"Palestinians" are not real": It wasn't me who said "Palestinians" as a nation are a "tactical invention", but Arafat, PLO commander Zuheir Mohsen and Hamas' Fathi Hamad.
"land without people": Read Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad about how empty Ottoman Palestine was and Joan Peters' From Time Immemorial, which documents the enormous illegal immigration into mandatory Palestine from French mandatory Syria and Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt by Arabs attracted to the booming economy created by Jewish capital and investment.
"genocide denial": Call your lawyer as soon as he graduates from law school and read the UN statute and Raphael Lemkin. You're inventing intention.
Gaza population in 2005: 1.345m
in 2023: 2.1m. Israeli Arabs in 1948: 160000. Now: 2m.
This makes Israel the most incompetent genocidal state in history, the exact opposite of Rwanda's Hutus of 1994. If Israel intended genocide, all of Gaza would be an empty field by now and only the best swimmers would be alive (a Nasser quote from 1967).
Hamas is openly genocidal. Read its covenant and its orders to its terrorists of Oct 7: kill as many civilians and rape as many women as possible. Therein lies the intentionality of genocide: a proven direct connection between orders and behavior. Hamas has no equivalent to IDF Unit 504 that makes tens of thousands of calls and sends millions of text messages to warn Gazans to get out of targeted areas.
"mass atrocities" of 1948: This is Arab confession by projection, as the real story of the battle of Deir Yassin, the massacre that never was, makes clear. If you start a declared "war of extermination" and engage in exactly that. From Wilf&Schwarz's "The War of Return" it's clear that expulsions of Arabs from villages hostile to Israel came AFTER massacres of Jews and the invasion of Israel by five Arab armies, not before:
"On May 12 in Kfar Etzion, a few miles south of Jerusalem, more than one hundred Jewish defenders of the village
surrendered to Arab forces, carrying white flags with them and emerging from their bunkers and trenches. The bulk of
them assembled in an open area at the center of town. Arab soldiers “ordered [us] to sit and then stand and raise our
hands,” recounted one of the Jewish soldiers. “Then a photographer with a kaffiya arrived and took photographs of
us … When the photographer stopped taking pictures fire was opened up on us from all directions.” Almost all the
men and women defenders of the village, 133 of them, were murdered or killed that day. Meanwhile, in the Arab parts of Jerusalem, an American journalist saw gruesome photographs of the burnt and
mutilated bodies of Haganah men on sale. “These naked shots,” he recounted, “hit ‘Holy’ City markets afresh after
every battle, and sold rapidly. Arabs carried them in their wallets and displayed them frequently.” At this stage of the war, IDF commanders ordered the
expulsion of Arab residents of several captured villages in order to free up forces to engage the invading armies
instead of guarding Arab villages that had surrendered. But still, many Palestinians had fled to get away from the violence. In mid-July 1948, for example, some 100,000 Palestinians left their homes: half of them were expelled
when the IDF conquered the Lod-Ramla region—two Arab towns strategically overlooking the road from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem—whereas in Nazareth, Palestinians ran away from the city, despite an explicit order not to expel the city’s inhabitants (some returned after a short while). This combination of expulsion and flight took place at variable
magnitudes in Galilee and in the Negev until the end of the war, and in October to November 1948, another 200,000
Palestinians left during Operation Hiram in the north and Operation Yoav in the south. Estimates of the total number of Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the war range from 500,000 to
900,000.38 The exact number is not known, but accepted estimates tend to the middle of that range. In 1949 the UN
Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East estimated the number at 726,000.39 Of these, some two-thirds remained
within the borders of Mandatory Palestine, in what became either the Jordanian-occupied West Bank or Egyptianoccupied Gaza Strip. One-third, probably around 250,000 people, left Palestine for neighboring Arab countries, namely Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt."
