EQUATING JEWISH SETTLEMENTS AND PALESTINIAN TERRORISM:

Posted on Jan 5, 2017

Israel has been wracked by a wave of stabbings and shootings and rocket attacks from Palestinian terrorists over the last two years [as well as for decades]. Kerry spent a few minutes on that in his recent biased and deeply flawed UN speech targeting Israel for its settlement expansion, but only in order to draw moral equivalence with Jews building additional bathrooms in East Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. "The truth is that trends on the ground, violence, terrorism, settlement expansion, and the seemingly endless occupation, they are combining to destroy hopes for peace on both sides,” Kerry said. This is nonsense. Before there were any Jewish settlements – when Israel did not control Judea, Samaria, or Gaza – the Palestine Liberation Organization called for the "liberation” of Palestine, meaning the complete destruction of Israel. The problem isn’t people building homes. It’s Palestinians murdering Jews, and refusing to accept that any home built by a Jew ought to exist in the Middle East.

Case in point is that UN-run schools in Judea, Samaria and Gaza use textbooks which negate the very existence of Israel; teach that the Western Wall and Cave of the Patriarchs are exclusively Muslim holy sites which the Jews strive to occupy. These textbooks - written by the Palestinian Ministry of Education - are used in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, Judea & Samaria. The UN schools don't teach Palestinian children to recognize Israel as a country - not within the 1947 borders, nor any borders at all. Furthering out-and-out lies and obstacles to peace, late last year, committees of the UN passed resolutions that referred to the Temple Mount only by its Muslim name, denying, despite archaeological, historical and biblical proofs of the Jewish connection to the site of the First and Second Temples, the local of thousands of years of yearning by Jews who mention it daily in their prayers and pray in the direction of the Temple Mount. Muslims pray towards Mecca and the Temple Mount does not appear in the Koran. Even this week, an eminent Israeli archaeologist was nearly ejected by Muslim guards from the holiest site in Judaism, located in Jerusalem, for calling it by its real name - the Temple Mount. (Ynet/Daily Wire/Arutz-7) Pray for corruption in the UN to be exposed and finally dealt with and for its de-funding.