Q. Why
do you say there is no peace partner?
A.
• Can you identify even one Arab country or
political movement that hasn’t wanted to destroy Israel, and has recognized
Israel’s right to exist, other than Morocco? Egypt and Jordan have signed peace
agreements with Israel?
• State the truth about
Islamic responses to peace negotiations; the resolution since 1967 being “No
Peace with Israel, No Negotiations with Israel, No recognition of Israel.”
Several countries have sought peace and several emirates are now considering
it, but that is not the case with the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.
• Israel will join peace
in the Middle East when there is peace in the Middle East. Reference to “the
Middle East Conflict” rarely references all the wars in which Arabs are killing
Arabs, but focuses on the conflict between Israel and residents of Gaza, Judea
and Samaria, but that is minor in comparison. The conflicts in the Arab Muslim
world have been that way for centuries!
• Consider this—there is
no peace among the Arab tribes that currently reside in Judea and Samaria—here
is a solution for peace: http://www.palestinianemirates.com
• End the Palestinian
Authority and deal with 8 tribal groups as a solution to the conflict.
Q. I
disagree with Israel’s policies, so don’t I have the right to boycott Israel?
A.
• Would you give up your
cellphone, medicines or other products invented or produced by Israel? See the
hypocrisy if you won’t.
• Do you agree with all
Canadian government policies?
• Do you boycott other
countries which ignore human rights such as China, Cuba, Russia, Uganda (where
it’s illegal to be LGBTQ), to name a few?
• There is no apartheid in
Israel and there is equality for women, minorities and LGBTQ folks in Israel so
rather than support the annual Anti-Israel Apartheid Week which perpetuates
lies, isn’t it time to create Arab Apartheid Month at universities?
• To combat the profs who
support BDS and spread lies and anti-Semitism, organize seniors to register and
audit classes, then publish names of profs and courses that do spread lies.
• What about the jobs
created by Israeli companies that employ Arabs and do you realize that boycotts
kill Arab jobs?
Q. How
can you claim Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism when Israel has policies we don’t
support
A.
• Does Canada have
policies we don’t support? Does Canada have the right to exist? (Or any other
country?)
• Israelis have many
disputes with the government so isn’t the matter their national concern and not
ours?
• To say Jews can’t defend
themselves is anti-Semitism.
• There is a Double
standard, one should compare Israel to other democracies, and note it often
fares better.
• One should also hold the
Arabs accountable, rather than having such low expectations of Muslim
countries.
• Neo/New anti-Semitism is
anti-Zionist, blaming the only Jewish state for matters outside of its control,
hate-mongering, character assassinating, demonizing and stereotyping.
• Let’s “Take back
Zionism” which is the positive view of Jewish nationalism in the Jewish
homeland.
• Multiculturalism should
not be cultural relativism as not all cultures are equal.
Q. Isn’t
Israel a racist – apartheid state given the Nation State Law?
A.
• No, the Nation State Law
does not infringe on the civil and human rights of minorities.
• Define apartheid which
existed under state legislation in South Africa, denying rights to a majority
of the citizens, whereas in Israel all residents are equal before the law and
share in human rights under the law.
• Name an Arab or Muslim
state in which there is equality for all of its citizens?
• The Nation State Law is
not the only Basic Law; other Basic Laws protect the rights of all people in
Israel.
Q. Why
is Israel attacking civilians in Gaza?
A.
• How many missiles would
you allow on your city or town before reacting? Would any Country choose not to
defend its own citizens when attacked? Are you aware that Hamas pays people to
participate in their rallies and attacks and punishes those who don’t?
Q.
How can Israel deny the Right of Return to Arabs who fled in 1948?
A.
• I support the right of
Arabs to return to the Arab countries from which they came in the late 1800s
and early 1900s when Jews began to settle in Palestine and created more
opportunity and improved standard of living. Most came from neighboring lands
that were designated countries after Partition, just as Israel was.
• If the Palestinian Arabs
deserved a state, why didn’t Jordan give them one during its 19 years of
occupation of Judea and Samaria, which they renamed the West Bank. The
Jordanians did not recognize the Arab inhabitants as a separate people during
its 7000 days of occupation.
• Jerusalem was never the
capital of any state but the Jewish state, and it was never important to the
Arabs until after the 1967 war, at which time the concept of a “Palestinian
people” emerged.
• According to the UN High
Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), one can only be a refugee for a maximum of 10
years, but under UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) there is no
end to the time an Arab can claim refugee status and it’s an inherited status,
thus after 70 years, even Arab Palestinians settled abroad are consider
refugees.
• Why have Jordan,
Lebanon, Syria and Egypt denied citizenship, permanent residency status and
access to jobs, education and services to Arabs who fled Israel 70+ years ago?
• Why have over 889,000
Jews who were forcibly expelled from 8 Arab countries never been recognized as
refugees or received any funds from the UN or its agencies?
Questions from either the Left or Right are often intended to undermine
Israel’s right to exist or to defend herself, and they are often couched in
bias, in ignorance or in oft repeated lies. We encourage people to read and
practice responding. You will no longer feel impotent in defending Israel, the
only Nation State of the Jewish People.
