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Brief Facts on the Arab Israeli Conflict today 1. Nationhood - when Joshua entered the Promised Land in 1312 BC, Israel became a nation - two thousand years before the rise of Islam. 2. Arab refugees living in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1312 BC, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. 4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 AD lasted no more than 22 years. During the Ottoman Empire, Eretz Israel was only a backwater province. 5. For over 3,300 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 Jewi...

“Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?” And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”  Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites  and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the eas...

This may come as a shock to you, but the truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. There never have been an indigenous Palestinian people. The following article will show you the facts. It refutes today's popular fiction about the Palestinian people, and the myths connected to them that are spread around the globe, which most people gobble up as being the truth. A Roman Palestine The first time the name Palestine was used was in 135 AD when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The Roman occupiers came here, 1,400 years before Islam became a religion. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power. P...

Orde Charles Wingate was born in 1903, to a military British family stationed in India. Affiliated with the Plymouth Brethren, his mother taught Orde from a young age to memorize the Old Testament. Being a military man, his father subjected him to a harsh physical regimen and long marches. Orde enrolled in the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, where he became a gunnery officer. He studied the Arabic language and was posted to the Sudan. It was in 1936 that Orde and his young wife Lorna were posted to British Mandate Palestine. Although he had been pro-Arabic for years (according to British Imperial policy), after reading about the Zionist enterprise, his earlier love for the Bible blossomed anew. A changed man entered the Promised Land. That first evening in Haifa, Orde paid a visit to the Chief Intelligence Offer of the Haganah, at that time an underground defense force. Orde told Emmanuel Wilenski in his usual, direct way he would have to fight for a free Palestine, and to win. P...

Sukkot begins on the 15th of Tishrei , the date of the first full moon after the autumnal equinox. (September/October.) During this “season of our rejoicing”, the Jewish people eat their meals in a tabernacle or booth, covered with boughs but with the sky showing through in remembrance of the wanderings from Egypt to the Promised Land. Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) is one of the three Pilgrim festivals ordained by God. People had to go up to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast in the Temple. "Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread… at the time appointed in the month of Abib… and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labours which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year. Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.”  Exodus 23:16 (NKJV) Being an observant Jew, Jesus too celebrated Sukkot .    “Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was a...

  “When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settle in it, take some of the first fruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name…”   Deuteronomy 26:1-3 (NIV)   “Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the first fruits of the wheat harvest and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.”  Exodus 34:22 (NIV) In Israel, Shavuot is celebrated only for one day - on the 6th day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (Usually late May, beginning of June.) In the Diaspora, Jews celebrate it for two days. The Christian holiday of Pentecost always falls on the 7th Sunday after Easter. The Hebrew word for Shavuot means “weeks” and refers to the counting of seven weeks from the second day of the Pesach (Passover) holiday. This period is called the “Counting of th...

“This day shall become a memorial for you… you shall observe it… for your generations as an eternal decree…” Exodus 12:14-17 (NIV) Pesach, Passover, the first of the three Jewish Pilgrim’s festivals, is always celebrated on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. This day marks the beginning of the Biblical New Year.  The date also determined the length of a king’s reign. Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt when God delivered the Israelites from bondage. Today, observant Jews spend the weeks before Passover in a flurry of thorough housecleaning to remove all morsels of chametz from every part of the home. This ‘spring-cleaning’ ritual has been copied by many non-Jews as well. Chametz (leavening) is made from one of five types of grains which combined with water are left to stand for more than eighteen minutes. During Passover, it is forbidden to eat, keep or own olive-sized or larger quantities of chametz. Most orthodox Jews go even further - even the cracks of kitc...