A complete joke from the Arab League of Nations

[Pouye]

What is missing from this history of Jerusalem (in Arabic, Al-Quds)? I'll give a pop tart to the winner... ;)

"Phases of History
* It is one of the ancient cities as it dates back to over 45 centuries.
* The Arab Canaanites migrated from the Arab Peninsula to Al-Quds 5000 years ago.
* It was built by the Jebuseans around 2500B.C.
* It was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C.
* Alexandar the Macedonian occupied it in 332 B.C. and he was succeeded by the Ptolemaics and the Seleucids.
* In 63 B.C., the Roman Leader Pompey destroyed the city.
* In 70 B.C., the Roman Leader Titus burned the city.
* Al-Quds was burned once again in 135 A.D. at the hands of the Roman Leader Hadrian and he built over its ruins the Colony of Aelia Capitolina.
* Empress Helena built churches in Al-Quds and renamed it Yerushalem.
* After a three month period of siege, Caliph omar Al-Kattab entered Al-Quds after he received it from Patriarch Safronius in 636 A.D.
* Caliph Omar issued the safeguard covenant to the inhabitants of Al-Quds (Al-Ohdah Al-Omariya), which proves the tolerance of the Islam religion with the Christian communities.
* The Crusaders occupied Al-Quds in 1099 A.D. and they remained in it for 88 years.
* It was liberated at the hands of the Arab Leader Salah El-Din Al-Ayyoubi on 2 October 1187 A.D. as he entered Al-Quds and allowed the Crusaders to leave the city peacefully.
* Al-Quds remained under the control of the Mamelukes until 1253 A.D.
* The Ottomans entered al-Quds on 1516 A.D. and remained under theire control until 1917A.D.
* It became, as part of Palestine, under the British Mandate in WWI and remained so until 1948.
* The British Mandate handed West Jerusalem to the Zionist Jews during their withdrawal from Palestine in 1948.
* Israel occupied East Jerusalem on 5 June 1967.
* The resistance of Palestinian Jerusalemites against Israeli occupation and the continued Judaization of the city and emptying it from its Arab population continued.
* The resistance against the judaization of the city reached its peak when Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out after Ariel Sharon's desecration of Al-Haram Al-Sharif on 28 September 2000.
* Al-Intifada still persists and every day more martyrs and wounded fall in sacrifice for the city of peace.
* The most important names given to the city throughout history age are:
v The Arab Canaanites called it Urusalem (city of peace).
v The Arab Jebuseans called it Jubas in relation to Jebus.
v The Roman Emperor Aelius Hadrian called it Aelia Capitolina.
v The Byzantines and the Persians called it Aelia.
v The Arab Muslims called it Bait Al-Maqdes, Al-Quds, Al-Quds Al-Sharif, when the Abbasid Caliph, Al-Maamoun, visited the city and issued currency in the name of Al-Quds instead of Aelia.
The most important Islamic sites in Al-Quds"

From here:
http://www.arableagueonline.org/las/english/details_en.jsp?art_id=167 8&level_id=6

SIDE NOTE: Since when were the Canaanites Arabs?

Rock

[HotWireD]

Jews, Israelites, King David, the Temple of Solomon, the Ark of the Covenant, king Cyrus inviting the Jews back, Shem and Eber (sons of Abraham) ....

... need I go on to get my pop tart?

[HotWireD]

SIDE NOTE: Since when were the Canaanites Arabs?

Rock

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanites
It has been argued that the Israelites were themselves Canaanites, and that "historical Israel", as distinct from "literary" or "Biblical Israel" was a subset of Canaanite culture."Canaan" when used in this sense refers to the entire Ancient Near Eastern Levant down to about 100 AD, including the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. For example, Mark Smith in "The Early History of God: Yahweh and Other Deities of Ancient Israel" states "Despite the long regnant model that the 'Canaanites' and Israelites were people of fundamentally different culture, archaeological data now casts doubt on this view. The material culture of the region exhibits numerous common points between Israelites and 'Canaanites' in the Iron I period (ca. 1200-1000 BC). The record would suggest that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and derived from 'Canaanite' culture... In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature.

Given the information available, one cannot maintain a radical cultural separation between Canaanites and Israelites for the Iron I period."

Two pop tarts? ;)

[Howlin' Wolf]

Rock, we know you hate arabs. They hate you too.

[HotWireD]

I thought this (humorous) thread was about the historical revisionism of the article - failing to mention a major group of people involved in the story of Jerusalem, rather vthan a pot at arabic people in general, my bad.

On a similar note, I recall listening to an old Englishman regaling people about the exploits of the Allies during the Second World War and failing to mention the US servicemen at all. When I his ommision to his attention, he said words to the effect of "Oh yes, they were there too".

[Jason]

What's missing? Christ.

I like strawberry poptarts.

[Mr.Supervious]

i thought it was an easy one..it says it got burned and destroyed but it was never re-built lol

[Pouye]

Rock, we know you hate arabs. They hate you too.

I don't hate anyone. And if they hate me, it shows that they are part of the world system who hated Jesus. Jesus said this:

"The people of the world will hate you because you belong to me, for they don't know God who sent me."
John 15:21-

"But wisdom is proved right by her actions.”
Matthew 11:19b

Rock

[Pouye]

I do not hate Arabs, nor do I support the killing of anyone. I love Arabs and all people. Loving people is not the same as agreeing with them, nor agreeing with their portrayal of history that is false or deceptive, which was the point of my thread.

Rock

[HotWireD]

Rock, I read your post and did not see any Arab hating in it - I thought it was a humorous/ironic comment.ary on how history can be re written.

[Pouye]

What the Arab League of Nations forgot to mention:

It is one of the ancient cities as it dates back to over 45 centuries.
The Canaanites migrated to the region approximately 5000 years ago.
It was built by the Jebuseans around 2500B.C.
1800 BCE -- The Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - patriarchs of the Jewish people and bearers of a belief in one God - settle in the Land of Israel. Famine forces Israelites to migrate to Egypt
1300 BCE -- Migration and conquest of Canaan by the Philistines and Israelite tribes.
1000 BCE -- Jewish conquest of Jerusalem; reign of King David; After the death of David's son, Solomon, the kingdom split into two: Israel in the north, Judea in Jerusalem and the south.
721 BCE -- Fall of Israel (Northern Kingdom) to Assyria
586 BCE -- Fall of Judea (Southern Kingdom) to Babylon and destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar.
539 BCE -- Fall of Babylon. Jews allowed to return to Judea. Tradition has it that Ezra and Nehemia led this return, and later rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.
519 BCE -- Rebuilding of the Second Jewish Temple under Persian rule.
331 BCE -- Alexander the Great conquers Persia. The land was subject to Egyptian rule after his death, followed by Seleucid Syrian rule.
166 BCE -- Revolt of Judah Maccabee against Syrian Hellenic dynasty; Liberation of Jerusalem.
* In 63 B.C., the Roman Leader Pompey destroyed the city.
66-73 AD -- First Jewish revolt. Fall of the Jewish Second Temple to the Roman Leader Titus in 70 AD.
133-135 AD -- Second Jewish revolt under Bar Kochba crushed by the Roman Leader Hadrian. Judea renamed Palestina. Jews are banned from Jerusalem by Hadrianus Caesar and he built over its ruins the Colony of Aelia Capitolina.
* Empress Helena built churches in Al-Quds and renewed the ancient name Yerushalem.
614 Persians conquer Judea and Jerusalem..
628 Emperor Heraclius defeats Sassanid Persians, reconquers Jerusalem.
About 638 Arab conquest of Jerusalem (slightly earlier or later according to different sources). Caliph Omar provides the Christians of Jerusalem with a Covenant guaranteeing their protection. Land divided into the Jund of filastin, in the south (capital in Al-Lod and later in Ramlah), and the Jund of Urdunn in the north, with capital in Tiberias (Tabariyeh).
1099 Crusaders conquer Jerusalem, slaughter most Jewish and Muslem inhabitants, expel Jews.
1187 Saladin (Salah-al-din) reconquers Jerusalem allowing the Crusaders to leave the city peacefully.
* Al-Quds remained under the control of the Mamelukes until 1253 A.D.
1291 Crusaders defeated at Acre and evicted from Palestine.
1740 Ottoman Sultan invites Rabbi Haim Abulafia (1660-1744), Kabbalist and Rabbi of Izmir, to come to rebuild the city of Tiberias; thousands of Jews immigrate to the land in a wave of Messianic fervor, including Rabbi Moses Haim Luzzatto (1707-1746).
1799 Napoleon conquers Jaffa but retreats before Acco (Acre); 1799 - Napoleon's Proclamation of a Jewish State was stillborn, and his declaration of equal rights for Jews was repealed in part in 1806.
1831 Egyptian Conquest of Palestine area by Mehmed Ali of Egypt, who rebelled against the Ottomans. He was forced to withdraw in 1840 under pressure by European allies.
1843 First Zionist writings of Rabbi Alcalay and of Rabbi Kalischer, Emuna Yeshara.
1844 First census in Jerusalem shows 7120 Jews, 5760 Muslims, 3390 Christians.
1856 Ottoman reforms (Tanzimat) - including requirement to register ownership of land in Palestine and pay taxes on it.
1860 First Jewish settlement (Mishkenot Sha'ananim) outside Jerusalem walls.
1878 First Zionist Settlement - Petah Tikwa.
1870s Formation of Hovevei Tzion in Russia
1882 Leon Pinsker writes Auto-Emancipation in 1882; formation of BILU; beginning of the First Aliya (wave of immigration).
1897 First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland.
Nov 2, 1917 British issued the Balfour Declaration, promising a “National Home” for the Jews in Palestine.
1936-1939 Arab Revolt led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini. Over 5,000 Arabs were killed according to some sources, mostly by British. Several hundred Jews were killed by Arabs. Husseini fled to Iraq and then to Nazi Germany. British White Paper (1939) severely restricts Jewish immigration.
May 9, 1942 Biltmore Program - Zionist leaders, headed by Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, convene at the Biltmore Hotel in New York and declare their postwar program (known as the Biltmore Program). The program recommended an end to the British Mandate and demand Jewish control over immigration to Palestine with the aim of founding a Jewish "Commonwealth."
May 14, 1948 STATE OF ISRAEL proclaimed. 600,000 Jews in the land.
May 15, 1948 Israel War of Independence (1948 War). Declaration of Israel as the Jewish State; British leave Palestine; Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia declared war on Israel. Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian invasion began. Armistice agreements signed with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Jerusalem divided under Israeli and Jordanian rule. First Knesset (parliament) elected.
1949 Israel admitted to United Nations as 59th member.
1948-52 -- Mass immigration from Europe and Arab countries.
1956 -- Sinai Campaign against Nasser, with England and France, Pres. Eisenhower defeated it.
1962 -- Adolf Eichmann tried and executed in Israel for his key part in the Holocaust.
1967 -- Israel captures East Jerusalem on 5 June 1967 in the Six-Day War, Jerusalem reunited.
1968-70 -- Egypt's War of Attrition against Israel
1973 -- Yom Kippur War
1975 -- Israel becomes an associate member of the European Common Market.
1977 -- Likud forms government after Knesset elections, end of 30 years of Labor
* The resistance against the judaization of the city reached its peak when Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out after Ariel Sharon's desecration of Al-Haram Al-Sharif on 28 September 2000.
* Al-Intifada still persists and every day more martyrs and wounded fall in sacrifice for the city of peace.
* The most important names given to the city throughout history age are:
v The Arab Canaanites called it Urusalem (city of peace).
v The Arab Jebuseans called it Jubas in relation to Jebus.
v The Roman Emperor Aelius Hadrian called it Aelia Capitolina.
v The Byzantines and the Persians called it Aelia.
v The Arab Muslims called it Bait Al-Maqdes, Al-Quds, Al-Quds Al-Sharif, when the Abbasid Caliph, Al-Maamoun, visited the city and issued currency in the name of Al-Quds instead of Aelia.
The most important Islamic sites in Al-Quds"

Rock