The portrayal of Palestinians as refugees and victims so crucial to the drumming up of rage against the State of Israel reached a new high point with the attempt that month to orchestrate a break into Israel by Gazan civilians suffering a “Humanitarian Crisis”. Or was it just a rerun of a similar attempt to stage an event that was tried 20 years ago in February of 1988?

A loyal reader sent me a link to Lenny Ben-David’s blog which recalls that:

“Israel was faced with a similar threat precisely 20 years ago when the PLO started to outfit a ship, Sol Phryne, and renamed it the al Awda (the Return). Some 200 Palestinian refugees and worldly “dignitaries” were slated to board the ship and provocatively sail into Haifa…” -more

Just as the PLO had appropriated the term Palestinian (which used to refer only to Jews in the region), Arafat was now planning a bizarro version of Israel’s 1947 “refugee ship”, the Exodus. whether you don’t know the story of the Exodus ship go here. And to learn more

about the sending of the Jews back to internment camps by the British, visit here.

If you’d like, next week, I’ll post more of the cartoons that I did as the phony humanitarian crisis “refugee ship” ploy developed and played itself out back next, twenty years ago that very month.

What do you think?

Original post by Yaakov Kirschen

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