This article was inspired by a Muslim Arab who considers himself to be Palestinian. He first challenged some data in the following article:
The Arabs in the Holy Land – Natives or Aliens?
A legal battle lasting 22 years involving land purchased 74 years ago by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) ended this week when Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that JNF is indeed the rightful owner of the 522 dunam tract in Gush Etzion, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday. A three-judge panel rejected an appeal filed by Palestinians against the decision of the Jerusalem District Court, which likewise ruled that the JNF was the owner of the land. Kibbutz Ein Tzurim was established on the land, which was purchased in 1944, but the kibbutz was destroyed in 1948 and the Jordanians took control of
Read More +Jewish land bought and paid for. From Disputed Jerusalem Neighborhood Built on Jewish Land: Israel’s Ministry of Construction and Housing this week invited contractors to bid on a contract to build 307 new housing units in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. Har Homa is a neighborhood inside the Jerusalem city limits, at the edge of PA-controlled Bethlehem, that has more than 1,000 dwellings, housing some 6,000 residents. Har Homa sits on 210 acres of land that Jews purchased from local Arab landowners in the 1920s. It is therefore Jewish-owned land, said Israel Kimhi of the Jerusalem Institute for
Read More +I received the following comment from Anonymous, who responded to my post “Video: Stand up to Ahmadinejad“: Your blog said I might contact you and that if I were nice you would be nice back. I need some counseling. I am a Jew. My father was a cantor. My brother is a cantor. And I studied, albeit only for a while, for the rabbinate. I was raised a Zionist. I went to many Zionist camps and sang all the joyous Zionist songs. I loved being a Zionist and a Jew. As I grew up, my family, though they never had
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Read More +Every day we hear assertions that Israel is occupying Palestinian land. This is, of course, propaganda of the first order, since there is no such thing as Palestinian land, and to use that phrase is to promote a blatantly political, anti-Israel agenda. The excellent article below, by Lawrence Auster, lays bare the historical facts of the matter: Israel has never taken land from the Palestinians, and the Palestinians have no legal claim to Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) or Gaza. We urge you, whenever you see unquestioning reports of ”Palestinian land“, to write your editor with clarification. This article
Read More +According to British government statistics, prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, 8.6% of the land area now known as Israel was owned by Jews; 3.3% by Arabs who remained there; 16.5% by Arabs who left the country. More than 70% of the land was owned by the British Government. Under international law, ownership passed to Israel in 1948. The public lands included most of the Negev Desert –half of Palestine’s post-1922 total area. —Survey of Palestine, 1946, British Mandate Government ———————————————————————————- “At the end of World War I, some of Palestine’s land was owned by absentee landlords
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