Here are overlooked facts in the current Middle East situation.
These were compiled by a Christian university professor.
Here are some
brief facts on the Arab-Israeli conflict today...It just
takes a few minutes
to read! It makes sense and it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew,
it doesn't matter.
Nationhood and Jerusalem:
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 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 BCE, 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 CE 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, the Jewish Holy
Scriptures. 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.
Arab and Jewish Refugees:
9. 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 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.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict:
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 PLO'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.
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.
The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs:
16. 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.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated
the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an
apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple
Mount and the Western Wall.
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