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Fact 156: "Recognizing the opposing aims of the Jewish and Arab national movements, the British recommended in 1937 dividing the country into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish leadership accepted the idea of partition and empowered the Jewish Agency to negotiate with the British government in an effort to reformulate aspects of the proposal. The Arabs were uncompromisingly against any partition plan"
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Five weeks ago, over 100 Palestinians took over the Church as they were running away from the IDF (Israel's army). Among them were 40 terrorists from the Islamic Jihad, Hamas and other terrorist groups. About a dozen were directly involved in the killing of innocent Israeli civilians and were on a list of terrorists that Israel had asked Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to arrest, which they never did. These 13 Palestinian terrorists are now going to be deported to European countries after the EU accepted to host them. The deal also calls for another 26 to face trial in Gaza, although I sincerely doubt this will happen. As the article says "upon their arrival in Gaza, the 26 were greeted by crowds as heroes". Here are additional interesting points: "After the Palestinians' departure an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said 40 "explosive devices" were found in the church compound. The spokesman said the IDF was invited into the compound by church officials who asked the military to check the facility." "Another priest told The Associated Press that foreign peace activists who sneaked into the church later desecrated the holy site by smoking and drinking alcohol inside." I copy the full article below:
In addition they accuse pro-Israel Jews of controlling the United States, something that anti-Semites have done and will continue to do for years. Alan Dershowitz has written a response to these false statements and he shows how the paper from the Harvard professor is basically trash: [...] If these charges sound familiar, it is because, as I will show, they can be found on the websites of extremists of the hard right, like David Duke, and the hard left, like Alexander Cockburn. They appear daily in the Arab and Muslim press. They are contemporary variations on old themes such as those promulgated in the notorious czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in the Nazi and America First literature of the 1930s and early ’40s, 20 and in the propaganda pamphlets of the Soviet Union. I copy Mr. Dershowitz's response below; read it all and if someone ever mentions the trash paper from Harvard you'll have many counter arguments. Found this link on the excellent LGF which pointed to a Hardvard site.
Here are some interesting facts:
* 80% of the Israeli fatalities were non-combattants, unarmed civilians. * 30% of the Israeli fatalities were women. * 2% of the Israeli fatalities were killed by Israeli actions, by mistake. * 30% of the Israeli fatalities were non-combattants over the age of 39.
* 54% of the Palestinian fatalities were combattants, mostly armed men. * 3% of the Palestinian fatalities were women. * 14% of the Palestinian fatalities were killed by the Palestinians themselves, for "collaborating" with the enemy. * 5% of the Palestinian fatalities victims were non-combattants over the age of 39. Most media outlets will report something like this: "The latest clashes in the Middle East have claimed the lives of 1574 Palestinians and 599 Israelis". This moral equivalency of mixing up armed Palestinian terrorists, whose goal is to murder unarmed civilians, with Israeli women and kids, whose crime is simply to breathe, is shocking. I copy below the breakdown of Fatalities from 9/27/2000 through 8/6/2002. For a more detailed statistical analysis of the fatalities, see also "An Engineered Tragedy: Statistical Analysis of Fatalities".
Particularly important (and relevant to FactsOfIsrael.com) are the elections for our representative in the US Congress. The candidates are very much linked to Israel and the Middle East: 1) Our current Congressman is Tom Lantos (Dem.). Mr. Lantos was born in Hungary and is a Holocaust survivor. He has been our representative since 1981, suports the War on Islamic Terrorism, the War on Iraq and the Patriot Act. He's a passionate defender of Israel and he's a true Eagle, as defined by Andrew Sullivan. His site is http://www.lantos.org/ 2) One of Mr. Lantos main opponents is Maad Abu-Ghazalah, a Palestinian born in Nablus, in the West Bank, who grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He's today running as a Democrat and his main qualifications are that he served as the President of the San Francisco Chapter of the "American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee". His current platform calls for America abandoning Iraq and moving our troops out, and a more "evenhanded" policy in America's role in the Middle East peace process (this probably means no support for Israel's right to defend herself against Islamic mass murderers). He also wishes to repeal the Patriot Act, and he's against standardized testing. How can one person be so wrong? 3) There's also a Republican candidate, Mr. Mike Garza, who has mentioned that, if elected, he'll cancel all military and financial aid to Israel. In our last elections, on 11/5/2002, Mr. Lantos received 68.2% of the vote, and his Republican counterpart, Mr. Michael Moloney, received 24.7%. Mr. Abu-Ghazalah ran then as a Libertarian and got 7.1% of the vote. If you live in California's 12th district, please go out and vote. Israel, freedom, and Mr. Lantos need your support. For more information on the candidates and the elections try out www.smartvoter.org - type in your street address and ZIP code in the top right and click "Find Ballot". Update: The election results have been published and I have some great news! Our Congressman, Mr. Tom Lantos, has won the Democratic ticket by a landslide: United States Reprensentative 12th Congressional District (356 of 356 Precints Reported): Tom Lantos: 74.18% Ro Khanna: 18.21% Maad Abu-Ghazalah: 7.61% For a PDF file with more details, click here. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required in order to view these documents. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, click here to download it.
Thousands of Palestinians chanting "Death to America" marched in West Bank cities on Sunday, while on the third day of Iraq Solidarity Week expressing their opposition to a possible US military strike against Iraq. I copy the full article below.
A Palestinian house painter employed by Jerusalem's Hebrew University has been arrested on suspicion he planted a bomb at the student cafeteria that killed nine people, including five Americans, last month, security officials announced Wednesday. Many of the members of this Hamas cell were Arab Muslim residents of Jerusalem in possession of Israeli ID cards. This allowed them to plant their bombs in the places they worked, such as the student cafeteria in the Hebrew University that killed 5 Americans and 4 Israelis. About 1 million Arab Muslims are citizens of Israel, see the Democracy and Stats pages for more info. I copy the full article below.
Abba Eban, the father of Israeli statesmanship, former foreign minister and ambassador to the United States and United Nations died Sunday at 87 in the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva. As diplomat and author, he was throughout his long and brilliant career the voice of Israel, a profound interpreter of our national character and history.
Abba Eban, 1915 - 2002 Mr. Eban was a great man, someone who has been involved with Zionism and Israel from the beginning, from the roots of it all. I remember Abba Eban coming up with some incredible quotes when he served as Israel's ambassador to the UN: Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow. You'd think he said that after Arafat and the Palestinians rejected peace in October of 2000? He said the above 30-40 years before the thugs from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas started their current murdering spree of women and children. The more things change, the more they stay the same. I copy below the full article and a bit more info on Mr. Eban - may God bless his memory.
For the first 25 years of its existence, Israel was threatened by the regular armies of the surrounding Arab countries, which repeatedly launched attacks in the expectation of a victory that would lead to the destruction of the Jewish state. [...] I copy the full article below.
In light of the latest homicide/suicide bombings by Palestinian murderers, this temporary Palestinian State would not only be a reward for terror but would in itself be a base for future killings of unarmed Israeli civilians. If you live in the United States, please call the White House comment line and complain about this temporary Palestinian State idea: White House COMMENTS: 202-456-1111 SWITCHBOARD: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461 I called and it took me literally 2 minutes to make the following points (you don't have to give your name or address): 1) In light of the suicide bombing today killing 19 people mainly teenagers and in light of the Palestinians' support for such bombings, I have to ask the question is it wise to give these people a country? 2) These are the same people who cheered and danced when three thousand Americans were murdered on 9/11. 3) To reward these terrorists with a state seems like a foolish thing to do and sends a wrong message to the enemies of the US and will hurt the war on terror. 4) Given their past actions and probable future actions, the Palestinians currently do not seem like a good candidate for a country. They will not be a positive contributor to the world community, they will be another terrorist state. We do not need another terrorist state. 5) If a people supported the bombing of a bus full of teenagers in the U.S., I hope we would wipe them off the map, not give them territory. 6) Palestinian surveys show that a majority of Palestinians support suicide attacks like those on the bus and on 9/11 and that a majority of them support the destruction of the entire State of Israel. 7) They oppose the War on Terror and support Iraq and get weapons from Iran.
Syria, driven by the idea that Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine (also known as Southern Syria), are part of Greater Syria, has worked for almost three decades, unhindered, to pacify Lebanon, and make it vanish as an independent state. Daniel Pipes in "Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition," has written extensively about the Greater Syria ideology that drove Bashar Al-Assad's father and continues to motivate the new Syrian president. I copy the full article below.
So far in its series on the Middle East, NPR has proven that it can mangle history at least as well as it can mangle breaking news. Thus, while the network routinely features a preponderance of Arab and pro-Arab guests in its daily reporting, its stable of experts for this series is even more tilted in the pro-Arab direction, with nine harsh critics of Israel against only three guests who might seem likely to be fair to Israel. [...] NPR will not get one cent from me anymore. I copy the full article below.
The European Union is planning to send investigators to Israel to interview Palestinians held in Israeli prisons over suspicions that the Palestinian Authority may have diverted EU donations to fund terrorist operations. [...] Most Palestinians make about $50 a month, so £27,500 (over $30,000 US dollars) per month is a small fortunate for these mass murdering scum. Don't expect news on how the European Union and Yasser Arafat directly finance Islamic terrorists to reach your local news outlet - it would greatly offend the European leftists who do not wish to look at reality but prefer to continue to support the mass murdering Palestinians. I copy the full article below.
Drooling white supremacists and supercilious Euro-leftists assert that it's because of the obscene amounts of gold that the Vast Jewish Conspiracy pumps into the coffers of our elected officials. I copy the full article below.
The lawsuit against Saudi and other Arab officials and organizations by the families of September 11 victims has aroused the ire of the Saudi media. The following are excerpts from articles that appeared in Saudi newspapers on this subject: Wow. You tell the Saudi Arabians that financed the September 11 massacre that they are responsible for the consequences of their acts and they get really touchy. Imagine if we didn't tell them. I copy the full report below.
The Chief tells the three captives that these cannibals are civilized and they have a custom on their island that before they eat anyone, they grant that person his or her last wishes--no matter what they are. He asks the Texan, "What is your last wish?" The Texan replies: "I want a 2 inch thick steak with all thetrimmings, Cajun fries and a case of Budweiser Beer." The Chief motions to some of his tribesmen who immediately runs into the jungle and come back with the steak, the fries and the beer. The Texan eats his meal and he is thrown in the cooking pot. The Frenchman is asked: "What is your last wish?" He replies: "I would like a case of Dom Perignon and I would also like a big plate of escargots cooked in the French manner." The Chief motions to his tribesmen who immediately rushes off into the jungle and bring back everything the Frenchman asked for. He eats and drinks his fill, and he is then thrown in the cooking pot. The Chief turns to the Israeli and asks, "And what is your wish?" The Israeli looks the Chief squarely in the eyes and replies: "I want you to kick me as hard as you can." The Chief is bewildered and asks the Israeli again, only to receive the same reply. "I want you to kick me as hard as you can." The Chief shrugs his shoulders, asks the Israeli to turn around, and kicks him as hard as he can. With that, the Israeli pulls out a gun and kills the Chief and all of the other cannibals. The Texan and the Frenchman get out of the pot, look at the Israeli and say: "If you had that gun why did not you do anything sooner?" The Israeli replies: "What? And risk being condemned by the UN, the European Union, and the US State Department for overreacting to insufficient provocation?" FAIR USE NOTICE This site contains some copyrighted materials the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
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