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Palestinian Propaganda Isn’t “Unraveling”
Palestinian propaganda isn’t “unraveling.” It’s taking hold and beginning to roll with a force that may be humanly impossible to stop. [The word “humanly” was edited out of the version of this editorial that was published in American Thinker, but that’s what I said and that’s what I meant.]
The word “unravel” means to come undone, but that’s not what’s happening. Palestinian propaganda is coming together, and it’s being embraced by every country bordering Israel, Arab nations in North Africa, the Iranian government, the European Union, and leftists the world over. It’s even taking hold in the U.S. If you doubt that, then try to explain why Sen. Chuck Hagel is the leading contender to replace Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense. As Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, correctly said about him,
“He [Hagel] is one of the most hostile critics of Israel that has ever been in the Senate.”
I wish I could say that Palestinian propaganda is so popular today because of sleight of hand, but that’s far from the truth. It’s as transparent as fine crystal, and it’s been presented to the world so clearly that anyone with eyes and a brain can see and understand it.
Yasser Arafat (originator of the Palestinian propaganda narrative, former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, former President of the Palestinian National Authority, and founder of the Fatah political party) was upfront about his goals from the beginning, and he told the world exactly what they were:
“Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.” (Yasser Arafat speaking on Jordanian television, September 13, 1993—the same day the Oslo Peace Accord ceremony was held in Washington D.C.)
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. Since January 1965, when Fatah was born, we have become the most dangerous enemy that Israel has….We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.” (El Mundo, Caracas, Venezuela, February 11, 1980)
And if that weren’t enough, both the Palestinian and Hamas charters call for Israel’s destruction. It doesn’t get any clearer than that.
Mahmoud Abbas, the current President of the Palestinian National Authority, hasn’t added a thing to Arafat’s narrative and neither have the leaders of Hamas. Abbas simply advanced the Palestinian cause by moving ahead in the United Nations to secure nonmember observer state status. That’s just another step toward the fulfillment of their primary objective which is and always will be the destruction of Israel.
That’s why I take issue with Salomon Benzimra. In today’s American Thinker, his blog titled “The Unraveling of the Palestinian Propaganda” misses the point, and his conclusion is dangerously off the mark:
But let’s go along [with] Makdisi’s suggestion with one inserted word, and support a “one-Jewish-state solution” from the Mediterranean to the River, as it was adjudicated under international law at the San Remo Conference on April 25, 1920, a decision never altered since.
This would close the most recent sad chapter of a nightmare that has been plaguing the region for almost a century. Once this principle is restored, the practical implementation of a real peace could be worked out for the betterment of all the populations concerned.
If words written on paper could have solved the problems that Israel faces, they would have long ago. Israel’s problem and the problem that Jewish people throughout the world face is a belief system. It’s written indelibly on the hearts and minds of people like Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and many others. In part, it has to do with the annihilation of Israel, but it also has to do with the subjugation of the entire Jewish race.
Adolf Hitler took that belief system to its logical extreme, and he instituted a policy that he hoped would solve the “problem” once and for all. He called it the Final Solution. It had to do with the extermination of the Jewish people, and that’s what we’re up against today despite what you hear, see, and read in the mainstream media.
To be sure, most of the people who adhere to that belief system today are more subtle than Hitler, but the logical extreme hasn’t changed one iota. We should never ignore that reality, and as I said, words written on paper will not make it go away.
This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared in American Thinker.
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Ezekiel 37: 1-6
The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of Yahweh and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry. He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Adonai Yahweh, You know.” Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.’ Thus says Adonai Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Hosea 4: 6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Yoram Ettinger: Arab Spring — Where to?— The following interlinked assumptions are divorced from reality: the rising tide of the Islamist forces on the Arab Street is led by politically pragmatic and moderate Islam; the surging Islamic forces aim to eschew violence, moderate the Arab Street, focus on economic growth rather than the spread of Islam and engage the U.S. strategically; the Arab Street is experiencing an “Arab Spring” whereby democracy-seeking youth, independents and moderate Islamists collaborate in the effort to topple despotic regimes.
Andrew J. Tabler and Jeffrey White: Scud Missile Strikes in Syria: Implications—The Assad regime’s use of Scud missiles over the past several days represents a dramatic escalation in its war against the rebels. Assad’s longer-range Scuds, the C and D types, can reach most of Syria from the Damascus area, where the major Scud garrisons are located.
Arsen Ostrovsky: Israel Winning in Europe—After the Palestinian vote at the UN, where the outcome was never seriously in doubt, headlines started flooding on how Israel “lost Europe.” The reality however, could not be further from the truth, considering Israel’s recent achievements. Diplomatically, the Palestinians failed where it really mattered at the UN – in the Security Council, which knocked back the application for statehood last year.
Jonathan Schanzer: After Abbas—Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is 77, a heavy smoker, and an incessant traveler. In 2010 he was admitted six times to a Jordanian hospital for unspecified health reasons. This raises the inconvenient question: Who will follow in his footsteps? Right now, the answer is Hamas. According to Palestinian Basic Law, Article 37, if the presidency of the PA becomes vacant, “the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council shall temporarily assume the powers and duties of the Presidency.” The current speaker is Hamas’ Aziz Dweik.
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Dore Gold: Syria: Incubator for al-Qaida’s next generation— Given the ideological orientation of the groups currently operating in Syria, what happens in the next few weeks will have broader implications for the rest of the Middle East and even beyond.
Dovid Efune: Netanyahu Must Double Down on Jerusalem Construction—An amazing thing happened this week. European Foreign Ministers gathered in Brussels Monday to express their strong disapproval of, and to concoct new schemes by which to tie Israel’s hands over, its decisions regarding development in the Judea and Samaria region…
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Wesley Pruden: Another low bow to radical Islam— The new manual, which runs to 75 pages, orders American military personnel to refrain from saying anything to offend the Taliban in Afghanistan, to be careful not to criticize the practice of sexual relations with children, the abuse of women, beheadings, massacres of girls and the killing of “unbelievers” and Muslims who Taliban enforcers regard as insufficiently devout in the faith. Holding to what they have been taught, whether at Sunday school or a mother’s knee, is presumably OK for American soldiers, at least for now. But they must keep such ideas to themselves.
William Sullivan: How Socialism Has Doomed France—France is now presented with a choice, and frankly, it is not so dissimilar to our own. The problem is that both options lead to disaster.
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Daren Jonescu: Ending Progressive Public Education—Why do parents willingly send their own children — their own future — to socialist reeducation camps? “From my cold, dead hands,” they proudly say of their guns. Are not their children worthy of at least so strong a grip?
Daniel J. Mitchell: New Evidence Confirms Federal Bureaucrats Don’t Work Very Hard, Paid Too Much—My Cato Institute colleague, Chris Edwards, put together a remarkable (and depressing) chart showing that federal bureaucrats get almost twice the level of compensation as workers in the productive sector of the economy.
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
