A short message to the Israel- haters and Jew-haters

Three years ago today, Hamas slaughtered 1200 & took 250+ hostages. Biden's own hostage negotiator @brett_mcgurk now details who kept this war going: Hamas lied, blew up deals and priced captives like inventory. It kept its ledger in Jewish blood. My new @Algemeiner piece:
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Three years ago today, Hamas murdered roughly 1,200 people in southern Israel, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Its gunmen filmed the killing on GoPros and on their victims' own phones, posted videos to victims' Facebook pages and sent them to their families. @mehdirhasan and @zeteo_news chose this anniversary to release a 22-minute video titled "How many Israelis were killed by Israel?" The fact behind it is narrow. Some IDF commanders gave Hannibal-type orders that day to stop terrorists dragging hostages back to Gaza. The UN Commission of Inquiry, never friendly to Israel, tied at most 14 civilian deaths to those orders or friendly-fire and called even those at best "likely." Whatever Hasan concludes after 22 minutes, his title is aimed at people who will share the clip and never reach the end. It's the "just asking questions" routine he'd shred if Tucker Carlson tried it (except if Tucker’s target were Jews or Israel), and it belongs to an ugly lineage: Holocaust denial, 9/11 trutherism, and memes from the far left, the far right and the Islamists claiming Israel killed most of the Jews Hamas murdered on Oct. 7. Hasan has put that slander in a suit and called it journalism. Even in those rare ≈ 14 instances (at best), the blame belongs to Hamas. If police fired at a mass murderer's getaway car and accidentally killed one of his kidnap victims, no sane person would blame anyone but the murderer. Hamas put those hostages in its trucks. And Hamas made sure the world would see what it did. In all its brutality and barbarism. Here is footage from HonestReporting that the liars and deniers want you to forget, including a terrorist hacking the head off a body while his comrades cheer. Watch it, and remember who did this. instagram.com/reel/DeLc0whgB…

Mehdi Hasan has come up with a test for racism that judges an idea by the conduct he attributes to it, blames Zionism for a displacement that Arab leaders brought about, and is applied to no people other than the Jews. If anyone ran the same test on a group @mehdirhasan cares about, he would denounce it as bigotry, and here is what that looks like when it's applied to Islam: “Whether you personally are a bigot is irrelevant. The issue is whether Islam is an ideology that, in practice, has discriminated against and dispossessed non-Muslims for centuries, from dhimmi status and the jizya to blasphemy laws today, and continues to do so. The answer is yes. Hence the label.” Mehdi would rightly reject that argument, because it takes the conduct of particular states and movements and charges it to a faith and to everyone who holds it. Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to self-determination in their ancestral & indigenous homeland, and judging that belief by a highly selective reading of history commits the same error. Whatever Arab displacement occurred west of the Jordan river resulted from decisions by the Palestinian Arab leadership and the Arab regimes backing it, which refused any arrangement that left the Jews any self-determination, however limited. The Nazi-aligned Mufti of Jerusalem rejected the 1937 Peel plan, which would have given the Jews a state on roughly a fifth of the land. He also rejected the 1939 White Paper, which gave the Jews no state at all, promised an independent Arab-majority Palestine within ten years, and barred Jewish immigration after five years unless the Arabs agreed to it. Having refused even that, the Arab leadership chose war in 1947 and 1948, and that war is what tragically killed and displaced people on both sides. What followed tells you which side actually practiced exclusion. The Arab armies emptied every piece of land they captured in 1948 of its Jews, including the Old City's Jewish Quarter and Gush Etzion, and roughly 850,000 Jews were driven out of Arab and Muslim countries in the years after. Israel's Arab citizens, by contrast, make up more than 20% of its population, vote, serve in the Knesset and sit on its Supreme Court, and enjoy more freedom than Arabs anywhere else in the Middle East. Mehdi holds only one people to this standard, and his penchant for antisemitic double standards is the subject of my latest piece on him: jpost.com/opinion/article-90…

The @Independent's world affairs editor looked at an attempt to plunge a plane full of Israelis out of the sky and asked who benefits. His answer: Netanyahu. Not the Islamist supremacist movement that has spent 50+ years hijacking, bombing & crashing airliners to terrorize Jews, Westerners and Muslims who reject its creed. Not the ideology behind 9/11. The Israeli prime minister. Cui bono, "who benefits?" Detectives use it to come up with potential suspects. Conspiracy theorists use it to invent them. Aim it at the targets and you get craziness like "Israel did 9/11." Most readers never get past the headline. These editors know that. They ran it anyway. Yellow journalism at its worst.

Not a miracle. It was awe-inspiring heroism and courage displayed during the attempt to hijack and crash Flydubai flight FZ1073 traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel. Hero: pilot and Indian national Smit Machchhar, who was attacked with a knife by his Omani co-pilot. While fighting his attacker, he was able to notify the crew and passengers (possibly by hitting the PA button). Lying in a pool of his own blood and still fighting, he was able to allow access to the cockpit while the plane was taking a violent nosedive, losing 17,000 to 18,000 feet in about two minutes. He fought like a lion and deserves so much respect and honor. @IndiaToday @ndtv @gauravcsawant @ShivAroor Heroes: the ordinary Israeli citizens who did not hesitate a second and jumped to assist the crew in fighting their way into the cockpit and subduing the co-pilot. This level of heroism and courage cannot be dismissed. People often miss that Israel has a citizen defense force made up of doctors, artists, college students, grandparents, business owners who all serve to defend their homes and nation against attacks by other nations, terrorist armies, and decentralized terror campaigns. Heroes: the flight crew who joined the passengers to get into the cockpit, subdue the attacker, and manage the passengers and chaos throughout the cabin. Heroes: off-duty pilots on board who were able to get the plane under control and safely land it in Saudi Arabia. It takes a village/tribe/community to keep each other safe, with people willing to fight evil when it comes to their doorstep. I have huge respect for all involved in this event.

The “Nakba” story dies on this primary source leaflet dated April 28, 1948. The Haifa Workers Council and the Histadrut printed it and told the city’s Arabs not to leave. “Do not destroy your homes with your own hands ... The gates are open for work, for life, and for peace, for you and your families.” That week, British police in Haifa had reported the same thing. Jews were trying to keep shops open and to guarantee Arab lives and property. Ben-Gurion sent Golda Meir to say it to Haifa’s Arab residents face-to-face. Tens of thousands of them left anyway. “Nakba” first named the Arab failure to destroy the Jewish state. Later it was rebranded as a Jewish expulsion order. Look to Haifa and test that theory. There was no order to get out. There was a printed appeal to stay in multiple languages. The Arab Higher Committee called anyone who remained under Jewish protection a “renegade.” Its chairman, Jamal Husseini, told the Security Council the Arabs “preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings, and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town.” Most of Haifa’s 62,000 Arab residents walked out. A few thousand stayed. They became citizens of the new state, and today their grandchildren vote in Israel. The expulsion story requires this page not to exist.