“Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Truth about the Peace Process”
SOURCES for VIDEO
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General Sources
StandWithUs, “Israel 101” explores more fully the issues raised in the video, and carefully
documents each point with footnotes.
The booklet is available on line in English and Spanish. The English version is at
http://www.standwithus.com/ONLINE_BOOKLETS/Israel%20101%20English/ and the Spanish
version is at http://www.standwithus.com/ONLINE_BOOKLETS/Israel%20101%20Spanish/.
StandWithUs, “Stand4Facts: Point-Counterpoint” is a detailed, documented history of modern
Israel, divided into 16 themes. It is available on line at http://points.stand4facts.org/
Specific Issues and Sources
1. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
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Original PLO Charter, adopted in 1964, is available on the website of the Permanent
Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations at
http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/pid/12363
The PLO Charter called for “liberation” of the Palestinian homeland, but meant only Israel
within the pre-67 lines. Article 24 excluded the West Bank and Gaza, which were then
under Jordanian and Egyptian control, from the territories requiring “liberation.”
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Revised PLO Charter, adopted in 1968 is available on the StandWithUs website,
http://www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/plo_charter.pdf and on the website of the
Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations at
http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/pid/12361 This amended Charter eliminated
Article 24 because the West Bank and Gaza were no longer under Arab control.
Article 9 declares that “Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.”
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The PLO emblem, a map of Israel, is available on line on the website of the Permanent
Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations at
http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/pid/11543
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Background on PLO
Bernard Lewis, “Palestinians and the PLO,” Commentary Magazine, January, 1975 at
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-palestinians-and-the-plo/
Robert L. Pollock, “Arafat Always Goes Too Far,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2001
archived (July 12, 2001) at http://www.jr.co.il/articles/politics/arafat6.txt
PLO Terrorism: CAMERA, “Yasir Arafat’s Timeline of Terror,” November 13, 2004 at
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=795&x_context=7
2. 1937 Peel Commission
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Peel Commission Report and map of recommended partition is available on line at
http://www.mideastweb.org/peelmaps.htm
The plan envisioned a Jewish state on 20% of the Mandate west of the Jordan River, the
equivalent of 4% of the 1922 original Mandate from 1920-22 which had included Jordan.
(See Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, The Israel-Arab Reader, (2008 edition), pp. 41-42.
3. Palestinian Leader Haj Amin Al-Husseini and Nazi Connections
StandWithUs, “The Nazi Roots of Arab Anti-Semitism,” at
http://www.standwithus.com/ONLINE_BOOKLETS/Nazi%20Roots/
Matthias Kuntzel, “Islamic Anti-Semitism and Its Nazi Roots,” 2003 at
http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/islamic-antisemitism-and-its-nazi-roots
International Sephardic Leadership Council, “A Backgrounder of the Nazi Activities in North
Africa and the Middle East During the Era of the Holocaust, Including an Overview of the
Arab World Leader, Amin Al-Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem,” 2003 archived at
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/holocaust/mideast.pdf
4. UN Partition Plan, 1947 and Arab/Palestinian and Jewish leaders’ response.
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UN Partition Plan with map is available on line at the UN website at
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/7f0af2bd897689b785256c330061d253
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Arab/Palestinian response: NO
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“a war of extermination.” The Secretary of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha,
declared in 1948 that “"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous
massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the
Crusades."
Documented in David Barnett and Efraim Karsh, “Azzam's Genocidal Threat
Found: The original 1948 document containing the Arab League's warning,”
Middle East Quarterly, Fall, 201, Vol. 18, No. 4 at http://www.meforum.org/meq/
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StandWithUs, “Point Counterpoint: Theme 3, Point 2,” at
http://points.stand4facts.org/bin/index.cgi?ChapterID=3
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Mitchell Bard, “Myths and Facts: The War of 1948,” at
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf4.html
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Howard Sachar, A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time,
Chapter 13
Israeli-Jewish response: YES
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Efraim Karsh, The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, Chapter 1,
“Background to War,” on line at
http://www.4shared.com/document/bWefc099/The_Arab_Israeli_ConflictThe_P.
html
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Howard Sachar, A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time,
Chapter 12
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Judea Pearl, “The Miracles of November,” Jewish Journal, Nov. 25, 2009 at
http://www.jewishjournal.com/judea_pearl/article/the_miracles_of_november_20
091125/
5. Terrorism against Israelis, 1949-1967
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Terrorist attacks against Israel, 1949-1967. In 1953 alone, there were 3,000 terrorist
incidents. A selected list of terrorist incidents between 1949 and 1967 is available on the
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website at http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Which+Came+First+Terrorism+or+Occupation+-+Major.htm
6. Arab League Khartoum Resolutions, Sept. 1, 1967
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“Three No’s Resolutions available on line at
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/khartoum.asp
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Analysis of Khartoum Resolutions available at CAMERA, “Six Days of War,” at
http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/khartoum.asp
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Palestinians reject UN “Land for Peace” Resolution 242. On Oct. 15, 1968, the PLO
told the UN General Assembly that “"the implementation of said resolution will lead to the
loss of every hope for the establishment of peace and security in Palestine and the
Middle East region." Cited at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf7.html#e
7. Israel saw a significant increase in terrorist attacks from 1993-1998.
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Data on attacks: In the 15 years preceding the Oslo Accords, terrorists killed 216
Israelis, a smaller number than the 256 killed in the first five years of Oslo (1993-1998).
From “Fatalities in Palestinian Terrorist Attacks Since 1967,” Jewish Virtual Library on
line at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/osloterrgraph.html
8. Yasser Arafat declares “…we plan to eliminate the State of Israel….”
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Yasser Arafat declaed this to an Arab audience in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30,
1996. Source at Yedidya Atlas, “Arafat’s Address in Stockholm: Stockholm Revisited,”
Idris, May 10, 1996 at http://www.iris.org.il/quotes/stockhlm.htm
9. In 2000, Prime Minister Barak offers Palestinians the equivalent of 93% of the West
Bank. Arafat said “No.”
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Source: American diplomat Dennis Ross: Transcript of interview with Dennis Ross on
Fox News Sunday, April 21, 2002 at
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000555.html Also see
Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace,” 2004.
10. Rocket attacks against Israeli civilians increase by over 500% after withdrawal from
Gaza.
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Rocket and mortar attacks increase over 500%: There were 179 rocket strikes in
2005. In 2006, the year after Israel’s disengagement, it soared to 946, a 500% increase.
Statistics from Terrorism and Information Center, “Rocket Threat from the Gaza Strip:
2000-2007,” December, 2007 at http://www.terrorisminfo.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/rocket_threat_e.pdf
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Analysis of terrorism against Israel from Gaza: Dore Gold, “Israel’s War to Halt
Palestinian Rocket Attacks,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 2008 at
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FI
D=283&PID=0&IID=2049
11. 2008--Ehud Olmert gives in to almost all Palestinian demands….Palestinians say NO.
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Olmert’s offer and Palestinian rejection: Palestinians say: "The Israeli proposal is not
acceptable.”
Aluf Benn, “PA Rejects Olmert’s offer to Withdraw from 93% of the West Bank,” Ha’aretz,
August 12, 2008 at
www.haaretz/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1010812
Khaled Abu Toameh and Tovah Lazaroff, “PA: Reported peace offer unacceptable,”
Jerusalem Post, Aug. 12, 2008 at http://www.jpost.com
/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446183280&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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For comprehensive discussion of what Olmert offered, see interview with Olmert at
Greg Sheridan, “Ehud Olmert still dreams of peace,” The Australian
November 28, 2009, at www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/ehud-olmert-stilldreams-of-peace/story-e6frg76f-1225804745744
12. What their charters indicate…
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The Hamas Charter calls for the murder of Jews, the “obliteration” of Israel, and its
replacement with an Islamist Caliphate. The Hamas Charter can be read on the
StandWithUs website at http://www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/Hamas_covenant.pdf
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Fatah, at its 6th annual convention, reiterated its hardest line policies against Israel,
including that “ resistance, in all forms, is a legitimate right.” See Khaled Abu Toameh,
“Fatah moves 'to remove, defeat occupation,'” Jerusalem Post, Aug. 9, 2009 at
http://www.jpost.com
/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418557097&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull
Also see: C. Jacob, “Fatah Sixth General Conference Resolutions: Pursuing Peace
Option Without Relinquishing Resistance or Right to Armed Struggle,” MEMRI, Aug. 16,
2009 at http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA54109
13. ‘No’ is consistent with Palestinian education and media….
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For details on Palestinian society and officials suffused with anti-Israel incitement to
hatred, see Itamar Marcus reports at website www.palwatch.org
14. Recent polls confirm that the majority of Palestinians share this conviction.
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While the U.S. and Israel support two states for two peoples, the majority of
Palestinians do not. A recent poll conducted by two respected research organizations,
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion on
behalf of the Israel Project, reveals that while the U.S. and Israel support two states for
two peoples, the majority of Palestinians do not. See poll results at
http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7b84dc5887-741e-4056-8d91a389164bc94e%7d/2011-07_PALESTINIAN_SURVEY_CHARTS.PDF
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Over two-thirds of Palestinians reject the two-state solution, favoring instead a temporary
two-state arrangement that gradually becomes a single Palestinian state.
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Over 73 percent approve the Muslim hadith that says “judgment day will not come until
Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.”
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About 80 percent agree that Muslims should engage in jihad to eradicate Israel.
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Over 50 percent support their schools teaching children songs and chants that promote
hatred of Jews.