The Beautiful Land, the Glorious Land, the Pleasant Land (Dan8:9) Psalm 83 Play HATIKVAH Pause HATIKVAH Stop HATIKVAH Hatikvah, 2000 years of waiting Vintage Maps, Books, Photos, Videos, Quotes of the Holy Land 1500 - present Play Shema Pause Shema Stop Shema Shema Hear o Israel (by Adrian Snell, 1980) 1582 Bunting's Clover Leaf Map All nations will gather against Jerusalem (Zech12:3) Terra Sancta, Canaan, Promised Land, 12 Tribes, Iudae et Israhel, Israel - Judea, Judea - Samaria - Galilee, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Mandate of Palestine, Land of Israel Jews were not expelled from the Holy Land until the colonizing Muslim invasion 636AD. This collection of maps of the Holy Land, crossroads of the world (the silk and spice routes) and continents (Africa, Asia and Europe), and an area with the longest mapping history in the world, covers here predominantly the period 1500 – 1900. The earliest maps built on the known world in Ptolemy's time, however limited, from which later map making traditions stem. While the subject is mostly the tribal distribution of the Holy Land as per Biblical promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the past and future, the embellishments are clearly from the age of enlightenment, as evidenced by the map makers beautiful cartouches from the period of 1600 to 1800, showing scenes of the Old Testament (Moses on Sinai, the Temple, Priests, the Ark), but also of Roman times in the New Testament (Jesus' crucifixion, Roman soldiers), before the Holy Land (ruled as part of the Roman province of Syria) was renamed 'Syria Palaestina' (ref. Ps 83:4) by the Romans in 135AD (after the non-Arab Philistines), some hundred years after Christ's death and resurrection. Jerusalem, city of peace, was also renamed 'Colonia Aelia Capitolina', named after the Roman cult of the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno and Minerva). To no avail, as todays maps testify. John 3:14-15 The area, in particular the Christian Holy places, was of great interest to the Byzantines, and the subsequent Crusaders must have used maps to find their own way around from Europe. Suffering four hundred years of stagnation under the yoke of the mohamedan Ottomans, no geographical information was added to the subject of Palestine maps, since the land was a barren waste and largely uninhabited, and the population steady at 400 to 600K, as corroborated by many photos and travelogues below, until the modern age, when the names Judea, Samaria and Galilee, as the revived nation of Israel, are again in common use. This more 'recent' period of 1800 - 1900 is mostly represented by functional school atlas maps, without the embellishments that make the earlier maps so interesting, but often with insets of city maps of Jerusalem, that are similarly useful. A map of Jerusalem from the 1890's by the Schneller's Syrian Orphanage (with Armenian children from Syria) is exceptionally detailed. Detailed Map of Jerusalem around the 1890s (60% of inhabitants were Jews by then!) 1928: Bagdad was the second largest Jewish city in the world (watercolor by Al Hischfeld) CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1535 Ortelius, Terra Sancta, Upside down map 1540, Sebastian Munster, Terra Sancta XVI Nova Tabula, HiRes 1540, Munster, Terra Sancta XVI Nova Tabula 'Ptolemy Geographia Universalis' 1545 Munster, Terra Sancta XXIII Nova Tabula - Upside Down Map, HiRes 1570 Ortelius Terra Sancta 1572 Ortelius, Terra Sancta from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, HiRes 1581 H. Bunting, Holy Land, from Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae 1586, Ortelius, 'Abrahams Wanderings and Life' HiRes 1588, Munster, Das_Heilig_Lande mit der 12 Geschlechten, HiRes 1592, Ortelius, Heiliges Land Israel Palaestina 1632 Mercator Hondius, Holy Land 1632 Mercator Hondius, Holy Land, HiRes 1635 Willem Blaeu, Holy Land from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', HiRes.jpg 1635, Ortelius (Christiano Schrot), Terra Sancta, with Jona and the Fish 1657, Visscher, De Gelegentheyt van 't Paradys ende 't Land Canaan 1659 Nicolaas Visscher, Holy Land 1679 Gulielmo Sanson, Israel et Iuda 1680 Frederik de Wit, Terra Sancta sive Promissiones 1680 Apostles and Paul's travels by N Visscher 1698 Teodor Dankerts, Holy Land 1698, Nouvelle Carte de la Terre Sainte, Judea Samaria 1699 Huberto Taillot, Iudaea seu Terra Sancta 1700 Gulielmo Sanson, Iudaea seu Terra Sancta Hebraeorum sive Israelitarum 1725 Seutter, Augsburg, the Holy Land 1730 Homann, Terra Sancta Iudaea sue Palestina Iuda Israel 1738 Wells, the Holy Land Israel Palestine 1750 Homann (Ferdinando), Map of Israel - Palestine - Holy Land - 12 Tribes, HiRes 1759 August_Vindel, map Holy Land and 12 Tribes, HiRes 1759, Ludovico Magno, Holy Land and 12 Tribes, HiRes 1763 brothers de L'isle, Terrae Sanctae Tabula 1791 R Bonne J Lattre, Twelve Tribes of Israel - Twaalfstammenrijk 1794 R Wilkinson, Canaan or the land of promise to Abraham 1849 Atlas Map of Ottoman Palestine by Alexander G. Findlay 1865 Spruner, Detailed map of the Holy Land, HiRes 1850 Ottoman Palestine / Holy Land 1891 Ottoman Palestine / Holy Land 1893 Ottoman Palestine / Holy Land 1897 Palestine part of Turkey / Holy Land 1903 Ottoman Palestine / Holy Land 1945 Palestine and (Trans)Jordan under British Mandate 1918-1948 / Holy Land 1740 Map of Johann Jacob Schmidt, 'Regni Israelitici', from the Nile to the Euphrates, ref. (Gen15:18, Ex23:31, Deut1:7, Deut11:24, Ez47, 48) Wikimedia category: Holy Land Maps Wikimedia category: Old Holy Land Maps Wikimedia category: Maps of the Holy Land Back to top Holy Land History: the Hebrew Israelites possession= 1666 years Babylonian occupation = 50 years Persian occupation = 200 years Greek Seleucids occupation = 200 years Roman occupation = 300 years Byzantine occupation = 300 Years Ummyad/Abassid occupation = 460 years Crusader occupation = 150 years Mamluke occupation = 250 years Turkish occupation = 400 years British occupation = 30 years >1948: the Hebrew Jews possession, and counting Back to top American Colony 1828-1980 History of the American Colony in Jerusalem Early Holy Land Videos: Back to top 1920s Video 'A Pilgrimage Through Palestine' 1930s Video 'Visit to the Holy Land' 1934 Video 'Tel Aviv' (founded 1909) 1935 Spielberg Archive 'Land of Promise' (58min) 1937 Spielberg Archive 'a Day in Degania' (founded 1909), 15min 1937 Spielberg Archive 'Glorious Galilee', 15min 1947 Video 'House in the Desert' (Hebrew, 45min) 1947 Video 'Portrait of Palestine' (by British Information Services, 17min) 1948 Video 'Israel Reborn' 1948 Video 'Israeli War of Independence', 10min 1948 Video 'Founding of Modern Israel', 12min 1950s Spielberg Archive 'Hadassim Children's Home' 17min 1950 Video 'Israel the labor of thy Hands' 1956 PanAm video 'Travel to Israel' 1961 Video 'Viaje a Israel' (by Kurt Wolf, No sound, 58min) 1961 Video Kibutz Tal Como Es Yehiam' (by B. Wolf, No sound, 19min) 1962 Video "Frank Sinatra to Israel' 1964 Video - Land of the Book (Ray Garner, 27min) 1964 Video - Kibbutz Daphna (Ray Garner, 25min) 1967 Video - Lighting War(s) of the Middle East (Hearst Metr. News, 14min) 1967 Video 'The Reasons Behind The Arab Defeat in 1967 War' part1, min10 1967 Video 'The Reasons Behind The Arab Defeat in 1967 War' part2, 10min 1967 Video 'The Reasons Behind The Arab Defeat in 1967 War' part3, 9min 1967 Video 'The Reasons Behind The Arab Defeat in 1967 War' part4, 9min 1967 Video 'The Reasons Behind The Arab Defeat in 1967 War' part5, 7min 1973 Yom Kippur war part 1/4, 10min 1973 Yom Kippur war part 2/4, 9min 1973 Yom Kippur war part 3/4, 9min 1973 Yom Kippur war part 4/4, 7min L'Chaim, 2013 interview by Mark Golub with Jeffrey Gurock, 'Jews in America' Alaska Air pilot Elgen M. Long, on the 1950/51 Yemenite airlift to Israel, 30min, author of 'On Eagles' Wings' (Ex.19:4) Film by Michael Grynszpan about the 800,000+ Jews expelled from the Arab countries after 1948 'The Forgotten Refugees', abridged, 50min L'Chaim 'Child of Buchenwald', 2016 interview by Mark Golub with Moshe Avital L'Chaim 'We were like Dreamers', 2017 interview by Mark Golub with Yossi Klein Halevi L'Chaim, 2018 interview by Mark Golub with Danny Ayalon, former Amb. to the US Music from the Israel and NY Philharmonic Orchestras (YouTube) 'The Return of the Violin' (History of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) 12 year-old Masha Marshon - the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, IPO, 2013) '70 Years to Israel in Song and Melody' - the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 2018) Zubin Metha and Itzhak Perlman (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, IPO, 2010) 'An evening of Cantoral Master Pieces' by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 1991) 'a Yidische Mame' by cantor Meir Helfgot and Yitzchak Perlman Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' by Zuckerman and Mintz Perlman with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 1983) Beethoven by Itzhak Perlman with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 2010) 'What is a Melody?' by Bernstein - Young People Concerts (1962) 'What is a Mode' (scale) by Leonard Bernstein (NY Philharmonic, 1966) Vintage Holy Land Pictures and Art (Ludwig Schneller, 1891): Of the three categories: the casual traveler interested in the Holy Places, the more observant Orientalist watching customs and habits, author Ludwig Schneller belongs in the third category, born in Jerusalem and raised in the Holy Land, fluent in Arabic and totally familiar with its people. His parents founded the Syrian Orphanage just outside Jerusalem and it later became his own biggest occupation (as 'Father Schneller'), accepting orphaned Arab children from Palestine, and from surrounding areas of conflict like the Lebanon (Syria) in 1860s, and Armenians in 1894-1896 (the Hamidian massacres under the Ottoman Turks with over one hundred thousand dead and 50,000 orphaned). The orphans taken in by Schneller learned vocational skills and useful languages, as a means to support themselves. The author describes the land of Palestine from the inside out, not caring about the so-called Holy Places that 'do more to obscure than reveal', but the people in their poverty, who like a wind-blown harp, sound notes from ancient peoples like the Hittites, Canaanites, and Israelites. Subjects covered are very illuminating, and are always linked to ways of the Old Testament: agriculture, foods, dress, meals, dwellings, music, weddings and funerals, and the language. He travels the land and makes the Bible come alive with countless anecdotes (the 'upper room', the fig tree, being 'unequally yoked'), a must read for all who wish to understand the life of Jesus and His disciples. CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1890 Jaffa, the ancient Joppa 1890 Jerusalem, as seen from the North 1890 Jerusalem, detailed map 1890 Jerusalem, city view 1890 Jerusalem, view of northern 'Benjamins Mountains' 1890 Jerusalem, city view 1890 Jerusalem, Christian Quarter 1890 Jerusalem, Herod's Tower ruins of Phafael (or Hippicus) 1890 Jerusalem, Felladjin family 1890 Jerusalem, Protestant Cemetary on Mt Sion 1890 Jerusalem, Protestant Cemetaery, Schneller's tomb 1890 Lifta, the ancient Nephtoah, showing the divide between Judah and Benjamin 1890 Jerusalem, Road to Bethlehem 1890 Oh little town of Bethlehem 1890 Hebron where the Hebrew patriarhs are burried 1890 Mount Hermon 1890 El Scheech, Mohamedan Mausoleum 1890 Mizpa Samuel 1890 Cliffs of Beirut 1890 Beirut, journey to Sidon by boat 1890 Sidon 1890 Tyre 1890 Jerusalem, Arminian Orphan Transport from Eufrates & Tigris to the 'Syrian Orphanage' 1890 Jerusalem, Syrian Orphanage Home of the Blind 1890 Jerusalem, Syrian Orphanage Buildings 1890 Jerusalem, Syrian Orphanage Chapel 1890 Jerusalem, Syrian Orphanage Dining Hall 1890 Jerusalem, Syrian Orphanage Brassband 1890 Jerusalem, Syrian Orphanage, Parsonage 1890 Syrian Orphanage Workshop 1890 Syrian Orphanage, Rock Quarry with hewn graves Cover Schneller Patriarch of the Protestant Mission in the Holy Land, Schneller, 1897 1890 Syrian Orphanage - South Court 1890 Syrian Orphanage - North Court 1890 Syrian Orphanage 1890 Syrian Orphanage 1890 Syrian Orphanage Kitchen 1890 Syrian Orphanage, Orphans in front of Mt of Olives 1890 Syrian Orphanage, Girl Orphans 1890 Syrian Orphanage, annual wheat harvest 1890 Syrian Orphanage, annual wheat harvest 1890 Syrian Orphanage, wheat caravan 1890 Bethlehem 1890 Jericho Bedouin Camp 1890 Lydda (Lod), Palmtrees with 20% of the Mohamedans blind 1890 Jerusalem, Temple Mount 1890 Jerusalem Jews praying at the Temple Wall 1890 Jerusalem Top of Mount of Olives Back to top Vintage Holy Land /Arabia Pictures Ventures among Arabs (by Archibald Forder, 1905): 1905: Archibald Forder dwells and travels amongs the nomadic Arabs of the three regions, Arabia Petra (North), Arabia Deserta (Middle) and Arabia Felix (South), including areas of greater Palestine. He captures on paper and film many unknown aspects of Arab desert life, hidden from everyday view. He discovers many customs that harken back unchanged to referenced Biblical times, such as wedding ceremonies and rites of mournings, use of language, land purchases, hiding valuables, customary hospitality to strangers, serving meals and coffee. He identifies the various tribes and relates their names to the early biblical times (Ishmael, Esau (Edom), Gideon, Kedar, Moab etc). Many skills of survival are shown in harsh desert conditions, such as finding and storing water, churning butter in sheep skins, use of ovens and the daily mill to grind grains into flour for daily bread. The author also describes the celestial origins and terrestial tenets of the Mohamedan faith, which in the absense of assurance of salvation, leaves one with the need of various works required to ensure the sympathy of the Eternal Judge. CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1905 the river Jordan 1905 Interior of an Arab house 1905 Arab encampment in the Desert 1905 Arabs of Moab 1905 an Arab Sheikh 1905 Ovens used by Arabs 1905 Mr Forders home in Moab 1905 Arab Woman showing dowry as money on head 1905 Bedouin tent 1905 The fords of river Arnon 1905 Mr Forder in Arab dress 1905 Bedouin women, daughters of the desert 1905 North shore of the desert 1905 Arabs enjoying a social meal 1905 Mrs Forder 1905 an Eastern caravansery 1905 Making coffee, a man's job 1905 Drawing water at Beersheba 1905 Hagar's well 1905 Cenotaph over Aaron's tomb in Edom 1905 Section of the ravine at Petra in Edom 1905 Christian woman of Moab 1905 Calvary, outside the wall 1905 Old tower and castle at Sulkhud 1905 Stone doors at Bashan 1905 Druze Chiefs South of Damascus 1905 Moving tents, a woman's job 1905 Caravan resting after a journey 1905 The chief of Kaf 1905 Temporary tent hospital in the desert, a place to die 1905 the chief's wife 1905 Water filled in goat-skins for travel 1905 the castle of the Jowf 1905 Marid, stronghold of the Jowf 1905 Arabs of Northern Arabia 1905 Crossing the desert 1905 Gathering salt in the desert 1905 Date palm, with fruit ripe unto harvest 1905 Arab Woman churning butter 1905 View of the river Abana in Damascus 1905 an Arab fiddler 1905 Grinding at the Mill for daily bread 1905 Pharaohs Treasure, the masterpiece of Edom 1905 Bird's eye View of Damascus 1905 Map of Arabia 1905 Index page 'Ventures Among Arabs', by Archibald Forder 1905 Cover page 'Ventures Among Arabs', by Archibald Forder Back to top Vintage Holy Land Pictures Peasant Life in the Holy Land (by C.T. Wilson, 1906): 1906: Arabist and author Rev. C.T. Wilson writes about the people of Palestine more than the land (unlike the numerous travelogues of the day), in particular the manners, customs and dialects of the Fellahin, the peasants of the land (as distinct from townsmen), who he links to the gentile tribes of Canaan. These unchanged customs, including dress, utensils, furniture, and farming, all relate back to Biblical times, and seem to have been passed over by waves of conquest. He describes the role of women, unveiled in the case of the Fellahah (female peasant), unlike the Baraghafeh, a tribe who claim to be descended from the prophet, and lock their women away behind doors and veils. The author tries to capture and record old ways of the past five millennia, at risk of disappearing in the new (20th century) days of trains and telegraphs. CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1906 Nazareth 1906 Es Salt, the ancient Ramoth Gilead 1906 Mt Carmel, Place of Elijahs Sacrifice 1906 Sacred Oak near Tibneh 1906 Fellah 1906 Agricultural Implements 1906 Courtyard of Village Mosque 1906 Village East of the Jordan River 1906 Kanatir 1906 Sacred Tree 1906 Greek Convent of Mar Girius in Wadi Kelt 1906 An Aliyeh, the 'Upper Room', 2Kings4v10 1906 Shepherd and Sheep 1906 Roman Bridge over the Jordan River 1906 Parapet of Tiling 1906 Shop in Moab 1906 Christian Village School 1906 Women Sifting Wheat 1906 Grinding Wheat 1906 Flock Resting at Noon 1906 Tiberias 1906 Women going to Draw Water 1906 Peasant Woman Showing Head-dress 1906 Shepherd and Sheep 1906 Oak Grove, Jebel Ajlun 1906 Preparing Firewood for Market 1906 Camel carrying Stone 1906 Hillside close to Jerusalem 1906 Sower 1906 a Fellah 1906 Cattle Hooves Threshing Wheat 1906 Ploughing 1906 Scene of Jonathan's Exploit at Mishmash 1906 Bethany 1906 Beating Olives 1906 Sakiyeh Treadmil pulling Jugs from Water Well 1906 Olive Grove 1906 Olives Drying in 'Upper Room' 1906 Fisherman 1906 Ruined Temple near Tobaz, the Ancient Thebez 1906 Weaving Haircloth for Tents 1906 Weaving 1906 Water Mill at Jebel Ajlun 1906 Great Mosque, Damascus 1906 Kissing the Hand 1906 Khan in the Lebanon 1906 Coffee Making 1906 Peasants of Jebel Aljun 1906 Hill Country 1906 Rujm, Cairns as Stone Markers Back to top Vintage Holy Land Pictures (People of Palestine, Elisa Grant, 1906/1922): 1906: Author Elihu Grant writes on the peasantry of Western Palestine (i.e. excluding trans-Jordan, the much larger Eastern Palestine portion for many centuries). He covers the springs and rivers, hills and valleys, the lay of the land, as well as the climate and weather. Grant likens the peasants to the ancient Canaanites who got into the regular habit of converting at the point of a sword (Joshua's Hebrews, the Romans, the Muslims). As he describes the peasantry, one gets a feel for how people lived and worked, what methods they used, and most interestingly (with pictures), which tools and utensils were used to farm the barren land and manufacture basic goods one century ago. CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1907 Bread-making Utensils 1907 Pottery 1907 Various Articles made of Skin 1907 Household Utensils 1907 List of Household Utensils 1907 Siloam Woman with Child and Produce on Head 1907 River Auja, North of Jaffa 1907 Donkey at Threshing Floor with Wheat 1907 Wild Anemones From Wadi el Kelb 1907 Vineyard at Ram Allah 1907 Man with Basket of Olives at Ram Allah 1907 Stretch of Olive Trees on Road to Ayn Sinya 1907 Bedawy (Beduin) House 1907 Bedawy Drinking 1907 Peasants on the Way to Market with Produce 1907 Bedawin Horseman 1907 Womans Work 1907 Bringing Home the Bridal Trousseau 1907 Girls Pretending to Carry Loads 1907 Washing a Child 1907 a Swaddled Infant 1907 Three Kinds of Houses 1907 Women Gleaning Wheat 1907 Women Sifting Wheat 1907 to Jerusalem for the Neby Musa Procession 1907 Neby Musa Crowd at the Jaffa Gate 1907 Farming Implements 1907 Sower 1907 Children Gleaning 1907 Donkeys Threshing with cow 1907 Threshing Scene at the Old Pool at Bethel 1907 Spinning, Reeling, and Straightening Threads for the Loom 1907 Market Scene Peasantry near Davids Tower in Jerusalem 1907 Women at the Well 1907 Fountain at Nazareth 1907 House Roofing Bee at Tayyibeh 1907 Ram Allah, Matron at her Door 1907 Camel Carrying Clay Jars 1907 Ram Allah as entered from the Walled Road from the East 1907 Little Girls of the Village 1907 Village of Ram Allah and Outlying Vineyards 1907 El Bireh from the South 1907 Vineyards and Stone Watch Towers 1907 Donkey with Cow Plowing 1907 Primitive Bedawin Rug Weaving 1907 Straw Mat and Basket Making by Jifna Woman 1907 Months of the Year 1907 Index page, People of Palestine, by Elihu Grant Back to top Vintage Holy Land Pictures Immovable East (by P. Baldersperger, 1913): Filip J. Baldensperger was born in 1856 and grew up as son of German missionaries to Palestine, who ran a school for some 70 Arabic-speaking youths. This book 'Immovable East' describes the life in 19th century Palestine of Bedawin (Bedouins) and Fellahin (Fellah = peasant or ploughman in Arabic), who he holds to be of Canaanite descent. He shows that the customs and lifestyles are linked to a common immovable past (despite numerous invasions by Egyptians, Syrians, Chaldean, Greeks, Romans), not unlike Israelite times of old in the Bible, and how ancient pre-Israelite Canaanite beliefs and superstitions strongly influence the Mohammedan faith (note how Gibbon in 'Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire' (Ch6, Pt2) talks of the Eastern cult of Egalabalus (Baal) in Emesa Syria, which revered 'a black conical stone, which, as it was universally believed, had fallen from heaven on that sacred place'). 1913 Map of 'Modern Palestine', by Pitman&Sons CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1913 Tower of David 1913 Unequally Yoked Ploughing Team in Judea 1913 Fellah and his Camels on the banks of the Kishon 1913 Bedawi (Bedouin) of the Kishon 1913 by the Dead Sea 1913 A Line of Camels 1913 Dome of the Rock 1913 A Dervish 1913 Grotto of Elijah, Mt Carmel 1913 Dome of Ascension 1913 Map of Solomons Gardens and Environs 1913 Shepherd 1913 Solomons Pools and Caravansery 1913 Jaffa Gate Jerusalem 1913 Plains from Jericho and Dead Sea from Olivet 1913 Bedouin Tent in Valley of Achor 1913 Street in Jerusalem 1913 Shepherd and Sheep near Jerusalem 1913 Dan, Source of the Jordan 1913 Siloam, Fellehat going to Jerusalem 1913 Fellehat of Baltir going to Market 1913 Neiye or Zoomara 1913 Neby Moosa Procession and Holy Standard 1913 Tower of Ramleh 1913 Map of Modern Palestine by Pitman&Sons 1913 Index page Back to top Vintage Holy Land Pictures (Paul Hommel, 1920s): Paul Hommel of Stuttgart took these high quality black & white photographs of the Holy Land around 1920. In the original version called 'Durch 's Gelobte Land' ('Through the Promised Land') it is Ludwig Schneller himself, closely acquainted with the land and people, who provided the narrative (his own photographs shown elsewhere). In the Dutch version published in 1934 'Door 't Beloofde Land', it is A van Deursen who provides the descriptions to the pictures, which provided the Biblical references to the scenes. The pictorial journey starts in the north in Lebanon, showing the magnificent Cedars of Lebanon, which helped build Solomon's Temple, further down thru Galilee, and the life around a lake, the rocky desert of Judea, Petra and Idumea and ending at Aqaba at the Red Sea.These may be the last photographs taken of the ancient way of life in the Holy Land, before new technologies like train and telegraph changed the pace of life forever. CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1920s View of the Valleys of Lebanon (Is40, 1Kings5, Deut3) 1920s Cedars of Lebanon (Jer18:14, Ez31, 2Sam7) 1920s Haifa, end point of the IPC oiline from Mosoel in Iraq 1920s Ruins of a Crusader Fortress at Atlit (built 1248), the last Citadel (1291) 1920s Carmel mountains with Kishon Stream Where Eliah Sacrificed (1Kings18, Judges5)) 1920s Nazareth, and its ancient water well at front left (Luke1) 1920s Building of a House 1920s Nazarene Woman under a fig tree (Is.3, 1Kings4) 1920s Road from Nazareth leading North to Kana in Galilee (Luke4) 1920s Synagogue of Kapernaum (Mark1, John6) 1920s Fishermen at the Sea of Galilee (Matt4/13, John21) 1920s Lake of Gennesaret (Mark4, John6, Eccl.24) 1920s Rock Formation near Besan (Beth-Sean) overlooking the barren Jordan Valley (Joshua17, Judges1) 1920s Tiberias (Luke8:3) 1920s Tiberias and the Lake of Gennesaret 1920s Lake of Gennesaret (Luke9) 1920s Bedouins baking Bread (Judges6, 2Sam16) 1920s the Threshing Floor (Deut25, Ruth3) 1920s the Widow of Nain (Luke7) 1920s Samaritans'Neapolis (Nabloos) and Mt Gerazim (Gen12, Josh24, Judges9) 1920s Ruins of Gerasa (Decapolis). Left : temple of Artemis, right: thermal baths 1920s Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate (2Kings14) 1920s Jerusalem: Mt Ofel and Moria, Kedron-Valley, Mt of Olives at right (1Kings1, 2Sam15, 2Kings23) 1920s Moonlight over Jerusalem 1920s Jerusalem: the Temple Mount, where 12 yr old Jesus sat ((Luke2:46) 1920s the Dome of 17 pillars, former Location of the Herodian Temple Court of Women (John8, Acts4) 1920s Jerusalem's Wailing Wall: 28m long, 18m high 1920s Jerusalem: Ecce-Homo Arch on the Via Dolorosa: 'Behold the man' (John19:5) 1920s Jerusalem's Eastern Wall near Stephen's Gate, 12m high, built 1536 1920s Jerusalem: the Damascus Gate (Gen23, 2Kings7) 1920s Jerusalem: the Upper city (2Kings22:14) 1920s Jerusalem: the Garden of Gethsemane - 'oil press' (John18) 1920s Bedu child Shepherds inside the Damascus Gate (1Sam16:11) 1920s Jews in the Valley of Jehosafat (Lev9:27) 1920s Jerusalem: Church of the Sepulchre, outside the 'old' city (Heb13, Matt28) 1920s Jerusalem: Phasael, Tower of Herods' Palace, meeting place of the Oriental sages (Matt2) 1920s Fellah village, Cheeme, West of Bethlehem (Job4:19, Is1:3)) 1920s Inside of Cheeme dwelling, one slept around the fire (Luke11) 1920s Sacred place of Abu Nabat near Cheeme 1920s Bethlehem: House of Bread (of the World) 1920s grinding wheat in a house in Bethlehem (Job41:15) 1920s Christian girl when Bethlehem was still a Christian Town (Jer2, Luke15, Ez16) 1920s busy street in Bethlehem (1Sam11, Neh8) 1920s Ephrata: Shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their Sheep (Luke2) 1920s the good Shepherd in Judea (2Sam7, Amos7, Joh10) 1920s Hebron (Gen13/23/37, 2Sam2) 1920s Bethany, House of Figs 1920s Judean Desert (Jer2:31, Josh15) 1920s Judean Desert: Valley of Achor (or Wadi Kelt) (2Chr32) 1920s Judean Desert: St Georges Monastery built by Essenes (Luke2) 1920s Excavated Wall of Old Jericho, once 5.6m deep and 14m high (1Kings16) 1920s Desert near the lower Jordan River (Mark1, Matt3) 1920s the Jordan River (Josh3:17, 2Kings2, Zach11) 1920s the Jordan River: balsem of Gilead (Gen37, Jer8/46) 1920s Bedouin Sheikh with Bodyguard in front of his tent (Song of Sol1:5) 1920s Western Shore of the Dead Sea (Gen19, Deut29, Amos4, Is.Jer23, Zeph21) 1920s Mouth of the Arnon into the Dead Sea (Num21:13, Deut2:36) 1920s Caravan (Gen37:25, Jer2) 1920s Ships of the Desert, Job owned 3000 (Job1:3) 1920s Eilat (=Palms) in Southern Israel (2Chron8:17) 1920s Salt Pillars at the Dead Sea, source of Asphalt (Gen14;1) 1920s Engedi, Diamond of the Desert (Song of Sol 1:14) 1920s Petra Mountains (Jer49, Ob.1:4): 'on this Petra I will build my Church' 1920s Petra: Pharao's Treasury: last of the Nabateans? Rediscoveed in 1812 by Burckhart 1920s the Seir pass from Eilath to Maon (Judges10:12, 2Chron26:7, Ezra2) 1920s Amman, or Rabba of the Children of Ammon (2Sam12) 1920s Damascus on the edge of the desert (2Kings5:12, Jer49:25) 1920s Damascus Ommayad Mosque, Once Church of John the Baptist (with inscription Ps145:13) 1920s Damascus: place of Caravanserai until the opening of the Suez canal Back to top Vintage Holy Land Pictures (Nancy Groenendijk, 1960s): Author Marius Groeneveld and photographer Nancy Groeneveld have succeeded in compiling a 'most modern book' on the Holy Land (1960!). They manage to cast an interesting light on what are called the 'Holy Places' and invite the pilgrim to read and see for himself, and compare what the Holy Scriptures say about these matters. The book and pictures also cast a light on 'theories of modern archeology' in light of what is known from many sources of ancient history. CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1960s the Negev, near Beersheva where Abraham settled (Gen21) 1960s Jericho: Moon City (Joshua6) 1960s Mt Tabor, Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley (Judges4) 1960s Beth-Sean: How the mighty have fallen (1Sam28, 31, 2Sam1) 1960s Canaanite Place of Sacrifice (1Kings9:15, 2Kings9/23) 1960s Judean Desert (1Kings9/22) 1960s Bethlehem, Fields of Ephrata (Luke1) 1960s Hills Surrounding Jerusalem (Joshua10) 1960s Ruins of Ceasarea (Acts8/10/21/23) 1960s Nazareth (Matt4, Luke2, Mark6) 1960s Samaria (1Kings16/22) 1960s Kana Vineyards (John2) 1960s Door Post of Kapernaum's Synagogue (Matt4/8/11) 1960s Lake of Gennesaret (Matt5) 1960s Olive Press in the Holy Land (Matt14, Mark6, Luke9, John6)) 1960s Mt. Tabor in Galilee (Matt17, Mark9) 1960s Shechem: Give us this day our Daily Bread (John4) 1960s Jerusalem (Matt26-28, Acts1) 1960s Sarcophagus 1960s Jerusalem (Matt26-28, Acts1) 1960s Jerusalem (Matt26-28, Acts1) 1960s the ancient Jewish Temple Mount (Matt26-28, Acts1) 1960s Jerusalem viewed from Gethsemane (Matt26-28, Acts1) 1960s Gardens of Gethsemane (Matt26-28, Acts1) 1960s Stone Door of a Burial Chamber 1960s Ein Karem, a city in the Judean Hills (Luke 1) 1960s Traveler's Map of the Holy Land Back to top Vintage Holy Land Pictures (King James Bible, 1972): CNTL +/- for larger/smaller Map of Israel in the OT and NT, by ThomasNelson 1970s Fortress Nimrud above Caesarea Philippi (OT: 'City of Dan'), by J.Couch 1970s Overlooking Sea of Galilee (el. 209m (696') below sea level), from Tiberias, by J.Couch 1970s Roman Ruins in Samaria by T.Kilpatrick 1970s Jerusalem Pool of Siloam and entrance to Hezekiahs Tunnel, by J.Couch 1970s Israel, Mount Hermon 1970s Israel, Olive Tree, by M.Spence 1970s Israel, Judean Wilderness, by M.Spence 1970s Gulf of Eilat looking at Jordan, by T.Kilpatrick 1970s Israel, Sheep, by G.Jeeninga 1970s Israel, Ibex, by T.Kilpatrick 1970s Israel, Bedouins, by T.Kilpatrick 1970s Marketplace in Jerusalem 1970s Israel, Relief from First Century Synagogue, by T. Kilpatrick 1970s Israel, Stone Manger in Solomon's Stables, by T.Kilpatrick 1970s Jerusalem, Loaves and Fishes, by T.Kilpatrick 1970s Jerusalem, Fruitseller, by J.Couch 1970s Jerusalem, Temple Mount, by J.Couch 1970s Jerusalem, Wailing Wall, by J.Couch 1970s Jerusalem, Worshippers with the Torah, by J.Couch 1970s Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, by J.Couch 1970s Israel, Sea of Galilee, by G.Jeeninga 1970s Israel, One of the Sources of the Jordan River, by J.Couch 1970s the Jordan River, by W.van Gemeren 1970s Israel, Salt Deposits in the Dead Sea, by T.Kilpatrick Back to top Vintage Holy Land Postcards Hebrew University (HU), owner of 130,000 vintage Holy Land postcards ca.1900 Jaffa Oranges (Hebrew University) CNTL +/- for larger/smaller 1898 Kaiser Bill visits the Holy Land (HU) 1898 Kaiser Wilhelm II's visit to Jerusalem (HU) 1900 Tiberius Colony and City (HU) ca.1900 Four iconic sites of the Holy Land (HU) ca.1900 Hasidic Jew buying Etrog Citrus Fruit (HU) ca.1900 Four iconic sites of the Holy Land (HU) ca. 1910 Jerusalem's King George Street (HU) t 1915 early Tel Aviv (founded 1909), (HU) Vintage Israel Postcards by Palphot, printers CNTL +/- for larger/smaller Brechat Ram, Mt_Hermon, Golan Heights Banias (el. +122m), one of river Jordan's three sources Israel Massada, Northern Palace Camels in the desert near Ein Gedi, Dead Sea the Dead Sea salt crystals the Dead Sea - Lot's wife - salt pillar the Dead Sea - Lot's wife - salt pillar the Dead Sea - Lot's wife - salt pillar the Dead Sea - 1290-1410 feet below sea level the Dead Sea - 394-430m below sea level the Dead Sea - Salt formations the Dead Sea - Resort hotels Sunrise on the Dead Sea Israel, Tabgha - Church of the Multiplication, Byzantine Mosaic Israel, Tabgha - Church of the Multiplication, Byzantine Mosaic, ducks Israel, Tabgha - Church of the Multiplication, Byzantine Mosaic, stork Jerusalem, the Golden Gate (Gate of Mercy) Jerusalem - the Temple Mount Jerusalem - One of the most ancient cities in the world Camels in the Dead Sea Area Jerusalem - El Aksa (name refers to Mekka) Jerusalem - El Aksa (name refers to Mekka) Jerusalem - El Aksa (name refers to Mekka) Jerusalem - El Aksa (name refers to Mekka) Jerusalem - Dome of the Rock Jerusalem - Dome of the Rock arch Jerusalem - Dome of the Rock, Cupola Jerusalem - Dome of the Rock Jerusalem - Dome of the Rock Back to top Holy Land Cookbooks: Israel Cookbook (in Portuguese - Use Google Translator) Cooking Israel- Chagim Cookbook (pdf, 6.6MB) Some EPUB download sites (free but typically registration required): 'Sunny Flavors from my Israeli Kitchen' by Adeena Suzman (ePub) 'Israel Style Recipees: A Complete Cookbook of Middle-Eastern Dish Ideas' by Julia Chiles (ePub) 'The Food of Israel -Food of the World' - Authentic recipes from the land of milk and honey (ePub) 'Cookbooks for Israeli Foods' by Jessica Halfin (ePub) 'Classic Sour Dill Pickles' by Jeffrey Yoskowitz 'Passover recipe special', part 2! My grandmother Hannah’s pickled cucumbers Back to top Related Holy Land Archeology: Noah's Ark found! Sodom and Gomorrah found! The real Mt Sinai found! Biblical Archeological Design, by Leen Ritmeyer Drawing Herod's Temple, Ritmeyer.com Video simulation of Herod's Temple, Ritmeyer.com read also: 'Bible Archeology', with numerous historical references 'the City of David', a Guide to Biblical Jerusalem, by Hershel Shanks, 1973 (for ref only) Biblical Archeology sites the Dead Sea scrolls Story of the Dead Sea scrolls History of the Dead Sea scrolls, incl. recent appearance of fake fragments (NOVA S46E20, YT) New Dead Sea scroll fragments found (2021) Blank Dead Sea scroll fragments show text 5000 yr old Lost Bronze Age City in Israel' Ancient Canaanite DNA found in Lebanon 3000 yr old Watchtower foundations from time of Hezekiah Cistern excavated near Beersheva 700BC Prophet Isaiah's Seal Kiriat Jearim - Emmaus found Samson's Philistine Temple of Dagon design found 200BC Idumean foundations 2000yr old Stone Vessels in Galilee used in Jewish Purity Rites Roman Vault with the wall of Beth-She'an over the river Jalud Western Wall hidden sections Massada's last stand Jewish Revolt - Coins found in Jerusalem Horeb split rock in ancient Midian, in Saudi-Arabia Canaan Mosaic with Israel's Spies 2000 year old inscription of 'Jerusalem' in Hebrew 400AD Huqoq Mosaics - Tower of Babel YouTube: in 1984, Ron Wyatt discovers Mount Sinai in ancient Midian (Gal 4:25), in Saudi-Arabia YouTube: Mount Sinai in Saudi-Arabia found (Gal.4:25), next to Mt Horeb YouTube: Noah's ark found in 1987, by Ron Wyatt, on the mountains of Ararat. YouTube: Sodom & Gomorrah found in 1989, by Ron Wyatt Back to top Vintage Holy Land Travelogues 100AD - 1800AD - A listing of early travelogues, from the first millennium (many in Latin), Crusaders, and Middle Ages, 'Biblical Researches, Vol2, p533-555, 1856', by E Robinson and E Smith 1838 - 'Biblical Researches - Palestine, Sinai, and Petraea, Vol1', by E Robinson and E Smith 1868 - 'Syria and Palestine', by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 1897 - 'Bible Places - Topology of the Holy Land', by Tristram 1912 - 'The immovable East: Studies of the people and customs of Palestine', by Baldensperger 1912 - 'Out of Doors in the Holy Land', by Henry van Dyke Here 100s more travelogues on Ottoman Palestine (Wikipedia) 1897 Map of Holy Land 'Bible places' Modern Pictures of Israel, for sale elsewhere Pixabay Dreamstime iStockphoto Pexels Tripadvisor Back to top Memorable Quotes on the Holy Land 2000BC Genesis 14:13 “Abr(a)ham was a Hebrew, from whom all Jews (through Isaac) and Arabs (through Ismael) descend” A British UN Ambassador, long ago: “There are actually those who entertain views on today's Middle East, without ever having read the Bible" 1000BC King David, 1000BC: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget how to play the harp." Historian and Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, wrote in 1868 about Palestine as the 'Highlands of Asia' (author of 'Sinai and Palestine'), p130: 'In Palestine we are in the Highlands of Asia. This is all the more remarkable, because the Israelites were the only civilized nation then existing in the world which dwelt in a mountenous country. The great states of Egypt, Assyria, and India rose in the plains formed by the mightly rivers of empires. To go 'down into Egypt' and 'up into Canaan' were expressions as true as they are frequent in the accounts of Patriarchical migrations to and fro between the two countries' Jerusalem, the only famed city not built near water, river or shore 6th century BC Josephus' Antiquities Ant.xi. 1,2: "When Medo-Persian king Cyrus II (the Great) made his grand entrance into the great city of Babylon, he was shown by Daniel passages mentioning him by name in the historical book of Isaiah 45:1, 41:2-25; 42:6, 44:27,28, written 150 years before (750BC), he granted the captive Jews the right to return and rebuild Jerusalem." Cyrus' conquest of Babylon foretold by prophet Isaiah Cyrus' entry of Babylon via the Euphrates river foretold by prophet Isaiah 45:1,2 Jerusalem's rebuilding foretold by prophet Isaiah Jerusalem's rebuilding as recorded by Cyrus himself (British Museum) Jerusalem's rebuilding as recorded by Cyrus himself (Ezra1:2,3 4th century BC Josephus Ant.xi. 8, §§ 4-6: "In 332BC, Priest Jaddua showed Alexander (the Great) passages from the book of Daniel about himself (Dan. 7:6, 8:5-8, 20-22, 11:3-4) which made him decide to spare the city of Jerusalem." Historian and Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, in 'Sinai & Palestine', p117, 1868, on the historical confluence of associations between empires in Palestine (ref also Dan8:22) 'Palestine between the return from the Captivity and the Christian era is a contest between 'the Kings of the North and the Kings of the South', the descendants of Seleucid and the descendants of Ptolemy, for the possession of the country... And when the West begins to rise, Palestine as the nearest point of contact, becomes the scene of chief contacts between Rome and Asia' Historian and Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, in 'Sinai & Palestine', p117, 1868, on the strategic location of Palestine 'There is no other country in the world..., where side by side are to be seen the hieroglyphics of the great Rameses, the cuneiform characters of Sennacherib, and the Latin inscriptions of Emperor Antoninus (Adrianus).' 1st century AD Jews do not disappear from the land after 70AD: Under Roman rule, they flourish in the coastal plain and in the Galilee in cities like Yavneh, Bnei, Brak, Safed, Tiberias, and Zippora: 2d century AD After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD by Titus and the Jew last stand at Massada in 73AD, Jews rebel again in 134AD under Bar Kochba: Roman Emperor Hadrian (ruled 117 to 138AD) bars Jews from Jerusalem, and renames the land 'Paelestina' after the long-disappeared Greek Philistines (ref. Ps83:4 'that Israel's name be remembered no more'), and renames Jerusalem 'Aelio Capitolina' (after 'Jupiter/ZeusPatyr', the great 'all-father' of the Romans ^& Greeks). 3d century AD Roman Emperor Caracalla (ruled 198 to 217AD) bestows Roman citizenship on the Jews in Israel, as 'free residents of the empire', in Antoniniana de Civitate (ref Salo BAron, "A social and religious history of the Jews' Vol11, 1951: "because they are a people with their own country" 6th century AD In the sixth century, a militant force rises in the Middle East, which takes the Bible and inverts its historical narrative: 'The Biblical roles of the two sons of Abraham, Isaac, (the free born), father of Israel(ites), and Ismael, (the slave born), father of Arabs, are inverted in a new and violent desert religion, called 'submission' to this new colonizing power ('Islam'). 7th century AD Jews do not disappear from the land until their eviction by Arabs: In 636AD, the Arabs burst into the Holy Land from the Arabian Peninsula, having earlier destroyed Jewish communities there. During the first two centuries of Arab rule, Jews are reduced to an insignificant minority in their own land. Thus it is not the Jews who usurp the land from the Arabs, but the Arabs who usurp the land from the Jews, the original settlers! 1500 AD Martin Luther, 1538, 'Against the Sabbatarians: Letter to a good friend’ "Let them go to that country and to Jerusalem, build their temple, the priesthood, and submit to the law, and raise Moses with his law so they will be Jews again and possess the land. If that would happen, they would quickly find us behind them to become Jews ourselves”. William Shakespeare (1564-1616): "I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land" "To wash this blood off from my guilty hand." 1600 AD Adrian Reland ((Hadrianus Relandus, 1676-1718) on the Holy Land (1695!), then called 'Palaestina', publ. in Utrecht (Trajecti Batavorum) 1714: “In 1695 everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish. In 1695 there is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots (most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases, Greek or Roman (Nablus is a Samaritan town, from the Greek NeaPolis). Even the name Palestine was stolen from the Romans, who stole it fomr the short-lived Philistines of old. In 1695, about 550 people lived in Gaza, half Jews, half Christians. Jews were farmers (vineyards, olives, grapes), Christians were engaged in trade and transportation. Later Muslim Arabs were colonizers from elsewhere.” 1695 Adrian Relandi's 'Palaestina' (Latin) Conclusions of Adrian Reland (Hadrianus Relandus, 1676-1718) on the Holy Land (1695), then called 'Palaestina', publ. in Utrecht 1714: 'The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population being in Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveira, and Gaza. Most of the population are Jews, almost everyone else is Christian, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins. The only exception is Nablus (NeaPolis, now Shechem), where approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Nasha and approximately 70 "Shomronims (Samaritans) live' Conclusions of Adrian Reland (Hadrianus Relandus, 1676-1718) on the Holy Land (1695), then called 'Palaestina', publ. in Utrecht 1714: 'In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people, all Christians. In Jerusalem, there are about 5000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians'. Bishop Thomas Newton 1754: "They are dispersed among all nations, yet not confounded with any. After wars massacres and persecutions, they are still subsist, they are quite numerous. What supernatural power could have preserved the Jews in such a manner as no other nation on earth has been preserved? " On the Nonconformist and Evangelical thought toward taking the lead in restoring the Jews to Zion (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p268) "Two Puritans, mid-17th century, residing in Holland - Joanna and Ebenezer Cartwright - petitioned their government "That this Nation of England, with the inhabitants of the Netherlands, shall be the first and the readiest to transport Jizraell's sons and daughters in their ships to the Land promised for their forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as an everlasting inheritance” 1700 AD Frederick the Great ~1780: The king of Prussia, Frederick the Great, in a discussion with his court chaplain once said: “Give me proof of the inspiration of the Bible.” The chaplain answered, “Israel, your majesty.” On America and Israel as a Promised Lands: 'America was the guardian of liberty worldwide. As the idea of a nation founded on the idea of a new promisd land, it had natural affinity for the rebirth of the Jewish nation in the original Promised Land.' US President John Adams, 1797-1801 to Jefferson: ""I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation."" Napoleon, in 1799, in anticipation of conquering the Holy Land (which did not come about) 'published a proclamation for a Jewish homeland there.' Napoleon emancipated the French Jews during the French Revolution: 'Jews were declared equal to French citizens, the yellow star of David was abolished, he lifted laws that limited Jews rights to property, worship and certain occupations. He also eroded their 'separateness' by restricting their right to lend money, restricting certain regions to which Jews were allowed to migrate, and requiring Jews to take formal names, and passed laws that allowed the government to infringe on their religious life' 1800 AD US President John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829: "I believe in the rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation." US traveler John Lloyd Stephens in 1825 on the Temple Mount: "Since islamic rule, Jews are not allowed near the site of the temple: they just whisper to it from afar." from 'Peasant Life in the Holy Land' (p.99, written 1851/2, publ 1906 by CT Wilson): "The Late Bishop Gobat on his appointment to the English Bishopric in Jerusalem in 1849 found that there were practically no schools at all for the Arabic-speaking population"." Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, on return of the Jews to their ancient homeland: "a noble dream and one shared by many Americans." Mary Lincoln-Todd, in 1865, on president Lincoln's death: "He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above." Mark Twain, in 1867, 'Innocents Abroad' (p361-362): "..... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds... a silent mournful expanse.... a desolation.... we never saw a human being on the whole route.... hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country." 1867 Innocents abroad Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,in 1873, while listing the rich Biblical variation of trees in the Israel of old, such as cedars, oaks, terebinths, sycamores, palm trees (of Jericho), laments the barrenness of Palestine: 'Sinai and Palestine' (p136-141), 1873: "Forest and large timber [with few exceptions] are not known. Cornfields, and in the neighbourhood of Christian populations, as at Bethlehem, vineyards creep along the ancient terraces." 1868, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley on modern the wide variey of trees mentioned in the Bible: (P136-141) 250million trees 'How Israel got “from hardly a tree or shrub anywhere” to being one of the only countries in the world that ended the 20th century with more trees than it had in 1900 is primarily due to the efforts of the Jewish National Fund, which since its founding in 1901, has planted over 250 million trees throughout Israel.' Mark Twain: “A fast walker could go outside the walls of Jerusalem and walk entirely around the city in an hour. I do not know how else to make one understand how small it is.” Isaac Taylor, 'Giant Cities of Bashan', (Golan)Josias L. Porter, 1867: "Palestine's palaces are dust, her stately columns fallen, her streets silent, her fields desolate, while God alone performs his dreadful part, fulfilling to the very letter the prophethic curses pronounced upon the land long, long centuries ago" (Lev. 26:30, Is.22:3, 33:14, Joel1:6-12) Isaac Taylor, 'Words and Places', 1873: "It is singular that the Philistines, the "strangers" from Crete", who merely occupied a narrow strip of the sea-coast, should through their contact with the western world, have given their name to the whole of the land of Palestine, in which they never succeeded in gaining any lasting supremacy." the Philistines' brief sojourn in the Canaan Historian and Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, wrote in 1881 (author of 'Sinai and Palestine', p117, 1868): 'In Judea, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that for miles and miles there was no apparent life or habitation' Historian and Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, wrote in 1868 about Bethlehem (author of 'Sinai and Palestine'), p163: 'Along its slopes may be traced the vinyards of Judah, here kept up with greater energy, because its (Bethlehem's) inhabitiants are Christian' Close associate of Dwight L Moody, the evangelist leader of the day, William Blackstone, in a letter to US president Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893): "Why shall not the powers which under the treaty of Berlin gave Bulgaria to the Bulgarians, Servia to the Servians, now give Palestine back to the Jews? These provinces, as well as Roumania, Montenegro, and Greece, were wrested from the Turks and given to their natural owners. Does not Palestine, from which they were evicted by force, not belong to the Jews?" On ending 1000 years of Arab Muslim slavery: "The British, who had earlier abolished the slave trade via the 'Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade' (1807, under Wilberforce's tireless 20-year fight, moved by charitable Christian motives) and abolished slavery itself via the 'Slavery Abolition Act' of 1833, also enforced the abolition of muslim slavery by Arab Zanzibar (1873), although it went on illicitly in Zanzibar and elsewhere in Africa until well into the 20th century, with ruthless Arab traders (in slaves and ivory) like notorious figure Tippu Tib devastating Eastern Congo, finally being edged out by rival commercial and political interests from Western powers. Arab Muslim slavers in Africa On the rebuilding of Africa after 1000 years of Arab Muslim slavery: While the Berlin Conference of 1884 had agreed spheres of influence in Africa, and sought 'to terminate slavery by black and Islamic powers in Africa', it was the West's (separate) Christian missionary efforts, unlike Islam, that did so much to subsequently help rebuild Africa (by education, administration, health and sanitation, agriculture, order and rule of law). " Arab Muslim Colonialism, with entire civilizations wiped out and millions killed recent Islamic terrorist poster found, with inscription: 'First Constantinopel, then Rome' Author Ludwig Schneller, born in Jerusalem and raised in Bethlehem, 1889 (Chapter on Bethlehem', Book: 'Kent Gij het Land?' p22, 'Kennst du das Land?'): "Until recently the surrounding lands were void and desolate. All labor appeared fruitless. Only remnants of cultivation of terraces near the foot of the mountains showed evidence of ancient Israelite thrift.” Ludwig Schneller, 1889 (Chapter on 'Land and Money', KGhL p66): "The curse on this land Palestine is not only on account of the (Arab) population, but its (Turkish) government that takes from its subjects, and allows itself to be bribed" Ludwig Schneller 1889 (Chapter on 'Land and Money', KGhL, p68: "One can put the blame squarely on the Turkish government which has allowed the destruction of the forests in Palestine by allowing the removal of firewood and the grazing of young saplings" Historian and Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, in 'Sinai & Palestine', p121, 1868, on the wholesale deforestation of Palestine 'The forest of Bethel, the forest of Sharon, the forest which gave its name to Kirjath-Jearim, 'the city of forests', have long disappeared... The very labour which was expended on these sterile hills in former times, has increased their present sterility. The natural vegetation has been swept away, and no human cultivation now occupies the terraces and pastures' Ludwig Schneller, 1889 (Chapter on 'Land and Money', KGhL p79): "Moses gives the law to Israelites that plowing animals should not be unequally yoked. Yet Arab farmers in Palestine will gladly yoke a horse to a donkey, or a camel to a cow. This author has personally witnessed a donkey being yoked together with the farmer's wife." Ludwig Schneller, 1889 (Chapter on 'Marriages'), KGhL p114: "Polygamy leads to poverty, domestic discord and smaller families. Arab girls marry young, as young as 8 or 9 years old. She has no say, she goes to the highest bidder, and always to a relative." has anything changed in the Middle East? Ludwig Schneller 1889 (Chapter on 'Bethlehem'), KGhL p21: "There are 7000 inhabitants in Bethlehem (in 1889), with only several hundred Mohammedans.” Bethlehem - Beth Lechem, House of Bread Ludwig Schneller, 1889 (Chapter on 'Bethlehem', KGhL p21: "Yet here in Bethlehem (with all the reminders of Christ's past presence), I experienced in the desperate conditions of this poor land something like the voice of an angel, saying: "He is no longer here" on Theodore Herzl's prophetic insights "in August 1897, following the First Zionist Congress, which he convened inBasel, Switzerland, Herzl wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the Jewish State. If I say this aloud today, I will be met with widespread laughter. But perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will recognize this." (The UN voted in favor of Israel's statehood in 1947!) 1900 AD on Theodore Herzl's achievement: ('Bibi', My Life, p225) 'In 1904, Herzl died at the age of forty-four, a giant in history. In the eight short years between 1896 and 1904 he changed the course of Jewish destiny, by giving his people a practical plan and practical organizations to achieve national salvation, after two millennia of unrelenting massacres, exiles, and progroms.' On the Ottomans (the 'Porte') ethnic makeup during WW1 (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p210) 'The (Turkish) Porte was suspicious not only of Christians, but also of Jews - especially the 60,000 or more of them in Palestine' 1910's On the Ottomans traversing Palestine to attack Egypt in 1915 (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p121) "The roads of Palestine were so bad that not even horse-drawn carts could move along many of them” On the idealism that drew Jews to Palestine around 1900 (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p210) "Those who chose the hardships of pioneer life in barren Palestine (- instead of America welcoming them from pogroms in Eastern Europe -) were dreamers who asked only to be allowed to practice their religion or their ideals in peace” On Kibutzim (Enc. Britannica 'In 1900 there were 19 kibutzim, 47 in 1918 (even though the majority of Jews were town dwellers). The population of Palestine was about 690,000, (535K Muslims, 70K Christians (mostly Arabs), and 85K Jews)' On South Africa's Jan Smuts attitude towards return of the Jews (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p210) 'Like Lloyd George, Smuts has grown up believing "that the day will come when the words of the prophets will come true, and Israel will return to its own land" and he fully agreed with David Lloyd George (British PM from 1916-22) that the Jewish homeland should be Palestine On South Africa's proposal by Jan Smuts in 1916 for a Palestine Mandate (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace') 'As a Boer steeped in the Bible, Smuts strongly supported the idea (of a mandate) when it was raised in the Cabinet. As he later pointed out: "The people of South Africa, and especially the older Dutch population, had been brought up entirely on Jewish tradition. The Old Testament ... has been the very marrow of Dutch culture here in South Africa"' William Ormsby-Gore, member in 1918 of the British war cabinet, on the Arabs in Palestine being actively supported by the British military (drawn from Muslim areas like India, Sudan and Egypt) subverting the Balfour treaty (they were replaced in three months by a civilian administration when found out). (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p323) "The Arabs in Palestine are, I gather, showing their old tendency to corrupt methods, with backsheesh, and are endeavouring to 'steal a march on the Jews'” Weizman on meeting Feisal (Note that significant number of European Bosnians (60K) moved to Palestine after Austria's occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878). (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p324) "He is the first Arab nationalist I have met. He is a leader! ....He is not interested in Palestine, but on the other hand, he wants Damascus and the whole of Northern Syria. .....He is contemptuous of the Palestinian Arabs who he doesn't even regard as Arabs ('but only Arabic-speaking')” Lloyd George's reaction to Feisal's public statement that the Arabs serving him and his father's army numbered about 100,000 men in the Syria campaign (it was actually more like 3,500).(Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p377) "Eastern arithmetic is proverbially romantic" On Bosnian immigration to Palestine (Wikipedia, under 'Late Arab and Muslim immigration to Palestine') Note that significant number of muslim Bosnians (60K = 10% of Palestine) in Europe (converted Serbs, to benefit from excemptions on muslim tax on infidels) moved to Palestine after Christian Austria's occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878 and annexation in 1908 (fearing retaliation, since the muslims in the Ottoman empire had committed many atrocious massacres of Christians in the Balkans, with victims numbering in the 100,000's) Lloyd George on the (many) treaties during WW1 (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p401) "The Treaties of Paris constitute the greatest measure of national liberation of subject nations ever achieved by any war settlement on record....no peace settlement has ever emancipated as many subject nationalities from the grip of foreign tyranny (= the Muslim Ottomans) as did that of 1919” the "23 State Solution': 22 to the Arabs, and 1 to the Jews To the victor the spoils: "The influence of the Balfour Declaration (of 1917) on the course of post-war events was immediate: According to the “mandate” system created by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Britain was entrusted with the temporary administration of Palestine, with the understanding that it would work on behalf of both its Jewish and Arab inhabitants.” Republican president Teddy Roosevelt, ardent Zionist, in 1918, on return of the Jews to their ancient homeland: "It seems to me that it is entirely proper to start a Zionist state around Jerusalem,’ for peace would only happen if Jews were given Palestine.” Democrat president Woodrow Wilson, in 1918, on return of the Jews to their ancient homeland: "The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.” On the not-so-secret French interests in the Holy Land during WW1 (Orlando Figes, 'The Crimean War, a History') French meddling in Jerusalem sparked the Crimean War of 1854 1920's Against Britain's wishes for Syria in 1920, with Feisal instated as ruler (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p401) "the French government inaugurated a diplomatic and propaganda campaign designed to prevent neighboring Palestine from becoming 'a Zionist state'” An American missionary in 1920 prophetically cautioning a British civil commissioner's assistant, Gertrude Bell, attempting to unite Mesopotamian provinces (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p451) "You are flying in the face of four millennia of history if you try to draw a line around Iraq (formerly governed by the Ottomans) and call it a political entity” Chaim Weizmann (then a scientist) in 1921, while traveling by boat to the US to raise funds for the Hebrew University: "Einstein explained his theory (of relativity) to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.” Albert Einstein, in 1921, on the Zionist ideal of a homeland: "Zionism indeed represents a new Jewish ideal that can restore to the Jewish people the joy in their existence.” Future first President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, in 1921: "We look forward to a future where Jews and Arabs will live shoulder to shoulder in Palestine, and work together towards the welfare of the nation" Close associate of Dwight L Moody, the evangelist leader of the day, William Blackstone, saw the principles of his 1916 petition to Democrat Woodrow Wislon enshrined in American law in 1922, under the Fish-Lodge Resolution that called for: 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People' Author Hans Habe quotes the British High Commissioner for Palestine saying in 1923 on the extremely fertile valley of Jezreel (p165) "The land of Esdraelon was uninhabitable, not a house or a tree." Who really designed the VW VolksWagen Beetle in 1928? A Jewish fellow named Josef Ganz and his 'May Bug Beetle' in 1928, before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1934 Josef Ganz On the 23Aug, 1929 Hebron massacre by Arabs: In 1929 there was no State of Israel (to protest), but Hebron turned into a city of terror, when Arabs in a 3-day frenzy, tearing down homes and synagogues, killing 67 Jews in a community of 800, with whom they had been living in peace for many years. The aftermath left Hebron ethnically cleansed Jews for the first time in centuries, who had relocated to Jerusalem Massacres of Jews in Palestine, early 20th century, by Arabs On Yasser Arafat: 'Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1929 (his father's mother was Egyptian, his father born in facist Ottoman Gaza), while Egypt was administered by the British Mandate'. The Russian KGB pushed the narrative that Arafat was born in Jerusalem, but his heavy Egyptian accent (and birth certificate) gave him away. On Yasser Arafat's mother Zawha: 'There is a (disputed) claim that Yasser Arafat's mother was related to the revered mufti of Jerusalem, who spent WW2 in Berlin with the Nazis, since he was wanted for war crimes' Yasser Arafat, cont.: 'Young Yasser Arafat shares several dubious distinctions with Adolf Eichmann, such as attending Jewish religious services (in the Jewish Quarter in Cairo), and enjoying their hospitality, in order to 'understand' them better (Eichmann was executed for Jewish blood on his hands, Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize)' On Gaza: 'Jews have had a (frequently interrupted) presence in Gaza for millennia. Egypt occupied it illegally in 1948, Israel took it back in 1967. In 2006, 10,000 Jewish farmers were removed from Gaza by Sharon 'to improve relations with Arabs'. All their (Jewish) farms lie waste to this day, and the innumerable rockets from Gaza prove that 'land for peace' does not work' A 1927 coin with 'Palestine' in English shows in Hebrew initials 'The Land of Israel' 1930's the Peel Commission, 1937: 'After violent unrest by Arabs, the British Peel Commission offered in a partition plan 80% of Palestine to the Arabs, and 20% to the Jews. The Jews accepted, the Arabs (under Al-Husseini of the Muslim Brotherhood, and renowned NAZI collaborator) did not.' Awni Bey Abdelhadi, Syrian Arab leader to the Peel commission of 1937 'There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented.There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. "Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it. On the claim that the Palestinians descend from pre-Israelite Jebusites, Canaanites, or Philistines: The Koran mentions no Jebusites, Canaanites nor even Philistines 1933 Jewish Max Baer, with star of David, beat Hitler's fave Max Smeling, in 'Fight of the Year' Awni Bey Abdelhadi, Syrian Arab leader to the Peel commission of 1937 “Every Arab in Palestine will do everything in his power to crush down Zionism, because Zionism and Arabism can never be united together" 1940's 1946 Palestine Plan of Partition, rejected by Arabs Yad Vashem: "550,000 Jewish soldiers fought with the US forces against the fascists in World War 2, of whom over 10,000 were killed in action. Another 500,000 fought for the Soviet Union, of whom 120,000 died in combat and 80,000 were killed by the Germans as POWs; 100,000 fought for Poland, of whom 30,000 fell; 30,000 fought for Britain, and many other nations." on Arab violence and retaliation: "Despite fighting en masse with the WW2 allies, no Jew ever took revenge on a single German after WW2" on Jewish soldiers on the Russian front, as told by Hanna Marton in Claude Lanzmenn's documentary of Holocaust survivors "the Four Sisters", whose husband was forced to go, and whose brother died in a minefield: "During World War 2, 60,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to the Russian front, but were kept unarmed, and had to assist the Germans with labor, and act as human mine detectors. Only 5000 returned." on the Arabs during WW2: " During World War 2, the Arabs and Turks were aligned with the fascists powers: the Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, spent the war in Berlin, and afterwards sought refuge in Egypt to avoid prosecution for war crimes." the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler discuss the pressing need for Jewish extermination The following is an excerpt from an official German record of the meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin. '1. He (the Fuhrer) would carry on the battle to the total destruction of the Judeo-Communist empire in Europe. 2. At some moment which was impossible to set exactly today but which in any event was not distant, the German armies would in the course of this struggle reach the southern exit from Caucasia. 3. As soon as this had happened, the Fuhrer would on his own give the Arab world the assurance that its hour of liberation had arrived. Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world. It would then be his task to set off the Arab operations, which he had secretly prepared.' from 'The Forgotten Terrorist', the assassination of Democrat presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy' by Mel Ayton, p33, quoting Alan Dershowitz: 'The (pre-1945) Palestinian leadership, with the acquiescence of most of the Arabs of Palestine, actively supported the Holocaust and Nazi Germany and bears considerable moral, political ....culpability for the murder of many Jews' from 'The Forgotten Terrorist' by Mel Ayton, p34, quoting Alan Dershowitz: 'The Jews got the Balfour Declaration for supporting the right side in WW1. The Arabs in Palestine got the generous offer of partition after siding with Hitler in WW2' on the UN offer of the 1948 partition of the Holy Land:' 'Arabs were offered 187k acres and refused, Jews 42k acres and accepted' Isaiah 66:8 on Israel's Declaration of Independence 14 May, 1948 "Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children" Eliezer Ben Yehuda working on the prophecy of Hebrew revival of Zephaniah 3:9 Amos 9:15 on Israel's Declaration of Independence 14 May, 1948 "I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them" According to Article 80 of the UN charter incorporated into the Mandate for Palestine, The Oct24, 1945 Accordingly, the UN or any other entity cannot transfer Jewish rights - including immigration and settlement - to any other party. According to Article 80 of the UN charter and the Mandate for Palestine 'the 1967 war of self defense returned Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to its legal owner, the Jewish State.' Also, according to Article 80 of the UN charter and the Mandate for Palestine: Legally, and geo-strategically, the rules of 'belligerent occupation' do not apply to Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria, since they are not foreign territory, while Jordan did NOT have a legitimate title over the so-called Westbank (moreover, the rules of 'belligerent occupation' do not apply in view of the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty. The 1950-1967 Jordanian occupation of the so-called Westbank (of the Jordan river) was illegitimate according to Article 80 of the UN charter). from 'The Forgotten Terrorist' by Mel Ayton, p35, quoting the Arab-sponsored Institute for Palestinian Studies in Beirut, which found that 'the majority of Arab refugees in 1948 were not expelled and 68 percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier' IsraelToday: on land ownership in Palestine under the Ottomans (1517-1917): 'There was no land ownership under the Ottomans before 1858, only after this time land registration became possible. Just half the lands of Palestine were considered arable by them ('Miri' = cultivated, land which could be rented for 10% of the harvest), but went mostly unused (or 'Mawat' = fallow)'. A comparison on land ownership in the newly independent United States ('Undaunted Courage' by Stephen Ambrose, p42): 'Taxes are due on 'warrant land', so as to prevent its forfeiture to the state as vacant or abandoned land'. on land ownership in Palestine under the British (1917 - 1947) "When the British inherited this system in 1918 (chaotic and corrupt, to avoid payment of taxes), there were few documents except those of Arabs who had registered and of Jewish purchases from Arabs (often at very high prices). The British maintained the status quo". on land ownership under Israel (after 1948) In 1948, 15% of the land of Palestine was owned by Jews, 20% was owned by Druze, Arab, and Christians (such as religious institutions, aka 'Mulk-land'). The cultivated 'Miri' lands that were not owned by Arabs (and who left in 1948, so now unrented, unowned, uncultivated, fallow 'Mawat' lands) were nationalised in 1948. Democrat President Truman on May 14, 1948, the first to recognize Israel's independence after the UN vote: "The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel." "I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization." the London 'Economist' publication, 02 Oct,1948: "Jewish Agencies published an appeal for Arabs to stay in Haifa. They promised safety and immunity, but of the 62,000 not more than 4 or 5 thousand remained" 1948 Arab invasion of the new state of Israel 1948, May 1 Arab invasion of the new state of Israel, 2 weeks before statehood! Murray Greenfield, US sailor from NYC, helping destitute Holocaust survivors back to Palestine, in 'L'Chaim: "Arabs were called Arabs. The Jews were the Palestinians then (before 1948)" 1939 Flag of Palestine, Larousse Encyclopedique Only Jews were called Palestinians before 1948 Jewish-owned 'Palestine Post' (later the 'Jerusalem Post'): "Before 1948, the designation 'Palestinian' applied exclusively to the many Jews of Palestine." Arabs boycott Palestinian (=Jewish) goods in 1945 from 'The Forgotten Terrorist'by Mel Ayton, 2007, p36: 'Despite claims that Israel's victory in the 1948 war left over one million refugees, (this includes) relatives who entered Israel from 1946 onward, and their numbers were closer to four hundred thousand' 1948 Jewish refugees from Arab Countries from 'The Forgotten Terrorist" by Mel Ayton, 2007, p36: 'What few Westerners realize(d) is that Palestinians were (and are to this day) hated throughout the Arab world' Philistines in Brief 'This must go!' Hans Habe, 'In King David's Footsteps', 1970s (p135) "Only after the partition plan (Balfour, 1920s), did many Arabs come in from Jordan, so not as refugees, but as immigrants, looking for economic chances in Jewish agricultural enterprises" Oren Barsky on X: "Many Arabs in Palestine were migrant workers, who were not registered in the population records. Therefore, most pictures you see of Palestinian passports, companies, insfrastructure, sports teams, entertainment, institutions etc (meant as fake proof of a 'Palestinian state') are of Jews, not Arabs." pre-1948: the Jewish paper 'Palestine Post' Hans Habe (p169) "Arabs like to believe in a united Arab fatherland. In 1948, many Arabs left Israel to return home. After the Arab war of annihilation against foundling Israel, only 157,000 Arabs remained in Israel. Of those who left, while they may have lost their dwellings in Israel, the surrounding Arabs stole their fatherland." "Does the 'right of return' mean, that all stolen goods and possessions of expelled Jews from Arab lands in 1948 will be restored?" 'Until the 1940's, like Palestine itself, no independent Arab nations surrounding Palestine had existed for centuries or even thousands of years, if ever.' 'The Palestine people do not exist. In 1940, the Palestine-Mandate Football team was all-Jewish from The Forgotten Terrorist' by Mel Ayton, 2007, p36, quoting an Arab-American journalist on the success of the Palestinian propaganda machine (using the Palestinians exploited in ghettos in the Arab world as a weapon against Israel): 'There is no language known as Palestinian, there is no distinct Palestinian culture, there has never been a Palestinian land ruled by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arab-speakers, indistinguishable from Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis (Arabs, which control 99.9% of the Middle Eastern lands).' 'Arab Muslim colonies' Diplomat from Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria." On the 1949 General Armistice Agreement, GAA, mediated by Ralph Bunche, who received the Nobel Peace Prize (from ‘Six Days of War’ by Michael Oren, 2002): "Under it’s ambiguous terms, the 1949 agreement between Israel and it’s adversaries Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, one side, the Arab, claimed full belligerent rights, including the right to renew active hostilities at will, and denied the other side any form of legitimacy or recognition" 1951-56 Arab terrorist raids into the new state of Israel On the 1949 General Armistice Agreement, GAA, (from ‘Six Days of War’ by Michael Oren, 2002): 'Not all Arab regimes were opposed to peace, in principle at least: the Syrians offered to resettle 300,000 refugees in return for control over half the Sea of Galilee, Jordan wanted a corridor to the Mediterranean, and Egypt demanded the entire Negev (62% of Israel's territory)' Hans Habe (p167) "At the same time of the flight of the Arabs out of Israel back home in 1948, the Jewish exodus from Arab lands started: 235,000 escaped from Morocco, 124,000 from Iraq, 46,000 from Yemen, 43,000 from Tunisia, 37,000 from Egypt, 32,000 from Libya, 12,000 from Algiers, and 8,000 from what is now Syria" the Jewish refugee numbers are even higher Bagdad, largest Jewish city after Jerusalem in 1928 (Al Hirschfelt) On Bagdad as a city where Jews were economically preponderant (Fromkin's 'A Peace to end all Peace', p306) "Bagdad one thousand years ago had become the seat of the exilarch - the head of the Jewish religion in the eastern diaspora - and thus the capital of oriental Judaism” Mosje Dayan, in 'Story of my life' on land purchases in the 1930s: "Sometimes we purchased the land from Arabs - often at very inflated prices - and set up Jewish villages where there had once been Arab villages" The story of a mountain village, Peki'in, in Northern Galilee with a 2000 year Jewish history (W. Kortenoeven, Israel Aktueel, May21): "During the 1936-39 Arab war of terror, all Jews of Peki'in were expelled" Hans Habe (p170+) "The UN Organisation’s UNWRA recognized 536K refugees from Palestine in 1948. In 1966 this number had grown on paper to 1.35 million, at an assumed birthrate of 5% when in fact the Arab population had been stagnant at 600,000 in Palestine for 400 years under the Ottoman Turks." Hans Habe on UN alchemy, 1948 and beyond (p170) "The United Nation Organisation UNWRA (12,000 employees then) created the 'Palestinian' from a test tube: any Arab who had resided 2 years in Palestine was declared a 'Palestinian'." On Palestine partition plans: "Three times the Arabs were offered a partition plan with their own state: the 1917 Balfour declaration (which still included present-day Jordan, which was split off by the British as Palestinian 'Trans-Jordan' in 1922), the 1937 Peel plan (with only 17% of the land going to the Jews, with a maximum population limit of 500K Jews), and in 1947 during the United Nations nationhood vote for Israel. Three times the Arabs rejected a second Palestinian state." 1922 Division of Palestine into Jewish ('Israel') and Palestinian states ('Jordan') On Jordan as the REAL Palestinian State: 'Jordan, over half of the Mandate partition, is technically 'Palestine': 70% of the Jordanian population is Palestinian Arab. Palestinain Arabs retained their Jordanian citizenship, until Jordan renounced all claims to the so-called West Bank on 31 July 1988, where they lost their Jordanian nationality and citizenship rights.' More on Jordan as THE Palestinian State: 'In 1951, Hashemite King Abdullah Al-Hussein of Jordan after independence in 1947 (Emir of Trans-Jordan from 1921), was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab of the Al-Husseini clan' 100 years on (since Jordan was assigned to the Arabs form Palestine), Hamas' Senior Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: 'Most of Hamas leaders are Jordanian citizens: if we had to leave Qatar, we would go to Jordan' 1950's Diplomat from Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria." Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, 1950s: "If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." "To be a realist, you have to believe in miracles." "We can defeat the Arabs a hundred times, and still have the same problem. They only need to defeat us once, and we are done for." President Dwight Eisenhower, 1957 on return of the Jews to their ancient homeland: "Our forces saved the remnant of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well." "The health of our society depends upon a deep and abiding respect for the basic commandments of the God of Israel." Pres candidate John F Kennedy, 1959: "Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.” Pres candidate John F Kennedy, March 17, 1958, referring to basic Arab rivalries, quarrels over boundaries, economic pressures, and cross purposes of nationalism in the Arab world: "Even by the coldest calculations, the removal of Israel would not alter the basic crisis in the area” 1960's Pres candidate John F Kennedy, 1960: "Friendship with Israel is not a partisan matter, it is a national commitment” Ariel Sharon in his Autobiography, on the subject of Jewish land in the 1920s and 30s (p24): "My parents and other Moshav families had built their village out of nothing (Kfar Malal, later destroyed by Arabs in 1921). Through years of backbreaking labor they had taken a malarial wasteland and forced it into productivity. They had refused to tolerate the degrading conditions into which they were born, but instead had gone out and remade their lives. Not one of them had a single question about their right to the land" Hussain Abdul-Hussain on the UN general Assembly resolution 181: 'The resolution stipulated a Jewish state and an Arab state, not a Palestinian state. Arabs were Arabs then, called their revolution of 1936 an 'Arab revolution', used Arab flags, even after 1948 they did not call themselves "Palestinian', a term still referring to Jews of Palestine. When Syria seceeded from the Nasser's United Arab Union in 1961, and after Nasser took a beating in Yemen in 1962, to avenge his losses he tried to get the Jordanians (who had occupied the Westbank since 1948, so-called by Jordan on the Eastbank) and Saudis back. He instigated (in the early sixties) the Arabs of the Westbank to secede from Jordan and create a Palestinian state that would join Nasser's United Arab Republic (Egypt). Mosje Dayan "After a cabinet decision, the Israeli government announced that all refugees who went to Jordan, Lebanon, and Kuwait, and who wished to return would be allowed to do so up to August 10, 1967. But very few did. They had to go through the Jordanian government, who held them up and placed obstacles in their way" 1967 Israel's Six Day war - Northern Front (Mosje Dayan - Story of my Life) On the PLO It is fact that the Palestinian Liberation Organisation PLO, founded in 1964, did not claim the 'Westbank' (so named by Jordan, when the Jordanians took it from Israel in 1948 and occupied it for several decades). That only happened after 1967, when Jordan was expelled from Judea and Samaria, the spoils of a war which had been started by Jordan Arabs renamed Palestinians in 1968 On the founding of the PLO 'the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, PLO, was not founded in 1964 to create a Palestinian state (Jordan was already a Palestinian state and occupied the Westback, while Egypt occupied Gaza). The PLO was created to eliminate Israel'. Author Frederick Forsyth, in his Odessa File (on SS activity after WW2): 'Egypt's Abdul Nasser in 1963 sought to perfect a strike force of 400 rockets (with biological and radioactive payloads) to wipe Israel of the map. His key scientists were mostly from Hitler's former rocket programme' on Egypt's missile and aircraft programme early 1960s at Helwan: 'Design of the missile tele-guidance system was done at Factory 333, Helwan (Cairo). Willy Messerschmidt designed jet planes for Egypt. The programme was scrapped around 1966 due to huge cost overruns, and after Operation Damocles discouraged the German scientists from participating' In the 9 months since Oct 7, 2023, over 19,000 rockets, missiles, mortars and drones have been fired towards Israel from impoverished territories and failed states Gaza, WestBank, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, at a total cost of $593 Billion. On spoils of war (Mosje Avital in 'Child of Buchenwald' and author of 'The Failure of Man, and the Enigma of God's Silence'): "Czechs gave 3.5 million Sudeten-Germans 4 hours to leave Sudetenland, a spoil of World War 2, a place where Germans had lived for 400 years" On Arab violence and retaliation: 'No Jew ever took revenge on a single German after WW2' On communist and Arab airplane hijacks: 'between 1968 and 1972, there were 326 airplane hijack attempts' The UN's Sec-Gen Waldheim referring to 1976 Israel's remarkable Entebbe hostage rescue as 'a serious violation of sovereignty' 1982: UN Sec-Gen Waldheim's NAZI past exposed Matan Peleg, CEO of IMTIRTZU in l'Chaim, on the sacredness of Jerusalem: 'Jews that were 3000 years outside of Jerusalem never forgot, they chose education and life. Palestinian Arabs, 30 years after Israel's legitimate war of independence in 1948, chose terror.' From 'Six Days of War' by Michael Oren, p54, CH.'the Catalysts' The trigger for the 1967 six-day war was the baseless and false information, knowingly spread by the USSR (the Soviet Union), that Israel had placed twelve brigades on the Syrian border. This caused Egypt to mobilize in the south, evict the UN Peacekeepers from and invade the Sinaï with a massive Egyptian troop buildup, while closing Israel's economic lifeline, the Straights of Tiran' From 'Six Days of War' by Michael Oren, p162, CH.'the Countdown' 'The Syrians prepared (in May67) to implement Victory ('Nasr') an offensive operation. As designed by the Soviets, 'Victory' called for a forty-mile blitzkrieg by three expanded divisions, ... to take cities of Tiberias and Safad, .....and settlements of the Dan region, then regroup for the conquest of Afula, Haifa, and Nazareth'. From 'Six Days of War' by Michael Oren, p161/2, CH.'the Countdown' 'Jordan revived Operation Tariq in May67. With the opening of battle, a four-pronged assault would be launched on Israeli positions north and south of Jerusalem (to hold Jerusalem's 200,000 Jews hostage as leverage to retain the so-called 'Westbank'). The Jordanian forces were to 'destroy all buildings and kill everyone inside' in the four areas, including civilians.' From 'Six Days of War', p86 (CH. 'the Crisis'), quoting UN general Rikhye of UNEF Sinaï Peacekeepers (since 1956), expelled by Egypt, one week before the Six-Day war in 1967: "I think you're going to have a major Middle East war and I think we will still be sorting it out 50 years from now" 1967 Egyptian newspaper Mosje Dayan, who instituted this swearing-in ceremony for the Armoured Corps soldiers atop Mt Massada: "Masada shall not fall again" From 'Six Days of War', p176 (CH.'the Countdown'), after two weeks of intense offensive military buildup by Egypt in the Sinai, and closing the Straits of Tiran: 'The IAF carried out 164 sorties in just over 100 minutes ... and destroyed 286 out of 420 combat aircraft in Egypt's arsenal that morning - 30 Soviet Tupolev-16s, 27 Soviet Ilyushin-28 medium bombers (intended to bomb Israeli cities), 12 Soviet Sukhoi-7 fighter-bombers, 90 Soviet MIG interceptors, 20 Soviet MIG-19's, 75 Soviet MIG-17's, 32 transport planes and helicopters'. the 1967 Air War on 05 June (Michael Oren, Six Days of War, p173) From 'Six Days of War', p187(CH. 'Day 1') on Jordan's unprovoked air attack on Netanya (eventually losing them control of the Westbank and Jerusalem): 'After the Jordanian Hawker attack on Netanya, the IAF conducted a lightning strike of nine minutes on Jordanian airfields of Mafraq and Amman, which were rendered inoperable, while the Hawkers were refueling. The second Israeli wave completed the task by destroying all twenty Hawkers and eight other aircraft' From 'Six Days of War', p195 (CH. 'Day 1') on Syria's promise to Jordan that they would attack Israeli forces at Jenin at first light the next morning: 'In fact, Syria had little Air Force left. Two thirds of it - 2 Soviet Ilyushins-28 bombers, 32 Soviet MIG-21s, 23 Soviet MIG-17s, and 3 helicopters had been eliminated in eighty-two midday IDF sorties' On the Holocaust (The Auschwitz Album - Random House): "Not to forget, impossible to forgive" Title of Ephraim Kishon's book 1967: "So sorry we won" Book cover 'So sorry we won' by Kishon In 1967, the Jewish flag was first raised over Jerusalem on the ancient threshing floor of Arauna, purchased by King David 3000 years ago, by a Jewish soldier named Arauna! Zechariah 12:6 '6. On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.' On US Democrat President Johnson's methods (From 'Six Days of War', by Michael Oren, p326, Ch. 'Aftershocks): 'Having resisted Eisenhower's pressure tactics during Suez, Johnson refused to arm-twist the Israelis. At most he was willing to delay arms shipments to Israel, while urging Israel to be "flexible, patient, discreet and generous"' On Democrat president Johnson's legacy (From 'Six Days of War', by Michael Oren, p327, Ch. 'Aftershocks): 'The Johnson Administration would leave a mixed legacy of good intentions and tragically failed dreams, yet there would be no gainsaying its contribution in laying the corner-stone for future Arab-Israeli agreements' Golda Meir: "We cannot lose because we have a secret weapon: we have no alternative" Golda Meir: "If we in Israel have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have a bad image" Author Hans Habe, 'In King David's Footsteps', 1970s: "The Arabs never objected to 400 years of Ottoman occupation, the only ones to protest were the Jews of Palestine" (p134) 1500-1800 Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters Hans Habe, p62 "The failed Kolchoz was a product of communist society, the successful Kibbutz created the Jewish state." Prime Minister Eshkol, joking about socialism "If you want to make a small fortune in Israel, bring a large one" Hans Habe, p63 "In 1967, after two decades of Jordanian occupation, only 10% of Arabs on the Westbank had access to running water but three years later, under the Israeli benefactors in 1970: 76 ltr/d (per person). At the same time (1967), Israel's water reserves efficiency usage was 90%, the highest in the world". Hans Habe, p215 "Why don't the Arabs want our hospitals and street lights? Because it means we are here to stay." Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, stood empty and unused during Jordan's rule (1948-1967) after 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and others were killed by Arabs during a resupply mission in 1948. Golda Meir, 'My Life', 1970s: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate ours." 1973 Golda Meir, 50 years ago! An Arab saying: "Vengeance is a joy divine" On the Arab character (Gen16:12): "His hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him" Historic Arab Colonialism On Arab-Islamic Colonialism after 540AD: Why is nothing taught at universities about Arab colonialism from the sixth century, where women were raped, men killed, hostages taken as slaves, and Sharia law imposed on so-called 'non believers'? 1970's Abba Eban, 16 Dec 1970: "If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a UN vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions." Golda Meir, 1971: "This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy" Golda Meir, 1972: "Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided — not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing." Dictator of Syria (only independent since 1946), Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat in 1976: "You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people. Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrians authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people" PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, in 1977: 'The Palestinian people do not exist. The Palestinian State is only a means of continuing the struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand, that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.' Golda Meir, 1978: 30th anniversary of Israel's founding: "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." Author Efraim Kishon: "Israel is a country surrounded on all side by enemies, but the people's headaches are caused by their neighbors upstairs" Cabinet Minister Naftali Bennett: "Never again will Jews NOT have a country to go to when persecuted" Lance Lambert: Enscribed gilt-edged Arabic poster of Adolf Hitler in a UN relief organisation building in Beirut in 1982 (as seen and testified to by Lance Lambert) 'We will finish what Adolf Hitler started' on the Arab refusal to accept a Palestinian state (Bibi, p165): 'The inherent problem in our conflict with the Arabs wasn't the absense of a Palestinian state, but the presence of a Jewish one' Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) (in 'My Life', p152), on the 1970's leftist intelligentsia's intelectual dishonesty: 'Leftist intellectual icons, like Frantz Fanon, gave intellectual legitimacy to the ridiculous philosophical arguments put forth by terrorists.' on the civilizational battle against terrorists crossing the divide between combatants and noncombatants (Bibi, p151): 'By habituating people to the idea that their supposedly 'just causes' justified mass murder, the terrorists neutered man's sense of sin.' Netanyahu, organizer of the 1978 'Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism', on the uneasy marriage of Soviet and Islamic ideologies (Bibi, p152): 'In hindsight, it is obvious that Arab states were sponsoring Arab terrorism, and the Soviet Bloc countries were sponsoring European terror groups. But is wasn't obvious then.' on the Soviet Union's support of and practice of terrorism (Bibi, p153): 'Recently freed Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky exposed to the conference the Soviet Union's use of pshychatric wards against political dissidents. He would be a powerful voice in distinguishing genuine freedom fighters from bogus ones' on the definition of terrorism (Bibi, p155): 'the deliberate assault on the innocent to inspire fear, in order to gain politicval ends. So not the wounding of civilians that accompanies every war, but a form of warfare that constitued a clear war crime' on the success of the 1976 Entebbe rescue in Uganda, by the Israeli government ('Bibi', My Life, p147) : '(Marxist) terrorists understood that governments could act decisively against the taking of hostages on hijacked planes, so they emulated other forms of Palestinian terrorism (such as the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre) and invented new types of attacks: bombing of nightclubs (Berlin), kidnap and murder of officials (Italy), releasing Sarin poison gas (Japan), setting off bombs (Paris), kidnapping and murdering innocents (Madrid, Basque country), bombing political oppoenents (the IRA in Britain).' 1980's on the 1980's Reagan Plan, which Begin called the 'saddest day of his life, since becoming Prime Minister' (Bibi, p165): 'By putting the onus (blame) of the continuation of the conflict on Israel, it encouraged the Palestianians and other Arabs to continue to reject the very idea of a Jewish State' on US Secr of State Kissinger's working the miracle of getting 'the lion (the Arab) to lie down with the lamb (the Jew)' (Bib, p179): When asked by a reported how he achieved such results, he remarked: "It's very simple, you take a cage, you take a lion, and you put in a new lamb every day" White Slaves, African Masters' by Paul Baepler 'In Muslim Arab countries, Jews were the lowest caste: even when a white 'Ghimmy' (slave) came to fetch water at the well, the waiting Jew had to move to the back of the line' President Carter, architect of the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, despite knowing how Jews had been cruelly shunned and systematically ostracized by slavetrading Arabs for well over a millennium, wrote a book with the title: 'Palestine Peace, not Apartheid' Michael Oren in 'Six days of War' (2002, p337), writes: 'In the war of 1948, while a large Arab population remained within Israel, no Jews were allowed to stay in any area conquered by the Arabs' Amir Tsarfati on Bethlehem ('Beth Lechem', House of Bread, Birthplace of Christ) 'In 1995, Bethlehem was 80% Christian under Israeli rule. In 1995, the Palestinian Authority took over control. Today, 25 years later, under 10% of Bethlehem's population is Christian' Bethlehem, culturally and religiously appropriated by Muslims Dr Sheila Nazarian: 'An Arab can live in Israel, A Jew cannot live in Gaza'. Where is the apartheid? Record ethnic-cleansing Arab Muslim Colonialism President Ronald Reagan, 1987: "For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side." Wiesje de Lange, 'Relentless persecution of Jews explains the enormous difference in numbers between two 5000-year old cultures of the Chinese and the Hebrews' on the strife between the sons of Abraham, Ismael (father of Arabs) and Isaac (father of Jews): 'There are 481 million Arabs today, but only 17 million Jews' Arab League vs Israel's Jewish populations, 481M to 7M Benjamin Netanyahu: "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel." the '23 State Solution': 22 to the Arabs, and 1 to the Jews On Hebrew columns found by Ron Wyatt in Saudi Arabia: "These markers with Hebrew script were erected by king Solomon (1011-931BC) to mark both sides of the Israelite crossing from Egypt into Arabia" Solomon's Markers Ariel Sharon's autobiography 'Warrior', p551, 1989: "The homeland mentioned in the British Balfour Treaty of 1917 was divided for the first time in 1922, with three quarters of (British) Palestine being taken to form (Trans)Jordan, on the East bank of the Jordan river (whose population is 80% 'Palestinian')". Ariel Sharon, p552, 1989: "One hundred years of terror. And this has nothing to do with our presence in Samaria or Judea or Gaza. Terror was a fact of our lives in the 1960's, 50's, 40's, 30's and 20's. It was with us during the Turkish occupation, the British occupation, the Jordanian and Egyptian occupations." Michael Barclay on the artificial creation of 'the Palestinian Underdog'in the early 1960s: The Arab coalition was not only physically losing wars, but was considered bullies of Israel in worldwide media. They were the Goliath that kept losing to David. So they hired the public relations firm of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy in New York (founded in 1909, no longer in business) to change their image in the world. George Anderson told them they needed a 'victim', a group that would be perceived as smaller and even more abused than the Israelis, and the 'Palestinian cause' was born. Ariel Sharon, p551, 1989: "During the creation of the State of Israel (in 1947/48), the so-called West-Bank was occupied by Jordan, and Gaza by Egypt. Then in 1967, these areas were taken back by Israel." Ariel Sharon, p550, 1989: "Gaza with its 550,000 inhabitants on 360 square kilometers does not have to be squalid. Greater Tel Aviv (founded in 1909 by Jews) has over a million inhabitants with a high standard of living, concentrated on 180 square kilometers." Tel Aviv, mentioned 600BC in Ezechiel3:15: "14-So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me. 15-I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed." Ariel Sharon, p545, 1989: "The fact is, that a Palestinian state has existed since 1922, when Great Britain split off 75% of its Palestine Mandate to create TransJordan (the current Jordan)" 1922 Division of Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states Ariel Sharon, p553, 1989: "(After 1967) Arab inhabitants of Judea and Samaria are members of Jordan's parliament and ministers in Jordan's cabinet" Ariel Sharon, p544, 1989: "Israeli Arabs pay disproportionately low taxes, Arab builders are allowed to ignore building codes, minor fees like TV and radio are not enforced, and they do not share the basic burden all others do: 3-year military service. Yet they have the vote to form the government of Israel. For equal privileges, there should be equal duties" Hugh Fitzgerald on the position of Arabs in today's Israel “In Israel, Arabs sit on the Supreme Court, serve in the Knesset, go abroad as ambassadors. The chairman of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, is an Arab. Jews and Arabs work in the same factories and offices, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras, act in the same films, are treated in the same hospitals by both Jewish and Arab medical personnel, attend the same classes in the same universities. Jews and Arabs own restaurants and start high-tech businesses together. The only difference in their treatment is that Jews must, while Arabs may serve in the military.” 1948-2024 Arab Population increase in Israel: 1300%, while 99% of Jews were removed from Arab states Ariel Sharon, p551, 1989: "Whatever the political rhetoric, the reality is that a Palestinian state exists in Jordan, with its capital in Amman, and a Jewish state exists in Israel, with its capital in Jerusalem" Ariel Sharon, p246, 1989: "In 1970, 70 to 80 percent of Jordan's population was Palestinian (non-Bedouin), most of its Parliament was Palestinian, its most prominent cabinet members were Palestinian, many of its prime ministers have been Palestinian." Writer Yoram Ettinger on the enormous damage the Palestinians have wrought on the Middle East: 'In the early 1950s, the Palestinian leadership collaborated with the Muslim Brotherhood, terrorizing Egypt, their host country (result: the Muslim brotherhood was outlawed). In the mid-1960s, the Palestinian leadership bullied Syria, their host country (result: Palestinians are kept stateless in Syrian 'refugee' camps to this day). In 1968-70, the Palestinian leadership triggered a civil war of 10 months in Jordan (aka 'Black September', when they were ruthlessly exterminated), attempting to topple their host Hashemite regime (result: they were expelled). In 1970-82, the Palestinian leadership instigated a series of civil wars in (very prosperous, Christian-run) Lebanon, aiming to take over their host country (result: the PLO was driven out of Lebanon by Israel in 1982. First Syria, then Iran's Hezbollah took over, culminating in today's failed-state). In 1990, the Palestinian leadership collaborated with dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion and plunder of Kuwait, which was for decades the most generous Arab host to 400,000 Palestinians' (result: they were all expelled). After 1990, the Palestinians self-destructed in the so-called 'intifada's' on the so-called Westbank of the river as seen from Jordan, which is ancient Judea and Samaria (result: despair, agony, and rampant corruption of the 'governing' Palestinian Authority) In 2005, Israel granted Gaza complete self-rule (at great economic loss to itself and its people, with 9000 Jews removed, and their homes and businesses forfeited), the Gazans elected the terrorist organization Hamas in 2006, which proceeded to implode Gaza in a number of wars, culminating in a stupifyingly mindless act of self-destruction on 07oct23 (result: the annihilation of Gaza). Under Jerusalem, Under Gaza Ariel Sharon, p358, 1989: "Jerusalem has had a continuous Jewish community from Biblical time right to the present" Ariel Sharon, p358, 1989: "In 1840, year of the first modern census, Jews were the single largest ethnic group in the city (of Jerusalem). In 1860, the Jewish community had grown larger than the Moslem and Christian communities together, and by 1890 Jews constituted 60 percent of the population (of Jerusalem)" 1990's On Rabin's peace efforts, elected as Prime Minister in 1992 (Six Days of War, Michael Oren, 2002, p313) 'Rabin sought a historic reconciliation with the Palestinian people under leadership of Yasser Arafat - the same Arafat whose guerrilla attacks helped precipitate the (6-day) war. Palestinian terrorists killed dozens of Israeli civilians and Israeli extremists branded Rabin a traitor. One of them killed Rabin at a peace ralley on Nov 04, 1995. on separate formal peace accords with Arab nations (and informal ties with others), Egypt 1979, and Jordan 1994 ('Bibi', My Life, p259): 'Despite Palestinian attempts to galvanize the Arab world to destroy the nation of Israel... Israel defeated one Arab state after another, some of whom began to make separate peace with Israel. The road to Middle Eastern Peace between Israel and the Arab world did not go through the Palestinian seat of government in Ramallah. It went around it. on the rejection of Syria's despot, Hafez Assad in 1998 to split half the Golan Heights with Israel [from where Syria had terrorized Israel's Galilee population for decades] ('Bibi', My Life, p300): "Syria has a decrepid Army while Israel is a superpower. What do you have to worry about? [by giving up the Golan Heights]." on the aim of Palestinian statehood ('Bibi', My Life, p258): 'The Palestinians were not interested in having a state next to Israel. They were interested in having a state of their own instaed of Israel.' on the real problem in the Middle East ('Bibi', My Life, p258): 'The American negotiators most fundamental misperception of the region was that Israel was the problem in the Middle East. It was the solution. Its advanced technological society could help modernize the entire Arab world [if only the Arab leaders chose to recognize its existence].' on the failed Oslo agreements, as arranged by Democrat President Clinton, and the subsequent violent Palestinian 'intifada's' (in 1995/96 and 1999/2002, which killed over 1000 Israelis') ('Bibi', My Life, p240/245): 'To give a terrorist organization, committed to Israel's destruction, control of areas enveloping Israel's cities could produce no other result.' on partitioning Israel in two states by Democrat president Clinton (in support of the 'Palestinian Centrality Theory' by the left, which sought to address Palestinian self-inflicted grievances as 'the heart of Middle Eastern conflict'): In 2000, the Clinton Administration again proposed to partition the land: the creation of a Palestinian state in virtually all of the Westbank and the entire Gaza strip with its capital in East Jerusalem. The Israelis accepted (under PM Ehud Barak), the Palestinians refused (under PA's Arafat), who resorted to years of counter-productive [since self-destructive] Palestinian violence (intifada's). on the outrageous and systematic election interference by the Democrat Party Clinton Administration in Israel in the 1990's (between Perez and Netanyahu in 1996) ('Bibi', My Life, p247/8, 309): 'Normally such interference in another country's elections would elicit cries of protest from the press in America and Israel alike. No such protests were heard. Totally supportive of [progressive] Peres [and against conservative Netanyahu], the press in both Israel and United States were silent'. Special Clinton envoy Dennis Ross would later say: "We did everything we could to help Peres" (who still lost!) on Democrat Clinton's interference on the election in 1999 (between Barak and Netanyahu) ('Bibi', My Life, p309): 'Once again the US president [Clinton] was putting his thumb on the scale of an Israeli election'. on Oslo's roadmap, at Wye Plantation in Maryland in 1998, to redesignate territories into A, B or C ('Bibi', My Life, p304): 'Before this redesignation could take place, the Palestinian Authority had to first renounce the 'Palestinian Covenant' calling for Israel's destruction. 13% of Judea and Samaria were redesignated B (partly controlled by PA) and 3% to A (fully controlled by PA). Democrat president Clinton then reneged on freeing Israeli Jonathan Pollard, held ina US jail, as a prior condition of the deal'. on Democrat Party support for questionable NGO's in Israel ('Bibi', My Life, p309): 'Barak set up a string of questionable NGO's that added tens of millions of dollars to [Ehud Barak's left wing-party] One Israel. They were only nominally investigated.' on Clinton's Camp David in June, 2000 ('Bibi', My Life, p309): 'Barak offered sweeping consessions including 92 percent of Judea and Samaria and a Palestinian state with part of Jerusalem as its capital. Arafat turned him down' on Clinton's Hail Mary in December, 2000, already in the presidential transition period! ('Bibi', My Life, p312): 'In a meeting on 19th of December, Barak offered 96 percent of Judea and Samaria, a Palestinian state with part of Jerusalem as its capital, and in addition a foothold on the Temple Mount. Arafat still refused' on the aims of Democrat president Clinton in the 1990's ('Bibi', My Life, p311): 'Blinded by the search for political glory, and perhaps a Nobel Peace Prize, Clinton (and Israel's PM Ehud Barak) dove deep into the rabbit hole of Palestinian peace narrative and discovered there was nothing there.' on the Palestinian murder-rate-per-prime-minister in the 1990's since Oslo in 1993 till 2001 ('Bibi', My Life, p292): 'Rabin: 4.5 Israelis per month, Peres 9, Ehud Barak 3, Netanyahu 1.' on the Palestinian murder-rate-per-prime-minister under (mostly) PM Sharon since Oslo in 1993, ('Bibi', My Life, p412): 'These terrorists claimed the lives of over one thousand Israeli civilians during the Second Intifada between 2000 and 2005.' on the Palestinian punishment for selling to Jews ('Bibi', My Life, p413): 'Scandalously, the Palestinian Authority makes it a crime punishable by death to sell propertyto Jews and had carried out scores of extrajudicial executions of Palestinians accused of doing so.' on the Palestinian murder-rate-per-prime-minister in 2002 ('Bibi', My Life, p329): 'PM Sharon finally acted in 2002, after a particularly vicious terror attack on Passover night in Netanya hotel which murdered thirty Israelis and injured 140. The attack capped off the bloody month of March of that year, in which 135 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists' 2000's on the Palestinian reaction to 9/11 in 2001 ('Bibi', My Life, p335): 'When the news broke [of the 9/11 tragedy], videos showed Palestinians dancing with joy on rooftops in Gaza an Ramallah, while Israel grieved.' on the road to peace ('Bibi', My Life, p333): 'The people of Britain knew that the road to peace with Germany did not go through Hitler, nor around Hitler, it went OVER Hitler.' on partitioning Israel in two states by Republican Presidents Bush Jr, and later, Donald Trump: 'The Bush Jr. Administration, after the one-sided Oslo Agreements of 1993, again proposed to partition the land by 2005: the creation of a Palestinian state, while leaving Jerusalem's status vague if the Palestinian Arabs foreswore violence, and if the surrounding Arabs made peace with Israel. Three aspects that president Trump achieved without partitioning the Holy Land.' Spanish Journalist Sebastian Villar Rodriguez,'Europe died in Auschwitz', 2008: "We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world (189 Nobel Prize winners). We replaced science, art, international trade, and above all, the conscience of the world, with stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty (only 7 Nobel Prize winners among whom, tellingly, Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat).” Jewish Nobel Prizes on partitioning Israel in two states by PM Ehud Olmert in 2006 ('Bibi', My Life, p405): 'Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas the wildest concessions yet, including control of the Temple Mount. Abbas was immovable' on partitioning Israel in two states by Democrat President Obama: 'In 2009, according to the NYT, in 'opening a bold overture' to the Islamic world, Obama [predictably] reserved some of his bluntest words for Israel [not the violent Palestinians], to attempt to further his aim for a two-state solution (by first insisting on a settlement freeze, then backing away from it.' on Democrat president Obama's Israel strategy ('Bibi, 'My Life', p422): 'I was later told that Obama had given Mahmoud Abbas a secret commitment to establish a full-fledged Palestinian state before he left office. His chief of staff, the intense [and former Clinton advisor] Rahm Emanuel [whose father was a member of Irgun, P412] may have hinted at that possibility when he said in 2009 that "in four years there will be a Palestinian state".' on Democrat president Obama's Iran strategy ('Bibi, 'My Life', p430): 'The Islamic Republic was the rising power in the Middle East, as Obama saw it. True to his experience a community organizer in Chicago's neighborhoods, Obama would seek out the bully, cut a deal with him, and thereby pacify the beighborhood' on the differences between Israel's PM Netanyahu and Democrat president Obama ('Bibi, 'My Life', p579): "We clearly differed on the Palestinian issue, which [Hussein] Obama viewed through the distorted prism of the Palestinian narrative. He truly believed the Jews of Israel were the neocolonials usurping the land from native Arab inhabitants when the facts not only of ancient history but of modern times showed things were the other way around" on Democrat president Obama's reluctance in 2012 to check Iran [its nuclear weapons aspirations to destroy Israel] or to support Israel doing so ('Bibi, 'My Life', p485): "Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place red lights before Israel" on Democrat Kerry's duplicity in 2014 in siding with Qatar and Turkey ('Bibi, 'My Life', p518): "On one side Egypt [El-Sisi, who had repaced Islamist Morsi] and Israel, on the other: Turkey and Qatar, which fully supported Hamas... To my ashtonishment, Kerry urged me to accept Qatar and Turkey as mediators instead of Egypt, who were negotiating with Hamas representatives for a possible cease fire" on the 'tunnel war' against Hamas in Gaza and 2014 'Protective Edge'('Bibi, 'My Life', p515/7) 'Shortly after the abduction of three Israeli teenagers in 2014 [who were brutally murdered by Hamas] and massive rocket fire by Hamas on Israeli civilians... ground forces entered Gaza, with tanks and armored personnel carriers. There were more tunnels than expected and neutralizing them with explosives, water, and cement took three weeks instead of three days. Unlike 2012, the Iron Dome supply did not run out in 2014.' on changing Arab attitudes to Iran during Democrat president Obama's admin ('Bibi, 'My Life', p420): 'During WW2, many Arab leaders supported Hitler, who, had he won the war, would have enslaved the Arabs, or worse. After the war, most lined up with the Soviets who had equal disregard and contempt for them. But now Arab leaders increasingly understood that they faced an all-encompassing Iranian threat and this had led them to reconsider their relations with Israel.' on PM Netanyahu addressing AIPAC in 2010, in reference to how the Arab world could benefit from Israel's technologically advanced economy ('Bibi', My Life, p464): "Israel is not what is wrong in the Middle East. Israel is what is right in the Middle East." on PM Netanyahu setting up Israel's newly discovered natural gas market ('Bibi', My Life, p557: "Now came the second battle, truly incredible even in the twisted world of the Israeli left. A vast campaign was launched to keep the gas in the ground." on PM Netanyahu addressing Democrat Party VP Biden in the US Congress in 2010 ('Bibi', My Life, p464): "Mr Vice President, in Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers. We are not the British in India. We are not the Belgians in Congo. This is the land of our forefathers." on colonial powers eventially leaving their colonies and granting independence (Dr Maalouf on X): 'The French left Africa. The British left india. The Spaniards left South America. The Dutch left Indonesia. It is time for the Arab Muslims to leave the land they colonized!' on the duping by the longest standing [leftist] ideological subversion campaign of all time (Elica Le Bon on X): 'If Israel is a 'colonial project' to be resisted, is not Jordan a colonial project, Syria a colonial project, Lebanon a colonial project, created by the same colonial powers at the same time, for the same reasons?' on peace in the Middle East (Elica Le Bon on X): 'The root cause of all suffering is Jihadism. It is not the end of Israel that will bring peace (anti-Zionism is in fact Soviet propaganda), it is the end of Jihadism that will stop the conflict and will allow every and all sides to finally put down their arms.' On the growing stream of massive illegal economic migration from Africa in 2013 into tiny Israel ('Bibi', My Life, p512): "20,000 illegal job migrants had come from Eastern Europe. Within a decade Israel could be ovewhelmed with well over a million migrants from Africa... Less than 2 years after the construction, the [Sinai} fence was complete. The rate of illegal immigration into Israel went to zero." 2015 Democrat Obama Administration State Dep't study: 'During a recent study in 2015, it found that only 20,000 Palestinian refugees remained alive of the claimed 700,000 who fled in 1948 (note that the UN claims there are 5.1 million, while virtually none are left now)' On the uneasy marriage of progressivism with radical Islam: The Guardian, 2017 'Incarceration of a Palestinian terrorist for 3 years fetches him $400 per month salary, three to five years: $560/month. Sentences up to 15 years: $1690/month, and up to 20years: $2000/month, all funded by the European Union.' Hitmen for hire, paid for by the EU The PA, 2018 'The Palestinian Authority paid terrorists and their families over $347 million last year, according to its own records' 2018, Pay for Slay, paid for by the EU On the UNWRA in Gaza: 'For 73 years, UNRWA has perpetuated the misery of Palestinians by teaching hatred, engaging in corruption, cooperating with terrorists, stealing food from and refusing to resettle refugees. The UNRWA has made its mission to expand the number of so called refugees, to bloat its budget and expand its power.' The Isaiah 2 text on the UN building in NYC UNRWA perversely 'teaching war', until 'war will be learned no more' David Bernstein on the marriage of the radical left and American Jewry: 'Forget classical anti-semitism. The West is being taken over by Red-Green alliances based on the Woke ideology and many American Jews are attracted to this 'Trojan Horse''. Europe's immigration vs robbery now (2024) Europe in 2050 On Arab-Islamic Colonialism after 540AD: 'Why is nothing taught at universities about Arab colonialism from the sixth century, where land was taken, women were raped, men killed, hostages taken as slaves, and Sharia law imposed on so-called 'non believers'?' Brianna Wu on X ('RIP Progressivism 2015-2024'), on the uneasy marriage of the radical left and radical Islam 'Radical Islam and radical Totalitarian Socialism have combined to take advantage of the Western leaders 'drugging' of their populations, meant to simulate 'peace and quiet', but leading to a horrible deterioration' on Democrat president Obama's famous Red Line against the use of chemical weapons (Bibi, 'My Life', p499) ( 'Five months after [Obama's Red Line], Syria's Assad carried out a horrific chemical attack that killed 1500 Syrian civilians' on Democrat president Obama 'leading from behind' while Iran races to acquire nuclear weapons (Bibi, 'My Life', p500) ( "Nobody likes Goliath [the US as Superpower], I don't want to be an 800-pound gorilla strutting the world stage. For too long, we have acted that way. We need to lead a diferent way" 2024 American basis only in Arab nations of the Middle East, not Israel Commentary in May'21 by a female Jewish reporter of 'The Times', on how the Judeo-Christian achievements of the Gospel in Western society (healthcare, hospitals, education, prosperity and freedom) have been replaced by the sewer of 'Social Justice', leading to depravity and lawlessness: 'Religion, the restraint on behaviour, has been substantially replaced by therapy, which diagnoses such restraint as unhealthy repression; the slow death of Christianity in Britain [=the West] meant the transfer of beliefs from messianic redemption to a secular utopia; St Paul yielded to Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and the death of original sin was replaced by the doctrine of original innocence; instead of fallen mankind, redeemed by a Savior on the cross, the goodness of mankind had to be redeemed from the corrupting effects of authority of any kind; Instead of salvation by faith, the association of free and unfettered spirits would now be left to create heaven on the earth' GK Chesterton (1874-1936) on the loss of Original Sin Cheryl on X, on the loss of Western values: 'Somehow the West has willingly allowed all of its values that millions of soldiers died for in Wrld War One, Two, and other conflicts, to be eroded, exploited, abused, and slaughtered. There are no longer many Western values worth even defending anymore. When the senseless murders of innocent people can be celebrated and revered, while those fighting the perpetators to prevent more of these senseless atricities are vilified, as a whole we have lost all our morality and grasp of reality' Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, on truth and lies, right and wrong from 'Life at the Bottom', by Jewish author Theodore Dalrymple, 2001, on the modern (UK) Welfare State, p124/148/155/200/204 'Tolerance acts as a solvent on remaining restraint'. 'Anti-social behavior increases proportionally to the excuses intellectuals make for it'. 'Misery rises to meet the means available for its alleviation'. 'The absense of standards is the beginning of barbarism'. 'Do sties make pigs, or do pigs make sties?' 'An assidiously cultivated decline (by the secular left) in the public's confidence in the justice system's ability to distinguish guilt from innocence' 2024 Marriage of convenience between the Left and Islam Only devout faith in the God of the Bible has produced true science Martin Niemoller on totalitarian government rounding up opponents, then and now: 'Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.' Synagogues attacked since the slaughter by demonic Hamas of 07oct23 on Hamas practice of hiding behind women and children (Bib, 'My Life', p494): 'The Palestinians lost 233 lives, of which 153 were identified as terrorists. Most of the Civilian deaths in Gaza in the 2012 campaign were brought about because Hamas used them as human shields, thus committing a double war crime of indiscriminatley firing at Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian ones' Gaza with the largest Middle East transgender population on massive American progressive criticism of Israel's response to cross-border terrorism ('Bibi', My Life, p163): 'The terrorist attacks that prompted the invasion in the first place were ignored by the international media in favor of the damage caused by the IDF. Civilian casualties were dramatized nightly on television'. This deja vu recollection is not written about the 2023 Hamas debauchery, but the Lebanon war of 1982! on John Kerry's 2013 appointment to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state ('Bibi', My Life, p496): 'He was intensely interested in international affairs, believing after repeated visits to Damascus that he could sway the likes of Bashar Assad toward peace. His confidence was not borne out by realities on the ground' John Donne, on humanity's demise: 'Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee' Nov22, 1944 (!): the official Red Cross Auschwitz Holocaust Denial Middle Eastern states, where Qatar's Al Jazeera has been banned (for inciting violence, promoting terrorist groups, sectarian bias, disputed maps etc): 'Bahrain (2000), Kuwait (2002), Algeria (2004), Egypt (2013), Iraq (2013), India (2015), Jordan (2017), UAE (2017), Saudi Arabia (2017), Sudan (2019), Israel (2024)' 21st Century: Where were the Red Cross and the Red Crescent? Palestinian Arab saying: 'Do you want the truth, or do you want his brother?' Danny Ayalon in L'Chaim on Jerusalem, at the 50th celebration of the Six Day War, 2017: 'Jerusalem kept the Jews for 2000 years, now we, the Jews, keep Jerusalem' 'Offers of a 3d Palestinian State' (after Jordan and Gaza): all rejected Joe Biden was a Democrat Party senator on June 22, 1982, and during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, he threatened to cut off aid to Israel. Prime Minister Menachim Begin forcefully responded: "Don't threaten us with cutting off your aid. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.” 1937 Nazi BDS, with Jews as original Palestinians, Arabs as fascist allies. What has changed? 1945 Arabs boycott Palestinian (=Jewish) goods. What has changed? Republican President Donald Trump, 2017: "Today we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done.” Geert Wilders, newly elected to the gov't of Holland, 2023: "Jordan is Palestine". When 80% of your population is Palestinian, and your land is part of what was called Palestine until 1922, then you are a Palestinian state! from 'The Forgotten Terrorist' by Mel Ayton, p34, quoting Alan Dershowitz: 'The Jews got the Balfour Declaration for supporting the right side in WW1. The Arabs in Palestine got the generous offer of partition after siding with Hitler in WW2' on offering to partition Israel in two states by Democrat Biden in 2024: 'The Biden Administration rewards the Hamas barbaric violence of 07oct23 with an offer of a two state solution, one which the so-called Palestians have rejected consistently in thought, word and deed.' In the 9 months since Oct 7, 2023, over 19,000 rockets, missiles, mortars and drones have been fired towards Israel from impoverished territories and failed states Gaza, WestBank, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, at a total cost of $593 Billion. If Gaza so chose, it could easily have been the Dubai of the Mediterranean On Arab Oil wealth (with by far the largest deposits in the world): 'Saudi Arabia has earned over $1 Billion USD per day for decades' 2024 Oil Reserves On Iran's Oil windfall, when it was broke: 'Failed-state Iran has earned over $90 Billion from Biden's sanctions relief in 2021' 2024: Hypocrisy 101, that 'unloving feeling' on partitioning by the progressive left under the Biden admin: 'The gaslighting and the lies connected to 'progressive' agendas, the violent radical Islamists became the 'oppressed' in the eyes of the privileged, terrifyingly ignorant, stupid young people. It has all come to an end.' on political disconnect of the planners of the massacre by Hamas on 07 October, 2023, during the extraordinarily weak Biden admin: 'They may have dreamed of unprecedented victories that would make them the masters of the region, but they became fugitives between the tunnels of Gaza and other capitals in the region beyond, looking for a lifeline from a pre-ordained fate.' 'Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee' (Ezechiel38: Elam = Persia) Stephen Kruiser (16oct23) on leftwing protester's gullibility: 'The rich 'Palestinian' history that the perpetually aggrieved American protester class thinks is being fought for is a work of creative fiction. It’s an even easier sell to the American Left today, given that they spent all of 2020 convincing themselves that Joe Biden was a thoughtful centrist who would bring some class to the White House. They’ve made their gullibility a cornerstone of their politics.' 2023 Why Arabs prefer Israel 2024: On Biden's duplicitous 'support' for Israel, 'The day before Biden announced a freeze on arms sales to Israel, the administration issued executive orders bypassing sanctions, allowing the sale of arms to Qatar, Lebanon, and Iraq. The Biden orders bypass the sanctions that prohibit sale of arms to countries that embargo Israel' Pres candidate John F Kennedy, 1960: "Friendship with Israel is not a partisan matter, it is a national commitment” on JFK's unwavering American Presidential support, for Israel, Inaugural address 20jan61: "Let any nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to ensure the survival and the success of liberty" After 75 years of unwavering American Presidential support for Israel, 'witness here the absolute duplicity of the Biden Administration' Who impresses more, 5X draft-dodger Biden or Bibi? on the Fatwa against Hamas by the FatwaCouncil, a major Islamic judicial organization The Muslim Fatwa Institute published a 'fatwa' ('religious ruling' nr F02301) on matters of Islam in March 2023 against Hamas, stating that 'at the request of many believers' the findings of the council, as displayed in its jurisprudence, regarding the behavior of Hamas against the Palestinians, that "Hamas bears responsibility for its own reign of corruption and terrorism in Gaza". Oct 2023: Hamas spent billions of foreign taxpayers aid on war tunnels, which exceed total length of the London Tube an apt sign in a demonstration: 'Israel uses weapons to protect civilians, Hamas uses civilians to protect weapons' on the 12 May, 2024 Remembrance Day in Israel: 'Israel mourns the loss of 25,040 fallen soldiers and victims of terror since 1948.' on the 19 year so-called Westbank experiment under Jordanian rule (1948-1967): 'there was no improvement in the plight of those living under Jordanian rule: it was a source of woeful corruption, of terrorist attacks on Israel, where the terror organisation PLO seeking to destory Israel was formed in 1964, there were no hospitals, at the end of 19 years only 10% of the so-called Westbank population had access to running water (while bordering a river!), there was no religious freedom, there were no free elections, Jews were barred from Arab territories and from their own sacred Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where in 1967 all synagogues were destroyed by Jordan, out of spite' Barry Tigay, on the 19 year Gaza experiment (2005-2024): 'the experiment, known as Israel's disengagement from Gaza, has failed: Palestinians, even with massive foreign aid, have not been able to build civic institutions, form a unified government, persue peace, tame corruption, or establish a self-sustaining economy. They have become a threat to neighbors and themselves. It is recommended that statehood or full autonomy for Palestinians be rejected' Post-07 Oct 2023: Gaza, with 40km of prime Mediterranean beach front, could have looked like Dubai. Instead, $600 Billion was spent on weapons to attack Israel. Douglas Murray on the shifting winds of anti-semitism: "Everyone knows that anti-semitism is a shifting virus: First the Jews were hated because they were poor, then they were hated because they were rich. Then they were hated for not integrating, and then they were hated for integrating. In the era where you could hate for religion, they were hated for their religion, then when that became impossible in Europe, they were hated for their race. Then at a particular point, Europe discovered they could not hate for race anymore, so what we did was we hated Jews for being stateless, and then we hated them for having a state". from Numbers 23:9 '8. How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced? 9. From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.' A very interesting view from Gaza about Gaza A very interesting view about Israel's prosperity: 'The Israel Aerospace Industry IAI published its quarterly report for 2024 with the highest figure in its history. The company net profits jumped by 48% and Israel continues to get richer.' on Islam and the Holy Land: On Jerusalem, in Isaiah 62:6: "I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest" On Jerusalem, in Zechariah 12:2,3 "2. I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." Just look at them now A reporter: 'What might be the anatomical significance of thousands of praying muslims turning their rear ends to the location of God's Holy Temple?' in Matthew 5:38 "Jerusalem is the city of the Great King" in the Bible, there are over 150 Biblical references to 'Zion', 'city of David, city of the Lord, city of the living God, [Zion] the Heavenly Jerusalem' Psalm 78:68 "But he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved." on the origin of Zionism (many refs here): God is the real Zionist Entity the Bible on Jerusalem: 'There are over 800 references to the city of Jerusalem in the Bible, not one in the Qur'an' on the name 'Al Quds': on the name Al Quds (Arabic vernacular for Jerusalem): it comes from the Hebrew word Beit Hamikdash, which is the Jewish Temple! in the Qur'an "There is only one reference to the city of Mecca in the Qu'ran, a dry and waterless place in the middle of nowhere" 2024 'Social media influencer' Loay Al-Shareef on the status of Jerusalem in Islam: "I would like to remind my fellow Muslims that neither the prophet Mohammed nor his companions regarded Jerusalem as Holy (or Haram), reserving this reverence only for Mecca and Medina. They did not refer to it as Jerusalem or Al Quds, instead calling it by the name chosen by the Europeans (the Romans in 135AD), Aelia Capitolina, when they expelled the Jews" Israel is much older than Islam On languages and Jerusalem, Chuck Missler, 'Genesis' "All languages point to Jerusalem: to the West of Jerusalem they are written from left to right, and to the east they are written from right to left" On our Alphabet: "The name of our 'alphabet' comes from the Greek letters Alpha and Beta which in turn comes from the first two Hebrew letters Alef and Bet (Hebrew letters as used in Psalm 119)" Taken from 'Jesus and the Jihadis', by Evans and Johnston: "The Center for the Studies of Political Islam has quantatively noted that 132,315 words are devoted to jihad in the Islamic trilogy of the Hadith, Sira and Qur'an, nearly as many words as in the whole New Testament" 2023, 07 Oct, Pay for Slay, paid for by the US On the link between Freemasonry and religion: According to 'ancient' freemasonry (invented in the 17th century), all religions are equal, including Islam and Satanism. The Bible confirms this: no religion has an objective plan of salvation except our own subjective works, there is only one objective way to be saved from our subjective selves. Nothing was known about Mohammed until the 19th century, except some German manuscripts which formed the Sira On the founding of Islam: 'Islam gives its greatest regard to a man 1) who did no miracles to prove divinity and 2) in no way measured up to the sinless and loving Jesus, 3) made no real prophecies, 4) had everyone killed who disagreed with him, and 5) was fond of splitting up booty from military raids against innocent people'. Mohammed and Jesus On the practice of subjugating ('Islam') by Muslims: 'There are over 400 references to subjugating kafirs (infidels) in the Koran' On Israel in the Quran: 'There are over 43 references to Israel in the Koran: Israel is much older than the Quran' Gad Saad on X, on Israel in the Quran: 'There are 43 references to Israel in the Quran, none for Palestine, which was so named by the Romans in 135AD, 'that the name of Israel is remembered no more' (Ps83:4) 90% of the victims of Muslim violence are Muslims Even the Qur'an recognizes Israel as for the Jews ('Night Journey', Ch17:100-104): 'And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: "Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd." [Qur'an 17:104]' Even the Koran acknowlegdes Israel's right to the land on the Bible, Zion, and the Jews: the Apostle Paul, in Romans 11:26-27: “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins” Back to top Some Middle-East History: Jerusalem in 1486 by Konrad von Grunenberg Jerusalem around the 1890s Youtube: Hatikvah, de hoop van 2000 jaar / Hope of 2000 years (Sheetmusic here) Josephus' timeline and description of the destruction of Jerusalem 70AD - 'not one stone left on another' Emperor Vespasian's building of Rome's colosseum using 60,000 Jewish slaves 40 maps of Middle East history 'Lands of the Bible' by Dr Wilson (1852), p.231-274 on the Golan Giant Cities of Bashan by Rev Porter, 1867 (Modern Golan, formerly 'East Manasseh') on Samaritans 'Nabloos (= Neapolis / Shechem) and the Samaritans (in 1861)' by Sir George Grove (p. 241-258) 'Fragments of a Samaritan Turgum', by John W. Nutt (1874, note: slightly tedious) on the name 'Palestine' And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon Palestine's mountain greens? Jewish land purchases in pre-1947 Palestine 100 years after Balfour (Stephen Bayme on YouTube, very good) on Israel's wars of existence: war maps 1948 Israel's war of indep. - Arab invasions (Ariel Sharon - Warrior) 1956 Israel's Sinai Campaign (Mosje Dayan - Story of my Life) 1967 Israel's Six Day war - Northern Front (Mosje Dayan - Story of my Life) 1973 Yom Kippur war - Southern Front (Mosje Dayan - Story of my Life)

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2000 years of Muslim, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Persecution of Jews: Wikipedia: Timeline of several millennia of persecutions of Jews Re. the Massacre of 1400 innocent Jews on 07 October 2023: An Open Letter to the World Good vs Evil the Wikipedia list of persecutions in Excel, with Filter/Sort codes on location & type of persecution: country city killing misappropriation forced exile religious decrees libel (to sort: pls remove checked 'blanks' in top Cell per selection to select specific 'events' above) Some examples of relentless persecution from 'rational and enlightened' Europe: 1021AD: A violent earthquake occurs, which some Greeks maintain is caused by a desecration of Jesus by the Jews. For this a number of Roman Jews are burnt at the stake 1349AD: Zurich: 600 Jews are burned at the stake and the entire Jewish community of Zurich is annihilated as a part of the Black Death Jewish persecutions. 1365AD: Jews of Lorraine are expelled after their presence is cited as the cause of lightning strikes which destroyed twenty-two houses. Other examples of persecution Islam aptly means 'subjugation': the Koran assigns two thirds of its content to the subjugation (=persecution) of infidels Where the pointy Democrat party KKK hats came from ('Sanbenitos' were used to persecute Jews in catholic Spain) War Victims: interview Holocaust survivor with Coenraad Rood (in English) War Victims: moving life story by Coenraad Rood, concentration camp prisoner and Holocaust survivor of WW2 (in English) War Victims: Map with movements of Coen Rood, concentration camp prisoner and Holocaust survivor of WW2 Dimensions in Testimony site: Virtual answers by Holocaust survivors to questions posed by viewers Arolson Archives with records of 17.5 million Holocaust victims (formerly ITS, International Tracing Service) Oorlogsbronnen: interviews in Dutch with WW2 victims, war footage The muslim Mufti of Jerusalem Al-Hussaini was a virulent anti-semite, responsible for many Jewish deaths in Palestine between world wars (to appease him, he was made Mufti, and 'rewarded' by the British with a cap of Jewish immigrants to 75K per year during WW2). He spent the WW2 years in Berlin (being wanted for collaboration with the Nazis and for war crimes). He visited Auschwitz in that time, while making a case with the Nazi leadership to exterminate Jews, while spreading fake news to Arab nations demanding them to kill all the Jews there. the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem negotiating a Jewish solution with Hitler Taken from 'Jesus and the Jihadis', by Evans and Johnston "The Center for the Studies of Political Islam has quantatively noted that 132,315 words are devoted to jihad in the Islamic trilogy of the Hadith, Sira and Qur'an, nearly as many words as in the whole New Testament" 1951-1956 Terrorist Raids into Israel with ~1000 Israeli dead (Ariel Sharon - Warrior) - has anything really changed??

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1215AD Pointy hat and yellow marking for Jews made compulsory at 4th Council under Pope Innocentius III	1250AD Pointy hats, made compulsory under Pope Innocentius III, in various European countries	13th century - Torture of Jews on a rack to force confessions	1475 Trente Execution after 8 days of Torture and forced Confessions
1493AD Burning of Jews, from Woodcut of publisher Schedelse Weltchronik, printed in Nuremburg	1500s - Spanish Inquisition burning heretics, including many Maranos in Spain and Portugal	1509AD - Print from Ulrich Tengler Lekenspiegel - Kneeling Jew made to swear in Court on Ex20vs7	1550AD - Spanish Inquisition's 'Auto da Fe' burning at the stake, presided over by St Dominic at the Prado in Madrid, by A Barreguete 1482-1561
Inquisition's targets Top 5: Rodrigues	Inquisition's Burning at the Stake, Monsaraz, Port	Keys from a clandestine Synagogue, Portugal	Inquisition's Forced dragging of Jews to the Stake
Burning Jews at the Stake, Evora, Port	Burning Jews at the Stake, Evora, Port	Inquisition: burning Jews at the stake in Evora	Burning Jews at the Stake, Monsaraz, Port
Inquisition's forced baptisms of Jews	Inquisition's forced confessions of Jews	Inquisition's forced conversions of Jews	Inquisition's forced imprisonment of Jews
1600s Portuguese Inquisition in Goa India, against Jewish converts called Maranos,and against Hindus	1601AD Spanish Inquisition in Mexico of Maranos - Burning at the stake of Governor's daughter Mariana Carvajal	1601AD Spanish Inquisition in Mexico of Maranos - Trial and torture of Governor's daughter Francisca Carvajal	1680AD Auto da Fe - Public burning of 18 Maranos at the wedding of Catholic Charles II of Spain June30, 1680
1680AD Public burning of 18 Maranos at the wedding of Catholic Charles II of Spain June30, 1680	Condemned by the Spanish Inquisition wearing Pointy Sanbenito and cross of St Andrew, by Francisco de Goya, 1814	Spanish Inquisition - dungeon showing barbaric tortures	16th Century Spanish Inquisition interrogation of a Jew after being denounced anonymously by 2 masked witnesses at left
17th century - Jew being made to swear barefoot on bloody pigskin, Ref Schwabenspiegel	Islamic pre-occupation with subjugation and persecution	1806AD Napoleon shown 'issuing' the 10 Commandments to Jews	1848AD Alsace Durmenach turning on its Jews (present since Roman times)
1898AD France's infamous Dreyfus Affair ending hopes of legal equality (lighting the Zionist dream)	1903AD Russia Kishinev - Desecrated Scrolls during pogroms	the numerous massacres of Jews by Arabs in the Holy Land, early 20th century	Remembering 480 years of Jewish persecution, Evora, Port.
Remembering the House of Inquisition, Monsaraz, Portugal	1943AD Socialist cancel-culture..........	....always leads to slaughter of innocent sheep by 1945	Parting message of a mass murderer

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