1. President Obama does not want the
State of Israel to consider being “annihilated by its enemies” in
its negotiation terms.
2. It is not Barack Obama who wants the
State of Israel to return to its 1967 borders, it is the United
Nations. The Israelis rejected the U.N. plan that the state have
these borders, but with Jerusalem as an international city, so the
Israelis are violating international law.
3. Hamas and other anti-Zionist groups
are not “bent on Jewish genocide” and “extermination”; they
are against Israeli occupation of their home territory, and Israeli
meddling in the internal affairs of their governments.
4. Hamas was democratically elected in
Gaza after the Israelis encouraged the Palestinians to hold elections
between Fatah and Hamas.
5. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu does not “subtly indicate his displeasure with” other
world leaders; he is a hard-liner who has a reputation as one of the
toughest negotiators in world politics.
6. A one-state solution is not “the
only plan likely to bring tranquility, freedom, and justice to the
region”; nor are the one- and two-state solutions the only
solutions. There is also a three-state solution which would have Gaza
under Egyptian control, and the West Bank under Jordanian control.
There is also a no-state solution which rejects outright the concepts
of statism and territorial government.
7. The claims that “turning the
entire Middle East into one big Israel will secure religious freedom
for everyone in the area” and “Muslims and Christians have full
freedom of religion in the Jewish state” are false. Israelis spit
on Christians, the Zionist regime has been accused of attacking
Christian worshipers, and many Israeli schoolchildren are taught that
ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews are crazy.
8. The claim “Muslim states either
ban other religions completely, or torment their practitioners to the
point of extinction” is misleading. The U.S. and the State of
Israel are currently trying to cast Syria and Iran as the most
dangerous places for Westerners and non-Muslims, although Syria has a
reputation as the most religiously diverse country in the Middle
East, and there are Jews who say Iran is tolerant of its Jewish
community.
9. Jimmy Carter is not an anti-Semite.
Anti-Semitism is not the same as anti-Judaism, and neither is the
same as anti-Zionism. There are Arab Semites, and 2/3 of the world's
Jews (the Ashkenazim) are not Semitic, but rather Eastern European.
Also, there are Jews who oppose Zionism.
10. The claim that Muslims and
Christians “can and do volunteer in the Israeli Defense Forces”
is false; service in the Israeli military is compulsory (i.e.,
selective service / draft), not voluntary.
11. The claim that “Only under the
Jews are the religious sites of the Holy Land open to all” is
false.
Although Muslim Israelis are normally
allowed to enter and pray at al-Aqsa Mosque, for security reasons the
Israeli government restricts the prayer of certain groups of Muslims
- depending on their age and where they are from – at the mosue,
due to customary times and dates of prayer.
Since 1967, the Chief Rabbinate of
Israel has prohibited Jews from walking on the Temple Mount, because
they may step on the site of the Holy of Holies; only the High Priest
(the Nasi) may enter the Tabernacle, and only on Yom Kippur.
Some Jewish religious and political
leaders have demanded that Jews be permitted to pray at the site on
Jewish holidays. The Israeli Supreme Court has supported individual
prayer there, but Israeli police prohibit Jews from praying on the
Temple Mount in any overt manner. Overt prayer is strictly regulated,
but visiting rights as tourists are less strict.
Also, the Jordanian Islamic Waqf
permits and denies the right to pray to certain individuals and
groups at certain dates and times, but some Jews and Christians in
Israel interpret the prophecy that the Temple will become a house of
prayer for all nations as urging that members of any religion whom
are living today should attempt to pray on the Temple Mount.
Some Jews believe that prayers on the
Temple Mount by people of all nations should only take place once the
Third Holy Temple has been built and Mashiach has arrived.
This is because it is only after Mashiach arrives that
all of humanity will be converted to Judaism, which means that the
people of all nations would then become Jewish, and all the prayers
they would make on the Temple Mount would share the same
significance.
12. The State of Israel has a much
lower quality of human development if one includes the occupied
Palestinian territories, which suffer from water shortages and
pollution, lack of education and economic opportunity, and from
having their communities cut off from one another by Israeli walls
and road checkpoints.
13. Women in the State of Israel are
not given full human rights. Israeli women are subject to selective
service (the draft) and must serve two years in the Israeli Defense
Forces.
14. “If the Jews ran America, we
wouldn't be $14 trillion in debt” appears questionable in light of
the fact that the Federal Reserve has not had a non-Jewish chairman
since 1987, when the national debt was $2.4 trillion.
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please
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Wrong on all counts. Listen to Hamas; they say they want to kill the Jews, period. 1967 "borders" are armistice lines that the arabs never accepted. Other religions ARE given full rights; the Israeli government does not persecute them, unlike Muslims. Read the news and you'll learn what real persecution is; when the Muslims persecute. Women subject to a draft EQUALS full human rights. Service in the military is NOT compulsory for arabs. But many volunteer and the Druze insisted on being drafted as Jews are. Jews are free to choose to pray on the Temple Mount, except the Waqf doesn't allow it. Muslim men are not allowed if a riot is feared, which happens ofter. The State of Israel does NOT include the "Pals". The US is the poorest country in the world if you include South Sudan. Your claims are bunk and have no basis in fact. Facts win every time. Sorry.
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