One would think that, with Iran’s brutality toward dissidents, China’s internment of the people of Xinjiang, Syria’s killing of hundreds of thousands in a bid to keep Assad in power and the mass slaughters in Darfur and other African countries, those claiming to be concerned about oppression would have ample targets for their outrage. But while those horrors have only been met with occasional demonstrations in recent years, the toward the only democracy in the Middle East, which is at war only after being provoked by a , have been unrelenting. Along with the protests has come a steady stream of misinformation, meant to and its intentions.
Let me deal with some of the most common canards. Genocide means the deliberate annihilation of a race. If Israel has been committing genocide, it is history’s most incompetent attempt.
The Palestinian population has more than tripled since 1948, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. If Israel had wanted to wipe out Gaza’s entire population, it could have done so. Instead, Israeli Arabs, who make up 20 per cent of the population, have more civil rights and legal protections than any others in the Arab world.
They are represented at all levels of business and government. By contrast, Hamas advertises the fact that its very goal is to wipe out the Jewish population of Israel so that “From the River to the Sea,” as its genocidal chant puts it, there will be only Palestinians left when it is finished. It makes .