Israeli Propaganda & The Truth[/u][/b]
Courtesy Of: Jerusalemites
The following is an Israeli propaganda leaflet. It was distributed in Europe in waiting rooms
in hospitals, doctor clinics, train stations and places where people can read.
Here you have the truth!!
Facts about Israel and Palestinians
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
TRUTH: Palestine was a nation 3,000 B.C.E, i.e. two thousand years before the habirus (Israeli wanderers infiltrated into parts of Palestine, the land of Canaan, the land of milk and honey with Jerusalem ( Uru-salem) as the capital of the Jebsites who founded it 5000 years ago and gave it its name.
It is the eternal capital of the Palestinian people and has been so,
throughout the ages until the Zionist invasions of 1947-48 and 1967.
If any proof is needed, all you have to do is to read the Bible and it will tell you exactly what we stated above.
We revere David the Prophet as Muslims and Christians even more than do the Jews who regard him as a King-warrior.
But even then, the Bible itself will tell you that David invaded militarily Jebusite Jerusalem, and with utmost difficulty was able to occupy a hill in Jerusalem near the present David tower. The seat of the city remained Jebusite-Canaanite and Palestine.
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
TRUTH: Arab refugees are the Palestinian people, the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine since time immemorial, who were forcibly expelled from their homeland in Palestine, at the point of the bayonet in 1947-1948.
The Israeli terrorist organization-the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leuni and Stern committed acts of unspeakable massacres, Deer Yassain village being only one in scores who were put to the sword.
The Jewish State as exists today sits on the ruins of 450 Palestinian villages destroyed, scores of towns and cities usurped including West Jerusalem, Jaffa, Lod, Ramleh, Safad, Acre, Ashkalon, Beer Sheba and many others.
There are today in refugee camps in Palestine and throughout the Middle
East four million Palestinians whose inalienable right of return to Palestine is recognized by the United Nations and the whole world.
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.
TRUTH: For the past 2000 years and not before the beginning of the 20th century, no Jews lived in Palestine after their expulsion by the Romans.
It is a flagrant lie to claim as the Israelis do, that they had a continuous presence in Palestine over the past 2000 years. Because none existed
4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.
TRUTH: Arab domination in Palestine has been for 5000 years and not 22 years as the Israelis unabashedly claim under various names and denominations.
Beginning with the Canaanites, they continued uninterruptedly to be the inhabitants of Palestine as part of the great Syriac civilization in which the Jewish presence was a mere fossil, as professor Toybee attests.
The Arab conquest of 635 a.d was but one chapter followed by five Arab and Islamic Empires, the Umayyad, the Abbassid, the Fatimid, the Ayubid, the Mameluk, the Ottoman and lastly the British 1917-1948.
Throughout all those continues Palestine was Palestinian Arab- both Muslim and Christian with a mere handful of Jews not exceeding a few hundred
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital.
TRUTH: For over 5000 years Jerusalem has been the capital of Palestine within larger Arab-Islamic conglomerates, but no Jewish presence until 1947-1948.
It was the capital of British mandated Palestine with its overwhelming Palestinian majority until 1948, when the Jews usurped the land.
6- 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 never came to visit Jerusalem as a place of worship.
TRUTH: Jerusalem, in the Arab, Islamic and Christian heritage has been for too important spiritually to be a mere capital. Even then, it was the great caliphs of Islam, foremost of whom was the great Caliph Omar 14 centuries ago.
7- Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
TRUTH: Jerusalem is mentioned in the Quran as the abode of the Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
It was the first Qibla in Islam to which the Muslim faithful turned then faces in prayer even before Mecca.
It was also the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad made his natural journey to Heaven, to pray with all the other Prophets of God, in one of the greatest ecumenical episodes in the history of mankind.
And of course it is the most revered to the Christian Palestinians who share with their Muslim brethren the eternal love for Jerusalem and Palestine and a determination to return to their usurped homes and homeland.
8- Arab and Jewish Refugees :In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
TRUTH: It is acknowledged by the whole world that the Palestinian refugees were expelled from their ancestral homeland, by Israeli acts of genocide, of which the Deer Yassin massacre was but one.
It is a blatant lie to suggest that they left at the urging of Arab governments.
On the other hand, the Jewish agency conspired to terrorize the Jewish communities to leave their homelands in Arab countries by all means possible, fair and foul. Today, the Arab countries are telling their former Jewish citizens that they are welcomed back anytime.
The Israeli authorities are denying the repatriation of a single Palestinian refugee.
9- The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
TRUTH: The Jewish refugees themselves would not want to integrate in any country other than their own for wanting to return to their Terra Santa?
10- 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
TRUTH: Concerning the Arab Israeli conflict. The Arabs are 22 countries and one nation numbering (300) million people.
The Jews are not a nation but a religion. Would an American Jew, a British Jew, a French Jew and other Jews accept to be called a Jewish nation? Are they willing to renounce their presents nationalities? Will they accept to live in a Jewish theocracy? Let us ask them!
The Arab nations did not initiate any of the five wars. They were their victims. In 1947-48 the Jewish terrorist organizations drove the Palestinian people by terror from their homeland.
Arab countries belatedly sent small contingents to save their remnants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In 1956, Israel invaded Egypt in collusion with the then British and French governments.
On June 5, 1967 Israel launched an air attack on Egypt followed by an invasion in the course of which it occupied the West Bank including Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Sinai.
1973 was the only war that Egypt and Syria launched, in order to liberate their occupied territories in Sinai and the Golan Heights.
The Palestinian people have been struggling for decades to liberate their occupied Palestinian territories including occupied Jerusalem.
In 1978 and 1982 Israeli forces invaded Lebanon and remained in occupation of its south for 22 years when they were forced to withdraw by the brave resistance of the Lebanese people.
11- 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 with weapons.
TRUTH: The Palestinian authority has agreed to a two-state solution: a Palestinian state and an Israeli state, with Jerusalem as the capital of both.
The present onslaught on the Palestinian people and authority is Sharon’s genocidal response to this solution. Palestine is entitled to sovereign independence not tutelage under Israel; and the whole of the territories occupied in 1967 and not part of, or most of. Occupation must never be
rewarded.
12- Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
TRUTH: UN records are replete with security council resolutions (243) up to this date, against Israel because of its aggressions, occupations and violations of human rights.
Similarly the close to 700 general assembly resolutions. Israel never complied with a single one of them. Is it above the law?
13- The U.N. was silent, while the Jordanians destroyed 58 Synagogues in Jerusalem.
TRUTH: Jordan never destroyed “58” synagogues in Jerusalem because they never existed except for two: the big synagogue and the small one, which were damaged in the fighting when Israel attacked Arab Jerusalem on May 15, 1948, as were many churches and mosques including Al-Aqsa Mosque.
14- The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
TRUTH: It is totally untrue to claim, as the Israeli's do, that the Jordanian's systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. Some citizens in the area may have taken some stones without the knowledge or consent of government. But the cemetery remained up to this day in tact.
This is so while Israeli authorities between 1948 and today have completely destroyed and not simply desecrated hundreds of ancient Muslim and Christian cemeteries throughout Palestine.
Incidentally the Mount of Olives cemetery is an Islamic Waqf land leased to the Israelis 100 years ago. The lease has lapsed.
15- 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.
TRUTH: The Jordanians prevented the Jews from visiting the wailing wall only because the Israelis in spite of the armistice agreement of 1949 refused to repatriate the citizens of Jerusalem to their homes in west Jerusalem, a mere few hundred yards.
The Israelis also refused to reopen the Jerusalem Bethlehem road, refused to restore water and electricity to the remaining Arab quarters and adamantly resisted the will of the international community.
They continue to resist it today as the occupation of Palestinian cities shows
and the massacre of thousands of Palestinians, while the world watches in horror.
Via:
http://freethoughtmanifesto.blogspot...nda-truth.html