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A TOUR OF PALESTINE; THE YEAR IS 1695 -> by Avi Goldreich © Copyright

(Translated from the Hebrew by Nurit Greenger.)

"The author Relandi, a real scholar, geographer, cartographer and well known philologist, spoke perfect Hebrew, Arabic and ancient Greek, as well as the European languages. The book was written in Latin. In 1695 he was sent on a sightseeing tour to Israel, at that time known as Palestina. In his travels he surveyed approximately 2500 places where people lived that were mentioned in the bible or Mishnah. His research method was interesting...

He first mapped the Land of Israel.

Not one settlement in the Land of Israel has a name that is of Arabic origin. Most of the settlement names originate in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Roman languages. In fact, till today, except to Ramlah, not one Arabic settlement has an original Arabic name. "

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Never Again? -> by Charles Krauthammer

Israel's Jewish population has just passed 5.6 million. America's Jewish population was about 5.5 million in 1990, dropped to about 5.2 million ten years later, and is in a precipitous decline that, because of low fertility rates and high levels of assimilation, will cut that number in half by mid-century. But there is a price and a danger to this transformation. It radically alters the prospects for Jewish survival. For 2,000 years, Jews found protection in dispersion - protection not for individual communities, which were routinely persecuted and massacred, but protection for the Jewish people as a whole. Decimated here, they could survive there.
Hitler demonstrated that modern anti-Semitism married to modern technology could take a scattered people and "concentrate" them for annihilation. Hitler's successors now reside in Tehran, where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised that Israel would be "eliminated by one storm." Former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the presumed moderate of this gang, has explained that "the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground."
Iran makes clear that if there is any trouble, the Jews will be the first to suffer. "We have announced that wherever [in Iran] America does make any mischief, the first place we target will be Israel," said Gen. Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani, a top Revolutionary Guards commander. Hitler had announced seven months before invading Poland that, if there was another war, "the result will be...the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." In 1938, in the face of the gathering storm - a fanatical, aggressive, openly declared enemy of the West, and most determinedly of the Jews - the world did nothing. (Washington Post)

British Archives: Nazi SS Agents in Mandatory Palestine Worked Closely with Palestinian Arab Leaders -> by Yaakov Lappin (Ynet News)

Documents in Britain's National Archives show that Nazi Germany attempted to ship arms to Palestinian forces in the 1930s. A British Foreign Office report from 1939 reports "news of a consignment of arms from Germany, sent via Turkey and addressed to Ibn Saud (king of Saudi Arabia), but really intended for the Palestine insurgents." Britain's chief military officer in Mandatory Palestine also noted reports "regarding import of German arms at intervals for some years now."

British documents said a number of Nazi agents were sent to Mandatory Palestine in order to forge alliances with Palestinian leaders, and urge them to reject a partition of the land between the Jewish and Arab populations.

One Nazi agent, Adam Vollhardt, arrived in Palestine in July 1938 and held several meetings with leading Arab politicians, telling them "that the Palestine question would be settled to the satisfaction of the Arabs within a few weeks."

"Germany was interested in the settlement of the (Palestine) question on the basis of the Arabs obtaining their full demands," Vollhardt told Palestinian leaders, according to a report by the British War Office. Vollhardt also assured Arab leaders that "the Germans could continue to support the Palestinian Arab cause by means of propaganda."

German documents revealed that in 1937, German officials had calculated that "Palestine under Arab rule would...become one of the few countries where we could count on a strong sympathy for the new Germany." "The Palestinian Arabs show on all levels a great sympathy for the new Germany and its Fuhrer, a sympathy whose value is particularly high as it is based on a purely ideological foundation," a Nazi official in Palestine wrote in a letter to Berlin in 1937.

German records show that the Nazis viewed the establishment of a Jewish state with great concern. A 1937 report from the German General Consulate in Palestine said: "The formation of a Jewish state...is not in Germany's interest because a (Jewish) Palestinian state would create additional national power bases for international Jewry such as, for example, the Vatican State for political Catholicism or Moscow for the Communists. Therefore, there is a German interest in strengthening the Arabs as a counterweight against such possible power growth of the Jews."

Historians: Nazis Planned Holocaust for Palestine -> by Thomas Krumenacker

Nazi Germany planned to expand the extermination of Jews beyond the borders of Europe and into British-controlled Palestine during World War Two, two German historians say. In 1942, the Nazis created a special "Einsatzgruppe," a mobile SS death squad, which was to carry out the mass slaughter of Jews in Palestine similar to the way they operated in eastern Europe. The director of the Nazi research center in Ludwigsburg, Klaus-Michael Mallman, and Berlin historian Martin Cueppers say an Einsatzgruppe was all set to go to Palestine and begin killing the roughly half a million Jews there at the time.
In the book Germans, Jews, Genocide: The Holocaust as History and the Present, published last month, they say "Einsatzgruppe Egypt" was standing by in Athens, ready to disembark for Palestine in the summer of 1942, attached to General Erwin Rommel's "Afrika Korps." The plan was for the 24 members involved in the death squad to enlist Palestinian collaborators so that the "mass murder would continue under German leadership without interruption." "The history of the Middle East would have been completely different and a Jewish state could never have been established if the Germans and Arabs had joined forces," the historians conclude. (Reuters/Boston Globe)

France fined for deporting Jews

"France's government and state railway have been ordered to pay compensation for deporting Jews during World War II.

The case was brought by people whose relatives were taken by train to a transit camp at Drancy near Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.

More than 75,000 French Jews were transported from the camp to death camps in Germany.

A court in Toulouse found the French state and the rail firm SNCF had been complicit in crimes against humanity..."

Between 1942 and 1944, some 76,000 French Jews were deported

Diary Fragment Tells of Efforts to Save Jews - Deborah Horan
In May 2003, a Washington lawyer was cleaning her basement when she came upon fragments of an old diary. Archivist Stephen Mize at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., found it to be a treasure trove: more than 10,000 pages chronicling one man's desperate attempts to help Europe's Jews escape the Nazis. James G. McDonald, high commissioner for refugees for the League of Nations and America's first ambassador to Israel, details meetings with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini as well as with Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII. McDonald writes that he feared the Nazis were planning as early as 1933 to annihilate the Jews of Europe.
"You really hear McDonald's frustration," Mize said. "He's going country to country trying to find safe haven for Jews and others who were persecuted by the Nazis. Time and time again he runs into leaders willing to offer sympathy but not action." McDonald pleads with Hitler himself to let the Jews emigrate. "Hitler responds by saying, look, other countries including the U.S. have shut Jews out of their country," Mize said. McDonald began his post as high commissioner for refugees in 1933, just as Hitler was coming to power. He resigned two years later after offering a "scathing collective indictment of the world for their indifference to the extirpation of the Jews from Europe," Mize said. (Chicago Tribune)

The Rescue of Danish Jews

"Denmark was the only occupied country that actively resisted the Nazi regime's attempts to deport its Jewish citizens. On September 28, 1943, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, secretly informed the Danish resistance that the Nazis were planning to deport the Danish Jews. The Danes responded quickly, organizing a nationwide effort to smuggle the Jews by sea to neutral Sweden."...

I-WAT new presentation in the memory of the 122 Israeli children slain by Palestinian-Arab terrorists (4 MB Power Point Presentation)

An Auschwitz Survivor Remembers

By Adam Phillips, New York 27 January 2005

A full 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, survivors of the horrors of the Nazi’s largest concentration camp continue to remind the world what happened there.

More than 1.2 million Jews, Roma and others lost their lives at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland -- systematically murdered with poison gas and cremated…or else starved to death. But Bronia survived.

She is a small woman, now in her mid-70s. A Polish-born Jew, she works in New York as a gallery guide at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: a Living Memorial to the Holocaust. At age 12, she and her sisters were sent to Auschwitz.

State of Israel: Protection of Holy Places Law, 1967

"The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings with regard to those places..."

How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?

"The myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem is that this land was "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine from the Arabs; they took it from the British, and the British don't want it back. Before that, it was a province of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, and the Turks don't want it back. So any Arab claim to sovereignty based on inherited historical control will not stand up. Arabs are not native to Palestine but come from Arabia, the historic home of the Arabs.
The Palestinian claim to be descended from Canaanites is an invention that came after the 1964 founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Prior to 1964 there was no "Palestinian" people and no "Palestinian" claim to Palestine; the Arab nations who sought to overrun and destroy Israel in 1948 planned to divide up the territory among themselves..." by - Lawrence Auster (FrontPageMagazine)

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Nationhood and Jerusalem Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., 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 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.

The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. 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 it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

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

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 encourage to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews Sixty-eight 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.

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.

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 peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.

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.

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.

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. We have to ask what our role should be. What will we tell our grandchildren we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?