Jenny Bush and Leonie Dedreux-Crawford again present cherry-picked details that are all anti-Israel, and do not present a balanced view. The partition fence was built by Israel at great expense, because they needed it to help prevent the many suicide bombing and sniper attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians, where many hundreds of Israelis were murdered. It is made up of concrete in areas where Palestinian snipers were doing the killing, but over its full length is largely just a chain-link fence like you see around tennis courts.
Leonie Dedreux-Crawford pushes the old story that being Jewish makes you biased, yet the other person, Jenny Bush, claims to have Jewish heritage? The fact is that there are millions of Muslims from Arab countries who are pro-Zionist and pro-Israel. There are millions of Christians and others who are pro-Israel and pro-Zionist, because they have bothered to learn the facts on the ground and are sick of the rigidity on the Palestinian side. Look at the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Morocco, Bahrain, who are forging diplomatic and trade ties with Israel – to name a few.
Mosab Hassan Yousef (son of the co-founder of Hamas Hassan Yousef) is not only pro-Israel but says for the sake of the Palestinian people, his father and all Hamas terror-group leaders should be killed in order for less bloodthirsty leaders to come through.
Suheib Yousef, his brother, has also turned against his father and Hamas for the sake of the Palestinian people.
Funny that Jenny Bush and Leonie Dedreux-Crawford actually think they know more about the conflict than those two sons who lost everything and permanently severed links with their family to promote a better future for Palestinians. Palestinians deserve peace and a good life, just as Israelis do.
Leonie Dedreux-Crawford then goes on to bring up the Sabra and Shatila massacres, which were terrible and tragic events but can’t be viewed as lone incidents outside of the wider civil war in Lebanon where Christians were being butchered left right and centre. War is a terrible thing and loss of life on both sides is tragic.
For ‘perspective’, I will give you a list of the major massacres against Jewish Palestinians, who were all but defenceless over the centuries, by Arabs or Arab Palestinians. These were large-scale brutal massacres only as the list of the murder of small numbers of Jews is uncountable.
1517: 1st Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine; 1517: 1st Hebron Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine; 1577: Passover Massacre, Ottoman Empire; 1660: 2nd Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine
1834: Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine; 1847: Ethnic cleansing of the Jews in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine; 1920: Irbid Massacres: British Mandate Palestine; 1920–1930: Arab riots, British Mandate Palestine; 1921: 1st Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine; 1928: Ikhwan Masacres, Egypt, and British Mandate Palestine; 1929: 3rd Hebron Pogrom British Mandate Palestine; 1929: 3rd Safed Pogrom, British Mandate Palestine; 1933: 2nd Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine; 1936: 3rd Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine; 1942: Jerusalem Mufti collaboration with the Nazis plays a part in the final solution; 1948: 1st Arab Israeli War (one out of every 100 Jew was killed).
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