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Those rabid crowds who have been chanting their slogans — “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free” (meaning Israel must disappear, to be replaced by a twenty-third Arab state), or “Say No To Genocide” — as they shut down traffic at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, and block the main thoroughfare to O’Hare Airport in Chicago, and engage in the same traffic-stopping sit-ins at dozens of other sites, describe themselves as “pro-Palestine.” Elder of Ziyon begs to differ. His take on what prompts these protestors can be found here: “No, the people disrupting traffic Monday are not ‘pro-Palestine,’” Elder of Ziyon, April 16, 2024:
The local news media all get it wrong.
There protesters are not “pro-Palestinian.”
If they were “pro-Palestinian,” they would protest how terribly Lebanon treats its Palestinian “guests.”
If they were “pro-Palestinian,” they would protest how Egypt doesn’t let any Gazans desperate to leave to enter Egypt without paying hefty bribes.
Egypt has closed off its territory to Palestinians wishing to leave Gaza. Even those who only seek a temporary respite from the war in Gaza are denied admission. The only way for a Palestinian in Gaza to gain admission to Egypt is by bribing the right border officer.
The total silence from these protestors about the mistreatment of Palestinians, including denial of citizenship in all Arab states except Jordan, collective punishment (as in Kuwait, where 400,000 were booted out overnight because some had supported Saddam Hussein’s 1991 invasion of the country), in Egypt (where Palestinians in Gaza, trying to escape the war, are prevented from entering), is striking. It appears that the actual suffering of Palestinians in the Arab states is not worth protesting, because the Jewish state cannot be held responsible
And what about the total indifference to the current situation in Sudan, where a civil war has led to suffering many times greater than what the Gazans are enduring? In Gaza, slightly less than one-quarter of the population, or 500,000 people, are in a state of great “food insecurity.” The protestors have instead claimed, incorrectly, that half the country is in a “state of famine.” Meanwhile, in Sudan, 18 million of the country’s 45 million people are truly suffering from a “famine.” Yet none of those protesters busy denouncing Israel for “starving” the people of Gaza — Israel, let’s note, now lets in more food trucks than entered the Strip before October 7 — have even once gone out to protest the conditions in Sudan. For that matter, they haven’t protested the famines, all more severe, and affecting many more people, than the “food crisis” in Gaza, that are ongoing not only in Sudan but also in Yemen, Somalia, and South Sudan.
Why not? There is no way to blame Jews for those famines, so those around the world who are consumed with hatred for what they preposterously call the “apartheid colonial-settler genocidal state of Israel” are simply not interested.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Time to start arresting and deporting them back to the Middle East
Hannah Katz says
I was thinking these radical Islamists would be more comfortable in Somalia or Sudan. Really hardline Sharia cultures. The West should start escorting them there in short order.
Mike Larkin says
The total silence from the “pro fakestinian” faction in regards to fakestinians in the rest of the Arab world is clear evidence that they aren’t pro fakestinian but genocidally anti semitic.
Mind you, the reason the rest of the Arab world treat the fakestinians the way they do is because they know just how toxic the fakestinians are.
Black September in Jordan, the civil war that turned Lebanon into a shit hole, the behaviour of fakestinians let into Western countries setting out to destroy them and promote anti-semitism, the list goes on and on.
Martina Vaslovik says
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Zuheir Mohsen, PLO official, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
Angel Jacob says
There is no such a thing as Palestinians.
It’s a made up nation with no history, only a criminal record.
Do not validate the lie by calling the terrorist organization Palestinians.
DrLarry says
They are pro-terrorism. They are demonstrating in support of murder, rape, mutilation, kidnapping, torture and the genocide of Jews. This makes the protesters either embarrassingly ignorant or outright evil.
They have made the “Palestinian” flag and the keffiyeh the equivalent of the Nazi flag and the swastika arm band. They have made it clear that their cause is to perpetuate another Holocaust and to destroy America and Western civilization. I only hope that America and the Western democracies quickly realize this and begin to act to defeat this existential threat.
Richard Cohen says
Yes!
And facts and artifacts are ignored.
I am particularly saddened by some in the African-American community.
An Uncle who protested and went to jail for 6 months in Mississippi during the 1960’s Civil rights struggle was then an unacknowledged author of C.O.R.E. — a jobs program doing great things to this day. And Jewish people were killed– standing up for rights for the “others” — the African American community and we continue marching, to this day, in support of demands made for rights denied.
And now it is our day for needing support, but except for rare occasions — the support has never arrived. Instead, the decision, for some, has been to join the other side– against us.
What would they have to say if I paraded around waving a confederate flag?!
Since Waving a “Palestinian” flag and wearing a keffieh feel just the same, to me.