[TheForge] Stir Things Up

[Darrell]

Subject: Crash course on the Arab Israeli conflict (90 seconds)

Here are some conveniently overlooked facts in the current Middle East
situation:

 1. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the
rise of Islam.

2. Arab refugees 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 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 domination since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more
than 22 years.

5. 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 Capitol,
and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

6.Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 hundred times in Bible. 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 countries 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 lands.
Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger
than the state of New Jersey.

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 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.

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 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 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the
Jordanians between 1948 and 1967.

19. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the
ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives between 1948 and 1967.

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 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?





Darrell

http://www.machinemaster.com


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Miller" <debmiller@fuse.net>
> To: "theforge" <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: April 13, 2002 8:47 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Stir Things Up
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> 
> > We could start a discussion (arguement) on the Middle East
> > Ray Miller
> > Cincinnati
> >
> > Here, I'll even through out the first "pitch" Coim Powell shouldn't meet
> > with Arafat. The US should not negotiate with terrorists.
> > The Israeli government found documents linking Arafat directly with
> > instructions and funding for the families of the suicide bombers.
> 
> Than whats the point of making a trip over there? Is he gonna make peace
> with Sharon alone? Ya know, the Israelis and Palestinians used to live
> together in peace before the British stuck there noses in the region in 1916
> or 17, they should be able to live together in peace again in my estimation.
> I think ANY people who have been put in the position that the Palestinians
> have by the Israelis, and in particular men like Sharon, would use tactics
> like suicide bombings to further there cause. What are the Palsetinians to
> do? The U.N. should have stepped in when the Israelis started to settle the
> regions they had captured, why did the world turn a blind eye to that? And
> no, I'm not pro palestinian, just pro fairness.
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