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It is complete irony and utter farce that the very institutional guardians who assigned Israel back to its ancestral home after the Holocaust now promote policies which threaten its very existence.

The United Nations, full of consciousness and compassion after the revelations of the fate of countless Jews horribly murdered in Nazi death camps, felt it appropriate that the Israeli people return to their homeland. In 1948 Israeli's began moving back to the land that they had been pushed out of in 70 A.D. by the Romans. The Holocaust was never to be forgotten and the world understood how these people had suffered unspeakable loss. Victorious Allied powers also offered strong and full support of this reunification.

Immediately, however, it was apparent that the Jewish people had been thrown into the lion's cage as all of her Muslim neighbors rallied to war to bring about Israel's swift destruction. Syria, Jordan and Egypt warned other Muslims living within Israel to flee their homes until the annihilation was complete, and then it would be safe for them to come back. Unlike the U.N., apparently not everyone felt that the Jews had lost enough people to the Holocaust, that many more needed to be killed.

Unfortunately for her discontent Muslim neighbors, Israel was not defeated by their aggression. In fact Israel handed her warring neighbors their lunch. What's more, those local Muslims who chose to flee the land until all the Jews were killed, well, not surprisingly, they were not allowed to come back in, for they clearly had sided with Israel's enemy. What is surprising is that none of the countries who hosted the war were neighborly enough to allow the now-homeless Muslim enemies of Israel to live in their own counties. These people, who voluntarily expatriated themselves, but were not allowed back in to the country they had betrayed, are now known as the 'Palestinian Arabs,' or simply 'Palestinians.'

After several more decades and several more wars, all of which saw Israel surrounded, outnumbered and her existence threatened, Israel proved to be a bigger bone than her Muslim neighbors could bite. Furthermore, with every conflict, Israel gained strategic territory that her war-minded neighbors used for their attacks, like the Golan Heights. Israel possessed this land to deny its use to her enemy for their aggression, the outlet of their hatred for Jews, which continued to seethe.

Now, of course, we are in an age of revisionist history. The President of Iran is claiming

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