Israeli Propaganda & The Truth

Courtesy Of: Jerusalemites

The following is an Israeli propaganda leaflet. It was distributed in Europe in waiting rooms
in hospitals, doctor clinics, train stations and places where people can read.

Here you have the truth!!

Facts about Israel and Palestinians

1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years
before the rise of Islam.

TRUTH: Palestine was a nation 3,000 B.C.E, i.e. two thousand years before the habirus
(Israeli wanderers infiltrated into parts of Palestine, the land of Canaan, the land of milk and
honey with Jerusalem ( Uru-salem) as the capital of the Jebsites who founded it 5000 years
ago and gave it its name. It is the eternal capital of the Palestinian people and has been so,
throughout the ages until the Zionist invasions of 1947-48 and 1967.

If any proof is needed, all you have to do is to read the Bible and it will tell you exactly what
we stated above. We revere David the Prophet as Muslims and Christians even more than
do the Jews who regard him as a King-warrior. But even then, the Bible itself will tell you
that David invaded militarily Jebusite Jerusalem, and with utmost difficulty was able to
occupy a hill in Jerusalem near the present David tower. The seat of the city remained
Jebusite-Canaanite and Palestine.

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

TRUTH: Arab refugees are the Palestinian people, the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine
since time immemorial, who were forcibly expelled from their homeland in Palestine, at the
point of the bayonet in 1947-1948. The Israeli terrorist organization-the Hagana, the Irgun
Zvai Leuni and Stern committed acts of unspeakable massacres, Deer Yassain village
being only one in scores who were put to the sword. The Jewish State as exists today sits on
the ruins of 450 Palestinian villages destroyed, scores of towns and cities usurped
including West Jerusalem, Jaffa, Lod, Ramleh, Safad, Acre, Ashkalon, Beer Sheba and
many others. There are today in refugee camps in Palestine and throughout the Middle
East four million Palestinians whose inalienable right of return to Palestine is recognized
by the United Nations and the whole world.

3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for
one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

TRUTH: For the past 2000 years and not before the beginning of the 20th century, no Jews
lived in Palestine after their expulsion by the Romans. It is a flagrant lie to claim as the
Israelis do, that they had a continuous presence in Palestine over the past 2000 years.
Because none existed

4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.

TRUTH: Arab domination in Palestine has been for 5000 years and not 22 years as the
Israelis unabashedly claim under various names and denominations. Beginning with the
Canaanites, they continued uninterruptedly to be the inhabitants of Palestine as part of the
great Syriac civilization in which the Jewish presence was a mere fossil, as professor
Toybee attests. The Arab conquest of 635 a.d was but one chapter followed by five Arab
and Islamic Empires, the Umayyad, the Abbassid, the Fatimid, the Ayubid, the Mameluk,
the Ottoman and lastly the British 1917-1948. Throughout all those continues Palestine was
Palestinian Arab- both Muslim and Christian with a mere handful of Jews not exceeding a
few hundred

5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital.

TRUTH: For over 5000 years Jerusalem has been the capital of Palestine within larger
Arab-Islamic conglomerates, but no Jewish presence until 1947-1948.
It was the capital of British mandated Palestine with its overwhelming Palestinian majority
until 1948, when the Jews usurped the land.

6- 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 never came to visit Jerusalem as a place of worship.

TRUTH: Jerusalem, in the Arab, Islamic and Christian heritage has been for too important
spiritually to be a mere capital. Even then, it was the great caliphs of Islam, foremost of
whom was the great Caliph Omar 14 centuries ago.

7- Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures.
Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

TRUTH: Jerusalem is mentioned in the Quran as the abode of the Aqsa Mosque and the
Dome of the Rock. It was the first Qibla in Islam to which the Muslim faithful turned then
faces in prayer even before Mecca. It was also the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad
made his natural journey to Heaven, to pray with all the other Prophets of God, in one of the
greatest ecumenical episodes in the history of mankind. And of course it is the most
revered to the Christian Palestinians who share with their Muslim brethren the eternal love
for Jerusalem and Palestine and a determination to return to their usurped homes and
homeland.

8- Arab and Jewish Refugees :In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel
by Arab leaders promising purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever
seeing an Israeli soldier.

TRUTH: It is acknowledged by the whole world that the Palestinian refugees were expelled
from their ancestral homeland, by Israeli acts of genocide, of which the Deer Yassin massacre
was but one. It is a blatant lie to suggest that they left at the urging of Arab governments.

On the other hand, the Jewish agency conspired to terrorize the Jewish communities to
leave their homelands in Arab countries by all means possible, fair and foul.
Today, the Arab countries are telling their former Jewish citizens that they are welcomed
back anytime.

The Israeli authorities are denying the repatriation of a single Palestinian refugee.

9- The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality,
persecution and pogroms.

TRUTH: The Jewish refugees themselves would not want to integrate in any country other than
their own for wanting to return to their Terra Santa?

10- 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

TRUTH: Concerning the Arab Israeli conflict. The Arabs are 22 countries and one nation
numbering (300) million people. The Jews are not a nation but a religion. Would an
American Jew, a British Jew, a French Jew and other Jews accept to be called a Jewish
nation? Are they willing to renounce their presents nationalities? Will they accept to live in
a Jewish theocracy? Let us ask them!

The Arab nations did not initiate any of the five wars. They were their victims. In 1947-48 the
Jewish terrorist organizations drove the Palestinian people by terror from their homeland.
Arab countries belatedly sent small contingents to save their remnants in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.

In 1956, Israel invaded Egypt in collusion with the then British and French governments.

On June 5, 1967 Israel launched an air attack on Egypt followed by an invasion in the
course of which it occupied the West Bank including Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and
Sinai. 1973 was the only war that Egypt and Syria launched, in order to liberate their
occupied territories in Sinai and the Golan Heights.

The Palestinian people have been struggling for decades to liberate their occupied
Palestinian territories including occupied Jerusalem.

In 1978 and 1982 Israeli forces invaded Lebanon and remained in occupation of its south
for 22 years when they were forced to withdraw by the brave resistance of the Lebanese
people.

11- 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 weapons.

TRUTH: The Palestinian authority has agreed to a two-state solution: a Palestinian state
and an Israeli state, with Jerusalem as the capital of both. The present onslaught on the
Palestinian people and authority is Sharon’s genocidal response to this solution. Palestine
is entitled to sovereign independence not tutelage under Israel; and the whole of the
territories occupied in 1967 and not part of, or most of. Occupation must never be
rewarded.

12- Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed
against Israel.

TRUTH: UN records are replete with security council resolutions (243) up to this date,
against Israel because of its aggressions, occupations and violations of human rights.
Similarly the close to 700 general assembly resolutions. Israel never complied with a single
one of them. Is it above the law?

13- The U.N. was silent, while the Jordanians destroyed 58 Synagogues in Jerusalem.

TRUTH: Jordan never destroyed “58” synagogues in Jerusalem because they never existed
except for two: the big synagogue and the small one, which were damaged in the fighting
when Israel attacked Arab Jerusalem on May 15, 1948, as were many churches and
mosques including Al-Aqsa Mosque.

14- The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish
cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

TRUTH: It is totally untrue to claim, as the Israeli's do, that the Jordanian's systematically
desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. Some citizens in the area
may have taken some stones without the knowledge or consent of government. But the
cemetery remained up to this day in tact.

This is so while Israeli authorities between 1948 and today have completely destroyed and
not simply desecrated hundreds of ancient Muslim and Christian cemeteries throughout
Palestine.

Incidentally the Mount of Olives cemetery is an Islamic Waqf land leased to the Israelis 100
years ago. The lease has lapsed.

15- 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.

TRUTH: The Jordanians prevented the Jews from visiting the wailing wall only because the
Israelis in spite of the armistice agreement of 1949 refused to repatriate the citizens of
Jerusalem to their homes in west Jerusalem, a mere few hundred yards. The Israelis also
refused to reopen the Jerusalem Bethlehem road, refused to restore water and electricity
to the remaining Arab quarters and adamantly resisted the will of the international
community. They continue to resist it today as the occupation of Palestinian cities shows
and the massacre of thousands of Palestinians, while the world watches in horror.