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Words & Actions of Israel's "Peace Loving" Neighbors
We often hear on the news and in the media, how the neighbors of
Israel (including the suicide bombers, terrorist etc) are really only
"acting out" because of the so-called "occupation" of Palestinian
land. We are told that they are "peace loving people" who really do
desire to live side by side next to Israel in peace & security.
While we cannot deny that their may be some individuals who aspire to
gain peace in these territories. The facts make it hard - and downright
impossible - to believe that it can in any way, shape or form represent
the majority view.
No Arab map even acknowledges Israel's existence! Many Arab children
are taught from textbooks that are replete with hate literature and lies
of the Jewish people and Israel. We have heard over and over since 1948
how they want to destroy the Jewish state. How they will never regard or
recognize Israel's right to exist!
Let's look at how Israel's neighbors really feel, in their own words
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Arab leaders were enraged when UN resolution 181 (the Partition Plan)
was adopted on
November 29, 1947 (the vote was 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions).
One after another, Arab states registered immediate objections with
the UN.
Amb. Jamali of Iraq:
"In the name of my government, I wish to state that it feels that
this decision is anti-democratic, illegal,… Iraq does not recognize
the validity of this decision."
Amb. Amir Arslan of Syria:
"My country will never recognize such a decision. It will never
agree to be responsible for it."
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Immediately after the adoption of Resolution 181 ... Arab delegates
declared their opposition and their determination to fight it by force
if necessary. Palestinian Arabs quickly initiated hostilities against
the Jewish population. They were soon joined by volunteers from
neighboring Arab states.
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On May 15, 1948, following Ben-Gurion's Declaration of Independence,
the armies of five Arab states join local Arab militias to invade
Israel, with the goal of aborting the newly-declared state. Jordan
conquers and annexes the "West Bank" (the lands heretofore called "Judea
and Samaria" on all British mandate maps), expelling all Jews from the
Old City of Jerusalem, and destroying 57 synagogues and Mount of Olives
tombstones. One percent of the Israeli Jewish population is killed in
the war.
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Prior to the 1948 war against Israel, the Iraqi Prime Minister
said all the Arabs would need would be "a few brooms" to drive the Jews
into the sea. All they were waiting for was the British and said,
"once we get the green light from the British we can easily throw out
the Jews." [Quote from Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, "Palestine Is My
Country: The Story of Musa Alami - Praeger Press, 1969]
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On the day that Israel declared its independence (May 15, 1948),
Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, at Cairo press
conference, (reported in the New York Times, May 16, 1948) declared
"jihad", a holy war. He said that the Arab states rejected partition and
intended to set up a "United State of Palestine." He then stated:
"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which
will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".
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In a letter to the United Nations, the Transjordanian Prime
Minister was quoted:
"Our position is clear, and has been proclaimed on every occasion.
It is never to allow the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine and
to exclude partition. And our object is to cooperate with the other
Arab States in her deliverance. Once this aim is attained, the
determination of her future status is the right and concern of her own
people. Theirs alone is the last word. We have no other object or aim
in view."
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Israel consistently expressed a desire to negotiate with its
neighbors. 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.
The Arabs were equally adamant in their refusal to negotiate a
separate settlement for the refugees.
As Nasser told the United Arab Republic National Assembly March
26, 1964:
"Israel and the imperialism around us, which confront us, are two
separate things. There have been attempts to separate them, in order
to break up the problems and present them in an imaginary light as if
the problem of Israel is the problem of the refugees, by the solution
of which the problem of Palestine will also be solved and no residue
of the problem will remain. The danger of Israel lies in the very
existence of Israel as it is in the present and in what she
represents."
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Meanwhile, Syria 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, while Nasser's rhetoric
became increasingly bellicose:
"We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand," he
said on March 8, 1965.
We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood."
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Again, a few months later, Nasser expressed the Arabs'
aspiration:
"...the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people.
In other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The
immediate aim: perfection of Arab military might. The national aim:
the eradication of Israel."
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President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq joined in the war of
words:
"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."
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In 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was
formed. While Jordan and Egypt hold the "territories," the PLO forms
with the goal of annihilating the State of Israel through violence and
terror. In the ensuing years, a rash of airplane hijackings, bombings
and the Munich Olympic Massacre bring the Palestinians media attention.
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1967 - The 6 Day War: Egyptian President Nasser closes
the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping,
and Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad declares:
"the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."
Israel responds with a pre-emptive strike and captures the Golan
Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula. (Then immediately
offers to return the conquered land in exchange for peace.)
Meeting in Khartoum, the Arab League issues the infamous three
noes:
"No peace with Israel - No negotiations with Israel
- No recognition of Israel."
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1973 - Yom Kippur War: On the holiest day of the Jewish year,
Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack. In the Golan, 180
Israeli tanks face an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez
Canal, 500 Israeli soldiers are attacked by 80,000 Egyptians. Israel
suffers heavy casualties, but wins the war.
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2000 - Palestinian Violence: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
offers over 97 percent of the territories, including eastern Jerusalem,
for the creation of a Palestinian state.
Yasser Arafat refuses, and Palestinians launch thousands of
violent attacks against Israeli targets. Six months after the violence
begins, Ariel Sharon comes to power in a landslide victory.
The "2003 Road Map" is the band-aid they have attempted to
place on a monstrous wound, thinking it will curb several thousand years
of demonic hatred and anti-semitism towards God's chosen people.
The latest violence in July/August 2006 in Lebanon is just a
continuation of the work of Arab terrorists funded by Iran and other
Arab nations.
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