Wassim vs. Zionism?

Submitted by Gary L (United States), Jan 17, 2007 at 20:20

There seem to be some basic flaws in your thinking. If anyone is considered an occupier, it is the Arabs. The Jews lived there for 3,500 years. The Jews had two kingdoms, Israel and Judea, which were destroyed by the Babylonians, Romans Greeks etc. Throughout the thousands of years Jews always had a presence in the land. So if anyone is considered an occupier it is the Arabs who occupied the land of the Jews. The Jews have returned to their land; refugees who have returned to the land from which they were expelled.

Jordan was in fact occupying the West Bank in 1967. And for the next 19 years Jordan refused to allow any Jew to visit any of the Jewish holy places in Jerusalem. Instead, the Jordanians went on a rampage of desecrating and defiling every Jewish house of worship; graves were dug up and tombstones used as flooring in bathrooms and stables. Can you imagine the Arab outcry if Israel were to do that to a tiny mosque or to one single grave? What about respect for High Holy days? It was the Arabs who attacked Israel on their holiest of days "Yom Kippur' Can you imagine the Arab outcry if Israel had attacked them during Ramadan?

Some facts for our friend Wassim:

The Palestinians have violated every treaty and agreement made to date. Including the Mitchell plan, the Tenet Plan and the Roadmap to Peace!

The PLO'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 Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them weapons.

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.

Nationhood and Jerusalem; Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

For over 3,000 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.

The U.N was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish Cemetary on the Mount of Olives.

The U.N. was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.

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.

Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures, Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.

Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.

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.

Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE 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.

End of Story!

Israel is not colonizing the land as you suggest. The Jews are re-inhabiting, resettling and rehabilatating the land long stolen from them. They are returning to the land their fathers left them as an eternal inheritance.

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