Jacqueline O’Connor’s anti-Semitic vitriol would make any Nazi or KKK member proud. But like most rabid bigots, her basic assumptions are patently false beginning with “Israel displacing Palestineans.” James Michener (and others) debunked that myth many decades ago in his Pulitzer Prize winning investigative book 1948. Why would any Arab leave his home upon Israel becoming a State? It wasn’t because they were in danger of being slaughtered by the Jews. The Irgun and Haganah were attacking the occupying British (and each other), and defending kibbutzes from marauding Arabs. The records of fact clearly show the slaughters of innocent people leading up to, during and since Israel’s restoration have been conducted by Arabs. Not surprising from a culture that believes in “honor” killings and stoning.
Yet, while Jews still consider Arabs cousins, Arabs still teach their children Jews are dogs and pigs – abroad and here in the U.S. I’ve seen their textbooks. In anticipation of attack by all the neighboring Arab states, Israeli Defense Forces sent loudspeaker-mounted Jeeps into Arab neighborhoods pleading with Arabs NOT to leave their homes. The IDF promised Arabs fair and equal treatment as citizens of the new nation if only they did not take up arms against Israel.
On the other hand, neighboring Arab nations enticed Arabs to leave until the Arabs “drove every Jew dog into the sea.” The “displaced” Arabs were promised once the Jewish area was “cleansed” they could return and take everything the exterminated Jews left behind making them rich beyond their wildest dreams. This religiously based propaganda was used by Hitler. The class warfare aspect (forcibly redistributing wealth) of this propaganda is being used today by our current president.
The Israeli government kept their promise. Arabs living in Israel kept their property, became equal citizens and even members of the Knesset. The Arab nations lied. Failing in their attempted genocide, they intentionally keep the covetously displaced Arabs in camps forbidding them from becoming assimilated citizens of the respective deceiving countries. For over 70 years these Arab governments have suppressed their fellow Arabs in order to exploit misplaced bitterness and hatred. And the rest of the anti-Semitic (and class bigoted) world follows slavishly.
Bigotry only succeeds through lying. It is ugly and wrong regardless of its’ religious, racial or economic mask.
