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 The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a private, Jewish, donor-funded organization which owns 13% of Israel's total land. According to Israeli law, public lands cannot be sold but may be leased for terms no greater than 49 years. The privately JNF-owned land is administered by the Israel Land Administration (ILA), a government body, which agreed to lease the land only to Jews, in accordance with the JNF's bylaws. The JNF and ILA have come under fire recently in the media due to petitions filed with the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of 17 non-Jewish families who's bids for lots in Karmiel were frozen. The JNF argues that the land is privately owned land accesible only to Jews as per the covenant between JNF and it's donors. The JNF also points out that Arab WAQF-owned land (encompassing approximately 4% of Israel's total land area) is used exclusively for that group and not by the population at large. To learn more about this issue, click here. |
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over 60 major terrorist attacks BEFORE Israel gained control of the West Bank and Gaza? Yet 'Palestinians' claim that their justification for terrorism is 'occupation'.
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If the Palestinians are allowed a State in the West Bank, they will control the mountains overlooking coastal Israel. This higher ground will allow them to snipe and mortar Israeli population centers and return Israel to the indefensible pre-1967 borders. Over 65% of Israel's citizens live in the strip of land between the West Bank and the Mediterranean.
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Palestinians
79% Israeli non-combatants
30% Israeli civilian women
4% Israeli children (<12yo)
13% Palestinian casualties killed by Palestinians (accidently)
Violating Geneva Conventions
Palestinians:
(a) use children as combatants
(b) place weapons and w. factories amongst civilians
(c) attack civilian Israelis from within civilian (Pal.) areas
(d) bus children to the front lines for use as shields and as firebombers
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Israelis
35% Palestinian non-combatants
4% Palestinian civilian women
3% Palestinian children (<12yo)
2% Israeli casualties killed by Israelis (accidently)
Israel's military takes great care to not fire indiscriminately at Palestinians because terrorists largely operate in civilian areas, violating the the Geneva Conventions. The low percentages of Palestinian women and children killed is a testament to this care and discretion.
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Source: Int'l Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
...that of the 52 Americans murdered by Palestinians since 1993 (Oslo Accords), 42 of them were murdered since the PA launched it's war against Israel in September 2000. (Source:
ZOA)
Accusations abound in Arab and Muslim society that Israel did nothing to help tsunami victims, who are mostly Muslim. These claims are patently false. Here is a
Summary of Israeli assistance to tsunami disaster victims in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia.
Mythbusting Talking Points
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"How can people struggle for their nation, when most of them do not know the meaning of the word? ... The people are in great need of a 'myth' to fill their consciousness and imagination."
-Musa Alami The Middle East Journal October 1949
Is there a 'Palestinian' People?
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Source: Masada2000.org
CLICK HERE for the history and meaning of the term 'Palestine/Palestinian'.
- Article 12 of the Palestinian National Charter of 1968 states that Palestinians must "safeguard their Palestinian identity and develop their consciousness of that identity." Obviously, it was not an EXISTING identity (nationality, culture, etc.) but had had to be DEVELOPED (created, propagandized, etc.).
- Article 7 of the Palestinian National Charter of 1968 states that "All means of information and education must be adopted in order to acquaint the Palestinian with his country..." If the Palestinians existed prior to Israel's creation as an entity, why must 'Palestinians' be ACQUAINTED "with his country"?
- There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians (independent or otherwise). There is no 'Palestinian' culture or language distinguishable from the surrounding Arab culture and language. Nor has there ever been, prior to the Oslo Accords (1993), a Palestinian currency.
- Prior to 1948, the area known today as Israel was last ruled by the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Since that time, it had been OCCUPIED and ADMINISTERED FROM AFAR by the Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, Ottomans and Brits.
- The peace treaties between Israel and Jordan and Egypt acknowledge that Jordan and Egypt had illegally occupied the West Bank and Gaza strip, respectively, from 1948-67.
- The original 1920 mandate for Palestine was for a Jewish National Homeland, and included all of the territory that now comprises Israel AND Jordan. The first 'Palestinians', therefore, were Jews.
Map courtesy of Dr. Motti Friedman and
The Pedagogic Center of the Jewish Agency for Israel
- The Brits violated their administrative Mandate and divided the territory allocated for the Jewish National Homeland, giving 76% of it to Transjordan/Jordan. Following the Pakistan/India/Bangladesh model, Jews were to have remained in 'West Palestine' (now Israel) and Muslims were to have remained in "East Palestine", a.k.a. Jordan - with some population transfer. The British refused to keep statistics on illegal Arab in-migration to Israel after this administrative division, but the Arab population exploded some 400%, well above the 1.5% natural growth.
Map courtesy of Dr. Motti Friedman and
The Pedagogic Center of the Jewish Agency for Israel
- After Israel's independence, she absorbed nearly 1 million Arab and Persian Jews. The surrounding Arab nations, newly independent themselves, refused to absorb 450-600.000 of their brethern, and have instead 'jailed' them in camps for over half a century. These displaced Arabs are the only group out of 100.000.000 refugees after WWII to never be resettled.
In 1945 there were about 140.000 Jews in Iraq; 60.000 in Yemen and Aden; 35.000 in Syria; 5.000 in Lebanon; 90.000 in Egypt; 60.000 in Libya; 150.000 in Algeria; 120.000 in Tunisia; and 300.000 in Morocco, including Tangiers. That comes to a total of about 960.000 — and more than 200.000 in Iran and Turkey. Roughly half of Israel's 5 million Jews — from a population of 6.2 million, of whom roughly 20 percent are Arab, Druze, and Bedouin Israelis — is now composed of these refugees and their descendants, who received no humanitarian aid from the United Nations.
Source: The Forgotten Refugees by David Littman
- For 19 years Jordan occupied the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem, and Egypt occupied the Gaza strip. At no time during these occupations did 'Palestinians' or any other Arab group demand an additional Palestinian state or claim Jerusalem as their capital.
Map courtesy of Dr. Motti Friedman and
The Pedagogic Center of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Arabs have left Israel with 22% of the land originally designated as the Jewish National Homeland.
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Required Reading
Few Arabs defined themselves as a separate "Palestinian" people until after Israel defeated them for a third time in 1967. Indeed, for the first two decades of Israel's independence there was no "Palestinian" movement. Arab leaders articulated the belief that the "refugees" would be repatriated, as per the Jordanian 'right-of-return' law, to Jordan. These "refugees" were called Jordanians, and they held Jordanian citizenship until 1988. Indeed, when Arafat first attempted to create a "Palestinian" Republic (1970-71), he did so IN the Kingdom of Jordan during a period considered a
CIVIL war, not an invasion by foreign terrorists. Arafat himself was born, raised and educated in Egypt.
The following are significant books and online articles regarding the conflict:
From Time Immemorial
by Joan Peters
The Myth of 'Occupied' Territories
By Boris Shusteff
The Myth of Palestinian Refugees
Joseph E. Katz and Joan Peters
Which Came First - Terrorism or 'Occupation'?
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Legal Background to the Palestinian 'Right of Return'
Joseph E. Katz and CAMERA
Jewish Settlements are Legal According to Int'l Law
By Yisrael Medad
The Real Fourth Geneva Convention
By Robert Klein
Arafat's Corruption: The Source of Palestinian Suffering
By Rachel Ehrenfeld
The Bedouin Activist
By Ismail Khald
(a Muslim Israeli celebrates democracy and debunks accusations that Israel is a racist or an apartheid state)
