The Palestinians have made quite a name for themselves.
They’re not good at creating a viable economy. But they’re very good at getting others to give them financial assistance.
They’re good at tunnel-building. They’re good at ghoulish mayhem and murder. But what they’re best at is propaganda. At that, they excel.
As Gerard Baker writes: “If there were a Goebbels prize for propaganda, Hamas would win it every year.”
And this despite their habit of stirring up trouble wherever they go. As commenter “Unwillin’ Barkis” has written on this blog:
I cannot think of another group of people – short of gypsies – that are more unwanted than Palestinians. They’re unwanted even among their own religious brethren, that being much of their own fault. I can’t think of another ethnic group in modern history that have done more to destroy humanitarian goodwill than they have, and they’re quickly on track to become the transnational refuse of Earth by the end of the century.
Palestinians have managed to attempt to overthrow government after government of their host countries in order to take over if they can, get more power for themselves, and/or spread the word of their Cause. Their host countries have said “no thanks” in no uncertain terms – for example, Black September in Jordan:
After the 1967 Six-Day War [with Israel], Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas relocated to Jordan and stepped up their attacks against Israel and what had become the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The PLO’s strength grew, and by early 1970, leftist groups within the PLO began calling for the overthrow of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy, leading to violent clashes in June 1970. Hussein hesitated to oust them from the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson’s Field hijackings of 6 September 1970. This involved the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seizing three civilian passenger flights and forcing their landing in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, where they took foreign nationals as hostages and blew up the planes in front of international press. Hussein saw this as the last straw and ordered the Jordanian Army to take action.
… [T]he Jordanian military attacked again in January 1971, and the fedayeen were driven out of the cities, one by one, until 2,000 surrendered after they were encircled during the Ajlun offensive on 23 July, formally marking the end of the conflict.
Jordan allowed the fedayeen to relocate to Lebanon via Syria, where they later became involved in the Lebanese Civil War. The Palestinian Black September Organization was founded after the conflict to carry out attacks against Jordanian authorities in response to the fedayeen’s expulsion; their most notable attack was the assassination of Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal in 1971, as he had commanded parts of the military operations against the fedayeen.
“Became involved in the Lebanese Civil War” can be translated from WikiSpeak as “played an enormous role in sparking the war.” At any rate, the history of the particular Arabs known as “Palestinians” explains why Egypt has not allowed any refugees into its country during the present post-10/7 conflict.
Another very important thing about the Palestinians which accounts for their status as victims favored above all others by leftists and the international community is that aiding them is big business for the UN and NGOs.
But I think the greatest fortune the Palestinians have had is that their designated enemy is Jewish. If it were some other Arab country, the world would yawn and look the other way. A good analogy for this in the US is when a white person kills a black person versus black-on-black crime; it’s the latter that gets so little publicity. So Palestinians have an ideal built-in situation for their message, which uses the antiquity, ubiquity, and intensity of anti-Semitism to enhance the appeal of Palestinian propaganda.
The Palestinians are smart, too, especially about creating the proper propaganda to match the audience and the target. The Holocaust is deliberately evoked through Palestinian imagery and rhetoric in order to accuse the Jews of perpetrating one. The blood libel, of even greater antiquity, is also frequently and knowingly employed. It is especially painful to Jews who are aware of Jewish history, and especially effective with the wider population of the world because of its harmonic resonances.
