Ever Heard of the Qaysi-Yamani Feuds, Ms. Hanan?

Back in 1982, Menachem Begin was sharply criticised for making a remark that "goyim kill goyim and they blame the Jews" three days after the Sabra and Chatilla incident in a cabinet meeting (here's one source and here's a second source but this site claim it was in the Knesset. I remember it well, so I trust all of them including Eric Silver who included it in his biography, which I did research for (and that's another story) on Begin at p. 236.

That came to my mind when I read the following excerpt from an article published in the Washington Post and distributed by AP concerning the ferocious Muslim attack on Christian villagers north of Ramallah, an area I know well.

Our well-know Christian Arab apologist, Hanan Ashrawi, had this to say:-

Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said Palestinians have increasingly resorted to tribal law for justice after more than four years of conflict with Israel.

The acts of violence and counter-violence in family feuds happen in part because there is no authority that Palestinians can rely on, she said.

"This is a very serious development," Ashrawi said. "We are witnessing some sort of regression in social norms. Palestine has always been famous for its tolerance, pluralism, amicable relations, lack of discrimination and sectarianism. It is quite alarming that such incidents should take place."

She is such a Jew-hater in addition to lying about the history of "Palestine" which was rampant with extreme violence including inter-tribal warfare between the northern tribal families and the southern ones, the Qaysi-Yamani divisions in nineteenth-century Palestine, as described in the first volume of Yehoshuah Porath's book "The emergence of the Palestinian-Arab national movement, 1919-1929", London: Frank Cass, 1973.

The bottom line? Blame Israel for all your troubles.