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Israel's Peace Loving Neighbors
 

:: Words & Actions of Israel's "Peace Loving" Neighbors

We often hear on the news and in the media, how the neighbors of Israel (including the suicide bombers, terrorist etc) are really only "acting out" because of the so-called "occupation" of Palestinian land. We are told that they are "peace loving people" who really do desire to live side by side next to Israel in peace & security.

While we cannot deny that their may be some individuals who aspire to gain peace in these territories. The facts make it hard - and downright impossible - to believe that it can in any way, shape or form represent the majority view.

No Arab map even acknowledges Israel's existence! Many Arab children are taught from textbooks that are replete with hate literature and lies of the Jewish people and Israel. We have heard over and over since 1948 how they want to destroy the Jewish state. How they will never regard or recognize Israel's right to exist!

Let's look at how Israel's neighbors really feel, in their own words ...

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Arab leaders were enraged when UN resolution 181 (the Partition Plan) was adopted on
November 29, 1947 (the vote was 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions).

One after another, Arab states registered immediate objections with the UN.

Amb. Jamali of Iraq:

    "In the name of my government, I wish to state that it feels that this decision is anti-democratic, illegal,… Iraq does not recognize the validity of this decision."
Amb. Amir Arslan of Syria:
    "My country will never recognize such a decision. It will never agree to be responsible for it."
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Immediately after the adoption of Resolution 181 ... Arab delegates declared their opposition and their determination to fight it by force if necessary. Palestinian Arabs quickly initiated hostilities against the Jewish population. They were soon joined by volunteers from neighboring Arab states.

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On May 15, 1948, following Ben-Gurion's Declaration of Independence, the armies of five Arab states join local Arab militias to invade Israel, with the goal of aborting the newly-declared state. Jordan conquers and annexes the "West Bank" (the lands heretofore called "Judea and Samaria" on all British mandate maps), expelling all Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem, and destroying 57 synagogues and Mount of Olives tombstones. One percent of the Israeli Jewish population is killed in the war.

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Prior to the 1948 war against Israel, the Iraqi Prime Minister said all the Arabs would need would be "a few brooms" to drive the Jews into the sea. All they were waiting for was the British and said, "once we get the green light from the British we can easily throw out the Jews." [Quote from Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, "Palestine Is My Country: The Story of Musa Alami - Praeger Press, 1969]

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On the day that Israel declared its independence (May 15, 1948), Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, at Cairo press conference, (reported in the New York Times, May 16, 1948) declared "jihad", a holy war. He said that the Arab states rejected partition and intended to set up a "United State of Palestine." He then stated:

    "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".
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In a letter to the United Nations, the Transjordanian Prime Minister was quoted:

    "Our position is clear, and has been proclaimed on every occasion. It is never to allow the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine and to exclude partition. And our object is to cooperate with the other Arab States in her deliverance. Once this aim is attained, the determination of her future status is the right and concern of her own people. Theirs alone is the last word. We have no other object or aim in view."
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Israel consistently expressed a desire to negotiate with its neighbors. In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda Meir challenged Arab leaders to meet with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to negotiate a peace settlement.

Nasser answered on October 15, saying that Israel was trying to deceive world opinion, and reiterating that his country would never recognize the Jewish State.

The Arabs were equally adamant in their refusal to negotiate a separate settlement for the refugees.
As Nasser told the United Arab Republic National Assembly March 26, 1964:

    "Israel and the imperialism around us, which confront us, are two separate things. There have been attempts to separate them, in order to break up the problems and present them in an imaginary light as if the problem of Israel is the problem of the refugees, by the solution of which the problem of Palestine will also be solved and no residue of the problem will remain. The danger of Israel lies in the very existence of Israel as it is in the present and in what she represents."
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Meanwhile, Syria used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell Israeli farms and villages. Syria's attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966, while Nasser's rhetoric became increasingly bellicose:

    "We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand," he said on March 8, 1965.
    We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood."
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Again, a few months later, Nasser expressed the Arabs' aspiration:

    "...the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people. In other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate aim: perfection of Arab military might. The national aim: the eradication of Israel."

 

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President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq joined in the war of words:

    "The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear -- to wipe Israel off the map."

 

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In 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed. While Jordan and Egypt hold the "territories," the PLO forms with the goal of annihilating the State of Israel through violence and terror. In the ensuing years, a rash of airplane hijackings, bombings and the Munich Olympic Massacre bring the Palestinians media attention.

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1967 - The 6 Day War: Egyptian President Nasser closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping,
and Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad declares:

    "the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."
Israel responds with a pre-emptive strike and captures the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula. (Then immediately offers to return the conquered land in exchange for peace.)

Meeting in Khartoum, the Arab League issues the infamous three noes:

    "No peace with Israel - No negotiations with Israel - No recognition of Israel."
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1973 - Yom Kippur War: On the holiest day of the Jewish year, Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack. In the Golan, 180 Israeli tanks face an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez Canal, 500 Israeli soldiers are attacked by 80,000 Egyptians. Israel suffers heavy casualties, but wins the war.

 

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2000 - Palestinian Violence: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offers over 97 percent of the territories, including eastern Jerusalem, for the creation of a Palestinian state.

Yasser Arafat refuses, and Palestinians launch thousands of violent attacks against Israeli targets. Six months after the violence begins, Ariel Sharon comes to power in a landslide victory.

The "2003 Road Map" is the band-aid they have attempted to place on a monstrous wound, thinking it will curb several thousand years of demonic hatred and anti-semitism towards God's chosen people.

The latest violence in July/August 2006 in Lebanon is just a continuation of the work of Arab terrorists funded by Iran and other Arab nations.

 


 


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