DBQ Israel

1. UN Partition Plan of 1947

2. Palestinian Patriarch

CATHOLIC CHURCH SLAMS ISRAEL IN CHRISTMAS MESSAGE http://www.haaretzdaily.com (A newspaper published in Israel) 12/25/02 Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch issued a strong appeal in a Christmas Midnight Mass for an end to strife and freedom for Palestinians from Israeli occupation. Speaking to a packed congregation in the Roman Catholic Saint Catherine's church, adjoining the Church of the Nativity, Patriarch Michel Sabbah told Israelis: "Blood has been flowing in your cities and streets, but the key to solving this conflict is in your hands. By your actions so far, you have crushed the Palestinian people but you still have not achieved peace." The chair Sabbah reserved for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was empty, as Israel for the second consecutive year prevented him from traveling to Bethlehem at Christmas. Sabbah, himself a Palestinian and the Vatican's senior representative in the Holy Land, addressed the empty chair which Arafat - although a Muslim - has occupied since his return to the territories in 1994. "We wish you were with us tonight, and we call on God to give you the wisdom and the power under this siege to continue your mission toward peace and justice," Sabbah said. On the chair was a sign in English reading: "His Excellency Yasser Arafat, President of the State of Palestine," framed by a drawing of the Palestinian flag.

3. Arab World vs. Israel

The day after the establishing of Israel (May 14th, 1948), five Arab armies (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq) attacked. The Israeli army had 18.000 soldiers, with a total of 13.000 guns. After 15 months and over 6,000 Israeli deaths, the UN helped negotiate armistice agreements. The war, forced upon Israel, caused thousands of Arabs living in battle zones to abandoned their homes as refugees - which continues to increase international sympathy for the Palestinian cause.

4. Small Israel

Source: The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin Long and narrow in shape, the country is about 290 miles (470 km.) in length and 85 miles (135 km.) in width at its widest point. It is about 9 miles wide at its narrowest point.

5. Death to Realtors

On death for land dealers: "Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. It is our right to defend our land." (Yediot Achronot, May 21,1997) Yasser Arafat

6. Arafat's Jihad

"When we stopped the Intifada we did not stop the Jihad [Islamic holy war] to establish Palestine with Jerusalem as our capital.... We know only one word: Jihad, Jihad, Jihad.... We are in a conflict with the Zionist movement, the Balfour Declaration, and all imperialist activity...." --- Yasser Arafat, in a speech at the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, 22 October 1996. The Balfour Declaration was Britain's 1917 statement of support for a Jewish national home in the land of Israel.

7. Olso and murder of Israelis

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Loge/7748/terror.html

In the 1993 Oslo Accords with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (under Yasser Arafat) agreed to stop the violence, arrest terrorists, dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, collect illegal weapons and end incitement to violence.

8. Excerpts from a wall street journal editorial

"Critics [of Israel's anti-terror partition fence] complain that part of the barrier runs through Palestinian territory and will only increase resentment among Palestinians, fueling more suicide attacks. But it seems unlikely that Hamas and Islamic Jihad need any extra motivation to kill. Exterminating Israel in any shape or form is their raison d'etre. Conventional wisdom to the contrary, it's not occupation that drives terrorism, but terrorism that keeps occupation alive. "If statehood is what Arafat wants, he could have had it over three years ago. Instead, he responded to the generous Clinton-Barak land-for-peace offer with an unprecedented wave of terror. "Consider this excerpt from a Palestinian TV talk show with two 11-year-old girls as an illustration of what really drives the Palestinian death cult. 'What is better,' the hosts ask, 'peace and full rights for the Palestinian people or shahada ( death for Allah).' 'Shahada,' is the unequivocal answer of one girl. The other explains: 'We don't want this world, we want the Afterlife.'" (Gaza First," Review & Outlook, Wall St. Journal, February 6, 2004)

9. Child's Intifada

http://www.operationsick.com/video/hatredfromthecradle.asp "Early in the current intifada, children acted as decoys, burning tires and shooting slingshots to attract the television cameras while making it harder for the world to identify the gunmen lying in ambush. Knowing that Israeli soldiers are ordered not to shoot live ammunition at children, Palestinian snipers hide among groups of youngsters, on rooftops or in alleys, often using kids as shields when aiming at exposed IDF soldiers. On some occasions, these gunmen apparently have inadvertently shot Palestinian children from behind. Recently, Abu Mazen, a senior Arafat aide who is the Secretary General of the PLO executive, criticized the tactics of terrorist organizations in Gaza. Abu Mazen told a Kuwaiti newspaper interviewer, "I am against little children going out to die. It is a terrible thing. At least 40 children in Rafah [in the Gaza Strip] lost their arm from the throwing of Bangalore torpedoes [a form of pipe bomb]. They received 5 shekels [approximately $1] in order to throw them."2 Also, IDF soldiers who participated in the Defensive Shield operation reported that children were sometimes left behind to trigger booby-traps that terrorists set for troops." http://www.operationsick.com/articles/20021001_pachildrecruitjust.asp

10. Suicide for Allah

PALESTINIAN MOTHER PROUD TO SEND SON ON SUICIDE MISSION Um Nadil, a Palestinian mother, encouraged her son, a Hamas operative, to carry out a suicide terrorist attack against an Israeli target. In an interview on Al Jazeera television, she explains her Islamic perspective and her motives as a mother who "sacrificed" her child. Here is an excerpt of the transcript from Al Jazeera: I gave him [my son] as a gift and we sacrificed him to Allah and to his religion [Islam], in order to maintain his religion and to make sure that his slogan will be spread all over Palestine and all over the world. I talked my son into sacrificing himself for Allah, and he was more than willing to do so. All the children of Palestine, the Palestinian youths and the teenagers are crying, consumed with passion and eager for Jihad, for Allah and for suicide terror attacks. It is not, at it has been said, out of desperation of [this] life, but out of an expectation for a better one" (IMRA) Sept 25, 2002

11. Money for Martyrs

Two Years On--Still Exploiting Children By Prof. Justus Reid Weiner, INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS, Tuesday, October 01, 2002 Martyrs - people who die for the sake of jihad (holy war) and Islam - are held in such high regard by the Palestinian people that at times parents accept the death of their children as a badge of pride. Parents of toddlers proudly recount their little children saying they want to become martyrs, and a father of a 13-year-old said, "I pray that God will choose him" to be a martyr. One mother told a journalist from the (London) Times, "I am happy that he [her 13-year-old son] has been martyred. I will sacrifice all my sons and daughters (12 in all) to Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem." A photograph in the Jerusalem Post on February 26, 2002, showed Palestinian fathers teaching a group of toddlers and young children to properly hold assault rifles while trampling on American and Israeli flags. Another reason Palestinian parents allow and even encourage their children to get involved is the financial incentive offered to families of "martyrs." Thus, the Palestinian Authority furnishes a cash payment - $2,000 per child killed and $300 per child wounded. Saudi Arabia announced that it had pledged $250 million as its first contribution to a billion-dollar fund aimed at supporting the families of Palestinian martyrs. In addition, the Arab Liberation Front, a Palestinian group loyal to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, pays generous bounties to the injured and the families of the dead according to the following sliding scale: $500 for a wound; $1,000 for disability; $10,000 to the family of each martyr; and $25,000 to the family of every martyr suicide bomber - lavish sums, given the chronic unemployment and poverty of the majority of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. One Palestinian Authority television program clip, aimed at young viewers, features a boy killed in Gaza arriving in heaven where there are beaches, waterfalls, and a Ferris wheel. He is saying, "I am not waving goodbye, I am waving to tell you to follow in my footsteps." On the accompanying soundtrack a song plays, "How pleasant is the smell of martyrs, how pleasant the smell of land, the land enriched by the blood, the blood pouring out of a fresh body." The Palestinian Authority's Deputy Minister of Education, Naim Abu Humus, called on school administrators to dedicate the first class to praying for the souls of those killed during the intifada, saying, "Today we glorify Al-Aqsa and Palestine, and remember the Palestinian martyrs." Signs on the walls of kindergartens proclaim their students as "the shaheeds [martyrs] of tomorrow," and elementary school teachers and principals commend their young students for wanting to "tear their [Zionists'] bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know." Posters in university classrooms proudly remind the world that the Palestinian cause is armed with "human bombs." Sheik Hassan Yosef, a leading Hamas member, summarized this process of incitement by saying, "we like to grow them from kindergarten through college."

12. Koran on Violence

From the Koran: "Strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies" (8:60); "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, smite them above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. It is not you who slew them; it was Allah" (8:12,17). "And fight those who have not faith in Allah nor in the hereafter and who forbid not what God and his Prophet have forbidden, and who are not committed to the religion of truth" (9:29); "O Prophet, fight the disbelievers and hypocrites" (9:73); "Fight the people of the book (Christians and Jews), who do not accept the religion of the truth (Islam)" (9:29);

13. US President Reagan for Israel and against a Palestinian State

From then President Reagan: I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again. .... Beyond the transition period, as we look to the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it is clear to me that peace cannot be achieved by the formation of an independent Palestinian state in those territories, nor is it achievable on the basis of Israeli sovereignty or permanent control over the West Bank and Gaza. So, the United States will not support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, and we will not support annexation or permanent control by Israel. ... Finally, we remain convinced that Jerusalem must remain undivided, but its final status should be decided through negotiation. ... Tonight, on the eve of what can be a dawning of new hope for the people of the troubled Middle East -- and for all the world's people who dream of a just and peaceful future -- I ask you, my fellow Americans, for your support and your prayers in this great undertaking. Thank you, and God bless you. Address to the Nation on United States Policy for Peace in the Middle East www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1982/90182d.htm Address was broadcast live on nationwide radio and television at 6PM, September 1, 1982

14. Bible on Promised Land

God say to Abram, "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Genesis 12:3). "And the Lord said to Abram ... all the land which you see, I give to you and your descendants forever." (Genesis 13:15). "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates." (Genesis 15:18). "And Abraham said unto God, 'Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!' And God said, 'Sarah, thy wife, shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shall call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes he shall beget, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac...'" (Gen. 17: 18-21) Hagar and her son Ishmael were pushed out into a hot barren wilderness at Sarah's request. But they were not alone. Earlier the Angel of the Lord had given Hagar's son a name that means "God will hear" (Genesis 16:11). Now in response to their cries, Heaven responded tenderly to their tears (Genesis 21:17-20). God assured Hagar that He had heard the voice of Ishmael and that He would make him a great nation. The assurance came, however, with a troubling prophecy. The Lord who loved Hagar went on to say of her son, "He shall be a wild man (literally, a 'wild donkey'); his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren" (Genesis 16:12). "The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, at Jericho. Saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: when you cross the Jordan to the land of Canaan you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you; and you shall destroy all their prostration stones; and all their molten images shall you destroy and all their high places shall you demolish. You shall possess the land and you shall settle it. For to you have I given the land to possess it. But, if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those of them who you leave shall be pins in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you upon the land in which you dwell." (Numbers 33:50-53,55). When the tribes of Israel were about to enter the promised land, the Lord said to Moses, "This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants"' (Deuteronomy 34:4).

15. Hate Video

One of the potent means used by the Palestinians to indoctrinate children to hate Israelis is the repeated broadcasting on Palestinian TV of Hate-filled Music Videos depicting Israelis as murderers, especially of children and the elderly. One of the new Palestinian Music Videos which has been broadcast regularly since January 2003 includes the following scenes, acted out by Palestinian actors: 1. It opens with a laughing girl on a swing, which turns into a burning swing and burning child's rocking horse. The implication is that Israelis attack children at play, leaving behind burning swings and burning rocking horses. 2. A father reads his young son a section from the Koran calling to fight the enemies. 3. The father hands his young son a stone to throw at Israelis. 4. A bomb is hidden [by Israel] inside a soccer ball and blows up when a child kicks it. 5. Actors depict Israeli soldiers murdering an elderly man by shooting him in the head. 6. A mother and her infant are blown up by Israeli soldiers. Windows Media Player format. http://www.pmw.org.il/video/rockinghorse56k.asx (56k download speed) http://www.pmw.org.il/video/rockinghorseadsl.asx (ADSL download speed) [Just skip this document if the video is not accessible. Access is difficult at times.]