Rashid Khalidi, the radical Columbia professor who felt that Yasir Arafat was too dovish for his tastes, writes an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune complaining that Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. went on a trip to Israel.
It is a typical combination of false outrage and outright lies:
Is Khalidi equally outspoken about every US expenditure - or only the tiny percentage of the budget that goes to Israel?
Of course, American money to Israel is audited and
noneof it goes “to subjugate, humiliate and segregate millions of Palestinians.”
And rather than write tendentious articles for the Chicago Tribune, Rashid Khalidi could be volunteering to help starving kids in Somalia. By his stunningly stupid “logic” he is a heartless SOB for not spending every minute of his day doing things more valuable than writing op-eds filled with lies.
This is a baldfaced lie. Jews are a nation, whites aren’t. Khalidi’s denial of this simple fact, and his comparison of nationalism with racism, is indeed a manifestation of anti-semitism. He is simply denying the Jewish right of self-determination that he so tenaciously ascribes to a people who did not exist as such a hundred years ago.
This is a lie. Citizens have equal rights and would continue to do so.
If Khalidi really believes this, then he must be
againstthe establishment of a Palestinian Arab state where its Declaration of Independence and its constitution both explicitly define the state as being “Arab” - meaning that non-Arabs are second class citizens. Would he ever dare to say so?
No, of course not. Because Khalidi will only say such things about the Jewish state.
A laughable lie that I demolished in great detail
hereand
here.
As Khalidi well knows, the land was always up for negotiation. It was never “meant” for a future Palestinian Arab state. In fact, when it was won in 1967, it was considered by the entire world to be Jordanian. One major objective of the Oslo process was to determine where that border would be, and the path of the security barrier has already changed a number of times.
MLK never advocated throwing boulders, using high velocity slings, dropping boulders onto civilians from a height, or throwing Molotov cocktails - all activities that happen weekly in the territories, often at these “
non-violent” protests.
This is an
absolute and complete lie.Lieberman called for redrawing borders, ironically giving more land to a Palestinian state, not to forcibly transfer one Palestinian Arab from their home.
When professors at Columbia can spout such errant untruths on the pages of a major American newspaper, it allows Palestinian Arab leaders to become even more intransigent and less willing to make the hard compromises necessary for peace.
Khalidi has no interest in peace in the Middle East; he wants Israel to be destroyed and in fact refers to all of Israel as “occupied.” He is an extremist, and for him to talk about “peace” is the ultimate of hypocrisy - because his conception of “peace” is the destruction of a nation.
