Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (1918-1981) is lionized today as a great peacemaker for concluding the Camp David Accords with Israel, under the auspices of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. But the great tête-à-tête between Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin did not go as most people assume. Find out what really happened in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, which you can preorder now here.
Jap says
Yes the swastika was co-opted by the Nazi, yes it is now seen as a symbol of evil.
However we must remember that the swastika is an ancient symbol of peace and strength/power as used by Hindus, Buddhists, and a few other eastern religions.
To be fair, Sadat was a turd of the highest order and his use of that tie may or may not have been a deliberate attempt to provoke the Israelis.
We will never know.
Honest Ali says
Uh.. no… We KNOW… Sadat knew exactly what he was doing.
DavidS says
When Begin flew to Cairo, he was greeted by Egyptian soldiers doing the goose step. They knew.
carpediadem says
Bloody hell.
I’ve noticed they – and many others – NEVER lose an opportunity to imply, by threats, behaviour or attempted subtlety that at any time they can choose to murder a Jewish person. And always in a fashion that lets the Jews know they regard them with contempt.
Appreciate the note, Robert, i will be buying and reading your book when available!
gravenimage says
*Of course* this was meant to discomfit the Jews.
mortimer says
Dastardly, sophomoric and undiplomatic … I wish I had known this at the time. The man Sadat was two-faced.
This sly, mean-spirited low blow shows the sort of hatred that Muslims are required to keep in their hearts according to the authentic teaching of AL WALAA WAL BARAA (‘Islamic apartheid’).
Sahih Bukhari records that Abu ad-Darda’ said, “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.”
Ibn Kathir wrote in his commentary on chapter 3 verse 28 of the Quran:
“BELIEVERS ARE ALLOWED TO SHOW FRIENDSHIP TO THE DISBELIEVERS OUTWARDLY, BUT NEVER INWARDLY. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, “We smile in the face of some people ALTHOUGH OUR HEARTS CURSE THEM.”
carpediadem says
Not just Muslims. Plenty of nonMuslims aiming low blows at Jews regardless of time or place.
A Jewish kid was bullied? “What about the Palestinians?”
A Jewish man has been abused? “You people murder Palestinians”!
Out to dinner? “Israelis are murderers! Jews steal land!”
Etc!
Infidel says
Yeah, plenty of (otherwise right wing) Judeophobes who’ll happily point out to us that Jews are Khazars, not Hebrews, who sunk the USS Liberty in 1948
mortimer says
carpediem, you entirely miss my point, and you digress, I assume, because you have not mastered Islam’s AUTHENTIC, ‘ESSENTIAL’ teaching about hating kafirs ‘FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH’. This teaching is NON-OPTIONAL. The point of this is that non-Muslim Jew haters do not have in most cases a DIVINE DECREE to hate Jews, but Muslims have many such anti-Semitic decrees in the Koran, Sira and hadiths. A previous Grand Imam obtained his PhD based on a thesis about Jew hatred in the Koran.
No other religion has this kind of anti-Semitism as we find in Islam. There is more Jew hatred in Islamic primary texts than there is in Mein Kampf.
Please inform yourself about this important subject (without which you will never understand Islam):
http://www.elsasblog.com/170219-al-walaa-wal-baraa-and-islamo-catatonia.html
https://youtu.be/vsN5lvu1SZk
mortimer says
World Anti-Semitism Index
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvmKNtffobE
Infidel says
The Hindu swastika is somewhat different from the Nazi one. The Nazi one is slanted at 45 degrees. The Hindu one is upright, and also has 4 interstitial dots within it. Also, the Hindu one has both a clockwise 卐 and a counter-clockwise 卍 symbol, symbolizing day and night
Incidentally, the Magen David symbol – the hexagonal star – is also a Hindu religious symbol related to Brahma the creator
David Ashton says
An unbelievable sartorial choice, or was it? Begin was a canny and experienced old rogue himself and surely made an appropriate response.
The swastika is one of the most interesting, even alluring, symbols in history, and still features in Jain and Falung Gong symbolism where the gruesome European experience is less resonant. In my view it originated with the polar constellation, rotating counter-clockwise “corner leading” so to speak, but later developed into a solar symbol rotating clockwise “arms pointing” so to speak. The Nazis did not, as people who should know better have claimed, get it “round the wrong way”; it was worse than that. Both the Hindu AND the German versions are “benign”, but Hitler personally presented it not just as an “Aryan” symbol (which it was among Indo-Europeans, except in Iran!) or as a “right-wing” politicak emblem, but explicitly as an ANTI-Jewish sign; hence its post-WW2 fate.
Perhaps the best single study is Bernard Mees, “Science of the Swastika” (2008).
somehistory says
moslims are great at provoking anger, hurt, pain and disgust in others. They can dish it out, but are too poor of character to take it. Had anyone at the meeting showed sadat the bottom of his shoe, he might not have signed the…overall worthless…”accord.”
mortimer says
somehistory, you miss the point … that humiliating the dirty kafirs is a decree of Allah. The requirement to hate kafirs (and Jews especially) is based on A-1 primary Islamic source texts, rather than being a contrived, invented teaching.
There is a huge amount of Jew hatred in Islam’s primary texts.
– The grand total of Jew Hatred in KORAN = 10,242 words / 152,006 total words = 6.7% Jew hatred
– Total number of Jew Hatred VERSES in Koran: 123 verses Jew hatred
– 17% of Medinan Koran is Jew hatred
– 1% of Meccan Koran is Jew hatred
– 8.9% of hadiths are Jew hatred
– 12% of Sira is Jew hatred
– 9.3% of Islamic Trilogy is Jew hatred
– 7% of Mein Kampf is Jew hatred by comparison
– Koran of Mecca filled with Jewish stories plagiarized and distorted.
– Jews of Medina did not validate Mohammed’s prophecy, so he then exterminated the Jews of Medina, stole their property and enslaved their women and children.
– Mohammed entered the Jewish town of Yathrib with his people as refugees, then changed its name to Medina (‘capital city’), but within a few years there were no Jews left in Medina.
– Mohammed provides in Medina the perfect example of Jew hatred that Muslims should follow
Muslims who do not hate kafirs (and especially Jews) ‘for the sake of Allah’ DO NOT BELIEVE what ‘Allah’ decreed in the above texts. The humiliation comes from Allah.
somehistory says
mortimer
No. I didn’t “miss the point.” All of your comments are the same. However, some of the rest of us see the Truth of the matter, and respond in a different manner. What I wrote is true, whether or not my comments conform to your narrow way of thinking.
And, if you really want me to read your comments….Stop Yelling!! It is very rude and offensive and irritating.
mortimer says
Hatred and humiliation directed by Muslims against the dirty kafirs (and especially against Jews) is an official teaching of Islam.
•‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ – (‘Comradeship’ and ‘Cleansing’ from all that is non-Islamic) is an Islamic doctrine that is very similar to apartheid.
•‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is an ‘essential doctrine’ (usul ud-deen). ‘Essential’ means that all Muslims must believe and practice al Walaa wal Baraa as a condition of being admitted to paradise.
•‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is a highly developed, well-supported and canonical part of Islam approved by the consensus of Islamic jurists.
•‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is legally binding and obligatory upon all Muslims.
•‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is precisely defined by Islamic jurists and is not a nebulous idea
•‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is an official Islamic doctrine and considered the second most important doctrine in Islam.
•from Book of Emaan, by ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328): “… true believers show animosity and hatred towards disbelievers and never support them.”
(The Book of Faith (“Kitab al Iman”)
“The real purpose in levying jizya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that, on account of FEAR of jizya, they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honor and might of Islam. . . . Whenever a Jew is killed, it is for the benefit of Islam”. – Sheikh Aḥmad Sirhindī (d. 1624), Islamic scholar, Hanafi jurist
Angemon says
How wonder how much of that is due to him having been assassinated t the hands of a more devout coreligionist enraged with the peace agreement with Israel?… There’s a saying in my country – “if you want to be remembered fondly, move away or die”…
obrlnews says
Sadat was hated by Egyptian Islamic fanatics for his peace deal with Israel, but also by perhaps even a wider margin of Egyptians for his family reform act, for which he had been persuaded to enact by his wife Jihan. In my 1980 interviews with Egyptian men before Sadat was assassinated, they did they mention Israel and the Jews, but equally railed with angry passion about “Jihan’s Law”, as they called it. Sadat was ridiculed as a castrati, ruled by his wife, which is a pretty hard insult within the Islamic world. This law gave women some small relief from prior slave-like conditions. It gave them rights to inheritance, legal standing in the courts, freedom from draconian controls by husbands, uncles and fathers, better educatoin and so forth. Yes, it is true, Sadat was the underling of Nasser and was influenced by the Mufti of Jerusalem, who helped spread the Nazi ideology into Islam. I personally saw a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” on display for sale in the window of an Egyptian book-store, the title being in both German and Arabic. A big problem. His war with Israel ended only because Sharon had decisively beaten the Egyptian tank brigades in the deserts of Sinai. He made the peace deal with Israel largely because many Billions$ in American aid was on the table. However, for the average Egyptian man, his family reform act appeared as a final straw which “broke the camel’s back”. After Sadat was assassinated, Mubarak quickly reversed that family reform act, I believe as his first official action. But the peace deal with Israel was sustained and adhered to. Laws giving women greater rights are routinely viewed as horrific degeneracy by the average Muslim male. A big part of the hatred of Islamic peoples (men and women) towards the western democracies, as well as towards their own non-Muslim minorities, is that those other cultures have courtship and marriages generally based upon love and personal decision-making on the part of the woman. In a nutshell, the Muslim world does not, and the reaction against openly expressed love between men and women is a seriously powerful Islamic taboo, especially for women who can be put to death for breaking free of the straight-jacket into which they are raised. James DeMeo, PhD, author of “Saharasia”.
Michael Pemberton says
A benign geometric design that was used to represent a reprehensible fascist organization that was involved in genocide is regrettable. What if the National Socialists had adopted another symbol or unique combination of symbols; perhaps a heart symbol, stylized dove, or crescent moon? It’s a Red Herring, a Red Flag, or a Torreodor’s Red Cape to divert attention.
Just like political correctness designating certain words and symbols as offensive, aggressive, or unacceptable, this trend proves that people who want to exercise passive-aggressive tactics and weaponize words and symbols can use victimization for power and influence. ZZ or SS intersecting at ninety degrees, whether rotated forty-five degrees or not, are innocuous. Is ZZ Top a Nazi band? Does the SS of Secret Service or Social Security make them extermination squads?
What would the black SS inside a white circle on a field of red mean to you if done in rainbow colors with gold and silver glitter; homosexual fascists? Would the interpretation change if it were part of a three year old’s crayon masterpiece? Would you burn the picture and take the child to be psychoanalyzed or exorcised for fear that they were a reincarnated Adolf Hitler? Stop the swastika BS unless specifically used for Nazi or Neo-Nazi genocide propaganda or Schutz Staffel.
Tattooed Man77 says
I suggest everybody reads the HAJ by Leon Uris for a detailed account of the Arab/Nazi association during,before and after WW2. Also how once Israel had been removed from “Failine” then it was too be divided by Saudi,Iraq,Egypt and Jordan.
So much for Arab solidarity with “Failistine”?