Posted on 11/06/2023 5:30:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points:
“Refugees”
We are told that the Palestinians after more than 75 years of residence in the West Bank and Gaza are “refugees.” If that definition were currently true, then, are the 900,000 Jews who were forcibly exiled from Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia after the 1947, 1956, 1967 wars still “refugees?”
Most fled to Israel. Do they now live in “refugee” camps administrated by the UN? Are they protesting to recover their confiscated homes and wealth in Damascus, Cairo, or Baghdad? Do Jews on Western television dangle their keys to lost homes in Damascus a half-century after they were expelled?
How about the 150,000-200,000 Greek Cypriots who in 1974 were brutally driven out of their ancient homes in Northern Cyprus? Are they today living in “refugee” camps in southern Cyprus? Are Cypriot terrorists blowing themselves up in “occupied” Nicosia to recover what was stolen from them by Turkey?
Turkish president Recep Erdogan lectures the world on Palestinian “refugees,” but does he mention Turkey’s role in the brutal expulsion of 40 percent of the residents of Cyprus?
Are there campus groups organizing against Turkey on behalf of the displaced Cypriots? After being slaughtered and expelled, are the Cypriots a cause celebre in academia? Do the “refugee” cities of southern Cyprus resemble Jenin or Jericho?
For that matter, how about the 12 million German civilians who between 1945-50 were expelled, and mostly walked back from, East Prussia and parts of Eastern Europe, some with Prussian roots going back a millennium
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Satan has deluded them......................
The left and the muslims.
The Democrats are just getting back to their kill the Jews KKK roots.
That was too easy for him. Satan is also lazy. ..................
Putting special restrictions on Israel is a passive way to support the genocidal maniacs in Palestine without openly supporting genocide. If you’re in the teacher’s lounge saying that Israel isn’t being “proportional” sounds a lot nicer than, “I support murdering and rapping Jews.”
At any time, Gaza could have taken its vast wealth in annual foreign aid and become completely independent in fuel, food, and energy, without need of any such help form the “Zionist entity.”
Gaza could have capitalized on its strategic location, the world’s eagerness to help, and the natural beauty of its Mediterranean beaches. Instead, it squandered its income on a labyrinth of terrorist tunnels and rockets. Today, it snidely snickers at any mention of following the Singapore model of prosperity–a former colonial city whose World War II death count vastly surpassed that of the various wars over Gaza.
Are the Israeli Arabs—21 percent of the Israeli population—living under apartheid?
Very, very good Prof Hanson article - wasn't sure if he had collaborated with Daniel Greenfield! Well worth your time this morning.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Great article and as usual filled with good facts and figures, all of which will be ignored by the media. Like most of these situations it’s really all about the money. If peace broke out the money would dry up. Tens of $billions pour in, but nothing much changes for the masses because the “leaders” are stealing it and/or using it to promote the grievances. One can only wonder how many $billions have found their way back into the pockets of those doling them out. Probably a lot of fat off-shore accounts for many in Washington, IMF, UN, etc. Corruption follows money as night follows day.
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20 million Jews
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Gaza could have become the Jewel of the Mediterranean.
Resort luxury hotels, casinos, world class waterfront restaurants. Money from all over the Arab and Muslim world would have flowed in like water.
But they decided to go the total opposite way, now look at the destruction they have brought upon themselves.................
The problem is that the British at the end of WW II were very poor at ethnically cleansing Palestine of Arabs.
In other examples given by Hanson, especially in the USSR and Warsaw pact countries, Stalin did a much more effective job of separating and relocating ethnicities. After all, one of his first positions after the Revolution was People’s Commissar for Nationalities.
I like your example. It’s spot on. Happens daily, IMHO. More reason the public school system is Public Enemy Number One!!!
Many European cities have large Muslim populations which must be appeased.
Loved the way VDH summarized countless other clashes among various people groups and contrasted it with Israel’s clashes (and how the left responds).
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Accouding to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees a refugee applies only to the first generation, the individual expelled. That applies to all refugees except palestinians, who get special treatment from The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNWRA.
“proportional”
one terrorist = one bomb = one casket
It all seems proportional to me.
One side is terrorist; the other is genocidal. Sometimes to relieve the monotony they switch roles. The whole world is drawn into the fallacy of the false dilemma, while the truth is that both sides are despicable.
“The problem is that the British at the end of WW II were very poor at ethnically cleansing Palestine of Arabs.”
The British did want the Arabs displaced in any manner under their mandate.
The Arab attacks on the new state of Israel caused many Palestinian Arabs to flee.
Palestinian Arab grievances can be traced back to Arab attacks on Israel. Palestinian Arab grievances are the bitter fruit of Arab violence.
Because, like most Western countries, they have been shown to be susceptible to public opinion.
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