Hatred of Israel reflects a hatred of God

Romans 1:28-32
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29 being filled with all unrighteousness,wickedness, greed, evil ; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice ; they are gossips,
30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32 and although they know theordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
      There are many people who believe the lies of those whose hatred of Israel knows no bounds, especially those who support the annihilation of Israel itself. Stories are circulated at every opportunity in the attempt to discredit Israel and the Jewish people, and even though the stories are later proven to be untrue, the damage is done. One such lie is that Palestine was a State fighting for its freedom from the oppressor, yet historically, Palestine never was a State, rather a town that grew into a city, yet governments and individuals rushed to support the terrorist Yasser Arafat when he cried out for an independent Palestine State. Needless to say, when a government gives credence to lies and liars then it's no wonder that it leaves many people convinced that the lies must be true.
      One such lie was that spread by the Goldstone Commission which reported on the Israeli military incursions into Gaza over the period from December 2008 to January 2009, accusing Israel of war crimes. As a result of these lies considerable damage was done to the Jewish state. Over the weekend, retired Aouth African judge, Richard Goldstone, admitted that his report that Israel had deliberately targeted innocent civilians, leading to the deaths of over 1000 people in the Gaza Strip, was a lie. 
       Goldstone  NOW acknowledges that the evidence provided in subsequent Israeli investigations had debunked the information he and his team was fed by the Palestinians during their UN-commissioned inquiry.
      The commission labeled the Israeli incursion an illegal action, despite the enormous Palestinian missile barrage on southern Israel that had preceded it.   Only weeks later did reporters pick up on the discrepancies between Palestinian-provided casualty figures and the lack of patients in local hospitals. They didn't bother to publish much about it. Several months after that, Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad admitted that 700 of the people killed during the mini-war were Hamas fighters, matching the figures Israeli originally provided.   And now, two years after the fact, Goldstone himself has come forward and written in the Washington Post that Israel did not target Palestinian civilians, and was only acting to defend itself and its own  civilians. Israeli leaders want an apology, but the damage has been done.
      By the time that the truth finally emerges, the international media wagon has rolled onwards, and so the story is considered to be yesterday's news and not worth giving it space.
      There are many such instances of heinous lies being propagated by Israel's enemies, some examples of which follow:

• Organ harvesting: In August 2009, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet headlined a story claiming that Israeli soldiers were capturing Palestinian Arabs and harvesting their organs. The only evidence provided were the unsubstantiated claims of a handful of Palestinians. Nevertheless, the story became a sensation, leading to international outcries against Israel.   The editor of the newspaper later admitted he had no proof that the claims were true, but defended his right to publish the blood libel regardless.
• Operation Defensive Shield: In 2002, following a particularly severe string of Palestinian terrorist attacks, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield to root out the terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria. One of the focal points was the northern Samaria town of Jenin. Of the 60 suicide bombers to attack Israelis in 2002, 23 had comes from Jenin.
• The Battle of Jenin, the Palestinians claimed that over 500 civilians had been massacred and that Israeli forces had demolished large portions of the city. The accusations were broadcast around the world, leading to a massive outcry against Israel.  Months later, it was revealed that only 52 Palestinians had died during the intense street battles in Jenin, and that most of them were armed militants. Israel lost 27 soldiers during the battle. A simple check of satellite photos also showed that Jenin had not been destroyed, and that the fighting had been limited to a small corner of Jenin where only a few buildings had been demolished.    Israel was quietly absolved, but the damage had been done.
• Mohammed al-Dura: On September 30, 2000, Palestinian terrorists engaged Israeli soldiers stationed in the Gaza Strip. Video footage of the clash broadcast on and provided by France 2 showed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura hiding behind his terrified father as the bullets flew. Moments later, the boy slumps over dead and the father is wounded. Israel was immediately blamed for shooting the boy in cold blood, and Mohammed al-Dura became an internationally-recognized poster child for armed uprising against the Jewish state.   Subsequent investigations by the Israeli army and other journalists have shown that the Israeli troops could not possibly have hit al-Dura from their position, even if they were trying to, and that the France 2 reporter on the scene may have been collaborating with the Palestinians.  Phillipe Karsenty, a French media commentator, was sued by France 2 for questioning the authenticity of the footage. A French court later ruled the Karsenty had indeed provided compelling evidence that France 2 s report was faulty, but the damage was already done.
• Fainting schoolgirls: In 1983, a large number of Palestinian schoolgirls began fainting while at school. Accusations were immediately made that they had been poisoned, and that Israel had done it. The foreign press jumped on the story and reprinted it far and wide without bothering the check the facts. The UN Security Council condemned Israel for poisoning little girls. Months later, experts proved that the girls had in fact not been poisoned. The media stopped covering the story, and the UN remained silent.
• First Lebanon War: The Palestinians realized how they could manipulate the press and public opinion against Israel for the first time during the First Lebanon War. After Israeli forces entered Lebanon in response to incessant PLO attacks on northern Israel, the Palestinians claimed that 10,000 civilians had been killed and more than half a million displaced.   The foreign reporters repeated the claims without checking the facts, like, for instance, that there were not even half a million people living in the whole of southern Lebanon. Media outlets also recycled images of destruction caused during the earlier Lebanese civil war as though it had been caused by Israel.

It's time to stand up and expose the truth to all of those who have been deceived into thinking that Israel are the aggressors, when the reality of the situation is that they are the defenders of their land against an enemy who manages by their lies to rally the support of international governments and individuals.