I received the following in a spam email. I wonder how many are true?
A Short lesson in Israeli History
Subject: Fwd: 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 PLO'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 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 between 1948 and 1967.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically
desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives between
1948 and 1967.
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 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? |
