Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Palestinian Wall of Lies

Someone sent me the link to this website, which refutes popular propaganda on college campuses today, in support of the "Palestinians" against the Israelis.  The website was created by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and here I am once again supporting Horowitz while one of his employees insults me and bans me from his site.

The points made are reprinted below.

THE PALESTINIAN WALL OF LIES

LIE 1: JEWS HAVE LITTLE HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO ISRAEL

Jews have lived continuously in the land of Israel for over 3000 years; the Arabs arrived through multiple invasions, beginning in the 7th Century AD. In the year 70 AD, when the Jewish civilization was already over 1000 years old, the Romans forced most of the Jews of Judea and Samaria (now the West Bank) into exile. By the end of the 19th Century, the majority population of Jerusalem was Jewish.

LIE 2: THE KORAN DESCRIBES JERUSALEM AS HOLY TO ISLAM

The Koran does not mention Jerusalem because Mohammed never set foot in the city. Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies in 636 after the death of Mohammed. Muslim jihadists claim that the Koran mentions “The Furthest Mosque” — Al-Aqsa in Arabic – and that this is a Koranic reference to Jerusalem. This is a lie. The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem had not been built when the Koran was written, so the reference is to some other (or any other) “furthest mosque.” In contrast, Jerusalem is and has always been a holy city to Jews. The daily prayers of the Jews are focused on Jerusalem. The Hebrew Bible mentions Zion and Jerusalem a total of 809 times.

LIE 3: THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON IS NOT JEWISH

This lie is one of many designed to steal the history of the Jews in order to justify erasing them from the Middle East. When the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, it immediately began a campaign to delegitimize Israel by rewriting history with the intention of denying Israel’s right to exist. Among its false claims is that the remains of the Temple of Solomon – the Western Wall – are in fact the remnants of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Al-Aqsa Mosque was deliberately built on top of the Temple after the Muslim conquest to humiliate the conquered. This is the same imperialistic tradition that prompts jihadists today to build a mosque at Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attack.

LIE 4: ISRAEL OCCUPIES ARAB PALESTINE

This is a genocidal claim made by the Muslim Students Association and other pro-Arab groups. It is genocidal because it obliterates the Jewish state. If Israel is actually “Occupied Palestine” then there is no legitimate Jewish state in the Middle East.

In fact, there never was an Arab state called “Palestine” and no one even claimed there was until well after the United Nations created Israel in 1948. The land on which Israel was created by the U.N. was also used by the colonial powers to create Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. It was land that had belonged to Turkey for 400 years. The Turks are not “Palestinians” and are not even Arabs.

There never was an Arab country called “Palestine” or inhabited by “Palestinians.” Before the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964, which was sixteen years after the birth of Israel, no Arab political entity was called by that name.

LIE 5: ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE

“Apartheid” refers to the system created by South Africans in which “non-white” residents of that nation were denied citizenship and basic civil rights, and were forced to live in separate residential areas with segregated and inferior educational and medical services. Those wishing to demonize and destroy Israel now falsely call it “an Apartheid state.” But the only true Apartheid states in the Middle East are Islamic states in which Jews are not allowed to live and where Christians, Baha’is and other religious minorities are objects of discrimination and persecution.

There are 1.4 million Arabs living in Israel with civil rights that are the envy of the Arab world. Israeli Arabs vote in Israel’s elections, have representatives in the Israeli Parliament, sit on Israeli courts and on the Israeli Supreme Court, and serve as tenured professors teaching in Israeli colleges and universities. The Arab citizens of Israel have more rights, and enjoy more freedom, education, and economic opportunity than the inhabitants of any Arab or Muslim state.

LIE 6: THE ARABS WANT PEACE AND A STATE ON THE WEST BANK

The Arabs rejected peace and a state on the West Bank first in 1948 when it was offered to them by the U.N. and then in 2000 when it was offered by Presidents Clinton and Barak. In 1949, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which the U.N. had designated as a homeland for the Arabs, were annexed respectively by Jordan and Egypt. When the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed in 1964 its covenant made no mention of liberating the West Bank or Gaza from Jordan and Egypt. The PLO leadership stated that its goal was to “push the Jews into the sea.” Today the “liberation” of Palestine “from the river to the sea” is still the goal of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA). The war in the Middle East is about the desire of the Arabs and Muslims to destroy Israel; it is not about the desire for a Palestinian state.

LIE 7: THE HOLOCAUST IS EUROPE’S PROBLEM; PALESTINIANS HAD NO ROLE IN IT

The Arabs generally and the “Palestinians” specifically were supporters of Hitler in the 1930s. The father of Palestinian nationalism, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, was a devoted Nazi who spent the war in Berlin and worked with members of the Third Reich to plan death camps for the Jews of the Middle East. Today he is revered by the Palestinians as the George Washington of their cause. The Muslim Brotherhood translated Mein Kampf into Arabic in the 1930s and called for the destruction of the Jewish state at its birth. Today Arab leaders call for the destruction of the Jewish state and routinely deny that the Holocaust with which their forbears collaborated actually took place.

LIE 8: ISRAEL’S SECURITY FENCE IS AN “APARTHEID WALL

This is two lies in one. The West Bank fence is a fence, not a wall. About 97% of the fence is made of chain-link material. The remaining 3% is concrete, designed to repel sniper fire in particular areas. The fence was built in 2003 in response to thousands of suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israeli citizens by Palestinian terrorists, sponsored and armed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. The fence was built to keep out terrorists, not Arabs.

In the years since the construction of the fence, terrorist attacks have declined by more than 90%. The fence is Israel’s legitimate defense against a ruthless and amoral terrorist aggressor.

LIE 9: ISRAEL IS THE CAUSE OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM

The Palestinians claim there are 5 million Palestinian refugees who fled Israel during the 1948 war. This is false. There were only 500,000 Arab refugees from the 1948 war – an unprovoked war that Egypt and four other Arab states had launched against the newly created state of Israel. In the aftermath of the war, 500,000 Jewish refugees were driven out of the Arab states in the Middle East. There are no Jewish refugees today, sixty years later, because Israel resettled them. Why are there still Arab refugees? The Arabs have been given billions of dollars by Israel and the United States to relocate their refugees. But the Arabs are still in refugee camps. While Israel resettled Jewish refugees, no Arab country would take in the “Palestinians” who were forced into camps and were kept there by the Arab regimes to stir up hatred against the Jews. The refugee “issue” has been created by the Arab regimes as a weapon in their war against the Jews. It should be resolved by resettling the inhabitants of the refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza where almost all of them have lived all their lives.

LIE 10: ISRAEL COMMITS WAR CRIMES BY KILLING CIVILIANS

This is the Big Lie, coming as it does from Palestinians who have made terrorist attacks on civilians a weapon of choice, and who make martyrs and national heroes out of suicide bombers.

The Gaza strip was a base for 7,000 rocket attacks against schoolyards and townships in Israel before the Israelis responded in 2007. During Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza rocket sites there was one civilian death for every 30 terrorists. By contrast, a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross found that the civilian-to-military death ratio in wars fought since the middle of the 20th Century has been 10:1 – ten civilian deaths for every soldier death. In other words, the Israelis protect civilians at a rate 300 times greater than any other national army. As Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz observes, “No army in history has ever had a better ratio of combatants to civilians killed in a comparable setting.”

3 comments:

Sophie said...

Hello, I admire people who defend the truth when rumors have corrupted the people's minds, but this is not the case. A simple research on these facts prove that what you call "lies", ironically happen to contain many lies within them. I don't have much time to be pointing out all of them because I know that someone who is willing to lie this much isn't open-minded and is afraid of the truth coming out. After all like Ron Paul said, "The truth is treason in an empire full of lies." I will point out some of the palpable lies. For example, the father of Palestinian nationalism, Haj Amin Al-Husseini who you claim to be Washington of the Arabs, was never mentioned in any arab textbook, school, or even person. I've lived there for many years in my life, and never heard of this "Washington". I'm not denying his existence, just the fake status you gave him. I have to state that the Jew Erhard Milch held a high position in the Nazis. According to your conclusion, the Jews also had a role in the Holocaust. Getting small facts that no one has ever heard of like one Palestinian in the Nazi group, and using it against the entire group is a cliche ignorant move done by many. WHOEVER WANTS THE TRUTH, JUST DO A LITTLE MORE RESEARCH, AND YOU'LL KNOW IT.

Stogie said...

I have seen videos on Revelation TV showing the weapons and the missiles hidden along with booby traps and mines hidden in old zoos by the Palestinians, in the middle of villages and housing estates. If Israel tried to shoot the missile bases here to disarm them or defend themselves then they would not be able to miss some civilian being hurt or killed. The Arabs have put them here to ensure that their own people are human shields. I have seen reports of dozens of Palestinian missiles being fired into Israel and to villages along the Gaza by them to kill Jewish people. What about many Jewish schools hit by Palestinian bombs and so on, and children killed on school buses? It is terrible when any innocent person gets killed or injured in any raid or attack or war, but when you place people in harms way on purpose, then how are you meant to miss them? Israel has as much right to defend herself against Palestinian attacks! And what sort of people elect a known terrorist organization as their Government? Now not everyone in Palestinian territory wants to kill and half the population are Christian and not Muslim or Jewish. There are many examples of Jews and Arabs living and working together for peace and education and this never gets any publicity. At Greenbelt several years ago an Orthodox priest who has won awards for joint projects for peace and education bringing the two sides together spoke on several days and he has done this for a number of years. Both Arabs and Jews have equal rights under the Constitution of Israel and sit in their Parliament and Assemblies. The only time before the Balfour Mandate in the early 20th century that Palestine was called this officially was when it was the Roman province of Syria Palestine. It may have used the name from time to time during the Middle Ages, but Arabs did not move into the area until around the 7th century when the Muslim conquest began. The place has had a variety of names since then, depending as to if it was ruled by Arabs, Christians, Turks, or the British. Jews have lived in the areas around Jerusalem since about 1200 B.C as their own land, and were in and out of what was then Canaan since about 2000 B.C. They believe that they have a right to the land and were granted it by God. They also believe that their return in 1948 was as a result of the fulfillment of prophecy. They have a right to their land and Palestine should leave them alone. I am not against Palestinians having their own land, but they should at least accept the existence of Israel and both of them should learn to live together as peaceful, sophisticated and equal human beings.

Stogie said...

Long live Israel. IDF rules