Occupied Territories

"Occupied Territories"

"Occupied Territories"... What does it mean? Why our mind is led to identify such definition with a very specific geographic area? Aren't there many occupied territories in the world? And if so, who are the occupants?...

Let's consider some territories that are a people's homeland but have been invaded and occupied by others, yet, they are not addressed to as "Occupied Territories"!

* Euskadi

Euskadi is the national name of the Basque people's homeland. Basques, a people thet very likely emigrated from Caucasus in ancient times, settled in the area of the Pyrenees before Romans conquered the Iberian Peninsula. This was the first occupation of their land, that never achieved independence. After Romans there came Goths, French and Spaniards. These two nations still occupy Euskadi, yet, nobody in the "free and democratic" western society and mass media says that they are "Occupied Territories", and nobody requires that Spain and France withdraw their occupation from that country!

There is in Euskadi a movement for the independence, the Euskara Ta Askatasuna (ETA): they are considered "terrorists", and indeed they are... alike the Palestinian groups! Yet, by a mysterious reason, the Palestinians are not addressed as terrorists but as "patriots"!

* Ulster

Ulster is the Northern Ireland, a natural part of the island that is the Irish people's homeland. The whole Ireland has been occupied by British -coming from another completely separated island, the Great Britain- for many centuries, until recent times, when most of the country achieved independence. But most of the Ulster, the Northern Ireland, is still occupied by British troops! Oh, but British are civilised people, they can do that!... I've never heard anybody address the Northern Ireland as "Occupied Territories", yet, they are!

There is also in Ulster a movement for independence and re-unification with the Republic of Ireland: the Irish Republican Army (IRA): they are considered "terrorists",too, and indeed they are... alike the Palestinian groups! Yet, by a mysterious reason, the Palestinians are not addressed as terrorists but as "patriots"!

* Saharawi Republic

This is the former Spanish Sahara, that was supposed to become an independent state for the Saharawi people. But this never happened; the Moroccans have occupied illegally the country and almost the whole Saharawi people are exiled! Why the "free and democratic" western states have never forced the muslim Moroccans to withdraw their troops to allow Saharawis have an independent homeland? Saharawis have not a terroristic movement, so they have no means to be heard by anyone! It seems that the only way to catch the attention of "democratic" states is to use illegal terroristic means... like Palestinians. Of course, such means should not be used against "democratic" states like the United Kingdom, France or Spain, because that is terrorism, not patriotism! The same means used against Israel are widely approved by western states! Why?

* Assyria

Assyrians have been denied a homeland since ancient times, and their land has undergone different occupations, until almost the whole Assyrian people had to choose exile to survive. They have undergone persecution and genocide. Assyrians are widespread in many nations, and neglected. Their country is now occupied by Iraq and Turkey. I invite you to visit the official Assyrian website... you will be astonished!

Assyria on line

* Kurdistan

Kurds are strongly claiming for an independent homeland. Their movements for liberation are addressed by Turkey as "terroristic"... ofcourse, Turkey is a NATO member! Turkey cannot be deceived by her western "democratic" allies, and Kurds cannot be considered patriots as Palestinians...

Kurds have played an important role in the past against Assyrians; now they are undergoing the same situation their victims lived... In fact, not all the territories they claim to be Kurdistan belongs to them: part of these lands are Assyria, and another part should be given back to Armenia.

* Palestine?

History attests that it never existed any Palestinian people, as well as a Palestinian culture, a Palestinian nation, and less than least, a Palestinian state! It's a pure invention! Those nowadays known as "Palestinians" are Arabs, that settled in Eretz Yisrael to contrast Jewish inmigration. They came from Arab countires. In fact, when the State of Israel was finally re-born, no Palestinian state existed!

A brief history report:

Judea was a Roman province for a little more than one century. On 9^th Av 3830 (70 CE), Romans demolished the Temple and the city of Yerushalayim, and Jews were scattered throughout the empire: this event marked the beginning of the great Diaspora.

Romans wanted to wipe the memory of the name of Israel out of history, and according to the name of a people which by that time was already unidentifiable as disappeared several centuries before, the Philistines (Pelesati), they called Palestine the country of Eretz Yisrael. This absolutely illegitimate and improper name is still used even though there is not any basis, neither ethnical nor historical, to keep such name. In the beginning the Diaspora concerned the whole Roman Empire besides Hebrews already living in the East. Then it happened also the expulsion of Jews out of the imperial frontiers, and they had to emigrate in Northern Europe, the Danube and Eastern steppes.

Shoah

"They lay crafty plans against your people they say: 'come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more'."

Tehilim 83:3-4 (Psalm 83:3-4)

This verse of the Hebrew Scriptures reports the mind of ancient peoples, but has been always a topical interest within western societies and also within islamic system towards Israelites. This attitude has been handed down in the course of time and has crossed all borders throughout every nation. Romans tried to wipe out from memory the name of Eretz Yisrael and Yerushalayim, and have left this inheritance to European states.

The history of Israelites has always been a succession of grievous periods and quiet times, of persecutions and exiles. The inquisition, expulsion decrees, ghettos, pogroms,...

Many Jews found asylum in Russia, where society was much more tolerant and even hospitable, although when government authorities have not always been alike. Nevertheless, both peoples have been scattered in all European states and persecutions have never ceased definitively, until reaching the darkest period of the whole history of mankind: the Shoah, the "desolation" rather than "holocaust", which implies a voluntary sacrifice.

I do not think that it is necessary to write here about all what happened during the Shoah, but I want to assert that the hideous crimes committed by nazis are ascribable to all European states and the Vatican, that were aware of the facts that were happening and have not tried to prevent them. They have given tacit consent to the extermination policy and have taken action only when it was too late. The distressful view left at the end of that war reminds us of the vision of Prophet Yehezkiel, ch. 37: "The Lord brought me out by the Spirit and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones there were very many upon the valley, and lo, they were very dry. And the Lord said to me: 'Son of man, can these bones live?' these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say: 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off !'

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live!' And as I looked, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them and the Spirit came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great hostThus says the Lord God: 'Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you O my people, and I will bring you home into Eretz Yisrael'." (Yehezkiel 37:1-14)

And so it was; from those dry bones arose a nation: Medinat Yisrael.

This resurrection did not happen without struggle: it was since a long time before that, according to the Balfour Agreement, the British Mandate of "Palestine" should have given up its place to the Hebrew State. This agreement was not respected by the British government, which gave more than 80% of that land as a present to muslims. A territory that, before Jewish immigration did not interest anybody; Eretz Yisrael was since Romans' times an arid and almost uninhabited country, a desert where only some Bedouins passed by... Jews began to buy at very expensive prices their own land, and that aroused Arabs' policy of parallel immigration. These Arabs, coming from neighbouring countries, began to settle in Eretz Yisrael in opposition to Jewish immigration. In this way was born a nationality created "on purpose", the Palestinians, who are not an ethnic entity at all, but a mixture of Arabs from various origins, Arabs like their relatives who remain in Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc.

The Shoah became a reason by which the nations were no longer able to deny Jews' right to their own homeland, and the British Mandate had to hand over the remainder of that country to the people of Israel. A people that had just come through slaughter, that was impoverished and unarmed, had to take possession of a strip of land that nine islamic nations were ready to occupy by the armed forces. The West had in this way believed to liquidate the Jewish issue, entrusting muslims to complete what nazis left unfinished. That State, born in war on 5 Iyar 5708 (1948 CE), achieved victory over an enemy that was about forty times stronger, an enemy that continued to take up arms because it cannot admit the existence of a free and democratic State in the Middle East; therefore, a new aggression took place in 5727 1967 CE). Once again, in only six days, the people of Israel inflicted a heavy defeat to the armed forces of seven nations, and re-conquered what by legitimate right belongs to Israel: Yerushalayim city, all the land to the west of the Jordan river, the Golan

A new attempt to annihilate Israel happened in 5734 (1973-74 CE), in the war of Yom Kippur. Israel could have resolved definitively the problem and rendered the enemy harmless, but western nations have still interfered until now to stop the Israeli Army and save the humiliated dignity of muslim states. The conspiracy against Israel goes on, but Israel will overcome!

But, in a way, the Israeli territories of Judea and Samaria are "Occupied Territories"; yes, illegally occupied by Arabs (so-called "Palestinians"), who have obtained the right to rule on cities like Hevron, Bet-Lechem, Nablus (Samaria) and other cities that historically belong to Canaan and Israel. They have taken authority on these and other towns by deceiving the United Nations. They have not right on any little piece of the Holy Land, and they will never have! The Palestinian state is an invention, as it has never existed before, as any Palestinian people, culture, language or civilization does not exist. They are 100% Arabs, and their origins are not in Eretz Yisrael...

The Holy Land is holy because of Israel and nobody else, because of the Prophets that even Islam recognizes as Israeli Prophets; Mosheh (Musa), Aharon (Harun), David (Dawd), Yeshu'a (Isa)... No Arab prophet has ever possessed any little piece of the Holy Land!

Now, I will discuss four reasons why Israel is entitled to the land they have and that it should not be a part of the peace process.

1) ARCHEOLOGY

The first reason is that Israel has the right to the land because of all of the archeological evidence. All the archeological evidence supports it. Every time there is a dig in Israel, it does nothing but support the fact that Israelis have had a presence there for more than 3,000 years. The coins, the cities, the pottery, the culture. It predates any claims that other peoples in the region may have.

Palestinians have self-called that way attempting to recall the ancient Philistines, therefore, trying to prove any historical right to the possession of that land. The ancient Philistines are extinct. And in any case, the ancient Philistines were foreign invaders coming from Crete and Asia minor. They have never been native people of ancient Canaan! Many other ancient peoples are extinct. They do not have the unbroken line to this date that the Israelis have. Even the Egyptians of today are not racial Egyptians of 2,000 or 3,000 years ago, except the Coptic minority, that is discriminated by the muslim majority. Most Egyptians are primarily an Arab people. The land is called Egypt, but they are not the same racial and ethnic stock as the old Egyptians of the ancient world.

The Israelis are in fact descended from the original Israelites.

2) HISTORY

The second proof of Israel's right to the land is the historic right. History supports it totally and completely. We know there has been an Israel up until the time of the Roman Empire. The Romans conquered the land. Israel had no homeland, although Jews were allowed to live there. They were driven from the land in two dispersions: One in 70 C.E. and the other in 135 C.E. But there was always a Jewish presence in the land.

The Turks, who took over about 700 years ago and ruled the land up until about World War One, had control. Then the land was conquered by the British. The Turks entered World War One on the side of Germany. The British knew they had to do something to punish Turkey, and also to break up that empire that was going to be a part of the whole effort of Germany in World War One. So the British sent troops against the Turks in the Holy Land.

One of the generals who was leading the British armies was a man named Allenby.

Allenby sent World War One biplanes over the city of Jerusalem to do a reconnaissance mission. You have to understand that the Turks had at that time never seen an airplane. So there they were, flying around. They looked in the sky and saw these fascinating inventions and did not know what they were, and they were terrified by them.

Then they were told they were going to be opposed by a man named Allenby the next day, which means, in their language, "man sent from God" or "prophet from God." They dared not fight against a prophet from God, so the next morning, when Allenby went to take Jerusalem, he went in and captured it without firing a single shot.

The British at that time said they were going to give back the Jewish people their homeland. That is all written down in history. They were gratified that the Jewish people, the bankers, came through and helped finance the war.

The homeland that Britain said it would set aside consisted of all of what is now Israel and all of what was then the nation of Jordan -- the whole thing. That was what Britain promised to give the Jews in 1917. In the beginning, there was some Arab support for this action. There was not a huge Arab population in the land at that time, and there is a reason for that. The land was not able to sustain a large population of people. It just did not have the development it needed to handle those people, and nobody really wanted this land. It was considered to be worthless land.

Mark Twain -- Samuel Clemens -- took a tour of Canaan in 1867. This is how he described that land. We are talking about Israel now. He said: "A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw a human being on the whole route. There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."

Where was this great Palestinian nation? It did not exist! It was not there. Palestinians were not there. Palestine was a region named by the Romans, but at that time it was under the control of Turkey, and there was no large mass of people there because the land would not support them.

This is the report that the Palestinian Royal Commission, created by the British, made. It quotes an account of the conditions on the coastal plain along the Mediterranean Sea in 1913. The Palestinian Royal Commission said:

"The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track, suitable for transport by camels or carts. No orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one reached the Yavnev village. Houses were mud. Schools did not exist. The western part toward the sea was almost a desert. The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. Many villages were deserted by their inhabitants."

That was 1913.

The French author Voltaire described Palestine as "a hopeless, dreary place." In short, under the Turks the land suffered from neglect and low population. That is a historic fact. The nation became populated by both Jews and Arabs because the land came to prosper when Jews came back and began to reclaim it. If there had never been any archaeological evidence to support the rights of the Israelis to the territory, it is also important to recognize that other nations in the area have no longstanding claim to the country either.

Did you know that Saudi Arabia was not created until 1913, Lebanon until 1920? Iraq did not exist as a nation until 1932, Syria until 1941. The borders of Jordan were established in 1946 and Kuwait in 1961. Any of these nations that would say Israel is only a recent arrival would have to deny their own rights as recent arrivals as well. They did not exist as countries. They were all under the control of the Turks.

Historically, Israel gained its independence in 1948.

3) AGRICULTURE

The third reason that land belongs to Israel is the practical value of the Israelis being there. Israel today is a modern marvel of agriculture. Israel is able to bring more food out of a desert environment than any other country in the world. The Arab nations ought to make Israel their friend and import technology from Israel that would allow all the Middle East, not just Israel, to become an exporter of food. Israel has unarguable success in its agriculture. Arabs have proved along their whole history to be completely unable to develop agriculture. Wherever they have invaded, the land became dry and arid – just consider Spain, a very fertile land in Romans times, after seven centuries of Arab rule it is still the most desertic country in Europe. Sicily was also the granary of Italy before the three-century Arab occupation. Yemen was the richest land in the Middle East before islamic times. Arabs destroyed all the dams and water reserves, transforming Yemen in the wilderness it is today.

4) ROADBLOCK TO TERRORISM

The fourth reason is that Israel is a roadblock to terrorism. The war we are now facing is not against a sovereign nation; it is against a group of terrorists who are very fluid, moving from one country to another. They are almost invisible. That is whom we are fighting against today. We need every ally we can get. If we do not stop terrorism in the Middle East, it will be on our shores.

Since the independence in 1948, Israel has fought four wars: The 1948 War of Independence, the 1956 Sinai campaign, the 1967 Six Day War, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In all four cases, Israel was attacked. They were not the aggressor. Some people may argue that this was not true because they went in first in 1956, but they knew at that time that Egypt was building a huge military to become the aggressor. Israel, in fact, was not the aggressor and has not been the aggressor in any of the four wars.

Also, they won all four wars against impossible odds. They are great warriors. They consider a level playing field being outnumbered 20-to-1. Muslims' pride is also strongly humiliated by the fact that Israeli women-soldiers are among their victors, and as it is well-known, women are hardly a little more worthy than things for muslims...

Local people in television and radio often criticize Israel, not knowing the true facts. We need to be informed. . If Israel were driven into the sea tomorrow, if every Jew in the Middle East were killed, terrorism would not end. You know that in your heart. Terrorism would continue. It is not just a matter of Israel in the Middle East. It is the heart of the very people who are perpetrating this stuff. Should they be successful in overrunning Israel -- which they won't be -- but should they be, it would not be enough. They will never be satisfied. Muslims want to conquer the whole world, with the sword, as in Muhammad’s times. They do not respect anybody. They pretend in turn to be respected, not to be attacked during their religious feasts, but they take any occasion to attack Israel during Jewish festivals. They do not allow religious freedom in their countries, but they want to build mosques in every non-muslim country.

At Camp David in the summer of 2000, then-Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak offered the most generous concessions to Yasser Arafat that had ever been laid on the table. He offered him more than 90 percent of all the West Bank territory, sovereign control of it. There were some parts he did not want to offer, but in exchange he said he would give up land in Israel proper that the PLO had not even asked for.

And he also did the unthinkable. He even spoke of dividing Jerusalem and allowing the Palestinians to have their capital there. Yasser Arafat stormed out of the meeting. Why did he storm out of the meeting? Everything he said he wanted was offered there. It was put into his hands. Why did he storm out of the meeting? A couple of months later, there began to be riots, terrorism. The riots began when now-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount. And this was used as the thing that lit the fire and caused the explosion. Did you know that Sharon did not go unannounced and that he contacted the Islamic authorities before he went and secured their permission to be there? It was no surprise.

The response was very carefully calculated. They knew the world would not pay attention to the details. They would portray this in the Arab world as an attack upon the holy mosque and use it as an excuse to riot. Over the last eight years, during this time of the peace process, where the Israeli public has pressured its leaders to give up land for peace because they are tired of fighting, there has been increased terror.

In fact, it has been greater in the last eight years than any other time in Israel's history. Showing restraint and giving in has not produced any kind of peace. It is so much so that today the leftist peace movement in Israel does not exist because the people feel they were deceived. They offered a hand of peace, and it was not taken. That is why the politics of Israel have changed drastically over the past 12 months. The Israelis have come to see that, "No matter what we do, these people do not want to deal with us... They want to destroy us."

That is why even yet today the stationery of the PLO still has upon it the map of the entire state of Israel, not just the little part they call the West Bank. They want it all.

We have to get out of this mindset that somehow you can buy peace in the Middle East by giving little plots of land. It has not worked before when it has been offered.

These four reasons show why Israel is entitled to that land.

JERUSALEM

If you believe what you read in most news sources, palestinians want a "homeland" and muslims want control over sites they consider "holy".

The fact that Jerusalem is the FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT HOLY PLACE for JEWS seems to be irrelevant, while muslims claim that Jerusalem is their THIRD holy place...

These are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing. It is interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a palestinian homeland... You might say, that was before the Israelis seized West Bank and Old Jerusalem. That's true. In the Six-Day War, Israel re-conquered Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn't capture these territories from any palestinian state! They re-conquered them from Jordan. Why all these palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war? The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Eldorado or Lilliput.

The first time the name was used was in 70 CE when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, an ancient people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier and by that time no longer existing since some centuries. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.

Palestine has never existed - before or since - as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as palestinian. There is no distinct palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

The Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass. But that is too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.

What about Islam's holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem! I don't expect you will ever hear this plain truth from anybody in the international media. It's just not politically correct. I know what you're going to say: "the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam's third most holy sites." Not true. In fact, the Qoran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem. So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Qoran, the seventeenth sura, entitled "The Night Journey." It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night "from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs....." some muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that's as close as Islam's connection with Jerusalem gets - myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Jerusalem was identified by imams as the mythic "Al Quds" after the Zionist movement encouraged Jews to settle in Eretz Yisrael... but we know how much accurate are Arabs with regards to history and geography... just have a look to the "1001 Nights" or the Qoran itself... Al Quds is no more real than Camelot! I suggest you to read the Qoran and try to find if Jerusalem is mentioned any time... you will find many history mistakes, instead - for instance, Maryam, sister of Harun (Aharon) is the same person that Maryam the mother of Jesus, no matter that there is a gap of over 1200 years between one and the other!... also Haman, who was a Persian visir, is said to be Pharaoh's minister! This is the reliability of muslim sources to claim for their legitimate rights!

Meanwhile, Jews have proved that their roots have close relationship with Mount Zion since the days of Avraham. King David founded Jerusalem and made of her the capital of the Kingdom of Israel - when Arabs were still not a definite nation...

Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism? So what is the solution to the Middle East? If there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.

Nationhood and Jerusalem

Israel became a nation in more than two thousand years before the rise of Islam. 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. Since the Israeli conquest in Yehoshua's times, Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years. 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 her their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Bible (Tanach), the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Qoran. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem...

Arab and Jewish Refugees: In 1948 the Arab "refugees" were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews.

Almost 70 percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms. If there are Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews settled today in Israel, it is because Arabs have expelled them from the lands where those Jews were living for many centuries! Arabs sent Jews to Israel, now they want to expel them also from there! The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees that were forced out from Arab lands is estimated to be some more than that... Arab "refugees" were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory (Israel is 1% of all Arab Lands). 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 peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the island of Sicily.

The Arab - Israeli Conflict: The Arab nations initiated all five wars against Israel and were defeated. Israel defended herself each time and won. The P.L.O.'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 weapons which is used against the Israeli people. 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.

The U.N. Record on Israel and the Arabs:

Of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on, before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel. The U.N was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. These are incredible times...

The U.N. is still approving the terroristic policy of the Palestinian Authority, requiring that Israel withdraw the Defence troops from the terrorists' den, in order they can go on murdering innocent people, women and children!!!