David horowitz why israel is the victim

This is a propaganda piece, where facts that don't fit are left out rather than refuted. Still, I'm willing to entertain the idea. I can see his point, part of the problem is Palestinian attitudes. It seems to be written for an Israeli audience. It includes such insane lines as "The anti-Zionist lobby exercises excessive influence over policy making in the US and Europe" and includes the idea that we Everyone who isn't American or Jewish have it in for the Jews.

The reversal of the usual conspiracy - a world wide anti-Jewish conspiracy. Mar 22, Negin rated it really liked it Shelves: israel , thinkers-i-adore.

This was a very well-written and short read. Personally, I cannot stand anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Judeophobia — whatever one wants to call it, and yes, they are all connected.

Sir, do you even have a brain? View all 5 comments. Aug 10, Andrea Collins rated it it was amazing. Excellent introduction to a difficult subject. Sadly the people who most need to read are the ones who certainly won't. My edition also included "Why there is no peace in the Middle East".

Oct 08, carol rated it liked it Shelves: Sep 29, Elizabeth Kling rated it it was amazing. Short, to the point , and completely accurate very well written and everyone in the world needs to read this.

I have been a supporter of Israel for decades. I am a born again believe in Yeshua who said,"salvation is of the Jews". That is the real reason the Jews are hated. Soon , I hope. I got to say I like Horowitz and most of his views.

Feb 05, Joshua Foote added it. Good short book book that talks about the lies that are told against Israel and the farce of land for peace. View 1 comment. Nov 20, Mario Sergio rated it it was amazing. However I find it is an account that reflects the truth. I find this the ultimate form of racism! What is more shocking is the fact that the West in general, apart from the US and sometimes the UK , is giving Israel less than their full support. This applies morally and on the world stage within bodies like the UN.

Especially in their laughable council of biased human rights. This short read is a great read and unfortunately a true read. Israel deserves better! The truth All, especially western, politicians should read this as it is frank, factual and to the point.

I'm not Jewish but really understand the distorted Arab view from my own personal experience. False teachings to young Palestinians is immoral and unjust. I also believe Israel should be given far more support especially by Europe and the UK The truth All, especially western, politicians should read this as it is frank, factual and to the point. I also believe Israel should be given far more support especially by Europe and the UK May 20, Dr.

Steve and Betsy Pollock rated it it was amazing. Cogent A clear summary of why Israel's existence is important, and an even more clear dismemberment of the arguments against a Jewish state. The bottom line for the conflict - hatred of Israel. Very readable An excellent short and readable review of the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and its currents status, by justifiably pro-Israeli commentators. Hortensia Gonzalez rated it liked it Aug 30, Anthony Ragan rated it it was ok Sep 22, From , , , to , the coming of each new decade meant a new war.

Nor was there peace between these wars. When Gaza and the West Bank were in Egyptian and Jordanian hands, Fedayeen terrorists used them as bases to invade Israel and carry out attacks within the borders. When Israel turned these territories over to the Palestinian Authority, they once again became bases of terror. At no point in time, regardless of the date, the prime minister or the policy, did Israel enjoy peace. Whether Israel was led by the right or by the left, whether it made war or peace, the violence of its enemies remained unchanged.

No matter how often Israel changed, how it was transformed by waves of immigration, by political and religious movements, by peace programs and technological booms, its enemies remained unwaveringly bent on its destruction. As a nation of wandering exiles, Jews had lived with the knowledge that they had no rights that could not be taken away at a whim and no certainty of safety that would endure beyond the next explosion of violence.

That is still how Israel lives today, no longer as a wandering people, but as a nation alone. The way that a majority treats a minority is a test of its character.

Nazi Germany showed what it intended for Europe with its treatment of the Jews. As did the Soviet Union. The Muslim world has likewise shown its intentions toward the rest of the world with its treatment of Israel; the only non-Muslim country in the region.

The apathy of the international community toward the war against Israel warns us of a similar apathy in a conflict that will extend as far beyond the borders of the Jewish State, as Nazi atrocities extended beyond the broken windows of the synagogues of Berlin.

Within the pages of this pamphlet you will find the story of this new war against the Jews, as a people, and against Israel, as a Jewish State. The pamphlet that you are about to read represents an equally instantaneous response to those lies with the best possible weapon; the truth. The Gaza Strip is a narrow corridor of land, 25 miles long and about twice the area of Washington, D.

When the U. The attackers included Egypt whose tanks invaded Israel through the Gaza land bridge. In its defensive war against the invaders, Israel emerged triumphant but did not occupy Gaza. In , Egypt annexed the Strip. In , the Egyptian dictator Gamel Abdel Nasser massed hundreds of thousands of troops on the Israeli border with Gaza and closed the Port of Eilat in an attempt to strangle the Israeli State.

After the war, Israel refused to withdraw its armies from Gaza and the West Bank because the Arab invaders, which included Iraq, Jordan and several other states refused to negotiate a formal peace treaty.

In the years that followed, a few thousand Jews settled in Gaza. By they numbered 8,, a tiny community compared to the 1. After the rejection of the Oslo Peace process in by Yassir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians launched four years of unrelenting terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. As a result of the Palestinian rejection of the peace process and the unrelenting terrorism, the Israeli government decided that a secure peace could probably not be negotiated with its Palestinian antagonists.

It therefore built a fence along its borders both on the West Bank and Gaza to prevent further infiltration by suicide bombers, a measure which dramatically reduced the attacks. The Israeli government further decided to remove all Jews living in the Gaza Strip and to withdraw the Israeli Defense Forces which protected them.

Forget for a moment all the strategic and geopolitical rationales for the Gaza pullout and consider only the reason that the Jewish settlements in Gaza were an issue at all: Palestinian Arabs and indeed all the Arab states of the Middle East hate Jews and want to dismantle the Jewish state. They hate Jews so ferociously that they cannot live alongside them. There is not an Arab state or Arab controlled piece of territory in the Middle East that will allow one Jew to live in it.

This is why in the Arab states rejected the two- state solution that would have created a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza alongside the State of Israel. They wanted to destroy the Jewish state more than they wanted to create a Palestinian one.

In contrast to the hostility of all Arab states to any Jew, Israel has welcomed Palestinian Arabs to its communities. There are more than a million Arabs living safely in Israel where they enjoy more citizen rights than the Arabs living in any Arab country, or for that matter the Muslims living in any Muslim country. But the ethnic cleansing of the Jews has always been the objective of Arabs and Palestinians.

The real goal of Arab nationalism has always been an Islamic Arab Middle East with no competing nationalities or cultures. Palestinians have shown twice in and again in that they want to kill Jews more than they want a Palestinian state. The tiny Jewish population of Gaza created an agricultural industry in fruits, vegetables and flowers.

During their years in Gaza, they constructed greenhouses that produced an abundance of vegetables. With 50, Jews — still a small minority in a population of 1.

When the Jews left, there remained the problem of what to do with the existing greenhouses. A Jewish philanthropist in America stepped forward to solve the problem. Mortimer Zuckerman, the publisher of U. It was a gesture of peace, an effort to encourage the Palestinians to look on the withdrawal from Gaza as a step in the process of ending the fifty year war of the Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs against Israel.

The Palestinian answer to this peace offering was unambiguous and swift. As soon as the Israeli troops left, Palestinians rushed in to loot the greenhouses that had been given to them, stripping them of the pumps, hoses and other equipment that had made them so productive.

The withdrawal from Gaza is an emblem of the entire Middle East conflict. It is not a conflict of right versus right. It is a conflict inspired by ethnic hate, by the unwillingness of the Arabs of the Middle East to live as neighbors with a people that is democratic, non-Arab and non-Muslim. The cause of the conflict is that the Arabs hate Jews more than they love peace.

Zionism is a national liberation movement, identical in most ways to other liberation movements that leftists and progressives the world over—and in virtually every case but this one—fervently support. This exceptionalism is also visible at the reverse end of the political spectrum: In every other instance, right-wingers oppose national liberation movements that are under the spell of Marxist delusions and committed to violent means.

But they make an exception for the one that Palestinians have aimed at the Jews. The unique opposition to a Jewish homeland at both ends of the political spectrum identifies the problem that Zionism was created to solve. The Zionist founders believed that hatred of Jews was a direct consequence of their stateless condition. As long as Jews were aliens in every society they found themselves in, they would always be seen as interlopers, their loyalties would be suspect and persecution would follow.

This was what happened to Captain Alfred Dreyfus, whom French anti-Semites falsely accused of spying and who was put on trial for treason by the French government in the 19th Century. Theodore Herzl was an assimilated, westernized Jew, who witnessed the Dreyfus frame up in Paris and went on to lead the Zionist movement.

Jews had been without a state since the beginning of the diaspora, when the Romans expelled them from Judea on the west bank of the Jordan River, some 2, years before. Once the Jews obtained a homeland—Judea itself seemed a logical site— and were again like other peoples, the Zionists believed anti-Semitism would wither on its poisonous vine and the Jewish problem would disappear. But something altogether different happened instead. In a region that the Ottoman Turks had controlled for hundreds of years, Britain and France drew the boundaries of the new states, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.

What was left of the original Palestine Mandate—between the west bank of the Jordan and the Mediterranean sea—had been settled by Arabs and Jews. Jews, in fact, had lived in the area continuously for 3, years, even after the Romans destroyed their state in Judea in 70 AD. Arabs became the dominant local population for the first time in the 7th Century AD as a result of the Muslim invasions.

These Arabs were largely nomads who had no distinctive language or culture to separate them from other Arabs. In all the time since, they had made no attempt to create an independent Palestinian state west or east of the Jordan River and none was ever established. The pressure for a Jewish homeland was dramatically increased, of course, by the Nazi Holocaust which targeted the Jews for extermination and succeeded in killing six million, in part because no country—not even England or the United States— would open their borders and allow Jews fleeing death to enter.

In , the United Nations voted to partition the remaining portion of the original Mandate, which had not been given to Jordan, to make a Jewish homeland possible. The Jews were allotted three slivers of disconnected land along the Mediterranean and the Sinai desert.

They were also cut off from the slivers, surrounded by Arab land and under international control. Sixty percent of the land allotted to the Jews was the Negev desert. Out of these unpromising parts, the Jews created a new state, Israel, in At this time, the idea of a Palestinian nation, or a movement to create one did not even exist.

There were , Arabs living in Israel alongside , Jews a figure that would increase rapidly as a result of the influx of refugees from Europe and the Middle East. The Arab population in Israel had actually more than tripled since the Zionists first began settling the region in significant numbers in the s.

The reason for this increase was that the Jewish settlers had brought industrial and agricultural development with them, which attracted Arab immigrants to what had previously been a sparsely settled and economically destitute area. But they were not. Instead, the Arab League—representing five neighboring Arab states— declared war on Israel on the day of its creation, and five Arab armies invaded the slivers with the aim of destroying the infant Jewish state.

During the fighting, according to the UN mediator on the scene, an estimated , Arabs fled their homes and left the infant state. Only in the video could I see him direct it straight into my camera. Still, I wonder: How has Horowitz retained respectability, when he acts so—-unimaginably? And the CR leaders were polite to visitors.

And this person has shaped academic debate? Many have justly condemned that condescension. I think psychological care is a great thing. As one flawed human to another, I feel for David Horowitz, because paranoid vigilantism is a sad life. Short of getting professional help, though, we can all hang out with good people who radiate sanity, spreading resilience all round. A week ago, comradely sumud helped me creep into the hate-fest I dreaded.

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Our news and analysis is available to everyone — which is why we need your support. Please contribute so that we can continue to raise the voices of those who advocate for the rights of Palestinians to live in dignity and peace. What was Horowitz like in person as a Trotskyist, I wonder.

A critique of American foreign policy in the cold war. By: Horowitz, David. Published: He did a What a backflip to go from Trotskyist to hardcore Neocon? And not only that, but look at the kind of plainly dishonest? It makes me wonder what he was like inside Trotskyist circles back in the day in person. If anyone needs proof that zioniosts are insane , he is all the proof needed.