THINK-ISRAEL features essays and commentaries that provide context for current events in Israel. The war Islam is waging against Israel and the West is top priority. We report on global anti-Semitism, Islamism and creeping Sharia.We aim to make sense of what's going on.
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A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago, the year
was 1 A.D. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone
Age.
If you make one dollar every second, you will have a million dollars in twelve days. You will be a billionaire in 32 years. It will take you more than 31,000 years to make a trillion dollars. The politicians can spend that much in a Washington minute. Return to Top |
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We are told that there is a difference between extremist Islam and
peaceloving normal Islam. Judging by their behavior, Muslims are anti-West, anti-Democracy, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Buddhist, and anti-Hindu. Muslims are involved in 25 of some 30 conflicts going on in the world: in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, East Timor, India, Indonesia (2 provinces), Kashmir, Kazakastan, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Macedonia, the Middle East, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Sudan, Russia-Chechnya, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan. Doesn't this mean that extremist Islam is the norm and normal Islam is extremely rare? Muslims NOT involved in: Northern Ireland, province of Vojvodina in Serbia (serbian orthodox/catholics), Sri Lanka, Tibet (buddhists/communists), basque separatist (catholic/catholic), columbia civil war (drugs). Need to add Azerbaijan (vs Armenia), Burundi, Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Middle East divides into lebanon, israel) Return to Top |
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"The Palestinian people does not
exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for
continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab
unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians,
Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical
reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people,
since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a
distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. "For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." (PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977, interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.)The Palestinian leadership, including Ahmed Shukar and Yasir Arafat, has openly admitted Palestinian "peoplehood" is a fraud; Read This. Return to Top |
"It should be remembered that in 1918, with
the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France were handed
more than 5,000,000 square miles to divvy up and 99+% was given to
the Arabs to create countries that did not exist previously. Less
than 1% was given as a Mandate for the re-establishment of a state for the Jews
on both banks of the Jordan River. In 1921, to appease the
Arabs once again, another three quarters of that less than 1% was given to a
fictitious state called Trans-Jordan."
(Jack Berger, May 31, 2004.)
Freeman Center Broadcast, "It's Time To End The Occupation"
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The total for all the 22 Arab League countries is 6,145,389 square miles(SM).
By comparison, all 50 states of the United States have a total of 3,787,318 SM.
Israel has 8,463 SM, about one-sixth of that of the State of Michigan.
Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan are Muslim but not Arab and are not included. World Arab population: 300 million; World Jewish population: 13.6 million; Israel's Jewish population: 5.4 million. (reference: Dr.Wilbert Simkovitz, http://dehai.org/archives/dehai_news_archive/apr04/0223.htmldehai.org/ archives/dehai_news_archive/apr04/0223.html) Return to Top |
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"It has no heart. It has no spine. Its mouth serves as its anus. It
has a diffuse net of nerves instead of a brain. Is it a jelly fish or
an Israeli politician? Pick one. Whichever one you picked, you were
right."
(Eliezar Edwards, June 20, 2005.)
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To Israeli Secularists: "You want a normal country, like
everybody else? I will tell you how. Forget ads featuring bikini-clad
hotsies. Forget promoting "alternative" life styles. The secret is to
adopt the right attitude. A normal country doesn't give up an inch of
land that belongs to it. A normal country doesn't let its citizens go
hungry while it feeds its enemy and gives them medical care. A normal
country doesn't let foreigners take over its holy sites; Hebron, the Temple Mount, Joseph's Tomb. Looking at what counts, it's
the religious Jews of Samaria and Judea and the Golan that are acting
normal, not you." (Eliezar Edwards, March 20, 2008.) Return to Top |
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Some 900,000 Jews left behind $300 billion in assets when they were
forced to flee for their lives from the Arab countries in the 1940s.
They hold deeds for five times Israel's size. (Independent Media Centre, Winnipeg.) Return to Top |
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"A Palestinian State? You want that? OK. BUT not in Israel. No
way. Not now. Not ever. Put this Arab state in Dubai or Kuwait or
Saudi Arabia or Libya or Syria. Make it big. Fill it with the Po' Arab
"refugees". And with the Arabs of Gaza and Samaria and Judea (AKA West
Bank). And treasonous Arabs who have Israeli citizenship. Build a big
fence around it. Let them learn to develop the infrastructure of a
state. Or let them destroy themselves, if that's what they prefer. If
they ever become civilized, then it's time to consider letting them
join the human race." (Eliezar Edwards, August, 2008.) For an early excellent solution,read Eli E. Hertz, "The U.S. Congress in 1922," here. Return to Top |
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"What is ironic is that Israel belongs exclusively to the Jews by
International Law. (Google Think-Israel for articles by Howard Grief,
Yoram Shifftan, Wallace Brand, for the legal basis of Israel's ownership of
Israel and the Territories.) So why do the Arabs insist the land is
theirs? Because the Jews have been so crazy for peace, they have been
willing to share, to give up pieces of their tiny country, for a piece
of paper. The Arabs created a phony people in 1964, called the
"Palestinians" and blanketed the world with the mantra that they were
the Palestinians and Palestine was theirs. There has not ever been a
country or a state called Palestine. There have been Palestinians.
During the time of the British Mandate — from 1922 to 1948 — the Jews
called where they lived Palestine. They played music in the Palestine
Philharmonic. They read the Palestine Post (now the Jerusalem
Post.) As the Palestine Brigade, they fought in the British Army
in World War 2. The Arabs also fought hard — for Hitler." (Eliezar Edwards, December, 2008.) Return to Top |
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"... during the late 1940s, more than 40 million refuges around the
world were resettled, except for one people. They [Palestinian arabs] remain defined as
refugees, wallowing 60 years later in 59 UNRWA refugee camps, financed
by $400 million contributed annually by nations of the world to
nurture the promise of the "right of return" to Arab neighborhoods and
Arab villages from 1948 that no longer exist." (Noam Bedein, Jerusalem Post, January 6, 2009.) Return to Top |
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"By 1920 the Ottoman Empire had exercised undisputed sovereignty over
Palestine for 400 years. In Article 95 of the treaty of Sevres, that
sovereignty was transferred to England in trust for a national
homeland for the jews. The local Arabs had never exercised sovereignty
over Palestine and so they lost nothing. Their rights were fully
protected by a provisio in the grant: '...it being clearly understood
that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious
rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...' The
proviso has been fully observed by the Israelis.
Since 1950 the Arabs
have built some 261 new settlements in Judea and Samaria — more than
twice as many as the Jews, but you never hear of them. They fill them
with Arabs from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and by the grace of God they
become Palestinians. Allahu Akbar! The Arabs call Judea "the West
Bank' because they would look silly claiming that Jews are illegally
living in Judea." (Comment by Wallace Brand on Martin Peretz "Narrative Dissonance" The New Republic, July 1, 2009.) Return to Top |
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Within less than a century, between 7 million and 10 million Balkan
refugees have been uprooted from their homes. After WW2, between
12-16 million Germans were forced out of Sudentenland
(Czechoslovakia), Romania, Hungary and Poland into Germany; many of
them had not supported the Nazis during the war. 14 million people
were exchanged between Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan. In 1994,
540,000 Moslems fled Christian Armenia for Azerbaijan and 360,000
Armenian Christians fled Azerbaijan for Armenia. As Israel did with
the Jewish refugees from Arab countries, Armenia absorbed the
Christian refugees, while — just like the Arab refugees from Israel
— the Moslem refugees languish in Azerbaijani refugee camps. From
the late '80s on, 75,000 non-Moslem blacks from Mauritania were exiled
to Senegal and Mali, while 75,000 Arabs fled to Mauritania. Ethnic
conflicts in the Sudan continue — between Muslim Arabs and black
animists in the South; and between Muslim Arabs and black Muslims in
Darfur. 3 t0 4 million black farmers of Darfur have fled
Arab-dominated Khartoum, where some 200,000 to 400,000 black Muslims
have already been killed. Cyprus has been split between Christian
Greeks and Moslem Turks; this included a population exchange, where
200,000 Greeks and 50,000 Turks were shifted. Even before Israel
became a state and increasingly after that, more than 800,000 Jews
were forced to flee the Arab countries, where many of them had lived
way before the Arabs Conquest; most of them came to Israel. Starting
even before the Arabs invaded Israel when it became a state in 1948,
Arabs left to avoid the coming war. They fled in fear incited by their own
press or were forced by their leaders to leave Israel. The Arabs
claim 650,000-750,000 up to a million refugees, while the UN Acting
Mediator in October, 1948 (unispal.un.org) set it at 472,000, of
which 360,000 required aid (UNRWA is now supporting 4.5 million of
their "descendants".) Of all the refugees, only these Arabs have
demanded the right of return. (Data mostly taken from Ben-Dror Yemini, MidEast Truth Forum, January 15, 2009.) See also the Addendum here.) Return to Top |
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Re Israel's ownership of Israel, Golan, Samaria, Judea and Gaza:
"Nothing that Israel's legal system says can change the facts
that: (1) the legal binding document is the Mandate of the League
of Nations and (2) the obligations of the Mandate are valid in
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"Well, a reader reminded me that there is something Muslims and the media
like to call Islamophobia. In rebuttal, though, I pointed out that
Islamists are ignorant, blood-thirsty cretins, and there is nothing
irrational about being terrified of these sociopathic Neanderthals. They
are creatures, barely human, after all, who have apparently decided that
having explosives surgically implanted in their bodies is one swell way
of expressing their religious faith." (Burt Prelutsky, July 2011.) Return to Top |
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"After all, distilled and in the eyes of the non-believer, Sharia law is nothing
less than a legal system built atop the words and deeds of a 7th century Arab,
whose behavior — from pedophilia and sex-slavery to war mongering and
plundering — was very much that of a 7th century Arab. Having enticed or
enslaved his contemporaries into following him, his teachings continue to
entice and enslave their descendants; and, now as then, it is always the
innocent who suffer." (Raymond Ibrahim. July 21, 2011.) Return to Top |
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Re a Palestinian Arab State:
"So the question is, why is it so important that these particular Arabs,
who have given the world so much — airline hijacking, suicide bombings
with rat-poison laced shrapnel, the Qassam rocket — should have a state
of their own?
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They are mostly the descendents of Arabs from Syria and Egypt who moved
to Palestine during the latter part of the 19th century and the Mandate
period, mostly to take advantage of better economic conditions there —
thanks to the Zionists — than in their homelands.
In the years since 1948, and particularly since 1967, they have created
a mythology of a 'Palestinian' civilization that extends back hundreds,
indeed thousands, of years. But that's what it is, a myth. 'History'
invented from whole cloth." (Daniel Greenfield "The Palestinian Muslim Money Hole".) Return to Top |