Interesting Facts on the Israeli/Arab Conflict

The following material was written by an American
Christian professor. It's important information to
know since we don't get fair and accurate reporting
from the media and facts tend to get lost in the
jumble of daily events.

Crash Course on the Arab Israeli Conflict

Here are overlooked facts in the current Middle East
situation. These were compiled by a Christian
university professor. HERE'S THE BRIEF FACTS ON THE
ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY....Takes just 1.5 minutes to read!!!! It makes
sense and it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew -- it
doesn't matter. Thank You.

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 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: 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 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.

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.

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 Jerusalem Synagogues
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.

These are incredible times. We have to ask what our
role should be. What will we tell our grandchildren
we did when there was a turning point in Jewish
destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?