A video is worth a million words!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then certainly a video is worth a million. 

I'm going to share only 2 incredible videos with you (that adds up to 2 million words!) that perhaps you've never yet seen. Even if you have, these inspirational videos from some incredible people defending my Jewish homeland and the only democracy in the Middle East, are worth another look. I have watched them time and again and each time I am in awe of these people who spoke bravely and perfectly. They say that G-d provides the words to people when they sincerely need them. I believe it.

                                  PM Menachim Begin

The first video has made the rounds but proves that even plain looking people, with Polish accents can deliver a message across the world that needed to be heard loudly and clearly. I'm referring to Israel's Prime Minister, Menachem Begin when he admonished Germany's chancellor who was ordering (trying to order) Israel to give up Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank) to Arabs who wanted to create yet another Muslim state called Palestine. Doing so  would certainly have been suicide for Israel. I loved the way he just gave it to him as so many have failed to do, especially these days. The short speech was given in 1982 and so worth watching. He speaks Hebrew but there are English subtitles. 

Begin Defending his response to the German chancellor

There are so many incredible Jewish speakers from around the world who have delivered incredible speeches to those who needed to hear them.  I'm not talking about those in the sciences or medicine or the arts or culture although one can find them as well. I'm talking about those who inspired us at times when we most needed their inspiration. Men like Theodor Herzl who is considered by many as the modern day founder of Zionism and the man who helped push for the eventual founding of modern day Israel. He spoke before many disparate groups of people throughout the world to get them on board. From poor Russian Jews who were tired of the pogroms to world leaders in Switzerland who listened to him. Unfortunately those speeches took place before we had videos so in honour of him I'm including a photograph of him.

But I think that when non-Jews speak up for us, their words carry more weight. Since we Jews are such a small minority (we are a world wide population of about 15 million out of the world's population of about 8 billion) it is very important to hear their positive words. It's both heartwarming for us to hear them and it means more to the rest of the non-Jewish population. If they hear those words from a Jew they are often discounted as being biased. 

Lord Balfour of the Balfour Declaration fame was a great defender of the Jews as he felt we suffered more than enough and deserved to have our own country. PM Winston Churchill was another great friend to the Jews despite being surrounded with so many nasty antisemites at the time. Churchill was another great orator and his one liners are probably some of the most quoted in the world today. Again both of these great (non Jewish) men and many others came before the video camera's invention. 

                            Douglas Murray

So I've saved what I think is the best for last. This incredible speech (really an argument) was given by Douglas Murray of England back in 2012, I think at Cambridge university. He is definitely not Jewish but he is super bright and well read in so many areas. Here they are debating what to do about a Nuclear Iran. We need a million more Douglas Murray's! 

Enjoy!

Douglas Murray Best Speech Ever!

Finally the 'massacre' at Deir Yassin is repudiated

Mr. Tauber published his well researched book that finally puts an end to the myth promulgated by Arabs over decades, that Jews massacred arabs in Deir Yassin in 1948.

Although many people, even some Israelis believed it, I never did. Because Jews don’t behave that way. In 4000 years they’ve never behaved that way. 

Arabs have been consistent in publishing fake stories and videos on how the world has mistreated them. Their more recent Pallywood video clips are disturbing to any who views them. Here is just one of many where you can watch their makeup artists and Arab actors smiling for the cameras:

Pallywood

I certainly know that Mr. Tauber’s book won’t put an end to their lies about this but hopefully it will stop others from believing this lie.

 

This is just one of so many. More recently in 2002 we witnessed the hoax of the ‘Jenin Massacre’ whereby the Arabs put out a another fake story that the IDF carpet bombed an entire village called Jenin. The whole world bought this story immediately without any investigation! I remember it clearly. Every station on TV showed Arab women crying about how their entire village was wiped out by the Israelis. I happen to work with a lovely, young Arab woman who was crying at work the next day, asking me: 'Why Leon, why?" 

Of course once the Israelis showed the world that it was a fabrication, it was too late. Any retractions posted in the back pages of newspapers weeks later were missed entirely. If you look up this non-event on the internet today, you will still find plenty of sites that still think it happened. 

Back in 2000 there is the infamous al Dura affair whereby Arabs tried to blame the IDF for shooting a young Arab boy and killing him. There are many photographs that made it around the world of his father holding his dead son. Once again it turned out that he was shot, most likely accidentally, by his fellow Arab terrorists in Israel during a shoot out with the IDF. This photograph taken minutes before the child was shot went around the world:

There are far too many incidents like these to mention here but many believe that it was the Deir Yassin hoax that started this type of PR for the Arabs as they received such excellent press over it for so many years. I doubt that even they thought they would get the mileage out of this as they did way back then.

Winston Churchill said it best: ' A lie gets half way across the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on’.

The book is titled ’The Massacre That Never Was’ by Eliezer Tauber and is available on Amazon (hopefully elsewhere too). I can’t wait to read it.

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On April 9, 1948, forces of the Etzel and Lehi Jewish underground military organizations attacked the Arab village of Deir Yassin west of Jerusalem. The nature of this attack became one of the most controversial issues in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Professor Eliezer Tauber’s serious and in-depth research sheds light on this event, as we discover what really happened at Deir Yassin. In The Massacre That Never Was, a work of engrossing narrative and exhaustive research, Professor Eliezer Tauber proves that no massacre of Palestinians took place in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948, exploding a myth that has been the cornerstone of the Palestinian narrative for seven decades. Reconstructing a fierce ten-hour battle through a meticulous analysis of Arab and Jewish testimony and documents from 1948 that are still closed to the public, Professor Tauber persuasively demonstrates that the massacre narrative was a myth intentionally invented by the Arab leadership of 1948 in Jerusalem. Furthermore, the subsequent false rumors surrounding the event exacerbated the mass exodus of Arabs from Palestine, thus creating the refugee crisis and fueling propaganda against Israel, which has shaped the world’s understanding of the affair to this day. A timely work of historical reappraisal, The Massacre That Never Was will have a major impact on how we understand Israeli and Palestinian history.