Palestinian people Home
1.
Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., 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 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 dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E.
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 never came to visit Jerusalem as a place of
worship.
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
was never, ever
there.
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
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 territories.
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
the
land of their own people. 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
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 P.L.O.'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 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 U.N. 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 U.N. was silent, while 58 Synagogues in Jerusalem were
destroyed
by the Jordanians.
19. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically
desecrated
the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians enforced an
apartheid-like
policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the
Western
Wall.