Celebrating Distortion, Deception and Fabrication

"Our people have witnessed, and continue to witness, an unprecedented intensification of military assaults, the blockade, settlement activities and ethnic cleansing, particularly in occupied east Jerusalem, and mass arrests, attacks by settlers and other practices by which this Israeli occupation is becoming synonymous with an apartheid system of colonial occupation, which institutionalizes the plague of racism and entrenches hatred and incitement."
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

Mr. Abbas uses the incendiary language of suggestive and mendacious slander to great advantage.  He has learned the verbiage most appreciated by those who respond to words like 'colonial occupation', 'apartheid', 'racism', 'hatred' and 'incitement'.  Completely ignored is the reality that debunks the accusations, that Israel is an inclusive state with a sizeable population of Arab Muslims, Christians and Kurds among its Jewish population.

Jews do not live among Muslims in most Arab countries for they were exiled from their homes in Arab countries, in 1948, their property expropriated without recompense when those same Arab countries exhorted Palestinian Arabs to temporarily leave the area that Jews now called Israel, until such time in the very brief future when an assembled army of Arab military states succeeded in removing the upstart Jews. 

In a series of wars through all of which Israel prevailed, additional land was taken and incorporated into Israel possession.  Most notable of all, the primary holy sites of Judaism were freed from Arab control and Jews were finally given access to their most sacred places.  And despite that under Arab rule Jews were forbidden entry to those places, the sacred sites of Islam and Christianity remain freely available to those believers under Israeli stewardship.

For the past sixty years the PLO, the military arm of Fatah which now rules the Palestinian Authority, has launched guerrilla and suicide attacks on Israel and its people, as well as outside the Middle East, targeting Jews wherever they live.  These acts of terror represent the dedication to peace of the Arab tribal mind.  When violence did not succeed, the politics of public relations and the viral success of slander proved far more successful.  Leaving the ongoing violence to Hamas, Fatah's rival challenger for leadership of the PA.

And that slander saw its culmination in the PA's Mahmoud Abbas's address to the UN General Assembly before the vote set for the date in history when the UN issued its partition proclamation resulting in the General Assembly assenting to the PA's request which succeeded in its recognition as a state-in-waiting; a diplomatic coup for a nascent nation that has used every means at its disposal to avoid signing a peace treaty with Israel that would lead to a two-state solution to the ongoing state of war by any other nomenclature.

"Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel.  The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine", declaimed Mr. Abbas magisterially.  Of course 65 years ago the Palestinians declined with rancour the offer to take their partitioned portion for a state. And much earlier in history "historic" Palestine was Jewish Palestine.

They have now changed their mind.  Bypassing the legal process that the formation of such a state requires under the 1995 Oslo II Agreement which they co-signed with Israel, and which countries like the EU, the Russian Federation, the U.S., Egypt and Norway also witnessed along with the UN.  The very same principals who have now, with few exceptions, voted to give the Palestinian Authority non-member "observer status".

The world accepts with willing complacency the accusations by the Palestinians of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide' levelled against Israel, without a murmur of dissent.  The instigators of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide' are all represented by Arab and Muslim states along with their proxy jihadist militias like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad whose raison d'etre is written in their constitutions, to destroy Israel and wash the Jews into the sea.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified Mahmoud Abbas's vitriolic and viciously violent characterization of Israel for what it is: "hostile and poisonous", full of "false propaganda".  But then the Arab and Muslim world is full of those whose grasp of history and reality verges on the fantastic rather than reflecting the truth of reality.  Just as Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad casts aspersions on the reality of the Holocaust, Mahmoud Abbas's university dissertation questioned the veracity of the Holocaust:

The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism (Arabic: al-Wajh al-Akhar: al-'Alaqat as-Sirriya bayna an-Naziya wa's-Sihyuniya. Publisher: Dar Ibn Rushd, Amman, Jordan. 1984) is a book by Mahmoud Abbas,^[1] published in Arabic.^[1] It is based on his CandSc thesis,^[2] completed in 1982 at Patrice Lumumba University (now the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia) under the title The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement (Russian: Связи между сионизмом и нацизмом. 1933–1945), and defended at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
In the book, Abbas argues that the Nazi Holocaust had been exaggerated and that Zionists created "the myth" of six million murdered Jews, which he called a "fantastic lie".^[3][4][5] He further claimed that those Jews which were killed by the Nazis were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot aimed to fuel vengeance against Jews and to expand their mass extermination.^[6] The book also discussed topics such as the Haavara Agreement, in which the Third Reich agreed with the Jewish Agency to facilitate Jewish emigration from Germany to Mandate Palestine.^[2]

 <sup>This reprehensible scholarly study represents the tribal mentality and inherent antipathy of a people of whom Mahmoud Abbas is held as a symbol of moderation in an otherwise immoderate, excitable, prone-to-violence population.  The long-suffering Palestinian people, reliant on the intelligence and responsibility of those who assign themselves the duty of representing the future of the Palestinians deserve far better than what they have.

They have been so immersed in and schooled with a ferocious suspicion and hatred of Jews, fuelled by a deliberate exposure to curricula describing the Jews as the enemy, the land upon which Israel sits illegally and criminally wrested from the Palestinians who claim a heritage that history does not support and in the process malign and seek to destroy true heritage sites of Judaism that it would take a miracle of persuasion for them to see their neighbours as anxious for peace.</sup>