Common Propaganda vs. The Facts

In a world in which extremists within Islam have the upper hand in swaying public opinion through the mainstream media and governments that are friendly to its goals, the truth has suffered at the hands of the common propaganda.

The facts concerning Israel have been lost somewhere in the barrage of talk about 'keeping the peace at all costs,' 'establishing a palestinian state,' and other such nonsense.

Israel is invariably portrayed as the aggressor. Islamic terrorists are described as the victims.

Nothing is any more powerful in the fight to expose terrorist propaganda than a clear, straightforward presentation of the truth--the facts.

At the top of the list is the contention that since modern Israel is a creation of the United Nations in the midst of Islamic territory, it is therefore an illegitimate nation that deserves to be put to rest or at the very least divided up between its Muslim enemies.

This is propaganda.

Israel's history did not begin in 1948 but in antiquity when the Hebrews established a nation with a theocratic government.

Although critics maintain that the land in question actually belonged to another race of people prior to the Hebrew invasion of 'the land flowing with milk and honey,' any historian would be hard-pressed to make a case for the ancient Canaanites having any connection whatsoever to modern-day Muslims.

Dozens of the ancient races that once inhabited the region in and around the land once known as 'Canaan' no longer exist, just as surely as the Mayans suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth.

The fact is that Israel has had claim to the land in the region since 1312 B.C., and Jerusalem has been its capital for 3,300 years.

Below you will find a piece found in the comment section over at Israellycool.com. It is entitled, 'Crash Course on the Arab Israeli Conflict.' And within it you will find the bare facts that pierce through the common propaganda:

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 Middle East situation.
These were compiled by a Christian university professor:
BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY.

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 la nds 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 we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?