New from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the 2010 Top Ten Anti-Israel Lies brochure debunks rumors about Israel and its people.
Here are some of the Lies and responses are as follows:
LIE: Israel was created by European guilt over the Nazi Holocaust. Why should Palestinians pay the price?
RESPONSE: Three thousand years before the Holocaust, before there was a Roman Empire, Israel's kings and prophets walked the streets of Jerusalem. The whole world knows that Isaiah did not speak his prophesies from Portugal, nor Jeremiah his lamentations from France… Throughout its 2,000-year exile there was continuous Jewish presence in the Holy Land…
LIE: The only hope for peace is a single, bi-national state, eliminating the Jewish State of Israel.
RESPONSE: The One-State solution is a non-starter because it would eliminate the Jewish homeland. However, the current pressures on Israel are equally dangerous. In effect, the world is demanding that Israel, the size of New Jersey, shrink further by accepting a Three-State solution: a PA state on the West Bank and a Hamas terrorist state controlling 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
LIE: Nuclear Israel, not Iran, is the greatest threat to peace and stability.
RESPONSE: Even in 1973, when its very survival was imperiled, Israel did not use nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Europe can afford to wait to see what the Iranian regime does with its nuclear ambitions, but Israel cannot. She is on the front lines and remembers every day the price the Jewish people paid for not taking Hitler at his word. Israel is not prepared to sacrifice another six million Jews on the altar of the world's indifference.
The brochure will be distributed to synagogues, churches, schools, universities, libraries and community centers worldwide. Designed as a pocket-resource, the brochure is filled with references for contacting local news outlets and contacting government officials.
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