1. Israel became a state circa 1030 B.C., more than two millennia before Islam.
Very good young skywalker. Judaism is in fact the first of the monotheistic religions. Of course most Jews were expelled from Jerusalem in 596 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzar, a tyrant and colonialist by any modern standard. See that was wrong too, just as the purging of some Palestinians and the refusal to allow the rest to return to their homes after the '48 war. If Zionists would like to model themselves after the Jewish people's greatest oppressor next to Hitler, they deserve no support.
2. Arabs from Israel first began to be called “Palestinians” in 1967 by Yasser Arafat and other Arab leaders, two decades after modern Israeli statehood.
Well at least you got all the way to #2 before stating a blatant falsehood. Herodotus wrote of an area of Syria called Palestine some 2467 years before 1967. While the people may not have taken their nationalistic identity from Palestine, they certainly would have qualified as residents of the area of Syria called Palestine. Romans also referred to it as such. There was no Jordan until the colonialist Brits and French created it, so I guess that means there is no Jordanians. Or no Lebanese. Or no Americans, since this is tribal native land.
3. After conquering the land in about 1250 B.C., Jews ruled it for more than 1,300 years and have maintained a continuous presence there for 3,300 years.
Not so much. Nebuchadnezzar. Not that his crimes make it right, but its just reality.
4. For over 3,000 years, Jerusalem was the Jewish capital. It was never the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even under Jordanian rule, (East) Jerusalem was not made the capital, and no Arab leader came to visit it.
It was in fact the administrative capital of the region called Palestine under the Ottomans. Palestine had its own governor. Sorry again.
5. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Bible, but not once is it mentioned in the QurÂ’an.
But Al-Ard Al-Muqadassah, or the "Holy Land" is mentioned seven times in the Qur'an, once in reference to Moses and the Israelites.
6. King David founded Jerusalem; Mohammed never set foot in it.
And George Washington never visited Hawaii. Do you have a point?
7. Jews pray facing Jerusalem; Muslims face Mecca. If they are between the two cities, Muslims pray facing Mecca, with their backs to Jerusalem.
As already said in this thread.
Mohammedians originally prayed in the direction of Jerusalem. Humans have only one head and one arse, that is anatomy!
8. In 1948, Arab leaders urged their people to leave, promising to cleanse the land of Jewish presence—some 70% of them fled without ever being ordered by Israel to leave, most of those without ever having seen an Israeli soldier.
First of all, there is no way you can even begin to estimate 70%. And I guess purging 30% is the moral high ground? And for the record, Rabin wrote explicitly about Ben Gurion ordering, with a flick of the wrist, the expulsion of Arabs. It was censored by the oh-so transparent and democratic Israeli military, but later leaked.
9. Virtually the entire Jewish population of Muslim countries had to flee as the result of violence and pogroms.
You mean when Palestinian refugees were flooding into those same countries? Again, where is the moral high ground?
10. Some 650,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948, while about 850,000 Jews were forced to leave Muslim countries.
"Left" and "forced to leave" is nice juxtaposition. Some left on their own and some were forced out on both sides. Nice attempt at objectiveness.
11. In spite of the vast territories at their disposal, Arab refugees from Palestine were deliberately prevented from assimilating into their host countries. Of 100 million refugees following World War II, they are the only group to have never integrated with their coreligionists. Most of the Jewish refugees from Europe and Arab lands were settled in Israel, a country no larger than New Jersey.
And expansion continues to this day. I don't think anyone has any use for the Maronite fascists in Lebanon or the Jordanians. But hey, nice race baiting.
12. There are 22 Arab countries (with 800 times the land mass of Israel), not counting the Palestinian territories. There is only one Jewish state. Arabs started all five wars against Israel, and lost every one of them.
That is just laughable. Should every religious minority use this argument? Should the Scientologists be able to just declare then need their own country in Oregon because they don't have a state?
If you honestly believe that Arabs started all five wars you need a new reading list. If you call the Israelis being the whore of the Brits and French during the Suez Crisis the Arabs starting it, or being ordered to leave "or else" by Eisenhower a victory, then you do that. Also, don't eat any more of the bad acid.
13. The Fatah and Hamas constitutions still call for the destruction of Israel. Israel has agreed under several proposals to cede most of the West Bank and all of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, and even supported the arming of its police force after the Oslo Accords in 1993.
And the Zionist movement has never defined what "the promised land" actually is or where "Greater Israel" will stop.
Since Shas has 12 seats in Knesset and supports the "Greater Israel" idea,
as well as NRP which specifically states that "there will be one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea" with its 9 seats,
and UTJ with its 6 seats also opposes any Palestinian state and also claims that "any Jew has the right to live anywhere in Israel," which means all of British mandated Palestine,
it seems like there are plenty of crazies on the Israeli side who support the destruction of the idea of a Palestinian state.
14. During the Jordanian occupation, Jewish holy sites were vandalized and were off limits to Jews. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian holy sites are accessible to all faiths and maintained in good order at IsraelÂ’s expense.
Oh really? More often then not Muslim men older than their middle teens are not even permitted in Jerusalem, never mind to the holy sites. Yes, vandalizing holy sites it stupid and wrong, but Israelis hardly have the moral high ground.
15. Out of 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions up to 1990, 97 were against Israel; out of 690 General Assembly resolutions, 429 were against Israel;
Have your cake and eat it too? Either the resolutions are legitimate or the British mandate wasn't legitimate. You don't get it both ways.
16. The U.N. was silent when the Jordanians destroyed 58 synagogues in the old city of Jerusalem. It remained silent while Jordan systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing the Temple Mount and Western Wall,
There is this expectation of the Israelis that they will act as the liberal modernists they claim to be. You know, democracy, human rights, international law. Nobody has that expectation of the Jordanians. But if you want to look to the Jordanians for how to act, expect to be criticized.
