A Moral Look at the Arab-Israel Conflict

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
- Psalms 122:6

For a brief synopsis here is some of numerical data.

Biblical Recognition

• Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Old Testament: 881
• Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the New Testament: 144

Recognition in Koran

• Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Koran: 0
• Total number of times Palestine is mentioned in the Old, the New Testament
  and the Koran: 0

Facts on Terrorism

• Number of terrorist attacks by Israelis or Jews since 1967: 1
• Number of terrorist attacks by Arabs or Muslims since 1967: Tens of thousands
• Percentage of Jewish leaders who have praised the Jewish terrorist:
  approximately 1%
• Percentage of Palestinian leaders who have praised Islamic terrorists:
  approximately 90%
• Number of Muslim demonstrations against Islamic terror: approximately 2
• Number of Arab women killed annually by fathers and brothers in ''honor killings'': thousands
• Number of Jewish women killed annually by fathers and brothers in ''honor killings'': 0

Recognition by Arab Leaders

• Number of Arab leaders who visited Jerusalem when under Arab rule from 1948 to 1967: 1

(King Abdullah of Jordan, who was shot and killed by a
Palestinian as he entered the AI-Aqsa Mosque in 1952)

Religious Freedom

• Number of Christian or Jewish prayer services allowed in Saudi Arabia: 0
• Number of Muslim prayer services allowed in Israel: unlimited
• Number of Arabs Israel allowed to live in Arab settlements in Israel with full Israeli
  citizenship rights: 1,250,000
• Number of Jews Palestinian Authority allows to live in Jewish settlements in P A areas: 0%

The United Nations Bias

Refugees

• Number of Arab refugees who fled the land that became Israel: approximately 600,000
• Number of United Nations agencies that deal ONLY with Palestinian refugees: 1
• Number of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries: approximately 600,000
• Number of UN agencies that deal with ALL OTHER refugees in the world: 1

Resolutions

• Percentage of UN Commission on Human Rights resolutions condemning an Arab country for human rights violations: 0%
• Percentage of UN Commission on Human Rights resolutions condemning Israel for human rights violations: 26%
• Number of Arab Muslim countries that have been members of the UN Security Council: 16
• Number of times Israel has been a member of the UN Security Council: 0
  (Israel is the only nation ever forbidden to sit on the Security Council)
• Number of UN Security Council resolutions on the Middle East between 1948 and 1991 against Israel: 97
• Number of resolutions against an Arab state: 4
• Number of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel: 322
• Number of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning an Arab country: 0

Voting Record

• Percentage of UN votes in which Arab countries voted with the United States in 2002: 16.6%
• Percentage of UN votes in which Israel voted with the U.S. in 2002: 92.6%

Historical Possession

• Number of sovereign Jewish states that have existed on the land called Palestine: 3
• Number of sovereign Arab or Muslim states that have existed on
  the land called Palestine: 0

Campus Anti-Semitism

• Percentage of Middle East studies professors who defend Zionism and Israel: approximately 1%
• Percentage of Middle East Studies professors who believe in diversity on college campuses: 100%
• Percentage of people who argue that, of all the countries in the world, only the Jewish state has no right to exist and who also believe some other country has no right to exist: 0
• Percentage of people who argue that the Jewish state has no right to exist and who also deny they are anti-Jewish: approximately 100%

 

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. - Joel 3:2

Original list compiled by Dennis Prager in July of 2004,
Additional data by Clarence Wagner, Bridges for Peace