Ben Kerido / The Western Journal
As the Palestinian Arab population centers in the Judea and Samaria region (also known as the West Bank) explode with instability and violence, I have been deployed with my Israel Defense Force special forces reserve unit.
Encountering Palestinian Arab locals, I have taken note of the negative responses and attitudes toward me and my fellow soldiers. In some cases it is hatred, and in others it is a crippling and even bizarrely irrational fear and panic.
The hatred and fear stem from an aggressive policy of slanderous propaganda designed to induce the Palestinian Arab population to submit to corrupt, tyrannical and often violent leadership against a supposedly greater external enemy — the Israeli “Zionist war machine.”