Israeli Government Video Irks Palestinians

July 28, 2011 13:56 by Simon Plosker

Congratulations to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon for taking the initiative in the vital battleground of social media.

Ayalon’s YouTube video “The Truth About the West Bank” is evidently considered to be such a threat to the distorted Palestinian historical narrative that Saeb Erekat (who still appears to be the chief Palestinian negotiator despite resigning from the position in February 2011) has responded by publicly condemning the video in no uncertain terms.

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Here’s your chance to help Israel online.

It’s really simple – click on the video and watch as Danny Ayalon explains the status of the West Bank. In September the Palestinian Authority plans to tie Israel up in legal knots at the UN with an appeal for statehood in the West Bank and Gaza based on the 1948 armistice line (commonly and misleadingly referred to as the “1967 borders”).

Wherever you are on the political map, it’s time that the world is reminded of Israel’s historical and legal rights as well as how Israel found itself in control of the disputed territories.

By simply clicking on this video or sharing it on social media platforms such as Facebook, you won’t just be reminding your own friends and friends of Israel of the facts. You will also be promoting this material “beyond the choir” to the millions of people who browse YouTube and know nothing of the Israeli narrative.

Evidently, the Palestinians find it difficult when Israel reasserts its rights in the face of the assault on the country’s legitimacy. According to the PA press release:

“With this video, the Israeli government has left no doubt on its pro-conflict agenda. Now, the international community knows the Israeli government is committed to denying the Palestinian people their inalienable right to self-determination and on continuing their illegal and colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory”, said Dr. Saeb Erakat.

Dr. Erakat said this video, presented by the Israeli deputy minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon, denies the validity of UN resolutions and claims that the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are a legitimate part of Israel. He added, “This is not an amateur video prepared by an extremist group. An official representing the State of Israel presents a cynical and falsified account of history and international law.”

Dr. Erakat continued: “In its desperate attempt to gear international discourse away from the pursuit of genuine peace to the outdated arguments of those who oppose it, this official video went as far as discarding United Nations Resolution 181 (II).” “I want to remind the government of Israel that it was accepted at the UN as a full member based on its acceptance of this resolution” said Dr. Erakat.

Danny Ayalon

In reaction to the condemnation, Ayalon said: “For too long the Palestinian narrative of international law and rights has gone unchallenged and this over the top reaction to a public diplomacy video proves that they are acting like spoilt children who have had their way for too long. They are unable to challenge a single fact in the video and have completely avoided a legitimate and honest discussion on the issues.”

In the press release, Erekat claims that Israel was accepted to the United Nations on the basis of UN General Assembly Resolution 181. “This false claims shows that Erekat misconstrues international law and its system proving exactly how misguided the Palestinian attempt to have their unilaterally declared state recognized at the United Nations really is. Israel was admitted as a full United Nations member in 1949 by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273, after a recommendation by the Security Council, because it met the criteria of statehood and signed armistice agreements with our neighbors, something the Palestinians should bear in mind before they further their confrontational and damaging plan towards September.”

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Beverly Kurtin
4:59 pm
Oct 05, 2011
Both videos of Mr. Ayalon are on my Color Nook and I show the videos at every opportunity I get. I also carry a flash drive on which are several videos that can be loaded onto someone else’s computer so they can show it and, hopefully, the truth will be made clear to more and more people.
I wear a Shield of David that was made from a Kassam rocket that was exploded in Sefrot and when I show it to people I ask, “do you know what this is?” When they say the Star of David I say yes AND it is a piece of a rocket that the Arabs in Gaza exploded in a civilian area of southern Israel. Notice how thick the metal is. It doesn’t say so, but the rocket was made in Iran. According to Wikipedia ” Since 2000, Palestinian rockets have claimed the lives of 22 Israelis and one Thai national.” What it does NOT mention are the hundreds of men, women and children who have been maimed for life.
The rockets are simple; so are hand grenades. Also not mentioned are the countless number of Israeli and other nationalities who have post traumatic stress from never knowing when a rocket will appear. Those civilians have only SECONDS to take cover before a rocket explodes in their midst.
The Arabs receive, at the same time Hamas is lobbing those heinous rockets; food, clothing, fresh water, electricity…all from Israel. What other people on this planet does such a thing? Only one, and only the people who twice a day say Shema Yisroel…
Israel has to do a few things that will foster the truth: Stop calling Judea and Samaria the West Bank and stop calling the Arabs Palestinians. As long as we honor what the Arabs want, they will take advantage of those terms.
Arabs tell the truth only when it is to their advantage, the rest of the time they twist the truth so badly that it gets lost in the confusion they deliberately make up. Take the useless resolution 181; that had NOTHING to do with the creation of Israel. In fact, Mr. Ayalon’s video about the truth of the West Bank proves that beautifully.
Are ALL Arabs liars and cheats? Of course not. Although I am anything but a prophet, I will say that peace will never be possible. If we all live to be 120, the Arabs will still be lobbing rockets into Israel and lying about us to the media as to who is to blame for the situation.
Why is that so? Because the first Arab leader to recognize Israel will be murdered in cold blood and they know that.
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American
5:07 pm
Dec 31, 2011
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Israel is a terrorist state. The entire world has known this for a long time. Israel has repeatedly proven this FACT beyond anything your obtuse and fossilized minds can comprehend. What a shameful existence you zionazis are to the entire international community. And that you are proud to be the world’s #1 terrorist is way beyond inhuman, despicable, outrageous, and psychotic. FACT: SETTLEMENTS ARE ILLEGAL PER INTERNATIONAL LAW. Your squatters in the West Bank are CRIMINALS. You legally have NO RIGHTS there whatsoever. You will never change this, so deal with it. LAW is LAW. How stupid do you think we are? hahahaha! Keep fooling yourselves, it only isolates you further…what a RELIEF.
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- ESLombard
  1:34 am
  Feb 09, 2012
  Perhaps the US was a terrorist state from 1620-1910; the natives terrorized the Americans and vice versa. Or perhaps what the Jews endured at the hands of native peoples in what became Moslem lands for thousands of years was not terrorism. Why did nearly a million terrorized Jews (1941-67) from Moslem countries flee with all assets confiscated and still requiring restitution? What do you call all the pogroms in Russia driving millions of Jews elsewhere? If you ever find Israelis harsh with the locals, remember that their families (now more than half Israel’s present Jewish population) suffered in the Arab world up to 3000 years. You may recall that Mohammed himself, after being laughed at for his pathetic reformulation of Jewish law, drove the Jews from Mecca and Medina. Terrorism? How about your own community in the US? Have you checked the local history of Indian and white terrorism? Or what terrorism your community inflicted on African Americans? Puullleease!
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American
6:15 pm
Dec 31, 2011
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Zionists are the real Anti-semites, and they are terrorists who are totally against peace! WAKE UP Israel!!! LEARN at the FACTS:
In a tape-recording made by an orthodox moderate named Yitzhak Frankental and later published in the Israeli press, Rabbi Rabinovitch says that if soldiers come to uproot settlers he intends “to scatter the area with roadside bombs like the Arabs do” (quote is his words).
Zionist Rabbi Schachter says: “It is forbidden to pray for peace in Eretz Yisroel, because the Israeli-Arab wars are the ‘beginning of the redemption’ and if there is peace, it will delay the redemption.”
Founder of zionism, Theodor Herzl, promoted anti-semitism to further the zionist cause. He states very clearly in his own diary: “It is essential that the sufferings of Jews…become worse…this will assist in realization of our plans…I have an excellent idea…I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth…The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews.” (from Herzl’s own Diary, Part I, p. 16)
At the Zionist Congress in London in 1937, Dr. Chaim Weizmann established policy with his words: ” The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No’….From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people…The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world…Only the branch of the young shall survive…They have to accept it.” (from the book: Holocaust Victims Accuse, p. 25)
One of the founders of the Haganah (the Zionists’ paramilitary militia-army before the 1948 war), Ze’ev Jabotinsky, declared that settlement of the “land” is the only “law”. He declared: “There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supercedes all–Jewish settlement of the land.” (from the book: Righteous Victims, p. 108)
FACT: real Jews are AGAINST zionism:
The Rebbe of Satmar, Hungary, Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, a high-ranking rabbinical scholar of uncontested holiness, is one of the greatest giants in all of Jewish history. He called zionism “the work of Satan”, “a sacrilege” and “a blasphemy”. He forbade Jews to have any participation with anything even remotely associated with zionism and said that zionism was bound to call the wrath of God upon His people. He maintained this stance with unwavering bravery from the very onset of zionism. He wept that the Holocaust was a direct result of zionism as a punishment from God. In his book Vayoel Moshe (middle of Section 110) he states: “It is because of the Zi0nists that six million Jews were killed. The fact is that this is the bitter punishment stipulated in the Talmud (Tractate Ketuboth, p. 111)
The great Rabbi from Shinova, who was the son of the Holy Sanzer Rabbi of Poland said this 100 years ago, at the dawn of Zionism: “You should know, that when a Jew recites ‘Hear O Israel, G-d is our Lord, G-d is One’ he should have in mind to reject all idolatry in the world, and Zionism is also idolatry, and he must reject it as well.”
In a letter written by the famous Rabbi Tzadok Hakohen of Lublin, Poland, before World War II: “THE CONCLUSION IS TO BE DRAWN THAT IF THE ZIONISTS GAIN DOMINION THEY WILL SEEK TO REMOVE FROM THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL BELIEF IN G-D AND IN THE TRUTH OF THE TORAH. ALL THE INTENT OF THESE INCITERS AND SEDUCERS IS TO CAST ISRAEL INTO INFIDELITY, WHICH IS DESTRUCTION. Tzadok Hakohen”
In a letter from Rabbi Aryeh Leib Alter, known as the Sfas Emes, which he wrote early in the Zionist period, the Rabbi says: “Now behold Satan has come and confused the world….A thick cloak rest over the eyes of the leaders of the Zionists. ONLY OWING TO THEIR LACK OF FAITH AND ABSENCE OF BELIEF IN G-D DO THEY FAIL TO REALIZE THE EXTENT OF THE DANGER INVOLVED IN THEIR PROMISES TO THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLES AMONG WHOM WE LIVE, OF ALL THE WORLDLY DELIGHTS PROVIDED THEY GIVE AID TO THE ZIONISTS. THEY EVEN URGE THEM TO EXPEL JEWS FROM THEIR MIDST. Every sensible person will realize the help they are providing the enemies of the Jewish People…. Aryeh Leib Alter”
In this book, in chapter 26, Rabbi Yitchak Aramah states that the Decree of Exile for the Jewish People is so serious that even if the Jewish People were to terminate the Exile from the Holy land ONE DAY before the willing of G-d, the entire People would be in great danger by virtue of having violated the prohibition of ending the Exile as discussed in the Talmudic Tractate Kesuboth 111.
Plus…there are so MANY MANY more proven historical documents, records, books, statements, and events, all of which show a multiplicity of CLEAR evidences proving beyond doubt that Zionism is terrorism, against Jews, against peace, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with true Judaism. Read all about it yourself, and you will if you have ANY genuine interest in the real, unadulterated TRUTH!
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- ESLombard
  1:44 am
  Feb 09, 2012
  Thanks for the scholarship which all goes to prove the oft repeated observation: with two Jews, you’ll have three opinions. That’s the beauty of Judaism that it usually tolerates all manner of criticism and opinion. That same intellectual freedom may account for the intellectual and scientific genius of the Jews. Some of the ultra-orthodox observations that you quote often seem outrageous, but they are indeed part of the intellectual ferment. You may recall that a few years ago, several of these folks were invited to Iran to denounce Zionism which they did. May I humbly suggest that you widen your reading fare?
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Erina
2:38 am
Jan 10, 2012
Confirmation:
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Jerusalem is the capital city of Judah, it was once the capital city of Israel until the nation was diivided, and still is unto this very day.
Jerusalem and all the other cities in the Land of Judah were and are known as the cities of Judah.
Judah was one of Jacobs sons whom the Tribe of Judah was/is named after.
The Messiah came from the Tribe of Judah.
Caleb and his descendants from the tribe of Judah inherited Hebron BC.
The Messiah was born in Bethlehem.
Judah also made an ancient claim to Gaza.
The (Dynasty of David) from the Tribe of Judah & Israel (Ten Tribes of Israel) have been divided unto this very day. (Judah & Israel)
All the cities in the Land of Judea (Judah) were/are known as the cities of Judah.
When the Messiah comes back to Jerusalem, he comes back as the “Roaring Lion of the Tribe of Judah.”
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Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
7:10 pm
Feb 04, 2012
Hey, I need a home.
Any of you Jews out there know a Palestinian who’s got one?
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- Gary Katz
  8:53 pm
  Feb 04, 2012
  Well, if you want to live in the West Bank or Gaza, you can always buy one from one of them, as long as you’re not Jewish. You see, they have the death penalty for selling a home to a Jew. If you want to live in any Middle Eastern Arab country (except Jordan), you probably won’t have an easy time buying a house from a Palestinian. That’s because those Arab countries severely restrict the rights of Palestinians in their land (including refusal of citizenship, various property rights, various jobs and government positions). But hey – it takes time for those Arab states to absorb those “refugees.” It’s only been 63 years!
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  - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
    12:16 am
    Feb 05, 2012
    I don’t want to buy nothing. Don’t yall have a Defence Force to stake the place out for me?
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    - Gary Katz
      12:59 am
      Feb 05, 2012
      No, not for you (unless your ancestors lived there for 3000 plus years, all the while having the land stolen from them by 17 conquerers).
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      - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
        1:27 am
        Feb 05, 2012
        I lived in Poland for 1300 years. Does that count?
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    - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
      12:41 am
      Feb 09, 2012
      If Yahweh promised you my home I’d shoot your fuckin ass
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      - Desert Eagle
        9:09 am
        Feb 21, 2012
        YOU don’t have the balls tejano since you shot them off with your squirt gun.
        And that toy “dozer” you have is up on blocks again.
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- ESLombard
  1:50 am
  Feb 09, 2012
  Just after the Arabs lost the war in 1949, Arabs wished to sell their homes and leave Israel. But they were fearful of death at the hands of their Arab neighbors. An office was set up by Israel in Cyprus where they could effect a sale, take the money, and head for other lands. I would like to believe that Israel still offers a similar program.
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  - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
    4:43 am
    Feb 09, 2012
    Would you believe Israel offers another shitload of thieving Jews?
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  - Gary Katz
    6:59 am
    Feb 09, 2012
    Actually, I wouldn’t believe that (or anything you would write). Find another hobby besides trashing Jews and Israel, the greatest country in the Middle East. Besides, you’re not even good at it – anyone can sound bellicose and ignorant.
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    - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
      9:25 am
      Feb 09, 2012
      Oh, we’re not bellicose and belligerent. We’re Jews !!1
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    - Gary Katz
      8:05 pm
      Feb 09, 2012
      Then start acting like one.
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      - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
        2:49 am
        Feb 10, 2012
        Stick your Jew settlements up your ass
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      - Gary Katz
        7:50 am
        Feb 10, 2012
        How eloquent and classy.
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      - Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
        8:47 am
        Feb 10, 2012
        Yeah, Buddy. We talking Lebensraum for Jews. It don’t get no better then that
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      - Desert Eagle
        9:12 am
        Feb 21, 2012
        How do you type with your pin head up your own ass?
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Gary Katz
1:59 am
Feb 05, 2012
Too easy. I’ll hold my tongue.
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- Tejano (have dozer, will settle)
  2:24 am
  Feb 05, 2012
  How long did you live Poland?
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