“To see what is in front of one’s nose,” the British essayist George Orwell famously observed, “needs a constant struggle.” This is particularly true if you’re counting on the
Washington Post’s opinion page to provide you with the truth about Israel.
In one of its latest broadsides against the Jewish state, the
Post publishedan op-ed by Mairav Zonszein entitled “Israel must choose: withdraw from the occupied territories or grant Palestinians under its control full rights.” Zonszein, a longtime critic of the Jewish state, is currently an analyst for International Crisis Group (ICG).
In her Jan. 7, 2022
Post op-ed, Zonszein asserted that Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, “offered yet another insulting reminder of Israel’s brutal occupation.” What did Herzog do that Zonszein found so offensive? He gave a speech in Hebron where he talked about the need to denounce “all forms of hatred and violence.” This, the ICG analyst claimed, was “insulting” as it occurred in a place “where systemic violence against Palestinians is blatant.”
Few things could be less true.
While there have been instances of Israelis attacking Palestinians, they are almost always
punished by the Israeli government. Indeed, they are illegal. By contrast, instances of Palestinians attacking Israelis do not merit punishment but reward. Indeed, incentives for Palestinians to commit acts of anti-Jewish violence are
enshrined in the law of the Palestinian Authority, the entity that rules over the majority of Palestinians, including those in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria).
As Thane Rosenbaum, an essayist and distinguished fellow at the New York University School of Law, noted in an April 28, 2017
Washington Post commentary: Palestinian laws passed in 2004 and amended in 2013 stipulate that convicted terrorists
receive monthly “salaries.” Further, cash grants and priority civil-service job placements are offered to those who carry out terror attacks. The 2004 law even
specifies that the financial support is for the “fighting sector,” an “integral part of the fabric of Arab Palestinian society.” Further, payments and benefits are predicated, in part, on the length of sentence. So: the greater the crime, the greater the payoff.
Moreover, Palestinian culture often encourages anti-Jewish violence. As the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) has
highlighted, official PA media and approved textbooks often praise such attacks. Indeed, the PA has named roads, schools and sports tournaments after terrorists who were slain while carrying out terrorist attacks. The Authority even awards honorary degrees to terrorists.
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A recent Washington Post op-ed is distinguished by its repeat omissions and distortions. All of which, CAMERA notes, have one thing in common: the
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The Jan. 26 article, “Israel to destroy Khan Al-Ahmar hamlet, rebuild it 300 meters away,” many previous ToI stories (for example, see here, here and here), had erroneously report that Khan Al-Ahmar was settled in the 1950s. The articles state that the villagers “have lived at the site, then controlled by Jordan, since the 1950s, after the state evicted them from their Negev homes.” 
Regavim’s aerial photographs of the site over several decades reveal this was not the case. Indeed, a photograph of the site in 1967 shows that Khan Al Ahmar was virtually empty. It appears that there were approximately four or five buildings there in 1980. By 1999, there were approximately up to two dozen structures at the site. The aerial images reveal that the encampment grew significantly between 2006 and 2012. (All images are available in the previous hyperlink.)
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