The official PA daily reported on a visit by the PA Minister of Health, Hani Abdeen, to Israel’s Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The daily noted that 30% of the child patients in Hadassah are Palestinians and that the Israeli hospital is training “60 Palestinian medical interns and specialist physicians who will be returning to the [Palestinian] Authority areas to carry out their work.” The hospital has a special program to train Palestinian doctors to treat cancer among children, reported the PA daily.

The following is the report:

This article documenting Israel’s medical care for Palestinian children is a change from common PA accusations that Israel intentionally tries to hurt Palestinians, for example by spreading drugs intentionally among Palestinian youth.

It is amazing how many massive revelations pass people by completely. Consider this new gleaning from the British Archives from early 1948, which sheds much light on current events.  British officials in the Palestine Mandate were reporting as follows:

Some things have changed since then; many have not. Today, as in 1948, the Zionist side is more eager for the existences of an independent Palestinian state living in peace inside permanent borders than is the Palestinian Arab leadership.

Over the past generation, we have been inundated by disinformation from an unlimited number of seemingly credible organizations whose aim is to discredit any development related to Israel that does not advance the positions of the Left. And due to the ubiquity of this disinformation, among wider and wider circles today the belief has taken hold that there is something fundamentally illegitimate about non-leftist Israelis and non-leftist supporters of Israel.

Since most Israelis are not leftist, and since the most outspoken supporters of Israel are not leftists, there is a widening belief – particularly among liberals – that Israelis, Israeli institutions and Israel’s supporters are illegitimate.

This brings us to the second reason that it has become so difficult for Americans – and particularly liberal American Jews – who viscerally support Israel, to defend or even understand the Jewish state today.

There is a Western tendency, most pronounced on the anti-colonialist Left, to ignore the nature of the Islamic world generally and the Palestinians in particular, and concentrate their attention on Israel alone.

Case in point is Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz.

Dershowitz is rightly considered one of Israel’s most outspoken defenders in the US. But like his fellow leftist ideologues, Dershowitz apparently does not think that it is important to focus on the nature of things in the Islamic world. Rather than notice current realities, he places his faith in his power to shape the future through his intellect and his willingness to compromise.

All asymmetrical wars take place primarily in the cognitive arena, with the major theater of war the enemy’s public sphere. The goal is to convince your far more powerful enemy not to fight. In defensive cases, from the Maccabees to the Vietnamese, this has meant getting imperial powers to “go home.” But Islamists who want to spread Dar al Islam conduct an offensive campaign: how to get your targets to surrender on their own home ground? In this seemingly absurd venture, they have had remarkable success.

The mainstream news media – their journalists, editors, producers – constitute a central front of this cognitive war: the “weak” but aggressive side cannot have success without the witting or unwitting cooperation of the enemy’s journalists. The success of global Jihad in eliciting our media’s cooperation with their goals

A planned anti-Jewish protest in Los Angeles fell flat when nobody showed up. It’s a sad day in Palestinian culture when hatred of Jews takes a back seat to sleeping in on a paid American holiday.

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Yet once again, the Palestinians flunked logistics. Choosing one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar to launch a protest is not a shrewd public relations move. Neither is protesting against Jews on a Friday afternoon, long after they have left work to celebrate their Sabbath. Apparently, even Palestinians find that screaming “Jihad,” “Infidel” and “Donkey Zionist Aggressor” at empty buildings makes them seem less like culture warriors and more like homeless people arguing with inanimate objects.

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Palestinian protests only seem to do well when they are counter-protesting a pro-Israel rally. 10,000 Jews will show up, and then thirty Palestinians will shout for a few minutes, declare victory, and go home.

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withinyouorwithout:

Pictures like this one that you have posted on Tumblr are stupid and lack evidence.

It’s apartheid when your disgusting scum of a state that was built on the blood and land of Palestinians separates people within it’s territory and beyond based on race or religion. It’s apartheid when there are walls and streets that separate Palestinians from the illegal settlers. It’s apartheid when Ethiopian women are injected with birth-control shots. It’s apartheid when any person that is of colour is treated as sub-human by the system. Stop spewing your lame-excuse of pro-Israel propaganda. The Israeli flags appear to be edited into the photo. I seriously doubt this photo was taken in Palestine.

You are right about one thing. This photo was not taken in “Palestine”. It was taken in Israel. The rest of your rant seems to be filtered through a teeth-gnashing hatred that allows no truth in. The interesting thing is that while Israel is the only Middle East nation where all religions are allowed to flourish, it’s the only nation that is libeled with the “apartheid” label. This is while Christians are persecuted and flee from local Islamic states, and Jews are almost nonexistent in most Islamic states, having been persecuted and mostly forced out years ago. Freud referred to what you’re engaging in as “projection.” Vasily Grossman stated it in simpler terms: “Tell me what you accuse the Jews of - I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.” (Or what you give tacit approval of, due to your moral inversion.)

Ironic you’ve placed quotation marks around Palestine. If anything, Israel is the one to be cited with quotation marks. The creation of the false state is just another example of Anglo-Saxons parading around the world and claiming dominance. 

When one criticizes the Zionist state that can do no wrong in the eyes of anyone foolish to be their lies, it’s always hatred. Hatred for the Jews; hatred for democracy; hatred for this and that. The only state in the Middle East that allows religion to flourish while it persecutes Palestinian Christians. They suffer from discrimination just as much as their Muslim Palestinian brethren do. Israeli officials don’t care whether the Palestinians they are oppressing are Muslim or not. The fundamentalism of Israel is a racist Jewish state exclusively for Jews.  Out of the estimated 50,000 Christians in the Occupied Territories, only 3,000 get the “special permits” Israel claims out issue, and even then, Palestinian Christians are restricted to travel. 

If the system in Israel was so supportive and loving to it’s religious minorities, why is it that they push those minorities from their homes, forcing them into exile in neighboring refugee camps? Why is it that the return of those in exile is simply not an option? Why is it that restrictions on electricity, water, and other services are placed on minorities? 

“The constant pressure on Christians is evident in restrictions, abuse at checkpoints, economic pressure, unemployment, unpredictable invasion of homes by Israeli military, insecurity and being in an open air prison. All these lead many of them to seek an alternative. So to say Israel is providing a supportive environment for Christians is contradicted by the evidence of what people have to endure.”

Anglo-Saxons claiming dominance? Over whom? It was the local Arab nations who determined that Israel should be destroyed on birth so that Islam could continue to dominate. Otherwise there would be a “Palestine” today - instead of refugee camps.

Why don’t you or anybody else who pretends to care about the Palestinians ever protest or even publicize the fact that Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria (before the civil war which has cost the lives of around a thousand unmourned Palestinians) are forced to live in refugee camps and are forbidden from many professions. And why aren’t they allowed citizenship even if they were born in those countries? Smells a lot like real apartheid to me.

There were no complaints and no protests when Gaza was dominated by Egypt, and Judea and Samaria dominated by Jordan. Nobody cared about the Palestinians then. And nobody cares now. It’s all about slandering Israel. There would be no issue if you and the rest of the Israel-haters engaged in HONEST criticism and didn’t hold Israel to such an egregious double standard compared to Islamic nations that truly practice apartheid and truly oppress minorities and their own people.

If Israel is “exclusively for Jews” as you claim, how is it that around 20 percent of their population is not Jewish? How is it that the only country in the Middle East with a growing Christian population is Israel? Compare that to the dwindling Christian populations in the surrounding Islamic nations.

Gee Whiz, Palestinians in the disputed territories aren’t treated like Israeli citizens? How horrible. This may sound like a wacky idea, but how about if Palestinian society stops raising their children to hate Jews and Israel? And furthermore, how about if Palestinian leadership agrees to live in peace with Israel? You know, stop the terrorism whether it’s by rockets, bomb vests, guns, or rocks. I bet that would go a long way toward making their lives easier.

But just to help feed your hatred, here’s an interesting article on Israeli discrimination and racism.

Obama wants the same thing from Israel that he’s trying to get by selling out Poland on missile defense. Peace. While the only times Israel had any measure of peace is in the aftermath of a war, Harvard grads and the people who listen to them know that peace only comes about at the tail end of a long string of concessions and appeasement. And then when you have finally given your tormentor your house keys, your car keys and your lucky 2-dollar-bill, then having rifled through your empty pockets, he will finally nod grudgingly and agree to peace at last.
That is if he doesn’t actually want to kill you.

And that is the trouble with peacemakers; they don’t really take into account how to make peace with killers. Most countries lock up violent murderers when they kill a dozen people for fun. But when they kill a dozen people in order to liberate other killers or lay claim to a piece of land, then they are worth negotiating with. And the only outcome of the negotiations is establishing murder as a negotiating tactic.

Peace leads to war because peacemaking rewards the warmakers. It rewards the obstinate killers who refuse to stop killing. And the more it rewards them, the more they kill.

That is why Israel has been decades late in delivering the peace that all the amateur peacemakers want. Every time it phones Terrorism Inc. to place an order for peace with extra brotherhood on top, a suicide bomber pulls up to its front door. And so for two decades, in a pesky reality of peacemaking that none of the peacemakers care to hear about… peace has meant war.

If the President told young Palestinians in Ramallah to demand that the PA “take risks” in “voices louder than” the opposition, it is likely that the Fatah government of Mahmoud Abbas would fall to the more radical and more popular Hamas. After years of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic indoctrination in the schools and the general media, it is not realistic to believe that Palestinians desire what the President told Israelis to desire: “A future in which Jews, Muslims and Christians can all live in peace and greater prosperity in this Holy Land.” And maybe that is why the President did not say it to the Palestinians.

President Obama, perhaps inadvertently, made the case for U.S.-Israel relations grounded in the most fundamental shared values. Israel — like the United States — is that rare country in which the government does not fear the protest of the people, and the people do not fear protesting.

The idea that Israel needs to persuade its neighbors to accept its existence is a line we have heard almost daily since the 1980s or even 1970s. Yet curiously the Arab street pays no attention to the scores of such Israeli gestures and the West soon forgets each one. And indeed Obama has forgotten those that took place during his first term, for example the nine-month-long settlement construction freeze, just as before that were forgotten the Oslo agreement, Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the 2000 Camp David offer (including the offer to redivide Jerusalem!) and many more. [See footnote, below]

Guess what? If today Israel were to make a huge new concession, six months from now that would be forgotten in the West, which would also forget that there was no considerable Arab response. Israelis know this and so saying this kind of thing about Israel proving its decent intentions can only fall with a cynical thud. Such statements remind Israelis why they are NOT rushing to make new concessions or take new risks.

Note, too, that Western and European promises to give Israel a big reward if Israel takes a big risk or makes a big concession and the Arab side doesn’t respond have also been repeatedly broken.

Bloggers exposed their lies, but the damage had been done. And the damage when journalists help certain Palestinian activists abuse public compassion to demonize Israel is counted in lives lost — on both sides.

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The international press should rather ask itself what the cost of its collusion in a propaganda campaign of calumny is. Is peace advanced by allowing for those Palestinian groups who target and use children to artificially focus world ire on Israel instead? Why is the media creating an incentive for Fatah, Hamas and others to put children in harm’s way while cameras roll? And, no less important, how many innocents continue to die because of sloppy journalism on the Arab-Israeli conflict?

The bare fact: the Israeli government added two bus lines (so far, there was overcrowding on Monday, March 4, the first day the service was instituted, and the Transportation Ministry said more buses will likely be added) that will serve Arab Palestinian towns with transportation into central Israel.  The Israeli bus lines previously did not stop in towns controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Despite the efforts of BDS advocates, there are tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians who work in different parts of Israel.  Arab Palestinians with work permits would previously have to travel first to a place where the Israeli buses stop, or would be dependent on the much higher-priced Arab buses to get into central Israel.

So why the hysteria?  Because some see this as an evil plot to segregate Jews and Arabs.  But non-citizens are not entitled to use Israeli public transportation into central Israel without showing border identification, and prior to the provision of these new bus lines, Arab Palestinians were dependent on transportation services by “pirate” (Arab, by the way) companies which charged the Arabs far more than the Israeli lines do.

The Humiliation of Palestinian Refugees