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The Palestinians are to Israel as Russia is to Ukraine

The Palestinians are reported to be furious that attention has been fixed on the Ukrainians under assault by Russia, rather than on the only subject the world should ever be focused on – the Zionist criminals who make life a living hell for them, the Palestinians. Judging by some of the coverage, they need not worry.

A report on how Israel and “Palestine” are brought into the coverage of Ukraine and Russia is here: “Ukraine and Israel: How to compare the incomparable,” by Masha Gabriel, JNS, March 13, 2022:

To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, every peaceful country is alike; every war-torn country is war-torn in its own way. But to hear many analysts in the media tell it, the current crisis in Ukraine is no different from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Thus, for example, a former Peruvian congressman with more than 125,000 followers asked on Twitter: “The [Russians’] lack of respect for international law is the sole responsibility of the United Nations, the United States and the United Kingdom by allowing genocidal massacres of Palestinian children with impunity. Now there is no one to establish order. Don’t complain.” In other words, if in the name of outdated imperialism, Putin decides to invade a sovereign country, then it is the fault of world powers who failed to keep those genocidal Jews in check.

How many of the benighted Peruvian’s 125,000 Twitter followers believe him when he writes about “the genocidal massacres [by Israel] of Palestinian children with impunity”? Too many, I’m afraid. These lies are stated with such conviction to a public that has already been receiving its coverage of Middle East news from such sources as Al Jazeera and the two Palestinian news agencies, Wafa and Ma’an, whose reports are then spread through social media by the worldwide army of Israel-haters. 

But if this attitude is not surprising among those who openly devote their time and energies to lying about Israel, it is surprising when it is journalists or so-called professional analysts who spread these outlandish charges. Palestinian population figures and life expectancy data quickly disprove claims of genocide. Yet too many analysts, who should know better, never bring up the relevant data. Instead, some now seek to take advantage of Russia’s invasion in order to draw absurd parallels with Israel’s alleged wrongdoing.

Journalists who cover the Israel-Palestinian conflict are often self-selected; they choose to cover that conflict because their minds are already made up before they even go out to the Middle East, about how terrible the Jewish state is, and how the poor Palestinians, as a common refrain has it, “deserve to have their story told.” But their story is told all over the place, up hill and down dale; search for “Palestinian” and you will get 390,000,000 hits. Their story is being told, all right. 

The charge of “genocide” is easily refuted by the figures on the growth in the Palestinian population and life expectancy. In 1949, there were 150,000 Arabs living in Israel; now there are 2 million; in 1967, there were 900,000 Arabs living in the West Bank; now there are 3.1 million.

In 1949, there were 141,000 Arabs living in Gaza, today there are 2,048,000. Genocide? What “genocide”? Were Israel bent on “genocide,” it would not be pouring $16 billion into health care, housing, and education for Israeli Arabs. Were Israel interested in “genocide,” it would not be treating hundreds of thousands of Arabs in Israeli hospitals. 

Among the Palestinians who have been treated by Israeli doctors are Mahmoud Abbas, his wife, his brother, and his brother-in-law. In October 2014, just two months after Hamas started a war with Israel in which it launched more than 10,000 missiles at civilian targets, Sarah Haniyeh, the daughter of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, was treated at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital following complications she suffered in a Gaza hospital. Around the same time, Hamas leader Haniyeh’s mother-in-law and granddaughter also left Gaza for treatment in Israeli hospitals.

When Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief propagandist against Israel for decades, came down with Covid, he insisted on being treated In an Israeli hospital, Ein Kerem Hadassah. If Israel were committing “genocide,” would all of these leaders of the P.A. and Hamas have insisted on being treated, and having their relatives treated, by Israeli doctors?

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Mike Galarneau 17:39 18.03.2022
FJB ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
Rhoda Wright 07:31 17.03.2022
Angels of the world ๐Ÿ˜‡ God bless Israel
Dennis Bell 06:14 17.03.2022
They arenโ€™t important. Not a single Muslim country want them after ww2 only the land. Still no one cares about them.
Patricia Maple 06:09 17.03.2022
People are so fast to believe anything. True or not some just don't care to check facts. Foolish. Bless Israel
Anna Payton 05:54 17.03.2022
What you do to Israel will be done unto you. Israel is forever
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