Against Genocidal Enemies, Israel Seeks Peace And Fights Fairly

American Thinker ^ | 02/19/2024 | Henry Kopel

[SeekAndFind]

Of all the world’s countries, just one faces an endless public battle over its “right to exist”: Israel. Even countries that have committed genocides with victims numbering in the millions—Turkey, Germany, Russia, China—face no such challenge. And countries whose foundings caused the uprooting and exile of millions more—like Pakistan and modern India—also face no such challenge.

So why Israel, and only Israel? The true answer is a tsunami of false propaganda produced by Israel’s detractors and circulated by biased commentators. This includes a torrent of human rights activists and journalists publicly accusing Israel of ruthlessly occupying and oppressing people in Gaza and the West Bank and, now, of committing genocide in Gaza.

Such indictments ignore a mountain of confounding facts.

At least nine times in the past century, both Israel and its pre-state leaders sought or conducted negotiations with Arab leaders to establish “two states for two peoples”—in 1937, 1948, 1967, 1979, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2008, and 2019. At least six such overtures involved explicit offers for a state alongside Israel. Leaders in Gaza and the West Bank not only rejected all those statehood offers but each time commenced or resumed terror campaigns to destroy Israel.

Image: Hamas children’s television. YouTube screen grab.

When the U.N. recognized the nation Israel in 1948—and offered Arabs in the British mandate their own state alongside Israel—the Arab leaders instead launched a war to kill every last Jew in the region, as five Arab countries invaded Israel. Israel’s leaders urged the Arabs within its assigned borders to remain, with the guarantee that they would have equal rights. Instead, Arab leaders successfully urged the Arabs within the new nation’s borders to flee in order to clear the field for their intended mass slaughter of the Jews.

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Since 1948, all Arab leaders—including both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas—have indoctrinated the people in their control to have genocidal hatred for Jews and Israel while glorifying mass killers of Jews as their greatest of heroes. The daily drumbeat of such propaganda throughout their schools, media, mosques, and civic ceremonies has created the world’s most powerful ideological ecosystem for the mass production of terrorists.

And despite not having had a single day of complete peace since 1948, when one of Britain’s top military leaders, Col. Richard Kempt, thoroughly scrutinized the Israel Defense Force, he concluded it was “the world’s most moral army.” Col. Kemp’s assessment emphasized Israel’s extraordinary efforts, unprecedented in the history of warfare, to protect civilians from harm. This has been manifested yet again in Israel’s response to Hamas’s genocidal attacks of October 7.

[USA-FRANCE]

Israel and Ukraine are fighting off terrorism as much as they possibly can. But it’s tough!

Israel is surrounded by +100 million islamists...
Ukraine is being invaded by Russia, a hyper military power which country is 30 times bigger than Ukraine...

[Rummyfan]

Of all the world’s countries, just one faces an endless public battle over its “right to exist”: Israel. Even countries that have committed genocides with victims numbering in the millions—Turkey, Germany, Russia, China—face no such challenge. And countries whose foundings caused the uprooting and exile of millions more—like Pakistan and modern India—also face no such challenge.

What to do with the Jews? No one wants them. Okay, let them establish a nation of their own - actually reestablish that nation - and they can live there (and thrive). But wait.... what right do they have to such a nation? And the debate goes on and on and on. And don't be fooled by the anti-Zionist / anti-Semitic divide; it is all anti-Semitism. Treat Israel as all other nations are treated and respected within the international community.

[Nateman]

...So why Israel, and only Israel? ...

#1. Envy. People hate Jews because no matter what restrictions they place upon them they come out in top . #2. Islam. Jew hate is built into the Koran. Combine that with the command to force the rest of the World into Islam and you get what we have now.

[allendale]

When an enemy attacks your country, kills unarmed civilians and seizes your women, you are in a state of war. If you wish to win and not be killed terms like “fight fairly” are relative. Its the type of war that either you win or de facto surrender.

[Uncle Miltie]

Settler colonialist arabs should return to Arabia from which they launched their wars of conquest against the indigenous Jews in their ancestral homeland of Israel.

[gitmo]

[faithhopecharity]

the headline about how Israel seeks peace and defends herself fairly and with (tremendous) humanitarian concern
is true

but it also articulates how downright stupid the Israeli governments have been....
as Albert Einstein himself pointed out, repeating a losing strategy is stupid