** OT *** Dear Eddy, you brought a smile on my face, as I know that you are a great lover of those who believe in Judaism.
As a reminder to you, wen Christ or in other words Yeoshua, the first active communist known in modern history, walked trough the Holly Land preaching his believes, they were Jewish believes and neither Christianity and much less Islam was around as a religion or discipline.
Never mind that the Romans in their effort to restore the old guard and avoid Yeoshua's flavor of communist rule, crucified Yeoshua and even today many blame the Jews for his death and want to reciprocate in kind.
Neither Mosques or Churches were on those lands including Yerushalaim or Beith Lehem (the House of the Bread).
To remind you Mohammed who did not know to write or read and was wandering homeless in the Saudi desert over 600 year later, hired a Jew to write the holly Book of Islam and in a typical way rewarded the Jewish man for his efforts by ordering his burial alive.
I am also posting some historic facts, which in a nutshell tell you that there is not one Arab who has the right to claim, any national ownership rights, over any part of the Holly Land, and if memory serves me right, the Templers and other Crusaders 900 years ago and even Napoleon, all said the same --- Arabs have no rights over the Holly Land.
Those Arabs living in the Holly Land now, wandered into and settled there, after being expeled from their own comunities in Egypt, Arab Peninsula, Transjordan and Mesopotamia, in what was then empty land (like California or the Western US).
The so called Palestinians live in Jordan and the Brits gave control of Jordan to an astute family from Mecca to rule Jordan (former part what was called Palestine)as a compensation for their support against the Turkish Empire in WWI as a result of an narrow minded Brit, called Sir Henry McMahon.
As to your so called "physical abuse" how would you call the slaughter of around 13,000 Arab prisoners of war by Napoleon on the shores what is now Tel Aviv? or similar deeds by the Crusaders?
The facts:
JEWISH history begins about 4,000 years ago with the
Biblical patriarch Abraham moving to Canaan (present-day
Israel), from Ur (present-day Iraq). Due to famine, the
Bible records, his descendants moved south, settling in
Egypt, east of the Nile delta.
The Israelites were pressed into slavery but, according to
the Bible, were led to freedom by Moses and resettled in
modern-day Israel.
Israeli monarchy forms and then divides into two kingdoms
- Israel and Judah. About 700 years before Christ, Israel is
conquered by the Assyrians and Judah by the Babylonians.
The Jews are exiled to Babylon, returning in 538 BC.
332BC:
Region conquered by Alexander the Great.
63BC:
Jerusalem captured by Roman general Pompey and begins
the era of Roman rule. In this era the Christian religion
begins.
AD 70:
Jewish state of Judea conquered by Roman Emperor Titus
and the Jewish temple in Jerusalem is destroyed.
135:
Jews expelled from Palestine.
313-636:
Byzantine rule. The region is predominantly Christian.
570:
Mohammed born.
636-1099:
Islamic domination of the Holy Land. Many Jews leave the
region.
656:
Islam splits into two factions - Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims.
1099-1291:
The Crusades. Conflict between Christians and Arabs.
Muslim Mamluks eventually put an end to Christian
domination and rule the area until 1517.
1517-1917:
Ottoman Turks rule Palestine from modern-day Istanbul.
1800s:
Zionists begin emigrating to Palestine. Jewish population
rises from 25,000 to about 90,000 in 1914. At the outbreak
of the First World War there are an estimated 45,000
Arabs in Palestine.
1891:
Arabs in Jerusalem appeal to the Turkish rulers to restrict
Jewish immigration.
1896:
Zionist Theodor Herzl writes about the revival of a Jewish
state in Palestine in his pamphlet Der Judenstaat.
1914:
First World War starts. Britain seeks support of Arabs
against Turkey which joined the conflict on the side of the
Germans. Britain also proclaims its protectorate over
Egypt.
1915:
Britain undertakes to support the creation of an Arab state
in return for military assistance in the First World War in
the Hussein-McMahon correspondence. Sir Henry
McMahon was the British high commissioner in Egypt;
Hussein ibn Ali was the emir of Mecca.
1916:
Britain and France divide part of the Arab world between
them under the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Lebanon and Syria
come under French influence while Transjordan and
Mesopotamia (Iraq) are administered by Britain. Britain is
also to receive the Mediterranean ports of Haifa and Acre.
Palestine, because of the Holy Places, is to be
internationalised.
December 1917:
British forces enter Jerusalem. Under the Balfour
Declaration, Britain endeavours to help set up a national
home for the Jewish people in Palestine while protecting
the rights of the area's non-Jewish inhabitants.
1919:
Palestinians oppose Balfour Declaration.
1920:
At the Conference of San Remo, Britain and France set up
mandates over former Ottoman empire states. Syria and
Lebanon were mandated to France; Palestine to Great
Britain. Arabs attack Jewish settlements in Palestine,
leading to the formation of the Haganah - a Jewish defence
force and precursor of the Israeli army.
February 1922:
Egypt declares independence but leaves matters of defence
and protection of foreign interests in British hands. The
sultan becomes King Fuad I of Egypt.
June/July 1922:
The British Government issues a White Paper saying that
Palestine as a whole should not be turned into a Jewish
national home, but that such a home should be established
in Palestine. The White Paper is opposed by Arabs who
feel betrayed and riots ensue. The League of Nations
approves the British mandate for Palestine. The area of
Transjordan, the lands east of the Jordan River, although
part of the original mandatory area of Palestine, is
excluded from the clauses covering the establishment of a
Jewish national home.
May 1923:
Transjordan is established as an autonomous state under
Emir Abdullah, but agrees to co-ordinate foreign policy
with Britain and to British troops being stationed in the
country. The nation was granted full independence in 1946
and changed its name in 1949 to the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan.
1933:
Arabs adopt a policy of non-co-operation with the British
in protest at continued Jewish immigration, particularly
since the Nazi rise to power, and sale of Arab lands.
1936-1939:
Jews pour into Palestine as Nazi persecution escalates in
Germany. Palestinians launch uprising against Britain.
July 1937:
The British suggest a partition plan and the creation of two
states in Palestine to separate Arabs and Jews following a
study by the Peel Commission. The Jewish leadership
accepts the plan but the Arabs reject it.
1939:
British Government publishes a White Paper proposing a
that a single, binational Jewish and Arab Palestinian state
should be set up within 10 years. Arabs and Jews both
reject the proposal. The paper also restricts Jewish
immigration into Palestine, thus cutting off a potential
lifeline to the Jews of Europe.
1939-45:
Second World War. Nazi Germany attempts genocide of
European Jewry. Six million Jews die in the Holocaust.
April 1946
British and French forces complete their withdrawal from
Syria, which they had captured from the Vichy government
in 1941. By 1946 Syria had already become a founder
member of the United Nations and of the Arab League.
1944-1947:
Britain faces attack from Jewish groups in Palestine. One
faction, called Irgun, is led by Menachem Begin, another
called Lehi is led by Yitzhak Shamir. Both men eventually
become Israeli prime ministers. The Irgun blows up part of
the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946, at the cost
of 91 lives, both soldiers and civilians.
1947:
Britain, looking to decrease its costly presence in
Palestine, defers the issue of Palestine to the United
Nations. The UN Special Committee on Palestine
formulates a plan to resolve Jewish-Arab conflict by
creating two nation states west of the Jordan river. The UN
General Assembly adopts this on November 29. The plan
is rejected by the Arabs and the conflict intensifies.
May 14 1948:
British mandate over Palestine expires and the Jewish
National Council declares the establishment of Israel. The
armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq
immediately invade the new country.
1949:
After more than a year of fighting there is an armistice.
Israel controls the Negev and coastal plain while Jordan
rules the West Bank and Egypt controls the Gaza Strip.
Jerusalem is divided between Israel and Jordan. Following
elections David Ben-Gurion becomes Israel's first prime
minister. Large numbers of displaced Arabs settle in
refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
1950:
King Hussein incorporates the West Bank and East
Jerusalem into Jordan. The annexation is only recognized
by Britain and Pakistan. |
