What about Arab War Crimes against Palestinians?

The Syrian regime has killed more Palestinians than those killed by Israel since 1967. In the 1970s and 1980s Hafez al Assad, father of current Syrian president Bashar al Assad caused the death of thousands of Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon. In Tel al-Azaatar camp alone, the Syrian military killed more than 3000 Palestinians, and many more in the 1980s and 1990s. If you add the numbers killed in Yarmouk refugees camp in the last three or four years, we are talking about 10,000 or more. In Yarmouk many died of starvation, thanks to the siege by Assad and Hezbollah forces.

Good idea but but first do something about Israel's crimes against the Palestinians. I cannot believe that the Israelis would commit war crimes, given their unfortunate history, but allow the world court to investigate the matter. Then we'll know for sure. Then, let the same court investigate the author's proposition that the Arabs are also committing war crimes against the Palestinians.

The facts were surpressed, and still are surpressed, that:
(1) in 1971, the Jordanian army massacred 20,000 Palestinian Arabs in less than one week, and drove thousands more into Lebanon; and
(2) During the first Gulf War, Kuwait expelled almost half a million Palestinians, imprisoned and tortured thousands more, and were allowed to excuse themselves by saying only, "As a sovereign country, we have the right to exclude whomever we wish."

Why are these facts ignored?

Selective reporting is rife. Somehow people like Rupert Murdoch and other media leaders must be made aware of what is going on and pressured
to report the in-house killings and atrocities committed in all areas.

The comparison to Assad, etc, isn't the right to make. The important thing isn't that the Israelis treat Palestinians better than Assad does, it's that they treat them better than Hamas or Abbas do.

Neither Hamas or Abbas have democratic legitimacy. Instead of wasting their time trying to negotiate with self appointed "Palestinian leaders", the Israelis should help "the oppressed people of Palestine" repair their democracy deficit. It wouldn't be hard to do. Announce that if Abbas and Hamas don't hold elections in the next six months, Israeli will do it for them. Set up polling stations right inside the border, leave them open for 3 or 4 weeks so everyone/anyone who wants to vote can get there, invite the UN to monitor, and sit back and watch the fun. Hold a single election so that whoever wins is the President for both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Arrange a poll for new members of Parliament. Heck, arrange a poll for a constitutional assembly.

Netanyahu shouldn't give Abbas one more dime of tax revenue money, ever. Not because he made trouble at the UN/ICC, but because he is not the legitimately elected leader of the Palestinians. Moreover, he is obviously corrupt, siphoning off the money for himself and his cronies, and he is oppressing Palestinians who try to exercise free speech, etc, at least when it is critical of HIM. Time for Israel to get on it's high horse and start morally condemning him for his glaring misconduct.

The Arabs and the anti-semites in Europe have no to reason to fix the problems of Palestinians. In fact they have every reason to prolong it forever, so that they can continue to use it as a club to beat the Israelis with. Only Israel has any reason to fix the Palestinian's problems. Letting them democratically elect their own leaders isn't a panacea, but it's hard to see how they could select anyone worse than Hamas.

Egypt is also creating a buffer zone and bulldozing Palestinian homes in Gaza. You would never know this by the mainstream media.
If Israel was doing this everyone would know.

Where is Turkey and Qatar? Where is Iran and Hamas?
Why are they silent?
Is it because they should be held responsible for violation of human rights in their own land !

Thank you Mr. Abu Toameh

The P.A doesn't make a peep about "Palestinians" being killed or tortured by other Arabs simply because it doesn't at all care about them. So many brainwashed "Palestinians" are simply pawns to be used by their leaders against Israel. Their lives and their deaths are of no consequence unless they could be used as a weapon against Israel. This why the cynical leaders of Hamas and also the P.A. have regularly intentionally incited much of their violent, ignorant and volatile population. The more who die at the hands of Jews (who show great restraint, contrary to the wishes of the "Palestinian" leadership) the better the propaganda. When they die at the hands of fellow Arabs there is no propaganda value in it. It is of no consequence. They figure that there is a high birth rate and there is more where those pawns came from.

Reporters, nor politicians are concerned with true facts. All prefer everything but the truth. It's a long road for Israel but, eventually, truth will out.

What is happening in Eurostan is frightening, but the reaction is commencing and it will lead to the turfing out of one Islam friendly government after another – probably beginning with Holland after which the populace with get the picture and deport or jail "religious" thugs as necessary. Anti-Islam slaughters similar to ones that occurred in some of the USSR republics under Putin may develop unless enough sane Muslims join hands with sane non Muslims. I am not sure sane Muslim populations are able to form their own groups without fear of being isolated and murdered, feeling safe from attacks. Many Muslim sites enable one to watch heads being lopped off, while any making anti-Muslim protests are being prosecuted by jelly-legged politicians of whom Geert Wilders is but one victim.

But something will bring about change in the West as occurred when Hitler came to power. Finally a point will be reached when the Black flagged men take one step too far – another major attack on New York for example.

What is beginning in Holland will happen in Europe as occurred in the old USSR. Quietly at first as has occurred in Sydney with attempts to dissociate good Islam from the "lunatic" Honis who was very sane indeed. He knew he would be in jail for a very long time being involved in the murder of his wife and saw a "political" solution that has won him praise already on the Black Islam internet sites.

Now his glorious death gave him immediate entry into Muslim Valhalla. Life with Allah suddenly became very attractive – but killing the non Jewish QC was not a good move to win Australian sympathy. I assume he thought he would find a Jewish proprietor since Lindt sold Israeli chocolates. Lucky Labor is not in power in NSW or Canberra, and that the Islamo-friendly NSW opposition leader had to resign in the wake of the killings.
Even the UK's The Guardian – the most "benign" towards Islam in the UK seems to be waking up. We see the first stirrings of the dewy-eyed sympatico Left. "But WE ARE YOUR FRIEND: you surely did not mean US!! You meant THEM. Oh you DO MEAN US? But it has taken years of Islamic terror in the M.E. to begin to awaken the irremediable ideologists who cannot distinguish Left from Right. And they quote Marx who gloried the destruction of feudal societies.

The French will end up telephoning Putin, asking him how he dealt with his Islamic crisis. His answer will be: "telephone Ferdinand and Isabel. I did. Regards Vladimir". One cannot argue with religious criminal lunatics, because they can talk to Allah who issues instructions.
Arnold [name and internet address supplied].

This article is correct. No one really cares about dead Palestinians (or other Muslims) unless Israel is somehow involved (even if only in the imagination of reporters). Here in the US the BDS movement is rabid in its hatred of Jews and Israelis claiming that they do this in the name of the Palestinians. It is a blatant fact that you never hear anyone demonstrating or trying to divest from countries where Palestinians and other Muslims are being killed by their religious brothers. You lose credibility when the only time you worry about suffering is when you can screw the Jews. Real human rights fighters should care about all human suffering from any source. That includes the suffering of Israelis.

Witchcraft is the art of making people/others believe that what they are doing and believing what they do and say as if it were all their own making, that being the case then the MEDIA IS INVOLVED IN WITCHCRAFT, to write and preach as they do so as to sway the minds of millions to believe that the media is correct in its ideology of the Israel Arab/Persian conflict is nothing short of Witchcraft.
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Over the past 50+ years, over 12 million Muslims have died in violent conflict. Over 90% of this number were killed by Muslims. Of the remainder, over 90% were killed by non-Muslims defending themselves from Muslim attackers.

Over this same period, around 50 thousand have died in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Of this number, around 1/3 were Jews. Of the remainder, over 90% were armed attackers, trying to kill more Jews.

In September of 1970, something like 25,000 Palestinians were killed by the (entirely Muslim) Royal Jordanian Army. This, according to Arafat (a notorious liar, of course), but undoubtedly many times the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the founding of the State, were slain.

After being defeated in Jordan, the remaining Palestinian forces then retreated into Syria, from which they were quickly shuttled off to Lebanon. There, they set up a mini-state and, again, began making war upon Israel. They then became one of the main instigators of the Lebanese civil war, in which over 100,000 died. A war that only ended when Israel intervened and ejected the Palestinians.

The most dangerous place to be a Muslim is in a Muslim majority country.

Israel seems to have no media expertise. Where are the publicity people bringing the truth of Israel to the world? Where? I'll answer it myself! They DON'T EXIST!

Khaled Abu Toameh, your articles breathe truth and sanity into this outrageous and ludicrous international scenario. Not only should one go to court with "clean hands" but the plaintiff should have a proper case that will not backfire on itself. While guilty only of defending it's citizens, Israel has always taken extreme care to prevent injury to its civilian enemy, indeed, even aided in their recovery in Israeli hospitals. Israel has even been described as the "best enemy" to have. The media, the UN and some human rights groups need to be challenged and asked to answer these questions that are repeatedly leveled at them - questions about this apparent hypocrisy and Anti Semitism. I often wondered how the international community remained so silent during the years of the Holocaust, before I was born. I always asked myself, "How could they not know?" Now I am seeing it played out again, right before my eyes, while the whole world has clear and widespread knowledge of calls to kill Jews and annihilate the Jewish State of Israel. We need to turn up the volume on this and seek answers from mainstream media and the entities that perpetuate this deafening silence.

That's because the Palestinian leadership focuses only on Israel.

The age old sickness that has infected the psyche of western civilization for 20 centuries is gaining in strength again. It is hatred of the Jew, in the abstract and in the actual. Antisemitism is a kind of collective madness, evil beyond measure, highly infectious, facilitated by the media, and taught to each successive generation by the parents thereof, their culture, and their religious traditions.
Only the will to confront it and the strength to physically defend against it provide any hope of eventually stamping it out.

Anti-Semitism often masquerades as being anti-Zionist or anti-Israeli, and the perfect definition is the holding of Israel to a standard which is not applied to any other nation. This article is the perfect example of the double standard.

"Palestinians" are generally held in low regard in the Arab world and are widely understood to represent an artificial nationality; their only role is to suffer and sacrifice in isolation as the main cog in the propaganda war against Israel.

The "love" and concern for the Palestinian people is really very selective. Here in the Nordic countries we have "Ship to Gaza" and many demonstrations for Palestinians, but absolutely nothing about how they suffer in Syria etc.
Khaled Abu Toameh again hit the nail on the head.
As usual, an excellent article by Abu Toameh !

I think the UN should be disbanded; all it does is just bash Israel, it never solves anything and Mr Ban Ki Moon is a joke. The hatred that goes on in Europe is just ripe for another dictator
I think the EU will fall apart. People are fed up, the western leaders are weak and this will probably lead to another war.

Its very sad to watch and read how the world at large relates to Israel as the bane of all the ills plaguing the Arabs and the Palestinians in particular. The biggest culprit for the problems besetting us can be plainly attributed to the United Nations with the majority of its members being dictators and despots .There is without a doubt a serious case to have that organization indicted for wrong decisions made leading to the death of untold numbers and have them indicted to the International Court of Justice either as criminals or abetting criminals . But then how unbiased is the ICJ?

I have been saying this for some time: We must hold Muslim countries responsible for the well-being of their own people. We must draw attention to the inequality and brutality of leaders in Arab countries against their own people. We must demand that there be a separation of religion and politics and a roadmap to democracy and sane government. With lower oil prices, perhaps these countries will be less lucrative markets and so pusillanimous Western countries will be less reluctant to hold them responsible for their human rights abuses. I might also add that the only way to solve the situation between refugees (many of whom are terrorists) and Israel is for Arab countries to finally take in their own refugees – there is no reason in the world why they cannot and it is unconscionable for the UN and others to press Israel, an enemy and target of Islam, to make more room for those who have made it their priority to kill Jews.

Abbas -- the arch murderer, liar, holocaust denier, financier of the 1972 massacre of the Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics -- has called for three days of mourning and shops closed for the "martyr" who murdered Israelis some years before, Ziad Abu Ein.
He has incited more terrorism and lies, and has called Israel murderers.
And the world wants Israel to give up land to the Islamic terrorists.