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. More Facts
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East. Israel is tiny - 0.25% of what is considered "the Middle East"
(note that the "Middle East" does not mean the Arab world - there are
non-Arab countries in the Middle East such as Iran and Turkey, and Arab
countries outside of the Middle East, such as Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).
How can one country, Israel, as small as it is, be accused of being
responsible for the ills of the whole region? This is especially crazy
when considering that Israel is the only democracy in the region. Why
do the so-called enlightened intellectual elite condemn a tiny democracy and
then excuse the actions of the majority in the region from non-democracies?
It is beyond question, one of the travesties of our time!
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"We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem....All the rich Jews who will get compensation will travel to America....We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living in the West Bank and in Jerusalem....You understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian State....I have no use for Jews; they are and remain Jews." Yasser Arafat - Palestinian 'President', Jan. 30, 1996, Private speech to Arab leaders - "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel", Stockholm, Sweden More Quotes
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