Israel and Jerusalem Facts {Insp}

"Israel and Jerusalem Facts"

Nation and Jerusalem
Israel was a country at 1312BC - 2000 years before
Islam even existed. Arab refugees in Israel started
to identify themselves as Palestinians around 1967 -
two decades after the modern Israeli country was
established.

After conquering the country in 1272BC, the Jews
controlled it for a thousand years and had a
continues presence in it for 3,300 years.

The only Arab control ever started at 635BC and
lasted for 22 years.

For over 3,300 years Jerusalem was the Jewish
capitol. Jerusalem was never the capitol of any
Arab or Muslim nation. Even Jordan, when conquering
Jerusalem, did not make it into their capital, and Arab
leaders did not visit it.

Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Bible
and not even once in the Koran. King David established
Jerusalem, Mohammed has never visited it.

Jews prays facing towards Jerusalem, Muslims pray
facing towards Mecca. If they are located between
Jerusalem and Mecca, their faces are to Mecca and
their behinds are "looking" towards Jerusalem.

Jewish and Arab refugees:
In 1948 Arab leaders encouraged Arab refugees to
leave Israel, promising to purge Israel from Jews.
68% of the refugees ran away without ever seeing
an Israeli soldier.

Virtually the entire Jewish population of Muslim
countries had to flee as the result of violence and
pogroms. Some 630,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948,
while close to a million Jews were forced to leave
the Muslim countries.

In spite of the vast territories at their disposal, Arab
refugees were deliberately prevented from
assimilating into their host countries. Of 100 million
refugees following World War 2, they are the only
group to have never integrated with their coreligionists.
Most of the Jewish refugees from Europe and Arab
lands were settled in Israel, a country no larger than
New Jersey.

The Israeli-Arab conflict
There are 22 Muslim countries, not counting Palestine.
There is only one country in the world that is Jewish.

The Arabs initiated all 5 past wars and lost. Israel
defended itself and won every time. The Fatah treaty
still demands the destruction of Israel, even today.
Israel have given the Palestinians autonomy over
most of the west bank and gave them weapons.
They later used these very weapons to harm Israeli
civilians.

During the time Jordan controlled Israel, holy Jewish
places were robed and destroyed and Jewish people
were denied access. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim
and Christian holy sites are accessible to all faiths.

Israel and the Arabs in the UN
Out of 175 decisions of the Security Council before
1990, 97 were against Israel.

Out of 690 decision of the general assembly before
1990, 429 were against Israel.

The UN was silent when 58 synagogues were
destroyed in Jerusalem by the Jordanians.

The UN remained silent while Jordan systematically
desecrated an ancient Jewish cemetery on the mount
of olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced
apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing the
temple mount and western wall.

We live in trying times.
We have to ask ourselves what is our part in this
and what we believe in. You don't have to take sides.
Israel is not always right, but it's not always wrong
either. it's not always guilty, it's not always to be
blamed. Next time you see a one-sided report on the
news, please remember that people get hurt on both
sides and you don't always hear about it.

Many times the press choose to enhance the suffering
of one side on the expanse of the other, and usually
Israel is portrayed as "the big bad" even if in fact it is
just one small country of six million people, that has
been fighting for it's life since day one, against
hundreds of millions of enemies.

All we ever wanted is to live in peace, but when we
don't have a choice, we fight back, because we don't
have anywhere else to go. You would have done
the same thing.

I would like to close with recent Benyamin Netanyahu's
interview with British Television.

The interviewer asked him: "How come so many
more Lebanese have been killed in this conflict
than Israelis?" (A nasty question if there ever was
one!)

Natanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start
asking in that direction?"

Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not?

Natanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans
were killed than British and Americans combined, but
there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was
caused by Germany's aggression. And in response
to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out
the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more
German civilians than the number of people killed
in Hiroshima.

Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the
R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in
Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their
target and fell on a Danish children's hospital,
killing 83 little children. Perhaps you have another
question?"
Received on Sun Aug 27 10:39:45 2006