responding to accusations of apartheid and genocide on israel
masada2000 | 05.05.2004 19:16
"J'ACCUSE"
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The Arabs have promoted concepts such as there is, or always was, a county called "Palestine," that there is a people called "Palestinians," that the Jews are "occupying" Arab lands and that the Jews living in their biblical heartland [Judea-Samaria and Gaza, a.k.a. the "West Bank"] are "obstacles to peace." These concepts, which are a complete invention by the Arab world and their apologists, have been swallowed hook, line and sinker by the liberal media and are now almost universally accepted as the Truth! What the Arabs have managed to achieve is to COMPLETELY falsify history!
There are others who are to blame. For many years, it has been obvious to us that anti-Israel propaganda and Israel bashing around the world are little more than disguised anti-Semitism. No one on earth really cares about the Palestinians, least of all Palestinian leaders. People pretend to care about the Palestinians because this helps them de-legitimize Israel. When King Hussein of Jordan murdered 10,000 Palestinians in September 1970, no one cared about the Palestinians, no one noticed they were having their "rights violated" no one thought they needed "self-determination". More generally, the world does not care about Arabs being killed unless it is Israel doing the killing in self-defense. When 100,000 Algerian civilians are murdered, no one notices. When far more are murdered in Sudan, no one notices. When Saddam Hussein gasses his own people, when Asad massacres 10,000 in Hama in Syria, no one cares or notices. But when Israel kills 20 people in Jenin while hunting down mass murderers who have murdered hundreds of Jews (many of them children), that is genocide and a war crime. And when Palestinians murder 1200 Israelis after signing the Oslo accords, that is protest against occupation.
Israel-bashing is naked anti-Semitism. The bulk of Israeli "critics" are motivated not by a desire to see this or that specific policy of Israel altered, a camp to which I myself would belong in spades, but rather who seek to see Israel destroyed. They object to Israeli military actions because they do not think Israel should employ its military to defend itself at all. They believe that the only legitimate response to Arab atrocities is Israeli capitulation and self-annihilation.
1.Accusing Israel of "Apartheid"
Definition of APARTHEID: "An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against non-whites."
Israel's policy toward the Palestinians is also being called "a new kind of apartheid, a crime against humanity, a form of genocide." Now let's take a look at this so-called" apartheid" within Israel. Within Israel today, Jews are a majority, but the large Arab minority (23% of total) are full citizens with voting rights and representation in the government. Under the former South African apartheid system, black South Africans could not vote and were not citizens of the country in which they were the overwhelming majority of the population. There is still some degree of discrimination within Israel, but Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East... including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. And, whatever their grievances, they are still economically better off than the majority of their fellows in virtually every other Arab country. If they still face inequality it is because of the mutual hostility and mistrust between both communities, not because of race.
The situation for Arab Palestinians in the [West Bank and Gaza] territories, won by Israel in the 1967 defensive war begun by three surrounding Arab armies, is different. Israel's very real security requirements, brought about by two violent insurrections [Intifadas] in these "occupied" territories, have forced Israel to impose restrictions on their Arab residents which are not [yet!] necessary INSIDE Israel抯 pre-'67 borders. This is because the Arab Palestinians in the territories dispute Israel抯 right to exist whereas South Africa's blacks did not seek the destruction of South Africa... only the removal of the White apartheid regime.
Up until September 2000, when the Arab Palestinians from the [West Bank and Gaza] territories began their second violent "Intifada" and unleashed their non-stop Jew-killing, suicide bombing spree, they had been allowed to work inside Israel Proper and receive similar pay and benefits as did their Jewish counterparts. They were also allowed to attend schools and universities (which Israel built for them!). Palestinians were also given opportunities to run many of their own affairs. None of this was true for South African blacks.
Israeli Muslims, Christians, Druse and many other minority ethnic groups enjoy exactly the same civil and political rights as Jews. They can sit in the Knesset, say what they like, go where they like, pray where they like, go into business, be elected to office and serve in the Cabinet. The first Middle East country to grant Arab women the right to vote was Israel! And nowhere else in the Middle East is there a democracy where the word "vote" has any real meaning! The only exception is that Israeli Arabs do not serve in the army. There is nothing more hypercritical than a single one of the 64 Arab/Islamic/Muslim theocracies and brutal dictatorships pronouncing judgment on issues relating to "discrimination" since not a single one among them treats their minorities in the same tolerant way as does Israel.
As for Israel's "racially based" Law of Return," this policy has nothing to do with race and is based solely on religious affiliation. If it were racist, why did Israel airlift 42,000 BLACK Ethiopian Jews between 1984 and 1991? In anything, that airlift marked the only time in history when blacks were systematically moved from one country to another while NOT in chains! When Jordan (the FIRST Arab "Palestinian" state) introduced its own law of return in 1954 for all former non-Jewish residents of Palestine. Yet when Israel did precisely the same thing for Jews, it suddenly becomes "racism!" We call it a "double standard!"
Anti-Zionists (modern day disguise of anti-Semites) have leveled other discriminatory charges against Israel toward the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza. Among them are that (1) Israel enforces different color license plates and computerized passes that restrict where West Bank and Gaza Arabs can go and (2) Israel builds "by-pass" roads for "Jews only."
In response to these charges... (1) All Israelis, whether they be Jewish, Christian or Arab, have the same color license plate. Only ["Palestinian"] Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza have a different colored license plate. This is for security reasons, especially at border crossings and other security checkpoints. This is similar to American and Canadian plates... the only real difference being that hardly any Canadians cross the border with the primary intent of killing Americans!!! (2) By-pass roads were built AROUND Arab areas because too many Jews were being slaughtered by Arabs on roads that went THROUGH Arab areas! They were not built to discriminate against Arabs. Nor were they built to give Jews a smoother ride. They were built to save Jewish lives!
Accusations such as the above are baseless. And who could ever believe that Israel's willingness to even DISCUSS handing over land (won in a war the Arabs started) to form a second independent Arab Palestinian state. Most "normal" people would have long ago concluded that the Arafat and his fellow Arab Palestinian psychopaths were never really interested in peace. Yet Israel's decades-long quest for peace, compromise and accommodation with these very same "Palestinians" is called a "crime against humanity" or a desire to commit "genocide" upon the Palestinians! If anything, it is the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah and all the other Arab Palestinian terrorist groups themselves that brought about the Israeli crackdown in the "occupied territories" which led to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians... in addition to different colored license plates and by-pass roads just for Jews!
Now another definition... Anti-Zionism: 1. Refusing the Jews their God-given right to return to the land of their forefathers and their faith. 2. Denying the Jews the right to live in Israel in freedom, peace and with human dignity. 3. De-legitimize the State of Israel and denying it the right to exist. 4. Demanding a Jewish exodus... this time OUT of Israel and, preferably, INTO the Mediterranean Sea. 5. Wishing to erase the State of Israel from the map and ethnically cleanse the Arab Middle East of its "stinking Jews!"
Definition of Chutzpah (Nerve): The Saudi Ambassador to the UN, Fawzi Shobokshi, called Israel a "racist, terrorist state." Yet Israel has 24% non-Jewish citizens while Saudi Arabia has no Jews and no Christians... only Moslems! So which is the racist State? Also, no Israelis flew planes into the World Trade Center Towers while 15 of the 19 Arab terrorists who DID were Saudis! Talk about Deception, Denial and Deflection of Guilt! This is Chutzpah AND typical Arab propaganda against Israel.
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2. Accusing Israel of "Ethnic Cleansing"
and "Genocide"
Turning the history of the Jews against them is another commonplace of anti-Semitism. If the Jews were victims in an actual genocide, what better way to transfer sympathy from them to their rivals than by painting them as modern Nazis, and their policies as a new holocaust? Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. The Israelis -- who employed a third of the Palestinian population, armed the Palestinian Authority and offered Yasser Arafat a state consisting of 95 percent of the West Bank -- were hardly practicing genocide. Israel, however, is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings, mortar assaults, sniper attacks, and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
The 1,200,000 Arab Palestinians whose parents and grandparents opted for Israeli citizenship in 1948 now have a life in Israel. Despite their constant bitching and their seeming support for their Palestinian kin to destroy Israel, they have no intention whatsoever of leaving Israel for Arafat抯 Palestinian State if, or when, it is declared. If anything, they are popping out Israeli-Arab babies in such high numbers that Israel will demographically no longer BE a Jewish State by the year 2030! Despite their perceived problems with Israel, they still like it there. They vote in Israel's elections and even have Israeli-Arab Knesset members. Free "democratic" elections such as this cannot even be imagined in any one of the 22 countries of the Arab League nor in any of the forty-four Muslim nations throughout Africa and Asia. However, should any of them wish to move out of Israel, we at Masada2000.org would wholeheartedly encourage them to do so!
Israel heavily subsidizes the health of all its Arab citizens equally with that of Jews and other minority groups. Whether they be clinics, hospitals or homes for the aged, all Israeli citizens have access to one of the highest standards of medicine in the world. Monthly subsidies also go to parents of large families (unfortunately, Arabs have the largest families!). And get this.... recently, when an Israeli-Arab man blew himself up taking a number of innocent Israelis with him, his family began receiving welfare checks from the government since they were now without a breadwinner! Is THIS what they call "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing?" If so, then ALL countries should adopt policies of "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing!"
On the other hand, the Arab/Muslim/Islamic nations who are Israel's accusers are the REAL ethnic cleansing "specialists." For example, Jews cannot vote in Saudi Arabia because the Saudis have ethnically cleansed their land of Jews and all other non-Muslims... except, of course, when they need American soldiers to drive out the likes of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi invaders. Then the Saudis are more than willing to have non-Muslims die in the service of Islam!
The oil-wealthy Kuwaiti also don抰 allow their Jewish citizens freedom of religion or education. They don抰 have to. They have no Jewish citizens. Jews and all other non-Muslims are forbidden in their Jew-free paradise. As with the Saudis, the only exception is when it's time to send American soldiers to protect them.
Jews in Jordan do not enjoy the same rights or facilities because Jordan also has no Jews. Their ethnic cleansing policies do not permit Jews to defile the purity of this Arab country either. These same policies are standard fare in all Arab/Muslim/Islamic countries. These same 1.2 BILLION voices who daily cry out for "rights of self-determination" for the poor, poor Arab "Palestinians" deny these same "right of self-determination" for the 4.5 Million Jews of tiny Israel.
Arabs and other religious minorities enjoy FULL freedom of their religion in Israel. In addition, Israel pays for Arab education, in the latter抯 own language, in their own schools AND built by Israeli taxes. Israeli Arab primary, secondary and university students also have the right to teach hatred of the Jews at Israeli taxpayer expense!
And what about Jewish education or religion in the Arab Emirates, Syria, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Bahrain or any of the other Arab/Muslim/Islamic countries? Not to worry. There are no Jewish education or Jewish religious freedom to worship issues because Jews dare not even visit, let alone live there.
What happened to the ancient Jewish communities of Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen? They all had their land and possessions taken from them and were driven out (or killed) by their Arab/Muslim/Islamic hosts... a case of REAL "ethnic cleansing!"
Finally, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics just published the total Arab "Palestinian" populations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has grown from 1.1 million in 1967 (when Israel began "occupying" these territories) up to over 3.5 million. Does this population explosion sound like "ethnic cleansing and genocide" to you!
Conclusion: Don抰 hold up the crime of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide against the People of Israel!
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3. Accusing Israel of "Occupying" Arab Land
To call the Israeli presence in THEIR OWN ancient homeland an "occupation," is ridiculous. An occupation of what? There was never an Arab "Palestinian" nation or people there before. There are no "Palestinians." They are a made-up people for the sole purpose of political propaganda! They have no separate culture, language, or country of their own; even their leader -- Arafat -- is EGYPTIAN!! He later moved to Jerusalem. If, at the moment, he is living in the West Bank, he is a "settler" there, not a native. Indeed, most of the Arabs living within the borders of Israel today have come from some other Arab country at some time in their life. They are all "settlers." Since 1967, the Arabs have built 261 settlements in the West Bank. We don't hear much about those settlements. We hear instead about the number of Jewish settlements that have been created. We hear how destabilizing they are ?how provocative they are. Yet, by comparison, only 144 Jewish settlements have been built since 1967,
If there is an occupation, it would have to be the Arab occupation of Jewish historical land! Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (Yesha, a.k.a. the "West Bank") for over 3,500 years. The only time Jews have been prohibited from living in Yesha in recent decades was during Jordan's 19 year rule from 1948 to 1967. At best, the Arabs are desert wanderers and squatters. As a matter of policy, Israel does not requisition private land for the establishment of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Housing construction is allowed only on public land after an exhaustive investigation has confirmed that no private rights exist regarding the land in question.
The fact of the matter is that Jews choosing to live in the West Bank and Gaza are pioneers. They are returning to live in the heartland of Israel, the place which served as the cradle of Western civilization and the Jewish religion. These areas which Jews refer to by their original names of Judea, Samaria and Gaza were the scene of much of the drama described in the Bible. It is the place where King David walked and where the prophets of Israel gave the world a vision of peace and brotherhood. Ancient synagogues and archaeological sites attest to the long-standing Jewish presence in the region, a presence that is once again flourishing despite Arab opposition and terror.
Moreover, Israel did not 搊ccupy?these territories, as the Palestinians and others would have you believe. In the 1967 Six-Day War, Arab armies massed on Israel抯 narrow borders, vowing to destroy the Jewish state. In a war of self-defense, Israel succeeded in overcoming its enemies, in the process taking control over Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Under international law, territories are considered 搊ccupied?only when they are taken in an act of aggression something which clearly does not apply to Israel抯 case. It was 35 years ago this month that Israel prevailed in the 1967 war, returning to places such as Hebron and Shilo. For two thousand uninterrupted years, Jews had lived in the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried. Only in 1929, when local Arabs massacred them, was the Jewish community forced to flee the city. What could be more historically just than to rebuild the Jewish presence there?
One must also recall that prior to the beginning of the Jewish return and reclamation of their ancient homeland in the 1880s, there were BOTH Arab "Palestinians" and Jewish "Palestinians" living there. Neither group had a particularly significant numbers after centuries during which the land was ignore and neglected. Once the Jews began their Zionist movement to reclaim, beautify and resettle the land, Arabs from surrounding Arab areas also began returning. Unlike the early Jewish settlers who were willing to live in peace and share land with the Arabs, the latter was bent on sharing nothing! The Arab motto then is exactly what it is now 120 years later... "we will shed every last drop of blood for every last grain of Arab land!"
The so-called "Israeli settlements" in the Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the "West Bank") and Gaza have been blamed for all the Arab-Israeli and "Palestinian"-Israeli conflict when, in Truth, these settlements were the result of a war brought to Israel BY these very same Arabs! The land areas from which Jordan attacked Israel in 1967 is the "West Bank," the land from which the Egyptian Army attacked Israel in 1967 is the Gaza Strip and the land from which Syria attack Israel in 1967 is the Golan Heights. Had these Arab nations not threatened to destroy Israel in June of 1967, there would be no Israeli "settlers" on these territories! Have you ever heard of the expression, "To the Victor Goes the Spoils of War?" This would seem especially justified when the victor was attacked! Incredibly, "Israeli aggression" and "Israeli occupation" is what the Arab world calls it!
The Muslim/ Islamic world is greatly oppressed but it comes not from the little Jewish state of Israel and not from the United States. The oppression comes from the Islamic world's own tyrannical, NON-democratic leaders, most of whom act as if they have a divine right to govern for life! The answer to this problem is not creating more illegitimate Arab and Muslim dictatorships and theocracies. And certainly not by creating yet another terrorist state with yet another madman like Arafat at the helm.
Don't fall prey to the myth that the Arabs are merely seeking an end to "occupation" and "humiliation." If the Arabs desired peace and liberty, they could have achieved it years ago. They crave the destruction of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel!
New Item: What do the Arabs mean when they say they want an "end to the [Israeli] occupation?" Click HERE and HERE
Biblically Speaking...
The Palestinians claim that the land of Israel has belonged to them "from time immemorial." The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that the entirety of Israel is "occupied" territory. We know what the Palestinians say. But what does G-D say? What does the BIBLE say about the land?
GENESIS 15:18-21: In that day the Lord made a covenant with Avram (Abraham), saying, "To your seed I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the Great River [referring to the Euphrates River which, during the reigns of kings David and Soloman, formed the northeast boundary of the Promised Land]
NUMBERS 34:1-12: And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan...
GENESIS 17: 7-8 And I will establish my covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a G-D unto thee and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Caanan,
There is nothing in the Koran which says the Land of Caanan (Israel) belongs to Muslims! Even the term "Palestine" is never mentioned there! So if anyone is "occupying" the Land of Israel, it is the Arabs.
Is Israel Really Threatening to Take Over Arab/Muslim Land?
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* PLUS: What Arabs REALLY Mean When They Call for an "End to the Occupation" *
3. Accusing Israel of Starting the June 6, 1967 War
Resulting in the "Occupation" of 'West Bank, Gaza,
East Jerusalem, the Sinai Desert and the Golan Heights.
The Arabs say the Israelis grabbed this real estate in a war of aggression in 1967. In fact, Israel did not start that war. Israel did not want that war. Israel merely defended itself ?very, very effectively ?from coordinated attacks by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Arafat's terrorists.
This is not opinion. This is fact. A friend of mine, Sol Jacobs, did something very simple ?something very obvious ?to document this fact, which seems to elude so many today. He went back and looked at what newspapers were reporting about the crisis before June 5, 1967 ?before there was any alleged "Israeli occupation."
Here's what he found on his month-long timeline leading up to the Six-Day War:
On May 7, the New York Times reported Syria had shelled the Israeli village of Ein Gev.
On May 17, the New York Times reported that the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Arafat, pledged to "keep sending commandos" into Israel.
On May 19, the Los Angeles Times reported Egypt stood accused of using poison gas in Yemen.
On May 19, the New York Times reported Egypt had deployed its forces along the Israeli border.
On May 20, the New York Times reported Egypt forced U.N. peacekeeping troops to leave the Sinai Desert in anticipation of its attack on Israel.
On May 21, the New York Times reported Egyptian soldiers were massing in the Sinai.
On May 22, the New York Times reported that the PLO would be stepping up its attacks in Israel, that Cairo was calling up 10,000 reserves and that Iraq would be sending aid to battle Israel.
On May 23, every newspaper in the world reported that Egypt took the provocative action of closing the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel.
On May 24, every newspaper in the world reported that the U.S. declared Egypt's military blockade of the gulf "illegal."
On May 25, the New York Times reported that Jordan would admit Saudi and Iraqi forces into its country to do battle with Israel.
On May 27, every newspaper in the world reported Egypt's fiery threats to destroy Israel.
On May 29, the New York Times reported the Egyptian buildup of military forces in the Sinai was continuing.
On May 29, the Washington Post reported that despite all of this provocation, Israel was still reluctant to have a showdown with its enemies.
On May 29, the New York Times reported new Syrian attacks on Israel.
On June 3, the New York Times reported that Britain declared the Egyptian blockade could lead to war. It also reported that four Syrian commandos were intercepted in Israel.
On June 5, 1967, the Six-Day War began. Israel rolled up all of its enemies faster than anyone would have believed. It took control of East Jerusalem from Jordan. It took control of Judea and Samaria on the west bank of the Jordan River from Jordan. It took control of the Golan Heights from Syria. And it took control of the Gaza Strip and Sinai Desert from Egypt.
You can read these news reports for yourself thanks to the work of Sol Jacobs.
Clearly, the so-called "occupation" of these territories came about as a result of Arab war-making on Israel. Israel merely defended itself well. Israel also proved it was willing to give these territories back to neighbors who would live in peace with the Jewish state, as demonstrated with the return of the Sinai to Egypt.
All of this raises a few questions: If Israel is occupying those territories today, who was occupying them until 1967? If the West Bank and Gaza belong to "Palestinians," why were they under the control of Jordan and Egypt until June 5, 1967? If Arab "Palestinians" just want their own state, why didn't they ask for it before 1967?
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4. Accusing Israel of Nazi-Like Behavior
The Arab Palestinians have reached a point where it has now become clear that their goal in this struggle is not the end of the so-called "occupation," but rather the organized, premeditated mass murder of Jews. Plainly put, their main goal today is not statehood, but genocide! Killing Jews actually makes them happy... so happy that they are even willing to detonate their own children in order to murder Jews! This irrational, street level barbarism would make Hitler's Storm Troopers seem like gentlemen!
What is needed is a thorough "de-Nazification" of Palestinian society not unlike what was imposed upon post WWII Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, this gut hatred of Jews and Israel has been inculcated into Arab societies so completely and far too long. This leaves Israel with only two choices. Victim or Victor.
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BASIC TRUTHS
1. The only reason people challenge the legitimacy of Israel, rationalize aggression against Israel and justify Arab atrocities, is that they hate Jews.
2. The media campaign against Israel is based on the fact that the Western TV stations, newspapers and radio stations involved are uneducated and/or anti-Semitic.
3. Those who support the Arab "Palestinians" don't really give a rat's ____ about the Arab "Palestinians." They simply hate Jews.
4. "Anti-Zionists" are still anti-Semites at heart. They merely mask their hatred of the Jewish people with a geo-political agenda.
5. The Jewish Left is the main threat to Jewish survival and Jewish existence, both in the Diaspora and in Israel. It is the Jewish SELF-HATING Left that prevents Israel from being able to deal with attacks upon the nation. It is the Jewish Left that rationalizes and legitimizes anti-Semites/anti-Zionists and implicitly joins them by blaming everything on the Jews.
6. Every concession or goodwill gesture to Arabs encourages Arab violence and aggression. It also encourages more open manifestation of anti-Semitism among the public in the West and in their media once they smell Jewish blood or Jewish in-fighting.
7. The anti-Israel lobbies will attack and attempt to de-legitimize Israel no matter what Israel does, no matter how many suicidal concessions she makes and no matter which Israeli political party rules the country.
8. Killing Arabs reduces Arab violence and aggression while dialogue with Arabs encourages Arab violence and aggression. The Arabs respect forces of strength, not cowardly appeasement. Don't accuse us of "Arab bashing." This is simply a fact.
9. Nothing has changed. If the Arabs were to perpetrate a new genocide against the Jews, the Western world would explain it as having been caused by Jewish shortcomings and sins. The Jews would simply build a few more Holocaust museums, light a few more candles and once again swear "Never Again!"
Muslim leaders in general are well-versed in the Arab art of ingratiation and know how to beguile Western journalists, diplomats and politicians. The latter sees no cultural or ideological reason why Jews and Arabs cannot live together in genuine peace and harmony... even in this era of resurgent Islam. Lacking in even a basic knowledge of Middle Eastern history, the recipients of this Arab and Islamic propaganda fail to understand one most crucial fact. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 negates the prophecy of Mohammed, undermines the authority of the Koran and thereby challenges the actual validity of the Islamic religion. In addition, Muslims look upon Israel as a conduit for a Western democratic lifestyle which they regard not only as decadent, but also as subversive of Islamic values. In other words, Israel's very existence is recognized by Muslims leaders as the greatest threat to the political and religious power structure of the Islamic world. That a tiny Jewish State (with 1/42nd the population, 1/640th the land mass and NONE of the oil) has defeated combined Arab armies five out of five times and has become an economic powerhouse to boot is nearly too much for the Islamic Faith to endure. Military action has failed to destroy Israel. The name of the game now is to de-legitimize Israel through a determined, well-financed and unremitting propaganda campaign unmatched even by the Nazis!
."Turn-Speak"
Propaganda technique whereby the victim is portrayed as the abuser and the abuser as the victim!
NOTE: In addition to the accusation of Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide and Occupying Arab Land, the Israelis have also been accused of perpetrating a "Holocaust" upon the Arabs of "Palestine." This is perhaps the most insensitive and inhumane accusation thus far. Click HERE for a REAL Holocaust!
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The Arabs have promoted concepts such as there is, or always was, a county called "Palestine," that there is a people called "Palestinians," that the Jews are "occupying" Arab lands and that the Jews living in their biblical heartland [Judea-Samaria and Gaza, a.k.a. the "West Bank"] are "obstacles to peace." These concepts, which are a complete invention by the Arab world and their apologists, have been swallowed hook, line and sinker by the liberal media and are now almost universally accepted as the Truth! What the Arabs have managed to achieve is to COMPLETELY falsify history!
There are others who are to blame. For many years, it has been obvious to us that anti-Israel propaganda and Israel bashing around the world are little more than disguised anti-Semitism. No one on earth really cares about the Palestinians, least of all Palestinian leaders. People pretend to care about the Palestinians because this helps them de-legitimize Israel. When King Hussein of Jordan murdered 10,000 Palestinians in September 1970, no one cared about the Palestinians, no one noticed they were having their "rights violated" no one thought they needed "self-determination". More generally, the world does not care about Arabs being killed unless it is Israel doing the killing in self-defense. When 100,000 Algerian civilians are murdered, no one notices. When far more are murdered in Sudan, no one notices. When Saddam Hussein gasses his own people, when Asad massacres 10,000 in Hama in Syria, no one cares or notices. But when Israel kills 20 people in Jenin while hunting down mass murderers who have murdered hundreds of Jews (many of them children), that is genocide and a war crime. And when Palestinians murder 1200 Israelis after signing the Oslo accords, that is protest against occupation.
Israel-bashing is naked anti-Semitism. The bulk of Israeli "critics" are motivated not by a desire to see this or that specific policy of Israel altered, a camp to which I myself would belong in spades, but rather who seek to see Israel destroyed. They object to Israeli military actions because they do not think Israel should employ its military to defend itself at all. They believe that the only legitimate response to Arab atrocities is Israeli capitulation and self-annihilation.
1.Accusing Israel of "Apartheid"
Definition of APARTHEID: "An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against non-whites."
Israel's policy toward the Palestinians is also being called "a new kind of apartheid, a crime against humanity, a form of genocide." Now let's take a look at this so-called" apartheid" within Israel. Within Israel today, Jews are a majority, but the large Arab minority (23% of total) are full citizens with voting rights and representation in the government. Under the former South African apartheid system, black South Africans could not vote and were not citizens of the country in which they were the overwhelming majority of the population. There is still some degree of discrimination within Israel, but Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East... including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. And, whatever their grievances, they are still economically better off than the majority of their fellows in virtually every other Arab country. If they still face inequality it is because of the mutual hostility and mistrust between both communities, not because of race.
The situation for Arab Palestinians in the [West Bank and Gaza] territories, won by Israel in the 1967 defensive war begun by three surrounding Arab armies, is different. Israel's very real security requirements, brought about by two violent insurrections [Intifadas] in these "occupied" territories, have forced Israel to impose restrictions on their Arab residents which are not [yet!] necessary INSIDE Israel抯 pre-'67 borders. This is because the Arab Palestinians in the territories dispute Israel抯 right to exist whereas South Africa's blacks did not seek the destruction of South Africa... only the removal of the White apartheid regime.
Up until September 2000, when the Arab Palestinians from the [West Bank and Gaza] territories began their second violent "Intifada" and unleashed their non-stop Jew-killing, suicide bombing spree, they had been allowed to work inside Israel Proper and receive similar pay and benefits as did their Jewish counterparts. They were also allowed to attend schools and universities (which Israel built for them!). Palestinians were also given opportunities to run many of their own affairs. None of this was true for South African blacks.
Israeli Muslims, Christians, Druse and many other minority ethnic groups enjoy exactly the same civil and political rights as Jews. They can sit in the Knesset, say what they like, go where they like, pray where they like, go into business, be elected to office and serve in the Cabinet. The first Middle East country to grant Arab women the right to vote was Israel! And nowhere else in the Middle East is there a democracy where the word "vote" has any real meaning! The only exception is that Israeli Arabs do not serve in the army. There is nothing more hypercritical than a single one of the 64 Arab/Islamic/Muslim theocracies and brutal dictatorships pronouncing judgment on issues relating to "discrimination" since not a single one among them treats their minorities in the same tolerant way as does Israel.
As for Israel's "racially based" Law of Return," this policy has nothing to do with race and is based solely on religious affiliation. If it were racist, why did Israel airlift 42,000 BLACK Ethiopian Jews between 1984 and 1991? In anything, that airlift marked the only time in history when blacks were systematically moved from one country to another while NOT in chains! When Jordan (the FIRST Arab "Palestinian" state) introduced its own law of return in 1954 for all former non-Jewish residents of Palestine. Yet when Israel did precisely the same thing for Jews, it suddenly becomes "racism!" We call it a "double standard!"
Anti-Zionists (modern day disguise of anti-Semites) have leveled other discriminatory charges against Israel toward the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza. Among them are that (1) Israel enforces different color license plates and computerized passes that restrict where West Bank and Gaza Arabs can go and (2) Israel builds "by-pass" roads for "Jews only."
In response to these charges... (1) All Israelis, whether they be Jewish, Christian or Arab, have the same color license plate. Only ["Palestinian"] Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza have a different colored license plate. This is for security reasons, especially at border crossings and other security checkpoints. This is similar to American and Canadian plates... the only real difference being that hardly any Canadians cross the border with the primary intent of killing Americans!!! (2) By-pass roads were built AROUND Arab areas because too many Jews were being slaughtered by Arabs on roads that went THROUGH Arab areas! They were not built to discriminate against Arabs. Nor were they built to give Jews a smoother ride. They were built to save Jewish lives!
Accusations such as the above are baseless. And who could ever believe that Israel's willingness to even DISCUSS handing over land (won in a war the Arabs started) to form a second independent Arab Palestinian state. Most "normal" people would have long ago concluded that the Arafat and his fellow Arab Palestinian psychopaths were never really interested in peace. Yet Israel's decades-long quest for peace, compromise and accommodation with these very same "Palestinians" is called a "crime against humanity" or a desire to commit "genocide" upon the Palestinians! If anything, it is the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah and all the other Arab Palestinian terrorist groups themselves that brought about the Israeli crackdown in the "occupied territories" which led to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians... in addition to different colored license plates and by-pass roads just for Jews!
Now another definition... Anti-Zionism: 1. Refusing the Jews their God-given right to return to the land of their forefathers and their faith. 2. Denying the Jews the right to live in Israel in freedom, peace and with human dignity. 3. De-legitimize the State of Israel and denying it the right to exist. 4. Demanding a Jewish exodus... this time OUT of Israel and, preferably, INTO the Mediterranean Sea. 5. Wishing to erase the State of Israel from the map and ethnically cleanse the Arab Middle East of its "stinking Jews!"
Definition of Chutzpah (Nerve): The Saudi Ambassador to the UN, Fawzi Shobokshi, called Israel a "racist, terrorist state." Yet Israel has 24% non-Jewish citizens while Saudi Arabia has no Jews and no Christians... only Moslems! So which is the racist State? Also, no Israelis flew planes into the World Trade Center Towers while 15 of the 19 Arab terrorists who DID were Saudis! Talk about Deception, Denial and Deflection of Guilt! This is Chutzpah AND typical Arab propaganda against Israel.
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2. Accusing Israel of "Ethnic Cleansing"
and "Genocide"
Turning the history of the Jews against them is another commonplace of anti-Semitism. If the Jews were victims in an actual genocide, what better way to transfer sympathy from them to their rivals than by painting them as modern Nazis, and their policies as a new holocaust? Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. The Israelis -- who employed a third of the Palestinian population, armed the Palestinian Authority and offered Yasser Arafat a state consisting of 95 percent of the West Bank -- were hardly practicing genocide. Israel, however, is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings, mortar assaults, sniper attacks, and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
The 1,200,000 Arab Palestinians whose parents and grandparents opted for Israeli citizenship in 1948 now have a life in Israel. Despite their constant bitching and their seeming support for their Palestinian kin to destroy Israel, they have no intention whatsoever of leaving Israel for Arafat抯 Palestinian State if, or when, it is declared. If anything, they are popping out Israeli-Arab babies in such high numbers that Israel will demographically no longer BE a Jewish State by the year 2030! Despite their perceived problems with Israel, they still like it there. They vote in Israel's elections and even have Israeli-Arab Knesset members. Free "democratic" elections such as this cannot even be imagined in any one of the 22 countries of the Arab League nor in any of the forty-four Muslim nations throughout Africa and Asia. However, should any of them wish to move out of Israel, we at Masada2000.org would wholeheartedly encourage them to do so!
Israel heavily subsidizes the health of all its Arab citizens equally with that of Jews and other minority groups. Whether they be clinics, hospitals or homes for the aged, all Israeli citizens have access to one of the highest standards of medicine in the world. Monthly subsidies also go to parents of large families (unfortunately, Arabs have the largest families!). And get this.... recently, when an Israeli-Arab man blew himself up taking a number of innocent Israelis with him, his family began receiving welfare checks from the government since they were now without a breadwinner! Is THIS what they call "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing?" If so, then ALL countries should adopt policies of "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing!"
On the other hand, the Arab/Muslim/Islamic nations who are Israel's accusers are the REAL ethnic cleansing "specialists." For example, Jews cannot vote in Saudi Arabia because the Saudis have ethnically cleansed their land of Jews and all other non-Muslims... except, of course, when they need American soldiers to drive out the likes of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi invaders. Then the Saudis are more than willing to have non-Muslims die in the service of Islam!
The oil-wealthy Kuwaiti also don抰 allow their Jewish citizens freedom of religion or education. They don抰 have to. They have no Jewish citizens. Jews and all other non-Muslims are forbidden in their Jew-free paradise. As with the Saudis, the only exception is when it's time to send American soldiers to protect them.
Jews in Jordan do not enjoy the same rights or facilities because Jordan also has no Jews. Their ethnic cleansing policies do not permit Jews to defile the purity of this Arab country either. These same policies are standard fare in all Arab/Muslim/Islamic countries. These same 1.2 BILLION voices who daily cry out for "rights of self-determination" for the poor, poor Arab "Palestinians" deny these same "right of self-determination" for the 4.5 Million Jews of tiny Israel.
Arabs and other religious minorities enjoy FULL freedom of their religion in Israel. In addition, Israel pays for Arab education, in the latter抯 own language, in their own schools AND built by Israeli taxes. Israeli Arab primary, secondary and university students also have the right to teach hatred of the Jews at Israeli taxpayer expense!
And what about Jewish education or religion in the Arab Emirates, Syria, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Bahrain or any of the other Arab/Muslim/Islamic countries? Not to worry. There are no Jewish education or Jewish religious freedom to worship issues because Jews dare not even visit, let alone live there.
What happened to the ancient Jewish communities of Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen? They all had their land and possessions taken from them and were driven out (or killed) by their Arab/Muslim/Islamic hosts... a case of REAL "ethnic cleansing!"
Finally, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics just published the total Arab "Palestinian" populations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has grown from 1.1 million in 1967 (when Israel began "occupying" these territories) up to over 3.5 million. Does this population explosion sound like "ethnic cleansing and genocide" to you!
Conclusion: Don抰 hold up the crime of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide against the People of Israel!
More on Ethnic Cleansing
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3. Accusing Israel of "Occupying" Arab Land
To call the Israeli presence in THEIR OWN ancient homeland an "occupation," is ridiculous. An occupation of what? There was never an Arab "Palestinian" nation or people there before. There are no "Palestinians." They are a made-up people for the sole purpose of political propaganda! They have no separate culture, language, or country of their own; even their leader -- Arafat -- is EGYPTIAN!! He later moved to Jerusalem. If, at the moment, he is living in the West Bank, he is a "settler" there, not a native. Indeed, most of the Arabs living within the borders of Israel today have come from some other Arab country at some time in their life. They are all "settlers." Since 1967, the Arabs have built 261 settlements in the West Bank. We don't hear much about those settlements. We hear instead about the number of Jewish settlements that have been created. We hear how destabilizing they are ?how provocative they are. Yet, by comparison, only 144 Jewish settlements have been built since 1967,
If there is an occupation, it would have to be the Arab occupation of Jewish historical land! Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (Yesha, a.k.a. the "West Bank") for over 3,500 years. The only time Jews have been prohibited from living in Yesha in recent decades was during Jordan's 19 year rule from 1948 to 1967. At best, the Arabs are desert wanderers and squatters. As a matter of policy, Israel does not requisition private land for the establishment of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Housing construction is allowed only on public land after an exhaustive investigation has confirmed that no private rights exist regarding the land in question.
The fact of the matter is that Jews choosing to live in the West Bank and Gaza are pioneers. They are returning to live in the heartland of Israel, the place which served as the cradle of Western civilization and the Jewish religion. These areas which Jews refer to by their original names of Judea, Samaria and Gaza were the scene of much of the drama described in the Bible. It is the place where King David walked and where the prophets of Israel gave the world a vision of peace and brotherhood. Ancient synagogues and archaeological sites attest to the long-standing Jewish presence in the region, a presence that is once again flourishing despite Arab opposition and terror.
Moreover, Israel did not 搊ccupy?these territories, as the Palestinians and others would have you believe. In the 1967 Six-Day War, Arab armies massed on Israel抯 narrow borders, vowing to destroy the Jewish state. In a war of self-defense, Israel succeeded in overcoming its enemies, in the process taking control over Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Under international law, territories are considered 搊ccupied?only when they are taken in an act of aggression something which clearly does not apply to Israel抯 case. It was 35 years ago this month that Israel prevailed in the 1967 war, returning to places such as Hebron and Shilo. For two thousand uninterrupted years, Jews had lived in the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried. Only in 1929, when local Arabs massacred them, was the Jewish community forced to flee the city. What could be more historically just than to rebuild the Jewish presence there?
One must also recall that prior to the beginning of the Jewish return and reclamation of their ancient homeland in the 1880s, there were BOTH Arab "Palestinians" and Jewish "Palestinians" living there. Neither group had a particularly significant numbers after centuries during which the land was ignore and neglected. Once the Jews began their Zionist movement to reclaim, beautify and resettle the land, Arabs from surrounding Arab areas also began returning. Unlike the early Jewish settlers who were willing to live in peace and share land with the Arabs, the latter was bent on sharing nothing! The Arab motto then is exactly what it is now 120 years later... "we will shed every last drop of blood for every last grain of Arab land!"
The so-called "Israeli settlements" in the Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the "West Bank") and Gaza have been blamed for all the Arab-Israeli and "Palestinian"-Israeli conflict when, in Truth, these settlements were the result of a war brought to Israel BY these very same Arabs! The land areas from which Jordan attacked Israel in 1967 is the "West Bank," the land from which the Egyptian Army attacked Israel in 1967 is the Gaza Strip and the land from which Syria attack Israel in 1967 is the Golan Heights. Had these Arab nations not threatened to destroy Israel in June of 1967, there would be no Israeli "settlers" on these territories! Have you ever heard of the expression, "To the Victor Goes the Spoils of War?" This would seem especially justified when the victor was attacked! Incredibly, "Israeli aggression" and "Israeli occupation" is what the Arab world calls it!
The Muslim/ Islamic world is greatly oppressed but it comes not from the little Jewish state of Israel and not from the United States. The oppression comes from the Islamic world's own tyrannical, NON-democratic leaders, most of whom act as if they have a divine right to govern for life! The answer to this problem is not creating more illegitimate Arab and Muslim dictatorships and theocracies. And certainly not by creating yet another terrorist state with yet another madman like Arafat at the helm.
Don't fall prey to the myth that the Arabs are merely seeking an end to "occupation" and "humiliation." If the Arabs desired peace and liberty, they could have achieved it years ago. They crave the destruction of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel!
New Item: What do the Arabs mean when they say they want an "end to the [Israeli] occupation?" Click HERE and HERE
Biblically Speaking...
The Palestinians claim that the land of Israel has belonged to them "from time immemorial." The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that the entirety of Israel is "occupied" territory. We know what the Palestinians say. But what does G-D say? What does the BIBLE say about the land?
GENESIS 15:18-21: In that day the Lord made a covenant with Avram (Abraham), saying, "To your seed I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the Great River [referring to the Euphrates River which, during the reigns of kings David and Soloman, formed the northeast boundary of the Promised Land]
NUMBERS 34:1-12: And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan...
GENESIS 17: 7-8 And I will establish my covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a G-D unto thee and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Caanan,
There is nothing in the Koran which says the Land of Caanan (Israel) belongs to Muslims! Even the term "Palestine" is never mentioned there! So if anyone is "occupying" the Land of Israel, it is the Arabs.
Is Israel Really Threatening to Take Over Arab/Muslim Land?
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- Who is a threat to whom! -
* PLUS: What Arabs REALLY Mean When They Call for an "End to the Occupation" *
3. Accusing Israel of Starting the June 6, 1967 War
Resulting in the "Occupation" of 'West Bank, Gaza,
East Jerusalem, the Sinai Desert and the Golan Heights.
The Arabs say the Israelis grabbed this real estate in a war of aggression in 1967. In fact, Israel did not start that war. Israel did not want that war. Israel merely defended itself ?very, very effectively ?from coordinated attacks by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Arafat's terrorists.
This is not opinion. This is fact. A friend of mine, Sol Jacobs, did something very simple ?something very obvious ?to document this fact, which seems to elude so many today. He went back and looked at what newspapers were reporting about the crisis before June 5, 1967 ?before there was any alleged "Israeli occupation."
Here's what he found on his month-long timeline leading up to the Six-Day War:
On May 7, the New York Times reported Syria had shelled the Israeli village of Ein Gev.
On May 17, the New York Times reported that the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Arafat, pledged to "keep sending commandos" into Israel.
On May 19, the Los Angeles Times reported Egypt stood accused of using poison gas in Yemen.
On May 19, the New York Times reported Egypt had deployed its forces along the Israeli border.
On May 20, the New York Times reported Egypt forced U.N. peacekeeping troops to leave the Sinai Desert in anticipation of its attack on Israel.
On May 21, the New York Times reported Egyptian soldiers were massing in the Sinai.
On May 22, the New York Times reported that the PLO would be stepping up its attacks in Israel, that Cairo was calling up 10,000 reserves and that Iraq would be sending aid to battle Israel.
On May 23, every newspaper in the world reported that Egypt took the provocative action of closing the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel.
On May 24, every newspaper in the world reported that the U.S. declared Egypt's military blockade of the gulf "illegal."
On May 25, the New York Times reported that Jordan would admit Saudi and Iraqi forces into its country to do battle with Israel.
On May 27, every newspaper in the world reported Egypt's fiery threats to destroy Israel.
On May 29, the New York Times reported the Egyptian buildup of military forces in the Sinai was continuing.
On May 29, the Washington Post reported that despite all of this provocation, Israel was still reluctant to have a showdown with its enemies.
On May 29, the New York Times reported new Syrian attacks on Israel.
On June 3, the New York Times reported that Britain declared the Egyptian blockade could lead to war. It also reported that four Syrian commandos were intercepted in Israel.
On June 5, 1967, the Six-Day War began. Israel rolled up all of its enemies faster than anyone would have believed. It took control of East Jerusalem from Jordan. It took control of Judea and Samaria on the west bank of the Jordan River from Jordan. It took control of the Golan Heights from Syria. And it took control of the Gaza Strip and Sinai Desert from Egypt.
You can read these news reports for yourself thanks to the work of Sol Jacobs.
Clearly, the so-called "occupation" of these territories came about as a result of Arab war-making on Israel. Israel merely defended itself well. Israel also proved it was willing to give these territories back to neighbors who would live in peace with the Jewish state, as demonstrated with the return of the Sinai to Egypt.
All of this raises a few questions: If Israel is occupying those territories today, who was occupying them until 1967? If the West Bank and Gaza belong to "Palestinians," why were they under the control of Jordan and Egypt until June 5, 1967? If Arab "Palestinians" just want their own state, why didn't they ask for it before 1967?
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http://masada2000.org/historical.html more maps relating to the above. .
4. Accusing Israel of Nazi-Like Behavior
The Arab Palestinians have reached a point where it has now become clear that their goal in this struggle is not the end of the so-called "occupation," but rather the organized, premeditated mass murder of Jews. Plainly put, their main goal today is not statehood, but genocide! Killing Jews actually makes them happy... so happy that they are even willing to detonate their own children in order to murder Jews! This irrational, street level barbarism would make Hitler's Storm Troopers seem like gentlemen!
What is needed is a thorough "de-Nazification" of Palestinian society not unlike what was imposed upon post WWII Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, this gut hatred of Jews and Israel has been inculcated into Arab societies so completely and far too long. This leaves Israel with only two choices. Victim or Victor.
This Article says it all! Click HERE
BASIC TRUTHS
1. The only reason people challenge the legitimacy of Israel, rationalize aggression against Israel and justify Arab atrocities, is that they hate Jews.
2. The media campaign against Israel is based on the fact that the Western TV stations, newspapers and radio stations involved are uneducated and/or anti-Semitic.
3. Those who support the Arab "Palestinians" don't really give a rat's ____ about the Arab "Palestinians." They simply hate Jews.
4. "Anti-Zionists" are still anti-Semites at heart. They merely mask their hatred of the Jewish people with a geo-political agenda.
5. The Jewish Left is the main threat to Jewish survival and Jewish existence, both in the Diaspora and in Israel. It is the Jewish SELF-HATING Left that prevents Israel from being able to deal with attacks upon the nation. It is the Jewish Left that rationalizes and legitimizes anti-Semites/anti-Zionists and implicitly joins them by blaming everything on the Jews.
6. Every concession or goodwill gesture to Arabs encourages Arab violence and aggression. It also encourages more open manifestation of anti-Semitism among the public in the West and in their media once they smell Jewish blood or Jewish in-fighting.
7. The anti-Israel lobbies will attack and attempt to de-legitimize Israel no matter what Israel does, no matter how many suicidal concessions she makes and no matter which Israeli political party rules the country.
8. Killing Arabs reduces Arab violence and aggression while dialogue with Arabs encourages Arab violence and aggression. The Arabs respect forces of strength, not cowardly appeasement. Don't accuse us of "Arab bashing." This is simply a fact.
9. Nothing has changed. If the Arabs were to perpetrate a new genocide against the Jews, the Western world would explain it as having been caused by Jewish shortcomings and sins. The Jews would simply build a few more Holocaust museums, light a few more candles and once again swear "Never Again!"
Muslim leaders in general are well-versed in the Arab art of ingratiation and know how to beguile Western journalists, diplomats and politicians. The latter sees no cultural or ideological reason why Jews and Arabs cannot live together in genuine peace and harmony... even in this era of resurgent Islam. Lacking in even a basic knowledge of Middle Eastern history, the recipients of this Arab and Islamic propaganda fail to understand one most crucial fact. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 negates the prophecy of Mohammed, undermines the authority of the Koran and thereby challenges the actual validity of the Islamic religion. In addition, Muslims look upon Israel as a conduit for a Western democratic lifestyle which they regard not only as decadent, but also as subversive of Islamic values. In other words, Israel's very existence is recognized by Muslims leaders as the greatest threat to the political and religious power structure of the Islamic world. That a tiny Jewish State (with 1/42nd the population, 1/640th the land mass and NONE of the oil) has defeated combined Arab armies five out of five times and has become an economic powerhouse to boot is nearly too much for the Islamic Faith to endure. Military action has failed to destroy Israel. The name of the game now is to de-legitimize Israel through a determined, well-financed and unremitting propaganda campaign unmatched even by the Nazis!
."Turn-Speak"
Propaganda technique whereby the victim is portrayed as the abuser and the abuser as the victim!
NOTE: In addition to the accusation of Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide and Occupying Arab Land, the Israelis have also been accused of perpetrating a "Holocaust" upon the Arabs of "Palestine." This is perhaps the most insensitive and inhumane accusation thus far. Click HERE for a REAL Holocaust!
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