Israel is a tiny nation, with few natural resources and little natural wealth, that has had to devote an enormous percentage of its gross national product to defending itself against external and internal enemies. Yet it has not only created a good life for its Jewish citizens, it has helped its Arab citizens live better lives—as measured by income

The reason for the rejection has been that most Arab and Muslim leaders cared more about denying the Jews the right of self-determination in those areas of Palestine in which they were a majority than in exercising their own right of self-determination in those areas with a Muslim majority.

Israel is the only country in the history of modern warfare that has never dropped bombs indiscriminately on an enemy city in an effort to kill innocent civilians in retaliation for the deliberate bombing of its own civilians. Even when it attacked those parts of Beirut that were home to terrorists, the Israeli air force made great efforts—although

First, the state of Israel did not come into existence at the expense of either the Arabs or the Palestinians. The area partitioned for a Jewish state had a Jewish majority that had a right to self-determination vis-à-vis the British (and the Ottomans before them). The land in question was neither Arab nor Palestinian. It had passed from one empire

occupation were to justify terrorism, then the post-Civil War Ku Klux Klan and the Night Riders who terrorized blacks during Reconstruction—which included the military occupation of the defeated Confederacy—would be seen as freedom fighters.

Israel immediately accepted the principles of Resolution 242. According to Morris, “The Israeli government hoped to convert its stunning military victory into a political achievement: the conquered territories could be traded for peace.”

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

The Palestinians never sought statehood when they were occupied by Jordan and Egypt. Historically they wanted to be part of Syria. The claim of Palestinian statehood began as a tactic to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel.

The Palestinian Charter also demanded the transfer out of Palestine of every Jew, except those “Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion.”