Important Facts About Israel   (Compiled by a Christian university professor) 

• Israel became a nation, with Jerusalem its capital, 3,300 years ago…two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

• Arabs in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades and three major wars after

• the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

• Jews have had a continuous presence in the land of Israel for 3,300 years.

• 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.

• Jerusalem is mentioned hundreds of times in the Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

• King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.

• Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.

• In 1948, the so-called Arab refugee problem was created by Arab leaders encouraging their fellow Arabs to leave until Arab armies  purged the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.

• 600,000 Jewish refugees were forced to flee Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.

• Arab were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only group in the world not 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.

• There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself and won each war in a legitimate struggle of self defense.

• Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and 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.

• Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.

• The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.

• The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

• The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

Excerpt from Ruth Matar--- “Women In Green”

Last Sunday night I attended the funeral of Shoshana Ben-Yishai, a sixteen year old girl who was killed by a Palestinian gunman.

The terrorist opened up fire on a bus waiting for the light to turn green at a Jerusalem intersection. He also killed a fourteen year old boy, Menashe Regev, and wounded many others, two of these critically. Most of the passengers on the bus were children who were returning home from school. Hamas and Islamic Jihad both proudly took "credit" for the attack.

"My G-d," I kept thinking as I was surrounded by the classmates of Shoshana, weeping and clinging to each other. "This girl is exactly the age of my granddaughter. It could have been her!" Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority Chairman, has made no effort whatsoever to arrest or disarm members of terrorist groups, nor has he in any other way tried to impede almost daily attacks on Israeli citizens—even though he has pledged to do so in no fewer than five signed agreements with Israel. After eight years of talks, Arafat has failed to end his support for terror. I saw two news items in the press recently, which literally gave me chills.

Why did they upset me so? Because these news items reveal the depths of the enmity that successive Secretaries of State, and the State Department, bear to the Jewish State of Israel. The following is a paragraph from an article in the November 6 issue of the International Herald Tribune, which quotes Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madelaine Albright. Listen to this! I am quoting verbatim. "This is hard to say and I haven't found a way to say it that doesn't sound crass. But it is the truth that those attacks before September 11th were happening overseas, and while there were Americans who died, there were not thousands, and it did not happen on US soil." You can bet your bottom dollar, Madelaine, that there is no way for you to say that this doesn't sound crass. After all, Shoshana Ben-Yishai was only the 22nd American murdered by Arafat's terrorists in Israel. Also, as Madelaine Albright would say, it did not happen on US soil! But, even more shocking is a statement by the current US Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Secretary of State Colin Powell said last week that some groups, sometimes described as terrorist--and he clearly refers to the Palestinian Arabs--might be seeking to redress grievances, gain rights, or achieve freedom from oppressors. Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Bin Laden's al-Quaeda organization is a clear case of a terrorist group, as "probably" are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Real Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. "But then you start to run into areas where one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that's where you have to apply judgement."…Shoshanna Ben-Yishai's murder perfectly illustrates the hypocrisy and immorality of Colin Powell's statement.

You see, Shoshana Ben-Yishai was in New York on September 11, visiting her sick grandfather. Of course, her parents were very worried about her. She returned to her family safely, only to be killed by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem only seven weeks later.

Do you see the irony here? According to US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, if she had been killed by Arabs on September 11 in New York, she would have been killed by terrorists. But when she was killed on November 4 in Jerusalem, she was, according to Mr. Powell's reasoning, killed by Palestinian freedom fighters. That is why we must not follow the opinions or dictates of others in the matter of permitting the establishment of a Palestinian State on our Holy soil. We must say loud and clear--without worrying about whom we might offend--NO, to a Palestinian State! 

It is a matter of life or death for us, and we choose life!

• In 1982, Syria murdered as many as 30,000 (conservative estimate) of its own people in the Syrian city of Hama, in order to destroy the Moslem Brother hood, and send a message to all other would be coup plotters. This had nothing to do with Israel.

• In 1988, the Iraqis murdered as many as 5,000 Kurds; men, women, children and all animal life on the border of Kurdistan with poison gas. This had nothing to do with Israel.

• Did Iraq invade Kuwait and set the Kuwaiti oil fields ablaze in 1991 because of Israel?

• Did Libya participate and finance civil wars amongst its neighbors, and contribute to blowing up the Pan Am passenger airplane in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland because of Israel? Is Sudan currently waging a vile religious civil war because of Israel?

• Do the ‘enlightened’ Saudis, Kuwaitis, Afghanis and much other of the Moslem Arab world treat their women like chattel because of Israel? 

• Do so many Islamic countries forbid freedom of expression, religion, speech, association, education and the press because of Israel? Is the ideal of democracy, so terrifying to the leaders of the Islamic and Arab world that they have to hate all democratic nations, because of Israel? 

• And finally. ask yourself why so many Arab and Moslem countries live in the dark ages amidst abject poverty, when there is so much oil wealth in the region? Is it because of Israel?