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>Crash Course in Middle East History
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>Nationhood and Jerusalem
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>* Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
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>* 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.
Why was it called Palestine back when it was British mandate prior to WW II? And these
Arab refugees are presumably Palestinian refugees who were forced out by the Israelis.
>* 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.
Uh huh. So leaving aside their time in Egypt and being part of the Roman Empire, could
anyone point out any time in the last 1,000 years, prior to the modern establishment
of Israel, that Jews have had 'Dominion' over the land now called Israel? Between the
Crusaders, Saracens, Romans, assorted Arabs and the Colonial powers I don't seem to
recall any Jewish country anywhere in the history books in the region in question, and
certainly not for any length of time.
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>* The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.
Huh?
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>* For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital.
In name only. Claiming some place as your capital, if you don't actually control/own
it, is pretty futile. Saddam Hussein could claim New York City as the Iraqi capital.
So what?
>* 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 even come to visit.
The Palestinians would tend to disagree. This is why Jerusalem has been the desired
Palestinian capital for many years.
>* Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures.
>Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
So?
>* Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
Not necessarily. It depends where they are. Moslems in Malta would pray more or less
towards Jerusalem, as would Moslems living directly to the west of Jerusalem.
>Arab and Jewish Refugees
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>* 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. The Jewish
>refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab
>brutality, persecution and pogroms.
This is twaddle as bad as Holocast revisionism. Leaving aside the 32% who apparently
were thrown out by Israeli soldiers, there are copious amounts of historical evidence
of families having their houses dynamited, men executed etc. by the invading Jews. It
also avoids mentioning the reason the British had relinquished the land was a campaign
of murderous terrorism, bombings and killings by Jewish criminals, many of whoom were
US gangsters (from where they got much of their financing).
>* 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.
I think there are quite a few more Jewish residents of Israel than those 630,000 would
have produced. The vast, vast majority of Jewish Israelis are American or European.
>* 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 peoples' lands.
>Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the
>state of New Jersey.
More deceptive rubbish. Israel took only a proportion of jewish refugees after WWII.
The USA, Australia, South American countries all took vast numbers of Jewish refugees
but few Palestinians. This reference to the failure of the refugees to be absorbed
into their people's lands...what are they referring to? The refugee camps in Jordan
etc? These are becasue the Palestinians are trying to preserve their national identity
pending their return to Israel/Palestine, i would imagine.
I also think it is a bit rich that Jews, who always seem to try and maintain their
cultures and traditions when living in other people's countries, should criticise
people they have displaced for not fitting in to their new homes.
>The Arab - Israeli Conflict
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>* The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the
>Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation.
Plus their ally/partner the USA. Not to mention that Israel has a bigger armed forces
than all the arab states combined (bar Iran and Iraq I think).
>* The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time
>and won.
It's not the last 5 that count, it's the next 1.
>* 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.
Yes, they have supplied them with helicopter gunship propelled rockets as we have
seen. Perhaps they should supply them with heavy weapons, anti-aircraft guns and
artillery to make things a bit fairer?
>The U.N. Record on Israel and the Arabs
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>* Of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed
>against Israel.
Yes, because of Israel's consistent violation of Human Rights and international laws.
>* Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed
>against Israel.
>* The U.N was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
>* The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically
>desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
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>* 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.
Israel and the US are still UN members. If they have complaints they can address them
to the UN. The reason that the world body treats the UN so poorly is that the world's
leaders know their record and what they really do behind the scenes.
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