SPECTATOR
Best Place for Arabs in the Middle East
by Bradley Martin
June 29, 2016

Standing in front of European Parliament last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas once again accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians, this time claiming that Palestinians were suffering mass-murder on a scale “the likes of which have never been seen or heard of ever by the international community.”…Of course Israel is not committing genocide against the Palestinians, by any stretch of the imagination. If it was, it surely is doing a lousy job of it.  In Gaza, for example, the population increased 127 percent from 1994 to 2011, one of the highest growth rates in the world. The total Palestinian population in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza was 1,006,000 in 1950 and grew to 3,736,210 in 2011. Unless Webster changed the definition of “genocide,” the claim that Israel is engaged in “ethnic cleansing” of Arabs makes as much sense as asserting that ISIS beheadings are actually haircuts that went too far. READ MORE