Posted on 10/04/2001 2:58:19 PM PDT by Exton1
Crash course on Arab Israeli conflict.
Everyone: Here are some conveniently overlooked facts in the current Middle East situation. These were compiled by a Christian university professor.
HERE ARE THE BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY....
Takes just 1.5 minutes to read!!!
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
2. Arab refugees 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 domination since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capitol. Jerusalem has never been the capitol of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capitol, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6.Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 hundred times in Bible. 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.
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 countries 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 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 and autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them with weapons.
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 silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians between 1948 and 1967.
19. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives between 1948 and 1967.
20. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall between 1948 and 1967.
These are incredible times. We have to ask what our role should be. What will we tell our grandchildren what we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?
18. The U.N. was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians between 1948 and 1967.
19. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives between 1948 and 1967.
20. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall between 1948 and 1967.
Not only was the UN silent, so were all of the "MODERATE," "PEACE-LOVING" ISLAMIC COUNTRIES.
Thanks to our support of Israel, there are now some six thousand-plus innocent Americans who will never have or see their grandchildren again
It seems like the only time I see an Islamic person laughing and smiling is when someone gets killed or blown up and they are celebrating.
Well, at least I'm not the only FReeper who has noticed this. A few others of his ilk have joined in the last month or so. Fortunately, anti-semites don't last long on this forum. I wonder if he was cheering, gloating and shooting guns in the air to celebrate the WTC bombing alongside those poor, innocent oppressed "Palestinians" on September 11th? Probably thinks that the Holocaust was bunk and that there really is a world-wide jewish banking conspiracy...
Please, this is a serious request.
Since I am honestly eager to know the truth, would you be kind enough to give the non-mythical version of all 20 statements that were made?
What really happened in each case? What are the myths based on?
I eagerly await your authoritative response.
surely, you have more to contribute than that non-sensical "you got almost all the myths down pat".
It's ALL our fault, ain't it? Yeah, right, you anti-semetic fool--our fault, along with Israel--NOT!!! Osama doesn't like the US military presence on the holy sands of Saudi Arabia. The only thing that he gives a hoot about in the Palestinian camps are the never-ending supply of ignorant religious fanatics who will commit suicide in order to take out Jews and Americans--men, women and children. The Palestinians want us and the jews dead! Last one standing, wins!
Well, there is a good chance that he may be an educated anti-semitic whack job.
I do hope he can contribute verifyiable historical facts to refute the above 20 observations.
I simply can not let you get away with that damnable lie!!!! Thanks to the evil done by evil men we lost 6000 plus innocents. You're either grossly misinformed or a real a$$hole.
No...I don't think he/she does.
If you think that my not supporting Israel makes me anti-semetic, then you're no better than the leftists like Jesse jackson who say that those who do not support affirmative action and reparations for slavery are racists and bigots.
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A Palestinian woman receives free sweets from a vendor as groups of locals in east Jerusalem's Old City celebrate after hearing the news of a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/str)
Do you mean to say that thanks to Europe countless Americans died in WWII? Do you mean to say thanks to clored people and slaves Americans died in a civil war? Do you mean to say thanks to those that hate being oppressed by King George and taxes that Americans died creating a nation and a free republic?
Doing right and justice is the American way. Fighting for freedom is the American way. Besides all the other reasons for supporting Israel the most overlooked is the fact that it is the ONLY democraticly elected government in the middle east and is surrounded by dictators, so called monarchs, and terrorist muslim fundamentalist theocracies. Get with the program. America supports Israel as it should.
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