Deanna, your timeline starts in the 1800s and totally misses the Jewish claim to the land of Israel. That claim starts much earlier, and that's where your history should start. Israel was never part of Syria -- the Arabs considered it part of greater Syria.
Let's look at the facts. There's been a Jewish presence in Israel since Biblical times. The Jews are the only people on Earth who hold Israel as their primary land and Jerusalem as their holy city. (Jerusalem is not mentioned at all in the Koran.) The Jews are the only people whose holiday prayers many a time end "Next Year in Jerusalem" and have ended that way for hundreds, yes, thousands of years. The so-called Palestinians (as you read) are mainly Arabs who came to Israel because the Jews were making something out of it. Before the Jews came, the land was desolate. It was a disaster area. The Jews came and built it up. Because the Jews were building it up, the Arabs came from Egypt, Trans-Jordan (which is 80% of the Palestinian mandate, which modern Israel is only 20% of) and other Arab countries. Even the prime Palestinian (Yasser Arafat) is an Egyptian born, raised and militarily inducted. If any of this history is neglected in a cliff note version, then the cliff note version is simply not doing its job. There's a lot more I could say about the history of Israel and what it means to the Jews. But let me just leave it all with this one last thing. In all the history of Israel, the only time that every holy site was available to everybody was when the Jews were running it. When the Christians were running Israel, the Jews weren't allowed to go to their holy sites (nor were Moslems, for that matter). When the Muslims were running it, the Jews were still not allowed to go to their holy sites. To make the matter worse, many Jewish holy sites were either destroyed or turned into mosques because the Moslems do that. Look at what happened when the Arabs started the Oslo war. The tomb of Jacob (which Arafat said he would protect) was destroyed -- on camera, in front of the world. Destroyed and no one said a thing. If a Jew even broke a window in a mosque, you'd have France, the European Union and everyone else breathing down Israel's neck, condemning it. Judith ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
