Transcript “Deliberate extermination, total or partial, of a community, ethnic, racial or religious group” (source: Houaiss)

“Deliberate extermination, total or partial, of a
community, ethnic, racial or religious group”
(source: Houaiss)
LETS GO BACK IN
HISTORY
1700 B.C.E.
1300 B.C.E.
1000 B.C.E.
586 B.C.E.
332 B.C.E.
142 B.C.E.
63 B.C .E.–313
614-629
636-1099
1099-1516
1516-1917
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, patriarchs of Jewish people, settle in Israel.
Famine drives Israelites to Egypt.
Mosses leads Jews back to Israel.
King David names Jerusalem the capital.
Firm military borders of country very similar to today’s borders.
Babylonian conquest. Jews exiled for about 50 years but return under Persian rule.
Large Jewish population welcomes Alexander the Great.
Jewish autonomy established under Maccabees; Jerusalem
is again Jewish capital.
Roman rule. Millions of Jews live, worship in Judea and Jerusalem.
Persians and Byzantines rule. Jews live in Israel.
Arab conquest: Arabs ruled first from Damascus, then Baghdad, then Egypt.
Arabs never ruled from Jerusalem.
Crusaders, Muslims, Mamlukes fight for control. Jewish community in Jerusalem
throughout.
Ottoman Turks rule from Istanbul. 30,000 Jews in Safed by 1600;
Jewish villages throughout country.
MODERN HISTORY
1880 Jerusalem has outright Jewish majority.
1917 British and allies defeat Ottomans in WWI. “Balfour Declaration”
rewards Jewish war efforts with declaration of Jewish homeland in
what is today Jordan and Israel.
1923 “Mandate for Palestine” creates an independent Palestinian Arab state
called Jordan.
14 May 1948 the State of Israel
was proclaimed according to the
UN partition plan (1947)
UN Partition Plan:
Jewish State
Arab State
Arabs refuse and
declare war.
Egypt seizes Gaza,
Jordan seizes what
is called its “West
Bank.”
Israel admitted to
UN as 59th member.
24 Hours later
The regular armies of Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded the
country and launched a war of
annihilation against the State of Israel.
Their purpose was not to establish an
independent Palestine. Their aim was to
partition western Palestine amongst
themselves.
The “Independence War” last 15 months
and claimed over 6,000 Israeli lives
(nearly one percent of the country’s
Jewish population at that time).
1949
Five decades of Arab terrorism is
launched; before “occupation.”
1956 - Suez War
Egypt, Syria and Jordan launch attacks
against Israel from Sinai.
Israel captures Sinai and Gaza; returns
lands in hopes of securing
peace and promise of free navigation for
Israeli commerce.
Area Captured by Israel (1956)
and Returned (1957)
1964 - Palestine
Liberation Organization
While Jordan and Egypt hold the "territories," the PLO forms with the
goal of annihilating the State of Israel through violence and terror. In
the ensuing years, a rash of airplane hijackings, bombings and the
Munich Olympic Massacre bring the Palestinians media attention.
1967 - Six Day War
Arab armies surround Israel, declare
intention to destroy her. After
6 days of war, Israel captures West
Bank, Gaza, Sinai, Golan
Heights and Jerusalem.
Israel immediately offers to return
the conquered land in exchange for
peace. Meeting in Khartoum, the
Arab League issues the infamous
three NOes: "No peace with Israel.
No negotiations with Israel. No
recognition of Israel."
1973 - Yom Kippur War
On the holiest day of the Jewish
year, Egypt and Syria launch a
surprise attack. In the Golan, 180
Israeli tanks face an onslaught of
1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez
Canal, 500 Israeli soldiers are
attacked by 80,000 Egyptians. Israel
suffers heavy casualties, but wins the
war.
After three weeks, Israelis cross into
Egypt and Syria. Israel withdraws in
hopes of securing peace.
1978 - Camp David
Accords
Israel agrees to return the entire
Sinai Peninsula - constituting 80
percent of Israel's land mass - in
exchange for normalization of
relations with Egypt.
Exchange for permanent peace.
Israel wants peace.
1993 - Oslo Accords
Following a historic handshake
between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser
Arafat on the White House lawn, the
Oslo accords call for Israeli
recognition of the PLO, and a
Palestinian commitment to cease
violence and terror.
All throughout the 1990’s
Israel grants Palestinians rule over
98% of Arab population.
2000
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offers over 97 percent of the
territories, including eastern Jerusalem, for the creation of a
Palestinian state. Yasser Arafat refuses, and Palestinians launch
thousands of violent attacks against Israeli targets. Six months after
the violence begins, Ariel Sharon comes to power in a landslide
victory.
WHAT DOES HE WANT ?!
LETS HEAR THEIR LEADER
YASSER ARAFAT
“We know but one
word: Struggle,
struggle. Combat,
combat. Jihad,
Jihad, Jihad.”
Jihad is the Arab
cry for holy war. A
holy war undertaken
as a sacred duty to
Muslims.
"Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are
opposed to the ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth - not just a portion, but the
whole planet." And that God's Law (Shariah) should be enforced in the world "by force of arms."
Truth cannot be confined within geographical borders. "The allegiance of a Muslim does not rest
on his domicile in the country which is his, but on the faith to which he belongs ... wherever there
is the rule of Islam, there is his own country." - S.A.A. Maududi "Jihad in Islam", Lahore, 1991
Is there a chance for
PEACE
in the Middle East
?
ANSWER THESE
QUESTIONS
DO THEY REALLY WANT TO LIVE SIDE BY SIDE
WITH THE JEWS IN PEACE?
IS ISRAEL NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP
LANDS FOR PEACE?
ARE THE ARABS REALLY THE OPPRESSED?
IS ISRAEL A SORT OF “GOLIATH”, USING
EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST STONETHROWING PALESTINIANS?
THE MUSLIM WORLD COMPARED TO ISRAEL
MUSLIM COUNTRY
ISRAEL
STONES ONLY?
On May 7, 2001, Israeli patrols
discovered a vessel loaded with
weaponry bound for a PA-controlled
port. Furthermore, it was discovered
that this was at least the third time
that particular vessel had made a
weapons drop in the area.
Under the Oslo accords,
the PA is forbidden to
have mortars or rockets.
THE TRUTH
IS Israel a “land hungry” and “land grabbing” imperialist “Nazi” regime?
Israel comprises 0.3% of the Middle East; or one-third of one percent.
Arabs declared war on Israel in 1967. In 1978 Israel gave 80% of the land it
conquered to Egypt in return for peace.
December 23, 2000: Israel backed an offer to Arafat of 100% of Gaza;
95% of the West Bank; the Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem; and
$30 billion in international aid to help resettle refugees.
Jan. 2, 2001: Arafat rejected the offer.
Every government in the
world has the right to
defend it’s citizens.
SOURCES
100 Years in a Nutshell
http://www.israel-wat.com/land_eng2.htm
Israeli Wars Maps & History
http://www.unitedjerusalem.com/
The Real Story
http://arabterrorism.tripod.com/
MUSIC
“Scalerica de Oro”
Divahn
“Shabekhi Yerushalayim”
870
FOR THE MEMORY OF
PEOPLE WHO WERE
KILLED BY PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE AND
TERRORISM SINCE
SEPTEMBER 2000
RESEARCH, EDIT AND DESIGN
Rafael Bodill
September 25, 2003