Jehovah's Witnesses:

Castigating Jews Since 1933

"A voice is sounding from the wilderness and Jews everywhere are hearkening to it. It does not call them to become Christians, but to remain Jews and to realize as Jews the ideals set before them by the Lord in the Law and by the Prophets."

Charles Taze Russell 1852-1916
President and Founder
of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

"It has been the commercial Jews of British-American Empire that have built up and carried Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations... This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the city of New York which says: "the Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it, and the Americans pay the bills."

Joseph "Judge" Rutherford

President of Jehovah's Witnesses
in a letter to ADOLPH HITLER, June 1933

from the 1934 YEARBOOK OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

From the Epiphany Bible Students Newsletter:September 2005

"Jehovah's Witnesses:

This organization also adds its loud voice toward castigation of the Jews, because the Jews generally will have no part of their teachings. The Witnesses do not advocate violence against the Jews, or revile them politically, but they do predict extreme violence for them in the approaching Armageddon - at which time they forecast the extermination of all people, including the Jews specifically, that have not joined their organization by the time the holocaust arrives.

In this the Witnesses mimic the Antichrist , who also contends the Roman Catholic Church is the one true church; and during papacy's counterfeit reign from 799 to 1799 they were very vociferous that there could be no salvation outside their church. And we may observe here that those who make such claims go more and more into error - "outer darkness."

.....the Jehovah's Witnesses lay great stress upon their Bible "proofs" for what they teach; yet we cannot recall one instance where they have given any comment at all on Jer. 31:31-34, or Isa. 60:1-3, or upon various statements of St. Paul concerning the Jew. [See Romans 11 - RB]

Neither the Witnesses nor any groups who have cast out the Jews can produce any Scriptures that support their contentions about the Jews, but we can produce many Scriptures to support our contentions: "

Eze 28:25
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.Eze 28:26And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God.

More verses that prove Israel inherits the land, not the JW's.

See, compare, contrast, and harmonize

Romans 11

"I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?"...

Jeremiah 30:16-18,
Ezekiel 38:8, 16
Ezekiel 39:25-29
Amos 9:11-15
Isaiah 2:2-3
Psalm 45:16,
Zechariah 14
Zechariah 8:7-9 11-15, 22-23
Isaiah 60:10-12, 14-16
Isaiah 62:1-4, 6-7
Ezekiel 36

more New Testament Proofs

Matthew 8:11
Luke 13:28-29
Isaiah:9-11

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NO JUSTICE IN DURBAN
September 5 2001 at 3:24 PM

Both Israel and the U.S. should have known not to go to that charade in the first place. The wording has been in place for about two years. It was nothing but a platform for Arafat's grandstanding, as again he manages somehow to masqerade as a statesman in the very clothes of a killer. Treated as a sheep while in wolf's clothing! And none should forget the fact that Arafat is the nephew of the aforementioned Mufti al-Husseini.

It's good to know the end from the beginning. What a day when Arafat is forced to take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew!

Christian Anti-semitism Rampant

It matters not to the Christian anti-semite that the prophetic word clearly shows God's own support of the Jews. They will continue to promulgate the same myths, such as the lie that the media is controlled by Jews, and that it is all very pro-Israel in it's coverage, when the exact opposite documented to be true.

NPR's anti-semitic coverage of the middle east

Why the media portrays Goliath as Jewish

You can point out to them the fact that the Arabs have continually shot, stoned, shelled, rocketed and bombed the Jews, including the recent sharpshooting murder of an infant, but to them the Jews have no right to defend themselves, which equates to no right to exist. The Arabs favorite targets are school buses full of children. When has a Jew ever done something so vile? But when they commit the "terrible act" of self-defense, they are attacked for it by those who don't understand what it must be like to be a people hated and persecuted and nearly exterminated, who have found an island refuge a mere 7 miles wide at the waist, who are totally surrounded and under constant attack.

It can be shown to the Christian anti-semite how Syrian President Assad himself said, "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people", and how they were only being used as his personal political and military wedge. It can be shown conclusively that the Arabs have historically attacked the Jews with their armies, and murdered Jews indiscriminately, but it means nothing to them. The Jews can withdraw from land as they did in South Lebanon a year ago, only to be shelled and killed from that very land a year later. And of course, todays effort to defend themselves means they will be considered "evil" by those who are ignorant of the history of the land as well as the true nature of the current situation there.

The complete history of the Jews in the land can be proved that goes back over 3000 years, but it means nothing to the Christian anti-semite. It can be shown in big letters from the Christians own Bible how God himself has declared that the land belongs to the Jews, and that He will fight for them, but it means nothing to those who feel a deep jealousy that the Jews have resisted Christian efforts to convert them, an effort which would effectively have destroyed the Jewish identity of the people as a whole if it were successful. These are ignorant of the fact that the Scriptures show that the Jew has a distinct and separate role from that of the Christian as a people, and that they are fulfilling that role and the prophecies written about them now.

How sad it is that these Christians will continue to choose to support the forces of darkness in their demonic effort to stamp out the Jewish people, and to prevent their undivided capitol from becoming a reality - a reality that would prove fatal to the plans of the Adversary in his efforts to prevent the inevitable Kingdom of God.

"The Law shall go forth from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem." Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2

Octaman

HISTORICAL FACTS vs. PLO PROPAGANDA

One side will win out in the end. Which side are you on?

The Forgotten Refugees

By David G. Littman

National Review | December 6, 2002

"One should question today the real motivation of a selective, historically flawed memory which systematically spotlights the Arab-Palestinian refugees - suffering from the Arab League's own policy - but conveniently forgets the Jewish refugees from Arab lands."

Last Thursday, a new terrorist group calling itself, "The Government of Universal Palestine, the Army of Palestine" claimed responsibility for a murderous jihadist terror attack against Kenyans and Israelis in Kilambala, Kenya. The attacks were timed to mark the eve of the anniversary of the November 29, 1947 decision by the United Nations to partition Palestine and allow the creation of the Jewish state.

The next day, in New York and Geneva, the United Nations hosted its annual "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" — without a hitch.

Amid this ongoing savagery and carnage worldwide, some basic truths need to be reaffirmed about the Middle East tragedy. Aside from the thorny Jerusalem issue, the major stumbling block has always been the question of the return of — or compensation for — Arab refugees from Palestine in 1948 and 1967. But Israel's steadfast refusal by the Arab Palestinian leadership and Arab countries since the 1920s also led to another great refugee tragedy.

In 1945 there were about 140,000 Jews in Iraq; 60,000 in Yemen and Aden; 35,000 in Syria; 5,000 in Lebanon; 90,000 in Egypt; 60,000 in Libya; 150,000 in Algeria; 120,000 in Tunisia; and 300,000 in Morocco, including Tangiers. That comes to a total of about 960,000 — and more than 200,000 in Iran and Turkey.

Jordan covered 78 percent of Palestine as designated by the League of Nations in 1922. Turning a blind eye to article 15 of the League of Nations Mandate, Great Britain decided in 1922 that no Jews would be authorized either to reside or buy land in what was now the Emirate of Transjordan. This decision was ratified by the kingdom of Jordan in its law No. 6, sect. 3, of April 3, 1954 (reactivated in law no. 7, sect. 2, of April 1, 1963), which states that any person may become a citizen of Jordan if he is not a Jew. Even when Jordan made peace with Israel in 1994, this Judenrein legislation remained.

In these ancient Jewish communities, which date from Biblical times, less than 40,000 Jews remain today — and in the Arab world there are fewer than 5,000, one-half of one percent of their number at the end of World War II.

During the 20th century, thousands of Jewish men, women, and children, young and old, were brutally massacred in the Maghreb, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, and Aden — even under French and British colonial rule — and also in Palestine after the British conquest and during the Mandate (1918-48).

As to why and how these countries became Judenrein ( "cleansed" of Jews), the heading of an article from the New York Times of May 16, 1948 — a day after Israel declared its independence — says it all: "Jews in Grave Danger in all Moslem Lands. Nine Hundred Thousand in Africa and Asia Face Wrath of Their Foes".

On January 18, 1948, the president of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Stephen Wise, appealed to U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall: "Between 800'000 and a million Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, exclusive of Palestine, are in 'the greatest danger of destruction' at the hands of Moslems being incited to holy war over the Partition of Palestine ... Acts of violence already perpetrated, together with those contemplated, being clearly aimed at the total destruction of the Jews, constitute genocide, which under the resolutions of the General Assembly is a crime against humanity."

Already in Iraq (1936 and 1941), Syria (1944-45), Egypt and Libya (1945), and Aden (1947) — all before the state of Israel's founding — murderous attacks had killed and wounded thousands. Here is a description from the official report in 1945 by Tripoli's Jewish community president, Zachino Habib, describing what happened to Libyan Jews in Tripoli, Zanzur, Zawiya, Casabat, Zitlin, Nov. 4-7, 1945: "The Arabs attacked Jews in obedience to mysterious orders. Their outburst of bestial violence has no plausible motive. For fifty hours they hunted men down, attacked houses and shops, killed men, women, old and young, horribly tortured and dismembered Jews isolated in the interior... In order to carry out the slaughter, the attackers used various weapons: knives, daggers, sticks, clubs, iron bars, revolvers, and even hand grenades." (1)

A recent example of such murderous acts was seen on April 11, 2002 when the jihadist bombing of the ancient al-Ghariba synagogue of Djerba in Tunisia killed 17 and badly wounding many others, most of them elderly German tourists. A spokesman for al Qaeda claimed they had been behind the bombing. Now Tunisia's remaining Jewish community will seek security in Israel and elsewhere — like 99 percent of their coreligionists before them.

Pogroms and persecutions, and grave fears for their future, regularly preceded the mass expulsions and exoduses of the Jews, whose ancestors had inhabited these regions from time immemorial, a millennium and more before the successive waves of Arab conquest and occupation from the 7th century. Beginning in 1948, more than 650,000 of these Oriental Jewish refugees were integrated into Israel — even as the country was being threatened with annihilation by neighboring Arab League states, which, for over 40 years, refused the U.N.'s 1947 Palestine Partition Plan. Approximately 300,000 more Jews found refuge, and a new homeland, in Europe and the Americas.

Roughly half of Israel's 5 million Jews — from a population of 6.2 million, of whom roughly 20 percent are Arab, Druze, and Bedouin Israelis — is now composed of those refugees and their descendants, who received no humanitarian aid from the United Nations, and who indeed did not ask for it. It was Jews worldwide, just emerging from the Shoah, who worked together with Israel to achieve this integration.

Yet it was this defiance of international legality by the Arab League in 1947-1948 — maintained decade after decade in unsuccessful attempts at politicide — that led to the ongoing Arab-Palestinian catastrophe. A parallel commitment on behalf of the less numerous Arab refugees of Palestine (in 1948 they numbered about 550,000, although a figure of 750,000 is often claimed) for their integration into some of the 21 Arab states (covering 10 percent of the world's land surface) was considered too great a symbolic and monetary sacrifice, even despite their immense oil resources.

George Orwell's remark about everyone being equal — but some being more equal than others — could well be applied to refugees since the 1940s: Apparently some refugees are considered more equal than others. But the forgotten million — Jewish refugees from Arab lands — were not helped by the U.N. , nor were they kept for over half a century in refugee camps, breeding hopelessness, frustration, and — under U.N. auspices — a culture of hate and death, in which jihadist bombers thrive today.

The transfer of populations on a large scale, as a consequence of war or for political reasons, has always been a characteristic of human history, particularly in the Islamic Orient. Deportations, expropriations and expulsions of dhimmis — Jews, Christians, and other indigenous peoples — recurred throughout the long history of dhimmitude, including in Palestine. One should question today the real motivation of a selective, historically flawed memory which systematically spotlights the Arab-Palestinian refugees — suffering from the Arab League's own policy — but conveniently forgets the Jewish refugees from Arab lands.

U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 of November 22, 1967 — also adamantly refused then by the Khartoum Arab League Summit Conference with the formula: "No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiation with Israel, no concessions on the questions of Palestinian national rights" — refers to "a just solution to the refugee problem". This term applied implicitly also to Jewish refugees from Arab countries — who had been obliged to seek security outside their native lands — and not only to the Arab-Palestinian refugees who are not specifically referred to in the resolution.

The dire hardships endured by the great majority of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries have never been considered by the United Nations, nor has the loss of their inestimable properties and heritage dating back over 3, 000 years. The time has surely come for this great injustice to be addressed seriously, within the context of a just and equitable global solution to the ongoing Middle East tragedy, once the Palestinian leadership ends its jihad-war of attrition and takes the democratic path to peace.

On April 24, 2002, at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, we referred to this matter as a representative of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Speaking in a "right of reply," the delegate of Iraq (Saad Hussain) stated, unashamedly, that he was "responding to the lies that we heard in the statement of the gentleman called David Littman, known for his animosity toward the Arabs, Muslims, and Islam. The Arab history, the Arab and Islamic history for fourteen centuries, has not witnessed any harm to the Jews — quite the contrary. The Jews have lived, and continue to live in peace, and their sacred places and their property have been protected until today (...) They live in Arab countries today in perfect safety, despite the events — the horrible events taking place in Palestine." (2)

Not surprisingly, the truth is very different. Jews have always been forbidden to reside in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; there are now no Jews in Libya; under 100 in Egypt and Syria; and only 17 remain in Iraq! We shall again briefly raise the question of the forgotten million Jewish refugees from Arab countries at the next session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights — when the chairperson will be the lady ambassador from Libya! At the last six-week session (March-April 2002), more than 50 percent of the commission's time was taken up by Palestinian issues — to the dismay of very many observers.

(1) Renzo di Felici, Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835-1970 (University of Texas, 1985, pp. 193-94., n. 19, p. 365)

(2) U.N. English interpretation, as recorded verbatim from the statement delivered in Arabic.

Israel's Right to the Land

by Lee Underwood

Jan 04, '04 / 10 Tevet 5764

“For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest.” Isaiah 62:1

There are currently a vast number of wars ("international conflicts") being waged in the world today. The number varies according to the source and its definition of "war" and "conflict". The type of "conflicts" range from terrorist organizations fighting against sovereign governments to nations warring against nations to spiritual battles being waged around the globe. The curious aspect in all of this is that the war in Israel seems to be the one event that causes most of the world to feel threatened.

Because of many different beliefs and attitudes regarding, among other things, peace and freedom, the situation in Israel tends to become quite convoluted. Misunderstandings regarding the reasons for the fighting abound, even among followers of the G-d of Israel. Also involved are the agendas, hidden and otherwise, of many of the key players involved.

In its simplest terms, the "conflict" in Israel is being waged by those who are fighting (whether intentionally or not) against the G-d of Israel, the Creator of the universe. It is a battle, for the most part, between those of faith who believe the promises G-d made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and those who, for whatever reasons, would prefer that Israel (i.e., the Jews) did not live on the land bordered by the Nile and Euphrates Rivers and the Mediterranean Sea and the wilderness of Jordan. The faithful in Israel are obeying a direct commandment from G-d ("inhabit the land"). Those, on the other hand, who are fighting against G-d (whether intentionally or not) are trying to remove the Jewish people from the land given to them by G-d, especially Judea and Samaria - the very heart of Israel.

The basic reason for wanting Jews out of the land of Israel is quite simple when looked at from a spiritual viewpoint. The existence of the Jewish people in the land of Israel, after 2,000 years of dispersion, proves beyond a doubt that the G-d of Israel does exist and that man will one day have to give an account of his deeds before Him; that man's autonomous reign on this earth is soon coming to an end.

We could look at the historical aspect of the situation and try to determine whether Israel actually has a right to live in the land or if it really does belong to the 'Palestinians'. However, this is exactly what is happening now and the facts become very easily distorted when mingled with bold lies. The question many people ask is "Whose history do we believe, the Israelis or the 'Palestinians'?"

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels' statement, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, then people will eventually come to believe it," has certainly come to life in the current situation. Then whose statements do we believe?

For those who worship the G-d of Israel, there is only one truth: the word of G-d itself. But what exactly did G-d say regarding Israel? Does it still hold true today, even after Israel's dispersion from the land 2,000 years ago? Does G-d want to divide the land of Israel and give a portion of it to the 'Palestinians' - or anybody else - besides the Jewish people? The answers, fortunately, are found in the Scriptures - G-d's written word.

G-d's Eternal Covenant with Israel

Approximately 4,000 years ago, G-d made a covenant with Abraham to give him and his descendants the land of Canaan, located "from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates." (Genesis 15:18) This covenant was later restated to Isaac (Genesis 26.2-5) and to Jacob (Genesis 28.13; 35.12). Eventually, G-d would make this same covenant with the entire house of Israel, as a nation:

"For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.... And I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you." (Exodus 23.23,31).

G-d also declared that Israel would be His "own possession among all the peoples." The requirements of Israel for this covenant is to "obey My [G-d's] voice and keep My covenant." (Exodus 19:5) Because of this, many people mistakenly believe that, because Israel disobeyed G-d, He removed them from the land permanently. They say that Israel no longer has a valid claim to the land, according to G-d's word. Some even go so far as to say that G-d has cast off His people permanently. However, Scripture does not bear this out. In fact, it states just the opposite.

G-d was very specific regarding what would happen to Israel if they obeyed Him and the resulting punishment if they failed to obey Him ("the blessings and the curses"). The details are given in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. The ultimate penalty for continuing to disobey G-d was removal from the land of promise (Leviticus 26.33). Yet, there was always the promise of restoration: "Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the L-rd their G-d." (Leviticus 26:44; see also Jeremiah 31.35-37; Lamentations 4.22; Micah 7.18-20) G-d never declared that He would utterly abandon the Jewish people: "'Yet even in those days', declares the L-rd, 'I will not make you a complete destruction.'" (Jeremiah 5:18; see also Amos 9.8) G-d, instead, promised that a remnant of Israel would return to the land that He promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Isaiah 11.11-14; 43.5-6; Zephaniah 3.14-20). Notice that G-d is speaking of Israel - the Jewish people - returning to the land, not some other vessel.

Dividing the Land of Israel

So we come back to one of our original questions: Does G-d want to divide the land of Israel and give a portion of it to the 'Palestinians' - or anybody else - besides the Jewish people? Aside from the Scriptures listed above, there are many more detailing G-d's promise of the restoration of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. Is it possible, then, that G-d would want to share the land with other nations? G-d is very concerned about His land, especially Judea and Samaria. He is also concerned for His holy city Jerusalem. G-d spoke of the judgment of the nations for doing this very thing: "I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land." (Joel 3:2)

Many individuals and organizations approve of the idea of the creation of a 'Palestinian' state, as long as it is not headed by a terrorist organization. Their claim is that the 'Palestinian people' need a place to live also. While we could argue the actual existence of a 'Palestinian people', we need to look back at the Scriptures for the correct Biblical position. G-d commanded Israel 3,500 years ago to remove the pagan nations from the land of Israel and dwell in it. G-d has never changed nor lifted this command. Many in Israel are asking that the 'Palestinians' leave peacefully. There are plenty of places for them to go. Whatever they do, it is not Israel's responsibility to provide a place for them to live. Israel's command from G-d is to remove the enemy from their midst and dwell in the land.

The issue then of whether to divide Israel or not becomes clear. The land bordered by the Nile and Euphrates Rivers and the Mediterranean Sea and the wilderness of Jordan belongs to G-d, Who, in turn, gave it to the Jewish people for an eternal possession. It cannot be shared nor given away. G-d gave Israel a clear command regarding making covenants with their enemies: "and when the L-rd your G-d shall deliver them before you, and you shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them." (Deuteronomy 7:2)

The basic answer to Israel's problem with the 'Palestinians' - and the nations of the world - is to trust G-d, not man.
Many Christians are asking what they can do to help Israel. As Christians, it is our job to encourage Israel to believe the promises G-d made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We must encourage them to return to Israel and build up the land. We must pray and intercede for them to be strong and withstand the pressures of the nations. It is G-d alone they must fear, not man: "In G-d I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?" (Psalm 56:11) We are the watchmen of Israel. Let us take our job seriously.

"For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that is burning.... On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the L-rd, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth." (Isaiah 62:1,6-7)

Lee Underwood is the Editor for the Tzemach News Service website.
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Judenrein Palestine?

by Rachel Neuwirth
Jan 06, '04 / 12 Tevet 5764

Why is it that people are proposing a Middle East peace plan that will make Judea and Samaria Judenrein (the Nazi term for a place with no Jews)?

It is the historic homeland and birthplace of the Jewish people, yet many world leaders believe the removal of Jewish communities from Judea and Samaria is a crucial prerequisite for a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria for thousands of years. In fact, the Jewish religion and people were birthed in Hebron. We know of the ancient Jewish presence there from both the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and from abundant archaeological and documentary evidence.

No one denies that the oldest document showing the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank), is the Bible. Genesis 24:18 says: “And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron.” And the world's oldest documentation of real estate being purchased for full price is also in the Bible (see Genesis 23:9). And for those who doubt biblical references, there is substantial evidence in archaeological findings (see http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah).

Historically, the Jewish homeland included what is today called Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights, and a considerable part of today's Jordan. The land was inhabited mainly by Jews and was ruled by Jews. Therefore, Lord Robert Cecil, former acting British foreign secretary, was right to use the name "Judea" for the whole land in his famous remark: "Our wish is that Arabian countries shall be for the Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians, and Judea for the Jews." (December 2, 1917; see http://www.esek.com/jerusalem/iudaea.html.)

The Jewish presence there has been continuous, except for 19 years from 1948 to 1967 when the area became Judenrein. And during that 19 year period, the Jordanians and Arabs of the remaining portion of "Palestine" desecrated Jewish holy sites and cemeteries in an attempt to deny that the Jews ever lived there.

Those who advocate the dismantling of the Jewish communities in this territory are advocating a policy of ethnic cleansing. This may sound extreme, but from the early 1900s, the Arabs carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing that included the massacre and pogroms in 1929 and 1936 in Hebron. Both the spirit and practice of ethnic cleansing are being continued in the current conflict (see http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php).

So, what did UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan mean in his 2001 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech when he said, “A genocide begins with the killing of one man — not for what he has done, but because of who he is. A campaign of 'ethnic cleansing' begins with one neighbor turning on another.”

Does this not also apply to the Israeli Jews who have re-established homes in Judea and Samaria? Should they be ethnically cleansed from the heart of their historical homeland? Does the Nobel recipient not know a real victim of ethnic cleansing when he sees one?

The same people and countries that condemned ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, Cyprus, Rwanda and Tibet totally reverse themselves when it comes to the right of Jewish people to live in the lands of their historic patrimony. If Chinese people were forbidden to live in China, Buddhists barred from Tibet, or Irish-Catholics banned from South Boston, there would be a tremendous outcry against such injustices. But where is the outcry against the removal of Jews from Judea — their historical homeland?

Is there any other nation on earth that has such a legitimate birth certificate as Israel? And if the Jews have no such document, then the Old and New Testaments are worthless.

The war for Israel's independence ended in 1949 with the Jordanians in full control of Judea and Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem (the "West Bank"), cutting the Jewish people off from their most holy religious sites. The official status of these areas, then, was disputed territories, as no one had held sovereignty there since the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. Only two countries, Pakistan and Britain, recognized the 19-year Jordanian "illegal occupation". Even the entire Arab world refused to recognize it and, consequently, it was illegal and illegitimate ab initio.

After the 1967 war, the Jewish people have simply been returning to the land from which they were forcibly expelled during the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948-49.

This territory has always been known as Judea and Samaria. Do the names "Jew" (for Judea) and "Samaritan" (as in "good Samaritan") sound familiar? In fact, Shemer, founder of Asher, a clan of one of the twelve tribes of Israel, was the owner and eponym of the hills of Samaria. Is there anything Arab or "Palestinian" about either? Even UN Resolution 181, the Partition Plan of 1947, refers to these territories as Judea and Samaria (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm).

The word "occupiers" does not apply to the Jews. Prior to the illegal Jordanian occupation of 1948-67, Jews had maintained several thousand years of continual residence in the area. However, the term does apply to both the Jordanians and the "Palestinian" Arab squatters of today (http://www.tzemachdovid.org/Facts/islegal1.shtml).

In the early part of the 20th century, the Arab population carried out a war against the Jewish inhabitants of the area. This resulted in a series of massacres in Hebron, the birth place of Judaism, in 1929, as well as numerous other violent attacks, such as the 1936-39 pogroms against Jews, ending in the total expulsion of the Jewish population from much of Judea, Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem.

As a result of the Israeli victory in 1967, Jewish people returned to this area and re-unified the historic capital of Jerusalem. Many of the Jews who had been expelled from this territory, or whose parents and grandparents were murdered by rampaging Arabs, have merely returned to their previous homes. And in subsequent years, additional Jewish communities (not "illegal settlements") were built, mainly for security purposes, and others for historical and emotional reasons on mainly state-owned land and historical outposts.

Judea and Samaria were liberated, not stolen or occupied, from Jordan (see http://www.tzemachdovid.org/Facts/islegal3.shtml and http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/A-143-A-Settlers-History-of-Settlements).

Since 1967, 261 new Arab settlements have been built in Judea and Samaria. According to international law, all of these are illegal, as no sovereignty was ever recognized over these territories; yet no one calls for their removal. Why is it that no one talks about those Arab settlements as obstacles to peace — especially when they are bases for carrying out terrorism, and their inhabitants are constantly taught virulent hatred toward the Jewish people and the West?

Dismantling the Jewish communities in these territories will only reward terrorism.

The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, are a litmus test of Arab intentions. Why can’t Jews live in their historic homeland if there really is peace? After all, there are 1.2 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel in the one Jewish country in the world, while there are only a handful of Jews living in any of the 22 Arab countries. In fact, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, not only is it illegal for Jews to be citizens, they are not even allowed to live there.

Therefore, instead of Israel being the "apartheid state" in the region, it is the Arab world that is not only apartheid, but also racist and religiously exclusive.

Rachel Neuwirth is a Los Angeles-based analyst on the board of directors of the West Coast Region of the American Jewish Congress and the chairperson of the organization’s Middle East committee.

AP and Reuters Guilty of Preparations for Mass Murder

440 headlines condemning Israel

versus only 3 reflecting the truth

Why only 3 bothered to cite any terror against Israel

THE AP is reporting now: Israel Vows 'Crushing' Response to Attacks

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza....)

Huge explosion rocks Gaza: Palestinian witnesses - (English)

Explosion rocks Hamas rally (English)

Reuters are complicit in crimes against Jews!

Israeli Military Seals Off West Bank, Gaza (English)

Only ONE mentioned a cause, and it was from MSNBC

'Crushing' response follows Hamas rocket barrage

Israeli forces mass...

Israeli air strike kills...

Air strike on Gaza cars kills four Hamas members

Palestinian rocket wounds five Israelis - army

Palestinians must see gains from Gaza pullout -UN

IDF Kills 4 Gaza Terrorists after Sderot Bombarded

After dozens of rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel strikes back, killing 4

Palestinians Take Control of Gaza Border

Palestinians Take Control of Gaza Border

Palestinians must see gains from Gaza pullout -UN

Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinians in W. Bank raid

Israel kills three suspected Islamic militants

Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat

Who's "We"?

Christian Anti-Semitism Rampant

Jehovah's Witnesses:

Castigating Jews Since 1933

From the Epiphany Bible Students Newsletter:September 2005

"Jehovah's Witnesses:

More verses that prove Israel inherits the land, not the JW's.

See, compare, contrast, and harmonize

HISTORICAL FACTS vs. PLO PROPAGANDA

One side will win out in the end. Which side are you on?

The Forgotten Refugees

"One should question today the real motivation of a selective, historically flawed memory which systematically spotlights the Arab-Palestinian refugees - suffering from the Arab League's own policy - but conveniently forgets the Jewish refugees from Arab lands."

Israel's Right to the Land

by Lee Underwood

“For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest.” Isaiah 62:1

Judenrein Palestine?

ONE LOVE, ONE AIM, ONE HOPE, ONE DESTINY, ONE GOD

YaHWeH the God of Israel

"Extol Him by HIS Name..."YAH" Psalm 68:4

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