Nadene Goldfoot
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| Portland, Oregon's Mt. Hood |
Portland, Oregon's City Hall has chosen some volunteer committee to decide on a big issue, and that is whether or not to back BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions ) against Israel. They have chosen to do so. The Oregonian newspaper published an opinion article on Sunday written by Alice Rothchild, who is well known enough back East to have her own page in wikipedia online. She is one of those Jews who is backing the Palestinians and not her fellow brothers and sisters who live there. She said,
"As a Jewish American, I am proud to stand with my Christian brothers and sisters in the US and Palestine, to support boycott and divestment as peaceful tools to bring occupation to an end."
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Christians of Jerusalem live without fear because Israel protects them.
This is not true in other Middle Eastern countries. |
Peaceful for her, maybe, but not for the people who live there. She about gave me a heart attack after reading her article. I found I made several spelling errors when typing my response. I was shaking! I thought she had to be a fellow Oregonian and see now that she lives in Massachusetts. This is a tool for our volunteer city council group to prove they made the right decision which some of us have been fighting against.
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| Fatah and Hamas, unified for this picture |
There is no real state of Palestine yet, but she addresses it as if it exists already. They do have a committee, but not a country-yet, even though so many groups have recognized them. The so called Palestinians have yet to recognize Israel and agree to live in peace.
You can read her article with this website.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/divestment_an_appropriate_respo.html
My response to the Oregonian is below. It will not be published. I could not write a short note to answer such an attack.
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Taking advantage of negative publicity against Israel like BDS, this is what happens on
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; rock throwing Palestinians hitting Jews who are
now using knives and cars, ramming them into crowds. . |
In response to Alice Rothchild's opinion article from page
A21, Divestment is an appropriate response to Israel's treatment of
Palestinians, I think this is the worst bit of anti-Semitism written by a Jew
I've read that is not based on any sort of research, only self-hatred feelings
and heresay.
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| King David of Israel (1010 BCE to 970 BCE) |
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Moses, who led us to the Promised
Land b: 1391 BCE-d: 1271 BCE |
As
opinionated as Alice Rothchild is, I am holding dual
citizenship and make research about Israel my life work. Let's look at some
facts. Israel was a real empire, and the first king was Saul of the 11th
Century BCE in about 1030 BCE. Our settlement of the land had started in the
13th century BCE. Israel-Judea (Samaria was the surrounding land of Jerusalem)
was taken by the Romans in 70 CE-so had been an empire and country for 1100
years. There never ever has been a country of Palestine, so
there aren't Palestinian people that need to reclaim land to rebuild their old
state like the Jews are doing. They are a conglomeration of neighboring people
from all the other Middle East states who came there looking for jobs Most
came after Russian Jews returned in the late 1800's when the Ottoman Empire
(Turks) held the land. Jews have been homeless for over 2,000 years, and have
suffered from a lot of anti-Semitism. Not the Arabs called Palestinians today; they were Syrians and also others who came from every other Middle Eastern
country since created after WWI by the allies.
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| Emir Feisal |
Emir Feisal was the Arab leader of the day, and
he accepted the return of the Jews, hoping his people would learn something from
them. He was a leader, educated and intelligent who was from Saudi Arabia
originally. He was of royal blood looking for land to rule, and got it from the
British who held the WWI mandate. Another Arab, Haj Amin al-Husseini,
the "Sharif of Jerusalem, the Grand Mufti, was against the idea and was
able to turn his very excitable and ill -educated followers against the Jewish
return. He was a big fish in a little pond and didn't want to lose his
status. His attitude led to the Khartoum Conference where all the Arab leaders
met after 1967's failing attack on Israel and declared their THREE NO's. They
said NO peace, NO negotiations, NO recognition, and then insisted on rights of
the Palestinians people in their own country which was a down right lie.
They've been saying NO to every offer since. They didn't want the return of
these people, evidently, and they weren't about to have Jews moving into the
Middle East since they were looked upon as Dhimmis (2nd class citizens in their
countries.).
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| Wailing Wall in Herod's day (73 BCE-4 BCE) |
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Western Wall "Wailing wall" in Jerusalem
1967 was the first time that Jews could pray there since 1948
It had been under Jordanian rule until Jordan and
other Arabs lost the war.
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Israel held off building for over a year with no results
except NO. It didn't help. The so called West Bank, which we call Judea and
Samaria, are the foundations of ancient Israel and include Jerusalem, of
course. Jews have been praying 3 times a day for a return to Jerusalem in every
synagogue around the world for the past 2,000 years, and now it's been
happening.
At a time when we could use the love Christians offer to
everyone else, we're not getting it from the Protestants; only reprimands.
Israel happens to be a country making their own decisions on how to handle
people who keep attacking them, which the Palestinians have been doing. Our
American Senators respect this little country and have done their own research
as well, so feel it is beneficial to American interests as well as to Israel's
to help them out financially. They help everyone else. For the Protestants to
feel they can force issues they see or hear about upon Israel without knowing
why Israel takes certain positions is ludicrous. How would they like it
if China decided not to do certain things that would jeopardize our economy
unless we go along with China's wishes? Hm??? Who knows what is best for the
USA? Others? The same goes for Israel, who will be 68 years old on May
14th. Israel has been attacked in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, and all because of
these Palestinian non-existent rights other than all the rights Israel has given
them.
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All of Israel's high school students go into the army upon graduation unless
they are doing studies in the Yeshivote, but that may soon be abolished. They
will then need to serve every year for a month until age 50. They live in a
very dangerous neighborhood. Even now, ISIS is trying to get in. |
Gaza Palestinians have been raining missiles, mortars
and rockets on their southern cities for years. It's like being asked to have
Nazis as neighbors of the Jews. Palestinians speak Arabic. Israelis speak
Hebrew. Arabs are Muslims, a contrary religion to Judaism. Jews are Jewish.
There's some similarities, but even education is of different levels between the
two. What we're trying to do is mix oil with vinegar and they're not
mixing.
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| Druse Arab Israeli soldier |
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| Christian Arab Israeli soldier |
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Israeli soldier from
Ethiopia |
Everything Israel, a country of 6 million Jews and 1.7
million Arabs, has been doing is for their own protection and the need to stay
alive. Arabs are doing everything they can to destroy Israel. Since 1948,
people like the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, said in
Cairo,
"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous
massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and Crusades."
Every leader of Arabs and Iran have followed suit saying equally nasty things
aloud to their people. Now we even have the Protestants and Alice.
BDS with their B for Boycotting, D for
Divestment, S for Sanctions is not right at all. It's trying to do an
arm-twisting of Israel into complying with their own wishes which amounts to
destroying Israel. I have news for these glorious city leaders. It's not
working. Facts are showing that it's not working. What they are doing is
trying to interfere with Israel's ability to pay back loans to the USA as well.
What I feel is that Alice and her buddies in Portland's City Hall are control
freaks as well as followers of other anti-Semitic groups who have no background
as to the current or past events pertaining to Israel and have no business
mixing in in this manner.
Update: 5/9/16 3:55pm Clinton: 'The BDS campaign is
by Jacob Kornbluh, Jewish
Insider
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.
