UN Vote Legitimizes Arab Myth About Israel

"During a time when Syria's Bashar Assad and Russia's Vladimir Putin were barrel bombing and slaughtering the innocent people of Aleppo, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated and Berlin Christmas shoppers were murdered in a terrorist attack, the United States abstained from a United Nations vote that condemned Israel for its 'occupation' in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

The UN resolution legitimizes the Arab myth that Jews (and Christians) have no historical connection to the Holy Land, and that the 430,000 Israelis living in the West Bank and the 200,000 Israelis living in East Jerusalem are illegal occupiers. At one time, the Palestinian Authority went so far as to claim that the Jews, and implicitly Jesus, had never lived in the Holy Land. Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, said that the events depicted in the Old and New Testament took place in Yemen. This contortion of history was necessary to validate the claim that Jews are mere 'occupiers' and not legitimate inhabitants of the so called 'occupied territory.'

However, we should remember that what is referred to as the 'occupied territory' is land that was historically occupied by Jews since biblical times. Going back to the first census taken in 1820, Jews always constituted a majority of the population in Jerusalem. The Old Quarter of Jerusalem, now a part of the 'occupied territory,' was and is almost entirely occupied by Jews and houses the Western Wall - a remnant of King Solomon's Temple sacred to the Jews...

The UN vote will be applauded in every European capital, as well as those institutions and campuses that have bullied Israel with boycotts and sanctions for years. No matter what Israel does, or doesn't do, it will still be subject to unprovoked aggressive forays by its neighbors. In the past, the Palestinians and many Arab nations have attacked Israel militarily. They are now armed with a UN resolution that brands Israel an outlaw for living and worshipping in a land that has always been its ancestral home."