ARAB AND JEWISH
2006-06-06 21:11:22 UTC
Conveniently Overlooked Facts on the Middle East
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in ca. 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 1976, two decades after the establishment of the
modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in ca. 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 Muslin 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 the Tanach, the Jewish Holy
Scriptures (O.T.). 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, and face toward Mecca, their holy city.
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. The Arabs
created their own refugee problem. The Jews did not expel the Arabs, as it
often reported in the Arab and even western press.
10. The Jewish refugees wee forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab
brutality, persecution and pogroms. They wee forced to leave the Arab
countries often with only the shirts on their backs, leaving all their other
possessions behind.
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 16 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 with
weapons. (This is really insane: Israel actually supplied the guns and
ammunition, which since then are being used to kill Jews.)
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews
were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslin 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 synagogues were destroyed by the
Jordanians in East Jerusalem when it was captured by Jordan in the 1948 war.
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
policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western
Wall.
Submitted by Lim Han Young, Singapore. From Petah Tikvah magazine, Oct-Dec
2001 Vol. 19, No. 4, p. 43
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in ca. 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 1976, two decades after the establishment of the
modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in ca. 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 Muslin 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 the Tanach, the Jewish Holy
Scriptures (O.T.). 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, and face toward Mecca, their holy city.
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. The Arabs
created their own refugee problem. The Jews did not expel the Arabs, as it
often reported in the Arab and even western press.
10. The Jewish refugees wee forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab
brutality, persecution and pogroms. They wee forced to leave the Arab
countries often with only the shirts on their backs, leaving all their other
possessions behind.
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 16 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 with
weapons. (This is really insane: Israel actually supplied the guns and
ammunition, which since then are being used to kill Jews.)
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews
were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslin 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 synagogues were destroyed by the
Jordanians in East Jerusalem when it was captured by Jordan in the 1948 war.
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
policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western
Wall.
Submitted by Lim Han Young, Singapore. From Petah Tikvah magazine, Oct-Dec
2001 Vol. 19, No. 4, p. 43