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BIG LIES:
Demolishing The Myths
of the Propaganda War Against Israel
b y D A V I D M E I R - L E V I
Introduction by David Horowitz
A Publication of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture
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Demolishing The Myths
of the Propaganda War Against Israel
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b y D A V I D M E I R - L E V I
Introduction by David Horowitz
A Publication of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Importance of this Text - by David Horowitz...................5
1.
The Origins of the Refugee Problem.....................................7
2.
The Eight Stages of the Creation of the Problem................15
3.
The Question of 'Occupation' and the Settlements..............31
Bibliography............................................................................57
B
IOGRAPHICAL
N
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TEXT
b y D a v i d H o r o w i t z
The War in the Middle East is nearly sixty years old. Most
people alive today are unfamiliar with its history and origins and lack
knowledge of its facts. This state of ignorance provides a fertile ground
for the unscrupulous to create myths that will justify their destructive
agendas. The political propaganda machine has created many such
myths to fuel their war against the Jewish state.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that elects its lead-
ers in free elections and guarantees rights to its citizens, and honors
those rights. Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to be fighting
for “human rights.” There are about a million and a half Arabs living
as citizens in Israel who elect representatives to Israel’s parliament
and who have more rights than the Arab citizens of any Arab state.
Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to be fighting for “social
justice.” Israel’s very creation is referred to by its Arab enemies as "the
Nakba", or the “catastrophe,” the clear implication of which is that
Israel should not exist. Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to
support self-determination and oppose genocide. Israel was the victim
– at its very birth -- of an unprovoked aggression by five Arab mon-
archies and dictatorships. It has been the target of an Arab war that
has continued uninterruptedly for nearly sixty years because the Arab
states have refused to make peace. Yet Israel is the target of those who
say they want “peace.” Israel is the victim of terrorist attacks – sui-
cide bombings – which along with the Jews they mark for extinction,
kill Palestinian women and children as well. Yet Israel is the target of
those who claim to speak for humanity and a future that is “free.”
How is this possible? How can evil be dressed in the garments of
justice? How can a genocidal war to destroy a democratic people be
justified as a struggle for “national liberation?”
They can through the creation of political myths that rationalize
aggression and justify war against civilian populations.
In George Orwell’s futuristic novel,
1984
, the Ministry of Truth
for the totalitarian state proclaims:
Knowledge Is Ignorance; Freedom
Is Slavery
. The nature of political doublespeak never changes and
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its agenda is always the same: Obliteration of historical memory in
the service of power. “The struggle of man against power,” wrote
the Czech writer, Milan Kundera, “is the struggle of memory against
forgetting.” Only a restored memory can demolish totalitarian myths
and make men free.
David Meir-Levi has written a text that restores the memory of
the facts that lie at the heart of the conflict in the Middle East. These
facts are crucial not only to the restoration of the history that politics
has obscured, but to the survival of a people who live in the shadow
of their own destruction. Everyone interested in justice will want to
read this little book.
1. THE REFUGEE QUESTION
The Arab version of the tragic fate of Arab refugees who fled
from the Palestine Mandate before and during the 1948 war and from
Israel immediately after the war, has so thoroughly dominated the
thinking of even well-educated historians, commentators, journalists
and politicians, that it is almost a given that the creation of the State
of Israel caused the flight of almost a million hapless, helpless and
hopeless Arab refugees. Israel caused the problem and thus Israel must
solve the problem.
This assertion, although viscerally engaging and all but canonized
by the anti-Israel propaganda which makes it the core of its narratives
of the Middle East conflict, is unequivocally and totally false.
Origins of the Problem
The State of Israel was created in a peaceful and legal process by
the United Nations. It was not created out of Palestinian lands. It was
created out of the Ottoman Empire, ruled for four hundred years by
the Turks who lost it when they were defeated in World War I. There
were no “Palestinian” lands at the time because there were no people
claiming to be Palestinians. There were Arabs who lived in the region
of Palestine who considered themselves Syrians. It was only after
World War I that the present states of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq
were also created – and also created artificially out of the Turkish
Empire by the British and French victors. Jordan was created on about
80 percent of the Palestine Mandate, which was originally designated
by the League of Nations as part of the Jewish homeland. Since then,
Jews have been prohibited from owning property there. Two-thirds
of its citizens are Palestinian Arabs, but it is ruled by a Hashemite
monarchy.
In 1947, the UN partition plan mandated the creation of two states
on the remaining 20 percent of the Palestine Mandate: the State of
Israel for the Jews, and another state for the Arabs. The Arabs rejected
their state, and launched a war against Israel. This is the primal cause
of the Arab refugee problem.
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