By: Independent

Independent
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:56:26 +0000

1) Edward Said is a lying, anti-Semitic fraud who revised the entire history of the Middle East to develop this so-called “indigenous Palestinian” people from a land that was named after Roman imperialists and co-opted by Islamic Arab colonists in the 7th century. It would be best for the authors to stop drinking the leftist Kool-Aid.

2) It is a complete fabrication that Israel sterilized Ethiopian women as a policy. There was one doctor who acted atrociously, but to conflate the actions of one to the entire state is completely unacceptable and malicious. Check your facts before spewing nonsense.

3) The last time that Palestinian-Arabs were barred from the Temple Mount was due to the fact that a particular group of Palestinian-Arab women were inciting violence to kill Jews. That was deserved on their end, and for both of the authors to complain about something that was completely reasonable under the guise of security says far more about the authors’ inability to tell the truth rather than attempting to rebuke one of their peers.

4) Did the original author of the piece claim that Israel does not suffer from instances of racism or homophobia or did she rightfully point out that Israel is comparatively better at protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community than its neighbors? The answer is the latter, and it is a completely valid point. It is even more astonishing that the authors of this piece decided to label Iran, who lynches homosexuals on a frequent basis, as a model for uplifting the transgender community. Members of the queer community supporting nation-states that oppress and kill their own members can only be compared to chickens standing up for Colonel Sanders.

5) Zionism is a liberation movement because it liberated the Jewish people’s homeland from British and Arab occupiers from a land that was legally mandated to them by the San Remo Conference, the League of Nations 1922 Resolution, and Article 80 of the UN Charter. Judea and Samaria are disputed territories, not “occupied territories,” and Israel has every right to build Jewish communities outside of the 1949 Armistice Line (which is not a border by the Rhodes Agreement of 1949). Again, if you wish to distort reality in the face of defending your so-called “progressive values,” then I would suggest fact checking in the interest of not looking like a bunch of whiny brats.