Israel warns it will respond to peace activists sending another flotilla

[hugh jarse]

I am sorry for this big post but why not look at the facts

 

1. Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in the 14th century B.C.E. Two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

 

2. From 1272 B.C.E. the Jews held dominion over the land for up to 1,000 years and there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

 

3. The only Arab dominion since the Arab invasion and conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.

 

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

 

5. For over 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. 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.

 

6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

 

7. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray facing Mecca (often with their backs toward Jerusalem).

 

8. In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune, Jews constituted two-thirds of the population of that Jerusalem. (The source: A journalist on assignment in the Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes…that Karl Marx!)

 

9. In 1867, Mark Twain took a tour of Palestine. This is how he described that land: “A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw a human.”

 

10. In 1882, official Ottoman Turk census figures showed that, in the entire Land of Israel, there were only 141,000 Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab.

 

11. A travel guide to Palestine and Syria was published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker. The book estimated the total population of Jerusalem at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.

 

12. As the Jews came and drained the swamps and made the deserts bloom, Arabs followed. They came for jobs, for prosperity, for freedom. And, they came in large numbers.