10 BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT

(Friday Church News Notes, October 16, 2009, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – The following is adapted from a list that was sent to us recently.

1. Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

2. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BC, 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.

3. Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital for over three centuries, but it has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity.

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

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

6. Arab refugees were intentionally not 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 integrated into their own people’s lands.

7. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.

8. 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.

9. The PLO’s Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.

10. Of the 690 United Nations General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel, but the UN was silent while the Jordanians destroyed 58 Jerusalem synagogues, systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

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