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conveniently overlooked facts in the current
Middle East situation |
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Israel became a nation
in 1312 B.C.E.,
two thousand years
before the rise of Islam |
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Arab refugees began
identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian
people in 1967, two decades after the
establishment of the modern State of Israel |
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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
domination since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted
no more than 22 years |
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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
capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit |
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Jerusalem is mentioned
over 700 hundred times in Bible. Jerusalem is not
mentioned once in the Koran |
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King David founded the
city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to
Jerusalem |
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Jews pray facing
Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward
Jerusalem |
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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 |
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The Jewish refugees
were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab
brutality, persecution and pogroms |
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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 |
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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 lands. Jewish
refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a
country no larger than the state of New Jersey |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The U.N. record on
Israel and the Arabs of the 175 Security Council
resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed
against Israel |
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Of the 690 General
Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429
were directed against Israel |
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The U.N. was silent
while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by
the Jordanians between 1948 and 1967 |
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The U.N. was silent
while the Jordanians systematically desecrated
the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of
Olives between 1948 and 1967 |
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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? |
