Israel – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the prevalence of anti-Semitsm in the West Bank, as noted in the Anti-Defamation League’s global survey of the phenomenon released last week, is the result of the Palestinian leadership’s incitement.
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Ranking anti-Semitic sentiments by region, the ADL determined that the most anti-Semitic regions were found to be the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Palestinian anti-Semitism is “pervasive throughout society,” the ADL found, with 93% of respondents affirming anti-Jewish stereotypes.
Speaking at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that the statistics were “the result of non-stop anti-Semitic incitement by the Palestinian Authority, which distorts the image of Israel and the Jewish people.”
Netanyahu hinted that the distortion of Jews was similar to that employed by the Nazis, saying that such incitement had been seen “in other places in our past.”
The prime minister expressed pessimism about the prospects for peace with the Palestinians, in light of last week’s rallies marking Nakba Day in the West Bank and Gaza. The “Nakba,” or “catastrophe” in Arabic, is the day in which Palestinians mourn the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
“Those who see the establishment of the state of Israel as a disaster, do not want peace,” Netanyahu stated.
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To quote Golda Meir ‘we will have peace with those desert rats (my interpretation of arabs), when they will learn to love their children more than they hate us. Simply put, never!
So stop crying already and DO something!
On Yom Hatzmut Netanyahu talks about how Israel and the IDF are the protectors of the Jewish people. It appears from the evidence above that the opposite is true. Israel does not stop antisemitism rather it creates or multiplies it.
Netanyahu said that the statistics were “the result of non-stop anti-Semitic incitement by the Palestinian Authority, which distorts the image of Israel and the Jewish people.”
Maybe this also has something to do with settelment building, roadblocks, lack of normal living conditions and 60 years of non-stop warfare.
To numbers 5,6,7 and 8.
Arab – Jewish relations were generally quite good until Theodore Herzl began the Zionist movement and held Zionist Congresses in Europe. Herzl’s movement predated the Mufti and the Chevron massacre. The Chevron massacre actually came on the heels of, and was a barbaric response to, the Zionist Congress being held in Basel a few days earlier.
Arab leaders have fanned the flames of hatred but building settlements does not help either. How would you feel if you had to pass through roadblocks and searches every time you traveled from Monsey to Brooklyn? Is it any wonder that residents of Gaza and the West Bank hate Israeli’s and Jews whom they equate with Zionists.
PM Netanyahu would do well to try to do things on his part that help lower tensions and not do things that make them worse.