Even 

   those who aren't particularly sympathetic to

Israel's  Benjamin 

   Netanyahu, could get a good measure of satisfaction from

 this 

   interview with British Television during the retaliation

against 

    Hamas' shelling of Israel. 

The interviewer asked him: "How 

   come  so many more Palestinians have 

been killed in this conflict 

   than  Israelis?" (A nasty question if there

ever was one!) 

Netanyahu:  "Are you sure that you want to start

asking in that 

   direction?"  

Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not? 

Netanyahu:

"Because in 

   World War II more Germans were killed than  British

and Americans 

   combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind

 that the war was 

   caused by Germany 's aggression. 

   In response to 

   the  German blitz on London , the British wiped out

the entire city of 

    Dresden , burning to death more German civilians

than the number of 

    people killed in Hiroshima ... 

Moreover, I 

   could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F.

 tried to bomb the 

   Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen , some of the bombs

 missed their 

   target and fell on a Danish children's hospital,

killing 83  little 

   children. 

Perhaps you 

   have another question?” 

He gave  another interview and was 

   asked about Israel's occupation of Arab lands. 

His response was, "It's 

   our land". The reporter (CNN or the like) was

 stunned –

   Read 

   below "It's our land.." It's important

information since we don't get 

   fair and accurate reporting from the media and facts

tend  to get lost 

   in the jumble of daily events. 

"Crash Course on the Arab-Israeli 

   Conflict." 

Here are overlooked facts in the current  & past 

   Middle East situation. 

These were compiled by a Christian  University Professor: 

BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI 

   CONFLICT  TODAY... 

It makes sense 

   and  it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew -- it

doesn't matter. 

1.  Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in

1312 

   BC, 

           two 

   thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam. 

2.  Arab refugees in

Israel began 

   identifying themselves as part of a  

    

Palestinian people in 

   1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern

State of Israel. 

3.  Since the

Jewish 

   conquest in  1272 BC, the Jews have had dominion

over the land for one 

   thousand (1000) years with a continuous presence in the

land for the past 

    3,300 years. 

4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 

   635  lasted no more than 22 years. 

5. For over 3,300 years, 

   Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. 

      Jerusalem has 

   never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity.

      Even 

   when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem , they never

sought to make it their 

   capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit. 

6. Jerusalem 

   is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish

Holy Scriptures. 

       Jerusalem is 

   not mentioned even once in the Koran. 

7. King David founded the 

   city of Jerusalem. 

       Mohammed never 

   came to Jerusalem . 

8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. 

       Muslims pray 

   with their backs toward Jerusalem.  

9. Arab and Jewish 

   Refugees: 

       In 

   1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave

Israel by Arab leaders 

   promising to purge the  land of Jews. 

    Sixty-eight

percent 

   left (many in fear of retaliation  by their own

brethren, the Arabs), 

   without ever seeing an Israeli  soldier.

       The 

   ones who stayed were afforded the same peace, civility,

and 

    citizenship rights as everyone else. 

10. The Jewish 

   refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to

Arab brutality, 

   persecution  and pogroms. 

11. The number of Arab refugees who 

   left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around

630,000. The number of 

   Jewish refugees from Arab lands is 

estimated to be the same. 

12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or

integrated 

   into 

      the

   Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast

Arab territory. 

         Out 

   of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs

is the only refugee 

    group in the world

that has never 

   been absorbed or integrated into their  own

people's lands. 

    Jewish refugees 

   were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no

larger than the state of 

   New Jersey ... 

13. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Arabs are 

   represented by eight separate nations, not including the

Palestinians. There 

   is only one Jewish

nation. 

      The

Arab 

   nations initiated all five wars and lost.

Israel defended itself each 

   time and won. 

14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction 

   of the State of Israel. 

         Israel has 

   given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land,

autonomy under the 

   Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them with most

of their needs. 

15.  Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were

desecrated 

   and the Jews were denied access to places of worship.

   Under Israeli 

   rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved

and made accessible 

   to people of all faiths. 

16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: 

   of the 175 

   Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were

 directed 

   against Israel. 

17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on 

   before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel .  

18. The UN was 

   silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed

by the Jordanians. 

19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians

systematically 

   desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of

Olives. [They used

tombstones to pave roads]. 

20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an 

   apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting

the Temple Mount 

   and the Western Wall.  

 

These are 

   incredible times. We have to ask what our role should

be. 

What will we 

   tell our grandchildren about what we did when there was

a 

turning point 

   in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?