Muslim Cleric 'Explains' That Everyone 'Hates Jews'

Ah... yet more love from the 'religion of peace'...!

An Egyptian cleric has cheerfully 'explained' to millions of Muslims that Jews are hated by everyone and everything. Apparently trees and animals also loathe Jews. Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari made the claims two weeks ago that on Egypt's Al-Rahma satellite network.

"People hate (Jews). They don't like them. We are not talking only about people. The same goes even for trees and animals."

The program was translated from Arabic by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Al-Ansari stated:

"You know, there is rather peculiar footage, in which an Arab man who has a camel loves it and kisses it, and the camel kisses him back. Along comes a Jew and wants to kiss the camel, just like the Arab. What do you think the camel did? Let's watch."

The network then cut to what appeared to be staged footage of a man dressed in Arab garb kissing a camel while another man wearing a white yarmulke attempts to kiss the camel - prompting the animal to try to bite the 'jew'.

"Animals can sense things," explained Al-Ansari.



He continued:

"god has filled people's hearts with loathing for these Jews. Let's take a look at the field of sports. Let's see how the Jews are hated in the field of sports. They are abhorred. Let's take a look."

The Al-Rahma program cuts to footage of an English league soccer game showing a Chelsea player kicking the Israeli soccer player Yossi Benayoun, who plays for Liverpool.

Al-Ansari 'explains':

"Look at this Jew being kicked. People hate them. They don't like them,"

The cleric then goes on to quote Mohammed:

"The proof is that the Prophet Muhammad said that when Judgment Day draws near, the final war between the Muslims and the Jews will take place. The Prophet said that the Muslims would kill the Jews. 'Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.'

He added, citing from a hadith, a collection of the sayings of Muhammad:

"The Muslims will kill the Jews. Be patient. All the trees and all the stones will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him – except for the Gharqad tree.' Only one kind of tree will not call [the Muslims]. It is the Gharqad tree."

Hard to believe that Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, isn't it...? You'd never know it from the Egyptian news media, which includes government-run newspapers and television networks. They regularly feature anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda.

Islam. The religion with so much lurve.


 

The War Of Words That Israel Must Start Winning

I almost got lynched last week. My crime? I dared to defend Israel in public. I even — brace yourselves — declared myself a Zionist. I might as well have confessed to torturing tiny animals, given the horrified response.

 

Within minutes, a relaxed dinner party became a veritable contest to see who could most malign Israel. Yep, it’s a tad traumatic being the lone zionist at any gathering these days. Israel-bashing has become a national sport in many countries. 

 

Following  the Israeli strikes on Hamas enclaves in Gaza, the court of public opinion hasn’t just judged Israel ‘guilty’; rather she’s been hung, drawn and quartered. 

 

The Arab nations may have failed, thus far, to destroy the physical Israel, but their revisionism of Middle East history is winning hearts, minds and newspaper columns across the globe.

Slowly but surely, the world is coming round to the Arab lie that Jews are the ‘aliens’ in the Middle East. Tell most people that the very term ‘Palestinian‘ always included the Palestinian Jews who have inhabited the region for 3,500 years — continuously — and they’ll just smile pityingly, and claim you’ve been hoodwinked by ‘zionist propaganda’.

And oh, the bitter irony of this particular slur! Because by any objective standards, Israel’s PR is dire. It has been for a while, actually. Back in 2002, the Jerusalem Centre For Public Affairs published a detailed report, in which it noted:

 

The Israel State Comptroller’s report released on October 7, 2002, levelled unprecedented criticism on Israel’s public relations efforts.

The State Comptroller revealed that ’since its establishment in 1948, Israel’s intelligence organs have not succeeded to respond to the broad-based propaganda and incitement by the Arab world.’

During Operation Cast Lead, I sat with my head in my hands, as a series of increasingly inarticulate figures ‘represented’ Israel. Do the powers-that-be scour the streets to find the least sympathetic, least sophisticated, least effective spokespeople? It would almost appear so.


As the Jerusalem Centre report notes:

Leading U.S. media relations experts sent to Israel by private sponsors in May 2002 described Israel’s PR efforts in the United States as “disastrous.”

Israel’s Consul General in New York, Allon Pinkas, complained that Israel’s image in the U.S. suffered from a lack of clear and “disciplined” messages.

International media consultant Lillian Wilder, a media advisor to former U.S. President Richard Nixon, noted in an interview that Israelis are often unprofessional and “wordy” on television.

Now at this point, some of you will roll your eyes and stop reading. After all, doesn’t the tiny Jewish nation have enough to cope with, given the spectre of a nuclear Iran, and the ghastly sight of an American President openly wooing Islam? 

What, is Israel also meant to fret over what ill-informed folk in other lands believe??

My answer? Hell yeah!


Yes, Israel does need to argue her case more effectively on the world stage. Because when hatred of the Jewish state was confined to the Arab and Muslim worlds, that was one thing. Alarming? Sure. Surprising? Hardly, given what Islam says about ‘infidels’ and Jews in particular.


Now, though, the loathing for Israel that has festered in Arab and Muslim hearts for six decades is being exported by Islam as it goes marching unfettered through Europe. It is no coincidence that in nations with large influxes of Muslims, hating Israel is now de rigueur.


Take Britain. During the Gaza Operation at the end of last year, Britain went berserk with rage towards the Jewish state. Thousands marched through the streets, brandishing banners that read ‘Death to Israel!’, while they chanted ‘We are all Hamas now!’


And please recall that Britain itself suffered a terrorist attack in 2005.


So why did not one Israeli spokesman make the vital yet basic point that terrorist attacks in Israel are the same as terrorist attacks in America and Britain? 

And that, unlike both these countries, Israel suffers terrorism on a regular basis?


Let me make it clear: I supported Operation Cast Lead. I defended Israel passionately — at work, online, in restaurants, at parties, to friends and colleagues and strangers alike. 

Like many fellow diaspora Jews, and our Gentile friends who love Israel, I wrote letter after letter to the British press, trying to counter the unfair bias against Israel.


 It was like trying to stem a tidal wave with your thumb.



In the UK, physical attacks on Jews increased. Some Israelis in Britain found themselves being refused service in pubs, clubs and other venues. One Israeli family was actually forced into hiding, so intense was the hostility directed at them.


In north London, one Orthodox Jewish man was dragged out of his car, in broad daylight, and beaten. Shops that were — wrongly — linked with Israel had their windows smashed. 

Supermarkets stocking kosher or Israeli products were threatened with boycotts. Tescos, one of the largest UK supermarkets, was swift to create a special ‘helpline‘ for customers wishing to avoid Israeli goods. 

(Suffice it to say that I, along with many others, am now boycotting Tescos.)


In schools, colleges and University campuses across the country, Jewish and Israeli students found themselves marginalised and verbally abused. At Cambridge and also the LSE (London School Of Economics) students staged mock ‘occupations’ to express their ’sympathy’ with Gaza. 

The fact that Gaza had been under Palestinian control for several years by this time was a mere detail.


Nor was this anti Israel sentiment confined to the ‘ordinary’ person in the street. The Arab propaganda has a vice-like grip on the British media, with the BBC, the Guardian,and The Independent cheerfully leading the charge.

These media outlets ignored the fact that Israel had endured years of Palestinian terrorism, and instead chose to portray Israel as the sole aggressor in the conflict. False accusations against Israel appeared daily, with no corrections — let alone apologies! — when the true facts later emerged. 

The Guardian, especially, delighted in publishing grotesque cartoons which painted Israel as a brutal Goliath, hell-bent on destroying the weaker, Palestinian David.



The effect of this British media bias against Israel? During Israel’s anti-Hamas strikes, Jews and Muslims met — separately — with their respective MPs. My local MP explained that in the House Of Commons, Israel was being demonised on a daily basis. Several government members were demanding that Britain instigate an arms embargo on Israel. 


This same MP told us that every single member of Parliament was ‘being bombarded’ by their Muslim constituents, who were insisting that they condemn Israel and then sever all ties with it.


And fuelled by the BBC, and the Guardian, many non Muslims added their voices — and of course their potential votes — to this anti-Israel agenda.


We should note that the BBC took to bashing Israel with a vengeance. This surprised no one. Indeed, the accusations of bias against the BBC go back several years. Keen to disprove them, the corporation even organised its own review, the Balen Report, in 2004.


And the findings?


We don’t know. The BBC has refused to make them public. It has, in fact, spent a whopping £200,000 [$328,560] to keep the report private. A London solicitor is pursuing the BBC through the courts in a bid to bring the Balen Report into the public domain. 


As the Sunday Telegraph noted:

The BBC is mounting a landmark High Court action to prevent the release of The Balen Report under the Freedom of Information Act, despite the fact that BBC reporters often use the Act to pursue their journalism.

 The action will increase suspicions that the report includes evidence of anti-Israeli bias in news programming.

Now, in light of all this, consider an item that appeared a while back at the superbHonestReporting:

Israel’s Finance Ministry shot down an idea for a ‘Jewish Al-Jazeera’. Isaac Herzog has been quoted as saying: ‘We considered establishing a Jewish Al Jazeera, especially one that would broadcast in Arabic and Farsi. But it was torpedoed by the Finance Ministry’.

Hamas has a huge advantage precisely because of Al Jazeera, since the station is also watched by the English speaking world. 

Compare this to Israel, which has to filter reports through foreign journalists. A ‘Jewish Al Jazeera’ which offered reports in English, would be a massive help.


And think about how simple the Palestinian propaganda is. It concentrates on one clear, albeit deceitful and historically inaccurate message: We were here first. The Jews kicked us out. We’re the victims.



The 2002 Jerusalem Institute report noted an interesting example where Palestinian propaganda excelled while Israeli PR failed miserably:

Losing the “Al Aqsa” Brand War

 Naming the current war the “Al Aqsa intifada” proved to be a stroke of Palestinian PR genius, as much of the Western news media adopted this Palestinian brand name that casts the conflict internationally in the image Arafat sought.

For its part, Israel’s failure to “rebrand” the conflict on its own terms to reflect the conflict’s true nature — a pre-planned war of terror against Israeli citizens — placed the Jewish state on the defensive in the international court of public opinion from the first day of the conflict.

 
Yet, a full seven years on, it seems that Israel has not learned anything about how to improve its PR and indeed, empower those of us in the diaspora who are passionately putting its case. Israel is still miscalculating.  Badly.


Witness what happened recently when Israeli tourism posters appeared around London. Anti-Israel groups quickly began lodging official complaints.


Result? The posters were all removed. It’s clear that pictures of golden beaches and bronzed bodies won’t cut it.


Instead, Israel needs to remind the world that she is the sole democracy in the region.


And where are the images of Palestinians being treated in Israeli hospitals?

Where are the maps illustrating how tiny Israel is compared to the 99.9999% of the Middle East that the Arabs control?



Where are the public roll-calls of all the Israelis who have lost their limbs, loved ones and lives to Palestinian terrorism?

And yes, I realise that antisemitism lies at the heart of much unfair bias against Israel. No doubt about it. But that’s even more reason why Israel needs to organise some decent PR.



This begs the question: why doesn’t Israel just take a leaf out of the Palestinian book?

After all, the world is bombarded with images of wounded Gazan children, even when those children are suffering purely because of Hamas aggression.


Why are there never any images of Israeli children as they lay injured on the ground following a Hamas attack?

Where are the public roll-calls of all the Israelis who have lost their limbs, loved ones and lives to Palestinian terrorism?


It’s time to play by some of the same rules as the Palestinians, unpalatable though this may be.

Either that, or Israel continues to be unfairly and insanely singled out as the villain of the piece.




Finally, I’d like to suggest that there is one bit of rebranding that we can and must all do, right now.


And that is to reclaim the word ‘Zionist‘. We have to stop allowing the Arabs and Muslims to hijack this word and turn it into an insult. So next time you hear someone using ‘Zionist’ as a pejorative term, make this clear:

A Zionist is simply anyone who supports Israel’s right to exist.

After all, we don’t hear people bashing Muslims for supporting the existence of their twenty-two Islamic nations, do we…?

This piece is cross posted at EMET NEWS – it’s a superb site, I urge you to check it out; just click here!

An Apology To Israel...?

During the Cast Lead Operation inGaza, IDF tank fire near a United Nations school in Gaza was blamed for the deaths of dozens of civilians who had taken refuge in the building.

The incident became one of the most highly publicized attacks in the war, and led to heavy international criticism.

Recent reports suggest that the incident was not accurately portrayed by senior U.N. officials. John Ging, the director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, spoke to the Toronto Globe and Mail last week and agreed that no shell had actually struck the school building.

Ging said he had never claimed that the school itself was hit, and he blamed Israel for confusion over where the strike took place.

Shortly after the alleged attack, Ging harshly criticized Israel for firing near the school, saying he had given the exact coordinates of the compound to the IDF. He charged that the IDF had failed to avoid hitting the building.

While many Israeli news outlets reported that the strike had taken place near the school, several international media networks reported that the UN school building itself was hit.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs may have added to the confusion by releasing a report stating that Israeli fire “directly hit two UNRWA schools.”

Almost all reports said that the victims were primarily civilians who had fled to the school for shelter – a version of events cast into suspicion by the report.

A teacher who was in the school at the time of the shelling reported that several people within the compound were injured, but that none were killed. Those killed were all outside in the street as the shells were fired, he said. Only three of those killed were students at the school, he added.

The teacher did not give his name, explaining that U.N .officials had told staff not to talk to the media.

The IDF responded to criticism over the attack by explaining that soldiers were simply responding to terrorist fire and did not mean to hit a civilian area.

So: will the UN be apologising to Israel, then?

What about all the British newspapers, and of course the BBC; all of whom fell over themselves to villify Israel…?

Facing Facts About Hamas

Despite the Liberal media trying to portray Hamas as a band of doe-eyed young 'freedom fighters', the truth is far uglier.

In fact, Hamas is a radical Islamic group which openly states it aims to kill all Jews, all over the world.

This is not mere rhetoric.

Iran funds and backs Hamas to the tune of millions of dollars every year, and Hamas has killed thousands of Israelis with suicide bombings and missile attacks.

Hamas repeatedly denies the right of Israel to exist. Its beliefs are stated in the official Hamas Covenant or Charter. Here are a few highlights:

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” - The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory

and:

“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

One of the most ominous aspects of the Charter is this Hadith:

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. “

The implication is clear: Allah promised that the Jews will be murdered, and the Hamas “aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take.”

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood

Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded by Nazi sympathiser, Hassan Al-Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood spawned a number of radical Islamist movements including Al-Qaeda.

The Hamas Charter states:

“The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times.

It is characterised by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgement, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam."

Hamas statements about Jews:

Hamas openly states it wants to kill all Jews, all over the world. Hamas is both a terrorist group and a radical Islamist movement, and its official Charter cites the Quran:

Quran condemns Jews to extermination:

Palestine’s blessing is linked to destruction of the center of global corruption [Jews of Israel], the snake’s head. When the snake’s head of [global] corruption is cut off, here in Palestine, and when the octopus’s [Jew's] tentacles are cut off around the world, the real blessing will come with the destruction of the Jews, here in Palestine, and it is one of the splendid real blessings in Palestine.”

[Palestinian cleric ,Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 13, 2008]

Muhammad’s promise: Jews will be killed

“Regarding the Jews, our business with them is only through bombs and guns… the prophet [Muhammad] promised that we will fight you, with Allah’s help, until the tree and stone say: “Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

[Nizar Rayan, Hamas religious and military leader, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Jan. 1, 2009. Note: Rayan was killed on Jan. 2, 2009]

Extermination of Jews – good for humanity:

In an article promoting the continued use of suicide terror in the official Hamas newspaper:

From Al-Rissala, (Hamas weekly) April 23, 2007Eventually everyone will know that we did this only because our Lord commanded so that people will know that the extermination of Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.”

Kill A Jew, Go To Heaven

A poster that Hamas posted on its web site taught that killing a Jew is enough to grant the rewards of Heaven.

Text on Hamas poster: “I will knock on Heaven’s doors with the skulls of Jews, Hamas terror wing: “Ezz Din Al Kassam”]

Resurrection dependent on Muslims killing Jews

Hamas goes even further in its religious packaging of genocide. Hamas teaches that the redemption of all of humanity, the anticipated Islamic “Hour” of Resurrection, will happen only when Muslims are killing Jews and the remaining Jews will be exposed by the trees and stones.

Hamas write in Article 7 of the Hamas Charter:

“Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet [Muhammad] said: ‘The time (of Resurrection) will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: 0 Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!’”
- Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6985

So there can be no doubt here. Hamas is committed to the slaughter of Jews and indeed, to other non Muslim ‘infidels’ as well. And these are not just empty threats.

For eight years, Hamas has been sending suicide bombers and missiles into Israeli civilian areas. Countless Israelis are dead because of Hamas terrorism.

Yet the British media would have us believe that Hamas is some type of legitimate ‘resistance’ movement! It ignores the fact that Jordan bans Hamas completely.

Hamas shares the same goals that the Nazis tried so hard to implement.

The question surely is: Why are so many people trying so hard to deny it?

'anti zionism' IS Anti Semitism

So let’s clear this up, once and for all, shall we...?

Criticising Israeli policy is not ‘anti semitism’.

Criticising/expressing dislike for Israeli politicians is not ‘anti semitism’.

Criticising Israel’s weather/restaurants/beaches/airline etc is not ‘anti semitism’.

Criticising various actions taken by Israel is not ‘anti semitism’.

But:

*Stating that Israel ‘has no right to exist’ IS anti semitism:

By doing this, you are singling out the Jewish state, in a manner that is unfair, irrational, and arrogant.

*Stating that ‘zionists’ are to blame for the problems in the Middle East IS anti semitism.

You are placing the blame for the centuries-old problems squarely upon those who live in and support the right to exist of the Jewish state.

Applying a tougher moral standard to Israel than to her Arab neighbours, or indeed any other nation IS anti semitism. You are demanding things of Israel that you do not demand of any other nation.

*MISrepresenting verifiable history about Israel IS anti semitism:

It means you are spreading lies about the Jewish state.

So for example:

If you state: ‘Jews don’t have any right to be in Palestine’ – then that IS anti semitism:

You are misrepresenting history, and ignoring the fact that Palestinian Jews have been living in the region for the past 3500 years, non stop.

You are also denying the existence OF the Jewish state, by referring to it as ‘Palestine’. Palestine was a region, and it was divided up by the British. Roughly 80% went to the Arabs. We know it as Jordan.

Over 50% of Israelis are natives OF the Middle East, going back countless generations.

It was the Arab rejection of the two state plan that caused the 1948 war between Israel and the six Arab nations that attacked her.

The very term ‘Palestinian’ originally referred TO Jews. The Palestinian Philharmonic Orchestra: totally Jewish.

The Palestinian Post newspaper: totally staffed by Jews – it went on to become today’s Jerusalem Post.

The Palestinian Brigade that fought WITH the allies AGAINST the Nazis: was 100% JEWISH.

The Voice Of Truth

Amidst all the hypocrisy surrounding Israel's strikes on Hamas last year, one person has quietly and consistently defended Israel.

Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, has stated, time and again, that Israeli actions in Gaza were ethical and necessary. Last week he told the UN that the Israeli Defence Force took more precautions during Operation Cast Lead than any military in the history of warfare.

Col. Kemp made the comment in an address to the president of the UN 'Human Rights Council', Alex Van Meeuwen of Belgium, at its special session on the Goldstone Report in Geneva. Kemp spoke on behalf of UN Watch, an NGO that monitors UN activities.

Here's his speech in full:

I am the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan. I served with NATO and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and worked on international terrorism for the UK government's Joint Intelligence Committee.

Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.

Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.

Hamas, like Hizbullah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents.

The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights.

The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls. Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties. During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

To deliver aid virtually into your enemy's hands is, to the military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks.

Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. War is chaos and full of mistakes. There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes are not war crimes.

More than anything, the civilian casualties were a consequence of Hamas's way of fighting. Hamas deliberately tried to sacrifice their own civilians.

Mr. President, Israel had no choice apart from defending its people, to stop Hamas from attacking them with rockets.

And I say this again: The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.

Thank you, Mr. President.