Facts Our Government May Not Admit About Israel Fighting For Peace

 Nadene Goldfoot                                    

The Arab states occupy 5,414,000 square miles.                          Israel  occupies  8,290 square miles in its pre-1967 borders where Obama wanted them to return to, and a little over 10,000 square miles if one includes all of Judea Samaria. 

 The 22 members of the Arab League as of 2021 are Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

In fact, Israel occupies less than one-six hundredth  (-1/600) of the land occupied by the 21 Arab states.  Thus, its willingness to cede more than 97% of the land it captured in a war of self-defense is truly remarkable, and all the  wars they are involved in are always in by self-defense.                          

 By the way, there are at least 48 Muslim majority states in the world without a Palestine today.  There is only one (1) Jewish state in the world, which is the mother of Christianity and Islam.  Look how these people have treated their mother! Nothing but anti-Semitism and pogroms or attacks leading to wars.

As for people, Israel's population is only 9.217 million as of 2020, and of that, 20% are Arabs of either Christian or Islam religions.  About 6 million are Jewish. 

 Iran had 76,923,300 in 2011.  

It's neighbor, Egypt, had 79, 089, 650.  

Turkey had 73,722,988.  

Iraq had only 31,234,000, and 

Syria had 22,505,000.  

Jordan could make room for the Palestinians, who they have added a lot already, making 5,568,565.  

Lebanon, a small country, like a twin of Syria, had 4,196,453.                                 

   Judea and Samaria were renamed by Jordan as West Bank.  

Hanan Al-Hroub, a Palestinian teacher who won the Global Teacher award and the 1 million dollar prize, teaches the pupils of her class at Samiha Khalil High School in Al-Bireh, Ramallah, March 22, 2016. Having grown up in a Palestinian refugee camp where she was exposed to acts of violence, Hanan Al-Hroub developed her own teaching approach to support children traumatized by violence. Photo by Corinna Kern/Flash90.                                      

The Ministry of Education’s head of public education, Ayoub Alyan, agreed that the lack of schools is a real problem in Ramallah. He blamed it on the city attracting many new residents from other areas of the West Bank controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The ministry has been unable to keep track of the rapid population growth, he said, and the lack of good data on the increase makes finding outside sources of funding to build schools more difficult.  Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank that serves as the de facto administrative capital of the State of Palestine, which really hasn't become a state as yet, wanting the whole of Israel, they say.  
                                                                      

Palestinian and Jewish women learn each others' native languages at Spoken Jerusalem-ese, a group that organizes conversation circles and field trips. Photo by Lior Urian.

Linguist and Arabic teacher Anwar Ben-Badis teaching and guiding in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood during one of his intensive courses (Courtesy Anwar Ben-Badis)  Even President Reuven Rivlin studied with Ben-Badis, as did Knesset member Benny Begin.  His students are generally Jerusalemites who, as residents of a simultaneously mixed and divided city, brush up against their Arab neighbors at the supermarket, the mall and the movie theater and want to be able to say “excuse me” in Arabic (aläafw), or “I only speak a little Arabic” (anaa ataHaddath faqaT qaliil min aläarabiyya).              

There are the Muslim  states that come into Israel's purview every day.  So Israelis not only study Hebrew in school but Arabic as well.  When I say Israelis, I mean those Jewish and Muslim students, some of which are Circassians, students I had while teaching at Safed's junior high. They were great students.

A lot of people have been fed a plate-full of lies and people have gobbled them up, which includes thinking that Israel is the cause of Middle East tensions because of its refusal to make compromises for peace.  Israel is the champion state in the world for making compromises to experience peace with its neighbors, and I'll tell you how.                                      

In 1967, immediately following the Six-Day War that Israel won, Israel offered to return almost all the land it had won in that war which was the most important war of their self-defense in exchange for peace. They hadn't experienced much peace at all.  War broke out before it became a state in 1947 which was part of their War of  Independence that didn't end till the signing of the Armistice Agreements in 1949.  Then we can say they had some peace for 7 years, but that ended in the Sinai War from 29 October until 5 November 1956.  Eleven years of peace passed by,   then the Six-Day War started on the 5 to 11 June 1967. Little peace was experienced as more firing continued with   a War of Attrition from 1968 until the cease-fire on 7-8 August 1970 continued the war. Israel deserved that peace and gave up much for it.  

The 67 war was in June.  The Arabs, fuming, went to Khartoum, Africa for a meeting, and came out with the 3 famous Nos', No peace, No recognition, No negotiations.   It's been 74 years of dealing with the Palestinians who want no peace or even a state of their own.  They're great bargainers in the shuk, but not at the peace table.  They want it all, its an all or nothing issue for them.  If they really wanted peace and their own state, they'd grab an offer, like Israel did, but no...When are the other governments  getting wise?  What's in it for them to keep up this charade? Especially Iran?  Whatever their motivation, they hide behind the Syrians whose country they now occupy,  and Palestinians are their excuse for gaining a foothold closer to Israel.  

Resource:

Book: Why the Jews?  The reason for Antisemitism, by Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin

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https://www.israel365news.com/269021/this-is-whos-teaching-our-kids-about-israel-opinion/

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