The Case for Israel

Advocates often play games with the demographics in order to support their agenda-driven conclusions. In estimating the Arab population of Palestine at the time of the U.N. partition of 1947, advocates of the Arab cause sometimes include the population of what is now Jordan, as well as what is now the West Bank and Gaza. In assessing the fairness o

For many, the bare arithmetic was enough: more Palestinians than Israelis were dead, and that fact alone proved that Israel was the villain. Ignored was the fact that although “only” 810 Israelis were killed (as of June 2003), Palestinian terrorists had attempted to kill thousands more and had failed only because Israeli authorities had thwarted “a

As we shall see, Israel has, in fact, implemented the operative principles of Resolution 242 by eventually returning all the captured territory sought by Egypt when Egypt terminated all claims of belligerency against it. Israel also returned land claimed by Jordan as part of the peace agreement with the Hashemite Kingdom.

savagely tortured before being dispatched.”8 By the end of the intifada in 1993, almost 400 Palestinians had been murdered by other Palestinians—nearly as many as had been killed by Israeli defense forces.9 In an incredible display of chutzpah, some Palestinian spokesmen counted these murders when providing the media with a list of Palestinians kil

But it was a state that was being prevented by Britain, at the demand of the Arabs, from opening its gates to those refugees most in need.

The Jewish refugees in Palestine had established this homeland on the ground without the assistance of any colonial or imperialist powers.

Moreover, all the United Nations did by partitioning Palestine was to grant the Jewish majority, in the land area allocated to the Jewish state, the right of self-determination—a right that has long been valued by supporters of human rights and civil liberties, and a right claimed today by Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

Churchill also recognized that a Jewish home in Palestine already existed on the ground without any help from the British:

Attacks against vulnerable civilians by Palestinian terrorists were becoming the norm.

Palestinian terrorism preceded the occupation as the tactic of choice.