tag: middle-east
7 proofs
More Americans were killed in Chicago shootings over a four-week period in March 2026 than US service members killed in action in the US-Israel Iran war to date.
Sources: Military Times (sourced from Pentagon DCAS data), Military Times (sourced from CENTCOM), HeyJackass.com (sourced from CPD/CFD/ME data) +2 more
The 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza removed every settlement and military outpost AND resulted in Hamas winning the January 2006 parliamentary elections followed by its complete takeover of the territory in 2007.
Sources: Wikipedia: Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Britannica: Israel's disengagement from Gaza (2005), ADL: Israeli Disengagement Background +4 more
The assertion that no Arab state has ever recognized Israel is false because Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, Jordan in 1994, and four additional states joined the Abraham Accords by 2023.
Sources: Wikipedia: Egypt–Israel peace treaty, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian: Camp David Accords, Wikipedia: Israel–Jordan peace treaty +3 more
The claim that Israel maintains an illegal occupation of the entire West Bank is contradicted by the Oslo Accords designating Area C as remaining under full Israeli civil and security administration pending final-status negotiations.
Sources: Wikipedia: West Bank areas in the Oslo II Accord, Wikipedia: Area C (West Bank) — quoting Oslo II Accord definition, Wikipedia: West Bank areas in the Oslo II Accord — Area A designation +1 more
The Israeli settler population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem surpassed 700,000 by December 2023 per the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, representing more than 20 percent growth since 2010.
Sources: Peace Now Settlement Watch (sourced from Israeli CBS, end of 2023), Wikipedia: Population statistics for Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Jewish Virtual Library: Jewish Settlements Population (sourced from Israeli CBS)
The UN Partition Plan Resolution 181 allocated 56 percent of Mandatory Palestine to the proposed Jewish state while Jews constituted less than 33 percent of the population according to the 1947 British census.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica: United Nations Resolution 181, Wikipedia: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (territorial allocation), Wikipedia: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (1946 population section) +1 more
Total international aid disbursed to Palestinian entities from 1994 through 2023 exceeded 40 billion USD in nominal terms when summing OECD DAC bilateral aid and UNRWA contributions.
Sources: Wikipedia — International aid to Palestinians (citing OECD DAC data), Arab Center Washington DC — International Aid to the Palestinians (2022, citing OECD DAC data), The Borgen Project — Foreign Aid to Palestine (citing Arab Center DC, which cites OECD) +1 more