Free Facts
1) Not all Palestinians come from Arabic peninsula.
Kermit Zarley writes that, "The early ancestors of some of today's Palestinians are no doubt the Canaanites, Philistines, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Idumaeans, Nabateans and Samaritans. In later periods, their intermarriage with conquering peoples, such as Greeks, Romans, Arabians and Turks, merely added to the genetic mix in Palestine."[26] Much of the local Palestinian population in Nablus, for example, is believed to be descended from Samaritans who converted to Islam.[27] Even today, certain Nabulsi family names including Muslimani, Yaish, and Shakshir among others, are associated with Samaritan ancestry.[27]
Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Zarley
2) The Jews lived on what is now Israel more than 2000 years ago and they existed there before muslims so they have more right to Jerusalem than muslims.
3) Jerusalem was considered the FIRST holiest site for Islam at the begining of the Islamic "revolution" and muslims used to pray towards it but then the Prophet Muhammed told them to change the "Qibla--prayer direction" to Mecca.
4) Prophets Abraham, Solmon, David and other prophet are refered to as muslims in the sense that they believe in ONE God (The same God that today's muslims believe in). So Abraham was NOT a muslim according to today's definition of muslims.
5) Abraham was not Jewish. Judaism only came with prophet Moses long long time after prophet Abraham.
6) The people (decendants) of Abraham are all the Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
So God's promise to Abraham's children doesn't only include the Jewish people but all Abraham's children.
7) In some verses the Quran talked badly of the Jews but those are some group of Jews who lived in the past and God cursed them because they rebelled at his message. It has nothing to do with today's Jews.
8) Jews are God's chosen people, however this does not mean they are better than all the other people. It means God chose them to carry his first truthfull message.
9) Palestine has never been an Arabic "country", with an Arabic president and Arabic government. BUT, in the early 1700 it was ruled by an Arabic leader called
Dahir Al Omar.
"Dahir Al Omar, an Arab Amir born in Nazareth, ruled the area now known as Palestine in the early 1700s. In Israel there are plaques on Churches and Mosques in Acre that specifically quote "built under the reign of Dahir Al Omar". The Ottoman Empire had him killed.
There are many resources, including a book written in Arabic and English and material at the Haifa University on the subject matter.[1]"
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahir_al_Omar
10) If the Arabs accepted the Partition Plan in 1947, the Palestinians would not have suffered as much as they do now.
11) Not all Palestinians were kicked by the Jews in 1948, actually some of the Palestinians (Including my grandparents) left WITH THEIR WILL when the Arab leaders convinced them that it is a small issue and they will return shortly.
Other reasons for leaving the land were fear of war, the loss of homes due to the war, poverty.
12) The Palestinians in Israeli (known as Israeli Arabs) are treated by the Israelis better than the Palestinians in Arabic countries are treated by their Arabic "brothers"
The Palestinians in Arabic countries are deprived from their smallest rights and in some Arabic countries like Iraq now are being killed for no reason (just for being palestinians).
13) Not all Mizrahi Jews were kicked out of their Arabic/Islamic countries. Most of them left it with their will after Israel was established.
******There are good people and bad people in every group*******
Peace
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISLAM AND JUDAISM
-Both Muslims and Jews should know there is God and that he is one, they should love him and fear him and not to entertain thoughts of other gods besides him.
-Both Jews and Muslims believe that God doesn't have a son.
-Both Muslims and Jews should love converts, not embarrass others, not oppress the weak, and not speak derogatorily of others.
-Both Muslims and Jews NOT inquire into idolatry, blaspheme, worship idols, make idols of themselves or others, not make human forms even for decorative purposes.
- Both Jews and Muslims should NOT be superstitious, go into a trance to foresee events, engage in astrology, perform acts of magic.
- Jewish men must not wear women's clothing, and Jewish women must not wear men clothing and so as for Muslim men and women.
- Both Muslims and Jews are not allowed to have Tattoo and are not allowed to tear the skin in mourning
- Both Jews and Muslims should repent and confess wrongdoings and should serve the Almighty with prayer daily and bless him for eating.
-Both Muslims and Jews should marry a wife according to specific laws and should not have relations with women not thus married and should not withhold food, clothing, and relations from their wives, and should have children with one's wife.
- Both Jews and Muslims should issue a divorce by means of a document.
- Muslims and Jews have the same laws of forbidden relations.
- Jews and Muslims have similar laws of forbidden food.
- Muslims and Jews have the same laws of slaughtering animals for food.
- Both Muslims and Jews should not swear falsely in the name of God and should not break oaths or vows.
- Both Jews and Muslims must help the poor and give charity.
- Both Muslims and Jews should be nice with their parents and should treat other people especially their neighbours as they want to be treated.
- Both Jews and Muslims should not steal, murder, kidnap, or cheat.
مروه, Marwa, מרווה's Blog
I had a discussion with one of my former Israeli friends about accepting the right of Israel to exist. Since in the past I accepted the right of Israel to exist and now I changed my mind and decided not to accept it, I had to give him some reasons of such a sudden change. My response was:
I will not accept the right of Israel to exist unless
- ALL Israeli settlements are removed from Palestinian land and all Israeli settlers are moved to Israel.
- Israel raises the seige from Gaza and give the G…
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Posted on March 8, 2009 at 8:41pm — Comments