Peace Now: Halve sandheder, total propaganda

Igen en historie egnet til bagvaskelse af Israel, denne gang fra BBC:

Israel has carried out only 3% of its own demolition orders in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israeli anti-settlement campaigners say.

In the past 10 years, nearly 3,500 demolition orders were issued but just over 100 were observed, the Peace Now group says, citing government figures. ..

According to Peace Now, the Israeli military handed it 3,449 files on illegal buildings in settlements over the past decade but only 107 have been dismantled.

A further 171 structures were evacuated by their tenants.

"On the one hand Israel promises not to build new settlements and not to develop the existing settlements... but in reality the construction works continue vigorously," the group said in its report.

Hvad Peace Now åbenbart med vilje vælger at overse er, at det ikke er "Israel", der står bag de ulovlige bygninger - det er netop Israel, der har udstedt ordrerne om, at de ulovlige bygninger skal jævnes med jorden.

Alligevel kan man jo have en mistanke om, at det Israel så bare gør, er at ignorere sine egne nedrivnings-ordrer, når det er jøder de er rettet mod. For at kunne afgøre om det er tilfældet er man imidlertid nødt til at have tal for antallet af nedrivningsordrer mod ARABISKT byggede bygninger at sammenligne med, og disse tal vælger Peace Now at fortie. Så er man jo nødt til at grave selv. Her finder man for eksempel tallene for nedrivningsordrer i Jerusalems arabiske kvarterer. I 2000 blev der kun nedrevet 26 ud af 1314 ulovligt byggede bygninger - det er kun 2% af de ulovlige bygninger, altså en nedrivningsprocent, der er LAVERE end den for de jødiske huse. Året efter er de tilsvarende tal 32 ud af 1141, eller i underkanten af 3%.

Hvor der altså ikke er indikationer på, at israelske myndigheder har begunstiget ulovligt israelsk byggeri, er der faktisk indikationer den anden vej. Disse peger endda på at den nuværende israelske premierminister, Ehud Olmert, stod bag tilintetgørelsen af sagsakter for at forhindre nedrivningen af illegalt opførte arabiske bygninger da han var borgmester af Jerusalem mellem 1993 og 2003.

Det startede med, at Aryeh King, formand for Jerusalem Forum, fik startet en efterforskning af Ehud Olmerts pro-arabiske manipulationer:

"Ehud Olmert gave the order not to deal with the problem and not to put Israeli security forces to the duty of taking down the illegal Arab complexes. Senior municipal workers told me Olmert said not to bother with the illegal Arab homes because eventually eastern Jerusalem would be given to the Palestinian Authority," said King.

Det viste sig i løbet af undersøgelsen, at Olmert, fik tilintetgjort sagsakterne på 300 illegalt af arabere opførte bygninger med tilsammen 20.000 lejligheder. Det anslås, at ialt 100.000 arabere dermed mod gældende lov, men på grund af Olmerts intervention uden myndighedernes indgriben, kunne slå sig ned i illegale arabiske bosættelser alene i Jerusalem.

Selv hos folkevalgte jødiske politikere kan Israels jøder altså ikke forvente andet end diskriminering.

Den demografiske bombe i Palæstina desarmeret

Mens han stadig var i live plejede den ægyptiske terrorleder Yassir Arafat at true israelerne med de arabiske kvinders børnerigdom:

"The womb of the Arab woman,..is my strongest weapon."

Gode nyheder fra Palæstina: jøderne får flere og flere børn, mens arabernes fødselstal styrtdykker. Dette ifølge nye tal fra Israels Centrale Bureau for Statistik og Verdensbanken. Dermed er et af arabernes mægtigste våben blevet desarmeret, i hvert fald for en tid:

In demographic information made public this month by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), the decline in Arab fertility rates within the 1967 borders (the Green Line) has been shown to exceed the ICBS's own predictions by 20 years. Similarly, the "Contending that there is a demographic machete at the throat of the Jewish State is either drastically mistaken or outrageously misleading!"latest ICBS statistics show a Jewish fertility rate that is higher than the ICBS's most generous forecasts.

According to the ICBS study, released on November 5, the Jewish birthrate has increased in pre-1967 Israel from 2.6 to 2.8 during the period from 1996 to 2006. During the same period, Muslim Arabs have seen a drop in birthrates from 4.7 to 4.0, with the Druze population's fertility rates dropping slightly further (from 3.4 to 2.6) and Christian Arabs showing a lower rate of decline
(from 2.7 to 2.2).

According to Ettinger and the AIDRG, "Since 1948, the ICBS has tended to under-project Jewish fertility, over-project Arab fertility, ignore the scope of Arab emigration and minimize the scope of potential Jewish Aliya (immigration). It has also overlooked the fact that Jewish demography has not been normative, and certainly not Western in nature. Moreover, the ICBS ignored the fact that Jews and Arabs have reacted differently to unusual economic and military developments."

A World Bank study revealed a dramatic gap between the PA's official predictions of population growth and the actual numbers of children registered for first grade. According to the World Bank researchers, the discrepancy is due to a drop in Arab birthrates and an increase in Arab emigration from Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Looking at the education system in the Palestinian Authority, the study showed that there had been an 8 percent drop as of September 2006 in the number of children registered for school through fifth grade. This was in sharp opposition to the PA's official forecast of a 24% increase in registered students by September 2006.

Det eneste spørgsmål, der så står tilbage er: hvad er det, israelerne gør rigtigt, og hvordan efterligner vi dem?