An excellent article by Steven Plaut that pierces and destroys the mythology of nakba. Over the past few years, the term nakba (also spelled naqba) has become the favorite nonsense word of the Anti-Israel Lobby. Meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, it has been embraced by anti-Semites all over the planet to refer to Israel’s creation, which supposedly imposed a “catastrophe” upon the “disenfranchised Palestinian Arabs.” Of course, the real catastrophe that befell the Arabs in 1948-49 was that they failed in their attempt to annihilate Israel and exterminate its population, and for that they paid a price. Meanwhile, Nakba Nonsense has
Read More +How Ha’aretz and ‘Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel’ lie to mangle statistics. An excerpt from Steven Plaut via The Jewish Press: Mark Twain once said there are three sorts of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Of the last group, the worst are ‘advocacy statistics’. These are fabrications by advocacy groups that invent ‘statistics’ to advance political agendas. There are lots of these around, and they’re familiar to all of us. They range from the supposed ten percent of humans who are homosexual, to the make-pretend numbers of Iraqi civilians who supposedly died in
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