The response from the pro-Palestinians to Oct 7th made me immediately staunchly pro-Israel. Never had an interest in the region or had a side before seeing that day’s events play out on the news, although having married into a Muslim family, I had been exposed to anti semitic tropes which I used to challenge but didn’t really take seriously.
I had grown up in a small town in southern England as an atheist before moving to London in my early 20s and hadn’t heard stuff like that before and it was long before social media. Have to say DH’s family are pro-Palestinian and have been on marches but he was of the same view as me after Oct 7th.
Shani Louk on the pick up truck with the savages abusing her already dead, defiled body, and Sheri Bibas’s facial expressions as she was surrounded, invoked a primal anger in me I hadn’t felt before tbh.
The more I’ve researched and learned over the over last two years, it’s only reinforced my position.
The Palestinian propaganda machine is unlike anything I have ever seen. How could terrorists who do the following be seen as heroic ‘resistance’ fighters or their actions be seen in anyway justified:
• cut women’s breasts off and shot them while raping them
• ram nails into young women’s vaginas then burn them alive
• take babies/toddlers as prisoners of war
• hack off a man’s head with a garden hoe while someone’s filming them do it and additionally sell another man’s decapitated head (that lad was 19) after storing it in an ice cream freezer
• stab whole families to death in their beds almost decapitating a 4 month old baby in one case
• kidnap, murder and mutilate a group of 3 teenage
boys then attack the ambulance their bodies the transported in
• rip apart the bodies of two men who’d taken a wrong turn and pose for pictures in front of a cheering crowd holding up their hearts and entrails to their mouths for pictures
• blow up restaurants, nightclubs and shopping malls via suicide bomber, hijack planes, shoot up buses, stabbing sprees, etc.
(the former 4 on the list were long before Oct 7th)
Every accusation is a confession is absolutely true in this case.
You could start with looking up the Arabic meaning of the Nakba OP, and why it was actually called that from the Arab perception,
Also the State of Jordan’s inception (which was 73% of the Mandate for Palestine), then the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Resolution.
Then the Arab - Israel wars and the history of Palestinian terrorism since the Palestine Liberation Army was created in 1964 while Jordan and a Egypt were still illegally occupying the West Bank and Gaza respectively (since 1948) and you can wonder why a Palestinian State was never established during that time.
Then look into the current Palestinian national identity created in 1967 by Yasser Arafat, an Egyptian, who took the star off the Jordanian flag and declared it Palestinian.
Spoiler - the crux of it is that Arabs (who colonised the area themselves prior to it being Ottoman territory for 400 years and called Southern Syria, NOT an Arab State), believe they have a right to ALL the land and they refuse to accept acceeding even a tiny part of it for a Jewish State despite the Jews being indigenous to the land and it being the Jewish ancestral homeland having had a Jewish presence for 3000 years therefore creating all manner of false claims to stake their ownership of ALL the land and also against Israel to present themselves as the victim.
Research what Al Aqsa mosque was built on top of
and even more importantly listen to what the Palestinians say themselves about living in peace with Israel and what Palestinian children are taught in schools funded by international aid.
Ask yourself why Israel is the only country in the world that needs an Iron Dome and has a legal requirement for safe rooms in every home and public areas.
Where has all the billions of $ of aid gone and why Palestinians have a UN agency solely for them and why all Palestinians, no matter where they live or if they are citizens of other countries, are classed as perpetual refugees along with their descendants.
You may or may not reach the conclusion that the ‘Palestinian’ identity as a separate construct from Arab in the region was contrived to delegitimise Israel’s claim to the land and paint themselves as an oppressed people who just have no choice but to commit terrorist attacks against Israel.
Some might say it is the biggest scam in human history and horrifically innocent Palestinians have been brainwashed and suffered for generations, along with Israelis, for a massive anti semitic propaganda program spanning 77 years.