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23 October 2009, 5 Cheshvan 5770
Contents:
1. BRITISH COLONEL: IDF SAFEGUARDED CIVILIAN LIVES IN GAZA
2. Jews dominated the Holyland in 1695
3. Population exchange between Greece and Turkey (1923):
Precedent for Transfer of Palestinians
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1. BRITISH COLONEL: IDF SAFEGUARDED CIVILIAN LIVES IN GAZA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
News/News.aspx/133897
by Hana Levi Julian
Extracts:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted Friday to endorse the Goldstone Report that accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza -- but at least one British army commander fought hard to set the record straight.
Commander (ret.) Richard Kemp told the UNHRC that the IDF made a strong effort last winter to safeguard the lives of Gaza's civilians during its counterterrorist operation.
"During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare," testified Colonel Kemp. "Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population."
The former commander of the British forces serving in Afghanistan listed his military credentials at the start of his testimony before the UNHRC vote endorsing the Goldstone Report.
The findings of the UN investigation into Israel's war against the constant Hamas rocket fire aimed at Negev residents may soon be used as evidence against Israel at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
The UN committee, led by retired South African jurist Richard Goldstone, concluded that Israel was guilty of committing war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, during Operation Cast Lead. The report also said the Hamas terrorists who control Gaza "may have" been guilty of war crimes as well.
But Commander Kemp had no doubt, testifying before the UN commission that voted Friday to endorse the report, that Israel had done its best to avoid harming any civilians. He told the commission that Palestinian Authority Arabs in Gaza who had spoken with the Goldstone commission may not have told the whole story -- or the true story at all.
"Hamas, like Hizbullah, are expert at driving the media agenda," he said. "Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents."
"The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over two million leaflets and making over 100,000 phone calls. Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties," he said.
"During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza," Kemp reminded the commission. "To deliver aid virtually into your enemy's hands is, to the military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks."
Commander Kemp acknowledged that civilians had been killed, but pointed out that "war is chaos and full of mistakes." He added that Israel was not the only country to face such a situation: "There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes are not war crimes."
2. Jews dominated the Holyland in 1695
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1283#
Extracts:
A resident of Caesarea who is a lover of antiquarian books and Judaica found in Budapest an old book, in Latin, which had been written by a Christian named Reland, chronicling his trip in the land of Israel in 1695/6.
The writer, Reland, a man of many talents - a geographer, a cartographer and a philologist - knew Hebrew, Arabic and Ancient Greek, as well as the European languages, perfectly. The book was written in Latin. In the year 1695, Reland was sent on a tour of the land of Israel or, as it was then called, Palestine. During that trip, he visited approximately 2500 places which had been inhabited and mentioned in the Bible or in the Mishnah (a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures compiled about A.D. 200.)...
...No settlement in the land of Israel has a name of Arabic extraction. The names of settlements are mostly of Hebrew extraction; some of Greek or Latin-Roman. In fact, no Arab settlement (except for Ramla) has had an original Arabic name to this day. ..
The land was, on the whole, empty and desolate; the inhabitants were few and concentrated in the cities of Jeusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza. Most of the inhabitants of the cities were Jews, the others were Christian; there were very few Moslems, mostly nomadic Bedouins. Nablus (Schem) was different, with a population of about 120 people from the Moslem Natsha family and about 70 Shomronites. In Nazareth, the capital of the Galilee, there were approximately 700 people - all Christians.
It is interesting that Reland mentions all the Muslims as nomadic Bedouin tribes who arrived in the area as seasonal workers, in both agriculture and construction. In Gaza, for example, there were approximately 550 people; fifty per-cent of them were Jews, the rest Christians. The Jews engaged in flourishing agriculture, owning vineyards and olive orchards and growing wheat (like in Gush Katif) and the Christians engaged in commerce and the transportation of the produce.
The book totally contradicts the post-modern theory of "a Palestinian heritage" or a Palestinian people, and strongly supports the fact that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews and not at all to the Arabs, who stole the land, and the name Palestine, as well, stole from the Latin and still claim to possess even that.
3. Population exchange between Greece and Turkey (1923):
Precedent for Transfer of Palestinians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Exchange_of_populations_between_
Greece_and_Turkey
THE EXCHANGE OF POPULATIONS BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY
by PontosWorld.com
http://pontosworld.com/index.
php?option=com_content&
task=view&id=1140&Itemid=90
Extracts:
In 1914, Turkey comprised roughly 2,000,000 Greeks. By the time the Exchange of Populations was to officially take effect (1st May, 1923), 1,000,000 Greeks had fallen victim to Genocide at the hand of the Turks, 500,000 had fled before the Greek Army's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War and the subsequent burning of Smyrna (Sep 1922), and the remainder fled in scenes of indescribable panic from the Western Shores of Asia Minor when the victorious Turkish forces entered the city of Smyrna (9 Sep 1922), set fire to it, and began massacring the Greek and Armenian population. As a result, tens of thousands of Armenians also fled to Greece.
The exchange was based on religion rather than ethnicity and accounted for approximately 1,300,000 Orthodox Greeks of the Ottoman Empire relocating to Greece, in exchange for roughly 355,635 Muslims living in Greece to Turkey.
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