Think about this.

Think about this.
Moreover, Israel is a little country, 7 million Jews out of 14 million Jews in all the world, and 2 million of Muslim israeli citizens. By the way, at the beginning Hamas attacked from inside Israel, terrorists were guested in arab villages. Out of Israel there are 2 billion muslims ready to wipe out the only little Jewish country in the world. There are 22 arab States and about 80 Muslim States in the world. They cannot tolerate the very existence of a Jewish State, with a Jewish majority of people, because the aim of Islam is to make the whole world islamic. Inside islamic countries sometimes tiny minorities are accepted, but they must be less than the Muslim majorities. Islam is a System, not a religion only. It is based on 4 pillars : one legal - the Sharyia law, one political - there must be in every State a majority of Muslims, one military - the Jihad, during that Jihad Muslims can make suffer the "infidels" before killing them, that is the basis for the atrocities that day 7.10.23, and one religious - it connects all the other pillars and cannot be changed by definition. Any Muslim trying to change something in Islam can be killed by another believer, it will not be considered a crime. Moreover if a Muslim tells that he do not believe in God, can be killed as well and it will not be considered a crime.
Israel has to destroy all the hundreds of km (more than New York underground tube) of military tunnels built by Hamas in the last 20 years, and has to show the rest of the Islamic world that if they should do the same thing again (and the original program was to wipe out Israel in just 3 days, attacking in 30 sites more, with the help of Hizballah, Iran, Yemen, Sirya, Irak and local Arabs, israeli and those living in Judea and Samaria) it will include a high price. The former president of Iran Raftzanjani said that Islam can tolerate 20-30 million Muslim deaths in order to delete Israel from the surface of the earth.
See next part of the story of my grandfather Itzhak Levy (z"l). If you read that story, you should understand that the conflict has to be called the "Israeli-Islamic" conflict, instead of the "Israeli-Palestinian" one. The so called "Palestinians" were invented out of nowhere in 1964 by the soviet KGB, three years before 1967 war. They were called "Arabs" before that year, because that is what they are, "Arabs" identical to the other Arabs of all the surrounding States. The Palestinians as a people were invented in 1964 with the sole purpose of wiping out the Jews from their Statehood, and establish Islam even there.
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My great-grandfather (and my grandfather Isaac Itzhak Levy, z"l, one year old) lived in Bitola (then Monastir), the Macedonian city north of Thessaloniki. In 1895, with a simple passcard, he came to Jerusalem to live. He didn't need a passport because it was all part of the same empire, the Turkish-Ottoman one. The Jews from Thessaloniki came to the Land of Israel/Palestine, and they preferred to settle on the sea, in Haifa. Thessaloniki was a maritime city. Those from Bitola, the nearby city, that was seated on the hills, preferred to settle in Jerusalem, on its hills.
For every Jew coming to Palestine between 1880 and 1948, about 2-3 Arabs came as well, looking for a job. My father was a border guard in 1943. He asked an Arab "you are Iraqi, what are you doing in Palestine?" The Arab told him "In Iraq there was a rumor that there were Jews in Palestine, and they provided work here, that's why I came". Then he met another from Sudan who had come for the same reason. From 1917 to 1948 there was the British Mandate of Palestine in Palestine. In 1920 (to make a long story short, let's say 1920, in practice there were two-three decisions, in 1920, 1922, 1923, see Di Segni's clarification below) at an international conference held in San Remo, it was decided to divide Palestine in two parts, one Arab, which became today's Jordan, and in the area now controlled by Israel, Great Britain had the mandate to create a homeland for the Jews, just there, in the second area. Following two years of staying in Palestine the British gave any immigrant, no matter if Jew or Arab, a Palestinian passport. Today the world believes that the "Palestinians" are the Arabs who lived here in the Land of Israel until 1948, and the Jews "kicked out" them from "their" lands. Nothing could be further from the truth. Apart the 25,000 Jews in Palestine in 1881 (according to a Turkish census), the 170,000 Muslims and the 5,000 Christians, everyone else immigrated here. Consider this : if the Jews had not immigrated, the million Arabs that came here back then, in those years, would never have immigrated here. That is because the Jews created the infrastructure for a thriving, modern economy. In theory, for a specific reason, which Westerners do not understand, there is a kernel of truth in that sentence. Islamists and Arab Muslims consider ALL land, from Pakistan to Morocco, Islamic Land. Therefore, according to them, Israel is an Islamic Land, so, an immigrant into Palestine in the years 1880-1948 (that is, the vast majority of "Palestinians"), who waged war against Israel, losing property because of his own fault (he had not taken part of the war, he should continued to own his little piece of land, till our days), was practically kicked out of a piece of Islamic Land. On the other hand, the Islamists have 22 Arab states and 80 other states in the world, can't they tolerate a tiny Jewish state? No, actually they can't tolerate it. And the Western world doesn't understand this. Israel is the only state with a Jewish majority in the world. And you want to destroy it? It will happen, NEVER !
Until 1948 the Arabs did not want to call themselves "Palestinians", because with that term everyone referred to the Jews in Palestine. In other words, until 1948 the Jews were called "Palestinians" and the Arabs, "Arabs".
In 1964, three years before the Six Day War, the Russian KGB gave this order to Yasser Arafat, who was an Egyptian and became the leader of the PLO: <<From today, instead of calling yourselves Arab refugees, you will call yourselves "Palestinians">> .
This part of History is told in the West, every time upside down, quite often against Israel, thousands and thousands of anti-israeli lies are told trhoughout the years.
In the photo - my grandfather Itzhak Levy (z"l) and my grandmother Rosa Jabez (z"l).
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Clarification by Donato Di Segni:
- The Mandate of Palestine existed from September 1923 until May 1948
-in 1920 in Sanremo there was the creation of the mandates and the Palestinian mandate included both present-day Israel and present-day Jordan.
-in July 1922 at the League of Nations it was decided to divide the original mandate territory in two, creating Transjordan, reducing the Palestinian mandate only to the area west of the Jordan River.
- the Arabs only wanted to call themselves Palestinians since 1964.
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I would like to point out this - Before 1964, some of them preferred to call themselves "Southern Syrians". Others preferred to be called "Arabs".
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This is the same story in Italian (it was originally written in Italian) :

Il mio bisnonno (e mio nonno Isacco Itzhak Levy- z"l, che aveva 1 anno) abitava a Bitola (allora Monastir), la citta' macedone a nord di Salonicco. Nel 1895, con un semplice lasciapassare, venne a Gerusemme a vivere. Non ebbe bisogno del passaporto perche' era tutto parte dello stesso impero, quello turco-ottomano. Gli ebrei di Salonicco che vennero in Terra d'Israele/Palestina, preferirono stabilirsi sul mare, a Haifa. Salonicco era una citta' marittima. Quelli di Bitola, la citta' vicina, sulle colline, preferirono stabilirsi a Gerusalemme, sui suoi colli.
Per ogni ebreo che arrivo' in Palestina tra il 1880 e il 1948 arrivavano 2-3 arabi in cerca di lavoro. Mio padre nel 1943 faceva la guardia di frontiera. Chiese ad un arabo "tu sei irakeno, che ci fai in Palestina ?" L' arabo gli disse "In Irak correva voce che in Palestina c'erano gli ebrei che davano lavoro, per questo sono venuto". Poi ne conobbe un' altro dal Sudan che era arrivato per lo stesso motivo. Dal 1917 al 1948 c'era in Palestina il Mandato Britannico sulla Palestina. Nel 1920 (per farla breve, diciamo il 1920, in pratica ci furono due-tre decisioni, nel 1920, 1922, 1923, vedere sotto la precisazione di Di Segni) ad una conferenza internazionale tenutasi a San Remo, venne deciso di dividere la Palestina in due parti, una araba, che divenne la Giordania di oggi, e nella zona controllata oggi da Israele, la Gran Bretagna ebbe il Mandato di crearvi una patria per gli ebrei. Dopo due anni di permanenza in Palestina gli inglesi davano a qualunque immigrato, non importa se ebreo o arabo, il passaporto palestinese. Oggi il mondo crede che i "palestinesi" siano gli arabi che vivevano qui in Terra d'Israele fino al 1948, e che gli ebrei li avrebbero "cacciati" dalle "loro" terre. Nulla di piu' falso. A parte i 25.000 ebrei presenti in Palestina nel 1881 (secondo un censimento turco), i 170.000 musulmani e i 5000 cristiani, tutti gli altri sono immigrati qui. Ma se non fossero immigrati gli ebrei, non sarebbero immigrati nemmeno quel milione di arabi venuti qui in quegli anni. Perche' gli ebrei crearono le infrastrutture per una economia florida e moderna. In teoria, per un specifico motivo, che gli occidentali non capiscono, c'e' un nocciolo di verita' in quella frase. Gli islamici e gli arabi musulmani considerano TUTTA la terra, dal Pakistan al Marocco, Terra Islamica. Quindi, secondo loro, Israele e' Terra Islamica, pertanto un immigrato in Palestina negli anni 1880-1948 (la stragrande maggioranza dei "palestinesi"), che fece la guerra contro Israele, perdendo la proprieta' per sua stessa colpa (non avesse preso parte alla guerra avrebbe continuato a possedere il suo pezzettino di terra) effettivamente fu scacciato dalla Terra Islamica. Ma gli islamici hanno 22 Stati arabi e altri 80 Stati nel mondo, non possono tollerare un minuscolo Stato Ebraico ? No, non possono tollerarlo. E questo il mondo occidentale non lo capisce. Israele e' l' unico Stato a maggioranza ebraica al mondo. E volete distruggerlo ? Giammai !
Fino al 1948 gli arabi non vollero chiamarsi "palestinesi", perche' con quel termine tutti indicavano gli ebrei in Palestina. In altre parole fino al 1948 gli ebrei si chiamavano "palestinesi" e gli arabi, "arabi".
Nel 1964, tre anni prima della guerra dei sei giorni, il KGB russo diede questo ordine a Yasser Arafat, che era un egiziano a capo dell' OLP : <<Da oggi, invece di chiamarvi rifugiati arabi, vi chiamerete "palestinesi">>.
La Storia viene raccontata in occidente quasi sempre al rovescio, e generalmente contro Israele, con migliaia e migliaia di bugie pilotate.
Nella foto - mio nonno Itzhak Levy (z"l) e mia nonna Rosa Jabez (z"l).
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Precisazione di Donato Di Segni :
- Il mandato di palestina ci fu dal settembre 1923 fino al maggio 1948
-nel 1920 a Sanremo ci fu la creazione dei mandati e il mandato di palestina includeva sia l’attuale Israele che l’attuale Giordania.
-nel luglio 1922 in sede di Società delle Nazioni fu deciso di suddividere in due il territorio mandatario originale creando la transgiordania riducendo il mandato di palestina nella sola area a ovest del fiume Giordano.
- gli arabi vollero chiamarsi palestinesi solo dal 1964.
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Poi vorrei puntualizzare questo - Precedentemente al 1964, alcuni di loro preferivano chiamarsi "siriani del sud". Altri preferivano l'appellativo di "arabi", soltanto.