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(this material is also linked with other information at http://www.anis-online.de/mediendatenbank/palestiniana/portal.htm

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

Compiling Zionist lies and distortions is by necessity a work in progress.  It obviously can be rather lengthy since the lies and mendacity of those who either participated in or still participate in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine goes back for 100 years.  I listed below common lies and a link to debunk them as a beginning (to prompt more).  Please send me your contributions/additions whether in other lies not mentioned here or in further quotes and data on the listed lies.  Email contributions to qumsi001@hotmail.com.  Suggested use for the data as it accumulates is a handy place for finding info for sending to chat rooms, listserves, editors, politicians and others who could benefit from knowing the factual response to the myths. For an example, to the extent of lies used by Zionists see this video and then read the articles and data below that debunks these lies.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz (7/15/01) reported that: "... giving his audience (Likud leaders) a bit of advice on how to deal with foreign interviewers (Bejamin Netanyahu said): 'Always, irrespective of whether you're right or not, you must always present your side as right.' "(http://www.haaretzdaily.com/htmls/kat17_2.htm).  We are all familiar with the incredible PR repeated ad nauseum about Israel.  From "security" to "terrorism" to "wanting peace", we are inundated in corporate media with these images that are divorced from reality.  I plan to start collecting glimpses of these proven lies with glimpses of reality.  Send me more to build this webpage; email your contribution to qumsi001@hotmail.com.For info on cast of characters who peddle the lies, see who is who

As Nathan Chofshi wrote in the Jewish Newsletter: "We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we have to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed...we  justify our terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them."(New York, 9 February 1959, cited in Erskine Childers, 'The Other Exodus' in Spectator, London, 12 May 1961)

  • Palestine was a land without a people for a people without a land
    - http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story414.html
    - Zionism at 100: The Myth of Palestine as "A Land Without People"  By Allan C. Brownfeld  http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0398/9803029.html
    - Palestine photos of the 1930s http://www.snunit.k12.il/vmuseum/pal/map.html
    - The Legal Status of Land in Palestine http://www.plands.org/books/citizen/The_Legal_Status_of_Palestinian_Land.htm

  • Israel made the desert bloom/Palestine was destitute
    - http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story665.html
    - http://www.mediamonitors.net/mazin16.html

  • The heroic past! Myths of archeology
    http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i15/15a01601.htm

  • Innocent Jews wanting to "return home" were rejected from the start by local Arabs for no good reason
    - Ahad Ha-Am (Asher Ginsberg) wrote the following in 1891:  "In all things it is our custom to learn nothing from the past for the future. There is certainly one thing we could have learned from our past and present history: how careful we must be not to arouse the anger of other people against ourselves by reprehensible conduct. How much more, then, should we be careful, in our conduct toward a foreign people among whom we live once again, to walk together in love and respect, and needless to say in justice and righteousness. And what do our brethren in Eretz Israel do? Quite the opposite! They were slaves in their land of exile, and they suddenly find themselves with unlimited freedom, the kind of wild freedom to be found only in a country like Turkey.  This sudden change has engendered in them an impulse to despotism, as always happens when 'a slave becomes a king,' (Proverbs 30:22) and behold they walk with the Arabs in hostility and cruelty, unjustly encroaching on them, shamefully beating them for no good reason, and even bragging about what they do, and there is no one to stand in the breach and call a halt to this dangerous and despicable impulse. To be sure our people are correct in saying that the Arab respects only those who demonstrate strength and courage, but this is relevant only when he feels that his rival is acting justly; it is not the case if there is reason to think his rival's actions are oppressive and unjust. Then, even if he restrains himself and remains silent forever, the rage will remain in his heart and he is unrivaled in 'taking vengeance  and bearing a grudge.' (Leviticus 19:18)"  "Emet Me-Eretz Yisrael"  (Truth from the Land of Israel),  29 May 1891, 21 Iyyar 5651 Translated by Alan Dowty.

  • Ben Gurion (who became Israel's first Prime Minister) and Zionist leadership before 1948 war had no intention to drive the native Palestinians out.
    As early as 1917 (when Palestine was 96% Christian/Muslim and 3% Jewish), Ben Gurion stated "Within then the next twenty years, we must have a Jewish majority in Palestine." (Shabtai Teveth, p. 43). In 1936 he stated that the future Israel must "become a force, and the Arabs respect force..these days it is not right but might which prevails. It is more important to have force than justice on one's side" (Shabtai Teveth, p. 191).   In 1937 "The compulsory transfer of the Palestinian Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had...MORE than a state, government and sovereignty-this is national consolidation in a free homeland." (Righteous Victims, p. 142). in 1938, he wrote "With compulsory transfer we would have vast areas .... I support compulsory population transfer. I do not see anything immoral in it. But compulsory transfer could only be carried out by England .... Had its implementation been dependent merely on our proposal I would have proposed; but this would be dangerous to propose when the British government has disassociated itself from compulsory transfer. .... But this question should not be removed from the agenda because it is central question. There are two issues here : 1) sovereignty and 2) the removal of a certain number of Arabs, and we must insist on both of them." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, 117). In Feb 1948 "The war will GIVE us the land. The concept of 'ours' and 'not ours' are ONLY CONCEPTS for peacetime, and during war they lose all their meaning." (Benny Morris, p. 170 & Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 180). And in early May 1948, Ben-Gurion approved establishing the "Transfer Committee" to oversee "the cleaning up nikui in Hebrew of the Palestinian Arab settlements, cultivation of Arab fields and their settlement by Jews, and the creation of labor battalion to carry out this work." (Benny Morris, p. 137). Yitzhak Rabin wrote in his diary soon after Lydda's and Ramla's occupation on 10th-11th of July 1948: "After attacking Lydda later called Lod and then Ramla, .... What would they do with the 50,000 civilians living in the two cities ... What is to be done with the population?, waving his hand in a gesture which said: Drive them out!. 'Driving out' is a term with a harsh ring, .... Psychologically, this was on of the most difficult actions we undertook". (Soldier Of Peace, p. 140-141 & Benny Morris, p. 207) .David Ben Gurion also recognized that "The (upcoming) war will give us the land. The concept of 'ours' and 'not ours' are only concepts for peacetime, and during war they lose all their meaning". In his diaries he said regarding Palestinian refugees �We must do everything to ensure they never do return� and to the Sunday Times �The old will die and the young will forget�. Under Ben Gurion's direction, Transfer Committee was officially set up to effect ethnic cleansing.  I don't understand your optimism. "Why should the Arabs make Peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural; we have taken their country." Ben Gurion in 1956 Quoted by Nahum Goldman, former President of World Zionist Congress, in "The Jewish Paradox" Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978, p99.

  • Palestinians want/ed to drive Jews and Israel into the sea
    http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story417.html

  • Tiny Israel fended off large Arab armies in 1948
    - http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story457.html

  • Land was purchased, Palestinians were not ethnically cleansed
    - See the chapter on refugees in my book http://www.qumsiyeh.org/chapter4/ which analysis all aspects of this including myths about origins of the refugee catastrophe
    - Simha Flapan, the Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. New York: 1987, p. 223, citing Record of the Knesset, vol. 1, 1949, session 43
    - Michael Palumbo, The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from their Homeland. London/Boston: 1987, p. 145.
    - See also "How refugee land ended up as Jewish National Fund lands" (and it is not "abandoned" it was confiscated illegally and refugees are being prevented from returning to their lands by an illegal and racist apartheid system).
    - With all due respect for the 'blue box' by Meron Benvenisty in Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=864483
    Hebrew: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/864238.html
    - Updated fact sheets on the continuing silent transfer of Palestinians (PDF files)
    - http://www.epalestine.com/MyRToE_FACT_SHEET.pdf
    - http://www.epalestine.com/MyRToE_THE_ISSUE.pdf  
    - Continuing ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a1QP4HSRe8&eurl=
    - Case study: a palestinian village under threat of ethnic cleansing http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=1029
    - Plans for demolition of 42,000 homes of Israel's Palestinians Bedouins http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Palestine/207111
    - THE MYTH that the Arab refugees fled because the Arab radios urged them to do so was analyzed by Erskine B. Childers in the London Spectator May 12, 1961. An examination of British and US radio monitoring records turned up no such appeals; on the contrary there were appeals and "even orders to the civilians of Palestine, to stay put...

  • There was an Exchange of population, Jews came from Arab Countries to Israel in exchange Arabs left Israel
    (see for example an articulation of this by an AIPAC introduced bill in Congress that demands that ""any explicit reference to the required resolution of the Palestinian refugee issue is matched by a similar explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries." (http://www.standwithus.com/website/news_post.asp?NPI=50)
    - See above

  • Arab Countries rejected peace for Israel under any boundary while Israel was willing to have peace.
    - The Conciliation Commission got the agreement of both Israel and Arab states on an identical document May 12, 1949 called the Lausanne PROTOCOL.  It stated:
    "The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, anxious to achieve as quickly as possible the objectives of the General Assembly resolution of 11 December 1948 (UNGA 194), regarding refugees, the respect for their rights and preservation of their property, as well as territorial and other questions, has proposed to the delegation of Israel and to the delegations of the Arab States that the working document attached hereto (UNGA Partition resolution 181 of 1947) be taken as a basis for discussions with the Commission. The interested delegations have accepted this proposal with the understanding that the exchanges of views which will be carried on by the Commission with the two parties will bear upon the territorial adjustments necessary to the above-indicated objectives." (Lausanne, 12 May 1949)
    http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/f45643a78fcba719852560f6005987ad/4a5ef29a5e977e2e852561010079e43c!OpenDocument
    -Israel then rejected the partition boundaries and proposed to take over all of Palestine (but leaving the issue of the West Bank for "discussion").  It also rejected implementing its obligations on teh issue of Palestinian refugees .
    - In his guidelines to the delegation in Lausanne with respect to negotiating peace, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Moshe Sharett, pointed out that �it behooves us to do so not with haste and trepidation but by revealing strength and the ability to exist even without official peace�.  According to Sharett, since official peace was not a vital necessity, Israel had nothing to lose from procrastination.  (Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities.  New York: 1987, p. 215)

  • Israel respects holy sites of other religions
    -http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story2670.html

  • Jerusalem "reunification" let people be treated equal regardless of religion/variant: Israel is not judaicizing Jerusalem/Freedom of religion
    Former Military Jerusalem Governor confirms: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians Began Right After the Occupation
    Arnon Regular, Kol Ha'ir Weekly Magazine, July 26, 2001, Western Jerusalem

  • The US is an "honest broker"
    see Book by Naseer Aruri: Dishonest Broker for history of us involvement and the US vetoed countless UN security council resolutions
    "Israel's dependence on the United States is far Greater than suggested by the sum of $3 billion.  Israel's physical existence depends on the Americans in both military and political terms.  Without the US, we would not be equipped with the latest fighter planes and all other advanced weapons.  Without the American veto, we would long have been expelled from every international organization not to speak of the UN, which would have imposed sanctions on us that would have paralysed Israel's International trade, since we cannot exist without importing raw materials.  For the same reason, it is wrong to divide the American money up into military aid of $1.8 billion and civilian aid of $1.2 billion.  What we are getting is really unmarked dollar bills.." Nehemia Stressler, Haaretz, May 12, 1989

  • Islam is intent on taking over the world
    A good summary of this Zionist lie is in the book "Islamic Imperialism" by Efraim Karsh (2007, Yale University Press, New Haven and London) of which thousands were printed and distributed free to clergy and opinion makers around the US (the Zionist group cryptically named "Institute on Religion and Democracy", Washington, D.C. is distributing it free). Muslims have been victimized by colonial powers for hundreds of years and have no coherent political or military power.  Most of the countries with Muslim majority are ruled by puppets of the US.  US forces are in over 140 countries (at least two dozen Muslim majority).  A lot of the fundamentalist group that are now used as evidence of this pan-ISlamic desire to take on the world were created or supported by the West.  Here are just a few examples of groups that were reliant on Western support
    Taliban and Jihadis in Afghanistan
    Extremist Sunni groups in Lebanon
    see http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6945.shtml
    and http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Hersh_Bush_arranged_support_for_militants_0522.html

  • "Israel's centraity in Jewish life" manifest by the creed developed and advocated by Zionists "Am Yisrael Chai" meaning the People of Israel (=the Jews) live.
    - For this deep psychological pathos that puts Jews above any other humans, see the following discussions by thoughtful people who come from Jewish backgrounds
    Marc Ellis, Out of the Ashes
    - also see http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/my_one_and_only.htm
    - and Response to Rosenfeld

  • Israel had a positive influence on world affairs
    Bishara Bahbah and Linda Butler, Israel and latin America:The military Connection, ST Martin's Press, NY, 1986
    Milton Jamail, Margo Gutierrez, It's no secret: Israel's military involvement in central America,  
    Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1986
    Zionist Terrorists Arrested Inside Mexican Congress
    Israel hand seen in Ivorian clash (and other strives around the world)
    "BERN, Switzerland - The Swiss government said today it had caught Israel's spy agency trying to bug telephones on the outskirts of the Swiss capital. It was the second highly publicized Mossad bungle to embarrass the Israeli government in recent months.  The espionage effort was aimed at foreigners living in Switzerland, federal prosecutor Carla del Ponte said, without elaborating. Del Ponte denied Israeli media reports that Iranian diplomats were  the target of the alleged spying. She said the targets were not diplomats.  Switzerland has demanded an apology from Israel, the Foreign  Minstry said. It said it had had no immediate response from Israel. ....At a news conference in Bern, del Ponte said five Israeli agents were  detained as they tried to plant the bugs a week ago. All but one were released and are believed to have left the country.  In Jerusalem today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  confirmed that an Israeli citizen had been arrested in Switzerland, but declined to comment further. " Another mess for Mossad: Israeli spy agency accused of bugging Swiss phones. The Associated Press  26 February 1998. by Irene Harnischberg
    "A senior Israeli intelligence officer says that the hit team arrested in Switzerland were on the trail of two businessmen with Hezbollah sympathies. As contacts continued between Israel and Switzerland yesterday to free a Mossad agent detained in Berne last month, a senior Mossad officer said the true purpose of the bungled operation had been assassination and not bugging as claimed. " March 3 1998. Times of London

  • The 1967 war was a defensive war by Israel against enemies who wanted to destroy it
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/04/six_day_war/
    Moshe Dayan described kibbutz residents who pressed Israel to take Syria's Golan Heights in a 1997 New York Times interview: "They didn't even try to hide their greed for the land ... We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was ... The Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us."
    From POLITICIDE, Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians, by Baruch Kimmerling, Verso, 2003, pages 57-59):
    " In May 1967, Gamal Abd al-Nasser made his biggest political miscalculation. After a long and bloody intervention in the Yemeni civil war, he had lost prestige in the Arab world. In order to regain that prestige and affirm Egyptian sovereignty, he made two spectacular moves: he ordered Egyptian military forces to cross the Suez Canal and, at the same time, demanded the withdrawal of UN forces deployed along the 1957 ceasefire lines. After the Yemeni debacle, the Egyptian army was certainly not ready for a war with Israel, but the Israeli General Staff had planned for many years to destroy the Egyptian military, which had been re-equipped and restructured by the Soviet Union after the 1956 War. Nasser's move was exploited by the Israeli Government, which depicted it as a causus belli and a real threat to Israel's security. The Israeli armed forces mobilized their full reserve system. While the two armies were positioned face-to-face, the Israeli Government, headed by Levy Eshkol, hesitated, doubting both the reality of the Egyptian threat and the necessity of resolving it militarily rather than diplomatically. Another consideration was the severe economic hardship and social strain that would result from the prolonged mobilization of almost the entire male labor force. While the government weighed its options, military officers (including Sharon) seized the opportunity to convince the pub lic that Israel faced a genuine threat to its existence. Demonstrations called on Eshkol to quit. The increasing public pressure in addition to the hidden pressure from many on the general staff led to the establishment of a new war-oriented Cabinet that included the hawkish Moshe Dayan as Minister of Defense and, for the first time, members of the ultra-nationalist party Herut, headed by Menachem Begin. The war was so well planned and prepared that at dawn, on June 5, the Israeli military intelligence and air force knew the precise location of every Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian aircraft and destroyed most of them on the ground in several hours. Sharon, in his
    autobiography, briefly mentioned that "on the morning of June 5, Israel's air force was to launch a pre-preemptive attack on Egypt's airfields." When Israeli infantry and tank brigades attacked Egyptian military concentrations, fortifications, and bases, they already had almost absolute air superiority. One of the most significant myths rooted in the collective memory of both the Israeli and Western public is that during the 1967 War (or as the Israelis arrogantly called it, "the Six Day War"), Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, a belief that is used to justify the legitimacy of the occupation to this day.
    Both Yitzhak Rabin and Ezer Weizman clearly allude in their autobiographies to the fact that, prior to the attack of June 1967, the Israeli general staff organized a putsch, and barred any and all political solutions to the crisis. Rabin, Chief of Staff, admitted that: "Nasser didn't want war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive war He knew it and we knew it." (Le Monde, February 28, 1968).
    Levy Eshkol himself admitted that "the Egyptian layout in Sinai and the general build up there testified to a militarily defensive Egyptian set-up, south of Israel" (Yediot Ahronot, October 16, 1967).
    On August 8, 1982, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, defending the invasion of Lebanon, said: "In June 1967 we again had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him."(New York Times, August 21, 1982)."
    see also http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2636206.ece

  • The International Solidarity Movement support violence
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Solidarity_Movement

  • The Road map is an international effort for peace in the Middle East and Palestinians reject it
    The road map is 2218 words and lacks four key words: International Law and Human Rights. It was drafted in the State Department supposedly based on the speech Bush gave in 2002 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html ).  Bush's speech writers at the time were both Zionists: Michael Gerson (http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0914-28.htm ) and David Frum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum).  The State Department
    The writings of Karen Kwiatkowski who retired from the Pentagon clearly document the stranglehold of Zionist "group think" on US policy.
    It is claimed by official US sources that the State Department wrote the Road Map.  If that is the case, this would fall under the purview of then unders secretary for Political Affairs (from 2001 to 2005) Marc Grossman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Isaiah_Grossman
    Other Zionists who were likely involved or at least had to give their blessings include Elliott Abrams (National Security Council Advisor) and Richard Haass (Director of Policy Planning at the State Department). Despite this bias, Arafat and the PNC accepted the road map. Sharon said he would accept it with 14 reservations that basically make it meaningless.

  • Palestinians send their kids to be killed for propaganda purposes
    http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story425.html

  • Arabs only understand the language of force
    http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story423.html

  • Zionists teach peace and democracy, Palestinian Society teaches hate
    - Nathan Brown of George Washington University investigated Palestinian  textbooks, his full report is posted at  http://www.geocities.com/nathanbrown1/CAJE. htm
    - see also related Report by Dr. Fouad Moughrabi
    - See Education and hate  Assay on who teaches what to whom, July 2004.  Also published in French as Education et haine
    -A study by The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs concluded Israeli textbooks and children's literature promote racism and hatred toward Palestinians and Arabs. (See www.washington-report.org/backissues/0999/9909019.html.)
    Jewish Settlers' on the record: racism and bigotry funded by US taxpayers
    - see http://www.qumsiyeh.org/nuritpeledelhanan/ speeches and articles
    - Former Chief Rabbi advocates genocide (this is not an average Israeli Rabbi, this person carries lots of weight and teh position was created based on Israeli state laws)
    http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6987.shtml
    - The myth of incitement in Palestinian schools (this is an oft repeated smear by Zionists trying to distract world attention from continued colonization activities and ethnic cleansing of native Palestinians)
    http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3923.shtml
    http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=911
    http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/47093.pdf
    http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/pal_children.pdf
    http://www.mideastjournal.com/textbookswars.html
    http://www.geocities.com/nathanbrown1/CAJE.htm
    - http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966693&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
    - Israel is as a Theocratic state whee there is no separation between state and religion, see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/relig.html
    - Yesha Rabbinical Council: "During time of war, enemy has no innocents Ma'ariv 30 July 2006 "The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy." All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss) " http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3283720,00.html (Yesha is the name given to the council that oversees the 450,000 settlers in the West Bank)
    - See also "Israel's house of horrors" By Ali Abunimah http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6975.shtml
    "There is an entire section of the Jewish population which I define, without hesitation, as a copy of the German Nazis. Look at the children of the Jewish settlers in Hebron: they resemble Hitlers youth exactly" Moshe Zimmerman, at the time Chair of Department of Germanic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, interview Yerushalayim, 4/28/1995 From the "Founding Myths of Modern Israel by Roger Garaudy
    Harvard Lawyer Alan Dershowitz' calls for War crimes
    Martin Sherman calls for ending Palestinian rights by giving them money and relocating them all
    -"Israel should have exploited the  repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention  focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the  Arabs of the territories."Benjamin Netanyahu told students at Bar-Ilan University in 1989
    - "In the old city of Jerusalem they (Palestinians) are swarming like ants. They should go to hell -- and the Messiah will speed them on their way," Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, leader of the influential Shas party in a weekly sermon broadcast on army radio (Reuters, July 27, 2001).
    -Another investigation by Le Monde Diplomatique concluded the textbooks' real error was to refute Israel's version of Palestinian history. (Log onto http://mondediplo.com /2001/07/11textbook.)
    -While many Israelis and supporters terrorize Palestinians, they demonize all Palestinians as terrorists. While they teach intolerance and hate, they claim Palestinians teach their kids hate. Human Rights Watch documented the discrimination against Palestinian-Arab children in Israel's schools. (Log onto www.hrw.org/reports/2001/israel2/).
    -An article by Dr. Peled-Elhanan of the Hebrew University put it this way: "Palestinians, both the lawful citizens of the state and the ones living under occupation, are presented stereotypically, in racist vocabulary and racist visuals, as a demographic threat . . . their discrimination is represented as a national necessity. . . occupied
    territories are depicted as part of the state of Israel but their Palestinian inhabitants, cities and cultural sites are missing from maps, photographs and graphs. The books promote the ideal of an Arab-free land as a condition for the existence of the Jewish state."
    - Israel�s education system http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2507

  • Palestinians don't use nonviolent resistance but instead blow themselves up with innocent civilians
    See the detailed report on Palestinian nonviolent resistance
    Statement to Israeli public on non-violence

  • Israel takes great care not to harm civilians and never targets them/Israeli army most ethical army
    - See Targeting Civilians
    - "As a young soldier serving in the Israeli army, I was ordered to commit grave human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. My platoon meted out collective punishment on Palestinian communities, shot and killed unarmed Palestinian civilians, and enforced prolonged curfews on Palestinian villages. I witnessed the arbitrary destruction of Palestinian houses, property and agricultural land. These acts were not rare occurrences, nor were they the result of overly cruel soldiers. It was part of the norm; a habit that an Occupation soldier gets used to doing. These daily occurrences constituted, as I later understood, war crimes." http://alawda.rso.wisc.edu/why.htm
    - "I participated in the fighting on Temple Mount. I was and also shot at the demonstrations in Umm Al Fahm. But the worst event was the riots in Tiberias. Hundreds of violent Jews closed a main road and also threw firebombs at us. They almost set our car on fire, but luckily we put the fire out on time. There was stone throwing, firecrackers, and glass bottles were thrown and broke between our feet. They crossed all the red lines, my people attacked me with enormous force, and it hurts. The violence there was just like in Umm Al Fahm. According to the open-fire regulations, when firebombs are thrown, there is authorization to shoot. But we handle Jewish riots differently. To a demo like this we know in advance that we come without weapons. These are the orders from above, and we used only gas".Tal Etlinger, a border police soldier, Yediot Aharonot, 17/11/2000 (translated by Irit Katriel, iritka@internet-zahav.net.il )
    - "The Israeli soldiers who volunteers to serve in the occupied territories are considered heroes, while in truth their volunteering can be compared to that of German volunteers who served in the SS" Moshe Zimmerman, at the time Chair of Department of Germanic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, interview Yerushalayim, 4/28/1995. From the "Founding Myths of Modern Israel by Roger Garaudy
    - We killed (Palestinian) police for revenge, Israeli soldiers confessBy Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, The Independent
    Maariv in Hebrew published admissions of Israeli soldiers to committing war crimes
    Palestinians Continue to be used as human shields (Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tomdEkOgdKU
    Amnesty Internaional 2006 report on Israeli violations of Human Rights
    - Artile by Jonathan Cook on Targeting Civilians http://mostlywater.org/node/8568
    - Israeli army forces women to strip at checkpoints http://www.imemc.org/article/49215
    - Israel hits center of Red Cross http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ambulancehit.jpg

  • Israel attacks infrastructure only if it is linked to terrorists
    - http://lataan.blogspot.com/2007/06/during-war-did-israel-bomb-lebanese.html
    - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE180072006
    - Wanton Destruction of Infrasstructure and homes

  • The Deir Yassin Massacre (one of hundreds committed duing the ethnic cleansing of 1947-1949) was committed by rogue elements and not mainstream Zionists
    - http://www.deiryassin.org/
    - When the Haganah command learned of the plan of the Irgun and Lehi to conquer Deir Yassin, David Shaltiel, Haganah Commander in Jerusalem, asked them to coordinate the timing of the operation with the scheduled renewed assault on Kastel. He despatched identical letters to Mordechai Raanan (Irgun Commander in Jerusalem) and Yehoshua Zetler (Lehi Commander in Jerusalem), in which he gave their operation his approval:
    To: Shapira (code-name of Zetler)
    From: District Commander
    I have learned that you intend to carry out an operation against Deir Yassin. I would like to call your attention to the fact that the conquest and continued occupation of Deir Yassin is one of the stages in our overall plan. I have no objection to your carrying out the operation on condition that you are capable of holding on to it. If you are incapable of doing so, I caution you against blowing up the village, since this will lead to the flight of the inhabitants and subsequent occupation of the ruins and the abandoned homes by enemy forces. This will make things difficult rather than contributing to the general campaign, and reoccupation of the site will entail heavy casualties for our men. An additional argument I would like to cite is that if enemy forces are drawn to the place, this will disrupt the plan to establish an aerodrome there.
    http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index2.html

  • The massacre of Sabra and Shatila in 1982 in Lebanon was not the responsibility of the Israelis
    - http://www.indictsharon.net/
    - http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk180903.htm
    - http://qumsiyeh.org/sabraandshatila/

  • The lies and distortions about the Lavon affair
    - http://www.mideastweb.org/lavon.htm
    - Israel's second Prime Minister Sharret had interesting admissions in his diary including about the Lavon affair, in which Israeli provocateurs exploded bombs in U.S. cultural centers and diplomatic establishments in Cairo and Alexandria in 1954 after being told "to break the West's confidence in the existing (Nasser) regime... The actions should cause arrests, demonstrations and expressions of revenge. The Israeli origins should be totally covered." The idea was to provoke mayhem, increase Jewish immigration and with other acts eventually provoke a war to acquire more territory (which happened in 1967).
    As retired US foreign service officer Richard Curtis wrote in the WRMEA (March 18, 1985): "When the provocateurs (young Egyptian-born Jews trained in Israel
    and returned to their homeland) were caught and tried, Sharett publicly denied Israeli complicity and accused the Egyptians of 'vicious hostility to... the Jewish people.' " But in his diaries Sharett not only admitted the affair but lamented Israel's "unleashing of the basest instincts of hate and revenge..." In another part of the diary we see this interesting tidbit: "Ben Gurion reported to the cabinet ... how our four youngsters (Israeli paratrooper reservists) captured the Beduin boys one by one, how they took them to the wadi, how they knifed them to death one after the other... When I arrived in Tel Aviv an officer... came to tell me that the whole revenge operation was organized with the active help of Arik Sharon, the commander of the paratroopers battalion."

  • Martin Luther King Jr supported Israel and Zionism and equated criticism of Zionism with anti-Semitism
    See Martin Luther King

  • Israel was trying to save Arab Jews
    - http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story2128.html
    See also the Lavon Affair

  • Palestinians and other Arabs largely rejoiced after 9/11 attacks/Variant is that Muslims do not denounce terrorism
    - See Arabs and Palestinians on September 11
    - http://www.cair-net.org/html/911statements.html

  • Barak Made a generous offer at Camp David, Arafat rejected it and went back and started a bloody intifada
    - See Robert Malley's Fictions About the Failure at Camp David
    - Uri Avnery on 12 conventional lies http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story658.html
    - http://www.gush-shalom.org/media/barak_eng.swf
    - http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article865.shtml (myth 5)
    - http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9181.shtml
    - http://www.cactus48.com/truth.html
    - http://al-awda.org/media/myths.html
    - http://www.iap.org/zioinism19.htm
    - http://www.mideastfacts.com/
    - http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/engfaq.html
    - http://www.palestineremembered.com/ZionistFAQ.html
    - http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article865.shtml
    - http://canpalnet-ottawa.org/Copy%20of%20campdavid.html
    - Aaron David Miller, a senior negotiator on the Clinton team at Camp David and an Orthodox Jew revealed that rather than serve as a true mediator in peace negotiations, successive U.S. administrations including Clinton's have acted as "Israel's attorney." Kathleen Christison, "Anatomy of A Frame-Up: Camp David Redux, Counterpunch, August 15, 2005. On line at: http://www.counterpunch.org/christison08152005.html
    - Press release showing that the sides were really close to hammering out an agreement at Taba which was a continuation of the negotiatins until Israel withdrew (not Palestinians
    - "The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine. There were just a few hundred settlers in the West Bank and Gaza when I became president, but the Likud government expanded settlement activity after I left office. President Ronald Reagan condemned this policy, and reaffirmed that Resolution 242 remained "the foundation stone of America's Middle East peace effort." President George H.W. Bush even threatened to reduce American aid to Israel. Although President Bill Clinton made strong efforts to promote peace, a massive increase of settlers occurred during his administration, to 225,000, mostly while Ehud Barak was prime minister. Their best official offer to the Palestinians was to withdraw 20 percent of them, leaving 180,000 in 209 settlements, covering about 5 percent of the occupied land." President Jimmy Carter
    "The narrative blaming Yasser Arafat now joins a whole string of myths: the Tel Hai myth, the myth of the runaway refugees in 1948, the myth of the War of Independence as a defensive war that broke out because of an invasion by Arab armies, the myth of the few against the many, and the myth of the liberation of
    the homeland from the British boot - just to mention a few of the many myths that have been created here to deal with the reality that gave birth to many crises and second thoughts about the situation." Challenging the Camp David myth, By Meron Benvenisti. Ha'aretz, Thursday, August 02, 2001

  • Christians, Jews and others should support Israel because of the Promised land/Bible issues.
    -See http://www.christianzionism.org/
    - http://www.hotcoals.org/
    - Defining Christian Zionism By Donald Wagner  http://www.christianzionism.org/articlesN.asp#Wagner02
    - http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111406/met_6211753.shtml
    - see also these Christian Links of Palestinian Christian and others who truly follow Christ's teachings

  • The people of the West Bank benefited from Israeli rule
    - In September 1967 Moshe Dayan  told senior staff in the Israeli Occupation Army in the West Bank that some 200,000 Palestinian Arabs had left the West Bank and Gaza Strip: "we must understand the motives and causes of the continued emigration of the Arabs, from both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and not to undermine these cause after all, we want to create a new map." (Benny Morris, Righteous Victims,  p. 338)
    "The guideline of our policy has always been the idea that a permanent situation of no peace and a latent war is the best situation for us, and that it must be maintained at all costs. ... we are becoming stronger year by year in a situation of impending conflict where it is possible that actual fighting may break out from time to time. Such wars will usually be short and the results guaranteed in advance, since the gap between us and the Arabs is increasing. In this way we shall move on from occupation to further occupation. ... this criminally mischievous policy has led us into the crisis we are living through today...We have not been seeking peace for twenty-five years -- all declarations to that effect have been no more than coloured statements or deliberate lies. There is of course no assurance that we could have made peace with the Arabs if we had wanted to. However, it has to be heavily emphasized that we have not only made no attempts to seek peace, but have deliberately and with premeditation, sabotaged every possibility of doing so." (Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 30 November 1973)
    From former Israel Attorney General Michael Ben Yair who wrote on 3/3/2002: "We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupie territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one - progressive, liberal - in Israel; and the other - cruel, injurious - in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day."

  • Christians are leaving Palestine because of persecution by Muslims not because of Zionist occupation and colonization
    - See links and resources from all main Palestinian Christian denominations and other Christians arund the world: Christian Links
    - The Christian presence in Palestine under Israeli military rule. A short clip from the award-winning film 'Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority." For more info please visit http://www.occupation101.com.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKCQ-wfpiE
    - Palestinian Christians make action against construction of Israel's separation barrier on Palestinian Christian lands in Wadi Nis village, in Ma'asarat (South of Bethlehem area,) marking Good Friday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZsMcWrNzZ4

  • Jews of Iraq and Arab Countries were persecuted and expelled
    see http://www.inminds.co.uk/jews-of-iraq.html
    http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html
    http://www.iraqijews.org/

  • Iran's President is a Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying, Islamo-fascist who stated he will "wipe Israel off the map"
    http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley08282006.html
    http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_steele/2006/06/post_155.html

  • Zionists did not push for the war on Iraq and the conflict with Iran is also about US security not Zionist perceived self-interest.
    January 26, 1998 Letter by leading Zionists and neoconservatives asking US to attack Iraq and change its regime http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
    "Groups Push For Sanctions, Fear US Will Falter on Iran," By Ori Nir, Forward - Sep 1, 2006 issue
    http://www.forward.com/articles/groups-push-for-sanctions-fear-us-will-falter-on/
    "Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat and actually has been since 1990 - it's the threat against Israel...�� And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don't care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn't  want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell." Pentagon Defense Intelligence Board Member Philip Zeikow, 10 September 2002
    Contrary to Chomsky, the US has no interest in supporting Israel http://www.voltairenet.org/article143635.html
    Challenging the power of the Israeli lobby: what should be done http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/09/27/676/

  • Israel is beneficial to US interests in the Middle East
    - Cost of Israel to the US http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html
    - "Israel secretly maintains a large and active intelligence-gathering operation in the United States that has long attempted to recruit U.S. officials as spies and to procure classified documents, U.S. government officials said." � Los Angeles Times, 3 September 2004
    - see The Lobby
    - Michael Lind Article on the Lobby's negative influence
    - Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform, By Nathan Guttman, Forward http://www.forward.com/articles/jewish-groups-to-challenge-ethics-reform/
    Does the Israeli Tail Wag the American Dog?
    - If the United States is unable to distinguish the world�s or its own real needs from those of another state and that state�s lobby, then it simply cannot say that it always acts in its own best interests. By Kathleen and Bill Christison (ex CIA Analysts) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17217.htm
    - Is Americans� support of Israel unshakeable? By Linda S. Heard, Online Journal Contributing Writer http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1986.shtml
    - Israel and US interests aren't identical By Antony Loewenstein http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4387
    - http://www.muckrakerreport.com/
    - Excerpt from the secret CIA assessment released November 28, 1947 on the eve of the UN "vote" and titled "The Consequences of the Partition of Palestine" (Declassified document)
    "Armed hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN General Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states....The Jews are expected to be able to mobilize some 200,000 fighters in Palestine.. The Jewish armed groups in Palestine are well equipped and well trained in commando tactics.  Initially they will achieve marked success over the Arabs because of superior organization and equipment....The US by supporting partition has already lost much of its prestige in the Near East In the event that partition is imposed on Palestine, the resulting conflict will seriously disturb the social, economic, and political stability of the Arab world, and US commercial and strategic interests will be dangerously jeopardized. ..THe poverty, unrest, and hopelessness upon which Communist propaganda thrives will increase throughout the Arab world. (and later in the document, p. 6) US prestige on teh other hand has steadily decreased with each new indication that the US supports the Zionists. The good will enjoyed by the US at the time of the Rosevelt-Ibn Saud Conference and following backing of Lebanese and Syrian claims for independence was short lived as a result of President Truman's support of Jewish immigration to Palestine and of the Anglo-American Committee report. Because of the long standing cultural ties between the US and the Arab world, the friendly role that the US played in the achievement of Syrian and Lebanese independence, the partial dependence of certain Arab states on oil royalties from US companies, and the promise of increased royalties in the future, the Arab states would like to maintain friendly relations with the US.  ... Little of this (positive) development will be possible, if the US supports a Jewish state in Palestine."
    http://tinyurl.com/2c4kh3
    Or original here
    - Truman helped establish Israel (actually was the critical element in arm-twisting countries to vote for partition which was contrary to the UN Charter of self determination). Zionist propaganda has it that this support was because of deeply held beliefs in that cause (Jews were persecuted so need a country of their own).  But facts are otherwise.  Truman himself admitted in a private cabinet meeting that he is doing it for money and votes. - "when the election was coming up in 1946 in New York, the group of New York Jews called upon Mr. Truman. Alan Taylor, op. cit. p.93 Emmanuel Cellar was the head of this committee. Rabbi Steven Wise and several others were in it. They called upon Mr. Truman and said, "We have just been talking with Mr. Thomas Dewey. He is willing to come out and declare for a Jewish state, and we are going to turn our money and urge the Jews to vote for him unless you beat him to it." Then Emmanuel Cellar pounded upon Mr. Truman's desk and said, "And if you don't come out for a Jewish state we'll run you out of town." This, I'm sure, is the threat that Mr. Truman refers to in his book, saying, "The extreme Zionists threatened me." They were Emmanuel Cellar, Rabbi Steven Wise, etc. These are not the extreme Zionists, these are just the run of the mill Zionists. What Mr. Truman did was to cave in to these threats that they would support Mr. Dewey. In that way he got the Jewish money and the Jewish vote. His decision was not made from the point of view of what was going to result in the Middle East, but what was going on in the United States." Edwin M. Wright at the time of the State Department (source http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm )
    - See also http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/26309.html and Truman diaries which show how he really thought:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40678-2003Jul10
    -Israel stole US nuclear technology http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/washington/29nixon.html

  • Israel accidentally attacked the USS Liberty in International waters because it was mistaken for an Egyptian ship
    - CIA Director Richard Helms said: "The board of inquiry (concluded) that the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing ..."
    See http://ussliberty.org for lots of other data including testimony of survivors.
    - Alison Wier on USA Today and USS Liberty http://counterpunch.org/weir06232007.html

  • Zionist in America are loyal to the US Constitution and have no Tribal allegiances to contradict US interests
    - Secret trials for terrorists, says US judge: A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution. Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with the terrorist threat and the US had 'over-invested' in them...."
    http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Ftheaustralian.news.com.au%2\Fstory%2F0%2C20867%2C21986986-2702%2C00.html%3F
    - The New Israel Lobby in Action (David Noble)
    http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/11/01/209/
    - See this cartoon by Bendib on the clamour of presidential candidates to suck up to the Zionist lobby.
    http://www.bendib.com/newones/2007/june/small/6-9-The-Race.jpg

  • Rachel Corrie was accidentally killed while protecting the house of terrorist
    http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
    http://www.criticalconcern.com/rachelcorrie.html
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/309199_corrierebut28.html
    http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=DF899DD539B2344385256CEC007008D5

  • Mohammed Al-Durra was killed by Palestinians or killed in "cross-fire"
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Durrah

  • Israel did not deliberately attack a UN Compound in Qana, Lebanon.  "We want it to be clear it was not a deliberate attack because Israel would never target a UN force. It is not part of our policies; it is not part of our values"  Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
    - From Robert Fisk's April 19, 1996 article "Massacre in Sanctuary" in The Independent (UK): "Qana, southern Lebanon - It was a massacre. Not since Sabra and Chatila had I seen the innocent slaughtered like this. The Lebanese refugee women and children and men lay in heaps, their hands or arms or legs missing, beheaded or disemboweled. There were well over a hundred of them. A baby lay without a head. The Israeli shells had scythed through them as they lay in the United Nations shelter, believing that they were safe under the world's protection. Like the Muslims of Srebrenica, the Muslims of Qana were wrong. In front of a burning building of the UN's Fijian battalion headquarters, a girl held a corpse in her arms, the body of a grey- haired man whose eyes were staring at her, and she rocked the corpse back and forth in her arms, keening and weeping and crying the same words over and over: "My father, my father." A Fijian UN soldier stood amid a sea of bodies and, without saying a word, held aloft the body of a headless child. "The Israelis have just told us they'll stop shelling the area", a UN soldier said, shaking with anger. "...
    http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/robert_fisk_qana.html

  • The "security barrier" Israel is building is not a land grab and is about Security
    - See resources and fact sheets at http://www.stopthewall.org
    - Video at http://www.thewallofhate.org/film/thewall.wmv
    - http://www.gush-shalom.org/security/english.html

  • Israel Demolishes Homes for security
    - http://www.icahd.org/eng/faq.asp?menu=9&submenu=1
    - Rafah Aerial maps before and after
    http://www.poica.org/casestudies/Rafah-16-10-03/Gaza%20segregation%20wall.jpg
    http://www.poica.org/casestudies/Rafah-16-10-03/Rafah.jpg

  • Israel only imprisons those responsible for terrorism
    - Over 11,000 political prisoners are held by Israel today.  Over the past 40 years, Israel imprisoned nearly 40% of male population of the occupied areas.  One third are/were held in administrative detention without charge or trial.  Hundreds of minors are also held at any one time.
    - See "A regrettable indifference" By Amira Hass Haaretz  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/797419.html

  • Israel does not use weapons of mass destruction
    - Dai Williams' report on the use of uranium weapons by Israel in Lebanon last summer is at: UN priorities for investigating uranium and other suspected illegal weapons in the Israel/Lebanon conflict. - by Dai Williams - 2006-09-01  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060901&articleId=3123 . The weapons were flown by the US to Israel.  The airplane was supposed to land for refueling at Ireland's shannon Internation Airport, but the Irish government refused permission for it to land on Irish soil, so the plane landed at Prestwick, a small airport in Scotland, south of Glasgow.  This subsequently caused some difficulties for the Blair Government. At that time, Dai Williams, an internation expert on DU, advised the Scots that if the plane crashed on landing or take-off, all of southern Scotland would be contaminated by the radioactive weapons on board. This incident was not known in the US.  If you need more information on it, look at
    http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/campanas/stopwar/uranium_weapons/index.html.

  • Israel complies with International law and International obligations
    - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/un.html
    - http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id396.html

  • Arabs in Israel are treated equal.  Variant, Israel is a Democracy
    - See detailed analysis of Israeli laws here: http://www.mediamonitors.net/mazin6.html and her http://qumsiyeh.org/chapter7/
    - Amnesty International reported: �In Israel several laws are explicitly discriminatory. These can be traced back to Israel�s foundation in 1948 which, driven primarily by the racist genocide suffered by Jews in Europe during the Second World War, was based on the notion of a Jewish state for Jewish people. Some of Israel�s laws reflect this principle and as a result discriminate against non-Jews, particularly Palestinians who had lived on the lands for generations. Various areas of Israeli law discriminate against Palestinians. The Law of Return, for instance, provides automatic Israeli citizenship for Jewish immigrants, whereas Palestinian refugees who were born and raised in what is now Israel are denied even the right to return home. Other statutes explicitly grant preferential treatment to Jewish citizens in education, public housing, health, and employment.� "Racism and the Administration of Justice", Amnesty International (2001), also found at http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/racismreport.pdf
    - Human Rights Watch on an aspect of Israel racist structures
    "The state controls 93 percent of the land in Israel, and a government agency, the Israel Land Administration (ILA), manages and allocates this land. The ILA lacks any mandate to disburse land in a fair and just fashion, and members of the Jewish National Fund, which has an explicit mandate to develop land for Jewish use only, constitute almost half of the ILA’s governing council, occupying all the seats not held by Israeli government ministries." http://hrw.org/reports/2008/iopt0308/
    - To quote Israeli Arab writer and Knesset Member, Ahmed Tibi: "...dutifully defining the state of Israel as 'Jewish and democratic,' ignores the fact that in practice 'democratic' refers to Jews, and the Arabs are nothing more than citizens without citizenship." (Ma'ariv, 1.6.2005)
    - Jewishness versus democracy - By Azmi Bishara
    - Is Israel a democracy
    - U.S. State Department report on International Religious Freedom: �Arabs in Israel...are subject to various forms of discrimination.. (the government)  does not provide Israeli Arabs...with the same quality of education, housing,  employment opportunities as Jews.�
    - Ronnie Kasrils, minister for intelligence in the South African government and of the Jewish faith: "The Palestinian minority in Israel has for decades been denied basic equality in health, education, housing and land possession, solely because it is not Jewish. The fact that this minority is allowed to vote hardly redresses the rampant injustice in all other basic human rights. They are excluded from the very definition of the 'Jewish state', and have virtually no influence on the laws, or political, social and economic policies.  Hence, their similarity to the black South Africans under apartheid." (The Guardian, 25 May 2005)
    - "The Committee UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights notes with grave concern that the Status Law of 1952 authorizes the World Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency and its subsidiaries, including the Jewish National Fund, to control most of the land in Israel, since these institutions are chartered to benefit Jews exclusively. Despite the fact that the institutions are chartered under private law, the State of Israel nevertheless has a decisive influence on their policies and thus remains responsible for their activities. A State party cannot divest itself of its obligations under the Covenant by privatizing governmental functions. The Committee takes the view that large-scale and systematic confiscation of Palestinian land and property by the State and the transfer of that property to these agencies constitute an institutionalized form of discrimination because these agencies by definition would deny the use of these properties to non-Jews. Thus, these practices constitute a breach of Israel's obligations under the Covenant. http://www.unhchr.ch:80/tbs/doc.nsf/Symbol/df35bf5b5ee94d01802566d5003dd6cd?Opendocument
    - �The Israeli-Arab sector suffers from discrimination with regards to government services�, outgoing Israeli Northern Police District chief, Commissioner Ya�akov Borovsky to Maariv newspaper, 8/31/04 http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=printArticle&articleID=10778
    - Israel's Strategic Threat by NEVE GORDON (on the persecution of anyone trying to change Israel to a democratic state for its citizens), The Nation, 4/30/07
    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070430/gordon
    - "Unrecognized Palestinians" (on the racism and oppression of Palestinians within the "Green line"/Palestine 1948) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6719
    - Israel: Multiple patterns of internal displacement affect several ethnic and religious groups.  Summary report in PDF: http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/179CDBD849DB9626C125734700336ADC/$file/Israel_Overview_Aug 07.pdf
    Full report in PDF: http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/19DE321CE3CA6F50C125734700346BA5/$file/Israel+-August+2007.pdf
    - Palestinians in Israel: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet By Anton Shammas
    http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol3no1/palest.html

  • Israel does not torture Palestinian Prisoners in violation of the Geneva Conventions
    -http://www.stoptorture.org.il/eng/
    -Israeli torture specialist telling lies
    -Truth on Torture by Amnesty International

  • Zionists believe in and allow free speech
    - The case is closed: How human rights activists are targeted

  • Zionism was a response to anti-Semitism
    - I urge everyone top read Lenni Brenner's book "51 Documents: History of Nazi-Zionist Collaboration".  Here is an example of a message to Nazi germany asking for alliance by a group led by a future Prime Minister of Israel (Menachem Begin) and a leader of Likud (Sharon's party).
    - FDR, Ruth Gruber and me: Zionists stymie WWII rescue plan, by Ronald Bleier October 2006 http://desip.igc.org/FDRGruberAndMe.html
    - See also http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/kasztner_intro.htm
    - http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner05252005.html
    - There are lots more data.  A summary is in Chapter 6 of my book.

  • Zionists do not deny other peoples sufferings (other than Palestinians)
    The long term denial and lobby against recognition of the Armenian Genocide remains the classic example.
    http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=No_Place_for_the_Anti-Defamation_League

  • Israel is not an apartheid regime
    - Read the study:  Apartheid; Ancient, Past, and Present: Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, Vienna: Gesellschaft f�r Ph�nomenologie und kritische Anthropologie, 2007, 3 rd edition, http://www.dada.at/gems/gesellschaft/Apartheid.pdf
    - "Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria," By Chris McGreal,  The Guardian, February 7, 2006
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/07/southafrica.israel
    -In March 2002, former attorney-general, Michael Ben-Yair even admitted Israel�s apartheid essence: �We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one �progressive, liberal�in Israel; and the other�cruel, injurious�in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day.�
    -The collaboration between apartheid Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa. "During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem. In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift of friendship - A-bomb technology" http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1704037,00.html
    - http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1703245,00.html
    -"Disengagement in Gaza, Consolidation in the West Bank".. Ariel Sharon and his right hand man Dov Weisglass
    -"Us here, them there" Ehaud Barak
    -Arnon Sofer calls for an explicit policy of "geographic separation and ethnic separation" to solve the "demographic problem"
    -From former Israel Attorney General Michael Ben Yair who wrote on 3/3/2002: "We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupie territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one - progressive, liberal - in Israel; and the other - cruel, injurious - in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day.
    -Desmond Tutu on israeli apartheid http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1957644.stm
    Apartheid Israel: A Beacon of Hope? By Prof. VIRGINIA TILLEY Counterpunch, 5 December 2006 http://counterpunch.org/tilley12052006.html
    - Shulamit Aloni, a former minister of education in Israel, confirms, in an article in the Israeli daily, the aparheid nature of Israeli policies: "The US Jewish Establishment's onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the government of Israel practises a brutal form of Apartheid in the territory it occupies. Its army has turned every Palestinian village and town into a fenced-in, or blocked-in, detention camp...... .....Indeed Apartheid does exist here. ...." { Yediot Acharonot, Jan. 5, 2007}
    - Derek Tozer, an Israeli thinker, stated: "The official policy of the government (of Israel) is unequivocal. Arabs, like the Jews in Nazi Germany, are officially �class B� citizens, a fact which is recorded on their identity cards."
    - The late Professor Israel Shahak, a Holocaust survivor and chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, summed it up accurately in his statement: "It is my considered opinion that the state of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term. In this state, people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement." (Quote taken from "The Racist Nature of Zionism and of the Zionist State of Israel", an article published in Pi-Ha�aton, the weekly newspaper of the students of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1975.)

  • Israel won the confrontation with Hizballah in summer 2006
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ12Ak01.html
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ13Ak01.html
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ14Ak01.html

  • Muslims cannot assimilate in Western countries
    On Muslims in America: "Assimilation is Not a Disappearing Act"

  • Jihad and Mujahideen refers to violence against infidels/non-muslims
    - Partial Translation of Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 37: Book 37, Number 4330: Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:
    The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The best jihad in the path of Allah is (to speak) a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.
    http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/037.sat.html#037.4330

  • Israeli academics are generally liberals who support human rights
    Silence means a boycott is justified: Israeli academics are not standing up for their Palestinian counterparts, and a boycott is the best way forward, says Amjad Barham
    Thursday May 24, 2007  http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2087130,00.html

  • Israel seeks peace with Syria
    Operation peace for the winery: Israel does not want peace with Syria by Gideon Levy http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769339.html
    CCR client Maher Arar was changing planes at JFK on his way home to Canada from a family vacation when he was detained by the U.S. authorities (themselves collaborating with Israel) and 'rendered' to Syria, where he was tortured and held for nearly a year video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufVGy

  • Media has been biased against Israel
    The reverse is true.  There are lots of objective and documented evidence to the bias against Palestinians.
    Great analysis with statistical data  is found at http://ifamericansknew.org
    Buying the War on Palestinians: The US Media, The New York Times and Israel by Patrick O'Connor http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=12742

  • Boycotts and Divestment are immoral and anti-Semitic
    - Visit Boycotts and Divestment for compilations of websites and information

  • Zionism represent Jews or at least mainstream Judaism
    - There are literally hundreds of books on the subject of Jewish Anti-Zionism. A Statement to the 1919 Peace Conference by prominent U.S. Jews (including one Congressman): "We raise our voices in warning and protest against the demand of the Zionists for the reorganization of the Jews as a national unit, to whom, now or in the future, territorial sovereignty in Palestine shall be committed. This demand not only misrepresents the trend of the history of the Jews, who ceased to be a nation 2000 years ago, but involves the limitation and possible annulment of the larger claims of Jews for full citizenship and human rights in all lands in which those rights are not yet secure. For the very reason that the new era upon which the world is entering aims to establish government everywhere on principles of true democracy, we reject the Zionistic project of a ��national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.�� ...As to the future of Palestine, it is our fervent hope that what was once a "promised land" for the Jews may become a "land of promise" for all races and creeds, safeguarded by the League of Nations which, it is expected, will be one of the fruits of the Peace Conference to whose deliberations the world now looks forward so anxiously and so full of hope. We ask that Palestine be constituted as a free and independent state, to be governed under a democratic form of government recognizing no distinctions of creed or race or ethnic descent, and with adequate power to protect the country against oppression of any kind. We do not wish to see Palestine, either now or at any time in the future, organized as a Jewish State
    Quoted in Roselle Tekiner, Samir Abed-Rabbo and Norton Mezvinsky, eds., Anti-Zionism: Analytical Reflections, (New York: Amana Books, 1988). http://www.codoh.com/zionweb/ziondark/zionopp01.html

  • Arabs oppress women
    - The forgotten �-ism�: An Arab American Women�s perspective on Zionism, Racism, and Sexism http://www.awsa.net/forgottenism.pdf

  • Zionsits have been honest(Many more lies uncovered)
    - 12 Conventional lies by Uri Avnery http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story658.html
    - Zionist Rabbi fakes his own stabbing
    - Delusional fabrication: Propaganda tools of Israel and American Zionists By Paul J. Balles
    French women sentenced for faking anti-Semitic attack
    "The IDF acknowledged Friday that Israeli gunfire was responsible for the wounding of the American photographer shot last week in Bethlehem. Yola Monakhov, 26, was on assignment for The Associated Press last Saturday when she was shot in the abdomen. She suffered extensive internal injuries and fractures to the pelvis .....Previously, the army said it had no evidence of a journalist being shot that afternoon. An army spokesman, Yarden Vatikay, had said a soldier fired only one live round very accurately at the leg of a Palestinian man. The army also had suggested that Monakhov may have been shot by a Palestinian bullet." Associated Press November 17, 2000
    - "The (Israeli military psychological warfare) unit's activities have been controversial for years. In October 1999, Aluf Benn revealed in Haaretz that members of the unit used the Israeli media to emphasize reports initiated by the unit that it managed to place in the Arab press. He reported that the news reports focused on Iranian and Hezbollah involvement in terror activity. Psychological warfare officers were in touch with Israeli journalists covering the Arab world, gave them translated articles from Arab papers (which were planted by the IDF) and pressed the Israeli reporters to publish the same news here." IDF reviving psychological warfare unit, Haaretz 1/25/05 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/531712.html
    - Mossad Exposed in Phony Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper
    - Israeli torture specialist telling lies
    - In an article in USA Today titled "Let our kids alone, Arafat told," Matthew Kalman reported (December 8, 2000) that "In a rare letter of protest sent this week to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian women's group demanded that the Palestinian Authority stop using children as cannon fodder."  He goes on to state that this group is a Women Union in Tulkarem.� I took the liberty to investigate this outrageous claim and the messages I got so far from Women Associations in the West Bank in general and Tulkarm in specific showed no evidence for his claim.�(contacts Suheir Azzouni watcorg@palnet.com  and gupw@palnet.com (letter of Dec 19, 2000)
    - "The Secretary-General has reviewed the report by the Investigation Team from the Secretariat which has inquired into the Israeli allegations against UNRWA personnel. The Secretary-General takes note of the Team's conclusion that the allegation that a rocket was loaded into an UNRWA ambulance was unjustified as the object, in fact, was a folding stretcher of the type carried as normal equipment in UNRWA ambulances. He also takes note that, following the Team's visit, the Government of Israel has admitted that it wrongly identified the stretcher as a Qassam Rocket and has publicly withdrawn the allegations." SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES ISRAEL'S WITHDRAWAL OF ROCKET ALLEGATION AGAINST UNRWA Report, UN News, 27 October 2004
    - Darfur used for Israeli PR efforts http://ww4report.com/node/2582
    - Israel use of "targeted killing" is defended by Israeli spokesperson but is extrajudicial executions that are illegal under international law (see reposrts by Human rights organizations like Amnesty, Human Righst Watch etc)
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    U.S. Army Officers Say: 'Mossad May Blame Arabs

    " In what may be part of a systematic effort by Israeli internal security forces to use journalism as a cover for intelligence-gathering, agents from Israel's General Security Services, also known as the Shin Bet, impersonated a veteran Israeli television news correspondent."
    Committee for the Protection of Journalists, 1997

    Statement by prominent American Jews to the Paris peace conference 1919 stating their opposition to a Jewish state

    IS CRITICISM OF ISRAEL ANTI-SEMITIC? Shooting the messengers http://MondeDiplo.com/2007/09/06carter

    Whose arming Israel? (a concise report that could be made into a flyer)

    "I have always said that if the deepest and profoundest hope symbolizing redemption is the re-building of the Jewish Temple . . . then it is obvious that those mosques (al-Haram al-Sharif and al-Aqsa) will have, one way or another, to disappear one of these days . . . Had it not been for Deir Yasin - half a million Arabs would be living in the state of lsrael. The state of Israel would not have existed. We must not disregard this, with full awareness of the responsibility involved. All wars are cruel. There is no way out of that. This country will either be Eretz Israel with an absolute Jewish majority and a small Arab minority, or Eretz Ishmael, and Jewish emigration will begin again if we do not expel the Arabs one way or another". (Israel Eldad (Scheib), leader of LEHI terror group with Shamir. 'On the Spirit That Was Revealed in the People', De'ot, Winter 1968; as quoted in Davis and Mezvinsky (eds.) Documents from Israel (1967-1973, pp.l86-7).

    Besides the lies, there is what is not permitted to be told.  Facts long suppressed
    Huntleigh USA that oversaw security at Newark and Boston airports during 9/11/01 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli company called International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) International N.V., a Netherlands-based aviation and transportation security firm headed by Israelis.

    Other lies (we will collect documents on these in due time)

    Palestinians (e.g. the Mufti of Jerusalem) supported Hitler because they hated Jews.

    Israel attacked Lebanon in the summer of 2006 because Arabs were holding Israeli soldiers captive.  These soldiers had never strayed onto Lebanese territory.

    There is no partner for peace
    Arab League proposal)

    Israel accepted partition plan
    Israel didn't accept the partition plan/ they violated it immediately)

    We left Gaza only to continue to be attacked"

    Palestinian Muslims are responsible for any measurable decrease in the Christian population of the occupied areas