Something to Think about that I received from a Friend.

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A must read. I have been to Israel three times; my wife, Susan, five times. 
We have seen first hand the accomplishments of the Israelis and the lack
thereof from the Arabs.  
What you read here is true.
Tommy

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    Netanyahu at his best.

    Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Israel's Benjamin
Netanyahu, could get a good measure of satisfaction from this interview
with British Television during the retaliation against Hamas' shelling of
Israel.

    The interviewer asked him: "How come so many more Palestinians have
been killed in this conflict than Israelis?" (A nasty question if there
ever was one!)

    Netanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that
direction?"
     
    Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not?

    Netanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans were killed than
British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that
the war was caused by Germany's aggression. And in response to the German
blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning
to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in
Hiroshima.


    Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to
bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their
target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little
children. Perhaps you have another question?"
     
    Apparently, Benjamin Netanyahu gave an interview and was asked about
Israel's occupation of Arab lands.
    His response was, "It's our land". The reporter (CNN or the like) was
stunned - read below "It's our land..."  It's important information 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 and past Middle East
situation.
    These were compiled by a Christian university professor:
    BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY...(It takes just 1..5 minutes
to read!)

    It makes sense and it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew -- it doesn't
matter.

    1. Nationhood and Jerusalem.  Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 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 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.

    4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE 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 people's 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 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 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 UN 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 UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by
the Jordanians.

    19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated
the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

    20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a
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 about what we did when there was a
turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?
    
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