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by Denis MacEoin
• September 5, 2014 at 5:00 am
Anti-Israel
propaganda has been driven from the start by lies distortions and a massive
rewriting of history. Blame for everything is piled on the Jews, while the
crimes of the Arabs, including the Palestinians, are exonerated.
The
American Vice-Consul, along with British officers and the British High
Commissioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, stated at the time that the Arabs were
encouraging flight while the Jews were doing all in their power to prevent
it.
The
Hagana's behavior was the exact opposite of "ethnic cleansing."
Once order was restored, Arabs were appointed to key posts and part of the
supplies originally earmarked for the Jewish inhabitants were given freely
to the Arabs.
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Jewish fighters during the Battle of Haifa. (Image
source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Just now I'm feeling a bit ashamed of being Irish. Although our music,
dance, and Nobel-prize winning literature have helped us punch above our
weight in the ring of international culture, our politics has never been a
model for anyone -- and it is getting worse.
Back in 2011, for instance, Israel's Foreign Ministry stated that
Ireland had undoubtedly become the most hostile country to Israel in the
European Union, "pushing all of Europe's countries to a radical and
uncompromising approach."
Oddly enough, Ireland also has a reputation as a country relatively free
from anti-Semitism. According to John Gallen, anti-Jewish incidents are
thirty-two times more likely in the U.S. than in the Poblacht na hÉireann.
One of the reasons there are almost no anti-Semitic incidents in Ireland is
that there are very few Jews in the Irish Republic in the first place:
under 2000 (0.04% of the population).
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