When the European Jews not already living in Palestine arrived there after World War II, the area was largely empty.
This is a lie. There were roughly a million Palestinians there.
What is today called Jordan was the historic home of many "Palestinians."
That is a lie. The vast majority of the Palestinian population lived in area currently occupied by Israel. For starters, 700,000 of the million were evicted by Israel in 1948.
And, after all, even the most militant Muslim must concede that the Bible places the land as the historic home of the Jews.
This is not a lie. I just wanted to highlight its silliness. Jews lived there 2000 years ago. Now, some people who are 99% genetically unrelated, but are of the the same religion, want to claim the same land over the indigenous people who have lived there over the millennia.
Last week, when a suicide bomber blew up a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem full of kids, killing 15 people and wounding 100, Israel responded by seizing control of some Palestinian military installations.
This is a lie. Israel responded by seizing The Orient House and raising the Israeli flag above it. The Orient House is a quasi-embassy for the Palestinians. This was another blatant attempt to thwart Palestinian statehood. Nadine is continuously ranting about the lack of Palestinain statesmen for Israel to negotiate with, yet Israel does everything in its power to negate such people.
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The Orient house: A highly symbolic place and cornerstone
of the political presence of the
Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem.
Built in 1897 - at a time when Zionism
was being created as a political project
and when Jewish immigration to
Palestine was developing considerably
- this residence continues to be the
property of the Husseini's, one of the
main families of the Palestinian
aristocracy of Jerusalem. It has
welcomed important visitors such as
Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, the Negus of
Ethiopia Haile Selassie in 1936 as well
as King Abdallah the first, the great
grandfather of Jordan’s King Abdallah.
Operating as a nerve center, Orient
House also accommodates the different
departments of the Arab Studies Society
- under which name it functions officially
- created in 1979 by the late Faisal
Husseini. Orient House has been
closed on several occasions by the
Israeli authorities, notably from 1988 to
1992 by order of Yitzhak Rabin, then
Defense Minister. An Israeli law voted in
December 1994 banned the PLO from
any political activity in East Jerusalem
without the agreement of the Israeli
government. However, Israel has also
committed itself in secret to a policy of
non-interference with the activities of
Palestinian institutions in Occupied
Jerusalem, although this has not
stopped them from regularly threatening
Orient House with closure. As for the
Palestinians, they invoke the
Declaration of Principles (Oslo
Agreement) of September 1993, which
stipulated that Palestinian institutions
established in Occupied Jerusalem
before the agreement was signed could
continue their activities.
As the PLO's unofficial representation in
Occupied Jerusalem, Orient House is
the place where foreign personalities
passing through the city are welcomed.
Successive European Troikas as well
as European Foreign Ministers, in their
individual capacities, have always made
it a point of honor - unlike the American
Secretary of State - to visit Orient House
when they are in Occupied Jerusalem,
although the Israeli authorities do
everything in their power to prevent
these visits. During the French
President Jacques Chirac's tour of the
Middle East in October 1996 his Foreign
Minister preferred not to accompany him
during this stage of the visit rather than
to break with protocol because of the
obstacles put in place by the Israelis. It
was finally the French State Secretary for
Health who visited Orient House. More
recently, the Israeli authorities put
pressure on Klaus Heinsch, visiting in
November 1996 in his capacity as
President of the European Parliament,
not to go there. Also in November 1996,
the Troika passing through Tel-Aviv on
its way to the Palestinian territories,
confronted with the same obstacles,
refused to meet Mr. Netanyahu and Mr.
Levy and made their transit through
Israel into a purely technical stop-over.
arabia.com
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And yet, night after night, the American media feel compelled to list Israel's unintended casualties alongside Yasser Arafat and Hamas' intended casualties.
This is the biggest lie of all. Night after night, the American media harps on Palestinina terrorists killing Israeli civilians, while blithely ignoring the Israeli provocatory actions. In fact, the last thing the American media would ever do is list the body count side by side, because Palestinians are dying in much greater numbers.
This article, despite its numerous intentional misstatements, is reprehensible mostly because of its moral stance. It is saying, in essence, that since the U.S. treated its indigenous population poorly a long time ago, we should now support (militarily and politically) this same behavior for the rest of time. An analogy is that Germany should have supported the ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, feeding weapons and money, and blocking the world from intervention, simply because it has the legacy of the Holocaust. This is typical Zionist thinking.
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