From 1517-1917 Turkey's Ottoman Empire controlled a
vast Arab empire, a portion of which is today Lebanon,
Syria, and Palestine. During World War I (1914-1918),
Turkey supported Germany. When Germany was defeated,
so were the Turks. In 1916 control of the southern portion
of their Ottoman Empire was & mandated to France and
Britain under the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided
the Arab region into zones of influence. Lebanon and Syria
were assigned (mandated) to France... and Palestine
(today's Jordan, Israel and West Bank) was mandated to
Great Britain.

Because no other peoples had ever established a national
homeland in Palestine; since the Jews had done it 2,000
years before, the British looked favourably upon the
creation of a Jewish National Homeland throughout ALL of
Palestine. The Jews had already begun mass immigration
into Palestine in the 1880's in an effort to rid the land of
swamps and malaria and prepare for the rebirth of Israel.
This Jewish effort to revitalize the land attracted an equally
large immigration of Arabs from neighbouring areas who
were drawn by employment opportunities and healthier
living conditions. There was never any attempt to rid the
area of what few indigenous Arabs there were or those
Arab masses that immigrated into this area along with the
Jews!

In 1923, the British divided the Palestine portion of the
Ottoman Empire into two administrative districts. Jews
would be permitted only west of the Jordan river. In effect
the British had chopped 75% of the originally proposed
Jewish Palestinian homeland to form an Arab Palestinian
nation called Trans-Jordan (meaning across the Jordan
River). This territory east of the Jordan River was given to
Emir Abdullah (from Hejaz, now Saudi Arabia) who was not
even an Arab-Palestinian; This portion of Palestine was
renamed Trans-Jordan. Trans-Jordan would again be
renamed Jordan in 1946. In other words, the eastern 3/4 of
Palestine would be renamed TWICE, in effect, erasing all
connection to the name Palestine. However, the bottom
line is that the Palestinian Arabs had THEIR Arab
Palestinian homeland. The remaining 25% of Palestine
(now WEST of the Jordan River) was to be the Jewish
Palestinian homeland. However, sharing was not part of
the Arab psychological makeup then nor now.
Encouraged and incited by growing Arab nationalism
throughout the Middle East, the Arabs of that small
remaining Palestinian territory west of the Jordan River
launched never-ending murderous attacks upon the Jewish
Palestinians in an effort to drive them out. Most terrifying
were the Hebron massacres of 1929 and later during the
1936-39 Arab Revolt; The British at first tried to maintain
order but soon (due to the large oil deposits being
discovered throughout the Arab Middle East) turned a blind
eye. It became painfully clear to the Palestinian Jews that
they must fight the Arabs AND drive out the British.

The Palestinian Jews were forced to form an organized
defence against the Arabs Palestinians.... thus was formed
the Hagana, the beginnings of the Israeli Defence Forces
[IDF]. There was also a Jewish underground called the
Irgun led by Menachem Begin (who later became Prime
Minister of Israel). Besides fighting the Arabs, the Irgun
was instrumental in driving out the pro-Arab British.
Finally
in 1947 the British had enough and turned the Palestine
matter over to the United Nations.
The 1947 U.N. Resolution 181 partition plan was to divide
the remaining 25% of Palestine into a Jewish Palestinian
State and a SECOND Arab Palestinian State (Trans-Jordan
being the first) based upon population concentrations. The
Jewish Palestinians accepted... the Arab Palestinians
rejected. The Arabs still wanted ALL of Palestine... both
east AND west of the Jordan River.

Our Palestinian Cousins started the '48 war, and in so
doing released the warlike appetites of a nation of
survivors, a Jewish people with no place to run, who had
repressed their rage for millennia, and had now earned full
title to it!
On May 14, 1948 the Palestinian Jews; finally declared their
own State of Israel and became Israelis. On the next day,
seven neighbouring Arab armies... Egypt, Jordan, Syria,
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen... invaded Israel.
Most of the Arabs living within the boundaries of the newly
declared Israel; were encouraged to leave by the invading
Arab armies to facilitate the slaughter of the Jews and were
promised to be given all Jewish property after the
victorious Arab armies won the war. The truth is that 70%
of the Arab Palestinians who left in 1948 – perhaps
300,000 to 400,000 of them – never saw an Israeli soldier!
They did not flee because they feared Jewish thugs, but
because of a rational and reasonable calculus: the Jews will
be exterminated; we will get out of the way while that
messy and dangerous business goes forward, and we will
return afterwards to reclaim our homes, and to inherit
those nice Jewish properties as well.

They guessed wrong;
and the Arab Palestinians are still tortured by the residual
shame of their flight. Their shame is so great because in
their eyes running from Jews was like running from
women. So much for the blatant lie about Jews throwing
out all the [Palestinian] Arabs!
The remaining 30% either (1) saw for themselves that
these Jews would fight and die for their new nation and
decided to pack up and leave or (2) were driven off the
land as a normal consequence of war.
When the 19 month war ended, Israel survived despite a
1% loss of its entire population! Those Arabs who did not
flee became today's Israeli-Arab citizens. Those who fled
became the seeds of the first wave of Palestinian Arab
refugees.
The Arab propagandists and apologists almost never
mentioned that in 1948, Arab armies launched a war
against a one-day-old Israel. Instead he focused on the
main consequence of that war: the creation of Arab
refugees, stating that Israel war of ‘genocide’ expelled
800,000 of them. This not only disagrees with UN
estimates of a bit over 400,000 refugees but also ignores
the fact that most of the Arabs/Palestinians were
encouraged to leave by the Arab World itself!
The end result of the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence
was the creation of a Jewish State slightly larger than that
which was proposed by the 1947 United Nations
Resolution 181. What remained of that almost-created
second Arab Palestinian State was gobbled up by (1) Egypt
(occupying the Gaza Strip) and by (2) Trans-Jordan
(occupying Judea-Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank; of the
Jordan River) and Jerusalem. In the next year (1950)
Trans-Jordan formally merged this West Bank territory into
itself and granted all those Palestinian Arabs living there
Jordanian citizenship. Since Trans-Jordan was then no
longer confined to one side of the Jordan River, it renamed
itself simply Jordan; In the final analysis, the Arabs of
Palestine ended up with nearly 85% of the original territory
of Palestine... called Jordan but in reality their ARAB
Palestinian state! But that was still not 100% and thus the
conflict between Arab and Jew for Palestine; would
continue through four more wars and continuous Arab
terrorist attacks upon the Israeli citizenry. It continues to
this very day.

From 1949-67 when all of Judea-Samaria [West Bank
& Jerusalem] and Gaza ... were 100% under Arab
[Jordanian & Egyptian] control, no effort was EVER
made to create a second Palestinian State for the Arabs
living there. Surely you do not expect Israel to now provide
these same Arabs with their own country when their fellow
Arabs failed to do so! And isn't it curious how Arafat and his
PLO (formed in 1964) discovered their ancient; identity and
a need for self-determination and human dignity; on this
very same West Bank ONLY AFTER Israel regained this
territory (three years later in 1967) following Jordan's
attempt to destroy Israel! Why was no request ever made
upon King Hussein of Jordan by the Arabs living on the
West Bank when he occupied it? Is it logical that the PLO
was formed in 1964 to regain the lands they would lose
three years later in 1967? This sort of logic makes sense
only to those who have not learned that the PLO was
formed to DESTROY Israel. And that is STILL their goal! A
cosmetic name change from PLO (Palestine Liberation
Organization) to PA (Palestinian Authority) does not change
the stripes on THIS tiger
Throughout much of May 1967, the Egyptian, Jordanian
and Syrian armies mobilized along Israel's narrow and
seemingly indefensible borders in preparation for a massive
invasion to eliminate the State of Israel. The battle cry
heard throughout the Arab world was then, as it continues
to be... Slaughter the Jews and throw the Jews into the
Sea! But the Jews of Israel, remembering 2,000 years of
being butchered, gassed, burned and skinned (eg. The
Crusades, The Spanish Inquisition, the Arab rampages of
early Palestine and particularly the Holocaust), planned and
executed a perfect pre-emptive strike against Egypt.
Within two hours the Egyptian Air Force did not exist...
most of its planes destroyed while still on the runways!
Unaware that the Egyptians had no more air force, King
Hussein of Jordan, launched his attack from the his West
Bank into Israel's belly while Syrian troops prepared to
descend down the Golan Heights high ground into
northern Israel.

Now for some facts about occupation. Firstly, the
Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians lost Gaza, the West
Bank and Golan Heights (respectively) by participating in a
failed attempt at genocide against the Children of Israel.
Had Israel lost this 1967 defensive war, the Arab-
Palestinians and their Arab allies would have raped,
butchered or driven out every Israeli they could get their
hands on and gobbled up all of Israel. Now, 35+ years later
and despite the fact that Israel won a war BROUGHT UPON
THEM, the Israelis are still willing to allow the Arab-
Palestinians to have a state on much of the West Bank and
Gaza if only they will stop sending their suicide/homicide
bombers into the heart of Israel! (Talk about misplaced
compassion!)

From 1948 to 1967, Egypt ruled Gaza, Syria ruled the
Golan Heights, while Jordan ruled the West Bank. They
could have set up independent Arab-Palestinian states in
any or all of those territories, but they didn't even consider
it. Instead, in 1967 they used the Golan Heights, Gaza and
the West bank to launch a war that was unambiguously
aimed at destroying Israel, which is how Israel came into
possession of those territories in the first place.
After ONLY six days of air, sea and hand-to-hand ground
warfare, Israel defeated all three Arab armies along three
separate fronts, capturing the entire Sinai Desert from
Egypt, the 37mile x 12mile Syrian Golan Heights and the
so-called West Bank; (including East Jerusalem and its Old
City) from Jordan. The God of Israel was surely watching
over His children! Most importantly was the return to Israel
of its holy 3,000 year old capital city of Jerusalem along the
western edge of the West Bank... the same Jerusalem from
which all Jews had been denied access for the 19 years
(1948-1967) following Jordan's seizure and control over it
following the first Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9.

Unfortunately, the world saw things differently and
considered Israel an occupier (rather than a capturer) of
this disputed West Bank; and the Gaza Strip along with the
850,000 Palestinian Arabs living there. These Arabs would
refer to themselves as refugees; and joined the masses of
refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948-9. Once
again Israel was forced to fight a battle for survival and,
sadly, once again Palestinian [in reality, largely Egyptian,
Jordanian and Syrian] Arabs becoming refugees by their
own actions, the actions of their leaders and from the
actions of fellow Arabs.

God was, is, and always will be for Israel. He will not let in
topple, and Jesus Himself will crush Israel's enemies when
He returns:
The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus
declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and
founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering
to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will
also be against Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem a
heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt
themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather
against it. On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every
horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the
sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when
I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the
clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of
Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God
Zechariah 12:1-14

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore
the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the
nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf
of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have
scattered them among the nations and have divided up my
land, and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a
boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have
drunk it.
Joel 3:1-3

And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the
lands that were around Judah, and they made no war
against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 17:10

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