Palestinians conducted a poll about reactions to Gaza’s October 7 massacre that killed 1,200 people in Israel, injured thousands and took 240 hostages. The results showed West Bank Arabs (83.1%) much more in favor of the butchering of Jews than Gazans (63.6%). The popularity of Hamas was much higher in the West Bank (87.7%) than in Gaza (59.6%).
It also showed that West Bank Arabs being more committed to destroying Israel and retaking all of “historical Palestine.”
This poll was conducted specifically about the massacre, and before a single Arab prisoner had been released from Israeli jails.
The New York Times decided to sanitize the Palestinian Arabs’ celebration of the raping of women and deliberate mutilation and killing of children and the elderly. It ran a headline that West Bank Arabs prefer Hamas over Fatah which runs the Palestinian Authority because the political-terrorist groups was able to free prisoners. #AlternativeFacts with a sick #AlternativeNarrative.
New York Times article with headline that lies about motivation of West Bank Arabs joy about the murder of Jews (November 29, 2023)
Since late 2021, several new West Bank terrorist groups emerged which have killed dozens in Israel and Area C of the West Bank, the Lions’ Den and Jenin Brigades being the two most popular. Many have members affiliated with Hamas who may have been planning a similar October 7 attack in the densely populated areas in Israel which could have killed 10,000 people. Israel’s raids to capture and kill these cells over the past 18 months likely averted an even worse massacre.
Over the past two years, West Bank Arab attacks have been more numerous and more lethal than attacks from Jews, even according to United Nations reports. In the recent reporting period before October 7, West Bank Arabs killed five times as many Jews (10) than West Bank Arabs killed by Jews (2).
But that narrative of fact was dead-and-buried in the Times. In their article whitewashing Arab violence in the West Bank, it wrote about two young Arabs who threw stones at Israeli soldiers who were freed from prison.
The New York Times is trying to paint West Bank Arabs as peaceful people “resisting” the Israeli army, “resorting” to violent groups like Hamas because they successfully free Arabs unjustly incarcerated. It is the language of socialists and anti-colonialists, meant to inflame hatred for the Jewish State as a falsely-labeled “European colonial state,” as preached in universities. It is a script and rallying cry of the alt-left, which wants to “normalize and globalize Hamas” to “globalize the intifada” in order to destroy other countries like the United States and Australia.
Over the past two years, West Bank Arabs launched several new terrorist groups, attacked and murdered Jews at a pace which dwarves attacks by Israeli “settlers”, and just now celebrated the heinous slaughter of civilians in Israel on October 7. The West Bankers have come to have “a greater confidence in the efficacy of armed struggle,” as described in a December 2022 poll, and believe that Israel will soon cease to exist.
Those plain truths are at odds with the socialist Times which prefers to paint West Bank Arabs as a small biblical David to Israel’s Goliath, scrapping by throwing stones at soldiers, rather than reveal the sickening bloodlust.
On June 27, 2023, months before the October 7 massacre, James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute spoke to the United Nations Security Council and said “that a recent poll shows a majority of Palestinians rejecting moderate leadership, despairing of peaceful change and now favoring armed struggle. That tragic deformity in Palestinian political culture is the result of the continued brutality of the occupation.” That sentiment came from a staunchly pro-Palestinian pollster BEFORE October 7 to the jaundiced United Nations, where rarely a criticism of Palestinians can be heard.
There is a deep “tragic deformity” in Palestinian society that celebrates the mutilation and slaughter of Jews, and a vile deformity in socialist media which sanitizes Palestinian Arabs’ violence to prop them as ready for a state. It may be a symptom of a post-factual world which prefers narratives about underdogs or simply outright antisemitism. Perhaps both.
Either way, it is definitely coming for the Jewish State and diaspora Jews.
The media and anti-Israel activists have been pounding Israel on the high civilian death toll in Gaza from Israel’s response to the October 7 massacre. Critics claim that Israel is committing a “genocide” of Palestinian Arabs and are trying to “ethnically cleanse” Gaza of any Muslims. The incendiary comments fly in the face of Israel’s concerted efforts to minimize civilian casualties as it tries to eliminate Hamas terrorists.
The New York Times blamed Israel’s use of large bombs in dense urban neighborhoods, when normally lighter weapons are used. It contrasted the high percentage of Gaza civilian deaths relative to past Israeli wars with Hamas as well as America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
There are many other factors which Israel’s critics and the media fail to mention or highlight.
Subterranean battlefield. As opposed to America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hamas’s fighters are almost all below ground. The firepower needed to penetrate both buildings and dirt requires much heavier armaments. The collateral damage to civilians is consequently greater.
High percentage of youth. Almost half of Gazans are under 18 years old, with roughly 39.75% under 14 years old. By way of comparison, only 13.2% of Germans are under 14 years old, 15.43% of Ukrainians, 17.47% in the United Kingdom and 17.96% in the USA. That means that all things being equal, it should be expected that young Gazans will unfortunately die in bombing campaigns at two to three times the level of other wars like in Russia-Ukraine now.
Refusal to move away from battle. While Israel has urged civilians to move away from battleground areas, Gazans have been reluctant to do so. The leaders of Hamas have urged them to stay put, while the Palestinian Authority claimed that Israel’s humanitarian pause to allow civilians to leave the battlefield was a form of “ethnic cleansing”. The United Nations Secretary General uttered much the same. The combined result was too many civilians declined opportunities to flee the war zone, resulting in many deaths.
Israel doesn’t have luxury of time. Israel does not have the luxury of time to battle jihadists the way the United States did in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Israel is facing existential threats. While the United States wanted to defeat terrorism, it was not an existential threat to the homeland. The small bands of jihadists were thousands of miles from America’s shores and the integrity of the US was never at risk. That is in sharp contrast to Israel which is fighting: Hamas terrorists on its immediate border on the west; Hezbollah, also sworn to its destruction in the north; Syria and Iran to the northeast which is on the verge of nuclear weapons capability; and various other jihadi terrorist groups to the east in the West Bank. Israel’s basic existence is at risk and putting down one front quickly is required should it need to fight on another front.
Hostages. No other modern war has seen the ripping of hundreds of civilians from their homes to be taken hostage into underground tunnels. Israel needs to mobilize quickly to save those civilians, a dynamic without comparison in the Russia-Ukraine war or other battles.
Extraordinary volume of reservists. In light of the existential crisis and hostage situation, Israel activated almost the entire country’s reservists. These people are not the 18 to 22 year-olds regularly serving in the army but people working throughout the economy. Pulling 300,000 people from their jobs can only be maintained for a short period of time before the country’s economy gets crushed.
Global pressure. Whether Israel killed 2,000 or 20,000 civilians in Gaza, it was going to face enormous global pressure to cease operations. Global powerhouses like Russia, China and the United States can ignore that pressure due to the scale of their economies, the strength of the military capabilities, and having permanent seats at the United Nations Security Council which protect them from draconian resolutions. Israel is very small with few allies and therefore needs to conclude its military operations as quickly as possible.
The security needs of the small Jewish State have no comparable to any country in the world. Israel’s immediate goals of eliminating Hamas and saving the hostages must have global unambiguous support. The tragic loss of life among Gaza civilians – even though they support Hamas’s terrorism – should be mitigated by the world pressing Hamas (not Israel) to release hostages, encourage civilians to leave the fighting area, and get Hamas to surrender.
While people are still trying to identify the incinerated and butchered Israeli bodies from the grisly Palestinian Arab October 7 terrorist attack, the Palestinian Authority thought it an appropriate time to ask the United Kingdom to recognize Palestine as a country.
On November 24, 2023, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the PA headquarters in Ramallah. Abbas lectured the visiting British diplomat, as though Palestinian Arabs had not recently conducted the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, November 24, 2023
As reported by WAFA, the Palestinian official news agency, after lecturing Cameron about Israel’s actions, Abbas “urged the British Foreign Secretary to recognize the State of Palestine and help it gain full membership in the United Nations.”
Not wanting the message to slip through the cracks, PA Prime Mohammed Shtayyeh followed, and similarly “called on the British Foreign Secretary to support the Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations.”
The ruling Palestinian Authority is very unpopular and viewed as deeply corrupt by Palestinian Arabs. Abbas’s four-year term as president expired in 2009 and he has refused to conduct elections as he knows that he will be trounced by Hamas.
As it currently stands, the political-terrorist party Hamas controls Gaza and controls 58% of the Palestinian parliament. After Hamas’s heinous October 7 massacre, the group’s popularity has skyrocketed, with 75% of Palestinians supporting the attack, and a similar percentage looking to destroy Israel and replace it with an Arab state.
As Palestinian Arabs demonstrate to the world that they are capable and desirous of slaughtering Jews and launching a war on the only Jewish State, they are asking the western world for its blessings, to recognize the State of Palestine and usher it into the United Nations.
And rather than storm out the door, Britain announced it would send £30 million additional aid funding to Gaza.
Palestinians have a demonic but selfish motivation for slaughtering Israelis as they invade the first world country next door but what is motivating the United Kingdom to support such barbarity?
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Contact David Cameron “The Palestinian Arabs have shown that they support the butchering of Jews and desire to destroy the Jewish State. The British government must make clear that it firmly rejects the so-called “right of return” of Palestinian Arabs into Israel, and that any future settlement of the conflict will require a demilitarized Arab state to which the descendant of refugees and internally-displaced people may settle. Further, until Hamas is removed from power, there will be no aid sent to the Palestinian Authority.”
In the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel and Israel’s response, a number of politicians have opined that there should be a ceasefire and allow a political solution to bear fruit. It is a naive and dangerous suggestion, as are calls to flatten Gaza. The situation requires both a military and a political dynamic, in that order.
The Palestinian-Israel Conflict has two dimensions: a radical jihadi ideology that seeks the destruction of Israel, and a territorial component which parties better understand. The first poisonous jihadi threat must be extinguished and the second matter crafted with care.
Hamas is not only a terrorist group which just carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It is a genocidal antisemitic group which has broad popular support among Palestinians, especially in Gaza. That threat must be destroyed and the evil ideology erased for there to be any hope for calm in the region.
Hamas’s foundational charter is an antisemitic screed calling for the death of Jews and end to the Jewish State. Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas to 58% of the parliament in 2006 with this charter and Palestinians would elect the leader of Hamas to the presidency in latest polls. An estimated 70% of Gazans support killing Jewish civilians inside of Israel in a June 2023 poll.
The United Nations Security Council understands such evil ideology as it voted “unequivocally” to condemn ISIS for a similar violent orientation. On November 20, 2015, the UNSC press stated:
The Security Council determined today that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS) constituted an “unprecedented” threat to international peace and security, calling upon Member States with the requisite capacity to take “all necessary measures” to prevent and suppress its terrorist acts on territory under its control in Syria and Iraq.
Unanimously adopting resolution 2249 (2015), the Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist attacks perpetrated by ISIL — also known as Da’esh — on 26 June in Sousse, on 10 October in Ankara, on 31 October over the Sinaï Peninsula, on 12 November in Beirut and on 13 November in Paris, among others. It expressed its deepest condolences to the victims and their families, as well as to the people and Governments of Tunisia, Turkey, Russian Federation, Lebanon and France.
The 15-member body condemned in the strongest terms ISIL’s gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights, as well as its destruction and looting of cultural heritage. Those who committed, or were otherwise responsible for, terrorist acts or human rights violations must be held accountable. By other terms, the Council urged Member States to intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters into Iraq and Syria, and to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism.
Following the vote, nearly all Council members took the floor to decry the “barbaric” attacks and hateful world view espoused by ISIL, reaffirming their support in both stemming the threat and bringing perpetrators to justice. In an echo of the sentiments voiced by many around the table Spain’s representative declared: “Today, we are all French, Russian, Malian and Arab,” adding: “It is time to act with a French, Russian, Malian and Arab heart.” The Council had a duty to guarantee the values and principles of the United Nations, and all must close ranks to vanquish terrorism, he stressed.
France’s representative, recalling that Da’esh had perpetrated an act of war against his country on 13 November, said today’s vote signaled recognition of the threat’s exceptional nature. The fight against terrorism could only be effective if combined with a political transition that would eliminate Da’esh, he said, adding that France had obtained activation of the European Union’s mutual solidarity clause.
The Russian Federation’s representative said today’s unanimous vote was a step towards the creation of a broad anti-terrorism front aimed at eradicating root causes. That also had been the aim of a Russian draft presented to the Council on 30 September, he said, describing attempts by some to block his delegation’s efforts as politically short-sighted.
The course of action against Hamas should be the same as taken with ISIL:
decry the “barbaric” attacks and hateful world view
bringing perpetrators to justice / Those who committed, or were otherwise responsible for, terrorist acts or human rights violations must be held accountable
take “all necessary measures” to prevent and suppress its terrorist acts
intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters
prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism
all must close ranks to vanquish terrorism
Hamas must be destroyed militarily and financially with global support.
Hamas terrorist in Israeli kibbutz
Afterwards, the transition to a civil society must include a political component, as noted “The fight against terrorism could only be effective if combined with a political transition that would eliminate Da’esh [Hamas].” Key factors must be present in a new governing entity:
no military capabilities
no intention to destroy Israel
not virulently antisemitic
The last item – of not being antisemitic – is wishful thinking. Palestinians are the most antisemitic in the world according to polls. Regarding stripping military capabilities, that is essential as the amount of Palestinian terrorism with limited capabilities is already terrifying. Think post-WWII Japan.
In regards to a goal of coexisting with the Jewish State, that will require the world – the United Nations and Saudi Arabia in particular – to clearly state that there is no “right of return” for Palestinian Arabs to move to Israel. A two state solution means Palestinian refugees move to a new Palestinian state, not the Jewish state.
If there is a chance for “from the river to the sea, people will live with security,” a decisive military destruction of Hamas as an organization must be followed with bringing a vision of coexistence instead of bloodshed. To get there, the world must unequivocally support Israel in its destruction of Hamas and thereafter, a weapons-free Arab state which will be home to the descendants of Palestine refugees.
During the night of May 10, 1933, tens of thousands of Germans in twenty-two cities gathered books written by Jews and tossed them into huge bonfires. It was part of an emerging effort to remove the supposed “depraved” culture of Germany instigated by Jews and replace it with something more pure.
In Munich, the Ludwig Maximilian University and the Technical University granted state recognition to students’ unions as legal entities in the university constitution, with a stipulation that Jewish students be excluded from these bodies. An estimated 8,000 Germans celebrated the action at a rally and then proceeded to burn books by Jews. An estimated 70,000 onlookers watched the spectacle.
Roughly one hundred book burnings took place from early March and ran through October of 1933. Universities were the main originators of the effort to identify and ban books, which led to libraries and other institutions following suit.
Five and one-half years later, the Nazi machinery had gained momentum. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazis throughout Germany and Austria burned Jewish stores and synagogues in what became knows as Kristallnacht. Citizens – mostly neighbors – ransacked and looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses, killed at least 91 Jews, and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. Some 30,000 Jewish males aged 16 to 60 were arrested.
Jews were forced to pay for and clean up the carnage from which they suffered. They scrubbed streets on their knees before Nazis and their neighbors, as they had been forced to do for months in public humiliation.
Jews in Vienna, Austria forced to scrub streets with their hands in March 1938
Eighty-five years later, a new generation of antisemites labeled a different Jewish idea as a depravity to terminate and Jews to annihilate: Zionism.
On March 30, 2018, thirty thousand Gazans marched on the fence with Israel in what they billed the “Great March of Return.” They continued to rail against the fence demanding the “right to return” into the land of Israel, where grandparents lived until 1948. Backed by Hamas, the Gazans burned fires and sent burning kites into Israel to torch their fields, as they tried to take down the border fence.
Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.
Hamas Charter
Five and one half years later, on October 7, 2023, over 1,000 members of Hamas and many Gazans effectively stormed and destroyed the border separation and stormed into Israeli towns where they butchered and slaughtered 1,200 people. They made clear that they did not just want to return to Israel but to end the existence of Jews and the Jewish State.
Kibbutz Be’eri after Hamas October 7 Massacre
Both Nazis and Hamas targeted Jews at their inceptions well before 1933 and 2018, respectively. The Nazis gained legitimacy over time through democratic elections and penetrated the mindset of universities. Hamas similarly won Palestinian elections and dominate Palestinian views in a manner that James Zogby of the Arab American Institute called a “deformity in Palestinian political culture.”
Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people.
Hamas Charter
The scary dynamic is that the Palestinian narrative about the evil idea of Zionism is no longer constrained to Arab and Muslim schools but global academia.
Ivy League schools push the idea to “Decolonize Palestine” and paint Jews as foreign invaders with no history in their homeland. They support a global putsch to take down the Jewish State and professors agreed “to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years. One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies, or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation,” even though Israel left Gaza in 2005.
In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised…. the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis.
Hamas Charter
What is Zionism that so angers Palestinians and university “scholars”? A simple set of beliefs that millions of Jews and non-Jews believe:
Jews are a people, not simply members of a religion
Jews have history and deep ties to their particular homeland in the land of Israel
Jews have a right to self-determination, manifest in establishing sovereignty with the State of Israel
The State of Israel is a safe haven for Jews around the world, all welcome to return
That Jewish State will fight global antisemitism
Nazi Germany moved from burning Jewish ideas to burning Jews in just a few years. Palestinian Arabs and their supporters have similarly targeted Zionism, Jews and the Jewish State. The question is whether the civilized world will turn back the evil.
And of course, there were over 1,400 people butchered in Israel on October 7.
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressed each, condemning the attacks.
Regarding Cameroon, Guterres called “on the Government of Cameroon to conduct an investigation and to ensure that those responsible are held accountable.”
For the attack in Myanmar, Guterres said of the terrorists, “Those responsible must be held to account.”
Yet despite to much greater scale and barbarity of the attack on Israel, Guterres pared back his comments. He specifically did not want the Government of Israel to hold the Hamas terrorists accountable.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
In the immediate aftermath of the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust, Guterres offered “The Secretary-General is deeply concerned for the civilian population and urges maximum restraint. Civilians must be respected and protected in accordance with international humanitarian law at all times.”
Does Guterres think that Hamas terrorists are “civilians” to be protected? Does he not believe that the 1,000-plus terrorists that invaded Israel and burned families alive should “be held to account?” What is the purpose of the statement that is a world apart from what Guterres offers to other countries?
Seemingly, the United Nations is sending a message that countries like Cameroon and Myanmar can and should hold terrorists to account. But not Israel. Israel must use “maximum restraint” despite the horror.
To give context to the 1,400 people killed in Israel on a single day, the total deaths from terrorism in 2022 in the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was 791 people. The one day toll in Israel was more than any country for the entire year of 2022.
Yet the United Nations urged “maximum restraint.”
This treatment of Israel in the face of terrorism has a long history, as the UN adopted Palestinian Arabs long ago and protects them at all times, even – or especially – when they engage in grotesque jihadi terrorism.
But even now? Even in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre?
According to the United Nations, Israel may never act as judge; it is only to be judged, scrutinized and criticized. It is an object to be acted upon, and must otherwise remain silent, even when slaughtered.
Many people wonder what will happen after the end of the 2023 Gaza War. Will the Palestinian Authority take administrative control of the area with Israel serving a military function, much like Area B in the West Bank? Will Hamas 2.0 rise from the ashes, the way Queen Rania of Jordan (herself of Palestinian descent) predicts, which will be a “new generation of resistance that is fiercer and more violent.”
There is a better way. To end Palestinian atrocities and the horrible death on both sides, one needs to speak a plain truth at the core of the conflict to understand how to end it.
The United Nations and Saudi Arabia must state clearly that there is no ‘right of return’ for Palestinian Arabs to go to Israel. The Arabs’ future lies in Gaza or parts of the West Bank that will be under the Palestinian Authority, or another country that welcomes them, should they decide to leave the region.
Palestinians have been lied to by the United Nations for 75 years that they will get to return to homes where grandparents once lived. The United Nations continues to call many Palestinians “refugees” and places keys atop UNRWA “refugee” camps to tell them that the UN is much more than a services agency: they are the gateway to returning to Israel.
Portal to UNRWA Aida “refugee” camp near Bethlehem
The UN maintains refugee camps inside Gaza and the West Bank to tell Palestinian Arabs that the land they stand on – which was part of Palestine in 1947 – is just a waiting zone. They will get to move to Israel someday.
So the Arabs have grown very frustrated. Rather than make a life in Gaza and the West Bank, they covet the first world country next door that it really belongs to them. Palestinians vote for invasion rather than investment.
Approximately 81.2% of UNRWA wards reside in what was the British Mandate in 1922 or what was annexed by Jordan with Arabs given citizenship. Almost all of them have self-determination, either as citizens of Jordan or under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza. There are really only Syrian and Lebanese “refugee” descendants which need to be addressed.
And those in Syria and Lebanon should move to a new Palestinian State.
Before Israel left Gaza in 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush sent Israeli Prime Minister a letter in April 2004 to encourage the Israeli action: “It seems clear that an agreed, just, fair, and realistic framework for a solution to the Palestinian refugee issue as part of any final status agreement will need to be found through the establishment of a Palestinian state, and the settling of Palestinian refugees there, rather than in Israel.”
The Democratic Party long held the same notion in its platform stating “The creation of a Palestinian state through final status negotiations, together with an international compensation mechanism, should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel.” The Obama/ Biden Administration had that statement removed in 2012, stoking Palestinian anger/hope which bubbled into 2014, 2021 and 2023 wars from Gaza against Israel, each under either President Obama or President Biden.
The United Nations and Saudi Arabia need to deliver the message ending the ‘right of return’ so that Palestinians know these intifadas to destroy Israel are over. It is time for Palestinian Arabs to focus energies on building institutions, economy and society, and abandon the genocidal efforts to destroy the Jewish State.
UNRWA should announce a wind down of all camps in Gaza, the West Bank and Jordan, and funnel those monies to actual refugees who really need the services, fleeing their homeland to faraway countries where they are strangers not knowing the language, people or land. Saudi Arabia should play a role in rebuilding the Gaza infrastructure together with Israel, and push the Iran-Hamas alliance into the dustbin of infamy.
The future for coexistence relies on terminating the ongoing failed policy promoted by the United Nations for 75 years, and a new Saudi-Israeli alliance might be the pathway to broader peace.
The media and United Nations are partially culpable for the current violence in the Middle East as they have been deliberately lying to the people in the region and the world.
Let’s speak honestly about the situation.
LIE: Palestinians are in favor of two states. So claims Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. It is simply untrue, as shown in repeated Palestinian polls.
LIE: Israelis are storming al Aqsa. This is repeated in Palestinian media to incite the Muslim world to attack Jews. It is plainly false unless a person can call a handful of Jews walking around the Temple Mount during regular visiting hours – nowhere near the al Aqsa Mosque – some kind of ‘storming’.
LIE: The al Aqsa Mosque Compound / Temple Mount is only holy for Muslims. This piece of fiction is repeated frequently in Muslim capitals around the world. But it’s also said at the United Nations, which marked the holiest site for Jews as purely a Muslim site in official maps.
LIE: Gazans want the more moderate Palestinian Authority as the government, not Hamas. A wishful sentiment and complete lie, as shown in repeated polls. Hamas controls 58% of the parliament and would win presidential elections if held now. Even James Zogby of the Arab American Institute bemoaned the “deformity of Palestinian culture” which favors violence, when he addressed the United Nations in June 2023, while The New York Times falsely states otherwise.
LIE: Settlers are more dangerous than Palestinian Arabs. So said Wennesland before the October massacre when he addressed the United Nations Security Council. But his own figures show that Palestinians killed FIVE TIMES more Israelis than Israeli ‘settlers’ killing Palestinians in the second quarter of 2023, and 2.5 times as many in the first quarter of 2023.
LIE: The Israeli government is more extreme and right-wing than Hamas and Fatah. The media repeatedly inserts a narrative that the current Israeli government is the most right-wing ever and that one minister had a photo of Baruch Goldstein, a murderer of 29 people, in his house. But the media NEVER informs readers that Hamas is a terrorist group with a genocidal jihadi charter calling for the death of Jews and destruction of Israel. It does not mention the dozens of Palestinian schools, squares and tournaments named after mass murderers of Jews. It does not mention that the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is a holocaust denier.
LIE: Gaza is an open air prison. The reality is that Gaza is a terrorist safe haven in which Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and many other terrorist groups train and plan terrorist attacks.
LIE: The Palestinians are ready to make peace. Not only do Palestinians not favor a two state solution, they cannot even make peace between themselves. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are severed. Hamas and Fatah cannot agree to any power-sharing arrangement. Palestinians have been unable to have a vote since 2006. And the current president is viewed as so corrupt and ineffective that any agreement he would theoretically sign with Israel would be worthless on the Palestinian street.
LIE: ‘East Jerusalem’ is Occupied Palestinian Land. While people may argue whether the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza are occupied Palestinian land, there is no scenario in which anyone can claim the eastern portion of Jerusalem, including the Old City was ever Palestinian. It wasn’t earmarked to be Palestinian in the 1947 Partition Plan which never took place, was illegally annexed by Jordan from 1950 to 1967, and part of Israel since that time. The place ‘East Jerusalem‘ only existed from 1949 to 1967, nineteen years in the city’s 4,000 year history.
LIE: Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem are stateless. Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem got resident status when Israel formally annexed the eastern part of the city and reunited it in 1980. Palestinians can apply for Israeli citizenship and thousands already have become Israelis.
LIE: Israel is an apartheid state. Israel enables all citizens to vote, become part of the government, own real estate, attend schools, and more. Israel is the most liberal country for 1,000 miles in any direction. That is in sharp contrast to the Palestinian Authority that is a truly apartheid and antisemitic entity that wishes to have a country free of any Jews.
LIE: Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing of Arabs. Israel gave all people in the land citizenship when it declared statehood in 1948, including non-Jews. The population of Arabs in both Jerusalem and all of Israel has grown more than Jews in Jerusalem and Israel, respectively, and also more than Arabs in neighboring countries. It was Jordan that ethnically cleansed all Jews from eastern Israel and eastern Jerusalem in what became known as the Jew-free “West Bank.”
LIE: Israel wants to take over the entire region. The halls of the United Nations are crowded with “intellectuals” who say “The Zionist idea to dominate the area from the Nile to the Euphrates, is well known,” making the Jews look greedy in taking “Arab land,” as portrayed in the New York Times. It is simply untrue, as proved by Israel giving up land to Egypt, Palestinian Authority and Jordan, while all Israel sought in exchange was peace.
LIE: Jews lived very well in Muslim lands and they just chose to immigrate to Israel once it was founded. Jews survived as second class dhimmis in Arab lands for centuries, paying a special jizyah, non-Muslim tax. After Israel was founded, Arab nationalism swept the region and antisemitic laws and pogroms forced roughly 1 million Jews to flee the homes they had in Muslim lands. The New York Times shares a very different narrative.
LIE: Only Arabs are indigenous to the holy land.The New York Times will try to instill that only Arabs are indigenous to the holy land. The fact is that while many Arabs came to the region in the seventh and eighth centuries, Jews have been in the land for over 3,000 years. Jews are the only people to establish their kingdom and capital there. Judaism is the only religion that is specifically tied to a land – the land of Israel. Further, while many Jews came to the land between 1920 and 1948, there were more Muslims that entered the land under the British than Jews.
LIE: Israel is a European colony. So says college professors parroting an Arab narrative. The fact is that Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel and the British didn’t send any citizens to settle the land, they simply facilitated Jewish immigration to their homeland.
LIE: The United Nations and UNRWA are impartial and just providing assistance to “refugees.” The UN has adopted Palestinians as its permanent wards as has devoted numerous distinct agencies, like UNRWA, and resolutions for this particular group.
LIE: Gazans and West Bank Arabs are “refugees”. The world bemoans the status of millions of “refugees” who are simply not, and never were, refugees. These people live in the same land with the same people with the same language and culture just a few miles from where grandparents used to live. They have self-determination. At best, one can refer to them as descendants of internally-displaced people.
LIE: The current violence is because Hamas and Iran want to derail the Saudi Arabian – Israeli normalization. The October massacre was over a year in the making and pre-dated the aggressive discussions of normalization. The horrible truth is that the United States allowed Iran to reach the point of being nuclear weapons capable, so now feels compelled to give Saudi Arabia nuclear power to balance the arms race in the Middle East. As a condition for the U.S. giving the Saudis nuclear power, the Americans are insisting on normalizing relations with Israel. This is a war that is much more about Iranian and Saudi nuclear ambitions, not that Iran is upset about a normalization agreement between Israel and KSA.
LIE: Hamas is a “resistance movement”. Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. It “resists” Jewish presence in the Middle East. Palestinians support its mission, if not always its tactics.
LIE: Israel deliberately targets civilians.Israel takes more precautions than any other fighting force to limit civilian casualties. It drops leaflets to get people to move and calls their cellphones. It has dummy rockets that “knock” on the roof a minute before an armed missile hits a building to allow people to leave. It gives time for civilians to move out of the fighting area. But Hamas and its suporters encourage the civilians to stay putting them in harm’s way. Hamas builds its terrorist infrastructure and shoots rockets from mosques and schools. And Hamas brutally focuses on civilians for torture, butchering small children and burning families alive.
The list of lies goes on.
The effect of all these lies is a twisted idea of reality. It produces a fictional narrative that Palestinians are moderate and really support a two-state solution but the right-wing Israeli government is blocking it. The Israelis are racists who are trying to take over Palestinian land as they covet the entire region. First the Jews stole the land from Arabs as a colonial power, subjugated and ethnically-cleansed them from the land, and they continue to try to steal more, as they brutalize the local Arab population in an “ongoing Nakba“.
In reality, it is Palestinian Arabs who refuse to accept a Jewish State in the region. They rejected it in 1947, 1948, 1967, 2000, 2008 and every day. They want the entire region to be dominated by Muslim Arabs and support the killing of Jews until they “liberate” the land “from the River to the Sea.” Israel does its best to protect itself from the genocidal neighbors next door.
People are realizing that students on college campuses have been misinformed and indoctrinated about the Arab-Israeli conflict, but so has the world. We must all confront the false narratives about the conflict so we can honestly pursue a better future.
Genocide is defined in the dictionary as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” Nazi Germany had that aim in the 1930s and 1940s and succeeded in killing one-third of the Jewish population. Jews have still not replaced the loss 75 years later.
Today, the group that best captures the heinous intent of deliberately killing Jews is the popular political-terrorist group Hamas.
Hamas’s 1988 foundational charter is a fountain of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and calls to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish State. Some lowlights include:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.” (Opening)
“Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.” (Preamble)
“raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors, so that they would rid the land and the people of their uncleanliness, vileness and evils.” (Article 3)
“raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine” (Article 6)
“Moslems fight the Jews(killing the Jews)… there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him” (Article 7)
“Nothing in nationalism is more significant or deeper than in the case when an enemy should tread Moslem land” (Article 12)
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time” (Article 13)
“In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised…. the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis.” (Article 15)
Zionist “organizations, hostile to humanity and Islam, will be obliterated.” (Article 17)
The toxicity rambles on from there.
Palestinian Arabs voted Hamas to 58% of parliament with this charter, in its first democratic election for parliament in 2006. It has thus far been the only parliamentary election.
Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, and Egypt and Israel subsequently put a blockade around the terrorist enclave lest it gain deadly weapons to pursue its genocidal goals. Despite the blockade, the group managed to launch numerous attacks and wars against Israel with low-level weaponry.
Palestinian Arabs continue to support this genocidal group, with a majority supporting their leader to be the next president according to Palestinian polls. That should not be surprising as most Gazans support terrorism, specifically killing Jewish civilians inside of Israel.
June 2023 PCPSR poll Question 70 “Concerning armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel, I….”, with 70% of Gazans supporting terrorism
The United Nations has a definition for genocide which states:
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Elements of the crime
The 1988 Hamas Charter showed clear intent to cause a genocide of Jews, and the group’s broad-based support amongst Palestinian Arabs demonstrate a “deformity” in Palestinian culture, as leading Arab American James Zogby said at the United Nations in June 2023.
The actions of October 7, 2023, certify the intent with barbarism.
Not only did Hamas kill over 1,400 people in an unprovoked attack, it butchered people causing severe mental harm and long-term trauma to the entire Jewish State. It made the idea of living anywhere near Gaza virtually impossible. In taking over 240 hostages into Gaza – including young children who may never see their families again – the evil intent is beyond manifest.
Israel is engaged in a just war against this genocidal group. While limiting civilian casualties, it MUST defeat Hamas and ensure it cannot attack Israel again. An aggressive self defense must be broadly supported.
Defense against genocidal maniacs must extend to Jews in the diaspora as well. Countries with large Jewish populations including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom and Argentina have over 7 million Jews amongst them. Those countries have seen a large spike in antisemitic incidents on college campuses, in the streets and in governments. Security must be enhanced as Hamas’s Willing Executioners invert perpetrator and victim and spew antisemitic inanity to incite the mob.
The most terrifying evidence of the global depravity was watching America’s Ivy League professors cheering the October 7 pogrom calling it “exhilarating” and “awesome” because they believed that the genocide of Jews had finally moved passed a Palestinian promise to an actual reality.
The world witnessed an antisemitic genocidal group butchering Jews in Israel, and now watches Hamas supporters come for global Jewry as part of the “global intifada”, bizarrely protected under the banner of free speech.
The past decade witnessed mass migrations of people from the Middle East and North Africa fleeing to Europe. Many died making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean Sea in makeshift boats, a risk they were willing to take to leave their wretched lives in dysfunctional, broken economies.
Some Africans decided to skip the sea journey and made a run for a slice of Europe by land.
At the tip of Morocco lies two Spanish cities called Ceuta and Melilla. While on the African continent, they are recognized parts of Spain. Despite the high security barriers and controls that the Spaniards place to separate those cities from the rest of Africa, thousands sometimes descend on the cities hoping for a quick jump to a better life.
Spanish cities in AfricaMigrants scaling fence to Melilla, Spain
In July 2018, 800 migrants stormed the Ceuta fence, with 602 making it onto Spanish soil. At the time, the International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 22,700 migrants had arrived in Spain so far that year — three times more than in the same period in the prior year.
These African migrants came into Spain unarmed. They simply sought a more peaceful and prosperous life which is easier to achieve in Europe than poverty-stricken and corrupt Africa.
Like Spain, Israel is a thriving liberal democracy just footsteps from bankrupt societies. The major difference of the people illegally entering the two countries is that migrants to Spain harm no one. In contrast, Arabs have a military firing rockets and soldiers toting machine guns with the express aim of destroying Israel and killing its inhabitants.
Hamas in Israeli kibbutzHamas destroys security fence
Imagine that the government of Morocco ran on a platform that it wasn’t going to build an economy but was going to invade and take over Spain. That is the essence of the Palestinian Arabs’ vote in 2006 when it elected Hamas to 58% of the parliament, with a charter specifically calling for the destruction of Israel.
Anti-Israel people claim that Israel is a “European colonial regime” but really mean that they see it as a European-style, first-world successful country next door. Palestinian Arabs are attempting to conquer it with global support, rather than build a prosperous society on their own.
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