| Did Arabs and Jews live in peace in 19th century Palestine?noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Dec 05:45 AM I saw once again today the assertion, in a | | I saw once again today the assertion, in an academic paper, that Arabs and Jews lived quite well together in the late 19th century in Palestine. I looked at the footnote and it refers to a 2014 paper by Menachem Klein, which brings an impressive amount of evidence for cooperation between the Jews of Palestine and the Arabs, including Arabic words that became part of Palestinian Yiddish and Yiddish words that became part of Arabic, as well as evidence of the groups working together, even politically, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Whenever I read this sort of thing, I wonder how this jives with anecdotal evidence of derision and insults from Arabs to Jews in the 19th century. For example, John MacGregor published in 1870 that "Men in Palestine call their fellows 'Jew' as the very lowest of all possible words of abuse." In an 1824 letter from Rev. W. B. Lewis to the London Society, he writes, "Jerusalem is truly miserable, groaning under the tyranny of the oppressor. Jews...are subject to daily insults, and are shamefully and inhumanly oppressed." He then gives page after page of examples of Muslims treating Jews like garbage, stealing from them, the Ottoman authorities...Read More |
From Ian: A Blood Libel Against Israel on Netflix On Dec. 1, Netflix started streaming the Jordanian film "Farha," which depicts fictionalized, heartless Israeli soldiers viciously killing Palestinian men, women and children in cold blood. These events never actually happened and the film admits that it is "dramatized." But that does not mean it will not have an outsized impact on anti-Jewish hate and violence. The movie offers a fanciful retelling of the 1948 war in which the would-be genocidal Arab armies failed to destroy a newborn Jewish state (and kill all its inhabitants in the process). Those who tried to help them do it are romantically recast as the helpless victims of a horrible catastrophe. Yet primary sources - from the Arab side - attest to the fact that the vast majority of Arabs who left their homes did so voluntarily, or under orders from the invading Arab armies, not the Israeli armed forces. This is not a matter of perspective or worldview. A movie that malevolently depicts Israeli forces murdering defenseless Arab children in order to feed the nakba mythology is nothing short of a modern blood libel. In a world of rising antisemitism, it is dangerous and disgusting for Netflix to feed false and anti-Jewish information to the masses by giving a film like this a platform...Read More |
Referring to this. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
Italy's Foreign Ministry sponsored the 8th annual Mediterranean Dialogues conference this past weekend.
A wide variety of topics were discussed over the two days, and naturally there was a session on Israel/Palestinian issues.
Here were the panelists: Yes, a panel on Israel/Palestinian peace without anyone who is the slightest bit pro-Israel, where a rabid critic of Israel represents the Israeli side.
As if that wasn't skewed enough, there was this dedicated session to the Palestinian viewpoint: Malki apparently talked about how terrible the Abraham Accords are - with no one saying that, hey, maybe peace between Israel and Arab countries is a good thing. No, the aim of the Abraham Accords is not to bypass the Palestinian issue. It is to stop the Palestinians, who cannot even make peace with themselves, and who have rejected every peace plan that would have given them a state, from having veto power over Israel's relationships with the Arab world - which hurts both Israelis and Arabs.
But there was apparently no one there who could make that simple point.
I don't know if the organizers sidelined the Israeli viewpoint on purpose or not - the only Israeli representative was on water issues - but this agenda betrays a huge bias on their part. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: The Peace Processors Turn Against Peace The purportedly "pro-peace" diplomats' most revealing recommendation related to Israel's Abraham Accords peace partners. "The Biden administration," they wrote, "needs to inform the Abraham Accord countries—the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan—that their evident lack of interest in the plight of the Palestinians will undermine their relationship with Israel and damage their credibility in advancing other regional objectives with the United States." So to advance their anti-Israel agenda, the two men who built their careers through their supposed efforts to build Middle East peace, call for scuppering Middle East peace. This tells us something very basic about the true nature of their work—and that of their like-minded colleagues—across the decades, and still today. It was never peace that they were after. "Peace," for them, was a fig leaf behind which they hid their true goal. That goal is clear, given that their noxious policy prescriptions are the same today as they have always been. In the name of the vaunted "peace process," for more than 30 years Miller, Kurtzer, and their colleagues in the Washington foreign policy establishment pressured Israel to appease the Palestinians despite their anti-Jewish bigotry and terrorism. "In the interest of peace," they threatened and coerced Israel to concede...Read More |
By Daled Amos On November 23, Tiran Fero, an 18-year-old Druze living in northern Israel was severely injured in a car accident near Jenin. When he was brought to the hospital, Palestinian gunmen found out he was an Israeli citizen, disconnected him from life-support and took the body -- apparently planning on using the body of an Israeli citizen as a bargaining chip. Tiran Fero The gunmen badly underestimated the Druze community. Within 30 hours they returned the body to the family. This was due, in part, to negotiations involving both Qatar and the IDF. However, as Douglas Altabef writes for the JNF: one strongly suspects that what ultimately brought about the return of Fero's body was the mobilization of the Druze community and their threat to invade Jenin. A story is also circulating that Druze had kidnapped four Arabs and were threatening reprisals against them. The Druze have just given us a tutorial in Middle East negotiation: strength matters. The willingness to use strength and an adversary's inability to discern how far you are willing to go are critical. Fine sentiments, but is Israel actually able to use its strengths against Palestinian terrorists? Put aside Israel's strength in its military superiority -- world condemnation of Israel's military response to Hamas rockets tends to hamstring the IDF, forcing it to be more creative, as we saw in the last...Read More |
Bahrain's one synagogue
Al Resalah, which is a Hamas news site, is upset over Israeli President Isaac Herzog visiting Bahrain - not so much for the visit itself but for all the terrible things they predict will happen in its wake.
The headline says that Bahrain is opening up a loophole for Israeli espionage in all Gulf states, and here's how.
The main part of the scheme is based on a rumor that Bahrain was creating a Jewish neighborhood. As described last September: In an interview with Lebanese radio station Al-Nour on 4 August, Yousef Rabie, a member of the Bahraini opposition party Al-Wefaq, reiterated his warning to the people of Bahrain about the kingdom's plans to change the country's identity. Rabie accused Al-Khalifa of attempting to "Judaize Bahrain" in light of the surge in employment of recently naturalized Jewish foreigners or locals in administrative jobs. Moreover, Rabie highlighted the increase in land purchases by international Zionist organizations in Bahrain, which was echoed by the spiritual leader of Al-Wefaq, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassem, in his sermon on 4 August. Bahrain Mirror has reported...Read More |
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