Answering Zionist Propaganda 
by Matt Giwer, © 2002 [June]  
The West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem are disputed not occupied. 

Regardless of which term one chooses, there is no question the 
squatters are living on land which is owned by individual Palestinians 
not by them. There is no dispute of that fact. 
Israel's Supreme Court says the lands are occupied, in fact under 
belligerent occupation. 

The Golan Heights is occupied territory. 

Syria offered peace in return for the Golan and Israel refused. There 
is no dispute of that fact either. 

Jews have a right to live anywhere they choose 
Not on land owned by others unless with their permission. The unspoken 
assumption is Jews have this right, Gentiles do not. 
God gave the land to the Jews 
I would expect to find no other claim in books written by Jews. 
No place in the Bible does it say these Jews and this Israel. 

The settlers are redeeming the land of Israel. 

Redeeming is a code word for stealing. Settlers is a code word for 
squatters. As they are stealing, the squatters are criminals. 
Even by the Bible, Israel was destroyed for the sins of Solomon. What 
man may act against the will of God? 

Even by the Bible, Judea was given to Iraq for the sins of the Jews. 
What man may act against the will of God? 

America treated the Indians no better than Israel treats the 
Palestinians. 
It is good to see Israel is honest enough to admit it is committing 
genocide and cultural destruction. 
Israel conquered the land in the 1967 war. 
Conquest gives military jurisdiction over land. It does not give 
ownership of the land. The government does not own the land. The last 
country to claim that was Nazi Germany. Governments do not gain 
ownership by conquest. In fact Nazi Germany claimed it was regaining 
ownership of the land. If they had said redeeming the land would it 
have been permitted? 
Israel's settlement policy was declared a hanging offense at 
Nuremberg. 

Israel abjured the acquisition of land by conquest when it joined the 
UN and subjected itself to war crime charges thereby. 

The UN gave Palestine to the Jews 
No it did not. The UN General Assembly under its power to approve 
mutually agreed borders approved the partition agreement. There was no 
mutual agreement. The land was not their's to give unilaterally. 
Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is antisemitic. 
If the shoe fits, wear it. 
It is all too complex to deal with in simple terms. 
So stop using simple terms to defend Israel. 
Criticizing Zionism is antisemitic propaganda. 
If Zionism were Judaism, antisemitism would be a moral imperative. 
Zionism is a secular, political movement. It has nothing to do with 
Judaism or antisemitism. Even Albert Einstein condemned Zionism. 

Zionism has the most to gain from antisemitism. 

Palestinians are acting out of irrational hatred. 
If Zionists had declared their Israel in New York City they would have 
been driven into the Hudson River. 
Americans would have done exactly as Palestinians are doing had that 
happened. 

The Palestinians are terrorists. 
Under international law, all peoples have a right to resist military 
occupation by any means available. 
If they are terrorists then so were the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto 
uprising during WWII. 

If they are terrorists then so were the founders of Israel. 

Palestinians have never acknowledged the right of Israel to exist. 
Israelis have never acknowledged the right of Palestine to exist. 
Israel has never acknowledged the borders given to it by the UN in 
1948. 

Israel is willing to trade land for peace. 
The land is not Israel's to give. 
Israel can have either land or peace, not both. 

Total land for total peace. 

We came to live in peace. 
Only a child could not have foreseen the conflict. 
To hear Israelis talk you would think they expected a welcome wagon. 

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. 
Sort of makes one lose faith in democracy doesn't it? 
Arafat was elected. His election was certified as honest by Jimmy 
Carter. What more does it take? 

Lebanon is a democracy. 

The US says Egypt is a democracy. Iran is more democratic than Egypt. 
Democracy is on the march in Iraq. 

Israel is a strategic ally of the US. 
Perhaps ally in the common meaning of the word but there is not and 
has never been a treaty of alliance which is the only legal meaning of 
the word. 
The Cold War is over. Whatever utility it had during the Cold War is 
long gone. 

The relationship was tactical at best, never strategic. Israel was a 
pawn against Russia's pawns in the middle east. 

Israel is necessary to provide a safe haven for Jews. 
Israel is the most dangerous place in the world for Jews to live. 
Jews who went to live in Israel chose to live in constant danger. 

No one has ever forced Jews to live in Israel. The stupid ones have 
always chosen to live in Israel. 

Israel can do no wrong. 
That is the first honest thing ever said about Israel. 
Israel does not have the death penalty. 
Israel murders people because they are suspected of intending to 
commit acts of resistance to the occupation in the future. 
While Israel calls them targeted killings and claims to have knowledge 
of their intentions, not once has it released any conclusive evidence. 
All evidence against all of them must be released else the charge is 
murder. 

Israel is a Jewish nation. 
By Israel's own estimate, barely two thirds of its citizens had Jewish 
ancestors and well under half are Jewish by religion. And this only 
came about by expelling non-Jews. 
The US and all Western European nations are more Christian than Israel 
is Jewish by any measure. 

It is not clear what is meant by a "Jewish nation" save as an excuse 
for discriminatory laws against non-Jews. 

Israel is an outpost of enlightened Western values in the Middle 
East. 
Western nations have not declared themselves to be Christian nations 
as Israel has declared itself a Jewish nation. Such bigotry is contrary 
to Western values. 
Answering Zionist Propaganda 

Counteracting a Century of Zionist Disinformation 

Myth against Fact 
 
	

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