Ariel Sharon and other Israeli leaders never miss an opportunity to tell lies, distort historical facts and mislead the world into believing Israel has historical rights in Arab lands.

In an interview with the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram during last month’s Sharm El-Sheikh summit, the Israeli prime minister kept telling lies to mislead people into believing in history of his own making.

He told the Egyptian daily that Al-Quds (Jerusalem) was the historical capital of the Jewish people for 3,007 years as King David who ruled Hebron for seven years and six months did declare Jerusalem to be the capital of the Jews.

Sharon claimed in the interview that the Jewish people were present in the land of Palestine for more than 4,000 years, that Jewish historical claims over the land of Israel are true and that anyone questioning this is indulging in distortions and fallacies.

Of course, what Sharon keeps saying is nonsense, for the man is known for telling lies and twisting facts.

In the Book of Judges the Torah says this about Jerusalem: “The Lord was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots. As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak. The Benjamites, however, failed to dislodge the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.”

Also in The Second Book of Samuel the Torah says: “The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;” thinking, “David can’t come in here.” David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house. David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David.”

Despite the perversion of the Old Testament by the Jewish rabbis, it clearly states that neither David nor Solomon had entered Jerusalem. The Old Testament says that the king headed toward Jerusalem to fight its people Yabus and that his men told him he could not storm the town because even the blind and the lame would fight back.

Following the death of Solomon the Jewish kingdom was divided into two; one in the north called Israel and another in the south called Judea that the Israelis today refer to as Judea and Samaria, or the current West Bank. The two kingdoms lasted from 900 BC to 586 BC and were conquered and occupied by Babylon. The Jews were deported after Jerusalem was conquered and were forced to relocate to Babylon, the capital of the Chaldean empire. This period is known as the Exile in Jewish history.

Based on the above, the Jews would have established their kingdom in Palestine after invading it. However, history did not tell where exactly the capital of that kingdom had been. The Jewish kingdom had two different capitals. The entire history of the Jewish kingdoms and kings lasted for just 490 years, with the king ruling intermittently until the destruction of Solomon Temple and the holy city at the hands of the Chaldeans in 586 BC.

Jerusalem, however, remained capital of Palestine throughout the rule of the Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Turks and later the British who handed it over to the Jewish terrorist gangs.

All UN resolutions that Israel continues to defy against the will of the international community have accorded Jerusalem a special status. The Resolution 181 of 1947 for the partition of Palestine stated that the city of Jerusalem shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations. It further said Trusteeship Council should be designated to discharge the responsibilities of the Administering Authority on behalf of the United Nations.

On July 7, 1967, the UN adopted Resolution 2253 which called upon Israel to rescind all measures already taken and to desist forthwith from taking any action that would alter the status of Jerusalem.

Resolution 2254, which was issued one week later, reiterates the call on Israel in Resolution 2253 to rescind all measures already taken and to desist forthwith from taking any action that would alter the status of Jerusalem.

Resolution 242 rejected the acquisition of land by force and demanded Israel withdraw from the land it occupied in 1967.