Re: Israel & Palestine
$hiftyIceQueen said:
I was talking about Jews in general and Muslims in general; the fact that they lived together for a long time, and are still living with each other-in some areas, yet there is no problems. The main problems are in Israel and Palestine.
Are you talking about in the middle-east or in western countries?
If you are talking about Western countries, then I would agree with you, however if you are talking about the Middle-east, well...
Arab leaders have repeatedly made clear their animosity toward
Jews and
Judaism. For example, on November 23, 1937, Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud told British Colonel H.R.P. Dickson: "Our hatred for the
Jews dates from God's condemnation of them for their persecution and rejection of Isa (Jesus) and their subsequent rejection of His chosen Prophet." He added "that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew ensures him an immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of God Almighty."
3
When
Hitler introduced the
Nuremberg racial laws in 1935, he received telegrams of congratulation from all corners of the Arab world.
4 Later, during the war, one of his most ardent supporters was the
Mufti of Jerusalem.
Jews were never permitted to live in
Jordan. Civil Law No. 6, which governed the Jordanian-occupied West Bank, states explicitly: "Any man will be a Jordanian subject if he is not Jewish."
5
The Arab countries see to it that even young schoolchildren are taught to hate
Jews. The Syrian Minister of Education wrote in 1968: "The hatred which we indoctrinate into the minds of our children from their birth is sacred."
6
After the
Six-Day War in 1967, the Israelis found public school textbooks that had been used to educate Arab children in the West Bank. They were replete with racist and hateful portrayals of Jews:
"The
Jews are scattered to the ends of the earth, where they live exiled and despised, since by their nature they are vile, greedy and enemies of mankind, by their nature they were tempted to steal a land as asylum for their disgrace."
7
"Analyze the following sentences:
1. The merchant himself traveled to the African continent.
2. We shall expel all the
Jews from the Arab countries."
8
"The
Jews of our time are the descendants of the
Jews who harmed the Prophet Muhammad. They betrayed him, they broke the treaty with him and joined sides with his enemies to fight him..."
9
"The
Jews in Europe were persecuted and despised because of their corruption, meanness and treachery."
10
A 1977 Jordanian teachers' manual for first-graders used on the West Bank instructs educators to "implant in the soul of the pupil the rule of Islam that if the enemies occupy even one inch of the Islamic lands,
jihad (holy war) becomes imperative for every Muslim." It also says the
Jews plotted to assassinate
Muhammad when he was a child. Another Jordanian text, a 1982 social studies book, claims Israel ordered the massacre of Palestinians in
Sabra and Shatila during the
Lebanon war, but does not mention the Christian Arabs who were the perpetrators.
11
“We have found books with passages that are so anti-Semitic, that if they were published in Europe, their publishers would be brought up on anti-racism charges.”
— French lawyer and European Parliament member Francois Zimeray
commenting on Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian texts
Jerusalem Post, (October 16, 2001).
According to a study of Syrian textbooks, "the Syrian educational system expands hatred of Israel and Zionism to anti-Semitism directed at all
Jews. That anti-Semitism evokes ancient Islamic motifs to describe the unchangeable and treacherous nature of the
Jews. Its inevitable conclusion is that all
Jews must be annihilated."
12 To cite one example, an eleventh grade textbook claims that
Jews hated Muslims and were driven by envy to incite hostility against them:
The
Jews spare no effort to deceive us, deny our Prophet, incite against us, and distort the holy scriptures.
The
Jews cooperate with the Polytheist and the infidels against the Muslims because they know Islam reveals their crafty ways and abject characteristics.
13
An Arabic translation of
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been distributed in East Jerusalem and territories controlled by the
Palestinian Authority (PA) and became a bestseller.
14
Occasionally,
Arab anti-Semitism surfaces at the United Nations. In March 1991, for example, a Syrian delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission read a statement recommending that commission members read "a valuable book" called
The Matzoh of Zion, written by Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas. The book justifies ritual murder charges brought against the
Jews in the Damascus blood libel of 1840.
15 (The phrase "blood libel" refers to accusations that
Jews kill Christian children to use their blood for the ritual of making matzoh at Passover.)
King Faisal of
Saudi Arabia uttered a similar slander in a 1972 interview:
Israel has had malicious intentions since ancient times. Its objective is the destruction of all other religions....They regard the other religions as lower than their own and other peoples as inferior to their level. And on the subject of vengeance — they have a certain day on which they mix the blood of non-Jews into their bread and eat it. It happened that two years ago, while I was in Paris on a visit, that the police discovered five murdered children. Their blood had been drained, and it turned out that some
Jews had murdered them in order to take their blood and mix it with the bread that they eat on this day. This shows you what is the extent of their hatred and malice toward non-Jewish peoples.
16
On November 11, 1999, during a Gaza appearance with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Suha Arafat, wife of
Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat stated: "Our people have been subjected to the daily and extensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children."
Similar specious allegations have been made by other Palestinian officials.
17
The
Arab/Muslim press, which is almost exclusively controlled by the governments in each Middle Eastern nation, regularly publish anti-Semitic articles and cartoons. Today, it remains common to find
anti-Semitic publications in Egypt. For example, the establishment
Al-Ahram newspaper published an article giving the "historical" background of the blood libel tradition while accusing Israel of using the blood of Palestinian children to bake matzohs up to the present time.
18 Anti-Semitic articles also regularly appear in the press in
Jordan and
Syria. Many of the attacks deal with
denial of the Holocaust, its "exploitation" by
Zionism, and a comparison of Zionism and Israel to Nazism.
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Egyptian Daily Al-Ahram, (May 23, 1998)[/SIZE]
In November 2001, a satirical skit aired on the second most popular television station in the Arab world, which depicted a character meant to be
Ariel Sharon drinking the blood of Arab children as a grotesque-looking
Orthodox Jew looked on. Abu Dhabi Television also aired a skit in which Dracula appears to take a bite out of Sharon, but dies because Sharon's blood is polluted. Protests that these shows were anti-Semitic were ignored by the network.
19
The
Palestinian Authority's media have also contained inflammatory and anti-Semitic material. A Friday sermon in the Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan mosque in Gaza calling for the murder of
Jews and Americans was broadcast live on the official
Palestinian Authority television:
Have no mercy on the
Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those
Jews and those Americans who are like them and those who stand by them they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims because they established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world, in Palestine....
20
Even
Palestinian crossword puzzles are used to delegitimize Israel and attack
Jews, providing clues, for example, suggesting the Jewish trait is "treachery."
21
“Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday [May 5] offered a vivid, if vile, demonstration of why he and his government are unworthy of respect or good relations with the United States or any other democratic country. Greeting Pope John Paul II in Damascus, Mr. Assad launched an attack on Jews that may rank as the most ignorant and crude speech delivered before the pope in his two decades of travel around the world. Comparing the suffering of the Palestinians to that of Jesus Christ, Mr. Assad said that the Jews ‘tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.’ With that libel, the Syrian president stained both his country and the pope....”
While Jewish communities in Islamic countries fared better overall than those in Christian lands in Europe,
Jews were no strangers to persecution and humiliation among the Arabs. As Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis has written: "The Golden Age of equal rights was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam."
22
Muhammad, the founder of
Islam, traveled to Medina in 622 A.D. to attract followers to his new faith. When the
Jews of Medina refused to recognize Muhammad as their Prophet, two of the major Jewish tribes were expelled. In 627, Muhammad's followers killed between 600 and 900 of the men, and divided the surviving Jewish women and children amongst themselves.
23
The Muslim attitude toward
Jews is reflected in various verses throughout the
Koran, the holy book of the Islamic faith. "They [the Children of Israel] were consigned to humiliation and wretchedness. They brought the wrath of God upon themselves, and this because they used to deny God's signs and kill His Prophets unjustly and because they disobeyed and were transgressors" (Sura 2:61). According to the Koran, the
Jews try to introduce corruption (5:64), have always been disobedient (5:78), and are enemies of Allah, the Prophet and the angels (2:97-98).
Jews were generally viewed with contempt by their Muslim neighbors; peaceful coexistence between the two groups involved the subordination and degradation of the
Jews. In the ninth century, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for
Jews, setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in
Nazi Germany.
24
At various times,
Jews in Muslim lands lived in relative peace and thrived culturally and economically. The position of the
Jews was never secure, however, and changes in the political or social climate would often lead to persecution, violence and death.
When
Jews were perceived as having achieved too comfortable a position in Islamic society, anti-Semitism would surface, often with devastating results. On December 30, 1066, Joseph HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of Granada, Spain, was crucified by an Arab mob that proceeded to raze the Jewish quarter of the city and slaughter its 5,000 inhabitants. The riot was incited by Muslim preachers who had angrily objected to what they saw as inordinate Jewish political power.
Similarly, in 1465, Arab mobs in
Fez slaughtered thousands of
Jews, leaving only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim woman in "an offensive manner." The killings touched off a wave of similar massacres throughout
Morocco.
25
Other mass murders of
Jews in Arab lands occurred in
Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by the Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities;
Libya in 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews;
Algiers, where
Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830; and Marrakesh,
Morocco, where more than 300 hundred
Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.
26
Decrees ordering the destruction of
synagogues were enacted in
Egypt and
Syria (1014, 1293-4, 1301-2),
Iraq (854*859, 1344) and
Yemen (1676). Despite the Koran's prohibition,
Jews were forced to convert to Islam or face death in
Yemen (1165 and 1678),
Morocco (1275, 1465 and 1790-92) and
Baghdad (1333 and 1344).
27
The situation of Jews in Arab lands reached a low point in the 19th century.
Jews in most of North Africa (including
Algeria,
Tunisia,
Egypt,
Libya and
Morocco) were forced to live in ghettos. In
Morocco, which contained the largest Jewish community in the Islamic Diaspora,
Jews were made to walk barefoot or wear shoes of straw when outside the ghetto. Even Muslim children participated in the degradation of
Jews, by throwing stones at them or harassing them in other ways. The frequency of anti-Jewish violence increased, and many
Jews were executed on charges of apostasy. Ritual murder accusations against the
Jews became commonplace in the
Ottoman Empire.
28
As distinguished Orientalist G.E. von Grunebaum has written:
It would not be difficult to put together the names of a very sizeable number Jewish subjects or citizens of the Islamic area who have attained to high rank, to power, to great financial influence, to significant and recognized intellectual attainment; and the same could be done for Christians. But it would again not be difficult to compile a lengthy list of persecutions, arbitrary confiscations, attempted forced conversions, or pogroms.
29
The danger for
Jews became even greater as a showdown approached in the UN. The Syrian delegate, Faris el-Khouri, warned: "Unless the Palestine problem is settled, we shall have difficulty in protecting and safeguarding the
Jews in the Arab world."
30
More than a thousand
Jews were killed in anti-Jewish rioting during the 1940's in
Iraq,
Libya,
Egypt,
Syria and
Yemen.
31 This helped trigger the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html#b
$hiftyIceQueen said:
You mentioned the site, what about all the sites people have given? They aren't worth anything?
I never said that, I just pointed out the mistakes of these sites, you have yet to do that with my own.
$hiftyIceQueen said:
My head has nothing to do with you. Thank you very much.
Then how can you not accept facts?
