It`s Our Land : Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu was asked about Israel’s occupation of Arab lands.
His response was “It’s our land”. The reporter was stunned- read below.
“Crash Course on the Arab Israel Conflict” as compiled by a Christian
University. It makes sense and it is not slanted.
Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two
thousand years before the rise of Islam.
2. Arab refugees in Israel 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 BCE, the Jews have had dominion
over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the
land for the past 3000 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 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 Refugees: in1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to
leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. 68% left
without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. ( I personally question whether this
statement is completely true.)
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 the same.
12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into Arab
lands despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since
WW II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been
absorbed or integrated into their own people’s lands. Jewish refugees were
completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger then 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 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.
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.
