PBS-TV aired a “travel documentary” by travel writer Rick Steves titled “The Holy Land.” By Janet Levy
In A HISTORY LESSON FOR RICK STEVES Exposing PBS’s biased documentary on the Holy Land.
The author, Joseph Puder, omitted the fact that OF the original British Mandate for Palestine (Israel), 78% of it was given away by Churchill to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (Jordan). Palestine (Israel) was left with a mere 22% of its promised traditional homeland, where the Jews had lived continuously for over 3,700 years – even after the Romans destroyed their state of Judea in 70 A.D.
Not only was this land grab for Transjordan a violation of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Israel) but it went against the San Remo Conference of 1920, the Treaty of Lausanne and the Treaty of Sevres.
All of this occurred following World War I when the Turkish Ottoman Empire was being divided to create Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan.
Shame on Rick Steves!
Janet Levy,
Los Angeles
P.S. The misrepresentation of Israel hurts CHRISTIANS as well! The population of Bethlehem, the town of Ruth and David and where the Jew Jesus was born, is now only 18% Christian. Controlled by the Palestinian Authority since 1995, Bethlehem was 60% Christian in 1990 and 40% Christian in 2000. The discrimination and abuse suffered by Christians at the hand of Muslims in the city where their “savior” was born has caused many to flee.
Anti-Christianism follows anti-Semitism. There IS a direct connection. This is why Christian support for Israel is a matter of SURVIVAL.
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