Rabbi Aviner's Anti-Christian Crusade

Source

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Promoting a Kurtzer Peace

In a "TAKING NOTE" column from March 7, What an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Framework Might Look Like, Carol Giacomo (who seems to specialize in Middle East matters, a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters, she's now also Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University - which means she teaches one of their seminars in journalism on editorials: how they are conceived and constructed and how they aim to shape national debate on important issues, and whose official title is "foreign affairs and defense policy editor"),

promotes Daniel Kurtzer's "6-page model framework" for peace (no, not these six points).  Kurzter, to point out a possible conflict of interest, is Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at ... Princeton.

Kurtzer, we should recall, was angry about "a very bad idea" that "the United States [was] poised to reward Israel for its bad behavior" back in 2010, a "deal [that] will shake the foundation of the U.S.-Israeli strategic partnership".  that was the construction moratorium. Truly an objective commentator on the issue.

She really appreciates his "way to settle [sic] the dispute over Mr. Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel not just as a state but as a Jewish state" with this formula:

“Israel will recognize Palestine as the home of the Palestinian people and all its citizens and Palestine will recognize Israel as the national home of the Jewish people and all its citizens.”

More, 

Palestinian refugees should have the right of return to the state of Palestine while Israel should “offer a program of family reunification, including citizenship, for a limited number of refugees.” 

and, as for the issue of the city of Jerusalem, 

Kurtzer proposes that it become “the capital of the two states...undivided...”...[and] envisions an international administrator appointed by the two parties.

Giacomo finishes up writing

Israeli and Palestinian leaders have usually not encouraged an open dialogue on the specifics. Rather, they have spent their time talking to their own communities, reinforcing maximalist demands and the perfidies of the other, not advocating areas of compromise.

I left this comment (with additions):

"Maximalist demands"? First of all, permitting an unchecked 'return' of refugees into Judea & Samaria will only exacerbate the security danger facing Israel if the retention of the hills of that region is not a part of a peace arrangement.   Second, any so-called internationalization of Jerusalem ("a special regime to administer the Old City under an international administrator appointed by them"), even if limited to the "holy sites" will not procure for Jews adequate freedom of religion (despite his belief that "The parties will agree to act in accordance with the dignity and sanctity of the city.") because the rocks will come down on worshippers at the Western Wall if Israeli police are not stationed on the Temple Mount, not to mention the demand that Jews be allowed to respect in a spiritual fashion the Temple Mount.

Those are actually "minimal" requirements. But Kurtzer's suggestion - and he is a former ambassador in Israel and should know better - that the Pals. must refrain from threats is laughable given the conflict's history. If, until now, they cannot even recognize Jewish national ethos, can we trust any such pledge?

I wonder if Ms. Giacomo would permit an opposing view to grace the Opinion pages of her newspaper?

Or would she provide a curt negative?

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UPDATE

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Abbas on Jewish Communities, Jewish State and Jerusalem

Here are the words of the PA's Mahmoud Abbas:


فقلنا لهم إن وجهة نظرنا وقرارنا وموقفنا هي أن الاستيطان كله من بدايته لنهايته غير شرعي، وبالتالي تتحدثون عن كتل هنا أو مستوطنات هناك، ونحن نقول إن كل بيت وكل حجر وضع في الضفة بعد 1967 هو غير شرعي ولا نعترف به.


In translation:

We told them that our point of view and our decision and our position is that the entire settlement project from beginning to end is illegal, and therefore talking about blocks here or settlements there, and we say that every house and every stone placed in the West Bank after 1967 is illegal and  we do not acknowledge it.

and

 نحن مواقفنا كما يلي: عندما نتحدث عن عاصمة فلسطين فإننا لا نتحدث عن أبو ديس، ولا نتكلم عن بيت حنينا ولا نتكلم عن أي من القرى المحيطة بالقدس، بل نتكلم عن القدس الشرقية عاصمة دولة فلسطين، لأننا سمعنا كلاما منمقا يقول إن عاصمتكم في القدس، يعني في أبو ديس أو بيت حنينا، بل عاصمتنا القدس الشرقية التي احتلت عام 1967

Our positions are as follows: When we talk about the capital of Palestine, we are not talking about Abu Dis, and do not talk about the Beit Hanina nor about any of the villages surrounding Jerusalem, but we talk about East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine...which was occupied in 1967...

and

هذه القضايا الثلاث التي وضعناها على الطاولة وقلنا هذه مواقفنا، ماذا نريد القانون الدولي، الدولة اليهودية، لن نقبل الاعتراف بالدولة اليهودية، 

These three issues which we put on the table and we said this is our position, what we want international law, the Jewish state, will not accept the recognition of the Jewish state,

That's clear, nop?


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The Demonology of Demography

As reported:-

Israel's settler The population figures of Israelis in the occupied West Bank Land of Israel regions of Judea and Samaria increased by 4.2 percent in 2013, interior ministry figures show, as US-backed peace talks with the Palestinians falter over the settlement issue.

The number of settlers Israeli living in the West Bank rose to 375,000 in January 2014 from 360,000 at the same time the year before, according to statistics AFP obtained on Thursday from the ministry.

The figure excluded the nearly 200,000 settlers Israelis living in annexed Arab east the new post-1967 neighnorhoods in Jerusalem.

Well, as reported and redacted by me.

Have you seen the demography demon/threat lately?  The one Obama pushes, Kerry pushes, the NYTimes pushes, J Street pushes?  That Ian Lustick pushes?

They're such push-overs for false information that portrays Israel negatively.

Don't be influenced by them.

Oh, and that "nearly 200,000"?  It should be "just over 200,000".

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Creeping Annexation

I was at Menachem Begin's grave this afternoon for the yahrtzeit memorial ceremony with son Benny and family and admirers including Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, aspiring future President MK Ruby Rivlin, Professor Aryeh Naor and fellow employees of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.

Prior to the ceremony, looking out at the Temple Mount,

I spotted something I had not seen previously:

a new cemetery section, on the opposite, to the west, slope of the Mount of Olives.

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Me and a NYTimes Editorial

The New York Times and yet another editorial on Israel.  Doesn't Tom, Friedman and Co. ever give up?

Israel’s Choice

Excerpts:

In Washington this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel sounded two different notes about peace negotiations...he enthusiastically advocated a peace agreement as a means to improve Israel’s ties with its Arab neighbors...But at other moments, a more familiar skepticism was apparent. He demanded that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state with “no excuses, no delays.”...

...In remarkably blunt comments, Mr. Obama said that he had not heard a persuasive case for how Israel survives both as a democracy and a Jewish state absent a negotiated two-state solution...

...In his Aipac speech, Mr. Netanyahu declared, “I’m prepared to make a historic peace with our Palestinian neighbors.” But, really, what other just and durable choice does he have? What is his long-term answer for Israel, if not a two-state solution?

My off-the-cuff comment:

Why jump to a state?  Even the Zionists had to suffer 30 years of Mandate regime.
Let's try autonomy.
Then we do a Jordanian confederation.
Then a joint Israel-Jordan condominium.
Then, well, then maybe a Pal. state but probably the one-state solution.  So why draw this all out?

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Eleven Years Ago

PM Sharon tells Haaretz that Israel would have to remove some settlements to get peace with Palestinians...

Sharon, long a right-wing champion of Jewish settlement on land occupied by Israel in the 1967 war, says he is ready to take steps "that are painful for every Jew and for me personally". He says: 


"Our whole history is bound up with these places: Bethlehem, Shiloh, Beit El. I know that we will have to part with some of these places. There will be a parting from places that are connected to the whole course of our history... As a Jew, this agonises me. But I have decided to make every effort to reach a [peace] settlement".


Sharon spokesman Raanan Gissin said the prime minister was not singling out specific settlements in his remarks to Haaretz. 

April 13, 2003

And, in the meantime...


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No, My Cheek Stays Where It Is

My comment left at this site:

Let me be brief.  Disappointing.  No Jew living in the communities of Judea and Samaria, the New Testament term for these regions, are interviewed.  Only a pro-Pal. voice is heard.  You mention my home town, Shiloh, but my voice is missing.

Your last words are "Christians globally can and should advocate for a sustainable solution that recognizes and honors each person in the Holy Land as an equal child of God."  But if Islam (and we won't go into its persecution of local Christians) declares Abraham a Muslim and robs Judaism of its basis, how is that equal?

You quote Hana Ashrawi lying: "“Palestinians are the descendants of the early Christians,” says Palestinian legislator Dr. Hanan Ashrawi. “We are probably the straightest line to original Christianity. The Christian presence in Palestine is important. Christianity is part and parcel of the Palestinian identity.”  That should be first, Christains are the descendents of Jews who chose a different Biblical/Prophetic interpretation regarding the identity of the Messiah.  Second, the so-called "Palestinians" are descendents of those Arabs who conquered the Land of Israel in 638 CE, subjugated its local Christian and Jewish population and then occupied the land, off and on, until 1948, usually denying Jews any religious rights (no entry to the Temple Mount; no ascent past the 7th step of Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs; etc.).

In the New Testament there is no "Palestine".  Jesus was born in Bethlehem "of Judea" (Mark).  The Apostles walked through "Judea and Samaria" (Acts).  You adopt their narrative, religiously.

But we are no longer a "community" but a State and negative Christian perspectives do not peace make.

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A Pallywood Pic

Note - who are they looking at?

Not the Israelis.

The photographer.

Posed.  Found here.

Pallwood.

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The UN Doesn't Recognize the Temple Mount

INN is today reporting:

PA’s observer in the UN calls on the UN Security Council to prevent Israel’s “illegal activities” at the Temple Mount.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) complained to the United Nations on Wednesday over Israel’s actions at the Temple Mount.

Seems there's a statement posted on the website of the PA’s mission to the United Nations.

I went there, and found this from February 25, relating to:-

escalating acts of Israeli aggression, provocation and incitement in Occupied East Jerusalem and particularly at Al-Haram Al-Sharif, which houses the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque...
...Israeli extremists, including right-wing government officials, continue to incite and to attempt to breach the sanctity of Al-Haram Al-Sharif...[including] threats by Jewish extremists to breach the compound and raise Israeli flags there and in the context of a provocative debate launched in the Israeli Knesset aimed at passing legislation to impose Israeli sovereignty over Al-Haram Al-Sharif...the Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Moshe Feiglin...recently entered Al-Haram Al-Sharif under Israeli military escort and made provocative declarations regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque, a serious matter that we drew attention to in our letter of 20 February.

The official UN document.

Back in October, Mahmoud Abbas was contemplating doing this, saying:

“Israel has no right to split up the Al-Aqsa Mosque, neither physically nor in terms of prayer times,” Abbas said, and stressed that “all East Jerusalem is Palestinian.”

And in October three years ago, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

...voiced concern at recent episodes of tension at the Haram Ash-Sharif/Temple Mount compound in East Jerusalem, sacred to both Muslims and Jews, and the potential for further clashes, also citing the “sensitive excavations” by Israel in reconstructing a ramp to the site.

“We all share a responsibility to promote calm,” he declared...At a news conference in New York, Mr. Ban reiterated his warning that disturbances at the Haram Al-Sharif/Temple Mount compound and other events in Jerusalem can undermine trust throughout the region. “I call upon all to avoid provocative acts,” he said.

But more importantly, the UN met yesterday already on the issue.

Here is the General Assembly GA/PAL/1287

STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF COMMITTEE ON THE EXERCISE OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, ON THE SITUATION IN JERUSALEM

The Bureau...is alarmed by recent developments and increased tensions in Occupied East Jerusalem.
We are particularly concerned by the increasing incursions by Israeli extremists and political leaders, including Government officials, on the Al‑Aqsa Mosque compound.  These incidents provoke Palestinian and other Muslim worshippers and often lead to clashes, in which Palestinian civilians are injured, tear-gassed and detained.  In another worrying development, the Knesset recently began a debate on a bill to impose “Israeli sovereignty” over Al-Haram Al-Sharif.  Such actions with regard to this highly sensitive area provoke the Palestinians and may also be perceived as serious acts of incitement in the wider region.  Moreover, these actions undermine the current negotiations process, threatening the prospects for peace...

...The Bureau of the Committee wishes to reaffirm that East Jerusalem remains an integral part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and is subject to the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as affirmed by numerous Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.  Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention clearly states: “The occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

The question of East Jerusalem is a crucial permanent status issue.  A sovereign, contiguous and viable State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital and with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to all, is a core requirement for the achievement of a just and lasting peace.

The Bureau of the Committee calls on the Security Council to act without delay to address these alarming developments...The Committee will revisit this important issue at its upcoming Joint Meeting with the League of Arab States on 10 March 2014.

Shmoom me an Oom/Moon*.  They don't even use the term "Temple Mount".

Worthless ditherings.


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David Ben-Gurion was reported to have said in Hebrew, "Oom Shmoom", the United Nations is nothing.

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Disappointed by a Rabbi

I attended a lecture by Rabbi Sheldon Lewis.  He has authored a book, one whose theme is reconciliation.  He's here in Jerusalem and some of his activities are being facilitated by the US Embassy.  The lecture was entitled "Peace Making in the Jewish Tradition".

I cannot say I was overly impressed by his words.  First of all, there was Luba Eliav's book, "Shalom: Peace in Jewish Tradition" (1977) and others (here and also here).  From what I see, his follows the weekly portions which might be a new framework.

But when i did ask him a question,

I was astounded.

Following his comments on two previous questions, I framed my question relating to intra-Jewish matters.

I asked what could be done to encourage an understanding that just like the campaign of the Women of the Wall was mostly favorably appreciated and understood to be one of the right to freely worship within the Jewish tradition so, too, should be the campaign for a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount. The two should be viewed as parallel despite the political differences.

Lewis is a J Street supporter. He also supports Rabbis for Human Rights. He is to the far-left of Jewish politics.

How did he astound me?  By saying that there are certain things one cannot change and so better to leave it alone.

So simplistic.

So non-involved.  An abdicating attitude.

I doubt that is his orientation in matters about which he feels very strongly.

I felt disappointment as if he was copping-out.

Not inspiring as a Rabbi but par for the course of a leftist activist.

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From An 'Objective' State Dept. Report

On violence against Jews in Judea and Samaria:

There were also firebombings and other attacks on civilians in Jerusalem. In April a Palestinian man stabbed to death an Israeli settler at Tapuach Junction, south of Nablus, the first time an Israeli had been killed in the West Bank in 18 months. In September a Palestinian killed an Israeli soldier in Qalqilyah; the attacker and the victim were acquaintances. Although the Palestinian had a well-established criminal record unrelated to terrorism, the incident was listed on Shin Bet’s website as a terrorist act. Also in September an Israeli soldier in Hebron died from a bullet wound; the identity and nationality of the perpetrator remained unknown at year’s end. Shin Bet’s website also classified the October stabbing attack on a nine-year-old girl in the Israeli settlement of Psagot and the November killing of a retired Israeli colonel in the Jordan Valley, both carried out by Palestinians, as terrorist acts, although media reports indicated that both actions were failed robbery attempts. 

From:

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Report

February 27, 2014

Why not raise a doubt, right?

After all, killing Jews is not normative, or is it?

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UN Unit Snows Over Jewish YESHA Communiites

The UN even maps out "occupied" snowfall:

The snow was so heavy that it whitened out and covered every single Jewish community in Judea and Samaria.

And look what they do to Jerusalem, turning it into "settlements":-

And on second thought:-

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Rockthrowing

An EOZ find:

In America, rock-throwers get shot

The Obama Administration’s new Homeland Security Secretary announced Friday that the department plans to “review the department’s use of force policies.” Media reports indicate that there are ongoing discussions “about when border agents can use their guns.” Apparently, this review has been sparked by a border agent shooting a 41-year old man who struck the agent in the head with a rock near San Diego. (Go figure, a 41-year old rock thrower got shot.)
Wrongly, civil rights groups have criticized border the border patrol (who are overseen by Homeland Security) for allowing border agents to use deadly force against people who throw rocks at them. According to a report, agents were attacked with rocks 339 times in the 2011 budget year. Rock-throwing incidents were the most common assault reported. Agents responded with gunfire 33 times and with less-than-lethal force, including the use of pepper spray and batons, 118 times.

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If I Was Netanyahu's Speechwriter

Here is an excerpt from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 4 AIPAC speech:

...Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people  where the civil rights of all citizens, Jews and non-Jews alike, are guaranteed. The land of Israel is the place where the identity of the Jewish people was forged.  It was in Hebron that Abraham blocked [sic] the cave of the Patriarchs and the Matriarchs. It was in Bethel that Jacob dreamed his dreams. It was in Jerusalem that David ruled his kingdom. We never forget that, but it's time the Palestinians stopped denying history...

Here, if I were his speechwriter, is my version: 


It was in Hebron that Abraham bought the cave where our Patriarchs and Matriarchs are buried and which, until 1967, no Jew had been permitted for centuries by the Muslims, to enter or even ascend higher than the 7th step. It was in Bethel that Jacob dreamed his dreams and where he heard God's promise:

"I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

It was at Shiloh where the Children of Israel erected a Tabernacle and there Joshua distributed the Land into tribal portions and where he urged them

“How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you?" 

and he instructed them

“Go and make a survey of the land and write a description of it. Then return to me, and I will cast lots for you here at Shiloh in the presence of the Lord.”

At Shchem, a city the Romans named Nablus, as recorded in the Bible,

The bones of Joseph, which the Children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, were buried...in a parcel of land Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver 

It was in Jerusalem that David ruled his kingdom, having purchased the plot where the Temple would be constructed, built by his son, Solomon.  And where the returning exiles from Babylon, under the leadership of Ezra and Nechemiah, would rebuild it a second time.

The holiday of Chanukah, for example, is when we celebrate the rededication of the Temple and I remind you that almost all the battles our warrior forefathers won took place along the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria including Mitzpah, Beth Horon, Beth Zur, Ma'aleh Levona and Beit  Zachariya.  In these territories we were thyen "occupied" by being engaged in  a war of liberation against foreign rulers.  And it was Shimon the Maccabee who declared: 

"We have not occupied a foreign land; we have not ruled a foreign land; we have liberated the land of our forefathers from foreign occupation." 

Yes, my friends, we Jews have been constructing communities throughout the Land of Israel, by right, by promise of God, through purchase of property and by the right of our historical connection and of the decisions of the most supreme international institutions, for over 3000 years.  And not only the Bible and our cultural narrative is a proof but also scientific studies as well as the proof from out of the ground via archaeology.  Our history is inferior to none in this land. We have, indeed, reconstituted our state in our ancient homeland despite conquests and the occupations by foreigners.  We have asserted our rights.

Under the Mandate of Great Britain, our communities that had existed for centuries in Hebron, in Shchem and in Gaza underwent ethnic cleansing through violence and mob terror.  During the 1948 War of Independence, again Jews were forced out of their homes in Jerusalem's Old City and from newer communities such as the four kibbutzim of Gush Etzion, the Bet HaAravah kibbutz on the shores of the Dead Sea, and also the agricultural communities of Neveh Yaakov and Atarot north of Jerusalem.

Yehudah and Shomron, Judea and Samaria, are not foreign far-flung territories.  We have not acted as colonialists in building there.  Jews are not 'settling' but residing in those areas with their schools, their orchards, their factories and their children.

Ladies and Gentlemen of AIPAC, do not be fooled by Arab propaganda assertions, by anti-Zionist clap-trap or by misrepresentations of history and misreadings of international law.

I promise you, Jews will continue to reside and flourish in the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel, our patrimony even as I seek a diplomatic resolution to Arab hostility to even the idea of a Jewish state.  I will act to retain the necessary security requirements for Israel's existence and the safety of all its citizens.

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The Rabbi and John Kerry

Who is the Rabbi that accompanied Secretary John Kerry to the memorial of the martyrs in Kiev (which the State Dept. spells Kyiv):-

as he places a flower

as he crosses himself

I'm betting Chabad.

But which one?

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Two responses claim Rabbi Bleich.

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Hemmingway Clarifies

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Reacting to George Bernard Shaw

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Apartheid? Try Dhimmihood

From a book on my shelf (I my father bought it for me in 1968), starting on page 44:-

...it was the refusal of the Jews to accept the enlightenment of the faith [of Islam] that excluded them from the privileges and responsibilities conferred by the new religious community (Quran 2:137 --- "So if they believe in the same as you believe in, then they have been [rightly] guided; but if they turn away, they are only in dissension, and Allah will be sufficient for you against them.").  This split introduced...the fundamental principle of discrimination between the true believers and those that did npt accept the trachings of the Prophet...Muhammed allowed for a third group, Ahl el Kittab...the canon law of Islam elaborated the special laws for the 'dhimmis'...laid down the limitations and the conditions of inferiority to which the Jews was to be subjected...any breach of it entailed the forfeiture of his life...

How Jews (and Christians) paid the jizya tax:

“On the day of payment they [the dhimmis] shall be assembled in a public place like the suq. They should be standing there waiting in the lowest and dirtiest place. The acting officials representing the Law shall be placed above them and shall adopt a threatening attitude so that it seems to them, as well as to the others, that our object is to degrade them by pretending to take their possessions. They will realise that we are doing them a favour (again) in accepting from them the jizya and letting them (thus) go free. They then shall be dragged one by one (to the officer responsible) for the exacting of payment. When paying, the dhimmi will receive a blow and will be thrown aside so that he will think that he has escaped the sword through this (insult). This is the way that the friends of the Lord [sayyid: Muhammad], of the first and last generations will act toward their infidel enemies, for might belongs to Allah, to His Prophet, and to the believers.”

The laws:

...the belittling of dhimmis was achieved, not only through the jizya ritual, but also through the whole system of Sharia law as it applied to the dhimmi community...legal provisions were applied to dhimmis ensuring their humiliation and inferiority...The regulations characteristically included:
• Restrictions on marriage...
• Restrictions on worship and public displays of religious symbols...
• Legal disabilities, for example dhimmi testimony was not valid against a Muslim, and a dhimmi’s blood was worth less in law than a Muslim’s...
• No dhimmi could exercise authority over a Muslim
• Many restrictions on housing, public appearance, status and behaviour (such requiring distinctive clothing or coloured patches to mark dhimmi status — the yellow patch for Jews was a medieval Islamic invention)
• Purity regulations (especially in Shi’ite areas) which limited the movement and participation of dhimmis in society.

More

Our glorious faith only allows them the marks of lowliness and degradation...
...the Hebrew of Morocco is despised and scorned.

Articles.

And today.

And this, too:

In 1836 Edward Lane published his classic work, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. He reports that cursing of dhimmis was taught as part of a Muslim’s educational formation:

“I am credibly informed that children in Egypt are often taught at school, a regular set of curses to denounce upon the persons and property of Christians, Jews, and all other unbelievers in the religion of Mohammad.”[32]

These curses are recorded by Lane in an appendix. In essence they describe looting, killing of men and enslavement of women and children, which is the lot of dhimmis when they have no protection and are subjected to jihad. These curses are in fact a prayer that the dhimma will be set aside and as such they served to impart the theological requirements of the dhimma to the minds of Muslim children.

This world view is far from dead. On March 6, 2009, Al-Rahma TV in Egypt presented a broadcast in which a child calls down curses upon Jews in similar fashion, expressing a wish that the men will be killed, women widowed, and children orphaned[33]

“Oh Allah, completely destroy and shatter the Jews. Oh Allah, torment them with a disease that has no cure or remedy. Send a thunderbolt down upon them from Heaven. Oh Allah, torment them with every kind of torment.... Oh Allah, turn their women into widows — just like Muslim women were widowed. Allah, turn their children into orphans — just like Muslim children were orphaned.”[34]

[[32]] E.W. Lane, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (London: John Murray, 5th edition, 1860), note 1, p.276.
[[33]] “Egyptian cleric teaches a child to memorize antisemitic messages on Al-Rahma TV and explains: the understanding of what he said will come”, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) TV clip #2093. Al-Rahma TV, March 6, 2009, viewed May 4, 2010: URL: www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2093.htm
[[34]] Ibid: transcript.

In 1917, Jamal Pasha (4th from left)

threatened the Jews of Jaffa and Jerusalem with the same fate of the Armenians.


When do we start the Islam Apartheid Week?


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A "Which Country Is That?" Quiz

Which country is that?

 “The country is in the grip of outright terror and violence driven by the West.”

Israel?

Well, you get a point for relevance.

But no.

 ǝuıɐɹʞn

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