Israel is Committing Genocide
Since Israel gained control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, the Palestinian Arab population there has increased from under a million in 1967 to nearly five million today. Gaza’s population leapt from 394,000 in 1967 to an estimated 2.3 million people today. Charges that Israel is committing “genocide” are nonsense, and are merely an attempt to demonize Israelis and Jews.
British Col. Richard Kemp, who has 30 years’ experience battling insurgencies in Afghanistan and elsewhere, calls Israel “the most moral army in the world in the history of warfare” and notes that the high death toll in Gaza is due to Hamas’ practice of embedding its fighters in civilian homes, mosques, hospitals, and schools. “Hamas wants to maximize the death of its civilian population. The purpose is to get the international community, the United Nations, the United States and other governments around the world to condemn Israel, to vilify Israel, to delegitimize Israel and to undermine the Jewish state in that way.”
Hamas is not a partner for peace. Instead of building up Gaza, it’s spent decades stealing international aid money and building up its arsenal. Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya told the New York Times on Nov. 8, 2023 that “Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such” or to improve the situation of ordinary Gazans, but to create a state of permanent war with Israel: Hamas “did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle is to completely overthrow the situation” and create a permanent state of war.
Hamas’ own charter forbids it from pursuing peace: Peace “initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.” Hamas leader Yahyah Sinwar is said by Israeli intelligence to be hiding in Hamas’
extensive tunnel network in Gaza, surrounded by at least 20 Israeli hostages and carrying 25 kg of dynamite he would detonate if Israeli troops drew near.
Jews have lived in Israel continually for over 3,000 years. We are the only nation on earth who speaks the same language, practices the same religion, and lives by the same holy book as we did 3,000 years ago. Jews the world over pray facing Jerusalem. At the conclusion of each Passover Seder and Yom Kippur service, Jews proclaim “Next Year in Jerusalem!” Building a thriving Israel is an inspiring example an indigenous people living in their ancestral homeland.
Before Israel’s founding in 1948, it was Jews, not Arabs, who called themselves “
Palestinian.” “The Palestine Post” was a Jewish newspaper that today is “The Jerusalem Post.” The Palestine Symphony Orchestra was set up by Jews and today is the Israel Philharmonic. Before 1948, Arab residents of present day Israel traditionally referred to themselves as Arabs or Ottoman Arabs.
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