Israel: Did you know?

Recently George Will gave a speech in which he properly dealt with many of the awful declarations by President Obama in Cairo:

"...How many Americans understand that when Israel was founded in 1948, no Palestinian state was invaded, no Palestinian state was destroyed? There had not been a Palestinian geographic entity since between the departure of the Romans and the arrival of British rule...

"How many know that the West Bank, referred to by the President as "occupied territory," inferentially as occupied Palestinian territory, is under international law [an] unallocated portion of the Palestine Mandate rightfully occupied by Israel, because it occupied it in repelling aggression that came from that territory in 1967...

"...How the President believes that if we return to the 1967 borders, the antipathy to Israel, which predated the 1967 borders, will disappear, I do not know..."

Somehow, that quote from George Santayana seems really appropriate just about now: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Did you know the above facts about Israel? How many do? How many assume that Israel is "illegally occupying" Palestinian land?

The truth will set you free.