The Suffering Of Sderot: How Its True Inhabitants Were Wiped From Israel's Maps And Memories

[Shaktimaan]

44. I'm wrong in neither principle or letter.

As far as your accusation goes, what is the deal with people specifically accusing Israel of acts that they not only never committed, but often seem to be drawn from examples of Arab crimes against Jews? It's SO weird. Just look at this:

military force ethnically cleanses a population, annexes the land, destroys all history of prior ownership,

Ok, in 1948-49 Israel's military did not ethnically cleanse Palestine at all, except for a few, specific, limited areas, like around Jaffa. The vast majority of Arab refugees left of their own accord and were prevented from returning later on via legal action. That obviously doesn't include all the Arabs who didn't leave and still make up a sizable percentage of Israel's population.

And the land wasn't "annexed." The rules of the 49 truce specifically say that final borders are up to future negotiations. Regardless, the land was as much Israel's as Palestine's. Israel had every right to the land it exerted sovereignty over.

And not only did Israel not "destroy all history of prior ownership," it left many prior owners there. But look at cases like al Aqsa mosque. The holiest Muslim site in Jerusalem was built on top of the holiest Jewish site in the world. Some Jewish extremists wanted to demolish it and rebuild the temple. But Israel outlawed Jewish worship there, structurally kept it fully intact and even handed over control over the site to a Muslim authority.

Compare this to Jordan's behavior in 49.

It's military COMPLETELY ethnically cleansed the West Bank and east Jerusalem of ALL it's Jewish inhabitants. Then it actually tried to annex that entire area, despite having no legal claim to it whatsoever; regardless of the fact that doing so meant preventing Palestinian self-determination. Then Jordanian forces in east Jerusalem demolished dozens of ancient synagogues as well as the cemetery on the mt of olives, the oldest Jewish cemetery on earth, using the tombstones to build latrines and other random structures. And this is but ONE example out of many of this sort of hypocrisy.

Yet somehow it is usually only Israel who stands accused of the crimes outlined above. Why do you suppose that is?