Israel and the Middle East

Neglected information about the Arab-Israeli conflict and the War on Terrorism.


The War Against Israel


- Summary

Paul Bogdanor,
Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict
          Quotations the anti-Zionists will never acknowledge. Also in
Spanish.
Louis Rene Beres,
Attempted Genocide From the Start
          An excellent summary of the conflict.

- Background

Andrew G. Bostom,
The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine I II
          The history of atrocities against Jews in Israel/Palestine.
Nazi Activities in North Africa and the Middle East During the Era of the Holocaust [PDF]
Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cuppers,
“Elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine” [PDF]
David Trafford,
Beyond the Pale: Nazism, Holocaust Denial and the Arab World
          One of the worst anti-Zionist lies is that Arab societies paid the price for European persecution of Jews.
          The truth is that Arab nationalist leaders supported the Holocaust in Europe and invited the Nazis to apply
          the Final Solution in the Middle East. Afterwards they sheltered Nazi mass murderers and sponsored
          neo-Nazi terrorists.
Matthias Kuntzel,
Jew-Hatred and Jihad
Efraim Karsh,
The Long Trail of Arab Anti-Semitism
Robert Wistrich,
Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger [PDF, 3.5 MB]
          The dissemination of Nazi-style antisemitism throughout the Middle East.

- Recent

MEMRI / MEMRI TV
Arafat’s Culture of Hatred and Violence [PDF, 1.6 MB]
“Kill a Jew - Go To Heaven”: A Study of the Palestinian Authority’s Promotion of Genocide
The Hate Industry: Syria as a Source For the Distribution of Anti-Semitic Literature [PDF]
The Hate Industry: A Review of Anti-Semitic Literature Published in Egypt [PDF]
          Recent examples of Arab dictatorships inciting the mass slaughter of Jews.

Anti-Zionist Falsehoods

Bat Yeor,
Culture of Hate
Steven Plaut,
Who Stole the Holy Land?
          The Zionism-is-colonialism libel.
Chaim Herzog,
Response to Zionism-is-Racism Resolution
Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein,
Democratic Norms, Diasporas, and Israel’s Law of Return [PDF]
David E. Bernstein,
Unasked Questions
          The Zionism-is-racism libel.
Ted Lapkin,
The Hidden Meaning of Anti-Zionism
Amnon Rubinstein,
On Dreams and Nightmares
          The true intent of the anti-Zionist “one-state solution.”
As’ad Ghanem and Asher Susser,
Dialogue on The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel
Brian Klug and Robert Wistrich,
When is Opposition to Israel and Its Policies Anti-Semitic?
          Debates between anti-Zionists and Zionists.
Adam M. Garfinkle,
On the Origin, Meaning and Abuse of a Phrase
Diana Muir,
“A Land Without a People For a People Without a Land”
CAMERA,
False Zionist Quotes
          Misquotation is a key tactic of anti-Zionist propaganda.
Israel Eldad,
Jabotinsky Distorted
Letter to the New York Times: Israeli Freedom Party [PDF]
          The Revisionist-Zionism-is-fascism libel.

Anti-Israel Falsehoods

- Issues

Mitchell Bard,
Myths and Facts [PDF, 3.6 MB]
          Best online resource on anti-Israel disinformation.
William J. Bennett, Jack Kemp and Jeane Kirkpatrick,
Twenty Facts About Israel and the Middle East
Dennis Prager,
Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict Through Numbers
Daniel Pipes,
Palestinian Word Games
          Useful summaries of the relevant facts.
Efraim Karsh,
Arab Imperialism: The Tragedy of the Middle East [PDF]
Efraim Karsh,
Pan-Muslim Fiction
          The causes of violence in the Middle East.

- Wars

Efraim Karsh,
1948, Israel, and the Palestinians: The True Story [PDF]
          The Zionists accepted the two-state solution; Arab leaders rejected it and started a genocidal war, causing
          a refugee tragedy and decades of conflict.
Michael B. Oren,
The Second War of Independence
          Israel might not have survived without the 1956 war.
Michael B. Oren,
Did Israel Want the Six-Day War?
Moshe Gat,
Nasser and the Six Day War, 5 June 1967 [PDF]
Isabella Ginor,
The Cold War’s Longest Cover-Up: How and Why the USSR Instigated the 1967 War [PDF]
          Arab and Soviet culpability for the 1967 war.
Efraim Karsh,
What Occupation?
          Refutes the standard propaganda claims about the Israeli record in the West Bank and Gaza.

- Refugees

Efraim Karsh,
Were the Palestinians Expelled?
Arabs Urged to Flee From Palestine in 1948 [PDF]
PA Daily: Arab Leaders Caused the Refugee Problem
          Evidence of Arab evacuation orders in 1948.
Efraim Karsh,
The Palestinians and the “Right of Return”
          The “Right of Return” is a euphemism for the destruction of Israel.
Sidney Zabludoff,
The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality
          Causes and extent of the problem examined in detail.
Yaacov Meron,
Why Jews Fled the Arab Countries
Andrew G. Bostom,
Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees
Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries: The Case For Rights and Redress [PDF]
          Ethnic cleansing of Jews in the Middle East.

- Historians

Efraim Karsh,
Rewriting Israel’s History
Efraim Karsh,
Historical Fictions
Efraim Karsh,
The 60-Year War For Israel’s History
          The New Historians, who portrayed Israel as the villain in 1948, are guilty of academic fraud.
Efraim Karsh,
Benny Morris’s Reign of Error, Revisited
Efraim Karsh,
The Fight Over 1948
Robert B. Satloff,
Benny Morris and Israel’s Border Wars
          Benny Morris has become infamous for some of his misquotations.
Efraim Karsh, Pure Pappe
Seth J. Frantzman,
Flunking History
          Ilan Pappe has also disseminated
fake research.
Michael B. Oren,
Who Started It?
          Tom Segev’s absurd rewriting of the 1967 war.

- Propagandists

Cameron S. Brown,
Answering Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine [PDF]
Efraim Karsh and Rory Miller,
Did Edward Said Really Speak Truth to Power?
          The most influential of the PLO propagandists exposed.
Efraim Karsh,
The Iron Illusions of Rashid Khalidi
          Reviews a typical example of PLO historiography.
Menachem Kellner,
Resisting Falsehood and Protecting Integrity
          Merciless refutation of anti-Israel boycott rhetoric.

Atrocities

- Hoaxes

Meyrav Wurmser,
Made-Up Massacre: The Tantura Affair
Yoav Gelber,
Folklore Versus History: The Tantura Blood Libel [PDF]
PA Paid Legal Defense Fees of 1948 Tantura Affair Historian
The Katz Directory
          The Tantura massacre hoax is the most blatant example of fabrication by the New Historians.
Yehuda Kraut,
Palestinian Spokesmen, Jenin Lies and Media Indifference
Yagil Henkin,
Urban Warfare and the Lessons of Jenin
          The Jenin massacre hoax.
The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
Update: The Human Rights Watch Report
Avi Bell,
Human Rights Watch: Troubling Report
          Faked Israeli attacks on Red Cross ambulances in Lebanon.
Richard North,
The Corruption of the Media [PDF]
          The staging of the Qana tragedy.
Avi Bell,
Whose War Crimes in Lebanon?
HonestReporting,
Covering the Conflict in the North
          The Srifa and Hula massacre hoaxes.
Steven Stotsky,
Questioning the Number of Civilian Casualties in Lebanon
          The manipulation of Lebanese casualty statistics.

- Shields

Justus Reid Weiner,
The Use of Palestinian Children in the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Justus Reid Weiner,
Child Abuse: The New Islamic Cult of Martyrdom [PDF]
          The use of child soldiers by the Palestinian Authority.
Jacob Laksin,
Media Lies and Hezbollah’s Human Shields
          Hezbollah efforts to increase the civilian death toll in Lebanon.
Hizbullah Presents: How to Recruit Children
Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah’s Armed Children’s Militias
          The use of child soldiers in Lebanon.

- Dictatorships

Syrian Human Rights Committee,
The Massacres of Hama
          The mass murder of tens of thousands in Syria.
How Many People Has Hussein Killed?
          The mass murder of hundreds of thousands in Iraq.
Daniel Polisar,
Yasser Arafat and the Myth of Legitmacy
Justus Reid Weiner,
Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society [PDF, 1.4 MB]
          The criminality of the Palestinian Authority.
Egyptian Police Crucify and Rape Christians
          The bigotry of the rulers of Egypt.
Mohamed Eljahmi,
True to His Terrorist Ways
J. Peter Pham,
Still at Large: Qadhafi the War Criminal
          The Libyan dictator has been involved in war crimes and genocide throughout Africa.
United States Committee for Refugees,
1.9 Million Dead From Sudan’s Civil War
Survivors Rights International,
Eradication of Terrorism Forestalled by Khartoum’s Genocidal Policies [PDF]
          The genocidal slaughter of millions in Sudan.

The International Community

- Laws

Julius Stone,
International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict [PDF]
          The legal status of the West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, the Geneva Conventions, settlements, etc.
Ruth Lapidoth,
Legal Aspects of the Palestinian Refugee Question
Alex Safian,
The Palestinian Claim to a “Right of Return”
          The “Right of Return” has no basis in international law and virtually no counterpart in world history.
Barry Levenfeld,
Israel’s Counter-Fedayeen Tactics in Lebanon [PDF, 3.5 MB]
Robbie Sabel,
Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon and the Law of Armed Conflict
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey,
Israel is Within its Rights
J. Peter Pham and Michael I. Krauss,
No Justice, No Peace?
          Israeli military operations in Lebanon were lawful defensive actions.
Laurence E. Rothenburg and Abraham Bell,
Israel’s Anti-Terror Fence: The World Court Case
          The right to deny entry to suicide bombers.
Abraham Bell,
International Law and Gaza: The Assault on Israel’s Right to Self-Defense
Abraham Bell,
Is Israel Bound by International Law to Supply Utilities, Goods, and Services to Gaza?
Michael I. Krauss,
Collective Punishment and Newspeak
          The right to stop missile attacks on Israeli cities.

- United Nations

Anne Bayefsky,
The UN and the Jews [PDF]
Anne Bayefsky,
One Small Step
          The United Nations has a long and sordid record of promoting anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
Harris O. Schoenberg,
Demonization in Durban: The World Conference Against Racism [PDF]
          The best analysis of the UN Third World Nuremberg Rally.
Arlene Kushner,
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Problem
Gina Benevento and Arlene Kushner,
Exchange: Palestinian Refugees
          The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has played a disgraceful role in perpetuating the
          Palestinian refugee problem.

- NGOs

NGO Monitor,
Summary Reports on NGOs
          Documents the political corruption of dozens of NGOs monitoring the conflict.
NGO Monitor,
Amnesty International’s Reporting of Human Rights Issues in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Steven Plaut,
Amnesty International - Not a Reliable Source
          Amnesty International’s endless falsehoods about Israel and its enemies.
NGO Monitor,
Human Rights Watch Archive
New York Sun, Human Rights Watch Archive
          HRW has set the gold standard for ideological fabrication in the name of human rights reporting.
Alexander A. Weinreb and Avi Weinreb,
Has Israel Used Indiscriminate Force?
Tamar Sternthal,
B’Tselem, Los Angeles Times Redefine “Civilian”
Tamar Sternthal,
B’Tselem’s Annual Casualty Figures Questioned
          B’Tselem, an Israeli far-left front group, is notorious for manipulating casualty statistics.
Edwin Black,
Funding Hate
          The Ford Foundation has a shocking record of backing anti-Israel and antisemitic NGOs such as LAW.

The Peace Process

- Oslo

Efraim Karsh,
Arafat’s Grand Strategy
          The best analysis of the Oslo Accords and their inevitable implosion.
Jonathan D. Halevi,
Understanding the Breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
          Excellent study of the PLO strategy for the destruction of Israel.
Ido Zelkovitz,
Fatah’s Embrace of Islamism
          Documents Fatah’s ideological transformation from Third World revolution to Islamic jihad.

- Camp David/Taba

MEMRI,
The (Revised) Palestinian Account of Camp David I II III
Saul Singer,
Camp David, Real and Invented
Dennis Ross,
Camp David Maps
          PLO leaders sabotaged the Camp David summit and then lied about what they had done.
David Makovsky,
Taba Mythchief [PDF]
          What really happened at the Taba summit.

- Diplomacy

Joshua Muravchik,
The Road Map to Nowhere
Yaakov Amidror,
The Geneva Accord: A Strategic Assessment
          The hopeless ideas of politicians who refuse to learn from their mistakes.
Ben Fishman and Mohammad Yaghi,
The Palestinian National Accord: Consensus at Any Cost
Gilead Ini,
Prisoners’ Document: Peace Plan or “Phased Plan”?
          The Fatah-Hamas Prisoners’ Document was a coded demand for the destruction of Israel.
C. Jacob and Y. Carmon,
The Mecca Agreement
Caroline Glick,
The Saudi Plan For Israel’s Destruction
          Proposals to establish a Palestinian state without making peace with Israel.
Daniel Mandel,
Giving the Process Precedence
          The Annapolis summit folly.

- Reality

Yaakov Amidror,
The Unilateral Withdrawal: A Security Error of Historical Magnitude
Daniel Pipes,
“Today Gaza, Tomorrow Jerusalem”
          The disastrous retreat from Gaza.
Deborah Passner,
Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words
          The genocidal fanaticism of Hezbollah.
Daniel Pipes,
Accept Israel as the Jewish State?
          Palestinian nationalists are unanimous in their rejection of Israel.

The War on Terrorism

- Ideology

Daniel Pipes,
What is Jihad?
Daniel Pipes,
What Do the Terrorists Want?
David Bukay,
The Religious Foundations of Suicide Bombings
          The ideological superstructure of the terrorist base.
Jonathan D. Halevi,
Al Qaeda’s Intellectual Legacy
MEMRI,
Contemporary Islamist Ideology Authorizing Genocidal Murder
          Surrender to the terrorists would produce an epoch-making slaughter.

- Policy

John Perazzo,
“Why Do They Hate Us?”
Haim Harari,
The Eye of the Storm in the Middle East
David Meir-Levi,
Terrorism: The Root Causes
          The absurdity of blaming America, Israel or poverty for worldwide jihadist mass murder.
Max Boot,
The End of Appeasement
Barry Rubin,
The Truth About US Middle East Policy [PDF]
          The history of American weakness and appeasement in the Middle East.
Michael Rubin,
Who is Responsible For the Taliban? [PDF]
Michael Rubin,
Sanctions on Iraq: A Valid Anti-American Grievance? [PDF]
          Anti-American myths exploded.

The Invasion of Iraq

- WMDs

Norman Podhoretz,
Who Is Lying About Iraq?
          On the attempts to rewrite the history of the war debate.
Robert J. Lieber,
The Folly of Containment [PDF]
Richard Spertzel,
Have War Critics Even Read the Duelfer Report?
Robert Kagan,
Whether This War Was Worth It
Oliver Kamm,
We Were Right to Invade Iraq
          Overthrowing the dictatorship was the only option. Containment would have collapsed and WMD mass
          production would have resumed.
Paul Leventhal,
Iraq’s Nuclear Capabilities
          The Nuclear Control Institute notes the absurdity of worrying about stolen nuclear materials falling into
          the hands of terrorists but not the states that sponsor them.
Buried WMD Scoop
          The mass murderer’s admission that he was after chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

- Terrorists

Iraqi Perspectives Project,
Saddam and Terrorism
Stephen F. Hayes,
Saddam’s Dangerous Friends [PDF]
          “Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic
          Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al Qaeda’s
          stated goals and objectives.”
Mark Eichenlaub,
Regime of Terror
          Extensive evidence of the dictatorship’s role in international terrorism.