Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

For the next draft, all references to God were taken out to make it clear, yet again, that this was to be a secular country, not exclusively Jewish, but open to all religions. Ben-Gurion edited the final draft himself on the morning of the declaration, creating the democratic blueprint for the re-created Jewish state.

Even so, in negotiations in 2000 and 2008 Israel did offer the Palestinians the Old City of Jerusalem (excluding the Jewish Quarter) as a capital—and was refused by the Palestinians yet again.

As it turns out, it is very easy to drown a campus with propaganda if you can afford it.

The point is, throughout history, there has never been a coherent Palestinian national, religious, or political identity. Palestine was used in reference to a geographical location, and the people who were born in that region were referred to as Arabs of Palestine, Jews of Palestine, Christians of Palestine, Druze of Palestine,

the following main points of Zionism: Building a home for the Jewish people in the land of Israel, based on equality and social justice Encouraging aliyah (or migration) to Israel and connecting the diaspora Reviving the Hebrew language Solidarity against antisemitism

Israel is surrounded by some of the most vicious, theocratic, autocratic, dictatorial, oppressive Islamist regimes and a bunch of failed states, yet BDS singles only Israel out.

The international community paid the PLO, and then the PA, billions of dollars to support the Palestinian people. Needless to say, those billions did not make it to the Palestinian people, who still struggle with poverty. The

After the Six Day War, Israel, having been under attack for forever, realized that this was an opportunity to once and for all create defensible borders. In other words, it decided to add strategic padding by building on the land it had recently acquired from Jordan and Egypt.

From 700,000 to 750,000 Palestinians lost their homes after the 1948 war; today 5.6 million “refugees” are registered with UNRWA due to the organization’s twisted concept of inherited refugee status.