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By David Meir-Levi
Within the United international locations, on collage campuses, and between an increasing number of our such a lot prestigious Western newspapers, the old checklist has been rewritten so completely that Israel is noticeable because the worst of the oppressive Western occupiers of the 3rd global. such a success has this propaganda crusade been that Palestinian spinmeisters and their apologists have successfully declared the Israelis, a humans residing within the shadow of the Holocaust, to be "Nazis." How may perhaps this take place? How did unacceptable anti-Semitism morph into justifiable anti-Zionism, and odious Jew-hatred become a politically right Israel-hatred? In heritage the other way up, David Meir-Levi exposes the ideological DNA of Palestinian nationalism and its ludicrous "alternative" histories, revealing how Nazi fascism gave the Arab world's amorphous hatred of the Jews an highbrow constitution and the way Soviet communism masked its genocidal intentions with the mantle of nationwide liberation. Meir-Levi then explodes the cornerstone myths that the Palestinian circulate created--myths that rationalize and rejoice a long time of unremitting terror and genocidal objectives, turning the historical past of the center East the other way up and within out, making the sufferer the aggressor and the aggressor the sufferer. heritage the wrong way up is the 1st wave in a counterattack in contrast Arab warfare on heritage. It rejects the concept the fundamental state of affairs within the heart East has replaced because the United countries first confirmed the Jewish country and the Palestinian nation that might have stood along it. unfortunately, argues Meir-Levi, the difficulty within the center East is at the present time what it's been because the Muslim invasion within the 7th century: the Arabs' hatred of the Jews.
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Egypt was particularly conscious of the threat the Muslim Brotherhood posed to the Westernized and increasingly secularized society it was trying to build, and both King Farouk and later Gamal Abdel Nasser took brutal and effective steps to repress the movement. They also made sure that the 350,000 Palestinians whom the Egyptian army had herded into refugee camps in Gaza would develop no nationalist sentiments or activism. Egyptian propaganda worked hard to redirect the Palestinians' justifiable antiEgypt sentiments toward an incendiary hatred of Israel.
Except for the arms, which were supplied by the KGB and the East German Stasi, everything, according to Ion Pacepa, "came from Bucharest. " The PLO came on the scene at a critical moment in Middle East history. At the Khartoum conference held shortly after the Six-Day War, the defeated and humiliated Arab states confronted the "new reality" of an Israel that seemed unbeatable in conventional warfare. " The PLO's Fatah forces were perfect to carry out this mission. The Soviets not only armed and trained Palestinian terrorists but also used them to arm and train other professional terrorists by the thousands.
Al-Banna was born into the family of a poor watchmaker in southern Egypt. While still in his teens, he was attracted to the extremist and xenophobic aspects of an Islam that was hostile to Western secularism and its system of rights, particularly women's rights. The young al-Banna and his friends (they referred to each other as "brethren") met frequently to discuss the situation in the Middle East, to argue about the ills of Arab society, and to lament the decline of Islam. Their angst was in large part a reaction to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the British occupation of Egypt, and the resulting exposure of Arab society to Western values.