10 Questions About the Arab-Israeli Conflict

These are ten questions about the Arab-Israeli that I have:

1. How can the conflict be about Palestinian “rights” when they have more rights under Israel than under their own leadership, whether it’s led by Fatah or Hamas? How is it about Palestinian rights when Palestinians were more free under Israeli rule from 1967-1994 and then lost the freedoms they had under Israel after the Palestinian Authority was established? How is it fighting for Palestinian rights when Palestinian Christians hide their identity to talk about the persecution by the PA and radical Muslims while Palestinians, both Christian and Muslims alike, can publicly attack Israel verbally all the time without Israel doing beans?
2. If the root cause of the conflict is the Israeli “occupation”, how do you explain that the conflict was there before the “occupation”? How do you explain that the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] was established in 1964, three years before the 1967 Six day war? How is it that the terrorism, wars and bloodshed of the conflict was there before the “occupation”? How was the terrorism there before the conflict? Why does the terrorism increase when Israel leaves the territories, like during the Oslo period from 1995-1996, which got the “hardline” Benjamin Netnayahu elected as Prime Minister on the basis that he can bring security? How is it that after Israel left Gaza, rocket attacks on Israel increased and Gaza became a terrorist base? How is it that in 2007, Hamas captured the Gaza strip? Could it be that the root cause of the conflict is not the “occupation”, but the refusal to recognize the existence of the Jewish State?
3. If the Jews “usurped” 78% of an Arab country called Palestine in 1948 and then took the “remaining” 22% in 1967, how do you explain that the basic history seems to contradict this claim entirely? Why was it that Israel was created based on the partition plan that gave a state to the Arabs? How do you explain the fact that Israel won the territories in a defensive war against Jordan and Egypt?
4. If the “occupation” is “illegal”, why did UN resolution 242 determine that Israel would govern the territories until she finds a peace partner in order to negotiate the fate of the territories? How can you expect Israel to just give up territory that’s vital for Israel’s strategic borders, when there are genocidal forces from all sides that seek to exterminate Israel and the Jewish majority there?
5. Why does America and Britain have the right to assassinate insurgent leaders in Iraq and to hunt down Osama Bin Ladin to kill him while Israel has no right to assassinate leaders from Hamas and other terror groups that send terrorists to kill innocent Israeli men, women and children with the goal of Israel’s destruction? Can every country around the world defend itself except for Israel?
6. Why was it that when the territories were under Jordan and Egypt, nobody [not even Palestinian terror groups and the residents of the territories] called for Jordan and Egypt to leave those territories so an independent Palestinian state can be established on those lands? Why did article 24 of the 1964 PLO charter state that the Palestinians have no claim to the territories? If the Palestinian terrorists just want a state on the west Bank and Gaza, why was it that  before 1967, when Jordan and Egypt had the territories, did the terrorists wage their terror war on Israel instead of on Jordan and Egypt?
7. If the Palestinian Authority leadership like Arafat and guys from Hamas are just fighting for the well-being of Palestinians, then why do they choose war with Israel over the establishment of a peaceful and democratic Palestinian state that would be at peace with Israel? Why do Palestinian terrorists hide among the very Palestinian civilians that they supposedly fight to “protect”? Could it be that they don’t care beans about the Palestinian people and just seek to exterminate the Jewish state? Why was it that when Arafat took control of the territories, he got rid of the freedom that Israel gave and ruined the economy by continuing the terror war? If Arafat fought to establish a peaceful Palestinian state, why did he use the Oslo “peace” process to continue the terror war on Israel when it was his golden opportunity to build the civil institutions of a Palestinian state? Why was it that when he was offered 97% of what the Palestinians claim they want at Camp David, he left and planned the next terror struggle on Israel known as the second intifada? Why was it that when he was offered the same thing in Taba, he rejected it again and continued the second intifada? Also when it comes to Hamas, why do they steal the humanitarian aid that it meant to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and reject the three preconditions [the three preconditions are recognizing Israel's right to exist, denouncing terrorism and honoring previous agreements] for ending the boycott of their government if they are fighting for the well being of the Palestinian people? How is it that the Palestinian leadership inciting its own people to hate Israel and the Jews instead of preaching the messages of peace fighting for them? If the Palestinian leadership and terrorists are just fighting for their own people, why can’t they end terrorism, end incitement and promote the idea of peace with Israel [and not just give cheap lip service to the idea of peace with Israel]?
8. If Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount caused the second intifada, why did the PA Communications Minister Imad Faluji confess that the second intifada was planned before Sharon’s visit?
9. If Hamas and Hezbollah are just national resistance movements, why do they call themselves by religious names? Why does Hamas call itself the Islamic Resistance Movement [not Palestinian resistance movement] and Hezbollah calls itself the Party of God, not the Party of Lebanon? How do you explain the fact that Hezbollah served the Syrian occupiers, provided a moral justification for Israel’s “occupation” of Southern Lebanon, provoked Israel to more wars, and hide among civilians during its wars with Israel? How do you explain the fact that Hezbollah had subversive cells in Egypt, which didn’t do beans to Lebanon? Why does Hezbollah want to radically change the Lebanese state to a radical Islamic proxy of Iran, especially considering the piles of information that show the repressive nature of Iran’s regime and especially with the demonstrations there that are fighting to free Iran from the very model of what Hezbollah fights for in Lebanon? Why did Hezbollah and Syria assassinate the Lebanese Prime Minister in 2005 by the name of Rafiq Hariri? Why was Hezbollah cooperation with the Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate America? Why is it that both Hezbollah and Hamas seek the destruction of Israel? As for Hamas, why does Hamas seek to impose the medieval radical Islamic ideology and to exploit the sufferings of the Gazan people to give Israel bad PR? Why does Hamas help Iran to suppress the demonstrators who seek democracy? Why does Hamas choose war with Israel over peace? How can these serve the interests of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples?
10. If Israel is an expansionist state, why did Israel offer to give up territories under its rule plenty of times, only to have them rejected? Why was it that after a few months, Israel offered to give up most of the territories, only to have the Arab leaders say,”No peace. No negotiations. No recognition”? Why did Israel [under the "hardline" Prime Minister Menachem Begin] give up the Sinai [which included the oil wells and everything Israel built on the Sinai since the Six day war], which was 91% of the territory Israel got, in exchange for a peace of paper that states that Egypt would be at peace with Israel? Especially seeing anti-Semitic hate productions like Horseman without a Horse being promoted by the Egyptian government and media, doesn’t that show Israel’s willingness for peace. Why did Israel make a generous offer to Arafat that included giving up part of Jerusalem, Israel’s historic capital, to him despite his violations of the Oslo “peace” accords? Why was it only wars of self-defense that Israel got more territory? Why did Israel tell king Hussein of Jordan that if he doesn’t attack Israel, the Israelis won’t take the West Bank or east Jerusalem? why was it that even after Jordan attacked, Israel still told King Hussein’s government that if he stops the attacks, Israel won’t retaliate? Why was it that Israel only took the West Bank and east Jerusalem from him after the Jordanian government continued with the genocidal attacks? Does that sound like any expansionist nation to you? Does it sound like Israel wanted to be left alone and only got more territory through wars that she was forced to fight in order to survive? How do you explain Israel’s offers and territorial concessions?

These are ten important questions to ask an anti-Israel propagandist and the liberal mainstream media, which is an echo chamber of the Pallywood propaganda industry. The liberal mainstream media is an echo of Hamas when it comes to Gaza. There are much more important questions to ask the anti-Israel propaganda machine and their echo chamber the liberal mainstream media. But these 10 questions are still pretty important to ask the anti-Israel propaganda machine and the liberal mainstream media.