Why is Israel Suspicious of the United Nations?

1. Of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
2. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
3. The UN was silent when 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
4. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
5. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
6. The UN was silent while for 18 months Israel was terrorised by indiscriminate suicide bombing campaign unleashed by PA leadership.
7. There are 54 Muslims countries in the UN. As well as many more are others Arab oil dependant states.
8. Israel is the ONLY MEMBER OF THE UN THAT IS NOT PERMITTED MEMBERSHIP ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL.
9. Israel is the only country excluded from the U.N.'s regional group system. Since Israel does not belong to any group, it is the only country of 190 member states that is not eligible to serve on the numerous U.N. commissions.
10. In recent years, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has annually passed five resolutions condemning Israel. This year, they passed seven. By contrast, each of the following countries/regions has been the subject of only one resolution: Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Russia/Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Southeast Europe and Sudan.
11. Nov. 29 is the United Nations Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People. No other people has a U.N. Day of Solidarity.
12. Israel is the only state to which a special investigator with "an open-ended mandate to inspect its human rights record" is assigned by the U.N.
13. It is the only state targeted by two special committees and special units of the U.N. Secretariat ostensibly devoted to the Palestinians but in reality dedicated to Israel-bashing worldwide, costing millions of dollars a year.
14. UNIFIL, the U.N. force stationed on the Israel-Lebanon border, hid a videotape of Israeli soldiers being abducted by Hezbollah in October 2000. After finally admitting to having the tape, the U.N. would only show an edited version (in which Hezbollah faces were hidden) to the Israeli government.
15. UNESCO, in Paris, began passing resolutions about protection of Jerusalem holy sites and access for Muslims in 1968. No resolutions about protection or Jewish access were passed from 1946 to 1967 when Jordan controlled Jerusalem and barred Jews from entering.

Israel-Facts Everybody Should Know!

Some of this may look familiar, that is because a condensed version of the facts below can be found here.

The term "Palestinian" is itself a masterful twisting of history. To portray themselves as indigenous, Arab settlers adopted the name of an ancient Mediterranean tribe, the Philistines ("Invaders" in Hebrew), that died out over almost 3000 years ago. The connection between this tribe and modern day Arabs is nil. Romans, in order to conceal their shame and anger with rebellious regions, changed the references to Judea and Samaria by naming them Palestine.

1. Nationhood and Jerusalem - Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
2. Since 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for 1,000 years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
3. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.
4. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
5. 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.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
7. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray facing Mecca (often with their backs toward Jerusalem).
8. In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune, Jews constituted two-thirds of the population of that holy city. (The source: A journalist on assignment in the Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes, that Karl Marx.)
9. In 1867, Mark Twain took a tour of Palestine. This is how he described that land: A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw a human.
10. In 1882, official Ottoman Turk census figures, in the entire Land of Israel, there were only 141 000 Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab.
11. A travel guide to Palestine and Syria, published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker; The book estimates the total population of the city at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.
12. As the Jews came and drained the swamps and made the deserts Arabs followed. They came for jobs, for prosperity, for freedom. And, they came in large numbers.
13. In 1922, with the illegal separation of Transjordan, the Jews were forbidden to settle on almost 77% of the disputed territory, while Arab settlement went unrestricted by British.
14. Prior to the Second World War Mojli Amin, a member of the Arab Defense Committee for Palestine, proposed the idea "that all the Arabs of Palestine will leave and be divided up amongst the neighboring Arab countries. In exchange for this, all the Jews living in Arab countries will leave and come to Palestine."
15. Did you know that Saudi Arabia was not created until 1913, Lebanon until 1920? Iraq did not exist as a nation until 1932, Syria until 1941; the borders of Jordan were established in 1946 and Kuwait in 1961. Any of these nations that would say Israel is only a recent arrival would have to deny their own rights as recent arrivals as well. They did not exist as countries. They were all under the control of the Turks. Over 80% of the original British Mandate land was given to Arabs without population transfer.
16. In 1947, the Jewish state huddled on 18% of the original British Mandate land. The Jews accepted it gratefully. The Arabs rejected it with a vengeance and seven Arab states immediately declared war against Israel.
17. In 1948, the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Most of them left in fear of being killed by their own Arab brothers as traitors.
18. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab countries due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
19. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is claimed to be around 630,000 (where did they get this number?). The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.
20. From 1948 till 1967 Arabs made no attempt to create the Palestinian state. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews and Christians 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.
21. Arab refugees began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967 only, after Israel captured Judea, Samaria and Gaza,
22. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, Arab-Palestinians 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.
23. Arab refugees INTENTIONALLY were not absorbed or integrated by the rich Arab oil states that control 99.9 percent of the Middle East landmass. They are kept as virtual prisoners by the Arab power brokers with misplaced hatred for Jews and Western democracy.
24. There is only one Jewish state. There are 54 Muslim countries including 22 Arab nations.
25. The PLO.'s Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.
26. Pan-Arabism or idea of Arab Caliphate declares that all land that used to belong to Arabs must be returned to Arabs.

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General Assembly resolution 181, of Nov. 29, 1947:

It calls for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem to be controlled by a "special international regime" to protect its holy places. The Zionist movement seeking to establish a Jewish state accepted the partition, the Arabs rejected it. The resolution was not carried out: After Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, war broke out pitting the embryonic state against surrounding 7 Arab states. Israel gained more land than it would have had under the partition resolution. Neither Israel nor Jordan, which controlled the divided parts of Jerusalem after the war, accepted control of the holy city by an international body.

Security Council resolution 242, Nov. 22, 1967:

It calls for "withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied" in the 1967 Six Day War and for "respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." The resolution was not carried out because the Arab side did not recognize Israel, and Israel refused to withdraw.

Israel maintains that since the resolution speaks of "territories" and not "the territories" it does not mean withdrawal from all the occupied lands; opponents counter this by pointing to the resolution's preamble which speaks of "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." .

Donīt Prevent Israeli Self-Defense

State Departmentīs strategy of trying to appease the Arab world by pressuring Israel to refrain from fighting back forcefully against Arab-Palestinian terrorism. Incredibly, despite Yasser Arafatīs eighteen month-long terrorist war against Israel, the State Department still sees him as a partner for peace.

Here is how Powell has described his philosophy of how the United States should respond to its enemies:

• "īThe biggest s.o.b. on the blockī rule. America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all." (Time, April 19, 2001).
• "Go in full force from the beginning rather than escalate yourself into a quagmire. Or donīt go in at all." (Slate Magazine,March 27, 1999).
• "Overwhelming U.S. force assures success at minimum risk to Americans in uniform." (Boston Globe, Jan. 19, 2001).

Israel has not used "full force" or "overwhelming force" - to quote Powellīs description of his recommended methods - even though the murders, injuries and fears which its citizens have endured from the Palestinian Arabs is far worse than anything Americans have faced. Nearly 300 Israelis have been murdered in the past 18 months and thousands more have been wounded.

Red Cross vs Magen David Adom - Silent 'Evil'

Tuesday, October 30, 2001; The Washington Post. Page A21 (shorten) Dr. Bernadine Healy's resignation as president of the American Red Cross is a tragedy... Healy, shortly after she took office, discovered that the American Red Cross had acquiesced for decades in the policy of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to oppose accepting Magen David Adom as a legitimate emblem of the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross.

"The refusal of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to reverse its long-standing opposition to accepting Magen David Adom as a legitimate emblem of the Israeli Red Cross equivalent is, and has been from the inception of this exclusionary policy, immoral. As such it has no place in an organization which purports to be philanthropic in its purposes, and caring for the least of us in its practices.

". . . At a time when the United States and the civilized world are at war with extremism, it would be an inexcusable mistake for a leading humanitarian organization like the American Red Cross to succumb to political pressure and drop its principled opposition to policies of exclusion and intolerance."

As a result of this, whenever YOU receive a letter from the Red Cross soliciting funds, Please, send a note back in their post-paid envelope stating that, since Israel's Magen David Adom is not recognized by the organization, until this wrong is corrected YOU will withhold any contributions and will advise everyone I know to do the same.

If you agree please send this to everyone on your list. It may help get Magen David Adom on the funded list of that organization and they sorely need the help. It's like chicken soup.... it couldn't hurt! By being silent during the WWII Red Cross facilitated the Holocaust. It is the time to fight back and show the real faces of another 'Evil'.