On April 30, Mahmoud Abbas addressed the opening session of the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah. This is the 13th year of his four-year term, and he thought it was time. Among other things, in his 90-minute speech he delivered himself of his thoughts on “the Jews.” These were so appalling that even The New York Times called for his resignation after his “vile” speech.
Abbas noted that the Jews in eastern and western Europe had been periodically subjected to massacres over the centuries, culminating in the Holocaust.
“But why did this used to happen?” he asked. “They say, ‘It is because we are Jews.’ I will bring you three Jews, with three books who say that enmity towards Jews was not because of their religious identity but because of their social function.”
“This is a different issue. So the Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe was not against their religion but against their social function which relates to usury [unscrupulous money-lending] and banking and such.”
This is one of the oldest charges made by antisemites in the West (Muslim antisemitism has a different basis). It was the “Jewish bankers” whom Henry Ford, America’s most powerful antisemite, railed against in his paper, The Dearborn Independent. Jewish bankers, in this view, were scheming manipulators (apparently non-Jewish bankers were splendid fellows, working only for the good of humanity), whom Ford insisted had fomented so many conflicts, including World War I, in order to be in a position to make money from all sides, by lending at extortionate rates to the warring parties. Indeed, Ford published a four-volume set of antisemitic pamphlets under the collective title “The International Jew.”
Before Ford’s “International Jew,” but similarly focused on the theme of powerful, scheming Jews, was the antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purported to be the record of a secret meeting where powerful Jews laid out their plans for creating a global Jewish hegemony by subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling the press and the world’s economies.
What Mahmoud Abbas said about Jews as financiers and bankers who were persecuted, even slaughtered, because of what he called their “social function,” is standard-issue antisemitism in the West.
Perhaps Abbas, in the heat of his rambling rant in Ramallah, temporarily forgot he was being recorded, or more likely, since what he said there was not greatly different from what he has said or written before, he didn’t think his latest remarks would cause much trouble. After all, Mahmoud Abbas had managed to survive the accusations of Holocaust denial based on his 1982 doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.” In that dissertation, he had claimed that the figure of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust had been grossly inflated (presumably to increase sympathy for Jews) and that before World War II, the “Zionist” leadership had even cooperated with the Nazis.
Abbas, who called his latest speech a “history lesson,” mentioned an agreement whereby Adolf Hitler facilitated the immigration of Jews to Mandatory Palestine. In that short-lived arrangement, over 60,000 German Jews immigrated to Palestine during the 1930s, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. While Holocaust deniers, like Abbas, say the agreement showed collaboration between the Nazis and Zionist leaders, such Holocaust historians as Deborah Lipstadt and Rainer Schulze say it was a narrow, cynical agreement on the Nazis’ part, agreed upon by a desperate Zionist group in an attempt to save as many Jewish lives as possible at a time of increasing German persecution.
Abbas also said that most of Europe’s Jews stayed put because they thought their money was more important than their lives. They “opted for murder and slaughter” by the Nazis over emigration to British-held Palestine.
This remark is both cruel and ignorant. Europe’s Jews, in fact, did not “stay put” voluntarily. They did not opt “for murder and slaughter” by the Nazis in Europe where, Abbas claimed, they remained, those money-grubbers whom he suggested were willing to risk their lives by remaining, in order to hold onto their property. How, and where, could those millions of Jews have fled? If you were a Jew in Eastern Europe, or in France, or other countries not yet conquered by the Germans, perhaps you would continue to believe that mass murders of Jews was mere rumor. For many Jews, by the time they realized what the Nazis intended, it was too late for them to flee. Only a handful were being admitted to other countries. In particular, those who tried to make it to Palestine, the one place that certainly ought to have been open to them as their refuge, found the ships transporting them were stopped before they could reach their destination and unload their desperate human cargo. They were turned back by the British who, in order to please the Arabs (for whom Hitler was a popular favorite), had committed themselves by a White Paper of 1939 to admit only 15,000 Jews a year — for five years — into Palestine. Many Jews — some estimates suggest as many as a million — might have been saved had the British not been so eager to curry favor with the Arabs. But that’s not something any Arab leader, least of all Abbas, has had the decency to recognize.
Abbas has also made astonishing claims in the past about the murderous malevolence of Jews. In 2016, he made apparently unscripted remarks to the European Parliament, where he said that “a number of rabbis in Israel made a clear declaration and asked their government to poison water to kill the Palestinians.” This may be considered a Muslim variant on the old charge about Jews soaking matzoh in the blood of Christian children.
He gave no source for the accusation, but said it was part of a wider Israeli campaign of incitement against Palestinians. His office later admitted the claim was baseless and retracted it.
When Abbas was this time called out, not just by Israeli and Jewish leaders, but by the E.U., by the U.N., by Germany, by the United States, he issued a curious apology.
The apology consisted of two parts. First, “If people were offended by my statement in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize to them,” Abbas said in the statement. “I would like to assure everyone that it was not my intention to do so, and to reiterate my full respect for the Jewish faith, as well as other monotheistic faiths.”
Second, he said that he condemned the Holocaust as a “heinous crime,” the “most heinous crime in history.” Of course, to be mollified by his condemning the Holocaust is certainly setting the bar abysmally low. No one thought at the time of his denunciation of the Holocaust — it did occur to some later on — to bring up Abbas’s long record of writing about the mass murder of European Jewry and, in particular, his grotesque claim of collusion between Zionists and Nazis, and his contributing to that form of Holocaust denial that consists in claiming that the number of Jewish dead has been deliberately exaggerated in order to win sympathy for the Jews, the Zionist Jews, in Israel.
An apology for such matters means little. Abbas did not, after all, say he was wrong in his statements about Jewish behavior as the cause of European persecution of Jews. He only said that he apologized if he’d offended anyone, which he claims was not his intention. He certainly didn’t intend to offend his audience of fellow “Palestinians” with his claims about Jews: they lapped it up.
Now that the issue of his antisemitic remarks has been brought to the world’s attention, and even the New York Times has called on him to resign — “Let Abbas’s vile words be his last as Palestinian leader” — this would be a good time to publicly ask Mahmoud Abbas some questions to discover what, in fact, he believes to be the truth about Jews and the Holocaust. Think of it as, for all of us, a teaching moment.
Here are a few such questions that come swimmingly to mind:
Mr. Abbas, do you think antisemitism in Europe is a result of what Jews did, or was it the mere fact that they were Jews? Are you aware that the chief reason that some Jews became money-lenders in the Middle Ages was that they were providing a needed service, given that the Catholic Church forbade charging interest? Do you accept that 99% of Europe’s Jews had nothing to do with finance or banking in the medieval period, but Jews were the objects of massacres just the same, as “Christ-killers”?
In your doctoral dissertation in 1982, “The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism” (Arabic: al-Wajh al-Akhar: al-‘Alaqat as-Sirriya bayna an-Naziya wa’s-Sihyuniya), which was published in 1984 in Arabic, President Abbas, you claimed that the number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust had been exaggerated. That is a charge often made by Holocaust deniers — that the numbers have been exaggerated in order to win sympathy for Jews. Do you now accept the figure of six million murdered Jews, a figure that reputable historians unanimously agree on?
In the late 1930s, the British, who controlled Mandatory Palestine, in order to win Arab support against the Axis, decided to limit Jewish immigration to Palestine to 15,000 Jews annually, for five years. That is why the British turned back ships loaded with refugees bound for Palestine, and why, in many cases, Jews did not even try to make it to Palestine, during the early days of the war, deeming it futile. What do you think about that limit put on Jewish immigration by the British, to win Arab approval, at a time of maximum peril for Europe’s Jews? Do you think the British were wrong?
Do you still believe, as you wrote in your 1982 dissertation, that there was “collusion” between the Nazis and the Zionists? Could you explain, in greater detail, what you meant by that? Do you mean anything more that at one point, by the Havaara Agreement in 1933, a group of German Zionists helped rescue Jews by facilitating the sale of their German properties, and helping bring them, and their now-liquid assets, to Palestine, assets with which, it was agreed with the German government, they would then buy German exports? A Jewish boycott of German goods elsewhere was also called off. Other than that most limited agreement by only one German Zionist group, at the very beginning of the Nazi period, to save 60,000 Jews, in an agreement that was more extortion than “collusion,” the Nazis and the Zionists never collaborated.
Are you aware, President Abbas, of the role played by Hajj Amin el Husseini, who was the Mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of the “Palestinian” Arabs in the 1930s and 1940s, who met with Hitler and encouraged the “Final Solution”? Did you know that Haj Amin el Husseini helped raise a Waffen-SS Division composed entirely of Bosnian Muslims? Should “Palestinian” Arabs learn about this history?
What do you think of the manifesto written by a former editor of Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Val, and recently signed by 300 French intellectuals, writers, philosophers, as well as a former President, three former Prime Ministers, a former mayor of Paris, and many others of note, including five imams, who claim that there are numerous antisemitic verses in the Qur’an, that should somehow be rendered “obsolete” or “frozen” — that is, no longer regarded as valid? Some Muslims have responded with fury, claiming this is only “bigotry.” Would this be something you could support?
In answering the last question, you denied that there are some passages in the Qur’an that certainly might be considered antisemitic. What then, do you have to say about the twenty-six Qur’anic verses just below, that are cited by sura and ayat, along with helpful summaries of their antisemitic contents?
The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the wellbeing of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.
You don’t deny, do you, the validity of these verses? Or stories, of a similar vein, in the hadith? What, if anything, do you think should or could be done about these verses? Do you accept that “freezing” them, as the signers of the recent French manifesto declared, would be a good idea? Or does such an idea horrify you, as an example of Western “bigotry” towards Islam?
You appear to be suggesting that these verses apply only to a particular time and place, not to Jews today? But what then do you make of the Qur’anic commentators who appear to believe that if anything, the true meaning of these verses is harsher toward the Jews? Robert Spencer has given examples of these commentators, including the most important one, Ibn Kathir, on the subject of the Jews:
The classic Qur’anic commentators not do not mitigate the Qur’an’s words against Jews, but only add fuel to the fire. Ibn Kathir explained Qur’an 2:61 (“They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of Allah”) this way: “This Ayah [verse] indicates that the Children of Israel were plagued with humiliation, and that this will continue, meaning that it will never cease. They will continue to suffer humiliation at the hands of all who interact with them, along with the disgrace that they feel inwardly.” Another Middle Ages commentator of lingering influence, Abdallah ibn Umar al-Baidawi, explains the same verse this way: “The Jews are mostly humiliated and wretched either of their own accord, or out of coercion of the fear of having their jizya [punitive tax] doubled.”
Ibn Kathir notes Islamic traditions that predict that at the end of the world, “the Jews will support the Dajjal (False Messiah), and the Muslims, along with ‘Isa [Jesus], son of Mary, will kill the Jews.” The idea in Islam that the end times will be marked by Muslims killing Jews comes from the prophet Muhammad himself, who said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’” This is, not unexpectedly, a favorite motif among contemporary jihadists.
Not just contemporary jihadists, but modern-day mainstream Islamic authorities take these passages seriously. The former Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, who was the most respected cleric in the worl”d among Sunni Muslims, called Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.” The late Saudi sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudayyis, imam of the principal mosque in the holiest city in Islam, Mecca, said in a sermon that Jews are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”
Another Saudi sheikh, Ba’d bin Abdallah al-Ajameh al-Ghamidi, made the connection explicit: “The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places … is connected with the deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam–which proves the great similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of Islam.
President Abbas,what did you think of Ibn Kathir’s remarks about Jews and the End Times that will be marked by Muslims killing Jews? Tell us, too, what you think of the former Grand Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi calling Jews “the descendants of apes and pigs”? He wasn’t referring to Jews 1400 years ago, but to Jews today. Or what about the late Saudi imam of the main mosque in Mecca, who in a sermon called the Jews “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, the offspring of apes and pigs”?
It would be fascinating to hear, President Abbas, what you think of what many of us believe — see the four paragraphs above — can most accurately be described as Islamic antisemitism.
President Abbas, in your “apology,” you said you were sorry if anyone had found your speech “offensive,” that it had not been your intent to offend anyone. But you never said you were wrong in your analysis of the reasons for hostility toward the Jews in Europe — that it was their fault, a reflection of their unacceptable behavior, “in their social function which relates to usury [unscrupulous money-lending] and banking and such.” Do you think you were wrong?
With his revealing Ramallah speech and subsequent hollow “apology,” Mahmoud Abbas has provided the opening needed by islamocritics — a useful word that needs to be put into much wider circulation — to ask him just a few questions about antisemitism, or antisemitisms, Christian and Islamic. Those questions — a few suggestions are given above — could be sent to him in Ramallah. He could be invited to deliver his answers either in writing, or by videotaping a response, to the major Western media. The answers Mahmoud Abbas provides, or fails to provide, should prove instructive.
Sarah says
As a Westerner, I can’t say that I’m actually offended by what he has said.
Frankly, it’s just white noise. All it does is reinforce to me, that the fat bastard in the picture up there, is nothing but a parasite.
He can view the Jewish and the state of Israel however he chooses. Just like how I choose to view him as nothing more than an inbred primitive who is a pointless waste of finite resources, to which if he were aflame in front of me, I wouldn’t even deign to urinate on him, to put the fire out.
PRCS says
An overt parasite.
As Hugh notes: year 13 of his four-year term.
Strangerinastrangeland says
I agree. To act surprised that Muslims hate Jews on a visceral level without reason means that you are a Democrat.
Debra Jamieson says
Why does hate have to continue… Grow a pair..
Aaron says
I have to admit something I thought that I would never have to admit. On this subject, I have to agree that he’s right. Jews have been revolutionaries ever since they denied Messiah, and since that time they haven’t been jews at all. The Gospel of John makes this change in the meaning of the term Jew clear, “….(of the blind man) his parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews”. Wait, but weren’t they also “jews” no longer in this context. To be a jew means you deny the logos and take refuge in your biological race, then isn’t this what Nazism also was? As Jesus said, if you live by the sword you’ll die by the sword. So if your sword happens to be a Logos denying racism.
I know this site is pro-jewish, but the fact is both Islam and Rabbinical Judaism are just different aspects of the same sin–and at least with Islam there is no racism.
gravenimage says
I see the foul “Aaron” is both claiming that Jews don’t exist and calling for their slaughter again.
And no–Jesus was not calling for the genocide of the Jews.
Hectort Archytas says
I hear the same speech in the center of Manchester in UK. It does not seem to be the exception.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
PRCS says
“Muslim antisemitism has a different basis.”
For them, a twofer.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Western financial institutions have established sharia-compliant finance regulations intended to bring financial practices in line with Islamic norms.
addition to lending legitimacy to sharia law, these initiatives also have the effect of giving Islamic interests increased leverage over Western markets.
What needs to be understood here as is how western financial institutions are funding Islamic ideology.
One of the stipulations of sharia finance is that companies establish sharia advisory boards composed of Islamic clerics and scholars.
Another rule requires that 2.5 percent per year of portfolio funds goes to charities.
Who decides which charities will benefit? : the Islamic scholars and clerics.
What sort of charities do they favor? : those “charities” that promote Islamic ideology.
bodega says
Being Jewish by DNA and not by culture or religious upbringing (much to my regret), I find the irresolution of the western nations to thwart such as Abbas has said here (and done there) to be an anathema. It is especially despicable that Eastern Europe and especially the Brits never owned up to how they have treated the Jews especially during WWII. Our own government, FDR especially included, was equally at fault for allowing the hunting and killing of Jews by Nazis. There is no atonement in my eyes for these actions.
I do understand better how it happened and regret the Jews were too naive to see it at the time. How it happened is that the British government had many pro Nazi infiltrators just as ours did. No land, not even their native lands would accept them as they searched for a land that wouldn’t prosecute them. Muslims are directly responsible for that and they, too, will finally answer to it at their deaths.
All those who contributed directly or indirectly to the Holocaust and the misery of the Jews based on lies and innuendo will, in my opinion, find the bardo a difficult place. I hope they get all fired up and return as caterpillars and centipedes, pond scum and slime mold.
gravenimage says
Bodega, I’m a Gentile and I oppose this antisemitic evil.
Antonin Dlouhy says
Just to add to bitter truth, an almost unspeakable irony. Many central European Jews, out of respect for Germany’s (Weimar) legislature and belief in the German people as basically decent, moved from Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria to Germany as late-1930’s antisemitism began to bite. Read “Last Waltz in Vienna” by George Clare to get some of the picture. Outstanding grotesque is that some Jews – including members of my own family driven to the UK by outrageous Polish misbehaviour (cavalry officers raping everything female at a wedding in our case) – actually went BACK to Czecho and Austria because “things would be better under the Germans” after the annexation/anschluss.
As for Abbas, I have only one real regret in my long life. I was once close enough to kill the sod, but left the room instead. Mea Culpa, to the nth degree.
Lawrence says
There would be no sense in making a martyr of this man. Someone just as bad would replace him. You did well to restrain yourself.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Lawrence.
Tom says
So to continue the logic of those who hate the jews and say that it is not because they are jews that they have been slaughtered throughout history, but because of their social functioning as bankers etc. when most who were slaughtered were women and children who had not been involved in banking etc.
Let’s extrapolate that logic to muslims. They are not hated because they practice the “religion of peace” but because of the vast majority of terrorist actions, killing and maiming, that is done by muslims. So therefore there cannot be any form of Islamophobia as they are not hated for their religion.
There, that has resolved the issue. Now back to just dealing with the actual terrorists without the distraction of an accusation of Islamophobia.
mortimer says
No, Tom, the RELIGION OF PLUNDER and BOOTY… read below …
mortimer says
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION: IS THERE A FINANCIAL BLOOD-SUCKER IN THE HOUSE???
Could it be … hmmm … Mahmoud Abbas ???
NET WORTH: $ 100 million
For many years, Rashid served as Arafat’s financial advisor and was given a free hand to handle hundreds of millions of dollars that were poured on the Palestinian Authority and the PLO by US, EU and Arab donors. According to Rashid, Abbas’s net worth was $US100 million.
The conspicuous wealth of Abbas’s own sons, Yasser and Tarek, has been noted in Palestinian society since at least 2009, when Reuters first published a series of articles tying the sons to several business deals, including a few that had U.S. taxpayer support. In a Foreign Policy article, author Jonathan Schanzer suggested four ways in which the Abbas family has become rich. They include monopolies on American made cigarettes sold in the territories; USAid funding; public works projects, such as road and school construction, on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and special preferences for retail enterprises. It was strongly implied that the sons lineage was the main credential in receiving these contracts.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Mahmoud Abbas has amassed a fortune of $100 million, and his two sons have a business empire worth $300 million. Apparently deciding he needed to travel in style, Abbas recently ordered a $50 million private plane. At the same time, he wants us to understand how miserably poor the “Palestinians” are, all the fault of those terrible Israelis, and how much more money the West –not the Gulf Arabs but the West — needs to supply to the Palestine Authority, keeping in mind that as always he will take his well-deserved cut. His family as of now has helped itself to $400 million and counting. But corrupt as they are, they are still not in the multi-billion league of Yassir Arafat. Why the West’s donors don’t demand a billion back from Mrs. Arafat, still enjoying the high life in Paris on her husband’s ill-gotten gains, and a few hundred million back from Mahmoud Abbas, Inc. is a puzzlement. Nice work if you can get it.
gravenimage says
All true, Hugh.
Estee Tabernac says
By 1939, the British were fighting a war and did not have the resources to keep the peace in Palestine. They restricted emigration of Euro Jews not to “appease the Arabs” but to dedicate their military resources to defending Britain. because the could no longer police Palestine. They had a misplaced assumption that they had to govern Palestine responsibly.
Today, Israel’s worst nightmare is that the US will get along with the Arab world and develop a more balanced and objective policy in the Middle East.
Antisemitism, like Islamophobia, has its roots in ignorance and prejudice.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Are you suggesting that the British refused to allow hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees into Mandatory Palestine because that would lead to more fighting and they “did not have the resources to keep the peace in Palestine”? I think that the local Arabs, instead of fighting, would have been overawed by such a large influx of Jews, including many who might volunteer to fight not against but with the British against Nazi Germany. I think the arrival of so many Jews, clearly on the side of the Allies, have made the task of the British in Palestine easier, not harder. And been a secure redoubt for the British, in their fight against Rommel in North Africa.
AYou write that the British had a “misplaced assumption that they had to govern responsibly”–I don’t know if they did but it was certainly both cruel and irresponsible, as the Mandatary, for the United Kingdom to violate the spirit and letter of the Palestine Mandate and keep out the very people — Jews– whomse immigration to Palestine, and “close Jewish settlement on the land,” they had committed themselves –see the Preamble to the Mandate for Palestine–to further.
Apparently you do not find American policy to be sufficiently “objective and balanced.” I agree, but in a way quite different from what you meant. I don’t think the American government has yet realized that the war against Israel is a classic Jihad, that it has no “solution” and no end, but can be contained, indefinitely, if Israel remains not just stronger than its Arab enemies, but obviously, overwhelmingly so.
Finally, antisemitism is more than 2000 years old; it describes a pathological condition, that of irrational hatred of Jews . “Islamophobia” is a term invented within the last few decades and does not describe a real phenomenon — “irrational fear of Islam” –but is a word designed to silence legitimate criticism of Islam. Its “roots” are not in “ignorance and prejudice” but in the propaganda departments of Islamic groups such as CAIR.
But
Frank Anderson says
Mr. Fitzgerald, I applaud you for entering this discussion. I have seen a number of programs describing the British limitation of Jewish emigration into “Palestine”. I think if you check your sources you will find substantial support that the Brits were appeasing their chosen and anointed “Grand Mufti” because of the riots and warfare being conducted not only in “Palestine” but elsewhere close by, such as Iraq. Jews tried to go to Israel. The Nazis even let them take substantial property with them instead of robbing them of everything on the way out of Germany when going elsewhere. But the brilliant Brits turned them away. They were not alone: The US turned away huge numbers of genuine refugees waiting to be slaughtered (in contrast to the acceptance of “refugees” today, many of whom are waiting to slaughter us). Watch for the program Hitler and Saddam to see a lot of this account presented.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Hugh.
gravenimage says
The appalling “Estee Tabernac wrote:
Today, Israel’s worst nightmare is that the US will get along with the Arab world and develop a more balanced and objective policy in the Middle East.
………………
In other words, she hopes the free West will abandon our ally Israel in favor of savage Islamic hell holes that want to kill us. *Ugh*.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It is Jewish mafia in the west who formed that obnoxious racist zionism to erase Palestinians from palestine according to the myths in evil jewish and mithraist christian scriptures that Yahweh hero god of Israelites usurped the land and donated it to evil Jews with command that all those living shall be erased .It means yahweh was unjust god inspired by the satan (holy spirit) to decree evils, which fascist evil zionists are committing on palestinians. zionists are the most wicked people on earth as forces of satan.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Ibrahim itace, perhaps you could explain the following:
Mohamad acknowledging the existence of three pagan goddesses alongside Allah: Lat, Uzza, and Manat (all female.)
Muhammad had later retracted his confession under pressure from his followers, then admitted that he had fallen prey to the whispering of Satan.
The problem with this is: Mohamad had fallen prey to the wispering of Satan, what other verses were the wispering of Satan that he did not admit to, as there was no pressure to do so, from his followers?
I sugest the complete Koran. What do the rest of Jihad Watch readers say.
Muhammad’s episode with Satan is found in writings of the most ancient Muslim historian, Ibn Ishaq.
gravenimage says
I see that Ibrahim itace muhammed is babbling incoherently again…
somehistory says
Lower than pond scum. So many lies. His saying he has “respect” for Jews and their faith is one of the biggest.
And, an apology means nothing when the person saying the words has no intention of not saying them again. He won’t stop the lying just because his words have been called “vile.”
An ugly, demonic snake, whose “father” taught him to lie and then pretend he didn’t mean to “offend.”
‘From the dust he is, and to the dust he will return.’
If he reads the comments here, there is no apology coming for having written the truth.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
malcolm, it is a lied. prophet never acknowledged Lat, uzza and manat idols as part of Allah. The Quran explicitly dismissed pagan ascription of such female deities to be daughters of Allah. It is mithraist filthy christianity christianity that incorporated pagan doctrines like Godman and begotten son of God from mithraism.
Rarely says
It doesn’t matter what ridiculous (maybe even “insane”) garbage you espouse. ANY religion, dogma or political position that advocates peace and tolerance of others is light years ahead of the islamic narrative. Who cares what people believe if they aren’t out to destroy everyone who doesn’t buy into it.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Dear Ibrahim itace read Sura an-Najm (Star) 53:19-22. Do you also deny Ibn Ishaq as a lie.
If so, you are in big trouble.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
malcolm, where Ibn ishaq contradicted the Quran or hadith, his account shall be rejected. moreso ibn ishaq was not one of the companions of the prophet for him to give better account. such false story that prophet muhammad vowed to these deities was false and fabricated.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Ibrahim the writings of Ibn ishaq are considered canonical, if you do not believe his hadith I can point to others: they are revered and received as a major source of religious law and moral guidance, second only to the authority of the Qurʾān.
Here you have another problem, if you have doubts on the hadith then what do you believe.
Ibrahim you are clever, look at the man you call a prophet and look at all the dark, bad things he did. Be truthful how can you say he is a prophet of Allah, when Allah is All good. Can Islam be peaceful when you kill your own brothers and sisters?
Did you know that the word Allah is the word Christians used many hundreds of years before Muhammad was born.
By the way how did Muhammad know about the great flood, which happened many thousands of years before he was born. Why would Allah reveal it to him. When the Jewish and Christians people already knew about it.
The only way your prophet could have known about it was from his interaction with the Jewish people and Christians.
So your prophet took these things and told a lie, that Allah revealed it to him.
All I am trying to do is tell you the truth Ibrahim and the name you have is Jewish.
johnnnybigtime says
Hello iface.
It is difficult to converse with someone who has such a bigoted mindset.
The Muslim religion teaches its followers to maim, mutilate, murder, and rape other people.
The Bible teaches its followers to ‘love their neighbour as themselves’.(Mark 12)
It is therefore perfectly obvious which is the true religion.
The Bible was written over a period of approx 1700 years, by 40 different authors, and was completed hundreds of years before Muhammad was even born.
The angel Gabriel states that Jesus shall be called the ‘Son of God’ and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever (Israel) ;- see Luke 1.
Furthermore, re the latter days, God says; ‘Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people round about.
In that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the people. All that burden themselves with Jerusalem shall be cut to pieces, though all the peoples of the earth be gathered against it’. (Zechariah 12)
Unbelievers (all Muslims), murderers (some Muslims); shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Revelation 21)
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Jay Boo, you are just an ignorant fool. Muslims never pray to blackstone or worship it. Blackstone is a miraclous sign, which came down from heaven showing to father Abraham and his son ismael the original site of kaaba for them to rebuild it after Floods washed away the building. Muslims visit it to commemorate the miracle, not worship it as mithraist christians worship anything miraclous. idiots
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Jay Boo, you are just misinformed. No muslim pray to blackstone or even kaaba itself. Blackstone is a miraclous sign ,which came down from heaven showing to father Abraham and his son ismael the original site of kaaba for them to rebuild it after Floods washed away the building. muslims visit it to See the miraclous sign , not worship it as mithraist christians do worshiping anything miraclous. Fools!!
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed appears to have forgotten about the Satanic Verses. So many Muslims have.
Rarely says
Abbas has shown his true colours and the World has reacted. His attitudes and intentions have never been more clearly exposed. RS has, in my opinion, very accurately taken Abbas’ comments to task.
Any rational person can easily see now, if not before, how nearly impossible it is for Israel to reach peace with the Palestinians (for whom Abbas speaks) until the rhetoric changes. They are even teaching this garbage to their children injecting it with unparalleled hatred.
Of course he must take such a hideous stance if he wants to stay in power and to modify it when he needs support against Hamas. Incredibly duplicitous.
“A true partner for peace” my eye.
Israel can thank Abbas for clarifying his position so clearly thereby further justifying support for Israel..
Unfortunately, memories are short in politics.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
jonnnybigtime, filthy mithraist christianity teaches genocide as churchmen did during crusade wars, in spain and by mithraist christian Nazis. presently churchmen are having anus and vaginal sex with kids under their Care. Mithraist christianity is fit for beasts only. Throw that rubbish away
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Ibrahim itace
Unfortunately there are sick people in all occupations. Christianity speaks out against these perversions.
The Koran says it is OK to betroth a 9 year old, in fact the man you call a prophet, who never did any thing supernatural such as a miracle however did disgusting things to this young girl. Muslims follow this example.
Now Ibrahim, it is not Christians who are saying that your prophet was perverted it is muslim people who knew him.
Muhammad lift up his shirt for a man who proceeded to kiss his entire torso, “from his bellybutton to his armpits.”
Musnad Ahmad 12237
Narrated Aisha: One day, while Muhammad was lying naked in bed, Zaid came knocking; Muhammad, without getting dressed, opened the door and “hugged and kissed him”— in the nude. Al Tirmidhi 2732
gravenimage says
Talk about projection!
Ibrahim itace muhammed himself has said that he wants to personally take part in the genocide of the Jews.
Terra Nova says
How come Ibrahim that All leaders of muslim countries became so rich? Because all the money they received from western countries were not used for the reasons they were given. They all kept it for themselves. So did the Saudis, Saddam hussein,, Arafat, Abbas, etc. You never protested those guys and now you want MONEY, Money from us all. That is not going to work, retrieve it from your own dictators,
but you don’t dare.
You are so angry, but so are we, but your spitting and yelling does not help. You people can’t reason normally, your tunnel vision is appaling. I could not even spit like that and use the words you use.
I thought we were all a member of human civilisation, but obviously not and your deeds do not show it either. They are all from a very low consciousness. Religions are all made for a better world. You will destroy yourselves !
FYI says
He’s simply following allah’s anti-Semitism from his demonic commandment-of-God violating,sin-promoting “holy” koran.
muslims are simply too brainwashed,and clearly not evolved enough to see or understand.
Let’s try a bit of logic shall we..?
You see Moses,Elijah and Jesus Christ are …JEWS.
AND “It is from the Jews that salvation comes” according to that JEW Jesus Christ {John 4 v 22}
But… allah curses the Jews in {koran k2 v 165}
Does that make any sense?No,none whatsoever.
{allah and his “prophet” mo{a mass murderer of Jews} hate the Jews{koran 9:30}simply for being….JEWS.Also,of course the Jews rejected mo:but they were right to do so as mo was a false prophet}
Can you muslims see the problem there?
Nope
Like the savage,pig-ignorant ,muslim troll with the tongue of a snake and demonic soul who posts on these threads,such understanding is completely beyond their reasoning faculties as they “pray” to their allah and honor the kaa’ba{lucifer’s stone} inspired by their mass-murdering,slave trading,polygamous,pederast self-appointed “prophet” muhammed.
FYI says
In that picture..
… it looks like Abbas is doing the islamic equivalent of…the Macarena.
“allah wallah ballah wallah salah rasul wallah ballah…..eyyyyyy… Macarena”
David says
Why is he allowed to make such a speech without World wide condemnation? Supposing trump made similar but opposite remarks about Islam and Muslims. I wish he would, just to make the point. “He did it. So shall I.”
Et si..... says
Jews must rely only on Israel and today with the United States of Trump and forget the lure of Western petrodollars to count among the traitors and anti-Jews.
To come back to this Egyptian – because THERE IS NO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, NOT MORE THAN PALESTINIAN DESIGNATES AN ARABIC!
“” Voyage en Palestine “‘, is the title of a work written in 1695 by Hadrian Reland (or Relandi), cartographer, geographer, philologist and professor of Dutch philosophy.The subtitle of the book, written in Latin , entitled “Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata”, published in 1714 by Editions Brodelet The author of this work, one of the first Orientalists, knew the Hebrew, Arabic and Greek languages (old).
In 1695, Relandi (or Reland) was sent on a study trip to Israel, in Palestine at that time, for a very specific purpose: to identify more than 2500 places (towns and villages) appearing in the text of the Tanah (Bible) or of the Mishna, in their original name. Each time, Reland mentions the Hebrew name as it appears in the text and the exact verse to which it refers. Reland also includes his Latin-Roman or Ancient Greek equivalent.
In addition to this remarkable linguistic work, the author operates mainly a census of the time, for each locality visited: first a general consideration specifying that the land of Israel of then is practically deserted, very sparsely populated.
The majority of its inhabitants are concentrated in the cities of Jerusalem, Acco (Acre), Tsfat (Safed), Yafo (Jaffa), Tveria (Tiberias) and Aza (Gaza). Above all, the geographer’s conclusion is that there is a dominant presence of Jews on this earth, some Christians and very few Muslims, most of whom are Bedouins.
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2 / A second document a little forgotten is the famous “Proclamation to the Jewish nation at the Headquarters of Jerusalem – April 20, 1799” Napoleon Bonaparte.
It is important to remember that without the failure before Acre, Napoleon, by this proclamation printed and dated April 20, 1799, would have created the State of Israel. The Jews would not have had to wait another 150 years before finding an independent state.
This text confirms the majority presence of Jews in this Land of “Palestine”:
“Israelites, unique nation that conquests and tyranny could, for thousands of years, deprive of their ancestral land, but neither of their name, nor of their national existence!
The attentive and impartial observers of the fate of the nations, even if they do not have the prophetic gifts of Israel and Joel, have realized the accuracy of the predictions of the great prophets who, on the eve of the destruction of Zion predicted that the Lord’s children would return to their homeland with songs and in joy and that sadness and sighing would flee forever. (Isaie 35.10)
Standing in joy, the exiles! This unprecedented war in all history was initiated for its own defense by a nation, from whom the hereditary lands were considered by its enemies as a prey offered to be dismembered. Now this nation avenges itself for two thousand years of ignominy. Although the times and circumstances seem unfavorable to the affirmation or even the expression of your demands, this war offers you today, unlike all expectations, the Israeli heritage.
Providence sent me here with a young army, guided by justice and accompanied by victory. My headquarters are in Jerusalem and in a few days I will be in Damascus, whose proximity is no longer to be feared for the city of David. Legitimate heirs of Palestine!
The Great Nation who does not trade men and countries according to the way of those who sold your ancestors to all peoples (Joel 4.6) does not call you to conquer your heritage. No, she asks you to take only what she has already conquered with her support and permission to remain master of this land and keep it despite all adversaries.
Stand up ! Show that all the power of your oppressors could not annihilate the courage of the descendants of these heroes who would have done honor to Sparta and Rome (Maccabee 12.15). Show that two thousand years of slavery have failed to stifle that courage.
Hurry! This is the time that may not come back a thousand years from now, to claim the restoration of your civil rights, of your place among the peoples of the world. You have the right to a political existence as a nation among other nations. You have the right to freely worship the Lord according to your religion. (Joel 4.20) »http: //www.ere-napoleonienne.com/2007/01/15/proclamation -…
Et si..... says
Myths of the Middle East
Posted: October 11, 2000 – By Joseph Farah,
© 2010 WorldNetDaily.com
I’ve been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by disputes over the Temple Mount.
Until now, I haven’t even bothered to say, “See, I told you so.” But I can’t resist any longer. I feel compelled to remind you of the column I wrote just a couple weeks before the latest uprising. Yeah, folks, I predicted it. That’s OK. Hold your applause.
After all, I wish I had been wrong. More than 80 people have been killed since the current fighting in and around Jerusalem began. And for what?
If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?
Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I’ve got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing.
Isn’t it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?
“Well, Farah,” you might say, “that was before the Israelis seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem.”
That’s true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn’t capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan’s King Hussein. I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
Palestine has never existed — before or since — as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
What about Islam’s holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.
Shocked? You should be. I don’t expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It’s just not politically correct.
I know what you’re going to say: “Farah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam’s third most holy sites.”
Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.
So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled “The Night Journey.” It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night “from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. …” In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that’s as close as Islam’s connection with Jerusalem gets — myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.
The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for Jews. Sharon and his entourage were met with stones and threats. I know what it’s like. I’ve been there. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
So what’s the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don’t think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.
By Joseph Farah, journalist, Arab-American Christian
Et si..... says
Why Palestinians want YOU TUBE to remove this video:
Translation: Galila for Israel-Online-Chronicles
Subtitles: Jean Vercors
European leaders must open their eyes and stop being hypocritical
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Why Palestinians want YOU TUBE to remove this video:
Since I edited this short film, I’ve been getting a lot of threatening messages from Palestinian Arabs writing to me, saying they’re going to pressure YouTube to remove the video. You can freely copy the video and help spread the truth they seek to hide.
Jerusalem – Jews and Muslims –
Jerusalem, one of the most controversial places in the world,
Jerusalem has been a holy Jewish city since the time of King David 3000 years ago
In those days, the Arabs were still pagans who worshiped idols like Al … more
0: 25Jerusalem – Jews and Muslims –
0: 33Jerusalem – Jews and Muslims –
0: 40Jerusalem, one of the most controversial places in the world,
0: 46Jerusalem has been a holy Jewish city since the time of King David 3000 years ago. In those days, the Arabs were still pagans who worshiped such idols as Al Uzza, Al Latt and Al Manatt at The Kaaba (at the time of Jahiliyya).
1: 04Islam- The youngest of the three monotheistic religions (estimated at 1400 years) Some Muslims think Jerusalem is a holy place of Islam
In the year 638 of the Common Era, the Muslims conquered Byzantine Jerusalem and built a mosque on the site of the sacred Jewish Temple.
1:44 Is Jerusalem sacred to Muslims as it is sacred to the Jews?
1: 49Prayer Direction:
1: 53The Jews pray facing Jerusalem and facing the Temple Mount
2: 35The Muslims pray towards Mecca in Saudi Arabia
When the Muslims pray in Jerusalem they turn their backs on the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount.
3: 28A holy place for Islam? Palestinians use the Temple Mount as a playground where they picnic and play football.
4: 40Sary Nusseibeh, Palestinian professor and President of Al Quds University (Jerusalem) had to go into hiding after admitting that the Temple Mount is a Jewish holy place.
5: 13Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), whose writings influenced the Wahhabi movement in Arabia admitted that sacred Islamic sites are found only in the Arabian Peninsula
5: 17and that “in Jerusalem there is no place that can be considered holy, and it is the same for the graves of Hebron”
5: 23The Palestinians Know That They Occupy a Jewish Holy Site, and from time to time, They Raise Riot On Temple Mount
5: 40They vandalize their own mosque, the carpets are covered with stones and broken chairs. This is a rare video filmed inside the mosque
6: 04Their disrespectful behavior of Jerusalem and the temple mount is not surprising.
6: 13Jerusalem is mentioned 667 times in the Bible, while in the Koran is 0 times.
6: 22ni Jerusalem nor Palestine are mentioned in the Qur’an
6: 36 According to the Qur’an, it is written that the holy land is inscribed by Allah as belonging to Israel “(Qur’an 5:21) and that the Jews will return to their land” (Quran 17: 104) The Jews of the Diaspora will return to the House.
6: 58Moses: “O my people, enter the holy land which God has commanded you”
7:13 Ezekiel 36:24 “For I will draw you out of the nations, and will gather you out of all lands, and bring you back to your own land.”
Jeremiah 29:14 “I will be found by you,” says the Lord, “and I will bring you back from captivity.
7:31I will gather you from all the peoples and places where I have banished you, “declares the Lord,” and will bring you back to the place from which I brought you into exile. ”
7: 46Isaiah 62: 1 until his righteousness shines like the dawn, and his deliverance like a torch that burns. “” For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest,
8: 15Translation: Galila for Israel-Online-Chronicles Subtitles: Jean Vercors
6: 13Jerusalem is mentioned 667 times in the Bible, while in the Koran is 0 times.
6: 22ni Jerusalem nor Palestine are mentioned in the Qur’an
Israel, renamed “Palestine” by the Romans after the destruction of the second temple of Jerusalem is from the year 70 AD.
http://www.europe-israel.org/2013/12/les-arabes-sont-les-arabes-les-vrais-palestiniens-sont-les-juifs-disrael-mise-au-point-sur-la- mythology-of-Larabe-Palestinian /
“The journalist Michel Garroté rightly recalls that:” Before 1967, there was no newspaper article or other that spoke of Arabs as Palestinian.The conflict in the Middle East was simply known as the Arab-Israeli conflict and not as an Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Before the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, the only people we called” Palestinian “were the Jewish people, not the Arab people. They did not want to be called “Palestinians” because they did not want to be associated with either the Jews or the British Mandate of Palestine, which was an insult: if we called a “Palestinian” Arab, we would be given a response. something like, “Calm, I’m Arab, I’m not Jewish!” If the Arabs have started to define themselves as Palestinians, it’s just that they have absolutely no identity in this place. They are from Jorda Egypt, Syria / Lebanon and elsewhere, but not from this specific location. We do not need to do a lot of research before finding that the letter “P” does not exist in the Arabic alphabet (pronounced F) …
Norway refuses to recognize the Imaginary State of Palestine
Et si..... says
And always the declarations of this liar: A poor uneducated type who is being appointed by the Israelis with all his clique and the leaders of the hamas!
It is better to have the “filthy feet …” than the hands full of the blood of Allah’s slaughterers! ”
“Al Aqsa Mosque is ours. Jews have no right to soil it with their filthy feet, “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in response to reports that the Israelis just want to approach the Temple Mount. “We bless every drop of blood shed for Jerusalem, which is pure clean blood, blood shed for Allah.”
Independently, an Imam from Gaza said last Friday: “Brothers, that’s why we remember today what Allah has done to the Jews.”
“Today, we realize why Jews build a wall. They do not do it to stop the missiles, but to prevent their slitting their throats! He lashed out, adding later, as he waved a knife: “O my brother in the West Bank band: Dagger! “.
By T. BECKET ADAMS (@BECKETADAMS) • 18/10/15 12:01 AM
And as Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Shama Hacohen, said, “Palestinians continue to put oil on the spur of incitement and terror.” “In my first speech to UNESCO last year, I warned countries around the world that the Palestinians’ false provocations against Israel, especially concerning the Temple Mount, come back to playing with fire. At the last conference in Bonn, I suggested that the culture of lying be an intangible World Heritage site, “he said.
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Granddaddy says
“This is a different issue. So the Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe was not against their religion but against their social function which relates to usury [unscrupulous money-lending] and banking and such.”
It’s interesting that he should accuse the Jews of “usury [unscrupulous money-lending] and banking and such” when nearly all the world’s banks are going over to Sharia-compliant banking. Greed has no morals.
gravenimage says
Mahmoud Abbas: “Sorry If People Were Offended”
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This coming from someone who seeks the destruction of Israel should not surprise.