Crash Course on the Arab Israeli Conflict
It's important information since we don't get fair and accurate reporting from the media and facts tend to get lost in the jumble of daily events .
Crash Course on the Arab Israeli Conflict
Here are overlooked facts in the current Middle East situation .
These were compiled by a Christian university professor .
BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY . . . .
(It takes just 1 . 5 minutes to read!!!!)
It makes sense and it's not slanted . Jew and non-Jew -- it doesn't matter .
1 . Nationhood and Jerusalem . Israel became a nation in 1312 B . C . E . Two thousand years before the rise of Islam .
2 . Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel .
3 . Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B . C . E . , the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years .
4 . The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C . E . lasted no more than 22 years .
5 . For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital . Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity . Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem , they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit .
6 . Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures . Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran .
7 . King David founded the city of Jerusalem . Mohammed never came to Jerusalem .
8 . Jews pray facing Jerusalem . Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem, facing Mecca.
9 . Arab and Jewish Refugees: In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews . Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier .
10 . The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms .
11 . The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000 . The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same .
12 . Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory . Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands . Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel , a country no larger than the state of New Jersey .
13 . The Arab - Israeli Conflict: The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians . There is only one Jewish nation . The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost . Israel defended itself each time and won .
14 . The P . L . O . 's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel . Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them.
15 . Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship . Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths .
16 . The U . N . Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel .
17 . Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel .
18 . The U . N was silen t while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians .
19 . The U . N . was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives .
20 . The U . N . was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall .
These are incredible times . We have to ask what our role should be . What will we tell our grandchildren we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?
START NOW- Send this to 18 other people you know and ask them to send it to eighteen others, Jew and non-Jew--it doesn't really matter .
THE JEWISH RIGHT TO ERETZ YISRAEL
THE LAND OF ISRAEL
Compiled by Bernard J. Shapiro
And it came to pass, that when the sun went down and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace and a Flaming torch that passed between these places. That day the lord made a covenant with Abram, saying:
"UNTO THY SEED HAVE I GIVEN THIS LAND."
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DAVID BEN GURION, founding father and first Prime Minister of Israel, had this to say about territorial concessions (Zionist Congress of 1937, Basle, Switzerland): "I say from the point of view of realizing Zionism it is better to have immediately a Jewish state, even if it would only be in a part of the western Land of Israel. I prefer this to a continuation of the British Mandate...in the whole of the western Land of Israel. But before clarifying my reasoning, I have to make a remark about principle. If we were offered a Jewish state in the western Land of Israel in return for our relinquishing our historical right over the whole Land of Israel, then I would postpone the state.
"No Jew has the right to relinguish the right of the Jewish people over the whole Land of Israel. No Jewish body has such authority, not even the whole Jewish people has the authority to waive the right (to the Land of Israel) for future generations for all time."
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Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud Party in his book A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS writes the following when told that Judea and Samaria are foreign "occupied" lands:
"This land, where every swing of a spade unearths remnants of the Jewish past and where every village carries the barely altered Hebrew names of old; this land, in which the Jews became a nation and over which they shed more tears than have been shed by any other people in history; this land, the loss of which resulted in an exile of the Jews such as has been suffered by no other people and the spilling of a sea of blood such as has been spilled by no other nation; this land, which never ceased to live as a distant but tangible home in the minds of Jewish children from Toledo in medieval Spain to the Warsaw ghetto in our own century; this land, for which the Jews fought with unsurpassed courage and tenacity in ancient as in modern times -- this is the "foreign land" that world leaders now demand be barred to Jews and that Israel (should) unilaterally forsake.
The answer to such absurd demands must be a resounding NO!"
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