Shoebat Homepage propaganda statements

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The Walid Shoebat homepage (www.shoebat.com) contains a number of statements that have been criticized. All the statements appearing on the website on 29 Nov 2006 are listed in the table below along with an alternet view.

Statements appearing in www.shoebat.com Comment on the statements

Walid Shoebat Foundation
An organization that cries out for the Justice of Israel and the Jewish people.

The issue is Justice for the Palestinians who are the ones who have been oppressed and dispossessed by the Israelis.
The Holocaust never ended but the victims have decided to defend themselves. So, by implication it is the Palestinians who are "continuing the holocaust", and the Israelis have a right to "defend themselves", i.e., kill Palestinians, imprison them, and steal their land. It also suggests that Palestinians are genocidal/anti-semitic.
The occupation is in the minds of Children who are taught hatred. Occupation means a military control and takeover of land, prisons, killings and brute force. It is not in the "minds of those who are taught hatred".
Ex Terrorists appear on CN8. Interesting premise that a program would have a panel of "terrorists", and Shoebat is a Palestinian, so by implication Palestinian violence is terrorism. This is a crass attempt to discredit the Palestinian right to resist.
Israel was the solution for the world's greatest refugee problem that went on for two thousand years Palestinians always ask why they have been forced to pay for the crimes committed by others. Furthermore, the usurpation of Palestine started before the holocaust, and the zionists often rejected the entry of Jewish refugees into Palestine (Brenner: Choosing the Chosen people).
Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian? This is a crass suggestion that there never was a Palestine, and those claiming to do so are simply Arab usurpers.
When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out Despite this lofty statement, Shoebat does spout a prodigious number of hate-filled statements, and yes, also outright lies.
The Israeli Arab Conflict is not about geography but about Jew hatred; Throughout the Islamic as well as Christendom's history Jews have been persecuted, the persecution of Israel is just the same as the old antisemitism. So, according to Shoebat the problem is not about the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, 1967 and the currently on-going "ethnic thinning". For Shoebat the problem resides with the Palestinians and his suggestion that they are anti-semites – just like "old anti-semitism".
The Arab refugees are being used as pawns' to create a terror breeding ground, as a form of aggression against Israel. But the creation of the Israeli state is the cause of the refugees -- certainly the refugees have a right to self-defense, and it is offensive to label all of this "terrorism".
The Arab refugee problem was caused by Arab aggression and not Israel. Why should Israel be responsible for their fate? Arab aggression: works in hand with the Israeli propaganda line that several Arab armies attacked poor defenseless Israel in 1948. When Israel bombed Lebanon in 2006, Dan Halutz stated that Israel was going to turn back the clock on Lebanon's development by 20 years. So, it seems that Israel is responsible, via its bombing, for the fate of teh neighboring countries and the Palestinians.
Walid on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor. This is the natural program that loves people like Walid -- no aggressive interview here.
No one (Arab or Jew) has a "right of return". Jews who fled Arab persecution from 1948 to 1956 should have no right of return to Arab lands, and Arabs who ran away in 1948 and 1967 should have no right of return either. This should end all argument. Yet the Jews accept this judgment, while the Arabs reject EVERYTHING. - Walid Shoebat Refugees have a right to return to their land/homes -- that is international law. There is no equivalance between the Palestinian refugees who were ethnically cleansed and Arab Jews who chose to emigrate.