Friday, November 30, 2007

A Bird's eye look at the historic 'Israeli - Arab conflict' towards Annapolis 2007


A Bird's eye look at the historic 'Israeli - Arab conflict' towards Annapolis 2007

 


Around 2,000 years ago, 70 AD, the Romans that have conquered Israel, the Jewish people, the Jewish land, (after killing Jesus) destroy Jews' second temple, massacre hundreds of thousands following a revolt against Rome's oppression and prohibition on practicing Judaism , mass torture and a complete suffocating siege on Jerusalem [an armed rebellion, one which was disapproved by the rabbis & by any religious leaders], they expell the majority of Jews out of the land [as was expected ahead of time, throught the Jewish prophets, because God expects from his people - the Jews much more than from other nations, still, the cruel Romans "carried" out the evil deeds].

 

The Romans have also renamed Israel as 'Palestina'. The land however was mostly deserted and mainly survived by some Jews who still lived there.

 

Many years later, at the beginning of the 600's, an Arab named Muhammad will create a new religion called Islam, he will massacre the Jews of Madina for not following him, lead attacks first on Arabs themselves and on all who has not accepted him, this battle on non-Muslims still continues on today, he will later on also claim that he had a dream that he was in the Jewish city of Israel: Jerusalem.

 

Meanwhile, in Christianity, Jews' refusal to change their religion to which [Jewish born] Jesus came up with, caused resentment among Christians, and hatred brought the belief that it was the Jews who "caused" Jesus to die, then this fanatical religious hatred even gave birth to all kind of imaginary "theories", stereotypes blatant lies and libels, persecution, mass murder, etc.

 

Later on in persecuting the Jews in Europe, they were expelled time and time again (often called to return after being expelled, for their urgent need of Jews' talent, intelligence and seriousness in life - vital for Europeans economy).
Jews were barred from most employment, in order to survive, forced to rely only on their brains, to manage money and charge interest, another "motivation" to an increased hatred or/and an excuse.
Many European haters have called upon them to return to their homeland Israel.

 

This traditional hatred was used by Adolf Hitler in his delusional "Aryan" supremacy to use Christians who still hold that hatred, against the Jews he was so obsessed with in his animosity, as he came up with most criminal idea ever known to mankind [Though, already in biblical times, between the first and second Jewish temples, it was the WICKED Haman who planned total extermination, genocide, as stated in the holy book of Esther, where Hebrews / Israelites were already referred to as JEWS], so far as implementing a 'final solution', aka, to exterminate all Jews (no matter if they are religious, or not, communists or not, Zionists or not, secular, atheists, Jews with no ideology at all, men, women, children, babies, all were doomed by the infamous criminal number one in history, that has caused a total of around 50 million deaths, whereas at least 6,000,000 were Jews, murdered for no other reason then for pertaining to one particular root, being, simply, Jews).

 

Muslims fight Christians for decades, long and bloody battles.

 

The Turks had a stronghold on the holy-land after defeating the Christians.
Jews were generally not persecuted under the Turkish Ottoman rule in Israel "Palestine".

 

In the late 1800's Jewish immigrants and Arab immigrants, both rose to a new level, as Zionists started to cultivate the land, in the early 1900's under the British colonialism & occupation, Jews were restricted in entry to their historic land but Arabs were not, a vicious rule that has continued during and after Hitler's holocaust, when poor Jewish victims tried to escape], this imbalance "policy" by the British which was pushed by the Arabs out of racism and bigotry to "others", has "made" the Arabs a majority for a while.

 

One of the main Arab racist & Islamic fascist agitators was Haj Amin Al Husseini the infamous 'Mufti', he was behind such massacres as in Hebron 1929 where innocent unarmed Jewish were sloughtered by Arabs Muslims, he was also behind the 1941 'Farhud' pogrom on the Jews of Baghdad.

 

Prior to attacking the Jews, he participated in the Turkish army that carried out the Islamic genocide on Armenian Christians in 1915, where 1.5 million were murdered.

 

He was the one Arab leader that made a pact with Hitler (though not "Aryan" and despite the Arab race being inferior and monkey like in Nazis' eyes, they managed to unite against a common hated people) and led a Bosnian Muslim division of the SS to carry out atrocities against the Serb Christians and against Jews.

 

The United Nations founded post WW 2, after 2,000 years of persecuting the Jews and so many millions murdered [before the six millions murdered by Germany's nazis, all throughout history in Europe there were countless victims], gave "permission" to the Jews to re-establish their homeland Israel, along side an Arab state, basically a two states solution.

 

The Jews agreed, all they wanted past and present, is to 'live and let live', but the Arabs refused, the bigots wanted all of the land for themselves.

 

1948 Israel is re-established, ALL Arab nations vow to destroy Israel, declare war on this little newborn state, Arab leaders vouch for genocide! to "Throw the Jews into the Sea".

 

Arab leaders call upon Arabs residing in Israel-"Palestine" to evacuate their homes for a while until "mission -- of throwing into the sea-- is accomplished".

 

Tiny Israel heroically defends itself and thwarts gigantic Arabs' attacks.

 

A phenomenon of "Arab refugees" is born, but also a larger refugees population, that from the Arab on Jews, between 800,000 & 900,000 Jews are expelled from Arab Muslim countries: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, etc.
Their land, properties confiscated.

 

The contrast however how Jews dealt with Jewish refugees and how Arabs have dealt with Arab refugees is huge, Jews are completely absorbed into Israel, Arabs have rejected the Arab refugees, keeping them down, and using them as a foot ball against Israel.
As the Saudi Arab king Fahd said: "Next to the Jews, we hate the 'Palestinians' the most".

 

Arabs terrorize Jews, attacking the innocent, as Arab terror intensifies & Arab leaders threaten again and again to annihilate the Jews, the 1967 war breaks out, Israel that had enough, succesfully conquers some Egyptian land and more land pertaining to Israel - historically and Biblically but not granted by the UN, though the Arabs illegally defied the UN in rejecting Israel and UN's two states solution.

 

The balance of world's powers plays out in the middle east, USSR supports and arms the Arabs, US is on Israel, [the surviving David vs Goliath] side.

 

The local Arabs [which most of their parents or grandparents have immigrated to the holy land] start to call themselves as "Palestinians" (PS no connection to "Philistines" who were NOT Arabs nor spoke Arabic, and are all gone, absolutely nothing remained from them).

 

Continued Arabs' attacks targeting unarmed civilians, rose in the 1970, such as the massacres of school children in Avivim, Maalot and other attacks, more famous in the 1972 massacre of Israeli Athletes in Munich by the Egyptian born: Yasser Arafat, the leader (somehow...) of the Arab "Palestinians".

 

He is in Jordan and as a trouble maker creates the "Palestinian" intifada attack on Jordan's government, 1970 - 'Black September', but Jordan quickly oppresses even more the "Palestinians", kills many, makes mass arrests, in 1971 the PLO is expelled.

 

He finds a safe heaven in Syrian's occupied Lebanon, he adds more destruction to the already tense relations between Christians & Muslims in that country.

 

He Islamizes the Christian Bethlehem, oppresses Christian Arabs in general.

 

In 1973 Israel is again attacked by Arab nations, mainly by Egypt and Syria, a delicate date is chosen, the cruel Saadat and his advisers chose Yom Kippur a Jewish fast day, the vicious Arabs chose the time of day, towards the end of the day (before breaking the fast).

 

The attack was in a surprise, many were killed, although Israel managed to win the war (as all wars), still the Arabs saw it as "victory", as a blood thirst cult, for the simple reason that many 'Jews were killed'.

 

In 1976, amidst civil war between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon, the Muslim "Palestinians", PLO - Arafat, and the Syrians carry out the massacre of Christians in Damour, this was the reason for Christian Arabs massacring "Palestinians" in Sabra Shatila in 1982.

 

1978-1979, Israel's leader Menachem Begin & Egypt's Anuar Sadaat break a peace agreement in which Israel shall give back the land conquered in 1967, Sinai that is [which so it did], and the Arabs give nothing, just a "promise" not to attack, and so a cold peace comes in place between Israel - Egypt.
Syria refuses to 'sit down for any peace negotiations' and leads many in the Arab world against Egypt & its more moderate stand.

 

Goliath Arabs using it's oil power, intimidate nations to be against Israel in boycotts, and in the United Nations.
Basically hijacking the UN for the Arabist agenda, of bashing Israel no matter what it does.
This Arab control worldwide intensifies as the years pass by and expands into all international bodies.

 

On another front, in Iran, the Shah rules, he is an ally of the United States but he is not exactly a democratic leader, US president (called by so many the worst ex president) Jimmy Carter pushes pressure on Iran.
In 1979 a revolution happens, not what the US wanted nor what most in the world have wished for, an Islamic revolution, a militant Islam, a Shiite extremism, headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini.

 

Immediately, the American embassy is hijacked, the workers kidnapped for 444 days, until US has a better leader, a courageous Ronald Reagan.

 

Iranian Satanic Mullahs declare that the United States is the "big Satan" and Israel is the "little Satan'.

 

Millions of Iranians are oppressed under Islamic Republic, standing out even in the "usual' Islamic dictatorships standards.
Asides from killing of minorities such as Ahwazi, Kurds, Druze, which even information is so scarce out of that jail house known as state of Iran.

 

They are behind creating, training and arming the Islamic Hezbullah in Lebanon, the 'Party of Allah', whose goal is creating a militant Islamic Shia theocracy in Lebanon with [no Christians or any non Muslims' in Lebanon, and ultimately in the entire middle east including "liberating Jerusalem" as they call it], Hezbollah carried out terror attack such as on US marine barricades in Lebanon in 1983, the US was stationed there to keep peace between Christians & Muslims figting civil war.

 

Israel, its civilians being attacked by Arafat's terrorists - based in Lebanon (as a practical 'Palestinian' army there), enters that country in 1982 to root them out, at first is received by local Arabs, Muslims with candies and flowers, as most Lebanese want the "Palestinian" troublemakers out, but the operation 'Peace for the Gallilee', turns into a long and bloody war, all while Syria still occupies Lebanon, PLO & [Iran's & Syria's backed] Hezbollah causes many deaths among all sides.
The main base of Arafat's terrorists infrastructure is finally shattered by Israel.

 

Yasser Arafat declares two "intifadas" (1987 & 2000), bloody violence on Israel's unarmed men, women and children, targeting the most crwoded places, in a clear attempt to cause as many civilinas deaths' as possible = Genocide bombings.
"Palestinian" mainstream and official media intensifies in demonizing Jews, in glorifying mass murder and "martyrdom" is full force, the death cult of camps for children to be 'human bombs' is greased by Saudi Arab oil with large payments for every parent that sends its kid to die via killing many innocent Israelis.
In order to create public sympathy, the Arab Muslim "Palestinians" make sure the kids are pushed on the front lines, often with "stones", to cover for adult terrorists with machine guns.
The tactics of using kids as human shields by "Palestinian" terrorists proved to be effected, as the global media rarely puts the blame on the Arab adults and leaders and not on Israel trying to defend, to survive.

 

Israel complies with UN's resolution for Israel to leave Lebanon and for the Hezbollah's army to dissolve, Israel exists but the Hezbollah remains armed, moreover they portray Israel's peaceful departure as a "weakness."

 

In 2000, the most powerful Christian leader, the Pope has issues the Church's formal apology to the Jews of the 2,000 years of constant persecution and bloodshed.

 

September 11, 2001, the Islamic attack that butchered 3,000 innocent people in the United States of America, reinforced the recognition of radical Islam's war on the west, their 'plan' for a global repressive Islamic empire (recognized even by left wingers such as Barack Obama in 2007).

 

So was the continuous Islamic massacres, including the one in Bali 2002 on Australian youths.

 

2005, Israel gives a big gift for Arab "Palestinians", sacrificing a huge steak, giving away of it's vital borderline own land, the Gaza strip.
The Arab "Palestinians" react very traditionally, the more you give them the more they get radicalized, they vote -- overwhelmingly -- for the Islamic Jihad party of Hamas, who does not "recognize" Israel, vouch for it's destruction and its members promise to "drink Jews' blood".

 

The Hamas-tan Islamic Apartheid creates more Islamization, persecuting Christians, often threatening individuals to "change" their faith, practice.

 

"Palestinians" via Hamas express more publicly their "plan" of Islamic world repressive domination [Caliphate].

 

The civil war between Hamas & Fatah (which still maintains under its wings the terror group 'Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade', but Hamas is still more on the extreme with it's genocide aims), intensifies in 2006 - 2007.

 

2006 Iran & Syria decide to send it's Hezbollah Islamic army to attack Israel, a war breaks out, Israel hits Hezbollah which uses 'Palestinian' tactics of human shields to cause as many Arab kids' deaths possible, in order to create a media shift in the Arab world towards more Anti-Israelism.

 

In November 2007, there's an attempt by US' president George W. Bush to break a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab "Palestinians", Fatah is present, Hamas denounces.
The agreement is still based mainly on that first UN's resolution of 1948, a two states solution, which the Arabs ILLEGALLY have rejected then until now.
Not only are they exploiting again Israel's kindness and its urge to give for any chance for peace, but these Arabs even make the Jewish eternal capital Jerusalem an issue for Muslims, as if this was 'always an Islamic thing.'

 

As it stands now, the main real issue Israel still struggles with, is survival against the twin diabolical intolerance that motivated - motivates Arab Muslims, the Arab racism & Islamic Jihad. the Arab racism and Arabization also claims millions of victims in Africa, including Sudan, Mauritania, Chad and more, so are all non Arab minorities in the middle east paying the price of persecution, then the Islamic Jihad´s war on the world is the cancer everywhere on the globe, main victims are: Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and other non Muslims or 'infidels', or 'kuffars'.

 

Worth mentioning that Israel is by in large a secular State, most of its very religious Jews, the Ultra Orthodox do NOT serve in the Israeli Army out of principles.
The first to try to negotiate a peace treaty with the Arabs were actually the Ultra Orthodox Jews, spearheaded by Rabbi Professor Y. Dahan, it was prior to the reestablishment of Israel, he was murdered.
Still, this community's children are as much a target by radical Muslims terrorists.

 

Too late but better late than never, Arab 'moderates' start to realize that a nuclear Islamic Republic of Iran is a danger to all.

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Info & Sites on the Arab Israeli conflict


BOOKS


From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict
by Joan Peters


Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Mitchell G. Bard


The Fight for Jerusalem
By Dore Gold


The Case for Israel
by Alan M. Dershowitz

BASIC FACTS


Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html

Frequently Asked Questions About Israel
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ken0

Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel

Arab-Israeli conflict - Basic facts
http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict.asp

History, maps & facts
http://palestinefacts.org

Concept wizard info, Visual information about the Middle East conflict
http://www.conceptwizard.com/info.html

Israel Size Comparison Maps
http://www.iris.org.il/sizemaps.htm

A History of Terrorism in Israel (since the 1920’s)
http://lindasog.com/public/terrorvictims.htm

MEI- Middle East regimes and Terrorism
http://www.middle-east-info.org

IHC Historical Facts
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/xmlpath.pl?id=3

FURTHER SITES


One Jerusalem
http://www.onejerusalem.org

Coalition against terrorism
http://www.cat2002.org

Update on victims - All4israel
http://all4israel.org

Think Israel
http://www.think-israel.org

Factsandlogic
http://www.factsandlogic.org

rotter
http://rotter.net/israel

Israel’s War Against ‘Palestinian’ Terror
http://www.israel-wat.com/parent_eng.htm

Awsome Seminars
http://www.awesomeseminars.com

Israel ‘Palestine’ - 101
http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2006/04/israel-palestine-101.html

Arabs For Israel
http://www.arabsforisrael.com

LIES!
http://www.geocities.com/palestiniansarelies

Amin Al Husseini - The Grand Mufti and father of today’s jihad
http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/AminAlHusseini.htm

In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti’s requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his “thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches….The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely….the Jews….” Hitler replied.
The Mufti and the Fuhrer
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html

1941 The Farhud, the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/farhud.html

In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews - indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - lived in what are now known as the “Arab States.” ~ Today, 99% of these indigenous Jewish communities no longer exist. ~ Arab governments forced us to leave, confiscated our personal and communal property and stripped us of our citizenships.
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
http://jimena.org

MEMRI: Middle East Media Research Institute (translating Arab media)
http://www.memri.org

BASIC ARTICLES


Twenty facts about Israel and the Middle East
http://israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0401.htm

Arab terrorism came before the (so called) “occupation”
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ldc0

There are two causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first is Arab racism, which rejects any presence that isn’t Arab in its neighborhood; the second is Islamic intolerance which leads to the same rejection
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7268

The Case for Israel
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13590

Israel’s morality
http://www.aynrand.org/israel

Why Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4454

Who caused the Arab “refugee” problem? Refugee: Arab leaders told us to flee Israel in 1948
http://www.pmw.org.il/LatestBulletins.htm#b300506

Israel’s moral right toexist
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Israels_Moral_Right_to_its_Life.asp

Israel’s Right to Exist Questioned, Anti-Zionism or Anti-Semitism?
http://www.peacewithrealism.org/antizi05.htm

Israel and the Palestinians: no moral contest
http://www.likud.nl/press50.html

Gamla
http://gamla.org.il/english/index.htm

How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?
http://www.tampabayprimer.org/index.cfm?action=articles&drill=viewArt&art=1255

The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?
http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html

THE NEXT SCREWING, There are two causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first is Arab racism, which rejects any presence that is not Arab in its neighborhood; the second is Islamic intolerance which leads to the same rejection http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7268

“Flaubert’s Observations of Jerusalem and the Jews Living There [1850]”
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/08/flauberts-observations-of-jerusalem.html

Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life Why reason and justice are on Israel’s side
http://www.therefinersfire.org/israel_defends_itself.htm

Israel’s Moral Legitimacy
http://www.netanyahu.org/ismorleg.html

British National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Palestinian leaders. Historical documents in Britain’s National Archives in London show
[Nazis shipped arms to Palestinians
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html

When being anti-Israel is anti-Semitic
http://students.washington.edu/israeluw/info-anti.html

The Hebron Massacre of 1929 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron29.html

March 2006 - 120 Years to first of Arabs’ attack on Jews in “palestine” Israel, Petach Tikva 1886
http://haveitclearly.blogspot.com/2006/04/120-years-to-first-of-arabs-attack-on.html

As grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in … 1929. Hebron Massacre. Amin Al-Husseini organizes more riots in Palestine.
From Al Husseini to Hitler :Radical Islam and the Nazi connection
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2543

Israel’s struggle for Good VS Evil
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/israel_the_struggle_for_good_vs_evil/index.html

Munich & morality tale of good vs. evil
http://www.think-israel.org/wright.munich.html

The Jews took no one’s land http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27338

Arabs Recognized Israel - 1919
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=article&id=1726

Continuous Jewish Presence in the Holy Land, Under Turkish rule the Jews in Jerusalem and in Gaza maintained "cultural and spiritual ... James Parkes, Whose Land?, A History of the Peoples of Palestine ...
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/presence.html

HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS PRIOR TO CONFLICT


The vast majority of travelogues and historical accounts of the Middle east describe this area as barren- that does not mean UN -populated- it does mean UNDER populated. Alexander Keith, recalling Volney’s 1785 description (quoted above) fifty years later, commented: “In his day [Volney’s] the land had not fully reached its last degree of desolation and depopulation.” (The Land of Israel).

Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples:

Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: “…a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country … the tomb of a whole people” (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308).

A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, “Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie”, Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine “desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands.”

In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages “caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin” (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489).

And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: “… both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated” (p. 490).

Mark Twain, ‘Innocents Abroad’ 1867:

“”Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse … We reached Tabor safely … We never saw a human being on the whole route” (p. 451, 480); “There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley’s) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings” (p. 448); “Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren … the valleys are unsightly deserts… It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land… Palestine is desolate and unlovely… Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland” (pp. 564, 567).

Referring to the same era, the Christian historian James Parkes writes in Whose Land?: “Peasant and Bedouin alike have contributed to the ruin of the countryside on which both depend for a livelihood… In spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times.”

In 1738, the land was described by the English archeologist Thomas Shaw as “lacking in people to till its fertile soil” (Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant). The French historian Conte Constantine Francois Volney writes:

“The peasants are incessantly making inroads on each other’s lands, destroying their corn, durra, sesame and olive-trees, and carrying off their sheep, goats and camels. The Turks, who are everywhere negligent in repressing similar disorders, are attentive to them here, since their authority is very precarious. The Bedouin, whose camps occupy the level country, are continually at open hostility Alexander Keith, recalling Volney’s 1785 description (quoted above) fifty years later, commented: “In his day [Volney’s] tthe land had not fully reache its last degree of desolation and depopulation.” (The Land of Israel).

Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples:

Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: “…a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country … the tomb of a whole people” (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308).

A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, “Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie”, Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine “desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands.”

In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages “caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin” (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489).

And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: “… both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated” (p. 490).

Mark Twain, ‘Innocents Abroad’ 1867:

“”Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse … We reached Tabor safely … We never saw a human being on the whole route” (p. 451, 480); “There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley’s) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings” (p. 448); “Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren … the valleys are unsightly deserts… It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land… Palestine is desolate and unlovely… Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland” (pp. 564, 567).





Haman in the Book of Esther, evil aide to Persian king Ahasuerus; attempted to kill ... to annihilate the Jews; Esther...
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9033084/Book-of-Esther ...WICKED enemy Haman...
Esther7:6


In the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on its thirteenth day ... on the day that the enemies of the Jews were expected to prevail over them, it was turned about: the Jews prevailed over their adversaries. - Esther 9:1
And they gained relief on the fourteenth, making it a day of feasting and gladness. - Esther 9:17
"Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the 14th day of the month of Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and of sending portions to one another (mishloach manot)." - Esther 9:19
And they gained relief on the fourteenth, making it a day of feasting and gladness. - Esther 9:17 [Mordecai instructed them] to observe them as days of feasting and gladness, and sending delicacies to one another, and gifts to the poor. - Esther 9:22
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday9.htm

feast celebrating God’s abandonment of Israel puts in motion a plot to annihilate the Jews.
http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_24_-_Purim_in_Persia. asp Historical Overview - Second Temple destroyed; Roman exile begins, 70 CE
http://www.aish.com/purimbasics/purimbasicsdefault/Historical_Overview.asp Crash Course in Jewish History Part 6: Isaac and His Sons
http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_6_Isaac_and_His_Sons. asp Jerusalem: Jewish and Moslem Claims to the Holy City, Jerusalem: Jewish and Moslem Claims to the Holy City With 3000 years of history behind it, Jerusalem is now thrust to the center of the Arab-Israeli ...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_Jewish_and_Moslem_Claims_to_the_Holy_City.asp
Jerusalem: Jewish and Moslem Claims to the Holy City - Israel Update, Jerusalem: Jewish and Moslem Claims to the Holy City.
http://www.aish.com/Israel/articles/Jerusalem_Jewish_and_Moslem_Claims_to_the_Holy_City.asp The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem -- saying that Jerusalem is as important to Jews as Mecca is to Moslems,Muslim sheik Palazzi concludes. ...
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/84 The Moslem Claim to Jerusalem is False Emet News Servicethere any foundation to the Moslem argument that this 'furthest mosque' (Al-Masujidi al-Aqtza) refers to what is today called the Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem?
http://www.emetnews.org/analysis/false-claim.phpFalse Moslem ClaimsThe Moslem "claim" to Jerusalem is based on what is written in the Koran, which although Jerusalem is not mentioned even once, nevertheless talks (in Sura ...
http://www.unitedjerusalem.com/FALSE_MOSLEM_CLAIMS/false_moslem_claims.asp GAMLA: News & Views from Israel - Why Jerusalem is Not Holy to MuslimsWe often hear the Muslim claim that Jerusalem is their "third holiest city", after Mecca and Medina; and specifically, that this is because our Temple Mount ...
http://gamla.org.il/english/article/2004/june/why.htm F L A M E : Jerusalem (I): Whose city? whose 'holy city'is it? And the Moslem Arab claim to Jerusalem, based on the mosques on the Temple Mount, is just as untenable. Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish life, ...
http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_07.html Jerusalem Not Mentioned in the Koran If Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran, then the claims of Islam over Jerusalem


http://revive-israel.org/2002/jerusalem_not_mentioned.htm Jerusalem: "I Hate the Ground You Walk On" (Emanuel A. Winston ...Mohammed turned the quibla of Moslem prayers to Mecca and insured that Jerusalem was not mentioned even once in the Koran. Jews speak of Jerusalem ...
http://www.freeman.org/m_online/oct96/winstonj.htm Media Critique #14 - Jerusalem Rally on CNN Third-holiest to Moslems -- even though over the last 1500 years, Jerusalem has never been the religious or national capital of any Arab or Moslem entity. ...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/Media_Critique_14_-_Jerusalem_Rally_on_CNN.asp Jerusalem: After 3000 Years, Why Does it Matter? How can others claim ownership in the face of such information. ... Let us never forget that Christian and Moslem interest in Jerusalem exists ONLY because ...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_After_3000_Years3_Why_Does_it_Matter$.asp Reuters Ruins Rachel's TombShould the PA control the area, non-Moslems would be precluded from praying at ... In the world of Reuters, East Jerusalem was "occupied" only in 1967, ...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/Reuters_Ruins_Rachels_Tomb.asp Islam's War Against the Jews: Quotes from the Palestinian AuthorityJerusalem is a symbol... to the Moslems and to their war of Jihad forever and ever. .... Abraham whom they (the Muslims) themselves claim as their ancestor. ...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Islams_War_Against_the_Jews_Quotes_from_the_Palestinian_ Authority.asp Remember the BibleLatly, and I'm sure many point this out: Moslems think that God or Allah ... Christianity has Rome, let Israel and the Jewish people have Jerusalem! ...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/Remember_the_Bible.asp Crash Course in Jewish History Part 5: The Promised LandHowever, the Jewish people base their claim on God's promise. .... That is why Moslems are at war all over the world with those whom they live among. ...
http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_5_The_Promised_Land.a sp The Koran On Jews' Right To LandPalazzi cites Koran passages showing that the Land of Israel was given to the Jews, and that Jews would be brought back to Israel before the end of days, ...


http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/1002.htm The Qur'an and the Land of Israel THE QUR'AN SAYS THAT ALLAH GAVE THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWS ..... Koranic order (see Koran 8:61), and since, according to Islam, Peace is G-d Himself, ...
http://www.templemount.org/quranland.html Am Yisrael ChaiThey presented the negation of any Jewish rights to the Land of Israel as ... Holy Koran explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel ...
http://www.geocities.com/rachav/amyisroelchai.html Islam 4 IsraelTHE KORAN SAYS - GD GAVE THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWS AND WILL ... Arab Muslims in Israel Are the Arabs who live in Israel proper full citizens of the ...
http://www.geocities.com/compassionplease/IslamIsrael Even Muslim's Koran Quran advocates that Isarel is the land pertaning to the Jews
http://www.chayas.com/muslim.htm ... other than in Muhammad's dream? Believe it or not, the one and only source for the Muslim's claim to Jerusalem and the site of the Holy Temple, ...
http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html BIG LIES:(PDF)
UN: Israel for the Jews, and another state for the Arabs. The Arabs rejected ... ed observer of this history, therefore, that it was not Israel that caused ...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/media/pdf/BigLies.pdf

_____________Chosenness in the Bible.., Israel's character as the chosen people is unconditional as it says in Deuteronomy 14:2, "For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth.
Although the Torah - Bible also says, "Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people," God promises that He will never exchange the Jewish people with any other.
Other BIBLE verses about chosenness, "For all the earth is mine: and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:5, 6). "The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people; but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your ancestors." (Deuteronomy 7:7, 8).
A (true) convert to Judaism, no matter his color, race, shade, or creed is as much a Jew - chosen.
It is not only a privelege but an obligation too:
The special obligation imposed upon the Israelites is emphasized by the prophet Amos (Book of Amos 3:2): "You only have I singled out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities."
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Sephardic Holocaust Project - Formerly the FARHUD Recognition Project
The Forgotten Holocaust Pogrom in Iraq ... Mufti & Hitler. Farhud. Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries. Failure of the U.S. Holocaust Museum ...
http://farhud.org

In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews - indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - lived in what are now known as the “Arab States.” ~ Today, 99% of these indigenous Jewish communities no longer exist. ~ Arab governments forced us to leave, confiscated our personal and communal property and stripped us of our citizenships. Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
http://jimena.org

Italy and the Jews - Timeline
It reaches a membership of 2,000 clergymen. ... trip to Israel, Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Church's treatment of Jews. ...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/italytime.html

Pope Offers Historic Mea Culpa, Apologizes For Treatment Of Jews ...
In a step decreed by Pope John Paul II as "essential," the Roman Catholic Church staged an unprecedented ... 2,000 years -- including its treatment of Jews, ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/12/world/main171032.shtml

Catholics, Jews, and the Prism of Conscience(PDF)
Pope into a hero of resistance on behalf of Jews, a dubious ... For 2,000 years, we Jews were without worldly power, especially on the political stage. ...
http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/Slifka/research/Carroll_Book.pdf

The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?
http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html

credible evidence for their connection to this holy site, other than in Muhammad's dream?
http://www.jerusalemsummit.org/eng/razdel.php?article_id=91&id=20

Islam rediscovered Jerusalem 50 years after Mohammad's death. ... thinkers believed that it was just a dream of Mohammed, that he was never in Jerusalem. ...
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/06/whose_jerusalem.html

Muhammad and the Jews(2) Allah tells Muhammad in a sura (chapter) revealed in Mecca that the ... The other Jews were also killed with one exception. Thus, Muhammad engaged in ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/06/muhammad_and_the_jews.html

Muhammad: Jews and the Jihad, When the Jews rejected his prophecy in spite of these practices, Muhammad changed them, and fixed the qibla (direction of prayer) to Mecca in place of Jerusalem
http://www.peacewithrealism.org/jihad/jihad06.htm

Muhammad and Massacre of the Qurayza JewsThe aftermath for the Qurayza Jews ... Muhammad is ordered to fight the Qurayza Jews. .... No woman of Banu [tribe] Qurayzah was killed except one. ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/02/muhammad_and_massacre_of_the_q.html

Anti-Semitism in Islam: Israel Didn’t Start the FireThen the apostle divided the property, wives, and children of B. Qurayza among ... actually be killed by Jesus, and the Dajjal’s dispirited army of Jews, ...
http://hnn.us/articles/34789.html





From The Armenian Genocide To The Hijacking of The Arab World. Building Blocks ... the local Muslim vote, appoint Amin Al-Husseini as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.[The Mufti] Amin Al-Husseini. Born in Jerusalem under Ottoman rule
1914-1917
Husseini’s First Taste of Jihad
Allegiance to Ottoman Empire .
Amin Al Husseini: Ottoman Empire Officer. Amin Al-Husseini swears allegiance to the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide .
He is an officer stationed in Smyrna and participates first-hand in the Armenian genocide. One and a half million Christians are slaughtered under the sword of Islamic Jihad by the Ottoman Army. Allegiance to Ottoman Empire and Islamic world take-over will be echoed by Osama Bin Laden in his post-September 11th declaration
http://www.tellchildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html#part1 From Morocco to Montreal ...He did not want Canada to become 'the dumping ground for 800000 Jewish refugees'. Toward the end of the 1930's, Canada had two opportunities to help...
http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/iii/36/sidebar.htmlWhat happened to the Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern countries? In the years following Israel's independence in May 1948, 600000 to 800000 Jews from ...
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_refugees_jews_what.php

Point of no return: Melanie weighs in on behalf of Jewish refugeesInformation and links about the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees ... draw attention to the Jewish refugees from Arab lands ? the 800000 Jews who were ...
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2007/11/melanie-weighs-in-on-behalf-of-jewish.html

Who Are the Palestinians? At DePaul, Don't Ask and Don't Tell, Historically, the biblical Philistines were not Arabs but rather Mediterranean sea people, whose culture was influenced by that of Crete. ...
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=22&x_article=1028

[Islamic Sheik] Abdul Hadi Palazzi: The Jerusalem Report, The Koran contains no mention of Palestine or Philistines
http://www.amislam.com/report.htm

Politically motivated mythology of Palestine, These Philistines were an Aegean people, driven out of Greece and Aegean islands ... Most Arabs do not admit so candidly that "Palestinian identity" is a ...
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/mythology.html

The History of the Words Palestine And Palestinians, The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, ...
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/meaning.html

Libya?s Khadafy opens up to Jewish refugees; what?s his motive?
Advocates have been fighting for the rights of an estimated 800000 Jews who ...
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23831/edition_id/472/format/html/d isplaystory.html

Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
... appealed to U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall: ?Between 800000 and a ... Roughly half of Israel's 5 million Jews are Jewish refugees from Arab ...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/jewref.html


Lebanese Civil War 1975 - 1976 Includes pictures of the Syrian-formed and -sponsored groups (Yarmouk & Sai'qa) attacking Damour city (January 1976).
http://www.liberty05.com/civilwar/civil.html Historical Fact: The Massacre and Destruction of Damour. Damour lay across the Sidon - Beirut highway about 20 km south of Beirut...
http://www.lebaneseforces.com/blastfromthepast002.asp

hobeika_damour ...Do you not remember Damour Lebanon. Let me remind you. Arafat and the PLO plunged Lebanon into "massacres, rape, mutilation, rampages of looting and ...
http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/hobeika_damour/hobeika_damour.html

Phalangist website - contains account and includes graphic photographs
http://www.falange.us/damour.htm

Damour Massacre (1976)
http://lfpics.com/dammour

Damour Massacre Slideshow
http://www.truelebanon.bravehost.com/pics/dampics-slideshow.html

Account of Damour massacre at Cedarland.org, a Lebanese Christian website
http://www.cedarland.org/damour.html





The True Identity of the So-called Palestinians.
The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in "Palestine", until the Jews came and "displaced" them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into the Land of Israel displaced the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in the Holy Land for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a "Palestinian refugee".
http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm

From Time Immemorial - Evidence of Unrecorded Arab Immigration ...9 Fred M. Gottheil, "Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel: 1922-1931"
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2139

The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931 - Middle East Quarterly.
http://www.meforum.org/article/522 ____________________________________________________________________________

ISLAMIZATION - ISLAMIC APRTHEIDJerusalem Cloakroom #117: The Islamization of Bethlehem by ArafatJerusalem Cloakroom #114 - November 8, 2001 Appeasement 2001http://www.acpr.org.il/cloakrm/clk117.htmlThe Islamization of Bethlehem by Arafat - The Israel Report ...Arafat has intensified the Islamization of Bethlehem, by adding to its population a few thousand Bedouins of the Ta'amrah tribe, located east of Bethlehem, ...
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/dec01/bethlehem2.html
Mideast Outpost: ARAFAT'S LEGACY FOR EUROPE It preaches Islamic replacement theology, and the Arabization and Islamization of the Holy Land’s biblical archeology. Arafat, its leader, was the bin Laden ...
http://mideastoutpost.com/archives/000111.html
The Legacy of Jihad [Andrew G. Bostom] - The Islamization of Europe... recognition of the PLO and its leader Arafat as unique representative of the ...
http://www.andrewbostom.org/loj//content/view/16/27/

Terror for Christians in Arafat-land, Let me tell you the story of two Christian converts in Arafat-land – and you ... persecution within the Palestinian Authority, "Holy Land: Christians in peril
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30583

Death sentence hangs over Arab ChristiansSaeed Salamah was an active member of Fatah, Arafat's own party, ... has worked to expose anti-Christian persecution within the Palestinian Authority. ...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30483

__________ISLAMIC "PALESTINIAN" RADICALS' DREAM TO DOMINATE THE WORLD Barack Obama: The terrorists are at war with us. The threat is from violent extremists... the threat is real. They distort Islam. They kill man, woman and child; Christian and Hindu, Jew and Muslim. They seek to create a repressive caliphate. To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for.
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/the_war_we_need_to_win.php
Islamo-Fascism Denial...
Hamas: The Hamas Charter sets out its Islamic mission as global: "Its spatial dimension extends wherever on earth there are Muslims, who adopt Islam as their way of life; thus, it penetrates to the deepest reaches of the land and to the highest spheres of Heavens. . . .
By virtue of the distribution of Muslims, who pursue the cause of the Hamas, all over the globe, and strive for its victory, for the reinforcement of its positions and for the encouragement of its Jihad, the Movement is a universal one." Universal in what way? The Palestinian Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi exhorted believers in 2002 "Oh beloved, look to the East of the earth, find Japan and the ocean; look to the West of the earth, find [some] country and the ocean. Be assured that these will be owned by the Muslim nation, as the Hadith says . . .
'from the ocean to the ocean.'"
http://www.aina.org/news/2007102311299.htm Israel, Hezbollah and the Wider Geo-political-Religious Terrain
Israel is on the front line in a global struggle for the future of civilization. Afghanistan and Iraq are other fronts in World War IV; this is a total war on a global scale.[13] If the United States and Israel do not prevail, civilization will plunge into a dark night of barbarism exceeding anything Adolph Hitler envisioned for a world dominated by the Third Reich.
At its essence World War IV is a religious war. Islamist Jihadists whether Sunni or Shi’ite, are committed to establishing a global caliphate with Islam as the world’s only religion, a world without Israel, indeed without Jews. In this new world, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and atheists would face two choices: conversion to Islam or slavery. Anyone who stands in the way will be liable for extermination. If this enemy obtains weapons of mass destruction, given the totality of their war aims, they will use them.
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=2580
The uncomplicated answer is that no matter what we do, policy-wise, we will remain infidels with gigantic bull's-eyes on our backs unless we renounce our capitalistic ways, destroy our churches and synagogues, outlaw our pluralistic religious society, convert to a radical Islamic theocracy and join the global jihad en route to a worldwide caliphate.
We are in this war for the long haul whether we like it or not. The only question is whether we intend to fight it or roll over in shameful appeasement until we are in a much weaker position to fight at such time as even the appeasers realize we have no other choice.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51384

Palestinians back caliphate over politics - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/27/wpal127.xml

Hamas reiterates goal of world domination by Islam - annihilation ...The PA sources further asserted that senior Fatah and Hamas terrorist leaders, as well as senior security officials from Egypt and Israel, know many details ...
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2790

["Palestinians":] Wanted: a caliphate - Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=661486&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&a mp;a mp;a mp;sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

The official said Hamas seeks to create an "Islamic caliphate" in Gaza and ...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56174__________ ARAFAT'S ISLAMIC HATRED OF CHRISTIANS, MASSACRES IN LEBANONhobeika_damour, Do you not remember Damour Lebanon. Let me remind you. Arafat and the PLO plunged Lebanon into "massacres, rape, mutilation, rampages of looting and ...
http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/hobeika_damour/hobeika_damour.html
Yasir Arafat and the Christians of Lebanon - Opinion - Kamal Jumblatt, in whose parliamentary constituency Damour lay, told Labaky, 'Father, I can do nothing for you, because it depends on Yasser Arafat. ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=786
The MASSACRE at DAMOUR, 1976
http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t-2009.html

Lebanese Forces : Historical Fact: The Massacre and Destruction of ...Damour lay across the Sidon - Beirut highway about 20 km south of Beirut on ... He gave Arafat's phone number to the priest.
http://www.lebaneseforces.com/blastfromthepast002.asp

USCFL - Frequently Asked Questions, When, in 1976, Yasser Arafat's PLO destroyed Damour, a Christian Lebanese town of some 25000 people, the Palestinian murderers employed the same barbaric ...
http://www.freelebanon.org/faqs.htm



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MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Or Does It Explode?: Iran Morality Police out in Full Force Many Palestinians in Israel have much more rights than in the other Arab ... They can vote in elections in Israel and have freedoms guaranteed not seen ...
http://www.ordoesitexplode.com/me/2007/04/iran_morality_p.html

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic elimination of an ethnic group from a region ... Kurds, jews, Berbers and Christians are not excepted in muslim society. ...
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Views&enPage=ForumPage&enDisplay=view& enDispWhat=Zone&enZone=SecurityF5 &

Christians in the Middle East, Coptic, Maronite - The Peace FAQ, The ethno-religious cleansing of Christian peoples in the Middle East .... In the Lion's Den: Persecuted Christians and What the Western Church Can Do About ...
http://www.peacefaq.com/christians.html

Why not one movie on the Kurdish ethnic cleansing, on the Genocide in southern Sudan, on the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, on the Berbers, Shiia of Iraq, ...
http://www.futurejihad.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=32

Recently, on 6th of June 2005[7], a bomb attack was carried out on an Aramean priest in Tur Abdin which is situated in south-eastern of Turkey. Thirty years ago, there were approximately 40,000 Arameans in Tur Abdin. Because of continued discrimination and persecution, our people were forced to flee into the Diaspora, leaving behind the sacred land of the forefathers, which they inhabited for thousands of years. Today there are only approximately 2,000 Arameans left in Tur Abdin, and dwindling. None of us would have voluntarily left Tur Abdin if not for the discrimination and persecution.
http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/Statment_indigenous_2005.htm

Iraq: East- Aramean Chaldean Priest Kidnapped, This time, the East- Aramean priest of the Chaldean church has been kidnapped ... recent denouncements of persecution against the Christian community there. ...
http://www.assyrianchristians.org/English/ArameanChaldeanPriest_Kidnapped_19_5_2007.htm

...and persecution of Aramaic Language and Aramaean Culture in numerous countries of ... In our days, the Arameans of Iraq are excluded from the Iraqi ...
www.buzzle.com/articles/gabriel-sengo-opens-gates-aramaean-thought-culture-wisdom.html

Mr. Paul Kelly, the Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, noted that "Iraqis of Assyrian, Turkman, and Kurdish ethnicity suffer additional abuses due to the ongoing Arabization' campaign of ethnic cleansing." Noting other abuses including the prohibition of all non-Arab broadcasting and publishing and the forced Arabization of personal names, Mr. Kelly added that "Abuses like these are a long-standing part of the Iraqi government's decade long campaign dedicated to eliminating the non-Arab presence in villages and towns under regime control in northern Iraq."
http://www.aina.org/releases/henryhyde.htm

The ChaldoAssyrian Cause in Iraq: Implications for Maronites, The ChaldoAssyrians (also known as Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs) are the ... has been persecution, massacres, and ethnic cleansing...
http://www.aina.org/articles/namjm.htm

freedomhouse.org: Yemen Gender discrimination is present not only in Yemeni laws, but also in the implementation of laws, by-laws, and procedures, which may be subject to various interpretations and the personal whims of individual state agents and authorities. Discrimination is faced not only by women in Yemen, but also by ethnic minorities such as the community called Akhdam (servants), refugees from the Horn of Africa, and the small Jewish minority who remain in Yemen. The government has not instituted a formal complaint mechanism whereby an individual or group can file a report if they become victims of discrimination.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=186

The ethnic composition of Yemeni society is characterized by the existence of marginalized and socially excluded groups (Akhdam).
http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y7218t/y7218t07.htm

Omar Al-Bashir: Not So Arab... Palestinian as a foil to keep their own oppressed population focused on Israel instead of deplorable human rights conditions in their own countries. ...
http://www.ordoesitexplode.com/me/2007/04/omar_albashir_n.html

FORGOTTEN OUTRAGE: Iran's Baha'i Crackdown, Yemen's Akhdam Marginalization (tie)
The Baha'i religion is out and out banned in Iran. Followers, who must practice in hiding, are banned from universities, jailed, and even murdered. The black Yemenites known as Akhdam have lived in Yemen for centuries but continue to face egregious discrimination domestically and indifference from the outside world.
http://www.ordoesitexplode.com/me/2005/12/year_in_review_.html

Marginalized Social Groups Many groups subsist on the periphery of the ... Akhdam communities in Yemen are victims of negative public attitudes and poverty ...
www.undp.org.ye/Inequalities.php -

“Akhdam” as you described the unfortunate segment of the Yemeni community, sounds humiliating term for this section of the society. Just say the poor rather than “Akhdam”. Encouraging the use of such names by Yemen Times supports the continuous degrading of these people, by branding them that slavish name.
It is high time YT refrain from encouraging the use of such discriminative labels, which are against all norms of human rights, although used by the majority of Yemenis in the northern parts of Yemen.
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=804&p=letters&a=2
Non-Isaaqi Somalis have a say too <br>
Somaliland myth was invented by some Isaaqi men “power Hungary” to create a government dominated by Isaaq clan (since Isaaq’s are a minority in Somalia). These men were tribalists and were oppressed. Recognizing Somaliland is a extremely dangerous, it will create more genocides by Isaaqs against other clans who live in northern Somalia, never ending civil wars, and more border conflicts with Somalia<br>
Another fact is that the so-called Somaliland authority is only popular and in control in Hargeisa and Barbara. What’s more tragic is that the so-called Somaliland government is illegitimate and wages constant aggressive wars on all regions in northern Somalia and non-Isaaq clans. So-called Somaliland government vigorously follows bad policies like ethnic cleansing and genocide against non-Isaaq clans.
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=804&p=letters&a=3

ARAB CHRISTIANS: AN INTRODUCTION
by Dr Walid Phares


For years, the term "Arab Christians" was used to categorize the Christians in the Middle East. However, the concept instead of being precisely defined was intellectually misused and politically abused. Both Arab regimes and "Arabists" in the West attempted to libel all Christians living under the sovereignty of Arab states, as "Arab Christians."

This denial of identity of millions of indigenous non-Arab nations can be equated to an organized ethnic cleansing on a politico-cultural level. Similarly to the Turkish attempts to eradicate the ethnic identity of the Kurds, whom they call "Mountain Turks," and the Assyrians, whom they define as "Semitic Turks."

Arab-Islamic regimes in the region assert that all those Christians who live within the confines of "Arab borders" are "Arab." With Arab nationalism at its peak, and "Arabist" circles at the apex of their political influence in the West, the pre-Arab ethnicities of the Middle East became the real underdogs of the region. The Arab Israeli conflict increased their crisis. Not only the non-Arab ethnicities, particularly the non-Moslem ones, were denied their basic rights, stripped from their ancestral lands, but they were pressured to participate in the general "war effort" conducted by the Arab regimes against a non-Arab nation, i.e. the Jews of Israel.
The gestalt of global Arab strategy in the region was to pit non-Arabs against other non-Arabs, after demonizing those who have formed their national state Israel, and fragmented those who weren't able to implement self determination. The Christians in the Middle East are not just a religious group, nor do they form one single community. The overwhelming majority of the Christians in the region are ethnically non-Arab, and their major common characteristic is their subjection to Arab colonialism and Islamic oppression for thirteen centuries. The Christians in the Middle East are not, as it was portrayed by the Arab regimes and many in the West, the followers of Christian faith among the Arab ethnic group. "Arab Christians" exist in few spots in the region, but they are a minuscule minority within the world of Middle Eastern Christianity.


Prior to the Arab Islamic invasion...

http://www.arabicbible.com/christian/intro_arab_christians.htm




Human Shields: Palestinians Exploit Their Own Schoolchildren, This tactic of using one's own civilians as human shields is of course nothing new. Hezbollah used it to great effect in the war of summer 2006.
http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/gaza02.htm American Thinker: Palestinian Human Shields, On November 8th, at a mosque in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, the Palestinians used about fifty heavily-shrouded women as ?human shields? to provide cover for a few [terrorists]...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/11/palestinian_human_shields.html

'Palestinian' Arabs' vicious tactics of HUMAN SHIELDSHe denies Israeli accusations that the Palestinian Authority has placed children at the front of demonstrations to act as human shields for armed gunmen. ...
http://www.geocities.com/palestiniansarelies/HumanShields.html

Palestinian human shields give Israel pause csmonitor.com The militants' new system enlists neighbors to protect homes from airstrikes ? and could force a change to Israeli strategy.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1120/p01s02-wome.html

The root of Palestinian misery Palestinian suicide bombers would be stepping over each other in an effort to attack the target. "Human shields" work only when your enemy fights.... [humane...]
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=69c23d82-dd87-4c1d-a333-bf3f 3979df37

Palestinians Shoot 15 Human Shields - IRIS Blog, Thursday, May 17. 2007. Palestinians Shoot 15 Human Shields. 200 Gaza residents decided their "human shield" tactics worked so well against the Israelis, ...
http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2359-Palestinians-Shoot-15-Human-Shields.html

lPalestinian Human Shield Watch, GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the home of a militant in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday to ...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23399&only&rss

On Video: Palestinian As Human ShieldThe terror-stricken 24-year-old Palestinian soon found himself forced onto the front lines of Israel's shadowy war against militants, a human shield as he ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/11/international/i111648D71.DTL

lgf: Human Rights Watch Condemns Palestinian Human Shield Tactic An interesting phenomenon is occurring, as Palestinians use women and children as human shields to guard the homes and ammo dumps of terrorists; the tactic ...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23431&only&rss

"Brave" use of human shields

http://www.youtube.com/?v=sc1buCDiiZQ

Photos that damn Hezbollah Herald Sun, The release of the images comes as Hezbollah faces criticism for allegedly using innocent civilians as "human shields". Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah...
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

Hezbollah's human shieldsNor would it be enough simply to declare Hezbollah's cynical use of civilians as human shields to be a war crime. A multinational force must be empowered to ...
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=439dbdcc-167c-423c-9d52-b14a906054 40

YouTube - Hezbollah's Human Shields In the recent war in Lebanon, Hezbollah used civilians as human shields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-xVivT35Q

Hizbullah's exploitation of Lebanese population centers and civiliansHezbollah's human shields, by Alan M. Dershowitz (National Post, Canada) · Hezbollah's propaganda tours - as told by a CNN producer ...
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2006/Operation+Change+of+Direction+Video+Clips.htm

Children in a world of Terror
Palestinian Child Abuse ... A Special Photo Essay on Palestinian exploitation of children for armed conflict; “We teach our children to reach Shahada” ...
http://www.take-a-pen.org/english/Articles/Children.htm


Palestinian Child Abuse Link to "Leave our Children alone" ... A young Palestinian child hugging a gun at a demonstration against the Geneva accords ...
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~nahm0002/child_abuse.html


0pal-child-abuse-1970.jpg. The cover of the June 17, 1970 issue of LIFE magazine shows how long Palestinian Arabs have been instilling hatred in the minds ...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/PalestinianChildAbuse/




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