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[1] Mark Twain, “Concerning the Jews,” The Complete Essays of Mark Twain, 249.
2 P.E. Grosser & E.G. Halperin, Anti-Semitism: Causes and Effects, 1978.
3 Leo Tolstoy, “What is a Jew?,” Jewish World periodical, London, 1908.
4 Information compiled from the 2003 Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac, www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org, and www.jinfo.org.
5 John Adams, Letter to F.A. Van der Kemp, 1806.
6 See, for example, 2 Kings 17:13-17
7 God makes this point dozens of times in Scripture, and makes it clear that one of the Jewish people’s callings is to declare and reflect who he is to the world (see Ezekiel 36:23; Micah 4:1-2; Zechariah 2:10-11, 8:20-23; Deuteronomy 4:6-8, Psalm 96, 105:1; Isaiah 42:1-7, 56:7; Habakkuk 2:14, and many, many more.).
8 Judith Brown, The Twentieth Century, The Oxford History of the British Empire Vol. IV, 330.
9 “The Real Sick Man of Europe,” The Economist, May 19, 2005.
10 Dennis Prager, “Those Who Curse the Jews and Those Who Bless the Jews,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 30, 2002.
11 Here are some of the key passages:
- Ezekiel 11:16-20; 20:32-44; 28:25-26; 34:13-31; 36:16-38; 37:1-28; 38-39 (esp. vv. 38:23; 39:7, 22, 25-29);
- Isaiah 4:3-5; 11:11-12:6; 27:6, 9; 30:19-26; 35:1-10; 43:5-8, 21, 25; 49:12-23;
- Jeremiah 3:14-15; 23:3-6; 24:6-7; 31:27-34; 32:37-41; 33:6-9; 50:19-20; Joel 2:15-32; 3:1-2, 14-17, 20-21;
- Zechariah 8:7-8; 12:10-13:9; Hosea 1:10-11; 2:14-23; 3:4-5; 8:10; 14:4-8; Micah 7:12-20
These passages were not referring to the return from Babylon (whereas passages like Jeremiah 29 are). Instead, they are clearly referring to a return from “all the nations,” from the “north, west, south, and east,” and from “the four quarters of the earth” (see Isaiah 11:12; 43:5-6; Ezekiel 36:24-28, etc.).
12 Shulewitz, Malka Hillel. The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands, (2000), 133.
13 Paul Johnson, Commentary Magazine, May 1998.
14 David Pawson, Defending Christian Zionism, (2008), 123-124.
15 See, for example, R. Douglas Hurt, “Forestry on the Great Plains, 1902-1942,” Iowa State University.
16 Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad. London: 1881 (New American Library, 1997), 349.
17 “Israel and the Environment,” Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C., 2006.
18 Based on rankings from the U.N.’s Human Development Report of 2011.
19 Based on rankings from the Swiss research institute, IMD, 2010.
20 Based on report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, “Education at a Glance,” 2012.
21 Based on rankings from the U.N.’s Human Development Report of 2011.
22 Based on rankings from the International Monetary Fund, 2011.
23 Based on statistics from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
24 Based on statistics from the World Bank for 2014 (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.GSR.GNFS.CD) and a 2014 report by Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute (IEICI), cited by Times of Israel, David Shamah, http://www.timesofisrael.com/66-years-later-israels-exports-up-16000/, May 5, 2014.
25 Report by the U.N. on Agriculture in Israel: http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/israel/agriculture.pdf, pg. 6.
26 Statistics from: Jonathan Rosenblum, “A Question of Governance,” Jerusalem Post, Jan. 7, 2010.
27 Ynetnews, Ziv Reinstein, “2013: Record year for incoming tourism” http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4475168,00.html, January 10, 2014.
28 Based on statistics from the CIA World Factbook and UN Data.
29 Efraim Karsh, The Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Palestine War 1948, (2002), 25; Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, (2004),16.
30 Chaim Herzog, The-Arab-Israeli Wars, (1982), 149.
31 Howard Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, (1979), 629.
32 “חלום הבלהות של גולדה מאיר”, Ha’Aretz, Oct. 3, 2003, http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.914636
33 Wording for this section adapted from the summary given by “Against all Odds – Israel Survives” DVD series.
34 For a fascinating video series on miracles in the Jewish State since its founding, see “Against All Odds: Israel Survives”.
35 See Blaise Pascal, Pensees. Paris: 1669 (NuVision Publications, 2007), 156ff.
