Blood Libel and ‘Peace’ — A Bad Middle Eastern Mix
But if in the Western world — not to belittle virulent European anti-Israelism and, to a lesser extent, anti-Semitism — an article like Boström’s in a mainstream paper is still unusual, the same cannot be said for the Arab and Muslim world. Israel National News reports that:
Muslim governments are taking advantage of the Ramadan TV season to broadcast anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda, some of it reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda that preceded the Holocaust. … Programs about Israel and the Jewish people are considered top rating draws among Arab media, and each year government-controlled TV stations across the Middle East broadcast programs themed around the supposed treachery committed by Israel or the Jewish people against the Muslims and the world in general.
Offerings include, for instance, a Syrian-produced series called al-Shatat, being shown in Iran this year, that purports to depict the perennial Jewish effort to take over the globe. In it Jewish characters make statements such as “we have been granted an unparalleled honor — to dominate the world, by means of capital, knowledge, politics, by means of killing, or any other ploy.”
The thirty-episode al-Shatat has even been carried in Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. And as for Israel’s other official peace partner, Egypt, “no fewer than five new series being broadcast on Egyptian TV this year revolve around Israel and the Jews” — and none of them, it goes without saying, laudatory.
Notice this discord, then, and talk about it — relentless diplomatic activity aimed at “peace,” with the pressure centering overwhelmingly on Israel, in an environment of crude hatred — and you’re called “right-wing.” But, however one wants to call it, the discord exists and is glaring.
And it goes beyond discord to something worse — betrayal. Betrayal, that is, of some of the most fundamental values espoused by some of the very people — who include, no doubt, a good many dovish Israelis and Jews — who most fervently push for Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli “peace” while convincing themselves that the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish bigotry that is, lamentably, routine in the Arab world is somehow tangential or can be easily overcome despite being rooted in lifetimes of indoctrination.
Publicly express such bigotry — against Jews or others — in the Western world (with exceptions like Aftonbladet) and your career can be ruined. It’s considered shocking, and rightly so. But turn to the Middle East and the screws get turned on the democracy, Israel, which once again is supposed to come up with some package of concessions — the latest is “settlement freeze” — that can conciliate the purveyors of myths of organ-harvesting and the like.
“we have been granted an unparalleled honor — to dominate the world, by means of capital, knowledge, politics, by means of killing, or any other ploy.”
My eye lit on that sentence and I had to read back to see whether it was a purported Jewish statement or a straightforward Arab statement.
Is there any question about Obama’s priorities?
Yes, the contradiction, the hypocrisy, is there and it’s glaring. Those determined not to see it, or who don’t really care about it, aren’t going to change, but good to shine the light on it anyway.
When truth and freedom are at odds, which describes the portion of the Arab street which follows the deformed souls of Nasrallah, Ahmadinezhad, and their ilk; real peace is not attainable.
But when Arabs follow Sheik al-Hoziel, as described here, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277926716&pagename =JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull , as well as Nonie Darwish, Bat Yeor, Wafa Sultan, Walid Shoebat
and those who prioritize life the way they do, a far different scenario arises. Which is far more preferable to what the deformed souls deliver.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277926716&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
should be the link, instead of what I posted before.
This world system hates Jews. Don’t you folks know that by now? The Jews brought morality to the world from Noah to Moses.
Those who rule this world system want to be as G-d. The oldest lie in the Bible. They do not want morality, and the fact that Israel exists again shows G-d will do as he stated.
Those who try, and divide Israel will be divided. Those who curse Israel will be cursed. G-d will not be mocked.
What I just wrote is hate speech in the New World Order of the Ages. As a Christian, I am not welcome in the New Age. All false religion are welcome, and that includes believers in allah. Just ask the UN, and Lucis Trust.
Could the arabs be projecting??
I remember reading during the Lebanon war in 1982, that in a PLO controlled medical clinic in southern Lebanon, a few young men were found hanging on meat hooks with tubes draining their blood into containers. The young men were supposed to be local Shiites who had somehow fallen afoul of the PLO which ruled the area at the time.
I haven’t seen any further discussion of this since then.