Lies Palestinians Tell About Geography and History on TV Programs

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                   

One of the biggest problems confronting Israel in the creation of an Arab Palestine today is that the Palestine Authority of Fatah has continually fought the battle against Israel by propaganda.  The main way they have been doing this is to use TV programs to brainwash and teach their people only what they want them to think.  Israel, the 20% left of 100% promised originally by the Mandate, is an accepted international fact , at least by everyone except the Palestinians.  Hey, Abbas, we already lost 80% of our promised land.  You're not getting these cities that are part of Israel.  Israel's population in 2014 is over 8 million with 6,135,000 Jews (75%) and 1,694,000 Arabs (20%).

On their show, Palestine This Morning, they are inserting such ideas in between shows with a new filler only started on May 6th that runs every day and is also directed to the children.  It's a cutsie way of telling them all that cities in Israel are Palestine cities.  They are calling Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Nazareth, Acre, Negev Desert all cities and places that are theirs.

Can anyone see the problems I foresee in the creation of a Palestine with further rights as a  state who is calling such erroneous pieces of information to their population?  Such a creation of a state should not come about until  these Palestinians can accept our history and rights first which must happen in order to have peaceful relations.  Otherwise, we're in for continued war.

Here's the real facts about such places which are a part of Israel as decided many times through the League of Nations and the United Nations.  The fact is that the Jewish Homeland was cut apart and lost 80% of the promised land in 1948 when Jordan took it during Israel's immediate fight for survival after broadcasting the fact that the UN accepted their state.
                                                                         

1. Acre:  (Hebrew-Akko)  A commercial town started in 15th century (3,514)  BCE on a harbor where glass was manufactured.  Purple dye also made here.  Assigned to the tribe of Asher (one of 12 tribes of Jacob)  When Alexander the Great had power there, Greeks populated it so was a Hellenistic city.  In 638 Muslims conquered it who persecuted Jewish neighbors  and in 66 CE massacred 2,000 Jews.  The city declined under the Muslims and was only revived when the Crusaders came in.  From 1191  to 1291 it was their capital which then had a Jewish community.  In 1740  a Bedouin sheikh Dahir al-Ummar, who reigned in Galilee, made it his capital but he favored Jewish settlement and there was a small settlement there.  In 1775 -1804 Ahmed el-Jazzar controlled the city with a Jewish treasurer, Hayyim Farhi.  Jazzar was a brutal man.  From 1832-1840 Egypt took it under Ibrahim Pasha, and in 1918 it was captured from the Turks by the British. By 1948 it was an Arab town of 12,000.  Most left town during the battle for the city.   It was in the mandate and granted to the future Jewish Homeland.  The population in 1990 was 37,200.  Only 8,450 were Arabs.  By 2012 the population was 47,200.  
                                                                         

2. Haifa: I lived here from 1980 to 1981 for my first 10 months of living in Israel.  Appeared after 1st century as the home of Jewish scholars and as the southern limit of the coast on which the purple snail was caught: In 1071 was the seat of the Jerusalem academy; in 1100 Jews defended it against the crusaders.  When the sanding  up of the Acre harbor and a European colony was established the modern rise of Haifa began from 1850 onwards.  1905 a railway terminus and then the Jewish quarter of Hadar ha-Carmel was established where I shopped many times.  1925 came with the Hebrew Technical College (Technion).  The British Mandate saw to the deepening of the harbor was accomplished in 1933.  The city was taken over by the Haganah on April 22, 1948 and the Arab population fled.  Since then it is Israel's main port.   and a center of industrial development.  The population was 225,000 in about 1975 and hasn't changed much. By 2012 it was 272,200.   It's the base for Israel's ships.  It has religious sites like the Cave of Elijah and is the religious center of the Bahai  since the tomb of Baha Effendi is there.  The University of Haifa opened in 1970.
                                                                       

3. Jaffa: (Hebrew-Yapho) a city joined with Tel Aviv.  Mentioned from 16th century BCE Egyptian and Assyrian records, on coastline, it marked the boundary of the Philistines,  but a part of the tribal area of Judah (the largest of the 12 tribes from where "Jews" comes from).  During the Persian period it belonged to the Phoenicians.  During Hellenistic days it was an independent city .  Judah the Maccabee avenged massacre of the Jewish community there.  Brothers Jonathan and Simon took Jaffa and replaced the foreign population with Jews, then was Jewish port until 70 CE.  Main harbor in Roman days-renamed Flavia Ioppe.  1921-1922 Arab riots forced Jews to leave and go to Tel Aviv which was a suburb of Jaffa.  By 1946 the population was 101,000 of which 30% were Jews which was 30,300.  During War of Independence saw Arab sections capitulate and all Arabs left after May 14, 1948 or before.  Jews then populated it.  It was joined with Tel Aviv.  One quarter has become an artists' colony.  The population is counted in with Tel Aviv so that by 2012 they had 414,600 people.
                                                                             

4. Jerusalem: sits in Judean mountains, part of Judah's tribe and capital of Israel.  Ancient history goes back to 19th, 18th centuries BCE . Actually lived in early Bronze Age of 3,500 BCE;   King David made it his capital, 1010 BCE-970 BCE  took it from people who called it Jebus.  King Solomon's capital from 970 BCE to 930 BCE.  Fell to Babylonians by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE.  Jews returned in 519 BCE.   Romans destroyed it in 70 CE, named it Aelia Capitolina till Arab period.  Arabs call it el-Kuds. Population in 1838 was 11,000 with 3,000 Jews; in 1910 population was 68,000 with 50,000 Jews.  During WWI population fell to 50,000.  In 1946 population was 165,000 with 100,000 Jews.  Arabs rioted in 1922,1929 and again in 1936-1939 spurred on by Sherif of Jerusalem Emir Feisal who was against Abdullah's idea of accepting Jews.  In 1967's War east Jerusalem was united with the rest.  In 1980 The Jerusalem Law had Israel sovereignty over whole city.  Population in 2012 was 815,300.  
                                                                             

5. Nazareth: town in lower Galilee, 24 miles from Haifa.  New Testament has Joseph's family living here and where Jesus grew up as a Jew.  It remained a Jewish town until Byzantine times.  By 570 a church was built there.  It was a center during Crusader times.  Destroyed in 1263 by Mameluke leader Baybars.  In 1620 Franciscan monks resettled and built a church in 1730.  In 1948 it was occupied by Israel forces and has become the headquarters of the Northern district of Israel.  It is the principal Arab city in Israel.  Population in 1990 was 50,600 with 7,390 Muslims and others who are Christians.  Above it is the new Jewish settlement called Upper Nazareth with a population in 1990 of 24,900 including 3,000 Arabs.  I had to come here to see about my teaching credentials.  By 2012 the population was 74,000.
                                                                           

                                                                  Beersheba
6. Negev Desert:  (Negeb) the very dry land in the southern part of Israel covering 5,138 sq miles or 60% of Israel. In prehistoric days it was settled in the north near Beersheba of Chalcolithic settlements going back 5,000 years BCE. that had copper mines.  During the Jewish Patriarchal period there was settlements.  A Beersheba-Egypt route was developed then.  After the Jewish Exodus, it was occupied by nomadic tribes like the Amalekites (mean tribe) but northern part belonged to the tribe of Simeon (one of 12 tribes of Jacob).  It later joined up with tribe of Judah.  King David conquered the Amalekites and Edom and opened up Elath and copper mines for Israelites.  Under King Solomon, maritime trade started with Phoenician help from Elath to Ophir of southern Arabia.  In 70 CE when Jerusalem fell, it was occupied by Nabateans.  Arab conquest after 632 CE northern settlements fell apart down to Crusader period.  By 1900's the desert was inhabited only by Beduin.  Turks finally refounded Beersheba.  The British and Turkish armies fought each other here.  In the 1947 partition plan it was allotted to the Jewish state.  Egypt occupied it in May 1948 except in Jewish areas.  War of Independence saw Egypt driven out (Oct 1948-March 1949) .  Beersheba is linked to Israel railroads, roads are built to connect to other cities like Elath, Sodom.  Oil pipelines go across, built in 1956-1957 and 1968.   In 2012 the population of Beersheba was 197,300.

Resource:  http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11559 by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_cities *****
http://www.citypopulation.de/Israel.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/newpop.html
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2014/05/jerusalem-timeline.html

PA's May 29th Elections? War or Peace

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                       

The PA said on the 23-24th of April that they would hold elections in about 5 weeks.  That would mean elections would be held around May 29th of this year.  In what direction are they planning to go?  Towards their own state living peacefully next to Israel or eternal war with Israel, for they should realize by now after almost 66 years of Israel's existence and constant growth and determination that they will not drive her into the sea.
                                                                             

The present PA is aiming for constant war.  They show this by brainwashing their children into hating Jews and Israel.  Recently an official PA TV program showed a young child saying a poem that called for "join a war that will smash the oppression and destroy the Zionist's soul."  How much clearer can you get than that?

The TV show has had 3 other children say this same poem.  The video shows a very young girl in traditional Palestinian dress wearing a pendant shaped like the map of their future Palestine but the problem is that it shows the entire area of Israel.  Therefore, again, this is another dramatic demonstration of their intent to take over all of Israel.  This girl is shown saying the poem in many different locations, no doubt giving the notion that it is the different parts of Palestine; in a field, on the beach and in a market.

One part of the program shows her behind barbed wire with pictures of Palestinian prisoners in the background.  What they do, I've noticed, is take history of the Jews and remake it into their history, thinking that if it worked for the Jews it should work for them.  Prisoners are in a prison, not behind barbed wire such as Jews were during the holocaust.  Just this past month Netanyahu released over 60 prisoners because of the demands of Abbas who wouldn't talk about peace between the two without this happening.  Then Abbas went against his word anyway by teaming up with Hamas.

 It this sequel, she says, "My name is Palestinian.  I've etched my name on all the town squares.  Saladin calls to me from the depths of my heart."  Saladim was a Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem, in no way connected to the Palestinians other than he was a Muslim.  Fatimid leaders of Egypt ruled until 1171 when they were defeated by Saladin, who became famous during the Crusades.  Saladin was a Kurd who captured Cairo and put an end to the Fatimid rule.  He was a Sunni.  In 1175 he declared his independence in Egypt and formed the Ayyubid principality.  He defeated the Crusaders in the battle of Hittin on July 4, 1187 and soon after that retook Jerusalem.  The history of Israel is one of constant changes of Muslims fighting other Muslims for ownership until it was in the hands of the Ottoman Empire (Turks) that lasted for 400 years until WWI when they lost it to the allies. (England, France, USA, etc).  They had been on Germany's side.  The poem neglects to mention that Jews fought alongside Muslims in the Crusades.  They were both targeted for death by the Crusaders who couldn't tell them apart anyway.  
                                                                       

The poem forges ahead with "All my Arabness calls me to vengeance and liberation...Thousands of prisoners and thousands who are jailed call to this great nation and call to millions.  ."  As you see in the picture above, they are claiming all of Israel as their "great nation" of Palestine.   Yes, many Palestinians have been jailed for atrocious acts of killing Israelis.  They have bombed and killed and when they do they are jailed.  Even though they have taken lives, Israel has no death penalty for that except in extreme cases in the past such as Nazi heads who ordered thousands of deaths of Jews.  It does seem like the Arabs are more interested in taking vengeance than in ever making peace.  As for liberation-no country liberates murderers. They were given sentences amounting to so many years.  They would be freed when their sentence ended.   The British hung Jews who fought against them before 1948 in "Palestine regardless of whether or not they had killed anyone.  If they were part of the Stern Group or Haganah, they had had it.

"They say:  To Jerusalem, the direction of prayer".  It is the Jews who have always prayed towards Jerusalem wherever they are.  The  Muslims pray towards Mecca where there Qiblah is.  "To war that will smash the oppression and destroy the Zionist's soul and raise the Palestinian banner in the world's sky and Strengthen my word that goes on:  Palestinian, Palestinian, Palestinian."  

I note the emphasis on the person-a Palestinian, not the land or country of Palestine.  To me the poem involves the people and who they are-which in truth they really are not.  They are being told over and over that only they-the Arabs, are Palestinians.  When the Arabs came to Eretz Israel in the 1880's looking for work with the Jews who were building their country, they said they were mostly Syrians when asked; not Palestinians.  Palestine was the name given to Israel and Judah by the Romans in 165 CE after Bar Kochba was overtaken in a 3 year war.  From about 1900 until 1948, both Jews and Arabs were then referred to as Palestinians on their passports and writings and by themselves.

These so called Palestinians are mainly from Syria but also people had come to work from all over the Middle East who needed jobs.  It is a conglomeration of many Arab people now forged together under the one name of Palestinians.

Now, the question is, are they going to want to create their Palestine now and live in peace or do they intend to keep on fighting Israel.  Perhaps the election will give us a clue.  Who will be up for election this time? Abbas has already been President for the past 9 years when he was only elected for 4 years.   Now that they have reunited with Hamas, does that mean they will unite as one and have one group leading from the 2?

Update: 5/8/14:A Palestinian Child's TV program starring 2 little girls and an animal toy that talks who tells the girls that every Jew should be shot.   PA:Watch: http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/05/every_jew_should_be_shot_hamas.html

Resource:  Textbook:  2nd edition:  Middle East-past & Present by Yahya Armajani, Thomas M. Ricks
Palestinian Media Watch by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilbedik; http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11322 
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-pas-285-million-dollar-electric.html
From Time Immemorial-the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters- on who the Palestinians are and what countries they came from.

Ma'Alot Massacre of 22 Israeli Children

Nadene Goldfoot
On May 15, 1974, 3 armed Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine but dressed in Israeli uniforms  snuck into Israel at night from Lebanon and  attacked Ma'alot, located in the Western Galilee of Israel, only 6 miles away from the Lebanese border.  It was quite close to Safed, where I lived from 1980-1985.  Terrorists had taken 115 people hostage which ended with 25 dying. 

First they had attacked a van and killed two Israeli Arab women.  Then they entered an apartment building in the town and killed a 4 year old, Eliahu,  and his parents, Fortuna, 7 months pregnant  and Yosef Cohen. Their 5 year old daughter, Miriam, was wounded.  (This is why my apartment in Safed had bars on our living room windows as we were at ground level).  Several more people were killed along the route. 

After this slaughter they headed for the Netiv Meir Elementary School, where high school students from Safed were boarded who were on a field trip,  to take 105 children and 10 adults there as hostage.  This was to demand the release of 23 Palestinian militants from prisons in Israel and 3 other prisoners of which the Japanese Kozo Okamoto was one.  He was a part of the 1972 Lod airport Massacre.   Otherwise,  they would kill the students.  6:00 pm that same day was the deadline.   Students were forced to sit on the floor at gunpoint, looking at explosive charges near them. 

 The deadline could not be met, so the decision was made for the Golani Brigade to storm the school.  The terrorists had killed 22 children and 3 adults with grenades and automatic weapons during the takeover.  68 were injured in the melee.  In the end the 3 terrorists were killed.  The children were buried in Safed.  10,000 mourners attended.  Seven years later I taught English at the junior high in Safed while my husband taught in the high school.  Some of the teachers had been students in the massacre.  No one forgot as the cemetery is a reminder.

Last week the Palestine Authority (PA) TV broadcast tributes to these same terrorists (DFLP).  They glorified the terrorists as "Martyrs,".  They have been doing such things all along with honoring these same terrorist group last year as well.  They actually glorify the ma'alot massacre of murdering 22 children when they were in school!  This happens to be the anniversary of DFLP's founding, so broadcast such vileness 10 times just last week.  These "Heros" were in a collage which showed the 16 pictures of the men with their weapons.  What they called "Operations in northern Palestine" is in truth "terror attacks in northern Israel."

This is the type of morality these terrorists exhibit.  Knowing where their minds are, how can there be any Americans or Europeans, for that matter, that side with them and praise them?  Does this mean that most of the world thinks as they do? 

Ilana Turgeman, Rachel Aputa, Yocheved Mazoz, Sarah Ben-Shim'on, Yona Sabag, Yafa Cohen, Shoshana Cohen, Michal Sitrok, Malka Amrosy, Aviva Saada, Yocheved Diyi, Yaakov Levi, Yaakov Kabla, Rina Cohen, Ilana Ne'eman, Sarah Madar, Tamar Dahan, Sarah Sofer, Lili Morad, David Madar and Yehudit Madar and one unknown were high schools students killed in this attack.

Resource: http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6520
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'alot_massacre