4/13/02

This article was written before the present Passover 2002 events took place.

 

Here are some conveniently overlooked facts in the current Middle East situation. These were complied by a Christian university professor. Takes just about 1-1/2 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 1312B.C.E.  two thousand years before 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 in1272 BCE the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuos 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 the Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures (OT) 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 is often reported in the Arab and even western press.

 

 

10.  The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality and persecution. They were 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 about 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.