The miracle took place 75 years ago, on a sliver of dusty and desolate land, just beginning to show the regreenment created by its Zionist pioneers. The miracle was the birth, against all odds, of the State of Israel. It was a difficult delivery. The Palestinians, and many other Arabs, have been trying ever since […]
The ‘Nakba’ Since 1998, and the ‘Jewish Nakba’ Since 2020
The recent spread of the “Nakba” narrative – Jewish aggressors, Palestinian victims — can be traced to 1998, and a clever propaganda move by Yasser Arafat. More on this can be found here: “The Nakba Narrative: A History of Deception,” by Chaim Lax, Honest Reporting, May 8, 2023: …Even with the advantage gained by the […]
The ‘Nakba’ And How It Grew
Along with “apartheid” used as an adjective – as in “Israel is an apartheid state” – haters of Israel have taken to referring to the “Nakba,” the Arabic word for “catastrophe.” The “Nakba” is the word the Arabs now use to describe the failure in the 1948 war of five Arab armies to destroy the […]
‘Lies and libels’: Netflix film shows Zionist forces murdering Palestinian family in 1948
Popular culture is one of the most effective tools for influencing minds. Netflix’s programming is infamously woke, with a handful of exceptions, and typically, the woke accept the Palestinian victimhood narrative. The Netflix film showing the murder of Palestinian family in 1948 is flawed for what it does not show, not for what it shows. […]
Palestinian Journalist: Arab States Caused the Nakba
A remarkable article by a Gazan journalist has just appeared at the Hamas website palinfo.com. It makes the case that the Arab states were responsible for the Nakba, because they persuaded so many Arabs to leave what was about to become a battlefield. This, of course, is what Israel and its supporters have argued all […]
Rashida Tlaib Wants the US to Commemorate ‘Nakba Day’
Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) is once again on her anti-Israel warpath — she seldom takes a break — introducing a resolution in the House that would recognize Israel’s founding as a “nakba” (“catastrophe”), the name the Palestinians gave to the Arab defeat in the 1948 war, when Jews fought off the armies of five Arab states […]