These concepts, which are a complete invention by the Arab world and their apologists, have been swallowed hook, line and sinker by the liberal media and are now almost universally accepted as the Truth! What the Arabs have managed to achieve is to COMPLETELY falsify history!

There are others who are to blame. For many years, it has been obvious to us that anti-Israel propaganda and Israel bashing around the world are little more than disguised anti-Semitism. No one on earth really cares about the so-called "Palestinians," least of all other Arabs. People pretend to care about the "Palestinians" because this helps them de-legitimize a real nation... the Nation of Israel.

When King Hussein of Jordan murdered 10,000 "Palestinians" in September 1970, no one cared about those "Palestinians."  No one noticed they were having their "rights violated." No one thought they needed "self-determination." More generally, the world does not care about Arabs being killed unless it is Israel doing the killing in self-defense. When 100,000 Algerian civilians were murdered, no one noticed. When far more are murdered in Sudan, no one notices. When Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, gassed Iraqi Kurds or when Syria's Assad massacred 10,000 Syrians in Hama, no one much cared or noticed. But when Israel killed 56 people (mostly Arab terrorists), that is called a genocide and a war crime. And when those same Arab "Palestinians" murder 1200 Israelis after signing the Oslo Peace Accords, that is, according to the Arabs, merely a legitimate protest against occupation. 

Let's be clear about one thing. In nearly all cases Israel-bashing is naked anti-Semitism. Most of Israeli "critics" are motivated not by a desire to see a specific policy of Israel altered. They seek to see Israel destroyed. They object to all Israeli military actions because they do not think Israel should employ its military to defend herself... ever! They believe that the only legitimate response to Arab atrocities is Israeli capitulation and self-annihilation.

Definition of APARTHEID: "An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against non-whites by the white minority." 

Israel's policy toward the so-called "Palestinians" is also being called "apartheid," a crime against humanity and a form of genocide. Let's take a look at this so-called" apartheid" within Israel. Within Israel today, Jews are a majority, but the large Arab minority (23% of Israel's total population) are full citizens with voting rights and representation in the government. Under the former South African apartheid system, black South Africans could not vote and were not citizens of the country in which they were the overwhelming majority of the population. There is still some degree of discrimination within Israel. Although Jews are an 80% majority, Israel's Arab citizens have more political rights than any Arabs in the entire Middle East. Whatever grievances the Israeli-Arab citizens may have, they are still economically better off than the majority of their fellows in virtually every other Arab country. If they still face inequality it is because of the mutual hostility and mistrust between both communities, not because of any apartheid type racial policy. 

The situation for Arab "Palestinians" in the disputed [West Bank and Gaza] territories, won by Israel in the 1967 defensive war won against three surrounding Arab armies, is different. Israel has very real security concerns. successive violent insurrections [Intifadas] in these territories, have forced Israel to impose restrictions on the Arab residents. The Arab "Palestinians" in the territories dispute Israel’s right to exist whereas South Africa's blacks never sought the destruction of South Africa.

Up until September 2000, when the Arab Palestinians from the [West Bank and Gaza] territories began their second violent "Intifada" and unleashed their non-stop Jew-killing, suicide bombing spree, they had been allowed to work inside Israel Proper and receive similar pay and benefits as did their Jewish counterparts. They were also allowed to attend schools and universities (which Israel built for them!). "Palestinians" were also given opportunities to run many of their own affairs. None of this was true for South African blacks.

Israeli Muslims, Christians, Druse and many other minority ethnic groups enjoy exactly the same civil and political rights as Jews. They have proportional Knesset representation, say what they like, go where they like, pray where they like, go into business, be elected to office and serve in the Cabinet. The first Middle East country to grant Arab women the right to vote was Israel! And nowhere else in the Middle East is there a democracy where the word "vote" has any real meaning! The only exception is that Israeli Arabs do not serve in the army.

There is nothing more hypercritical than a single one of the 64 Arab/Islamic/Muslim theocracies and brutal dictatorships pronouncing judgment on issues relating to "discrimination" since not a single one among them treats their minorities in the same tolerant way as does Israel. In fact, Jews and Christians are not even allowed into most of these countries! Compared to all Arab/Islamic/Muslim countries, Israel sets the gold standard!

As for Israel's "racially based" Law of Return," this policy has nothing to do with race and is based solely on religious affiliation. If it were racist, why did Israel airlift 42,000 BLACK Ethiopian Jews between 1984 and 1991? In anything, that airlift marked the only time in history when blacks were systematically moved from one country to another while NOT in chains! Jordan (the first Arab "Palestinian" state) introduced its own law of return in 1954 for all former non-Jewish residents of Palestine. Yet when Israel did precisely the same thing for Jews, it suddenly becomes "racism!" We call this a "double standard!"

Anti-Zionists (modern day disguise of anti-Semites) have leveled other discriminatory charges against Israel regarding the "Palestinian" Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza. Among them are that (1) Israel enforces the use of different color license plates and computerized passes that restrict where West Bank and Gazan Arabs can go and (2) Israel builds "by-pass" roads for "Jews only."

In response to these charges... (1) All Israelis, whether they be Jewish, Christian or Arab, have the same color license plate. Only ["Palestinian"] Arabs living in the disputed territories in Judea-Samaria and Gaza have different colored license plates. This is for security reasons only, especially at border crossings and other security checkpoints. It is not a form of racial profiling as Israel's detractors are implying. This is similar to American and Canadian plates... the only real difference being that hardly any Canadians cross the border with the primary intent of killing Americans!!! (2) By-pass roads were built AROUND Arab areas because too many Jews were being slaughtered by Arabs on roads that went THROUGH Arab areas! They were not built to discriminate against Arabs. Nor were they built to give Jews a smoother ride. They were built to save Jewish lives!

Accusations such as the above are baseless. And who could ever believe that Israel's willingness to even DISCUSS handing over land (won in a war the Arabs started) to form a second independent Arab "Palestinian" state. Most "normal" people would have long ago concluded that the Arafat, the various "Palestinian Authority" sub-groups, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the average "street Palestinian" psychopaths were never really interested in peace. Yet Israel's decades-long quest for peace, compromise and accommodation with these very same "Palestinians" goes unnoticed and unacknowledged!  If anything, it is the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah and all the other Arab "Palestinian" terrorist groups themselves that brought about the Israeli crackdown in the "occupied territories" which led to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians... in addition to different colored license plates and by-pass roads for Israelis!

Now another definition... Anti-Zionism: 1. Refusing the Jews their God-given right to return to the land of their forefathers and their faith. 2. Denying the Jews the right to live in Israel in freedom, peace and with human dignity. 3. De-legitimizing the State of Israel and denying it the right to exist. 4. Demanding a Jewish exodus... this time OUT of Israel and, preferably, INTO the Mediterranean Sea. 5. Wishing to erase the State of Israel from the map and ethnically cleanse the Arab Middle East of its "stinking Jews!"

Definition of Chutzpah (Nerve):  The Saudi  Ambassador to the UN, Fawzi Shobokshi, called Israel a "racist, terrorist state." Yet Israel has 24% non-Jewish citizens while Saudi Arabia has no Jews and no Christians... only Moslems! So which is the racist State? Also, no Israelis flew planes into the World Trade Center Towers while 15 of the 19 Arab terrorists who DID were Saudis! Talk about Deception, Denial and Deflection of Guilt! This is Chutzpah AND typical Arab propaganda against Israel.Contrary to myth and propaganda, Israel is not an apartheid state. The largest practitioner of apartheid in the world is Islam, which practices both gender and religious apartheid. Those who accuse Israel of Apartheid are the true practitioners of Apartheid!

RACISM?

Israel's multi-racial society belies the charge of Racism. More than 100 different countries of the world are represented in the population of Israel. Consider how the Israeli government spent tens of millions of dollars airlifting more than 40,000 black Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984 and 1991. Since 2001 Israel has reached out to help others taking in non-Jewish refugees from Lebanon, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, Liberia, Congo and even Bosnian Muslims. How many such refugees have the 22 states in the Arab league taken in? The Arab world won't even give Palestinian refugees citizenship in their host countries!

Over one million Arabs are full Israel citizens. An Arab sits on the Supreme Court of Israel. There are Arab political parties expressing views inimical to the State of Israel sitting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Not a single one of the 22 Arab nations has a Jew in its government! Women are equal partners in Israel and have complete human rights. The truth is that Arab nations are the real racist and oppressive states.

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Turning the history of the Jews against them is another commonplace of anti-Semitism. If the Jews were victims in an actual genocide, then what better way to transfer sympathy from them to their rivals than by painting the Jews as modern Nazis perpetuating a new holocaust... this time against the poo' poo' "Palestinians." 

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. The Israelis... who employed a third of the Arab "Palestinian" population within Israel Proper, armed Arafat and his Palestinian Authority and even offered Yasser Arafat a state consisting of 95 percent of the disputed territory... were hardly practicing genocide! Israel, however, is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against Arab terrorist bombings, mortar assaults, sniper attacks, and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

The 1,200,000 Arab "Palestinians" whose parents and grandparents opted for Israeli citizenship in 1948 now have a life inside Israel. Despite their constant bitching and their seeming support for their "Palestinian" kin to destroy Israel, they have no intention whatsoever of leaving Israel for Arafat’s Palestinian State if, or when, it is declared. If anything, they are popping out Israeli-Arab babies in such high numbers that Israel will demographically no longer BE a Jewish State by the year 2030!  Despite their perceived problems with Israel, the Israeli Arabs still like it there.

Arabs and other religious minorities enjoy FULL freedom of their religion in Israel. In addition, Israel pays for Arab education, in the latter’s own language, in their own schools AND in schools built by Israeli taxes. Israeli Arab primary, secondary and university students have the right to teach hatred of the Jews, also at Israeli taxpayer expense! 

 They vote in Israel's elections and even have Israeli-Arab Knesset members. Free democratic elections such as this cannot even be imagined in any one of the 22 countries of the Arab League nor in any of the forty-four Muslim nations throughout Africa and Asia.  However, should any of these Arab citizens of the Jewish State [Israel] wish to move, we at Masada2000.org would wholeheartedly encourage them to do so! After all, "No Arabs - No Terror!"

Israel heavily subsidizes the health of all its Arab citizens equally with that of Jews and other minority groups. Whether they be clinics, hospitals or homes for the aged, all Israeli citizens have access to one of the highest standards of medicine in the world. Monthly subsidies also go to parents of large families (unfortunately, Arabs have the largest families!). And get this.... recently, when an Israeli-Arab man blew himself up taking a number of innocent Israelis with him, his family began receiving welfare checks from the government since they were now without a breadwinner! Is THIS what they call "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing?" If so, then ALL countries should adopt policies of "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing!"

On the other hand, the Arab/Muslim/Islamic nations who are Israel's accusers are the REAL ethnic cleansing "specialists." For example, Jews cannot vote in Saudi Arabia because the Saudis have ethnically cleansed their land of Jews and all other non-Muslims... except, of course, when they need American soldiers to drive out the likes of Saddam Hussein.  Then the Saudis are more than willing to have non-Muslims die in the service of Islam!

The oil-wealthy Kuwait also doesn’t allow their Jewish citizens freedom of religion or education. They don’t have to. They have no Jewish citizens. Jews and all other non-Muslims are forbidden in their Muslim-only paradise. As with the Saudis, the only exception is when it's time to send American soldiers to protect them.

Jews in Jordan do not enjoy the same rights or facilities because Jordan also has no Jews. Their ethnic cleansing policies do not permit Jews to defile the purity of their Arab country. These same policies are standard fare in all Arab/Muslim/Islamic countries. These same 1.4 BILLION voices who daily cry out for "rights of self-determination" for the poo' poo' Arab "Palestinians" deny this same "right of self-determination" for the five million Jews of tiny Israel.

And what about Jewish education or religion in the Arab Emirates,  Syria, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Bahrain or any of the other Arab/Muslim/Islamic countries?  Not to worry. There are no Jewish education or Jewish religious freedom to worship issues because Jews dare not even visit, let alone live there. 

What happened to the ancient Jewish communities of Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen? They all had their land and possessions taken from them and were driven out (or killed) by their Arab/Muslim/Islamic hosts... a case of REAL "ethnic cleansing!" While Israelis (formerly, the Jewish "Palestinians") were fighting their 1948-9 defensive War of Independence against five invading Arab armies, nearly 900,000 Jews were murdered or driven out (ethnically cleansed) from many of the surrounding 22 Arab countries. These Jews were as much victims of aggression as the Arab "Palestinians" in 1948-9 and again in 1967. In fact, the Jewish refugees were more a victim population since they were driven out by persecution. Those Jews were not involved in a war against the Arab populations in any of those 22 countries! 

Finally, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics just published the total Arab "Palestinian" populations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has grown from 1.1 million in 1967 (when Israel began "occupying" these territories) up to over 3.5 million. Does this population explosion sound like "ethnic cleansing and genocide" to you!

West Bank settlements [more properly called "Jewish communities of Judea-Samaria"] account for 2% of the land of the West Bank. In 35 years of rule, the Israelis have put 2% of the territory under the ownership of settlements. If we project that trend forward, it would take 1,750 years for the settlers to control all of the West Bank. Yet we are told this is the crux of the problem.

To call the Israeli presence in THEIR OWN ancient homeland an "occupation," is ridiculous. An occupation of what? There was never an Arab "Palestinian" nation or people there before. There are no "Palestinians."  They are a made-up people for the sole purpose of political propaganda!  They have no separate culture, language, or country of their own; even their leader -- Arafat -- is EGYPTIAN!!  He later moved to Jerusalem. If anything, Arafat is an "illegal occupier" and "illegal settler!"  

Indeed, most of the Arabs living within the borders of Israel today have come from some other Arab country at some time in their life. They are all "settlers." Since 1967, the Arabs have built 261 settlements in Judea-Samaria and Gaza. We don't hear much about those Arab settlements. We hear instead about the number of Jewish settlements that have been created. We hear how destabilizing they are – how provocative they are. Yet, by comparison, only 144 Jewish settlements have been built since 1967,

If there is an occupation, it would have to be the Arab occupation of Jewish historical land!  Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") for over 3,500 years. The only time Jews have been prohibited from living there was during Jordan's 19 year rule from 1948 to 1967. At best, the Arabs are desert wanderers and squatters. They are not "Palestinians." They are simply ARABS!

In truth, Jews choosing to live in the Judea-Samaria and Gaza are pioneers. They are returning to live in the heartland of Israel, the place which served as the cradle of Western civilization and the Jewish religion. These areas which Jews refer to by their original names of Judea, Samaria and Gaza were the scene of much of the drama described in the Bible. It is the place where King David walked and where the prophets of Israel gave the world a vision of peace and brotherhood. Ancient synagogues and archaeological sites attest to the long-standing Jewish presence in the region, a presence that is once again flourishing despite Arab opposition and terror. 

Moreover, Israel did not “occupy” these territories, as the Palestinians and others would have you believe. The Kingdom of Jordan illegally "occupied" Judea-Samaria from 1948-67 following the first Arab war upon Israel. In the 1967 Six-Day War, Arab armies massed on Israel’s narrow borders, vowing to destroy the Jewish state. In a war of self-defense, Israel succeeded in overcoming its enemies and, in the process, "liberated" Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Under international law, territories are considered “occupied” only when they are taken in an act of aggression... something which clearly does not apply to Israel since the 1967 war was a defensive war.

It was 37 years ago that Israel prevailed in the 1967 war, returning to places such as Hebron, Jericho and Shilo. For two thousand uninterrupted years, Jews had lived in the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried. Only in 1929, when local Arabs massacred them, was the Jewish community forced to flee the city. What could be more historically just than to rebuild the Jewish presence there?

One must also recall that prior to the beginning of the Jewish return and reclamation of their ancient homeland in the 1880s, there were BOTH Arab "Palestinians" and Jewish "Palestinians" living there. Neither group had a particularly significant numbers after centuries during which the land was ignore and neglected. Once the Jews began their Zionist movement to reclaim, beautify and resettle the land, Arabs from surrounding Arab areas also began returning. Unlike the early Jewish settlers who were willing to live in peace and share land, the incoming Arabs were bent on sharing nothing! The Arab motto then is exactly what it is now 120 years later... "we will shed every last drop of blood for every last grain of [what THEY consider] Arab land!"

The so-called "Israeli settlements" in the Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the "West Bank") and Gaza have been blamed for all the Arab-Israeli ["Palestinian"-Israeli] conflict when, in Truth, these settlements were the result of a war brought to Israel BY these very same Arabs! The "West Bank" territories from which Jordan attacked Israel in 1967, the Gaza Strip territory from which the Egyptian Army attacked Israel in 1967 and the Golan Heights from which Syria attack Israel in 1967 are today's so-called "Israeli occupied territories."  Had these Arab nations not threatened to destroy Israel in June of 1967, there would be no Israeli "settlers" on these "occupied territories!" Have you ever heard of the expression, "To the Victor Goes the Spoils of War?" This would seem especially justified when the victor was attacked! Incredibly, "Israeli aggression" and "Israeli occupation" is what the Arab world now claims is the reason why there is no peace!

The Muslim/ Islamic world is greatly oppressed but it comes not from tiny Israel or from the giant United States. The oppression comes from the Islamic world's own tyrannical, NON-democratic leaders, most of whom act as if they have a divine right to govern for life! The answer to this problem is not creating more illegitimate Arab and Muslim dictatorships and theocracies.  And certainly not by creating a second Arab "Palestinian" state (Jordan being the first), a 23rd Arab-Muslim state and most definitely NOT by creating a terror Arab-Muslim state with a madman like Arafat at the helm!

Jews and Christians are the indigenous people of the Middle East in what is now referred to as Israel, Judea-Samaria and Gaza. Here Judaism and Christianity flourished for centuries BEFORE Islam even became a religion. It is Islam that is the "new-comer, the invader, the squatter, the illegal occupier... for Islam (and the first Muslim) never appeared before 622AD.  The Christians had already been there for six centuries, the Jews for over FIFTY centuries! 

Don't fall prey to the myth that the Arabs are merely seeking an end to "occupation" and "humiliation." If the Arabs truly desired peace and liberty, they could have achieved it years ago. They crave the destruction of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel! That supersedes all other of their concerns.

Biblically Speaking...

The Palestinians claim that the land of Israel has belonged to them "from time immemorial." The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that the entirety of Israel is "occupied" territory. We know what the Palestinians say. But what does G-D say? What does the BIBLE say about the land?

GENESIS 15:18-21: In that day the Lord made a covenant with Avram (Abraham), saying, "To your seed I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the Great River [referring to the Euphrates River which, during the reigns of kings David and Soloman, formed the northeast boundary of the Promised Land] 

^{Is Israel Really Threatening to Take Over Arab/Muslim Land?}

- Arab and Muslim Land is in Green -
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- Who is a threat to whom! -

* PLUS: What Arabs REALLY Mean When They Call for an "End to the Occupation" *

1. The only reason people challenge the legitimacy of Israel, rationalize aggression against Israel and justify Arab atrocities, is that they hate Jews.

2. The media campaign against Israel is based on the fact that the Western TV stations, newspapers and radio stations involved are uneducated and/or anti-Semitic.

3. Those who support the Arab "Palestinians" don't really give a rat's ____ about the Arab "Palestinians."  They simply hate Jews.

4. "Anti-Zionists" are still anti-Semites at heart.  They merely mask their hatred of the Jewish people with a geo-political agenda.

5. The Jewish Left is the main threat to Jewish survival and Jewish existence, both in the Diaspora and in Israel. It is the Jewish SELF-HATING Left that prevents Israel from being able to deal with attacks upon the nation. It is the Jewish Left that rationalizes and legitimizes anti-Semites/anti-Zionists and implicitly joins them by blaming everything on the Jews.

6. Every concession or goodwill gesture to Arabs encourages Arab violence and aggression. It also encourages more open manifestation of anti-Semitism among the public in the West and in their media once they smell Jewish blood or Jewish in-fighting.

7. The anti-Israel lobbies will attack and attempt to de-legitimize Israel no matter what Israel does, no matter how many suicidal concessions she makes and no matter which Israeli political party rules the country.

8. Killing Arabs reduces Arab violence and aggression while dialogue with Arabs encourages Arab violence and aggression. The Arabs respect forces of strength, not cowardly appeasement. Don't accuse us of "Arab bashing." This is simply a fact.

9. Nothing has changed. If the Arabs were to perpetrate a new genocide against the Jews, the Western world would explain it as having been caused by Jewish shortcomings and sins. The Jews would simply build a few more Holocaust museums, light a few more candles and once again swear "Never Again!"

."Turn-Speak"
Propaganda technique whereby the victim is portrayed as the abuser and the abuser as the victim!

NOTE: In addition to the accusation of  Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide and Occupying Arab Land, the Israelis have also been accused of perpetrating a "Holocaust" upon the Arabs of "Palestine." This is perhaps the most insensitive and inhumane accusation thus far. Click HERE for a REAL Holocaust!

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