If you are pro-Palestinian, your intentions are good and nobles, but you need to inform yourself to avoid believing and repeating things that are not true, and thereby creating unnecessary suffering for yourself, your fellow protesters and the target of your protest.
There are three main narratives that are presently being pushed by protesters:
1. Israel practice a genocide in Gaza
2. Israel is an apartheid State
3. Israeli are white colonizers who stole the land of Palestinians
1. Israel practice a genocide in Gaza
Genocide includes an intend to destroy a targeted group, such as happened during the Holocaust or the massacre in Rwanda in 1994. The IDF does no target Palestinians as a group, but only Hamas, the perpetrator of the worst massacre since the Holocaust. Hamas, however, is using Palestinians as human shield.
After several conflicts with Israel, Hamas is well aware of the usefulness of civilians casualties in fighting with Israeli forces. It intentionally embed their military infrastructures in civilians places such as schools, hospitals and Mosks (contrary to international laws). They deem the high number of casualties as a ”necessary sacrifice” in view of a higher cause (the eradication of Israel and the killing of all Jews, as stated by Hamas charter), and they are very satisfied with the results, as many in the West now ignorantly support Hamas because of the high number of Palestinians casualties they attribute to Israel.
The IDF (Israel Defense Force) warns the Palestinian population through leaflets, SMS, and “roof knocking”, before bombing a building used by Hamas. The IDF also provides safe humanitarians corridors to evacuate the civilian population out of combats zones. If it had genocidal intend, it would not go to such length to avoid civilians casualties. The IDF also gives medical care to the Palestinian population when necessary. In November 2024, Israel vaccinated 1.1 million Gazeans (mostly children) against polio. Why would they do that if it had genocide intent towards the Palestinian population?
The statistics provided by Hamas Health Ministry does not differentiate between civil and combatants. Hamas itself is combating in civil clothes (contrary the international laws). Hamas also recruits 15-17 years old teenagers as combatants, who are then part of the “innocent children casualties” statistics. Israel does its utmost to warn civilians to evacuate combats zones, and once you take out the number of combatants killed, you will find that Israel has actually the lowest ratio of civil casualties vs. combatants for modern warfare.
The statistics provided by Hamas are being repeated at face value by the media as if true, whereas is has been often shown to be vastly exaggerated. For an example on how the media takes information from Hamas at face value, check this videos. The media took what Hamas said as it was a fact, accusing the Israeli of shooting Palestinians at a food distribution center. The security camera, however, showed that it was nobody else than Hamas itself shooting at civilians. Furthermore, Hamas had a motive for doing so (they were losing power as they could not steal the aid anymore), the Israeli none.
Therefore the IDF does not practice a genocide in Gaza. It does its utmost to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seek on the contrary to maximize them by building its military outposts in the middle of civilian infrastructures, then blame Israel for the casualties and win ignorant onlookers to its cause.
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2. Israel is an apartheid State
There are many Arabs (Christians and Muslims) living in Israel and they have the same rights and privileges as Israeli (and many Arabs are even doctors or judges). It is not mandatory for Arabs to do three years of military training, but some of them do and are part of the IDF.
If you want examples of apartheid (and genocide), look no further than Islamic countries, who killed entire Jewish populations, or oppressed them to the point they had to leave.
If you want examples of second rate citizens, look no further than Islamic countries who allowed before that “People of the book” (Christian and Jews) to practice their religion on the condition they paid a special head tax called jizya.
Israel is very LGBT friendly. In Islamist countries it's forBiden and they often through them from the top of a tall building to see if they can fly. So how about that for an apartheid?
Therefore, contrary to Islamic countries, and contrary to the myths perpetrated by protesters, Israel is not at all an apartheid State.
3. Israeli are white colonizers who stole the land from Palestinians
As documented through the bible and archaeology, Jews where the native people of the holy land until they were chased from it by the Persians and the Romans. They returned to it after the Balfour declaration of 1917. It is not colonization if you return to your home land.
The colonizers were in fact the Islamists, who from the year 622 onward, were involved in what is known as the “Muslim conquest”, that engulfed Irak, Syria, Levant (included what is now Israel), Iran, Egypt, and part of North Africa.
Palestine never has been a country, it had no coins, no kings, etc. It was a regions, populated by Arabs and Jews, in the Ottomans empire.
Jews bought lands from the Ottomans and from Arabs. They never stole them from anyone. In 1948, when Israel declared its independence, the Arab Mufti urged Arabs to flee Israel, as five Arabs armies would throw the Jews in the sea, at which point Arabs could return to their home. However, Israel defeated the five armies and the Arabs who fled remained as “refugees” out of Israel. Those who didn't flee are now parts of Israel, didn't lose their home, and have the same rights and privileges as Israeli.
Therefore no Israeli stole the homes of anyone and those who lost their home are those who followed the ill-advise of the mufti and lost the war. Nor are Israeli colonizer, they just returned to their homeland. Nor are Israeli all white, by the way, as many of them are brown (mainly coming from other countries of the Middle-East), and some come even from Africa and are black.
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Moderates:
This is the way to go. The moderates on both sides should unite, and they must actively opposed the hatred and fanaticism that misrepresent them.Moderates
Bahrain_s Crown Prince condemns Hamas and the October 7 attacks in an official statement on November 17 2023/
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