article by
J. B. Roth, Delray Beach, Florida, USA.
Crash Course in Middle East History, Nationhood, and Jerusalem
1.
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.
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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 (Bible), the Jewish Holy Scriptures.
7
Jerusalem is not mentioned
even once in the Koran.
8.
King David
founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
9.
Jews
pray facing Jerusalem.
10.
Muslims
pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
11.
The number of Arab refugees
who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000.
12.
The number of Jewish refugees
from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.
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.
13.
Jewish refugees
were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
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.
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 with weapons.
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.
The U.N. Record on Israel and the Arabs :
Of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
The U.N was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
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.
One of the few decent Arabs was Prince Abdullah who in 1925 said, "We Arabs, especially the educated among us bid the Jews a hearty welcome home. This is their home. They have no other." His was assassinated - probably by members of the Mufti who also promised their fellow Arabs to purge Israel of the Jews in 1948.
The world doesn't bother to ask itself why we should trust the Arabs to make peace with Israel if Israel gives up the so-called "occupied territories", for if the Arabs made war with Israel, twice before '67, and Israel was that little piece of land, the Arabs want it to be again.
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