National Post

Joffe and Romirowsky are looking at a human monster and seeing Prince Charming. The Palestinians are not an ancient people. Their ancestors in 1900 numbered about 500,000, 8% of whom were Jews. Incoming laborers to support Jewish projects made up the majority of what are now called the Palestinians. The name Palestine itself referred to an area lived in by tenant farmers and ruled for the last thousand years by Turkey. They are therefore a false people living in a land that under international law (The San Remo Conference of 1920) belongs to Israel. Their new prosperity is not the result of ingenuity and hard work, but of European and United Nations funding. Their social structure includes the oppression of women including honour killings, hatred of gays, the glorification of suicide bombers and others who have murdered Israeli civilians, the attempt to eliminate Jews from their areas, and the oppression and
forced emigration of much of their Christian community. Politically their charter includes the elimination of Israel
by war, attrition or negotiation as one of their main aims. Joffe and Romirowsky have chosen to close their eyes
to the realities of a small group of Arabs with superb self-promotion skills, who, with the help of their Islamist fellow travellers, are trying to rid the area of Jews. It is hardly a project to be admired or supported.