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Since 1950, the population in the Palestinian territories has grown by more than 4.5 million people: from 0.94 million to 5.4 million in 2023.

The war against Hamas and Hezbollah is not genocide. Hamas and Hezbollah are deliberately targeting Israeli (and Arab) civilian areas. Israel is defending its population. Furthermore, it is actively taking more precautions than any country has ever before taken to protect civilians on both sides.

Hamas has declared its aim: to destroy Israel and massacre the entire population, which it demonstrated on October 7^th. Hezbollah, another stooge of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is pursuing the same goal.

20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinian Arabs, who are also suffering from the terror. In contrast, Jew have been almost completely banished and exiled from the Arab world.

The accusation of genocide forms part of the escalated propaganda campaign against Israel that has taken in institutions and people throughout the world.

On October 7^th, 2023, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, under the leadership of Hamas, carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

On this day, they murdered 1200 people in cold blood, raped women, and kidnapped 250 hostages including babies, children, women and elderly people. About 100 people are still being held hostage today (January 2025).

The terrorists streamed their atrocities live on the internet.

Evidence proves that Palestinian civilians actively took part in this murderous assault. They celebrated the massacres, abused corpses, humiliated the hostages and even used their own homes to hold them captive.

Throughout the world, people are celebrating this invasion, while demonstrating solidarity with the Hamas terrorists. They are holding rallies in western democracies, throughout Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia.

Hezbollah has also been firing missiles into Israel every day since October 7^th, 2023. Almost 100,000 Israelis have had to be evacuated from their homes in the north.

Occupation and settlements are consequences of the conflict, not its cause. The Arab-Palestinian war of annihilation against Israel began long before any settlements were established.

The Palestinians have repeatedly rejected proposals to establish their own state and coexist peacefully with Israel. Instead, they and the Arab world are attempting to destroy Israel.

When Israel’s existence was threatened during the Six-Day War in 1967, they conquered territories, including Gaza, while establishing a security presence with military forces and settlements. These territories are disputed internationally and even within Israel itself.

 In 2005, Israel left Gaza completely, handing it over to the Palestinians for self-administration.

In 2006, Hamas won the elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council. By June 2007, following brutal armed clashes with Fatah, Hamas had seized power in the Gaza Strip completely. Since then, it has intensified its terror against Israel, culminating in the massacre of October 7^th, 2023.

Historically, culturally and religiously, there have always been deep bonds between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. This is recognized under international law.

To deny Jews their right to national sovereignty in the Land of Israel disrespects human history.

Attempting to promote peace, Israel has withdrawn from large areas of the territories it occupied during the Six-Day War of 1967, including the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Zionism has contributed to sustainably developing the land of Israel. It has not exploited it colonially. The founding of the State of Israel in 1948 was itself a process of decolonization, ending centuries of foreign rule by the British, the Ottoman Empire, the Mamluks, the Crusaders, the Arabs, the Byzantine Empire, the Romans, to name just the most significant ones during the past 2000 years.

According to the UN partition plan of 1947, Gaza was to become part of an Arab-Palestinian state. This was prevented by the Arab war against Israel and the Egyptian occupation.

In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel occupied the area, seizing it from Egypt. During the mid-1980s, violent resistance of the Intifada began in Gaza, and the Islamist terrorist group Hamas was formed.

To protect itself from the continuous terror, Israel sealed itself off from Gaza until it completely withdrew in 2005. However, tens of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza were still permitted to enter Israel every day to work.

Egypt’s border with Gaza remains hermetically sealed, in fear of Islamist terrorists infiltrating from the Palestinian territory.

For decades, Gaza has received billions of dollars in international development aid: especially from the western world, including Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. Hamas used this aid to establish a fortress of terror throughout Gaza. Hezbollah did the same in southern Lebanon.

Judaism originated in the land of Israel, and the deep connection between the Jewish people and this part of the world is proven to have existed for at least 3000 years.

Jews did not leave the land of Israel voluntarily. They were systematically expelled and deported by the Romans from the first century onwards.

Despite being in exile for 2000 years, Jews never gave up their dream of returning to their homeland. Zionism is the Jewish national liberation movement. Zionists are actively committed to securing the existence of the modern state of Israel as the only place of refuge for Jews worldwide.

International law also calls for a Jewish state.

As early as 1937, the Zionist movement agreed to the principle of dividing the territory into a Jewish and an Arab state, as proposed in the Peel Plan.

The 1947 UN partition plan to divide the land was accepted by the Zionists, while the majority of Palestinians, even today, still do not accept it. They continue to deny Israel’s right to exist, seek its destruction and support the atrocities of their terrorist groups.

All citizens of Israel enjoy equal rights and obligations regardless of their origin, religion, skin color, gender or sexual orientation. Approximately 20% of Israeli citizens are non-Jewish, of Arab origin.

Arab political parties participate in democratic elections. They sit in parliament and have also been members of the government.

The Arabic language enjoys a privileged status. Arab citizens are able to complete their schooling in an Arabic education system.

Arab citizens are represented in all areas of society and the state, including politics, the economy, the judiciary, the military, science, the arts, sports.

The situation in the West Bank is complex: well over 80% of the Palestinians living there are governed by the Palestinian Authority.

Israelis are prohibited from entering Gaza..

Consequences of October 7^th
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The events of 7^th October have resulted in a re-traumatization of Israeli society and of Jews in the diaspora.

This was the worst attack on Jews since the Shoah. The fact that it occurred in Israel itself intensifies the trauma.

Antisemitism worldwide has increased dramatically. This is manifesting itself in a number of forms among a range of groups in society. These include: extreme right-wing and left-wing groups, academic and intellectual circles, Muslim-influenced environments, woke and queer movements. All are increasingly influencing the discourse in mainstream society.

The reactions of many sections of society are a cause for deep concern. The Jew-hatred perpetrated by the terrorist organization Hamas is approved and glorified among the extreme left and in the left-liberal academic narrative. In doing so, they reference a supposed progressive post-colonial perspective. They deny historical facts, vilify Israel is as a “colonial settler state”, aggressively spread false accusations of apartheid and genocide – all in a manner whereby any Israeli citizens and all Jews are held to be collectively accountable.

This radicalization has led to an increasing willingness to use violence, resulting in physical attacks on Jews.

Jews in the diaspora feel increasingly insecure, isolated and exposed to attacks, accompanied by a distinct lack of empathy and solidarity.

Jews around the world have become a kind of projection “screen”, often being blamed for events in Israel and the Middle East.

The reaction of public opinion worldwide

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The reaction of public opinion worldwide: After October 7^th, 2023, public opinion throughout the world has undergone a paradigm shift in which Israel’s right to exist is being called into question.

The global rise in antisemitism is resulting in an increase in physical attacks on Jews. Jews in the diaspora feel increasingly insecure and isolated.

Rewriting of the narrative in the media: by spreading disinformation and propaganda, both traditional and social media are contributing to a distorted portrayal of events.

Antisemitic stereotypes and conspiracy myths are being spread on a massive scale, influencing public opinion.

The events of October 7^th, 2023 are deliberately falsified in order to rewrite history and relativize or deny the massacre.

Me too unless you are a Jew: international organizations have either ignored Hamas’ crimes or criticized Israel’s self-defense as disproportionate.

The silence of organizations that otherwise stand up for human rights, especially women’s rights, is particularly outrageous, especially when Hamas’ sexualized violent atrocities are considered.

These double standards illustrate the selective empathy of western society, that frequently does not extend to Jewish victims.

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