Hi Peter,
Yep, you cant miss that one. I would like to add this email about the history of Israel. I hope you won't mind.
I think if anyone would take the time to go look up history they might just see who is in the wrong when it comes to who is at fault and just what belongs to who.Apparently,
Benjamin Netanyahu gave an interview and was asked about Israel's
occupation of Arab lands.
His response
was "It's our land". The reporter
(CNN or the like) was stunned - read below "It's our land..." It's
important information since we don't get fair and accurate reporting
from the media and facts tend to get lost in the jumble of daily events.
"Crash Course
on the Arab Israeli Conflict."
Here are
overlooked facts in the current &n bsp; Middle East situation.
These were
compiled by a Christian university professor:
BRIEF FACTS
ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY.... ( It takes just
1.5 minutes to read!!!! )
It makes
sense and it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew -- it doesn't matter.
1. Nationhood
and Jerusalem. 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.
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.
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 la
nds 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 people's 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 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.
16. The UN
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 UN
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 a policy of
preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
These are
incredible times. We have to ask what our role should be. What will we
tell our grandchildren about we did when there was a turning point in
Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?
START NOW-
Send this to 18 other people you know and ask them to send it to
eighteen others, Jew and non-Jew--it doesn't really matter.
Shalom,
Geketa