Grandma's army

  REWRITING HISTORY - I The cumulative effect of the Arab false propaganda has been both counter-factual and unfortunate. Already in 2006, the World Heritage Site Committee of the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a resolution referring to the Temple Mount  - the holiest site in Judaism - solely by its Arabic, Islamic name, al-Haram al Sharif In spite of the fact that extensive documentation  from antiquity and countless archaeological finds, continue to confirm  both Judaism's ties to Jerusalem, and the Jewish people's millenia-old presence   in the land of Israel. Among the obvious findings that provide proof of ancient writings about the Jews - and Jerusalem - is the Bible, much of which is magnificently displayed by the new excavation of the City of David. Other proofs are the written histories by Joseph Flavius  (37-100 AD); the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; Peloponnesian War by Thuc...

  REWRITING HISTORY Rewriting the history of the Land of Israel in order to deny Israel's right to exist is central to Palestinian Authority (PA) policy. Long before it started the PA terror campaign (such as the Intifada’s), the PA was fighting a history war - erasing Jewish history and replacing it with a fabricated Palestinian history. This rewriting has two central goals: 1-   Erase the Jewish nation's 4,000 year history in the Land of Israel. 2-    Invent ancient Palestinian, Muslim and Arab histories in the land. This international campaign of delegitimization began a long time before   the establishment of the modern Jewish state. The ancient Romans tried to strip the area of its Jewish identity, to make it more Roman, by renaming Judea  "Syria Palaestina." Later, the fifth caliph of the dynasty of Syria - who ruled during the late 7th century - employed the tactic of delegitimising both Judaism and Christianity,  by constructi...

WORLD WAR II – AN UNTOLD STORY Another of the great untold stories has to do with the countless heroic Jews who served in the U.S., British and Russian militaries during the  War. These soldiers’ vital contributions to the Allied war effort remain buried, partly due to a generally accepted myth that Jews were overwhelmingly victims during the Holocaust.  It was believed that only in Israel were there tough, strong, fighting Jews. But there are other, perhaps biased, reasons that these stories have not yet come to light. The tale of an extraordinary, little-known unit, known as X Troop, is a case in point. In 1942,the Germans seemed to be unstoppable in Europe. Desperate to change the course of the war, Winston Churchill and his Chief of Combined Operations decided to create a commando unit of Jewish refugees. Many of them were in concentration camps before their escape to the U.K., and most had lost their families to the Nazis. They came from Germany and Austria as teen...