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The
Numbers tell the Story
Numerical data and a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the
Arab-Israeli conflict
List compiled by
Dennis Prager
w/ additional data by Clarence Wagner
Bridges for Peace
The Bible, The
Koran
Number of times Jerusalem is
mentioned in the Old Testament: 881
Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the New Testament: 144
Number of times Jerusalem
is mentioned in the Koran: 0
Number of times Palestine is mentioned in either the Old or the New Testament,
or the Koran: 0
Pre-1967
Number of Arab leaders who visited
Jerusalem when it was under Arab rule (1948 to 1967): 1, King Abdullah of
Jordan, who was shot and killed by a Palestinian as he entered the Al-Aqsa
Mosque in 1952
Number of Arab refugees who
fled the land that became Israel: approximately 600,000
Number of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries: approximately 600,000
Terrorist Attacks
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 Muslims in the
world: more than 1 billion
Number of Muslim demonstrations against Islamic terror: approximately 2
Jewish & Arab
Countries
Number of Jewish countries: 1
Number of Jewish democracies: 1
Number of Arab countries:
19
Number of Arab democracies: 0
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
Human Rights &
Religious Freedom
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
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 PA
areas: 0%
The UN
Number of United Nations agencies
that deal ONLY with Palestinian refugees: 1
Number of UN agencies that deal with ALL OTHER refugees in the world: 1
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 UN Security
Council resolutions on the Middle East between 1948 and 1991: 175
Number of these resolutions against Israel: 97
Number of these resolutions against an Arab state: 4
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 General
Assembly resolutions condemning Israel: 322
Number of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning an Arab country: 0
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%
Elitism &
Anti-Zionism/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%
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