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1. Israel became a state in
1312 b.c., two millennia before Islam;
2. Arab refugees from Israel
began calling themselves "Palestinians" in 1967,
two decades after (modern) Israeli statehood;
3. After conquering the land
in 1272 b.c., Jews ruled it for a thousand years and
maintained a continuous presence there for 3,300 years;
4. The only Arab rule
following conquest in 633 b.c. lasted just 22 years;
5. For over 3,300 years,
Jerusalem was the Jewish capital. It was never the capital
of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even under Jordanian rule,
(east) Jerusalem was not made the capital, and no Arab
leader came to visit it;
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over
700 times in the Bible, but not once is it mentioned in the
Qur'an;
7. King David founded
Jerusalem; Mohammed never set foot in it;
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem;
Muslims face Mecca. If they are between the two cities,
Muslims pray facing Mecca, with their backs to Jerusalem;
9. In 1948, Arab leaders urged
their people to leave, promising to cleanse the land of
Jewish presence. 68% of them fled without ever setting eyes
on an Israeli soldier;
10. Virtually the entire
Jewish population of Muslim countries had to flee as the
result of violence and pogroms;
11. Some 630,000 Arabs left
Israel in 1948, while close to a million Jews were forced to
leave the Muslim countries;
12. In spite of the vast
territories at their disposal, Arab refugees were
deliberately prevented from assimilating into their host
countries. Of 100 million refugees following World War 2,
they are the only group to have ever integrated with their
coreligionists. Most of the Jewish refugees from Europe and
Arab lands were settled in Israel, a country no larger than
New Jersey
13. There are 22
Muslim countries, not counting Palestine. There is only one
Jewish state. Arabs started all five wars against Israel,
and lost every one of them;
14. Fatah and Hamas
constitutions still call for the destruction of Israel.
Israel ceded most of the west bank and all of Gaza to the
Palestinian
authority, and even provided
it with arms;
15. During the Jordanian
occupation, Jewish holy sites were vandalized and were off
limits to Jews. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian
Holy sites are accessible to all faiths;
16. Out of 175 united nations
security council resolutions up to 1990, 97 were against
Israel; out of 690 general assembly resolutions, 429 were
against Israel;
18. The U.N. was silent when
the Jordanians destroyed 58 synagogues in the old city of
Jerusalem. It remained silent while Jordan systematically
desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of
Olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced
apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing the Temple
Mount and Western Wall.
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