1-8-2013- BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY AND PAST


"REMARKS"

THE FOLLOWING IS A FOLLOWUP FACT SHEET FROM FRIENDS AT MESSIANIC BIBLE. I WROTE WHY ISRAEL WAS HAVING ISSUES WITH THE PALESTINIAN'S, IN AN EARLIER ARTICLE, AND THIS WILL ADD TO WHY ISRAEL, HAS BEEN COMPASSIONATE TO OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE TROUBLING THEM. THIS WILL BE TO THEIR GLORY.


  1. NATIONHOOD AND JERUSALEM - ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1312 BC, 2000 YEARS BEFORE THE RISE OF ISLAM.
  2. ARAB REFUGES IN ISRAEL, BEGAN IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS A 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 3300 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 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. 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 REFUGES: 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 LANDS, TO WHICH THEY FLED, DESPITE THE VAST ARAB TERRITORITY. OUT OF THE 100,000 REFUGEES SINCE WORLD WAR 11, THEIRS IS THE ONLY REFUGEE GROUP IN THE WORLD, THAT HAS NEVER BEEN ABSORBED, OR INTEGRATED, INTO THEIR OWN PEOPLE'S HOME LAND. JEWISH REFUGEES, ON THE OTHER HAND, 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 PLACES 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 POLICY, OF PREVENTING JEWS FROM VISITING THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND THE WESTERN WALL.