The truth is setting the Mideast free. Israel’s detractors should catch on

T. Belman. the NATIONAL POST is a mainstream Canadian newspaper. Good to see it is publishing articles like this one.

Patience has worn thin over Palestinian and UN hypocrisy

By Avi Benlolo, NATIONAL POST 19.8.22

Just two weeks ago I wrote about the UN Commission of Inquiry being caught red-handed in the proverbial antisemitic cookie jar. The notoriously anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council and its inquisition were decloaked after one commissioner made antisemitic remarks in a media interview, stating that social media is largely controlled by the “Jewish lobby.” It was a gift because it spotlighted the extraordinary bias of the UNHRC. This week, we were handed two more examples that demonstrate to the world without a shadow of a doubt the laughable absurdity of those who demean, defame and attempt to delegitimize the State of Israel.

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Speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a press conference during a visit to Berlin on Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas elicited international outrage when he said Israel had committed “50 massacres in 50 Palestinian villages. … Fifty slaughters. Fifty Holocausts.”<
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His remarks were in reply to a reporter’s question about the massacre by Palestinian militants of 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer 50 years ago during the Munich Olympics. Abbas accentuated the word “Holocaust” in English to drive it home.

Drive it home he did, eliciting harsh reactions. Scholz tweeted, “I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust.”

Similarly, the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, called Abbas’s statement “unacceptable,” tweeting that “Holocaust distortion can have dangerous consequences and fuels antisemitism.”Abbas, who is in his 17th year of power despite being elected for only a four-year term, also succeeded in pushing away a possible peace partner should Israel’s interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, be elected in the country’s upcoming election. Lapid called Abbas’s remarks “not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children. History will never forgive him.”

Israeli journalist Caroline Glick went so far as to tweet that “2-state-solution supporters will have to deal with the fact that the man they pin their hopes on, the “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas, is a Holocaust denying, Nazi-style Jew hater who is also a terrorist and an embezzler.” Too little too late, Abbas tried to walk back his remarks by acknowledging in a statement issued by aides that the “Holocaust is the most heinous crime in modern human history.”

Here is the truth: The stronger and less isolated Israel of today has completely left its detractors in the dust. The more shallow and ignorant Israel’s detractors are, the more they are becoming global pariahs for their false narratives. The world has had enough of falsehoods. Scholz also flatly rejected Abbas’s attempt to call Israel an apartheid state, responding directly to the Palestinian president by saying, “I want to say explicitly at this point that I do not adopt the word apartheid as my own and that I do not think it is right to describe the situation.”

Previously, I wrote about a “seismic shift” that is happening in the entire region. I said people have little patience for wasted energy focused on hate and that “those who truly seek out peace will work toward those goals by promoting tangible solutions, not sowing discord” among people and nations, as is being done by Abbas.

Recognizing its own isolation over the past decade, Turkey is also joining Israel in the region’s peace initiatives. In a press release on Wednesday, President Tayyip Erdogan announced that he had spoken with Lapid and that both countries were reappointing ambassadors to represent them. The release explicitly stated that Erdogan “expressed his pleasure over the advancement of the relations within the framework agreed upon during Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s visits to Turkiye.” Unlike before, the recent conflict in Gaza had no detrimental impact on Turkey’s rapprochement.

An acceptance of Israel and the rejection of false narratives is becoming commonplace. Patience has worn thin over Palestinian and UN hypocrisy. The truth is setting the Middle East free. It’s time for Israel’s detractors to catch on.

August 20, 2022 | 2 Comments »

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  1. Well put, Carl. The “ethnic legitimacy” that they seek by calling themselves Palestinian is the cornerstone of all the propaganda against the State of Israel. Developed by former members of the Goebbels team, who took refuge after the war in Egypt and in the Soviet Union. It was a brilliant ploy and now underpins the libel that calls Israel “colonizers”; this is the source of the BDS movement — which, while not being economically effective, is nonetheless the source of both the delegitimization of Israel AND the pretext for the antisemitism in North America, on the streets and in the schools and universities.

  2. Please get in the habit of saying “Palestinian Arab” instead of “Palestinian”. Calling them “Palestinians” gives them an ethnic legitimacy which they do not have. “Palestinian” is only a geographical term denoting residents of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and including all residents, not only Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs are not a separate people. By their own words, they are part of the Arab nation and the Muslim Nation.

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