Free Republic

Palestinianism recurring pattern is to accuse the victim of the very crime that the accuser attempted to commit but failed to carry out. The earliest known false accusation of so called "genocide" against Israel by a senior Palestinian leader appears to have come from Farouk Kaddoumi in May 1974—just days after the Ma'alot massacre, in which Palestinian terrorists murdered Israeli schoolchildren and other civilians. As Israel responded by striking terrorist targets in Lebanon, Kaddoumi accused the state of "genocide," [link] establishing a pattern that continues to this day: portraying Israel's defensive actions as atrocities while downplaying or obscuring the terrorism...

35 Years After by Ari Bussel While in Israel, I was invited to visit the old cemetery of Tsfat. Major restoration work is taking place there, alongside a hillside spread with stones. Underneath are hundreds of graves. Over the centuries, their tombstones became rubble, washed away by rain, exposing some of the graves underneath. This was my opportunity to learn that all tombstones in a Jewish cemetery face East, thus all headrests are aligned, row after row, toward Jerusalem. A separate section of the cemetery is the final resting place of a group of school children murdered 35 years ago...

It was a different age. It was a different Israel. It was a different Israeli Labor party and a different Israeli Left.May 5 was the 28th anniversary of the Maalot Massacre in northern Israel. The massacre followed only shortly after the Israeli Labor Party produced the debacle of the early stages of the Yom Kippur War, where Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan chose to ignore all warnings that the Arabs were about to attack and refused to mobilize the reserves. But it was still a different Israel Labor Party from that of Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres. It was...