Palestinianism recurring pattern is to accuse the victim of the very crime that the accuser attempted to commit but failed to carry out
Palestinianism recurring pattern is to accuse the victim of the very crime that the accuser attempted to commit but failed to carry out. The earliest known false accusation of so called "genocide" against Israel by a senior Palestinian leader appears to have come from Farouk Kaddoumi in May 1974—just days after the Ma'alot massacre, in which Palestinian terrorists murdered Israeli schoolchildren and other civilians. As Israel responded by striking terrorist targets in Lebanon, Kaddoumi accused the state of "genocide," [ link ] establishing a pattern that continues to this day: portraying Israel's defensive actions as atrocities while downplaying or obscuring the terrorism that precipitated them. Notably, Farouk Kaddoumi later stated that Palestinian Arabs supported Nazi Germany because they viewed Zionism as a common enemy, arguing that both sides were united in their opposition to Zionism. [ link ] The Palestinianism recurring pattern is to accuse the victi...