (term limits) |
| David Ige | Democratic | December 1 2014 | 2018 |
| Butch Otter | Republican | January 1 2007 | 2019 (retiring) |
| John Bel Edwards | Democratic | January 11 2016 | 2020 |
| Rick Snyder | Republican | January 1 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
| Phil Bryant | Republican | January 10 2012 | 2020 (term limits) |
| Steve Bullock | Democratic | January 7 2013 | 2017 |
| Susana Martinez | Republican | January 1 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
| Jack Dalrymple | Republican | December 7 2010 | 2017 (retiring) |
| Gina Raimondo | Democratic | January 6 2015 | 2019 |
| Nikki Haley | Republican | January 12 2011 | 2019 (term limits |
| Dennis Daugaard | Republican | January 8 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
| Bill Haslam | Republican | January 15 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
| Peter Shumlin | Democratic | January 6 2011 | 2017 (retiring) |
| Terry McAuliffe | Democratic | January 11 2014 | 2018 (term limits) |
| Jay Inslee | Democratic | January 16 2013 | 2017 |
| Earl Ray Tomblin | Democratic | November 15 2010 | 2017 (term limits) |
| Matt Mead | Republican | January 3 2011 | 2019 (term limits) |
10 Republicans and 12 Democrats have not signed as yet. Let's hope it's just an oversight. I'll be watching and praying that this letter gets into the mail, quickly.
Resource: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/157df3b13202f5ca
