Inaccurate numbers of Palestian Refugees?

Delta's Note:  U.S. Senator Mark Kirk has caused a stir with his proposed Bill which wants a better (and more truthful imho) accounting of the number of "Palestinian Refugees" in Israel.  When the number increases by millions within a few years, one has to question if all who claim to be are truly refugees.  Or, is it that if anyone is related to anyone who is related to a refugees jumps on the bandwagon to skew the figures -  and grab some free money?  Daniel Pipes article gives more food for thought on the matter.  Delta Vines

Counting Palestinian Refugees

The Senate nudges us toward a proper understanding of the issue.

By Daniel Pipes
May 29, 2012

The fetid, dark heart of the Arab war on Israel, I have long argued, lies not in disputes over Jerusalem, checkpoints, or "settlements." Rather, it concerns the so-called Palestine refugees.

So called because of the nearly 5 million official refugees served by UNRWA (short for the "United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East") only about 1 percent are real refugees who fit the agency’s definition of "people whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict." The other 99 percent are descendants of those refugees, or what I call fake refugees.

Worse: Those alive in 1948 are dying off and in about 50 years not a single real refugee will remain alive, whereas (extrapolating from an authoritative estimate in Refugee Survey Quarterly by Mike Dumper) their fake-refugee descendants will number about 20 million. Unchecked, that population will grow like Topsy until the end of time.

This matters because the refugee status has harmful effects: It blights the lives of these millions of non-refugees by disenfranchising them while imposing an ugly, unrealistic irredentist dream on them; worse, the refugee status preserves them as a permanent dagger aimed at Israel’s heart, threatening the Jewish state and disrupting the Middle East.

Solving the Arab–Israeli conflict, in short, requires ending the absurd and damaging farce of proliferating fake Palestine refugees and permanently settling them. Nineteen forty-eight happened; time to get real.

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New Archaelogy Find Near Soloman's Temple

Delta's Note: This discovery is very important as we know of at least one Mattanyahu who served the Lord in His Tabernacle!    1 Chronicles 25:4-5 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukiyahu, Mattanyahu, 'Uzi'el, Sh'vu'el, Yerimot, Hananyah, Hanani, Eli'atah, Gidalti, Romamti-'ezer, Yoshb'kashah, Maloti, Hotir and Machzi'ot; 5 all these sons of Heman, the king's seer in matters pertaining to God, were there to exalt [God]. God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 16 the ninth to Mattanyahu, his sons and brothers, twelve; (Complete Jewish Bible)

'Matanyahu' Seal Found near Solomon's Temple

Seal with name similar to Prime Minister's found in the physically closest structure to King Solomon's Temple ever unearthed.

By Gil Ronen   First Publish: 5/1/2012, 12:50 PM

Israel Antiquities Authority 

Another amazing find on the Temple Mount: Archeologists digging under Robinson's Arch in the archeological garden next to the Kotel have found remains of a structure from the late First Temple period, under the base of the drainage ditch currently being exposed.

This is the closest structure, geographically, to King Solomon's Temple ever unearthed.

On the floor of the ancient structure, the diggers discovered an ancient Hebrew seal from the late First Temple period. It is made of semiprecious stone and bears the name of the owner of the seal: "To Matanyahu Son of Ho…" (the rest of the name is not legible).

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Why Do Only Israeli Rockets Count

by Delta Vines

On the 18th of August, 2011, a bus in Eilat, Israel was fired upon from Gaza; an anti-tank missile was fired onto a car of Israeli civilians, and, at Israel's border with Egypt, a bomb was exploded beside an Israel border patrol car. In the end - six Israeli civilians were killed along with one police officer and one Israeli soldier. Jordanian (on 8/14/11) and Israeli Intel had warned an attack had been planned to be carried out by terrorists in Gaza against Israel; leading to expanded security forces in the area. The person who planned this attack? Zuhair al-Qaissi, head of the Popular Resistance Committee - a faction of Hamas.

Israel retaliated - and Israel was seen by the world press as the aggressor. Hamas and the PRC continued their firing of rockets into Israel.

From March 1-8, 2012 six rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, striking the area of Eschol Regional Council and Ofakim.

　

On March 9, two more Qassam rockets were fired into Israel. Minutes after, from the air, Israeli forces killed Zuhair al-Qaissi and other PRC officials who were planning the aforementioned attacks against Israel.

Since then, more than 200 rockets have been launched into Israel. These rockets have not landed in uninhabited areas. The cities of Ashkelon, Sderot, Netivot, Yavne, Ashdod, and Be'er-Sheva have been recipients of rocket fire. (photos available here)

In Be'er-Sheva, one rocket landed in the courtyard of a school on Sunday. (Fortunately, school was not in session when it hit). Another rocket landed in a residential area of Be'er Sheva damaging over 14 homes.

In Ashdod, shrapnel from rockets injured two, including an 80 year old woman.

Residents of Sderot have virtually lived in bomb shelters repeatedly for days or weeks at a time due to the frequency of rockets fired into the town since 2001.



Source: IDF Spokesperson's Unit







For instance, the 1st through the 6th of January of this year, the PRC fired mortars containing phosphorus into Sderot. Use of phosphorus as munitions directed at civilians is prohibited by the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (Geneva, October 1980).

Earlier today it was announced a ceasefire (brokered by Egypt) would be honored by both sides. This evening (Israel time) it was broken by PRC/Hamas when they fired two rockets into the Ashkelon area. This time there were no injuries or damage as a consequence.

Given the fact that rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel every month from Gaza - what does the world expect? If terrorist drug cartels were repeatedly firing rockets into Tuscan, Arizona would the U.S. not respond to defend it's citizens? If Spain were constantly firing rockets in to France, would not President Sarkozy refuse to have peace talks where he would give French land over to Spain? So why is there such a big push to force Israel into a peace treaty with the palestinian Arabs just to widen the territory from which they can fire upon Israeli citizens?

It is time for Israel to be able to be Israel. Since Jordan still holds the majority of the land which comprised the former Palestine - why doesn't give a few miles of its land to be the Palestinian state? Put the responsibility of one of the existing Arab states to annex the state of Palestine on its land and leave Israel alone. 

When Arab states accept the existence of a Jewish state and agree to live totally amicably - then we will see the beginning of  peace. 

Thank You Kurt Cameron!

About homosexuality :

"I think that it's unnatural. I think that it's detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization"

"Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either," Cameron said. "So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."

 - Kurt Cameron on Piers Morgan Tonight

My thoughts exactly!  Thanks Kurt! :-)

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