It takes a particularly virulent strain of moral idiocy and meanness to single out Israel, not Arafat's Palestinian Authority, or terror-supporting, death-fatwa-issuing Iran, or women-subjugating Saudi Arabia, for condemnation and economic ruin. One of the most decent societies, one of the most liberal democracies in the world, is fighting for its life against Islamic fascists who praise the Holocaust and publicly call for the annihilation of Israel -- and the Presbyterian Church calls for strangling Israel!
It takes a particularly infantile mentality to assert that the shortcomings of Israel's neighbors somehow excuse Israel's own crimes. Yes, Saudi Arabia is a nightmarish totalitarian-theocratic state, and Arafat's P.A. is a nepotistic kleptocracy, but do these facts negate Israel's occupation and oppression of the Palestinians? Of course not. Only a child, or an ideologically hidebound radio pundit, would say so.
What's interesting is that, even though the PCA's policy of divestment is clearly morally correct, this Presbyterian Church USA "Israel Facts" website contains much of the same demonstrably false pro-Israel spin that we here in the U.S. are inundated with on a daily basis, including this thoroughly debunked bit of propaganda:
1948
Following the United Nations action, five Arab armies attacked Israel. Arab radio broadcasts urged the Arabs living in that area to leave so they would not be harmed by the invading armies. They were told they could soon return and take over all the land, not just that allocated to them by the United Nations action.
No one, NO ONE, has ever produced evidence of such radio broadcasts. In fact, the opposite is true. Knowing that the Zionist program involved the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land, the Arab broadcasts encouraged Palestinians to stay where they were.
I've put in a call to some of my Presbyterian friends to clear up this discrepancy.
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