Tuesday 17 May 2011

Ben Gurion's Independence Speech

I just found this on Radarsite along with the following facts:

In May of 1948 the IDF consisted of 100,000 trained troops, 10,000 assorted rifles, 2 million rounds of ammunition, 3 canon left behind by Napoleon (Bonaparte that is.) and a couple of Piper Cubs.  Israelis faced 5 well trained, well equipped armies in the region.  The Jordan Legion only was so formidable to be considered UNBEATABLE with American weapons, Arab troops, and British officers. The pundits of the time gave the Jews 10 days at most...

Well, that just goes to show ya what those pundits know!

With all the hoopla about Nakba, remember that the Arabs left Israel because their leaders assured them that Israel would be wiped out within days. Meanwhile, Jewish communities dating back  over 3,000 years were ethnically cleansed from every country in the Middle-East. They were attacked, stripped of their citizenship and possessions and forced to flee for their lives.  No UN funding or human rights activists crying when approximately 1 Million Jews were chased from their ancestral homes across the Middle-East--That my friends is the real Nakba! Learn more and see pictures, videos and stories from survivors at Point of No Return Blog. Educate yourself with the truth...

* The translation is below the video:


On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable...

This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.

Thus members and representatives of the Jews of Palestine and of the Zionist movement upon the end of the British Mandate, by virtue of 'natural and historic right' and based on the United Nations resolution…Hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in the land of Israel to be known as the State of Israel.

* Happy Birthday to my beautiful country Israel (and Thanks Radarsite!)

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