Tel-Chai Nation: Pregnant woman attacked at Ofra

A jihad attack near Ofra left a young pregnant woman injured, and her baby's been delivered early (via Breitbart):

Doctors successfully delivered the baby being carried by a 21-year-old Israeli woman late Sunday night, shortly after she was shot and critically hurt in a terrorist attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra.

The baby, who was delivered by Cesarean section in the 30th week of the pregnancy, was immediately transferred to the ward for premature babies at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, the hospital said, and was said to be in “stable” condition.

The woman was undergoing surgery late Sunday and was “fighting for her life,” the hospital said.

So is her child, and we'll have to pray for both of them.

Update: tragically, although the mother survived, the infant died, as reported on Times of Israel (via Breitbart). A suspect may have been arrested in the incident, but that doesn't change the fact a murder was committed in the name of Islamic jihad.

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In other cases the more or less universally used description of eligibility [for refugee status] included people who were forced to leave permanent or habitual homes.

In the case of the Arab refugees, however, the definition had been broadened to include as refugees any persons who had been in Palestine for only two years before Israel’s statehood in 1948.

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 1, page 4) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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According to a research report by the Arab-sponsored Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, however, the majority of the Arab refugees in 1948 were not expelled, and 68% left without seeing an Israeli soldier.

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 13) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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“…what the Arabs envisioned was something that could achieve Israel shrinking to indefensible size…”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 14) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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[Mohamed] Heikal [editor of the influential Al Ahram Egyptian newspaper, in year 1971] called for a change of Arab rhetoric: no more threats of throwing Israel into the sea; and a new political strategy aimed at reducing Israel to indefensible borders and pushing her into diplomatic and economic isolation. He predicted that “total withdrawal” would “pass sentence on the entire state of Israel.”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 14) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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MICROBIOGRAPHY:

Joan Peters is a former CBS news producer of documentaries.
She also wrote for magazines such as: Harpers, Commentary,
The New Republic, and The New Leader.

Her original goal was to gather evidence that the Palestinians
were driven out of their land by Jews; but when she examined
the facts, she realized that the people who call themselves
Palestinians are not native to Palestine, and have no legitimate
claim on the land of Israel.

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Khaled Al Azm, who was the Prime Minister of Syria after the 1948 war, deplored the Arab tactics and subsequent exploitation of the [Palestinian] refugees, in his 1972 memoirs:

“Since 1948 it was we who demanded the return of the refugees...
while it was we [Arabs] who made them [Palestinians] leave [Israel]...
We brought disaster upon...

Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave ...
Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs
upon...men, women and children, all this in the service of political purposes ...”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 16) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] altered its definition of refugees to include those people who had lived in Palestine a minimum of only two years preceding the 1948 conflict [in which Israel became an independent state].

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 18) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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“Notwithstanding the facts, the Arab world has assiduously worked to build the myth that no jobs were available in Arab lands for Arab refugees in 1948 or since…”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 22) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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In 1958, former director of UNRWA Ralph Galloway declared angrily while in Jordan:

“The Arab states do not want to solve the [Palestinian] refugee problem.

They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations, and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die.”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 23) by Joan Peters, year 1984, JKAP Publications

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“One crucial truth, among the many which have been obscured or deprecated, is that there have been as many Jewish refugees who fled or were expelled from the Arab countries [in year 1948] as there were Arab refugees from Israel, and that the Jews left of necessity and in flight from danger.”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 2, page 25) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications

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Hitler’s crimes against the Jews have been frequently justified in Arab writings and pronouncements. In the 1950s, Minister Anwar Sadat published an open letter to Hitler, hoping he was still alive and sympathizing with his cause.

Important Arab writers and political figures have said Hitler was “wronged and slandered…” Or that Hitler wanted to “save … the world from this malignant evil…”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (chapter 3, page 37) by Joan Peters, 1984, JKAP Publications