Palestinian Apologists appeal to a falisification of History and alleged Israeli Oppression in their attempts to de-legitimize and demonize the Jewish State.
The following article contains replies to a Palestinian Polemic that was recently recommended to Left-wing anti-Zionist Gentile fanatics as ammunition in their propaganda campaign
against the State of Israel.
A Refutation of
"Is it Israeli Democracy"
A Refutation of "Is it Israeli Democracy or "Jewish Democracy",
Is it Israeli Democracy or "Jewish Democracy", you be the judge.
From:
http://www.palestineremembered.com/index.html
Are you aware
that:
Prior to the 1948 war, Palestinian Christians and Muslims were a two-third
majority of the population of Palestine, who owned and operated 93% of
Palestine's lands?
The figures are being juggled, but
so what?
Prior to the 1948 war, most Israeli Jews were persecuted and dispossessed
European Jews who made a one-third minority of the population?
European Jews were the majority but
there were also a not-insignificant number of Jews from Arab Lands including many
from Yemen.
Jews in Arab lands had suffered from centuries of persecution and debasement
contrary to the impression falsely given today by Arab apologists.
Prior to the 1948 war, only one third of the Jews in Palestine were legal
citizens of the country?
Probably true. The British due to
Islamic Pressure (most Muslims in the world at that time were part of the
British Empire), anti-Semitic influences, and oil company interests did not
officially allow more than a quota of Jews into Palestine.
For Israel to become a "Jewish majority" it opted to expel and dispossess the
two-third Palestinian majority?
Is the intention to the 1948 War of
Independence?
This war was forced on the Jewish community by a cruel and vicious enemy that planned to exterminate it.
As a result of the war the Arabs left.
No human agency planned it that way but it was good that it happened.
80% of the Palestinian people were dispossessed from their homes, farms, and
businesses and have been kept out for the past 54 years?
After 1945 the British under a
Labour
Government had began to adopt an anti-Jewish policy and favor Arabs against
Jews.
Jewish underground resistance forced the British to leave.
The Arabs with the presence of British supplied armaments, foreign mercenaries
(including European criminals from the Polish Army etc), and the encouragement
of Arab states attacked Jews and began massacring them in an intended war of
extermination. They lost. Arab armies from the surrounding nations, armed
equipped and trained by Europeans and outnumbering the Jews by more than 10 to 1
invaded. Before invading they ordered the local Arabs to temporarily evacuate
their homes so as not to impede the invaders.
Most of the Arabs left voluntarily.
In some instances a minority of Arabs who did not leave with the others and who
were in strategic areas may have been later encouraged by the Jews to evacuate.
The Arabs planned to kill all the Jews, men, women, and children in a War they
initiated that had been preceded by numerous acts of terror and massacres on
their part.
They lost their war but got away with their lives.
They should be thankful.
95% of Israel's lands (which is mostly owned by Palestinian refugees) is open
for development to Jews only?
The land is owned by the Jewish People.
Only one of the 45 Zionist Jews who sign the Israeli "declaration of
independence" on May 14th, 1948 was born in Palestine. The other 44 were mostly
Jewish refugees who escaped their anti-Semitic Europe countries, such as Tsarist
Russia, Germany, and Poland.
You see?
Now the pro-Palestinian activists expect descendants of these Jewish refugees
to leave the area and become refugees dependant on Gentile charity all over
again!
Israeli-Palestinian citizens live almost
in segregated communities (or ghettos) because development is strictly limited
outside their villages. Ironically, the word "ghetto" was invented to describe
the living conditions of Eastern European Jews in Tsarist Russia!.?
Maybe but Arabs from other Arab countries seem to be always trying to enter
Israel or areas under Israeli control.
They pay money for it.
They marry strange women for it.
A Palestinian woman who can get her husband some kind of entrance rights (even
tentative ones) to Israel or Israeli controlled areas has an attractive dowry.
If Israel is so harsh
towards the Arabs why is that Arabs from Arab countries try so hard to enter
Israel?
For just being "Jewish" you gain an automatic citizenship in Israel? Plus tens
of thousands of dollars in subsidies too.!.?
Could be in some cases.
So what?
Does it hurt the author to see other people get a boost in life?
is there something wrong with giving assistance to new immigrants and the needy?
What kind of social comment is this?
Palestinian Muslims or Christian refugees, who were born in the country and
later expelled, cannot gain Israeli citizenship? Of course, unless they convert
to Judaism first!
Many Arabs would convert but are not
encouraged to do so.Pretending to be Jewish in Israel is punishable by law with up to
one year's imprisonment? On the other hand, if you pretend to be a Muslim or
Christian the law does you no harm!!
What's the big deal?
Would the author like to see someone pretending to be an Arab also punished?
What for?
Such offences, if they occur at all, are very rare and do not threaten internal
security or disrupt the lives of others.
When the Palestine problem was created
by Britain in 1917, more than 92% of the population of Palestine were Arabs and
there were at that time no more than 56,000 Jews in Palestine?
In the 1890s there had been ca. 80,000 European Jews and Jews from Arab Lands in
Jerusalem alone and Jews comprised a majority in the city.
The Muslim Ottoman Turks became more anti-Jewish and with the outbreak of War in
1914 famine broke out. Many Jews left temporarily or otherwise.
Britain did not create the Palestinian Problem:
The Romans did when they drove the Jews out of the country and other people came
in.
That Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinians at that time lived in peace with
each other?
Not true.
Arabs were constantly harassing Jews as well as robbing and oppressing each
other.
For example,
The Western Wall has a recent addition along the top of it.
This was built by Moses
Montefiore in ca. 1861 to protect
Jewish worshippers from Arab stones that were being thrown at them from the
other side which is much higher.
Incidentally, Montefiore
did not help only Jews,
##A Government loan raised by the
Rothschilds
and Montefiore
in 1835 enabled the British Government to compensate plantation owners and thus
abolish slavery in the Empire.##
Palestinians in the early 20th century owned 97.5% of the land, while Jews
(native Palestinians and recent immigrants together) owned only 2.5% of the
land?
The land was largely in the possession of
absentee Arab landowners who oppressed their own people.
The legality of this possession was questionable from the beginning and as a
result of war, indemnities owed, and ancestral right the Land reverts to the
Jewish people who are its rightful owners.
Close to 4 million Palestinian Muslims and Christians are being subjected to
Israeli laws that are different than the laws governing the 4.5 million Israeli
Jews? Is this a "democratically" elected apartheid, or not, that is the
question?
Strange figures.
How old is this article?
A. Publicly Accepted Figures:
There are maybe 1,144,000 Arab citizens of Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank
##In December 2007, an official Census conducted by the Palestinian Authority
found that the Palestinian population of the West Bank (including
Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem) was 2,345,000.[19]##
1,400, 000 in the Gaza Strip.
This would give us a total
of 4.5 million Arabs including Israeli Citizens and Palestinians in Judah,
Samaria, and Gaza.
Since only 83% of them are
Muslim and the rest are Druze or Christian which two groups either support
Israel or regard Israel at present as the lesser evil. This gives us about
3,740,000.
B. Real Figures
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/75192
(IsraelNN.com)
Presenting their new findings at several U.S. think tanks this week, the
researchers reported that the 2004 Palestinian-Arab population was closer to 2.4
million than to the 3.8 million reported by Palestinian Authority (PA)
officials.
They found that the Arab resident
population in January 2004 was 1.35 million in Judea/Samaria, and 1.07 million
in Gaza.
Adding these figures to
Arabs Citizens of Israel and Detracting non-Muslims we get ca. 3,200,000 Arabs.
The number of Jews is about 5.2 million.
In the occupied West Bank there are "Jewish Roads" and "Non-Jewish Roads"?
True in part since Jews traveling on
"Non-Jewish Roads" are liable to get stoned, have
molotov
cocktails thrown at them, etc or even just be run into by Arab suicide drivers.
Israel issues national identify cards where the religion of the card holder is
clearly shown in bold type?
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza drive vehicles with license
plates that have different coloring than the cars driven by Israeli settlers?
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza hold ID cards that are of
different colors than the cards held by Israeli settlers?
In order to relax such restriction it
would be necessary for
the Arabs to stop blowing themselves up all over the place and killing Jewish
men women and children.
The only form of Judaism recognized by the "Jewish state" is Orthodox Judaism,
so most US Jews could not get married in Israel.
Any Jew can get married in Israel if
they are Jewish.
Furthermore, the only conversion to Judaism recognized is Orthodox, so most US
converts aren't Jewish enough..
There is no other valid conversion other than the Orthodox one.
What has this got to do with the Arab
problem?
Suddenly Rabbinical marriages concern the Palestinians?
Maybe the writer is a reform Jewish convert not recognized in Israel and
therefore disgruntled and taking out his bitterness at the expense of deluding
Palestinians into considering themselves oppressed?
A common trait amongst
anti-Zionist polemicists from Western Countries is the Attribute of Deprivation.
They feel as if the Jewish
State is depriving them of something.
Examination of the
individuals concerned often serves to bear this out.
It may be that the writer
is the son of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother who is therefore technically
not-Jewish and always resented the fact.
There are numerous other
scenarios but the result remains the same. At some stage the person in question
would have liked to feel accepted by the Jews or participate in Zionist activity
but they could not do so for psychological or objective reasons and resent the
fact.
This resentment is not
always at the conscious level i.e. the person
themself
may not be aware of it.
Just prior to the 1948 war, Jews owned under 7% of Palestine's land, and to
increase their share after the war, they passed the "Absentees' Law" which
dispossessed the Palestinian majority land owners who later became "absent".
What is even more tragic was the passage of an oxymoron law, called "Present
Absentees' Law," which dispossessed the Palestinian-Israeli citizens who became
internal refugees in Israel. It is worth noting that the internal Jewish
refugees were not dispossessed as a result of this racist law...
It hurts the writer that Jews were not
dispossessed? There are no "internal Jewish refugees" one considerers the expelleees from Gush Katif in 2005 to be refugees.
The U.S. funneled into the Israeli economy over 130 billion dollars, which is
almost twice the amount devoted to rebuilding Western Europe after WW II!
The USA by acting as it did in this
instance redeemed the self-respect of humanity.
We all should be grateful to the USA for what it did and only regret that other
Gentile nations failed to act along parallel lines.
Israeli democracy is a facade for "Jewish Democracy?"
Israel has nuclear weapons, and it was close to dropping one on Cairo in 1973?
Cairo?
Maybe.
When Russia considered sending troops to help the Arabs in 1973 the Southern USSR
was under open threat until the USA intervened.
Israeli soldiers use human shields in battle to minimize their casualties?
They should do but they do not. It is
illegal and the prohibition against it is unfortunately enforced.
Israel killed over 20,000 Lebanese and Muslims (90% of whom are civilians) with
American made and paid for weapons?
Very doubtful figures.
Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
##The conflict killed over a thousand people, widely reported to be mostly Lebanese civilians##.
This Wikipedia article appears to have been written by someone not antipathetic to the anti-Israeli side.
He says a thousand but the article claims 20,000. There is a difference.
Most of those
killed belonged to militant terrorist organizations established for the sake of
waging war on Israel or else they were in neihborhoods that harbored them.
The terrorist organizations often deliberately locate their operational points amongst civilians
to protect themselves.
The concept of "transferring" European Jews to Palestine and "transferring" the
Palestinian people out is central to Zionism.
It is not but it should be. Israel gets
blamed as if it was anyway.
Ben-Gurion, the 1st Israeli Prime
Minister, eloquently articulated this essential Zionist pillar, he stated in
1944:
"Zionism is a TRANSFER of the Jews. Regarding the TRANSFER of the [Palestinian]
Arabs this is much easier than any other TRANSFER. There are Arab states in the
vicinity . . . . and it is clear that if the [Palestinian] Arabs are removed [to
these states] this will improve their condition and not the contrary."
(Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 159)
Note the usage of the word
"transfer" to signify the uprooting of the indigenous population to make room
for Jewish refugees. Now a days this is a war crime called Ethnic Cleansing...
Ethnic Cleansing is a term applied by Palestinian lovers to a proposed transfer
of Arabs.
The eviction of Jews from the Land of Israel or from part of it is not
considered Ethnic Cleansing in their eyes since they apply a different standard.
If only Jews suffer it apparently does not matter to them.
Based on our correspondence with many Zionists and their sympathizers in the
West, we find the majority of them WISH to continue to live in the illusion that
Palestine was empty and it was waiting for its "people to redeem it." But deep
inside, they all suspect the Zionist narrative to be a farce. However, their
memories of the Holocaust abstract them from reality and that makes them
heartless. The Palestinian people has been underwriting their "Never Again"
slogan with their homes, blood, and future since the establishment of the
"Jewish state". For the average person this slogan may not sound harsh; after
all European Jews suffered European anti-Semitism for centuries. On the other
hand, to us, the Palestinian people,
The content of this article
suggests it was written by a Reform Jew or
Christain
or at the least that such a person helped in its composition.
The expression "us, the Palestinian people" would appear to be a literary
fiction.
The term "Never Again" is used by Jews to express their determination that the Jewish People
will not ever have to experience any threat to its existence as happened during WW2.
The Arabs were and are influenced by Nazi and neo-Nazi propaganda and doctrines.
They are in the forefront today of holocaust denial and spreading anti-Semitic propaganda.
All over the world (especially in Europe) Jews are terrorized because they are Jews by Muslim elements claiming to act on behalf of the
Palestinians. The Plaestinians and the Arabs in general have clearly defined Genocidal tendencies towards the Jews.
this slogan implies Never Again regardless of the price; Never Again period.
Similarly, Holocaust memories (and the guilt associated with it) are the primary
reasons why Western countries (who continue to parade the "Jewish state as the
only democracy in the Middle East") turn a blind eye to Israeli war crimes and
apartheid. In a nutshell, the Palestinian people are the messiah to whoever
caused the Holocaust, turned a blind eye to it, or feel guilty for its victims.
It hurts the writer that Jews get support because of what happened to them in
the Holocaust.
Pro-Palestinian propaganda is campaigning against the Jews and
attempting in any way whatsoever to downgrade Holocaust consciousness. Their
tactics include Holocaust Denial which today is a cause heavily funded by Saudi
Arabia.
Liberal and general Left-wingers however are amongst the strongest
supporters of the Palestinians. To this community Holocaust denial is still
unacceptable so the tactics are changed. Instead of recalling what happened to
the Jews the Holocaust is now presented as what happened to the down
pressed in general. The Palestinians are presented as going through or about to
go through a "Holocaust". The message is that all they who in hindsight would
have wished to prevent the Holocaust should now support the Palestinians against
Israel. Palestinians supporters however in some ways have begun to draw closer
to the anti-Semitic right wing and to borrow arguments from them. They now speak
about the "Holocaust Industry" and claim the Jews blow the whole matter out of
proportion to gain sympathy.
As if it were not enough that the Jews were victims of the
Holocaust they are now being blamed because of it.
[Just like in Arab
countries when a woman is raped she may be considered a criminal because of it
and punished!]
Horrible allegations are made against the Israelis all of which are
false but widely-believed and accepted as axiomatic sacred truths in left-wing
anti-Zionist circles. The Israelis are presented as living beasts who daily kill
Palestinians, bull-doze Palestinians homes with families still inside them and
are engaged in a program to exterminate and/or expel all the Arabs.
When one asks for some evidence of these allegations the pro-Palestinian left-wingers have been known
to provide video-clips etc that have been doctored or relate to other events.
This description as to what anti-Zionist propaganda says IS NOT AN
EXAGERRATION.
Yair Davidiy has personal experience of this.
Recently on a pro-Palestinian forum we requested proof that Israeli soldeirs had murdered Palestinians as was claimed.
In reply we were provided with a video clip that showed a Palestinian being shot by an Israeli soldier and then carried away.
This was presented as proof that Israeli soldiers "murder" Palestinians.
It happened however that were familiar with the clip from the main-stream news services.
Arab demonstrators had been throwing stones, firing sling-shots, etc, at Israeli soldiers. One of the demonstrators
was caught and brought before the commander of an Israeli military force policing the area.
He ordered a soldier to shot the offender in the leg from close range with a rubber bullet. He did and the Arab was taken away.
The act was criminal and barbaric but from the point of view of the Arab probably preferable to sitting in jail
and though extremely painful it is doubtful that any permanent physical damage resulted.
The whole event had been filmed from a nearby house and released to the media. It was widely publicised.
Israel apologized for the incident and those responsible are standing trial.
However bad it was, it was not murder but this was how it was being presented by an Apologist
for the Palestinian cause.
If anything we have under-stated the situation.
The writer says that,
##the Palestinian people are the
messiah##
if you really feel guilty, says the author, about the Holocaust you may gain
atonement by helping the Palestinians assumedly to kill still more Jews.
The Messiah-Complex is a phenomenon amongst Gentile Western supporters of
the Palestinians.
In the past Jews were blamed for killing the Christian Messiah.
By persecuting Jews it was as if the Christians showed devotion to their savior
and could ensure their right to heaven.
Nowadays many Westerners (especially in Europe) no longer believe in
Christianity but Christian archetypes and the need for them remain.
[True Christians nowadays paradoxically support Israel not because they feel sorry for the Jews but since they realize
that the State of Israel represents a fulfilment of Biblical Prophecy.]
The Palestinians in the eyes of left-wingers and lapsed Christians take the place of the Christian Messiah and the Jews remain the
villains.
In other words, Atone for the Holocaust perpetrated against Jews by Germans and
Europeans by helping to create another Holocaust this time to be carried
out mainly by Arabs!
The bottom line is that the one to suffer if these evil nefarious desires
ever come to fruit is that the Jews will suffer.
If the Palestinians and their Western Champions have their way, The Jews (God forbid) will once again be made the victim.
The Jewish Return to the Land of Israel is the Will of the
Almighty.
Whosoever opposes this does so at their own risk.
Beasts run with the pack.
Mankind stands with the Jews.
Related articles:
The Land of Israel by Yehonatan Davidy.
Queries about The Land of Israel
Queries about Zionism
Arabs and Islam
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