Egypt and the Zionist Jews

Posted on January 9, 2013 |

“Islam is an act of G-d’s mercy,” says German-born US-Israeli Jewish historian Dr. Shelomo Dov Goitein (died 1985) in book ‘Jews and Arabs’.

“Jews in the near East, north Africa and Spain threw their support behind advancing Muslim Arab armies,” says Professor Merlin L. Swartz (Islamic Studies at Boston University) in book ‘The Position of Jews in Arab lands following the rise of Islam‘.

Last month, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood topped LA-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an Israeli Watchdog, list of ten top anti-Israel statements made in 2012. The honor went to Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, who according to Israeli Hasbara translation organ MEMRI, in his Arabic sermon said: “The (Zionist) Jews have dominated the land, spread corruption on earth, spilled the blood of believers and in their actions profaned holy places. Zionists only understand the language of force and will not relent without duress. This will happen only through holy Jihad“. Like, Iranian president Dr. Ahmadinejad, who scored the second place on the list, Mohammed Badie, was too addressing the Zionist Jews and not the Yahud (the followers of Moses Law (Torah).

Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuf was third for the following cartoon showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu squeezing votes into a ballot box out of the cadaver of a Palestinian child.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is named after Simon Wiesenthal (died 2005) known as ‘Father of Holocaust culture’. Israeli historian and journalist Dr. Tom Segev in his book ‘Simon Weisenthal: The Life and Legend’ describes Weisenthal as “a fame-seeking myth-maker and an Israeli Mossad agent“.

As if that was not enough. Dr. Essam al-Erian, an adviser to Egyptian president Dr. Mohamed Morsi and a member of ruling Freedom and Justice party has recently urged Egyptian Jews living in racist Israel to return to their ancestral Arab land. Essam promised that they will receive properties left behind. He also asserted that the more Egyptian Jews return the more Palestinian natives have chance to recover their stolen homes, businesses, farms and land. His statement irked many Egyptians and Israeli Jews, who called him traitor or antisemite. Essam al-Erian who could not stand-up domestic and foreign pressure, to great relief of Israeli media, has resigned from his post two days ago.
Essam al-Erian, like former US foreign secretary Henry Kissinger, also predicted the demise of the Zionist entity within next ten years. Interestingly, Egypt’s new so-called “Shari’h-based” Constitution Article 3 stipulates, for the first time in Egyptian constitutional history, that Jews would have the right to adjudicate their personal status cases according to Jewish Talmudic law which is practiced in the state of Israel.

On January 7, Abraham Foxman, head of Israel Jewish lobby group, ADL, in a letter to Egyptian ambassador in Washington, Mohamed M. Tawfik, expressed his satisfaction on the sacking of Essam al-Erian. “We hope that President Morsi and other Egyptian government leaders will now make it clear that the defamation of Israel and Jews has no place in the country’s national dialogue,” wrote Abbe Foxman.

Several Egyptian political analysts have called this episode another proof of Morsi’s subservience to US-Israel-Turkey axis. Cairo still maintains diplomatic relation with the Zionist regime. It also brokered a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in November 2012. Last week Egyptian security forces claimed the capture of US-made anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles near Israel-Sinai border – destined for Gaza to be used against Israel by Islamic Resistance groups. Apparently, they were being smuggled from neighboring Libya which has stockpiles of US weaponry given to anti-Qaddafi rebels.
A 19th century Egyptian poet asked Muslims to become Jews as “Today the Jews have reached the summit of their hopes and have become aristocrats. Power and riches have they and from them councilors and princes are chosen“.

Mohamed Abul-Ghar, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, in his 2004 book, Yahood Masr min AlIzdihar Ela AlShitat (Egyptian Jews from the bloom to the Diaspora), wrote that several among the country’s 75,000 Jews held high official positions, like Qattawi Pasha, who was appointed finance minister in 1925, and owned more than a third of the country’s registered companies by 1947. Jews were also prominent in arts and culture, helping to establish Egyptian cinema and publishing many cultural magazines. The 1948 Palestine War changed everything for Egyptian Jews, because the government closed the offices of the Zionist movement in Egypt and arrested many Zionist activists. In 1954 the Egyptian authorities uncovered a Jewish terrorist group which was targeting British and American facilities in order to show Egypt was unable to protect foreigners and minorities. The Israeli false flage operation known as Lavon Affair had a damaging effect on Egyptian Jews and led many to leave. Abul-Ghar claims that Jews did not leave Egypt as result of antisemitism but as result of 1949 law that abolished special privileges for foreigners. This affected Jews heavily because many of them held dual nationality.

Jews around the world gather in Egypt on January 15 to attend one-week long festival honoring birthday of Jewish saint Abu Hassira.

The great majority of Egyptian Muslims belong to Sunni sect. However, both Cairo city and the world-famous al-Azhar University were built by Fatmid Shia ( 969-1171 CE) rulers. The Agha Khan Trust for Culture built the huge al-Azhar Park in Cairo. The park was opened to public in 2005 and cost more than $30 million.
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MASSAD: Palestinians, Egyptian Jews and propaganda

January 8, 2013

“The statements made by Issam al-Aryan, a senior leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,
calling on Egyptian Jews in Israel to return home, are hardly novel,” writes author [AFP]

by Joseph Massad -   7 January 2013

The current propaganda war in Egypt about the Palestinians and about Egyptian Jews, which was provoked by the recent pronouncements of Issam al-Aryan, a senior leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, is nothing but a distraction from the real problems that the country faces with the increasing incompetence of the Morsi government and the opportunism of his vocal opposition.

If this propaganda war did not have major implications with regards to Israel and US plans to undermine the Egyptian uprising and to control its outcome so as to serve US and Israeli interests, it would be nothing but a storm in a teacup. That it has many regional and international implications is what produces the ongoing media frenzy in the country and internationally.

The statements made by al-Aryan calling on Egyptian Jews in Israel to return home, however, are hardly novel. Indeed Egypt had already done so under Anwar Sadat’s rule back in 1975 at the urging of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

In 1975, and based on its understanding that the departure of Arab Jews to go to Israel under the Arab anciens regimes was a boon to the Zionist colonisation of Palestine, the PLO undertook to call for the repatriation of Arab Jews and demanded that the current Arab leaders (none of whom had been in power when Arab Jews left their countries in the 1950s and 1960s) issue an open invitation to them.

Morocco, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Iraq and Egypt responded to the PLO call and issued an open invitation to Arab Jews to return home. Despite these efforts, neither Israel nor its Arab Jewish communities heeded the call.

Discriminating against Arab Jews

Indeed, it would not be until the last couple of decades that Israel began to exploit the question of Arab Jewry as a counterweight to Palestinian demands for their internationally supported right of return to Palestine from which the Zionists had expelled them.

The same Ashkenazi Jewish leadership that discriminated and discriminates against Arab Jews in Israel began to lead the effort of demanding compensation for Arab Jewish property losses while liberal Zionist commentators and their supporters in the West began to issue statements which summarised what happened in 1948 and after as an equitable “population exchange” between “Arabs” and “Jews” (often compared to the situation of India and Pakistan), and calling on the Palestinians to relinquish all their demands for return and compensation.

That the Palestinians were massacred and forcibly expelled from their homeland while Arab Jews left the Arab world in their majority due to Zionist harassment and endangerment of their lives is often forgotten by such propaganda.

Zionists and Israeli propagandists saw in this comparison another venue to prove how civilised Israel is and how barbaric the Arabs are. The argument goes as follows: The Arab countries mistreated the Palestinian refugees and refused to grant them nationalities and settle them in their new homes and kept them languishing in refugee camps while civilised Israel gave Arab Jews Israeli nationality, and indeed settled them outside refugee camps.
The Zionist contradiction on this question is a bit scandalous. On the one hand, Israel claims that it is the homeland of all Jews, and on the other it argues that Arab Jews came as refugees to the country, rather than “returned” to it.

The Israeli claim about the Palestinian refugees is only partly true, as many Palestinians have been given nationality in some Arab countries (notably Jordan), but unlike Israel, which gave the stolen land and property of the Palestinians it expelled to its Jewish colonial settler population, including to Arab Jews (though the latter received the less valuable lands and property in accordance with Israel’s European Ashkenazi racism against Arab Jews), Arab countries did not settle the Palestinians on Jewish property or in Jewish homes.
Thus, the Israeli crime of stealing Palestinian property and giving it to Jews, which is prohibited by international law, is trotted out as the actions of the civilised Jewish settler-colony compared to the barbaric Arabs. In this context, it is important to affirm that it is the Palestinians who are owed compensation for their stolen property by all the Jewish colonial settlers who have been living on it for some six decades, including Arab Jews.

The fact that Arab Jews were not expelled from any Arab country, even from those where some of them suffered from harassment by the authorities or even from segments of society at large is central to this narrative. In Yemen and Iraq, Israel undertook to remove the Jewish communities through various criminal means, most notably through Mossad bombings of Jewish locations in Iraq, and secret deals with varying Arab regimes, including that of Yemen.

In Algeria, Israel recruited members of the 100,000-strong Jewish community (all of whom carried since 1870 French nationality by virtue of the Crémieux decree issued by France, keeping in mind that a good percentage of them by then were European settlers) to spy on the National Liberation Front revolutionaries and report back to the French authorities.
Indeed, Israeli military forces would carry out military training on occupied Algerian soil with the French occupation authorities in the 1950s. This hardly endeared Algerian Jews to Algerian Muslims, who were suffering under one of the most brutal European occupations in Africa. This situation was of course brought about by French colonial policy of divide and rule, as Algerian Jews had fought in the resistance to the French in the mid-19th century with Emir Abd al-Qadir and Muslim Algerians.

Anger against Egyptian Jews

In Egypt, Egyptian Jewish interests would be attacked in 1948 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the non-Islamist Young Egypt Party (Misr al-Fatah), which led to the departure of a small number of Jews (especially those with foreign nationality). Israel would later recruit Egyptian Jews as spies who would undertake a bombing campaign in 1954 to undermine Nasser’s standing in the West. Israel would also invade the country in 1956 along with the French and British and occupy Egyptian territory.

At the time, the Egyptian government expelled all French and British nationals in the country (about 17,000), including the Jews among them, as enemy citizens. When Nasser undertook a policy of nationalisation, families who owned big businesses, which were slated for nationalisation, began to leave the country. This included rich Egyptian Muslims, Christians and Jews (many of whom held foreign nationalities), and it also included Syrian Christians, Armenians, Greeks and Italians.

In the wake of the Lavon Affair (in Arabic, it is significantly called the “Lavon Scandal”) in 1954, much popular anger ensued against Egyptian Jews, which was hardly surprising, even though the government discourse tried to maintain the distinction between the community and the terrorist recruits during the ensuing trials of the terrorists.

This should be contrasted with American anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism, which, as As’ad Abukhalil recently noted, continues to target Arab Americans and Muslim Americans eleven years after 9/11, even though not a single one of the terrorists who committed the crimes of that day was an Arab American or a Muslim American.

Indeed just a few weeks ago, a racist New Yorker pushed a young Indian man (who was Hindu) in front of a subway train to his death. “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers,” the suspect told prosecutors. This was the latest victim of American racist violence against Arab and Muslim Americans and of Indian Hindus and Sikhs mistaken for them.

We must also keep in mind that a substantial percentage of the Jews in Egypt were not legally Egyptian, as they did not carry Egyptian nationality and many did not even speak Arabic and carried European passports (Italian, Russian, British and French), a fact that intensified the perception in some popular quarters that they were not loyal to the country. This of course was not the case with the old Egyptian Arab Jewish community (especially the Qarra’in Jews) whose lives were eclipsed by the large and powerful Ashkenazi and Sephardi families who arrived in Egypt in the 19th and early 20th century.

That the Nasser regime did not do enough to safeguard members of the Jewish community from harassment by its own agencies and to shield it from popular anger is true enough and should be subject to much blame, but this is not the same as expelling a population, or deporting it.

This situation also coincided with the ongoing Israeli campaign to bring Arab Jews to Palestine through various criminal means and secret deals, which were successful in Iraq and Yemen and were ongoing in Morocco and which resulted in the destruction of these communities altogether. Israel’s direct efforts to bring about the departure of half of Egypt’s small Jewish community of some 60,000 to Israel (the rest went to France and the Americas) is still not fully known but should not be ignored in analysing the situation.
That most of the terrorist attacks against Jewish interests in Egypt took place under the rule of the Egyptian King Farouk in the 1940s and early 1950s seems irrelevant to the few Egyptian Zionist propagandists today, who appeared this week on Egyptian television and wrote articles in the Egyptian press, insinuating that all that went wrong with Egyptian Jews should be blamed on Nasser and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Indeed, such propagandists completely factor out Israeli actions from bringing about the departure of Egyptian Jews. One propagandist referred to the departure of Egyptian Jews as “nuzuh” or “flight”, and agreed with al-Aryan, whom he opposes otherwise, that Jews were indeed “expelled” from Egypt.

We are even treated to the strange claims by the same propagandist that Egyptian Jews he met in the US and France continue to love Egypt, Arabs and Muslims. While there is no doubt that many Egyptian Jews, wherever they may be, harbour positive feelings towards Egypt, many of those prominent among them in the West have expressed much hatred towards Egypt and the Arab world.

Indeed, many among the latter have become prominent because of their hateful views of Egypt while those Egyptian Jews who love Egypt are ignored and given less prominence in the West and Israel.

‘Silent’ about the country of origin

Propagandists on behalf of Zionism often cite the Sephardi Cicurel family, which held British citizenship (a fact they forget to mention), as an asset to Egypt. What is forgotten often is that Moreno Cicurel who immigrated to Egypt from Smyrna (Izmir) and started the major family business, Les Grands Magasins Cicurel, was the maker of the first Zionist flag which flew over Jerusalem in December 1917 for 20 minutes before being taken down by the British.

His granddaughter Lili would marry future French Prime Minister Pierre Mendes-France, whose socialist government fell in 1955, though he would serve as foreign minister in the Guy Mollet government (of the Radical Socialist Party to which Mendes-France belonged) until May 1956.

It was during Mendes-France’s term as prime minister in 1955 that Israeli nuclear scientists were invited to participate in France’s nuclear programme. Israel’s later deal with the French in 1956 to participate in the tripartite invasion of Egypt was concluded with one of the rewards being that France would build Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor where Israel’s nuclear bombs would be manufactured.

It was Israel’s current president Shimon Peres, who supervised the deal then, who tells us:

Before the final signing [of the Sevres Protocol where the plan was hatched to invade Egypt], I asked Ben-Gurion for a brief adjournment, during which I met Mollet and Bourges-Maunoury alone. It was here that I finalised with these two leaders an agreement for the building of a nuclear reactor at Dimona, in southern Israel… and the supply of natural uranium to fuel it. I put forward a series of detailed proposals and, after discussion, they accepted them.

In 1973, Golda Meir would threaten to nuke Egypt using these bombs. Throughout this period, Lili Cicurel, to my knowledge, not once made a public statement, either opposing the French invasion of Egypt or its alliance and nuclear assistance to Israel (she died in 1967).
Indeed, the Cicurel business was not even nationalised. Lili’s uncle Salvator, whose assets were all already outside Egypt, sold the business to the Muslim Gabri family before leaving the country in 1957. The Cicurel business, which was by then owned by the Gabris, would be nationalised by Nasser in 1961.

As for the propaganda that the Cicurels were harassed by the Nasserist government, it is just that: propaganda. As for Mendes-France, he would become a sponsor of Palestinian-Israeli “peace dialogues” in the 1970s in his own home.

Not only did many prominent Egyptian Jews in the West remain silent about their country of origin, many of them are part and parcel of the Western campaigns against Egypt, the Arabs, and Muslims more generally.

Today, the Alexandria-born Haim Saban, the American Likudnik billionaire, is hardly a friend of anything Arab and is a major supporter of extreme Israeli racist and colonial policies.

The Cairo-born Nadav Safran, the former Harvard professor on the CIA payroll, propagandised against Arabs and Muslims and was an early Zionist since before 1948 and was already a colonial settler living in a kibbutz in 1946. He fought in the 1948 Zionist war for the conquest of Palestine.

Propagandistic generalisations

As for Egyptian Jews in the US who have written memoirs about their time in Egypt, one of them complains in his memoirs about the disgusting smells of Egyptians who “smell” of fenugreek.

Of course, there are other Egyptian Jews who are not as prominent and who continue to love Egypt, but propagandistic generalisations of the sort being pushed by the few non-Jewish Egyptian Zionists today that “all Egyptian Jews” in the US and France, at least, if not those in Israel as well, love Egypt and the Arabs, are hardly apt when so many prominent Egyptian Jews expressly manifest their anti-Egyptian and anti-Arab attitudes in the West, let alone in Israel.

Another major commentator in the US on Egyptian Jews is one Lucette Lagnado, who along with her Jewish parents left Egypt in 1963. She would come back to visit after 2005 and published a memoir. She had a book-reading in Zamalek at the Diwan Bookstore where she befriended one of the owners, Hind Wasef, who welcomed her to Cairo and introduced her to Diwan’s customers who welcomed her in turn.

In the meantime, however, Lagnado propagandises like many other Zionists, about the “population exchange” formula, among other Zionist myths. She tells us, towing the Israeli line, of how Jews were “forced out” of their homes in the Arab world while Palestinians simply “fled” Israel. 

Since the revolution, however, and despite the hospitality shown to her by Egyptians when she visited, Lagnado has been propagandising against the new order and tells her Wall Street Journal readers that she will not go back to the country given that the new government is led by the Muslim Brotherhood. Who knows, maybe after al-Aryan’s invitation she will, even though his invitation seems to include only Egyptian Jews in Israel.
As for half of the Egyptian Jewish community who ended up in Israel, many of them would fight in the wars against Egypt and the Arabs, and some became military spokespersons for the Israelis, who often appear on Al Jazeera and speak Egyptian Arabic. It is unclear if those too are being invited back to Egypt.

That all of this was provoked by al-Aryan is not coincidental. In the last few months, the Egyptian remnants of the Mubarak regime and anti-Muslim Brotherhood liberals have continued to market Mubarak’s anti-Palestinian campaigns in the country by claiming that President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood are planning to give Sinai to Gaza Palestinians. Even such illustrious figures as the economist, Galal Amin, participated in spreading these false rumours.

That many of these people (Amin excepted) who fulminate about Sinai and the Palestinians have been silent for three decades on the fact that Sinai remains outside Egyptian sovereignty as a result of the Camp David Accords, and who do not give a hoot about Sinai’s Egyptian population is quite telling of their suspicious agenda. That they have suddenly sprung to attention defending Sinai against a fictional propaganda story that Sinai would be given to the Palestinians is reprehensible at best. Other rumours about the Palestinians abound, such as Morsi’s alleged depriving Egyptians of electricity, which he is allegedly giving for free to Gaza Palestinians.

Concomitant with these rumours is the Egyptian government’s and the opposition’s race to please the United States and its Zionist lobby. While the very same Issam al-Aryan spoke about the tragedy of the Jewish holocaust while in the US on a Muslim Brotherhood promotional trip in May 2011, the naïve and charisma-less Mohamed el-Baradei upped the ante by telling a German newspaper that elected Salafi and Brotherhood members of parliament should not be trusted to draft the Egyptian constitution because they allegedly deny the holocaust!

Al-Aryan’s recent pronouncements on Egyptian Jews are part of this campaign of who can prove to the Americans and the Zionists that they can better serve US and Zionist interests.
This unfortunate level which the post-revolutionary Egyptian protagonists have reached tells us how successful counter-revolutionary forces in Egypt have become, and how they are undermining revolutionary gains and distracting Egyptians from the real economic, social and political challenges facing the country.

Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University and he is the author of The Persistence of the Palestinian Question published by Routledge.

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The upside down Revolution and the message of forgiveness of Maath Al-Khatib .. Syria Santa Claus

 

أن مصطلح “الثورة الاسرائيلية الكبرى” هو الأدق والأقرب الى قلب الحقيقة لما قدمته ثورات الربيع من انجازات لاسرائيل لا يضاهيها كل حروب اسرائيل مجتمعة؟؟

كيف إستطاع الجيش السوري إستعادة داريـا “الاستراتيجية “

ثورة بالمقلوب من رسالة الغفران لمعاذ الخطيب .. بابا نويل سورية - ‏

 

بقلم: نارام سرجون‏

ينشغل المؤرخون ازاء كل حدث باختيار اسم المولود الجديد من الأحداث .. وتتصارع المصطلحات للبقاء كما تتصارع الأحياء للبقاء فلايبقى الا الأقوى .. وتتناطح الأسماء والرموز كما تتصارع الحيوانات في موسم التكاثر حيث قرون الذكور تتبارز مع قرون الذكور ونسمع صوت تناطح الرؤوس الحامية فيما القرون تتحاور بعناد وهي تصطك كما سيوف المحاربين ..

والاسم الأقوى والمصطلح الأبهى تاريخيا يفوز بأناث الأحداث ويستولدها المفاهيم والمسلّمات .. ولذلك صار لدينا سلسلة أنواع من الثورات عبر التاريخ .. فهناك ثورات شعبية وهي غنية عن التعريف .. وهناك ثورات عسكرية وهي الانقلابات التي يقوم بها العسكر .. وبالطبع خرج علينا البعض بمصطلح الثورة الجماهيرية .. أو ثورة الخبز .. وهناك الثورة الصناعية في الغرب والثورة البلشفية في الشرق أو ثورة البروليتاريا.. وهناك الثورة الزراعية في الهند والثورة الثقافية في الصين والثورة الاسلامية في ايران ..وهناك ثورات العبيد وثورات القوميات على أنواعها ..الخ .. أما غورباتشوف فاختار أن يغير هذه الأسماء وأن يبدأ عهد التسميات حسب اتجاه الثورات في طبقات المجتمع فأطلق على ثورته اسم الثورة (من فوق) وهي البيريسترويكا والغلاسنوست لأن القيادة – لاالشعب ولاالجماهير ولا البروليتاريا- هي من صنع الثورة .. فالثورات عموما تأتي (من تحت) أما هو فجاء بها .. من فوق ..

اليوم يقف التاريخ حائرا أمام الربيع العربي ويصيب المؤرخين الوجوم وهم يتبادلون النظرات الحيرى .. فماهي التسمية الأجدر بأحداث “الربيع العربي” وماهو اسم المولود الجديد .. القبيح الدميم ذو الذيل الغريب واللون العجيب والسلوك المريب؟.. هل هو ثورات الملوك والأمراء فتكون “الثورات الملكية” و “الثورات الأميرية” ؟؟ أم ثورات “الثروات” على الثورات القديمة ؟؟ أم هو “الثورة البترولية” .. لما فيها من مال عربي نفطي يسكب على لهيب الجاهلية؟؟ ربما اسم الثورات المأجورة كان مناسبا .. أو الثورة الليفية (نسبة للأب الروحي لها برنار هنري ليفي) .. وربما ثورة العمائم واللحى .. أو ثورات مسبقة الصنع .. وربما كان الاسم الصحيح الذي يسقي حلق الحقيقة الماء العذب هو “ثورات الناتو” !!..

وقد أحسست بالشفقة على المؤرخين في هذا الشأن .. وقررت أن أمسك يد التاريخ المرتعشة من هذا القلق وأهدئه وأربت على كتفيه مطمئنا.. وأن أضع سماعات الأطباء في أذنيه ليسمع صوت قلب الربيع العربي وضرباته السريعة وأنّاته ليعرف أن مصطلح “الثورة الاسرائيلية الكبرى” هو الأدق والأقرب الى قلب الحقيقة لما قدمته ثورات الربيع من انجازات لاسرائيل لا يضاهيها كل حروب اسرائيل مجتمعة؟؟

فاسرائيل حولت حماس الفلسطينية الى حركة مقاومة اسرائيلية حقيقية تقاتل الجيش السوري .. ولأول مرة في تاريخ الصراع العربي الاسرائيلي يتحول جزء من الشعب الفلسطيني الى حليف لاسرائيل ويموت من أجلها .. فقد هاجر مقاتلو حماس والشيخ رائد صلاح من فلسطين ليموتوا في حلب وادلب دفاعا عن اسرائيل وهي أول هجرة فلسطينية طوعية خارج فلسطين تعاكس كل الهجرات القسرية للفلسطينيين خارج بلادهم بما في ذلك من دلالات ..

 

وأما في مصر فقد اطمأن قلب اسرائيل على يد الاسلاميين أنفسهم على مستقبل الدولة العبرية وتبارى الاسلاميون في السخاء في منح اليهود السلام والأمان ولم تطلق كامب ديفيد من قيودها كما اليوم ولم تنم قريرة العين في سريرها الا في بيت الاخوان المسلمين ..

 

 

Palestine, Shylock Peres and the MB Merchants of Vinice 

 

واكتشف الاسرائيليون أنهم الأصدقاء العظماء للمصريين منذ أيام الفراعنة ..

 



 

ثم اعتذر لهم العريان وبكى نادما على الهولوكوست الذي ارتكبه النازيون الناصريون بحق اليهود عارضا التعويض السخي..

وفي تونس الخضراء حكمت اسرائيل قرطاج لأول مرة عبر ايباك مباشرة بواسطة تابعها راشد الغنوشي وتابعه الأبله المرزوقي.. وفي ليبيا صار الاسرائيليون أصحاب البيت والليبيون وبقية العرب ضيوفا..

ولكن الثورة الاسرائيلية في سورية تميزت بظاهرة غريبة ستجعل المؤرخين يكتبون بالمقلوب عن الثورة .. أي من النهاية الى البداية وليس من البداية الى النهاية ومن الأسفل الى الأعلى .. فهي الثورة التي تركب البغلة بالمقلوب .. وهي الثورة الوحيدة في العالم التي ستسمى (الثورة بالمقلوب) فيسارها يميني ويمينها يساري .. وأعلاها أسفلها (مثقفوها أقل سوية من الدهماء) .. وأسفلها أعلاها (الدهماء تفرض منطقها) .. وبياضها أسود وسوادها أبيض .. فهي ثورة ملتحية وقياداتها شيوعية ومسيحية وعلمانية (رياض الترك وجورج صبرة والغليون) .. وهذا شذوذ يدل على أن الثورة مقلوبة وتسير على رأسها وتنتصب ساقاها في الهواء ..فمن المدهش أن ليس للقياديين مقاتلون يتبعونهم على الأرض .. فيما النشاط العلماني والمسيحي المحدود اقتصر على البروتوكولات ولقاءات الفنادق والتلفزيونات حيث المال سخي والثرثرة مجانية وغير مكلفة ..

فأنا لم أسمع في كل الثورة عن مسلح مسيحي معارض يباهي جورج صبرة باستشهاده أو استشهادي انتحاري من قياس جول جمّال المسيحي السوري وأستاذ الاستشهاديين الشرقيين الذي دمر بارجة فرنسية قبالة شواطئ بورسعيد المصرية ..

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ولم أسمع برفيق شيوعي استشهد مع كتيبة من كتائب الصحابة الكثيرة .. ولم يظهر لنا لواء لينين أو كتيبة تروتسكي أو فيلق كارل ماركس مثلا .. ولم أسمع بكتيبة الرسول بولس ولا كتيبة يوحنا المعمدان ولامريم المجدلية ولابطرس التي يقاتل فيها مسيحيون يعلقون الصلبان على صدورهم بل ظهرت مجموعة من الاسلاميين الملتحين التي تكفر المسيحيين والتي سمّت نفسها باسم المسيح ثم اختفت الى الأبد عن الواجهة بعد انتهاء العرض الدعائي الذي استمر أقل من دقيقة ولم تقم بعملية عسكرية واحدة ..

لم أسمع بشيء مما ذكرت لكنني سمعت بكتيبة الفاروق وأحفاد الرسول وكل الصحابة وأبي قتادة .. وجبهة النصرة .. وكتيبة القعقاع .. وصعصعة ..وقعقعة .. وعرعور وطرطور .. وهي في الحقيقة يجب أن تنتقي أسماءها الحقيقية من معاجم عبرية وتاريخ قادة اسرائيل مثل كتيبة حاييم وايزمن مثلا أو كتيبة تيودور هرتزل أو فيلق اسحاق رابين أو حرائر غولدامائير .. وأصدقاء اسرائيل ..

والثورة السورية هي الثورة بالمقلوب بكل جدارة فلا يوجد أحد من قادتها في الداخل السوري على عكس كل الثورات .. فكل قادتها ومنظريها يعيشون في الغرب منذ عشرات السنين ومعظمهم لم يكونوا معارضين بل مستفيدين من فساد النظام .. ونصف مقاتليها مستوردون من جهات الدنيا الاربع ونصفهم الآخر بلطجية وأصحاب سوابق وأميون سوريون .. بدل أن تصدر هي المقاتلين الثوريين للعالم ..

لكن أهم دليل على أنها ثورة بالمقلوب هو أن خطابها بالمقلوب .. وذلك في أوضح تجلياته في رسالة معاذ الخطيب الى المسيحيين السوريين والتي كانت تقطر عسلا ورقة ومودة ورحمة وتبز رسالة الغفران للمعري في محتواها الفلسفي .. فالثورة بعد أن شربت من دماء المسيحيين في حمص ومن دماء ساري ساعود وعويل أمه ونهشت جدران الكنائس السورية كما تنهش الوحوش لحوم الضحايا تتودد الى المسيحيين السوريين ..وتطلب الغفران..

بعد سنتين من الخطاب العنيف ضد كل الطوائف وثقافة العرعور في فرم اللحم وسحق العظم والذبح الحلال والتي لم يقترب من ادانتها ثوري واحد ولم يتطرق لنبذها بيان واحد .. وبعد عامين من تهجير وتكفير المسيحيين السوريين في أصقاع الأرض .. بعد كل هذا لبس معاذ الخطيب ثياب بابا نويل الحمراء ثم حمل أكياس الزبيب وجرار العسل على ظهره وجعل يطعمنا الحلاوة وقطع السكر والشكوكولاتة ويغسل بالرحيق قلوبنا وبالعطر حيطان البكاء والذاكرة .. ثم قبّل طربوش فارس الخوري بعد أن مسح الصليب بقماش من أستار الكعبة ..وكاد يجلس في حضن تمثال “الشفقة” الشهير لمايكل آنجيلو..

في الحقيقة لم أتمكن من قراءة كل الرسالة أو (رسالة الغفران) لأنني كنت أغوص في برك العسل التي اندلقت فجأة على ثيابي من جرار بابا معاذ كلما تقدمت في سطور الرسالة .. فان بها لحلاوة وان عليها لطلاوة وأن أعلاها لمثمر وان أسفلها لمغدق وانه لتعلو ولايعلى عليها .. في النفاق .. فشواطئها رحيق والخوض فيها يغرق القارئ بالعسل منذ السطر الثالث .. ويكاد أنسب ماأقول فيها بعد خوضي في عسلها هو قول نزارقباني : لو أني أعرف أن “العسل” عميق جدا ماأبحرت ..

فقد بدت الكلمات دبقة للغاية وعيوني علقت بأهدابها في سطورها كما تعلق العصافير على قضبان الدبق وكما تعلق الفراشات على صمغ الشجر .. وهذا الدبق لايساعد على العبور الى نهاية المقالة التي فاض قطرها على مفاتيح الكومبيوتر .. وقد صارت قراءتها تغني عن التداوي بالعسل .. ففي العسل “شفاء” للناس كما ورد في القرآن الكريم .. ولكن في عسل معاذ “الشفاء” للناس .. فمن رسالة النبي معاذ قام المسيح .. وسار على الماء .. وانضم للثورجيين في استانبول .. فمما جاء فيها:

أيها الأحبة .. أبقوا معنا .. بالله عليكم .. يا أهل سوريا أحبوا بعضكم، ويا أيها المسيحيون لا ترحلوا أرجوكم .. ”

ووصف معاذ المسيحيين السوريين “بأنهم خلاصة مابقي من المسيحية في الأرض كلها .. بعضهم يعيشون في قلق حقيقي وخشية بالغة مما ستأتي به الأيام .. وأن الحفاظ على أموال وأرواح وأعراض المسيحيين هو تماماً عين الحفاظ على كرامتنا ودمائنا وأموالنا وأعراضنا…”

كلام يثير الدموع ويجهش سامعها بالبكاء كما أطنب معاذ اسماعنا ببكاء النجاشي لسماعه كلام القرآن في السيدة العذراء .. ويصارع أحدنا رغبته في العويل من حنان معاذ وصحابته .. حتى الشهيد الطفل ساري ساعود قام وعاد الى أمه الثكلى فكلمات معاذ تحي الموتى من أبناء يسوع ..

والغريب أن معاذا قال ان الرسالة مكتوبة منذ مدة طويلة لكنه خبأها مثل بابا نويل الى يوم عيد الميلاد لأن رسائل العسل يحملها “بابا معاذ” مرة كل عدة سنوات .. لبس معاذ ثياب بابا نويل وصار يوزع الحلوى على المسيحيين فقط .. لأن المسيحيين وحدهم الآن هم الخائفون ..وليس الشيعة ولا العلويون ولا الدروز ولاالاسماعيليون ولابقية الأقليات المنتمية الى فئة الكفار والزنادقة في عرف ثورة معاذ التي تعتبر أن أخطر تهمة على الاطلاق هي تهمة الانتماء الى مذهب غير مذهب أهل السنة ومذهب العرعور..ففي محاكمات الثوار الشهيرة يقول المدعي العام في قراءة الاتهام: هذا رجل علوي أو شيعي أو درزي أو مسيحي .. وهنا تنتهي المحاكمة لأنها تعني النطق سلفا بالحكم ..فهذه الانتماءات هي ذروة الكفر ولاكفارة لها .. ولاتكفي دفوع الدنيا لمنع عقوبة الاعدام .. وبالطبع لايجرؤ ثورجي واحد أن يمسك اسرائيليا ويعنفه ويتهمه باليهودي ابن اليهودية علنا على اليوتيوب والا علقت اسرائيل مشاتق لكل أعضاء الائتلاف السوري في قلب الدوحة وتركتهم يتأرجحون عبرة لغيرهم….

بعد كل هذا العنف والتهديد الثوري والتكفير يلاطف معاذ المسيحيين ..ويطلب منهم الاطمئنان لثورته .. أما بقية الطوائف التي يهددها العنف الثوري فلا تحتاج تطمينا ولاتعني معاذا بل يتركها بتجاهله المقصود واللامبالي للويل والثبور وعواقب الأمور ..ولو كان معاذ يريد وطنا لطمأن الجميع وخص بالذكر الطوائف المستهدفة بالعنف أكثر من غيرها لابعادها عن مخاوفها .. لكنه لايجرؤ لأن عماد الثورة وقلبها وعقلها طائفي وديني عنصري أسود .. وأي اشارة لتسامحها الديني مع الجميع يعني فشل مشروع الفتنة السنية الشيعية في المنطقة ..حلم اسرائيل..

وهذا النداء للمسيحيين منتهى الجهل ومنتهى السذاجة والوقاحة الثورية .. فمقدار القلق الذي يصيب بقية الطوائف السورية لايقل عن القلق المسيحي بل يفوقه وهي التي تجب طمأنتها .. لكن للثورة لغة المنافقين والمؤلفة قلوبهم .. فهي تريد اسماع الغرب مايريد سماعه وليس مايريده الوطن السوري .. وهي تريد استعادة براءة “جبهة النصرة” بعد أن شاع اسمها وفاحت رائحة الدم وتسرب من أطراف ثوبها فأحرج حتى أميريكا .. فرسالة معاذ اذا وبالمعنى العميق هي رسالة جبهة النصرة وليست رسالة بابا معاذ الذي تولى ايصال رسالة بابا نويل جبهة النصرة الى الغرب .. حيث بابا نويل جبهة النصرة يرتدي ثيابه الحمراء المصبوغة بدم الذبائح البشرية .. ويداعب المسيحية الغربية فقط بيديه اللتين تشربان الدم من الأعناق السورية .. والله أكبر..

كلما نظرت الى معاذ الخطيب ونظرته الكسيرة في لقاءاته مع صناع القرار .. ولغة جسده المترددة التي تظهر حسه بالضعف أمام القادة السياسيين .. أحس أن من يختار قادة الثورة يريد اهانة كبرياء السوريين لأنه يظهر على التلفزيونات بضعفه الكاريزمي وهشاشته الشخصية على أنه يمثل السوريين الذين دوخوا العالم بديبلوماسيتهم وجاؤوا برؤساء العالم الى دمشق ليحاوروهم من نيكسون الى كلينتون ..

من رأى كيف كان وزير الخارجية البريطاني ويليام هيغ مثلا يجلس وهو يعظ معاذا باستعلاء العاطي والواهب والسيد المانح لأحس بالقرف من معاذ .. ولمعرفة حجم معاذ فما عليكم الا أن تحصلوا على صورة هيغ في لقاء وهو يتحدث الى الاسرائيليين مثلا في نفس الغرفة أو مع قادة العالم الكبار عموما وعليه امارات الجدية وهو منحن الى الأمام على الكرسي ويفرك يديه بيديه ويكاد يقع على الأرض تواضعا وفي نظرته التودد وفمه لايعرف الانكماش .. وحاجباه كما لو كانا (مرج البحرين يلتقيان .. بينهما برزخ لايبغيان) .. أما مع معاذ فيجلس نصف جلسة ويريح يديه على الكرسي ويدير نصف جسده نحو معاذ وهو لاينظر اليه وجها لوجه بل مواربة .. وحاجباه يلتقيان دوما كما لو كان عابسا كلما نظر الى معاذ باحتقار لايوصف..فيما عينا معاذ ضيقتان كعيني العصفور متوترتان متراقصتان يشع منهما الشعور الصارخ بالضعف .. وتطل منهما نظرة الاسترحام ..

ولاننسى منظر معاذ المسكين وهو يتبع أردوغان (أو رجل تركيا الكبير كما يصفه) في جولة (العباءة العربية) الشهيرة .. ويكاد معاذ يتعثر وهو يسير الى جانب سيده أو يتبعه وهو يتلفت أو يلوح بيديه في حركات غير متناغمة تدل على حيرته ان كان مايفعله صحيحا أم لا أمام حفيد جمال باشا السفاح ..

عيب على سورية أن يكون هذا المعاذ رئيسا عليهم أو على بلدية من بلديات دمشق ..أو صبيا في أحد حماماتها التركية القديمة..

معاذ لايشبه في هذا العالم الا شخصية ياسينو في مسلسل صح النوم أو ملح وسكر .. تزوج صدفة من فطوم حيص بيص.. ويحاول اظهار رجولته على امرأة قوية ..

ولـ (ياسينو) حيص بيص حكمة لاتعلوها حكمة .. فعندما حاول حسني البورظان تخفيف آلامه من الزلازل التي يتعرض لها زواجه قال له: ان الزواج ياياسين برميل مليء بالقطران ولكن وجهه مغطى بطبقة عسل ماان تنتهي حتى يتذوق الزوج القطران ..

فقال ياسينو شاكيا لحسني البورظان عندما تلقى ضربة بالقبقاب على جبينه من حرمه المصون فطوم: يبدو أنني فتحت البرميل بالمقلوب .. لأنني لم اتذوق العسل بعد ياأستاذ حسني ..

ماقاله ياسينو الثورة معاذ الخطيب منذ أيام في تطمين المسيحيين يشبه حكمة ياسينو .. فبعد كل هذا العنف والتهجير للمسيحيين ومحاصرة قراهم وكل هذه اللحى وكل هذه الغزوات للكنائس .. وبعد أن امتلأت الدنيا بصور اهانة المدن والقيم والاماكن المقدسة للمسيحيين .. وبعد أن امتلأت الكنائس بجبهة النصرة وفتوى الذبح وتطهير البلاد من الكفار ..

بعد كل هذا بعث ياسينو الثورة برسالة العسل ورسالة “البراءة” يطلب فيها من المسيحيين البقاء في سورية !!.. بعد كل القطران الذي تذوقه المسيحيون في سورية على يد الثورجيين على مدى عامين قرر ياسينو أن يفتح برميل العسل بشكل صحيح وليس بالمقلوب ..الا اذا لم يكن قد بقي قطران في برميل الثورة بعد أن أذيق السوريون كل قطرانها فوصل ياسينو أخيرا الى قشرة العسل .. ومعسول الكلام ..لأن الثورة شارفت على نهايتها من حيث شرعيتها ومستقبلها ..

والملاحظ أن توقيت رسالة ياسينو الثورة السورية جاء مع توقيت قرار سعودي بتنظيم الفضائيات الدينية التي تحرض على الفتنة والنزاعات مما يدل على ادراك عميق لمدى المأزق الذي وجد الربيع العربي نفسه فيه فقد بدأ ينكشف في مشروعه كثورة اسرائيلية كبرى لفتنة كبرى ولابد من بعض التجميل والانسحابات التكتيكية .. وخاصة بعد انزعاج الغرب من الحرج الشديد الذي تسببت له به جبهة النصرة كما ادعى ..

وتلا هذه التغيرات في الخطاب خطاب متأخر لكنه متناغم في النبرة مع رسالة معاذ الانجيلية فتح فيه الثوار برميل العسل .. فقد اعترفت ألوية وكتائب مابقي من شظايا الجيش الحر لأول مرة (بعد هزائم وكوارث عسكرية قضمت معظم تشكيلاته) بما سمته

بوقوع بعض الأخطاء المسيئة لصورة الجيش الناشئ كحام ٍللثورة والناس والمال والأعراض .. حيث وصف الثورجي أبو قتادة بيان الاعتراف برذائل الثورة بأنه يعتبر نقلة نوعية في الاعتراف أولا بوجود “بعض” الممارسات الخاطئة التي رسخت في الذهنية الغربية “الفوبيا الاسلامية” بسبب تصوير تصفيات الشبيحة التي بدت في الواقع مقززة كما قال .. باعتراف أول بيان من نوعه .. بيان يقطر دما..ونذالة ..ولكنه يعلن أول هزيمة اعلامية وأخلاقية مدوية .. حيث ستبقى سمعة الدموية والوحشية عالقة بالثوار كالبقعة الحمراء على سطح المريخ.. سيزول الدم عن وجوههم وألسنتهم عندما تزول بقعة المريخ عن وجه المريخ..

رسالة معاذ ورسائل الاعتراف بالعار الثوري هي رسائل النفاق من ثوار منافقين سذج وثورة هزمت أخلاقيا .. كل عسلها مصنوع من رحيق الدم .. وهذا العسل الذي وصل متأخرا يشير بقوة الى وهن الثورة الشديد التي كانت مصابة بالغرور والصلف وكان رأسها كبيرا ولايسمع نصيحة .. ولم تكن تتحدث هذه اللغة اللينة والتسامحية المتوددة طوال الأزمة السورية لأن الغرب نفخ في رأسها كثيرا ولأن التضليل والوعود بالنصر جعلت جمهورها وقادتها لايحسون أنهم مضطرون للاعتراف برذائلهم وفظائعهم ووحشيتهم وهمجيتهم وبهيميتهم بل كانت مصدر فخرهم وتحديهم للنظام والدنيا .. وكان توالي الانتصارات الثورية ومجازرها المريعة في شمال افريقيا سببا آخر من أسباب هذه الجاهلية وهذا الاستعلاء والتكبر واحتقار مخاوف الآخرين وتجاهلها وتعالي الضجيج الثوري والتكبير على أصوات الضحايا والثقة أن يد الثوار طليقة في القتل من غير حساب..

هذا التراجع من شواطئ الدم الى شواطئ العسل وارتداء ثياب باب نويل والانسحاب التكتيكي لفصائل الثورجيين من مرحلة الاصرار على دولة الخليفة والشريعة الى مرحلة (بالله عليكم لاترحلوا) يدل على ادراك الثورة لصدمة الهزيمة المتصاعدة تدريجبا .. وصعوبة المهمة التي تنطحت لها بعد انفضاض الكثيرين عنها .. وضرورة تغيير المنطلقات النظرية لرياض الشقفة وفريقه ..

لكن كل هذا الكلام يابابا معاذ لايفيد .. وكل هذه الرسائل تصلح لأغنية تقول: “يسمعني حين يراقصني كلمات ليست كالكلمات” .. وفي النهاية نعود وليس معنا سوى كلمات معاذ وساطور العرعور وسكاكين جبهة النصرة وفتاوى الوهابية .. وماستفعله الثورة المنافقة هي أنها ستتابع عنفها بصمت أي مع قلة التصوير والبث المباشر للاعدامات..

ما يفيد السوريين جميعا يامعاذ هو استدعاء العرعور للمحاكمة واقصاؤه علنا هو وتياره والتبرؤ منه واعلان أن جبهة النصرة مارقة ويجب اصدار فتوى بقتالها واستئصالها وتجريم الوهابية حتى يطمئن الناس .. جميع الناس .. أما العسل فخذه وكل ماطاب لك منه .. ووزع ماتشاء في اسواق استانبول وأسواق الخليج العربي المحتل..واحمل على ظهرك ماشئت من الجرار وأكياس الزبيب الى أوروبة..

نحن لانعرف بيع العسل وحبرنا ليس العسل وليس الدم .. بل حبر العقل والمنطق وحبر الواقع وحبر الوطن والمعاناة .. ولذلك نحن ندق أجراس الكنائس من قلب الجوامع .. ونرفع الأذان من أبراج الكنائس .. ونعتنق المسيحية عندما لايبقى من يدق أجراس الكنائس في دمشق .. ويعتنق مسيحيونا الاسلام اذا لم يبق من يرفع الأذان في دمشق .. ونحن سنمنع دولة سورية الاسلامية علنا ودون مواربة لأن سورية دولة الجميع للجميع .. هذا هو الضمان لدولة التعدد الاثني والعرقي والديني .. وليس رسائل الغفران ورسائل العسل .. ولو جعلت المحيطات عسلا فانك لن تغير من مرارة السوريين بما فعلته ثورتك وماحقنته من قطران في عروقنا وخلايانا..فاطو رسالة الغفران المكتوبة بالعسل وأسرج وعولك الملتحية من جبهة النصرة يابابا نويل الخطيب وغادرنا .. أو خلل رسالتك بالملح .. أو انقعها واشرب ماءها ..أو ابعث بها الى الشيطان .. فليس لها عنوان في سورية

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Egyptian Brotherhood calls upon Egyptian Jews to rturn to Egypt and Israeli offer to Palestinian families: Take $500,000 and Leave W.B.

While the Egyptian Brotherhood official Issam Al-’Aryan calls upon Egyptian Jews to rturn to Egypt “to Make Room for the Palestinians”, Israeli offer to Palestinian families: Take $500,000 and Leave W.B.   One year ago Rashad Bayoumy, an Egyptian brother asked: “Is it a pre-condition to recognize Israel in order to govern?” On that I wrote: “The answer is clear, Mr. Bayoumy, and its up to you and your party. The shortest way govern is Pleasing the USA, Via pleasing its Tool Israel, and its Zionist Lobby. Ask your brother Ghanushi. But it’s also the shortest way to lose power, morals, and political future. I am sure that worries you and you brothers. You can’t stay on the fence, and should come down to this side or that…. ….Thirty years ago, Khomeini, faced a similar situation, without storming his brain and thinking about the “spasmodic and uncalculated statements (ACTIONS) may do more harm than good…that could invite uncalculated reactions from the United States and its western allies, and its tool the Zionist entity, he turned the Zionist embassy into a Palestinian Embassy. I am sure you know the Story of the American Embassy. He did it because, the vision was clear, the enemy was clear, and because he was after power to put Iran on the right track, and he did. Iran now, despite the 8 years war launched by Arabs (almost all Arabs except Syria, Islamists, and nationalists except Syrian) and 30 years of sanction, is super power who dared to say to US: get out of Gulf. …..Its not enough to say “the Brotherhood will not recognize the “criminal state of Israel.” People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you do, and we saw what you did so far. Because of your wrong calculations, and for short term political benifets, you missed a great chance to lead the revolution to the end, putting your history (Your best offspring), your future at risk, . Hamas, as a resisrance movement washed all you historical mistakes/sins. Hamas is entiltled to be your “Hezbollah”, you crane, all it needs is a MB Assad in Cairo, to destroy all walls with Gaza Hashim, Gaza Al-izza. Don’t kill your best offsping.” End of the qoute ——– Instead, Brotherhood destroyed the Gaza tunnels, and turned Hamas into a sectarian terrorist movement, turned the Shaikh of Aqsa, into a Shaikh of Nato. As’ad AbuKhalil hit the nail in saying: “There is no question about it: the Muslim Brotherhood’s organizations all over the Arab world have stumbled on a foreign policy governing formula that ruling Arab families have stuck to for decades. It’s simple: an alliance between a governing party or a ruling family in the Arab world and the Western Zionists can bring about Western governmental support.” Finally, if I am the Israeli PM, I would accept the Brotherhood’s stupid offer, granting the Jews the right of return to Egypt,..besides their “God” given right of return to the “promosed land”. Brother’s of America paved the way for endless zionists claims. Egyptian Jews and the Muslim Brotherhood By As’ad AbuKhalil – Wed, 2013-01-02 21:21- Angry Corner There is no question about it: the Muslim Brotherhood’s organizations all over the Arab world have stumbled on a foreign policy governing formula that ruling Arab families have stuck to for decades. It’s simple: an alliance between a governing party or a ruling family in the Arab world and the Western Zionists can bring about Western governmental support. The House of Saud dealt with growing US public and congressional criticisms after September 11 by solidifying an alliance with Israel. Once the House of Saud worked to elevate the alliance with Israel, all public and congressional criticisms of Saudi Arabia – even its role in funding Islamic fanaticism around the world – died down. In Egypt, Anwar Sadat established a unique dictatorship that enjoyed unprecedented Western support because he surrendered to Israeli occupation and attained the Western “honor” of being the first Arab leader to sign publicly a peace treaty with Israel. (Of course, many Arabs before him, from the Maronite patriarchs to Hashemites had signed secret treaties with the Zionist movement.) The Muslim Brotherhood is about to solidify its rule by striking a strong security-political alliance with Western Zionists and with Israel. It was not a coincidence that Mohamed Morsi released his Ottoman-style presidential decrees hours after gaining US approval for brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Gone are the grotesque speeches about jihad about the anti-Jewish chants about Khaybar and the threats to Jews, qua Jews. Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Tunisia (in the form of an-Nahda) to Egypt and Syria have been feverishly sending delegations (in public and in secrecy) to Washington to meet with the leaders of AIPAC (or of its research arm, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy) in order to reassure Zionists about the peaceful intentions of the Brotherhood toward the aggressive state of Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood have enjoyed the taste of power in more than one country and they are – with Qatari support – wishing to extend their rule to several Arab countries. And just as the sponsoring Qatari royal family opened toward Israel in order to bolster its stance vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia, and just as its ruling emir initiated negotiations with Haim Saban about the sale of al-Jazeera in order to deflect or postpone US congressional criticisms of Qatar (as the Emir himself admitted to me two years ago), the Muslim Brotherhood seems to increase the flirtation with Israel and Western Zionists with every increase in their grip on power. The latest episode was about Egyptian Jews. Issam al-Arian, who has been negotiating with Western Zionists over the last few months in the hope of winning more Western support for Ikhwan rule, suddenly discovered the issue of Egyptian Jews and criticized Nasser’s regime for “expelling” Egyptian Jews. But al-Arian was clearly trying to score political points for the enjoyment of Western Zionists. First, the Muslim Brotherhood is in no position to speak on the matter of any religious minority, in Egypt or elsewhere. This is a movement that poisoned public rhetoric even about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The founder of the movement, Hasan Al-Banna, may have been (according to my own research on the matter) the first Arab to ever threaten to “throw the Jews into the sea” (his statements were cited in al-Musawwar magazine in 1948). Its chants about Khaybar made it clear that the Ikhwan’s hostility has been directed against all Jews qua Jews, and not against the political project of Zionism. Secondly, the laws affecting the economic status of Egyptian Jews were enacted under the Faruq monarchy, but the Ikhwan are loath to attack the monarchy as they do with Nasser. Al-Arian’s comments made no reference to Faruq. Attacks on Jewish interests took place in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 and before Nasser assumed power. Thirdly, the Lavon Affair (in which the Israeli government recruited Egyptian Jews to perpetrate acts of terrorism in Egypt in order to sabotage Egyptian relations with Western governments) should be blamed on Israel, not Nasser. If there is one issue that made Egyptian Jews seem suspect in the public eyes, it was this dangerous conspiracy. And let us remember that the Nasserist prosecutor of the case made it very clear in his remarks before the court that Egyptian Jews as Jews should not be blamed for the affair and that they belong to Egyptian society just like any other community. Israel has wittingly and unwittingly, purposefully and carelessly, jeopardized the status of Egyptian Jews by recruiting spies and terrorist from the ranks of Jews in Arab countries. In the US, the entire Muslim American community became suspect due to the deeds of 19 hijackers who were not even recruited from the American Muslim community. Fourthly, Israel has made it difficult for Arabs and others to differentiate between Israelis and Jews when the state of Israel presents itself (bogusly) as the state of world Jewry. Israeli propaganda has aimed to make Israel the spokes-state for all Jews. Fifthly, yes, some Egyptian Jews (who included many affluent Egyptians among them) were targeted by nationalization laws, but that was directed against Egyptians of different religious affiliations. Most nationalization and land laws of the Revolution targeted Muslim Egyptians. Sixthly, yes, repression under Nasser affected Egyptian Jews, but it also affected Egyptian non-Jews as well. Seventhly, there were Jewish victims of targeted repression in the Arab world, but they were victims of the repercussion and effects of the creation of the state of Israel. The laws and regulation against Jews, like the ones against their inclusion in the Lebanese Army according to a law drafted by MP Munir Abu Fadil, came after the creation of the state of Israel and should be seen as part of what Bernard Lewis called “political anti-Semitism,” as reprehensible as any discrimination against any group and with the understanding that discrimination can’t be justified. Finally, the plight of Arab Jews should be discussed and even subject to legislative debates, but it can hardly be left in the hands of the bigots of the Ikhwan who still (in Arabic) refer to Jews and Christians as “the descendants of apes and pigs.” The Ikhwan don’t have any credibility on the matter and they certainly are not qualified to offer criticisms of the Nasser regime, which deserves criticisms. Arab Jews (if there is evidence that they were forced to leave) should be allowed to return and even compensated if their properties were seized illegally. But the subject of Arab Jews has been shrouded with lies and fabrications by Zionist propaganda for decades. Lebanese and Syrian Jews, for example, left on their own and the Israeli government and Western Zionists lobbied the Syrian governments over the years to allow Syrian Jews to leave Syria. But once Syrian Jews left Syria, Western Zionists immediately claimed that Syrian Jews were kicked out. One has to treat the story of Arab Jews on a country-by-country basis and should not be in any way linked to the Arab-Israeli issue although the aggression and occupation by the state of Israel poisoned relations between Jews and non-Jews in the region as a whole. Israeli Offer to Palestinian Families: Take $500,000 and Leave W.B.

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A Zionist Likud hardliner suggested paying Palestinian families $500,000 each to emigrate from the West Bank to the West. Moshe Feiglin, who earlier on Tuesday was detained by Israeli police after trying to pray at the so-called Temple Mount, proposed paying Palestinians to leave West Bank. “The State of Israel is paying 10% of its GNP every year for the two-state solution and the Oslo Accords. It’s paying for separation fences, Iron Domes and a guard at every café. Soon we’ll have to place Iron Domes in every school in Tel Aviv. “With this budget we can give every Arab family in Judea and Samaria $500,000 to encourage it to immigrate to a place with a better future. “You may say, ‘But no one will have them.’ That’s not true because the Western nations are shrinking due to low birth rates. The question is whether the world will have Sudanese migrants who can’t build or migrants from Judea and Samaria who do know how to build.” THE JEWS OF IRAQ – TESTIMONY OF A FORMER ZIONIST

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Danny Ayalon and the Jewish refugee fallacy

By Daniel Haboucha

The Israeli government has recently launched a campaign to win international recognition for the plight of the approximately 700,000 Arab Jews, or Mizrahim, who fled their homes during the 20-odd-year period following Israel’s establishment in 1948. Speaking with much fanfare at a symposium hosted by Israel’s UN delegation in New York last week, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon stated that there will be no peace (between Israel and the Palestinian Authority) until the Arab League compensates these Jewish refugees. He has indicated that abandoned Palestinian holdings in Israel might be somehow balanced against abandoned Jewish holdings in Arab countries. The Israel lobby in the US and Canada — including all of the usual suspects — has enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon. Comparing the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries to the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel, Alan Dershowitz proclaimed, “The situation faced by Jews in Arab countries was much worse than that faced by Palestinians in Israel.”

My father and his entire family were forced to leave Egypt in the early 1960s, abandoning their community, their country of birth, and much of their property. Their traumatic uprooting after centuries of life in the Middle East is an egregious example of systemic religious persecution, and one that unquestionably merits redress. Yet, efforts to equate my “plight” today with the plight of a Palestinian of my age who grew up in a refugee camp (mere kilometers from my beautiful Jerusalem apartment) are manifestly absurd.

The first immediately obvious question is, why is this happening now? Why is the government of Israel suddenly seeking to reopen an issue that has been closed for the better part of a century? And why has it consistently refused to pursue such claims in the past, despite decades of lobbying by a group calling itself the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries?

I believe there are two answers to this question, the first pragmatic and the second ideological.
1. Victims of Zionism

Israel, through its entire history, has maintained a position of non-responsibility for the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. The official Israeli narrative, as stated in a Ministry of Foreign Affairs publication, is that the Palestinian refugees left Israel voluntarily or at the behest of Arab leaders. When Yitzhak Rabin wrote a description in his memoirs of how he personally oversaw the expulsion of nearly 70,000 Palestinian civilians from Lydda and Ramle during a week of fighting in June 1948, Israeli authorities went so far as to censor the testimony of their former prime minister. Now, however, in drawing a direct parallel between the Jews who were forcibly dispossessed by Arab governments and the Palestinians, the Israeli government finally appears to be acknowledging its role in creating the Palestinian refugee crisis, with all of the political and diplomatic consequences this implies.

Shining a spotlight on the plight of Arab Jews risks raising some uncomfortable questions about Israel’s own role in the creation and perpetuation not only of the Palestinian refugee issue, but also the Jewish one. Israel’s founders knew long before 1948 that the establishment of a Jewish state in the heart of the Arab world would spell catastrophe for the Jews living in the region. In declaring Judaism to be a nationality, Zionism transformed Jews in Arab countries from members of a deeply rooted religious minority into “enemy nationals.” When made aware of the impending danger faced by the Jews of Iraq in the 1940s due to mounting hostility toward Zionism, David Ben Gurion felt responsible for the harm he suspected would befall them; he referred to these Arab Jews as potential “victims” of the Zionist movement (quoted in Meir-Glitzenstein “Zionism in an Arab Country” p. 140).

The State of Israel in many cases actively precipitated Jewish emigration, sending emissaries to Arab countries in order to persuade Jews to leave. Their methods were not always sanguine. For example, in Egypt, the position of Jews deteriorated markedly in 1954 after a group of local Jews was caught carrying out acts of terrorism and sabotage at the behest of Israel. Israel publicly acknowledged responsibility for this only in 2005. Similarly, Jewish emigration from Iraq accelerated in 1951 after the bombing of a synagogue; this act was blamed at the time (by British consular officials and many Iraqi Jews) on Zionist agents. To my knowledge, there is no conclusive evidence supporting this claim, yet it is lent credibility by the recent admission by a former member of the Iraqi Zionist underground that members of his group did employ such tactics. The passage in Ben Gurion’s diary that discusses the report he received on this matter from his intelligence chief remains buried under censors’ ink.

Compounding their hardships, Arab Jews who settled in Israel were subjected to deep systemic discrimination, economically disenfranchised, and treated as culturally inferior. This phenomenon is still something of a sore wound in Israel, and is documented extensively in an emerging field of literature.

“You wanted to fit in. You even changed your names. Jojo was no longer worthy. And Farha became notorious. You tasted the Honey; It wasn’t always sweet. You spilled the Milk, But didn’t cry over it” – Lehakat Sfatayim, “From Morocco to Zion”

2. How many homelands?

On an ideological level, equating Jewish refugees from Arab countries with Palestinian refugees from Israel fundamentally undermines the Zionist narrative, according to Iraqi-Israeli sociologist Yehouda Shenhav. According to Shenhav, a central element in the Zionist mythos is the idea that the Jews who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries did so not out of compulsion but because of their “Zionist yearnings” for their homeland. Zionism’s foundational tenet is that Jews are a nation, and that their homeland is not in Egypt, or Ethiopia, or Yemen, but rather in Israel. Mizrahim who settled in Israel were treated at the time by the government — at both a legal and a rhetorical level — not as refugees who had been forced from their homeland, but as compatriots returning to their homeland after years in exile. Ayalon’s initiative prompted Palestinian-Israeli member of parliament Ahmed Tibi to ask glibly, “How many homelands do [Jews] get to have?”

Belief in the voluntary and ideologically driven nature of the Mizrahi migration to Israel is not only deeply ingrained in the Zionist narrative, it is also central to the personal narratives of many of those who were displaced, who forcefully reject Ayalon’s take on history:

“I have this to say: I am not a refugee. I came at the behest of Zionism, due to the pull that this land exerts, and due to the idea of redemption. Nobody is going to define me as a refugee.” – Iraqi-Israeli parliamentarian Ran Cohen

“We are not refugees. [Some of us] came to this country before the state was born. We had messianic aspirations” – Yemeni-Israeli speaker of Knesset Yisrael Yeshayahu.

“I do not regard the departure of Jews from Arab lands as that of refugees. They came here because they wanted to, as Zionists.”– Iraqi-Israeli Knesset speaker Shlomo Hillel

“You, who left your faraway village. You, who ascended from your verdant town [...] You left your parents, your friends, and your brothers When you decided to emigrate Out of your love, for Zion!”– Lehakat Sfatayim

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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s impossible plan for refugees is just a stalling tactic

 

By Jonathan Cook,

– 1 Oct 2012
www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0597.htm
In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative, initiative to extinguish whatever hopes have survived of reviving the peace process.

For the first time in its history, Israel is seeking to equate millions of Palestinians in refugee camps across the Middle East with millions of Israeli citizens descended from Jews who, before Israel’s establishment in 1948, lived in Arab countries.

According to Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, whose parents were originally from Iraq and who has been leading the government campaign, nearly a million Jews fled countries such as Iraq, Egypt, Morocco and Yemen. That figure exceeds the generally accepted number of 750,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war.

Israel’s goal is transparent: it hopes the international community can be persuaded that the suffering of Palestinian refugees is effectively cancelled out by the experiences of “Jewish refugees”. If nothing can be done for Arab Jews all these years later, then Palestinians should expect no restitution either.

Over the past few weeks that has been the message implicit in a social media campaign called “I am a refugee”, which includes YouTube videos in which Jews tell of being terrorised while living in Arab states after 1948. Mr Ayalon has even announced plans for a new day of national commemoration, Jewish Refugee Day.

This month, the Israeli foreign ministry and US Jewish organisations formally launched the initiative, staging a conference in New York a few days before the opening sessions of the General Assembly.
Israel’s choice of arena – the UN – is not accidental. The campaign is chiefly designed to stifle the move announced by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his General Assembly speech last week to begin seeking UN status for Palestine as a non-member state.

After opposition from the US forced the Palestinians to abort their bid for statehood at the UN Security Council last year, Mr Abbas is expected to delay making his new request until November, after the US presidential election campaign to avoid embarrassing President Barack Obama.
Mr Abbas’s move has spurred Israel to take the offensive.

Anyone who doubts that the Israeli government’s concern for Arab Jews is entirely cynical only has to trace the campaign’s provenance. It was considered for the first time in 2009, when Mr Netanyahu was forced – under pressure from Mr Obama – to deliver a speech backing Palestinian statehood.
Immediately afterwards, Mr Netanyahu asked the National Security Council, whose role includes assessing strategic threats posed by the Palestinians, to weigh the merits of championing the Arab Jews’ case in international forums.

The NSC’s advice is that Arab Jews, known in Israel as Mizrahim and comprising a small majority of the total Jewish population, should be made a core issue in the peace process. As Israel knows, that creates a permanent stumbling block to an agreement.

The NSC has proposed impossible demands: contrition from all Arab states before a peace deal with the Palestinians can be reached; a decoupling of refugee status and the right of return; and the right of Arab Jews to greater compensation than Palestinian refugees, based on their superior wealth.

Israel is working on other fronts too to undermine the case for Palestinian refugees. Its US lobbyists are demanding that UNRWA, the UN agency for the refugees, be dismantled. And bipartisan pressure is mounting in the US Congress to count as refugees only Palestinians personally displaced from their homes in 1948, stripping millions of descendants of their status.

The Palestinians are deeply opposed to any linkage between Arab Jews and Palestinian refugees. Not least, they argue, they cannot be held responsible for what took place in other countries. Justice for Palestinian refugees is entirely separate from justice for Arab Jews.

Moreover, many, if not most, Arab Jews left their homelands voluntarily, unlike Palestinians, to begin a new life in Israel. Even where tensions forced Jews to flee, such as in Iraq, it is hard to know who was always behind the ethnic strife. There is strong evidence that Israel’s Mossad spy agency waged false-flag operations in Arab states to fuel the fear and hostility needed to drive Arab Jews towards Israel.

Likewise, Israel’s claim that it has a right to represent Arab Jews collectively and lay claim to compensation on their behalf ignores the reality that Israel was compensated handsomely for absorbing Jews, both through massive post-war reparations from countries such as Germany and through billions of dollars in annual handouts from the United States.

But there is a more fundamental reason to be sceptical of this campaign. Classifying Arab Jews as “refugees” skewers the central justification used by Zionists for Israel’s creation: that it is the natural homeland for all Jews, and the only place where they can be safe. As a former Israeli MP, Ran Hacohen, once observed: “I came at the behest of Zionism, due to the pull that this land exerts, and due to the idea of redemption. Nobody is going to define me as a refugee.”

Mr Netanyahu’s government is making a deeply anti-Zionist argument, one it has been forced to adopt because of its own intransigence in the peace process.

Its refusal to countenance a small Palestinian state in the 1967 borders means the global community feels compelled to reassess the events of 1948. For most Arab Jews, that period is now a closed chapter. For most Palestinian refugees, it is still an open wound.

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Jewish groups want compensation from Arabs

Posted on September 5, 2012 |

 

Dan Diker, secretary-general of World Jewish Congress (WJC) says his organization is holding a conference in Jerusalem next week to seek compensation for hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced out of Arab countries after the establishment of Israel.

 

On September 21, the WJC along with the anti-Iran, the Conference of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Israeli Foreign Ministry will hold a similar conference at United Nations in New York ahead of Iran’s President Dr. Ahmadinejad’s arrival at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24. This will be Ahmadinejad’s last appearance at the UN as head of the State, as he is retiring in June 2013 after completing two-term presidency.

 

Israeli Knesset is also planning to debate a resolution to declare one-day national holiday commemorateing the Zionists’ distortion of Jewish history in Arab lands and to build a Holocaust Museum in honor of the estimated 800,000 Jews who left their Arab homelands for newly established Zionist entity as result of Jewish terrorism against Jewish communities in Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon. Interestingly, the 30,000 Jews in Iran – still refuse to leave their ancestral homeland where the Book of Esther heroine, Persian Jewish Queen Esther is buried. Watch a video below.

 

A US-based Jewish organization, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, has been campiagning for years to suck $100 billion from various Arab countries for Israeli Jews and their descendants – known in Israel as Mizrahim who are treated as third-class citizens in Israel. In the 1960s, nearly 100,000 Sephardine youth were murdered by the Zionist regime (Ringworm affair) as result of heavy doses of radiation experimentations.

 

So far, Jewish groups have succeeded in collecting ‘Holocaust compensation’ from Germany ($93 billion) and Switzerland ($7 billion). In June 2008, Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. State Department, said that Washington is urging Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Bosnia-Herzegovina to make contributions toward ‘The Holocayst Industry’.

 

Naeim Giladi, an Iraqi-born US-Israeli citizen, tells the story of his youth in his book, ‘Ben Gurion’s Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews’. Giladi discusses how as a member of an underground Iraqi terrorist group he helped European Jewish terrorist groups to bomb Synagogues and Jewish business properties in Iraq – and smuggled scared Jews out of Iraq, into Iran, and then to British mandated Palestine ahead of declaration of the state of Israel. In an interview on March 16, 1998, Giladi said:

“I wrote my book: to tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I say what the first prime minister of Israel called “cruel Zionism.” I write about it because I was part of it.”

 

French author Agnes Bensimon detailed in her book Hassan II and the Jews how the Mossad paid King Hassan II, $500,000 for every batch of 50,000 Jews, he allowed to emigrate to Palestine.

 

French colonialists brought European Jews to Algeria in 1830s. They held high positions in French colonial establishment and monopolized the big business in the country including oil and commerce. When the French colonialist were forced to withdraw from Algeria in 1962 – the great majority of 100,000 Algerian Jews optioned to return to their European homelands.

 

Tunisia, like Yemen, is home to one of world’s oldest Hebrew-speaking communities. During the French occupation of Tunisia (1881-1956), the Jewish population of the country crossed 100,000. However, after the creation of the Zionist entity in 1948 – 50% Tunisian Jews emigrated to Israel and the rest to Europe.

 

On December 7, 2011, Israel’s Tunisian-born deputy prime minister Silvan Shalom asked the Tunisian Jewish community (pop. 2,000) to emigrate to Israel. In reponse, Jacob Lelouche, who runs a kosher restaurant and was an independent candidate in October 2011 national elections, told BBC reporter on December 31: “Where would I go – to Europe? Come on, I’m not stupid. To Israel? I’m not that stupid either. Silvan can say whatever he wants. I am Tunisian, this is my country. I will stay here. Silvan can not tell me where to live.”

 

Syria is still home to 200 Jewish families. The rest of Syrian Jews emigrated to the US and Europe in 1992 when Syrian President Hafiz Assad eased country’s immigration law. Albert Cameo, president of Syrian Jewish community, told SFGate in June 2009 that life is much easier for Syrian Jews under the Ba’athist regime. “My family has always been here. It’s important for some of us to stay here to keep our traditions“.

 

Several Jewish groups (United Against Nuclear Iran, B’nai B’rith, ADL, AJC, etc.) have slammed the Warwick hotel in New York for hosting Ahmadinejad and Iranian delegation during the coming UN General Assembly meeting in N.Y. this month. The United Against Nuclear Iran group is planning to hold a protest rally in front of United Nations headquarters during Ahmadinejad’s speech.

 

Kenneth Bandler, spokesperson for the AJC said: “No New York City hotel should welcome Iranian President ahmadinejad“. Daniel Mariaschin, the executive vice-president of B’nai B’rith claimed that by allowing Ahmadinejad to stay at the hotel “would leave a serious stain at hotel’s reputation“.

 

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The Palestinians as an “Invented People”

by Rich Siegel

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Palestinians protesting about hunger strikes

The name “Palestine” has been around for a long time. “Peleset”, transliterated from Egyptian hieroglyphics as “P-l-s-t”, is found in numerous Egyptian documents referring to a neighboring people or land starting from around 1150 BC. The “Philistine” States existed concurrently with the ancient Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, making up the coastal plain below Jaffa and south to Gaza. In the 5th Century BC Herodutus wrote of a “district of Syria, called Palestine”. About a century later, Aristotle described the Dead Sea in Meteorology and located it in Palestine:

Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salty that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.

This writer has had the misfortunate of frequently engaging in debates with Zionists (a bad habit I need to kick!) who often tend to seize on small ideas. “When did the Palestinians ever have their own country?” In order to win such an argument one would have to reduce oneself to their terms, and produce a map that shows a country and borders: “Palestinian Kingdom, 1587- 1702”, and then let them present their map of ancient Israel and Judea, and then get into a wrestling match the winner of which would claim the territory for their own. Or perhaps the issue would be better settled the way the New York colony won Staten Island from New Jersey: with a boat race. If the goal is exclusivity, as it always has been with Zionism, then the only criterion in achieving it is winning, whether a war or a race.

There was no 17th century Palestinian Kingdom, or 18th or 19th. There were, prior to Allied victory in World War One and the League of Nations “mandates” which granted European powers control of the region, various provinces in a larger Ottoman empire, ruled from Istanbul (previously known as Constantinople, and before that, Byzantium), much as there are today various American states governed from Washington. Objectors will cry “Foul!”, as Americans are governed by Americans in Washington, whereas Arabs were governed by Turks, a different ethnic group with a different language. Fine. So I modify my comparison to the Spanish speaking Puerto Ricans governed from Washington, or the French speaking Quebecois governed from Ottawa. Neither the Puerto Ricans nor the French Canadians are being ethnically cleansed.

Prior to Zionism, there was no need for the Arabs of Palestine to focus on Palestinian identity. They were citizens of the Ottoman Empire. When, during the mandate years the British made contradictory promises to the Zionists and the Arabs, and the Arabs expected, and had the right to expect, eventual self-rule, it was certainly not a foregone conclusion that there was going to be an independent Palestine. Palestinians might well have been a part of a larger South Syria, or of a Greater Syria, and happily so. They certainly would not have been ethnically cleansed under those circumstances. The Arabs of Palestine have always had their own distinct Arabic dialect, and various other cultural attributes that set them apart from other regional Arab cultures, but that was never particularly relevant. Many various subcultures existed within the Ottoman Empire, and continued to exist within British and French mandates.

Interestingly, during the years of the Yishuv, the pre-Israeli-statehood Zionist community in Palestine, Jewish-Zionist settlers called themselves “Palestinians”. In this way, the Zionists ironically affirmed the thing that many of them wish now to deny: Palestinian identity.

In 1948, amid the massacres and military forced mass expulsions of the “nakba” (Arabic for catastrophe, the name commonly given to the events of 1948), when the state of “Israel” was declared, all of the Jews who had been calling themselves Palestinians became “Israelis”, and when the dust cleared, the Arabs who remained within the green line became “Arab Israelis”, like it or not. (It was not known until the state of “Israel” was declared, what it was to be named. “Zion” was considered as a possibility, but rejected, as the result would have necessitated referring to “Arab Israelis”, the Arab citizens of Israel, as “Arab Zionists”.)

The designation “Palestinian” was more actively embraced beginning in 1964, with the forming of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), this out of necessity, because a people who had been ethnically cleansed, who were in a state of shock and humiliation, and who were desperate to recover and regain what was rightfully theirs, found it useful to rally around symbols representing themselves: A name and a flag are two of the basics.

Golda Meir famously said in 1969, during her tenure as Israeli prime minister;

There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.

Golda is actually right on this point and that point. I would not have been able to show her a map that says “Kingdom of Palestine” or “Grand Duchy of Palestine” or any of dozens of designations that might have satisfied her. But this I can say for sure:

There were human beings on that land, and they had been there all their lives, and their families for many generations before them down through the centuries. And many of them were actually descended from ancient Jews who later converted to Christianity and Islam, while our ancestors, Golda’s and mine- the Ashkenazi Jews, were converting to Judaism in the Khazar Kingdom on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Golda actually knew when making this statement, the information which has become available to the general public in the decades since:

We Jews did come and throw them out and take their country away from them. It’s been thoroughly documented. It wasn’t when she made this statement in 1969. She was able to get away with it then. But since then an entire generation of Jewish-Israeli scholars, (and many others, but we Jews need to hear it from Jews first!) has carefully documented the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and presented the history that she personally knew, but actively hid and denied. She and her colleagues concealed the truth from Jewish supporters of Israel all over the world including my family, who taught me lies quite innocently, because they didn’t know any better.

In 1984 a book written by Joan Peters, entitled From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine, was released to the world. The book claimed that the Palestinians were not resident in Palestine long-term, but were recent arrivals, having come to take advantage of economic opportunities in Palestine which were largely the result of Zionist Jewish settlement. What a perfect way for us Zionist Jews to massage ourselves (I was one at the time!) and drive a wedge between ourselves and the growing awareness about Palestine in the world around us! So it really was a “land without people for a people without a land”! Those Arabs were all immigrants! And how ungrateful that they hate us after all the opportunity we gave them! A wave of related claims surfaced among the Zionist community. An essay by Mark Twain describing his touring of a sparsely populated 19th century Palestine, was offered up into the mix of “Palestinian-denier” evidence. Twain, whose writing was full of humorous and ironic opposition to human bullshit, was no doubt rolling in his grave over this. And claims were often heard that prominent Palestinians, from Edward Said to Yassir Arafat, were “not really Palestinian”.

Enter another book, in 2003, The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz. In case 19 intervening years had given anyone a memory lapse since the publication of Peters’s book, Dershowitz borrowed heavily from same, giving the same statistics and making the same conclusions.

Enter yet another book, but this one very different: In Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, published in 2005, Norman G. Finkelstein exposed Peters’s statistics as fraudulent, and with that revelation both her argument and that of Dershowitz, collapsed.

However, the damage is done among those who wish to ignore Finkelstein, and there are many! “Isn’t he a holocaust denier?”, I’ve been asked. I respond: “No. His parents were holocaust survivors.” Zionists have long used a familiar tactic against those who challenge their propaganda: Defamation. And so the lies persist. This writer still has people putting From Time Immemorial in his face to prove their argument. They refuse to be embarrassed.

“Native” Gingrich and the “invented” Palestine

At the time of this writing (January 2012), the American public is being treated to an entertainment we get every four years: the run up to our presidential election. As the Democratic candidate will obviously be the incumbent, we are witnessing the Republican candidates claw at each other in their striving to win support for the Republican nomination. Enter a billionaire Jewish American Zionist named Sheldon Adelson, casino magnate and the 8th wealthiest American alive, who along with his wife has donated $10 million to candidate Newt Gingrich. Adelson, whose holdings include the Israeli newspaper Israel HaYom (Israel Today) made some interesting statements while in Israel at an Israel Media Watch event in 2010:

I am not Israeli. The uniform that I wore in the military, unfortunately, was not an Israeli uniform. It was an American uniform, although my wife was in the IDF and one of my daughters was in the IDF … our two little boys, one of whom will be bar mitzvahed tomorrow, hopefully he’ll come back– his hobby is shooting – and he’ll come back and be a sniper for the IDF.

And:

All we (the Adelson family) care about is being good Zionists, being good citizens of Israel, because even though I am not Israeli born, Israel is in my heart.

Does it sound like this guy has “divided loyalties?” Maybe like the Jewish neocons in the Bush administration who got us to fight a proxy war for Israel in Iraq? No- you can’t say that! It would be “anti-Semitic”!

So is it any wonder that Newt Gingrich has made the utterly incorrect and profoundly idiotic statement that he has made about the Palestinians being an “invented” people? It has nothing to do with any education on the subject of the history, or any awareness of the current situation. It’s simply a question of wanting to win, and of reiterating nonsense he has heard in conversations with a very rich and generous supporter, nonsense which jives with the general impressions that Americans get from our Zionist-controlled media, and that no doubt circulate in Gingrich’s Republican circles. Does anyone think Gingrich has read Finkelstein? I doubt it! And if he did, would he turn down $10 million in favor of truth and justice?

The people native to the land of Palestine were not “invented”. It is indeed unfortunate that someone who is supposedly educated, and who has achieved position in life where he is poised to potentially become the next president of the United States, is putting forth such foolishness.

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Across the Middle East, Christians Faced with Turmoil

Inrtoduction

Read the story of Naeim Giladi, an Israeli agent operating in Iraq in the late 1940’s, a part  of what the first prime minister of Israel called “cruel Zionism.” ….Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly…to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews… About 125,000 Jews left Iraq for Israel in the late 1940s and into 1952, most because they had been lied to and put into a panic by what I came to learn were Zionist bombs. But my mother and father were among the 6,000 who did not go to Israel.

Geagea, a Mossad agent, “was suspected of bombing the Maronite Catholic church of Saydet Najat in Jounieh, in which tens of worshipers were killed in 1994. The judges could not convict him “for insufficient evidence” Geagea was sentenced to death for his assassination crimes, and the sentence was later reduced to lifetime in prison.

“The sudden multiplication by such bloody attacks on Christians in Muslim countries (Iraq, Egypt, Sudan…ect) has all the marks of Mossad’s false flag operations. Only haplessly ignorant people would believe that Muslims have suddenly, out of the blue, developed hatred of Christians, and are bent on killing them and destroying their churches which they have protected for centuries.” – Nahida

“Israeli press reported this evening that French gunman Mohamed Merah had been on a trip to Israel in the past.

According to the report, Merah’s passport had Israeli stamps in it. The purpose of his visit is unknown. Israeli analysts suspect he was either trying to visit the Palestinian territories or preparing for a terror attack.

However, I won’t rule out the possibility that Merah was actually trained by Israeli forces. Marah may have conducted a false flag operation. By way of deception is, after all, the Mossad’s motto.” – Gilad Atzmon,

Across the Middle East, Christians Faced with Turmoil

Iraqi priest Raymond Moussalli attends a mass at Chaldean Catholic church in Amman December 22, 2011 (photo by REUTERS/Ali Jarekji)

Lebanese Christian politicians are looking at the changes in the region – or what has come to be known as the Arab Spring – with great concern. They are calling upon their supporters to carefully observe the situation in neighboring Arab countries [where Islamists have come to power], and to take it as a salutary lesson for the Lebanese Christians. [In the Arab World], Christianity has undergone a demographic decline in recent decades. Several political, economic and social factors have turned Christians into [latter-day] Native Americans, forced to hole up and defend their dwindling strongholds. Christians had pinned their hopes on an Arab Spring based on Arab identity; thus the purely Islamic tidal wave that has come to characterize the Spring has been alarming to the Christians of the region.

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Summary: Christians across the Arab World have looked on with apprehension as inter-sectarian violence persists and minorities remain underrepresented in elected government. The Christian communities in some countries have emigrated from the region, while others have remained, demanding greater autonomy and a larger political role, writes Claire Chakar. Publisher: As-Safir (Lebanon) Original Title: Christians are Bleeding from Turkey to Egypt: Has the time of Dhimmitude returned? Author: Claire Chakar Published on: Monday, Feb 20, 2012 Translated On: Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012 Translator: Sahar Ghoussoub Categories:Culture & Society Analysis & Opinion Regional

From Palestine, Iraq and Turkey, to Lebanon, Egypt and soon Syria, the Christian presence [in the Middle East] continues to deteriorate. Turkey was first to witness a Christian [displacement]. More than a million Christians were displaced in the early 20th century, and now there only are approximately 100,000 Armenian and Syriac [Christians] left in Turkey. Today, this Christian minority is represented by one single MP, who won his seat in parliament through a Kurdish electoral list.

In recent years, with the revival of the dream of Ottoman expansion [in Turkey], Ankara has been making “symbolic” attempts – characterized by a certain openness – to make amends for the “guilt” it feels for having displaced Christians. Some describe these attempts “systematic,” as Turkey is preparing to host an expanded meeting of all Middle Eastern Patriarchs to discuss religious pluralism. Within this context, it is being rumored that one Patriarch commented that Syrian Christians would be welcomed into Turkey if Bashar al-Assad’s regime was to fall.

Although the Iranian Constitution is Islamic, it nevertheless respects diversity. It provides for an official [parliamentary] quota for religious minorities (Armenians and Assyrians are both represented by two deputies). However, the prevailing Islamic atmosphere in the Persian country has [led most Christians to leave]. There are no more than 200,000 Armenians and perhaps 40,000 Assyrians left practicing the Christian religion in Iran.

The most painful blow to the Christian presence [in the Middle East] took place in Iraq – the land of the Babylonian, Assyrian and Chaldean cultures, and formerly home to over 1.5 million Christians. These Christians have clung to their lands throughout centuries of invasions into Iraq – from the days of Genghis Khan through the era of the Ba’athist regime, and during the fall of the central authority when the American disaster struck. Around 400,000 to 500,000 Christians are still living in the Mesopotamia. Iraqi Christians are distributed between Baghdad, where around 150,000 Christians reside, the Ninewah, which is home to the largest Christian presence (around 250, 000 Christians) and northern Iraq or Kurdistan, where around 12,000 Christians live.

One of the principal reasons behind the decline of the Christian presence in Iraq is that these groups did not choose to bear arms as many had. Iraqi Christians were also left without any external support to defend and preserve their rights; immigration was their only recourse. Furthermore, Christian leaders failed to develop a draft law on which they could base their rights. Christians in Iraq fell victim to the wars of “others”

Christians who have come to make up about 5% of the Iraqi population (the Iraqi authorities claim that this number is closer to 3%), managed to win five out of 325 parliamentary seats in the latest elections. This number is in accordance of the quota granted to them by the Constitution, although it is not representative of their numerical presence.

To make matters worse, some observers believe that the central authority does not see Christians as partners in the country, looking upon them instead as mere “guests,” while it should instead have defended their cause given their sharp demographic decline. However, this has not been the case. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made a spontaneous statement describing them [simply] as the “Christian Community” in one of his correspondences. This is overwhelming evidence of the superior feelings harbored by Iraqis, and of the fact that they look down on their fellow Christian citizens. However, it should be noted that Maliki apologized for [this statement].

The Kurds seek to turn [Iraqi] Kurdistan into the ideal model for addressing minorities. So far, they have taken the right steps. The deputy prime minister and the minister of finance are both Christian, not to mention that Christians are represented by five MPs in the Kurdish Parliament. Additionally, authorities have taken steps to “normalize” the Christian presence through a certain cultural renaissance taking place in Ankawa [a suburb of the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil], and allowing for the revival of the Syriac language among other measures. Kurdish authorities have also welcomed and accommodated those displaced Christians coming from Baghdad and other governorates.

However, these measurements failed to prevent some Muslim groups from burning down more than 50 stores and hotels owned by Christians in December 2011, under the pretext that they were selling alcohol. This wave of violence came to be known as the “Battle of Zakho.”

Christian leaders have been deliberating over the future of their followers. Some prefer to follow in the footsteps of other segments of the Iraqi society, demanding greater levels of autonomy as the country tends towards federalism. The leaders are demanding that the province of Ninewah (where half of the population is Christian, and the rest are a mix of Sabians, Yazidis and Mandaens) be granted a certain degree of anatomy. This proposal, however, has failed to generate a Christian consensus.

According to observers following the displacement of Iraqi Christians, most Iraqi Christians who have chosen to leave have chosen Europe, the United States or Australia as a destination. Meanwhile, more than 120,000 Iraqi Christians left for Syria at the beginning of the Iraqi crisis as part of the one million Iraqi refugees living there.

Additionally, more than 10,000 Iraqi Christians left for Lebanon. This number has declined to around 6,000 given the dire economic and social conditions in Lebanon due to the lack of formal care and the reluctance of [Lebanese] Christian forces to preserve their rights. This is not to mention the limited capacities of the Church in Lebanon. However, it has been said that at some point authorities will provide care to these Iraqi families and pave the way for their resettlement in an attempt to improve the demographic balance in Lebanon.

In the land of the Pharaohs, where the revolution ostensibly produced a democratic Spring, Copts who make up 6 to 10% of the Egyptian population according to the contrasting estimates, have not yet been able to taste freedom. The sectarian spirit sweeping across Egypt has pushed some Copts to cry out for the days of [toppled president] Hosni Mubarak. In the new parliament, the Copts are represented by only five MPs, one of whom one his seat off of an Islamic list. Afterwards, the central authorities appointed four MPs out of respect for the official quota. The Christian voice was stifled against the backdrop the electoral divisions that took place between segments of the overwhelmingly Muslim population. The Christian participation rate in the elections was very low, underscoring the frustration which has begun to creep among the Copts.

In Syria, Christians make up about 10% of the population and include Roman Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, Armenians and Chaldeans. These groups together amount to less than two million people. The Ba’ath regime [in Syria] witnessed a Christian exodus – albeit limited – due to the [tough] economic situation and restrictions on public freedoms. One should note that although there are no official quotas for Christians given the state’s secular identity, religious freedoms are protected in Syria.

According to Habib Afram, the head of the Syriac League, Christians are not afraid, for their faith is strong. However, they are concerned about the repercussions of the events taking place in the region. They fear that the experiences of Iraq and Lebanon – which took place against the backdrop of a civil war – could play out again [in their own lands].

These concerns haunt the Syrian Christians, and have only been exacerbated by the death of more than 200 Christians in Homs as the result of the destructive violence in that area, where the only victims have been civilians.

[Syrian] Christians have been sounding the alarm; but they still have faith in the their land and have not deserted it. For this reason, the crisis in Syria has yet to result in a significant Christian exodus. There are reports that some affluent Syrian families have sought the opinion of Lebanese Christians leaders about Lebanon’s ability to accommodate displaced Syrian Christians. However, no answer has been forthcoming.

Christians’ rights in the Arab and Islamic world should not be “limited to freely practicing religious rites; they should also be able to participate, like other communities, in the political process,” said Habib Afram.

Recently, Christian groups have been seeking security and stability, especially in Syria, which has witnessed a serious [increase] in religious violence (the bombing of the Saidnaya Convent and the death of Father Basil Nassar). These events are aggravating the fears of Syrian Christians. The Syrian opposition, on the other hand, is faced by an even greater challenge: To secure the fate of the Christian minority, as the world, the Vatican specifically, remains silent in the face of these developments. Guarantees of their future have yet to be provided to Christians. Therefore, the survival of Christians in their own land lies in the hands of their partners, and especially in the hands of the emerging regimes, which are supposedly acting according to newly [embrace principles] of citizenship and equality. According to Afram, all of this remains just talk.

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BBC censors own report on Tunisia’s Jews

by Alan Hart

There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC’s Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation’s generally excellent World Service radio. (In my view this particular BBC service is generally excellent because unlike all other BBC news and current affairs outlets, radio and tv, it often reflects some of the truth about what is happening in and over Palestine that became Israel).

Davies was in Tunisia to find out how its remaining 2,000 Jews (down from 300,000 once upon a time) were responding to a call from an Israeli government minister for them to move to Israel. The case the minister made was, apparently, that their security and wellbeing were no longer guaranteed in an Arab country with an Islamist government in place of what Davies called a

sectarian dictatorship”.

In other words, Tunisia’s Jews were in danger and would be safe in Israel. (My guess is that the greatest concern of the Israeli minister and his colleagues was less the fate of Jews in Tunisia and more the need for Jews from anywhere to go to Israel to help defuse the ticking demographic time-bomb of occupation).
The story as told by Davies for the BBC’s World (radio) Service was honest reporting at its best. Its explicit message was that Tunisia’s Jews have rejected the Israeli call.
One of those interviewed by Davies said to him and a listening world, “No one here is afraid.”
Another said,

Go to Israel?… I’m not crazy!”

That’s what made me laugh.
A subsequent development wiped the smile from my face.
A friend in Italy sent me a web link for the television version of the Davies report from Tunisia. I opened the link to check that it was the same report I’d heard on the World (radio) Service. It started in exactly the same way so I assumed it was, and I tweeted it as “MUST WATCH: Tunisia’s Jews reject (Israel’s) call to leave,”
An hour or so later I made the time to view the complete television version. The Jewish gentleman who said, “Go to Israel…? I’m not crazy!” had been edited out.
On past BBC form there are four possible explanations.

1. Driven by a personal commitment to Zionism and support for its monster child right or wrong, a senior BBC executive ordered the quote to be dropped on his own initiative,
2. A senior BBC executive received a telephone call from the Israeli Embassy in London, or possibly the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, telling him or her that Israel would not be pleased if the BBC gave more air time to a Tunisian Jew who was saying “No” to Israel in a way that suggested he had some contempt for the Zionist state and thought that many Israelis were crazy.
3. A senior BBC executive anticipated that giving the Jewish gentleman in Tunisia a wider audience would provoke Zionism’s wrath and decided (as BBC excutives often do) that it was better for the Corporation to censor itself than provoke that wrath.
4. For reasons of limited space in a television news bulletin, the report for the World (radio) Service had to be edited, shortened.

I have to say that I consider the fourth possible explanation as summarized above to be the least likely one. Why? There are many very good journalists in the BBC and they know as well as I do that the single most revealing and therefore newsworthy statement in the original Davies report was that of the Jewish gentleman who said, “Go to Israel…? I’m not crazy!”

The censored (or edited) version of the Davies report can be found at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-africa-16805329
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