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Source: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-campaign-to-silence-the-truth-about-israel
Historical Truths about Israel
(National Post-Canada) Avi Benlolo - Jews are not colonizers in their ancestral homeland. Indeed, the Jewish people are indigenous to the Land of Israel, a fact that's deeply rooted in history. It is an incontrovertible historical truth that the Arab states rejected the UN partition plan and launched an attack on Israel immediately following its declaration of independence in 1948. Equally undeniable is the fact that prior to 1948, there was no Palestinian state - no flag, no national anthem, no sovereign identity. The so-called Nakba, often cited as a catastrophe, was, in reality, a consequence of the Arab states' decision to wage war against the nascent Jewish state. Moreover, few mention the expulsion of over 850,000 Jews from Arab lands, including my own family. Somehow, the world tolerates an uncompromising and violent Palestinian discourse calling for the genocide of the Jewish people.