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Introduction
You’ve heard the many slogans o Palestinian propaganda. Tey sound something like this: “Palestinian terror is a logical result o the occupation.” “Israel was established because o the Western guilt over the Holocaust.”“Te settlements make peace impossible.”However, just because these mantras are repeated ofen does not mean that they are true.Tis book covers the 150 most commonly repeated accusations against Israel. We investigate the extent to which each o these allegations is true, based on act. Tis examination ound that each allegation proved to be actually incorrect or much distorted. Ofen the accusations are not only alse, but projections: it turns out that Israel is not guilty as charged, but the Palestinian side is.Te list o alse accusations – or ales – is almost endless, so we have picked the 150 most requently encountered in the press. We made sure that every section is sel-contained, and that each section gives a complete picture o the subject. As a result, the book can be read in any order. Te ales are urthermore sorted alphabetically by keyword. Tus, the book can also be used as a reerence guide.In writing this book I have been helped by the experienced editorial team o Likud Netherlands. Te other authors would rather not be listed by name, given the current uncertain security situation in Europe. Tis team in recent years produced more than five hundred articles in many Dutch media outlets, including the major Dutch newspapers.Footnotes have been omitted to keep the book as readable as possible, because everybody can easily check the acts on the Internet. For example, all cited television broadcasts can be ound on Youube as well as on the website o Likud Netherlands. In addition, or the sake o readability, we use the most commonly accepted terms, even when these have an anti-Israel slant (such as “West Bank” instead o the historically correct geographical name “Judea and Samaria”).
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Does this mean that we claim that Israel never does anything wrong? O course not. Israeli leaders are not exempt rom making mistakes. Governing in the middle o a hostile region, these leaders ofen have to decide matters o lie and death. Tey sometimes ace existential dangers related to the survival o the country and the hal o the global Jewish population that lives there. In your own lie, how ofen do you think – with perect vision in hindsight – that you could have made a better decision or ound a more perect solution?One hundred and fify nonsensical and yet ever-recurring accusations against Israel. It shows how deep the hatred against her is – against Israel, and thereore ofen also against the Jewish people.Tis book attempts to make clear that there can only be real peace – genuine coexistence between Arabs and Jews – when this hatred and demonization is stopped. Because until now, while there have been several peace treaties signed, the hatred toward Israel appears hardly to have diminished. Not in Egypt, not in Jordan and not among Palestinians.o stop this hatred, to combat propaganda, a better knowledge o the acts is needed:
“As a teenager I learned to hate Jews without ever having seen one. I elt a deep hatred. Te Israeli flag I used as a doormat at home or my room…[Later] I read a lot and wanted to know everything about the history o the Palestinian people, Israel, Islam, the Western policy in the region. By gaining knowledge, I was able to ee mysel om all my hate.”
– Montasser Al-De’emeh, a Muslim living in Belgium who had undergone Jihad training and had planned to go to Syria What this peace will look like, the authors o this book do not know. But we
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know that peace requires a stop to the hatred. By debunking tales with acts, we hope this book will make a contribution to the solution, however modest.