Reason It Out: Israel Hasn't Committed Genicide

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

                      Arab leader Husseini and the Nazis of Germany

You've heard it so over and over !  Too many people are repeating this, that Israel has committed genocide.

What is genocide?  The term genocide was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in the early 1940s. Lemkin lobbied for genocide to be outlawed by international treaty, but the Genocide Convention restricted his initially broad definition to five specific acts "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such."

The United Nations defines genocide in Article II of the 1948 Genocide Convention as specific acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.  Is this the reason Israel has been fighting Palestinians in Gaza?  

No, they have been fighting against people who have wanted to kill Israelis for the past 49 years and drive them into the Sea or as far away as possible leaving Gaza and Israel for the sake of Iran's goals and theirs.  

                                    Yasser Arafat, born in Egypt

Ever since 1967 when Arabs lost the 67 War against Israel, there has been attacks on Israel from Hamas.  Before Hamas it was the PLO, Palestine Liberation Organizaion run by Arafat.1950s - After graduating from college, founds a nationalistic group called Fatah. The group publishes literature that advocates armed rebellion against Israel.  They fought against Israel.  

The sad thing is that Jews, since the 1920's have been the goal of genocidal people who have wanted to wipe all of us Jews in the world out.  These were the Nazis, run by Hitler.  Nazis hunted down Jews, kept them from work, schools, in Germany since the 1920's.  Europe saw war starting in 1939, America in 1941-1945.  Jews were taken in mass to gas chambers to be killed on purpose.  It was a true genocide.  Even gypsies  were suffering from genocide by them.  6 million Jews died of genocide by Hitler's orders.  Approximately only 11 million Jews were left in the world at the end of World War II in 1945.  I was one of them.  

Showing his true colors, it was Hajj Mohammed Amin El-Husseini,(1893-1974) the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who went to Germany to speak with Hitler to get help in doing just that;  wanting a genocidal wipe-out of all Jews in the world.  In 1921 this Arab leader, was appointed for the job of Grand Mufti by a British Jew, Sir Herbert Samuel.  Husseini had by this appointment become chairman of the Arab supreme Council. He promptly   organized Palestinian riots, causing his exile in 1937.  Not too smart.  He helped Hitler and was largely responsible for the liquidation of the Jews in the Moslem areas of Bosnia.  In 1946 he escaped to Egypt.  After 1948-Israel's birth, he set up  short-lived Palestine government in Gaza and then later in Cairo.  

Hamas terrorists are no fools.  They have been so clever as to cause the Jews to be guilty of killing their own people.  To them, it's imperative to turn their people into ammunition to kill Jews.  This is hard for anyone to believe, and so they use terrible methods to do so, putting the fear of G-d into the Palestinians by shooting them if they refuse hiding weapons in their home, entering into the fighting, dastardly acts.  

Israeli armies have taken giant steps in trying to reduce the Palestinian deaths by using phones to tell them to leave their homes before bombing started, leaflets, bull horns, sirens.

Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir: The professional head of the Israeli military serving as the Chief of the General Staff. He assumed command with a mandate to proactively target Hamas leadership and dismantle its remaining network.

How can anyone believe that a people would do unto others what they don't want done to them?  They had been treated by others in the most horrendous ways of death  already that they hadn't asked for.  

These are people brought up on the Golden rule ever since  the first century AD, a little before Jesus had come along.  We Jews know it as the reply of Hillel, when asked by a scoffer to condense the whole of the Torah in one sentence.  (Shabbat 31a) Jesus and Matthew had similar rules.  "Lev. 19:18 said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.", and this was repeated by  Rabbi Akiva and Jesus.  Evidently Europe doesn't study the bible since they have been so adamant as to believe that Israel has committed genocide.  

It's true that Israel has killed a lot of Palestinians, Palestinians who believe  that they will be rewarded for giving their life to the cause of damning Jews, which is so sad for their young children who have no choice.  But Israelis have not done it willingly or not without trying to find other means of dealing with attacks on their own families.  Jews have been put in the position of being damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Jews, especially those outside of Israel are experiencing more anti-Semitism than usual, more like Germany 1939 back East.  All the European countries are rumbling and complaining, pulling away from support of Israel.  This, as they must be hoping, is causing more harm than good.  

Our favorite phrase is, "but is this good for the Jews?"  Well, no war is good for anyone, but for some silly reason, they cannot sit by and watch their families being wiped out again. Reasoning hasn't helped.  Can any others reason with Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah?  Not without acting foolish and allowing arms in Gaza to be available by these terrorists.