UNHRC Obsessed with Israel - Needs Behavioural Therapy!

UNHRC Obsessed with Israel - Needs Behavioural Therapy!

by Avi Ohayon

The Israeli Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Eviatar Manor, issued strong criticism Thursday against the UNHRC for its biased stance towards the Jewish state.

Speaking before the UNHRC, Manor said, "I have by now realized that this Council suffers from an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Israel, which it cannot control, and that it repeatedly produces reports, resolutions and ID’s on my country."

"I should remind you that associated with this disorder is an increased risk of suicide. This Council will bring upon itself its own demise," he warned.

"What this Council needs is behavioural therapy. The treatment includes exposure and ritual preventions. I suggest the Council exposes itself to some other pressing conflict areas with increased attention and a parallel reduction of the level of anxiety with which it considers Israel."

"UNHCR numbers are staggering: 4.8 million Syrian refugees, 13.8 million IDP’s (internally displaced persons - ed.) in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. OCHA reports that 7.6 million people in Yemen have no food security and 14 million do not have access to medical facilities."

Quoting Al Hussein, he said, "ten hospitals and other medical units have been damaged or destroyed in Syria since January - and this Council will consider 6 reports and 5 resolutions onIsrael? This is nothing but shameful and demonstrates total disregard for the human rights of millions."

"The HRC can redeem itself. It can focus on the pressing human rights situations on our globe. It can devote its time, personnel and resources in direct proportion to the severity of the crises. If it does not, it risks ending like its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, and bring about its own demise."

Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak

Arabs, Muslim and Christians, are trying to escape, in bulk, from almost every country in the Middle East and Africa, disregarding deadly dangers and humiliation of the journey. The only country in which they feel quite complacent and comfortable, and it is even not possible to evict them by force, is Israel! Those of them, living in the PA controlled areas, are also not in a rush to leave and give up the comfort of their subsidized parasitic existence, eagerly created and provided for them by the anti-Semitic international bigots!

Reality Brings Back the ‘Right’ Feeling

Israeli Jews tend to identify with right-wing and religious parties. Nearly half (48%) of all Israeli Jews said they felt closest to one of the three rightwing parties in the Knesset: the Likud (28%), Jewish Home (11%), and Yisrael Beytenu(9%). Another 15% of Israeli Jews identified with harediparties, including 12% who chose Shas, and 3% who identified with the United Torah Judaism party. (The Jews of the Diaspora, who have not received a daily dose of ‘Palestinian’ terror, are still suffering from a ‘Lefty sickness’ or ‘Galut mentality’!)

CLEAR GENOCIDAL INTENTION of IRAN

Iran test-launched two ballistic missiles emblazoned with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" in Hebrew, Iranian media reported, in a show of power by the Shiite Iran during US Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem. (This is clear message to the US and to the whole world, not that most of them care, what Iran is planning to do to Israel)

Hostile Snubbing of Netanyahu by Obama is still On!

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has canceled his annual trip to the United States after President Barack Obamadeclined to schedule a meeting with him. Netanyahu had planned a visit to the US coinciding with the annual AIPAC summit planned for March 20 through 22.

Let Begin Re-Unification of Eretz-Israel with Area-C

The Prime Minister’s brother-in-law calls for Minister Bennett to make the plan for the application of sovereignty in Area C, as the official plan of the party and states: If Netanyahu does not follow in his footsteps then people should leave Likud and support Bennett, since it would be clear that Likud is not a Zionist party.

Enemies in the Knesset

Arab MKs condemned Gulf Arab states for blacklisting the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah as a terror group. “Countries from the Arab world decided to recognize Hezbollah as a terror group. This is an important development. Even amazing,” Netanyahu said in the Knesset "But what’s no less amazing is that two (Arab) parties here in the Knesset condemned the decision." Hezbollah is openly committed to destroying Israel, and has an estimated 100,000-plus rockets and missiles aimed at the Jewish state.

Expell Them to Gaza or Syria

A decisive majority of Israelis, 63%, support the expulsion of the families of Arab terrorists to Gaza or Syria. Only 25% of the public are opposed. A strong majority of Israelis — 77% — think the government is not doing enough to take care of the current terror wave!

‘Ugly Nothing’ still Loves Israel-Bashing!

The UN said that the Civil Administration, the Defense Ministry agency responsible for the West Bank, ordered the razing of 41 structures in the area, which is under full Israeli military and civilian control. According to OCHA, the demolitions left 36 people homeless. (This is 0.87 person per home! Israelremoves Arabs illegal structures on Jewish land – the UN protest. When Jewish illegal structures are demolished – ‘Ugly Nazi’ is silent!)

Welcome Biden to Israel's 'Normality'

US Vice President Joe Biden was at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa last Tuesday evening as a Palestinian terrorist was less than a mile away, running along the boardwalk in the city and indiscriminately stabbing anyone he encountered. An American tourist has been killed and 10 other people wounded! (Will the US and EU declare boycott of the PA now?)

‘Barbaric’ Zionist

Arrested PA terror teens sentenced to one month at Jewish Summer Camp! The two terrorists released a joint statement in the hopes of calling the attention of the international community to their plight, which read, “We always knew the Zionist regime was brutal and had little regard for human rights…”

Iran Launches Ballistic Missiles

Missiles with range of 300-2,000km launched from silos in multiple locations in the country by Revolutionary Guards. Iranthreatened again to walk away from the nuclear agreement just hours after the ballistic missiles test. (Only Israel can stop Iranian military escalation!)

Quote of the Week:

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”- Winston Churchill

Clarification to ‘Peace Process’ Terminology

by Steven Shamrak.

Quite often Israel-bashers throw accusations and use terminology without any interest for the facts. It is done deliberately in order to create a perception of impropriety committed by the Jewish state.

At the same time they knowingly ignore: the obvious human right violations, abuse of women, slavery etc… committed by the Palestinian Authority and by many other Muslim countries. These issues are not questioned or scrutinised by the international press and Jew-haters.

Here are some examples of obscure terminology these hypocrites have been using to muddy the issues of the Arab-Israel conflict. I hope that ‘Jewish dictionary’ clarifications will bring a better understanding of the obscure terminology:

Confiscation of Arab Land

- This is Jewish land (Palestine is a part of Eretz-Israel)! The Government of Israel has right to appropriate the land in the interest of national security or accommodate need for development.

House Demolition

- Arabs have been building thousands of illegal houses, with help from Arab nations and international anti-Semites, inIsrael and territories. They must not be exempted from construction and property laws. Many countries have been using also demolition as a common practice of deterrent or punishment.

Targeted Killings

- Arab terrorists want to be rewarded by 72 virgins and to sit next to Mohammed at the table in heaven facing Allah. The Israeli army just facilitates their desire. It is better to target and kill terrorists than let innocent people die! Isn’t it better to target terrorists only and save the lives of innocent people then wait until they strike again? All other countries do it, but only Israel is criticized!

Building Jewish Settlements

- It is the right of Jewish people to live on the Jewish land of their ancestors! The Israeli government and Jews world-wide, not just Israelis, need to remember that Israel is an independent state and start behaving like one!

Administrative Detention

- It would be preferable to transfer the Arab terrorists and their extended families to Arab states as an anti-terror deterrent, but 'the world' has been making too much noise when Israel did it. Israel must stop worrying about what they think – the only way Jews can please ‘them’ it is if we all are gone!

Torture

- If it is done, it would be for the sake of saving lives, when the time factor is imperative. Israeli security prevents many Arab terrorist attacks, including random drive-by shootings, kidnappings and suicide bombings! In contrast, Arab terrorists behead and kill people for pleasure! Unfortunately, self-hating elements of the Israeli security system began using torture and administrative detention against Jewish patriots!

Relative Calm

- It is used as a sinister attempt to cover up the daily barrage of shells and rockets from the Gaza and Lebanon (before a wall was built, there used to be also many terror attacks coming from Judea and Samaria). And there are sniper attacks, drive-by shootings, knifings, stone throwing and suicide bombings in Israel! There is not a “Peace Process” inIsrael. Only a perpetual preparation for another war!

Please, for a better understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict change your vocabulary and use the Jewish dictionary!

Recommend Reading:

Modern History of Palestine in Maps

The Palestinian Mandate - Legalised Robbery

Who are so-called Palestinians?

Arab-Israel Conflict - Forgotten Facts!

Why Israel is Suspicious of United Nations

The War on Terror - Containment Plan

The Sinai Option: Road to Permanent Peace!

Re: Israel - To whom it may concern in Europe, Asia, Far East, South America, the US and elsewhere r5 - YJ Draiman

Re: Israel - To whom it may concern in

Europe, Asia, Far East, South America, 

the US and elsewhere r5

We are tired of hearing that withdrawal from Judea and Samaria will bring peace. We know and you know that it would bring another Gaza. So stop saying it and promoting this fallacy. Past experience has proven that concessions, appeasement and land for peace only increased terror, violence and more conflict and hostilities.
We are tired of hearing that land beyond the Green Line is 'Arab-Palestinian land'. The Green Line is simply an armistice line that has no political significance. You know this too. The San Remo Treaty of 1920 Granted the Mandate for Palestine to the Jewish people - it did not state any other nation or people, the same Allied powers also established 21 Arab States and one Jewish State - The Arabs are not willing to give up any part of the 21 Arab States and the Jews are not willing to give up any part of the Jewish State.
We are tired of hearing about the "Arab-Palestinian people." They are no different from the Arabs of Syria or Egypt, from which most of their ancestors migrated in the last 150 years or so. There is no Arab-Palestinian language or religion, and until very recently they considered themselves simply 'Arabs'. Their culture is almost entirely defined by their opposition to the Jewish State. Teaching hate, violence and terror to their children. There never was an Arab-Palestinian State or people in History. The Arab Palestinians have a State in Jordan which is about 80% of the land originally allocated to the Jewish people under the San Remo Treaty of 1920 and adopted by the League of Nations.
We are tired of hearing that "the Arab-Palestinians deserve a state." We are indigenous here, not them, and their behavior entitles them more to a trial at The Hague than to a State. The Arab- Palestinians have a State it is called Jordan which was carved out of Jewish allocated land in 1922, in violation of the San Remo treaty of 1920.
And they certainly don't deserve our Jewish State, which is the only State they want. They already took 80% of Jewish allocated land which is Jordan, a country that never existed in history before WWI. Israel also gave them the Gaza Strip.
We are tired of hearing about 'The Occupation', it is "Liberated Jewish Land". As Minister Naftali Bennett said the other day, you can't be an occupier in your own land. The Arabs are the occupiers, Greater Israel has been a Jewish State and the Jewish homeland for 4,000 years even if it was temporarily conquered and occupied by various nations over the centuries. The Ottoman Empire land registration records show over 90% of the land was owned by the government, the balance was owned by wealthy Arabs from Lebanon, who sold it to the Jews at premium prices.
We are tired of hearing that "settlements are illegal under international law." They are not. The San Remo Treaty of 1920 explicitly stated that Jewish people can reside anywhere in the Mandate for Palestine, those terms have not been abrogated and are set in perpetuity. It allocated The Palestine Mandate for the Jewish people. It does not state it is allocated to any other people.
We are tired of hearing that "settlement construction is an obstacle to peace." Arab rejectionism, destruction, violence, terrorism and suicide bombing is the reason there is no peace. When the Arab-Palestinians teach and preach hate, terror and destruction to their children, this is definitely not a road to peace and coexistence.
By the way, we are pro-peace. We are just not pro-suicide and self destruction.
We are tired of hearing about the 5 million (or whatever ridiculous number there are alleged to be) 'Arab-Palestinian refugees' or the 'Arab-Palestinian Diaspora'. There were about 600,000 Arabs in Palestine, about 300,000 left their homes in 1948, mostly of their own volition and about 300,000 Arabs stayed, more or less at the same time as the over million Jewish refugees from Arab countries, of which the Arabs expelled and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real Estate (120,000 sq. km. = 46,332 sq, miles, which is 5-6 times the size of Israel) valued in the trillions of dollars. We resettled ours (Jewish refugees from Arab Countries) with limited land and resources - It is time for the Arab countries to resettle yours (Arab-Palestinian refugees, on the land and homes you confiscated from the Jewish people), the 21 Arab states have more land and resources. The Arab dis-information must be ignored and countered.
We are tired of hearing anything from anyone associated with the U.N. The U.N. is a parasitic and criminal enterprise dominated by our mortal enemies. The U.N. cannot create states, it can only recommend and so can other nations only recommend and not create a state that never existed before in history. If they want an Arab-Palestinian state, it already exists, it is Jordan which has taken 80% of Jewish allocated land. They also have the land the Arabs Countries confiscated from the Jewish people which is 5-6 times the size of Israel.
We are tired of stupid post-colonialist rhetoric. We are not 'colonists' and Arabs do not have the right to murder us in the name of 'resistance' or beheading Jewish Rabbi's in Jerusalem's Har Nof Synagogue. Talking this way reveals you as moral imbeciles. They train their children to be suicide bombers and terrorists. The Arabs are the colonialists, they have colonized the whole Middle East. They are also on their way to colonize all of Europe and more.
You can not recognize a state and people that never existed and that has no borders, no single government, no currency, and no economy. They are not trusted by the Arab states either. Kuwait after the Gulf war in 1991 kicked out close to a half a million Arab-Palestinians from their country.
We know we can not depend on any kind of security guarantee from anyone except the Israel Defense Forces. So stop being insulted because we do not trust you. Thus, do not ask us to give up any nuclear weapons we might or might not have or any other methods and technology that could help protect us.
If you hate us so much, give us back all our Medical technology that saved your lives. Give us back all our technology development that helped you advance economically and the list goes on and on.
We know that the left-wing parties in Israel are bankrupt of ideas. We are not going to vote for them, no matter how much you would like us to. So do not bother trying to influence our election. We will only vote for a government that protects its people and cares about the Jewish heritage, more than it cares for world opinion.
Don't believe what you read in Ha'aretz newspaper, they represent a minority that has no allegiance to the Jewish heritage.
Jerusalem, undivided, is the capital of the Jewish State of Israel. Get used to it, because you can't change it, the Jewish temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem. It was never a Capital of any other nation.
Sincerely,
Ordinary Israelis who care about their heritage and ancestry.

The most obvious and dangerous cause of conflict and instability in the Middle East is the so-called peace process itself - YJ Draiman

The most obvious and dangerous cause of conflict and instability in the Middle East is the so-called peace process itself

Let me advance an interesting opinion: The most dangerous cause of instability in the Middle East is the so-called peace process itself.

I know this is an unusual point of view. Give me a chance to describe my theory.

By my count, there have been at least 25 major outbursts of violence between Jews and Arab-Palestinians in the Middle East since 1920.

Every one of these conflicts ended in a similar way. Either outside power imposed a ceasefire -- or else Israel halted military operations, before the campaign was accomplished and just before a ceasefire could be imposed.

Every one of these conflicts began in a similar way, too: with a renewed attack by the Arab side, or else (as in 1956 or 1967) by Arab violations of the terms of the previous armistice or ceasefire and a blockade in the Suez Canal.

Think for a minute how unusual this is. Wars usually end when one side or the other decides it cannot continue fighting. The losing side accepts terms it had formerly deemed unacceptable because the alternative -- continued fighting -- seems even worse. Wherever have you heard the vanquished calling the terms.

I doubt many Hungarians are delighted to have lost more than half their territory to neighbors in Romania and the former Yugoslavia. The Bolivians still remember the loss of their Pacific coast to Chile in 1884. Some in Indonesia continue to regard East Timor as rightfully theirs.

Yet for the most part, these nations have reconciled themselves to these unwelcome outcomes.

Exactly the opposite has occurred in the Arab-Israeli dispute.

Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, but got it back by pressuring Israel. It lost the Sinai again in 1967, and again recovered it (although this time the right way, after signing a formal peace). I might mention that when Egypt gained its independence, it did not include the Sinai.

Syria lost the Golan in 1967, attacked Israel in 1973, lost again -- and still demands the return of the territory.

Arab-Palestinians rejected the 1947 partition, resorted to war, lost, and to this day demand compensation for their losses.

It is like a game of roulette where the management stops the game whenever you begin losing too badly, with promises to refund your money as soon as it conveniently can. What gambler could resist returning to the tables?

I understand why Western governments have acted as they have. They have feared that unless they somehow smooth the situation, the world oil market will be upset and radical ideologies will spread through the Islamic world. Just like the Arab oil embargo of 1973.

What they do not see is that their efforts to contain the problem have in fact aggravated it, and accelerated the hostilities by the Arabs.

Think of this alternative history:

Suppose that the Western world had not intervened in 1949. Suppose the Israeli war of independence had been fought to the bitter end: Arab armies breaking apart and fleeing, as they have in the past, commanders laying down their arms, columns of refugees crossing the Jordan River.

The 1949 war would have ended not with an armistice, but with surrender. Arab-Palestinian refugees would have had to settle in new homes, just as the million Jews expelled from their former homes in the Arab lands resettled in Israel.

The outcome would have squelched any hope that more fighting would have yielded a different result -- and the more decisive result might have dissuaded Arab governments from any further attempts to resort to force.

Now think of another scenario.

In the 1990's, the former Yugoslavia erupted into war. New states with new borders were carved out of the old country. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. Horrific atrocities were committed. Happily, the conflict ended. The displaced adjusted to life in their new homes. Former enemies may still mistrust each other, but violence has faded and seems unlikely to return.

Suppose instead the world had agreed that one of the combatant ethnic groups -- the Serbs, say, but it really does not matter -- retained a permanent inextinguishable right to reclaim its former homes with its entire new offspring's. Suppose the world agreed to pay displaced persons from that group billions in foreign aid on condition that they never permanently resettled in the territory to which the ethnic group had moved. Suppose the world tolerated Serbian terrorist attacks on Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo as understandable reactions to injustice. The conflict and violence would continue.

Would there be peace in the former Yugoslavia today?

The Middle East peacemakers for the most part act with the highest of intentions and the most exquisite patience. But instead of extinguishing the conflict, they have prolonged it.

A peace process intended to insulate the Arab world from the pain of defeat has condemned the Arab world -- and the Arab-Palestinian people above all -- to an unending war, which is initiated by the Arabs.

Every war must end -- and end badly for at least one of the belligerents. It is time for this war to end too, and at last. May the victor be merciful?

If Israel has no right to exist, what is America's right to exist? - Draiman

If Israel has no right to exist, 

what is America's right to exist?

Both countries give the same answer: refugees and settlers from around the world came to our land and built up a nation over more than a century, making major sacrifices in blood and toil to establish a new nation based on shared ideas rather than long-time indigenous residence. If anything, Israel's claim to legitimacy is MUCH stronger than the US claim for three reasons:

1) No one claims that the Brits (and others) who settled North America were coming back to an ancestral homeland.

2) No international organization ever recognized their right to that homeland, As the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of January 1919 and as the San Remo Conference of April 1920 implemented by the League of Nations did for Israel in 1923 and the United Nations did confirm the 1920 international agreement in 1947.

3) No one can possibly claim that Israeli settlement caused a demographic disaster for the native population since the Arab-PALESTINIAN population of the country is now more than 50 times greater than it was when additional Jewish return to their homeland began in earnest in the 1880's. At no time—in no decade—did Arab-Palestinian population decline in Palestine, but the Native American population in the U.S. drastically declined (mostly through disease, by the way) from the beginning of European colonization (1607) until 1900 (when Indian numbers began a dramatic rise).

Four questions:

1) If Palestine was the ancient homeland of an ancient people with their own strong sense of national identity, can anyone name, please, the most famous Arab-Palestinians produced in those centuries and millennia of history? Who was the most celebrated of all in the long line of Arab-Palestinian kings, or viceroys, or prime ministers? Which Arab-Palestinian poet or philosopher stirred the world with his words and ideas? Which great Arab-Palestinian scientist or inventor or composer or painter achieved international or even regional renown? The inability to answer that question doesn't testify to a lack of ability or brilliance: it testifies to the synthetic, phony nature of the invented "Arab-Palestinian" identity. There were no remarkable or brilliant kings of Arab-Palestine because there were no kings of Arab-Palestine at all—no Arab nation ever existed in this area, only ill-defined pieces of various Islamic, Turkic, Byzantine and Roman empires over the course of 2,000 years. The only time any national identity existed centered on this particular piece of real estate, that national identity was Jewish: that's why the only famous "Palestinians" who ever existed were Jews, from King David to Jesus to Moses Maimonides (died in Israel in 1215) to David Ben Gurion. No "Palestinian" Arab nationalism ever existed, as distinct from Pan-Arabism, until Yasser Arafat (born in Egypt, raised in Kuwait) invented it as a pure fabrication after the June war of 1967.

2) If Arab-Palestinians merely yearn to establish their own homeland on the West Bank, Gaza and in East Jerusalem, why did they make no effort to do so—and no progress in doing so—during the twenty years when all those territories were in unquestioned Arab control (1947-1967) without a single Jewish "settler" or even resident allowed to live there? The ancient Jewish Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem, inhabited by a religious Jewish community without interruption for more than 3,000 years, had been liquidated of all Jews, with more than 50 major synagogues utterly destroyed—by explosions and bulldozers—after the Old City fell to Jordanian troops in 1949 and Jewish cemeteries destroyed and used for construction. Before the war of extermination launched by President Abdul Nasser of Egypt in May, 1967, there were ZERO Israeli communities anywhere in "Arab-Palestinian territory" but no moves toward statehood. Isn't this definitive proof that the whole purpose of "Arab-Palestinian nationalism" has nothing to do with building an Arab-Palestinian state (where one never, ever existed) but in destroying a Jewish state (which did exist in the region going back over 3,000 years ago for more than 1,000 years)?

3) Zionism and additional Jewish return to that ancient homeland began in the 1880's. Before Hitler even came to power, a half million Jews had settled permanently in today's Israel and built whole new cities where none ever previously existed (Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, was founded in 1909 on empty sand dunes, purchased from their absentee owners, and today the metro area is home to 4,000,000 Jews and more than 42% of Israel's population). Question: during all this energetic and fateful Jewish resettlement, when did the very first Arab-Palestinian refugees lose their homes and find themselves driven from their ancient patrimony? Answer: only AFTER 1948, and the war of destruction launched by local Arabs and, ultimately, their Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian Lebanese and Iraqi allies in 1948-1949. The population figures are unequivocal, undeniable, compiled not by Jews and Zionists but by Ottoman Turks, Brits, and Palestinian Arabs themselves: Jewish settlement didn't drive Arab-Palestinians from the land, but rather attracted them to it in unprecedented numbers. In fact, the Arab-Palestinian population not only increased alongside the Jewish population, but increased at faster rates: between WWI and WWII (1918-1929) the Jewish population went up by 490,000 and the Palestinian Arab population rose even quicker and went up by 588,000. Arab-Palestinian life expectancy, living standards and education levels also improved spectacularly, as measured by all international and Arab organizations.

4) If Israel is truly an alien presence imposed on the region by the imperialist, colonialist designs of the United States and its Western allies, due to the overwhelming power of conspiring Zionists and Jewish voters, then how many American troops have lost their lives or even risked their lives on Israel's behalf in the 65 years of the nation's history? Answer: absolutely zero. In none of Israel's wars did American military forces take an active role. In fact, in Israel's War of Independence (1948-49), while the young nation lost more than 1% of its total population on the battlefield (the equivalent of 3,100,000 Americans today), the Israel Defense Forces were crippled by an all-encompassing American arms embargo that prevented any material or military assistance to the Jewish state. Arab oil interests have always been more influential on shaping Western policy than Zionist pressure or pleas.

During all the years of Hitler's Holocaust (1939-45), and in the three years immediately following the war, the British government did NOTHING to help Jewish refugees who tried to flee to Israel and in fact blocked and banned their emigration entirely, arresting and deporting any Jews who attempted to enter the area of Mandatory Palestine (today's Israel, Arab-Palestinian controlled territories, and Jordan). As recently as 1967, when Egypt's dictator Abdul Nasser repeatedly announced his intention to "eliminate" the Jewish presence in the region and ordered the UN peace-keeping troops to get out of his way (they immediately complied), the US Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced to the world that America would remain "neutral in thought, word and deed" and would do nothing to rescue the threatened Jewish population.

Major US Foreign Aid to Israel didn't begin until after the October War of 1973, as part of an effort by the Nixon and Carter administrations to bribe the Israelis, basically, to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. Part of the peace agreement brokered by Carter involved promises of aide at its current levels to both Egypt and Israel. In 1967, Israel won its war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan without any American planes in its air force; the nation relied on French "Mirages" it had purchased to confront the advanced Russian MIG’s used by the other side, the Arabs.

Finally, if pro-Israel policies are the result of Jewish influence rather than American self-interest, then why do Jewish voters remain unshakably committed to the Democratic Party which has been consistently less supportive of Israel's interests than the Republicans? The most pro-Israel political figures in American history—“Mr. Republican" Bob Taft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush—NEVER attracted a majority of Jewish votes, but the most anti-Israel nominees—George McGovern and Jimmy Carter—unfailingly performed well in the Jewish community as long as they were Democrats. Since FDR, only one Democrat failed to win more than 60% of the Jewish vote: Jimmy Carter in 1980, who saw the Jewish vote split three ways (and nearly evenly) between himself, liberal independent candidate John Anderson, and Reagan. In 2012, Romney (a personal friend of Netanyahu's for 30 years) was clearly, unabashedly more pro-Israel than Obama (who had feuded publicly and bitterly with the Israeli government) but Obama still drew 70% of the Jewish vote.

As to the belief that a more pro-Arab Palestinian policy on the part of the US would lead to reduced terrorism against American targets, consider that the worst, bloodiest terrorists outrages in US history all were launched and planned under the most pro-Arab Palestinian administration in US history. Bill Clinton not only presided over the Oslo Accords, granting recognition to the Arab-Palestinian Authority, but met more frequently with Yasser Arafat than he did with any foreign leader. Yet under Clinton, Islamist terrorists plotted the first AND second World Trade Center bombings (yes, 9/11 was entirely planned and set up during Clinton), the Embassy Bombings in East Africa, Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, and so forth. Under that pro-Palestinian US regime, and the similarly pro-Arab Palestinian Israeli regimes of "peace makers" Rabin and Peres, Israeli deaths at the hands of terrorists averaged nearly 200 per year; under the "get tough" policies of Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Netanyahu, those deaths have averaged less than 20 a year.

These are facts.

Please invite any doubters to check them out, with independent sources.

The facts—and the four questions posed above—simply do not conform to the anti-Israel narrative. How, for instance, can you describe Arab-Palestinians as a people dispossessed when their population swelled and their conditions dramatically improved simultaneous to mass Jewish immigration?