Hamas Won't Recognize Israel, Calling it Illegal

Nadene Goldfoot
We know that the charter of Hamas calls for Israel's destruction. They have stated that they will of course not recognize Israel nor negotiate with them.  This has been written up in their charter for years.   Their Prime Minister sitting in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh,  is trying to talk Fatah into rescinding their recognition of Israel.  Their reasoning for this is that Israel objects to the Palestinian unity agreement joining Fatah and Hamas.  Their reasoning is libelous as they have always felt this way. 

At the same time, Haniyeh stated that "Israel's presence on OUR land is ILLEGAL and cannot be recognized".  What he is stating is simply a lie that his people will probably swallow.  Israel was created by every legal means, both by buying land and by its creation in the UN.  It was not anyone's land at the time.  It had been in the Ottoman Empire's holding who lost it by being a part of the Axis Germany's side in the WWI, thereby losing it and the result was the land "Palestine" was being overseen by Britain.  The only "our" involved is that it is in the crossroads of humanity in the midst of Islamic people.  It was a very neglected piece of real-estate that nobody had wanted or used for 2,000 years and now is seen as "OUR" land.  Does it matter to anyone that it was originally Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel)?  Rome worked so hard to take it but then didn't do a thing with it other than give it this new name of Palestina.  To the religious, it was land intended for the Jews and has been laid barren till their return. 

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke with Catherine Ashton, Europe's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.  He told her that Israel expects the EU to be cautious about the Fatah-Hamas agreement.  He said that Europe should demand Hamas to comply with the International Quartet terms; recognize Israel, take out the clause calling for Israel's destruction , end the terror and honor past agreements with Israel.  He also added that he wanted Hamas to allow the Red Cross to visit Gilad Shalit, Israel's kidnapped soldier. 

If these terms are not met, the message to Hamas will be that terrorism pays off and there will never be a possibility of an Israel-Palestine Agreement.  What will happen is that Judea-Samaria will be taken over by Hamas and missiles and suicide terrorists will be attacking Israel from the east side as well.  Already there is this possibility coming from the north in Lebanon. 

My feeling is that the Hamas-Fatah marriage will snub the EU expectations as usual.  The EU will sit back and watch as usual.  It will be up to Israel to defend itself as usual.  The people hurt will not be Israelis but the Palestinians for again joining the wrong side.  This can all take place unless the Palestinians have the insight to vote in their coming elections for a different sort of existence by voting Hamas out and peace in with Israel. 
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4062337,00.html

Palestinians Dependant on the Dole- Rug Now Pulled Out

Nadene Goldfoot
For the Past 63 years the Palestinian people have lived in a state of being on the dole-dependent on money given to them from various sources like the UN, USA, and even Israel.

70% of Fatah's money comes from Israel who warned them last week that they can't keep giving them money if it's going to be used by Hamas and therefore against Israel.  Because Fatah and Hamas have unified themselves once again, Israel's $88 million dollars collected from customs and levee taxes will not be going to them. 

The result is that both Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) cannot pay their 150,000 employees.  They're going to try to force Israel to pay it. 

What country in their right mind would hand over money to be used for weaponry against them?  None that I know of.  Abbas should have considered this a week ago. 

Resource:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110501/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_taxes

J Street Co -Founder's Freudian Slip About Israel

Nadene Goldfoot
In viewing the historical facts about the re-birth of Israel, one has to start with the beginning of Israel's history of over 3,000 years ago.  You cannot start with a week before May 14, 1948, which is how the Palestinians view our history along with J Streeters who seem to have accepted this viewpoint.

Also, one should be very well versed in the history of the Arabs now calling themselves "Palestinians."  The best history book out about this is "From Time Immemorial-the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters.  It was done so well by this Christian journalist that our American presidents had her on their counsel as an advisor.  Nay-sayers such as Chomsky and Finklestein (the latter now barred from entering Israel) have not accepted her work as they are on the opposite side and do not back Israel's existence at all. 

One week before Israel's birthday happened to be a scene of intense fighting for the Jews in Israel.  They were fighting against Arabs attacking them along with the British who hadn't left as yet.  My own cousin, Stanley Goldfoot was involved.  He saw the 70 some doctors killed trying to get to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem while driving there, attacked by Arabs.  He had been in prison in Acco.  By the act of President Truman, we were able to declare Israel a state once again.  The fighting didn't stop.  If anything, it intensified.   Israel was attacked by all the surrounding Arab nations as a result.  Not only that, but Jews living in Arab lands were thrown out of their country and wound up coming to Israel at the same time that Arab leaders told their people to leave this new land of Israel. 

Daniel Levy  happens to be a co-founder of J Street.  He was attending their convention held in Washington in March.  He told everyone that perhaps Israel isn't such a good idea, and this tells me that his background is so lacking that he doesn't have any education at all about Israel's history.  Otherwise he wouldn't feel that way.  This defeatist is a leader in an opposing group to AIPAC, who happen to be supporters of Israel. 

Jews happen to be a very independent group of original thinkers.  Our in-joke about ourselves is that if two Jews were stranded on an island they would build three synagogues; one for each and the other for the one neither would want to attend.  Israel follows this in its government by having from the very left to the very right as members of the Knesset.  Hopefully we all have one thing in common: a belief in the right of Israel to exist.  It isn't even up for discussion.  Yet here is a J Street leader lacking the faith in the country he says he is supporting, albeit in a very peculiar way as we have been seeing.  His Freudian slip tells us the truth:  he doesn't. 

I contend that the Palestinians demanding to have a state of their own now stems from their leadership who advised them to leave Palestine as they were attacking and after winning the people could take over the homes of Jews.  These "Palestinians" have continued to be used as pawns in the fight against Israel's existence. They have been fed a history written by their leaders about themselves and Israel filled with lies.   Those that stayed are now a part of Israel, even serving in the Knesset.   We don't need a group who when the going gets tough are the first to give in.  We need to back a group who is supportive and helpful. 

Resource: http://www.jikileaks.com/
From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters
Genesis 1948 by Dan Kurzman
http://calneocon.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/j-street-co-founder-daniel-levy-the-go-to-guy-for-the-hate-israel-first-media-big-journalism.html
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2010/11/j-street-co-founder-daniel-levy-israel.html
http://cifwatch.com/2010/10/05/j-street-co-founder-daniel-levy-israel%E2%80%99s-creation-%E2%80%9Can-act-that-was-wrong%E2%80%9D/

Hamas PM Considering A Deal Thrusting Israel to 67 Borders

Nadene Goldfoot
Ismail Haniya is the prime minister of Hamas terrorists in Gaza and just said he was ready to resign.  He has been counseled in Cairo, Egypt whose people have set forth the plan of a transitional unity government which will hold elections.  Egypt has an interest in this as they share a border with Gaza. 

The Fatah prime minister is Salam Fayyad who hopes that this agreement will lead to the "reunification of the nation.  This will allow the people to decide their destiny and establish an independent state on "all territories occupied since 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital." 

So here we see what they are intending to do.  Push back Israel to the 1967 borders just like that and take East Jerusalem.  I doubt if Israel wlll be so obliging.  Actually, they have just decided to go back to the point they used to be at before their big split when they were encouraged to hold elections and Hamas won.  This time Mubarek isn't available to respect the peace pact that Egypt had with Israel and seems to be going against the idea with their new democratic ideas.  Democracy for them, destruction for Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East is their plan.   

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110430/wl_mideast_afp/palestinianspoliticsunityhaniya
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110430/wl_mideast_afp/palestinianspoliticsunityisrael
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=218541
http://www.debka.com/article/20878/

The Big Pretender: J Street

Nadene Goldfoot
It's not enough that Israel has been attacked at the beginning of its birth on May 14, 1948 by the surrounding Arab nations.  It's not enough that it has had to endure constant battles ever since then.  Now an organization pretending to be on Israel's side has been found to be quite the opposite.  I contend that the Intelligent members of this organization have done a disappointing and half -way job of checking into it and are backing the Arab groups that are against Israel by belonging.

This has become so serious that the Knesset in Jerusalem heard testimony and evidence from Lenny Ben David on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 about J Street. With all the dangers Israel is facing, they had to take time out to discuss this group from the USA.   The truth of the matter is that this group hides behind the cover of being a pro-Israel organization and is known very well in Washington while their activities "undermine and hurt the State of Israel."

Examples:
1.. The Fogel family was massacred in Itamar, Samaria.  So J Street tried to block a letter from congress which was attacking Palestinian incitement.  J Street thinks that Congress should address the actions and words of both the Arabs and the Israelis that hamper the chances to achieve peace. 

2. J Street's leaders are Jeremy Ben-Ami and David Gilo.  They both claim to have 170,000 supporters.   They don't tell you that this number respresents all people hitting J Street's website.  They're tallied as supporters. 

3.  J Street supported the UN condemnation of Israel last month.

4.  J Street opposed the US veto of the resolution of condemning Israel.  They actually went against a USA decision we were all praying for.  Their cop-out, Gilo explained, was that they were following policies of 8 other American presidents-though they were opposing Obama's administration who viewed this as a dangerous and inappropriate act against Israel.  Rep. Gary Ackerman felt J Street was not open-minded or knows what is support for Israel and thinks their brains have fallen out!  This was a shocking and disgusting move on J Street's part. 

5. a. Two-faced signals come out of J Street.  They claim to oppose the boycott of Israel.
But  they also provided a platform for the foremost Boycott-divestment-Sanctions (BDS) organization, the Jewish Voices for Peace at the Washington Conference. 
5.b. J Street also co-sponsored a congressional mission to Israel with the Churches for Middle East Peace.  This group consists of pro-BDS organizations.

5c. J Street opposed sanctions against Iran.
They also state that it always supported sanctions against Iran, but this is not true.  They joined with the pro-Iranian lobby, the National Iranian American council (NIAC), to oppose congressional efforts to impose santions on Iran.Leader Ben-Ami and NIAC director Trita Parsi co-authored an anti-sanctions piece titled "How diplomacy Can work with Iran" in the Huffington Post in June 2009. 

6. J Steet supports the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity group who are against Jews living in old Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.  This group demonstrates every week.

7. J Street hosted the SJS at a recent conference in Washington.  The SJS manifesto calls for the "liquidation or fundamental change of organizations that contribute to the dispossession of Arabs, including the following:
  a.  Jewish Agency
  b. Jewish National Fund
  c. Israel Lands Authority.

8. J Street has supported Richard Goldstone of the infamous Goldstone Report damaging Israel but now detracted by Goldstone himself.  J Street even set up meetings for him on Capitol Hill while defaming Israel.  A Goldstone letter to US Congress came from J Street's computer of Morton Halperin, Soros advisor. 

9. J Street sponsored UNRWA leader-Israel critic John Ging on American speaking tours. 

10. Chutzpa of J Street includes intensive public relations in Israel by Ben-Or communications presenting  J Street narrative without any response. This communications Ben-Or is owned by Oriella Ben-Tzvi and Jeremy Ben-Ami!  Collusion!  Ben-Or respresents Israel's worst detractors like Jimmy Carter, the "elders," Yesh Din, Amnesty International, and National Public Radio in the USA.


 Money to J Street
1. Large contributions come from a NIAC director, Genevieve Lynch of New York.  She's on J Street's Finance Committee.as well.
2. J Steet has a political action committee.  They receive money from sources in:
  a.  pro-Saudi lobby
  b. Arab-American lobby
  c. pro-Iranian lobby
3. George Soros-anti-Israel billionaire-denied by Jeremy Ben-Ami.   U.S. Internal Revenue Service documents reveal this is not true.  Now Gilo said this was to have been kept a secret, and that Soros's half-million dollar contribution was small! 
4. Consolacion Esdicul, woman from Hong Kong, contributed $811,697 which was half of the 2009 budget.  Who she is is unknown and thoughts are about money laundering going on. 

What I surmise here is a wolf in sheep's clothing.  The discovery is who is really backing J Street: monied people who do not have Israel's interest at heart.  More than that, it's some of our own people who are traitors to their own people.  At a time when Israel needs all the support it can muster, it is being drawn and quartered by this selfish and self righteous group.  Gary Ackerman was right.  "Their brains have fallen out."

Resource: Eric Leibman, J Street at it again;  Attacking efforts to defend Israel by Jennifer Rubin, Twenty-Six Reasons J Street's Demise Shouldn't Be Mourned by Lenny Ben-David; The J Steet files; Jikileaks visit Itamar at http://www.friendsofitamar.org/ 
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=189445 J Street's a Crooked Road
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/blowing_j_streets_cover.html
http://fieryspiritedzionist.blogspot.com/2010/05/j-street-follies.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/26/jewish-lawmaker-slams-j-street-backing-anti-israel-resolution/
http://www.forward.com/articles/135838/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/02/dennis_ross_disappoints_j_stre.html
http://www.jikileaks.com/

War or Peace on the Horizen

Nadene Goldfoot
Upon hearing that Fatah and Hamas have joined together in a reconciliation agreement, Netanyahu commented that Abbas has to choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas.  Fatah can't have peace with both of them because Hamas's charter and expressed goals are to destroy Israel.  They are showing the world their desire to do so by shooting  missiles into Israel. 

To confirm this, Mahmoud Azhar of Hamas said their political platform is:
No recognition of Israel
No negotiations with Israel
His view of a combined government with Fatah is only to handle internal Palestinian issues.

Nabil Abu Rudena of Fatah reports that their reconciliation with Hamas signed in Cairo are internal Palestinian issues. 

I think they both are giving Israel the double-talk.  What all do internal matters cover politically?  Water, oil, traffic control?  No, they're attempting a marriage between the two terrorist groups.  Whether or not the marriage lasts and doesn't end in another divorce is to be seen. 

At least Netanyahu laid it out for Abbas.  You can't have your cake and eat it, too.  Either Israel will view you as a friend or as an enemy, depending on your alliance with Hamas. 

Lately, there have been several acts showing that Fatah is still an enemy.  Just what have they been doing to show they want to be at peace with Israel and will prove to be a good neighbor?  The government keeps promoting maps in their schools without Israel-only Palestine. Their history books teach a biased slanted hodgepodge of misinformation about Israel and about Palestine.   Is this their Freudian slip?   Their 63 year old attitude towards Jews shows up in continued slayings  of families and people in Judea and Samaria stemming from their national hatred.  Their hatred shows up for Israel to see when Abbas and other officials attend and lead ceremonies honoring their violent terrorist martyrs where they name streets and such for them. 

Resource:  http://palwatch.org/site/modules/print/preview.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4951&section=all

Israeli Philosophy Prof's Reply About a Palestine Next Door

Nadene Goldfoot
Asa Kasher is the co-author of the first IDF Code of Ethics in Israel.  He reminds us that the Zionists supported the 1947 Partition decision which created a state for Jews and a state for Palestinians and that we recognized it from the start.  Now we're all wondering if this Palestine is going to be established and under what circumstances since Hamas is dedicated to Israel's destruction as according to their unchanged charter.  Kasher  remarked that he doesn't have to help in the establishment of something that wants to wipe him out. 

I would think that this is the feeling of most Israelis today.  Hamas and Fatah have just joined forces.  Who will be the leader?  Does this mean that both groups will work on the destruction of Israel outwardly?  Or does it mean that Hamas will continue from its end in Gaza and Fatah will go back to their old PLO attacks from Judea and Samaria?  There's not much here for Israel to celebrate. 

Kasher comments that nobody tried harder than Israel to warn Palestinians in Gaza to leave a combat zone.  They even published a map of Hizbullah positions in South Lebanon and released details of hundreds of villages where Hizbullah was deep inside the village.  If Hizbullah fires on the army, they have to return fire so the publication is a warning to the people to stay out of danger.

If people don't leave the combat zone they become a human shield for the terrorists and thus becomes part of the war.  He doesn't want to harm human shields, but it could happen.  In cases like this, our soldiers' lives are not to be endangered. 

Israel's soldiers serve because serving is mandatory for this little state. and Israel is not about to put these young men into reckless danger.  Israel also takes measures to minimize harm to those who are not dangerous to us and is without equal anywhere else.  Self-defense includes attacking the source of the attack.  Israelis have no reason to think that one Kassams or katyushas will not be followed by another and this must be stopped and so Israel is permitted to attack it.  I add that no one in their right mind can sit back and take attacks without trying to stop the attacks.  These attacks are not over intelligent reasons, they stem from hatred and the inability to accept a Democratic Jewish State in their midst. 

To top it off, all this time the United States has been trying to force Israel into a peace plan with Syria but has finally seen how Syria really is after watching them mow down their own people for their desire of a democratic state.  This pressure is now expected to stop. 
Resource: Jerusalem Post by David Horovitz. 
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=218005
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=217479