Dear Critic,

«Full of crap.

"Any peaceful resolution of the 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict seems further away than ever whilst PA textbooks inciting Jewish-Israeli hatred continue to poison young peoples' minds."
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Why, you quoted only the last paragraph of the article, its conclusion, which is indeed crap, rather than the rest of the article which are true facts.

The conclusion is crap because there is no such "100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict": a non-existent conflict cannot be resolved by any means, peaceful or otherwise.

«'God gave it to us'»

Only a minority of Israelis believe so.
And they are not the ones who conquered and occupied the West Bank in 1967.
The 1967 war was won by a cynical atheist Labor government, not by believing Jews.

Those who do believe that God gave the land to the Israelites, also understand from the Bible that this gift is conditional on observing God's commandments, that should they fail to observe them, God will take the land away from them, as indeed happened.

«Their hate is simply a reaction to your subjugation.»

I would also hate anyone who subjugated me, but there was no subjugation (other than British) in Hebron, 1929, when that hate first erupted.

SR,

David's got your number. Not only were you trying to misrepresent a report, but in doing so proved that not only were you completely wrong but were exactly what I thought you were.

That both the UNRWA funded PLO and Hamas unashamedly sponsoring the murder of Israeli women and children should be a point of shame for those antisemites that focus solely on Israel's faults.

#Armchair Critic

Your Jew-hatred is clearly exposed in your comment which makes no mention of the following international decisions which confirmed the right of the Jewish People to reconstitute their ancient and biblical national home:
1. The 1920 San Remo Conference
2. The 1920 Treaty of Sevres
3. The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine
4. The 1937 Peel Commission
5. Article 80 UN Charter
6. The 1947 UN Partition Resolution
7. The admission of Israel to the UN in 1949

You are apparently very disturbed at the successful quest by the Jews over the last 100 years to prevail against the murderous attempts by the Arabs to wipe out the Jews reconstituting their Jewish National Home in accordance with these international decisions on a piece of real estate that is one third the size of Tasmania.

One Jewish state among 57 Arab and Islamic States in the world is too much for you to apparently stomach.

What motivates you to hate the Jews so much?

#Yuyutsu

To claim that there is "no 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict" is laughable and completely ignores what has been one of the longest unresolved conflicts in the world.

Slowly the Arab opposition to the Jews having their own State has been eroded by the Peace Treaties with Egypt (1979), Jordan (1994), and the Abraham Accords (2020) - but Arab-hatred of the Jews still persists as evidenced by the shocking textbooks used by the Palestinian Arabs to educate their children and the PLO and Hamas Charters which call for the elimination of the Jewish State.

BTW - Arab hatred against Jews returning to live in Palestine did not first erupt in Hebron with the massacre of 67 Jews in 1929. In 1920 the first Arab riots after British rule had begun took place. First with an attack on Tel Hai and Metula, followed by three days of riots in Jerusalem when 5 Jews were murdered. In 1921 47 Jews were killed by Arabs rioting in Jaffa and the surrounding area.

Shadowminister,

Your simpering renditions from the ultra zionist playbook really are getting old.

Speaking of children where was your condemnation of this?

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the "shocking images" displayed in a video recently seized by police, which shows Orthodox youths at a Jerusalem wedding dancing with guns and knives, stabbing a photo of Ali Dawabsheh, the toddler who was killed in the Duma firebomb attack that killed three members of the Dawabsheh family this past summer.”

Not only did these individuals conduct themselves in this manner the substantial crowd did nothing to stop them.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/video-hilltop-youth-stab-photo-of-dawabsheh-baby-at-wedding-1.5381297

Singer,

Really? Are you going to sit there and claim that not recognising Israel and claiming Palestine for the Palestinians is anti-Semitic?

My god you really have no shame.

How many times have you declined to even use the word Palestinian and how often have you claimed Israel was from the river to the sea? How often have you claimed Palestinians to be Jordanian?

Given that the Palestinians are Semitic aren't you a deep and unapologetic example of an anti-Semite?

As to the the article it clearly states “No, Palestinian Textbooks Are Not Antisemitic - A new study unequivocally refutes the accusation made by right-wing Israeli organizations”.

Your record for quoting from right-wing Israeli organisations is extensive.

It should be noted “In Israeli textbooks, 76% of maps show no boundaries between Palestinian territories and Israel, and Palestinian areas are not labelled.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/04/israeli-palestinian-textbooks-borders

Since this is something flagged as antisemitic when Palestinians do the reverse what do we call it when Israelis do it?

What a crap and myopic article as usual from you.

Dear David,

«To claim that there is "no 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict" is laughable and completely ignores what has been one of the longest unresolved conflicts in the world.»

Are you perhaps trying to refer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Israel is not "the Jews": it is an independent country belonging to its citizens (some of them happen to be Jewish to different degrees, others not, some are even Arab); nor are the so-called "Palestinians", "the Arabs". In fact, "Palestinians" only comprise about 1.1% of the Arabs (4.8 million Palestinians compared with 436 million Arabs).

As you acknowledged, Israel's relationship with the Arabs has been recently improving in leaps and bounds. The "Palestinian" Arabs, however, that 1.1% minority, prefer (for their own internal reasons) to maintain their conflict with Israel going: that is their choice and they suffer greatly for it. For Israel this brings some inconvenience but is not a serious threat.

You responded to Armchair Critic: «One Jewish state among 57 Arab and Islamic States in the world is too much for you to apparently stomach.»

There is not even one Jewish state existing at the moment: there is just one state, Israel, which has a limited number of Jewish characteristics, which could be strengthened or weakened at any time at the will of its citizens.

If, however, you want to establish a Jewish state in that region then you are more than welcome - the West Bank is waiting for you, so long as you are willing to go there and do the job in person, rather than attempt to demand Israel to do it for you.

«BTW - Arab hatred against Jews returning to live in Palestine did not first erupt in Hebron with the massacre of 67 Jews in 1929. In 1920...»

This only strengthens my argument to Armchair Critic: here is a case of hatred without subjugation.

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Dear SteeleRedux,

«It should be noted “In Israeli textbooks, 76% of maps show no boundaries between Palestinian territories and Israel»

I appreciate correct and constructive criticism of Israel where it is due, like in this excellent example.

Steele,
You seem to be among those who see the issue as one of Israel versus Palestine.
Try instead looking at it as those who want peace versus those who don't.
There are many people, both in Israel and Palestine, who would prefer war as they regard it as more conducive to their ultimate victory. So they engage in provocations to ensure the other side hate them and will want to follow suit. That makes peace more difficult, but no less worthwhile.

When you look at it from the perspective of wanting peace, there is absolutely nothing wrong with David's article, but plenty wrong with the one you provided a link to. Even if an anti-Jewish bias on the Palestinian side is understandable, it is NOT acceptable. And if there are also problems with Israeli textbooks, fixing them should be a response, not a prerequisite, to fixing the problems with Palestinian textbooks.