| Jordanian news site antisemitic article: "If I were a Jew..."noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Sep 04:45 AM Here's a nice example of an antisemitic | | Here's a nice example of an antisemitic article in the Jordanian Assawsana news site. This is not an anomalous opinion, but mainstream, even though articles like this are somewhat more rare than in the past. If I were a Jew, I would go back to reading the real history of the Jews. The Jews are the descendants of the Canaanites who inhabited the country of the East, the area between the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates, and for this reason their flag consists of two blue lines representing the Nile and Euphrates rivers. ...They returned to the land of their fathers and grandfathers in the land of Canaan when our Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, rescued them from enslavement, killing and slaughter of Pharaoh for them. After that, God scattered them all on the earth for breaking the covenants with our master and Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah, peace and blessings be upon him. And I will ask and verify why the countries of the whole world agreed to get rid of us and establish a national home for us in Palestine? Is it because people hated us in all the countries in which we lived for our pure and unfair material dealings that are not our religion, and we exploited them and tried to enslave them. . . etc?. I also wonder why the Jews did not fuse with the different societies in which they lived and continue to live for many years? Why couldn't they merge with the Palestinian people in Palestine as well...Read More |
From Ian: Mossad spy chief on 9/11: We realized rules for fighting terror had to change When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001, then-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy was in the middle of a meeting with then-prime minister Ariel Sharon. "Suddenly someone came in the room, passed him a piece of paper. And he said to me, 'Something has happened. I think you shouldn't be here, you should be in your office.' I said, 'What happened?' He told me briefly, and I was off on my way," Halevy recalled, speaking to The Times of Israel ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. "The 9/11 events caught everyone by surprise," he said. Halevy, 86, had been the head of the Mossad spy agency for three and a half years when two planes hit the World Trade Center, a third hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, after the passengers regained control of the aircraft from the hijackers and prevented it from hitting its target, which investigators believe was either the White House or the United States Capitol. The British-born spymaster was wary of revisiting many of the technical questions of the Mossad's activities following the attacks — what they knew and when and what was shared with the US — but he said there was a general effort to bring whatever relevant information it collected...Read More |
From Ian: Matthew Continetti: Year 20 We owe this 9/11 Generation a great deal. I was not the only resident of New York City in the weeks after September 11 to have nightmares of more planes flying into skyscrapers. Nor am I alone when I recall the pervasive fear that accompanied the anthrax attacks the next month or the D.C. sniper rampage the following year. The threat loomed large of another massacre; of suicide bombings on the scale experienced by Israel during the contemporaneous Second Intifada; of terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction. None of that happened. Why? Because Americans acted. Those Americans, male and female, belonged to every race, every ethnicity, every religion, every creed, every sexual orientation. And they belonged to both political parties. The brightest stars among Republicans and Democrats—from Tom Cotton to Tammy Duckworth, from Dan Crenshaw to Jason Crow—belong to the 9/11 Generation. They may not agree on either the ends or the means of domestic and foreign policy. But they are joined by common citizenship and a mutual interest in the safety and prosperity of America. They ran toward the danger. And they deserve our profound gratitude. The high cost of war bought safety for the homeland and a reduction in radical Islamic terrorism. Bin Laden wanted his holy warriors to collapse the American economy and drive us from the Arabian Peninsula. They failed. Not only did Osama bin Laden...Read More |
Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, wrote: Palestinian doctor shot dead by Israeli police in Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Friday, September 10, 2021 (WAFA) – A Palestinian medical doctor was announced dead on Friday evening shortly after he was shot and critically injured by Israeli occupation forces in the old city of Jerusalem, according to witnesses. Israeli police officers reportedly opened gunfire at Dr. Hazem Joulani near Bab al-Majlis, one of the main gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, critically injuring him. The Israeli police also denied access of Palestinian civilians who attempted to provide him with first aid. The Palestinian Detainees Affairs Commission said Joulani, who was rushed to Hadasah Medical Center for treatment, was announced dead of his wounds a couple of minutes later. No mention of why they might have shot him. (Or why any police officer would ever allow "civilians" to enter a crime scene to administer "first aid.") Luckily, we have video of this doctor trying to stab an Israeli police officer. From three different angles. Why would a doctor want to do this? Perhaps he went crazy. Perhaps he was under investigation for something. Perhaps he was depressed and decided that being a "martyr" sounded pretty good. All we know is that he decided to attack Jews. And Palestinians cheer that. (h/t kweansmom) * * * * * *
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Akhbarten.com, an Arab news site popular in Egypt and Syria, has an article explaining a Quranic verse:
The example of those who were burdened with the Torah, but then did not carry it, is like an ass carrying books —evil is the example of the people which deny the signs of God, and God does not guide the wrongdoing people. [Qurʾān 62:5]The article explains that just as a donkey carries books yet does not understand what they contain, so the Jews are burdened with a Torah they do not understand. Only Muslims do.
So far, this is just another example of how one can find examples of antisemitism in every day Arabic language media.
But the person explaining the verse does not understand it as well a the author of the Quran did.
The Quran's stories often come not only from the Torah itself but from rabbinic sources as well. Its author was quite familiar with Rabbinic stories from the Midrash and Talmud.
This particular verse seems to refer to a famous midrash, the first part of which is familiar to every Jewish schoolchild. When God wanted to give the Torah, he first went to the other nations and offered it to them. They would ask, "What is in it?" and God would answer "Thou shat not kill" or steal or commit adultery, and the nations would decline, saying that one of these sins are part of their national culture. When God came to Israel, however, they didn't ask what was in it, but accepted it wholeheartedly.
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From Ian: Matti Friedman: The Next Lebanon War Spending time on the border with Yitzhak Huri, a lieutenant colonel who's the second-in-command of the army brigade in this sector, I asked if he thought Lebanon's disintegration and the desperation of its citizens made war more or less likely. Does the crisis lead the Lebanese to pull back to avoid further mayhem, or go for broke? "When a person has nothing to lose, you can't know what he's capable of," Huri said. "The same goes for countries." I put the same question to the Lebanon watcher David Daoud, who was born to a Jewish family in Beirut and lives in Washington, D.C., where he works with the Atlantic Council and the advocacy group United Against a Nuclear Iran. Hezbollah has never wanted Lebanon to be a prosperous state "like Israel or Singapore," Daoud said, because that would limit its autonomy. But at the same time, he said, the organization's interests aren't served by another civil war or the kind of state collapse that would be hastened by a war with Israel at this moment. The group is more likely, Daoud thinks, to try to use the current crisis to make itself even more central to the lives of its followers by doing what it has always done: providing services that should be provided by the state but aren't. Hezbollah is already distributing bread and fuel, and if it plays its cards right, it will emerge stronger. "The...Read More |
At +972, Hadar Cohen writes: Whenever I find myself at a leftist protest against the occupation, there is always someone holding a sign that says "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies." This phrase has become, in some ways, the bedrock of leftist ideology promoting coexistence in Israel/Palestine. But when I encounter this phrase, I immediately feel disoriented. Which side am I on? If I am on the "Jewish" side, do I lose the Arab identity within me? Can I identify as an Arab, even as I enjoy privileges as a Jewish citizen of Israel? I identify as an Arab Jew. My family has lived in Jerusalem for over 10 generations, and my other ancestral cities include Aleppo in Syria, Baghdad in Iraq, and Shiraz in Iran, along with a small village in Kurdistan. In our traditional Jewish home, observing our Syrian-Palestinian heritage and culture came with ease. Jewishness and Arabness fit together cohesively — there was no contradiction. But outside our home, my faith and culture clashed. The State of Israel conditioned me to see the intersection of "Jewish" and "Arab" as non-existent or impossible, even though Arab Jews have lived at this intersection for years. She then goes on to review the racism in the early days of modern Israel against Mizrahi Jews - racism that was shameful and real enough although she exaggerates it. Cohen leaves out a great deal in her essay, facts that are very relevant but that she doesn't...Read More |
The International Committee of the Red Cross has been the focus of protests in Gaza in support of the six prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison this week.
On Thursday, the ICRC in Gaza issued a statement on its responsibilities vis a vis Palestinian prisoners: The ICRC works on the basis of confidential dialogue with authorities. That's why we have full access to detainees. Having access to all places of detention, being able to meet detainees, and using our confidential dialogue to advocate for their interests is our priority.
Our visits to places of detention aim at assessing the treatment of detainees and their conditions of detention with the ultimate objective of ensuring humane treatment and acceptable conditions of detention.
Following the events of this week, we continue our detention activities and visits in Israeli prisons. Our teams will continue to monitor the situation in terms of the treatment of detainees and their conditions of detention.
It is however the responsibility of the detaining authorities to ensure calm while dignity and humane treatment of the detainees are preserved. Should detainees be transferred in the future, we will continue monitoring their treatment and conditions and engage the authorities in our bilateral dialogue if needed. We ensure families of detainees moved are informed so they can stay in touch with their loved ones. That isn't enough for those who want...Read More |
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