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Even in Israel, the media won’t call jihad jihad

Sep 30, 2014 9:23 am By Robert Spencer

NathanielRoieAramiNathaniel Roi Arami fell to his death at a construction site in Israel. An “Arab co-worker” was questioned and released, but now the “incident is now being investigated as a possible nationalistically-related murder.”

There is nothing unique about this story. It is one of many just like it that have come before, and many more like it will surely follow. But it epitomizes the willful ignorance that blankets not only Israel, but the U.S. and the West in general, on this issue. If Nathaniel Roi Arami was murdered, it wasn’t because his killer was an “Arab” who was acting for “nationalistic reasons.” The foes of the Israelis are not the Arabs. There are Christian Arabs in Israel who are loyal to the state, and who are joining the IDF in increasing numbers. The foes of Israel are Muslims who believe, in the words of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood that are quoted in the Hamas Charter, that “Israel will arise and will remain until Islam obliterates it.” These Muslims are not opposed to Israel for “nationalistic reasons.” If they were, they would have taken numerous opportunities to establish a “Palestinian” state, beginning with the UN partition in 1948. If this were a “nationalistic” struggle, the “Palestinians” would have fought against the Egyptians and Jordanians with the same fury and tenacity with which they fight Israel when Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) from 1948 to 1967.

But the Jerusalem Post, like every other mainstream media newspaper in the world, doesn’t dare report the facts of this case, which would render the headline this way: “Police investigating falling death as possible jihad murder.” And in the story: “During an initial investigation into the case, a Muslim co-worker was questioned by police, but released after denying any wrongdoing.” Even though those are the facts of the case and explain much more accurately why there is a possibility that Nathaniel Roi Arami was murdered, neither the Jerusalem Post nor any other news outlet would ever report the story that way. Why is that?

It’s the same thing with our AFDI counter-jihad ads. The latest ad campaign in New York City received massive international publicity, and every last story was negative. Whence this lockstep? Is there not a single reporter in the world who thinks outside the box, and thinks that speaking the truth about the jihad terror threat is a good thing? I don’t see how any good can come from all this willful ignorance — particularly in Israel, which stands on the front lines of the global jihad. How can the Israelis defeat an enemy they cannot define or name properly?

The kneejerk objection is always that not all Muslims are determined to destroy Israel, and not all Muslims are moderates who turn into jihadis, etc., and so it is misleading and dangerous to speak about the Islamic derivation of this murderous violence and supremacism. Yet if the peaceful Muslims really oppose all this, why should they object to an honest diagnosis of its provenance, and stand with us against these evils?

“Police investigating falling death as possible nationalistic murder,” by Daniel K. Eisenbud, Jerusalem Post, September 30, 2014:

Lifted gag order reveals family of Nathaniel Roi Arami believes he was killed at Petah Tikva work site for nationalistic reasons.

Two weeks after police said a fatal Petah Tikva construction death was the result of an accident, a lifted court-sanctioned gag order on Tuesday stated that the incident is now being investigated as a possible nationalistically-related murder.

On September 16, Nathaniel Roi Arami, 26, fell to his death while repelling from the eleventh floor of the central Israel construction site. However, it remained unclear how the married father of two, who was expecting a third child, lost control.

During an initial investigation into the case, an Arab co-worker was questioned by police, but released after denying any wrongdoing. However, according to members of Arami’s family, the fall was no accident.

“He was a champion at repelling work,” his father told police. “We always talked about the dangers and he assured me that he was safe.”

Arami’s brother echoed his father’s sentiments. “This was not a work accident,” he said. “Nathaniel was known as an expert in the field. He was very strict and safety always came first with him.”…

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  1. TAD says

    Sep 30, 2014 at 10:29 am

    The “lockstep” and “kneejerk objection” of course are only explainable in a psychiatric context – to acknowledge the real problem (Islam/Sharia) would mean to have to act on it, and who has the energy for that…

    How the lockstep is carried out and enforced, of course, has been reported on previously by Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller:

    https://www.spj.org/divguidelines.asp
    Guidelines for Countering Racial, Ethnic and Religious Profiling
    (Sampling):

    On Oct. 6, 2001 at its National Convention in Seattle, the Society of Professional Journalists passed a resolution urging members and fellow journalists to take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to reaffirm their commitment to:

    — Use language that is informative and not inflammatory;

    — Portray Muslims, Arabs and Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans in the richness of their diverse experiences;

    — Seek truth through a variety of voices and perspectives that help audiences understand the complexities of the events in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C.

    — Seek out people from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds when photographing Americans mourning those lost in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

    — Seek out people from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds when photographing rescue and other public service workers and military personnel.

    — Do not represent Arab Americans and Muslims as monolithic groups. Avoid conveying the impression that all Arab Americans and Muslims wear traditional clothing.

    — Use photos and features to demystify veils, turbans and other cultural articles and customs.

    Which always raises the question, who appointed journalists “the keepers of the Islam”?

    • somehistory says

      Sep 30, 2014 at 11:13 am

      Good question.

      • TAD says

        Sep 30, 2014 at 7:35 pm

        Then there is the other question of why Israel itself continues to ignore the true nature of the conflict. Islam is the elephant in the Middle East living room! I had the opportunity to attend the Jerusalem Post conference in NYC a couple of years ago and asked a panel of Israelis exactly this (unfortunately, I did not get to ask an earlier panel full of Israeli brass).

        This panel had Alan Dershowitz on it. I pointed out that the conflict in the Middle East is no mystery, and asked why no one in Israel is studying Islam. I said all the answers to the conflict lay within it, in the Islamic imperative to convert, subjugate or kill infidels in general, but Jews in particular. Dershowitz, who in general I like, and who is not lacking in intelligence, filibustered me, going on and on and on invoking nothing but moral equivalence in the most ignorant manner one could imagine. On the subject of Islam, Dershowitz knows NOTHING. (And he was chosen to help negotiate peace settlements with Abbas!?!)

        Why are Israelis refusing to know or understand their mortal enemy? Part of it is a heavily liberal, partly communist tradition that goes back to the beginnings of Israel among some of the early settlers, a tradition that blinds otherwise decent people to the fact there are some really sick people in the world (like Sharia-compliant Jihadis) who only respond to and will stop short of nothing other than their own violent containment. What the rest is, I am waiting to find out.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Oct 1, 2014 at 9:06 am

          Don’t forget: half of the population of modern Israel is – or is descended from – people who lived for *centuries* as dhimmis within the dar al Islam.

          It takes a massive psychological effort to shake off the chains of dhimmitude. Some Jews within Israel, of Mizrahi background, have done that – have lost their chains – but I’d hazard the guess that many are still, so to speak, “bound”.

    • Biff H says

      Sep 30, 2014 at 9:24 pm

      Portray Muslims… in the richness of their diverse experiences
      —
      Jihad is not a diverse experience? Isn’t that rich!

    • terry says

      Oct 1, 2014 at 8:33 am

      In essence, just tell lies and call it truth. How sad.

  2. Silvia says

    Sep 30, 2014 at 11:26 am

    Robert, you are wrong! It’s not “ignorance” at all. It’s DELIBERATE lying to the public. They don’t want the public to get outraged against arabs.

    Have you heard about Shelly Daddon? 2 months or so before the latest war, the 20 year old girl was on her way to a job interview. One way or the other, she found herself in the cab of an “Israeli arab” from the Galilee. They didn’t give all the details but the beast stabbed her multiple times. Originally, the police tried to keep it all under wraps but in this day and age its impossible. They even tried to pass it as a “regular murder” but eventually had to admit it was a terror act.

    You can see the pics of the murderer and the young girl here
    http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/10/2761840

    • Denver says

      Sep 30, 2014 at 1:16 pm

      Imagine had WWII been managed in a similar vein. We’d all be speaking German.

    • SallyA says

      Sep 30, 2014 at 4:52 pm

      @ Sylvia: Deliberate lying of the leadership in politics and media, agreed, is circumstantially proven by decades of recent Western history. Hard for people to wrap their heads around chronic deliberate lying by “elected” leaders (really elected by whoever pays their campaign costs, including undisclosed donors under Citizens United, with the costs an ever-growing tab in high-tech mass marketing to low-information voters who make up huge hunks of the electorate in the U.S.)

      Our U.S. electoral system no longer rocks as practiced in the 21st century by those who cheat us to win their own profiteering places in the global oligarchy, with no true caring for the lives of voters who put them there and through taxes pay their inflated salaries and perqs.

  3. Craig says

    Sep 30, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    Reports from Israel stated that his rope had been deliberately cut. This was mentioned in previous articles on Arutz Sheva.

  4. Tradewinds says

    Sep 30, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    Are you calling Spencer an idiot?

  5. SallyA says

    Sep 30, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    Re: article’s question: “Is there not a single reporter in the world who thinks outside the box, and thinks that speaking the truth about the jihad terror threat is a good thing?”

    Since the 1980’s the vast majority of employing U.S. news outlets (newspapers, now blogs, etc.) of reporters have done these things: (1) fired or forced departure of any reporter who thinks outside the PC MC box and damned them with faint praise for potential later employment (or defended employment litigation settled confidentially with gag provisions in the settlement agreements, accepted by the dismissed reporters just trying economically to survive), (2) hired only reporters who will value their paychecks more than thinking outside the box, and/or (3) killed at the supervising editor level any story that would not fit the PC MC meme which includes global oligarchic propaganda denying the truth about murderous, deceptive Islam as a social cancer seeking world conquest.

    Dependency of the populace on and Western profiteering from ME/Islamic-controlled big oil has also been a factor, obviously, in the Western political whitewashing about Islam.

    We no longer have a “free” press as too many Americans still believe it exists (because of what we’ve been taught, falsely, in public school, our culture, etc.) among our MSM western media providers of “news.” Money and press ownership, profiting from the PC MC meme and the related Islamic petrodollars of obscenely rich Muslim oligarchs, has trumped truth telling in our news. It’s hard to give up this cherished illusion of a “free” press, but worth it because denial is always contrary to self-preservation.

    Jihadists as terrorists and soldiers become tools of murderous social control and manipulation, used by oligarchs for billionaire profiteering purposes as billions of women, men and children mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically suffer and are enslaved by horrors perpetrated by rank-and-file fundamentalist Muslims. Everybody’s being used below the top tier of major-player profiteers, and terror proliferates along with deceit.

    Call it fascism, call it communism, call it Putin’s post-communist authoritarianism, call it one-world global corporatism, call it George Soros, call it Koch brothers, call it Obama’s pro-Islamic anti-colonialism, it is all of these and always against the interests of the majority of the people who simply want to live freely, create happily according to their talents, provide good for their children, and connect to the world around them.

    Islam is a particularly effective tool of oligarchy and the oligarchs profiteering at a distance because the jihadists are inflame with violent religious group insanity and they work without pay in their brainwashed beliefs that they are doing it for their mentally ill idea of a deity. Islamic sources of course set up schools and community centers and provide survival basics of food, shelter and clothing to jihadists, but they don’t have to pay the lone wolves or small cells assassin fees or even a military salary because religious zeal replaces the money system in the rank-and-file jihadist’s mind.

    IS with its payments to recruited soldiers is a modern trend more like a traditional military, so of course Obama and his administration (which wants Islam as a U.S.-destroying tool to exist, because the U.S. as an authentically free nation no longer fits what the UN/One-world oligarchs want) are not going to stop IS with the ineffectually plotted current air strikes.

    The “campaign” of Obama against IS will be long, expensive, protracted and ultimately ineffectual against hydra-headed jihad. He or another of his ilk as POTUS will lie and mislead the majority who could never live with themselves if they lied as he does, and therefore they cannot believe that his lies are so multilayered and chronic as they are.

    It’s almost boring to think about how predictable Western oligarchic leaders have become. Lies, then the appearance of incompetence or claim not to have known, with a plea to be understood. Predictable. The pattern has not changed in decades. Most of our leaders are untrustworthy to the core. Greedy. Self-centered. Traitorous. Predictable.

    I hope more of us wake up to reality. From there we might develop strategies for becoming authentically free once again. Islam, the religion of death and deception, can only enslave, torture and/or torment us.

  6. eknecht says

    Sep 30, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    “He was a champion at repelling work” makes him sound like a third-generation welfare queen. It’s “rappelling”; your link to jpost brings up an article from Oct 1, not Sep 30, and they’re using the correct word, so seems to be fixed there (although the comments use “repel”). Perhaps a [sic] is in order.

  7. prman says

    Oct 1, 2014 at 1:35 am

    Yes, the word is “rapelling,” not “repelling.” The original article spells it correctly. Whoever typed the story misspelled the word.

  8. R Davis says

    Oct 1, 2014 at 6:49 am

    THIS IS LAWLESSNESS
    AND LAWLESSNESS IS RAMPED
    ARE AUSTRALIA’S FEDERAL POLICE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE ?
    A CRIMINAL ACT IS JUST THAT
    A BREACH OF THE LAWS OF THE NATION
    CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
    AND THE PERPETRATOR IS APPREHENDED BY POLICE, QUESTIONED & CHARGED ACCORDINGLY.
    ALL THIS RUNNING AROUND LIKE CHICKEN LITTLE, SCREAMING “jihad, jihad” IS ONLY MAKING EXCUSES FOR A CRIMINAL ACT HAVING BEEN COMMITTED.
    IT DOES NOT HELP THE POLICE IN THEIR ALREADY DANGEROUS JOB TO MAINTAIN LAW & ORDER.
    Sorry Robert but I don’t see it as productive –
    If I go & rob the local milkbar in the dead of night, wearing a cross – the Holy Bible in one hand & rosary beads in the other & singing Ave Maria – Robert they Australian police will arrest me for break & enter & willfully stealing that which is not mine & not Roman Catholic jihad.
    Stay cool man !

  9. Jerry says

    Oct 1, 2014 at 10:20 am

    The cover up of the malignant nature of Islam is not entirely limited to the lunatic left.

    In Israel even some right wing activist leaders deliberately ignore the malignancy of Islam.

    It is partly due to a degree of self delusion that from a position of strength, one could negotiate peaceful coexistence with the non-existent “moderate Islam” where reason could prevail.

    It is also partly due to the better informed and more realistic right wing leaders fearing that fully exposing the true malignant nature of Islam to their constituency will demoralise some of their constituency into helpless sense of despair.

    The true solution, unfortunately, would be to combat Islam with uncompromising ruthlessness and harshness that would shock decent non violent non-Muslim Western People and would go against their notion of what should be permissible under Western Civilised “rule of law”.

    Unpalatable, but necessary if we want to defend our lives and the lives and future of our children and grandchildren.

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