Is Appeasement Really the Way to Peace? Ron Paul Thinks So.

Nadene Goldfoot
Autumn, 1938, when Germany was busy getting rid of Jews with Kristallnacht pogroms in November, the British and French governments agreed to Hitler's seizure of the German-speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. The world must have been aware of the Nazi's "Final solution of the Jewish Problem" and not trusted them.   By 1935 they were busy stripping Jews of any citizenship rights as well as their economic and political rights.  It should have been shocking and a warning to all of the Nazi intention towards all of mankind.  Here they were acting also against Czechoslovakia.   This was done at the Munich Conference on September 29-30, 1938.  Hitler then signed a brief paper prepared by Neville Chamberlain agreeing to Germany and Britain's desire...never to go to war with one another again.  This was the famous "peace for our time" communique from Neville.  So much for an evil entity's promise. 

Hoover wasn't 100% sure it would last but concluded that some strains have been appeased and that war is today more remote.  If war should come, he explained, the US should not join in.  He wanted a free economic life that wasn't built on war.  He thought that would turn the country into a Fascist govenment with restraints on our personal liberties that couldn't be lifted for generations.  I wonder how he thought a good economic life could be carried on without getting involved in a major war or how they were going to keep it away from their shores.  That's an isolationist for you.

A few months later Chamberlain had to eat his words and tried to block Hitler's "Drang nach Osten".  On March 15, 1939, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded what remained of Czechoslovakia after they seized Sudetenland in October.  Czechs did not resist as they were stunned; not prepared for the inevitable.  Did they think they were immune to the Nazi hatred of Jews and that it couldn't happen to them?   Old Hoover just said, oh, it's a shameless and immoral action!  Someday it would be righted and the Czech "race" would emerge again from bondage.  He certainly didn't want to be the one to help them at any time.

He might have thought; Let the French do it.  Hitler then turned against Poland, since this had been so easy, but Britain and France felt bound to help them.  They pledged to go to war against Germany if Germany attacked Poland.  Hoover's thoughts were "If the world is to keep the peace, then we must keep peace with dictatorships as well as with popular government.  The forms of government which other people pass through in working out their destinies is not our business.  We can never herd the world into the paths of righteousness with the dogs of war." 

Hoover was shocked.  He thought they would let Hitler go East if he wanted to.    He thought that a European "debacle" was happening and thought that Britain's skills could keep the USA out of it all.  However, Roosevelt, a Democrat  was now president and on January 4, 1939, talked of the coming storm signals and said,"  the "God-fearing democracies of the world cannot forever let pass, without effective protest, acts of aggression against sister nations--acts which automatically undermine all of us." 

Of course, none of Roosevelt's good thoughts helped the Jews of the world  Six million perished in the Holocaust which, it looks like, Hoover didn't give a hoot about.  The world gave the Nazis an inch and they took far more than a foot.  Is this going to happen today with Iran? 

Ron Paul was asked what he would have done  in the 2nd WW if he were president, and he replied that "he wouldn't risk American lives to end the Holocaust", said like a true follower of Hoover.   
Hoover was the "I don't mix in" man.  He could be standing next to an an attack on a woman and probably wouldn't have interferred.  There was nothing in his philosophy of helping a neighbor, only taking care of himself.  It's something that is not commendable to me at all.  How can such a person hope for help if they were ever in need?  It goes back to the "Golden Rule".  Fate helped us out with somebody much better, Roosevelt.  He wasn't perfect, but he was a step in a better direction. 

Resource: Book: "Freedom Betrayed"-Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the 2nd WW and its Aftermath, George H. Nash, edited and introduced by. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/emigrate.html
http://biggovernment.com/jsshapiro/2011/12/26/exclusive-ron-paul-in-2009-i-wouldnt-risk-american-lives-to-end-the-holocaust/
http://blog.standforisrael.org/articles/ron-paul-gaza-is-like-a-concentration-camp?s_src=SFIEN&s_subsrc=EN11201XXEXXA

Iran's Plan to Drive Israel Into the Sea

Nadene Goldfoot
Israel and the USA and its allies feel that Iran is using its civilian nuclear program of peaceful and medical goals as a cover to develop nuclear weapons that they will use on Israel first.  This is because of the threats it has already made on Israel by Ahmedinejad. He frequently tells his people that Israel must be wiped off the map.   Isn't it rather worrisome that the huge country of Iran, almost drowning itself with its oil wells, needs nuclear energy as well? Needless to say,  what a combination of oil and atomic energy that could be if something goes wrong like it did in Japan with their atomic plant.  It could be as dangerous as a meth operation that blows itself up. 

The US congress has passed a bill banning dealing with the Iran Central Bank, and President Barack Obama hasn't signed it yet but is set to sign it. 

Netanyahu of Israel said that he didn't know whether such "crippling" sanctions would stop Iran's nuclear program, but thought that they would make things difficult enough for the Iranian government that it would have to reconsider its actions.

If these sanctions are not imposed, it would be interpreted by the Iranians as a sign that the West did not have the will or intent to stop Iran.  If Iran gets the bomb, we will be living in a completely different world.  I think most people can understand this, except Ron Paul, who is running for president of the USA, as he would just like to leave Iran alone to do what they wish. 

Yesterday the USA warned Iran against closing the Strait of Hormuz if the USA imposes sanctions targeting the country's crude oil exports.  This waterway carries 1/6 of the world's oil supply.  It would affect the oil prices to levels that could hurt the global economy.  This was Iran's 2nd warning in the past 2 days.  George Little, Pentagon news secretary said that interference with ships through the Strait will not be tolerated. 

What can the USA do if it is closed?  We have the 5th Fleet in Bahrain, and they are ready to ensure freedom of navigation.  They are there to safeguard the vital links to the international community.  Iran is the 4th largest oil producer in the world.  Right now Iran's navy is in the Sea of Oman in the midst of a 10-day exercise in international waters near the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz.  No wonder they are so brave.  The situation is like a boil ready to pop.  Right now just before New Year's Eve we are on a precipice; the brink of disaster.  If we back down we are giving into Iran in more than this one challenge, and it's not a rational country to deal with.   

Resource: Embassy of Israel paffairs!@washington.mfa.gov.il
Oregonian newspaper,  page A5, Iran threatens to block oil passage12/29/2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Dec-29/158272-mossad-hints-nuclear-iran-not-existential-threat-to-israel-report.ashx#axzz1hxNvwqI9
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=251348
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/29/opinion/nasr-iran-oil-hormuz/index.html
http://www.jewishjournal.com/iranianamericanjews/item/obama_refuses_to_sign_tougher_sanctions_on_irans_central_bank/
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111215-716586.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45806878

Freedom of Speech in Peril in USA?

Nadene Goldfoot
One thing that sets the United States of America apart from many other nations is our freedom of speech.  Slander is another thing.  One can be sued for that.  Our country is for some reason or other concerned about Sharia law, which states that slander is anything concerning a Muslim that he would dislike. 

That brings to mind many years ago in American Jewish communities where holocaust survivors has settled, and Nazis were marching through their neighborhoods, like Skokie, Illinois.  It brought terror to these people, but the ACLU said that it was freedom of speech and they had a right. "The challengers argued that the injunction violated the First Amendment rights of the marchers to express themselves freely".  I wasn't happy with their decision, but that's the way it was decided. 

 I was shocked at this display of speech, being Nazis were outlawed in Germany after the 2nd world war.  All of a sudden Islam has a lot of power here.

Possibly that's because 56 (and I thought there were only 48 Muslim majority countries counted by Wikipedia) Muslim countries plus the Palestinians are organized in a group larger than the UN, called the OIC.  They speak with authority and have the Cairo Declaration, exempting all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN declaration on Human rights and replacing it with their Islamic Shariah law. 

But this is America, right?  The OIC has met to counter Islamophobia and even want this to go through the UN.  Now, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is going to host the OIC Secretary Genral Elmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington DC very soon this month and talk about how the US can implement their agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam.

Does that mean that I cannot warn my friends that the Muslim Brotherhood's top leader in Qatar, Qaradawi, has put out a fatwa on all Jews everywhere to be killed?  Or should we be able to separate Muslim politics from the Muslim religion where Qaradawi, a religious Muslim leader in the Muslim Brotherhood has been calling for the Muslim world to damage the US economy by boycotting American products, and who has appeared on Arab TV channels inciting Muslims by calling for Islam's conquest of Rome, warning the US to change their policies or face "collapse," and calling for another Holocaust against the Jews but this time at the hands of the Muslims.  In 2009 he told his Al-Jazeera audience "Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them (Jews).  Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."  The Koran has other sections also telling readers to look under rocks or behind bushes to kill Jews.  That actually happened when Islam was first created as there were Jewish tribes living in Saudi Arabia who were massacred unless they converted to Islam.  Jews felt that Islam was converting by the sword.  That's one reason why Jews do not try to go out to convert people.  We ourselves have had  terrible experiences  with people trying to convert us.  They don't call us stiff-necked for nothing.  We're not ready subjects.  So now Islam's religion is just ready to kill us all and skip the conversion part.

Iran has joined the bandwagon and has gone from "Destroy Israel!" to "Destroy all the Jews!"  They wish to annihilate Jews worldwide instead of their previous goal of wiping Israel off the map.  These people read the ever-popular book, Elders of Zion and base their philosophy on that.  They've come out with their own book "How Israel should be destroyed", basing a lot on the Elders book.

This thought of attacking our freedom of speech is coming at a bad time.  In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood wants to re-evaluate their peace treaty with Israel now that they are creating a new parliament.  They think it's been a long time since the Camp David accord was signed and needs the review, reported Mahmoud Hussein, the new secretary-general.  He added that "Generally, Israel does not honor the agreement."  So you know where he is going with his re-evaluations.  The Brotherhood has a political wing, "The Freedom and Justice Party", which got 36.5% of the vote.  After reading their declarations concerning Israel and Jews, I doubt strongly if this new group will follow in Mubarak's footsteps in wanting peace with Israel. 

To top it off, Hillary is getting women of Israel and the Muslim countries mixed up in her mind.  Rabbi Shlomo Amar, a chief rabbi in Israel, said her knowledge on the subject was incomplete.  Separate gender seating on buses is not required by Jewish law.  Israel is a country where the IDF couldn't do without their female sergeants who help train young soldiers.  They're tough, I've been told.  Israe's rabbis and women are most vocal and will take care of any misunderstandings themselves.  Don't worry.  The fact that in Mea She'arim there were women sitting apart was their choice, not Judaism's.  If she wants to help women, she should look into what's going on with Muslim women in other countries. 

When we returned from Israel the tail end of 1985, we found an upstairs apartment in SW Portland.  Below us, to my great surprise, was a Muslim fellow.  At Passover I opened the door for Elijiah and wondered if he could hear us.  We got along fine.  Up the street from the pre-school I was working at was a Mosque.  Gosh, I was beginning to feel like I was back in Israel again.  To be sure, there are hopefully many Muslims who do not follow the Muslim Brotherhood's dictums that are living here in the USA.  But that does not mean that there aren't some that do, or that such a belief is not growing throughout the world. 

Little things happen, like bringing DAM, a hip-hop 3 man Palestinian Israeli group to Lincoln High and the next thing heard was a student saying how she hated Israel.  Israeli Jews live here as well in this city.  None of us want to hear lies about ourselves, our religion or Israel.  We also love freedom of speech, so certainly are not looking forward to losing that one special right in the United States. 

When Israel is picked on and attacked by Muslim countries, one winds up feeling that there is something wrong between Jews and Muslims, and that this is a religious war.  That's confirmed by putting out a fatwa against all Jews everywhere.  Yet people aren't going to be able to say anything about Muslims?  This outrageous thought of passing such an idea hasn't got a leg to stand on.  I hope Hillary has the gumption to tell Elmeleddin Ihsanoglu a thing or two about what America is all about.  What a great teaching moment she has in her hands. 

Reference: Sheikh Al-Qaradawi & Qatar's Education City Hosting American University Branches, from Memri
Family Security Matters by Clare M. Lopez
AIPAC Update: update@aipac.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/59853/hillary-clinton-enters-israel-gender-dispute

Jewish Financiers Helping USA Treasury

Nadene Goldfoot
In early colonial times a few individual Jews in America had the occupation of being money brokers, like Asser Levy who lived in New York City in the 2nd half of the 17h century.  Isaac Moses was one of the founders of the Bank of New York.

A Jewish broker , Haym Solomon/Salomon was the friend of Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance under George Washington for the 13 colonies.  Morris turned to Solomon for help in raising needed money to carry on the Revolutionary War and save the emerging nation from financial collapse. 

Salomon advanced direct loans to the government and also donated his own money to pay the salaries of government officials and army officers. From 1781-1784 there were 75 transactions between Morris and Solomon.  On September 3, 1783, the Revolutionary War ended with the Treaty of Paris but Solomon managed to raise the money to bailout the debt-ridden goverment time after time. 

In 1939 Warner Brothers made the movie: Sons of Liberty: with Claude Rains as Salomon.  In WWII, the US liberty ship SS Haym Salomon was named in his honor.  Haym was born April 7, 1740 and died January 6, 1785.  He was an immigrant from Poland but was Sephardic, being Spanish and Portuguese.  Arriving in New York during the American Revolution, he was impressed with the Patriot cause and joined the Sons of Liberty in NY.  In Philadelphia he continued his profession as broker. 

Solomon spoke 8 languages, useful in those days of dealing with other countries and finances.  The sum owed to Solomon was about $800,000, which in 1785 was like $40 billion today.  He was not paid back.

During the Civil War, Uriah P. Levy offered Lincoln his entire forture for the USA, but Lincoln refused it.  So Levy bought Federal bonds to help the nation.  Joseph Seligman and August Belmont helped to get loans and sell bonds.  Lincoln then said, no class of citizenship in the US was superior in patriotism to those of the Jewish faith. 

Judah Benjamin was in the Davis cabinet and worked hard to get European financing for the South.  He worked out a deal to get European credit with Emile Erlanger, a Jewish banker who headed the most distinguished banking house in France.  Other Jews helped in the war offering their own resources and knowledge.  Despite their patriotism, anti-semitism was still alive.  Jews were used like before, as scapegoats for the present problems. 

The total assets of Jewish firms were small compared to those of the American banking system as a whole.  They have been the focus of antisemitic agitation from the 1890's in particular on,   The fiscal policies of their banks tended to be conservative and they exercised their profits with a high degree of social and fiscal responsibility.  The rest of the commercial banking in the USA remained relatively closed to Jews despite Jews in related fields as stock brokerage, investment analysis and corporate management.  In 1939 a study was done which found that out of 93,000 bankers in the USA, only 0.6% were Jewish.  Even in New York City, Jews formed only 6% of banking executives as compared to 28% of the general population.  Discrimination against Jews in major banks throughout the country continue.  In 1968 the AJC filed a complaint with the Human Right Commission of NYC charging the banking system with job bias against Jews.  Senator William Proxmire in a 1978 interview with the financial columnist for Esquire magazine stated that the USA banks are controlled by the most Waspish elements....with no Jews, no Catholics, and no blacks running the show.  It's completely one-sided, too much Anglo-Saxon." 

After the 1st Crusade in 1096, Jewish merchants had to take long journeys and had no security.  In Western and Central Europe, especially Spain, people tried to drive out Jews from commerce and crafts.  Jews had to turn to loan-banking in order to make a living.  Between the 12th and 15th centuries,  Jews were the main people  involved in this occupation because Christians were prevented from this livelihood by their own cononical prohibitions like the 4th Lateran Council of 1215.  Therefore it's not surprising that the few Jewish men that have survived have gone into their ancestors' professions. 

Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" aided and abeted anti-semitism with his villain being a money-lending Jew.    At the time he wrote the play, no Jews had lived openly in England for 300 years, and throughout Europe Christian banking houses were the principal moneylenders-finally. 

Anyone in those days associated with the business of money during the early days of feudalism changing into capitalism ran the risk of being mistrusted and hated, even the Christians such as the Lombards.  There were so many Christians ignoring or defying the prohibition of being moneylenders that in 1179, the 3rd Lateran Council had to reiterate the position against the practice, but Jews still were a smaller group as Christians managed to continue.  Jews had it even rougher due to  the financial connotations connected with the New Testament towards Jews.  The Christians actually preferred the Jewish usurer.  "Christians were worse than Jews", a left handed compliment for Jews was known. 

The bankers of the feudal age were the moneylenders involved with manufacturers and international commerce that was rapidly growing.  The world had an increasing need for loans.  Yet, when Jews earned any kind of wealth, they found most of it was taxed, fined, or taken away in the form of "contributions."  Often a ruler simply declared a moratorium on debts to Jewish moneylenders.  Crusaders had the interest on their loans from "Jew-usurers rescinded by special dispensation.  Often Jews were imprisoned or murdered at the request of influential debtors.  Violent attacks on Jewish moneylenders grew and debtors incited pogroms as their way to default on loans from Jews. 

The anti-semitic slurs keep repeating the fiction that Jews control the banks and "all Jews are rich."  Some well known bankers are the J.P. Morgans, the Rockfellers and the Mellons, and they are not Jewish.  Sammy Davis Jr, a black entertainer, had converted to Judaism.  He said, " After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn the Jews don't really have all the money.   When I found out Rockfeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned."  A majority of the Jews today fall under the middle and upper middle class.  They came poor but were able to raise their standard of living faster than many immigrant groups to America.  They have believed in hard work and education for their children, and denied themselves to reach the American dream. They had the lowest rate of alcoholism.   Typical of this was my father. 

We have a Jewish lady who wrote a poem to help raise money for the Statue of Liberty.  Emma Lazarus wrote: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."  This land was for those who had been denied freedom and opportunity in their native lands.  And here Jews are still hearing accusations of being the cause of financial woes today  in the latest " occupation USA, rolling out from some organizers". 

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Solomon
http://www.acjna.org/acjna/articles)detail.aspx?id=42
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01978.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-jewish-american-h
Book: Just Because They're Jewish by M. Hirsh Goldberg p. 179-197