Facts
Japanese View of the Palestinians
By Yashiko Sagamori
If you are so sure that " Palestine , the country, goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine :
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese Yuan on that date.
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation. Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all:
If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over or thrown out of the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
Middle East Myths and Facts
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem - Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., 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 B.C.E. 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. Arabs have only had control of Israel twice - from 634 until the Crusader invasion in June 1099, and from 1292 until the year 1517 when they were dispelled by the Turks in their conquest.
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. There are vague references to Jerusalem in the Hadiths - stories about Mohammed - that he stopped his night journey (which the Koran explains took place in a dream!) at the "farther mosque" (or "distant place"). Muslims explain that this means "at the edge of the Temple mount", although no direct reference to Jerusalem or the Temple Mount is made.
7. King David established the city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Some Muslims (i.e. those between Israel and Saudi Arabia) 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 peoples' 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 P.L.O.'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 with weapons.
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 U.N. 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 U.N was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. 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.
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Slide show about Sephradim Jews who were expelled from Arab States without any compensation.
Many people claim that the cities in Judea and Samaria bear Arabic names. In reality those names were derived from ancient Israeli cities. Here is the comparison and judge for yourself. Feel free to do any research.
| Arab named cities |
| Anata |
| Batir |
| Beit-Hur |
| Beitin |
| Beit Jalla |
| El-Jib |
| Jaba' |
| Jenin |
| Mukhmas |
| Seilun |
| Tequa |
| Biblical Israeli cities |
| Anatot |
| Beitar |
| Beit Horon |
| Beit El |
| Gilo |
| Gibeon |
| Geva |
| Ein Ganim |
| Mikhmash |
| Shilo |
| Tekoa |
| Additional Comments |
| The dwelling of the Prophet Jeremiah |
| The headquarters of Bar Kochba |
| Site of Judah the Maccabee's victory over the Assyrians |
| A site of the Holy Ark and Prophet Samuel's court |
| Where Sennacherib set his camp to besiege Jerusalem |
| Joshua's battleground command to stop the sun & moon |
| Where King Saul’s son Jonathan’s won the Philistines |
| A Levite town within the tribe of Issachar |
| Jonathan the Maccabee residence, King Saul's fortress |
| Joshua's tabernacle and the Holy Ark and Samuel's youth |
| Hometown of the Prophet Amos |
20 questions about two-state solution by Jack Lauber
1. In the year prior to signing the Oslo agreements, Israeli intelligence experts did a study for the
Labor government of 200 agreements that Arafat’s PLO had signed over the years and found that he had honored none of them. What makes you believe “this time” will be any different?
2. How are you going to prevent an influx of sophisticated weapons into the “demilitarized” state?
And please don’t insult our intelligence by saying foreign “monitors” are going to stop it.
3. How are you going to prevent the firing of missiles at airplanes going in and out of Ben Gurion
airport? One downed plane will mean the end of international carriers flying to Israel.
4. How do you prevent the training and equipping of a Palestinian army in another Arab state?
5. How do you propose to deal with demands by Israeli Arabs in the Galilee, where they are a majority, to join the Palestinian state?
6. How will you respond to Hamas or Hezbollah taking over “demilitarized” Palestine?
7. How do you deal with the loss of political support from Bible-believing Christians in the United
States, your last important source of support in a world filled with irrational hatred of Israel?
8. How will you cope with the depletion and destruction of the mountain aquifer on which Israel
depends for water?
9. How do you restore the morale of Israelis after the shock of forfeiting Jerusalem and all claims to the heartland of the Jewish people?
10. How do you envisage expelling 500,000 Jews from their homes on the “wrong” side of the
Green Line (including East Jerusalem)?
11. How do you pay for their resettlement, given that Israel has still not managed to recompense
and resettle the 10,000 Jews it expelled from their homes in Gaza?
12. How do you stem the flood of Israelis leaving the country in the wake of this demoralization?
13. How do you defend a country whose width is the distance between New York’s JFK and LaGuardia airports?
14. How do you defend the coastal plain when a Palestinian state controls the mountain ranges that dominate it?
15. Are you now preparing to give the Golan Heights to Syria and destroy its Jewish communities?
16. How do you deal with the loss of ability to engage in “hot pursuit” in a sovereign Palestine?
17. How do you prevent foreign armies entering Palestine when you don’t control the entry points?
18. How do you propose to recoup the loss in business investment and tourism?
19. Do you plan to recognize two Palestinian states, Hamastan and Fatahland?
20. The PA, like Hamas, has made clear it insists on the Right to Return. How will you deal with
these demands for a “one state solution” after you have forfeited your claims to the historic Land of Israel and given up so many of your strategic advantages?
We will be astounded if you can come up with a rational answer to any of these questions. And
under those circumstances, it is, to quote Edgar Allen Poe, “much of Madness, and more of Sin” to embark— or pretend to embark—on a “two state solution.”
