Israel is the excuse for Arab terrorism

This letter was written just after the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001:

Dear Editor:

I am constantly hearing on the radio and TV and reading in the newspapers that the lever of terrorism that we are facing from Osama bin Laden and his associates would not be going on were it not for the Middle East policies of the United States, and the American view of and stand on the troubles between the state of Israel and the Palestinian people. This is absolute baloney and has nothing to do with the religious hypocrisy and power craze of this madman.

It is a known fact that he did not start his hatred of America, where he and his family invested and made millions, until the U.S. used Saudi Arabia (with that governmeent’s agreement) as a military jumping off place during the Gulf War. Now this hatred of America and Israel has become a phony rallying call of Middle Eastern masters and their downtrodden peoples. Maybe it would help if people would become aware of some of the real facts and history behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
>>Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C., 2000 years before the rise of Islam.
>>King David founded the city of Jerusalem.
>>Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C., Jews had dominion over the land for 1,000 years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
>>The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 A.D. lasted no more than 22 years.
>>For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visity.
>>Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scripture. The city is never mentioned once in the Koran.
>>Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims face Mecca.
>>Many Arab leaders supported Hitler during the Second World War and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem spent most of the war in Berlin surrounded by German trained storm troopers.
>>When the U.N. partitioned the land into two separate states, Israel and Palestine, Arabs were encouraged to leave the new state of Israel, where they lived, by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left by choice without eveer seeing an Israeli soldier.
>>Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into other Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Araab territory in surrounding countries. Theirs is the only refugee group that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people’s (Arab) lands. In fact, some Arab countries expelled them. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
>>Arab refugees are represented by eight nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation that has successfully defended itself against these eight in five separate wars initiated by the Arab states.
>>Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and Jews denied access to places of worship in the old city. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
>>The U.N. was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
>>The U.N. record on Israel and the Arabs of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.

None of this has anything to do with bin Laden and his group or any other Arab leader. Let’s be real. The al-Qaida group is only interested in power and the denigration of anyone who does not agree with their warped view of the world and people.