Top 10 Lies About Israel

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SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: 2010 TOP TEN ANTI-ISRAEL LIES

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2010 TOP TEN ANTI-ISRAEL

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Tree thousand years beore the Holocaust, beore there was a Rom

Empire, Israel’s kings and prophets walked the streets o Jerusalem. Te whole world knows that Isaiah did not speak his prophesies romPortugal, nor Jeremiah his lamentations rom France. Revered by itspeople, Jerusalem is mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures 600 times- but not once in the Koran. Troughout its 2,000-year exile there was continuous Jewish presence in the Holy Land, with the modernrebirth o Israel beginning in the 1800s. Reclamation o the largely

vacant land by pioneering Zionists blossomed into a Jewish majority long beore the onset o Nazism.

Ater the Holocaust, nearly 200,000 Shoah survivors ound haven in

the Jewish State, created by a two-thirds vote o the UN in 1947. Soo800,000 Jews eeing persecution in Arab countries arrived. In ensuidecades, Israel absorbed a million immigrants rom the Soviet Unionand thousands o Ethiopian Jews. oday, ar rom being a vestige o European guilt or colonialism, Israel is a diverse, cosmopolitan socieullling the age-old dream o a people’s journey and ‘Return to Ziotheir ancient homeland.

Since 1967, Israel has repeatedly conceded, “ land or peace.” Following Egyptian President Sadat’s historic 1977 visit to Jerusalem and the Camp David Peace Accords, Israel withdrew rom the vast Sinai Peninsula and has been at peace withEgypt ever since.

In 1995, Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel but neither the Palestinians nor 21 other Arab states have done so. In 1993Israel signed the Oslo Accords ceding administrative control o the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority (ormerly thePLO). Te PA never ullled its promise to end propaganda attacks and drop the Palestinian National Charter’s call or

Israel’s destruction.

In 2000, Prime Minister Barak ofered Yasser Araat ull sovereignty over 97% o the West Bank, a corridor to Gaza, anda capitol in the Arab section o Jerusalem. Araat said NO. In 2008, PA President Abbas nixed virtually the same ofer romPrime Minister Olmert. In 2005, Prime Minister Sharon unilaterally withdrew rom Gaza. aken over by terrorist Hamas,they turned dismantled Jewish communities into launching sites or suicide bombers and 8,000+ rockets into Israel proper. I2010, Prime Minister Netanyahu renewed ofers o unconditional negotiations leading to a Palestinian State, but Palestinianreused, demanding more unilateral Israeli concessions, including a total reezeo all Israeli construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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Israel was created by European guilt over the Nazi Holocaust.Why should Palestinians pay the price?

Had Israel withdrawn to its June 1967 borders, peace would

have come long ago.

Western Wall - Jerusalem




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Te Palestinians themselves are the only stumbling block to achievin

a wo-State solution. With whom should Israel negotiate? WithPresident Abbas, who, or our years, has been barred by Hamasrom visiting 1.5 million constituents in Gaza? With his PalestinianAuthority, which continues to gloriy terrorists and preaches hate inits educational system and the media? With Hamas, whose Iranian-backed leaders deny the Holocaust and use anatical Jihadist rhetoricto call or Israel’s destruction?

oday, it is a simple act that while the State o Israel is prepared torecognize all Arab States, secular or Muslim, these states adamantly reuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish State and demand “the right

o return” o ve million so-called Palestinian “reugees” – a sureguarantee or Israel’s demise.

Tough never acknowledged by Jerusalem, it is generally assumed that Israelhas nuclear weapons. But unlike Pakistan, India, and North Korea, Israel neverconducted nuclear tests. In 1973, when its very survival was imperiled by thesurprise Egyptian-Syrian Yom Kippur attack, many assumed Israel would usenuclear weapons--but it did not. Contrary to public condemnations, many Arableaders privately express relie that Israeli nuclear deterrence exists. While Israelhas never threatened anyone, ehran’s mullahs daily threaten to “wipe Israel rom

the map.” Te U.S. and Europe can aford to wait to see what the Iranian regimedoes with its nuclear ambitions. But Israel cannot. She is on the ront lines andremembers every day the price the Jewish people paid or not taking Hitler at his word. Israel is not prepared to sacrice another six million Jews on the altar o the world’s indiference.

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Israel is the main stumbling block to achieving a Two-State solution.

Nuclear Israel not Iran is the greatest threat to peace and stability.

Gloriying errorism - Gaza City

Ahmadinejad at UN




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On both sides o the Atlantic, church groups, academics and unions are leading deceitul and oten anti-Semitic boycott

campaigns demonizing what they call the Jewish “apartheid” State.

Te truth is that unlike apartheid South Arica, Israel is a democratic state. Its 20% Arab minority enjoys all the political,economic and religious rights and reedoms o citizenship, including electing members o their choice to the Knesset (Parliament). Israeli Arabs and Palestinians have standing beore Israel’s Supreme Court. In contrast, no Jew may ownproperty in Jordan, no Christian or Jew can visit Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia.

Enemies o Israel, exploit this phony issue. Jerusalem is holy to three great aiths. Itsdiverse population includes a Jewish majority

with Muslim and Christian minorities. Since1967, or the rst time in history, there is ullreedom o religion or all aiths in Jerusalem.Muslim and Christian religious bodies

administer their own holy sites. Indeed, the Waq is allowed to control Jerusalem’s empleMount, even though it rests on Solomon’stemple and is holy to BOH Jews andMuslims.

Meanwhile, Jerusalem’s municipality mustmeet the needs o a growing modern city. Teunortunately-timed announcement duringU.S. Vice President Biden’s visit o 1600 new

apartments in Ramat Shlomo, was not about

Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, but or a long established, heavily populated Jewish neighborhood in Northern Jerusalem, where 250,000 Jews live (about the same population as Newark, N.J.) -- an area that will never be relinquishedby Israel.

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Israel is an Apartheid State deserving of International Boycott,Divestment and Sanctions campaigns.

Plans to build 1,600 more homes in East Jerusalem prove Israel is‘Judaizing’ the Holy City.

Ramat Shlomo, Israel






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Te Goldstone Report on Israel’s deensive war against Hamas-controlled Gaza, rom which 8,000 rockets were red ater

Israel’s unilateral withdrawal in 2005, is a biased product o the UN’s misnamed Human Rights Council. Te UNHRC isobsessed with alse anti-Israel resolutions. It reuses to address grievous human rights abuses in Iran, North Korea, SudanSaudi Arabia, Cuba and beyond. Faced with similar attacks, every UN member-state including the U.S. and Canada wouldsurely have acted more aggressively than the IDF did in Gaza.

Yet, Richard Goldstone, a South Arican Jewish jurist, signed a document prepared by investigators whose main qualicatio was rabid anti-Israel bias. He accepted every anonymous libel against the IDF. But he insisted that hearings in Gaza betelevised, guaranteeing that earul Palestinians would never testiy about Hamas’ use o civilians as human shields andtheir hiding o weapons in mosques and hospitals. Harvard Proessor Alan Dershowitz denounced Goldstone’s Report as amodern “blood libel” accusing Israeli soldiers o crimes they never committed.

Te One-State solution, promoted by academiis a non-starter because it would eliminatethe Jewish homeland. However, the currentpressures on Israel are equally dangerous. In

efect, the world is demanding that Israel, thesize o New Jersey, shrink urther by acceptina Tree-State solution: a PA state on the WesBank and a Hamas terrorist state controlling 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. All this, asHezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, stockpile50,000 rockets, threatening northern andcentral Israel’s main population centers.

In 2010, most Middle East experts believethat the only hope or enduring peace is two

states with dened nal borders. But too many diplomats, pundits, academics and church leadeignore the act that current polls show that whimost Israelis avor a wo-State solution, most Palestinians continue to oppose it.

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Israel, not Hamas, is responsible for the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza.Goldstone was right when he charged that Israel was guilty of war crimesagainst civilians.

The only hope for peace is a single, bi-national state, eliminating theJewish State of Israel.

Anti-Israel rally - Los Angeles




UNITED STATES

President Barack Obama www.whitehouse.gov/contact

202.456.1111

Vice President Joe Biden www.whitehouse.gov/contact-vp202.456.1111

Secretary of State Hillary Clintoncontact-us.state.gov/cgi-bin/state202.647.4000

Secretary of DefenseRobert M. Gates www.deense.gov/landing/questions.aspx 703.571.3343

National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones www.whitehouse.gov/contact 202.456.1111

o reach your Senator or Congressman www.senate.gov • www.house.gov 202.224.3121 CANADA

Prime Minister Stephen Harper [email protected] F: 613.941.6900

Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon

[email protected] 613.992.5516

MIDDLE EAST QUARTET

Quartet Representative Tony Blair [email protected]

UNITED NATIONS

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon www.un.org/en/contactus/contactorm.asp

COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN UNION

eeas.europa.eu011.32.2.281.56.50

MEDIA

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