[antimedia] antimedia: Israel doesn't just battle terrorists....

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Posted by antimedia:
Israel doesn't just battle terrorists....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1154403401.shtml


   ....they also have to fight the biased media and a world dead set
   against them.

     ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FACTS
     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. 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;
     5. JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED OVER 700 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, BUT NOT ONCE
     IS IT MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN;
     6. KING DAVID FOUNDED JERUSALEM; MOHAMMED NEVER SET FOOT IN IT;
     7. JEWS PRAY FACING JERUSALEM; MUSLIMS FACE MECCA. IF THEY ARE
     BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES, MUSLIMS PRAY FACING MECCA, WITH THEIR BACKS
     TO JERUSALEM;
     8. 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;
     9. VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE JEWISH POPULATION OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES HAD
     TO FLEE AS THE RESULT OF VIOLENCE AND POGROMS;
     10. SOME 630,000 ARABS LEFT ISRAEL IN 1948, WHILE CLOSE TO A
     MILLION JEWS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THE MUSLIM COUNTR IES;
     11. IN SPITE OF THE VAST TERRITORIES AT THEIR DISPOSAL, ARAB
     REFUGESS WERE DELIBERATELY PREVENTED FROM ASSIMILATING INTO THEIR
     HOST COUNTRIES. OF 100 MILLION REFUGEES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR 2, THEY
     ARE THE ONLY GROUP TO HAVE NEVER INTEGRATED WITH THEIR
     CORELIGIONISTS. MOST OF THE JEWISH REFUGEES FROM EUROPE AND ARAB
     LANDS WERE SETTL ED IN ISRAEL, A COUNTRY NO LARGER THAN NEW JERSEY;
     12. THERE ARE 22 ARAB COUNTRIES, NOT COUNTING PALESTINE. THERE IS
     ONLY ONE JEWISH STATE. ARABS STARTED ALL FIVE WARS AGAINST ISRAEL,
     AND LOST EVERY ONE OF THEM;
     13. 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;
     14. 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;
     15. 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;
     16. 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, AN D IT REMAINED SILENT WHEN JORDAN ENFORCED APARTHEID
     LAWS PREVENTING JEWS FROM ACCESSING THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND WESTERN
     WALL.
     THESE ARE TRYING TIMES. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES WHAT WE SHOULD BE
     DOING, AND WHAT WE WILL TELL OUR GRANDCHILDREN ABOUT OUR ACTIONS
     DURING THIS CRISIS, WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

   Think about what it would be like to be an Israeli in this insane
   world.