NO CROSSES ALLOWED, NO RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AT ALL NOR RELIGIOUS ATTIRE OTHER THAN THAT OF ISLAM.
FURTHER IMAGINE WITH ME THAT, IF YOU DID SO, YOU WOULD BE ARRESTED AND JAILED AND FINED.
LET US GO A STEP FURTHER, FOR ALL WHO SEE THE NEWLY CREATED "PALESTINIAN" PEOPLE AS INDIGENOUS TO ISRAEL (THOUGH THE HUMAN GENOME HAS PROVED OTHERWISE)...
KNOWING THAT EUROPEANS CONQUERED NATIVE TRIBES IN "THE AMERICAS", KILLING MILLIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE (WHETHER WITH IMPORTED EUROPEAN DISEASES, "BY ACCIDENT", OR BY WAR) IMAGINE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO GIVE CONTROL OF NOT ONLY THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL BUT ALL OF WASHINGTON D.C. TO SURVIVORS OF THE PISCATAWAY TRIBE, AND THEY, AND THEY ALONE, CALLED ALL THE SHOTS THERE.
NOW, LET US PUT ALL THIS IN ORDER.
1~ EUROPEANS CONQUERED WHAT WE NOW CALL AMERICA.
THERE WERE WARS, EUROPEANS WON ENOUGH OF THOSE TO BE DECLARED THE VICTORS.
2~ A NATION'S CAPITAL WAS ESTABLISHED.
WE CALL IT WASHINGTON D.C.
3~ CATHEDRALS AND SHRINES WERE BUILT THERE.
ONE OF THE MOST FAMILIAR, MOST VISITED, IS THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL.
4~ THERE ARE FURTHER UPRISINGS FOR ANOTHER HUNDRED OR SO YEARS, BUT AMERICANS PUT DOWN THOSE TRIBAL REBELLIONS AND MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE ENTIRE NATION.
INDIGENOUS TRIBES ARE FORCED ONTO "RESERVATIONS" AND SEPARATED FROM EUROPEAN SOCIETY.
5~ CONGRESS DECIDES, AFTER THE FINAL VICTORY OVER THE TRIBES, TO MAKE A "MONUMENTAL GESTURE" TO THE CONQUERED BY ALLOWING THEM CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL.
THEY CHOOSE TO HAND OVER THAT CONTROL TO DESCENDANTS OF ONE OF THE HISTORICALLY LARGEST INDIGENOUS TRIBES OF THAT AREA, THE PISCATAWAY.
DONE.
THEY ALLOW THE TRIBE TO CREATE RULES FOR VISITORS TO THE CHURCH.
THOSE NEW RULES STATE THAT ONLY THE PISCATAWAY MAY WORSHIP THERE, NO OTHER PEOPLE CAN DO SO, AND ANYONE CAUGHT EVEN TRYING MUST BE ARRESTED AND COULD BE STONED BY THE PISCATAWAY.
CONGRESS AGREES.
6~ AFTER GAINING CONTROL OF THE NATION'S "MOST SYMBOLIC CHURCH", THE PISCATAWAY DEMAND CONTROL OF ALL OF WASHINGTON.
WHETHER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE IT OR NOT, CONGRESS AGREES.
7~ THE TRIBE DEMANDS ALL WHO ARE NOT PISCATAWAY MUST VACATE D.C.
CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAY, "IT WILL BE A COLD DAY IN HELL WHEN THAT HAPPENS!"
8~ THE TRIBE TELLS THE WORLD THAT EUROPEANS DID NOT BUILD THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL, THAT D.C. WAS NEVER THE AMERICAN CAPITAL, THAT THERE IS NO ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR EITHER CLAIM BY THE AMERICANS.
THEY APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INTERVENE AND FORCE AMERICANS OUT.
WASHINGTON BELONGS TO THE TRIBE AND ONLY THE TRIBE CAN LIVE THERE.
MANY NATIONS AGREE.
THE U.N. BEGINS TO AGREE.
9~ ALTHOUGH THE PISCATAWAY INITIALLY AGREED THAT ALL RELIGIONS COULD ENTER THE CHURCH, ANY BUT TRIBAL MEMBERS ARE HARASSED, ATTACKED, OR OFTEN BARRED ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCH.
THEY OFTEN THROW THINGS AT VISITORS, SHOUT THREATS, FORCE NON-TRIBAL PEOPLE FROM THE BUILDING AND GET HELP DOING SO FROM THE AMERICAN MILITARY AND D.C. POLICE.
CONGRESS AND THE OVAL OFFICE TELL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THAT, IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN PEACE, THE TRIBAL RULES MUST BE OBEYED.
SOME AMERICANS AGREE.
THE U.N. AGREES.
NOW WHAT?
THIS IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN ISRAEL.
THIS IS WHAT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS ALLOWED, SAME SCENARIO.
THERE ARE NO CIVIL RIGHTS AND NO FREEDOM TO WORSHIP AS THEY SEE FIT FOR JEWS ANYWHERE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
THERE ARE NO CIVIL RIGHTS FOR CHRISTIANS WHO ASCEND TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNT AND FIND THEMSELVES CONFRONTED BY ISLAMIC RULE.
AMERICAN JEWS AND ISRAELI JEWS ALIKE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR MERELY APPEARING TO BE PRAYING ATOP THE MOUNT.
THERE ARE MANY AREAS WHERE NO JEWS OR FOREIGN VISITORS ARE ALLOWED TO WALK, ONLY MUSLIMS MAY.
A YOUNG JEWISH MAN WAS ARRESTED WHILE ATOP THE MOUNT JUST THIS WEEK FOR WHISPERING THE WORDS TO A WEDDING SONG IN THE EAR OF HIS FRIEND WHO IS ABOUT TO BE MARRIED.
SOME MUSLIM OVERHEARD HIS WHISPERS, REPORTED HIM TO THE ISRAELI SECURITY OFFICERS ON THE MOUNT AND THE "OFFENDER" WAS IN CUSTODY LAST REPORT I FOUND.
ANOTHER, JUST 14 YEARS OLD, WAS ARRESTED FOR WEARING TZITZIT... WHAT YOU SEE HANGING FROM BENEATH THE SHIRT IN THIS PHOTO:
"Following the three arrests, an Israeli police officer was attacked with a wooden beam by Arabs at the site. No arrests in the incident, which resulted in the officer sustaining minor injuries to his leg, were reported."
A VISITING FRENCH CHRISTIAN WAS ATTACKED BY A MUSLIM MOB FOR HAVING A SMALL ISRAELI FLAG ATOP THE TEMPLE MOUNT BACK ON AUGUST 4th.
WHO IS FACING A POSSIBLE STAY IN JAIL?
THE FRENCHMAN.
THE CHRISTIAN WAS ATTACKED AND BEATEN BY A MOB, BUT HE :INCITED THEM TO RIOT", YOU SEE, BY HAVING THE HATED ISRAELI FLAG.
THE MUSLIMS WERE MERELY "BRIEFLY DETAINED ON SITE".
THAT ARTICLE ALSO REFERS TO ANOTHER INCIDENT IN WHICH THOSE ATTACKED DEMANDED ARRESTS OF THOSE WHO ATTACKED THEM.
MUSLIMS ARRESTED FOR ATTACKING TOURISTS, ANYONE?
WOW! "In February of 2012, 18 Muslims were arrested in Jerusalem for throwing stones at tourists visiting the Temple Mount.
The Jerusalem Police Department stated that the Muslim attackers heard rumors that Christian tourists had plans to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque which occupies the area in order to reconstruct the Jewish Temple."
ABC REPORTED IN DECEMBER, 2014, ON THE POLITICAL BATTLES OVER THE TEMPLE MOUNT, HABIT OF MUSLIMS, STANDING ATOP THE WESTERN WALL, TO THROW DOWN BRICKS, STONES, ETC. ON THE PLAZA BELOW WHERE JEWS ARE ALLOWED TO PRAY, AND THE OVERALL CONSENSUS OF ISRAELIS THAT THEY DON'T REALLY CARE TO GO TO THE TOP TO PRAY.
THE ABC REPORT FOLLOWED THE NOVEMBER, 2014 SHOOTING OF AN ISRAELI RABBI BY A PALESTINIAN AS THE RABBI ASCENDED TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNT.
WHEN THE ASSAILANT ALSO FIRED ON POLICE, HE WAS SHOT.
THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT WAS GUILTY OF INCITING THE MUSLIMS.
WAR WAS DECLARED, YET AGAIN, ON ISRAEL BY ISLAMIC LEADERS.
WHEN A JEWISH MAN WAS MISTAKENLY KILLED BY A SECURITY GUARD IN 2011 AT THE WESTERN WALL, NO RIOTS ENSUED.
THINK BACK NOW TO OUR HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION WITH AMERICANS AND THE PISCATAWAY TRIBE.
EUROPEAN SETTLERS CONQUERED THE INDIGENOUS TRIBE, TOOK POSSESSION OF THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, ESTABLISHED CANADA AND THE USA....JUST AS ISRAEL DID 3,000 YEARS AGO.
DOES THERE EXIST NON-JEWISH DOCUMENTATION OF ISRAEL CONQUERING JERUSALEM 3,000 YEARS AGO, BUILDING THE TEMPLE, HAVING JERUSALEM AS ITS CAPITAL?
YES.
THE EVIDENCE IS STRONGEST FROM SWORN ENEMIES OF ISRAEL!
~ABOUT 1000 BCE: KNOWN AS THE TEL DAN STELE, A STONE FRAGMENT INSCRIBED IN A PHOENICIAN ALPHABET, ATTRIBUTED TO A DAMASCUS KING NAMED HAZAEL, 9th CENTURY BCE, BOASTS THAT HE KILLED A KING OF ISRAEL AND A KING OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
"In the reconstructed text, the author tells how Israel had invaded his country in his father's day, and how the god Hadad then made him king and marched with him against Israel. The author then reports that he defeated seventy kings with thousands of chariots and horses."(Hagelia, Hallvard 2005)
This description contains the name "A-ha-ab-bu Sir-ila-a-a" which is generally accepted to be a reference to Ahab king of Israel.
According to the inscription Ahab committed a force of 2,000 chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers to the Assyrian war coalition.
THE STONE WAS CREATED ABOUT 852-879 BCE.
At the end of the Monolith comes the account of the Battle of Qarqar, where an alliance of twelve kings fought against Shalmaneser at the Syrian city of Qarqar.
This alliance, comprising eleven kings, was led by Irhuleni of Hamath and Hadadezer of Damascus, describing also a large force led by King Ahab of Israel.
THIS STONE, THEN, VERIFIES THE TEL DAN INSCRIPTION'S STORY .
FROM A CBN ARTICLE OF JUNE, 2013:
THE FIRST MOABITE STONE FOUND IN JORDAN THAT REFERS TO ISRAEL, THE "HOUSE OF DAVID".
"In 1868, a stone tablet was discovered in Jordan.
It was written by a Moabite king named Mesha, an enemy of Israel.
The stone dates to around 840 BC, less than 200 years after David and it provides the first known reference to the "House of David" outside the Bible.
"And 'House of David,' means 'dynasty of David.'
So we know that there was a guy called David, and he had a dynasty.
So now this is absolutely clear that David is not a mythological figure.
The mythological paradigm collapsed in one moment.
More than a hundred years later the same phrase, "House of David," turned up on another stone, this time in northern Israel.
A WALLED FORTRESS THE BEDOUIN HAVE ALWAYS CALLED "RUINS OF DAVID"
In the valley of Elah, near where the young shepherd boy killed the giant Goliath, are the ruins of the Philistine city of Gath, the hometown of Goliath and the remains of the brook where David found the stone that killed him.
And high above the valley is a fortress that's thousands of years old that has been long known to the local Bedouin. as "Khirbet Daoud" or "David's Ruin" .
It's the only iron age city in Israel that's perfectly preserved and almost frozen in time."
WHOEVER LIVED THERE FOLLOWED HEBREW DIETARY LAWS.
"Up to 20 percent of the animal bones at Philistine sites are pigs.
"Up to 20 percent of the animal bones at Philistine sites are pigs.
But here nothing."
[NOTE: PLEASE REMEMBER THAT, PRIOR TO ISLAM'S CREATION ALMOST 2,000 YEARS AFTER DAVID'S CONQUESTS, ALL OTHER CULTURES, INCLUDING PHILISTINES, DID EAT PORK. JEWS WERE UNIQUE IN NOT CONSUMING PORK OR SEVERAL OTHER 'FORBIDDEN' ANIMALS.]
POTTERY SHARDS UNEARTHED THERE ARE ALSO MOST DEFINITELY HEBREW.
"Pottery shard, also known as a ostracon, is the earliest example of Hebrew writing ever unearthed.
On it are written commandments to worship the Lord and to help widows, orphans, and slaves.It started with the word al-ta'as, which means "Don't do", and "ta'as," to do, which is only in Hebrew. It's not Canaanite and not Philistine."
[NOTE: PLEASE REMEMBER THAT, PRIOR TO ISLAM'S CREATION ALMOST 2,000 YEARS AFTER DAVID'S CONQUESTS, ALL OTHER CULTURES, INCLUDING PHILISTINES, DID EAT PORK. JEWS WERE UNIQUE IN NOT CONSUMING PORK OR SEVERAL OTHER 'FORBIDDEN' ANIMALS.]
POTTERY SHARDS UNEARTHED THERE ARE ALSO MOST DEFINITELY HEBREW.
"Pottery shard, also known as a ostracon, is the earliest example of Hebrew writing ever unearthed.
On it are written commandments to worship the Lord and to help widows, orphans, and slaves.It started with the word al-ta'as, which means "Don't do", and "ta'as," to do, which is only in Hebrew. It's not Canaanite and not Philistine."
ADDED TO ALL THIS, ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND NO IDOLS, WHICH WOULD NOT BE THE CASE IF THIS WERE ANY OTHER CULTURE'S SITE.
"If you go to Canaanite temples of the Late Bronze, you will find a lot of human and animal figures, but not in KQ. So the people here really obeyed the biblical taboo on graven images."
INSIDE THE WALLS OF THE RUINS, ARCHAEOLOGISTS DID FIND "RELIGIOUS SHRINES", ALL BUILT SIMILARLY TO THE WELL-KNOWN TEMPLE OF SOLOMON, THE TEMPLE WHICH WAS ERECTED 40 YEARS AFTER THIS CITY WAS ESTABLISHED.
"They match the Bible's description of the temple down to the triple framed doors.
They're the first physical evidence of Jewish worship in the time of King David."
NO ONE WENT TO THIS SITE THINKING THEY WOULD FIND WHAT WAS FOUND, BUT THEY DID FIND EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE REALITY OF A TRUE "KING DAVID".
"These are the animal bones, these are the radiocarbon dating, this is the inscription, these are the fortifications, and then you have the biblical tradition. And what do you know -- they just happen to fit nicely with each other."
BUT WAIT!
WAS THERE ALSO A REAL SOLOMON?
THERE IS RECORDED EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS:
WAS THERE ALSO A REAL SOLOMON?
THERE IS RECORDED EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS:
~ EUPOLEMUS, IN HIS WRITINGS ABOUT 157 BCE, INCLUDED COPIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN BETWEEN SOLOMON AND THE KINGS OF EGYPT AND TYRE, SECURING BUILDING MATERIALS FOR THE TEMPLE.
~ " Tyrian court records and Menander, a Greek dramatist who died in 290 BCE, give a specific year during which King Hiram I of Tyre sent materials to Solomon for the construction of the temple."
This places those two Hebrew kings about 850-800 BCE.
OTHER NATIONS' MENTION OF ISRAEL IN ANCIENT TIMES:
~ The Merneptah Stele, an inscription by the Ancient Egyptian king Merneptah (reign: 1213 to 1203 BC), a set of hieroglyphs on Line 27 translates as "Israel", such that it represents the first documented instance of the name Israel in the historical record.
FROM THE HISTORY BOOKS...NON-JEWISH.
~In 587 BCE - Nebuchadnezzar II seized Jerusalem. The Temple was destroyed.
MATTER OF HISTORICAL RECORD.
~ In 539 BCE - the Babylonian Empire fell to Persia which was ruled by Cyrus.
In 537 BCE - Cyrus allowed Jews from Babylon back into Jerusalem and funded temple restoration.
~ From 550-333 BCE - The Persian Empire ruled Israel.
PERSIA RECORDED THIS FACT.
~ Ptolemy I Soter takes Egypt and becomes king of the area previously known as Israel/Judea (Judah) in 305 BCE.
NO MENTION OF A "PALESTINE", JUST ISRAEL AND JUDEA.
~ 198 BCE - Seleucid King Antiochus III (Antiochus the Great) ousts Ptolemy V from Judah and Samaria.
AND RECORDS THE NAMES AS JUDAH AND SAMARIA.
~ ROMAN CONQUEST 63 B.C. - Pompey makes the region of Judah/Israel a client kingdom of Rome.
6 A.D. - Augustus makes it a Roman province (Judaea).
66 - 73 A.D. - JEWISH REVOLT
70 A.D. - Romans occupy Jerusalem. Titus destroys the Second Temple.
131 A.D. - Emperor Hadrian renames Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina" and forbids Jews there.
THAT SHOULD SHOW ANYONE THE CONTINUAL PRESENCE OF JEWS IN JERUSALEM, IN WHAT WE KNOW TODAY AS ISRAEL.
AT FIRST CONQUEST, WHEN THE PEOPLE KNOWN AS JEWS CAME OUT OF CAPTIVITY FROM EGYPT, THE LARGEST TRIBE OF LOCALS WHO WERE DEFEATED WERE KNOWN AS JEBUSITES OR CANAANITES, NOT "PALESTINIANS".
PHILISTINES?
NOT UNTIL A BIT LATER.
WHEN THE PHILISTINES SHOWED UP, JEWS AND NON-JEWS BANDED TOGETHER AND WIPED THEM COMPLETELY OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
BEGINNING IN THE 1500s AD, EUROPEANS BEGAN CONQUERING THE "NEW WORLD".
EUROPEANS BATTLED INDIGENOUS TRIBES AND MOST OFTEN WON THOSE BATTLES.
EUROPEANS ESTABLISHED NATIONS, CAPITALS AND BUILT CHURCHES/CATHEDRALS.
THAT WAS A BIT OVER JUST 500 YEARS AGO.
AMERICA DECLARED ITSELF AN INDEPENDENT NATION JUST 239 YEARS AGO.
AND, SIMILARLY...
OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO, A RELATIVELY SMALL BAND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS JEWS CONQUERED EVERY TRIBE IN THEIR PATH, CONQUERED JERUSALEM, ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL CAPITAL THERE AND ERECTED A MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE.
THIS WAS ISRAEL'S FIRST CONQUEST OF ALL SURROUNDING 'TRIBES'... NEITHER SAUDI ARABIA (1927), NOR JORDAN (1946), EXISTED AT THAT TIME.
THERE WAS NO IRAQ (1932), NO TURKEY(1923), NO IRAN (1857), NO PAKISTAN (1947), NO AFGHANISTAN (1747), NO LIBYA (1951), AND NO SYRIA (1961) (ASSYRIA, YES, SYRIA, NO).
NEITHER WERE THERE ANY PEOPLE KNOWN AS "PALESTINIANS" (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn) , NOR MUSLIMS.
FROM THAT PERIOD,3000 YEARS AGO, TO WHEN ROME RECORDED THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND JEWISH TEMPLE IN 70 AD, 600 YEARS BEFORE ISLAM EXISTED, THERE WAS A CONTINUOUS JEWISH PRESENCE IN THE LAND WE NOW CALL ISRAEL, AND IN WHAT WE NOW CALL JORDAN, AND IN SYRIA, AND IN EGYPT... JEWS WERE THERE.
FROM THE MOST ANCIENT TIMES OF 3,000 BCE UNTIL TODAY, NEARBY TRIBES, NATIONS, PEOPLE HAVE RECORDED JEWISH PRESENCE THERE.
THE REAL TROUBLE ABOUT JERUSALEM BEGINS
THE (TURKISH) OTTOMAN EMPIRE CAPTURED JERUSALEM IN 1517, BUT PROTECTED ITS ANCIENT TEMPLE MOUNT FROM BEING DESTROYED.
AS WAS MUSLIM 'CUSTOM' TO ERECT MOSQUES OVER RUINS OF CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES, ETC, SULTAN SULEIMAN BUILT A MOSQUE ATOP THE MOUND WHERE THE TEMPLE HAD STOOD, A MOSQUE THAT COVERED THE STONE ON WHICH BOTH JEWS AND MUSLIMS BELIEVE ABRAHAM WAS PREPARED TO OFFER HIS SON AS A SACRIFICE.
[ YOU SEE, MUSLIMS CLAIM ABRAHAM AS THEIR FOREFATHER, SAME AS THE JEWS. THE WHOLE PROBLEM STEMS FROM ABRAHAM'S REJECTION OF HIS FIRSTBORN, FROM WHOM SPRANG THOSE WHO ADHERE TO ISLAM, AND HIS CHOOSING OF HIS YOUNGER SON AS HIS HEIR, MAKING THE YOUNGER ONE THE "CHOSEN SON", WHO BECAME KNOWN AS ISRAEL.]
SO, BACK TO SULEIMAN BUILDING HIS MOSQUE OF CONQUEST ATOP THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
HE ALSO INVITED JEWS WHO HAD BEEN IN EXILE TO RETURN TO ISRAEL WHERE SOME 1,000 JEWISH FAMILIES WERE LIVING WHEN HE CONQUERED THE AREA.
BY THE BEGINNING OF THE 16th CENTURY ANOTHER 10,000 HAD RETURNED AND LIVED IN THE SAFAD AREA.
BY 1880, JEWS WERE AGAIN THE MAJORITY IN JERUSALEM.
[NOTE: MOST OF THE FOLLOWING HISTORICAL INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, OFFICE OF THE HISTORIAN WEBSITE.]
AMERICAN PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN RECOGNIZED THE NEW NATION ON THE SAME DAY.
IT IS THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
THE FIRST ARAB/ISRAELI WAR WAS DECLARED BY FIVE ARAB NATIONS HOURS AFTER ISRAEL WAS DECLARED AN INDEPENDENT NATION.
SECOND SWEEPING CONQUEST BY ISRAEL
This action was followed by the invasion of the former Palestinian mandate by Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt.
Saudi Arabia sent a formation that fought under the Egyptian command.
Saudi Arabia sent a formation that fought under the Egyptian command.
Though the United Nations brokered two cease-fires during the conflict, fighting continued into 1949. Israel and the Arab states did not reach any formal armistice agreements until February.
Under separate agreements between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, and Syria, these bordering nations agreed to formal armistice lines.
ISRAEL REGAINED SOME TERRITORY PROMISED TO IT IN THE BALFOUR DECLARATION WHICH HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM ISRAEL BY THE BRITISH MANDATE IN 1922 AND GIVEN INSTEAD TO ARABS.
ISRAEL REGAINED SOME TERRITORY PROMISED TO IT IN THE BALFOUR DECLARATION WHICH HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM ISRAEL BY THE BRITISH MANDATE IN 1922 AND GIVEN INSTEAD TO ARABS.
THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL HAD BEEN PROMISED...BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER JORDAN.BOTH SIDES!
THERE WAS NO JORDAN CONTROLLED BY ARABS WHEN THE JEWS WERE PROMISED RESTORATION OF ALL THEIR ANCIENT LANDS, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER AND ALL THE WAY TO THE COAST.
PICTURED ABOVE: The Palestine Mandate as it was granted in 1920 to Great Britain at the San Remo conference. It incorporated the terms of the Balfour Declaration, included the territory east and west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, and was designated "Palestine."
The entire mandated territory had been established by international mandate as a "Jewish National Home.’
A JEWISH NATIONAL HOME...JEWISH.
The United States declared at that time "...that it will be the policy of the League of Nations to recognize Palestine as a Jewish state as soon as it is a state in fact.
BUT...TRANSJORDAN WAS CREATED BY BRITAIN, TAKEN AWAY FROM ISRAEL TO APPEASE THE SAUDIS AND OTHER OIL RICH NEW NATIONS IN THE REGION.
BRITAIN REMOVED ALMOST TWO-THIRDS OF LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL, AND ISRAEL HAD TO AGREE TO THAT OR GET NO LAND.
THAT WAS BY NO MEANS THE LAST TIME ISRAEL'S "PROMISED LAND" WOULD BE CUT!
BUT ISRAEL WOULD KEEP AGREEING TO TERMS SET BY BRITAIN, ET AL, BECAUSE IF SHE HAD NOT, SHE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN NOTHING!
BUT ISRAEL WOULD KEEP AGREEING TO TERMS SET BY BRITAIN, ET AL, BECAUSE IF SHE HAD NOT, SHE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN NOTHING!
ISRAEL AGREED for Egypt and Jordan to retain control over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively.
These armistice lines held until 1967.
BY RIGHTS, THOSE TWO STRIPS OF LAND BELONGED TO ISRAEL, IN THE SAME WAY THAT TEXAS AND ALL BORDER STATES ALONG THE RIO GRANDE, WHICH BELONGED TO MEXICO, AND ALL LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI BELONGED TO INDIGENOUS TRIBES.
[WELL, ALL LAND COAST TO COAST BELONGED TO THE TRIBES BEFORE THE BOATS CAME, DIDN'T IT, AS DID ALL OF MEXICO ALSO BELONG TO INDIGENOUS TRIBES BEFORE SPAIN CAME ALONG.]
BUT, UNLIKE AMERICA AND ALL OTHER NATIONS OF EARTH, ISRAEL GAVE BACK THE LAND IT HAD TAKEN DURING THAT FIRST WAR.
SECOND VICTORY OVER EGYPTThese armistice lines held until 1967.
BY RIGHTS, THOSE TWO STRIPS OF LAND BELONGED TO ISRAEL, IN THE SAME WAY THAT TEXAS AND ALL BORDER STATES ALONG THE RIO GRANDE, WHICH BELONGED TO MEXICO, AND ALL LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI BELONGED TO INDIGENOUS TRIBES.
[WELL, ALL LAND COAST TO COAST BELONGED TO THE TRIBES BEFORE THE BOATS CAME, DIDN'T IT, AS DID ALL OF MEXICO ALSO BELONG TO INDIGENOUS TRIBES BEFORE SPAIN CAME ALONG.]
BUT, UNLIKE AMERICA AND ALL OTHER NATIONS OF EARTH, ISRAEL GAVE BACK THE LAND IT HAD TAKEN DURING THAT FIRST WAR.
FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
In discussions with the United States between August and October 1956 during the SUEZ CANAL CRISIS, the British Government repeatedly hinted that it might resort to force in dealing with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser who had announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, the joint British-French enterprise which had owned and operated the Suez Canal since its construction in 1869.
[NOTE: WHEN NASSER BLOCKED SHIPPING ON THE SUEZ CANAL ENGLAND AND FRANCE ENLISTED ISRAEL TO DO THEIR 'DIRTY WORK' FOR THEM AND ATTACK EGYPT. THIS HAS BEEN REVEALED LONG AGO...IT WAS A COLLUSION OF THE THREE NATIONS.]
Israeli forces attacked across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 29, 1956, advancing to within 10 miles of the Suez Canal.
Under the pretext of protecting the Canal from the two belligerents, Britain and France landed troops of their own a few days later.
The Egyptian forces were defeated, but they did block the canal to all shipping.
It became clear that the Israeli invasion and the subsequent Anglo-French attack had been planned beforehand by the three countries.
In response, the Eisenhower administration ... pressured Britain and France to accept a United Nations ceasefire on November 6.
Moreover, the United States voted for U.N. resolutions publicly condemning the invasion and approving the creation of a U.N. peacekeeping force.
Washington’s public censure of two of its most important allies temporarily soured relations with London and Paris..."
King Saud of Saudi Arabia imposed a total oil embargo on Britain and France.
Eisenhower was "insistent on applying economic sanctions" to the extent of cutting off private American assistance to Israel though many in Congress objected.
In spite of that, Israel did gain two major things from the war:
(1) The Straits of Tiran, closed by Egypt since 1951 was re-opened.
Israeli shipping could henceforth move freely through the Straits of Tiran to and from Africa and Asia.
(2) The Israelis also secured the presence of UN Peacekeepers in Sinai.
Operation Kadesh bought Israel an eleven-year lull on its southern border with Egypt.
In October 1965 Eisenhower told Jewish fundraiser and Republican party supporter Max M. Fisher that he greatly regretted forcing Israel to withdraw from the Sinai peninsula; Vice-President Nixon recalled that Eisenhower expressed the same view to him on several occasions.
BUT IT WAS THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE THAT HAS ALLOWED U.S. INTERVENTION INTO AFFAIRS IN THE MIDDLE EAST EVER SINCE 1957!
ISRAEL RETURNED ALL LAND TAKEN IN THE SINAI PENINSULA TO EGYPT.
VICTORY NUMBER THREE
ISRAEL DEFEATS ALL ENEMIES IN JUST SIX DAYS.
[PLEASE NOTE: I AM A DEVOUT STUDENT OF MILITARY HISTORY AND STRATEGY. THE SIX-DAY WAR WAS SIMPLY BRILLIANT STRATEGY, SO I WILL GO ON ABOUT IT AT LENGTH. ANYONE WHO DOESN'T CARE TO READ DETAILS CAN STOP HERE, UNDERSTAND THAT ISRAEL WON, AND THEN JUST PAUSE AND REFLECT IN A MANNER THAT YOU CAN PUT YOURSELF IN ISRAEL'S PLACE AND ASK AND ANSWER HONESTLY:
"WHAT WOULD AMERICA HAVE DONE? WHAT WOULD I HAVE DONE?"
ISRAEL, JUST LIKE THE UNITED STATES, WON SOME LAND BY CONQUEST, BUT GAVE BACK THE VAST MAJORITY OF LAND IT CONQUERED.
ONE MAJOR PIECE OF REAL ESTATE ISRAEL GOT BACK AFTER ALL THIS WAS JERUSALEM, IT'S ANCIENT CAPITAL, HOME TO THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON.
TO KEEP THE PEACE, TO PLACATE THE MUSLIMS WHO HATE HER, ISRAEL GAVE UP CONTROL OF THAT SACRED TEMPLE SITE.
NOW THEY ARE ARRESTED IF THEY SO MUCH AS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE PRAYING ATOP THAT MOUNT.
YOU NOR I WOULD LONG SUFFER SUCH AN AFFRONT, SUCH A THEFT OF BOTH CIVIL RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
DON'T PRETEND SUCH A THINGS AS HAPPENS DAILY IN ISRAEL WOULD BE FINE WITH YOU IF IT HAPPENED HERE. YOU KNOW AMERICANS WOULD NEVER AGREE TO THAT.
IF THE RIGHT TO FREELY WORSHIP, IF JUST THAT WAS STRIPPED FROM US, MOST AMERICANS WOULD LOCK AND LOAD!
QUITE FRANKLY, I CONDEMN THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL FOR NOT DEMANDING THE ENTIRE CITY OF JERUSALEM, INCLUDING THE TEMPLE, BE RESPECTED AS JEWISH PROPERTY, AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL, AND THE HOLY SITE OF PRAYER FOR ALL JEWISH PEOPLE WHO WISH TO PRAY ANYWHERE, ANY TIME THEY PLEASE.]
THE IMPOSSIBLE SIX-DAY WAR
MILITARY STRATEGY AT ITS BEST
In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda Meir challenged Arab leaders to meet with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to negotiate a peace settlement. Nasser answered on October 15, saying that Israel was trying to deceive world opinion, and reiterating that his country would never recognize the Jewish State.
(THIS SPEECH IS RECORDED AT THE U.N.)
In 1963, the Arab League introduced a new weapon in its war against Israel — the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress.
Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel's destruction.
In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians.
Egyptian President Nasser’s main objective was to harass the Israelis, but a secondary one was to undermine King Hussein’s regime in Jordan.
King Hussein viewed the PLO as both a direct and indirect threat to his power. Hussein feared that the PLO might try to depose him with Nasser’s help or that the PLO’s attacks on Israel would provoke retaliatory strikes by Israeli forces that could weaken his authority.
By the beginning of 1967, Hussein had closed the PLO’s offices in Jerusalem, arrested many of the group’s members, and withdrew recognition of the organization.
Nasser and his friends in the region unleashed a torrent of criticism on Hussein for betraying the Arab cause.
Hussein would soon have the chance to redeem himself.
The breakup of the United Arab Republic and the resulting political instability escalated Syrian hostility toward Israel. Syria also mounted resistance to Israel’s creation of a National Water Carrier to take water from the Jordan River to supply the country.
The Syrian army used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell Israeli farms and villages. Syria’s attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966, and Israelis learned to sleep in bomb shelters.
As anyone can find in UN records, the UN did nothing to stop Syria’s aggression — even a mild Security Council resolution expressing “regret” for such incidents was vetoed by the Soviet Union.
One can also find that Israel was condemned by the United Nations when it retaliated, just as the UN condemns Israel today for each retaliatory action, but does not condemn the missile attacks on Israeli citizens which demand retaliatory action.
IF MEXICO OR CANADA ATTACKED THE U.S. IN SUCH A MANNER, HOW LONG WOULD THE UNITED STATES TAKE TO BOMB THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THEM, DO YOU THINK?
IF THE U.N. IN NEW YORK CAME UNDER ATTACK, HOW LONG WOULD THAT ORGANIZATION ALLOW SHELLING TO CONTINUE WITHOUT CALLING IN THE "BLUE HELMETS" AND FIGHTING BACK?
GO LOOK AT THE TIMELINE FROM DAY 1 OF SYRIAN AND PLO ASSAULT TO THE DAY ISRAEL FINALLY STRUCK BACK.
ALMOST TWO YEARS HAD PASSED!
THE SYRIAN ATTACKS ON ISRAEL BEGAN IN 1965, BUT NOT UNTIL APRIL 7, 1967, DID ISRAEL DECIDE ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH!
On May 15,1967, Israel's Independence Day, Egyptian troops began moving into the Sinai and massing near the Israeli border.
By May 18, Syrian troops were prepared for battle along the Golan Heights.
Nasser ordered the UN Emergency Force (UNEF), stationed in the Sinai since 1956 as a buffer between Israeli and Egyptian forces, to withdraw on May 16.
Without bringing the matter to the attention of the General Assembly (as his predecessor had promised), Secretary-General U Thant complied with the EGYPTIAN demand.
After the withdrawal of the UNEF, the Voice of the Arabs radio station proclaimed on May 18, 1967:
"As of today, there no longer exists an international emergency force to protect Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any more to the UN about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence."
On May 20 from then Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad:
"Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."
On May 22, Egypt AGAIN closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israeli shipping and all ships bound for Eilat. This blockade cut off Israel's only supply route with Asia and stopped the flow of oil from its main supplier, Iran.
[YES, IRAN AND ISRAEL WERE TRADE PARTNERS BACK THEN!]
LET US REMEMBER THE UN HAD DECLARED IN 1957 THAT ISRAEL HAD A RIGHT TO TRANSIT THE STRAITS.
EGYPT WAS IN STRICT VIOLATION OF THE UN's LAW OF THE SEA REGARDING THIS, WHICH THE UN ADOPTED IN APRIL, 1958.
Nasser challenged Israel to fight almost daily.
"Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight," he said on May 27.
The following day, he added: "We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948."
IN ALL HONESTY, THE WAR HAD BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE ISRAEL HAD BEEN ISRAEL.
THE WAR WAS ON WHEN ISRAEL LEFT EGYPT AND ESCAPED EGYPTIAN SLAVERY.
IN 1967, THAT WAR HAD RAGED FOR OVER 3,000 YEARS!
May 30, 1967. Nasser announced:
THAT WAS A BIG MISTAKE!"The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel...to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not declarations."
President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq, June, 1967:
"The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear -- to wipe Israel off the map."
JUNE 4, 1967: Approximately 465,000 troops, more than 2,800 tanks, and 800 aircraft surrounded Israel.
Had it waited for an Arab invasion, Israel would have been at a potentially catastrophic disadvantage. On June 5, Prime Minister Eshkol gave the order to attack Egypt.
ABANDONED BY AMERICA
Although President Lyndon Johnson had previously warned: "Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone", when the war began, the U.S. State Department announced: "Our position is neutral in thought, word and deed." Johnson imposed an arms embargo on the region.
France, Israel's other main arms supplier, also embargoed arms to Israel.
Russia was shipping arms to the Arab states as fast as they could.
Add Russia to those arrayed against Israel.
DRASTIC MEASURES
All but 12 Israeli fighter jets took off at 7:14 a.m. with the intent of bombing Egyptian airfields while the Egyptian pilots were eating breakfast.
In less than 2 hours, roughly 300 Egyptian aircraft were destroyed.
A few hours later, Israeli fighters attacked the Jordanian and Syrian air forces, as well as one airfield in Iraq.
By the end of the first day, nearly the entire Egyptian and Jordanian air forces, and half the Syrian air force, had been destroyed on the ground.
Incredible tank battles began in the Sinai desert.
History had never seen the like.
Altogether, Israel counted 777 dead and 2,586 wounded.
The death toll on the Arab side was 15,000 Egyptians, 2,500 Syrians, and 800 Jordanians.
By the end of the war, Israel had conquered enough territory to more than triple the size of the area it controlled, from 8,000 to 26,000 square miles.
The victory enabled Israel to unify Jerusalem.
Israeli forces had also captured the Sinai, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank.
WHILE EVERY NATION IN THE CURSED UN HAD BECOME A NATION BY CONQUESTS, BY WINNING LANDS BY WAR, ISRAEL WAS NOT AFFORDED THE SAME.
THE UN DECIDED THAT ISRAEL HAD TO GIVE BACK EVERY INCH OF LAND IT WON.
In November 1967, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 242, which established a formula for Arab-Israeli peace whereby Israel would withdraw from territories occupied in the war in exchange for peace with its neighbors. This resolution has served as the basis for peace negotiations from that time on.
Israel's leaders saw that coming!
They knew what applied to all other nations would never apply to Israel.
Therefore, instead of annexing the West Bank, a military administration was created.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were moved from refugee camps to new homes.
AND HOW DID EGYPT REACT TO THAT, EGYPT WHO HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING POSITIVE FOR PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK THE ENTIRE TIME IT HAD CONTROL OF IT?
EGYPT PROTESTED!
BUT ISRAEL FOUND AN UNBELIEVABLE FRIEND IN THE PRESS.
Don Peretz, a frequent writer on the situation of Arabs in Israel and a sharp critic of the Israeli government, visited the West Bank shortly after the Israeli troops had taken over. He found they were trying to restore normal life and prevent any incidents that might encourage the Arabs to leave their homes, AND HE WROTE JUST WHAT HE SAW!
[Don Peretz, "Israel's New Dilemma," Middle East Journal, (Winter 1968), pp. 45-46.]
Arabs were given freedom of movement to travel to and from Jordan.
TROUBLE WAS, JORDAN MADE IT CLEAR IT WANTED NO PALESTINIANS IN JORDAN!
In 1972, elections were held in the West Bank. Women and non-landowners, unable to participate under Jordanian rule, were now permitted to vote.
East Jerusalem Arabs were given the option of retaining Jordanian citizenship or acquiring Israeli citizenship.
They were recognized as residents of united Jerusalem and given the right to vote and run for the city council.
In 1972, elections were held in the West Bank.
Women and non-landowners, unable to participate under Jordanian rule, were now permitted to vote.
THAT CAUSED A WAIL FROM ALL MUSLIM NATIONS WHO NEVER SAW WOMEN AS EQUALS TO MEN!
SUCH A THING WOULD GIVE ALL MUSLIM WOMEN THE IDEA THAT THEY SHOULD VOTE, HOLD OFFICE!
PERISH THE THOUGHT!
THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS...
ISRAEL HAS DEFEATED ITS ENEMIES THREE MAJOR TIMES AND MAINTAINED ITS STATUS AS A NATION ALL THREE TIMES.
ISRAEL IS THE VICTOR, CLEARLY.
AND, TO THE VICTOR BELONGS THE...WHAT?
AS ANY "AMERICAN INDIAN" WILL TELL YOU, IT REALLY SUCKS TO LOSE, BUT LOSING IS A SURE THING FOR ONE SIDE WHEN TWO GO TO WAR.
SOME SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Mitchell G. Bard,The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict. 4th Edition. NY: Alpha Books, 2008
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 2003 by
Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969, (NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971)
Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel, (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, (Geneva: UN Publications 1958), pp. 132-134.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, OFFICE OF THE HISTORIAN
LOOK FOR THE SECTION CALLED "KEY MILESTONES"
THEN CHOOSE THE YEARS TO VIEW THE HISTORY.
ABC NEWS, MOST CONTESTED PIECE OF REAL ESTATE ON EARTH
THE OPHEL EVIDENCE, HEBREW POTTERY INSCRIPTIONS FROM 3000 YEARS AGO
MASSACRE OF PRAYING JEWS AT THE WESTERN WALL
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