Here is the final part
of the analysis of BDS lies concluding those presented in earlier blogshttp://www.haifadiarist.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/lies-and-truth-part-2.html
http://www.haifadiarist.blogspot.co.il/2015/09/lies-and-truths-part-1.html
The
Lie: "Continuing
the settlement project is proof that Israel does not want peace."
The
Truth: The
settlements are at the center of a heated debate within the Israeli public. The
criticism against it, one has to stress, is not part of the demonization. But
the peace proposals make it clear that the settlements are not an obstacle for
peace.
Israel
has evacuated thousands of settlers from the Gaza Strip. In any future
agreement, there will be settlers living in settlement blocks on 5% of the
area. The agreements regarding the minority of settlers outside those blocks,
is subject to negotiations between the parties. Maybe they will stay where they
are. Just as there is an Arab minority in Israel, there could be a Jewish
minority in the Palestinian State. Or perhaps a different arrangement will be
found.
The
Lie: "Israel
is committing Palestinian genocide."
The
Truth: Eleven
to 12,000 Palestinians have been killed between 1967 and 2015. The vast
majority were involved in hostile activities. Relative to the size of the
population this number is smaller than the average death rate from road
accidents. One can call it many things – but not genocide.
It does
not even come close to being genocide. This is one of the most blatant lies
behind anti-Israeli propaganda. Contrary to terrorist organizations, who
intentionally target civilians (both with rockets and with suicide-attacks in
densely populated centers); Israel makes every effort not to harm innocent
civilians.
The
Lie: "Israel
is the number-one enemy of Muslims and the source of all conflicts in the
Middle East."
The
Truth: Israel
is not the enemy of the Arab World, and has diplomatic relations, including
peace agreements, with countries with large Muslim populations. The number-one
enemy of the Muslims is world Jihad that kills mostly Muslims – in Nigeria,
Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
Israel
has nothing to do with this blood fest. Many Muslims admit that their main
problem is the Jihad, which murders – in terrorist acts only – about 2500
Muslims every month. In 2014, for example, more than 32 thousand people died in
terror acts executed by the Jihad, with all its branches. This does not and did
not have anything to do with Israel.
The
Lie: "Only
an academic and consumer boycott of Israel will improve the situation of the
Palestinians and bring peace."
The
truth: Objective
data proves that the Palestinians’ situation has improved under Israeli rule.
For example, in 1967 there was not even one academic institute in the West Bank
or the Gaza Strip. Since Israeli rule, and under its patronage, scores of
institutions of higher-education have been established.
The
will of Palestinians for peace has to be respected, but one should realize that
the main demand of the boycott movement is not “put an end to occupation”, and
not even “two lands for two peoples’’’ but rather “the right of return” i.e.
the annihilation of the State of Israel.
The
heads of the Boycott Movement ‘the likes of Omar Bargouti and Ali Abuneima’
make it absolutely clear, that this is their intention. This is what makes the
boycott the number-one enemy of any peace settlement based on two-lands-for-two
peoples. The boycott only nurtures the illusion, and in doing so – perpetuates
the conflict.
BDS protesters. Boycott movement leaders really
desire the annihilation of
Israel (Photo: Reuters)
The
Lie: "Israel
harms the Palestinians in every Humanitarian aspect. What the Nazis did with
gas chambers Israel does by raising mortality rates among babies."
The Truth: The World Bank, the World
Health Organization, and even Palestinian investigators have presented data
which clearly shows that these allegations are no more than a pack of lies.
Life expectancy among Palestinians in 1967 was 48.6. It has risen to 75.
Mortality
rate among Palestinian babies is 15 to every thousand babies, compared to 22 in
Turkey and 39 in the world average. In almost every humanitarian aspect that
can be checked and measured, the Palestinians under Israeli rule are better off
than the world average, and they are usually at the top of the MENA countries
block. (Middle East and North Africa)
The
Lie: The
definition of Israel as a "Jewish state" is an expression of racism.
The
Truth: The
most important principle in the U.N. Charter is the right to
self-determination. Jews who want autonomy, as well as Palestinians, have that
right. Jews have fought for the right to self-determination because they
suffered persecution.
Czechoslovakia
was divided into two nation states; Yugoslavia was split into six entities,
because each people claimed their right to self-determination. An effort to
deny any people this right is a violation of International law, and in itself
is an expression of racism. It must be said, that as a Jewish Democratic country,
non-Jews have full and equal rights in Israel.
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