The “genocide” narrative: Anonymous testimony, missing context, and the facts

Opinion gazaIsraelPalestinewar The “genocide” narrative: Anonymous testimony, missing context, and the facts Naza 45 Relevant News ‘Mafia state’: Police form investigative team for corruption probe naming Anastasiades 15 September 2026 The housing problem and the solutions on offer 15 September 2026 Cyprus hourly-paid state workers announce new strike, threaten 48-hour walkout 15 September 2026 Kostis Konstantinou 15 September 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber Every Saturday evening, at large opposition rallies in Tel Aviv, members of “Standing Together”—a left-wing Arab-Israeli “radical” group—distributed materials presenting their views in Hebrew and Arabic. Demonstrators would stop to discuss matters with them and often ended up arguing, telling them they should be ashamed of placing their ideological obsessions above their country. Israel is a country with democratic foundations far stronger than those of many Western and European countries. Israelis constantly debate and argue, and just when you think fists are about to fly, they sit down and talk things through. Last May. The anniversary of the Nakba—the “catastrophe” for the Arabs—the day after the declaration of the State of Israel. As with most other matters, most people believe the evil Jews drove out the Arabs. In reality, it was the Arab leaders who declared war, as always, to annihilate the Jews. The secretary-general of the Arab League, Abdul Rahman Azzam, had described it in advance as “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre in history, which will be talked about like the massacres of the Mongols and the Crusades.” Mahmoud Abbas himself, before the PLO Central Council on December 9, 2018, made a historic admission about what the Arab leaders had done: “…you remember—if you remember—that in 1948, when the Nakba occurred, we did not participate in it. They drove us out and told us: ‘In one week we will bring you back.’” That is why they took their keys. The ethnic cleansing failed, and the “Nakba” became the “expulsion” of the Arabs—a claim refuted by common sense and the facts, chiefly by the fact that the 160,000 Arabs who heeded the Jews’ appeals and stayed—today, together with their descendants, number approximately two million Arab citizens of Israel, with the same rights as everyone else—were expelled by no one. During the war, there were, in certain cases, incidents of expulsions and murders, just as there had been, since 1929, massacres against Jews by Arabs and much else besides. Among them was the satanic plan, devised by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, after his meeting with Hitler in Berlin on 28 November 1941: to murder the Jews of the then-British Mandate en masse by poisoning the water reservoirs. The British, however, discovered the plan and arrested them in Jericho on 6 October 1944. Despite the Nakba narrative reversing the actual attempt at genocide and blaming the Jews, last May, as every year, Tel Aviv University allowed its Arab students—who, like all Israelis, study free of charge—to hold their customary event there. And so they did, without incident. Some Arab members of the Knesset also raised the matter in the Plenum—because, of course, it is… “apartheid!”—provoking fierce reactions. When far-right Jewish lawmakers sought to exclude one of them from the Knesset because of his claims of “genocide,” most Jewish lawmakers voted down the motion. As for genocide itself, countless pieces of evidence show that it was the Arabs’ objective, not the Jews’. In Hamas’s case, this is already stated as the first point in the introduction to its Charter. And once again, even today, it is presented as the Jews’ intention. Not only now, with Gaza, but for many years. The evidence is astonishing. 1955 — At the Bandung Conference, Arab delegations called for Israel to be condemned for “aggression and genocide.” Arab population: West Bank 790,000 | Gaza 270,000 1961 — The British historian Arnold Toynbee said that the treatment of Arabs was “morally equivalent” to the Nazi genocide of the Jews. West Bank 810,000 | Gaza 300,000 1976 — At the Security Council, the Soviet Union accused Israel of “national genocide” against Arabs in the West Bank. West Bank 820,000 | Gaza 410,000 1980 — Farouk Kaddoumi of the PLO told the UN General Assembly about a “daily war of genocidal annihilation” against Palestinians in Lebanon. West Bank 900,000 | Gaza 460,000 1982 and thereafter — The Lebanon War and the massacres at Sabra and Shatila. The massacre was perpetrated by Christian Phalangists. It was preceded by the Damour massacre, in which Christians were the victims and the town was destroyed, and by the Karantina massacre, in which Muslims were the victims. Israel was accused of failing to prevent it and was condemned by the UN General Assembly for an “act of genocide.” There were trials and convictions in Israel over the conduct of certain IDF officers, whose actions allowed the Phalangists to carry out the massacre. For years, the “socialist” dictatorships and the Arabs kept repeating the “genocide” slogan, but no one spoke about Damour. Resolutions were nevertheless adopted concerning the massacre, with the Israelis as the sole accused. 2001 — At the Durban Conference, the parallel NGO conference accused Israel of “genocide and ethnic cleansing.” West Bank 1,990,000 | Gaza 1,160,000 2002 — Mahamadu Issoufou, the President of Niger, used the term “genocide.” West Bank 2,040,000 | Gaza 1,200,000 2006 — At the Security Council, Yemen’s representative, Abdullah al-Saidi, spoke of a “war of genocide” in Gaza. West Bank 2,220,000 | Gaza 1,340,000 2009 — During Operation “Cast Lead” in Gaza, an Arab League fact-finding mission concluded that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and “possibly genocide” had been committed, but stated that it could not prove state intent on Israel’s part. The separate UN mission did not conclude that genocide had occurred. West Bank 2,360,000 | Gaza 1,460,000 2014 — Mahmoud Abbas called the operation in Gaza a “genocidal war against the Palestinian people” at the UN General Assembly. West Bank 2,600,000 | Gaza 1,670,000 2018 — Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke of genocide in connection with the deaths of 60 Palestinians during violent protests along the Gaza border, similar to those that preceded 7 October. West Bank 2,800,000 | Gaza 1,840,000 20 October 2023 — Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the attacks in Gaza “amounted to genocide.” West Bank 3,260,000 | Gaza 2,230,000 16 November 2023 — A group of independent UN experts warned that the violations pointed to “a genocide in the making.” These were independent mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, not the position of “the UN as a whole.” West Bank 3,260,000 | Gaza 2,230,000 29 December 2023 — In its case against Israel before the ICJ, South Africa argued that Israel was violating the Genocide Convention. West Bank 3,260,000 | Gaza 2,230,000 March 2024 — Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel had, in her words, crossed the threshold of genocide. Nevertheless, the report was titled “Anatomy of a Genocide.” A little later, Albanese stated that “Hamas is not a terrorist organization.” This was while Hamas was murdering Palestinians and, demonstrably, forcing them not to evacuate areas after Israeli warnings, so they would become “martyrs” and provide both Hamas and its international supporters with material. Whenever people left, this entire mob spoke of expulsion. West Bank 3,330,000 | Gaza approximately 2,130,000 November 2024 — Around this point, something like an “almost genocide” was also coined. If intent appears to exist and someone thinks that genocide might be committed, then, if the alleged perpetrator is Jewish, it is considered to be already taking place. Only then. NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as red Israelis such as the notorious B’Tselem, and even Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert (who came from Likud) and has not gotten over the “audacity” of his country sending him to prison for bribery and fraud, have since adopted terms such as “equivalent to genocide” or simply “genocide.” This is considered acceptable. The two Israeli filmmakers behind the documentary “NAZA” are another such case. If they were not Israelis and the state they accuse were not Israel, no one would take them seriously, since they present only anonymous individuals as witnesses, without any other evidence proving that they are not simply their associates. These people make contradictions and mistakes they wouldn’t make if they had actually served in Gaza. Not a word about human shields or Hamas’s crimes—nothing. Yet people believe it, because the ground has been relentlessly cultivated for years. John Spencer, internationally recognized as an expert in urban warfare and head of the relevant studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, described the ratio of civilian to terrorist casualties in Gaza as “historically low for modern urban warfare.” And indeed, with 80% of Gaza’s buildings destroyed, partly because of the parallel underground city built by the terrorists, which was longer than the London Underground, if Israel wanted to wipe out Gaza’s Palestinians, is it not remarkable that the number of dead alone is 75,000, of whom 20,000–30,000 are terrorists? All based on Hamas’s figures. I say the final number may even be twice as high. But if, as I insist, Israel wanted to commit genocide, would it not have done so after the hostages were released? Why not? Would it not have killed something close to 80%—that is, 1,700,000 people? And in no more than two weeks, without losing 500 soldiers and officers in total and having around 1,700 wounded, many of them with amputated limbs. Wasn’t that what it wanted? But why would it do so? What would it gain? The conclusions may be too complex for the minds of the… familiar extremists, who are not where they are politically by accident. The rest, however, must think. They can. And finally, the most important point: How is it possible for a state that is a pioneer in technology, research and the defense industry to be trying to commit “genocide”—amid the successive wars and terrorist attacks it has faced—and for the result to be that, in the West Bank, the population grew from 790,000 to 3,430,000, while in Gaza it grew from 270,000 to 2,130,000? As we speak, antisemitism is becoming more and more fashionable, and Jews—who may even be opposed to Israel—are becoming victims worldwide. As long as the world swallows lies whole, the responsibility does not rest only with the red Nazis, the Islamists, the useful idiots, the Qatari Emir billions, and Erdoğan’s dreams to become a sultan. It rests with every single one of us. Especially those who know but choose to remain silent. Subscribe to our Newsletter Latest News ‘Mafia state’: Police form investigative team for corruption probe naming Anastasiades The housing problem and the solutions on offer Cyprus hourly-paid state workers announce new strike, threaten 48-hour walkout Things to do on Tuesday, September 15 On this day: Johnny Ramone, lead guitarist of the Ramones, died in 2004 Bird conservation group urges MPs to reject ELAM bid to curb anti-poaching cooperation Cyprus pushes for separate Guterres and Holguín meetings as Turkey shows little interest Follow en.philenews on Google News and be the first to know all the news about Cyprus and the world.