Yes indeed!

Glad to see someone actually gets the history of the area.

I think the issue is more the forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of Muslims from there home to accommodate the creation of Israel, followed by the decades of suppression.

While I completely agree with and applaud your post, I am getting really tired of seeing the new politically-correct "B.C.E." and "C.E." It's "B.C." and "A.D."

Other than that, I wholeheartedly second your pointing out the Muslim-instigated historical revisionism that has taken place in recent times. They simply cannot allow the true historical account of the Jewish nation to overshadow their lies.

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

- Barack Hussein Obama

Because they're left wing, atheists who are still looking for "a Messiah" Boy are they going to be in shocked when they find out that he already came over 2000 years ago. Majority of Israel does not believe in God. But they will soon enough.

Q: WHAT DO DRUDGE, BECK, LIMBAUGH, AND HANNITY ALL HAVE IN COMMON?

A: NONE OF THEM COULD EVEN GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE.

YET YOU TRUST THEM TO CONTROL YOUR INFORMATION ABOUT SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, HISTORY, AND POLITICS.

Larry Ellison, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Michael Dell, Ray Kroc, Steve Wozniak, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs. Just a few more that did not graduate college. Obviously they should not be listened to either.

One of the few rational posts I've seen here today!

Kind of like Al Gore.

Did Pres. Obama graduate from college? No transcripts no grades. Gee I wish I could see if he was at least as smart as W. If he did there is a strong case for dropping out early, like Bill Gates, George Washington, Andrew Jackson,Abraham Lincoln, etc.

Your observation is moronic, go play with your toys now.

RIGHT ON - Israel has been Americas ONLY ally in the middle east. Saudi Arabia - a drug dealer peddling oil, Iran? Iraq? Syria? Libya? and so on.

This current president knows no bounds to his reckless destruction of every traditional American ally. 2012 - get out and vote!!!

Don't throw a clot. What does having a college degree have to do with common sense ? My Italian American grandmother never had a formal education and she was brilliant. You must be one of the have nots living off the government teat. Maybe you and you mommy can get a tax credit because your mommy is still breastfeeding

George Washington never when to college. Seems alot of people trusted him with fate of the country.

Hahaha. Your grandmother was probably as smart as a post.

Israel--every part of it belongs to the Jews, not any Arab Muslims.

These guys have more understanding, brains, and knowledge than most college grads especially since so many college boys are simply given grades for favors, etc. I have more faith in these guys than I would ever have in your obama types.

All the people you cite, are very successful media personalities. And...you? well you get to leave un-intelligent comments on blogs like this under an assumed name.

Haha. Grades for favors? You've never set foot in a university in your life, have you.

Hahaha. Britney Spears is very successful. Her music still sucks, though.

Can you send me a link or title of the source that claims the attacking Arab legion convinced Palestinians to trust them and leave their homes and come back? Sounds ludicrous that the Palestinians would go for that and impractical that they could go around and convince that many people. I've heard the theory but it just doesn't sound realistic.
As for the exiled Jews, they are victims too, and I sympathize with them as well. And as far as ancestry and claims to land goes, millions got screwed, and it will be impossible to fix that on an individual basis. But when the individuals are put into two large groups (Israeli and Palestinian) finding a solution is more realistic, as long as both sides are willing to negotiate, which neither appears to be.

I find it humorous to hear Muslims complain about the Crusades. History notes Islam grew by the sword. If anything the crusades were an attempt to retake land stolen by ravenous, Islamic hordes. Christianity overtook the Roman empire by the blood of martyrs who were thrown to lions; Islam overtook the Mediterranean, North Africa, & Arabia by killing people with swords.

Israel is one of our few, historical, consistent, democratic friends. Perfect? No. Yet far more just and equitable than societies who stone women when they are raped.

Please spare foreign policy readers your hackneyed, some might say culturally and racially exclusive, Greater Israel ideology. I'll concede you, however, that Jerusalem is the Jewish Capital of the Jewish nation. But the State of Israel has only existed since 1948 and its legal--yes those pesky lines on a map that must be recognized under international law and or bilateral treaties--borders do not include Jerusalem. I suggest you find a way to reconcile your ideological and religious sympathies with the fact that Israel is indeed an "Occupier" beyond the 1949 armistice lines--the famous Green Line that the Jewish State has ignored for over half a century. I'm a supporter of Israel, too, just within these legal boundaries. Don't bring a biblical argument to a an academic blog. Its offensive.

In all Jewish-religion-related books, magazines and newspapers, the format "Common Era", and "Before Common Era" has been used for at least 80 years and probably longer. I can remember it when I was in religious school in the late 1950s.

Yes, when Christians use it, it can seem PC, bowing to the false god of diversity, but when we Jews use it, it is based on a long (for modern writing) pedigree. I can also see Japanese, Chinese, Muslims, and those from the Indian subcontinent using it, but we invented it (I think).

Please, no one take this the wrong way; I am criticizing no one, just reporting that it's not as trendy as it may seem to many, but has a long history in the English-speaking Jewish world.

Obama was a "guest lecturer"...he was NEVER...ever a professor...sorry...
It's like the old adage in sports, "go look it up..."...

Good luck...go learn something...

Yes Drudge, Rush and Beck did not finish college (along with Abe Lincoln, Gates, Jobs, Ralph Lauren, Larry Ellison, Dell and a few other "dopes") and cannot stand up to the intellects of the learned Stalin, Ahmadinejad and Obama.

I work with people who have advanced degrees, in different fields, and there are more than a few of them who could not think their way out of a wet paper bag!

Heard of the term "analysis paralysis"?? Just because a person spent countless hours with their head buried in books - and subsequently proved they absorbed a majority of the content within those books - does not automatically confer upon that person the mantle of "intelligence".

Knowledge is a tool... if you do not know how to use it, you look foolish trying.

Another thing they have in common is that they kick your liberal networks' butts each evening because non-elites know where they have to go to get the truth.

"Q: WHAT DO DRUDGE, BECK, LIMBAUGH, AND HANNITY ALL HAVE IN COMMON?
A: NONE OF THEM COULD EVEN GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE.
YET YOU TRUST THEM TO CONTROL YOUR INFORMATION ABOUT SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, HISTORY, AND POLITICS."

I trust them for that more than I trust a man who had no experience running ANYTHING who became President of the United States. Many a hero and people who stand up for what is right have not graduated college.

So that explains it..........

Sure thing buddy. Here's a simple quote:

"Palestinian Arabs fled their original lands to become Palestinian refugees, in part, due to an alleged promise from Arab leaders that they would be able to return when the war had been won."

and here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict

I'm sorry, but I have yet to find the word "stupider" in my lexicon. Is this in fact a valid word in the English language, or is it just something that you've made up and repeated, as all good little liberal coolaid drinkers do?

I believe until 1994, there was no real objectivity in the media i.e. Cronkite. Fox News woke up America and did it in a fair balanced way. Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, Beck and most of all Ronald Reagan are the truth tellers in this century and history will show that. :)

Yes, I apologize for the "E." I didn't think about it.

You should really do your research. Over half the muslims that lived there were persuaded to leave by...wait for it....OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES. The rest just assimilated if I am correct. Muslim leaders did not want the Muslims in Jerusalem to be casualties if they were going to be successful at annihilating the Jews. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, the one's that left did so voluntarily. You need to educated yourself before taking sides, just for the sake of hating your Western peers. But let me guess, the News Media is your teacher.

Those people voluntarily left Israel on the promises from their Arab brethren that they could return to that area after the Arabs destroyed the Jews in the Arab-Israeli war. That's why you have Arabs and Jews living in Jerusalem. The Arabs that remained continued to be members of that society. The ones who left could no longer be trusted.

As far as the so called "occupied territories", I want you to tell me what country would voluntarily give back lands taken from an aggressor nation that lost out in a war? We kept Guam, the PI, Puerto Rico, Texas, Hawaii, Samoa, and many other islands in Polynesia. We also owned the canal zone in Panama up until that moron Carter gave it back to the Panamanians so they could sell it to Hutchinson Wampoa (Front Company-Cash Cow for the Chinese military).

That isn't Arab land and has never been. The Jews have had a presence there all along although they were subjugate from time to time.

Thie dumb bell president has no clue as far as the roots of the Jewish people and America. It does not take a genius to research that without the Jewish people and money we would have not won the war. We were broke and Jews supplied the money and men - not his beloved Muslims.

... you've got what you voted for ...

Israel ceased to be a Nation 3000 years ago. At the time of Jesus 2000 years ago, Israel did not exist. The area was known in the world of that time as the Roman Province of Palestine. The Jews dispersed throughout the world after the Romans destroyed the Temple at Jerusalem

Israel is a re-creation of the Bible.

Armageddon is derived from Har Mediggo which was located in the Roman Province of Palestine when The Revelation of Jresus Christ was given 2000 years ago. Today, Har Mediggo/Armageddon is located in the Occupied territories.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Revelation 16

This revelation was given 600 years before Islam appeared in the world as the third religion to the God of Abraham.

The three unclean spirits, devils and false prophet are active in the three religions to the God of Abraham, that by the design of God, the author of History, all meet in Jerusalem Today where Christ was crucified.

Dear THEGADFLY1, pity that you confuse presentation of information with control. The individuals named do NOT work for PBS. You further confuse a "college degree" with intelligence and knowledge. Your comment is typical of progressives (a misnomer if ever there was one), lacking substance of logical argument must resort to ad hominem. The official progressive theme song is “if only I had a brain".

No forced exodus...just so long as you don't strap bombs to yourself or kids and blow up other kids at school, on the school bus, or pizza parlors.

Check with the other Arab nations Jordan, Syria, etc, who BTW comprise 75% of what was once Palestine, why THEY have not incorporated Hamas/Palestinians and given them their "homeland" back.
The Israelis most recently gave the coastal resort area of Gaza back. What did the Palestinians do with a potentially world-class resort destination?
Turned it into a farkin' ghetto complete with a base of operations to launch rocket attacks on their neighbors.

Someone said that the history of Israel is Jewish and therefor its okay for Jewish Israel to do what it wants and kick everyone else out. I have a feeling this isn't true based on what I learned of the Crusades in the Middle Ages but I could be wrong as my background in the Middle East is far from perfect.

Nonetheless even if the history of Israel is predominantly Jewish, it doesn't justify forcing people out of their homes. If it does I guess white Americans and blacks should be forced out of America because it historically it was originally the Native Americans land. The Native Americans lived a lot longer than we Americans have here. And perhaps they don't even have a right because the animals came before even them. Oh yeah and while your at being historically correct with land instead of giving a damn about the various people that live on it right now, kick all the British Australians out of Australia because the Aboriginies had been there for tens of thousands of years longer. So were Germans right in cleansing their homeland of the Jews? Germany after all was never a history of the Jews. This line of reasoning is dangerously wrong and has led to many crazy nationalistic genocides in the past.

Get a big BS in Marxism. e.g. Obamma

If it wasn't for a gang of angry Roman soldiers. The Temple would still be there in its glory. After the Roman soldiers destroyed the Holy Temple, the vacuum created by the driven out Jewish people was quickly filled with Islamic people who seized on the Temple grounds and built that atrocity, Dome of the Rock.

I'd be very wary of the current US administration. The social activist President flips and flops on issues. But mostly he sides with his own ilk, and that isn't the Jewish people of Israel. I think the Muslim Brotherhood has a stronger voice whispering into the ear of the current President.

If this is true explain the native Arab Israeli citizens including the Bedouin. The Arabs chose to leave during the first Arab attack on Israel. those who stayed are citizens. As long as were talking about forced exodus, what about the forced exodus of Jews from Arab countries. Any solutions or just complaining.

Nick you might study up on the mandate period upto and including the creation of the "Modern State" of Isreal. Outside of recent Muslim revisionist souces I think you will find it hard to find support that Arabs were forced into migration by the new state. ( I do understand that more recently land grabs have forced Arabs off land unfairly) But mass force migration? The Arabs were not asked by Isreal to leave...Hint the person who did lived in Damascus and his name began with the word "Grand".

If you are interested I suggest some history of the area. It is complicated, and should not effect the solution. If that were the case all native lands would have to be returned. Arabs were not forced out of Israel by the Israeli's. They left during the first of many Arab attacks on Israel. The arabs were so sure of victory and the repatriation of those who left, but they were defeated in all of the wars. Those who stayed became citizens.

the Roman defeat of the Jewish temple never eliminated the Jewish presence. After the Romans other conquerors followed. But the time between the Romans and the Muslims is quite expansive. More then 600 years. Even when that occurred the population was converted to Islam or stayed Jewish with all the inherent penalties that being Jewish in the Islamic world meant back then. In many places in this Islamic world Jews were treated far better then in Christendom.

Outrageous. Your comment is truthful!