Top 20 Lies of the Pro-Palestinian Arab Cause

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Posted on 11/14/2024 6:45:40 AM PST by SJackson

It’s just a start.

“If you have the facts on your side, hammer the facts. If you have the law on your side, hammer the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, hammer the table.”

The above is an old saying from the legal world. But it has applications for other matters, as well.

For example, in the foreign policy realm, and for the “Pro-Palestinian Arab Cause.”

As I said in an earlier column, the Palestinian Arab Cause has “jumped the shark” – i.e., it has (long ago) reached its peak and begun a downhill slide to mediocrity or oblivion.

Now, let me take things a step further – the Palestinian Arab Cause has gone so far downhill that it is, officially, a ridiculous cause that makes absolutely no sense anymore – if it ever did – based on the constant untruth’s that its proponents are constantly peddling.

These include the following Top 10 Lies of the Palestinian Arab Cause.

1. Israel is an apartheid regime. This charge is especially stupid because “apartheid” involves “race”, and there is no “race” implicated here. Further, Israel is a democracy where its Arab citizens are fully equal under the law. Now, there are distinctions made between Israeli citizens and the Palestinian Arabs who are not citizens, but this is because Israel has legitimate security needs.
2. Israel is committing, or attempting to commit, genocide. Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where one party acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. There is absolutely no evidence that Israel intends to destroy the Palestinians, in whole or in part. This is why the South Africans are having a problem making this claim, even with a biased anti-Israel international court. Especially since the Palestinian Arab population numbers continue to grow, and the Hamas claimed casualties are dwarfed by those from many other recent conflicts (see the Sudan, the Congo, Syria, etc.) But Hamas, on the other hand, does routinely call for a genocide of the Jews.
3. Israel is targeting civilians/or Israel is indiscriminate about its attacks, leading to excessive civilian deaths. No, it certainly isn’t. The civilians who die do so largely because Hamas routinely uses civilians as human shields. Further, the IDF has made great efforts to minimize civilian casualties, by warning Gazans to leave areas or buildings about to be targeted. They have done this through about nine million leaflets dropped, fifteen million messages sent, and sixteen million robocalls made. As a result, the ratio of civilians to terrorist in this conflict is probably approaching one to one, an unprecedented modern ratio, and Israel has been praised for its success in protecting the lives of civilians by noted experts in modern warfare such as Richard Kemp (UK, Ret.) and Major John Spencer (US, Ret.).
4. The Hamas counted casualties are to be believed. No – in fact, they are “poorly fabricated figures.” Meanwhile, Israel actually reduced the number of its reported casualties from the October 7^th
5. Israel is the aggressor in this conflict. Not so. The Jewish state has made real peace offers to the Palestinian Arabs in 1993, in 2000, in 2001, in 2005, and in 2008, all immediately answered by vicious and bloody Palestinian terrorism. Here is former President Bill Clinton taking the Palestinian Arabs to task for their failure to embrace peace during his term. And Hamas started the current hostilities in a particularly bloodthirsty way on October 7, 2023.
6. Favoring the Palestinian Arab Cause is in the U.S. national interest. No, it isn’t, as I have explained numerous times before.
7. The Palestinian Arabs are a stateless people. No, Jordan clearly has a majority of Palestinian Arabs, and its Queen is a Palestinian Arab. Granted, the Palestinian Arab majority does not rule in Jordan; then again, none of the 23 Arab states are democratic.
8. The conflict needs to be solved soon because the Palestinian Arabs are having more children than the Israelis. No, this is outdated demographic data. Today, the Israelis have a higher demographic growth than the Palestinian Arabs.
9. The Palestinian Arabs have a population in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza that is too large to be controlled by Israel. As in everything else, the Palestinian Arabs are simply lying about their numbers. The UN official population numbers the Palestinian Arabs in those areas at roughly 6 million; in reality, there are probably less than 4 million.
10. Creating a Palestinian state will lead to the protection of the human rights of Palestinian Arabs. As stated above, none of the 23 Arab states are democracies, and none of them are protective of human rights. A Palestinian Arab state will most certainly be a (possibly theocratic) brutal dictatorship with discriminating policies against women, homosexuals, and Christians.

Plus, as an extra (sad) bonus, here are another Top 10 Lies of the Palestinian Arab Cause, because there are just so many to debunk.

11. The Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous people in Israel and the Jews are the settlers. No – absolutely not. The Palestinian Arabs are mostly descended from Arabs and others who immigrated to the area from other Muslim areas in response to the economic job opportunities created by the return of many Jews to the area in the 1900’s. Only a very small percentage of the Palestinian Arabs are native to Israel, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and those are descended from the original Jewish, Christian, or Samaritan inhabitants who were forcibly converted to Islam. Meanwhile, a majority of the Jews in Israel are descended from Middle Eastern Jews, who were exiled from Israel but stayed in the Middle East, and who are physically indistinguishable from Arabs. The minority Ashkenazi Jews, who are often portrayed as European settlers, are descended from Jews from ancient Israel, but with some European influence, from living in Europe for so long. Their original Middle Eastern origin can easily be seen in the physical appearance of two prominent Ashkenazi Jews – Adam Sandler and Gal Gadot.
12. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the lack of a ceasefire deal. As Eli Lake at Commentary has written, “(t)here was no deal for Netanyahu to reject. Hamas is not participating in the actual negotiations. The diplomacy has been between America, Israel, Egypt, and Qatar. The Qataris are stand-ins for Hamas, but they are not proxies. Several times since April, Hamas has rejected offers for a cease-fire, or in some cases, has insisted on last-minute deal-killing demands—such as a stipulation that the first round of hostages need not be alive.” And President Biden’s claims to the contrary are driven by American politics and contradicted by his own administration’s previous statements (and by other evidence).
13. Israel is violating international law. Once again, this is simply not true. This subtopic is actually worthy of its own, separate, research paper. Suffice to say, international law has been misrepresented – does anyone understand what “proportionality” really means? – to attack Israel through lawfare.
14. Gaza was occupied by the Israelis prior to the October 7^th The Merriam-Websterdefinition of “occupation” is: “a: the act or process of taking possession of a place or area: SEIZURE; b: the holding and control of an area by a foreign military force; OR c: the military force occupying a country or the policies carried out by it.” Therefore, Gaza has not been “occupied” by Israel, according to the actual meaning of the word, since 2005.
15. Gaza was an “open-air prison” before the October 7^th Proponents of the Palestinian Arab Cause say, at different times, to make different arguments, that “the Gaza of Oct. 6, 2023, was occupying its very own quantum superposition — at once both sublime utopia and horrific dystopia. Depending on the context, either of these versions could be the true Gaza that proves the specific argument trying to be made.” Just call this Schrödinger’s Gaza.
16. The Gazans were suffering from an Israeli caused famine. As reported by JNS, “the U.N.’s own Famine Review Committee admitted in a report that the claims about not enough food being sent into Gaza were untrue. What’s more, this allegation, which is at the heart of the equally widespread big lie that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, is a matter of sleight of hand bookkeeping.” And many of the pictures of supposedly starving children are children with genetic diseases. This can often be seen by contrasting the appearance of the healthy parent with the “starving” child in the picture.
17. Hamas is legitimate nationalistic organization seeking a Palestinian state. Not at all. As is well-known, Hamas is a part of the international Muslim Brotherhood terror organization, which also briefly ruled over neighboring Egypt. Hamas is also a terror proxy of Iran, a nation which is the leading state sponsor of terrorism, and which has provided Hamas with billions in funding for weapons, training and equipment.
18. The Palestinians have – and should have – been given nation status at the UN. The only problem with this action is that “State of Palestine” is not an actual state/nation. According to the international treaty, the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, Article 1, the state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: a) a permanent population; b) a defined territory; c) government; and d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states. Since the “State of Palestine” does not have these qualifications, it is not a “State.”
19. The Palestinian Authority is the “moderate” force among Palestinian Arabs. As I wrote over a decade ago – and it is still true today – the Palestinian Authority: uses their various cultural, educational, and media sources to undermine the peace process with Israel; uses their children’s shows and elementary schools to incite Palestinian children to kill Israelis, including women and children, and Jews; produces government officials, from the President down to their diplomatic envoys, who spread anti-Semitism throughout the world; names streets, buildings, and squares after terrorists who have killed Israelis and Jews; sells and teaches Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; smuggles arms, rockets and explosives into Judea and Samaria to be used to attack Israeli cities and farms; praises, pays and otherwise honors Palestinian terrorists, and their families, who kill Israelis, Jews, and even Americans; is duplicitous about its desire for war; and denies the Holocaust, while calling for another one, and allows Holocaust deniers to serve as their leaders. In other words, the PA is not in any way “moderate.”
20. After October 7^th, now is the time to favor the Palestinian Arab Cause. This would, perversely, incentivize international terrorism by rewarding the Palestinian Arabs with a state after a bloodthirsty and vicious act of terrorism by Hamas, a designated terror organization. No nation on this planet should want to do that.

The amount of lies and double talk by the proponents of the Palestinian Arab Cause is staggering. Their whole cause seems to be grounded solely in anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda, and not on actual facts. Which is why its proponents often resort to violence and intimidation in their tactics; not having the law or the facts on their side, they need to “pound the table.”

So, I would like to end with a final question to objective readers. It is simple – if the Palestinian Arab Cause is so righteous, then why is every prominent argument in favor of it a lie?

1 posted on 11/14/2024 6:45:40 AM PST by SJackson

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