Obama Administration on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood Goals

Nadene Goldfoot

"America’s fundamental inability to take religion and ideology seriously persists."  

Senator John Kerry, likely the next Secretary of State, stated confidently after meeting Morsi in Cairo in June, 2012 that the Egyptian president was “committed to protecting fundamental freedoms” and “said he understood the importance of Egypt’s post-revolutionary relationships with America and Israel.”

"The Obama administration has shown even more willingness than its predecessors to look the other way in the face of Brotherhood abuses of power—and of women and religious minorities—in pursuit of an “authentic” Egyptian democracy.  It has not taken the Brotherhood’s credo to heart: “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law; the Prophet is our leader; jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.”   No wonder Obama selected Kerry as the possible Secretary of State.  

The Muslim Brotherhood was created in 1928 in Egypt and banned several times starting in 1948.  it supported the Egyptian Revolution in 1952 and tried to assassinate President Nasser.  By electing Morsi, it is now in power.  President Anwar Sadat, Israel's peace partner, was assassinated on October 7, 1981.   "The attackers would eventually come to be identified as Islamist nationalists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood under the name of Islamic Jihad.  Mubarak took over and carried out all previous peace programs.

"As a result of Sadat's assassination, the Muslim Brotherhood remained banned and the Camp David Accords were saved, along with Egypt's power elite. Vice President Mubarak, now President, completed Sadat's term and went on to lead Egypt for the next thirty years. Furthermore, had the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power back in 1981, it would have repudiated the Camp David Accords at once." Morsi won the so called election and put a very ill Mubarak in prison.

We all thought when Kerry  was running for President that he was pro-Israel.  Time tells a confusingly different story.
"At the Democratic Convention in 2012 Kerry ignored the decision of his party leadership to remove Jerusalem from their platform and instead opened his podium speech by attacking Romney for his “neo-con advisors” and then proceeded to quote Benjamin Netanyahu out of context."

We all know what Kerry meant when he said “neo-cons” – it is code speak for pro-Zionists. Kerry’s words show that he will be hostile to the very existence  of Israeli towns in the suburbs of Jerusalem. Democrats consider these “settlements” to be part of the “Occupied West Bank” and he will label them as such.  Such thinking is like a double-edged sword.  What does he not approve of;  Jerusalem suburbs or Zionists?  Obviously he hasn't checked with international lawyers such as Professor Eugene Kontorovich about Jerusalem.

President Obama does not seem to approve of Israel, especially with his tussle with Netanyahu over 1969 lines that was watched on TV,  and his choices reflect this  with Kerry and Hagel.  If Israel finds itself in a vise, we can look to our own Jewish population of which 69%  voted in this President.  Though Jews are only about 2% of the USA population, they are leaders.  J Street takes an opposing view compared with AIPAC as the  “pro-peace, pro-Israel” J Street lobby group and said Hagel “would be an outstanding choice” to head the Pentagon."  "(AIPAC), the most influential pro-Israel lobby group, has so far kept a discreet silence, although a former longstanding spokesman, Josh Block, who now heads The Israel Project, strongly denounced Hagel for his opposition to sanctions against Iran and his refusal to sign various letters and resolutions against Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas that were favoured, if not drafted, by AIPAC.

Resource: http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/5598/features/america-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-a-romance/
http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/john_kerry_at_state_a_disaster_for_israel
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/neo-cons-israel-lobby-mobilise-to-pre-empt-obama-pentagon-favourite/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/jewish-voter-exit-polls_n_2084008.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood
http://middleeast.about.com/od/egypt/a/me081006a.htm
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/12/chuck-hagel-on-docket-for-defense.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-change-obama-had-in-store-for-israel.html

INTERNATIONAL LAW: On West Bank-Professor Eugene Kontorovich on The Legal Case for Israel

Nadene Goldfoot
I just listened to a fantastic lecturer on youtube (below) The Legal Case For Israel through international law.  People throw this law around like peanuts, but it has specific parameters.

Professor Eugene Kontorovich  teaches at Northwestern University, School of Law, and specializes in constitutional and international law.  He is one man that knows the history of Israel and how it was dealt with through the League of Nations to start its history.

He  " is an internationally sought-after lecturer, and speaks frequently about the legal and historical aspects of the Israeli-Arab conflict at synagogues, Chabad houses, and student groups at dozens of universities across the country, such as Columbia, NYU, Berkley, Chicago, Georgetown, Michigan, and dozens of others, as well as the Israeli Military Advocate General’s International Law Department, CAMERA, the AJC, Decalogue Society."

"He attended the University of Chicago for college and law school, and ultimately taught there. After law school, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In a previous career, he was a newspaperman at Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and for many years at the Forward, where he reported from New York, Washington, Israel and Lebanon."

You will hear him explain that "The 1949 Armistice Lines (mistakenly called the "1967 borders") are emphatically not national boundaries."  The video below is about an hour and well worth the time spent listening.  It's like attending a fantastic class with points well explained with some dry humor added.    Did you know that "War" is illegal?  Self defense is legal.  Aggressive conquest is illegal according to international law.  There are laws that do make sense, only it seems that many disregard them.  Please listen if you care about what the international law really is saying.

Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2x5UvjUs4
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/EugeneKontorovich/
http://www.torahcafe.com/scholar/professor-eugene-kontorovich_0000000742.html
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/01/eugene-kontorovichs-talk-at-nyu-on.html

Muslim Brotherhood's Baddest "Supreme Guide", Mohammed Badie

                                                                                                  
Nadene Goldfoot                                                               
Mohammed Badie is the head guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and has been since January 16, 2010.  He represents the worst type of philosophy, akin to Nazism.  Even the Liberal Egyptians are wary of him.  Qaradawi seemed to be the head earlier but when the Muslim Brotherhood was banned in 1954, he had no future in Egypt so moved to Qatar in 1961 where his theological influence on Egypt continued.

This 69 year old veterinarian earned his degree in Cairo in 1965 and in the same year was arrested for his political activity in the Muslim Brotherhood, which was outlawed.  He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, then paroled in 1974 by Anwar al-Sadat.  He taught in various Egyptian universities.

Badie accused the Arab and Muslim regimes of avoiding confrontation with the a"Zionist entity" and the USA, and of disregarding "Allah's commandment to wage jihad for His sake with their money and lives, so that Allah's word will reign supreme and the infidels' word will be inferior.  He said that the USA is immoral and doomed to collapse, and said the PA (Abbas) sold out the Palestinian cause.  He added that the 3rd intifada was about to erupt and that "resistance is the only solution against the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny, and all we need is for the Arab and Muslim peoples to stand behind it and support it."

Badie  said that the Jews have dominated the land, spread corruption on earth, spilled the blood of believers and in their actions profaned holy places, including their own. Ah yes, Jews happen to be 0.02 % of the world population, compared to the Muslims who make up 23% of the world population. Dominate the land!  Jews couldn't even buy land in Europe, and they were forced to be dminnis (2nd class) in Muslims countries.

 Badie is  just about describing the actions of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.  He wants the Arab world to reject negotiations with Israel in favor of "Holy Jihad."  He says the Zionists only understand force, whereas it seems that that is the only thing that Hamas understands.  When it comes to the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, which is the remnant of the wall from King Solomon's Temple, he thinks that Jews praying there would result in the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.  Jews have good reason to believe that the Muslims have been destroying antiques in the Mosque from the days of being the Temple.  "In July 2007 the Muslim religious trust which administers the Mount began digging a 400-metre-long, 1.5-metre-deep trench from the northern side of the Temple Mount compound to the Dome of the Rock  in order to replace 40-year-old electric cables in the area. Israeli archaeologists accused the waqf of a deliberate act of cultural vandalism.

He should have stuck to veterinarian causes, like beating the paro-virus.  He has his facts all messed up.  Yet, why do people listen to him and follow his ideals?  Could it be that they can't read?  If you can't read, you surely can't do much on Internet, so the only resource you have of news would be al-Jazeera TV from Qatar, headed by Qaradawi.  He seems to be a cookie-cutter Qaradawi in his hatred for Israel.

Israel's literacy level for the 8 million population  out of 29 countries in the Middle East is the third highest  with illiteracy at 3% only for adults 15 years and older. The best was Armenia (Christian country, March 22, 1992 became member of UN, population 3,299,000,000) with only 1% illiterates and Azerbaijan, population 8,656,000 at 1.2%.   Egypt's population of 79,089,650  has 28% illiteracy.  Afghanistan's population of 28,395,716  has 72% illiteracy.  Qatar has 11%, but they don't count any people working there that came in from other states as citizens and so wouldn't have counted them.  Most of their population of 744,029 people are relatives and dear friends such as Qaradawi.  Other neighbors of Israel are Jordan's 5,568,565 population with 9% illiteracy, Lebanon's 4,196,453 population having 12% illiteracy and Syria's population of 22,505,000 (minus 60,000 recently killed) with a 19% illiteracy level.  Just for comparison, the USA and Canada have 99% literacy.  They claim only 1% to be illiterate. The Middle East is far behind.

Now, how many are bilingual is another story, for if they do not read or understand English, they are only getting a one-sided view of history and the world.  I was part of a program for the Israeli government to teach English, and taught in a junior high.  Many religious groups have gone into Muslim countries to teach English, which can be very dangerous for the teachers as they are accused often times and maybe rightly so, for teaching their religion as well.

Badie, just in July 2012 in his weekly sermon, stated that Israelis are "rapists" of Jerusalem, and called on all Muslim to "wage jihad with their money and their selves to free al-Quds. He disregards the Jewish history and that Jerusalem was founded by King David, a Jew in 1,000 BCE,  which means that Jerusalem and Israel and Judah are our 3,000 year old Jewish history.   In other words, another religious zealot is saying to kill Jews to take over Jerusalem.  He refers to  the creation of Israel in International Law as an  "alleged, illusory right."  Therefore, he has no regard for the UN as well.  If the Arabs refuse to recognize Israel, how can they expect Israel to recognize Palestine?  Or, how can the UN recognize Palestine when they refuse to recognize Israel?

November 22, 2012, Badie said that peace deal with Israel are a "game of grand deception."  Again, he wants force to be used as that is the only thing that Israel understands, he thinks.  He pounds in the idea that Jihad is obligatory for Muslims.  This was said the day after Morsi brokered a truce after 8 days of Israel and Hamas fighting.

To the illiterate souls who abound around Israel, Badie's words  would be like hearing the Gospel or word of G-d.  It happens to be all wrong.  Israel was created in a peaceful and legal process that took many years of meetings and more meetings.  The United Nations put it through.  It was not created out of Palestinian lands, as we know the word today "Palestinian" meaning Arabs.  Before 1948, both Jews and Arabs were Palestinians that lived in land held by the Ottoman Empire and known as "Palestine."  The Ottoman Empire Turks ruled the land for 400 years.  They lost it when they were defeated in WWI.

The Arabs who lived in Palestine considered themselves to be Syrians, not Palestinians.  There was no country of Palestine.  That was simply the name given to the land by the Romans.  They had taken Jerusalem in 70 CE.  Jews had a final revolt trying to get rid of them in 135 CE by Bar Kochba and failed.  Thus Palestine became a hateful name as it was the name of enemies of Israel and Judah.

After WWI, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq were created artificially out of the Turkish Empire by the British and French victors of WWI.  Transjordan was created out of about 80% of the Palestine Mandate which was originally designated by the League of Nations as part of the Jewish Homeland.  Then later the king called it Jordan when he seized Judah and Samaria illegally in 1948.  Two-thirds of Jordan's citizens are Palestinian Arabs, but its ruler is  Abdullah II, a Hashemite king, though he is married to a beautiful Palestinian girl, now Queen Rania,  whose parents were "Palestinians" from  Samaria's Tulkarm (West Bank) but had moved to Kuwait, where Rania was born. The family moved to Jordan in 1991.  

In 1948, the UN partition plan mandated the creation of 2 states on the remaining 20% of the Palestine Mandate:  the State of Israel for the Jews, and another state for the Arabs.  The Arabs rejected their state and instead, attacked Israel.  After starting in around 1880 and continually working , Israel was at last to become a state on May 14, 1948.

 Jews have been fighting the last 2,000 years since our separation from Judah,  anti-Semitic  discrimination, exclusion, and persecution that has historically occurred in the diaspora (outside Judah).   Israel means more to Jews than ever since the Holocaust.  The Arabs haven't given up on their ambition to drive Israel into the sea and pile up so many conditions for sitting at a peace table that they are sure to never have to worry about maintaining a state.

Badie is not popular with all of Egypt, for the opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood's most fervent chants were aimed at Badie who think he is secretly ruling Egypt.  "Down with the guide!" they yelled.  He is seen as the dark prince of a coming Islamist tyranny.  He keeps on delivering these terrible sermons and speeches to a widely illiterate listening audience.

Reference: dailyalert@list-dailyalert.org  and Washington Post
Big Lies:  Demolishing The Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel by David Meir-Levi from David Horowitz Freedom Center
Wikipedia on Mohammed Badie
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/me090425b.htm
http://ostarmenia.com/?page_id=1387&lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Rania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulkarm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount
http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/788C5421-70E3-4E4D-BFF4-9BE14E4A2E58,DB7611A
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_lit_tot_pop-education-literacy-total-population

Hidden Documents in Afghanistan Including Saadyah Gaon's Commentaries

Nadene Goldfoot
How did the Saadyah Gaon's 1,000 year old commentary manuscripts on the Bible wind up in a remote fox's cave that was a Taliban hideout stronghold in northern Afghanistan?  These were discovered by villagers near the Iran-Uzbekistan border.  This cache, about 150 documents, the Afghan Genizah, has "rocked the world of scholars", Haaretz reported.

A Gaon was an intellectual leader of the Babylonian Jewish community in the post-talmudic period from the 6th to 11th centuries. Gaons headed 2 leading academies, Sura and Pumbedita, and their influence extended for the greater part of this period over all Jewry.   The most famous Gaon of this acadamy was Saadyah, born in Egypt, appointed in 928 CE.  When he died in 942, the academy closed for 45 years, but reopened finally with his son, Dosa in 1013-17.

The area this cave is in was once an important cultural, political and economic center in the Medieval era.  It's part of the Silk Road,"  the main trading route between China and Europe during the Middle Ages.".  "Along the way, Jewish trading stations were established for Jewish traders, and over time they became Jewish communities.  Jews from Baghdad and Allepo, of Karaite Jews and Jews from Persia all settled in the same region." said Professor Ben-Shammai of Hebrew University.

 There was a Jewish merchant class known as the Raddanites, and these documents might shed more light on them.  Jewish merchants were involved in trade between the Christian and Islamic worlds during the early Middle Ages (approx. 500–1000). Many trade routes previously established under the Roman Empire continued to function during that period largely through their efforts. Their trade network covered much of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of India and China.  They spoke Arabic, Persian, Roman, and the languages of the Franks, Andalusians, and Slavs.  There were 4 basic routes that they followed.  A major route was from Southern France to China.

A dealer in Jerusalem got a small part of the collection and offered it for sale to the National Library in Israel.  They are 1,000 year old Jewish documents. Saadyah Gaon has 29 pages, commentary on Isaiah 34, written in Judeo-Arabic. Besides the religious comments were secular papers as well.

Reference: http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/ancient-jewish-manuscripts-found-331/print/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/medieval-texts-found-in-afghan-cave/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-s-national-library-buys-1-000-year-old-jewish-documents-from-afghanist
http://www.timesofisrael.com/medieval-texts-found-in-afghan-cave/
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanite
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com 

Al Gore Gives USA Al Jazeera TV Right From Qatar

Nadene Goldfoot
Al Jazeera is the TV channel from Qatar whose main man is Qaradawi, that infamous Islamic Cleric that Mubarak had ousted from Egypt because of his radical theology.  Qatar took him in gladly, and from there he has issued fatwas against Jews.  He is old and in a wheelchair, but would kill Jews with his bare hands if he could catch one.  Qaradawi is a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood that has spawned many terrorist groups including Hamas and Al Qaeda.

Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt own a low rated liberal cable station, Current TV, which enters about 42,000 households..  Al Jazeera just bought it for a reported $500 million.  Now they can broadcast to 40 million homes in the USA.  It is estimated that Gore, who owns 20% of Current TV, will make $100 million for his share.  He made the deal just before the higher income tax rates which will kick in on January 1, 2013.  "By selling Current,  Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt are giving up their vision for an alternative to MSNBC, which has much higher-rated liberal hosts."

Al Gore had consistently called himself a friend of Israel.  When it comes to money, friends flit away.  Qatar is definitely anti-Israel and Gore must realize that, but had the chutzpa to say that Current TV speaks the truth about power and provides independent and diverse points of view and tells stories that no one else is telling and that they have this in common.  That's not my opinion of Al Jazeera.  Being Jewish, any gung-ho Islamic zealot might try to take me out just because of Qaradawi's fatwa.  I should say that if this happens, my family should sue the government.  Al Jazeera does tell stories no one else tells if they are about Israel, for they do a lot of telling tales befitting the Arabian Nights in their truth.  Their stories are all slated to suit themselves.  

Al Jazeera deals with anti-Israel, anti-Jewish propaganda.  It has a long record as the chosen news outlet for Al Qaeda and other terrorist cells.  Osama bin Laden used it regularly to post videos attacking America and called for renewed acts of terror with it.  Now that it will be available in the USA, terrorists will be able to communicate with each other easier.  It will be the catalyst for jihadist terrorism.

Time Warner Cable said it will cancel its contract with Current TV so it will not have to show Al Jazeera's propaganda on its system.  This means 12.5 million homes are spared.  I thank Time Warner for leading the way to what others should do.  "With a handful of exceptions (including New York City and Washington), American cable and satellite distributors have mostly refused to carry Al Jazeera English since its inception in 2006."

"Al Jazeera's network also  broadcasted  in their  Arabic-language  in the coverage of the Iraq War and broadcasted the al Qaeda tapes, even targeting its headquarters in Bagdad during the Iraq War. Perceptions that the news organization, which is funded by Qatar's government, is anti-American.  The average household will not understand what is said in Arabic but the Muslims here surely will.

So Al Gore, now a rich hypocrite,  doesn't mind giving terrorists their opportunity to air their "diverse points of view." It looks like this Democrat is very much interested in money. Evidently being Vice President of the USA from 1993 to 2001 under Bill Clinton didn't pay enough.  In 2001 his annual salary was $230,700 plus  $10,000 taxable expense allowance.  Fox News said that "Al-Jazeera has been criticized for having a pro-Islamist bent."  Of course, it's coming out of Qatar where  Qaradawi has his own show.  Al-Jazeera was accused of working with members of Al Qaeda.  One of their journalists was arrested in Israel in 2011 on suspicion of being an agent of Hamas.

"In a stunning development yesterday Al Gore sold his TV network, Current, to Osama bin Laden mouthpiece Al Jazeera. The Blaze TV from Glenn Beck  asked about buying Current TV   but Gore said NO,  because he wanted to sell Current to someone "aligned" with his values. Naturally, Gore felt totally comfortable with the "terror tape" network that is Al Jazeera.

Resource: Al Gore, Joel Hyatt Sell Out Israel
By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com on January 3, 2013

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/al-jazeera-said-to-be-acquiring-current-tv/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/time-warner-al-jazeera-current-tv_n_2399370.html

MEMRI Sheikh Al-Qaradawi& Qatar's Education City Hosting american University Branches

http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/788C5421-70E3-4E4D-BFF4-9BE14E4A2E58,DB7611A...Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawai:  Theologian of Terror fro 2011

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/03/liberal-al-gore-becomes-very-rich-hypocrite-with-sale-current-tv/

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875856.html

Judea-Samaria Areas A, B, C: Who Lives There and Future

                                                           
Nadene Goldfoot
The Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 and the Judea-Samaria region was divided into areas A, B, and C.  Israel has full control of Area C where most of over 340,000 Jewish residents live.

Area A was assigned to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Assad became Chairman who took over from Yassar Arafat of the PLO terrorists.  Most of the Arabs live in this area.  Area B is under joint control and has large tracts of barren land.  

A conference scheduled for today, the third annual one,  is discussing whether area C should have Israel sovereignty and annex it.  Others feel the whole area should be annexed.  The sub title of the conference  is "From the Edmond Levy Sovereignty" organized by Women for Israel's Tomorrow, known as the "Women in Green."

The Arab population is not known exactly, but a close estimate is 1.5 million.  It's been hard getting accurate statistics because of the habit of Arab demographics in the past being artificially inflated by both  the British and the Palestinians.

Judah was the Jewish state formed out of the division of Israel after the death of King Solomon.  Rehoboam, Solomon's son by  his Ammonite wife Naamah,  was the first king (933-917 BCE). The state had 20 kings with the last being Zedekiah (597-586).

 Israel, the nation created by King David, has been later called Samaria since  Samaria was the capital of Israel, consisting of 25 acres, founded in 880 BCE by King Omri (887-876 BCE) , the 6th King after King Jeroboam (933-912 BCE) on a hill bought from Shemer.    Samaria withstood the siege of the Syrians but fell in 721 BCE to Sargon II of Assyria who carried off 10 of the 12 Israelite Tribes and then  resettled it with Cutheans (idolaters) who intermingled with the rest of the population but were refused marriage with Israelites.    They became the ancestors of the Samaritans.  The name, Samaria, also is applied to the entire northern region, formerly Israel of the central highlands.

 Jordan had illegally grabbed and occupied Judea-Samaria and east Jerusalem in 1948 when Israel was born again. According to the Balfour Doctrine, it was meant to be a part of the Jewish Homeland.  As it was, the 1948 Israel consisted of only 20% of the original promised Jewish Homeland.   It took till the 1967 attack on Israel by 8 Arab nations with Israel the winner that the formerly Jordanian-occupied neighborhoods of Jerusalem, including the Old City were officially incorporated as parts of Israel along with the Golan heights.  Judea and Samaria were never officially annexed by Israel, but the IDF Civil Administration has jurisdiction over the districts.

Abbas is threatening that if Netanyahu doesn't meet his demands, which are completely unreasonable and impossible,  he will not even sit down and talk about peace and is about to quit, putting the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria) in Netanyahu's hands.  Netanyahu is still all for a 2 state solution.

Resource: Arutz Sheva, news@israelnationalnews.com Conference on Israel's Annexing of Judea-Samaria
http://israelstreet.org/?p=6220 map with A, B, C areas
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11823 annexing
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.schechter.edu/AskTheRabbi.aspx?ID=477
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Oslo_Accords

King Solomon's Temple Relics Show Up in Highway Construction

Nadene Goldfoot
In the process of building a highway this month, Israel Antiquities Authority was called in because the construction crew found artifacts that turned out to be relics from King Solomon's Temple, 3,000 years ago.  They uncovered pottery, chalices, pedestals, and figurines including harnessed animals and a man with a beard.  This was part of Tel Motza near Jerusalem "which acted as the Kingdom's main sacred center at the time."

This shows "archaeological evidence for the existence of temples and ritual enclosures in the Kingdom of Judah in general, and in the Jerusalem region in particular, prior to the religious reforms throughout the kingdom at the end of the monarchic period (at the time of Hezekiah and Isaiah), which abolished all ritual sites, concentrating ritual practices solely at the Temple in Jerusalem."  It is a rare find.  

Earlier in August at the same Tel Motza, stone age figurines were unearthed.  In fact, discoveries have continued all over Israel.  Two years ago, the main road of Jerusalem from 1,500 years ago was exposed.  

Prof. Haim Goldfus, archaeologist, reported in 1992 of finding the remains of a ceramics workshop of the 10th Roman Legion in Jerusalem, who were part of the Roman conquest in 70 CE.  

I know that when I lived in Israel from 1980-1985, people loved to go on hikes just to see what they could spot that would be something from our past.  Digging in Israel's soil can be quite exciting.  

Resource: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/26/3115431/3000-year-old-temple-and-sacred-vessels-unearthed-near-jerusalem
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?modul_id=14
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1282
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Archaeology/jeruceram.html
1/8/13 http://unitedwithisrael.org/3000-year-old-jewish-temple-unearthed-near-jerusalem/