Section 2: Background for
Understanding Misreporting
DOCUMENTS: Excerpts/analysis on
Qur’an, PLO et ilk charters, Mandate,
242, Oslo, Road Map, etc.
HISTORY: Jews’ continuous presence,
“Palestine,” Jerusalem, Temple denial
ISRAEL TODAY: U.S. ally, democracy,
human rights, technology, humanitarianism, relations with Arabs
OPPOSITION: Muslim Anti-Semitism,
rejection of Jewish State, terrorism
POLITICS: UN, lobbies, “Land for
Peace – David vs Goliath”
CROSSROADS: Jewish refugees,
Christians in peril
Rev jrv 3/24/13
Ben Hecht, 1948
• “A Jewish nation will remove our
mystery and give us origins and
permit us to thrive in the world—on an
equal footing with other nationals.”
• “A David stands against Goliath. I ask
you Jews—buy him a stone for his
slingshot.”
Three background aspects Westerners must understand are
Israel’s indefensibility today within the 1949
ceasefire lines
The Arab-Israeli conflict’s Jewish as well as
Arab refugees
The actual cause of Middle East Christians’
plight
1
The 1949 Ceasefire
Lines
-- the lines at the end of the War of Independence
after 6 Arab Armies attacked Israel after
rejecting U.N. Partition Plan (Nov. 29, 1947)
-- the “Auschwitz” Lines (Abba Eban)
PALESTINE MANDATE
GEOGRAPHY 101:
“Land for Peace” – “David vs Goliath”
If you look just at this map, you
see a bigger Israel than
“the West Bank” and Gaza
Not really an “Israeli Goliath”
against a “Palestinian David,” but
“Land for Peace”? Maybe the
sacrifice would not be existential.
** “the West Bank” = Judea and Samaria **
Have We Gone . . .
From This 
?
To This 
To This 
Now, look at this map –
Israel alone in the “Islamic Middle East” and North Africa
This is the country the Mainstream Media, Liberal-Left
Elites, Main Line Protestant Groups and many American
Jews say should surrender “Land for Peace”
Which side would you have give up “Land For Peace” – the
rest of the United States or Vermont?
MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY 101
Israel:
* 112-mile coastline
* 260 miles at longest
* 60 miles at widest
* 3 – 9 miles at narrowest
* 8019 square miles (about size of New Jersey)
* 1/19 size of California
* fit into Florida 7 times
* fit into United States 768 times
* 1/625 (1/6 of 1%) of Arab world
* counting Iran: ratio is 650-1
ISRAEL RELATIVE TO MUSLIM WORLD
* surrounded by 22 hostile Arab-Muslim states
* population of Arab-Muslim states including Iran: 350 million
* 56 Islamic countries
* 1.4
billion Muslims worldwide
* 6.2
million Jews in Israel
* regional population ratio of 56: 1
* 1.2 million Arabs living in Israel as full citizens
* 13.5 million Jews in world–
almost 5 million fewer than in 1939
These are the dimensions of Israel “proper”:
a. 3 miles wide here
b. Golan Heights
c. Sea of Galilee
d. Jordan River... Sea of Galilee
to Dead Sea
e. 1967 territory beyond the
“Green Line”
f. 9 miles wide here
g. Tel Aviv
h. Jerusalem
i. Dead Sea
j. Gaza Strip: 5 miles x 25 miles
(Courtesy of
www.masada2000.org)
This is Mark Langfan’s
map showing how
vulnerable Israel would
be against today’s
weaponry if pushed back
into what Eban rightly
called “Auschwitz lines”
Israel Foreign
Ministry map of
expanding Gaza
rocket range from
Qassams to Grads
to Iranian-designed
Fajar-5s
This is a close-up view of
the Jewish homeland’s heartland as an Arab state:
The defensible Judea-Samaria
hill country heartland
(2200 ft height)
Tel Aviv and the most
populous zone
The narrow corridor
connecting the coast to
Jerusalem.
A lot of Jews, not all of them soldiers, died in the 1948 war to
keep open that narrow lifeline to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Today
New Arab and
Jewish
housing since
1967 in ‘east’
Jerusalem
www.thelevyreport.org
“… the classical laws of ‘occupation’ … cannot be considered
applicable to the unique and sui generis historic and legal
circumstances of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria,
spanning over decades.”
Ma’ale Adumim as seen from Mt Scopus
Ma'aleh Adumim taken from the Mt. Scopus Amphitheater of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It's plain to see
that this suburb of Jerusalem is on the foothills of the same mountain as Jerusalem "proper." How can this be
considered a "settlement?“ [photo taken Jan., 2006]”
- photographer Dov Wartell
Today, these are the peaceful symbols of Israel’s “peace
partners” in the search for Arab-Israeli peace:
PLO
Fatah
Hamas
The new Fatah logo is
consistent with official PA maps
used in official documents,
government offices and schools
that do not acknowledge
Israel’s existence and mark all
of Israel as ‘Palestine.’ Other
symbols central to Fatah
ideology also appear in the
logo, including a rifle and a key
symbolizing the Palestinian
claim of ownership to houses
within Israel (‘New Fatah logo
erases Israel,’ PMW bulletin,
December 12, 2012).
Israel’s “Peace Partners”
“Don’t order us to recognize a Jewish state. We
won’t accept it.” (8/28/11)
Fatah’s Abbas
“If we searched the entire world for a person more
cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche,
mind, ideology and religion, we would not find
anyone like the Jew. Notice, I did not say the
Israeli.” (2002)
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah
“We affirm that armed resistance is our strategic option
and the only way to liberate our land, from the sea to the
river. God willing, Hamas will lead the people … to the
uprising until we liberate Palestine, all of Palestine.”
(12/14/11)
Hamas’ Haniyeh
“These bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians,
these warmongers, the descendants of apes and
pigs . . . . They have been fanning the flames of
civil strife wherever they were throughout their
history. They are hostile by nature.”
Egypt’s Morsi
“The nations of the region will soon finish off the
usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land …. A new
Middle East will definitely be formed. With the grace
of God and help of the nations, in the new Middle East
there will be no trace of the Americans and Zionists.”
Iran’s Ahmadinejad
“[Israel is a] cancer. . . . It will be
cut.”
Iran’s Khamenei
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
--“Holy Quds should be liberated from the
yoke of Israel” (2-20-14)
--Israel is “an old wound on the body of the
Islamic world” (8-2-13)
Old anti-Semitism:
“Jews kill babies”
New anti-Semitism:
“Jewish state kills
babies”
THE CASE FOR MORAL CLARITY
(from Prof. Alan Dershowitz)
** WAR CRIMES BY PALESTINIAN ARABS (HAMAS IN 2006 GAZA WAR)
** 10,000+ ROCKETS, MISSILES FIRED INTO ISRAELI TOWNS AND CITIES
* Inq 3/13/11: “Militants” break into Itamar Jewish home in dead of night, slit throats of
sleeping father, mother, kids 11 and 3, and an infant
* Inq 6/16/08: Israel considers exchanging for two soldiers’ bodies “guerrilla” who
“repeatedly smashed” 5 year-old girl’s head against rock “before crushing her skull with
a rifle butt”
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his late father,
the great historian and professor Benzion Netanyahu on
his 100th Birthday taught that:
“Those who are unfamiliar with the past cannot understand
the present, and those who cannot understand the
present cannot see what lies ahead.”
** Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re
talking Anti-Semitism.”
Things To Think About
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The Jewish Refugees
from Arab Lands
Stories in the shadows – Jews in Arab lands: North Africa
300000
250000
Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
Tunesia
Libya
200000
150000
100000
50000
0
1948 1958 1968 1976 2004
Stories in the shadows – Jews in Arab lands: Asia
160000
140000
120000
Iraq
Lebanon
Syria
Yemen
Aden
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
1948 1958 1968 1976 2004
How many indigenous Jews
were forced to flee Arab and
other Muslim lands they lived in
for many hundreds of years ?
How many Arabs fled tiny Israel?
800,000 - 850,000
472,000 – 650,000
• most never saw one Israeli soldier
• most told to leave by their leaders to make way for the
invading Arab armies who vowed to drive the Jews
into the sea
Tri-fold significance of Jews from Arab lands:
1. Broadens “Palestinian refugee” issue
2. Absorption by Israel discredits Arab “hosts’” 65-year
isolation and mistreatment of Arabs who left Israel
(now there’s ‘apartheid’)
3. Together with Yishuv, debunks claim Israel is “colonial
European entity” plunked in “Islamic” Mideast
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A story in the Shadows:
Christians in Peril in the
“Islamic Middle East”
In the Christian Holy Land itself
has laid blame for Holy Land Christians’ troubles
at Israel’s feet.
Andrea Levin of CAMERA:
“The overarching message of the segment—that Israel is the
source and cause of Christian misfortune and decline in the
Holy Land—was false on many levels ….”
From Letter to Jeff Fager, head of CBS News, JNS.org, 5/31/12
said:
“The wall completely
surrounds Bethlehem, turning
the little town where Christ was
born into what its residents call
an open air prison”
– Bob Simon, 60 Minutes, 4/22/12
an allegation CBS News head, and
60 Minutes executive producer,
Fager repeated to a church group
in April 2013
http://www.camera.org/60minutes/
But the fact is
Map of barrier route near Bethlehem by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (December 2012).
http://www.camera.org/60minutes/
From: “Help CAMERA Video Go Viral! New Video
Exposes 60 Minutes Falsehood” June 21, 2013
No, it doesn’t
But the facts are that . . .
Mideast Christians’ troubles aren’t confined to Israel,
Gaza and “The West Bank”:
Christians’ share of overall Mideast population has
plummeted from 20% a century ago to < 5% today. E.g.:
• Lebanon: > 50% at independence in 1946, < 30%
today
• Iraq: 800,000 a decade ago, < 150,000 today
• Turkey: 2,000,000 in 1918, < 100,000 today
• Syria: almost 50% half-century ago, 4% today
• Jordan: 18% half-century ago, 2% today
Churches are attacked
by Muslims in “the
West Bank”:
Above: Terrorists’ 2002
take-over of Bethlehem
Nativity Church
Below: Church torched
in Tulkarem in Sept
2006 in anger over
comments by Pope
But also in
Iraq
Egypt
Syria
Nigeria
Lebanon
Tanzania
Pakistan
Indonesia
There are responsible voices out there.
Here’s one in our
book:
www.c4rpme.org
It documents
“Christian Life
Under the P.A.”
** RIGHTEOUS
CHRISTIAN
GROUPS
SUCH AS:
- CUFI (Christians
United For Israel)
- FOI (Friends of
Israel)
The Middle East is NOT an “Islamic Middle East”
Jews have continuously lived there as Jews since the
second millennium BCE
Christians have continuously lived there as Christians
since the first century CE
Islam began in the seventh century CE
The tools that you need to see through the
loaded lexicon of Mideast mis-reporting are
here in this book.
Pressing Israel gives you the background
and lays out that loaded lexicon from A-to-Z.
Our book, Pressing Israel, ends with a question:
Conclusion:
The Media War: Can
Israel Get Fair Coverage?
Among the causes of anti-Israel media bias:
Empathy for the Underdog (“Underdogma”)
- Israel has gone from the 1948 homegrown militia fending
off invasion by five Arab states’ armies to the post 1967 Six
Day War victory, high-tech army Goliath looming over
slingshot using Palestinians
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Palestinian Arab intimidation of media
- magnified,
obsessive reporting on Israel due to its free, robust
press vs. Arab-world state-dominated, closed government-run press
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Jews averting their eyes from imbalanced reporting
(as we did for years from “millions of Palestinian refugees
and their descendants from the creation of Israel”)
-Israel: How a small nation makes a big difference
- shares with the world, humanitarianism
- beacon of shared Judeo-Christian values
- democracy, respects civil rights, women’s rights
- asset and ally of U.S.
- an oasis in hostile, totalitarian/authoritarian
Islamic desert
-“Social Justice”
-Tikkum Olam
- Medical Care for all: Biology trumps Ideology
- Safety and Security of Jewish community is bound/
dependent on a strong Israel
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* The cell phone
* Windows NT and XP operating systems
* Pentium-4 microprocessor, Centrino and Atom chip
* Voice-mail technology
* AOL Instant Messenger ICQ
* ReWalk (Argo Med. Tech)
* Collplant (facilitates wound healing, bone repair, nerve regeneration)
* The Better Place electric-car network
* Given Imaging (ingestible video camera)
* BriefCam video-synopsis technology
* Decell Technologies (realtime road traffic information)
* The EarlySense (continuous monitoring solution for hospital nurses)
* EpiLady (the first electric hair remover)
* Hazera Genetics (yielded the cherry tomato)
* HydroSpin (unique internal pipe generator)
* Intel Israel
* Leviathan Energy (innovated the Wind Tulip)
* MobileEye (combines a tiny digital camera with sophisticated algorithms)
* Netafim (worldwide pioneer in smart-drip and micro-irrigation)
* Ormat Technologies (geothermal power plants)
* Panoramic Power (provides current energy monitor solutions)
* PrimeSense (interaction with 3D machine vision technologies)
* Pythagoras Solar (made the world’s first solar window)
* Solaris Synergy (floats solar panels on water instead of land)
* The Space Imagery Intelligence unit of Elbit Systems (“space camera”)
* TA Count (real-time microbiology)
* Takadu (provides monitoring software to leading water utilities worldwide)
* Turbulence (world’s first hypernarrative, interactive movie)
* Waze (world’s fastest-growing community based traffic, navigation app)
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12 Israeli Nobel Prize winners (vs. 6 Arab Nobel Prize winners)
MYTH: ISRAEL’S SECURITY
FENCE NEAR THE GREEN LINE
IS AN “APARTHEID WALL”
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This is two lies in one. It is a fence/barrier, not a wall- approx. 300 miles
long. About 97% is made of chain-link material. The remaining 3% is
concrete, designed to repel sniper fire in particular urban areas. The fence
was built in 2003 in response to thousands of suicide bombings and rocket
attacks on Israeli citizens by Palestinian Arab terrorists, sponsored and
armed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. The fence was built to keep
out terrorists, not Arabs. It is not an obstacle to peace.
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In the years since the construction of the fence, terrorist attacks have
declined by more than 90%. The fence is Israel’s legitimate defense against
a ruthless and amoral terrorist aggressor. It has saved thousands of lives,
including Arabs.
What’s the answer to the “Can Israel Get Fair Coverage?”
question?
US
• Stop using terms designed to denigrate
the Jewish homeland connection to Israel
• Lean on our leaders and advocates to
stop using these terms
• And then demand that the Western media
stop using them too
“And if not Now, When?”
** FORFEITING THE LANGUAGE FORFEITS
OUR HERITAGE AND HISTORY **