Israel wants to steal as much Palestinian land as possible to settle as many Jews as possible, encouraging aliyah (the Hebrew term for immigration) from other countries, especially Europe. Suppose European Jews are not willing to migrate to Israel? There is a simple solution: Invoke the specter of anti-Semitism in Europe and create a sense of insecurity among the Jews. This is what every Israeli leader has been doing and this is what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did with more than usual aggressiveness in Paris last month. He utilized the shootings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killing of four Jewish men at a kosher market in Paris in the first week of January to declare that France was becoming more and more unsafe for Jews to live in. Soon after the killing, he said in a televised address: “To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray; the state of Israel is your home.” He did not say that to build homes for Jews in France and other countries, Palestinians will have to leave their ancestral homes. This is a Zionist version of Lebensraum (“living space”) which was the ideology used by Nazis as a justification for territorial expansion. If Nazis supported territorial expansionism to gain Lebensraum for Germans, Israelis are colonizing Palestinian territories to repopulate the land with Jewish people. This process has been going on for some time now. Last year more than 7,000 Jews left France, a country where they have lived since the time of the Romans. This made France the biggest source of new immigrants to Israel. Total immigration from all countries to Israel has averaged about 20,000 Jews per year over the past decade. For the first time in Israeli history, more than half of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in the Jewish state last year came from Western-style democracies, according to Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Some say half of France's 500,000 Jews will leave the country over the next 15 years. Everybody, including Netanyahu, knows that this migration is propelled by a love for Israel, not because Jews in Europe face any threat either to their lives or to their cultural or As usual, some sections of US media are only too happy to help Israel in its “everybody is against us” propaganda. For example, in a recent column in Washington Post, Richard Cohen says that after the recent events in Paris, he has second thoughts about the title of his newly published book, “Israel: Is it Good for the Jews?”. He is now convinced that there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe and Jews are facing a holocaust-like situation.Then was not Cohen convinced by the evidence presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the UN on Feb. 5, 2003 to prove Iraq was swimming in a sea of weapons of mass destruction? Echoing him, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon says Jews in Europe are under attack and that the safest place for them is in Israel. This is cleaver propaganda — clever but self-defeating. In the short run, leftist supporters of Palestine may soften their criticism of Israel's settlement activities and repressive and apartheid practices in occupied territories. European countries may place curbs on Muslim demonstrations against Israel when the Jewish state attacks or bombs Palestinians. But in the long run this is going to do Jews or Israel no good. If Israeli leaders and their supporters describe isolated and local attacks on Jews or synagogues as holocaust, they will be playing into the hands of those who deny holocaust altogether and those who question the holocaust the way it is being presented. If an attack on a synagogue in Nice, a small French town, is a forerunner of holocaust, people may wonder whether the original holocaust is worth the laws that punish anyone who questions the Zionist claims about the extent of Jewish suffering under Adolf Hitler. Second, Israel says it is surrounded by Arab counties out to annihilate it. Even non-Arab Iran wants to exterminate Jews. Iran's nuclear program does present an existential threat to the people of Israel. If this is the case, why expose Jews in other countries to such dangers? A country can't be in mortal danger and the “safest place” on earth at the same time.
