The Israeli-Arab
Peace Process and
Bible Prophecy

An open letter from Christians to Christians

End Notes

1. Speech on tenth anniversary of Israel's independence.
2. Baruch Goldstein's act is a chilling reminder that retributive justice can be cruel.
3. Moslem head in Palestine.
4. "Arafat's actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini." Howard M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York: Knopf, 1976).
5. Eichmann's deputy gave eyewitness testimony about Husseini's involvement: "The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures." J. B. Schechtman, THE MUFTI AND THE FÜHRER: THE RISE AND FALL OF HAJ AMIN EL-HUSSEINI (New York: T. Yoseloff, 1965).
6. James W. Parkes, END OF AN EXILE: ISRAEL, THE JEWS AND THE GENTILE WORLD. (Marblehead, MA: Micah, 1982).
7. Edward H. Flanney, THE ANGUISH OF THE JEWS: 23 CENTURIES OF ANTI-SEMITISM (New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 31.
8. David A.Rausch, A LEGACY OF HATRED: WHY CHRISTIANS MUST NOT FORGET THE HOLOCAUST (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1990), pp. 20-21.
9. Claude Duvernoy, "Controversy of Zion," JERUSALEM COURIER, Vol. 5, No. 5, p. 3.
10. Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, WHY THE JEWS? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), pp. 94-95.
11. Ibid., p. 95.
12. Max I. Dimont, JEWS, GOD AND HISTORY (New York: Signet, 1962), p. 227.
13. Prager and Felushkin, WHY THE JEWS?
14. An alternate application of the "chief of the nations" would be the U.N.
15. There were 5-7 million Jews in the Land according to "Josephus," quoted in Samuel Katz, BATTLEGROUND: FACT AND FANTASY IN PALESTINE (New York: Bantam Books, 1973), p.106. According to another source, there were 3 million before A.D. 132-135. Dio Cassius, HISTORY OF THE ROMANS, lxix, 12-14, cited by de Haas, HISTORY, p. 55; see also pp. 52-56; also Theodor Mommsen, PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, I, p. 243.
16. See also Revelation 11:8. From God's viewpoint, Christendom too is guilty of Jesus' death.
17. Abba Eban, MY PEOPLE (New York: Behrman House, 1968), p. 323.
18. See Introduction, p. 1.
19. Barnet Litvinoff, TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS (New York: Frederick Praeger, 1965), p. 114.
20. ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA (Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Judaica, 1973), p. 872.
21. Abba Eban, MY PEOPLE, p. 123.
22. James Parker, WHOSE LAND? A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLES OF PALESTINE (Harmondsworth, Great Britain: 1970), p. 66.
23. Erich Kahler cites this statement from KNOWLEDGE OF CRIMES, p.167, in THE JEWS AMONG THE NATIONS (New York: F. Ungar, 1967), p. 144.
24. Philip A. Hitti, A SHORT HISTORY OF SYRIA (New York: Macmillan, 1959), p. 170.
25. Ibid., p. 622.
26. Yahya Armajami, MIDDLE EAST PAST AND PRESENT (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970), p. 143.
27. Arieh L. Avneri, THE CLAIM OF DISPOSSESSION (New York: Herzl Press, 1982).
28. Count Constantine F. Volney, TRAVELS THROUGH SYRIA AND EGYPT (New York: E. Duyinck & Co., 1798).
29. Hitti, HISTORY OF THE ARABS (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1956).
30. Alfred Bonne, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEAR EAST (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1945).
31. David Ben-Gurion, ISRAEL: A PERSONAL HISTORY (New York: Herzl Press, 1972) p. 817.
32. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL.
33. Thomas Shaw, TRAVELS AND OBSERVATIONS (Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1738).
34. Volney, TRAVELS THROUGH SYRIA AND EGYPT.
35. Alphonse de Lamartine, RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EAST (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838).
36. British Foreign Office Documents 78/1294, Pol. No. 36.
37. TIME, January 3, 1994.
38. Irving Howe and Carl Gershman, Ed., ISRAEL, THE ARABS AND THE MIDDLE EAST (New York: Quadrangle Press, 1972), p. 178.Quadrangle Press, 1972), p. 178.
39. "Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers."
40. LEAGUE OF NATIONS PUBLICATIONS, V.I.A.MANDATES, 1935, 27th Session.
41. UNRWA Reviews, Infor. Paper No. 6.
42. Anny Latour, THE RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL (Cleveland: World, 1968), p. 318.
43. Michael Curtis, Ed. THE PALESTINIANS: PEOPLE, HISTORY, POLITICS (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1975).
44. George Antonius, THE ARAB AWAKENING: THE STORY OF THE ARAB NATIONAL MOVEMENT (Philadelphia: 1939).
45. Ibid.
46. Howe and Gershman, Ed., ISRAEL, THE ARABS AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
47. Ibid., p. 178.
48. Kamal Jumblatt, I SPEAK FOR LEBANON (London: Zed Press, 1982).
49. Ibid.
50. TROUW [Daily Newspaper, Netherlands], March 31, 1977.
51. Felix Bovet, EGYPT, PALESTINE, PHOENECIA: A VISIT TO SACRED LANDS (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1882).
52. Stephen Olin, TRAVELS THROUGH SYRIA AND EGYPT (New York: Harper & Bros., 1851).
53. Elliot Green, JERUSALEM POST, June 11, 1994, p. 6.
54. Howe and Gershman, Ed., ISRAEL, THE ARABS AND THE MIDDLE EAST, p. 178.
55. "London: His Majesty's Stationary Office," Chapter 10, 1937.
56. Ernst Frankenstein, JUSTICE FOR MY PEOPLE (London: Nicholson & Watson, [1943]), p. 130.
57. Joan Peters, TIME IMMEMORIAL (New York: Harper & Rowe, 1984), p. 4.
58. Martin Gilbert, ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, (London: Weidenfeld & Nocolson, 1992), p. 8.
59. Latour, THE RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL, p. 203.
60. Yedelya Atland, HARSH REALITIES (Jerusalem: C. M. Israel Group Ltd., 1989), p. 19.
61. Howe and Gershman, ISRAEL, THE ARABS AND THE MIDDLE EAST, p. 207.
62. Atland, HARSH REALITIES, pp. 19, 20.
63. MIDDLE EAST DIARY: 1917-1956 (London, Cresset Press).
64. NEW AMERICAN STANDARD (NAS), NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV).
65. THE STRONG'S EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE, #7462.
66. That punishment was already noted in Isaiah 11:13 and Zephaniah 2:3-7.