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COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #13

MYTH:

Hamas is necessary for the palestinian-arab defense.

FACT:

Since 1997, Hamas is recognized as designated terrorist organization according to the U.S. Department of state

The Hamas Charter reads the following:
The time(16) will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad(17), which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim)(18)

Hamas was NOT established in order to defend Palestinian-Arabs. Hamas was established in order to murder Jews and destroy Israel.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #12

MYTH:

JEWS ARE NOT INDIGENOUS TO ISRAEL.

FACT:

Jews, not Arabs, are Israel’s indigenous people. Jews are from Judea (Israel). Arabs are from Arabia.

Jews are Israel’s indigenous people building the First Temple in Jerusalem, the capital of their country Judea (Israel), in the 10th century BC. Arabs, arriving from Arabia, and did not appear in Israel/Judea until the 7th century BC. All other early groups in the land a la Jebusites, Phoenicians and Philistines, etc., have long since vanished.

Islam did not exist when the Jewish people made Israel their state and Jerusalem their capital. Palestinian Arabs are descended from Islamic Arabia, not from any long vanished group a la Jebusites. Jews are from Judea (Israel). Arabs are from Arabia. There has never been an established Arab, Islamic, or Palestinian-Arab state in Israel.

COMMON MYTHS & FACTS #11

MYTH:

europe supported zionism because of guilt over the holocaust.

FACT:

The chronological proximity of the Holocaust and Israel’s establishment has led many people to assume that the two events are connected and that Israel was created because of the Holocaust. Contrary to this popular belief, however, a Jewish state would probably have emerged in the land of “Palestine,” sooner or later, with or without the Holocaust.

The First Zionist Congress took place in 1897, 36 years before the Nazi party came to power in Germany.

The Jewish peoples’ hopes and aspirations to return to Zion are thousands of years old, but the modern day return of the Jewish people to Israel started nearly 40 years before WWII as Jews from across the Middle East, Europe and North America started moving to Israel.

The rise of Zionism is responsible for massive Jewish immigration into Israel. About 35,000 Jews relocated to the area between 1882 and 1903. Another 40,000 made their way to the homeland between 1904 and 1914.

In the years before and during World War II, thousands of European Jews fled to “Palestine,” or to other regions to escape hostility. After the Holocaust ended, Zionist leaders actively promoted the idea of an independent Jewish nation.

COMMON MYTHS & FACTS #10

MYTH:

Israel targets civilians and children.

FACT:

The IDF “Code of Ethics” reads as follows: IDF servicemen will use force of arms only for the purpose of subduing the enemy to the necessary extent and will limit his use of force so as to prevent unnecessary harm to human life and limb, dignity and property.

The IDF servicemen’s “Purity of Arms” is their self-control in the use of armed force. They will use their arms only for the purpose of achieving their mission, without inflicting unnecessary injury to human life or limb; dignity or property, of both soldiers and civilians, with special consideration for the defenseless, whether in wartime, or during routine security operations, or in the absence of combat, or times of peace.

A 2010 interview of Hamas leader, Fathi Hamad, confirms that Israel DID kill approximately 700 terrorist combatants, rather than “civilians” – of which the Hamas leader claims Hamas members to be included as.

Hamas fires deadly rockets from schools, hospitals, and densely populated areas knowing that Israel, like any democracy, would have to take whatever military action was necessary to stop the rockets. Hamas also knew the media would broadcast the dead Palestinian children, which Hamas uses as human shields, around the world to cause outrage directed at Israel for the cause of their deaths.

The International Crisis Group interviewed three Hamas fighters in January who said they “often fired [rockets] in close proximity to homes and from alleys, hoping that nearby civilians would deter Israel from responding”

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #9

MYTH:

Israel doesn’t represent all Jews – there are ‘non’ zionist jews.

FACT:

The vast majority of Jews believe that the State of Israel should continue to exist. But many Jews, both living in Israel and elsewhere, are in favor of a Palestinian state alongside Israel as a possible solution to the conflict.

According to the Encyclopedia of Judaism, as of 1999, the vast minority of Jewish extremists of anti-Zionism ideology is estimated to be 20,000 in Israel (0.004%) and tens of thousands in the United States and in Europe (0.0025%). With the annual growth rate of 2% in Israel, current statistics would conclude 0.0016% anti-Zionist Jews in Israel, and 0.001% in the United States and Europe.

Arabs and Palestinian-Arabs living in and around Israel typically oppose Zionism .

While the Zionist movement continues to face criticism and challenges, there’s no denying that Zionism has successfully bolstered the Jewish population in Israel.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #8

MYTH:

ZIONISM IS NAZISM.

FACT:

Zionism, by definition, is the right to self-determination of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland.

To be opposed to ANY race’s (including Jewish), right to self-determine is RACIST.

According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Drawing

MYTHS & FACTS #7

MYTH:

JEWS CREATED ISRAEL BY ETHNICALLY CLEANSING ARABS IN 1948.

FACT:

There is no evidence to support the expulsion or ethnic cleansing of Arabs.

By spreading anti-Semitic rumors of Jewish blood libels, killings of women and children etc., Palestinian leaders instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Palestinian-Arabs, until they fled leaving their homes and properties.

“The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees.” – The Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin, Feb. 19, 1949.

According to the 1948 acting chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee (AHC), the Arabs living in Palestine willingly chose to leave rather than to submit to a truce.

MYTHS & FACTS #6

MYTH:

If some Palestinians behave badly, it is only out of desperation.

FACT:

There are hundreds of groups worldwide that are actively seeking independence and usually under far worse conditions, with far fewer options than the Palestinians.

If any of these groups were offered a state, as Palestinians were offered several times already (see Fact #2), it is highly unlikely that they would have turned it down.

Compared to practically any other group that seeks statehood, Palestinians have far less reason to feel desperate, yet they are extensively involved in terrorism. Hamas even admits to targeting civilians while predictably claiming to have excuses to do it. Examples include the killing of American student in Israel, Taylor Force, leading to the Taylor Force Act being enacted in the US in 2018. “Desperation” is not an excuse for MURDER.

Palestinian terrorism continues because Palestinian leadership can afford to put at risk international aid by accepting any solution until they can get what their terrorist organizations have always openly demanded – the destruction of the Jewish state.

COMMON MYTHS & FACTS #5

MYTH:

Israel commits genocide against palestinians.

FACT:

The narrative Israel commits “genocide against the Palestinians,” “Israel exterminates the Palestinians,” “Israel commits mass murder of the Palestinians,” Israel “ethnically cleanses the Palestinians,” and “Israel is a Nazi state,” (implying Israeli extermination of Palestinians), Israel supporters/Zionists are “genocide-sympathetic,” are all false and malicious blood libels, and anti-Semitic statements.

“From the regional demographic standpoint, since Israel’s entry into the West Bank areas of Judea and Samaria and into Gaza in 1967, the Palestinian Arab population has increased from 954,898 to 4,654,421. This indicates an increase of 387% of the Palestinian-Arab population since 1967.

Ma’an News Agency, a Palestinian news agency, reported in 2011 that since Israel’s independence in 1948, the Palestinian population had grown at an average of 3.4% yearly growth rate, – higher than the average world population growth, which varied between 0.8% and 2.1% during the same period.

COMMON MYTHS & FACTS #4

MYTH:

Jewish settlements in the ‘West Bank’ are Illegal.

FACT:

The United States recognizes the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank to be consistent with international law.

Since there has never been a sovereign state of “Palestine” prior to 1948 or 1967, there cannot legally be an “occupation of Palestinian lands” by Israel according to the Hague Convention of 1907.

Israel already has legal claim to Judea, Samaria, and Eastern Jerusalem, Israel has the right to build Jewish communities in disputed territory in Area C until a final peace agreement is signed with the Palestinian Authority.

COMMON FACTS & MYTHS #3

MYTH:

Israel is an apartheid/racist state.

FACT:

All ethnicities, including Arabs, are treated equally in Israel.

Freedom of religion is also guaranteed and strictly enforced, and so is protection of holy sites of all religions.

Israel also guarantees freedom of assembly, movement, and voting to all citizens, including Arabs.

There are a dozen Arabs in the Knesset (Parliament) and an Arab judge of the Supreme Court.

Arabs are very well represented in Israeli universities, both among students and staff.

The dispossession and ethnic cleansing of nearly one million Jewish refugees was done under the color of law and today there are very few Jews remaining in most Arab countries.

COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #1

MYTH:

Israel can end the conflict by withdrawing from the ‘West Bank’/Settlements are the biggest challenge for peace.

FACT:

In efforts of withdrawing “land for peace,” Israel left Gaza in 2005. Since then, instead of utilizing the opportunity to build economic growth in the area, Palestinian leaders spent their resources producing thousands of continuous rockets to be fired from Gaza into Israel and several tunnels built to try to infiltrate Israel.

If Israel withdrew from Judea & Samaria, the land would be controlled by terrorists. The current Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank provides ongoing funding to President Mahmoud Abbas, who admittedly pays salaries to terrorists, while knowing the extent of the corruption of his regime and its lack of democracy.

Until Palestinian leaderships agrees to a solution that provides Israel the security it requires, Israel’s shared presence in Judea & Samaria is just.