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Palestinian Arabs Never Welcomed Jews
There's a lie that needs to go: Palestinian Arabs welcomed Jews after the Holocaust and the ungrateful refugees backstabbed them and stole their land.
This is an absolute fantasy. When the Holocaust started, the Palestinians didn't offer to help the Jews. They offered to help the Nazis.
In fact, at no point in history did the Palestinian Arabs were anything but hostile to the Jews.
Mandatory Palestine was created by the British in 1920. In that year alone there were many murderous attacks against Jews. The violence against Jews has only gotten worse throughout the history of the Mandate.
Some famous attacks include:
- March 1, 1920, 9 Jews murdered in Tel Hai
- April 4, 1920, 5 Jews murdered, over 200 wounded in Jerusalem
- May 1, 1921, 47 Jews murdered, 140 wounded in Jaffa
- 24 August, 1929, 67 Jews murdered, 58 injured in Hebron
- 29 August, 1929, 18 Jews murdered, 80 wounded in Safed
- 2 October 1938, 19 Jews murdered (including 11 children)
During the war, there were pogroms all over the Arab world, including the Farhud, a murderous pogrom in Baghdad in which hundreds of Jews were murdered, over a thousand were raped or mutilated, and 900 homes were looted.
As you can see from this 1936 front page of Falastin (notice it refers to Palestine Arabs, not Palestinians), the Arabs weren't too hot on the Jews coming to the region. They certainly didn't offer any kind of shelter to persecuted Jews.
Arabs have abused and murdered Jews in the region before 1920 as well, except that it wasn’t called Palestine by the Ottoman rulers.
As one 19th century traveler remarked:
"I have seen a little fellow of six years old, with a troop of fat toddlers of only three and four, teaching [them] to throw stones at a Jew. And one little urchin would, with the greatest coolness, waddle up to the man and literally spit upon his Jewish gaberdine. To all this the Jew is obliged to submit; it would be more than his life was worth to offer to strike a Mahommedan."
Maybe Zionism is to blame?
The first Zionist congress took place in 1897. A pogrom against Jews in Safed took place in 1834. How prescient of the wise Palestinian resistance to the occupation to strike against Zionism over 60 years before it started!
But wait! There was also a pogrom in Safed in 1660, and in 1517... Come to think of it, didn’t the first Muslim massacre of Jews took place in 627 when Muhammad massacred the Banu Qurayza in a heroic battle in which 2 Muslims and 900 Jews were killed?
Seems like Zionism isn’t the problem, after all.
Maybe the kind and welcoming folks of Palestine are just vicious bigots? Nah, that’s impossible! They were the most peaceful, honest, and loving people on the planet before 1947 when they suddenly became the world’s #1 exporters of terrorism…
So please, spare us your lies.
You always hated Jews, always mistreated Jews, and you never welcomed them in Palestine.
MAR 26
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The Hamas-run
has released what it claims is a comprehensive list of all Palestinians killed during the current war.
And guess what.
Even according to Hamas's own data, combat-age males are vastly overrepresented among the casualties, demonstrating that Israel has done a remarkable job of targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad combatants and sparing uninvolved Palestinian civilians throughout the war.
According to an analysis by @levanonisrael, of the 50,021 individuals Hamas claims have been killed during the war, some 16,229—or almost exactly a third—were likely combatants.
Taking into account the possibility of female combatants or terror operatives, inaccuracies in age reporting (of which the ministry has been proven guilty in the past), and likely exaggerations (of which the ministry has also been proven guilty), the number may well be closer to 20,000.
In any event, the civilian casualty ratio in Gaza appears to be somewhere between 2:1 and 1:1 – a far cry from the 9:1 ratio reported by the UN for conflicts around the world over the past 40 years.
Again: this isn't Israeli data. It's not American data. It's Hamas data. And it demonstrates that, far from bombing Gaza indiscriminately, Israel is engaged in a highly targeted effort to eliminate the threat posed by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups in Gaza while doing whatever it can to spare civilian lives.
Every Palestinian civilian casualty is a tragedy, attributable to Hamas's heinous practice of intentionally endangering civilians by embedding itself among them, fighting from behind them, and using them as human shields.
But Israel's record throughout this war compares favorably to the records of other Western militaries that have engaged in urban warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world. Indeed, senior military officials from other countries have said repeatedly that Israel employs measures that their own militaries never have or would to protect Palestinian civilians, often putting operational objectives or the lives of Israeli soldiers at risk in the process.
This data handily disproves the most outlandish claims about Israel's conduct during the war and should be used to refute those despicable allegations.
Israel's war is just, it has been pursued justly – and Hamas's own data just proved it.