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Pro Israel article in the Iranian. This must be a first

Mika | 16.05.2002 17:19

Pro Israel article in the Iranian. This must be a first

Israel is held to different standards

By Ali T. Kazemi
May 13, 2002
The Iranian

Recently I received a fax copy of Robert Wright's article in reference to land negotiations between Israel and Arabs at Camp David. And here was a debate as to whether we should sign a petition labeling Ariel Sharon a war criminal. Interesting reading. But I failed to see how this writing legitimizes terrorism against the innocent Israeli public? Sharon's actions are last ditch efforts to stop 18 months of terrorism.

I fail to see the constructive values of suicide attacks on the civilian public, on busses, restaurants, grocery stores, agricultural open markets, discothèques, Bar Mitsvahs, etc. I fail to see how killings of non-military and un-armed people, newly weds on a date, pregnant mother shopping groceries, old retired people sitting on benches, can help Palestinian causes. I fail to see what other choice Sharon had to try and put a stop to these crimes. I fail to see how Sharon should have countered the attempted smuggling of 50 tons of arms from Iran to Arafat's terrorist thugs.

Let us not forget that subject matter of Barak's land settlement offer involved the land Israel won in the 1967 war, because it was the Arab nations that wanted to anihilate Israel in 67. Their goal has always been to wipe out Israel from the face of the Earth. Israel won these real estates in a fair and square war. There was never a Palestinian state before 1967.

The Arabs rant and rave about Israel and hold Israel to standards that no Arab country should ever be held to. Israel must prove it has done absolutely everything to avoid every civilian death, when we know that the Palestinian suicide bombers systematically and consistently target civilians. Passover dinners, Bar mitzvahs, weddings, bus stops and grocery stores are all considered legitimate targets by the suicide/murderers.

I wonder why the Arabs dont hold the Arabs to any human standards. When Iraq gassed and murdered the Kurds. There was silence by the Arabs. When 100,000 Algerians have hacked each other to death in the last 10 years, there is silence by the Arabs. When Assad killed 20,000 of his own people in 1982, that didn't bother the Arabs. When 125,000 Lebanese killed each other in there civil war, there wasn't much complaint from the Arabs.

Today, when you see the Arab media. They allow their hatred shine through their interviews with the media night after night. The "massacre of thousands in Jenin" they yelled so loudly about, proved to be false accusations, as determined by the UN inspectors. Wars always entail un-intentional casualties suffered by innocent bystanders, and in Ramallah it numbered in the tens, and about a hundred or so armed militias. A look at 18-months of terrorism in Israel, and attacks of September 11 on the U.S. and of other U.S. Embassies world-wide, numbers in the thousands, all inflicted intentionally.

In March of this year Al-Riyadh, a leading Saudi newspaper widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the ruling family, published an article by Umayma al-Jalahma, a teacher at King Faisal University, claiming that "Jewish vampires" drain the blood of Muslims and Christians to mix it with holiday pastries on the religious feast of Purim after tormenting their victims by placing them in a barrel filled with needles.

The following are excerpts from an article by Fatma Abdallah Mahmoud titled "Accursed Forever and Ever," which appeared also in March in the Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar:

They are accursed in heaven and on earth. They are accursed from the day the human race was created and from the day their mothers bore them. They are accursed also because they murdered the Prophets. They murdered the Prophet John the Baptist and served up his head on a golden platter to the singer and dancer Salome.

These accursed ones are a catastrophe for the human race. They are the virus of the generation, doomed to a life of humiliation and wretchedness until Judgment Day. They are also accursed because they repeatedly tried to murder the Prophet Muhammad.

They threw a stone at him, but missed. Another time, they tried to mix poison in his food, but providence saved him from their treachery and their crimes. Thus, the Jews are accursed -- the Jews of our time, those who preceded them and those who will come after them, if any Jews come after them.

I complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my heart, "If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that the world could sigh in relief [without] their evil and sin."

Increasingly many European anti-Semitic myths find an enthusiastic audience in the Middle East "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" a notorious anti-Semitic forgery popularized by the Nazis, is a best seller in the Arab countries.

I recall many political cartoons in Arab newspapers that depicted the Israelis the exact same way the Nazis depicted the Jews. The Jewish octopus taking over the world, the greedy Jewish banker with money dripping out of its pockets, the Jewish vampire figure with blood dripping from its fangs. Referring to the US government as ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government), originally a neo-Nazi invention is now the habit of the Arabs.

No wonder the Arabs think the media is for the Israel. Any media that doesn't say, Jews drink the blood of Christians is biased for the Jews.




Mika

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  1. Pro-Sharon, not pro-Israel — Auntie Beeb
  2. Auntie Beeb - utter bollocks — anarch
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